and. every. controversial is really defense minister avigdor lieberman resigns over the cease fire in gaza. you want to know this is a lie from the headquarters and. also a heads we will to never break saying you know i just came to this meeting the european union on the twenty ninth two thousand and nineteen with time running out the british prime minister will now have to convince her cabinet to accept the draft rexx a deal agreed with the e.u. plus. we're on patrol with the egyptian u.n.

peacekeeping force in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of the capital of central african republic find out next un troops and civilians continue to be a target to militia groups. and the u.s. vice president tells me in mars' leader aung san suu kyi violence against muslims is without excuse. helo israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has announced his resignation over the cease fire with palestinian factions in gaza lieberman had voiced his office listen to the decision made by the cabinet to stop for the red sox in gaza he also says his party will quit the government's coalition leaving prime minister benjamin netanyahu would just a one seat majority in a statement hamas calls his resignation a victory for gaza we have two correspondents following the latest on the cease fire and the resignation in

a moment we'll speak with her doctor hamid who is in gaza but first over to stephanie docker joining us from west jerusalem and the reaction to the woman's resignation stephanie what more he had to say in that press conference. well he highlighted two main issues what he couldn't stomach in his words one of those was the fifteen million dollars of cash that was hand carried into gaza by the qatari envoy that money is to pay civil servants in gaza but he said that you couldn't say diem exactly where that money is going once across the border he didn't agree with that and of course he didn't we with the cease fire he said the fact that almost five hundred rockets that were fired out of gaza into israel within the space of twenty four hours is something that he could not look the residents of those border communities in the eye domestic politics is also a play here during people will tell you that this was perhaps his golden opportunity for a positioning himself in

a stronger way for the upcoming elections but let's take a listen to how exactly he phrased that resignation come on nor do. i wish to inform you that i'm going to resign my function as the minister of defense of israel why now from what happened yesterday the ceasefire yesterday together with all of the arrangements against hamas is giving in to tara there's no other reason no other reason but giving in to tara and on the issue of domestic politics stephanie what does this mean for the governing coalition and that's a whole. well the government can and will continue to function as you mentioned barry has a very slim majority now just one seat in the knesset in the israeli parliament most people analysts are saying that it is pretty certain that elections will be brought forward just speaking to one political analyst who is saying that netanyahu

will try to kill lieberman's momentum so you know we would expect elections right away but perhaps in the next coming months but this is also a move by abu dora lieberman positioning himself as an opponent to benjamin netanyahu in the upcoming elections a more right wing candidate placing the blame of of gaza's failures let's say on netanyahu but at same time there is also a lot of praise in a way for the prime minister taking a difficult decision particularly if you look at the number of rockets fired out and what even netanyahu today said was a difficult decision they're not always easy but for the good of the people and of course we know there's been so many negotiations going on behind the scenes to try and alleviate let's say the humanitarian situation in gaza there's a realisation from the military from the intelligence services and even the political establishment most of them that say that without conflict would not and in any benefit to either side all right stephanie decker thank you will get the

point of view from gaza that is where who does joining us from and and hamas officials were quick to come out and call this a victory of a door lieberman's a resignation. yeah a political victory actually and that statement from hamas came while liberman was still speaking in the other side of the border in a statement hamas also said that it somehow it was and that liberman's resignation was an also an acknowledgment of defeat by israel ironically yesterday a. senior official here had tweeted that actually been jamin it and should fire a live in man because he put the blame on all what happened over the past few days and that a very serious escalation between the two sides on avigdor lieberman we all we also

heard similar statements from the second strongest faction here in gaza this make jihad and others also have also did that now earlier i'm here in the street who actually. lives in earlier just about half an hour ago there was like a small celebration in front of his house celebrating what the masses putting forward to people as a military victory over israel and also celebrating the fact that every door neighbor man paid the price for that hamas victory and now that the cease fire is in place at least for now how is it holding in gaza. what it is holding it's been very calm except that there was one fisherman. his rooms he was in north i think he got very close to israeli territorial waters so that happened but by and large the ceasefire is holding i was talking to some

people here today said that yesterday there was no one on the streets of gaza people with very scared so it is that release people trying to get back to their normal lives but there is always that worry in the back of their minds is always a certain degree of skepticism you know we're talking about a truce now based on the two thousand and fourteen agreement but people also say we've been hearing about the long term cease fire they just worried that that has been so difficult to bring about working out all these details worried that this latest round of escalation might make that even further away all right without them having it thank you. barack as a former advisor to the former israeli president shimon peres and the speechwriter for the former prime minister ariel sharon he says the resignation caught many people off guard today the results were announced at a number of municipal elections including the one in jerusalem where he had

a candidate that he was supporting that won so it makes sense that it didn't happen up until now because it would have affected the election but he certainly caught everyone off guard by coming out and saying he's resigning from the government but i think it may be a smart political move for him and the prime minister now has to see how as a prime minister going to maneuver because the prime minister still has the upper hand here for lieberman it certainly was good to distance himself now from the prime minister because you know he was talking very very tough before he became defense minister and people haven't seen him be really tough necessarily in the defense ministry because a lot of what the defense minister has to do is also be restraint and showing restraint to his voting base is not so good on the road is a spokeswoman for the palestinian task force on public diplomacy she says lieberman's resignation coming after the cease fire announcement is not lost on the people of gaza. well i think the entire palestinian public will not lose any sleep

over the fact that lieberman will not be part of this government and the fact that he's resignation is motivated by the fact that he's objecting to not shedding enough palestinian blood having said that i think if you look at it take a closer look at the palestinian public opinion it is not lost on any sector of palestinian society that this was directly related to the last forty eight hours or so in gaza and that gaza is a player in internal israeli politics no. well britain's prime minister is trying to win approval for bracks a draft deal with the e.u. at a special cabinet meeting negotiators from britain and the european union came to an agreement on tuesday several of tourism aides cabinet ministers are reported to have concerns about the draft clock on the other e.u. countries will also have to apra approve the proposal lawrence lee is joining us

from london so can may then get this draft plan through the cabinets and if she does is that the end of that's. well she she she's got a chance i think i mean certainly there are a lot of skeptics inside the cabinet ministers who are deeply unhappy and they're being. hardliners to show some backbone and another resign or say they're not prepared to accept it i think i think stories amaze argument and if you're trying to be benevolent is to try to find a form of brick seats that can try and bring the country together effectively she said of her own party conference a few weeks ago that she didn't like the way that politics in this country have become very shouty with people arguing loudly with each other and the country being so split and i suppose her arguments is that by leaving mostly then britain can take control of things like immigration and its own laws and stop giving money to the european union which she assumes would pacify the hard rex's but by staying

within the sort of all bits of the european union on things to do with custom in the movements of goods keeping irish bordereau them that might pacify some people who want to remain either close to the european union or retain some sort of trade relationship that stops all economic damage in the end but she seems of a compass actually is the opposites we both remain as and leave us saying the deal actually is hopeless for both of them and the amounts of luck that she got a prime minister's questions for example demonstrates just how difficult it's going to be not just to get through cabinet but more importantly through through a parliamentary vote in a few weeks time here's how she tried to justify her actions in parliament to questions at lunchtime today. i'm confident that this takes a significant closer to live to delivering on what the british people voted for and . we will take back control of our borders on the wars and our money leave the common fisheries policy and the common agricultural policy while protecting job

security and the integrity of our united kingdom mr speaker i will come back to the house to update it on the outcome. so the important words in that statement i thought were significantly closer. it isn't it isn't a full blown bricks it's it it's a sort of fudge if you like critics really is saying well hang on you spent two years saying no deal with the european union is better than a bad deal now you're saying about deals better than no deal and so they are trying to take it all apart but one reading of what the hard line. might do is actually not take a decision cabinets and say it's up to parliament to decide and abrogate responsibility and that parliament do it for them on the assumption that what it does comes parliament voted down anyway so it looks like a pretty uphill struggle for tourism all right lawrence and thank you. known as general forrest's. is wanted by both the u.n.

and the governments of the central african republic and dance for alleging war crimes committed when muslim seleka fighters took over the country five years ago he's in charge of the largely muslim neighborhood of p.k. five in the capital bangui and in this exclusive interview with al jazeera he speaks to nicholas high in hiding but still in charge surrounded by young heavily armed teenage boys is. otherwise known as general force . accused of war crimes including a murder torture rape and extortion the government wants his arrest. but he's not ready to give himself up and if we. mean he's he said we had nine thousand in this neighborhood ready to defend our people to pick a fight a neighborhood because of us they are under threat from the christian militias the government forces and u.n. soldiers. in april soldiers belonging to the un stabilizing force in car backed by

the central african army stormed forces hideout in an attempt to arrest him but despite being better equipped they were outnumbered and retreated the raid was a spectacular failure one thousand died and hundreds were injured in the battle. don't be fooled by these bustling streets when you and soldier describe the current state of calm this work the stores there are doing no foot patrol and some of them are taking fighting positions as a preventative measure. the threat comes in forces footsoldiers fourteen year old. his house was burnt his parents killed by a christian militia group now he wants revenge baltimore let me just go see even the un are afraid of me because i have a weapon it is a country that has made me this way with this i can become anything a general or even a president of this country one day. the government is calling for peace and reconciliation. but even inside the parliament politicians use guns to get their

voices heard despite twelve thousand un peacekeepers central african republic is descending into a spiral of sectarian violence caught in the middle are children seeking justice any way they can. the guards that protect you are our children are young how do you explain that they'd be rather than be bearing arms was you more i am their boss commander and the father how do you want them to go to school us muslims are not treatable what happened hospitals we have no schools this is not safe for us force is a wanted man for the moment too powerful to be arrested into well protected by determined young men who have lost everything and have nothing to lose nicholas hawk al jazeera bunky p.k. five. still ahead on al-jazeera political drama continues to play out in sri lanka the parliament passing a no confidence motion against the county appointed prime minister the search for

bodies continues in california as hundreds remain missing and the worst wildfire in the state's history. we got to watch for it right in for developing across central parts of china at the moment a fair amount of cloud here and low clouds which will thicken we'll see some heavy downpours as we go on through the next few days so that's the picture that right becoming more expansive as we go on through friday and even down towards the southwest of china towards northern parts of it now because the some showers longest spells right fine and dry though once again into hong kong temperatures here at around twenty six celsius followed by the moments across a good part of india but all eyes on the goal of course being monitoring actual

cycling which is developed here that will continue to make its way just to the south of chennai we're looking at around midday if they stay g.m.t. that is making landfall just around do then so very strong winds the winds will continue to weaken as we makes landfall of course to some really heavy rain water to the millimeters of rice only a possibility for many areas as we go on through. and it will make its way a little further west which as we go on through friday further north it stays dry it stays fine into central areas more murky weather coming in across the north a new delhi at around twenty five celsius out across southern parts of the red and peninsula right to the north. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of. the story. providing a glimpse into someone else's one. inspiring documentary

from impassioned filmmaking this. week nice documentaries to open your eyes on. them again the top stories on al-jazeera israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has announced he is resigning over the cease fire with gaza lieberman had voiced his opposition to the decision made by the cabinet to stop further attacks in gaza his resignation comes as a young man was shot and killed by israeli forces in northern. and israel's prime

minister has defended his decision to accept an egyptian brokered ceasefire with palestinian groups benjamin netanyahu said when making decisions crucial to security the public can't always be privy to the considerations that must be hidden from the enemy britain's prime minister has been trying to win approval for a bracks a draft deal with the e.u. at a special cabinet meeting to go see it as for britain and the european union came to an agreement on tuesday several left to resume his cabinet ministers are reported to have concerns with the draft other nations will also have to approve the proposal. us republican senator lindsey graham has described saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sandman as unstable and reliable he says he and other senators are discussing sanctions against riyadh in the wake of saudi journalists killing a vote on a resolution to cut off all assistance to riyadh for the war in yemen could also happen in weeks kimberly halkett has more from washington. senator lindsey graham

has always taken a strident tone when it comes to the death. and the fact that he believes there is more to the story then is being let on by saudi arabia but these comments now going much further and given a lot of weight considering that lindsey graham is a senior republican and very influential foreign policy hot he frequently advises the president as recently as last week we did spot him going into the white house even though that meeting was not on the official white house schedule now in terms of action and response to the death of jim by this administration it appears to in the eyes of many on capitol hill be dragging its heels it has rescinded the visas of almost two dozen saudi nationals but it has not sanctioned at the highest levels of the saudi government something that many are looking for on capitol hill now in terms of the pressure by lindsey graham he certainly has not

only called mohammed bin solomon unstable and unreliable but he also doesn't see the situation being fixed as long as the crown prince is still in charge and as a result he has gone further saying that he sees mohamed bin solomon's leadership as a quote disaster and very difficult to do business and now to the war in yemen where who's the rebels say they've killed at least twenty five pro-government fighters who were backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition it happened on the eastern outskirts of the port city of her day the. military media released a video of the moment multiple booby traps exploded as the forces entered a compound other videos of military operations were broadcast during a news conference in summer by a spokesman for the who's the forces. well provincial election results are emerging from fiji that's where the two men responsible for military coups in the past are

vying to become prime minister voters are choosing between the current prime minister frank by marama and city venue or buko but thousands of people were not able to votes to rental re-inforce the closer of twenty three polling venues. sri lanka's political crisis has deepened after parliament passed a no confidence motion in the president's pick for prime minister mahinda rajapaksa on tuesday the supreme court blocked attempts to dissolve parliament and call for snap elections next year the fallout comes after presidents might their policy resign as prime minister run a week or a single and try to replace him with a former leader burnitz met reports from colombo. it was a session of parliament that sri lanka's president has done everything he can to try to delay or cancel but the supreme court overruled my three policy resign let me speak let me any big. supporters of mahinda rajapaksa seated here on the left

didn't want parliament voting on a no confidence motion in the president's decision to appoint him as prime minister the speaker was having none of it. was a period i don't know with a show of hands a majority of m.p.'s rejected rajapakse as government that returns the prime ministership to run a whitman a single who was sacked by the president last month. we want to use this member of the location to enhance democracy to promote freedom to focus on the economic and social rights of the people of our country the rajapaksa won't go his supporters say the president's decision can't be overturned like this but i mean is this mr that i just answered the only person who can appoint a prime minister in terms of all cars do shit is the president of the country nobody is the speaker khoury jayasuriya has previously called the president's

decision to appoint rajapaksa a nonviolent coup d'etat and now has two prime ministers and two cabinets pollen box one the president boxes the other a which of those two institutions is the supremes power is at the heart of the constitutional crisis that's paralyzing sri lanka's politics burn its mic al-jazeera colombo. well italy has resubmitted its budget plan to the european commission but insists it's sticking to its deficit targets the government's made some tweaks to the previous plan such as lowering its debt targets but it says it won't change social spending which the e.u. fears would worsen italy's debt. commission told room to revise the budget or face fines of russian opposition leader alexei navalny has been allowed to fly out of the country a day after being told he was barred from leaving live on the us travelling to france when he was stopped by border guards at moscow airport and told he couldn't

leave the european court of human rights in strasbourg is due to rule on whether his numerous the tensions by police and russia have been politically motivated or not involved have been barred from leaving over a thirty one thousand dollar court on the trade war between the united states and china is dominating discussions at a summit of southeast asian leaders in singapore the us president donald trump is not attending but his america first policy has strained relations with asian countries who are looking to agree details for a new regional trade deal when he reports from singapore i was ready behind the smiles there is an easy at the latest meeting of leaders from the association of southeast asian nations while the united states wasn't mentioned specifically it soon became clear that president donald trump america first policy on trade would be among the main issues. the international order is at a turning point the existing open and green space monkey electoral system which has

underpinned the group and stability has come under stress. that's particularly true at the moment because of the trade dispute between china and the united states the tit for tat tariffs could provide some benefits for southeast asian countries if for example china moved some manufacturing operations to other countries to avoid u.s. tariffs but most countries in this region are heavily reliant on exports so tend to thrive in an environment of free open trade donald trump says he prefers bilateral trade deals which means he's pulling in a different direction to most of the countries in singapore this week the southeast asian nations leading talks on the sixteen nation regional comprehensive economic partnership trade deal that includes china but not the united states. u.s. vice president mike pence and chinese premier league chang are in singapore but it's not clear whether they'll meet to discuss the trade dispute. payne's did meet

with me and my as leader. and gave a very public rebuke for the violence against the rigging yeah this is a tragedy that has touched the hearts of millions of. the violence and persecution. by military and vigilantes that resulted in driving seven hundred thousand rohingya. bangladesh. is without excuse in response again failed to speak out in support of the reading it saying only that people have different views. in southeast asia malaysia's prime minister mahathir mohamad has led to criticism of me and. it made for an uncomfortable seating arrangement at the opening ceremony when hey al jazeera singapore legislation will be introduced in the united states on wednesday urging president trying to take a tougher response 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 there are also expected to call for a ban on the export of technology that beijing could use for the surveillance and mass detention of its estimated a million we girls who are muslim are being held in camps in the state of ginger 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 u.s. states forty eight people have been killed and more than two hundred are missing and it's just one of several fires burning across the states in southern california firefighters are struggling to contain the rules the fire which led to the deaths of at least two people it's destroyed homes and property and beach resorts including malibu and he says jennifer björk clint has more 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 tapley 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 eight 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. hello again the headlines on al jazeera israel's defense minister has announced his resignation over the cease fire with palestinian factions in gaza lieberman had voiced his opposition to the decision made by the cabinets to stop further attacks in gaza he also says his party will quit the government coalition leaving prime minister benjamin netanyahu with just a one seat majority his resignation comes as a young man was shot and killed by israeli forces in northern gaza and in a statement hamas called lieberman's resignation a victory for the strip. i wish to inform you that i'm going to

resign my function as the minister of defense of israel why now from what happened yesterday the ceasefire yesterday together with all of the arrangements against him us is giving in to terra there's no other reason no other reason but giving in to terror britain's prime minister is trying to win approval for draft deal with the e.u. at a special cabinet meeting because he has from britain and the european union came to an agreement on tuesday several of tourism is cabinet ministers are reported to have concerns with the draft plan and the other e.u. countries will also have to approve the proposal i'm confident this takes a significant closer to live to delivering on what the british people voted for and . we will take back control of our borders on the rules and our money leave the common fisheries policy and the common agricultural policy while protecting jobs security and the integrity of all united kingdom and mr speaker i will come back to

the house to update you on the outcome u.s. republican senator lindsey graham has described saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin said the man is unstable and unreliable he says he and other senators are discussing sanctions against riyadh in the wake of saudi journalist killing a vote on a resolution to cut off all assistance to riyadh for the war in yemen could also happen in weeks and in yemen host the rebels say they've killed at least twenty five pro-government fighters who are backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition that happens on the eastern outskirts of the port city of her data the both the military released this video of the moment multiple booby traps exploded as the forces entered that compound those are the headlines on al-jazeera we'll have more news for you that's coming up right after the street. we understand the difference. and the similarities of cultures across the world

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