this is a dialogue everyone has a voice you actually raise several interesting point there that several of our community members are going to join the global conversation. more political drama in sri lanka as the parliament passes a no confidence motion against the newly appointed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa . you're watching al-jazeera live from my headquarters here in doha also coming up palestinian factions and israel agreed to a cease fire ending the worst violence in years. members of the u.s. senate bring you calls for sanctions against saudi arabia in the wake of the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. also ahead digging up the past mass graves

are excavated in spain to uncover the victims of the franco regime. the sri lankan parliament has passed a motion of no confidence against the president's pick for prime minister but the government prevented a formal vote from taking place now on tuesday the supreme court blocked president . as attempt to dissolve parliament and cold snap elections next year the decision opened the way for a parliamentary vote on his nominee for prime minister mahinda rajapaksa sort of center sparked a constitutional crisis in october by sacking the prime minister run away from a singer and trying to replace him bernard smith joins us live from the capital colombo burnet as far as this political drama is concerned where do we think it's heading next. peter it's very

difficult to say it's been an act i was an extraordinarily angry short session of parliament this morning where the speaker called for a vote on a show was passed passing no confidence in the prime minister. and the cabinet pointed to him however and iraqi people. are refusing to go they also say that all of this is unconstitutional it all goes back to a constitutional change a couple of years ago taken out of the president and giving it to parliament and what we have today is this tussle the struggle between parliament and the president and which one is supremely in sri lanka is government is it politics or is it the president and we're left now with this power vacuum essentially because we don't really know who's running the country does this mean that the snap elections planned or called for generally the fifth will or will not happen or does it have

to go back to the supreme court. no it won't they will not happen for the moment they've been suspended basically the supreme court issued an interim order preventing parliament from being dissolved the holding of the president's decision to dissolve parliament and call elections there is to be a for hearing of the supreme court further down the line in a few weeks time but in between that parliament's voted in the point people will make is that parliament is supposed to be supremely following this constitutional change if parliament says it doesn't have confidence and render mahinda rajapaksa then he shouldn't be prime minister it should be run on a singer who was the one who was fired at the end of october we've been holding out that the prime minister's official residence he was here today in parliament he says he's going to carry on with governing but rajapakse his people have been sworn in as a cabinet ministers they've got their cabinet offices the official government offices

the vehicles so we are left in this vacuum and it's beginning to filter out of parliament and those already been a little bit of a confrontation certainly with police forces not far outside parliament very small scale but it's beginning to show the sort of stresses that are leaking from the constitutional issues onto the streets peter and when it comes to the stresses on the streets burnet i mean to the voters feel a little bit short changed because again we've got the hard man of sri lankan politics kind of slugging it out either through the vast vessel of the supreme court or now in the parliament building. well you know actually as i said it very small scale these confrontations outside parliament and in fact in the last few weeks there's been a it's fair to say quite a lot of indifference really on the street people watched it play out yes the lankan rupee is formed to the lowest level ever against the dollar and there are

financial reckonings to come further down the line but at the moment the the strange thing is that rajapakse are actually very charismatic control has a lot of popularity in the country the people who are opposing what has happened all of civil society people perhaps more sri lanka's middle class who say look whether you like the current government or not you have to let this play out in parliament those who are rajapaksa supporters don't quite see it that way they see that this should be allowed to go ahead. bernard many thanks u.s. politicians are expected to address this war in yemen and the death of the saudi journalist in the coming weeks the chairman of the powerful foreign relations committee that's senator bob corker they said they could be a vote before the end of the year on a resolution to cut off all assistance to riyadh for the war in yemen caucuses he's asked the secretary of state mike pompei o the defense secretary jim mattis and the cia director gina housefull to give

a briefing this month about yemen and the death of. the u.s. state department spokeswoman for the new it says the u.s. is committed to a fast investigation of the murder. the importance of holding all of those of us involved in the killing of john jamal khashoggi accountable the secretary has spoken to the fact that the united states government is compiling some of its own data and taking a look at those facts we're getting information from a variety of sources and as any government would and i will tell you and will take a look at all of the information ok live now to istanbul to my colleague andrew symonds andrew is turkey in a better position to get american support. that is a very big question and one very hard to answer has to be said because there are two bodies of opinion. too on one has been briefing the media following his trip to

paris at the weekend that meeting with donald trump there is one standout from that and that is his highlighting congress you've just been reporting there on developments regarding moves possibly to try to get u.s. involvement in the yemen war pull back completely now what's the turkish president is reliance upon is a very firm action from congress he it would seem is not confident that donald trump will deliver it is hard really to read the u.s. president right now we last we heard anything of substance was when he referred to forming a strong opinion and that was supposed to be announced this week everyone is waiting for that but the issue is really not what he's been saying what he's not being saying is worrying people because there is an increasing concern that the u.s. will back the main issue and that is mohammed bin solomon the crown prince that is

the central issue is he responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi he denies it point blank and there is a major operation to try to persuade the united states not to hurt saudi arabia any more than it has already over the issue of justice could there be a solution on justice or not that's that's very very difficult but to come back to your question directly one body of opinion says the u.s. is peddling backwards white house level whereas congress could be pushing pushing towards a confrontation on the main issue and the other body of opinion really is that this could go away the longer it goes on the feeling is the more the potency of it gets diluted beads up and when it comes to that diluting effect i mean what do we think the u.s. tariff or the range of terrorist might be what do you think the next u.s. move will be. well there is

a range of sanctions being considered senator lindsey graham a republican spoke and republican admits that there is no real plan of action yet but he describes a mohammed bin salamanders unstable and unreliable he is talking about regime change he's pushing that line another democrat is saying that there will be sanctions that go to the highest level of leadership there is also the issue of nuclear power could that negotiation as a round of negotiations that set to take place because of then of course the war to which we've referred already but the bottom line is this is an issue that's going on longer and longer it's now more than seven weeks since the murder took place and that perception is that the world attention could fade the longer this goes on another major news events take prominence on the agenda and many thanks a ceasefire agreed to between palestinian armed groups and israel is so far holding

the egyptian brokered cease fire came after a major escalation in fighting this or seven palestinians killed how mass leaders say they'll abide by the agreement as long as israel does the same the announcement was met with celebrations in gaza and protests in israel back and joins us live now from west to slim so steph so far so good i guess. yes it is holding but with these things as we've seen over the past months it is fragile it is complicated it was a massive escalation piece like we haven't seen before in the sense of the amount of rockets fired out of gaza strip four hundred sixty according to israeli military in less than twenty four hours this was even more than on any given day during the two thousand and fourteen war israel struck around one hundred sixty targets inside gaza including have mass infrastructure in densely populated areas no one really knew how things are going to play out but it seems that behind the scenes mediation

has worked egypt of course in charge of that we haven't had any incident since the cease fire came into effect in the early hours of yesterday evening just looking ahead what is interesting is diplomatically internally here a potential fallout we know that that cabinet meeting in tel aviv yesterday last had six hours a lot of debate between the israeli prime minister his defense minister avigdor lieberman about what to do it seems according to leaks in the media that the defense minister wasn't on board when it came to the cease fire he is now announced an unexpected press conference in about three hours time so a lot of speculation what he's going to say and what he might do so we're going to wait and see what happens of that if there's a weak link in the cease fire chain might see it come during friday protests because we're well into thirty three thirty four weeks of friday protests along that fenced area between gaza and israel. it is possible one of the

dumond's of these negotiations of the calm for calm that say is that how my scales back these border protests we've seen that happen over the last two weeks or so yes people still came out to protest but they weren't going straight right up to the fence also if you look at it in the bigger context peter the amount of people protesting these days of that fence is less than one percent of the population of gaza but it does mentation some kind of pressure on israel it will be interesting to see what is going to happen this friday how many people and what kind of scope it takes in terms of the back and forth between israel and the protesters usually when we see an escalation it does sometimes happen after friday in response to how they played out so i think telling i at this point in time have mass and people in gaza feel that with this round almost they came out the tourists is also a lot of criticism in a way here in israel at the prime minister particularly we have saw those people protesting in the south yesterday in storage saying that he's been weak that is

dealing with hamas in a weak way i think the bigger picture is this what is the end game if there had been another major military escalation more casualties on all sides and it doesn't address the bigger issue of gaza which is a complicated one so i think it's wait and see how things are going to develop in the next coming days because everyone still says there is a cease fire but it is fragile thanks very much. will stay with us story the u.n. security council met off the see saw i was announced but failed to agree on any action israel's ambassador to the u.n. says members must condemn what he called hamas is aggressive stops. we take action to protect our people and we continue to do that unfortunately danger there you have the hamas regime that they continue to dig tunnels they continue to think about ways to attack israel and we will continue to take any measure name measure necessary to protect our people regarding the future our approach is very clear if

you do not be quiet in israel it will not be quiet in gaza and i think the hamas leaders know exactly what are the capabilities of these very i.d.f. and they know we can get to them even if they hide beneath tunnels and beneath hospitals well the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. is also urging the u.n. security council to take steps to end the violence we won the security council to shoulder its responsibility with regard to this situation threatening international peace and security and it is unfortunately the security council is paralyzed it did not show that its responsibility nevertheless we will keep knocking on the door of the security council to shoulder its responsibility i hope the efforts by our brothers in egypt of having the cease fire to to be put in place that will hold. well most all to come for you here on al-jazeera including

these stories the search for bodies continuing in california as hundreds are still missing after the worst wildfire in the history of the state. and the u.k. and the e.u. have reportedly agreed to a draft brix a deal after months of negotiations but can it get approval today from the u.k. cabinet and indeed the parliament. hello is still far to war in the austrian alps to get any snow and this area generally speaking is warned it should be by average however what's creeping in from the west which is largely rain has just come a bit further in than of recent days not behind it was still talking about fairly breezy weather in occasionally with a not particularly cold but we are moving this rain there right across poland into

really the edge of what's been turning cold recently in western russia so it can start snowing in ukraine probably spread down to remain near the following day the temp is degrees in bucharest we got rain robin snow but it's getting close to you on the higher ground and then this if you watch the circulation the black sea over the next week that is going to be pretty interesting so it means temperatures in some parts of europe are coming down but still it's silly and up through hungary to austria remarkably warm and still dry and not quite a stormy as it has been the western side as his circulation has way from portugal so given that it looks fairly quiet in the western med there are still showers around in morocco in the forecast so when's a bit of cloud up in algeria as well temperatures in the low twenty's the few showers we have seen running into some parts of egypt are going but the normally breeze means is only twenty three in cairo.

it is murder when you throw a fire bomb into someone's home and mishits me off you know. that's not insignificant in the numbers that insignificant ideologically but insignificant even as a crime against the very significant by dictating the government and the fucked up policy. shalt not kill part of the radicalized series on al-jazeera. welcome back here with al-jazeera live from these are your headlines so far this parliament has passed a motion of no confidence against the president's pick for prime minister on

tuesday the supreme court blocked president. to dissolve parliament and calls actions for early next january a cease fire agreed to between palestinian armed groups and israel is so far holding egyptian brokered deal came after a major escalation in fighting the source seven palestinians killed how much leaders say they'll abide by the agreement as long as israel does the same. u.s. republican senator lindsey graham has described saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin quote unstable and unreliable he says he and other senators are discussing sanctions against riyadh in the wake of the killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. the u.k. prime minister to resume a. meeting with government colleagues today later on as she looks for support for her latest brock's it plans now several of a key cabinet ministers are reported to have quote deep reservations and the other e.u. countries will have to examine the proposals to crucially she also needs the support

of the d u p in belfast they have issues with the so-called backstop for the border between northern ireland and the irish republic is paul brennan. the prime minister needs all the support she can get at the moment and a selected group of her government ministers were brought to downing street on tuesday night to read the text of the negotiated breck's a divorce deal for themselves to date six government ministers have already quit over the way bracks it has been negotiated how many of the current cabinet will choose to follow suit once the brics a term sinkin and even if cabinet unity is maintained leaked details of the draft agreement have provoked howls of outrage from both bracks its supporters and opponents in the british parliament we're going to stay in the customs union of this deal we're going to stay if it to be in large parts of the of the single market and that means it's vassal states we are going to for the first time in a founds in years of this place this parliament will not have a say over the laws that govern this country it is

a quite incredible state of affairs the problem here is the prime minister's not been negotiating in the nationalist press has been negotiating what you think you can get past the cabinet but as i say given the first shambolic nature of the negotiations this is unlikely to be the right deal for britain to send the tory party. optimistic words from the british bracks it secretary but terry some may leads a minority government and the arithmetic looks bleak this is the beginning of the end game for breakfast the full u.k. cabinet convenes a two pm on wednesday european ambassadors will digest the brics a document when they meet in brussels later in the day in a statement the e.u.'s chief negotiator michel barnier cautioned that the text has stabilised but has not yet finalized we are making progress he said but we're not there yet paul brennan al-jazeera. the u.n. envoy for libya says the renegade general after is committed to a u.n.

action plan to end seven years of fighting libya's rival leaders and all the foreign powers indorse the plan through a conference in sicily it's the latest attempt to bring all parties together after similar talks in paris in may. the libyan people deserves a life that is much better than the one they are now under. and to see that the international community can gather and send a unified message to them that it is high time they take their destiny in their own hands with our support. is crucial and the mole will be remembered as a milestone in this common effort to head by would be and friend. legislation will be introduced in the u.s. on weapons day urging president donald trump to take a tougher response to china's crackdown against its ethnic we go population u.s.

politicians will seek possible sanctions against communist party chiefs accused of human rights abuses they'll also call for a ban on the export of technology that beijing could use for the surveillance and mass detention of weakness it's estimated a million weak as of being held in camps in the state of xinjiang firefighters in the northern california town of paradise expect to recover more bodies from what's already the worst wildfire in the history of the state forty eight people have died and more than two hundred others are still missing and is just one of several fires burning across the state in southern california firefighters are struggling to contain the woolsey fire which has killed at least two people that one's left a trail of destruction and beach resorts including malibu and b.c.'s jennifer your client has more now from oak park in california. it's a difficult situation with the wind whipping up the way it has been for the last few days and with no no certain change in sight although fingers crossed in the

next forty eight hours or so we are expecting the wind to shift and give us some more of an ocean breeze but now with this dry this dry eastern when that comes in and brings the flames and the ash with it i want to show you some of the destruction here behind us this house on a block that otherwise was relatively unscathed from this fire you see this house and the one next door burned down mostly to rubble the one next door the second house in the burned down that one was the home of a firefighter who went out to fight these fires and will come home to a fate that he was trying to save others from that ruined home there it's been a long long couple of days for fire crews and thousand of them still out fighting fires on the lines in northern and southern california but here the flare ups have been intense and they've jumped fire lines there's a thirty percent thirty five percent containment line around this fire but it is

such a large fire it's miles and miles and miles of. still burning and it goes exactly where the wind and the wind is erratic so it's anyone's guess where it will go next. to being excavated in spain in the search for the remains of more than two thousand victims of the regime it's estimated that more than one hundred ten people were killed and their bodies were dumped in sites across the country during his rule was called pinhole reports from the plains being dug up after the government announced plans to exude franco's both for ribeiro. and of an old. give up the secrets hands tied in front shot by firing squad dumped in mass graves up to six meters deep. most here were suspected leftists condemned to die by military judges between nine hundred thirty nine and nine hundred fifty six the first half of general franco's dictatorship. now all

forensic archaeologists and anthropologists are trying to match remains to names and return them to surviving relatives and. i'm ashamed that in this country there is still so many musgraves to be examined this is a question of human rights and here crimes against humanity have been committed this is about democracy it's been forty three years since franco died and so it's very difficult to comprehend why there's never been a coordinated effort by any government since then to exuma identified tens of thousands of victims of his regime in part it seems due to lack of funds in part due to lack of political will. only after franco's rule ended family members dared to mark some of the mass graves painted tiles to warn or peasant farmers bricklayers and teachers buried below. much of the excavation and identification is

based on the research of local historian. here on earth franco we were bred justas listing almost two thousand three hundred execution victims buried in more than one hundred mass graves. rules. if we don't get all the hidden information out into the open then wounds will get deeper we have to bring out the dirt so the wounds could be cleaned and then heal. better. this is a farewell letter from one of the dead to his parents shortly before he faced the firing squad. yes you know i'm not a thief or a mo there please raise my daughter as the child of an honest working man jose paid or was executed in paternal in november one thousand nine hundred eighty nine eight months after the civil war ended he was a bus driver a member of the socialist labor union u g t his only child peter was just

a toddler i mean. all things considered i can't say i had to be their childhood but something was always missing and i have just had to live with that loss and with that pain peter hopes her father's remains can be formally identified within weeks where all i hope he is there and i hope my arms can do what my mother wanted to be kim and bring him home and bury him next to my mother that's what she would must have wanted she like thousands of other families is waiting to reclaim these damp bones loved ones waiting to go home culp a whole jazeera protest in spain. a dispute over the price of gas in ukraine has left more than a million people without any heating ukraine's national gas company has raised prices by twenty three percent those who cannot afford to pay suppliers cut off.

after two weeks without heating residents of crib i reinforce out the crane combat contain their anger. a protest outside the office of the gas company which is cut off the supplies culminates with demonstrators storming the building. at least six towns with a combined population of more than a million people all without heating temperatures fall below freezing at night. it's extremely cold in our apartments i'm worried about the little children now after gas ukraine's national gas company increased prices by twenty three percent to the start of this month it was a condition set by the international monetary fund which provides loans to ukraine its economy is struggling following four years of conflict with pro russian separatists an excuse me in twenty fourteen. since then the craning government has stopped buying gas from russia. even the may spawn ruble and spat

the freezing conditions. it's uncomfortable in the hospital especially in the night when the temperature goes down it's good that we can turn on the electric heater that saves us without us we'd be even more sick. hospital administrators say they've had to make difficult decisions. based on the michael calling it the first look clothes in the hospital until the heating is turned on patients are being sent directed to of a treatment centers the bills are expected to rise by a further fifteen percent at the start of next month people say they simply can't afford it the inflated prices but napa gas says it will only supply customers you cleared that day. is there a. elections are underway in fiji where two men responsible for military coups in the past are both trying to become prime minister versus the choosing between the current prime minister frank bainimarama and city of any of thousands of people

will be given the chance to vote at a later date after heavy rain forced the closure of twenty polling stations more news whenever you want it on the website al jazeera dot com is the address you need to see them all on one of our headlining stories palestinian proves to respect gaza truce as long as israel does the headlines next. recapping our top stories for you so far today because parliament has passed a motion of no confidence against the president's pick for prime minister on tuesday the supreme court blocked the president's mathari policy the dissenters attempts to dissolve parliament and sickles snap elections for early next year a cease fire agreed to between palestinian armed groups and israelis so far holding the egyptian brokered deal came after a major escalation in fighting that source seven palestinians killed hamas leaders

say they will abide by the agreement as long as israel does the same well the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. is also urging the u.n. security council to take steps to end the violence we want the security council to shoulder its responsibility with regard to this situation threatening international peace and security and it is unfortunately the security council is paralyzed it did not show that it's the responsibility nevertheless we will keep knocking on the door of the security council to shoulder it's the responsibility i hope the efforts by our brothers in egypt of having you know the cease fire to be put in place that will hold. the u.s. republican senator lindsey graham has described saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon as quotes unstable and unreliable he says he and other senators are discussing shang sanctions against riyadh in the wake of saudi

journalist jamal khashoggi is killing firefighters in the northern california town of paradise expect to recover more bodies from what's already the worst wildfire in the history of the state forty eight people that died and more than two hundred others are missing and it's just one of several fires burning across the state in southern california firefighters are struggling to contain the woolsey fire which has killed at least two people that one's left a trail of destruction beach resorts including malibu legislation will be introduced in the u.s. on weapons to. take a tougher stance to china's crackdown against its ethnic weaker population u.s. politicians will seek possible sanctions against communist party chiefs accused of human rights abuses you are right up to date with all the top stories so far this hour the news continues here on al-jazeera the inside story. we know the problem that affects this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places

and we've pointed on a story that you might take an international network for months to be able to do it . these are really on a roll your. challenging the voices were challenging companies who are going to places where it's going. to hit squad america a phone call and the words tell you all the latest on. the question now who is the boss is it saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin. this is inside story.