lived in new crown prince would be appointed or selected however it didn't work then turkey moved toward washington and old information or most of the information with. the head of the cia so this is i think what the turks have done toward pushing the saudis and the americans towards a common effort to put pressure on hands on the third movies today when they invited the e.u. senior official movie arena to own car so i think now that they are working on the european platform more than the americans or the saudi ones. we're talking just hours after the point man if you like in terms of the saudi defense of this. episode the foreign minister and the bear has given a couple of interviews in which he's maintaining the line of this having been a rogue operation operative exceeded their all sarti and and he's actually using

the phrase that there are a red line is in place that does not allow for any member of the royal family to be denigrated to be criticized in any way whilst this might be the case in terms of the kink examined being the custody of the two holy mosques does that really extend to the heir apparent the crown prince as well i think there are distant ways of managing the current crisis the crisis and mr rubio who happens to be a season where informal politician he has spent most of his time between real and western capitals suddenly he is in this tight box where he has to defend his wife's and his what happens to be one hundred percent been more than king solomon it is there has been a momentum that has led to mr. to be appointed foreign minister therefore i think he has moxie. why is the legal argument that we're having

a process going to indict those who committed the murder and then we will announce the verdict at the same time he is reading too much or he is investing too much in the notion of saudi solver and therefore nobody should tell us how we are all going to reorganize or reconstruct our line of hierarchy so basically he is pushing for the maximum ovoid thems of no m b s issue are all but he seems to either ignore or he's maybe not fully aware that either in europe in the united states and elsewhere the public opinion is focusing mainly on the political dimension of the connection between m.b.'s and how should is that therefore it's half of the equation and because of the imperatives that are coming from above mr hubbard has to give the best version he can unfortunately even if

he doesn't know that a third or fourth or fifth in the interview with western media outlets i don't think he will change or minimize what the americans what the europeans what the arabs what the asians what the africans would like to know because it has become a moment where we need to maintain at least the minimum moral and ethical approach toward start the saudi politics as well as the saudi connection with these governments and institutions now mention thank you very much my prayer. and we've got a lot more to come on this hour does in our news hour including protests bringing the island of reunion on to a standstill why it's more than just about rising fuel prices. the race is on to replace angela merkel as leader of germany's ruling party with public debates across the country and what's in

a name people in taiwan prepare to vote on what to call their really picked team that's coming up with core install. probably going to the war in yemen down the saudi u.a.e. coalition has been battling to take control of the port city of data but who the rebels of kept up a strong defense fortifying the city's outskirts now these are satellite images that show large trenches along the edges of the city dug by the who see as you can see it with these red lines now the yellow straps represent deeper trenches that stretch for more than forty kilometers and these pictures appear to show the before the before and the after when the port was full and then after shipping containers were moved to form part of the rebels defenses but the u.s. defense secretary james mattis says the saudi u.a.e. coalition has pulls its offensive around who data the u.n. special envoy g.m.

is expected to go there sometime on thursday or friday earlier this week martin griffiths met the rebel leaders in the capital sanaa. alright let's not talk to our correspondent mohammed a day he is in nearby djibouti monitoring events in yemen which is just across the red sea and mohammed what's your understanding then of what the situation is on the ground in who data right now as we understand griffiths prepares to go there. well martin the residents of. these no meaningful cease fire to talk about their still sporadic collages between perches with each side blaming of all for firing the fos short when they announced that they were going to stop more drawn ballistic

missile attacks against the who the fighters walk up to call that they still reserve the right to defend their positions with which they have been forced to fighting in the past days they have also been talking about. the other side cutting out attacks on their defenses and positions in the different frontlines in the city the residents of the city say some fighting has been going on outskirts of the city to marty's the u.s. defense secretary saying that there's been a ceasefire amount by the other side and has called on all parties to seize. hostilities and with tom to talks but not at the moment it's not looking very likely to see what the visit by martin griffith will change and mohammed say should we see these sporadic out of should we see these in the context of a move towards a kind of truce given the cease fires are never instantaneous are they.

a lot of tall and women with a wall holding the last round of talks there was actually nor ceasefire which is something martin griffith the u.n. special envoy is very keen on or painting now before he can take the two sides to talks in sweden in december. confirmed by the united nations is visiting together with the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for a yemen grandia and they will be looking not only at the humanitarian situation but also try to get some commitment from the who with us and the generals leading both sides when the visit the day that either they or friday they also talk about asking the wealthiest to hum over the crucial ports of the day that to a third about is not looking feasible of the moment because they therefore the

whole feast is almost the same must live in control of the strategic port city of so the potentials of food for. talks that are going to be hauled in sweden sometime in december but still the clashes going on so all they're going side by side. live in g.p.c. thanking. the china's state media is reporting a car was rammed into a crowd of children killing at least five people and injuring eighteen others it happened outside a school in the northeastern coastal city of. and that. province the driver has been taken into custody we'll bring you more on that of course assumes we get it. the protests against soaring fuel prices in the french territory of reunion have shut down much of the region the government's canceled all flights

and close schools as well as suspend the public transport demonstrators on this indian ocean island say it's about much more than the cost of filling up the tank many on a honda reports. the island of reunion more commonly associated with beautiful beaches and some say it's paralyzed for days by violence police and protesters have been injured and more than a hundred people arrested but five days on the discontent at rising fuel prices shows little sign of waning protesters are refusing to take down the road blocks. more than more we block but we do it calmly very peacefully and we try not to block the population too much. mess protests in france that began on saturday quickly spread to the french overseas territory the source of the anger is the spike in fuel prices by as much as twenty three percent in the past year but for many

protesters this is about much more than fuel they're angry at the rising cost of living and poor public services officials introduced a curfew in some parts of reunion to dampen nights of violence french president emanuel macron says he'll deploy the military to restore order. we are many initiatives that we've undertaken in our union in the economic sector and local housing policies but on the matter of public order i say to our ask the government to be inflexible because the scenes we have seen in reunion and elsewhere an acceptable. protest is in reunion have donned the yellow vests worn by demonstrators in france in a show of defiance and solidarity they want the government to drop a planned tax increase on fuel and say they'll maintain their road blocks and protests even if it brings the french territory to a standstill maidana hand down to zero. our let's take you live now to the tunisian

capital tunis where more than half a million civil servants are taking part in a nationwide strike after the government and labor union failed to reach an agreement on pay that tunisians want the government to honor an agreement that was reached last month to raise public wages at a time when inflation is a record high of the country's under immense pressure from international lenders prime among them the international monetary fund to freeze wages as part of reforms at reducing the budget deficit of the country so that's a situation in tunisia of course we'll be keeping our eye very closely on here it out there the wife of a u.k. citizen who was. handed a life sentence by a court in the u.a.e. for spying says the british government has put its relationship with its allies ahead of his welfare the family of matthew hedges says there are contradictions between the official statement from the u.a.e.

prosecutor general and what actually happened they also accuse the gulf state of presenting fabricated evidence britain's foreign secretary has warned of serious diplomatic consequences for the united arab emirates let's go live now to our correspondent paul brennan in london so the family is now really hitting back is that what exactly did they pinpoint as being the contradictions. well what's happened is that daniel to daniela who is the wife of matthew had just has landed back here in the u.k. this morning after attending that court hearing in the united arab emirates on weapons they had which matthew was sentenced to a life sentence allegedly for spying now she's landed back here in the u.k. done a radio interview which she's been very critical of the u.a.e. for the way that they've treated matthew but also for the foreign and commonwealth office here in the u.k. for the way that it gauged with matthew's case or fail to engage in her words with

matthew's case nuff what she said is that i believe they should have taken a firm a stance from the beginning if not publicly than through their private representation as this is something that i feel they failed to do throughout really they only started taking a firmer approach in taking everything i had been insisting on for months seriously wants matta been released on bail it was late last month he'd already been in custody for six months by then when matt was able to speak to them directly she goes on to say i was under the impression they were putting their interests with the u.a.e. above british citizens rights to full freedom and wealth and his rights to a just trial pool and so it sounds very much as though the family the wife him secure as critical of the british government as they are of the u.a.e. also it is let's just hear those that we've just heard something from jeremy hunt the british foreign secretary let's hear what he had to say the news about matthew hedges is absolutely devastating and our thoughts are with matthew and his wife

danielle and his family today. and we are incredibly disappointed that the u.s. should do this we see no foundation in the charges that have been laid against him we've raised the issue repeatedly i raised it last week with crown prince mohammed himself and yet despite that we have today's news there will be. serious diplomatic consequences for a country that says that it is a friend and ally of the united kingdom but right now our thoughts with matthew and his family and we want to do everything we can to get him home as soon as possible and paul so there we saw that he was deeply disappointed jeremy hunt that is and talked about there being serious diplomatic consequences i mean there is a highly important mutual defense pact between the two countries from which both countries benefit greatly do you think that's at stake. i think it could be at

stake given the tone of the foreign secretary jeremy hunt that i mean let's be clear daniela to had just landed from a overnight flight from the gulf she was clearly upset at what had happened to her husband and she gave this very critical interview it may be fair to say that the foreign office has not been publicly supportive of her case but as you heard from jeremy hunt he raised it personally twelve days ago when he went to the united arab emirates and met one on one the crown prince and he was very disappointed that matthew had just was given his life sentence bearing in mind that jeremy hunt would raise this case specifically with the crown prince and apparently had received assurances that the outcome would be very different to what it has been in the past forty eight hours so it seems that both the family and the foreign office on are pushing in the right direction of the same direction albeit belatedly and from the tone of the foreign secretary that i think it sends the indignation in diplomatic circles that what the u.a.e.

has done here you know he went on to say in a tree in a twitter social media post there is no evidence at all for what the u.a.e. allege matthew has done so you know they're very very strongly defending matthew hedges now and insisting that he needs to be released as quickly as possible all right paul thanks for that poor brannon live in london. the dust storm in the australian state of new south wales is heading for the country's largest city sydney this is video that shows a stillness that rolls through the town of white cliffs and that's about a thousand kilometers north west of sydney that's been pushed by a strong winds blowing through drought stricken regions people with breathing issues are being warned to stay indoors. just a few moments will have the weather with rob also coming up on this hour does their news out the filipino artists using their talents to fight back against what they fear is an increasing you'll thora terror in government. and find out about the

refugees in bosnia stuck in limbo and vulnerable to violence and in sport the ivory coast two time african player of the year didier drogba announces or it his retirement at the ripe old age of forty young paul we'll be here in just a moment with more. from the beyond knights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. there's been an exciting time for australia for the actual hole of spring we're about to officially start summer but you wouldn't necessarily think that given what's been going on recently you saw the dust storms if you're watching just recently running through new science version of course is suffering from the longest drives in living memory and this is the just storm and the wind blowing it hitting the city not gone dark of course you know straight this is the position as

you analyze of the loads dr utah is sitting in the tasman sea yeah there's rain for tasmania and a series of cold fronts the temperatures clearly dropping that was just one of the symptoms and these are daytime temperatures sixteen to eighteen no went out more like what you'd expect overnight this time of the temperatures have been a feature because we've had snow yes i know the season is over you shouldn't get it's not one heard of it to get tense and you just go in the sudden out so they are prime national park which is in tory new south wales now it's a pretty rare event to get to restart the season but it's there nevertheless virtually every state actually has had a warning of some sort in the last twelve in the next twenty four hours from fire in western australia to dust storm new south wales and thunderstorms in queensland they've not all extinguished yet. the weather sponsored by cats are always.

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traverses take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera anchor has called for the suspects in jamal khashoggi is matter to be tried in turkey basic. calling for those responsible to be head to his death to be held accountable amid growing calls for an independent international investigation. in yemen fighting is continuing in the port city of her danger despite the u.s. defense secretary james mattis saying the saudi coalition has ceased its offensive and the u.n. special envoy to yemen has met with the rebel leaders in the capital sanaa lathan

griffiths is expected to go to head a then later the port is crucial for food and aid supplies. the strike has shut down most of haiti where protests have continued for a fourth day people want the president to resign and there they're demanding investigations into a two billion dollar corruption scandal at least ten people are reported to have been killed in the violence as daniel schorr and the reports. with anger reaching boiling point thousands of patients of heated the opposition's call for a general strike closing schools and businesses across the country for a third day with petrol station shot fuel is in short supply police are trying to contain the protests. we need to take control of the situation in the country in the coming days it is not only the departments in the west that have problems the north has problems the south has problems too haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world corruption is rife so these protesters are asking what happened to two

billion dollars given to the haitian government by venice weyler the part of what's known as the petro curry bait discount or program it was designated for social spending in infrastructure projects but the. as projects read the never started or remain on the finished. we are asking where the petrol karoubi money is the people are asking the government what happened we want all those in the government involved in corruption to be arrested until then the country will remain paralyzed parliamentary report released last year allege that leading politicians in a business run by the president were among those to benefit the demonstrators demand to know why no one has been prosecuted monson international old it as well as with form of haiti's justice system there jim when you go about. people get shot people get killed but we're determined that the president should resign but we won't rest the people are fed up with corruption things must change will remain in

the street the tension increased when a scheduled television address to the nation by president say fail to happen his office blamed technical difficulties for his opponents accused him of hiding me more with the anti corruption movement growing both on social media and on the streets your throat is in haiti or under increasing pressure to respond. al-jazeera . hundreds of protesters have been fighting with police in venezuela's capital caracas demonstrators were marking the anniversary of a student uprising against the dictatorship more than sixty years ago but they've been calling for a better university conditions across the country which have deteriorated during the economic crisis. the u.s. secretary of defense jim massa says troops along the southern border with mexico has been given permission to use their batons to stop any violence almost six

thousand personnel are ready to help border police stop asylum seekers who are traveling across mexico towards the united states home and reports now from the mexican border city of tijuana. cold and hungry after a day's travel to one on the mexican u.s. border around one thousand people arriving at the final base camp for a caravan of central americans they join about three thousand already here preparing for the final leg of their journey. my dream is to arrive in the united states to help my mother she has troubles i'm twenty seven and she raised me alone may god help me cross. that crossing won't happen for some time if it doesn't all the u.s. authorities are processing asylum claims slowly and beefing up border security has become a bolt from that this is just one of the long lines of people waiting to get into the sports complex that's been converted into

a temporary migrant shelter but it was already almost full before their right and the challenge for authorities here in three one is going to be what do they do with all these extra people. the new arrivals woke up after a night sleeping on a baseball field. when we arrived it was freezing and we didn't have any shelter to the children so we all woke up points because of the jews there. with thousands more in the way the city's authorities don't know where they are temporarily put the the situation's increasingly volatile says to one his police chief the one that you. know city is prepared to receive this amount of people i think the perfect storm is brewing and us to hit a little far east to look at this we've got several entry points along the border between which we could find these people in an orderly way. but for now they have nowhere else to go. home and i was dizzy. a us man is being

killed on a remote island in the indian ocean by one of the lost tribes untouched by modern civilization twenty seven year old john chyle was attempting to make contact with the tribe on north center now that's in the bay of bengal and it's believed he was shot with an arrow the sentinel leads before number in the low hundreds there's no more than five hundred of them and they're known to be fearful of and aggressive towards outsiders to protect them india's ban people from going within five kilometers of the island. the number of migrants and refugees arriving in europe is at its lowest in the past five years a tough european stance is prevented many from entering but those sucked in limbo impulse there have revealed stories of brutality by croatian border police david chase there has been to the border town of bay hatch to find out more causes through. the bosnian border city of be harsh is on the frontline of europe's latest

refugee crisis the residents are no strangers to warfare and its effects are fighting in the civil war here in the one nine hundred ninety s. displaced two million people they were demanding their government take action to provide the refugees with humane living conditions that same night we found a group of afghan teenagers huddled around an electric fire at the main station. they told me in graphic detail how cross border guards had kicked them and beaten them with truncheons or. their mobile phones were smashed and they were forced back into the river that runs along the border line one of them had his head held under the water. the line between bosnia and croatia is the european union's longest and most fun rable external border fear is being used to defend it the refugees call it the game but it's

a brutal game trying to find the weakest point in a border that stretches for more than nine hundred kilometers with croatia we've found with local help this crossing point you can simply walk through but you don't know how far you're going to get or what's going to happen to you the injuries being suffered by the refugees act as a clear warning to others when they return to their makeshift camps aid workers estimate there are now five thousand of them stuck in the limbo of bosnia there are shelters for only a few hundred they've come from syria somalia pakistan and iraq most of them said they were trying to reach germany medics working here are angry at the sheer number of victims they have to treat they showed me photographs of their wounds many they said were deliberately inflicted charities are providing what help they can a warm shower once a week blankets a new clothing to survive the subzero temperatures but they say the european union

has turned its back on their suffering basically paying for it to be done they just want it done silence they just don't want to play city human traffickers are opening up smuggling routes for those who can afford to pay. refugee storm border posts last month they have no money left they too were beaten back. in the camps another group of refugees prepare to go out on the game again others are bringing back firewood to survive the winter david chaytor al-jazeera of the bosnian border with croatia poland's governing party says it will reinstate supreme court judges after pressure from the european union in october poland lowered the retirement age from seventy to sixty five and forced some judges into early retirement well that decision led to weeks of protests and condemnation from

the e.u. the polish government had argued the law was needed to root out communist era judges says it respects the rules. of the race to replace angela merkel as leader of germany's christian democratic union is gathering pace party members are getting the chance to question the three candidates and debate whether the new leader should stick with mrs merkel's policies or set a new course dominic kane reports now from either over time. one of these three will become the next christian democratic leader but to do so they must first convince their party one is close to anglo-american and seen by some as a natural successor for her competence in government are the watchwords my life as a manager like a shot. i bring my personal outlook and previous experience as a federal minister and prime minister of stand if the question is about character and that's why i am the right candidate for you to elect you know by me then there

is the young pretender who believes the party should move further right and reengage with voters lost during merkel's time in office yog. the vibe. yes the turnout in the general election was up but our vote dropped we lost people's trust voters sent us a message that things weren't going how they should like for example or days or they're asking themselves will they be able to drive their cars in the cities or not. finally there is anger america's former rival a man who left politics after being sidelined by her nearly ten years ago he's returned now to say the party needs a reinvigoration are given to us who are even funding and find we will only achieve it if we stay firmly anchored in the political center ground don't turn left or right but we must win back those we've lost in the last few years this will only work if we were a christian democratic union that welcomes people whatever their background but

which is clearly identifiable with western christian and jewish values. the first things are about giving the members the chance to see these three candidates up close and personal and for them to work out which one they think can set their party forward and when the next general election or just mine is it isn't distinguished by my feeling is to be defied it's very impressed i feel a mess but the nick had to come cause i was also very interesting. from the three candidates i prefer a fearless mounts because i'm very happy that you come back into. politics and he was the most impressive funny. they all get the chance to cast their votes in december dominic came al-jazeera. still to come here on the al-jazeera news hour in sport the racing driver he's back in formula one and she is after all this thing is on

a crash course we'll be having that and the rest of the sport after the break. we've. we've. we've. we've we've. we've .