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investigation into his ties to russia moves a step closer to the oval office. hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up yemen's former president calls for a cease fire in the country's civil war. the pope defends his silence over the plight of the russian judge on his visit to myanmar. and uncertainty and violence in honduras maybe a week after its presidential election. donald trump is defiant in the face of a snowballing crisis around his presidency of a ties to russia he said he had nothing to hide just a day after his former national security adviser admitted to lying about his contacts with russia as dynasty reports the controversy is overshadowing what

should have been a big win for trump and the republicans the senate not only giving his tax bill the green light. outside the white house saturday morning president donald trump wanted to talk more about the new tax plan passed by the u.s. senate then about his former national security advisers russian contacts now about what i think shows no solution no killer has been absolutely has been absolutely no solution so we're very happy right away last night with one of the big guys on friday michael flynn pleaded guilty in federal court to lying to the f.b.i. about efforts to obtain advance knowledge of how foreign governments might vote on a u.n. security council resolution regarding israel and about conversations he had with russia's ambassador to the u.s. during the presidential transition as part of the deal flynt agreed to cooperate with special prosecutor robert mueller's investigation into russian meddling into

last year's presidential election mohler is looking into whether the trump campaign colluded with russia he's also looking into the president's business ties there oh it was when is the fourth member of the president's inner circle to be charged in connection with the investigation and political analyst eric ham says he's clearly the most significant by michael flynn was a very high profile target both in the campaign and in the white house and so what he's looking to do is bomb miller is looking to steadily move up the food chain he's looking to get bigger fish and so i think he's looking at possibly jared kosher questioner and maybe even the president going forward last winter president trump said he fired flynn just one month into his national security advisory post because he had lied to vice president mike pence about his contacts with russia but the president offered another explanation saturday in

a tweet saying i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the f.b.i. he has pled guilty to those lies it is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful there was nothing to hide dian us to book al-jazeera washington. the former yemeni president ali abdullah saleh has called for a joint ceasefire between his supporters who are the rebels and the saudi led coalition at least forty people have been killed and over the past few days and battles between the who think fighters loyal to saddam and a half stars more now on the rivals are used to be allies against the arab alliance which entered the war in twenty fifteen. gunshots reverberate through the ransacked streets of yemen's capital sana'a the civil strife that has brought misery to millions of people now the country's former president ali abdullah saleh is calling for dialogue with the saudi led coalition forces. the need to lift the blockade and open the airports and allow food and

medicine into the country we will open a new page for the dialogue what is happening in yemen is enough sollars one time ally who. has accused him of deliberately creating on rest to create divisions amongst the anti saudi led coalition bloc who think says his group's focus was always protect yemen's internal security guard hospitals and mosques. would learn he allowed the enemy forces are the ones behind those militias to stare up secretary in troubles inside and spread sick terrorism to the rest of the provinces why not for the love of those militias if it was up to them they would have crushed humiliated and defeated them but it was in order to facilitate the task of aggression of the enemies and their occupation of the country after failing for nearly a thousand days but analysts think outside pressure may have influence shift an allegiance. yemen was already struggling before the war now the u.n.

calls it the largest humanitarian crisis in the world of its twenty five million people twenty million rely on humanitarian assistance i think it's very clear that he maybe wants to but one of his family members and power to share power with the current legitimate government so i think maybe it seems to me that they might be a collaboration between regional powers. and maybe the legitimate government to somehow overthrow the houthi is first and then have a sort of a serious political talk the saudi led coalition imposed a blockade on all of yemen's ports and last month the missile that may have targeted riyadh as a result seventy eight million yemenis are on the brink of famine the country is also suffering from a cholera epidemic which aid workers predict could hit one million sufferers by the end of the year now the conflict between supporters and hoofy forces could mean

more hardship for the people of yemen. because their syrian government their strikes have targeted several cities and towns in damascus province at least six people were killed and out of bin while two others died in her restaurant also been a toxin eastern go to has been under siege by the syrian army since twenty thirteen some four hundred thousand civilians are believed to be trapped. by the syrian government says there can be no progress in talks to end the fighting if the opposition keeps demanding that president bashar al assad steps down diplomatic editor james bays reports from geneva. the syrian delegation leaving the talks in geneva it's not clear if they'll return their chief negotiator expressing irritation at comments by the opposition side who are still stressing assad must go the language was cocky here it's possible politically speaking his position is perhaps surprising his russian allies since their intervention in the war in twenty

fifteen have turned things around for assad on the battlefield and in recent months president putin has also been in the driving seat diplomatically reaching understanding's with two countries that had led the campaign against assad turkey and saudi arabia it held an important meeting last month in riyadh in a major reorganization prominent opposition figures quit their posts as members of another group with close links to moscow and derided by some as a sad stooges were admitted to the geneva delegation there's also been an important change of emphasis by the un at previous rounds of talks envoys stefan de mistura as main aim was a transitional government it is clear the political transition is the mother of all ages he was working to the exact wording of his predecessor special envoy the

former secretary general kofi annan who drew up the geneva communique which was signed by the international community in twenty twelve the communique which was later rian dorst by a security council resolution called for a transitional governing body agreed by mutual consent that last bit is important as the opposition has in the past said it would never consent to a sad being part of a transition. what's changed is that demas store has now drawn up a list of twelve principles that he says will guide the negotiations in the future can we also get clarification that you are still seeking to form a transitional governing body with full executive power agreed by mutual consent the twelve. principal points when you will be reading them and you will be called the defense fund we hope to produce the if the if there dick common understanding are completely constantly inspired by did you never communicate and it twenty to

fifty four. but special envoy i've read them and they don't know i've not read them but i've read a version of an old version of weight and you would seem i waited hours are after that exchange de mistura published his twelve principles nowhere in here is there any mention of a transitional governing body of former leader of the opposition as told our jazeera the whole process has been compromised western diplomats say de mistura is changing the rules of the game and that his plan now is very russian flavored james braze al-jazeera geneva the trump ministration has pulled the u.s. out of a united nations pact meant to improve the handling of refugees and migrants un member states are gathering in mexico on monday for talks on the deal which is known as the global compact on migration the us ambassador to the un nikki haley

says the agreement is inconsistent with u.s. policies but francis has defended his silence in manama over the plight of ranger refugees saying he spoke the truth in private he's been facing international criticism for not directly addressing the crisis during his visit earlier this week the pontiff didn't mention the ethnic minority until he was in bangladesh where he met ranger would escape the military crackdown across the border. i mean that is how i was interested in my message getting through so i saw that in my speech if i had used that word the door would have slammed shut but i describe the situation the riots that no one should be excluded citizenship to allow me in my private meetings to go further i was very very satisfied with the discussions i was able to have you know aid agencies in bangladesh say young ranger women are being sold as sex slaves people trafficking is common in refugee camps where rangers have sought refuge for decades well the recent arrival of six hundred twenty thousand of them

is adding to the profits of the trafficking gangs child struck with reports from cox's bazaar in bangladesh cartoon is not her real name we call her that to protect her identity the fifteen year old ranger refugee says her mother father brother and sister all killed by a multi shell fired by the me and my military at her village three months ago she says after she escaped by boat to bangladesh two women approached her on the beach saying they could help her instead they sold her into sex slavery. they told me if i went with them they would look after me and help me find a husband. says that up to three weeks of being locked in a house alone she was sold to a bangladeshi man she says the man took her to another house raped and sexually abused her for twelve days. he said i will choke you i will stab you i will kill

you do you want to be killed the way the military killed people in me and ma i won't let you go a local aid agency the latest a cartoon but doesn't want to be named said its staff working with trafficking victims have received death threats from criminal gangs operating in the refugee camps the head of the organization told us riggins you girls some as young as thirteen are being taken by the traffickers. it's thought some have been smuggled abroad. hasina begum and her family have been living in a refugee camp in bangladesh since fleeing an earlier crackdown by the mia military in the one nine hundred ninety s. . a teenage girl was kidnapped on the way to school the kidnappers were wearing a woman's neck out to cover their faces that's why they went recognized. sex and labor trafficking networks have existed in the camps for years but more than six hundred twenty thousand rangers have arrived here in the last couple of months and

at least sixty percent of them are children and aid agencies having to focus on the delivery of vital humanitarian assistance at this stage so the trafficking situation is getting worse. with so many vulnerable people coming into a small area in such a short space of time. it's definite almost stunned it's increased there's been recruiters here in this bizarre bunker that's previous to this influx and we know that they're getting more business and that new criminal networks have sort of kicked into action we have to start addressing us and we have to do it now urgently after twelve days the man who bought culture returned to the two women who sold her they left her in the refugee camp where she now lives with a woman who found her alone in the froid. it's all stuff that al-jazeera culture is bizarre and with the. break here knowledge is there out when we come back the

mystery behind the expulsion of a former egyptian prime minister from the united arab emirates. and what should have been a triumphant day for germany's right wing party didn't quite go according to plan on staying. there at long last across the pacific northwest of the united states had a date up towards that western side of cata still a fair amount of cloud coming in but i think the scars will be a little clearer some dry weather coming through disturbed weather is making its way across the rockies in the form of some snow much of central and eastern parts of the u.s. there is a canada not faring too bad. in new york no great shakes but at least it should be largely dry over the next few days that wintry mix that'll topple off the rockies

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and point loss the future of job creation in africa the only continent where the young outnumber the counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as an eyewitness that's what his job. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has again insisted there was no collusion between his campaign and russia during the twenty sixteen election he tweeted that while he fired his national security adviser a lying to the f.b.i.

michael things actions were lawful flynn's pleaded guilty to making false statements about his contacts with russia. former president ali abdullah saleh has called for a joint ceasefire between his supporters to the rebels and the saudi led coalition at least forty people have died in battles between forces loyal to saddam on the hoof is in the capital sana. and pope francis has defended his silence in myanmar over the plight of ranger refugees saying he spoke the truth in private he's been facing criticism for not directly addressing the crisis pontiff says public and on c.h. and would have prevented his message from being. now as you mentioned earlier while president trump is feeling the heat of the russian probe he's managed to achieve his first big legislative victory the u.s. senate narrowly approved the biggest tax overhaul since the one nine hundred eighty s. the bill slashes taxes for corporations but democrats complained it only benefits the wealthy and big business is time argument after last minute changes to appease some

holdouts the tax bill passed by the narrowest of margins the yeas are fifty one and the nays are forty nine. all republicans with one exception voted for the bill which their leader hailed as a tonic for the u.s. economy we have an opportunity now to make america more competitive and to keep jobs from being shipped offshore and provide substantial relief to the middle class but democrats called it a bonanza for multinational corporations and the ultra rich while adding more than a trillion dollars to the u.s. debt there is a trail of broken promise broken promise to working families. to pass this bill and the american people understand this is the music fired up of continuing attacks on medicare and medicaid and social security. most economists have been skeptical that the tax cuts will generate enough growth to

make up for the loss in government revenue as the republicans have promised public opinion polls show that voters largely oppose the bill based on doubt it will amount to a net gain for most households but its passage would be the biggest republican legislative achievement since donald trump became president we got no democrat help but i think that's going to cost him very big in the election because basically they voted against tax cuts and i don't think politically it's good to vote against tax cuts the senate and house which already passed its own versions of tax cuts must still agree on bridging the differences but trump said he looked forward to signing a final bill before christmas tom ackerman al-jazeera washington egyptian presidential hopeful ahmed shafik has reportedly arrived in a colorado after being arrested and deported from the united arab emirates if he had been based in the u.a.e. since losing to the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi in egypt's twenty

twelve presidential election the former prime minister and air force commander announced last week he plans to run for president in twenty eighteen incumbent president sisi is widely expected to seek another term less a ha as ease an associate professor of law what a and m. university she says it's likely there's some truth to shift claims of being bought from leading the un. he clearly has been deported and presumably the reason why he was deported was in retaliation for his claiming that he was barred from departing the u.a.e. for france and a european trip or he was going to be campaigning among the egyptian diaz for there and then presumably heading to egypt so i don't think that he would take such a big political risk of insulting his hosts for over five years who effectively gave him refuge while he was facing criminal charges in egypt that he would do something like that publicly on a if at least it was there was some truth to it so i think he probably was kept but

now he's going to pay a higher price and now i think he is going to face serious problems in egypt where we don't know if he's going to be detained and i don't think there's any knowledge right now of where he has been sent to in egypt i think fish if he is a formidable contender and the presidential elections primarily because he has legitimacy as a former general and because he represents the barak era and six years now after the so-called revolution of two thousand and eleven there is a significant number of egyptians who reminisce for the mubarak era and they would like that era to come back and that's what he represents and presumably there are people in the military and other parts of the security apparatus who have signaled to him that they would support him if he announced his candidacy a nighttime curfew is in place in honduras following days of protests security

forces have been given extra powers to stop the violence that's followed last sunday's presidential election one person's died dozens more injured after six days a clear winner is yet to emerge from the first run your opponent has more from the capital to do so got the. the night hours have closed in the city of they were we are now in a nationwide curfew and things have quieted down especially compared to just yesterday when riots broke out and demonstrators clashed with security forces a wave of looting and violence has really swept the country amidst this political crisis and the response from military police has been the use of tear gas and rubber bullets and people here are still very anxiously awaiting a decision by the national elections committee it's been over a week since the general elections and still no decision now in response to this violence one hundred military isn't forcing a nationwide curfew a strict six p.m. curfew that restricts some constitutional rights for honduran citizens but it also

means that anyone out past six o'clock is subject to arrest now the concern here remains that the longer the elections commission stalls on this decision the higher the chance that violence could spark up again. venezuela's government says it's close to reaching a deal with the country's opposition the two sides of and holding talks about the economic and political crisis that's gripped venezuela for almost a year the meetings in the dominican republic are the first negotiations and anti-government protests ended in july. apart from being difficult i should say that we are close to reaching an agreement we will return on december the fifteenth to seek to lay the foundations for a definite of political economic social and cultural agreement we are deeply satisfied we want to thank all those who made these pros has possible several police officers and a protester have been injured during a rally against the far right alternative for germany party the anti migrant and

islam group is electing its new leadership the f.d.a. took votes away from the german chancellor angela merkel's alliance and september's election merkel has still not been able to form a government as more from one of them. as the day began police fired water cannons at protesters trying to block the streets at least one protester and several police were injured thousands tried to stop delegates from attending the first conference of the far right party since it won more than ninety seats in the german election. and. there is a fight in germany against. because you know what. right opinions. are. not good inside the dispute was not with the leftist protesters but within the party itself a leadership battle between extreme nationalists and

a more moderate of the f.t. was locked in a stalemate forcing parliamentary leader alexander galland to step in and share power with current party head voice than. i think we can work together very well i didn't intend to do this you know that i didn't want to. but a situation came up which was i don't want to say i love strictly for the party which was dangerous the question now is whether the party can contain ideological differences and appeal to the wider electorate all of this matters because chancellor angela merkel is running out of options to form a coalition government if germany is forced to go back to the polls they could be strengthened but if she forms a central coalition the social democrats are expected the f.t. will become the biggest opposition voice in holland for germany this has consequences for a political rhetoric for the way we debate in public and for the way for the tone

that i face sets and social media especially once the bastion of stability in europe it's now a messy time in german politics and like callen al-jazeera. the arab league is warning that any u.s. move to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital would feel violence there are reports president donald trump could announce a policy change on wednesday but as in just reports the white house insists the final decision hasn't been made the diplomatic status of jerusalem is one of the world's most contested issues israel calls the city its undivided capital and operates its government from there while palestinians claim east jerusalem which israel occupied after the one nine hundred sixty seven war as the rightful capital of their future state despite the unresolved status of the city which is important to muslims christians and jews u.s. president donald trump is reportedly considering recognizing jerusalem as the

capital of israel in the coming days a major potential shift in policy sharply criticized by palestinian leaders. this is a very big issue touching touching the al aqsa mosque touching the church and the whole is playing with fire has no meaning for a palestinian state that east jerusalem as its capital recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel could also see the u.s. embassy moved there from tel aviv while campaigning then candidate promised to move a diplomatic mission as one of his first acts as president but in june the white house issued a waiver to meet a deadline to either comply with the nine hundred ninety five law mandating the move of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem or explain why doing so is not in u.s. national security interests signing the waiver which presidents clinton bush and obama signed every six months as a matter of course angered president trumps evangelical christian supporters and

pro israel donors were reportedly pressuring him to declare next week's waiver to be his last while others are said to have also warned moving the embassy could not only strain ties with arab allies but could lead to violence and that's the big question will he go all the way or will he leave that legal loophole open i think because he would he would go that way and that would in a way placate his you know very pro israeli facts including his vice president is very religiously you know motivated by this. and also still leave open some door negotiation etc with the palestinians and others while it's still unclear what president trump will announce next week any decisions could complicate efforts by his administration to revive negotiations between palestinian and israeli leaders kirshner son in law and senior advisor has made several trips to the region as part of efforts to start the talks talks which look more distance

than ever in the us time i'll just there. meanwhile thousands of people in tel aviv in protest. against the israeli prime minister. they're angry about a controversial legislation that may prevent police from recommending if netanyahu should be prosecuted on corruption allegations the demonstrations part of a grassroots movement that's been calling on netanyahu to be indicted and removed from office he's been questioned in two corruption cases. staying in the occupied west bank people are preparing for christmas in what's believed to be jesus's birthplace the christmas tree lights in bethlehem's manger square next to the church of the nativity had been switched on christmas eve is a major event for bethlehem and thousands of international tourists.

are the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has again insisted there was no collusion between his campaign and russia during the twenty sixteen election he tweeted that while he fired his national security adviser for lying to the f.b.i. michael flynn's actions were lawful flynn's pleaded guilty to making false statements about his contacts with russia yemen's former president ali abdullah saleh has called for a joint ceasefire between his supporters who the rebels and the saudi led coalition at least forty people have died in battles between forces loyal to salah and the who thing in the capital sana'a. the trumpet ministration has pulled the u.s. out of a united nations pacts meant to improve the handling of refugees and migrants un member states are gathering in mexico on monday for talks on the deal which is known as the global compact on migration the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley says the agreement is inconsistent

with u.s. policies. pope francis has defended his silence in minamata over the plight of range of refugees saying he spoke the truth in private he's been facing international criticism for not directly addressing the crisis during his visit earlier this week the pontiff didn't mention the ethnic minority until he was in bangladesh where he met with a scrape the military crackdown across the border. i mean. i was interested in my message getting through so i saw that in my speech if i'd use that word the door would have slammed shot describe the situation the riots that no one should be excluded citizenship to allow me in my private meetings to go further i was very very satisfied with the discussions i was able to have egyptian presidential hopeful ahmed shafik has reportedly arrived in a colorado after being arrested and deported from the united arab emirates had been based in the u.a.e. since losing to the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi in egypt's twenty

twelve presidential election the former prime minister and air force commander announced last week he plans to run for president in twenty eighteen incumbent president abdel fattah el-sisi is widely expected to seek another term but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost thanks for watching but the. documentaries that are. at this time. this is counting the cost on a weekly look at the well the business and economics this week oil sweet spot what price does a barrel of oil have.