al jazeera. where ever you. i firmly believe that the draft withdrawal agreement was the best that could be negotiated british prime minister treason may when cabinets approval for a draft breaks a deal but major hurdles remain on the way forward. for example robin you're watching knowledge is there life by headquarters here in doha also coming up uncertain future for the israeli government after defense minister

avigdor lieberman presides over the cease fire and. also al-jazeera exclusively meet the most wanted badly what the u.n. calls a forgotten conflict in central african republic. the u.s. asylum controversy the defense secretary physics the mexico border where thousands of american troops have been deployed. welcome to the program but u.k. prime minister treason day has won the backing of a cabinet for a draft breaks it deals struck with the european union but he says it's said to step towards a final deal paul budde reports. the marathon cabinet meeting concluded after five hours the outcome theresa may 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 bracks a deal emerged on tuesday evening there's been a fee bramah noosphere in westminster ahead 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 he schooled on 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 vote for 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. a 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 to. this agreement as a decisive crucial step and concluded in these negotiations and it's also the achievement of a method of a methodology in 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 that 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. pro-government forces in yemen have

poles to fall offensive against the rebel held city of data. which is stored its way into the. talks to the form which. is the main entry point for food aid into the country the un has warned of a humanitarian catastrophe. if you terribly but. should beauty. there's 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 go home farming 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 ghosh has told journalists that his government supports a ceasefire in 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 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 is. 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 a good terrorist to warn that the ports activities should not be disrupted whatsoever because it's a lifeline for up to fourteen million yemenis who need aid to survive. well staying

in the region of a dollar lieberman as quick as israel's defense minister he voiced over a cease fire with palestinian groups that he described as surrendering to terror his abrupt announcement has rocked prime minister binyamin netanyahu coalition government leaving it with just a majority in the knesset stephanie decker reports. 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 as far as i'm concerned what happened yesterday yesterday a cease fire together with the entire process of reaching a reassessment of hamas is a capitulation to terror bush's. outgoing 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 our 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 no. to position in

the government and 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 themselves to be the opponent in it and you know the opponent to the right of netanyahu but the events of the last few days show is that gaza will remain at the center of israeli politics as long as the situation there remains unresolved stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem. to africa where the un security council is due to vote on thursday about extending its peacekeeping mission in central african republic there's really been a moment of peace since the conflict began there eighty five years ago a lot as a muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president francois busies government in twenty t. a few months later rebel leader michel dettori was sworn into room president but he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known

as the deep alaca continued the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces that were already there and since then cease fires have been signed violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes ordered wanted by both the u.n. and sales government is neighbor he was once a celica rebel but is now in charge of a neighborhood following in the capital buggy and in this exclusive interview with al jazeera he tells the killers her kill stay and defend his people in hiding but still in charge surrounded by young heavily armed teenage boys is. otherwise known as the 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 even 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 if you 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 a name in 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 in which you must i am their boss commander and the father how do you want them to go to school us muslims are not free to move what happened on 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 bunky p.k. five. well still had all of his there are firefighters in california continue their battle to contain the deadliest wildfire in the state's history. and spanish investigators to go to the parents to confront the kreutzer of the frontier is. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. the finest snow fall on a winter's day. and we've got a lot of wet weather around the southeastern parts of china that remove the pepping up as we head through the next few days as well so you can see it on much out there for thursday stretching from the south coast all the way out through hand and then that really expounds as we head through friday and most of us will be seeing some rain at times here in place really where it should stay drawn on my face down

towards the southeast so hong kong should get to around twenty six degrees and it should be falling and settled here i mean for the towards the south is also dry weather across the philippines as well but elsewhere we've got some fairly sharp showers and that with plenty more of them as we head through the next few days say for k.l. and singapore both of us can expect some very heavy downpours and some thunder and lightning to if we head across towards the southern parts of india hey we've got a tropical so i claim with this that it's gradually creeping its way west woods and once it makes landfall it will begin to lose its intensity and dump all its moisture so for the southern tip of india then and for the northern parts of sri lanka it will be incredibly wet as we head through the next few days and then raised likely to be a bit of flooding around times two to the north of all of that it's staying following and dry for many of us but we've still got a problem with an air quality in new delhi so twenty five degrees will be rather murky twenty five as we head into friday. the waiver sponsored by qatar airways.

senator robert kennedy was assassinated in june one thousand nine hundred sixty eight sir hand search is still serving a life sentence for his murder but there have been calls for decades for the case to be reopened including from robert kennedy jr. all the evidence was destroyed after the trial they had a legal obligation to save the evidence because sir hand was going to file an appeal al-jazeera world asks who killed robert kennedy. goodbye. never mind new stories british prime minister treats may. deal

struck with the european union. towards a final deal. to the u.k. parliament for approval. pro-government forces in yemen have called. the coalition which is behind. the conflict but the people's most food aid into the country. israel's defense minister has resigned and. government accepted a cease fire in the gaza strip he says his party will will quit. bringing coalition with just one seat majority in the knesset. i mean it has an update from gaza where there is widespread skepticism about how long the ceasefire will last. there's a certain size of relief here in gaza that an all out war didn't break out this is

one of the buildings that were targeted by the israelis it belongs to have not been in the civilian area and people around not only you can imagine the fear they felt that night when that explosion happened but also their property damage this is a place that still hasn't recovered from the previous war back in two thousand and fourteen so people here has 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 a political victory that coupled with the news of the resignation. minister. i must say that was actually. a victory and an acknowledgement by the israelis that. now people

are happy that he has returned but this is certain degree this is. all these. cease fire has been very difficult to reach. a long term cease fire. and still people i'm going to. be worried. that we saw over the past two days might make. a long term agreement more difficult than it already was. turkey's foreign minister says the time is right to move the investigation into the killing of saddam journalist. to the international stage. told parliament that his government is committed to solving the murder on a chain the evidence to to all interested parties turkey previously said it would cooperate in an international investigation that called for a u.n. probe. well u.s.

republican senator lindsey graham has described saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin unstable and unreliable and says he and other senators are discussing sanctions against riyadh in the wake. from washington d.c. . 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 with 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 muhammad bin solman 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. the u.n. security council has voted to lift sanctions against every train and arms embargo asset freeze and travel ban were imposed in two thousand and nine amid claims that eritrea supported al shabaab fighters in somalia the u.n. vote follows a thawing of relations between eritrea and its neighbors after years of home plate

when cheney gave labor trends steel. lifting of the sanctions regime or near to or doesn't of course mean that the region is free of challenges we still face problems that require it first and determination to rezone we still need the help and serious support of the international community but on our product we are determined to accelerate if earth's to create a region where his development and democracy prevail in haren many u.s. defense secretary met his 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 trying to prevent a group of asylum seekers from entering the u.s. the so-called migrant caravan and study making its way north through mexico as particle he reports. it came off as carefully choreographed fellow soldiers tell you do it. 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 most 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 but we're still 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 i won a student 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. they

top us aid to the trumpet ministration has been forced to step down from her position after being criticized by the first lady well ali of trump a disagreement with mira cardle the deputy national security adviser during a tour of africa in october spokesperson for millennia ricard will no longer deserves the honor of serving in the white house a cardinal will now move into a new role within the administration at least fifty one people are being killed by wildfires in the u.s. state of california well there is some way to go before the flames are extinguished there's no hope that some of the fires are diminishing. castro reports. 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 else 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. u.s. prosecutors in the trial of york in mn the drug lord known as el chapo of asked the judge to throw out the defense's opening statement as mills lawyers accuse mexican presidents of taking bribes from traffickers. allegedly the head of the similar cartel was the main supplier of illegal drugs into the u.s. bitcoin has fallen to its lowest level in more than a year the world's largest crypto currency dropped as much as nine percent to just

over five thousand six hundred dollars it's unclear what caused the price to for a period of relative stability other cryptocurrency easing through the ether and x r p a fairly even worse musgrave's are being excavated in spain in the search for the remains of more than two thousand victims of the franco dictatorship it's estimated the bodies of more than one hundred ten thousand people were dumped in sites across the country during his rule now as karl penhall reports from paternal forensic teams are digging deep to recover the remains. of the old. 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 archaeologists and

anthropologists are trying to match remains to names and return them to surviving relatives and immorality when 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 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 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 the 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 your norf we need 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 thirty 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 meantime piano free america 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. and whole jazeera spain. your children their arms the whole roman a reminder of our top stories the british prime minister to resign or has won the backing of a cabinet for a draft break that deal struck with the european union but he says it's a decisive step towards if i will deal the agreement will go both to the e.u.

and u.k. parliaments for approval. i firmly believe that the draft withdrawal agreement was the best that could be negotiated and it was for the cabinet to decide whether to move on in the talks 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 outlined political declaration this is a decisive step which enables us to move on and finalize the deal in the days ahead these decisions were not taken lightly but i believe it is a decision that is firmly in the national interest. israel's defense minister has resigned from office after his government accepted a ceasefire in the gaza strip of it all either winners are calling for early elections he says his party will quit benyamin netanyahu is ruling coalition leaving it with just in one seat majority in the knesset pro-government forces in

yemen have poles to for an offensive against the rebel held port of the danger the fight is a backed by the serbian morality coalition which is throwing its weight behind another round of un led talks to end the conflict the danger is the main entry port for both food and aid the un security council has vetoed voted in fact to lift sanctions against a tray or an arms embargo and sit freeze and travel ban were imposed in two thousand and nine claims eritrea supported al-shabaab fighters in somalia the u.n. vote follows a thawing of relations between eritrea and its neighbors after years of conflict a top u.s. aid to the trumpet ministration has been forced to step down from her position of being criticized by the first lady well are you trying to disagreement with mira ricardo all deputy national security adviser during a tour of africa tobar ricardo move into a new role within the administration those were the headlines more news in half an

hour inside story is next. what's the future for libya seven years after the fall of dictator moammar gadhafi and armed groups control much of this on oil rich country international talks in this really well aimed at uniting libya so what hope finally the peace this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program dennis the more than forty years libya was ruled with an iron fist by a dictator moammar gadhafi until his reign came to a blood.