tv NEWS LIVE - 30 Al Jazeera November 19, 2018 7:00pm-7:34pm +03
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mexico. the double threat for aid workers trying to contain the worst a bowl outbreak in the democratic republic of congo's history. and in sport one of tennis is rising stars finishes the season on the high sun is here with that and the rest of the sport a little late. yemen's who the rebels say they're holding drone and missile attacks against saudi arabia the u.a.e. and they get many allies there who thiis insist they're ready for a broader ceasefire if the coalition quote wants peace much of the recent fighting a centered on the rebel controlled city of what data now does iraq matheson reports . these are the kind of attacks the hoofy say will end ballistic missiles fired into saudi arabia from across the southern border in. mohammed ali al hoofy president of the who the revolutionary committee says we
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announce our initiative by calling upon the yemeni official authorities to stop the launching of missiles and drones on the us saudi amorality aggressor countries and their allies in yemen in order to stop any justification for their continued aggression or c. while preparing to freeze and stop military operations on all fronts to reach a just and on arrival peace if they really want peace for the people of yemen after we started using missile attacks and we started to target saudi forces near the border saudi arabia is now portraying its aggression on yemen as if it is just a response to our border attacks and therefore today state ams to once again clarify our position we also announce that we are ready to stop all operations at all fronts to show the world who is doing what and to give peace a chance we want to prove to the world that we want pace but who the rebels are still preparing to battle in the vital port city of. data even though
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pro-government forces say they've temporarily halted the fighting there ahead of peace negotiations in sweden and to allow in humanitarian aid there are suspicions the saudi led coalition will ignore the who these offer to end miss on the tax well you want. a chance to this. they really want peace in yemen i don't do this so i will actually accept it because many times you have similar peace plan and i am still this eight and it is not like it was. yemenis are facing starvation the threat from disease rules all the time thousands of lives could be say. if both sides agree to a ceasefire right matheson. al-jazeera is now hammered out is monitoring the conflict from just across the red sea in djibouti and how to put this who think
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ceasefire into some context for us. yes. amongst men by the whole thing is false a form composition by hard with the u.n. special envoy to yemen martin going to fit who's trying really hard to bring the warring parties in yemen to peace talks planned for the end of the year in sweden they's a rush against time. for the force time consensus among the international community that there is a need to stop the swart this announcement by the whole thing is comes days after we saw some advancement by the pro-government alliance supported by the saudi to quote a new shall we also know that the saudi government which is leading this correlation is also facing its own pressure the damage done to its reputation by the killing.
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the journalist jamal khashoggi in the stumble something that has really cost them a lot of diplomatic political. goodwill and then also we are seeing that. the cost of the war in yemen hoss rocket and now past two hundred billion dollars and there is pressure on both sides to stop this war and also the pressure being exerted by the international community to achieve some sort of a negotiated peace deal with yemen in peace and a transitional government that is the end result everybody is looking for but you say you know the truth is. of all for this this brought a cease fire along with their immediate cease fire firing rockets and missiles but with the coalition at the moment tacking her data is it going to hold.
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well that is the million dollar question and what everyone is wondering there have been cease fires declared before but which have held due to the suspicion between the warring sides just days ago there was a forty eight hour law which was broken by the movies would said the other calls on please forces fire coming from the sodium that are to coalition of the allies on the ground in yemen were nothing more than a poor to help them regroup and rearm and that is where the problem is because for the whole foods losing the day that is not an option what sort of a because that will deny them a supply route to their more fun strongholds and as far as that capital other than some of us are it now all that is making the stakes so high to the extent that. you would continue to see also clashes according to analysts happening as we go to
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woods the talks because everybody wants to come to the talks on a position of strength and want to get us much headed to the last possible moment many thanks lou dobbs is the habit out of there reporting live from djibouti the democratic republic of congo's health ministry has resumed efforts to contain an outbreak of ebola in the northeast of the country all operations including vaccinations have been briefly suspended after health workers were attacked in the city of beni the country is facing its worst ever outbreak of ebola at least one hundred sixty six people have died since early august sebastian spencer is the medical director for dr without borders he says his teams are committed to containing the outbreak and won't be put off by the attacks. we will stay and deliver we need to be united we are working within a frame defined by the ministry of health for security we rely on our staff we
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have three hundred national staff we working alongside and i would say that the staff and the community we serve is our better pretty is our best protection from a security point of view it's all about assessing all about relying on the information we're receiving from the community so we do not have armed escorts for our operations we rely on information we receive we rely on being trustworthy and that's what the. health care system needs to do is to be trustworthy for the community to protect us israel's government has narrowly avoided collapse education minister naftali bennett had threatened to pull his party out of prime minister benjamin netanyahu as coalition but it's decided to keep his party in the government was thrown into crisis after defense minister avigdor lieberman resigned on what instead let's go live now to west recently mountains here and stephanie decker can tell us more staff does this mean that the early election has been
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avoided is the prime minister out of danger. it's been avoided for now people will tell you that even before this whole crisis let's say began over gaza that the prime minister was keen on bringing for those elections anyway but he didn't want to have that happen under these circumstances so many people expected naftali bennett to resign today because he's been issuing very loudly an ultimatum that if he wasn't given the post of defense minister after the resignation about the door neighbor and that he would resign well netanyahu assumed that post for himself and he really put now actually bennett in a corner pretty much all skiing him not to be seen as the man to pull down a right wing government i think that essentially prevailed even though bennett got a lot of attacks in that say in that press conference he scolded netanyahu for the way he treated the palestinian issue that he was weak when it came to dealing with
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hamas with the border fence the fact that he had demolished tunnel amada the bedouin village in the occupied west bank but yes he threw all that says he will remain in government so for the moment yes we have averted these snap elections but again it remains fragile adrian it's only a one seat majority so many people will tell you that there will probably be early elections at some stage that currently slated for november of next year but at the moment there is no date and it's been avoided for now if there was an early election. what would happen is the prime minister in danger i mean could he be ousted in favor of a left leaning coalition. i think in a nutshell no these are the prime minister is a very shrewd political operator he's also known as what they call him as mr security he played these cards very well even though yes he has his is the decision
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on the ceasefire adrian is on population when you look at the polls it's unpopular but it hasn't really dented his popularity many people will tell you that well even though that was an unpopular decision and yes you had the resignation of the defense minister that he will survive this and this of course is you know the analysts in speculations in the king at the polls but they will tell you that if there is an early election more than likely you will see another right wing government with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the same post as he is now so yes he expend a lot of political capital when it may it came to making this decision the ceasefire with hamas but as he's been saying over the last couple of days it was to safeguard israel's security for people to trust him that he knows what he's doing so for the moment certainly a victory for netanyahu as it stands with natalie bennett backing off from his threats to resign stephanie thanks al jazeera stephanie decker there live in west jerusalem e.u. foreign ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss brigs it as negotiations enter
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their most critical phase the meeting lays the groundwork for a november twenty fifth summit in brussels when e.u. leaders are expected to formally sign off on the u.k.'s withdrawal agreement britain's prime minister has support from her cabinet for a plan to leave the e.u. although several ministers have quit let's go live now to london and i was there as jonah hole is this journey has been described as the start of perhaps the most perilous week into reason may's premiership she's not a danger yet is she and neither is her deal with the e.u. . no very far from it adrian she's off to brussels this week to join the negotiations itself over the declaration. for a future relationship this is a non-binding document that sits alongside the withdrawal agreement that would set out the basis the framework for the future relationship after bragg's it after the transition period that the withdrawal agreement of course governs it's her way of
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saying look i'm carrying on with the job that i was given to do i'm going to deliver breaks it despite what is going on here at home and despite what my critics are saying and of course what her critics are saying potentially is that they want her to go and if enough of them say that by sending letters into the conservative party backbench committee the so-called one hundred twenty two committee forty eight of them have to do that to force a no confidence vote well then there'd be a proper leadership challenge against her if there are enough m.p.'s in the conservative party who want to see her gone a majority of m.p.'s of course then she'd be defeated and they'd then be at the destruction of a conservative party leadership contest and several big names in the conservative party has said already to be preparing their campaigns of course the flip side is that if the numbers aren't there the majority to see her gone well then she'd be strengthened bizarrely should then be immune from challenge for a further twelve months so it's quite a risk they'd be taking in launching this challenge against her that could happen
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in the next day the next couple of days and then a vote would take place possibly by the end of the week or early next but in the meantime of course she's preparing for that e.u. summit on sunday if i mean if she stays it doesn't really matter whether the e.u. signs off on her withdrawal agreement she's still got to get it through the u.k. parliament and it's not looking good for her as it. well no the numbers are looking spectacularly bad for her in parliament when that deal was discussed in the last few days of towards the end of last week after it was first revealed see received scorn skepticism and right hostility from m.p.'s on both sides of the bench and on both sides of the argument against this draft deal but one of the things that could soften opinion towards it is what she may or may not be able to do in the next few days in brussels with e.u. leaders well young claude in their place and that is to try and put language into
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the future deal declaration which softens the concerns about the withdrawal agreement here chiefly the customs union the withdrawal agreement to put it to you briefly puts britain inside a customs union for the duration of the transition and as a backstop towards the finalizing of trade negotiations a final trade deal if one is to be reached well if in this declaration towards a future agreement she can get language inserted that makes that customs union backstop strictly temporary and gives britain a unilateral means to exit it should they want to well then she may go some way towards of her critics it is something that the e.u. are suggesting may be doable within the declaration not within the would withdraw agreement she's got a lot of work ahead of her over the next few days she's described them as critical as you say a perilous week it certainly is a gentleman he thinks of as a restaurant a hole there live in london. sri lanka's parliament has delayed another no
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confidence vote against the president's choice of prime minister mahinda rajapaksa it's already passed to no confidence motions rajapaksa is refusing to go president by three pilots that are cena held an unsuccessful meeting of political leaders on sunday to try to break the deadlock the turmoil began when so saina replaced his prime minister with rajapaksa now donnell wickramasinghe is trying to return to his position on his ear as bernard smith reports from colombo this session of sri lanka's parliament was over within minutes of it starting the session was adjourned there was no third vote of no confidence speaker story consider the first vote sufficient and then of a second vote he considered that even more than was necessary the president refused to accept both of those votes of no confidence but he said they were conducted according to procedure he was prepared to accept a third vote if it had been conducted according to procedure but it's not gone
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ahead of parliament adjourned again this is beginning to become a legal battle between the courts various cases being filed in the courts all parliament is not able it seems to decide who should be prime minister of sri lanka the government at the top of government run ill witnessing it as he is still prime minister is staying in the official residence manner rajapaksa though is gazetted on the air on the official government document as being prime minister so he's carrying out the duties of prime minister parliament now might try and vote to strip some funding from the proc prime minister's office in a way to stop him exercising his powers but all of this political crisis this constitutional crisis being still hurting sri lanka's economy the rupee again at an all time low against the us don't. next on the news our meteorologist kevin corriveau here with a weather update for us then. we'll take a look at why the chinese leaders visit to the philippines this week could signal the beginning of a new type of relationship. another n.b.a.
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team gets ripped apart by the grizzlies the details coming up later this. by the sky nine information harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. where yesterday we saw a tropical storm make landfall here in vietnam now we're watching another storm in the making you can see the clouds right there just to the eastern part of the philippines that is making its way towards the west as also increasing in intensity this is thirty three w. can see the clouds right there the location is still towards the eastern part of the philippines but we do think in mindanao of the next few days we are going to see some very heavy rain even though the system is only expected to reach tropical storm strength the storm is moving so slow that we could be seeing some very heavy rain and flash flooding across the region so the rain is going to continue make its
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way towards palawan as well as we make our way over here towards wednesday we do think that mudslides landslides are going to be a significant event across the region in terms of rain here we do think that we could be seeing anywhere between two hundred and three hundred millimeters of rain falling across that southern section of the philippines now i did tell you yesterday we saw a landfall in vietnam we're going to be watching this storm very carefully because as it tracks across the south china sea this storm is expected to possibly increase in intensity even more it could even get to typhoon straight before making landfall but we do expect to see by next saturday the storm making landfall in vietnam again . the wind sponsored by the time these. a rite of passage preserved through the generations may cousin was laying down there until a screaming she was helpless the woman who after endorses go through fi cold of
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hello again this is the news hour from al-jazeera adrian for going to here in doha the top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump says he hasn't listened to a recording of the murder of the saudi journalist because it's too graphic he spoke in a televised interview before the cia briefed his administration on its findings. but the rebels in yemen say they're stopping drone of missile attacks against saudi arabia the u.a.e. and their allies the group insists that it's ready for a broader ceasefire if the saudi led coalition wants peace. but israel's government is now really avoided collapse and snap elections prime minister benjamin netanyahu has managed to persuade members of his coalition government to stay after defense the defense minister resigned last week over a cease fire in gaza i just want to show you before we move on some live pictures
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from saudi arabia that is. the saudi arabian king king solomon who is about to deliver his annual address to the shura council following a nationwide tour with crown prince mohammed bin solomon be announcing the kingdom's internal and foreign policies for the coming period. when the king begins his speech we will that we'll cross live to riyadh will that will take a listen in for a while. now people living in tijuana on mexico's border with the u.s. of protesting against asylum seekers from central america thousands of people have arrived recently after making long journeys with the hope of crossing into the u.s. the protesters accuse the new arrivals of bringing in crime and gang violence al-jazeera is heidi jocasta reports from tijuana.
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this is not the reception the asylum seekers had hoped for although some residents of t. want to welcome them with open arms these anti migrant protesters occupied a city monument sunday demanding the mexican government register the central americans entering their city by the thousands one of the protest leaders threatened on social media to cut off migrants arms of they are caught stealing from mexicans this woman says she came after seeing the right one post i got it all right they bring the drugs they cry and their dancing shaking their boats or use day don't come just picked. the protest grew as it moved through the streets the destination the shelter where asylum seekers are staying as they wait for a chance to enter the u.s. . some protesters try to break through a police barrier. despite a few skirmishes police have at least at the moment managed to hold back the marchers but they are only
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a block away from the migrant shelter where inside more than a thousand central american asylum seekers are anxiously waiting to see what happens next meant that i as long as they brought this peacefully nothing will happen we will ignore them this six year old boy said he was terrified that when the right model when he says he's good not bad like the protesters think inside the protected gates families hunker down fearing the violence would reach them as me because they stayed close to her daughter but aren't here to offend anyone we're here asking for asylum for a better life. as children ignorant of the tension played some adults try to distract themselves too they'll be here for weeks or perhaps months waiting and hoping to avoid violence. castro al-jazeera do you want to mexico. south africa. my finance minister pravin gordhan has testified at
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a corruption inquiry in johannesburg who was sacked by the former president jacob zuma says that corruption allowed for a climate of impunity the commission was formed to investigate allegations of state influence particularly by the influential business owners the book has the committee as part of president so ronna poses pledge to clean up corruption and revive south africa's struggling economy let's take you live now to johannesburg for me to mila is there i can see people protesting by jus for me that what are they protesting about. the use of the they want provision gordon gone he's no longer finance minister as you've mentioned but he's on now the minister of public into price of course still a cabinet minister the people here are saying that he lied in relation to his relationship with the gupta family previously in parliament he had said to that he'd met him with them on a couple of occasions just in passing nothing of consequence but then in leaks testimony from the sink why the ways appearing today it was then revealed that he
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had in fact made put them on a number of occasions and one of those times at the residence of the former president jacob zuma people here are saying he's not credible that perhaps he facilitated this issue of state capture corruption and fraud in his position as finance minister minister and of course these allegations that he's denied but in his testimony today so far he's talking about just how far the watch goes in to what extent the ruling party the african national congress could be implicated in what's been happening in south africa over the possible gives to do with the appointment of ministers decisions made in government policies that were arrived back to the senate take out food and corruption that allowed the script of family specifically and high ranking politicians to benefit personally from decisions that were made so what else has been heard of the commission inquiry today.
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having issue for many south africans i think who are paying a lot of attention to what's happening at the sink wiring is just who will be implicated a lot of the allegations are all around the former president jacob zuma you remember earlier this year he had to step down just because there were so many holes around these of these allegations post of them took over but jacob zuma hasn't been clearly fingered by anybody in terms of his involvement and this could be one of the first times this testimony from her been caught and that could delve into what exactly happened who was told to do what to facilitate food and corruption within government and people are very much waiting to hear if they'll be evidence presented that shows just how far jacob zuma specifically might have been involved and then just how far these allegations go in terms of the ruling party who in the past several months have had to do a lot of damage control around standing against corruption saying that this is
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a fight that they're willing to do but the cup run the country scuse me the party specifically especially head of elections next year has been damaged by this controversy and it's not snow new it's what will come out of this commission was of african so to me wanting the truth at the very least to emerge when will the commission publish its findings and what happens then is it could anyone face charges. well some would argue that this it's really early days in terms of a final report coming out of this commission it's gone on for about two and a half months but we are to be out we do understand this continue could continue for another two years at the very least what's important to remember is that south africa goes to presidential elections in the early twenty nine teams depending on what comes out of what's revealed in this commission the a.n.c. could say of stuff of other we do know their support base has been affected basically parties like this one they cannot make freedom fund of freedom fighters
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get some of that supports people tired of corruption people tired of mismanagement of state enterprises which of course has managed to the economy of south africa being affected job of jobs being lost as well as the value of the rand that also decrease so people are wanting a lot of dances but it may not be anytime soon the commission has says that whatever comes out of these investigations and it's inquiry won't necessarily lead to prosecutions that would have to be taken on separately in testimony and may not necessarily be used in the prosecutions but south africans are certainly hoping that more will come out of this commission rather than just wasted taxpayers' money on finding out what's going on but nothing really concrete coming out of it and you say this this commission has been sitting for a couple of months now the protest behind you it looks fairly good natured to at the moment is that unusual people been protesting throughout the inquiry sitting.
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people haven't been protesting throughout the city but there's been a lot of attention paid to provin court and specifically remember that prevent gordon was the minister of finance on two occasions in fact in one of those times he was fired by the former president jacob zuma he in fact a learnt of his dismissal by a t.v. news report he hadn't been told up prior to that so it's been very controversial shuffling of cabinet in that time and of course linked to the reasons around why jacob zuma might have done this tonight might have benefited him and his friends especially in the business sic to prevent gordon is important to south africans because he's always been somebody who's had the people about the impression that he's above board he's done the right thing he's stood up against corruption and this is what he's also arguing that jacob zuma eventually fired him because he wouldn't concede to jacob zuma his wishes he wouldn't listen to what the president wanted in terms of management and issues at stake don't enterprises that weren't
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necessarily good for the country this is also what we saw with regard to another finance minister and clock on and i remember we got about six changes in that ministry over about a three year period which was outside africans has been very troubling so this protest today has been expected because of who's testifying and what he might say and just the difficulty south africans have experience during his tenure as the finance minister but why he was removed and what the implications of that for me to many thanks indeed down to zero as for me to live in johannesburg in northern california the search for human remains been stepped up in the aftermath of devastating wildfires seventy seven people are now confirmed dead but still around a thousand people remain missing as christensen discovered the city of chico is struggling to accommodate an influx of evacuees. evacuees from the wildfires take solace in some music and the company of newfound friends but their
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retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges and the outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems lie through it for three days in. my parents for three days i was sick during the all day. about thirty people fell sick in this shelter alone they were moved into isolation to prevent the disease from spreading a challenge in such close quarters most of the people staying here are elderly and many have preexisting conditions only exacerbated by the trauma going to be a lot of post-traumatic stress disorder i suspect and it may not be told lone p.t.s.d. but it may be. just folks with nightmares maybe a lot of sadness irritability people trouble sleeping that's really call man after this type of disaster smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of
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northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world and concerns of short and long term respiratory ailments an army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees in addition to shelter they're providing food and clothing not to mention medical assistance from local doctors and nurses but with more than twelve thousand structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care the median income in the devastated area of butte county is less than half of that of the state the federal emergency management agency has begun taking applications for housing assistance but local officials say there isn't enough housing stock available paradise where our neighbors so we've all kind of been together housing wise though we're not prepared to take on twenty five thousand to thirty thousand more people so far community support remains strong they are not we.
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we need to we're have somewhere in the region is getting better and but volunteers and evacuees say ultimately they'll have to rely on government for long term help not a wing and a prayer kristen salumi al-jazeera chico california. florida's outgoing governor rick scott has been declared the winner of a hotly contested race for a seat in the u.s. senate a recount was awarded the recent vote between scott and democratic incumbent bill nelson election officials say the republican won just over fifty percent of the ballot with ten thousand more votes than his opponent does want to draw your attention to some news just in germany has announced that it's imposing travel bans on eighteen saudi citizens who are suspected of involvement in the murder of the journalist jamal is shogi that's been announced by the country's foreign ministry will have more on that in the coming minutes and hours here on this.
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