this is al jazeera. hello i'm still roman you're watching the al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes i firmly believe that the draft withdrawal agreement was the best that could be negotiated british prime minister to resume a with cabinets approval for a draft break to deal with major hurdles remain on the way forward also trouble for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu a key coalition partner defense minister. resigned in protest over the guards

a cease fire also had an exclusive we meet the most wanted man in what the u.n. calls a forgotten conflict in central african republic and i two competing governments sri lanka's constitutional crisis deepens after peace plans a no confidence motion against the new prime minister. have a company called the new u.k. prime minister to resign has won the backing of her cabinet for a draft deal struck with the european union may says the decision is a decisive step forward towards a final deal paul brennan reports. the marathon cabinet meeting concluded after five hours the outcome to recent mate has the backing of her government ministers

at least. the choices before us were difficult particularly in relation to the northern ireland backstop but the collective decision of cabinet was that the government should agree the draft withdrawal agreement and the outline political declaration if i may and by just and there was a deeply personal finale i believe that what i owe to this country is to take decisions that are in the national interest and i firmly believe with my head and my heart that this is a decision which is in the best interests of our entire united kingdom since the first leaks of the draft breccia deal emerged on choose the evening has been a fee bramah was fear in westminster the head of the cabinet meeting there was a boisterous session in parliament and without even having seen the text of the deal with the opposition leader heap scorn on it it breaches the prime minister's own red lines it doesn't deliver a strong economic deal that supports jobs and industry and we know they haven't

prepared seriously for no deal so does the prime minister's still intend to put a false choice to parliament between her a botched jail or no jail the position of northern ireland's democratic unionist party is also crucial in all of this the prime minister's minority government relies on d u p support in parliament but they're backing on bricks it looks down for if she thinks that she's going to get this through parliament she has nothing coming all the groups she needs none of them seems willing to help the i d e p one face to this deal because it puts a barrier between great britain northern ireland the heartbreaks is going to put it because it keeps a customs union a lot of remainders going to it because it reduces our influence it does nothing for services but it keeps us erasers about and he said. the overrunning of the u.k. cabinet meeting meant that in brussels a meeting of e.u. ambassadors had to break up without getting the chance to discuss the draft text

nevertheless michel barnier the e.u.'s chief negotiator hailed the decisive progress as he put it that he said had been made. this agreement as a decisive crucial step and conclude in these negotiations it's also the achievement of a method of a methodology and negotiations carried out in transparency from the word go and fully in respect of our respective mandates cabinet approval means plans can now be accelerated for a summit of e.u. leaders most likely on november twenty fifth but in actual fact the collective approval of her cabinet ministers was perhaps the least of prime minister to resign may's worries important though it was remember she still faces the prospect of a no confidence vote in her leadership from her own party backbenchers and there is the prospect of a parliamentary landscape with so many different contingents that there is no clear consensus or majority of anything other than oppositions have

a plan paul brennan al-jazeera westminster well it took a close look at the draft withdrawal agreement of the document is five hundred eighty five pages long and outlines the future relationship between the united kingdom and the european union both sides have committed to avoiding a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland it protects the rights of e.u. citizens living in the u.k. and britons living in the e.u. efta breaks it the deal proposes a twenty one month transition period after the e.u. leaves the e.u. the u.k. sorry leaves the e.u. in march next year and it details the divorce spill the u.k. will have to pay the e.u. thought to be around fifty billion dollars. john johnston is a political reporter at politics home a news website focused on the u.k. parliament he joins me live from london good to have you with us the e.u. is a pita and it seems both sides are beat is that the best deal possible well

it's a deal and that's progress of a kind there's been a lot of commentators of the the previous few months who said that a deal wasn't possible between the u.k. and the e.u. the problem now for the prime minister is that she has to sell this deal both to her party and to the country and for her remain backing m.p.'s no deal is going to be better than the one we currently have with the e.u. and for the brac city or faction within our party they don't see this deal as properly meeting the requirements of the referendum they don't think this is satisfied those conditions like yourselves various people have spoken to us here on al-jazeera talking about this particular document voted down in the british parliament if voted on what happens next because the the fail safe is world trade organization rules for the united kingdom to trade with the e.u. and other countries but the scenario is much bigger than that for not just talking

about trade we're talking about everything else that the united kingdom has to deal with with regards to the e.u. . well yes certainly the no deal planning has been of massive concern to the government lots of people have said that they haven't been able to put forward as much of this as as they should have by this point if the deal gets voted down in parliament all bets are off really whether that would trigger a general election whether that would possibly trigger a so-called people's vote a second vote on the referendum remains to be seen. at the moment it looks incredibly difficult for mrs may to get this deal through parliament there's no particular group within her party who have committed themselves or a whore hard to backing this deal she now has to to put the case to them i think the way that she's going to have to do this is say to the brakes a tear faction it's either this deal or potentially no brakes and on the other side for her remain or she will have to say to them it's either this deal or no deal we

crush it without a deal but it's a very very difficult path for her to tread through parliament this is because of the talking this up but if we just go back to july after the checkers meeting and we saw the curb of that all apparently in agreement just days later there were cabinet resignations at the moment we don't heard the poet leave the cabinets all singing your words that are the same hymn sheet if cabinet members start to resign in the next twenty four to forty eight hours what does this indicate in terms of her approach to parliament and her approach to members of parliament within the conservative party. well it's worth remembering that there was sort of unanimous cabinet backing for the checkers deal in the hours following the agreement but obviously we know that in the days after we had senior members of her cabinet resign we could still see that the support for this draft withdrawal agreement is by no means unanimous the deal was passed in cabinet because it went

to majority vote we know that at least nine members of the cabinet spoke out strongly against this so we have to now see the next twenty four hours are going to be crucial we could see resignations and that could make the picture exceedingly difficult for her certainly without outside of cabinet we could have in vote of no confidence this mechanism by which if forty eight conservative m.p.'s signed a letter of no confidence in her this triggers a vote on her leadership that could happen by accident there isn't he a quarter native campaign from her. piece at the moment but there have been according to reports a number of letters that have gone in today so they could end up accidentally starting a coup against her and it's hard to say what the outcome of that would be and that would really the support order to make with this whole issue a vote of no confidence treason mase position a potential general election we're talking hypotheticals at the moment and whether

other political parties like the liberal party for example led by vince clark at the moment talking about you know another referendum another chance for the british people to vote we've had major demonstrations on the british streets of those people that want to stay within the united european union and we want to that what's the potential what's the feeling on the ground where you are. the prime minister has been very clear that that she would never back a second vote on the deal i think if there was to be a vote of no confidence in the prime minister held she would probably at the moment when that's but what that would do is indicate that her deal would not pass through parliament at that point it's hard to say what her options are then it seems very difficult for her to go back to the e.u. to try and renegotiate certain elements but at the moment there doesn't seem to be a parliamentary majority support for putting this back to

a second referendum or another kind of vote on the issue but we have to see what happens interesting days ahead for the united kingdom for the moment thanks so much for joining us from london. to the middle east where lieberman has quit as israel's defense minister the he voiced anger over a ceasefire with palestinian groups that he's described as surrendering to terror his abrupt alerts been toes rocked prime minister benjamin netanyahu coalition government leaving it with just a one seat majority in the knesset israel's parliament stephanie decker has more from west jerusalem. less than twenty four hours after the gaza ceasefire came into effect the diplomatic fallout. i'm here to announce my resignation from the role of the defense minister of the state of israel the question which needs to be asked is why not i aspire as i'm concerned what happened yesterday yesterday a cease fire together with the entire process of reaching a response with a as a capitulation to terror bush should pull out go in defense minister avigdor

lieberman also said he disagreed with katter bringing fifteen million dollars into gaza last weekend to pay the salaries of civil servants and the fuel shipments that have increased gaza's electricity moves that are all parts of efforts to ease gaza's humanitarian situation the mass wasted no time in reacting to lieberman's resignation. this constitutes a victory for the resistance and recognition of defeat and failure by lieberman and the zionist occupation and it is a failure of the policy of siege and devastating wars against the gaza strip this is the result of the palestinian people steadfastness. hamas had already celebrated the earlier ceasefire as a victory for the palestinians to. gaza is of course a large reason for lieberman's resignation but there is no denying that domestic political factors are also at play one israeli media report describes the resignation as the opening salvo of israel's elections the expectation is that the

election reset for november next year will be brought forward to what's happening now in israeli politics is a major event because you have the defense minister which is the number two position in the government at a party in this government has resigned and he's resigned and basically showed his no confidence with the prime minister now it's not going to bring down the government right away it could it could lead to elections but he's showing he's positioning himself to be the opponent and you know the opponent to the right of it and you know what the events of the last few days show is that gaza will remain at the center of the israeli politics as long as the situation there remains unresolved stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem. delineate hose this one of those widespread skepticism over how long a ceasefire will last. this is one of the buildings that were targeted. it belonged to the.

people around only you can imagine the fear. that. this is a place that still hasn't recovered from the previous war back in two thousand and fourteen so people here have been extremely worried about how things could develop now how mass on this side has put forward to the people here this cease fire as. that coupled with the news of the resignation of the israeli defense minister. saying that that was actually. a big and an acknowledgment by the israelis that has. now people.

happy that has returned but this is a certain degree of skepticism. all these talks about cease fire has been very difficult to reach. people. who worry. that we so over the past few days might make. a long term agreement more difficult. the united nations and you can sweeten have been pushing for more action and possibly an even different approach to the stalled peace process between israel and the palestinians diplomatically to james but yourself. well from the secretary general an ongoing call for a strain from both hamas and israel we're told that the special coordinator of the un nicholai madoff is monitoring the situation on the ground the u.n. security council are also following things very closely because clearly we've had

some very important military and now political developments in recent hours the security council met late on choose day the overall position with regard to the peace process of course the last two years this is a u.n. security council that has been waiting for the united states for that peace plan from president trump son in law jared cushion and i'm beginning to detect behind the scenes there is growing impatience from ambassadors on the security council that the plan is not being announced and the situation is just getting worse just listen to the comments of two of the ambassadors as they were arriving this morning and these are two close allies of the u.s. i think we are under play under playing our own role of six security council on some issues and the world this is one of them. i think the security council a lot of people still look up to the council to take

a preventive action i don't think we've been managing to do it we have not been able to do that in this particular situation i think that might change i think the council would would very much like to see some concrete proposals and wants to get behind mr mlodinow of and support his moves on the ground obviously very concerning what is happening there and the biggest wary of course is that it could lead to something even worse than what we're seeing now some of criticize the security council for not meeting quickly enough on the latest violence they will be meeting again pretty soon on this issue and that's because there's a regular monthly meeting on the israeli palestinian situation and that is taking place on monday here in new york. oh plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including pro-government forces hold their attacks on the yemeni port city of the data as hopes grow for a diplomatic breakthrough also rebuke at the sea and summit the u.s.

vice president criticizes me for its crackdown against the right in the minority and can the world number one novak djokovic have a couple young pretend the world top finals in london peter we'll have that story. turkey's foreign minister says the time is right to move the investigation into the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi to the international stage they have told parliament that his government is committed to solving the murder that had shown the evidence to all interested parties turkey previously said it would cooperate in an international investigation that called for a u.n. probe pro-government forces in yemen her paused paused and offensive against the rebel held port of data the fighters are backed by the saudi a morality coalition which has thrown its weight behind another round of un talks

to the conflict the data is the main entry port for most food aid into yemen the un has warned of a humanitarian catastrophe if the port sustained heavy damage hammered out more from neighboring djibouti. there is a law in the fighting in the port city of the day there but so far it seems like a unilateral ceasefire with the fighters following the polls in fighting say that both sides are keeping to their positions but quickly added that they were willing to continue fighting if need be on the streets of the day that the u.s. state the minister for foreign affairs and we're going to gosh has told journalists that his government supports a ceasefire in the data and out of town to peace talks for parties in the conflict in yemen saudi government also as part of a goodwill gesture before the start of peace talks agreed to lift up to fifty injured who will fight is probably to amman now we're also seeing some sort of

consensus between western powers including the united states britain france and even russia to try and stop the war in the yemen some sort of a cease fire that would lead to talks this time in sweden after the failure of the last round that was supposed to take place in geneva switzerland which failed because the whole thing. everyone understands too well what are the civil option to the vital services of the port of they could do to an already daya humanitarian situation which led the united nations secretary general and tony good terrorist to warm the port activities should not be disrupted whatsoever because it's a lifeline for up to fourteen million yemenis who need aid to survive. the u.n. security council is due to vote on thursday about extending its peacekeeping mission in central african republic there's rarely been there would have peace

since the conflict began there may be five years ago alliance of muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president francois busies government in twenty thirteen a few months later rebel leader michel to was sworn in as interim president but he was false to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the black continued the un said to peacekeeping force and to support african union and french forces already there but since the cease fires have been signed violated all the sides have been accused of war crimes. one man wanted by both the us government. he was once rebel but is now in charge of the neighborhood p.k. five in the capital buggy and in this exclusive interview with al jazeera he tells nicholas her kill stay and defend his people 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 in extortion the government wants his arrest. but he's not ready to give himself up and if. need is he said we are nine thousand in this neighborhood ready to defend our people they are safe when they 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 in one thousand died and hundreds were injured in the battle says. don't be fooled by these bustling streets when you and soldier describe the current state to call this work the stores they are doing no foot

patrol and some of them are taking fighting positions as a preventative measure if the threat comes in forces foot soldiers fourteen year old was 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 uneasy rather than be bearing arms in which you

mock 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 and too well protected by determined young men who have lost everything and have nothing to lose nicholas hawk al jazeera bungie p.k. five. prosecutors in the us trial of your kingsman the drug lord known as el chapo have asked the judge to throw the defense's opening statement business lawyers accuse mexican presidents of taking bribes from traffic has. alleged that the head of the senate kauto was the main supplier of illegal drugs into the u.s. cable elizondo has the latest from new york on the second day of the trial we heard from the first government witnesses three of them primarily a retired customs official a retired da drug enforcement administration official but the big witness for the

government on the second day of the trial was a man by the name of hey susan sam who is in serving a big jail sentence in the united states right now but he is the brother of one of the current leaders of this in a lower cartel and he laid out for the jury the inner workings of the cartel and the infrastructure and how they got the cocaine that they purchased from colombia through mexico and into the united states and he talked about the huge profits that they are making as well he said that one kilo of cocaine that the cartel bought in colombia for three thousand dollars could then be sold that same kilo for as much as thirty five thousand dollars here on the streets of new york city times that times a tons of cocaine that they were bringing in and you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars in profits now the defense continues to paint guzman as nothing more than a myth a man they say is being set up by a corrupt mexican government are still in the early stages of this trial

a trial that could go on for as long as four months at least fifty one people in california have been killed by the wild foes raging in the state the majority were killed in the massive fire in the north well there was some way to go before the flames were extinguished there is no hope that some of the fires a diminishing high due to castro has more. a new fire developed on tuesday night in southern california it's been called the sierra fire and broke out to the east of los angeles authorities say vegetation ignited and other reminder that president trump's contention that the fires could be prevented with better forest management is wrong the fires burning through california did not begin forests but in brush near development those flames are then encouraged by the effects of climate change there was some relatively good news in southern california by wednesday morning the woosley wildfire which spread to malibu on the pacific was said to be almost fifty

percent contained but that still left the other fifty percent you can see the wind is still blowing we're not out of the woods yet there's a lot of fire line out there is a great deal of anxiety to the north one hundred people are reported missing many of them elderly national guard troops are helping search for remains new technology means portable devices take hours and not days to identify genetic material we're going to do everything we possibly can to diligently search for those remains but this is a very difficult task more questions are being raised as to the cause of the fires with attention turning to local utility companies if this is their fault they need to be held accountable and they need to do more than just jack up their rates. and they need to they need to help more where they need to go and we both fall or. we do something a lawsuit has been filed in northern california accusing one utility company of not

maintaining its infrastructure more are expected to be filed heidi joe castro al-jazeera. still ahead here on the al-jazeera news controversy the defense secretary visits the mexico border where thousands of american troops have been deployed. and digging up the past. they did in spain to uncover the victims of the franco dictatorship. wait really can't say goodbye parents for england to retire. in the team against the usa peter has that story in sports if you stay with us here on the al-jazeera news. hello there no rain on its way towards california but elsewhere across north america it really is very wet or down to this area of cloud hair it's given us an

awful lot of wet weather across some of the southern states and is now pushing its way north woods a lot of that will be turning to snow as we head through the next few days as it hits that cold air so along with the east coast do expect quite a bit as we head through thursday and friday behind it still even though it's sunny it's going to stay for all the fresh was chicago just getting to around six degrees another one the system will be working its way into the northwest and that will be bringing us a fair amount of snow to move further towards the south a mess that area of cloud also affecting us in parts of mexico that will be working its way steadily southwards as we had three thursday behind that it will feel good deal cooler than it has been over the east we've also got some very lively downpours here as well say particularly around parts of hispania that will be fairly wet at times during the day i think that will eventually begin to break up a little bit more as we head into friday now as we head down towards south america the rain here has been very very heavy across argentina but all of that ice pushing

its way northward so for argentina that she will come with and has been twenty seven fairly pleasant day one is always heavy showers that were around us in rio. senator robert kennedy was assassinated in june one thousand nine hundred eighty her hands are still serving a life sentence for his murder. but there have been calls for decades for the kids to be reopened including from robert kennedy jr. all the evidence was destroyed after the trial they had a legal obligation to see the evidence because sir ham was going to file an appeal just your world asks who killed robert kennedy. algis it was there when i was doing breaks but it's also good to see what happens next. on. fire where model barricaded the old seventh street that leads to here in the middle east now

it's been changed people have gone to hear the mission of the national army is just sixteen times complex and i'm just your stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their country. watching the al-jazeera news that would be so ho robbie the robot of all top stories british prime minister treason may has won the backing of the cabinet for a draft deal struck with the european union says the decision is a decisive step towards a final deal the agreement will go both to the e.u.

and u.k. parliament for approval. israel's defense minister. has resigned and called for early elections after his government accepted a ceasefire. in the gaza strip but he says his party will quit and even that's when you know his ruling coalition leaving it was just one seat majority in the knesset and pro-government forces in yemen have calls from offensive against the rebels helpful to the data the fight dissolved by the saudi a barrage of coalition which is throwing its weight to the road of talks to end the conflict is the made of three point four based food and ate it together. no us physically jim bettis has been visiting his country's border with mexico where thousands of soldiers have been deployed in recent weeks they were sent on the orders of president trump just ahead of the midterm elections to prevent a group of asylum seekers from entering the u.s. the so-called migrant caravan is solely making its way north through mexico as particle head reports. it came off as carefully choreographed fellow soldiers tell

you doing. one after the other soldiers walking the secretary of defense through this new temporary base secretary jim mattis often meets with the troops but it's pretty unusual for cameras to follow him every step of the way even into the laundry tent the mess bags filled up he was joined by the secretary of homeland security kiersten nielsen both have reportedly fallen out of favor with the president and nielsen is rumored to be on her way out. donald trump consumes a lot of television he will have seen these two cabinet members bringing attention to an issue that he talked a lot about before the midterm election so as the caravan and look that is an assault on our country when he warned of an incoming invasion he was talking about several thousand asylum seekers currently walking through mexico many former top military officers have called the deployment a political stunt including general martin dempsey who called it

a wasteful deployment of overstretch soldiers but medicine that's wrong i would refer them to the new york times and what happened to the mexican police critics say that is not a fair comparison our border is not the mexican border our border is heavily. is heavily fortified heavily patrolled and the weak the current team that's in place there america has spent tens of billions of dollars fortifying our border there are legitimate questions surrounding this deployment under law the troops are limited in what they can do but in this case we were asked by the secretary of the number of people on the new way to back them up what does that mean it means that people do all the work work in a bind up of a competent builder. that means they can't interact with the migrants they're scheduled to leave before the caravan is likely to make it to the border and it's

going to be costly by one estimate this will cost more than two hundred million dollars so this could turn out to be one costly confidence builder pedicle haint al-jazeera washington. russian opposition leader alexina valley has been allowed to fly out of the country a day after being told he was barred from leaving the valley was traveling to france when he was stopped by border guards at moscow airport the european court of human rights his transfer gets you to rule on whether his numerous detentions by police in russia are politically motivated or not the valley had been barred from leaving over a thirty one thousand dollars court followed. sri lanka's political crisis has deepened after parliament personal confidence motion against the been chosen by the president has the new prime minister effectively means the island nation now has two prime ministers and two cabinets but a smith reports from the capital colombo i 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 recently let me speak let me turn to the big three. 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 there was a day earlier today about oh with a show of hands a majority of m.p.'s rejected rajapakse as government that returns the prime ministership to run away from a single that 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 by the rajapaksa the only person who can appoint a prime minister in terms of our constitution 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 cabinet parliament backs one the president boxes the other which of those two institutions is the supremes power is at the heart of a constitutional crisis that's paralyzing sri lanka's politics burn its main al-jazeera colombo. provisional election results are emerging from fiji where two men responsible for military coups in the past vying to become the prime minister the incumbent leader franco by the robber holds a sizable the former prime minister city very rabuka in the pacific island nation's second election since by the robber seized power latasha tay has. once an army

commander now running to keep his position as prime minister frank by name a rama and his fiji first party quietly confident of victory i think. we do in the . majority so we can form again we come of this election today the result i'll be disappointed if we lose. but supporters of his main challenger steve any run buka have been hoping for an upset a former prime minister who served the seven years he was only cleared to run in this poll by a judge on monday just one of them that the words of our national in the land of. freedom hope and glory and we it is our duty to give the people. but not all the people voted to mention re-inforcing the closure of twenty three polling venues some eight thousand will cost their ballots at

a later date and open polling stations turnout was patchy to m.p. . but last time was for big players maybe the people of the weather everyone come yes so it's important for everyone to come in with the weather the weather is not that good. on the one the twenty fourteen elections by and that's why it has been refashioning his image into that of a stable legitimate leader. hosting un climate change negotiations and high profile dignitaries presiding over three percent of steady economic growth but critics regard him as authoritarian holding a tight rein on the media since forcing him sir. into power in a two thousand and six military coup. his main opponent steve any ram because he has led his own share of coups seizing power twice in the one nine hundred eighty s. on a racially charged platform to return the country to the hands of indigenous fijians away from those of indian descent

a principal by name iran opposes political landscape has a haunted legacy of military influence military led military consequence. inflicted influences within our politics in a way that two individuals who are at center stage of a political landscape but two sides of the same going. this is only the second time fijians have gone to the polls since two thousand and six and for by name rama it's a referendum on his leadership the star al-jazeera the un security council has voted to lift sanctions against ever trying to. freeze and travel about riposte in two thousand by the bid claims that eritrea supported fighters in somalia the un vote follows a thawing of relations between eritrea and its neighbors after years of conflict in judea ever try to sign the peace deal or relations with p.t. have also improved lifting of the sanction regime or near to doesn't of course mean

that the region is free of challenges we still face problems that require it first and determination to resolve we still need the help and serious support of the international community but on our products we are determined to accelerate if earth's to create a region where his development and democracy prevail in harmony. u.s. vice president mike pence has delivered a sharp rebuke to mia. about her country's treatment of his ring of muslims they met at the summit of the southeast asian leaders in singapore known as a c n where talks have been dominated by america's trade war with china or in hey as more are you ready behind the smiles there is an ease 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's

america first policy on trade would be among the main issues. in the international order is a turning point. the existing free open rules based multilateral system which has underpin 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 move 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 pains did meet with me and my as leader aung san suu kyi and gave a very public rebuke for the violence against the rigging this is a tragedy that has touched the hearts of millions of. the violence of persecution. by military and vigilantes that resulted in driving seven hundred thousand right. back with. this without excuse in response again failed to speak out in support of the ring you're saying only that people have different views. in southeast asia malaysia's prime minister mahathir mohamad has led the criticism of me and. it made for an uncomfortable seating arrangement at the opening ceremony when hey al jazeera singapore. bus

crows are being excavated in spain in search for the remains of more than two thousand victims of the franco dictatorship it's estimated the bodies of war than one hundred thousand people were dug in sites across the country during his rule. per hole reports from paternal forensic teams and a curfew digging deep into the ground to recover remains. of the old bones give up their 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 archaeologist and anthropologists are trying to match remains to names and return them to surviving relatives and the mentality when ther 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 identify tens of thousands of victims of his regime in part it seems due to lack of funds in part due to the lack of political will only after franco's rule ended family members dared to mark some of the mass graves painted tiles to warn a peasant farmers bricklayers and teachers buried below. much of the excavation in identification is based on the research of local historian descent here on earth franco we were bred justas listing almost two thousand three hundred execution victims buried in more than one hundred mass graves and our 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 healed. riyad or 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 you g.t. his only child peter was just a toddler meantime. 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 laws 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 pick him 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 potato spain. more than a year the world. dropped as much as nine percent to five thousand six hundred dollars. calls the. relative stability of the group. even. fully as much as. fifteen percent. of the. time. the ring.

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both about four hundred twenty two million adults around the world suffer from diabetes that figure has almost quadrupled since nine hundred eighty according to a world health organization report with a marked increase in the borough of people with a condition in middle income countries a world diabetes day that i should go to looks at how pakistan is trying to contain spiraling rates of the disease. more than a quarter of pakistani adults are living with diabetes abu bakar al the is one of

them hot rolls by beard big barbells i have been diabetic since two thousand but no one can imagine that i am as i have changed my lifestyle by doing proper daily exercise controlled my food intake and i am feeling much better both and work and daily life. according to government statistics eighty thousand pakistanis die each year as a result of diabetes it's a chronic condition in which people either don't make enough insulin or are resistant to it it creates high blood sugar levels they can seriously damage the heart kidneys eyes nerves and blood vessels the government has launched an initiative aimed at preventing the disease it includes one hundred fifteen clinics that have have the rate of foot amputation a common complication people are also being encouraged to make changes to their lifestyles and that includes diet and fitness in their family matters is.

the diabetes so we need to force. in addition. so i want to say. pakistan is not the only country grappling with the prevalence of diabetes the rule health organization says since one thousand nine hundred eighty the number of adults suffering from the disease has increased to eight and a half percent of the world's population access to insulin and affordable treatment are key to reducing the estimated one point six million deaths each year. al-jazeera. sport though his peter thank you very much would number one novak djokovic was on the brink of the semifinals at the season ending a.t.p. to the finals off to beating alexander very in london so they had to give the serbs

some problems in the first set with the help of the net just a bitch still one of six for over and then showed the gulf between himself and the german is more than just full ranking places it's a close second six one shot which is aiming to equal roger federer record of six title this year but after the match both players said the shade yelling at the end of the season have to change. this part of the year off to the grand slam season is the. first week of the year it's really over such a three four months it's just too many too many events and. we have to work it out but you know. where to start somewhere. issues that are season is way too long that's the first issue but also the before so close to eleven months a year that's that's ridiculous so on no other professions for those that former world number two. has retired from tennis after a thirteen year career the pole said in

a statement unfortunately i am no longer able to train and play the way i used to and recently my body can't live up to my expectations taking into consideration my health and the heavy burdens of professional tennis i have to concede that i'm not able to push my body to the limits required wayne rooney will wear the captain's armband when he makes against the usa in london on thursday really retired from international football last year but is being honored with one last appearance in the friendly while some of the proceeds will go to east charity he said to come on as a late sub wearing the number ten should the thirty three year old now plays in the states for d.c. united really is england's record score with fifty three goals past scare at southgate saying that a one hundred twentieth international cap is a fitting tribute. it's been disappointing to see him almost having to defend his inclusion in the game but that's where we are the more important thing is.

within the group we value what he's done the funeral of a thirteen year old psychic boxes taking place this wednesday as pressure mounts on the government to ban children from fighting china died of a brain hemorrhage two days after fighting in a charity match for one hundred seventy times since the age of eight but china and his opponent were not wearing headgear his case has reignited debate in thailand which has more than ten thousand registered boxes under the age of fifteen a thai parliament is reviewing legislation that would ban children under twelve from taking part in belts. women boxes are training for the amateur world championship which begins in new delhi on thursday they're wearing surgical masks and scarves across their mouths to protect them from small in the indian capital the competition is indoors but in the last few days the level of deadly particles in the air has been eight times the safe limit the smog is being caused by seasonal

burning of crops and a vehicle and industry emissions will bring just my nose right now and i don't know if you can hear me but my nurses like it when i read so they don't mind that we are training side. washing i have worried that you've taken precautions that i'm very much. like. i do feel it the air in denmark is very different so we would differ with everything in the eyes and in the mouth and stuff but you know. that's the way it is if. twenty five million people can live here then and i think we will survive as well people in the canadian city of calgary have become the latest to say no to hosting an olympics the city held a vote for backing as a candidate for the twenty twenty six winter games over three hundred thousand votes would cost a larger turnout than expected but fifty six point four percent voted no although

the vote is non-binding the city's mayor has said the defeat marks the end of the candidacy that decision leaves just two potential hosts for the twenty twenty six winter games down from an original seven but the joint bid from. doesn't have financial backing from the government and stock also hasn't got the green light from any political parties the decision will be made in june next year public votes haven't gone well for past candidates out of ten held in the last five years only oslo got a yes result but the norwegian capital withdrew its bet anyway. defending n.b.a. champions the goal and say who are is returned to winning ways on tuesday despite the absence of the injured steph curry and raymond green who were suspended for a shouting at teammate kevin durant after the warriors lost to the l.a. clippers on monday but didn't seem to have affected duran to lead the way against the atlanta hawks with twenty nine points one hundred ten one hundred three the final score the warriors are top of the n.b.a.'s western conference. for the use

the rockets ready to a one hundred nine ninety nine when the over the denver nuggets james harden schooled nineteen of his twenty two points in the second half of the game to condemn the nuggets to a fourth straight loss it was a tough first day and can be for anyone in the second test against sri lanka on wednesday of the winning the first test in goal the tourists won the toss for this for lankan bowlers all contributed before lunch leaving the english one hundred twenty four with that interval in the one picked up four wickets for the hosts but just bottle sixty three and sam karens sixty four helped the visitors reach two hundred eighty five all out the home team would not have it all their own way as cultural silver was back in the happy for the close of play sri lanka twenty six for one and that's all the support from us for now we'll have another update for you again later on thanks peter and of course you can follow our stories on our website our top story that calls the reaction to lieberman's resignation in israel

about with more news on the other side of the break thanks for watching the news out. clash.

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