only democratic senators and members of congress as a whole but also republican party members i mean bob corker they're saying everything points to the crown prince of saudi arabia ordering her show she's killing there is no question they are not mincing words they are going to take action where they can and they certainly under the u.s. constitution have the ability to do so so i think. we can take from around paul's comments where he said you know look it's all fine and good to sanction officials that are already in jail but the point is is that the person that they believe is responsible for the killing shows he who ordered this killing has not been in any way sanctioned so they're going to continue to press and not only can they take that action but they can also change the strategic relationship of the united states and saudi arabia something they are tempting to do with legislation the constitution gives them the power to do that whether it's blocking arms sales whether it's limiting support u.s. support for the saudi led coalition in yemen they're certainly seeking to do that

the question becomes whether the president will sign any of those pieces of legislation into law but given the overwhelming bipartisan pressure to do so he'd have a difficult time not doing so of course the president a pause weakness what about run pulls criticism when he said that just levying sanctions against the individuals they think are responsible for the murder are not against the saudi leadership itself will be interpreted by saudi arabia as a sign of u.s. weakness that's going to hurt the president is not. in the president is already looking we come this one i mean we can't underscore enough just how divided this country is politically to the polar spectrum right and the polar spectrum left but on this issue there is there is almost absolute unity there has been no strong voice coming out saying look at we really have to give the crown prince the benefit of the doubt just the opposite and i think that's what makes this so profound and

so stark the fact that the president really is alone on this where he's attempting to put in place plausible deniability in that interview that he gave to fox news on sunday where he said he had heard five different times as recently as a few days ago from the crown prince that he had nothing to do with the killing nobody in the united states congress is buying that nobody in the u.s. public who is following the story closely is buying that in fact just the opposite so it's going to be very difficult for the president particularly as he starts looking ahead to twenty twenty you know if this is not resolved this could become an embarrassing political issue for the president as he seeks to run for a second term one that ultimately if he continues to press in this direction the voters could decide to believe anything some white house correspondent kimberly helicopter lives in washington will germany is taking action against the people suspected of killing jamal khashoggi italy imposed travel bans on eighteen saudi arabians means they would be allowed to enter germany or europe's board of free

shipping in zone let's go live now to linux as it was dominic came can tell us more is this dominick germany falling into line with the u.s. will taking its own view on buses. well certainly the thing to say here adrian is that germany has been trying to cloak itself in the garb of the european collective response to the events that have taken place in this case that's how the foreign minister. responded on the fringes of the european summit meeting taking place in brussels he basically said that these eighteen people needed to have travel bans imposed on him on them and that he felt that the other countries should follow suit another development taken place here in berlin today adrian is that the federal government has announced the freezing of all arms exports to saudi arabia now there are a considerable number of relatively lucrative contracts between saudi arabia and

germany well they have all been frozen the point to make here if there is any ambiguity in so far as the government in the white house is concerned there's no ambiguity whatsoever here in the federal government in the federal parliament indeed all parties are very much opposed to the way things have panned out in this affair and have criticized very clear chorus of concern and then criticism of the saudi element in this case one thing to say however there are those human rights campaigners here in germany who say well it's one thing to impose travel bans on the eighteen individuals who have had the bans put on put in place on them by the german authorities why not sanctions is what the human rights campaign is here is saying but so far at least those eighteen people would travel bans but also perhaps more importantly arms embargoes placed by the federal government not just on on plans for future contracts but existing ones right now and that may be more financially painful for the saudi authorities course one of the reasons why the

u.s. president is reluctant to impose sanctions is because of the lucrative nature of defense contracts with saudi arabia how is germany's move going to go down with german business. well that is the question isn't it certainly as i said there are some considerable deals there patrol boats several of them several which were ready to be sent to saudi arabia to certainly ready to go to be transported to saudi authorities a third one close to completion to be sent to saturable that will not happen as you say the question is what will the armaments manufacturers here make of that while the likelihood is they will fall into line behind the government here because the point to be made here is when the economy ministry spokesperson announced this this embargoed as it were this decision to freeze exports they didn't give a date is there when this embargo this freeze would expire the question will be how

long does the german government want this to go on is this gesture politics or is this the start of something much more meaningful all those questions have to wait to see what sort of response there is as i say clearly the german government wants this to be the beginning of a concerted european approach and that means it's now for the european governments to follow suit tom mccain reporting live from berlin dominic many thanks. with the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program yemen's warring sides make announcements that could bring about peace after three years of conflict. israel's government narrowly avoids collapse but an early election may still be on the cards . and in sport one of tennis's wising stars finishes the season on a high and it will be here with the details of the rest of the school plays. yemen's government has confirmed that it will attend the un back talks in sweden

later this month to end the war at the same time who the rebels are stopping drone and missile attacks against saudi arabia the u.a.e. and their yemeni allies who thinks say that they're ready for a broader ceasefire if the coalition quote wants peace al-jazeera as robertson reports. these are the kind of attacks the hoofy say will end ballistic missiles fired into saudi arabia from across the southern border in. muhammad ali al hoofy president of the who the revolutionary committee says we 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 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. chants we want to prove to the world that we want peace but who the rebels are still preparing to battle in the vital port city of her data even though 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 attacks and well the wall is. that it gives it a chance to the so. that they really want peace in yemen i don't do this i would be

i would actually accept it because many times you have similar peace plan and still this only and not to like get access to those. yemenis are facing starvation the threat from disease grows all the time thousands of lives could be say. if both sides agree to a cease fire rob matheson. son and maybe on as a lecturer in international relations and director of the richardson institute at lancaster university joins us now via skype from lancaster in the u.k. good to have you with us simon twenty extent did this who think the cease fire off a come about due to the work of the un's special envoy to yemen what we're hearing it sounds like the new special envoy is trying to wield a great deal of influence with all parties he's come in with a bit of a clean slate and he certainly trying to speak to people speak to as many different

people as possible to put an end to this conflict he's seen firsthand the devastation that has really destroyed a great deal of yemen and its infrastructure leaving the states on the brink of humanitarian collapse so he's obviously trying to do everything possible which apparently reaching out to the leadership and saying let's try and make this happen . and i suppose he's on a trust building mission at the moment with as far as they're concerned yeah of course and i think if you look at any type of conflict resolution any type of efforts to mediate violence it's all about trust to what extent can you trust the person sitting opposite you around a table but in this yemeni case it's to what extent can you trust the person that you're fighting against to actually join the peace talks to let you join the peace talks and to meet any sort of we are arranged criteria that will actually let the

peace talks get off the ground so it's absolutely key that there is a trust building effort that it's happening right now that's happening before any formal talks start because only then can that be the necessary trust for the for the conflict to actually be brought to an end and what about the other side of the conflict the saudi led coalition one can imagine given the pressure that the saudi arabians are under at the moment internationally that they would be easier to bring on board than the u.a.e. is that is that a correct assumption. i think that's probably a fair assumption we know what's happened in the aftermath of the whole shoji affair we know that the crown prince is under a great deal of pressure reports all suggesting that when jeremy hunt the british foreign secretary went up to riyadh and showed showed smom had been summoned this draft resolution that the u.k. is apparently submitting to the u.n. that that the crown prince he responded with i quote a fit so that suggests that he's he's not particularly happy at the international

response to the hostages the fact that longstanding allies such as the united kingdom in the united states are becoming so vocal in that criticism of the kingdom and so i think they're feeling a great deal of pressure or maybe one of the ways they could try and mitigate some of this criticism is by working towards some type of conflict resolution in yemen but the course the sticking problem is the lack of trust that they have been the root these to meet their needs and to actually it is what their promises are simon really good to talk to many thanks to simon maybe on that at lancaster university one of the world's most powerful motor industry bosses has been arrested carlos ghosn is the chairman of the nyssa rhino and mitsubishi motors alliance he's accused of grossly understating his salary and what the company calls significant misconduct well these are live pictures from japan when the sounds president and

c.e.o. is addressing the media about cost go report back on what he's saying a little later in the post let's bring in all seriousness. who's in paris natasha how did all of this come about. well it looks as if it's going to be a huge fall from grace for carlos corn as you said one of the world's biggest names when it comes to the car industry and what we're expecting is japanese carmaker nisanit to in fact say that they are sacking their chairman carlos go over claims of financial misconduct now nisanit is alleging that go on used company assets and company money for his own gain for his own personal benefit and what they've been doing over the past few months is actually a form of an internal investigation this and have been investigating this for many months they say because they were sent a report by a whistleblower that

a detailed some of the financial maneuverings in the country that's why the alarm was raised and this ana said that it's passing on all its information to the japanese public prosecutor and as you mention collars go now reportedly under arrest in tokyo any reaction from god himself as he had it in to say about all of this. we've not heard anything from color scone as yet and as i said those reports of his arrest remain reports are not yet confirmed but there's no doubt that this is sending shock waves around the global car industry because he is such a big name he's somebody who's been really in top jobs for twenty decades not only the chairman of but also japanese company mitsubishi motors the chief executive of the french carmaker renault and he some of that managed to turn around companies

lightness sun and renault in the one nine hundred ninety s. someone who's seen as being fearless charismatic he'll cut jobs easily in order to restructure companies and save their profits so really this is he's a big gun when it comes to the motor industry so to see these allegations against him is really quite shocking and we saw in paris earlier in trading here. stocks in reno plunged more than twelve percent and that gives you a sense of how at least the financial sector is reacting to this news which i should really think such as there isn't a special bottle there live in paris let's get some weather on the beach you were just kevin corriveau is here kevin i happen to know i was caught up in one of the first snow storms in the u.s. on the east coast that's right at the weekend on the west coast of course you've got all that hot dry weather that's leading to that the bush fire that's where we're dealing with those deadly fires and but there is some relief coming in the next few days but we're we have about forty eight hours until we finally get to that relief of course for a last two weeks we have been doing

a very dry conditions and windy conditions here in california and those wildfires have been the most destructive in california history i want to show you the most updated statistics that we do have on those two wildfires that we've been watching first of all the camp fire over sixty thousand hectares burned so far it's only sixty four percent contained and with this fire we have seventy seven fatalities that have been reported down towards los angeles. to the fire thirty nine thousand heck there is this one a little bit more contained at ninety one now let me show you the forecast over the next few days because we're going to see a little bit of relief as we go towards the mid week a little bit more humidity here down towards the south today a little bit drier tomorrow but then as we go towards wednesday we're finally getting the break we need particularly in northern parts of california where the rain coming into play so that is one thing and watching but with this we are going to be seeing some mudslides and landslides so that is something going to be watching very very carefully of course also wednesday is going to be the biggest

travel day across united states if you are flying into united states a lot of people are flying because of the holidays but in terms of weather we're looking at better weather conditions here on the eastern seaboard but still that rain is going to be a major problem out there towards the west. kevin many thanks still to come here on the news hour. anger boils over in mexico against central americans hoping to get asylum in the united states. president xi jinping visits manila this week we look at whether his trip will mark the start of a golden age for china philippines relations ties and sports diego maradona's happy again as his side moves inside of a trophy weight in mexico. across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants' at all zero immigration but this is the

one political topic anybody and everybody is discussing the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudice some pride in hungary on al-jazeera. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know it's very challenging but it is but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

well again this is the. good here in doha the headlines this hour saudi arabia's king has avoided mentioning the murder of journalist jamal. in his first public comments since the killing last month but he praised his country's judiciary and said that no penalties would go on punished which. is causing divisions of the top of the u.s. republican party there are conflicting opinions about what action to take against saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin. whom the cia reportedly blamed for the 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. and yemen's government has confirmed that it will attend talks in sweden later this month in an attempt to end the war the rebels are stopping drug tax 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 quote wants peace russia's president president vladimir putin a turkey's president of type but i want a meeting in istanbul to mark the end of an important phase in the natural gas pipeline between the two countries the two leaders celebrated the completion of the offshore part of turks streams two lines that will carry natural gas from russia to turkey well turkey is one of the largest consumers all of russian national national natural gas to keep homes warm and for industry to the seven billion dollars stream pipeline project where enhanced the reliability of the gas supply to turkey and to southern europe to extreme stretches one thousand one hundred kilometers from russia to the black sea it's designed to replace an older pipeline through ukraine with a direct connection to russian reserves gazprom the state's russian oil and gas companies

supplied fifty two. cent of all gas consumed in turkey last year turks train has the capacity to pump some thirty billion cubic meters of directional gas that's enough to power a country the size of the netherlands and to work help seventeen million people a year. israel's government has narrowly avoided collapse education minister nothing bennett that threatened to pull his party outs of prime minister benjamin netanyahu coalition but decided against it the government was thrown into crisis when defense minister avigdor lieberman resigned on wednesday more now from al-jazeera stephanie decker in west jerusalem. after all the criticism after all the ultimatum that he gave to the israeli prime minister naftali bennett will not be quoting this government he had made a very loud point where he said that if he was not given the post of defense minister that he would be resigning which would effectively have collapsed this government it hasn't happened now yes he extensively criticize the prime minister

particularly his policies when it comes to the palestinians when it comes to the gaza border protests when it comes to how he's dealt with hamas when it comes to the fact that the prime minister hasn't yet demolished that bedouin village in the occupied west bank connel ahmad but after one of that he said that he would be remaining in government bennett doesn't want to be seen as the man to bring down this right wing government that is also the position that the israeli prime minister i put him in netanyahu remains a shrewd political operator he played the security card when it came to defending his policies of these of the how mass to the cease fire in gaza so for the moment snap elections seem to have been avoided but it remains a fragile coalition only one seat majority many people will tell you that netanyahu is killed early elections but not under these circumstances and certainly not handing over what would have been a huge political victory for hamas if they would play it if the government had

collapse at this stage they would have played it as a victory to that so for the moment it's been avoided but again many people will tell you that early elections will probably still happen they've just been avoided for doubt trying because parliament has to late another no confidence vote against the president's choice of prime minister mahinda rajapaksa it's already passed to no confidence motions but rajapaksa is refusing to go president once upon a set of cena held an unsuccessful meeting of political leaders on sunday to try to break the deadlock more now from us as heroes but it smith who is in 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 considered the first vote sufficient and then of the 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 ahead of parliament adjourned again this is beginning to become a legal battle between the courts various cases being filed in the courts 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 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 prop 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 u.s. dollar even foreign ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss briggs's as negotiations enter 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 the u.k.'s withdrawal agreement britain's prime minister has support from her cabinet plan to leave the although several ministers have quit let's go live now to london zeros jonah hole is there this journey has been described as the start of babs the most perilous week into reason may's premiership she's not of the danger yet though is she and neither is her deal with the e.u. . no she's not out of danger yet although i can tell you a bit of news coming out of westminster this morning is that the five cabinet ministers on the right of the conservative fire to probe breaks that cabinet ministers who'd been on the edge of resigning last week in the wake of those other resignations who decided to stay on ostensibly they said to try and renegotiate parts of the withdrawal agreement they were due to meet together at lunchtime today

and talk about their strategy their new plan for how to try and renegotiate or pressure the e.u. into making further concessions well that meeting didn't take place not only that there are now no further plans for them to meet we're told amid some suggestions that there are divisions between them about quite how to proceed on top of that this purport to the leadership challenge that might arise the forty eight conservative m.p. sent letters to the chairman of their backbench bench committee demanding a no confidence vote injuries or may have been so much speculation about that that that number was going to be reached here today that hasn't happened either no word yet but forty eight letters have been sent in so whether or not this revolt on the right of the conservative party against a reason may herself and her deal is fizzling out somewhat we don't know but certainly there are signs there that it is losing momentum even if she manages to survive as prime minister there's no guarantee of course that this bill is actually

going to make it through the houses of parliament. no far from it when she presented the deal last week to parliament there was a chorus of disapproval on both sides of the house and on both sides of the argument comments and statements and questions ranged from the skeptical to the outright hostile there doesn't appear to be anything like a majority in parliament to pass this withdrawal agreement one of the things she's going to try and do to resume aid to rectify that is go to brussels herself this week and take part in the negotiations over the declaration for a future relationship that goes along side the withdrawal agreement and try to smooth into that future relationship some of the issues that concern particular the right of a party but as i say the whole house to to do with the customs union arrangements the backstop the time limits to it and so on whether she can achieve that or not come back with something that looks more like the brakes it that people want we'll

have to wait and see that summit with the e.u. of course student take place on sunday where they will probably pass this deal and then it'll face the house of commons perhaps the week or two weeks after that china many things are serious jonah hill there live in london. south africa's former finance minister pravin gordhan has testified at 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 group to us the committee is part of president so poses pledge to clean up corruption and revive south africa's struggling economy al-jazeera us from the miller is outside the committee hearing in johannesburg. a couple of hundred people have gathered outside the building where the former finance minister pravin gordhan is testifying in the commission of inquiry into state capture and this is what the south africans of

calling this alleged corruption and fraud within government to their allegedly benefited elite members of government high profile individuals and also people outside government who perhaps had a special relationship with the former president jacob zuma and the well connected in political circles the people here are saying that probably in warden should go he's now a minister of public enterprise but they say that what happened during his watch shouldn't have and that's the civically meeting with the gupta family the family of a business people that was close to former president jacob zuma and they've been implicated in corruption and for to do with state owned enterprises to benefit their business interests previously provin gordon had said he had never met with this family but in leaks testimony before his appearance today he said that he had

in fact met with this family a couple of times and one of those times at the residence of the former president jacob zuma these people here are saying that this the issue of around state capture is so foregone that the rights is so far is so. but it has to be dealt with and the only way that can happen is that is if these high profile individuals if these ministers in cabinet. and remove the leader of this party julius malema says that it shouldn't have happened under provision gordon's watch but many would argue that this happened under the watch of the entire ruling party the african national congress people living in on mexico's border with the us a protesting against asylum seekers from central america thousands of people arrived there recently after making long journeys in the hope of crossing into the u.s. . castro reports from. that. 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 if they are caught stealing from mexicans this woman says she came after seeing the right man post i got it all right they bring their drugs they cry and they're dancing shaking their boatswain's date on congress 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 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. all that when our model when he says he's good not bad like the protesters think inside the protected gates families hunker down during the violence would reach them as me because they stayed close to her daughter on 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 month waiting and hoping to avoid violence. castro al-jazeera t. want to mexico police in haiti say that at least six people have been killed in protests in the capital port au prince they're angry over the disappearance of

billions of dollars linked to a public toilet systems program sponsored by venezuela an investigation revealed that at least fourteen former government officials were involved in the misuse of some three point eight billion dollars in northern california the search for human remains has been stepped up in the aftermath of devastating wildfires seventy seven people are confirmed dead but still around one thousand people remain missing as kristen salumi discovered the city of chico is struggling to accommodate an influx of evacuees. evacuees from the wildfires take solace in some music in the company of newfound friends but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems i threw up for three days and. my parents for three days i was sick during the 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.