one of the leading figures the former head of the saudi intelligence. invited fifty journalists in washington with the hope of changing this tie the in a way if we can reconstruct another narrative that is not focused on the future of m.b.'s so these are all reactionary. actions but the question of the effective i don't think so so i think the royal family what could be the discussion that's going on right now amongst the royal family and the government of saudi arabia i think we can summarize it this way there is a wink that is very concerned the impact of the scandal may undermine the legitimacy of the royal regime or the royals you know the monarchy in saudi arabia therefore we need to salvage it somehow and one of the theories that is now being discussed is if there is

a way that the younger brother of king some of the bin abdulaziz will take over whenever. depends on how long kingston man will stay in this on this earth and not the faction i think or another way is what i would call de. of how about some man who are very keen on maintaining started school this is the strength of a deep state that has been engineered and put in place in the last three years when m.b.'s was the minister of the phones crown crown prince or deputy crown prince than then he was obliterated to crown prince but in march two thousand and seventy they all seem to have the support of the trumpet ministration at least this is i think the tipping point i would think that the second wing the m.b.'s camp

is capitalizing a lot on the fact that they believe that he is power within the white house within washington and gave them second political life for hamad bin cement however even now is tight corners and they think the longer this scandal stays with us the more challenged it will become for trump to handle it in washington well and i'm coming out in support of mohammed bin sandman even to the point of as we've just been reporting contradicting his own cia agency find he will not stop anything between now and january believe that he has another month and i will maybe two months before things get serious in other words he is bitten on the absence of legislators from the congress because of things given the next holidays you know christmas and new year and then he is trying to push his combiner he has already started and we have seen we have heard from this we have heard from. secretary of

state pompeo he is also shit using his machine within his. administration to convince the rest of the establishment so all these complains can work for a while can sort of soft in the argument but it's not going to take it way therefore i believe that the real battle in washington about whether m.b.a.'s should stay in power or should be replaced in other words. trump will be thinking syria about another m.b. as i think that will be in january february even march before that i think it's all about that but there is another bottle of another give and i think the only moment when who will be decisive in making a final decision and accepting all of these facts from his own cia men and women that depend on when he's going to do his cause and effect relation and with m.b.a.'s remains an asset for him financially or turns into

a political liability and i think that is not known for keeping the allegiance or loyalty for a long time all right. we thank you well the u.s. defense secretary james mattis says the saudi u.a.e. coalition has paused its offensive around her day they are the u.n. special envoy to yemen is expected to travel to the port city this week on wednesday martin griffiths met her feet rebel leaders in the capital sanaa. my mother though has more from neighboring djibouti. the residents of. go to quibble there's no meaningful cease fire to talk about they're still sport odd because she is between the parties with each side of a full fighting the fos short when they announced that they were going to stop. drone ballistic missile attacks against. the fighters want to go to a call that they feel that arrive to defend their positions with which they have

been fortifying in the past days they've also been talking about. the other side cutting out. the 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 jim de montes the u.s. defense secretary is saying that there's been a ceasefire announced by the other side and has called on all parties to seize the close till it is under time to talks. more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including strained relations how the jailing of a british student in the u.a.e. is testing diplomatic ties in an era marked by angry political rhetoric bazza that's designed to make it easier to talk with people who disagree with you and what's in a name prepare to vote on what to call their olympics stories coming up

a little later with peter and sports. but first britain's prime minister's negotiations have reached a critical moment vote on the deal to resume a has laid out her plan for britain to leave the european union to the u.k. parliament on sunday european leaders are expected to vote on the draft on may says she'll do everything possible to deliver the deal. the british people want to be settled they want a good deal that sets us on a course for a brighter future. and they want us to come together as a country and to move on to focus on the big issues. like. the deal that will enable us to do this is now within our grasp in these crucial seventy two hours ahead i will do everything possible to deliver it for the british

people and i commend this statement. well britain's opposition leader called the prime minister's proposal a failure. these twenty six pages are a testament to the failure of the tories bungle to go to the only certainty contained within these pages is that the transition period will have to be extended or we will end up with a backstop and no exit it represents the worst of all worlds no say over the rules that will continue to apply a no certainty of the future on the barker is joining us from london so terrorism may need seems to have made a crucial step forward but what further challenges remain for bucks a plan. you know this is a crucial step forward so she's had quite a few good days over the past week or so she's been able to come up with two draft proposals allowing breaks in to go before the first on the would draw agreement on

the second now a declaration on the future political relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. going forward according to one government official that there is now no further demands in breaks in negotiations from the u.k. at least ahead of this all important vote in brussels on sunday but saying that these plans as we've just seen there have been somewhat mauled in the british parliament particularly from political rivals and also by some politicians within her own party as well the british government's been accused of crossing red lines of being a little bit too vague when it comes to the details of these plans we now know for instance that e.u. and u.k. nationals may need visas if they want to stay on each other's territories for any great length of time we now know also much the anger of british conservatives in scotland that the e.u. may well have access to british waters and to british fishing quotas something that greatly agate them and also no word whatsoever about one of the great hopes the

desire for frictionless trade between the e.u. and the u.k. it now looks as if he were the u.k. will be regarded as two mutually exclusive trading areas raising the prospect of a return to hard barriers and that has grave implications for the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland also word of warning coming from the spanish as well they say their vote against the current brics a draft proposal on sunday juta lack of clarity over gibraltar to reason may will clearly have to do quite a lot of work in the coming days to make sure that she has the support in europe that she needs to achieve all of her brics it aims and goals all right any barca thank you. well the u.k. foreign secretary says he's had a constructive phone conversation with the u.a.e. is foreign minister that follows wednesday's sentencing of a british student to life in prison in the us charges of spying the family of matthew had just has accused the u.a.e. of presenting fabricated evidence paul brennan has more from london. a pretty

intense series of diplomatic to and froze during the course of the day as this promise to escalate into a really serious diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and the u.s. over the conviction of matthew hedges on wednesday now his wife. arrived back in london on thursday morning and was visibly upset gave an early morning radio interview in which he criticized the british foreign ministry for not doing enough to help matthew in those early months of his captivity but the foreign secretary jeremy hunt later in the morning summoned the u.s. ambassador into the foreign ministry and had what was described as very frank discussions of iraq you had his predicaments and later this afternoon daniela harder then went to the foreign ministry to meet jeremy hunt and she emerged after about an hour saying that she was very much more happy with the situation now she said as follows i really appreciate the foreign secular taking the time to meet me

at this crucial point he's assured me that he and his team are doing everything in their power to get matt free now that coincided almost to the hour with a statement that was released by the u.a.e. foreign ministry which stood by the conviction but it also offered the possibility of some breakthrough now the statement from the u.a.e. said that the british academic had been treated fairly and according to the constitution it said that there was compelling and powerful evidence that include information extracted from his personal electronic devices but it added that both sides hope to find an amicable solution to the matthew hedges case so it does appear that with thirty days left before while he can appeal against this this charge that does seem to be a diplomatic moves afoot for both sides to come together and find some resolution to this how mass in the gaza strip has released photos of the individuals they accuse of taking part in a botched is really special forces operation earlier this month which led. the

worst violence since the war in twenty fourteen stephanie tucker has the details from west jerusalem amasses military wing the kasam brigade is issued picture showing six men and two women and also two pictures of vehicles one of them a van they say which are part of the people involved in that israeli special forces bought strayed that led israel and hamas to the brink of war they're calling on information inside gaza whether anyone has seen these people and there's a phone number to call and the reaction here in israel the army has said not to share the pictures not to retrieve them because they are on social media and saying it can in danger lives it says that how mass is trying to figure out the details decipher what really happened and in their words on this raid deep inside gaza so it is an interesting statement from the army saying at some point whether

the information in these pictures is right or wrong this is of course that bosch rage on sunday night about two weeks ago now that led to the biggest escalation that we've seen between two sides hamas firing four hundred sixty rockets at israel that led to a spiral of events including the resignation of israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman who wasn't satisfied with the cease fire that ensued so these really is are more urging people not to share the information but it seems that hamas is military wing says that they know who these men are and these women and they want more information still have on the officer a news hour india and china are vying for the influence over sri lanka's economic future and fronts in croatia prepare to renew their tennis rivalry in the final of the davis cup peter we'll have more on the coming up a little later in the news hour.

hello it's bad to snow quite heavily from turkmenistan northward says this is to me here which i think coming against the himalayan plateau is rolla stuck so it will produce or the next two days significant snow from the north of afghanistan right up to concerts and then as a gap we pick up the next system which almost certainly bring flooding into iraq into kuwait possibly the occasional back as far west as jordan next systems already setting up so there's rain coming in as you see from the eastern med even touching northern egypt to bring itself into sort of the border into northern saudi by saturday it's a wet pavement and as i said the snow is persistent elsewhere but of course there's a sudden element to this is pushing through kuwait into the northeast of saudi arabia that line of cloud extends down towards mecca thunderstorms here will be substantial it's almost inevitable the season nationally once again that's what the

third or fourth time in the last month the right itself down through bahrain and even qatar giving same risk of flooding in the next day or so jumping down to the south of africa and we've seen this persistent line of cloud the last couple of days. showers just touching the eastern side of south africa and zimbabwe but it's a dry picture. the voyage of the business world brings together hundreds of companies and investors from all over the world if you are ready to enter new markets. november twenty first or the twenty fourth. for detailed information on registration exposed dot com. there's nowhere to hide do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia i haven't said it's

a right wing conspiracy or anybody. from al-jazeera. went on line for you know looking at wildlife and how the solutions come together to benefit all parties and that's where we're going to. join us on sat if you could take me around the content. you don't have to set up your experiment here experiment in the universe this is a dialogue everyone has a voice you actually raise several interesting point there that community members are going to join the global conversation. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour president donald trump says the cia has not concluded that crown prince mohammed bin ordered the murder of.

france became the latest country to announce sanctions against the kingdom it's targeting eighteen saudis accused of involvement in murder the u.s. defense secretary james mattis says the saudi u.a.e. coalition has paused its offensive around for the u.n. special envoy to yemen is expected to travel to the port city this week and britain's prime minister says negotiations have reached a critical. moment ahead of vote on the deal on sunday to reason may has laid out her plan for britain to leave the european union to the u.k. parliament. more now on the fallout from the murder of. turkey says it's still trying to maintain its relations with riyadh and the aftermath of murder but its foreign minister says if saudi arabia fails to cooperate then ankara will push for a thorough international investigation said in kosovo reports from ankara. turkish

fears all the efforts to shed light on saudi journalist just killing may go in vain office also here insists that his murder couldn't have happened without an order from a senior saudi official and say they have shared all the evidence with the u.s. and some european countries every since cia report has concluded that saudi crown prince mohamed bin sell mom ordered the killing but u.s. president donald trump is reluctant to take a stand against riyadh citing billions of dollars worth of contracts saudi arabia denies the allegations that the crown prince was involved in to murder turkey has welcomed western countries condemnations against celtic government's efforts to co-opt this killing and ask for concrete steps for justice. since the beginning president arroyo wants separated king solomon and the saudi state from this murder but he wanted a full cooperation in shedding light on this murder and he wants to make this

happen without harming relations. turkish officials have asked for a transparent investigation from riyadh and since this crime took place in istanbul they say the saudis have violated international conventions the turks also see it as a matter of honor saying if they don't get cooperation from saudi arabia they will push for an international investigation sagarika is also a member of the united nations so if united nations security council handled this issue and decide if there is oil nation or light or not then they can. impose some sanctions against libya they have disposed to it so it is binding of course and the second option for turkey would be to encourage especially the european countries to take the issue because it's against again human rights. now the e.u.

appears to be turkey's only hope as president trump continues to stand by saudi arabia turkish officers have never named the saudi crown prince as the top officer who ordered his killing however it is widely believed and that the evidence leaked to the media has already established a link to the hammock in selma on and many here believe that has hurt his reformist image c.m. al-jazeera. well president donald trump has made a fanks giving day threats to close the u.s. border with mexico in his latest bid to deter a caravan of migrants from central america he also said thousands of troops sent to the border are allowed to use lethal force against microbes quote if they have to john holeman reports on the mexican border city of tijuana. cold and hungry after a day's travel to teach one of the myths can us 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 god help me cross. that crossing won't happen for some time if it does at all the u.s. authorities are processing asylum claims slowly and beefing up border security has become a ball today 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 into 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. now to the children so we all woke up because of the jews. with thousands more

in the way the city's authorities don't know where they are temporarily put to the situations increasingly volatile says t one as police chief when you. know city is prepared to receive this amount of people i think the perfect storm is brewing in us the shuttle stories to look at this we've got civil intrigue points along the border between which we could find these people in an orderly way. but for now they have nowhere else to go or let serve bring in john horman he's joining us from the want to just tell us what you've seen john because what we're hearing is that the u.s. has already sent the military as president trying continues his anti immigrant rhetoric. exactly speaking here saying he's system for sizing again many of these people here in

criminals talking about gangs the m.s. . and things like that we're talking about more than four thousand seven hundred people now who are gathered in. the sports complex is just to the side of me that's been converted into a temporary shelter i think that that sort of rhetoric from the u.s. president really we just haven't seen any evidence of it the people that we've talked to in the caravan and said yes there's more than seven thousand people moving through mexico probably more than a thousand now there's bound to be some people in there that are criminals that risk raping in some way from gangs but they're far from the majority here so in terms of him talking about them as a block is incredibly tough people and we just haven't really seen evidence of that now when you can see now is the mexican navy have set up now sort of cunt things for people to get some food here into quiet but you can see the curious there of people trying to get some. third i think it's sure in our report one

a police chief was talking about the fact that he sees this is a perfect storm brewing that the city really just hasn't got the resources to deal with that so they've been asking for the federal government to help out that's finally started to happen now the people in the caravan have been meeting specially last night talking about what to do next if there's some sort of protest march that they're going to do at the port of entry with the united states who some people are going to start trying to get across whichever way they can there's also people a lot of them signing up for a book to trying to get asylum to try and solicit asylum in the united states but that's moving very slowly as sort of seventy to one hundred people that their protests in your day and of course we're talking about thousands here all right john homan thank you for that update from tijuana. china and india are both keeping a close eye on the political situation in sri lanka the island plunged into constitutional crisis with two men claiming to be the last hold prime minister of

china sees the island nation in the indian ocean is crucial in its plans to expand trade routes but india is nervous about growing chinese influence in its neighborhood bernard smith reports from colombo. for centuries stopping off in sri lanka on china's ancient silk road trade routes linking east with west merchants would buy spices pearl and ivory today china see sri lanka as a critical link in its modern day silk road what it calls its belts and road initiative is building infrastructure projects to expand trade from asia to africa and europe. china's spending spree is making india nervous and it's helped to cause friction at the top of the sri lankan government ending up with president my three policy or a say in a firing the prime minister running a wickramasinghe china has been quite active in taking over projects in sri lanka not only go on one project if you were only you in private sector projects there

was an attempt on the part of prime minister commencing to indiana. indian company to pick or one of the sections of the port to which the president was not in agreement so if you take that into consideration one woods here in new delhi is not very happy with the development of port in the south was built with chinese loans but it's so under used that the sri lankan government couldn't afford to keep it running so it gave the chinese government a foothold with a ninety nine year lease sri lanka owes more than fifty billion dollars to foreign lenders but seventy seven percent of g.d.p. chinese loans make up eight billion dollars of that but india and japan are owed much more their problem is not enough aid or anyone else the problem is that they believe we have to do a lot of work here and those investments will be in will be many

fully and innovate that they really did a good return so that we will be able to be bad the problem has been dead those investments i believe probably might need them the twentieth game but at the moment we have a big role in next year sri lanka has to start paying back more than four billion dollars in foreign loans and not just got harder because the rupee is foreign to its lowest level ever against the dollar that could force the government to look for sympathetic friends willing to help ease the country's debt. bernard smith al-jazeera columbia. well greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere have hit a new record that's according to the united nations carbon dioxide methane and nitrous oxide the main greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change are far above pre-industrial levels the world meteorological organization says there is no sign of reversal in this rising trend world leaders will gather for

a summit on climate change in poland next month but speak to terrorists over who is the coordinator of the report into greenhouse gas levels and is the chief of atmospheric sciences the vision at the world meteorological organization is joining us live via skype from geneva thanks very much for speaking to us and speaking to us about these findings and how concerned are you with these latest findings. we are very much concerned are with the recent finding because what you reported in these here are greenhouse gas politan not the one that are going to zation is that the concentration of the mean gases carbon dioxide methane in need to us all sign they continue to increase and it's not. so it's not that they are just continuing to increase they are increasing by the same great is for the last ten years so we do not see any signs of the decline in the goal fraid of the greenhouse gases

in their concentration and that is really very very slim because the countries have taken the commitments we assign the paris agreement under which all the countries wanted to do something but unfortunately we do not see any signs all of the decline in the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere what are the implications than of all these reasons. the implications are that even if we stop emissions overnight we already immediate so much for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that we are committed for another half degree warming if we continue with increase off the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere with a rate as we are doing now are we may reach our very high temperature increase and definitely all which will be at the levels which we agreed with on the paris agreement so it will be definitely above the two degrees and what is it that

you're hoping that the study or this research what kind of impact are you hoping for it's a half an in fact do you think that it's going to have some sort of impact. i think that the science is very clear are we know that the concentrations are rising there was a recent report published by the intergovernmental panel of experts on climate change are about the one point five degree in and sets whose increase in the temperature and if you look at that report it actually puts up the way forward how we can reach our objective in basically that report see that we have to comp emissions of carbon dioxide for forty five percent and in comparison with a levels which we had in two thousand and ten and we have to do it before twenty thirty and we as a logical organization we can actually all for policymakers the tools we

demonstrate what we have in the atmosphere we can also use the same tools to actually guide the mitigation option we can see the emission our sources from the atmospheric observation you know we can guide of the policymakers in the subnational stakeholders in industry where they can roll in soest and efficiently fix those emissions so we do have those tools terrace over we thank you for speaking to us from geneva. the board of japanese car for miss sohn has voted to sock carlos alone as chairman following his shock arrest this week he's been charged with financial misconduct he was detained after an internal investigation revealed he was using company money and under reporting his salary for years he's also run o's chairman and chief executive. thousands of people caught up in the california wildfires will be spending thanksgiving homeless survivors are also

bracing for heavy rainfall as much as twenty centimeters of rain is expected by friday the latest death toll has now gone up to eighty three with hundreds of others still missing right now i'm trying to get all of the. put away from the rain because we're being forced to move out of here and. most of the people left here are homeless and there are no fire evacuees. i am myself a fire victim and my house is gone so i don't have anywhere to go so i feel i feel pain and. i just really wish somebody were able to. give us a place to go to get out of the rain and. at this moment i don't know how much more anybody else can do there's been such an outpouring of help and support.

and all those things are so hopeful but at the end of the day i have no where to go well it is thanksgiving day in the united states it's a holiday traditionally defined by dinner with extended family that can sometimes be awkward for people where especially when the conversation turns to politics and now one nonprofit is using tech to teach americans how to be agreeable when they disagree meet the angry. boss chaat program that simulates a conversation with a relative who see the term and to pick a fight so as the angry uncle throws out one provocative statement after another users are prompted to offer a possible reply karin to marius is the founder of smart politics on the creator of the ng.