in the management of the port on the wall these are under intense pressure to home over the management of the ports to a third pertti a multitude of food safety is managed to get the the agreement of the management of the port to talks about how the un can get some sort of a rule in the minutemen told the port there seems to be consensus building all around with him but international community for peace talks to behold it's the only way it's believed that yemen come through tom to peace and also the humanitarian crisis in the country come be resolved these a lot of pressure on only. those on the pro-government alliance but also the sodium article supporting the government in yemen. and other stories we're following an explosion at a mosque in eastern afghanistan has killed at least twenty six soldiers a suicide bomber detonated his device inside an army base in hostile province just

as friday prayers were drawing to a close at least fifty seven others were wounded in the explosion. about one of syria's most prominent activists far as has been assassinated in the rebel held province of idlib witnesses say foras and another activists have mood tonight were killed when masked gunmen fired on that car it's been no claim of responsibility for the killing but far as had been a fierce critic of both the syrian regime and armed groups are is found at the independent radio station radio fresh in two thousand and thirteen and now to iraq where flash floods of killed at least seven people including four children in the northern part of the country the mayor of share cut says the floods caused by an usually heavy and early rains have left three thousand people homeless people use bios to flee their partially submerged houses more rain is expected in the region in the coming days. felix she said cady has been chosen as the opposition's

main candidate in the democratic republic of congo's upcoming presidential vote though he comes from the country's oldest and biggest party just katie is a relative newcomer in politics and he has his work cut out for him because he's facing long time ruler president joseph kabila is nominated successor in the december twenty third election catherine so it has more. after his father eighty and she said katie died in february last year felix she said katie to go over the reins of the largest opposition party the union for democracy and social progress. his father had come second in the twenty eleven presidential election and the young like to see katie hopes to capitalizing on that legacy and popularity himself for his father then favoring the same flack street cop. but unlike the older she said katie who had decades of experience both in government and the opposition his son was until recently not in the thick of congress politics

he lived in belgium for many as well as a political newcomer some have criticized his lack of experience there twenty one presidential candidates for the past and to bits is a man diary president joseph kabila successor it will be a single round contest opposition leaders and civil society groups have raised concern about an electronic voting system to be used for the first time in the country and the inclusion of some ten thousand voters who they say should be struck out because of irregularities they're worried that the election will not be free and fair. forty six million congolese i expected to go to the polls supporters of the opposition believe this is a chance for their leaders to show a united front after years of divisions and that he likes to see katie as a man to lead them to victory catherine sawi al-jazeera. a central african republic militia leader and politician has told the international criminal court

that he was tortured after his arrest last month our friend it also known as rambo was a bad egg for war crimes it was a senior leader of the most a question on a movement whose fighters attacked was limb seleka rebels in two thousand and thirteen or a challenge has more from the netherlands. when al jazeera encountered alfred yet at home in central african republic it was two thousand and fourteen the country's ethnic and religious conflicts was in its fiercest stages and yet its own was in charge of a christian militia group fighting predominantly muslim seleka rebels seem filmdom outside the capital bangui on the roads and baking. now he's in very different circumstances appearing for the first time before judges from the international criminal court in the netherlands a preliminary hearing for his forthcoming war crimes and crimes against humanity trial this is the first time that the central african republic has extradited someone to the international criminal court to face charges for their involvement

in the recent conflicts and as such it represents a significant step for the country in dealing with the violence but how he got here is something of an accident late october the militia leader turned m.p. was detained after firing a gun inside cia oz pollens only after this on november eleventh did the i.c.c. publishes arrest warrants and he was hastily extradited a week later all this has reaffirmed for some the suspicion that there's a degree of opportunism in how the i.c.c. works i think what we've learned to about the r.c.c. in the last sixteen years is that it's a much less impressive institution than many people hard and it lacks resources it also lacks knowledge of complex conflict zones in africa and as a result of that it can't go off to the big fish it can go off to presidents of countries instead it's having to go off to often middle ranking actors and you could tom very much fits that category still groups such as the international

federation for human rights are hailing the prosecution bots hope there are more yes we absolutely call on the prosecutor and her office to proceed with for their arrest lines against all those or sponsible in the various armed groups involved in the commission of crimes in this conflict and it has to be an inclusive justice inside courts yeah that's almost lawyer said his client had been arbitrarily detained and abused in custody in benghazi before being extradited. he hated dr julie so last year according to his clear he was tortured and he was beaten with the butt of a kalashnikov he still carries the visual mark on his right foot and he told me that the doctor of the detention center had noticed as. the judge said the court would consider these claims if officially submitted in writing and that the next hearing would be on april the thirtieth two thousand and nineteen helen's al-jazeera the hague climate change will cost the u.s.

economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century that's according to a new congressionally mandated report written with more than a dozen u.s. government agencies it says global warming will disproportionately hurt the poor undermine human health and damage agricultural production findings clash with president onil trumps policies which of rollback environmental and climate protections while boosting the domestic production of fossil fuels all alan fischer is in washington and joins us live now alan tell us more about what's in this report. what's very interesting this is a report this pulled together by thirteen federal agencies they collate all the information they've got to do it under congressional mandate and what they're saying is that the climate is no changing at a faster rate that any point in modern human history and they say there are big problems ahead for the united states because they see the current measures that are in place to fight climate change simply aren't enough they're talking about a lot of people being forced away from the course and they're not just talking

about the likes of florida and south carolina if he has been hit with hurricanes over the last few years and a lot of flooding they're saying look this could in fact hit all of the united states course though is the talk particularly about the likes of new hampshire in the northeast upstate new york new jersey as well and they say that this is going to be a continuing problem because it impacts americans on a social level on an economic level and also on an infrastructure level they see that climate change is causing big problems particularly in the area of water this is the quality of water over the last eighteen years since the turn of the century has decreased dramatically in the united states now we knew this report was due to come out it was actually due to come out at the beginning of december but the government has then pushed it out on a friday after the thanksgiving holiday here in the united states so there is a concern that what the trump administration is trying to do is push this out

without too much attention being paid but just looking at my twitter feed i can tell you that many people are deeply concerned about some of the findings that have been phoned in this report and they say that really this is a wake up call for the united states and the trump government because the report says climate change is real it's not some problem and we in the future it's happening right here right no i guess despite that concern alan we know what the trump position is on this just a couple of days ago he tweeted whatever happened to global warming is any of this likely to change the administration's approach. highly unlikely you're right about the tweet from donald trump who said that there is a record called hitting the northeast and has been incredibly called in the likes of new york and philadelphia and washington over the last couple of days because many people reminded him on twitter that weather is not climate and just thinking

a couple of call days in the middle of november at the start of winter shouldn't be an indication that somehow global warming has disappeared and you remember that just last weekend he was in california and he was looking there at the wildfires he talked about wreaking forests where he was asked look you've said in the past that you think climate change is a hoax has what you've seen here change your mind and he said simply no so is there likely to be any great change in the trumpet ministration policy no and that again is reflected in the fact that rather than make a big deal about this this congressionally mandated report from thirteen federal agencies has been pushed out late on a friday afternoon the day after the thanksgiving holiday when people are out enjoying for want of a better word good friday when they're spending lots and lots of money being involved in obvious consumer consumption and not paying that much attention to scientists are seeing the reserve the real problem here the united states has to

confront it or it's going to cost them cost them and not just in financial terms ok thank you alan alan fischer that in washington. amazon working in the u.k. and elsewhere in europe and demonstrating outside distribution sites are working conditions u.k. union has described them as frankly inhuman the protests for timed to coincide with black friday which is one of the biggest shopping days of the year and here with reports from central england. it is a twenty four hour operation which only pauses when the ship changes packing and preparing parcels boarded with a simple click and on black friday with discounted prices at the online retailer staff at amazon a busier than ever with a. wedding or a child. was outside this distribution center not far from london a defiant cry from members of the g.m.b. union they claim conditions inside are inhuman and the stock are treated like

robots and don't even have time to go to the toilet when you go and work in a warehouse you do expect the monotony you expect to be a bit like a coal miner to be in the dark for twelve hours you don't expect to be treated like you don't expect to be just driven and driven and driven and expected to perform unfeasibly height august all the time. the general manager at this amazon site told us his staff were treated fairly well worship warehousing operations for twenty years and i believe that what we ask people to do is absolutely. the union also alleges that amazon's work places are unsafe claiming ambulances have been called out six hundred times to fourteen warehouses during the last three financial years amazon told us the sites were safe and had fewer injuries on average compared to other similar companies there were protests about conditions in other parts of

europe too with most stop at one site in spain walking out. the company certainly has changed the way many people around the world shop here in the u.k. while amazon's star has risen during the past two decades traditional shopping areas have been struggling to compete on black friday the retailer was even opening a pop up shop in the trendy area of mum to amazon mo has long been seen as a symbol of corporate greed paying as little tax in the u.k. as legally possible while the can buy about so moving its profits continue to rise there's no getting away from the fact that amazon is a huge machine at this site and i employ thousand people with hundreds more during the busiest times of the. amazon calls its distribution sites fulfillment centers exactly how fulfilling they are to work in is a matter of opinion and

a haywood al-jazeera to milton keynes still ahead for you on the program of the u.k. prime minister's price it was run aground on the issue of gibraltar after an intervention by the spanish prime minister. looks to revive its oil industry meet the residents whose water has been contaminated by damaged oil wells and find out more about the englishman who scored a century on his ten to nationals in jussi with peter. carlo welcomes another look at the international forecast we got more rain and clouds pushing into western parts of europe loss of them using our western side of france into the southwest approaches of england pushing into wells so parts of olim to the

really heavy rain is now making its way across the iberian peninsula so more lively downpours coming through here by saturday that western weather will swept across southern france snow over the house maybe twenty to thirty centimeters of snow for some some heavy rain to be into parts of northern italy pushing over towards the a vatican push for the race here it is largely dry but it's pretty cold temperatures around minus three celsius therefore he have subzero in moscow as well by sunday the cloud in the rain returns to a good part of italy much of the balkans eastern areas generally dry bit milder there phobic restaurant celsius well fog and eight seven right there for london and paris as we go through sunday night is more wet weather pushing into that western side of that is disturbed weather pushing across spain and portugal will also affect the north of morocco a good part of algeria's well plenty of cloud around here think around twenty to thirty millimeters of rain on the cards for some broad skies come back in as we go on through sunday with some showers pushing into west in libya.

because we're not defending as. rights being violated. and freedom being stripped away. on a seven year anniversary in which whites that stand up. stand up for human rights across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants' at all zero immigration but this is the one political topic anybody and everybody is discussing the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudiced some

pride in hungary on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick look at the top stories this hour turkish investigators analyzing the phone calls and movements of the suspects in the case of murdered saudi journalist jamal khashoggi said the operation to kill him was planned to twelve days in advance and the recordings a third voice. say might be that of the saudi crown prince. meanwhile the incoming head of the u.s. house intelligence panel says democrats will investigate president trump's response

. as part of a deep dive next year into u.s. saudi ties and suicide attackers have tried to storm the chinese consulate in the pakistani city of karachi killing two policeman a separatist group the pollutions stand liberation army has claimed responsibility for the attack. well i'm joined now from washington by middle east analyst sigurd's neubauer he was a friend of jamal khashoggi thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so as we're hearing the indications of that when majority control of the u.s. house of representatives changes hands come january democrats will investigate president trump's financial ties to saudi arabia is continued pressure from congress likely to impact the trouble ministrations calculations on this in any way . yes absolutely. been previously reported

is that the incoming chairman of the u.s. house of representatives' intelligence committee adam schiff a democrat from california has announced that he will request an investigation into whether or not president trump will be able to provide details of the intelligence assessment i was provided to him about all the details leading up to the murder of john murtha shoji and separately what appears to be a politically motivated investigation into his financial dealings with saudi arabia . on a separate note we have also seen that the senate where do republicans are in control are pushing forward a separate motion and that motion would ensure that all the details pertaining to the cia assessment will be shared with lawmakers under u.s. law when is that likely to happen and will that assessment be publicly disclosed.

that this us mint will likely be publicly disclosed primarily because it is mary interest to the american public and to the washington post which is of course the dominant newspaper in the american capital where. as a columnist that that's the first aspect of it the second aspect is that the motion of the senate was filed just days ago and is expected to give the administration ninety day window to answer d's calls and then as we saw just this afternoon the incoming chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff will. call for his own investigations but that is unclear whether that investigates the geisha will turn into law because it would if it is politically motivated the republicans will shut it down in. the senate so these two motions are taking place and they are taking place only days after president trump of course provided his own

assessment of how to proceed with actually on the relationship just on that point we have president trump insisting that saudi arabia is a crucial trading partner and strategic ally in the region for the united states how far is trum to go into finding the crown prince. i think that we have to understand trump's rhetoric within the context where the american public is and where demoting the congress and that is that there are six stream outrage over what happened to our friend and colleague john wall and president trump even though his rhetoric is off putting to many. what he is attempting to do is to throw a lifeline to the u.s. saudi relationship precisely because the congress will ensure that all the details will come out and that will further put a strain on the u.s. saudi relationship including on american businesses and their quest to invest into

saudi gonna me well thank you for sharing your thoughts with us sigurd. joining us there from washington now spain's prime minister is warning that sunday's roxas summit may be called off if a deal is not agreed with the u.k. over gibraltar the british territory in southern spain is home to many businesses that employs thousands of spanish people reports now from. on the southern coast of spain the british territory of gibraltar just since the mediterranean sea ninety six percent of gibraltarians voted to remain in the e.u. in the twenty sixteen referendum but most say than are resigned to breaks it we were so stunned i think that. we actually felt a certain sense of loss grief. and i guess now it's we're just resigned to. you know trusting people and hoping that they will do the best for us more than

three centuries ago british troops captured gibraltar from spain today the territories no tax economy is fueled by financial and online gaming companies and is powered by more than ten thousand spanish workers who cross the border daily. to for jobs we happened with. the border there with their relationships in between a spain and you brought our we are not we are not sure the sense of uncertainty has been exacerbated by a new dispute engulfing gibraltar spain's prime minister says he will not support the british prime minister's withdrawal agreement because it fails to clarify that only go she ations over to polter should be made directly between madrid and london . if this isn't resolved by sunday spain a poor european country will vote no on exist size a vigil right. spain can't actually stop the withdrawal agreement because under

e.u. rules the agreement can be adopted by a qualified majority doesn't need a unanimous vote but a refusal by spain to support the deal could certainly be rail the process on the spanish side of the border the mayor says he hopes the gibraltar route will be resolved i mean. negotiations are only and so the stakes are high now it's about trying to get the most possible i hope the end of this agreement is close but the government's worried about. the main thing for us is to remember the rights of the border workers. some people say that such chess is using the gibraltar issue to bolster his socialist parties popularity in spain ahead of this week's regional elections in the andalus your region are the say he's right to refuse cooperation with london on a process which could be against spanish interests the trash al-jazeera gibraltar green party delegates from thirty five countries across europe a meeting in berlin to discuss

a manifesto for elections next year after recent unexpected gains in germany belgium and luxembourg hoping to fill in the political vacuum across europe from the german capital dominic kane reports. in europe is usually associated with decay and fading light yet this weekend in berlin hundreds of greens believe their movement has a spring in its that. german colleagues at second in the national opinion polls and enjoyed a string of successes and station elections this year narrow their next year's european elections if you haven't actually. we're hoping we can build a progressive alliance which will bring an end to the politics of stagnation that's why we look at our election a success in bavaria and hope it will be like a tailwind taking us to the euro elections. but what's causing this green wave in germany the topics they stand for climate change and nuclear power

plants. that these are big issues that are really pressing now that are on top of the public agenda and pop up on top of people's agenda and of course other parties have also put these issues in their party platforms but though to say you know we rather vote for the it's original the greens then for those that follow which is exactly what these delegates want to hear. success in elections in germany is one thing but the question many people are asking here at this council is how can they transform it into a victory in next year's european elections yes a clever leads the dutch green left party in last year's general election he more than trebled his party share of the vote he believes the mainstream parties have no answer to society's problems a lot of people for that have the feeling the left is not the only working for me and now there are the greens and we have this promise that we are working for the

people and i think this is a really important promise in democracy in a really important promise for us as politicians so i think this is why this wave this not only in the netherlands or in germany but also is in belgium and luxembourg and even if france. will find out it is right next may dominic came. in all to south sudan now where harf a million villages have had their water supplies contaminated by leaks from damaged oil wells the oil facilities were heavily attacked during the five year civil war some are being repaired and production is restarting to boost the oil dependent economy but as has been morgan reports villagers in the northern state of ruling fear of further damage to their health. for more than seven years doctors advised to make sure his daughter now dad is never alone they couldn't figure out why she lost the ability to walk. in medical ok and the more she was growing up normally she started crying one night that her body was aching then over

a few weeks she stopped walking i took her to so many doctors no one gave me a reason why this happened he isn't sure what affected his daughter's health but he had a tour is she loses the tumor growing on her hand four years ago and it's become more painful lately the forty two year old blames drinking water from a source near an oil well you're very good and i mean first i was pain in my left hand then i got frequent headaches then the tumor appeared on my right hand i drink the water that's next to the oil well and i think that's the reason behind it she's one of hundreds who live in villages near oil wells and growing state somewhere abruptly shut five years ago when rebel attacks destroyed facilities the shutdown are blamed for causing oil leak in just into us a source his production is restarting and the damage is repaired on revenue a council more than mine two percent of south sudan's g.d.p. increased oil production is a stronger economy for stocks but for those believe me to hold well above water sources from the area there are concerns that the production or counselors. the

german aid organization sign of hope says leaks and damaged oil wells have contaminated the water supplies of more than have a million south sudanese the organisation says what i meant for drinking was found to contain heavy metals and oil production waste government leaders say they are looking to the operating companies to assure villages about their health concerns really what it. above the being because of the or you will. leave god. this is affecting people all from time to time in the community of better organised a government also a quarter of the companies that who are working or printing ruinous to it in order to look the needs of the people. the main operating company in the area the group to find your operating company or keep ok he says it's aware of the health concerns

it is because of all that's in the field to see that video much of it might sound just opportunity that we should take the not only not only. the one and then we don't hear about the people. religious such as ned who may never recover from her illness never will just once treatment for her tumor but to make her pain go away people morgan al-jazeera ruing south sudan earlier this month the united states re impose sanctions on iran's oil industry lifted as part of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal in the wake of president tom's decision to pull out of that agreement iranians have been bracing themselves for more economic instability but one industry in particular believes it's virtually sanction proof the grow is and trade is of saffron samus ravi reports now from about a daria. the men and women in this room take saffron very seriously

at a conference hosted by the university of experts are discussing risks and challenges to the industry rising market demand climate change and of course the one thing every iranian business worries about american sanctions. and i know they're the main producer and exporter in the world there's no alternative sanctions have no impact on this industry. so they need to buy our products by legal or illegal means was so to our products it will be exported saffron doesn't need much water to grow so traders are encouraging farmers dealing with nearly a decade of drought to swap crops the farm to table process can be labor intensive delicate work but in the end it's a lucrative. ninety percent of iran saffron is exported and a kilogram can sell for around fifteen hundred dollars the spices a key ingredient in cosmetics perfume food and medicine the international demand is

high and people who wanted will usually find a way to get it. seller say that makes u.s. sanctions a buyers problem and. that it will know this year fortunately even sanctions have had an impact it's actually better because the price has gone up. packed into these little boxes is the culmination of hours of manual labor by dozens of people and that's why this sought after spice is so expensive so can safra save iran's economy technically it is possible but there is a problem of scale iran does not make enough saffron accounts for less than one percent of iran's overall revenue from exports. still it's big business in small town iran and profits are up i don't know quite what is though for some it can be backbreaking thankless work i want to point out. the harvest season lasts

only a month and pickers are out from dawn to dusk they say the minimum wage is not enough and they want a bigger share of growing profits for the three of them with a lot more soul near we live in poverty we come here early in the morning and sometimes when i come home my child complained saying i don't see you we're not even often fridays in the middle of winter when everyone sits next to a heater we're in this freezing cold with force to do this otherwise we wouldn't do it help. while the government has poured money into helping the saffron sector thrive the benefits have yet to trickle all the way down the same bus ravi older zero four but the head the rear. taiwan is holding key local elections this weekend and the outcome will be closely watched by china which has concerns over leadership of independence leaning president when china regards taiwan as part of its territory which can be taken back by force if necessary relations between the two

sides of west and since i took alan and as adrian brown now reports that is hurting the economy. it will be another six months before pineapple farmer lives.