some of us so stall we've escaped speak out as a surprise but. this job isn't just about what's on the script or a piece of paper it's about what is happening right now. we. think. now. al-jazeera. know this is the news hour live from my headquarters in doha for the bad people coming up in the next sixty minutes a new denial from saudi arabia insists the crown prince was not involved in the matter of jamal khashoggi despite the cia concluding he ordered the killing.

helping to revive yemen's peace process a u.n. envoy arrives in the capital today the groundwork for talks between warring sides also this hour the e.u. rejects its nice budget and rome says it won't change it triggering fears of another debt crisis will be naive in prospects and out of these sims with all your school suits for years on talk of to fix the twenty twenty two fee for world cup it's the first of a middle east post will take a look at the progress made for footballers showpiece event. an unfortunate accident that foreign minister is describing the premeditated killing of jamal khashoggi he gave a defiant interview to a u.s. based network once again backing the country's leadership and its him battled friends senior u.s. politicians have called for an investigation into mom had been someone's role in

the jail and this matter on tuesday donald trump in what's been called an outrageous statement refused to hold the saudi royal as accountable citing security and economic interests he says the crown prince's role may never be fully known walk trance response has ruled strong responses from both sides of the aisle the senate foreign relations committee has asked for an inquiry that specifically looks into the crown prince's role in the matter turkey meanwhile says it may push for an international inquiry it's one minister says they shouldn't be a cover up to maintain trade ties with riyadh. now the saudi foreign minister has reiterated that the crown prince was not involved in. we have made it very clear the. government is not involved in this case for hundreds of companies not important to us at all i think it's very strange that people hundred pinions without having access to the evidence of these opinions were rendered from day one hundred b. it was declared guilty without people seeing evidence without people knowing the

facts then we have the official spokesperson of the state department saying the reports of the cia report are accurate and we have the president of the united states saying the reports of the cia report are not accurate the leadership of surgery represented in the king and the problems is a red line for every saudi man or woman the country is totally supportive of them the kingdom of saudi arabia is committed to the vision that our leaders have put forth for us in terms of vision twenty thirty and in terms of moving along the path of reform let's go to kimberly hockett live for us in washington kimberly the saudi foreign minister again going on american television to deny the crown prince's involvement in jamal khashoggi is murder and we're hearing right now from the u.s. defense secretary about the investigation what is he saying. well despite reports in recent days from the cia this in a what appears to be

a coordinated leak that conclusively pointed to the crown prince is ordering the killing killing of. the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis at the pentagon an informal gaggle with reporters off camera in just the last hour or so is saying that in his view the cia and the saudi government have not quote fully as stablished who is responsible that certainly seems to differ with the conclusions that were released to the media in the last few days he goes on to say that the united states doesn't often get the freedom to work with what he called quote on blemished partners this certainly would be consistent with some of the statements that have been coming out with from the secretary of state pompei it was well in the last couple of hours again off camera audio only but the transcript released reporters where he seems to sort of double down on the statements made by the president donald trump on tuesday making the argument that the facts aren't fully known and that saudi arabia is an

important partner for the united states when it comes to u.s. national security saying that in fact saudi arabia makes a good partner it's important to have good partners in the middle east and saudi arabia is an important part of that particularly when the united states is pushing back or trying to push back on iran despite all this congress kimberly has been very critical of the statements made by the president and they want to take action or what action precisely yet. yeah there not this is not sitting well with members of congress we've got a couple of things that are happening the global magnitsky act triggered once again this time specifically requesting that the trumpet ministration look at the role of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin selman with respect to the killing of. this triggers again once a one hundred twenty days for the white house to get back to congress with some sort of report potentially compelling it to issue sanctions under that act we saw

this happen back in october tenth with the letter that was issued to the white house and then the result was seventeen saudi individuals sanctioned by the treasury department but notably none of them were members of the royal family we also have two pieces of legislation that are moving through the senate could be taken up as early as next week that would attempt to limit arms sales to saudi arabia for offensive purposes and also permanently halt u.s. military support for the saudi led coalition in yemen we also know the house level in january that the very prominent democrat adam schiff is promising to do what he calls a quote deep dive into the role the crown prince has taken in the killing of the so this is a check and balance that is taking place under the u.s. constitution as the executive or white house sort of pulls back says that there are no conclusive facts the u.s. congress says no in fact there are conclusive facts from the central intelligence agency we're going to press for you to take further action thank you kimberly how

could lie for us in washington d.c. meanwhile the deputy chairman of turkey's ruling party has called donald trump statements comical and has accused the u.s. of turning a blind eye to murder tony burke he has more on this from a stumble. president donald trump's statement of support for saudi arabia was perhaps no great shock in turkey but there was derision. yesterday statement is just comical the cia would know not only who killed them but what color the consulate cats were. the turkish government has said nothing officially but privately is angered by the us president ignoring a horrific murder because of economic reasons and there are worries this could lead to other governments abandoning human rights if you have a situation in the united states where you have a leader which is hostile to principle if you have a situation where you have an european union where many leaders who once. defending human rights principles are now indifferent or silent or abuses taking place for

example here in turkey or elsewhere i think this is a very. damaging time for human rights principles amnesty has issued a report about how women activists have been tortured and abused in detention in saudi arabia but without the leverage of a powerful country like the us little is likely to change and without u.s. support it will be difficult for turkey to get answers from saudi arabia about who really ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi turkey's position actually stool read to get an answer or less a conclusive answer from this saudi arabia say because most from really. united states the european union. that there will not push this problem and a further to turkey this is not just a political economic issue it's also a criminal one

a murder has been committed and they want to investigate it and solve it but they say that investigation is being hampered by a lack of saudi cooperation. the turks are demanding details about the day mr kosofsky was murdered they were asked the saudis who if not the crown prince gave the order they want the men accused tried in a turkish court and they want to know where mr remains are but tookie can't force this alone it has to be an in international investigation under the powers of the un secretary-general so it has to be an investigation where there is an experienced investigative team with the power to go anywhere they need to go to interview witnesses to interview suspects. only in nice circumstances i think genuine justice be possible. this murder has gone from the realms of a tragic hollywood movie script to a political chess game it may be that with the help of donald trump saudi arabia

has the advantage tony berkeley al-jazeera istanbul. the u.n. envoy for yemen is in the capital sanaa to meet who is the leaders in the latest push for talks between warring sides on griffith's wants to stop conflicts in the port city of data which is a crucial supply route into the country an estimated eighty five thousand children under the age of five may have died from extreme hunger or disease since the civil war broke out in yemen in twenty fifteen that's according to the charity save the children more on that in just a moment but first this report from ahmed abdullah who is monitoring the conflicts in yemen from neighboring djibouti. kushal to solve human swore on not just those hit by the bombs and bullets their comic impact has been catastrophic for the general population food supplies have been disrupted prices have gone up and millions of people are now living with the effects of malnutrition. is weak and severely malnourished she is ten months old but weighs just three kilograms the

wheat over a newly born baby. been sick since she was born hunger and disease have left tiny and frail she even struggles to cry. mariam is a very sick not only she on good nourished but she also suffers from diarrhoea she's very sick yemen has always been desperately poor but the war has made things was while food prices inevitably rice incomes have plummeted many families can barely afford to eat. i have sixteen children two of them suffer severe malnutrition and hung on the living conditions as you know and i'm without any source of income hospitals in hijab province overflowing with sick and starving babies and more keep arriving every day so i thought there had been one hammer let them but your problem of severe malnutrition is getting worse the consequences of

four years of war are clearly visible here from severe malnutrition to deformed needy born babies breastfeeding mothers also suffer from undernourishment. the frequent strikes also make it difficult for the people to leave their homes the destruction to roads and bridges has limited the delivery of food and fuel to a population already suffering. according to the united nations two point eight million people have been driven from their homes by the bombing its humanitarian chief has warned of a clear and present danger of farming many of the displaced the living in green comes in the middle of the country surviving on meager live hundreds whose deliveries of few and far between. seeing children dying for local food in the middle of the war in yemen is the place shocking the hundreds of thousands of children perhaps even millions who have no access to proper medical care and as the conflict rages on aid workers say they're finding it more and more difficult to

deliver aid to those who need it most they now hope the famine just like the war that caused it won't be forgotten to behave without the world as it or the beauty as we said the charity save the children is warning of an urgent need to reach hundreds of thousands of severely malnourished many children before it's too late to save the children says around eighty five thousand children under five may have died from extreme hunger since the saudi u.a.e. coalition began its air campaign it's warning that at least fourteen million people are now at risk of famine and this figure has increased dramatically since the coalition imposed a blockade just over a year ago according to the u.n. an estimated four hundred thousand children risk of severe acute malnutrition let's speak to mark a now who is a senior conflict adviser for save the children his live from london thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera these are quite some grim figures and we're talking about deaths in just the last three years here since the confit escalated

can you tell us first how you were able to compile this data. so these figures are absolutely harrowing they're actually almost carve impossible to comprehend something is very important to say that these these aren't just statistics there are eighty five thousand will children who are behind these numbers and that's eighty five thousand future is the been extinguished that's eighty five thousand parents who want to bury their children who are on the age of five. and is happy devastating to see the true impact this conflict is having on the yemeni people we were able to get these figures essentially by looking at the forecast for severe to mounir tradition per each year and then looking at how much humanitarian agencies like save the children like the u.n. have managed to reach in that time and then looking at that gap showing the mortality rate to come to this figure of eighty five thousand israel standpoint

tonight the this is a conservative figure the chances are actually it's probably much high all. around europe since children under the age of five so the will to hold a real impact of this crisis of this conflict and what it's playing on not just children but families across yemen is far greater than we probably ever will not we we've been talking a lot about severe acute malnutrition right now among these children we see some very devastating heartbreaking pictures of man nourished children always though at the famine stage yet. so famine is is centuries is scientific. there is a certain level of cartier that have to map before we can declare famine on food chain with yemen because the health select system is collapsed because lots of agencies just don't have access to all the areas in need it's almost impossible for us to bear to collect the data to really understand what's going on and therefore

it's very unlikely that funding for the country will be declared there is a chance that what we've been hearing is there many people on the brink of famine that there might be localized pockets of famine declared in the future i think what's really important now is not to get cooked up on the terminology in most famines we saw this in somalia in two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve far more people far more children died in the stage before famine and they did when famine was declared because by that time if you've got to famine it's already too late these figures they stay to shows you know four hundred thousand children who are suffering from severe acute malnutrition what that means is when a child is suffering from severe acute malnutrition they are ten times more likely to die than they would from if they were a healthy child and this is in a in a place where as you've seen him out on on the the footage that is before of come on you've got children who are in areas who've been displaced who don't have access

to clean water when disease is spreading and if you're hungry if you will weaken your vulnerable then it's a vicious cycle right once you start it's very hard to come back from that right you talked about access and i was wondering how the fighting the renewed fighting around the port city of new data is affecting your prey sions on the ground right now. so the fighting really has to stop and say the tour made this really clear from the get go that that head dater is a lifeline for yemen you know seventy percent of the country's imports perceptively came in for me through a day to pre-crisis this economy is almost reliant on imports food for fuel for medicine if their school ation a fine continues if the poor is damage that could really be the you know the straw that breaks the camel's back that would be what maybe tens this crisis into a point of no return i think was really devastating though about this is this isn't a result of droughts this is an result of crops failing of climate change these

children have died as a direct result of the parties to the conflicts conduct in this war this crisis is completely manmade is not a natural disaster and that is just absolutely outrageous thank you so much for speaking to us mark a from save the children joining us there from london thank you for your time. plenty more ahead on this news hour including. of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned today's verdict how a detained academic has affected relations between britain and the united arab emirates plus security is tight at the u.s. border as hundreds more migrants arrive in taiwan i will be live from there and michael jordan returned to his hometown with help for victims of hurricane florence peter will be here with the sports eight.

personally his government won't be changing its spending proposal despite the european commission rejecting its budget for twenty nineteen is concerned borrow and spend plans could trigger another debt crisis that would have a domino effect italian deputy prime minister has called any possible sanctions against italy disrespectful towards its citizens lawrence lee is live from brussels now also laurence how concerned are they in brussels about all of this. very thing this this confrontation really has been in the cards ever since the populist coalition government came about as well in the summer and you know if the european union thinks it's got problems with brics it with the u.k. leaving the european union the law ghibli this probably italy is actually more serious of course if it doesn't want to leave the european union but it's one of the biggest economies in the euro zone and it's in big trouble the rose you say centers on whether or not italy should have the right to break european budgetary

restrictions or try to spend its way out of its economic malaise but it's a standoff really that has potentially very profound economic and political consequences for the european union. rome may be the eternal city but it's looking like someone needs to give it some attention the social as well as physical fabric of italy has been unraveling for years with high unemployment and the persistently stagnant economy. rather than pointing to the endemic corruption in italy has always suffered the populist coalition government to squarely blames austerity imposed by the european union on its problems but there vowed to break hardline spending rules from brussels has laid inevitably to an all out confrontation with the european commission which has said it will impose sanctions and fines on italy if it doesn't change its budgets strace the situation in italy is of common concern euro area countries are in the same team and should be playing by the same rules

the response to all that from opponents of austerity would be look what happened to greece which eventually agreed to european demands and suffered years of economic hardship from which is still barely recovering the most important politician in italy the hard right interior minister matteo salvini said he was ready for a fight. the letter from brussels has arrived i was expecting one from santa claus as well we will respond politely as we always did but i will not back down the obvious political risk for the european commission in trying to beat italy into submission is it is a political tool for people like salvini who will say it only proves how undemocratic european institutions are asserting solving rights will be a key thing for populists not just in italy but across the continent before european elections next may if the european commission doesn't get its way by then

the european parliament could look very different if he looks determined to change the direction of europe's economic strategy the consequences could be destabilizing . so political risk for the european commission but a very great economic and political risk for the italian government because if greece is anything to go by as a model you can absolutely bet that if the italian government continues to push back in this work against the european commission then the next thing that will happen is that the financial institutions which fund debts will increase the bond yield the amounts of money it cost italy to repay its debts and so it would get bigger and bigger and the pressure then on the italian governments would grow and grow but you know and sank you for that nor insley live in brussels a british academic has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of spying in the us matthew hedges has been in detention for six months he was arrested in may add dubai airport as he tried to leave after

a two week research visit prime minister theresa may says her government has been speaking with the iraqis about this case and will continue to do so. of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned today's verdict and i realize how difficult and distressing this is both for matthew had us but also for his family we are raising it with your storage is the highest level my rational friend the foreign secretary is urgently seeking a call with the foreign minister abdullah bin site during his visit to the u.a.e. on november the twelfth he raised the issue with both crown prince mohammed bin. the foreign minister and i can assure my honorable friend and other members that the foreign office will remain in close contact with matthew his family and his lawyer. told brennan has more from london. the severity of the sentence handed down by the court in the united arab emirates has shocked not just the family of matthew hedges but also the british government i mean matthew's wife daniella who is in

court said she's in complete shock she doesn't know what to do she says the british government must take a stand now from matthew is one of the citizens she said it's with the world one of the worst six months of her life let alone for matt who she said was shaking when he heard the verdict and the news of the life sentence has also been mentioned at high levels here in the u.k. government the prime minister to resign may broke off talking about bret's it during a session in parliament at lunch time and said that basically the foreign secretary john jeremy hunt will be taking up this matter again at the very highest levels of the united arab emirates government with tom was just there ten days ago and hopes were high that is it with direct access to the crown prince going to actually open the doors and perhaps get matthew had his released it hasn't proved that way a quick recap matthew edges was arrested in may of this year he had been in the united arab emirates for his ph d.

thesis involving the u.s.a.'s internal and foreign security policies in the wake of the arab spring of twenty eleven a sensitive subject no doubt but as part of his defense his court appointed lawyers offered the notes from his studies to the court to say look there's nothing confidential or secret in here have a read of them and they will show that he has not contravene any spying laws and so even more of a shock when the decision came down today a life sentence now he has thirty days to appeal but the future looks much more uncertain than it did just a few hours ago he is a researcher in the middle east and north africa division at human rights watch he says hedges did not get a fair trial. his trial was marred with such due process violations that there's no way it could have been. seen as a fair trial and we know that this is going to be a huge blow to the u.a.e. reputation we know that it invests considerable time and money into presenting

itself as progressive as told him and to have detained this academic for so long without charge we don't know what the what the evidence is besides the confession that he that they have that they have a team from him which we are also in doubt of how it was of how it was obtained this all leads us to think that you know it is a very dangerous place near many you know the u.a.e. is dangerous for journalists for for activists for any critics of any sort and so now we also know it is absolutely dangerous for academics who want to conduct research in the country as well still ahead on this news hour interpol gets a new president but not everyone is happy with the choice thus south sudan put its economic hopes in oil and supplies top flowing once again and in sports multiple roles are processed in a single freestyle still run for the first time that will have all the action.

hello once again we go yet more stormy weather coming into the middle east with a lot of cloud rolling out of that east the side of the mediterranean making its way into syria lebanon jordan all the way down into us rather we will see some rather lively downpours as we go on through the next few days thursday not so bad i've got some wet weather just coming out of that eastern side of syria notice some pockets of snow to up towards the caucasus and then as we make a weather further race was generally dry in afghanistan for now eleven degrees cell just for couple move on into fraud. there comes that cloud and right it will push across into the eastern side of iraq into western areas of around more heavy downpours then folk you wait could see further flooding here and yet more showers in the full cost just around the levant so lebanon to see whether beirut around

twenty degrees celsius that right of course is on its way into northern parts of the arabian peninsula not supplied for thursday increasing clout those are always a chance of right and a chance a greater chance of rain then as we go on into friday here in casa i think we may well see a few spots of bright as we go on into the latter part of the week and heavy downpours next week so your possibility if you chose to just around the eastern side of south africa and those showers just not in the way a little further north the thursday. because we're not. sure that. rights not being vineet. and freedom stripped away. the seven year anniversary of. the rights that stand up. stand up for human rights.

stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives a caravan is in fact helpful and highly dangerous one of the major issues before voters is the institution president trump cannot stop talking about the news to separate them from the facts of the misinformation from the juggler some pretty sharp rise of b.b.c.'s reporting fate to leave the listening post on al-jazeera.

you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me fully back to blow our reminder our top stories the u.s. defense secretary says he does not think either the cia or the saudi government has fully established who is responsible for killing jamal khashoggi saudi arabia's foreign minister has again said the crown prince was not involved in the journalist's matter the u.n. envoy for yemen is in the capital sanaa to meet with the leaders in the latest push for talks to end of the civil war the charity save the children says around eighty five thousand kids under five may have died from extreme congress since the saudi you equalisation began its a campaign in yemen. and a british academic has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of spying in the u.a.e. . has been in detention for six months he was arrested at dubai airport in may as he finished a two week visit britain's foreign secretary says his sentencing will hurt the u.k.'s relationship with the u.a.e. . more now on our top story and the continuing fallout from the murder of saudi

journalist and president dr reaction nicholas burns a former u.s. undersecretary of state for political affairs and former nato ambassadors to nato ambassador rather i spoke with him earlier and began by asking how president tribes choice to embrace the saudis is being seen inside the u.s. government. well president from statement on jamal khashoggi was repudiated by both liberals and conservatives by doe both democrats and republicans the fact is of course the united states has interests in saudi arabia in containing iran in saudi arabia in energy policy energy power but we also have an interest in democracy in the rule of law and there is little doubt that the saudi regime ordered the murder of jamal khashoggi he was a permanent resident in our country he was someone living in our country under our protection so we owe him and his family. a measure of justice here and to stand by

his memory and to make sure that the saudi authorities are punished and sanction for what they've done i think congress will now take matters into its own hands i would expect a resolution in congress to try to curtail or cut off entirely american aid to the saudi regime for the war in yemen but there has to be a price for what has happened to an innocent man president trump statement that he made yesterday was a major mistake because he put all of his emphasis on our economic and military relationship with saudi arabia but said nothing about the values that we have the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker of tennessee with a democratic ranking member on that same committee so a republican democrat they propose that that that the united states consider again the possibility of sanctions against saudi arabia for what's happened it's not enough to sanction the seventeen saudi individuals who were in the saudi consulate

in istanbul who participated in the murder of jamal khashoggi it's also important to go right to the top of the saudi government no one wants to end our relationship with saudi arabia that would be foolish if you were still a top state department official today make an inspection what recommendation would you make to the president as as far. action on this case number one the united states should clearly and unambiguous lee repudiate the actions of the saudi government in murdering jamal khashoggi number two there should be sanctions against the saudi leadership number three there should be a private warning by the united states directly to the top tier of a saudi leadership that they must never ever ever try something like this again especially towards someone living in the united states as a permanent resident of our country and as a journalist because we honor the rights of the media and the freedom of press that's an important american principle the world's biggest police force in to paul has elected a new president after what has been a bit

a contest between russia and western countries on who would lead the organization south korea's kim jong young is taking charge on to being strong mean doris by u.s. secretary of state my compel him a place is manga away who is under arrest in china of a corruption allegations russia says it was outside pressure that influenced the outcome of the vote moscow was hoping interpol's vice president at a russian security veteran alexander polk a joke would take the post but his candidacy was strongly opposed by europe and the us john coin is the head of the australian strategic policing and law enforcement program he says there are some real concerns within to fall by the new president should be good for the organization for president kim is a consolation but under the situation under the circumstances that we have facing he's of course a conservative is a conservative approach to learn foursome which means that he's unlikely to be continuing on some of the push that president may have been doing to reform egypt.

and change its role in i guess a more strategically focused capability. hundreds of central american asylum seekers have arrived in joining many others in the mexican city a u.s. judge as president donald trump's order to bar people from seeking asylum if they enter the country illegally former agents of repairing for the so-called caravan off people john home and reports from tijuana. u.s. homeland security secretary because jamil simp was in san diego to check out the latest addition to the border let me first acknowledge what was referenced and what i'm standing in front of this is a border wall with row upon row of concertina wire make no make no mistake we are very serious you will not get into our country illegally it's a heavily armed guards and the troop deployment that the pentagon says will cost seventy two million dollars by mid december it's all to stop these people

a caravan of central americans almost three thousand have made it to t one a with more to come some of fleeing violence many of them poverty but a further attempt to stop them has failed from now a proclamation from president trump to stop those who cross illegally rather than the points of entry from asking for a sign of a federal judge blocked his attempt temporarily this is important because what many people try and do is get over the fence and then as soon as they touch u.s. soil hand themselves into authorities and off for asylum stopping that may be one less legal avenue for them but now temporarily it's been opened up again many in the caravan already trying to ask for asylum through the point of entry anyway but those that we spoke to in the caravans makeshift camps were simply unaware of the legal fight around the hazy on the obstacles ahead. but only god knows what's going

to happen if we see we can cross will cross if got permits we'll get work here you know because i wasn't buying a lot but if we cross over in peace i think things will be ok but if we go causing problems they're going to hit us and deport us. then you also don't know that trying to escape from crippling poverty back in their homeland doesn't mean they're eligible for asylum in the us they've made it this far just by keeping on going this may be the point when that's not enough to go for a. and let's go live now to john heilemann for as john since you filed that reports more people have been arriving rain. here that's exactly right and you can see this is sort of the area for new arrivals the camp here is really it's a sports center a sports complex most people are camping now in the focal pitch we're talking to the family that you can see now they like many other people sleeping rough here the temperature gets quite low until one hour in the night juice they said that they

woke up wet they're just trying to get wound up a bit now this sort of makeshift camp here is now almost full we were talking to organizers today and they said they've only got a little bit more room here and then the question is what are they going to do with all of the people that start to arrive here into quanah there's more than eight thousand people from central america traveling through mexico many of them are going to want to get here and this space is not going to be enough to hold them very soon there are still people arriving daily you can see maybe just behind me the actual border will serve on the other side of here is the united states as you see sort of my report there the u.s. authorities are really doubling down politically they don't want these people to get in illegally and processing their asylum request is happening about seventy to one hundred people we're hearing per day so when you compare that to the thousands entering here this is becoming

a real bottleneck to what happens next then to these people who are stuck at the border. that's the answer we've been trying to get from the authorities here into one a really from the start they've been saying the municipal authorities they can't deal with this they need the federal government to step in and try and take care with all these people there's a lot of bugs going around there's a lot of illness and these people have been more than a month now on the road walking taking buses sleeping out in the open so the municipal authorities are saying we can't deal with this we need the federal government stepped in the federal government is changing over at the moment it could be a new president by the first of december so there is a little bit of a void there in terms of who's going to take care of this problem so this is going to be an ongoing situation but what seems pretty clear is that these people are going to be stuck here for a matter of days as they were in other towns in mexico they're going to be here for

months well it's decided to stay given asylum well they try and work out what they're going to do if they're going to try and stay in mexico and search for work here so this isn't a problem that's going away and i think that's made the local population into one of the resistant than in other places to these people less sympathetic to what they're going through as they see that will people are going to be arriving in the town so this isn't really a situation that looks like it's going to be improving anytime soon ok thank you very much for that john heilemann reporting live from to juana in mexico a young venezuelans have been protesting against their country's economic policies and spiraling inflation the demonstrations are happening on the sixty first anniversary of an uprising by a group of students that helped topple the dictatorship of microbes that is him in his riot police fired tear gas at students from the central university in us. the prisoners in the syrian city of hama on hunger strike eleven political

detainees have been told they'll be executed for taking part in peaceful demonstrations in two thousand and eleven human rights groups say the number who've been killed in prison could run into the thousands of reports. from inside hama central prison an appeal for help detainees and now to an open ended hunger strike more than a week ago to protest against the verdicts by a syrian court eleven inmates the latest to be handed death sentences for taking part in peaceful protests in two thousand and eleven the beginning of the uprising that led to the war now in its eighth year. we speak your conscience we appeal to your humanity our pain and illegally ate our suffering we have been imprisoned for years we are exhausted we have the right to live human rights groups say the verdicts are unjust the international committee of the red cross has been denied access to the prisons where detainees don't have lawyers serious counter

terrorism law has also been criticized for criminalizing almost all peaceful opposition activity many political protesters and political dissidents who are basically picked up by the syrian security services or detained checkpoints and taken into these detention facilities without any form of due process. those held inside how my prison retained control of much of the facility after a mutiny in two thousand and sixteen they have phones and internet access but despite managing to draw attention to their plight the international community remains silent. tens of thousands have disappeared others are being tried in military field courts or counterterrorism proceedings own up to international standards little action has been taken there's also the silence of the un refuses to. discuss the foyle. the family see the case of at least eighty thousand

detainees and the forcibly disappeared needs to be dealt with in any post conflict settlement a few months ago and after years of silence hundreds of families learned their missing relatives have been registered dead they fear the government may be trying to cover up crimes against humanity human rights groups estimate that between five thousand and thirteen thousand people have been executed in prison and a further eight hundred thousand have died in other prisons after being tortured and because of poor conditions since two thousand and eleven but said no year has been singled out by amnesty international as nothing more than a human slaughterhouse it's not the first time detainees in hama prison are resisting transfer to sydney or they are reaching out to the world for help through their hunger strike asking others to be their voices so i know what their beirut poland's governing party has borrowed rather to e.u.

ruling and move to reinstate supreme court judges it had forced into early retirement in october the european court of justice ordered poland to immediately suspend its decision to lower the retirement age of supreme court judges from seventy to sixty five the disputed law forced around two dozen judges off the bench including the supreme court chief justice. the democratic republic of congo's main opposition candidate has returned ahead of next month's long delayed presidential election watching for you know was greeted by cheering crowds on his way from concetta airport he's a unity choice of several opposition parties twenty one candidates are hoping to succeed president joseph kabila has managed to stay on beyond the constitutional limit of two terms of fishel campaigning begins on thursday ahead of next month's vote. now south sudan is hosting an oil conference to attract investors it has africa's third largest oil reserves but much of the industry was destroyed during the civil war south sudan now hopes to return to full production capacity in an

attempt to strengthen its dwindling economy here morgan great force from the oil fields in a real way. back up and running oil is flowing again in these facilities in south sudan every barrel produced is vital to africa's youngest nation all provide nearly all of its g.d.p. but the main operating company says not a wells are working in the south where the field here has the capacity to produce forty five thousand barrels per day and it's only producing twenty thousand and the station wasn't working for five years so some wells have issues such as electricity and their production here is a tough capacity only production halted four years ago when rebels attacked the facilities thousand and has the third largest oil reserves in sub-saharan africa but the war would started in twenty say teen two years after two thousand and split from sudan with seventy five percent of the oil reserves resulted in major facilities being destroyed. production fell by nearly a third but now

a deal signed in july promoted hopes of a return to full production four months on the country is still a long way short of its previous production level at the moment south sudan produces roughly one hundred fifty thousand barrels per day forty percent goes to operational costs and the government is left with ninety thousand barrels out of that twenty percent goes to oil partners such as china sea n.p.c. and militias petronas and the government keeps the rest but even then the country still has to share some of the profits with the government of sudan that's because south sudan lacks the infrastructure to process and transport its oriel it has the used to dance infrastructure and still has to pay nearly a billion dollars to sudan as part of a financial agreement it signed following independence and the country's oil sells for five dollars less than the price on the international market every dollar earned is vital to reduce the high inflation a well the one we are suffering things have become very expensive hopefully the price will go down in the modern yeah this

is the market where i saw my goods and they are expensive prices have been going up but they have started going down since the resumption south sudan's government says it's a work to bring production back to previous levels by the end of the year for us it is very right because they want to be the country ninety percent of patients. and the price of oil you must continue to remain good is the same time. so we need to make sure that we benefit from. both. many wells are yet to resume production in a country that relies so heavily on oil the government is hoping its can keep the oil flowing to kickstart its struggling economy people morgan under their growing south sudan. french comic ever know has appointed an interim c.e.o. after the arrest of congress go and gone as attention has been accepted by ten days after he was arrested in japan on obligation is a financial misconduct he's accused of underreporting is income from nissan and

what the company calls other significant misconduct as well as renault his chairman of both nissan and mitsubishi models so head on. to the world cup we'll look at why the head of well football wants to expand the competition to forty eight teams that's coming up next in sports with pete.

time to catch up on forces peter very thank you very much for countdown to the cutter twenty twenty two world cup is officially on in exactly four years time

football's biggest tournament will kick off at the new sales stadium just outside of doha qatar will be the first country in the middle east to host a world cup to be moved from a traditional june july window to november and december so avoid extreme heat in the region our sports correspondent andy richardson was at an event in doha to mark the four year countdown earlier and has more on how preparations are going. well in four years' time some of the world's best footballers will be kicking off the game with slightly more significance than this little kick about it was interesting talking to the fans at the world cup in russia just how many were still unaware the world cup was moving from its traditional june july window and into this november december slots when cats are bid for the world cup and won it in c thousand and ten they were bidding for a summer world cup and the eight stadiums that we use for that solomon will have air cooling technology whether or not that will be necessary this time of year is a different matter but what is definitely the case is that for the hundreds of

thousands of fans will be coming to cats are the experience will be that bit more pleasurable for coming during these cooler months and of course it will cause considerable disruption for many domestic leagues already this world cup will be the shortest since nineteen seventy eight twenty eight days as opposed to the thirty two days we saw in russia to try and minimize the disruption to some of the domestic leagues but it's inevitable that leagues will have to start sooner and finish a little bit late so what the organizers are hoping is that one of the compensations will be that often when international coaches get their players for a tournament it's at the end of a long season and the players are exhausted that will not be the case for starting in november now one of the ongoing uncertainties about preparations at this point is just how many countries will be taking part officialese getting ready for a thirty two team world cup just like the one we saw in russia fee for president giani infancy no still pushing the idea that maybe forty eight countries could be

involved it's very much his idea he's up for reelection as president next year and you know is that by inviting more countries to a world cup it is a popular vote winner now officially being diplomatic in france at the big polo it's about the idea there is a feasibility study underway we will get closure on the issue next march when faith makes a final decision on just how many teams will be out this world cup in twenty twenty . in other football news the republic of ireland have parted ways with manager martin o'neill and he's assistant roy keane o'neill and former manchester united midfielder keen charge of ireland in twenty thirteen guiding them to the last sixteen of the euro's two years ago but ireland haven't won a competitive match under the pair in twenty eighteen and haven't scored a goal in their last four outings seven time grand slam tennis champion venus williams has settled her lawsuit over a fatal car crash she was involved in last year

a seventy eight year old man who was the passenger in the car that collided with williams died thirteen days after the accident which took place near williams's home in florida no charges were brought against her all the other driver the terms of the settlement reached have not been disclosed the washington wizards will be hoping they've turned around a poor start to the n.b.a. season after a big comeback win over the los angeles clippers it looked like their bad fortune would continue and sell a storm into a twenty four point lead in the u.s. capitol but they crept back into bradley beal with a lay up here and the clippers left wondering what went wrong as the home team still that one hundred twenty five one hundred eighteen just six when on the season . no such luck for the new york knicks they fell to their sixth straight loss visiting portland trailblazers just didn't let up the snake school followed immediately by a buzzer beating three pointer from nick stiles casts at the end of the first

quarter and looking up today name at the top of the western conference they won this one one hundred forty four one hundred eighteen at madison square garden damian lillard here with twenty nine points. six time n.b.a. champion michael jordan has returned to ease hometown to meet victims of hurricane florence in september jordan donated two million dollars to the american red cross and the hurricane response fund the former chicago bulls star handed out thanksgiving dinners and donated basketball shoes at a boys and girls club where he once played in wilmington north carolina and this is my home you know and sometimes you just want to trust the people who are giving money all day long for so long term you win on the street so you get them understand that you are human and i know what i can do you manage a situation see where you know i can partner with certain people achieve work and still things that we could improve the conditions or i mean obviously it takes a lot more of me you know but i think i just want to be here being united to the

process but because you know it's going to take the storm took a long time for this thing gets back to normal. for every action contributor now with. tiger woods and phil mickelson are preparing for their head to head golf match in las vegas on friday the to form a world number ones have been rivals for more than twenty years and will play a first of its kind match with the winner taking home nine million dollars in prize money skeptics have criticized the golfers for putting the match on pay per view television and also a full failing to use they own money which may kill some responded by raising the stakes that they need conference the challenges are coming directly out of our pockets ok and i feel like the first hole is a great hole for me. and i i believe in fact i'm willing to risk a hundred thousand as i birdied the first hole oh so so that's how good i feel heading into this match. you don't have to take it you know i have no good at all but i'm the first out on paula. so you think you can make bargain the first hole i

know i'm going to make birdie on first or double oh. did you see how i baited him like that. yes. australia have beaten india by four runs in their first t twenty international reign interrupted the home side in the seventeenth over of the innings eventually the match was reduced to seventeen overs each the australians posted one hundred fifty eight for four but due to the sport's complicated reign rules the indians were actually asked to score one hundred seventy four to win and so despite actually out scoring the home team india lost. when we got good memories in the time we dominated the twenty twenty last year were really good form we were pretty sure number one number two rank in the world not want to go so we're really confident obesity things are going to lie but. yet we know it's the goods on. it was

a good game of cricket today and it was a very close match and i feel that with the team plays it really well and yeah we got a. lot of confidence out of this game and going to take it forward for the next few freestyle skiing is certainly something not for the fainthearted but even the most experienced skiers might be intimidated by this these pictures you are watching off from italy to professional freestyle skiers on a quite extraordinary run jumping over roads of the highest mountain pass in that country benedict meyer and marcus started at an altitude of more than two thousand seven hundred meters they made their way down the stelvio pass using the slopes but also rails slides and snow capped vehicles to jump over roads the organizers say it is the first time multiple roads have been crossed in a single freestyle slope run and

that's all the sport for now more coming up again later following impressive thank you very much for that peter that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera from the funny back to bring the whole team thank you for watching we're live from our london sentinel the with us. across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we don't have immigrants at all zero immigration but this is the one political talk to anybody and everybody is this message the far right is

preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudiced some tried in hungary on al-jazeera. it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tiger's nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness what it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it many brits unease happiness is what we ensure it's if that is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy time has done what no other country has. well if we cannot have palestina my government was suddenly not allowed britain to control french palestine would be an outrage but then we need to find another

solution before we come to blows over a century ago britain and france made the secret deal that changed the shape of the middle east and so. now we can draw on the. psychs pekoe lines in the sand on on just the. saudi arabia's foreign minister calls. an unfortunate accident. rates his support for. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up . save the children estimates that extreme hunger or disease have

killed almost eighty five thousand under fives in yemen since the war began in two thousand and fifty. one more border to cross central america.