no reports now from across the red sea in djibouti. un special envoy martin griffiths his efforts to launch peace talks collapsed last september now he's back in yemen trying to get a farm commitment from the warring parties to a cease fire and a new round of talks is an opportunity to try and build trust that at the peace talks and sweet as we know we when you have peace talks you need to speak to the various people to open back channels up lines of communication to build up trust ahead of the almost talks to try and make sure that people will firstly attend but then they're also listen to what the other side has to say their ongoing fighting in the port city of what they the however risks upsetting this partial and voice efforts to bring the warring parties to the table in december the sodium and arctic ocean announced earlier this week it will hold to all hostilities around the days later fighting broke out again apart to walk of yemeni fighters loyal to the

international difficulties the couple meant leading the fighting on the ground despite loud claims of progress al jazeera has us published but they have not been able to enter the city most of the fighting so far has been confined to the eastern suburbs of the city healthy fighters have fortified the city's outskirts algis it all tamed such images captured on the fourteenth of november one day before the sodium erotic coalition announced it's not suspended its military operations in the city. the images show that the coalition forces failed to entire data they also showed the massive fortifications and trenches created by the oldest around the city and along the roads leading to the port side light images show the whole thing dug massive trenches along the edges of the city as shown by these red lines these pictures also show the before and after when the port was full and then after

shipping containers were moved to form part of the rebels defenses. also booby trap compounds and houses in the outskirts of the city this video shows a group of pro-government fighters and showing a booby trap compound and then the massive explosion that decimates them all almost four years after the sodium routed and top of the war in yemen there is no end in sight it's not even certain whether it can be worn or what is sure is that the civilians will continue to suffer in the wake of this destructive conflict if the peace talks fail to take off mohammed on the wall jazeera djibouti. u.s. president on hold trump is threatening to close the border with mexico if is it ministration decides that its neighbor has lost control of its side some residents of asylum seekers from central america a gathering in the mexican border city of tijuana hoping to cross into the u.s. the local mayor says that the humanitarian crisis is building al-jazeera is john

home and is that. this place behind me in the campaign this temporary camp was largely empty until the day before yesterday now it's 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 they sort of me thing different point three megaphones trying to work out if they want to do a protest march about the fact they can get across or what the next step is quite a few people have signed up for asylum in the united states but those requests are being processed quite slowly so they're looking at a period of months really rather than weeks in which they're going to be stuck here in three one sleeping rough many of them the having tents here it rained 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 this is the news hour from our series still to come on the program britain's prime minister says that a final brink's a deal is within grasp but a threat from spain suggests otherwise plus. the refugees call it the game but it's a game that always losing the european union has turned their back on the suffering i'm david chaytor in bosnia herzegovina. and what's in a name taiwan prepares to vote on what to call its team of the olympics that's coming up later in the sports. spain's prime minister is threatening to veto the draft deal on britain's exit from the e.u. pedro sanchez tweeted the warning after meeting the u.k.'s prime minister after my conversation with series of may he said our positions remain far away my government

will always defend the interests of spain if there are no changes we will veto briggs's but it's a rather downbeat assessment compared to terry's amaze comments earlier in the day that a final briggs's deal was within her grasp leave barker reports from london. i would like to update the house on our negotiations to leave the european union a crucial step forward in britain's brics it journey we have an agreed text between the u.k. and the european commission the negotiations are now at a critical moment and all our efforts must be focused on working with our european partners to bring this process to a final conclusion in the interests of all our people. a draft political declarations now in place determining the future political relationship between the e.u. and he. but the twenty six page document was attacked by politicians the crossing some of the government's earlier red lines and failing to provide many details this empty document could have been written two years ago it's happened with phrases

such as the parties will look at the parties we'll explore watch on earth as the government been doing for the last two years. the paper makes no mention of frictionless trade between the e.u. and u.k. scene is vital for the health of the british economy. 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 you 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 head 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. the park al-jazeera . the united arab emirates says that it's to time and 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 that he one year old matthew hedges has been treated unfairly insisting that he had been given access to a translator and just family accuses the gulf state of fabricating evidence of

making him side a confession that he couldn't understand. feed him shaking course 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 point in march and map 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 fight i can win alone and i thank the foreign office and the british public who are now standing up for one of their seven. zero is pulled from the reports 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 daniella to hard

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 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 an estimated six hundred fifty thousand unisons walked off the job on thursday staging the largest nationwide strike over wages in decades public sector . the workers demanding pay hikes and an end to the tough economic conditions that have persisted since the overthrow of tunisia's longtime ruler in two thousand and eleven. reports. from the capital

tunis to. the city that gave birth to the arab spring around two thirds of a million people stopped work. public sector workers went on strike after negotiations between the powerful trade union that represents them and the government failed they want better wages but they say them marching for old to mizzi and her engineering soaring living costs and high unemployment but it's not doing as you told as young people here don't have enough to buy even the most basic food especially those with children you cannot imagine how difficult the situation is yes this is a revolution of the hungry here in tunisia rather than one of them that unless i'm in there and what have we done to you the government has failed us and undermined the rights of retirees where are those who love tunisia where are those who love this black media has disappeared the strike shut down government ministries

universities and public schools hospitals operated with emergency staffing around a sixth of june is u.s. workforce a civil servants and while public sick the wages have doubled since two thousand and ten it's added to the burden on tunisia's fragile economy the north african country has failed to fire economically in the years since the overthrow of its long term president in two thousand and eleven unemployment is now at fifteen percent inflation is at a record high a two point eight billion dollar loan from the i.m.f. two years ago came with conditions of economic reforms and ditch reduction this mess walkout shows to new zealand are already feeling the pinch union leaders called. the members to use the power of the numbers. that. i call on you the free people to take part in the next municipal legislative and presidential elections for you the workers the next elections are very important.

to this he enjoyed a relatively smooth transition to democracy in the wake of the arab spring but its government is now confronting the challenge of accountability to explain full well being beholden to those it owes money media and the hand count to zero. the number of migrants and refugees arriving in europe is at its lowest level in five years a tough european stance is prevented many from entering but those stuck in limbo in bosnia have accused croatian border police of brutality david chase or has been to the border to find out more. the bosnian border city of be harsh is on the front line of europe's latest refugee crisis the residents are no strangers to warfare and his affects the fighting in the civil war here in the one nine hundred ninety s. displaced two million people they were demanding their government to 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. 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. paying for it to be done they just want it be 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 on the bosnian border with croatia a weather update thanks to all the news out there and anger in guinea as protests push for better pay and safer streets. a new exhibition celebrates a cultural heritage that survived the ravages of war. and france and croatia prepare to renew their sporting rivalry in the final of the davis cup tennis sport coming up in around twenty but is time. through tranquil a raby in kenya. and in long can free to use in

a finishing gondola. how the weather set fair for charter over the next couple days largely clear skies lots of sunshine coming through we'll see a little bit of cloud into the central as but that will tend to thin and breaks as we go on for friday more sunshine coming through hong kong twenty five thousand more clout there into taiwan taipei at twenty one degrees much catch a shower or two as we go on through the next but for the most part as you can see is fine and dry and sunny and some warmth around as well for good measure warm sunshine but some showers there into southeast asia as latest tropical system that spilled out of the philippines that's making its way towards southern vietnam so the something to watch out for over the next day or so and then to the other side of the philippines we have got a developing typhoon will keep you posted on that in the coming days let's focus on this one here for friday that will start to bring that wet weather into southern vietnam through the course of friday sassed another thirty wet day strong winds of

course damaging winds and the likelihood of some flooding rain flooding rains continue across southern parts of india with a chance of a little bit of a wet weather coming through here over the next day or so southern parts of under but that's into much of the and those showers never really too far away from sort of aca. the weather sponsored by the time race. china could be facing a debt iceberg that's according to sep global the trumpet ministration just been insisting towards the saudis and other producers that they want to have more production to cool down the price we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. once welcome now fear. dividing a nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economics. to g.

of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i feel more judgment on syria. all much money it does or if it you get your paper to put up think that it's been bought one german and i'm not the new germans on al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us hello adrian sort of getting here in doha with the news from al-jazeera the headlines saudi arabia's crown prince of iran has arrived in the united arab emirates as part of his first trip abroad since the murder of the journalist that says the u.s.

president has again deflected blame from been summoned saying that the cia has not concluded that he ordered the murder. the u.n. is welcoming a deescalation in fighting in the evans' port city of her data saying that it's providing much needed relief to thousands of civilians that special envoy to yemen is in the capital sanaa continuing his push to get the warring parties around the good the negotiating table. at the back of the mexican city of tijuana is warning of a humanitarian crisis over the thousands of asylum seekers gathering at the u.s. border president trump has threatened to shut down the crossing if his administration decides the situation is out of control. more now on our top story the fallout from the murder of jamal. turkey says that it's still trying to maintain its relations with riyadh in the aftermath of the shock she's murdered but its foreign minister says that if saudi arabia fails to cooperate and ankara will

push for a thorough international investigation seven concealer reports. turkey fears all the efforts to shed light on saudi journalist just killing may go in vain officers have here insisted 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 a recent cia report has concluded that saudi crown prince mohamed bin so 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 saudi government's efforts to co-opt this killing and ask for concrete steps for justice. and russian money to border 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 united nations so if united nations security council handle this issue and decide if there is oil lation or right or not then they can. impose some sanctions against libya they have distorted it so it is binding of course. and the second option for turkey would be to encourage especially the european country is 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 officer also 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. in gaza hamas has set up several security checkpoints and efforts to locate those responsible for a botched israeli raid and israeli colonel a hamas commander and six other palestinians were killed earlier this month during the operation inside gaza the incident led to the worst violence in the territories since the twenty fourteen war amasses released photos of people that it accuses of taking part in the failed mission more now from stephanie decker it was true some

of. the masses military wing of the kasam brigade is issued picture showing six men and two women and also two pictures of vehicles one of them advanced they say which are part of the people involved in that israeli special forces botched raid 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 it's a. point whether the information in these pictures is right or wrong this is of course that botched raid on sunday night about two weeks ago now that led to the

biggest escalation that we've seen between two sides to mass 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 infuses so these really is are more urging people not to share the information but it seems that hamas is monitoring says that they know who these men are and these women and they want more information the story is government wants to make it easier to strip citizenship from people who've been convicted of terrorism offenses prime minister scott morrison says the changes will also impose new restrictions on the return of foreign faces and that a person citizenship will only be counselled when the government is satisfied that they can legally live elsewhere being in a strategy and citizen is i privilege it's a privilege that carries with it expectations on those who hold.

people who commit acts of terrorism have rejected absolutely everything that this country stands for that rejected the beliefs of this country the values of this country they have disrespected every other citizen who shares that privilege of citizenship with them the stripping of a strategy and shoes and ship from dual nationals engaged in terrorist terrorist conduct is a key part of our response to international violent extremism and terrorism. a former opposition leader in ethiopia has been sworn in as the head of the country's electoral board. midex appointment is the latest top position given to a woman by prime minister. she was jailed after the disputed elections of two thousand and five and went into exile in the u.s. five years later. a year after zimbabwe's long time leader robert mugabe was forced

from office the problems the brought him down have gone away people are running out of patience with a new president. who promised to turn the country around and that frustration is played out in parliament as his finance minister laid out his plan to fix the economy. reports from harare. before the budget speech could be presented opposition m.p.'s in parliament started protesting they refused to recognize him as president insisting he stole elections in july some say they were beaten and injured by police who forced them out of the building. we. live on and.

eventually the country's finance minister went to present to the budget for twenty one thousand he said all would have to tighten their belts as government implements austerity measures to turn around the economy. a five percent cut or. be effected for all senior position principal directors. cruise. 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 their assets will one day be seized by the

states and their policies all 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 a says he knows it's going to be harder to rebuild his business because of cash what it is in banks he lost about ten thousand dollars worth of merchandise when a fire gutted this market last week all of this stuff written poured from sort of. foreign currency and it can get foreign currency. but rebuilding an economy that was destroyed because the mismanagement and corruption joining robert mugabe's rule will be harder people are frustrated prices of basic commodities are more than tripled in a few weeks there is a shortage of foreign currency inflation keeps rising president promised he would

do things differently to mugabe he's under pressure to deliver at a poor girl more and more impatient algis or her. a politician from central african republic is due to face war crimes charges before the international criminal court on friday a council also known as rambo was a senior leader within the mostly christian anti baloch a movement its fighters attacked muslim seleka rebels who seized power in twenty thirteen if one is also charged with killing civilians of rape and the recruitment of child soldiers. guinea's government to supply the military to the streets of the capital to try to stop protests by the opposition this growing anger of unpaid wages and the results of a contested election rights groups of accused security forces of using excessive force to clamp down on the set the reports. discontent is spreading teachers left their classrooms swapping pens and paper for rocks and

sticks protesting for better pay the join a growing wave of discontent against a president and his government civil servants want their unpaid wages trade unionist wanted to oil price hikes the opposition want the killing of protesters to stop it here in the shell but. the army has been deployed against the people the military are heavily armed this is in violation of our rights and the constitution . in overwhelm the police now patrol with an elite army battalion turning the capital into battlefield human rights groups accuse the president of using the military to fire live bullets at the people it's meant to defend hundreds have been injured and twenty killed including members of the security forces we're calling for is. to ensure that this stops there should be no more death in the context of demonstrations in guinea and there are

a number of ways. this can be done one is ensuring that the members of the security forces where they use excessive force are held to account that they are taken to brought to justice bishan may also a clear message from the authorities but also from the political parties that violence should not be used during demonstrations including demonstrations of the imposition of the or the ruling party i mean they should be very clear that they're right that it's protected is the right to peaceful demonstration. began in february over a contested local election in quickly spread the government accuse the opposition of using guerrilla tactics running street battles with armed men pitted against the security forces despite a ban on marches protests continue. they are trying to take part of the population hostage by militarizing the streets and they give the excuse that this is to maintain law and order gandhi has been in power since two thousand

and ten opponents fear he wants to change the constitution in seek another mandate with elections scheduled for twenty twenty and growing popular resentment these protests may be just a glimpse of what lies ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera campaigning for a long overdue elections in the democratic republic of congo has begun president joseph kabila met his ministers as they launched their campaign on thursday kabila has been in power since his father was assassinated seventeen years ago bus he's agreed not to seek another term in next month's vote which has been delayed says twenty sixteen it could see as first democratic transfer of power northern california has had its first significant rainfall in months helping to douse the deadliest wildfire in the state's history the wet weather is expected to continue for several coming days people have been warned to prepare for flash flooding and mudslides in some areas rescue teams a coup.