the paper makes no mention of frictionless trade between the e.u. and u.k. seen as vital for the health of the british economy post breck said the e.u. and u.k. will be regarded as two separate markets making hard barry is almost inevitable. it has big implications here on the border between northern ireland a part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland and a u. member the u.k. says it's now pursuing a high tech solution to keep goods and people leaving. the draft plan also says both sides and to provide visa free travel only for short term visits longer trips may now require visas. in addition the document leaves room for an extension of the two year transition period after breaks it aimed at easing britain's departure but it also means the u.k. will be subject to european rules for longer without any e.u. voting rights the plans will now be decided on a political level by e.u. leaders to brussels on sunday it's been an extremely busy few days for the british

prime minister she has been successfully able to hammer out draft proposals on firstly the withdrawal agreement and now a declaration of a future political relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. but history's amaze big breaks it plans had to brussels she knows that those plans could flounder at any stage either voted down by the e.u. or voted down here in parliament and i commend the states next to the park al-jazeera westminster. still ahead to see you on al-jazeera here from the wife of a british student whose life sentence in the euro has strained diplomatic ties. we've had a little bit of everything in the weather for australia recently lost

a cloudless upright basis now over the high ground that's in dust storms and have also had some very very a windy weather we are going to say that the worst of that weather making its way up away from the eastern side of those as we go on through the next couple of days how windy weather but enough to bring in some some wildfires too into parts of new south wales hopefully things quieten down over the next day oh say from melbourne temperatures getting up to fourteen cells is still on the cool side here slight recovery as we go on into the weekend but not great twenty one celsius there for perth it will be dry over the next day or so jealous of wanted to showers into the interior of alice have some showers too just clinging on around the top and there we go with that slight improvement from melbourne fifteen degrees celsius twenty nine there for brits been in the sunshine once again sunshine for new zealand as we go on through the next day or so but the clear out and the wind that is in the process of pushing through those cities and blustery sal as she moved on into the weekends of friday not see bad fine and dry but those blustery showers that will

rattle their way and as we go on through sas day heaviest winds just topping in touting the country or current with the top temperature twenty. china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of lonely men. one on one east meets those desperately seeking love anyway became an al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour saudi arabia's crown prince has arrived in the united arab emirates as of his fast trip abroad since the matter john this jamal khashoggi that's as the u.s. president has again deflected blame for mohamed bin salmond saying the cia has not concluded that he ordered the matter. the u.n. is welcoming a deescalation in fighting in yemen's port city of had data saying it's providing much needed relief to thousands of civilians there at special envoy to yemen is in the capital sanaa continuing his push to get the warring parties around the negotiating table. u.s. president donald trump has threatened to close the border with mexico if his administration determines that its neighbor has lost control of the legal migration

times already authorized soldiers to use lethal force against asylum seekers if needed thousands of people are making their way towards the united states being called the tea and violence in central american countries down home and has more from tijuana. this place behind me in the country this temporary camp was largely empty until the day before yesterday now is about full of thousand seven hundred people here and they continue to come all the time people are starting to get a little bit restless here wondering what the next step is to give me different points with megaphones trying to work out if they want to do a protest march about the front like. the next step is quite a few people have signed up for asylum in the united. states with those requests are being processed quite slowly so they're looking at a period of months really rather than weeks in which you're going to be stuck here into one sleeping rough many of them that have

a good tenants here brain just last night as well so it's a difficult situation for them and also this town which is struggling with the influx of people that are coming in. the united arab emirates says it's determined to protect its relationship with the u.k. a day off to sentencing a british student to life in prison for spying the u.a.e. denied at that thirty one year old matthew hedges has been treated unfairly and system he'd been given access to a translator had just found the accuses the gulf states of fabricating evidence and making him sign a confession his wife has met with the u.k.'s foreign secretary jeremy hunt in london. see him shaping force after being handed a life sentence and then being made to leave was beyond heartbreaking we didn't even got to say goodbye. i really appreciate the foreign secretary taking the time to meet me at this crucial country mine and maps why he has assured me that he and his team are doing everything in their power to get my map free and return him home

to me. this is not a party i can win alone and i think the foreign office and the british probably were now standing up for one of their seven. al-jazeera as 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 hedges predicaments and later this afternoon daniela to

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 secretary king 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. to the gaza strip where hamas has set up several security checkpoints in an effort to locate those responsible for a botched israeli raid and israeli colonel a hamas commander and six other palestinians were killed earlier this month after the operation inside gaza the incident led to the west violence in the region since the twenty fourteen war amasses released photos of people it accuses of taking part in the failed mission stephanie deca has more from west to resume amasses military wing the kasam brigade is issued pictures 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 bauch trade 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 the 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 these 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. funerals have been held for more than fifty people who were killed during an attack in kabul on tuesday a suicide bomber set off the device that a religious gathering inside a wedding hall those reports. from many of the. paying their respects these men gathered at the home of one of the youngest victims of tuesday's attack in kabul fareed soltani is one of the fifty four men who was killed when a suicide bomber targeted a religious gathering inside a wedding hall his cousin recalls a painful phone call he received moments after the attack by the arm of a ticket with at first i was told for even with the injured but after a few minutes i got called for it is no longer with us there's no government no one of listening how long we have to suffer this has to stop there's nothing left for us but it is a very nice matter of the government. so

i want to show the. muslim mill annually what of only seven months is another one of the victims his father recounts the moments leading up to the attack. when we entered the hall we were searched by four layers of security personnel there were specific seats for the scholars and for ordinary people so i was seated in the last row of the ordinary people we were then taken close to the stage where scholars were seated and then in the middle of the recitation of the koran the explosion took place this is one of the worst attacks to target the capital in months. or years while authorities continue their work to identify those responsible relatives of the victims try to cope with their loss in a country that hasn't seen peace in a generation dorsett jabari al jazeera. more than half a million civil servants are taking part in the nationwide strike. after the

government and labor unions failed to reach a pay deal to museums want the government to on a last month's agreement to raise public wages at a time when inflation is that a record high but the government is under pressure from international lenders to freeze wages and reduce its budget deficit the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached new highs according to the united nations un officials are trying to put pressure on governments ahead of next month's climate summit in poland they want countries around the world limiting global warming to be less than two degrees celsius which they agreed to which they agreed to do under the twenty fifteen paris climate accord the head of the world meteorological organization said the window of opportunity for action is almost closed oksana tarasova was the coordinator of the reports into the greenhouse gas levels she says temperature rises are inevitable under current climate agreements. we are very much concerned are with the recent findings because what we reported in these here are

greenhouse gas politan off the wall much a logical organization is at the concentration off the main gases carbon dioxide anything you need to find 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 or the decline in the grow fraid of the greenhouse gases in and in their concentration and that is really very voice him 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 off the decline in greenhouse gases in the office here 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 the rate is we are doing now are we may reach or very high temperature increase and definitely all which will be the levels which were a greed with on the paris agreement so it will be definitely bob the two degrees a year after robert mugabe was forced from office the problems that brought him down and creating setting inflation haven't gone away people are running out of patience with the new president. who promised to ten zimbabwe around the finance minister had a chance to explain the government's latest economic measures has more from harare . before the budget speech could be presented opposition m.p.'s in parliament started protesting they refused to recognize innocent agogo as president insisting he stole elections in july some say they were beaten and injured by police who

forced them out of the building. is members of parliament for the m.d.c. we did not stand up for this because those are stuck in the muscle we lived in. and. the. police were called to the gunmen and. eventually the country's finance minister went to present to the budget for twenty one thousand he said all zimbabweans would have to tighten their belts as government implements austerity measures to turn around the economy the furtive one january twenty ninth and a five percent cut or. be affected for all senior positions. retros permanent crews. are.

ministers and the pretty. other measures include retiring government civil servants over the age of sixty five removing ghost workers from the government's payroll and compensating white farmers whose land was seized during land reform the government has to repay billions of dollars in debt and introduce pro-business policies investors say they want guarantees that the assets will one day be seized by the states and their policies remain consistent whenever monetary policies are announced the markets react so too does the bobbins while parliamentary proceedings were taking place some people were in feel king is filling up in case there are shortages again. hollington mclean you see as he knows it's going to be harder to rebuild his business because of cash which is in banks he lost about ten thousand dollars worth of merchandise when a fire got to this market last week all of these tough little imports from sort of become. like foreign currency and you can't get credit.

but rebuilding an economy that was destroyed because the mismanagement and corruption joining robert mugabe is rule will be harder people often stated prices of basic commodities of more than tripled in a few weeks these a shortage of foreign currency inflation keeps rising president promised he would do things differently to mugabe he's under pressure to deliver as a poor girl more and more impatient. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories saudi arabia's crown prince has arrived in the united arab emirates as part of his first trip abroad since the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi that says the u.s. president has again deflected blame for mohamed bin cylon saying the cia has not concluded that he ordered the killing. i hate the crime i had work done i hate the

cover up. i will tell you the crown prince hate. more than i do remember now that the cia point of both ways. maybe maybe you didn't but i will say very strongly that it's a very important dialogue the u.n. is welcoming a deescalation and fighting and yemen's port city of head data saying it's providing much needed relief to thousands of civilians there it's special envoy to yemen is in the capital sanaa continuing his push to get the warring parties around the negotiating table. u.s. president donald trump has threatened to close the border with mexico if his administration determines that its neighbor has lost control of illegal migration already authorized soldiers to use lethal force against asylum seekers if needed thousands of people are making their way to the united states free in poverty and

violence in central american countries. hamas has set up several security checkpoints in gaza to find those responsible for a botched israeli raid an israeli colonel must come on to and six other palestinians were killed earlier this month after the operation inside gaza the incident led to the west violence in the territories since the twenty fourteen war amasses released photos of the people it accuses of taking part in the failed mission the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached new heights according to the united nations u.n. officials are trying to put pressure on governments ahead of next month's climate summit in poland they want to limit global warming to less than two degrees celsius which was agreed to under the twenty fifteen paris climate accord the head of the world to me. said the window of opportunity for action is almost closed they say levels of c o two and other warming gases haven't been this high for as long as five million years. the news continues here on al-jazeera after one

o one east. generation after generation men work under the most of the sun a northeastern state. in this slum there's no sewerage running water or other basic services sixty percent of the people here are living in poverty their needs are so great and their pockets so empty that they are easy prey during election time for politicians they can come here and buy their votes for as little as ten dollars of course if i'm a politician and i give culture and education to people i'm impairing them and if i'm impairing them they may not vote for me so that's why it's in their interest to keep things as they are. it's a vicious circle of inequality aggravated by a severe recession and governmental staring that's left thirteen million brazilians unemployed and even if the next government can start the recovery process those

living here at the bottom of the social ladder will be the last to benefit. in china women are in short supply are. millions more men than women. so when it comes time to marry the odds aren't good. it's estimated one in five men won't be able to find a broad a personal and also national disaster. i'm steve on this

episode a one on one east we meet the men resorting to drastic action. void a life alone. she has just come out of the mall her name is one five nice because she is one point five eight majors to move. in a few hours she will have a nice hair and eyes. she exists because there's a lack of women in china. for thirty five years more boys have been born here than girls. it's resulted in a severe gender imbalance that endangered the country's stability. k'naan is china's most populated problem. at the same time it's the

place with the fewest women. months we was born he is in the village of. already over the normal i have marriage here in the countryside. but lang's we can't find a wife he still lives with his parents and others did it by hand i see. god . let me send my new film i got an idea we are not having a gala i am an asshole that. well we do. now have one hundred. and i have the money to. lance we isn't the only one around here looking for a wife there are hundreds of so-called bachelor villages in the region each one

full of single men desperately looking for women to marry. in nineteen seventy nine china introduced the one child policy it was meant to avoid overpopulation but in the countryside some is a much more desirable because they can work in the fields. doing yeah yeah and that's one of course you often do you say are you. the guy are you not a young boy when you are. well now. i want to. share. our thoughts about what you and. and your house. these days doctors are not allowed to revealed agenda of the unborn baby but some still do this why did it with the hope of a bride. even today slogans like this extolling the benefits of girls are displayed

around the villages. but the preference for boys is a long and lasting tradition here they say that raising a girl is like cultivating someone else's field because a girl moves into her husband's bam often marriage. couples wish for a son to take care of them as they i age and to carry on the family night so girls continue to be aboard one hundred sixteen boys a boom every one hundred goes shit shivery bad news they are to me all found. that just go on and on now that. was it. so that's. lonsway works in the fields and does occasional jobs so far no girl has considered

him a good match so i asked him a woman are you minute or sense of the the job and i would. have no doubt. they are seen as you. are there. i just don't have minima a boy of the fall out of their home in me and. i . to tie him up. and you know well and go home alone unless you wear me out although. several batches from the village have gone abroad to maine mom the nom the philippines all laos despond wives then you know what kind are in the game will you have it just say yeah you know bill you know my ram i only go to work. today some to say how.

in china men without wives a cold. which means dead branches the white bear for. many try their luck in the city every day thousands of single men move to the pearl river delta in china's south to the factory of the low. sixty thousand factories employ three to four million workers. the young people working here day in knox hospital sewed looking for this old man. in this factory which manufactures smartphones and modems all the workers are under thirty thousands of kilometers from their horns they toil on the assembly line the ice hours a day like shallow young he's twenty four years old and comes from a bachelor village then link you yeah well you. see and they get. they will find that the only thing done to just play with them all. e.c.

bomb. in august. they are going to need them all for a long time then go ahead and most of us. in the evening and in kenya they know the reason why. people saw that one and i think you mentioned again the. couples come together and break up on the assembly line. functioning given a month and. see how they get and then this. is the single. for a long time women were in the majority on the factory floors but that's changing. the lack of women has reached the pole river delta it's even affecting factory

operations says dr e. executive can. now you're right. because if i understand. the much i'm dating this guy. i'm going to remember. yes you are not. young innocent young innocent. and. you know. to my full extent. of the size of me i'm. not i know that she knew me and i'm in the way. i know this and yet know that what you see was meant for. him she said you might. check. on the bright smart phones help destruct the mail workers from their frustration and learn

leads. before you shall go his life has consisted of going back and forth between the assembly line his dorm room and the canteen. but he still hasn't won the attention of a female colleague. and the feeling you had they not again about. assaults and sexual violence a getting more frequent in the factories. but as for what you. think i owe my delegates to. one of those. yet i don't. want to come out of my.

thang. shell you'll make seven hundred dollars a month so he's not the pool rich but he hopes one of these women given the chance because he's a talented basketball one. he plays in the factories team and he's one of the best clients sometimes don't. think you sound money. in the pot you would know union. or again. that it's a book about just you why you should then. you know you in any. shape and conversely you can on the down the bank. like it go. off and the. weights.

on the. team the definition. i know you. and i talked because. i. went and bought that isis on full funding. so we shot himself on. the chinese authorities have investigation of the problem of gender imbalance there us do she took two million more men than women it's predicted that in five years one fifth of chinese men won't be able to find a want to. move being the.