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is the rulings on the p.f. moves to recall president look gobby as party leader. pelosi welcome to our life and. also coming up in the program palestinian leaders threaten to suspend ties with the us if the government closes the p.l.o. office in washington. lebanon awaits its prime minister's return and for an explanation for his sudden resignation while sim riyadh. the polls have just opened in chile find out why this conservative politician is still the favorite to become president again. but first as in bobby where the ruling party zanu p.f.

is considering a motion to recall robert mugabe as party leader they've been meeting to decide on the president's future now if this nation policy is he could still be the president of the country but there are growing calls for him to step down now earlier the home affairs minister. i'm perfectly gannett cheers from party members as here in the talks what our forces have done is not only freed. of nation they've freed is excellent from the closets of those that wanted to destroy this country in the last five years his wife and close associates have taken advantage of his frail condition. to usurp power and natural

resources the people of zimbabwe. have spoken. i live now to harare our correspondent karen. behind you then is where the central committee meeting is taking place the world is awaiting the vote as to whether the zanu p.f. is going to remove robert mugabe as leader of the party. exactly the delegates say they need to and with a very very heavy heart this is the first central committee meeting since one thousand nine hundred seventy seven without president robert mugabe he is not here i mean things that is astonishing remarkable surprising to some people those are the comments that we hearing people saying they are also going to be meeting to remove his wife grace. and head of the women's league and to fire her from the party they're also going to be talking about reinstating the former vice president

emerson who has a lot of support especially with the war veterans because for the president to step down are growing louder and louder and louder all ten provinces have said that had enough they've said he's old some say that he's overstayed he's incapacitated and it seems that the writing is on the war the question our people are asking is when will this happen. for clarification if the policy as indeed that is the way looks it's going to go the policy removes him as leader what is his position with regard to the presidency of zimbabwe. with regard to the presidency of. the party if they remove him as a leader they could still keep as a normal party member we don't know if that's going to happen but that could be the case with regard to the president of the country it means they will go to parliament and try and impeach him if he's not impeached in parliament which we

expect will choose day if that doesn't happen then we could see them going to the conference in december where the delegates then will decide whether to vote him out or not while the this consideration is underway behind this is the central committee of the ruling party they're all similar. other talks taking place out there between. the military with a catholic priest as the interlocutor. exactly we heard president for the meeting which is expected to take place today at state house we're hearing that he wants to go to south africa to speak to president jacob zuma we can only assume that that suggests that he still thinks he can still negotiate a way out of this the war veterans when they walked in here some of them the world leader so he feels that he knows that the president wants to negotiate a dignified exit but he said that there's an impi of officials worried they

concerned that the process is taking way too long and some of the people in the room they say they feel that the army is protecting the president so a lot of things up in the air right now but the talks are continuing to try and an end this political crisis all right. thank you very much carol. very important place behind in the capital harare. now palestinian authorities are threatening to cut off all communication with the u.s. over the trump said trump and ministrations plan to possibly close the p.l.o. his office in washington dion estabrook. the plant closure of the palestinian liberation organization's office in washington prompted shock and a threat from a senior palestinian official to freeze ties with the us this is very unfortunate and seven this is the pressure being exerted on this administration from the

netanyahu government and the time when we are trying to put it to achieve the ultimate take such steps which would undermine the peace process the u.s. state department announced its decision to close the office late last week citing a twenty fifteen law placing conditions on the u.s. mission office those conditions relate to the palestinians pressuring the international criminal court to seek charges against israel over the issue of israeli settlements and crimes against palestinians the move comes as the troubled ministration is trying to broker a peace plan between the palestinians and israelis president donald trump said such a deal would be a cornerstone of his administration he very much in september he met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly meeting of world leaders in new york and the last while the president sent his son in law and adviser jared cushion or to the middle east in part to work out a blueprint for a deal the white house says closing the p.l.o.

office doesn't mean it's cutting off communications with the palestinians and could be viewed as a way to expedite the peace process but a middle east analyst says the trumpet ministration is not bargaining in good faith the u.s. is not an honest broker the u.s. is representing its own interests and they correspond primarily with the right wing of israeli interests the closure isn't a done deal president trump has ninety days to review the decision and could keep the office open if he thinks the palestinians are engaged in meaningful and direct negotiations with the israelis die on estabrook al-jazeera washington. all right let's talk now to our correspondent malcolm webb he is live for us in ramallah in the occupied west bank and malcolm with heard from say a bear a cat there in dyer's report what about other senior palestinians you might have speaking today well they've expressed great surprise and

disappointment and they think that this will be very damaging for any possible peace deal with president trump has service since coming to power said that he would bring the ultimate peace deal to the middle east but he's never specified if that would be a two state solution or anything else palestinian officials say that in the meetings they've had with u.s. officials since trump came to power they thought firstly that the u.s. government clearly on the stood what conditions would be conducive for a peace deal and secondly said the americans have never put anything on the table or made any kind of official proposal so they've expressed great surprise at this stage meanwhile we've just heard a short while ago from benjamin netanyahu speaking to the israel cabinet of the israeli prime minister he didn't elaborate a lot but he said there's been a lot of speculation about this he said that he would act just in the national interest of israel and said that this had been communicated to what he described as their friends the americans but one of the reasons the americans say they will

close the door they may close the pillows office in washington is if the p.l.o. pursues cases against israel the international criminal court the p.l.o. says israel's illegal settlements in the occupied west bank have been expanded since president trump came to power they say that there is expansions of been up eighty five percent on last year this is something that they could possibly pursue at the international criminal court in a short while ago we spoke to a number your shaath who's an advisor on international affairs to the palestinian president spoke to him about this let's hear what he had to say. we are punished for threatening to go to the court and mr netanyahu is not punished for committing the crimes for which we are going to court which is the settlements on the. land of the west bank and in jerusalem occupied them it is sixty seven so what would you make out of this pressure to do what so at the moment malcolm what we're dealing

with are threats and counter threats do you think that this is going to develop into anything more serious or can it be contained we're waiting to see i mean the kind of statements that we're getting from palestinian officials. on unusually strong but they're on their own precedented amount of pressure compared to anything that's come from any previous u.s. administrations. but they've i mean with the u.s. have said that they'll decide in ninety days if they will close the pillows office or not and in response p.l.o. officials have said that if that goes ahead that america would lose its legitimacy as a broker in any kind of peace deal and they said that that would actually result in them ending all communications with the u.s. all right thank you for that welcome where live in ramallah now lebanon's prime minister has confirmed that he'll go back to beirut by wednesday saad hariri said

he'll then clarify his position following his sudden resignation more than two weeks ago in riyadh mr hariri is now in france where president emmanuel macro is trying to mediate let's go live to beirut and our correspondent there is enough hodder so sorry hariri says he's going to return for independence day in beirut what difference what substantial difference has this french intervention and his appearance in france made to the crisis. well the diplomatic turmoil over the fate of saddam had to be in one way or another has been resolved even though many in lebanon still believe or. on why his children remained in saudi arabia and their questioning on whether or not saddam had he is a political hostage of saudi arabia now we heard say he's going to return to beirut he's going to clarify his position he's going to hold discussions with the

president michel and now what are the scenarios is he going to insist on resigning and just ending his political career or is he going to insist on resigning and remain the prime minister of a caretaker government until parliamentary elections next year or is he going to try to find some sort of a compromise with the president then would run his resignation or withdraw his resignation on condition that hezbollah will not be a part of the new government which we know is a saudi arabian demand so really there are many scenarios a still uncertain times but confirming that he will be attending those independence day celebrations on wednesday we'll hear arrive before that to hold talks with we still do not know but people here are still concerned because this political crisis is not over if he insists on resigning then the political vacuum remains and the mystery surrounding solitaries decision to resign and to resign in riyadh in saudi arabia is presumably an issue that's going to be front and center for the arab

league as it starts kyra. well yes i'm eating that saudi arabia request that saudi arabia wanting to discuss what it is calling iranian interference in arab states we understand that saudi arabia wants a joint arab policy to confront to agree on me to her a ransom influence and the resignation of heidi was really seen as a saudi move against iran because hezbollah is an ally of iran and hezbollah has members in the government so they wanted this guy. and to collapse saudi arabia also demanding from lebanon condemnation against hezbollah but what we understand is that the foreign minister will not be attending this meeting in cairo instead the lebanese ambassador to the arab league really lebannon wanting either to avoid a confrontation with saudi arabia or in a sign of protest that they do not want to discuss this of course that this country is divided there are people who disagree with hezbollah's role in lebanon there are

people who believe hezbollah should be disarmed and this is why it is so difficult for lebanon to take a stand so saudi arabia pushing this really aggressive stance towards iran and trying to target its proxies of course one of them here in beirut hezbollah. zana how to live in beirut thank you. we have a lot more to come here at al-jazeera including cautious optimism the signals have been detected from a missing argentinian soft mary. with. hello there we've seen a fair amount of snow over parts of japan recently and we could see a little bit more you can see the speckled cloud just making its way down towards the southeast making its way on to the coast of japan and that could bring us a few more outbreaks of snow nothing too heavy i don't expect but still a little bit more in the way of wintery weather and that's likely to stick around

as we head through monday and into choose day towards the west fine unsettled forced by choose day we're looking at six in pyongyang and around eight in seoul for beijing will be up at around ten and a bit further south and it's fairly cool here for some of us to shanghai no higher than around thirteen degrees for is in hong kong twenty two degrees will be our maximum and the winds will be feeding in moisture from the south so for some of us further inland there's likely to be a buildup of cloud over the next few days and a few outbreaks of rain here's the main area of rain though the remains of all storm that's working its way into the southern parts of vietnam and then the energy from that system is pushing its way northward so for many of us in vietnam it will be very very wet as we head through the next few days before the towards the south and i am for the southern part of it and actually drawing up there for monday so an improving picture here for the south a lot of showers some of them of being very heavy in java recently i think the be plenty more over the next few days.

sun blessed beaches breathtaking scenery but there's another reason that draws people to cyprus it's not always easy for mixed faith couples to marry in the middle east and that's why the mediterranean island has become an ideal destination for couples and love to have a civil marriage al-jazeera world looks at what happens when romance cuts across religious lines cyprus island to forbid in love at this time on al-jazeera. there's a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera zimbabwe's ruling zanu p.f.

policy is considering the recall of robert mugabe as party leader they the central committee of the party is deciding on the president's future now if the mission paul says he could still be president of the country but there are growing calls for him to step down. palestine has threatened to suspend all communication with the usa the trumpet ministrations warning that it could close the pillows office in washington. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has confirmed to return to beirut by wednesday he says he'll then clarify his position after his sudden resignation more than two weeks ago he's currently in france which is trying to mediate the political fallout. so as you've already heard the arab league is holding a meeting in cairo it's at the request of saudi arabia and they want to talk about iran's recent activities in the region iran has been accused of being behind

a missile launch from yemen which targeted riyadh the saudi capital as well. as an oil pipeline explosion in bahrain now the lebanese prime minister saad hariri also blamed iran for stating tention in his resignation statement which he delivered from the saudi capital two weeks ago. well political changes in saudi arabia has been pretty much the topic of discussion at a british conference where the strong ties between the two countries were being examined by politicians and other lists our correspondent. was at the meeting the seismic changes in saudi arabia are having reverberations around the world among those invited to speak at this event in london was paddy ashdown a member of u.k.'s upper house of parliament and the former leader of the liberal democrats party he told attendees that the international community must take punitive measures against saudi arabia to prevent its leadership from further destabilizing the region but support of saudi arabia's actions in the end with us.

is as foolish as it is reprehensible. it is very clear that war crimes have been committed in the conflict in yemen both in relation to india's going to use attacks on civilians and by using aid and starvation as a weapon of war britain's silence on these matters is the murderous and shame the saudi led war in yemen has gone on for two years now it was launched by crown prince mohammed bin sandman in the time thousands have been killed millions displaced on top of that mohamed bin sandman has pursued other aggressive policies including a recent crackdown inside the kingdom which saw hundreds of people arrested among them senior members of the royal family and some of saudi arabia's richest businessman britain has very strong ties with the saudi government hundreds of millions of dollars worth of saudi money has been pumped into the u.k. economy through arms deals and other trade agreements there are growing calls

however in the u.k. for london to take a tougher stance against riyadh but the fear among some is that the money coming in is compromising britain's principles the shameful british record of deeply deeply corrupt. has gone on the governments have to government of all stripes and it's going to and that's the basis of the relationship we must see moments deals massive corruption both inside saudi arabia and in kickback claimants to into britain that's got to stop organizing such a conference like this in london isn't just because of the close relationship between the united kingdom and saudi arabia an attempt by saudi your position figures to put pressure on the british government to take action against what they perceive to be very destructive policies being pursued by crown prince philip it's a man on the saudi regime but it's also because according to human rights groups there is a little freedom of expression is why do you think this will be impossible to hold

such a conference critical of the saudi regime in the kingdom saudi arabia has got into one of the worst record. on human rights and on freedom of speech simply because the mcchrystal man cannot tolerate any dissenting voices among his own members of the family and also in saudi society what's concerning for many saudi observers is the lack of pushback coming from the international community in response to the aggressive policies being pushed by saudi arabia's rulers conferences like this into highlights what's at stake namely the stability of the gulf region a matter of other countries like lebanon and iran. london bangladesh's foreign minister abdul mahmud ali is expected to visit ranger camps in cox's result here we're joined by ministers of the european union china and japan hundreds of thousands of ranger refugees continue to flow into bangladesh after

fleeing a violent military crackdown in. time the child really has the latest from the mia ma bangladesh border. this is a temporary drawing to a refugee screening center most of the refugees you see here came here last thousand friday stranded in and human part on the no man's land between bangladesh and myanmar now behind us a lot of diplomatic activity is going on there was a u.s. delegation here led by the ambassador there's a chinese foreign minister in the capital city as well as the european ministers who are visiting here now despite all the diplomatic activities on the good intention to resolve the myanmar crisis a lot of the new refugees are crossing into bangladesh and we hear similar stories of atrocities committed on the other side we spoke to some of the refugees and. i can't find my husband for over a month now not sure if he's detained or killed fearing for our lives we left

behind everything and escaped to bangladesh. we can't move to villages without. the security forces have taken away my seven year old son and my brother i don't know where they are. the chinese foreign minister who was visiting the bangladesh capital had one on one meeting with bangladesh prime minister now he emphasized to the local journalists that this issue has to be a result bilaterally between bangladesh and myanmar he also say that any resolution in the security council can complicate the matter it has to be friendly towards both the countries we know the e.u. some of the u.s. state ministers are visiting here as well as a high representative of the e.u. we have yet to see their reaction after visiting the growing refugee camps we also had a high level congressional delegate fact finding mission visit here on saturday with the u.s. ambassador we know that the trump administration is under intense pressure from the lawmakers to put some sort of target a sanction against at least against a me and my military but on the ground in the me on my side things are very

volatile and critical we spoke to the refugees that been saying the new dimension to the story rather is that a lot of the young man within that area where they're coming from have been detained and taken away by and be an american security force as things are still very volatile and has not changed on the other side of the border. there's really a new wave of anti-government protests intro go they're calling for an overhaul of the political system and an end to the ruling family has been in power for fifty years but the president found nothing day showing little interest in vacating his seat maryanna hundred polls. the government put the figure x. twenty thousand the opposition says there were ten times that number the discrepancy over how many were out on the streets of togo's camp is a long way on saturday gives some insight into just how far apart the opposition and the government and how little interest they have been each other's views

protesters want a president for missing baby out and a two term limit on who will take his place but the president is resisting sidestepping proposals that would see him go. fifty years is too much for one family we're sick of this you'll see we're sick of this. for three months people have been calling for an end to the political dynasty togo is the only country in west africa that doesn't and here to presidential term limits that's kept the missing best family in power for half a century first missing for thirty eight years and then his son who took over in two thousand and five when his father died president full pledged in late september to hold a constitutional referendum but the proposal for a two term presidency is not retroactive that means missing by could stand again

even twice potentially keeping him in power until twenty thirty as tensions rise the president has called for loyalty from the armed forces protesters have responded by handing out flowers to those seemed to keep the peace. will shock the military a flower for each member of our armed forces the army is ours we want the armed forces to take the lead in the struggle and finish it with us the government was having none of that. no no no our armed forces are loyal to our institutions that is final nothing beyond that. the situation appears to have no clear resolution in sight both sides blame each other for violence that has killed sixteen people of the last three months was difficult leaders and members of the african union have stepped in to try to get the two sides talking but until that

delivers meaningful change these protests does insist that will keep matching. al-jazeera argentina's defense ministry says it's detected seven failed satellite coals from a missing submarine raising hopes inevitably that the forty four crew members on board will be found alive contact was lost with the san juan a wednesday as it was returning to its base in mount del plata for a routine mission in the south atlantic the search for the vessel has been hampered by stormy weather. the polls have now a vendor to elect a new president the conservative sebastian pinera a businessman who served an earlier term as leader is it is in the lead but his presidency was plagued by huge protests over inequality and education has a latin america editor lucien human reporting from santiago. he left office four years ago after a fairly lackluster administration yet former presidents have us jumping it is the

favorite for a second crack at chile's presidency he hasn't taken off the red rubber watch the president barack obama gave him is that a good luck trying now it is a. symbol and probably. this will make the difference between good times and bad time for all the to the people. but unlike obama is a conservative and a businessman with even more billionaires than donald trump i don't think. chile is latin america's most stable economy but after a series of corruption scandals politics seems to have lost its blue. politicians are all in bed together they only care about their own interests and their own well being a. major structural reforms introduced by socialist president michelle bachelet haven't yet produced benefits hurting the center left chances the political right was very very effective and installing

a discourse of the country is going down the drain economic growth is slowing down you're creating uncertainty etc was an actual fact it was the international scenario of slowing growth. the center left is going into the elections deeply divided with four candidates. hundred years a former journalist is vowing to continue battle is reforms in this still socially unequal country the right wing will never implement reforms because they want to maintain the monopoly. of a few who then invest their money abroad. and the selection of all the center left presidential candidates are competing not just against former president peña out of it but also against the badly real possibility of a five day trend or. very much opposition candidate and that's why the government has been campaigning to hire alyssa to convince chileans decide their disenchantment with politicians and go out and vote. indeed there's little

enthusiasm for an election that many predict will say less about what chileans want than about what they no longer believe in. to see in human santiago. the and. hello again let's have a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera zimbabwe's rulings on the p.f. party is considering the recall of robert mugabe's party leader the central committee has been meeting to decide on the president's future an affirmation paul says he'll still be the president of the country but there are growing calls for him to step down earlier the home affairs minister cheers from party members as he opened the talks and what our forces have done. is not only freed the. nation they've

freed is excellent from the closet of those that were there to destroy this country in the last five years his wife and close associates have taken advantage of his frail condition. to usurp power and natural resources the people of zimbabwe have spoken. palestine is threatening to suspend all communication with the u.s. over the trumpet ministrations warning that it could close the palestinian liberal liberation organizations office in washington d.c. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has confirmed to return to beirut by wednesday he says he'll then clarify his position after his sudden resignation well than two weeks ago he's now in france which is trying to mediate the political fallout. ministry says it's detected seven failed satellite calls from

a missing submarine raising hopes that the forty four crew members on board will be found alive contact was lost with the sand on wednesday as it was returning to base in ma del plata from a routine mission in the south atlantic are those are the headlines inside story is next. with. their report saudi arabia is demanding money from senior officials recently arrested crown prince philip and solomon says it's an anti corruption operation but many say it's a way for him to increase his power so.