with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees with detailed coverage president of the says there's not much that the china sea is now in. from around the world challenges into eight. families through for many are now back in the villages they fled when the worst. pressure mounts on donald trump over the murder of jamal khashoggi as democrats and republicans combine to demand on says over his handling of the case. on taters al jazeera live from london also coming up anger in the streets of paris as protests over a proposed fuel tax rise turned violent. taiwan's president resigned as leader of

her ruling party after a major defeat in local election is seen as a test of its pro dependent stance. on rejoining a bosnian border patrol on the lookout for refugees risking their lives for a better future. and i. heard a seems to have brought us republicans and democrats together so it is a do to get a briefing on saudi arabia next week which could determine whether congress goes forward with sanctions against its long term ally key figures in both parties are demanding answers from donald trump's administration and questioning the president's reluctance to act on the saudi journalists killing adam schiff the democrat to lead the house intelligence committee says donald trump's response will be part of a probe into his possible financial ties with the kingdom he's promising

a deep dive into washington's relationship with riyadh in treating her death the war in yemen and the stability of the saudi royal family on the republican side key senators including for relations committee chairman bob corker demanding answers from the administration to call hayden is the latest from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump tried to cast blame everywhere but at the feet of the crown prince of saudi arabia mohamed bin solomon saying things like perhaps he did know perhaps he did and perhaps the world is to blame for being such a violent place but the president is firmly back to the crown prince that is not going over well in washington in this story is not fading from the headlines and it doesn't look like it's going to anytime soon on the senate side you have bob corker he's retiring so he's not in office come january he's been a very outspoken critic he's been promising hearings he wants sanctions of possibly up to the crown prince so he's got a limited time he's out of office as of january if he doesn't do anything well then

the democrats take over the house of representatives and we're seeing very influential democrats in the house saying that they are going to launch a full investigation they want to look into trump's finances to see if he has any connection to saudi arabia which he has denied currently but in the past he has bragged about taking a lot of money from saudi arabian citizens but the democrats are going to be able to very publicly find out if that's in fact the case more details continue to emerge about the manager of the two months after his death the most recent comes from to investigate is analyzing the phone calls and movements of the suspects and they say the operation to kill him was planned twelve days in advance in the recordings the third voice is heard which security sources say might be that of the saudi crown prince takes a look at the very accounts of what exactly happened to the journalist on the 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 an exiled journalist 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 controversial 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 an october the eighth his brother been salomon the saudi ambassador to the u.s. repeated the claim but on october the twelfth according to cia sources they reported that 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 a 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 algy of their followers president trumps line and says mr khashoggi was killed by a rogue elements and insisted that 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 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 such an bride. per hour it's unbelievable to some 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 murdock was pre-meditated 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 have a 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 shaadi 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 berkely al-jazeera istanbul. thousands of people descended on paris to protest against rising fuel costs there be outbreaks of violence with police firing tear gas and using water cannons to disperse the crowds after stansell has more. wave of yellow in the french capital the anger fueled by a proposed tax rise. for the second successive

week. and the so-called yellow vests created roadblocks and organized protests demanding president emanuel micron's scrapped the fuel tax. riot police stopped thousands of demonstrators on the main avenue the shontelle the say from breaking through a cordon protecting the palace the president's official residence. and the protests continued into the night with demonstrators setting barricades and cars on fire. the price of diesel has risen by twenty three percent over the past year to about a dollar seventy one per liter. across 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 most of the citizens we are already. fed up with all the time it's become the new normal but it's just not possible anymore was sad the president blames rising oil prices worldwide and says the tax is necessary for more investment in green and renewable energy social media has primarily been used to mobilize the yellow vests they say they have no leader or political affiliation police are concerned that far right extremists make infiltrate the demonstrations and provoke violence three thousand officers have been mobilized in paris. nearly three hundred thousand people took part in similar nationwide protests last saturday she people were killed and hundreds of others injured.

france already has some of the highest. fuel taxes and you're at a concert fowling to face down any protests and press ahead with this policy no matter how unpopular stansell al jazeera. still to come there is a setback for peace efforts in yemen as the saudi backed government rejects a u.n. proposal for the port of her data. british prime minister arrives in brussels for a final talks ahead of a crucial brics it summit. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast we do have some messy weather here across much of central and western parts of europe you can see here on the satellite image all of the closet are pushing through now the temperatures are beginning to warm up slightly it's going to take a little bit more time here where we are seeing london eight degrees here a rainy day in paris we're going to be seeing that all the way down here towards

parts of the border area between spain and france as well as well as very rainy conditions on sunday for rome where we're still seeing the cold air is out here towards the east and that is also we're seeing much of the snow anywhere from vienna all the way over here towards key have temperatures barely getting above freezing during the daytime up towards moscow though it's only going to get to about minus two overnight lows feel like more like minus ten to minus eleven degrees there or you're seeing one weather system that's pushing through parts of algeria also into parts of libya right here you see tripoli expecting to see a cloudy day for you we do expect is in rain in the forecast there attempts are there of about twenty one degrees much better conditions over here towards morocco we did see quite a bit of rain over the last week but we may pick up one more shower as we go towards monday with the temperature there of about seventeen degrees and then over here towards the east we're going to see one from about to start to make its way through parts of egypt and that's going to be some clouds for cairo with the temperature there of twenty four.

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of jamal khashoggi is murder and his broader ties to saudi arabia are coming under increasing scrutiny in the u.s. senators are due to get a briefing next week which could determine whether congress goes forward with sanctions against its long time ally. and police in paris have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters demonstration for a second week against rising fuel prices. taiwan's ruling party has suffered a major defeat in mid-term local elections and it's seen president sighing when resign as party chairwoman of elections were held at the same time as no fewer than ten referendums on issues ranging from same sex marriage to changing the nation's name in sporting events from chinese taipei to taiwan asian brown reports in the capital taipei. some voters waited patiently in line for up to two hours to cast 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 resigned 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 african 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 my taney to state a school 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 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 of mind that the democracy here remains one of the freest and most vibrant in asia adrian brown al jazeera taipei. the way is now clear for the european union to agree the united kingdom's breaks it deal after spain withdrew its objection over the disputed territory of gibraltar following intensive last minute negotiations comes as the u.k. prime minister to resign may's arrived in brussels to sunday's t.v. each other may twenty seventh e.u. nations. falling events first in brussels june at the summit almost didn't take place to. outweigh what we hear is that it came close to being cancelled because of those objections raised by spain one of the members of the e.u. of course digging its heels in overdue brought a bill that's been been smoothed over double the president of the e.u.

council has said that he will recommend now to e.u. members that they dorce two years worth of rather fraught negotiations with britain that have resulted in the withdrawal agreement the exit protocols and a political declaration laying the path for a future relationship after brags that the spanish had said that they did not what they what they wanted was a guarantee in writing that they would have direct consultation over any arrangements to do which are brought in that future relationship britain eventually relented after a late night and early morning negotiations gave them that written guarantee delighted the spanish of course because it now appears to them that an end may be in sight in the future to this three hundred year old dispute over. sovereignty take a listen to what the spanish prime minister had to say. a couple the and if it is through three i have informed the king about an agreement on gibraltar firstly i

want to tell you that the european council take place tomorrow and secondly that europe and the u.k. have accepted the conditions imposed by spain therefore spain would lift its veto and vote in favor of brigs it tomorrow and join a british promise to teresa mayes over in brussels what she hoping to achieve there . i have to say it's not immediately clear lauren she's had last minute meetings with. the commission president and with the council president she's in with him now of course the e.u. has been very clear there is no last minute negotiating to be done these texts or text on our plough xd as far as it's the third effectively nothing more to talk about and e.u. diplomats have been reportedly expressing that they are perplexed about her presence here as well is she perhaps here to offer those last minute words of reassurance and guarantee over gibraltar to smooth the way for the summit perhaps

did she maybe get some sort of mass sardina of the wording of the political declaration it's a non legally binding document of course to try and appease some of her critics at home she's got a lot of opposition to overcome there that maybe two will no more on sunday thank you very much indeed. yemen's saudi backed government has rejected a u.n. offer to manage the running of a crucial port on friday special envoy martin griffiths talks with senior hooty rebels who agreed to open a dialogue on the un's role in running the key port city of her data so the rebels occur in control of the site but saudi led coalition forces have been battling to retake it for months griffiths is due to meet government leaders in riyadh later on sunday in a push for dialogue ahead of peace talks in sweden next month manito has more from neighboring 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 the 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 more 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 arrived are almost too hard to say as those

negotiations over the management of the port take place in their absence and they would not agree any role for the. other poor 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. human rights organizations say the parliamentary election held in bahrain is not a free nor fair the two main opposition groups are taking part. this year to ban them some of and of aid reports. the lyrics in arabic say i'm from her 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 bodies were allegedly 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 and 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 interesting 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 battery and rulers 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 being hammered 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 he'll

be in a little 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 walk 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 it does there. france says its troops have killed a top al qaeda linked rebel commander a dooku for was blamed for several violent attacks in mali and neighboring book in effect so cooper died of his injuries after french forces raided a forest in the central region of what on thursday thirty fighters were also killed

in the operation. serbia says it's really posing these are restrictions on iran after estimated twelve thousand tourists traveling from tehran never returned it's believed many of them crossed the border into bosnia a main route for refugees trying to reach western europe there and try to report on the tunnels for nick on business border with said there. are at night time patrolling by bus in years border police the fast flowing waters of the river drain are the last barrier for the refugees the majority crossing it now are iranians the opposite banks in serbia are swept with infrared heat detectors 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 iranians who survived the perilous journey joining the pakistanis and afghans who thought bosnia 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 his wife and children bosnia tries to give the refugees a humane welcome but is a country without the resources to cope with this new burden really. 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 a 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 for some back into bosnia smugglers have taken all their money we drove to vote. by boat and a very very. you know good to daniel any player 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 car to car doors i also met three were hidden gem muslims from me and mon their families had all been 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 as for nick the bosnia's border with serbia and i'm in mine you can catch up with all the stories we're covering by checking out our website the dress that has our desire dot com and you can watch us live by clicking on the live icon. reminder the top stories are now jazeera president donald trump's handling of murder and his broader ties to saudi arabia a coming under increasing scrutiny in the u.s. senate is a do to get a briefing next week which could determine whether congress goes forward with sanctions against the kingdom the republicans are demanding answers while democrats

have promised a deep dive into washington's relationship with its ally once they take control of the house in january betty culhane has more from washington d.c. it could happen soon or it could wait until the democrats take back control of the house of representatives that happens very early in january but this is really been bipartisan from both chambers both congressmen members and senators democrats republicans they have widely condemned the president's handling of the murder of jamal khashoggi and the response. thousands of people been rallying in the french capital against rising fuel costs they've been outbreaks of violence with police firing tear gas dispersed the crowd the price of diesel the most commonly used fuel in france has risen by around twenty three percent over the past twelve months. taiwan's ruling party has suffered a major defeat in mid-term local elections after hearing the results president zine

when resigned as head of her democratic progressive party although she will remain as president election to be taking place side ten referendums. yemen's saudi backed government has rejected a u.n. offer to manage the running of a crucial court on friday special envoy martin griffiths held talks with senior rebels who agreed to open dialogue on the un's role in running the key port city of her data and he rebels are currently in control of the site but saudi led coalition forces have been battling to retake it for months griffiths is due to meet government leaders in riyadh on sunday and a push for dialogue at a peace talks in sweden next month on introduction to being held in bahrain which have been described as a fast by activists the two main opposition groups are taking part. of this year to ban them in a crackdown on dissent there's the headlines to stay with us or not they're listening post is up next more useful you have to that i phone or.

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