not to destroy the forest that is part of. learned ownership in brazil is among the most concentrated an unequal in the world those who ordered intimidation the murder is a really brought to justice. this is al-jazeera. i'm fully back to this is a news hour live from my headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes pressure mounts on donald trump over the matter of jamal khashoggi democrats a full investigation into how the u.s. president has handled the case mass protest same paris against

a tax increase and president emanuel mccloskey economic policies also this hour sealing the deal british promise a threesome a arrives in brussels to finalize or breck's a plan with the year and the n.p.t. standard with all the sport has to a football feel so strongly bulls get set to take to the field it's really played pieces baka juniors in the cup a little to doris final we'll be live in we're sorry it's made to this news and. thank you for joining us jamal high show g.'s murderous seems to have accomplished something rare bringing us republicans and democrats together key figures in both parties are demanding answers from donald trump's administration and questioning the president's reluctance to act on the journalist scaling adam schiff is set to become the house intelligence committee's chairman early next year is promising a deep die. into washington's ties with reality including death the war in yemen

and the stability of the saudi royal family on the republican side key senators including foreign relations committee chairman bob corker are demanding answers from the administration i speak to political hand in washington d.c. for a spot a president won't be able to move on from. jess yet. no and he's definitely been trying to for weeks now and he's really had different stories he says when it comes to the murder of jamal khashoggi maybe the crown prince mohammed bin sultan of saudi arabia maybe he knew maybe he didn't who knows or one point to blame the world for being a violent place i can tell you throughout capitol hill from democrats republicans congressmen senators that was not good enough so the timing here is probably going to be instrumental because the republicans as you just mentioned bob corker are very influential in foreign policy he's actually decided to quit rather than try to face reelection and possibly the ire of trump space so he is still the head of the

foreign relations committee in the senate he's got a limited amount of time before he's out of office so you could see him try and press this issue try to get that to the forefront because it is a bipartisan concern and if he doesn't doesn't have the numbers if you can't get it through well then democrats take over the house in the january third and they've already said that there's going to be a full investigation and what will it mean precisely for the president when the democrats take control of the house in january how much trouble could he face. he has absolutely no idea what it different thing it is to govern when you don't have full control of the congress the system was designed to have checks and balances there have been no checks on this president because the republicans who are in charge of the house and senate didn't want to check him they didn't want to anger his base so now democrats are coming in emboldened by the election emboldened by trump's very low popularity he hasn't been investigated really at all not publicly

obviously the special counsel robert muller is looking into the possibility of collusion between not just russia and the trump campaign there's been reports that he's also talking to people about potential collusion between saudi arabia the united arab emirates and the charm campaign but all that's been happening behind closed doors there's been several indictments but we don't know what robert mueller knows the thing that about the congressional committees is they can make people testify before them under oath lying to congress is a federal offense it's a very serious crime have subpoena power so they can subpoena bank records and tax documents now the president could try to fight that in the courts but in the past the courts have been tend to lean towards checks and balances not away from them so in just about six weeks the what the president knows about being president is about to change completely thank you for that reporting live from washington the pressure is also growing on tenacious government protesters there want the government to cancel a planned visit by the saudi crown prince because of his suspected links to show.

but the cash shops government is warning the protests could stop much needed financial aid from the kingdom. has a story. of this mass protests against the proposed visit by this. is on his first. since the killing of journalist. some to. his arrival could. and liberties with the lie that. the crown prince is tainted by the killing of our late colleague jamal khashoggi and the arrest of dozens of saudi activists for these reasons we consider his visit a provocation and an insult to the values of the tunisian revolution and our democracy tennessee i was the focal point of the pro-democracy protests in two thousand and eleven that galvanized the weald and start of the revolution known as

the arab spring lawyers and human rights activists in tunisia a mounting a legal challenge to stop the visit but that's unlikely to happen to cash strapped government is desperate for financial aid to tackle poverty instability and unemployment. government leaders are concerned protests might alienate some of the leaders a tech critical moment for the government is getting a great deal of pushback there has been. number of statements for example from the syndicate journalists a very strong syndicate there since their own uprising in two thousand and eleven saying that he is using this trip to whitewash his violations against human rights and to make the war in yemen more palatable and they're using

tunisia after the crown prince is due to visit. before attending the g. twenty summit next week in argentina it tore widely seen as an attempt by this apartment to repair his image during the international outcry over his suspected role in the killing of. a. almost daily in the case they've been gruesome twists and turns accusations and political ramifications tony barely explains now what happened after the journalists walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul on october second. it was meant to be a new beginning for jamal khashoggi a new wife a new home and a new country but turkey was where he died and exiled journalists who dared to question and authoritarian leader his death in the saudi consulate in istanbul could so easily have been missed or even forgotten had it not been for the secret

audio recordings from the scene no one really knows exactly how these recordings came about either the turkish security service it bugged the consulate or a consular official with a conscience recording them in the end it doesn't really matter what matters is that they expose the lies and deception surrounding this murder at first the denials are strong on october third the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan denied all knowledge of the killings saying mr casady disappeared after he left the consulate building a lot told with the eight his brother bin salman the saudi ambassador to the u.s. repeated the claim but on october the twelfth according to cia sources reported saudi crown prince asked jerrod krishna president trump son in law why the outrage is because saudi was a dangerous islamist this anger the turkish authorities and that is when the audio recordings started to be leaked. on october thirteenth eleven days after mr casady was killed the turkish newspaper subba published details of the killing it said

they came from a recording from his i watch that was sync to his i phone held by his turkish fiance outside the consulate the i watched part is perhaps not correct but the newspaper said the recording was of the journalist being tortured and then murdered this is when the picture and the response started to change with such grim and irrefutable evidence it was difficult for this out and out culture of denial to continue and if you're over suspicious or cynical nature this is when you could believe that and agree narrative was beginning to take shape and an element of collusion was starting not just in saudi arabia on october the fifteenth president donald trump introduces the element of rogue killers maybe being responsible he repeated maybe two days later my comp a of the u.s. secretary of state was dispatched to riyadh where he stressed the strong alliance between the two countries and said we face our challenges together the past the day and tomorrow those challenges then got harder on october the seventeenth the

turkish daily yeni shafiq printed more details about the killing revealing the concerns of the saudi consular general in istanbul he asked the hit team to do it somewhere else the paper reports that he was told to shut up if he wanted to live back in saudi saudi arabia as noted began to change at this point on october the nineteenth the saudi attorney general said the journalist was killed during a fight on october the twenty first the saudi foreign minister adel algae of their followers president trumps line and says mr khashoggi was killed by a rogue elements and insisted the crown prince had nothing to do with it it's interesting to see who these rogue elements are according to the information available they include some of the most trusted members of mohamed bin salman's personal security team and a forensic expert and they acted under the orders of the deputy head of saudi intelligence in a country where the crown prince exercises unbridled such. per hour it's unbelievable to sound that such a mission could have been undertaken without his knowledge on october the twenty

second the saudis introduced a new version saying that it was an accident that mr kosofsky raised his voice the team panicked moved to restrain him and then had him in a choke hold in which he died on the same day this was dispelled by more audio revelations in the newspaper which revealed new recordings that mr cumshaw ji was either strangled with a belt or is fixated with a plastic bag after cia director gina hospital listened to the recordings in a visit to turkey saudi arabia changed its story once again on october twenty fifth after more than three weeks of denials and implausible explanations the saudi attorney general finally admitted the murder it was premeditated he later and now to the death penalty for five of the team but with no further details and stressed that the crown prince was not implicated. on november the sixteenth the cia leak their findings with one official saying it was blindingly obvious who was responsible three days later more audio details released by her newspaper revealing

just before the murder exactly how the hit team was going to commit the killing and who would do what the paper said the recordings also detailed nineteen phone calls that were made to riyadh after the killing including one in which the caller said tell the boss the deed is done on the same day habit turk online newspaper reveals more from the consulate audio recordings with mr being grabbed to soon as he walked in and being called a traitor and the man who posed as his double to give the impression the journalist left the consulate saying it is spooky wearing the clothes of a man we killed twenty minutes ago when president trump declared his support for the saudi crown prince he said there was no direct proof against mohammed bin salman on november the twenty second harriet made the strongest allegation against the crown prince stating that the cia has an order recording between mohamed bin selman and his brother in washington ordering mystica shah ji to be silenced it hasn't changed the mind of president donald trump it's business as usual with saudi

arabia this terrible murder will be remembered for the lies and deception but also the day a u.s. president gave a pardon to a thanksgiving turkey and a virtual pardon to saudi crown prince tony berkeley al-jazeera istanbul. the spread to more head on this al-jazeera news hour including taiwan's president steps down as leader of our party after he suffers a blow in local elections. major u.s. government report contradicts president trance repeated denials about global warming. madrid's winning run under their new boss comes crashing to an end more coming up later in sports with peter. first french police spent much of the day trying to disperse angry crowds in paris these are live pictures right now from central paris motorists set up. the

second saturday in a row to demand the scrapping of a proposed green energy tax which has driven up fuel prices catherine stansell has more. a wave of yellow in the french capital the anger fueled by a proposed tax rise. for the second successive weekend the so-called yellow vests created roadblocks and organized protests demanding that president emanuel not cross scrap the tax. riot police stopped thousands of demonstrators on the main avenue de sean saudis say from breaking through a cordon protecting the palace the president's official residence. the price of diesel has risen by twenty three percent over the past year to about a dollar seventy one per liter. micron's decision to impose a further increase of six point five cents starting on the first of january is the final straw for many here. the government takes everything from us they steal from

us we have to pay for everything we are overtaxed and we hope that the protests will change things. the rising cost of fuel is going to trigger a civil war. like. we are already. we're fed up with paying so much all the time it's become the new normal but paying so much it's just not possible anymore. was the president claims of rising oil prices worldwide and says the tax is necessary for more investment in cream and renewable energy social media has primarily been used to mobilize the yellow fasts they say they have no leader or political affiliation police are concerned that far right extremists may infiltrate the demonstrations and provoke violence three thousand officers have been mobilized in paris i. nearly three hundred thousand people took part in similar nationwide

protests last saturday two people were killed and hundreds of others injured. france already has some of the highest road fuel taxes and here at icons vowing to face down any protests and press ahead with his policy no matter how unpopular catherine stansell al jazeera but by no good says a researcher in paris he says french people are blaming the president for not keeping his promises emanuel announced evolution it's the title of the book that the man you must call wrote during the campaign he was talking about repairing from but also it did the promise of a big revolution in france a fiscal one who distributed her distribution and those people are actually joined by something which is income and they don't see the change in their daily lives they feel a lot of frustration they believe that they pay too much starts but at the same

time they don't get enough and you know one very important part in france is consultant to pay tax but we see since recently that the consultant to pay taxes for us is declining french people consider and many people consider that they have too many times when at the same time. the public. expenditure goes don't of people are wondering why do they pay so much tax when they announce deficit reduction or less phobic expenditure ups it's a very very big and quite difficult question for him and you and michael. british prime minister theresa may has arrived in brussels on the eve of the break said summit her visit comes after a key hurdle before an agreement on breaks in between the e.u. and the u.k. seems to be out of the way let's speak to john holds in brussels for as jonah there'd been a question over whether sunday's summit would go ahead well it. well

yes there had been some confusion and potentially doubt about the summit at all because of jacksons raised by spain over whether or not it would be afforded the direct say over the arrangements to do with gibraltar in any future relationship between britain and the united between britain and the european union after briggs's spain believe that in the withdrawal agreement at the beginning of no sydney goetia seventeen months ago this was agreed but when the text came out they felt that britain had massage the text underhandedly and was furious anyway they have been given written assurance by the british government now that indeed no arrangements will be concluded to broth or without the direct say without direct negotiations with spain that has satisfied the spanish prime minister and all of the european council president has sent out the formal invitations inviting the leaders to turn up here early on sunday morning to look at hopefully unanimously

indorse the withdrawal agreement and the political declaration that goes along with it setting up the goalposts for the future relationship mr trust said he will recommend indorsement no one should be happy about this he said but it is going to go ahead this is what the spanish prime minister had to say a little earlier a couple of the. three i have informed the king about and the grievance on gibraltar firstly i want to tell you that the european council take place to morrow and secondly that europe and the u.k. have accepted the conditions imposed by spain therefore spain will lift its veto and vote in favor of brigs it tomorrow. jonah other leaders are expected to arrive in brussels sunday morning why is theresa may there saturday evening. well that's a good question folly nobody quite seems to know and indeed reportedly diplomats here in brussels have been quite perplexed about her presence here on saturday

evening the use been very clear there's no negotiating to be done there's nothing effectively to talk about these texts are now closed she decided to come nonetheless she's midway through these meetings she's met john called by the commission president the building behind me she's gone across the road to meet donald toast the council president on her way she made comments that related to gibraltar so quite what she's discussing with them is unclear we know she's under a lot of pressure to try and reopen the text to try and change some of the terms of the negotiation particularly to do with the backdrop of how it relates to northern ireland is she here to tell them perhaps that it is make or break if these issues aren't change she can't get that deal passed at home that would be extremely bad it would seem unlikely at this point to be frank but we're not entirely sure thank you john a journal reporting live from brussels a big voting day in taiwan hasn't gone well for the pro independence ruling party millions cast their ballots in mid-term local elections and ten referendums the big

i've said so far have been against a vote a vote against same sex marriage and president in wayne offering to step down as chairwoman of the ruling party brown reports from taipei. some voters waited patiently in line for up to two hours to counts their ballots the election and the referendums happening alongside it were about local issues they also indicated the popularity of the government led by president zine when the verdict a severe setback to her leadership the democratic progressive party lost control of taiwan second and third largest cities she offered to resign as party chairwoman which analysts say will weaken her power within the d.p.p. so here i think in iraq i think first of all i need to take full responsibility for the resolute in today's elections effective now i resign as the chairwoman of the democratic progressive party our efforts were not enough disappointing all

supporters who gave their all i also want to once again express our deepest regrets as with all elections in taiwan there was one overriding issue china you know how many with or without the afrin demand independence we taiwanese decide our own future we are always taiwanese and unlike us they are chinese. and fine with a referendum to decide whether we go for independence or unification but i personally support maintaining the status quo and the governments of both sides should cooperate in january two thousand and sixteen zion and the d.p.p. won a landslide victory and taiwan had its first female head of state but almost immediately china's leaders and their supporters here began a campaign to undermine her administration the relationship between china and beijing worsened doctors eyeing when became president almost three years ago the

leadership in beijing often demonizes her over her refusal to accept there is but one china and taiwan is a part of it as a result the diplomatic and economic squeeze of taiwan goes on. there were setbacks as well into contentious referendums with taiwanese voting against same sex marriage and changing the name taiwan uses when it competes in international sporting events it's been a bad weekend for taiwan's leader but it's provided a further in mind that the democracy here remains one of the freest and most vibrant in asia adrian brown al-jazeera taipei j. bruce jacobs is a professor of asian languages and studies at monash university and the author of democratizing taiwan he says the results are a win for china. i think beijing might be a little bit happy but i don't think the taiwan government of any stripe can expect

any favors from beijing i mean beijing's understanding of history is of very political and it's non historical so to say that taiwan has been always been a part of china is just false history. and if we look at taiwan's history the only time a chinese government has ruled taiwan since since the beginning was in one thousand forty five to nine hundred forty nine and that's when john kerry implemented a colonial government so beijing is creating false history it in its claim to taiwan and what's really interesting is that these elections didn't have much to do with relations with china it was young people and older people voting to improve the economy and in many cases such as gulshan the city in the south it had been ruled by the democratic party the progressive party for over twenty years and i think around the world you tend to find at least in democratic parties twenty years is quite a long range and often years just change for change's sake at that stage so to some

extent it was a result because there was strong control of the d.p.p. in some places but there was also a report card on the central government and the central government has tended to be rather rather cautious and to some extent this is led the paralysis and i think this cause some concern to among voters yemenis internationally recognized government has rejected a u.n. offer to help manage the critical port or for data monograph if the un special envoy said on friday that hoofy fighters had agreed to discuss the proposal of the un taking a supervisory role data is the main entry point for aid to millions of here many's on the brink of famine ahmed abdul has more from nearby djibouti. before he left some special envoy griffith expressed his happiness with how things went during his trip in yemen he said he was contented with consultations he had hard with. and

those views were also expressed by the leader of the supreme revolutionary council of the island who said that they were hopping with the steps the special envoy has taken so far and the hope he will succeed in talks. with the government of president of the rebel months will hardly but one thing that is proving controversial is the issue of a role for the e.u. and in the marriage went over the port of the day there's something griffiths maintains strictly be for humanitarian purposes griffiths had announced on friday that he had gotten the go ahead to negotiations with the use of a role for the u. and to ensure that aid coming through the port is coming in and getting to where it is needed the most but the government of october almost would hardly say to those negotiations or the management of the port take place in their absence and they

would not agree any role for the. other port but also in the city which sort of shows the kind of what most fair. the special envoy might have during talks with the government that is exiled in riyadh. still ahead on al-jazeera without opposition parties why activists say bad rains bottom entry election is a farce. at this time of year the temperatures are dropping below zero and the waters are rising we join a bosnian border patrol on the watch for refugees who are risking their lives hoping for a better future and find out who claims to call at the last moment i want to raise up this season in abu dhabi that since ports we intend to.

hello again to welcome back well we did see some very stormy conditions pushing across iraq and now those storms are iran making their way down here towards the south and to saudi arabia some of the rain showers are going to be quite heavy here's an area of low pressure that we're talking about dealing with it and that is going to continue to make its way towards the east so the rain showers look like this anywhere from baghdad down towards quite city could be a problem on sunday up towards tehran even doha could be seeing a rain shower or two we think it's going to be mostly to the north though but we can't rule it out for the city and then as we go towards monday that system does push more towards the east and things out to the west clear out a little bit well here's that storm system a little bit further to the south digs in the showers not only for qatar but also for bahrain and parts of saudi arabia and then on monday those systems does push through parts of the and also into dubai what's left is some cooler conditions with see a cloudy day for you at about twenty two degrees and then very quickly down here towards the southern part of africa not looking too bad down here towards the south we're

going to see partly cloudy conditions for most locations with the difference in about thirty one a very warm day for you cape town at twenty one johannesburg at twenty seven and then as we go towards monday still really through the save for much of the area but over here towards madagascar across the southeastern coast we are going to seize showers. shawn the liers all staring down at what humanity done to the souls of them that one would ever know how many here a star just out of the sky by a good body. is all about simply the shots came from the holiday and you heard craig speakers on the balcony over her child was really just want to break off because we've got some of. that in the interest that doesn't somehow pull your hotel's a brand new series coming soon normal just zero. in palestine under british

rule. educated in america. a controversial professor in new york. he realized that he was the voice. of the people. explores what made him an influential writer. and champion of the palestinian police in the west and what's out of place. there watching the news out on al-jazeera with me for the back he brought a reminder of our top stories u.s. president donald trump's defense of solder rabia over journalists from a high shoji is murder is expected to be part of an intense congressional

investigation early next year adam schiff the democrat tape to leave the house intelligence committee says their plans to uncover trauma's possible financial ties with the saudi kingdom. french riot police have fought running battles with fuel tax protesters in paris motorists are demanding that president not call scrap a proposed green energy taxes. and british prime minister theresa may is in brussels where she's meeting the president of the european commission junko young have a special summit to discuss the final breakfast agreement meeting comes hours after the final hurdle of asian brown ta was agreed with spain. now u.s. government report says extreme weather disasters are getting worse in america and climate change is to blame it says weather events will cost the u.s. economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century the report frequently contradicts president who's called global warming

a hoax mike hanna reports from washington. the report makes clear that the wave of wildfires that's hit the u.s. is just one direct consequence of climate change the most recent devastating areas of california a part of a system of global warming that is going to get even worse in the years ahead the ferocious hurrican that have hit parts of the u.s. and regions around it are similarly part of this disturbing pattern the report continues no area of human activity will go untouched in increasing heat for example key crops such as wheat and corn will see declining yields which could result an economic downturn greater public t. even starvation the report is mandated by congress and it will debate the findings that should also form the basis of government planning in coming years. that this is a government very different from those of the cost president trump has publicly described

the concept of climate change as a hoax and that was one of his reasons for wanting to withdraw the us from the paris climate accord the paris climate accord is simply the latest example of washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages. the united states and only this week the president tweeted with obvious sarcasm brutal an extended cold blast could shatter all records whatever happened to global warming this confusion between daily weather fluctuations a long term climate trends regarded by the president's critics as yet another display of ignorance but he has the power to bury the report in its recommendations and it will be a long hard fight for congress to attempt to resurrect it my kind of washington well for more on this alleged speak to the president of earth justice abigail dillon who joins us from berkeley california thank you very much for speaking to us

so. are you worried at all but by what you read in this climate report is there anything new that raises alarm bells well of course i'm worried i think that the report tells us what we know and what we see in that is that our climate is changing very quickly that all of the worries that climate scientists have been plugging for us are coming true and it's going to have huge consequences whether you care about public health and safety whether you care about food security and availability of water whether you care about the economy climate change is having impacts that are so real we can quantify them now and so we're none of this is new but i think the fact that there's so much data now to be able to estimate the kinds of impacts to to trade in the economy if it does change the conversation in the u.s. particularly with this coming out of the trump administration itself and how

frustrating is it for you that the trumpet administration's stance on fossil fuel use for instance and existence of climate change is so at odds with this report. well i think it's more than frustrating i hope we won't look back on these years as a tragic lost opportunity there were so many gains made during the obama administration in terms of thrusting us into climate leadership and it has been the central policy of the trumpet ministration to try to dismantle all of that progress now fortunately facts do still matter in the u.s. we still have the rule of law and so i think we will see a suite of winning lawsuits as the administration tries to roll back standards for clean cars for methane pollution for of course clean energy in our power sector all of these are steps that are so warranted by this by the science as we see again

today do you think they may be more sway now on what will be done about climate change after the midterm elections well i think the midterms are very important one story that i don't know has been told enough is how many of the new congress people in the house how many of the new governors in the governors' mansions how many new legislators in our state houses ran on a platform of one hundred percent clean energy and the youth vote that we saw i think was really galvanized by a recognition in young people that their future is at stake now so i expect climate change to be very much an issue in the congress no longer a debate about whether it's happening but rather a debate about how quickly we need to move and what needs to be done to tackle the problem thank you for speaking to us abigail dillon president of earth just is joining us from berkeley california thank you very much for your time. in the past

year serbia has been the way out for people fleeing economic turmoil and political violence in iran but now belgrade has cropped visa free travel for iranians after thousands of tourists reportedly never returned home they flew from tehran to serbia's capital with the promise of easy entry at the airport they then cross the drain a river into neighboring bosnia according to sorry evil's foreign office all to get to croatia which is a member of the european union serbia says its re-imposing visa restrictions on iran after an estimated twelve thousand tourists traveling from tehran never returned as relieved many of them crossed the border into bosnia the main target for refugees trying to reach western europe al-jazeera save a tazer reports from the tunnels for make on bosnia is border with serbia. or at night time patrolling by bosnia's border police the fast flowing waters of the river drain are the last barrier for the refugees the majority crossing it now

rainy and the opposite banks in serbia are swept with infrared heat detectives and night scanning binoculars. but we use battery lamps rotating lights and vehicle headlamps to try and dissuade the migrants from crossing the border but they're up against highly experienced gangs of human traffickers making a fortune out of the refugees at this time of year the temperatures are dropping below zero and the waters are rising so the refugees are strapping together plastic bottles roping them together and using them as a raft in summer months they can simply wait across but now some of them are drowning their bodies swept onto the bosnian banks of the river which offered them such an illusory freedom. at a refugee camp outside sarajevo we met a radians who survived the perilous journey. joining the pakistanis and afghans who

thought was near was just one step away from the freedom of western europe this iranian kurd didn't want to give us his name he says his brother was shot dead by special forces in iran fighting a growing protest movement he told us he wants a new life for his wife and children bosnia tries to give the refugees a humane welcome but it's a country without the resources to cope with this new burden. in the last six months ninety percent of migrants came to us from serbia across the drian a river with no documents we were worried about the large numbers of iranians coming because serbia introduced a visa free version with five flights weekly from iran so we had a huge influx some four thousand rainy and. back at the headquarters of the bosnian border police another influx of refugees but this time trying to get back into serbia. this iraqi family managed to walk into savina but were handed back to cry out police who beat them up and force them back into bosnia smugglers have taken

all their money we broke our word to the boat here by boat and a very very. good guy no good he done it without any play you have to wait inside the police station i talked to a group of iranians too afraid to appear on camera accountants electrical engineers fruit sellers they said the economy in iran was in a desperate state and feedom was being stifled among the crowded corridors i also met three were hidden gem muslims from me and ma their families at all being killed it took them fourteen months to reach the borders of the european union they too were beaten back with truncheons david chaytor al-jazeera. the bosnia's border with serbia julian agana leads the open society european policy analysis and advocacy on e.u. policies on migration and asylum she says e.u.

leaders need to be more proactive about helping refugees in the balkans region. there's a sort of mess and brussels of the balkans route is closed but in actual fact that isn't the case when the attack your struck thousands of people stranded and since then thousands more people have arrived so about twenty one thousand people have arrived to both now this year which about ten thousand are stuck there right now that's another estimated seven eight thousand lives. and these are families traveling often with small children from countries like iran but also primary afghanistan iraq and further afield most people are still living in makeshift camps in really terrible conditions is now starting to snow in those about part of the world and the conditions are very very hard especially for families with children women and so on. and europe which is turning a blind eye as far as the uk was and member state capitals are concerned that there is no crisis in the civil competitive okamura out and nothing is being done except

trying to stop these people and the violence that is happening isn't happening in countries like north primary happening on the part of of the police forces of member states like creations living in a. he won rights organizations say bahrain's parliamentary election was neither free nor fair the two main opposition groups weren't taking part in. this year to effectively banned then also have been jotted reports. lyrics in arabic say i'm from home from. state t.v. shows the gulf kingdom going to the polls and voters queuing up hundreds of kind of this many of them women are surely a positive sign it's a display of democracy in the mainly undemocratic middle east. but in reality it is just that a display. more than three hundred sixty thousand religious bill to vote but with the playing field paved by the ruling royal family human rights activists say the

election is not representative of everyone's hopes and dreams. many many bahraini is a looking at the situation saying why should i bother to vote and of course the opposition societies have urged their members particularly the majority shia community not to vote so the turnout may or may not be interested what the turnout is i mean the government is saying it's going to be better than last time which is fifty three percent i would be surprised if that's the case. since the seventeen hundreds the mostly shia population has been ruled by a sunni king the government's recently been propped up by military support from the saudi a number of the government their forces were instrumental in crushing the popular uprising in twenty eleven which was spearheaded by the she opposition to the royal family. amnesty international human rights watch and others condemn bihari and jewellers as repressive and the election system discriminatory with all opposition

leaders jailed or disqualified from running for elections no independent media operating in the country and scores of independent activists journalists and human rights defenders are imprisoned and many of whom have alleged torture during their detention it's unlikely that today's elections will result in a parliament that's truly diverse and representative of the wide range of views that exist and behind any society the crackdown on the opposition means political groups whether religious or secular have been dissolved and their members jailed for what they say are politically motivated charges king hamad beneath amended the law to ban members of dissolved opposition groups from taking part in elections the former m.p. faces six months in prison for tweeting he wants to boycott saturday's vote will be illegitimate to contest future elections if he serves his sentence the general feeling among most bahraini. what's the point they see this parliament as being largely ineffectual in terms of its legislation it for example has passed other

direction of the ruling family laws that prevent people who belong to the band of political parties such as our one. that was from running in in this election state t.v. selling an image of a credible poll but critics say bahrain has a long way to go before it's able to say this election was free fair or independent some of the job al-jazeera. iraq's prime minister is urging help for victims of flash floods at least seven people have been killed in the northern provinces. thousands are homeless some had to use boats to escape their submerged houses and farms. tron says its troops have killed the top rebel commander. for several violent attacks in mali and its neighboring countries died of his injuries after french forces raided a force in the central region. say thirty fighters were also killed in the

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surveillance that they finally found him in the forests an area of a straddles both mali and mauritania a place that's used for cocaine and has shisha smuggling a place known to be a hideout for rebels and it's there that the french as well as the money and forces strike on thursday and finally killed. deforestation in the brazilian amazon rain forest has reached its highest level in a decade satellite image comparisons show almost eight thousand square kilometers of force was lost between twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen that's a nearly fourteen percent increase on the previous year it's being driven by illegal logging and agricultural expansion. still ahead on al-jazeera france stay alive in the davis cup final could all be here with the details next i.

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time of course has been fully thank you very much we're just over an hour away from the second leg of the final of self america's showpiece continental club competition the cup at limited orders and to add to the occasion it is being contested by two of football's most better rivals rubber plates are hosting baka juniors at the monumental stadium the first leg finished two two two weeks ago. we can now go live to our correspondent daniel schorr cyrus daniel what is the mood like among the fans ahead of those big match.

well i mean we have to say with now it's of the kickoff i mean the tension is really mounting here the fact it's two weeks since that first leg which as you say ended two two the buildup before that game was very intense they've had two weeks now to analyze every single element every kick every pass of that first game to try to apply to this particular game there's been countdowns on the social media on t.v. second by second count down to this game i mean the tension is palpable the fans the last of the fans with just over an hour to go astray coming into the stadium very tightly controlled they'll be sixty six thousand of them in that stadium behind me for really what as you say is a showpiece final between two of south america's bitter its rivals and away fans are not allowed to attend this one how will that affect matters off to the game. what security here is exist.

we've lost. as we're trying to speak to him again a little bit later on ahead of that cup on the bitter dorris final between a river plate and baka genius remember finished two two in the first leg at the stadium which is the home ground of bach a genius to be to go. however in spain roman roads winning run on the new boss something he came to an end early on after taking over from who. so laurie had guided rail to four wins in a row that's the best start of any coach in the club's history but in the first match since being given the job on a permanent basis rail were thrashed three know by thirteenth place to a board the defeat caps a difficult twenty four hours for the madrid side on friday they were forced to deny allegations that captain sergio ramos had failed a drug testing twenty seventeen. rails to biggest rivals barcelona and that let it

go madrid will go head to head in just under an hour atletico are hoping for a first championship since winning the title in twenty fourteen and could go top of lego with a win but also the defending spanish champions and league leaders they have scored more goals than any other club in the competition the season. to give us an emotional. week lana you know both teams have a very clear style and we will both play more or less according to our usual methods we know athletico usually starts both halves aggressively is very likely to pressure us in our own area but they will play in their usual way where they feel more comfortable and that approach has served them well for us. exports a lone star on the sinister was involved in a dramatic game over in japan this is the goalkeeper of choosing equalizing against ministers this old cobie that through two minutes into stoppage time moments later tensions between the two sides boiled over after the solid player willing to end was booked you can see any s.k.

in the middle here trying to keep the peace but he couldn't stop wellington shoving goal scoring two people eugene rocket from to the ground. no such drama over in england for premier league leaders manchester city they remain beaten so far this season following a four no four rushing of west ham that it's over and running sterling had them to a head inside twenty minutes leroy's sunday and doubled the tally with goals either side of the break as men now with eleven wins and two draws this campaign a little ball to maintain their unbeaten start of the season with a three no victory at watford but there were boos that the final whistle at old trafford as manchester united only managed a goal a stroll with crystal palace the day's other big game between london rivals tottenham and chelsea still being played it's to notice because in that one. as you heard earlier voting has been taking place in taiwan over the last few hours and among the decisions being made by citizens is what to call the team at sports events votes are still being counted currently compete as chinese taipei which is

a country that doesn't really exist it's a name agreed on more than three decades ago by taiwan china and the international olympic committee the team also marches behind the emblem of the olympic committee not the official flag earlier we spoke with mitty ting one of taiwan's top summons she explains why the name change is such an important issue for her and her fellow athletes for many townies people including myself and especially in mind generation we see ourselves as how many people and we call our country taiwan and i believe many foreigners they know and they are aware of what taiwan where taiwan and the taiwanese people are not the only people who are questioning the name of chinese taipei as chinese taipei this name is. degrade to our country and chinese

taipei cannot represent our country taiwan france have kept their hopes of returning the davis cup alive they were too low down to croatia in the best of five match tie of friday singles but came roaring back in saturday's doubles french open champion. and mikel our market beating even the demotic puppet show for the sets to make it to one heading into the final singles matches on sunday. england rugby team dished out a thirty seven eighteen be easing to australia to cap their november test series with three wins out of four their only loss came to new zealand two weeks ago despite their dominance in london on saturday they went to halftime against the wallabies at thirteen all but the hosts turned on the style in the second half to complete their sixth straight win over the australians. england's cricketers are in control of the testing in sri lanka in colombo at the end of the second day's play england were three hundred fifteen for seven at the start of the day's action but assuming all are for three hundred thirty six there's

a lot of shouting some back and finished a five for ninety five d.m. with. scored eighty three and the silver hit seventy three but then things fell apart at the rashid helped himself to five forty i'm as for like a slam to two hundred forty all out in line with three without loss at stumps and lead by ninety nine runs. we always have that belief you know going into session you know that the play exceptionally well. just before lunch and stuff so we had that mindset we had a positive mindset knew that if you stick to our plans things will change you're not giving up. we came after tea how do you know how that believe myself and you know things just happened to just change but you know i always have and i myself knowing that things will happen eventually formula one world champion lewis hamilton will start from pole position at the season ending grand prix in darby on sunday the british driver who read that piece of the result two weeks ago was just quicker than the saints teammate felt he bought us in saturday's qualifying session

form a title rivals western vettel will start from food on the grateful for henri and two time world champion fernando alonso qualified fifteenth for what will be his last formula one race. and it was billed as a dramatic duel between two former world number one goal for the over a nine million dollar prize in the end the match between tiger woods and phil mickelson divided opinion for those who were able to watch it just seven hundred invited guests were allowed on the course everyone else had to pay twenty dollars to see gove's first pay per view broadcast which lacked sporting quality and was marred by technical problems for some when it came down to it the two go office who hold ninety majors between them could be separated until the fourth extra hole woods had this part to extend the match under temporary lights but he missed so it was mickelson tapped to be in for birdie and the big money prize and that's all the sport for now more coming up again later ali thank you very much

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