by the time we get to thursday and also the continent we've seen some pretty heavy rain recently particularly in colombia but this whole mass is sort of breaking out now scattered showers around haiti disappearing jamaica's had a little bit that's on the way out in eastern cuba still in that line but i think if anything it just produce a few more shouting to keep concentrated in its slow journey westwards which takes us a little bit further north to where winter is trying to push in and if you look at how the cloud has moved in the last twenty four hours or so there's all this cut up here that's a cold front to get its nose who to the east a massive arching cloud brings very wet weather to seattle and beyond otherwise it's quiet because. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. this is al jazeera.

hello again i'm peter w. watching the news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. the chamber sentences mr rock. to life imprisonment hailed as a milestone for international justice the bosnian serb commander ratko is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity. the lebanese prime minister puts his resignation on the homeless thousands turn out to welcome him home. hope and optimism as zimbabweans rushed to welcome the next president. and rare and dramatic video of the rescue of a north korean soldier who was shot while escaping across the border into the south .

a military commander branded the butcher of the balkans and the epitome of evil has been sentenced to life in prison ratko madeline latics was found guilty on ten charges including genocide and crimes against humanity during the bosnian war the former military chief was convicted of the massacre of more than eight thousand muslim men and boys it's rubber and the siege of sarajevo in which more than ten thousand people died his lawyer says he'll appeal the chief u.n. prosecutor has hailed the conviction as a milestone for justice but through heroes other victims and survivors will never give up on their quest for justice they displayed real courage by coming to the tribunal to tell the truth and confront the man wronged them. on behalf of my office i would like to think and recognize the victims and survivors well shortly we'll cross to david chaytor in srebrenica but first let's

get the latest from the barker who's there outside the court for us in the hague neve just take us through what's happened there. proceedings to be wrapped up here but still the echoes of what's just happened being very much felt still getting reaction not only from here in the hague but also from across the balkans as well i've just come out of a rather heated press conference that was attended by a lot of his defense team and by a lot of his son darko they say that they reject the findings they said that they will appeal this verdict they've also complained they said in a letter to the united nations the tribunals code of conduct was breached because of the poor health care that laddish received during the trial. right up until this last day which the verdict has been given they're hoping that the u.n.

will wade into the situation and perhaps force some change should to the way in which this tribunal functions and possibly even that might actually affect the verdict itself but all of that's very unclear further afield we're hearing from alexander the president of serbia who said that all of us from the outset knew what the outcome would be just to remind you to form a supporter of hardline ultra nationalist himself in the past at least he's now managed to rebranded himself as a pro e.u. reformer also from serbia denisov visage the bosnian prime minister said he welcomes the verdict he said that this was a sign that war criminals cannot to state justice regardless of how many years they hide and finally a comment from search primates who is the chief prosecutor who said this is a good. and his guilt alone they say that they will now consider whether or not to appeal the one charge one out of the eleven charges that loutish was found not

guilty for a series of purges against porson in villages and he wasn't actually in the court when the sentence was handed down neve because he'd started shouting at the judge just a few minutes beforehand. incredibly chaotic scenes yes that have been very typical of his. behavior really throughout the trial he's been defined he's been belligerent and on this case he got particularly angry and started shouting at the job just the judge refused to hold proceedings completely over some concerns that the fence team raised about his blood pressure that apparently was very high the judge himself said that he had been given his own details from a doctor and see felt that it was ok to go ahead with the proceedings and clearly didn't like that he ended up being sent out of the course we believe he then was able to hear the rest of the verdict in

a separate room but as to his reaction we don't know exactly how he responded but judging from what i've just seen of his son a tremendous amount of anger from his defense team need thanks very much david chase and i live for us in srebrenica here on the news hour david the reaction there. well the the mothers of the victims here in the middle of this huge cemetery. watching al-jazeera pictures of the proceedings in the hague and they were appalled and silent to begin with and then when eventually verdicts came through they applauded it but also as well as clapping their hands and cheers they were very closely followed by by tears for them of course a life sentence for militia was the very least they expected because they have already been sentenced to a life sentence they've lost their loved ones and just to remind you that although

this is a very large graveyard there are still one thousand bodies missing have not been reunited not been found and just about every week going through these forests and hill surrounding this valley more bones are found just to get the initial reaction though of their mothers i spoke to one one woman who'd lost her husband who'd lost her son and lost her brother let's hear what she had to say about the verdict michael says i'm delighted that the court has brought such a judgment i'm a happy mother i have waited for this judgment for twenty two years as a mother as a sister as a wife i personally fought for this so much from day one until today i went to visit mass graves i did what i could do and i'm very happy today to be i lost so many members of my family and i'm overjoyed thank you thank you to the hague court

thank you to the journalists and to anyone who said a word or did anything to support the struggle of us mothers. and from where you are david how do they gauge the serbian reaction to this. well the serbian reaction is extraordinary we heard from my colleague back in the hague he was quoting the serbian president church saying essentially that there was going to be an appeal saying essentially that court in the hague was by or say only expected that sort of verdict and he appealed to the serbian people to look to the future and not wallow in the tears of the past that's very much mirrored in the serbian communities just further down the road and around these this very valley in this very cemetery they don't consider it. a genocide they say that the port the court was entirely political and they reject the whole idea of that is going down for a life sentence when they see him as nothing but

a hero now of course that that doesn't make for easy relations here in this valley essentially. that conflict is frozen here the end the t.'s are deep between the divided the ethnic communities that has not changed and the whole the whole episode of the court case against an outage so has pleased the them of the muslim bosnians but it's also brought out that upwelling of the motion and upwelling of bitterness and it's being reflected on both sides here and it shows you how deep and dangerous the divisions caused by the war are and how they still are very much alive here in this valley and across the rest of the country david thanks very much. thousands of people have gathered outside the residence of the lebanese prime minister saad hariri. wow. i mean really was back in beirut two weeks after first announcing he was standing well and saudi arabia he's

agreed to delayed his resignation requests from the president alone the dialogue. going on here with you and we will continue onwards together so we can be the line of defense for lebanon and for the stability of lebanon this gathering today is going to be repeated you'll see me visit every part of lebanon. let's talk to. us here in the news hour in beirut hashem is he resigning or not. not for the time being he wants to have talks with different political parties particularly. about how to move forward he has a set of demands and those demands then he would stay in power if those demands are not met then he will go he will step down and one of those demands he wants all the political parties particularly to stay away from interfering in regional conflicts

like the conflict in syria well it depends to be seen whether the political parties will be able. to come together to set those differences aside but that peter today was really a remarkable day for the lebanese they came together the president the prime minister and the speaker of the parliament of unity they want to reassure the lebanese that the crisis there was triggered by the resignation of. is over despite the fact that there will be more challenges in the future but for the time being they have managed to avert a crisis as we're going to see in this report. a crucial show of unity at a critical moment for lebanon. president michel i want a question parliament speaker and then be a muslim and prime minister sat then head a sunni muslim all together commemorating independence day divided along

sectarian lines lebanon faces yet another political crisis the latest started on the fourth of november when harry and now asked his resignation while visiting saudi arabia he accused hezbollah and iran of destabilizing the region his surprise announcement threw lebanon's fragile political order into disarray president accused the saudis of an act of aggression against lebanon and holding how really against his will the saudis sav the fear for his safety back home after visiting france and egypt how did he eventually landed back in lebanon on tuesday and paid his respects at the grave of his father a heavy the former prime minister was assassinated in a massive explosion in beirut twelve years ago his son called on all parties to

stay away from regional conflicts but after meeting president our own how did he decided to suspend his resignation. to the islands design with time with our i stressed my commitment to cooperate with president i will for the sake of lebanon to keep our country away from wars and disputes i have discussed my resignation with the president and he asked me not to resign now and to keep it until more consultation about the reasons behind my resignation. lebanon's political crisis is turning into a confrontation between the region's major rivals saudi arabia which backs how diri against iran which supports the armed group hezbollah an enemy of israel the regional rivalry extends to the wars in yemen and syria. weld leader. and they say a stable lebanon is key to the region's stability. plenty more ground still to

cover for you here on the news hour including these ones one of america's most recognized broadcasters has been suspended improper behavior as a new show sexual harassment is ingrained in us society. totally denies he. also had presidential backing for a republican candidate who's facing sexual misconduct accusations. and in sports ronaldo breaks another record in the champions league. with the details. anticipation building in zimbabwe where hundreds of people are gathering at the airport to welcome back the man who become the next president this is what awaits the former vice president and listen. when he arrives in harare he's currently on his way back he's on a plane from south africa he fled when he was fired by robert mugabe mr mugabe quit

on tuesday the speaker of parliament says and i will be sworn in as president on friday. from harare. is no longer president where the general sentiment in the country is that of relief they feel an old era is gone they look forward to something new some kind of positive change and they're hoping that this man. will be the man who will fix the economy create jobs and move the country forward out of political and economic isolation he has a lot of challenges ahead of him he'll be sworn in on friday at. the building behind me this day is getting ready to get things in mode. it has a lot to do people want to hear from him how he plans to solve the economic crisis how he plans to create jobs will he be an inclusive leader for the bobbins and not

just. appear supporters zanu p.f. in a separate people want some kind of positive change on the street things are calm they've been calling for a while now there are a few soldiers stationed outside some to teach it buildings just as a proportion but all eyes now on. what's easy going to do about zimbabwe is aiding economy and what is he really going to be the right leader for the country. public the u.n. command says north korea violated the honest disagreement when its troops shot and chased a soldier who was defecting across the border the defector remains in a hospital in south korea with gunshot wounds after the incident last week it's kathy novak extraordinary video of a soldier risking his life to escape from north korea at around three in the afternoon he's seen driving a truck past a checkpoint on the north korean side of the demilitarized zone or d.m.z. on the heavily fortified border fellow soldiers are shown running after the truck

which becomes stuck the defector then gets out and runs towards the border known as the military demarcation line or m.t.l. just meters away soldiers from the k.p.a. or north korean people's army opened fire hitting the defector it's thought five times one even chases him over the border before returning to the north korean side . the key findings of the special investigation team are that the k.p.a. violated the armistice agreement by one firing weapons across the m.t.l. and two by actually crossing the temporarily the defectors body is seen lying motionless on the south korean side of the border then soldiers from the joint u.s. and south korean security battalion are seen crawling towards the injured defector to drag him to safety it's rare for defectors to try and breach the joint security area puntland jum tour groups on both sides of the border regularly visit though

the u.n. command says no tourists were there when the shooting happened the north korean soldier remains in intensive care in a south korean hospital where he has regained consciousness and his wounds are no longer life threatening a doctor treating him says the surgery revealed a parasitic worms he'd only ever seen in textbooks giving an insight into the dire conditions north koreans face and the kind of life this defector was fleeing kathy novak al jazeera sole u.s. naval plane has crashed into the pacific they were on a flying mission to the aircraft carrier the ronald reagan which some patrolled in the philippine sea coast japan japanese t.v. says eight people have been rescued while three others are unaccounted for japan's defense minister says he's been told engine trouble may have caused the crash. a new u.s. studies reveal that sexual harassment occurs at a higher rates and low paid jobs the figures come as one of america's most recognizable broadcasters charlie rose was suspended from c.b.s.

after eight women accused him of improper behavior alan fischer now reports. he's been the face of morning broadcasts of one of america's biggest networks for years as one does hit close to home but charlie rose was missing on tuesday morning facing allegations he harassed the number of female staff who worked on another one of his shows he's know been fired has failed presenters admitted it was a difficult story to report i've enjoyed a friendship and a partnership with charlie for the past five years i've held him in such high regard and i'm really struggling because how do you what do you say when someone you deeply care about has done something that is so horrible how do you wrap your brain around that gruesome self spoke out on the topic early this year after leaving cable news host was forced to stand down of the cases and that raises the issue of sexual harassment what it is about thing is probably been not exposed in

our not enough in sense of the tension in the past so that people are afraid to come forward and people are coming forward now but while the headlines have been dominated by the cases involving harvey weinstein al franken and kevin spacey previously unpublished data obtained by the center for american progress says it's not just a problem for the elite and the wealthy in fact sexual harassment occurs at a much higher rate in industries with low paying jobs where women hold most of the ports the data obtained from the u.s. it will employment opportunity commission reveals that from two thousand and five to two thousand and fifteen more than a quarter of sexual harassment charges came from industries with large numbers of service workers. nearly three quarters of sexual harassment charges include an allegation of retaliation which could stop people from coming forward and more than eighty percent of the wrestling claims came from women a lot of low wage workers who simply often are not in a place to complain you know they risk throwing their family into economic

insecurity they can't afford to lose their job they're trying to make ends meet and so they often just look the other way or feel like they'll get fired or or risk some other retaliatory action every day there seems to be new allegations against some well known figure our cultural icon but this data shows that the problem of sexual harassment is deeply ingrained in american culture and people are speaking out to change that culture change the climate and ultimately to change the future alan fischer al-jazeera washington the u.s. president on all trump has broken with leading republicans and voiced support for the alabama senate candidate roy moore who's been accused of sexual misconduct with teenagers can really help from washington. for the first time donald trump has come out strongly endorsing the candidacy of the embattled candidate for a special senate seat republican roy moore there have been multiple i'm proven allegations by women who say when they were teenagers moore pursued them against

their wishes donald trump says that these allegations happened a long time ago and he believes morris claims that they are false totally denies he says it didn't happen and you know you have to list them all so you're talking about he said forty years ago this is not half so. now this is a story that continues to dominate news headlines here in the united states and the reason comes down to simple math republicans have a very narrow majority in the u.s. senate and it is the view of the president that he does not want another liberal democrat in that chamber given the fact that there are many republicans that continue to waver on his legislative agenda still searching for a legislative victory the president believes that this is a seat he cannot afford to lose he is also not ruling out potentially even campaigning for roy moore in advance of the december election he

seems to be presenting outside the u.s. president's florida state to move to change the immigration status donald trump's administration scrapping the program that allowed me the fifty five thousand haitians to live and work in the u.s. you know have any window to put to leave america gabriel is on the force now from newark new jersey where there is a big haitian community he went there to get the message. marie belle flores at the beauty salon she own skating ready for another day at work she came to the u.s. from her native haiti over thirty years ago and is now a u.s. citizen but many of her haitian friends are not so lucky a two thousand and ten earthquake in haiti killed more than one hundred thousand people and left millions homeless in the immediate aftermath within sixty thousand haitians came to the u.s. his scaping extreme hardship at home they were granted temporary protected status

to stay in america legally. that order has been renewed every year since your earth quake but the trumpet ministration says it won't happen this year but the haitians will be deported leaving many people like misspell floor worried and saddened it's hard it's still its own human and i don't think it's right those people. pole there are a life is difficult the city of newark new jersey is home to thousands of haitians who have laid down roots and i have families here. many haitians will be affected by this decision to have children that were born in the united states and dozens citizens those parents now face an excruciating decision to go back to haiti and leave their children here take their children to haiti leaving the only country

they've ever known or stay here in the united states but have to live in the shadows illegally. the trumpet ministration says the original law allowing haitians into the u.s. was always meant to be a temporary benefit and that the conditions in haiti have improved enough for them to return home but haitians here don't see it that way most of them are hard workers. i was working towards we. sometime jobs that doesn't even pay right but because the family taking care and some of them went to school and got a degree as for miss bell floor she says many of her friends who could now be deported are too scared to come forward and are now looking for another country that might take them in gabriel's dando how does either new or. yemen's airports in santa has been repaired and is ready for international flights

according to the who feel that government the airport was damaged by an air strike by the saudi led coalition last week the announcement follows the landing of two planes and sent off the first time since saudi arabia tightened its blockade sixteen days ago the un earlier more than thirty flights carrying aid had been cancelled and warned millions of people face starvation. talks to determine the future after the war in syria are underway in saudi arabia and russia today president vladimir putin is hosting iranian and turkish leaders in the black sea resort of sochi russia and iran a major allies of the syrian president bashar al assad who made a surprise visit to such on monday to turkey back syrian rebel groups saudi arabia is hosting a separate summits of various syrian opposition groups the u.n. special envoy to syria stephanie restorer is in riyadh but will travel to moscow next week mr assess his priority is ensuring the strongest syrian opposition delegation heads for geneva later this month the saudi foreign minister has pledged

to unify the opposition following the resignation of its leaders on monday. don fire and explosions have been heard in the georgian capital tbilisi where counterterrorism units are carrying out raids on a multi-story building the operations been going on for hours georgia security services say a number of suspects are holed up in one of the apartment building blocks our correspondent robin first a walker joins us live now from tbilisi robin what's going on. well until quite recently i would say within the us that a half an hour forty five minutes the gunfire has abated and i have just been hearing from a government spokesman that the operation is no over so they would heavy gunfire earlier and loud loud explosions and the very dramatic footage from a local television showing that gunfight between the state security agency officers

. as a threat so forth that effectively those are suspected. shooter's fight that that was holed up inside an apartment block in this neighborhood of c.p.t. we've also seen now a lot of those military vehicles that were here leaving we have seen three i mean and leading with that siren playing at speed and we understand that there may now have be more casualties but that's not confirmed what we do know and have had confirmed with that one security officer at least one security officer was seriously injured when that operation began and he had to come to his return he has died we know that there were two or three to begin with there were three suspected militants inside the building one of them with the wreckage the other two. were arms and threw grenades according to security services and that's how that security

officer was injured and then the fighting shootout been going on all day very very loud. a lot of shooting and even even. with the government stating that there were no residents left in the building we have seen a lot of local residents a very built up area several apartment blocks in the same area we thought were other residents here in those buildings i think clearly this has been a major operation and a very dangerous one trooper everyone who's been caught up in this robin thanks very much from tbilisi live to harare where people there are gathering because they're waiting for the man who will in theory on friday become the country's next president after robert gabriel mugabe was in fact i was still following that military intervention the coup that was never a coup or call your attention because actually what it was they know that his replacement got on a plane in south africa perhaps forty five minutes ago is not

a long flight of course is an hour an hour and a half perhaps maximum he will of course get direct landing rights. to land him when he arrives at the airport in harare will stay with these pictures and we're talking to judy judy on your he's the author of how to win elections in africa he's also a world fellow at yale university he joins us live from london shooting on you let's forget about the politicians for a second forget about the guys wearing uniforms what does it. have to do now. well first about whence we have to decide what they have to do and i can't speak for them. when they understand even though the age of bonanza that this is not exactly a popular uprising this much as it is a negotiated exit amongst power players and so from the sense of what a scene from social media and from reporters on the ground many of them are hoping

that these needs to. surely legitimate election. that is the hope that people can begin to organize the m.d.c. has already begun to meet which has been the only credible opposition for as long as we've known and people are hoping that finally with this we commune of the party there will surely be computable elections in twenty ok emerson. he was born in one nine hundred forty two he's not a young man so they got rid of an old man to replace him with going to my hunch is you're an old man can he do that can he legitimize politics given that he's you know that there is this political and military or a surrounding him so it's the old in with the old maybe the. first trend across the continent is the same thing in nigeria where the new leader

was also from a military dictator the same with god now. because of the history of our democracies. much like in the us and in the u.k. where power since the devolved to the family line we will have to cope with this kind of on satisfactory hundred of us for a while. it is possible that he can win legitimacy if he makes the right moves and decides to turn out the voices and passions of the people it will be an imperfect compromise on the part of zimbabwe and it might be the only option for a period of peace. asked the democrats he continues to evolve it's not the best option it's not the ideal circumstance but what choice do we have. is there a good two template here i don't wish to oversimplify the backstory of another country but could the go to template be rwanda because the g.d.p. in rwanda is looking really good the leadership is respected and people are

comfortable so if you put that kind of template together with the amazing energy and enthusiasm that we're seeing on the streets of harare right now that might ultimately be a success story it might not be the guy who's on the plane right now from south africa but in a year or two it might really turn around. well we desperately call of the spirit of rwanda whenever we can see no hope so one can only hope. but then again we have to understand that rwanda came about because of the. impressive leadership abilities of pork and even his democratic credentials are often called into question and so the question is will the involved feel fortunate enough to have those kinds of leaders to take advantage of a momentous time in democratic evolution and a center with the possible changes that it can get that will be the question right now we do not know. the chances of the m.d.c.

as bleak as they are where. i was a part of this the moderates and for so long as we know. we can only hope. we can only hope we watch and listen with interest today thank you so much. the rainy season has arrived in arabia. yes of course that's three days in three months but it's just happened the weather swept down from europe and this is what it looked like by satellite when the first significant rain in the levant had an attack it seems to me the basis of rain in twenty four hours about twenty four hours ago and further also. it was a bit of water get rid of for example on the shores of the. black sea that being the caspian but to me twenty six degrees celsius now that sounds extremely high and indeed it was but what brought the rain was a cold front so you can see what's going to happen here the last swept through and this is the first breakthrough of weather really from europe to the event and

beyond the change of temperature so you don't have culled from. a permanent change in weather type and that is it sweeping through has been a long lived line of rain from the caucasus dancer iran but you can study is now the winter front and so if you're this side of it it's already cold day there was a significant rain on this line as well although it and science in particularly iran but that sort of weather also happened in saudi arabia we had flash flooding in jeddah for example now i think of the next twenty four hours the rain will be mostly in iran rather than arabia but there's an interesting curve here here is that green is forecast right and that sitting over doha so we went to morrow in this part of arabia. thanks very much still to come here on the news hour for you. explaining colombia's peace deal with using the spoken word. and sport a week after qualifying his team for next year's world cup australia's football

coach calls it quits. you are making. their on line the u.s. response to drug. drug trade over the last fifty years has been criminalized or if you join us. in the morning and say i want to cover the world in darkness is a dialogue. about people saying they don't actually. join the conversation at this time on. zero.

welcome if you're just joining us my name's peter w. you're watching the al-jazeera news hour live from doha top stories the former bosnian serb leader. been sentenced to life in prison for genocide and other crimes during the bosnian war he was convicted of the massacre of more than eight thousand bosnian men and boys its rubber meets and the siege of sarajevo in which more than ten thousand people died. and suspicion is building in zimbabwe where hundreds of

people are gathering at the airport to welcome back the man will become the new president this is what awaits the former vice president emerson. when he arrives there he's currently on a plane heading there from south africa. thousands of people have gathered outside the residence of the lebanese prime minister saad hariri he's back in beirut two weeks after months of this time whilst in saudi arabia he has agreed to delay his resignation after a request from the president to allow more dialogue. let's get more on that the friend with him for a had an associate professor in conflict management at the doha institute point number one is going to make demands point number two has he written those demands or is this the israelis and the saudis concocting something of that's part of the complexity now that the issues of this conflict are not very clear however what came out already from from how do you view that he mission in measure things that can tell us about the demands and they should one is that the commitment of

the five agreement that nine hundred eighty nine five agreement that brokered by saudi arabia that in did the civil war in lebanon and started the transitional stage and second the which is solving the conflict of the issues with neighboring arab countries and in the demands that came out. that came out already in his speech actually both referring to saudi arabia so we should expect a heavy involvement of savagery in the movement in the days ahead and indeed in these issues because also we have to keep in mind that the other side you know where the target of this confrontation hezbollah is also seen as representing the united nations in other words we're going to see more of a regional project that regional confrontation and lebanon will be the battleground

of the the centers of this regional confrontation is going to be riyadh and the heart so in effect he's sitting on top of a full length table here and it might fall over because there are conflicting agendas here the saudis want one thing surely the israelis want something else donald trump slash rex tillerson they're all for the state department and in washington they want something else but they're kind of riding the wave of oh the israelis and the saudis want to have a puppet israel via the vessel of hezbollah and hezbollah has political traction that it's undoubtedly got now within the framework of lebanese politics how does he do that yes actually we have to look at the bigger picture in the region and lebanon also in particular. changed in terms of its politics and the proxy conflict between iran and saudi arabia all changed since that he had summit in that he had some of the seeds of this of what we're seeing today started summit where regional project of confronting iran that consists of saudi arabia the united states and also we've seen increasingly more messages of giving israel as of this

alliance as we have seen in the past few months so that's where all that started so we're going to continue to see regional confrontation with the with these to try to put an end to the iranian influence expansion in the region it started in my view the very first that there was a guy in the. palestinian division and allowing for reconsideration what applause and i mean on that so in the power for the palestinian authority and then move to live on and that's what's happening now and that's where we're going to see the bigger picture of continued. itself and going to that we're going to see it in in lebanon with. a more representative of the saudi agent that i was there as well as water because of the age of them and that's how we're going to understand this i was going to see this happen let's boil this down to one very basic question

we're watching pictures of him being feted rock star welcome back in beirut for the people who support him that's perfectly understandable i guess but he surely now cannot resign you can't you can't two weeks ago on camera in saudi arabia say i'm resigning and then be kind of. away from you get on a plane you meet the french president then you go back home feted like a rock star he can't now say actually no i am stepping down while well ok visible we have to keep in mind actually that the whole the story with his resignation from has not been fully. realized for us i mean we still don't know what really happened. but what we're seeing the indicators is that it's all connected to riyadh i mean his family still there. and even when he went to paris his two sons they went there and also in his very first

a speech from the mission on he mentioned the five agreement which is the goal then magic word for saudi arabia because also there were kids about this that's the gold standard here and yes exactly so that it's more of an emphasis of an arab frame where for how to run politics in lebanon if this doesn't happen we should expect to see this ignitions because i think we're going. with this is commission in terms of the dynamics that we've seen today between iran and saudi arabia and with this kind of exclusion and the dynamics that are controlling this is going to i think we could easily as ignition bubble thank you very much thank you. now the top story in europe for you so far today the u.k. chancellor says the u.k. economy will grow far more slowly than expected over the next five years as it faces breaks it uncertainty and weak productivity philip hammond has delivered his first budget since the general election in june he was promising to tackle the peak economic outlook head on barnaby phillips joins us live from london so barnaby i

see we're talking here about a three billion pound pledge because of the cost of bricks it breaks it's getting more expensive. well it's certainly a challenge for philip hammond peter and it puts him in a rather tight spot let's just talk about those growth predictions that the context is that britain was very much the star performer all virtually the star performer of the g seven group of countries in till about a year ago and it's now if you believe these projections one of the weakest performers the economy will leap along limp along i'm sorry at around about one and a half percent sometimes less over the next four years or so and at the same time you have a chancellor in a minority government unpopular with many of his own members of parliament and he's got to stand up and try and make the best of a bad hand and that's why he was talking about very domestic issues cutting taxes

for homeowners spending some more on social welfare spending some more on the n.h.s. but you're absolutely right bracks it does loom above everything and let's talk about that three billion pounds with my guest joe owen of the institute for government this is money merely to pay for the mechanics of brecht's it isn't it could you explain this is resources for the government machine. so this is for the army of civil servants who will be preparing negotiating positions who will start laying the groundwork for life after bricks it will because it took to put it in context the british government is hiring thousands of new civil servants to cope with bricks it there are lots of you civil servants coming in i think there was around three hundred fifty or so around six hundred in total for some of the departments that are affected by the border there are other departments where we've heard that the only thing that is slowing down recruitment is actually the h.r. processes of getting them in so there is lots of news hires going on to try and as

i said feed this government machine in that preparing for. three billion pounds pledged today do think that's likely to be adequate or do you think we're going to see this chancellor if he survives or a successor being under pressure to cough up more in in the months and years to come so this three billion pounds is i mean we haven't seen the details yet but it's likely to be for the essentials so for lots of the staff costs that we know will need to incur for the next few years for some of the vital bits of technology but as the shape of the deal gets clearer as the timelines for moving out of the e.u. become clearer you can expect more money in certain areas as i said depending on the shape of the deal but i know that you use study the mechanics of government you're reluctant to get into the politics but the opposition party the labor party say that the british government is very unprepared for the mechanics of breck's it

do you feel that the british government is getting up to speed with the challenge that that awaits it so the focus for the government at the moment is on the negotiations so the withdrawal agreement we haven't started talking about the big juicy stuff in terms of future relationship we have yet to see really a firm position from the government on that so can imagine they're working away at that behind the scenes and then there's the question of legislation so providing. legal framework for the u.k. outside the european union and they have been some delays to that already through the programming the big key piece of legislation is making its way through parliament. of the institute for government thank you for joining me here in westminster back to you. thanks very much let's just take you inside the building there behind barnaby phillips our correspondent standing across there at college for him because during the. labor party leader very difficult i have to say to. the backstory to mr corbin is labor did very very very well at the last u.k.

general election series and may the bracks it prime minister did badly she misread all the opinion polls decided to go to the polling and secure her majority she didn't she then had to get into police. but that's a whole different conversation let's get a sense of what mr cole been saying as a reaction and see for the how many of those on the front line vote for. mr pynchon and to make sure to which keep going he will be going go to the chamber to the. i would rather people started to listen actually mr jeffers. to the reality. sorry we're sad stood there for a moment i'm not sure who the people who read siloed it's from. thank you mr speaker. may be

a very manches office it would like to listen to martins experience. a full time half hour full time work on the minimum wage he said i get paid for weekly meeting at my pay day it is different each month and because of the under the universal credit system he was paid twice in a month and deemed too much his universal credit was cut off this line. i mean to run to riches or not to use a food bank for the first time in my life that is the humiliation that he and so many others have gone through because of the problems of universal credit would need been better to oppose the whole thing and look at the problems it is causing. the chances solution to a failing system causing more debt is to offer a loan on the six week quite what twenty percent wage even longer simply becomes cost five week why. this is. not fixing and so on like so much that he's

talking about basically comes down to the rate of he settled to like ships policy it's called the university credit scoring read for that was the social security it has been used as a way to reduce that it's the waiting time for payments to come through so people on minimum wage all their own zero hours contracts they need that extra injection of cash to be able to live to pay their rent pay their mortgages etc has to cope and they're going off trees and may she was flanked by foreign secretary boris johnson on the opposite government pensions will go back to that if we get any more developments but particularly to do with the fake the funding of bricks at the financial impact of bricks it as well. still to come here on al-jazeera one of the biggest rivalries in international cricket is set to resume we'll tell you why and when we come back.

thank. you and. we have to decide what we're going to start with and what will. put it with another day another rescue and so christiana and although continued his exceptional record in the champions league he scored twice for real madrid against apple and nicklaus yet to take his tally a full twenty seventeen to eighteen goals the has never been done before reality winning six and they'll to secure the spot to end the last sixteen. because we are going down the right path at the moment and doing the right things it's

a very good day for us but the thing i like the most was our game we are continuing to improve and that's the most important things wasn't easy it's never easy to score six goals away from home avar. i mean why liverpool blew a chance to claim a place in the knockout stages that for the first time since two thousand and nine the reds threw away a three nil halftime lead to draw three zero against severe whose coach eduardo that is ohio's been diagnosed with a trauma. from tomorrow and we will know again that we. have a point more than we had this afternoon so but in this moment i don't think that anybody can change that it feels like we've lost the game we didn't lose the game but it feels like us to be there feel like they have won the game but if they didn't so. you know manchester city beat fan or one nil or him sterling's eighty eighth minute goal clinched top spot in group effort with a game to spare that guardiola as men have won all five games this season.

and barcelona have the chance to see all the top spot in group d. by beating eventis away later baso will knocked out by you've a last season in the quarter finals and their manager insist they're doing their best to learn from that period. chill out as you know i've watched that video and i still continue to watch it because at the end of the day it's useful to help prepare for the match the circumstances are quite similar even about time we are playing at the knockout stage we know they are a strong team playing at home so they start the match playing hard in the first minutes we saw this during that match and we have to be prepared. in group a man to see united just need a draw to book their place in the next round of group b. p.s.g. and brian have already reached the knockout stage regardless of their results later roma just need a point i guess that let it go to qualify from group c.

a win for chelsea. will send them through. we got a call fine for next year's world cup and rochelle straightness football coach a has announced his resignation and jay poster who knew i had been in charge of the socceroos for the past four years in that time he led them to the twenty fourteen a world cup in brazil and to the asian cup title in two thousand and fifteen but fifty two year old says it's taken a toll on him and his family. they're down to the final four teams in major league soccer with the conference finals beginning on tuesday houston dental hosted the seattle sounders in the first leg of the western conference decider but they were upset up by the visitors with two first half goals given seattle the way. one of the fiercest rivalries in international cricket resumes on thursday the first ashes test between australia

and england gets under way i respect the all these haven't lost a test match on the venue since nineteen eighty eight and to the series as favorites. i think about you only today to win you know it's reason why australia play play the first test of the series here all the time because you know they've got such a good record here and well way to start the series if we can go one up here then it really upsets the apple cart and it could give us a lot momentum going into the rest of it. so the ashes has a long and interesting history that goes all the way back to eighteen eighty two when the first time australia's cricket team beat england on english soil they're the country that created cricket this small of witchery appeared in the sporting at times newspaper an affectionate remembrance of english cricket to which died at the oval twenty ninth august eighteenth eighty two it would add the body will be

cremated and the ashes taken to australia and the us the ashes was born well it's not a big prize to the time that the two teams play with is just eleven sent to me to stall well legend has it that it was a perfume contain it handed to the english team by a group of women in melbourne and eight hundred eighty two it contained ashes of a burnt playlet which is a little wooden piece that sits on the top of the self three sets of three wooden poles known as stumps in cricket england regain the ashes after that series and they've remained fierce rivals ever since facing each other at least once every four years they play the best of five test matches as they are called that these are games that can last up to five days long spare you all the rules of cricket but basically you're trying to stop the other team of from scoring as many runs as you australia are trying to regain that little urn at home this time around. i think

there's always pressure going into an ashes series particularly when you're playing at times. you know we don't need to put any more pressure on ourselves if that makes sense you know it's still just another game of cricket and we have to come out here and make sure that we're flying well from the first. and that's it from him and you've got to be santa thanks very much last one used for your course on the website it's always there for you twenty four seven zero is the website address . one headlines in about two minutes on this channel us either. december on al-jazeera we look back at twenty seventeen through the eyes of five families have been affected by some of the big stories of the year in an increasingly polarized world people in power sheds light on the darkest abuses of

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