against the odds. out as they are a selects palestinians. strength of al jazeera is that because we have such a expansive than our poor people would come to us and actually share the information with the team into their. anger as a fuel prices ignites a violent scenes in the hearts of parents. and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up red political unity builds in washington to demand answers from donald trump about the matter of saudi janice jamal khashoggi. the corporal of adorers football finally has postponed and won his

aires after an attack on a team bus and fighting on the streets. and how bosnia is coping with a growing number of refugees from iraq. french president emanuel has condemned a violent protest as has been demonstrating against rising fuel prices police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds who are building barricades and setting cars alight the so-called yellow vest protests began last weekend and have since spread across the country catherine stansell reports. 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 president emmanuel micron's scrapped the fuel tax. riot police stopped thousands of demonstrators on the main avenue the saudis say from breaking through a call. protecting the elysee 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. we are fed up with bacon so much all the time it's become the new normal but paying so much it's just not possible anymore i was 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 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 she people were killed and hundreds of others injured. france already has some of the highest road fuel taxes in europe across vowing to face down any protests and press ahead with his policy

no matter how unpopular cutting stansell al-jazeera. bruno courtroom is as a university researcher in paris he says anger has been brewing over the president's failure to deliver on his promises. emanuel announced that evolution it's the title of the book that the man you must call wrote during the campaign he was talking about repairing friends but also it did the promise of a big separation in front of the fiscal one those who distributed her distribution and those people are actually joined by something which is income and they don't see the challenges in their daily lives they feel a lot of frustration they believe that they pay too much data that at the same time they don't get enough and you know one very important part in frost is consultant to pay tax but we see since recently that the consultant to pay taxes ross is declining french people can see there are many people can see that that they have

too many times when at the same time the public. expenditure goes down so people are wondering why do they pay so much tax when they announce deficit reduction or less that we could spend it cherubs it's a very very big and quite difficult question for him and you are not whole. jamal khashoggi is mad a seems to have a compass something red in washington and a tickle unity key figures in both the republican and democrat parties a demanding says from donald trump's administration questioning the president's reluctance to act on the journalists killing democrat adam schiff is set to become the house intelligence committee chairman next year his promising what he calls a deep dive into washington's ties with riyadh examining casualties death the war in yemen and the stability of the saudi royal family and some of donald trump's

republican colleagues have warned that his failure to punish the kingdom will have dangerous consequences roslyn jordan has this update from washington d.c. . the murder of jamal khashoggi the washington post columnist may not be resonating with ordinary americans but for their representatives in the u.s. congress this is very much a controversy that is top of mind the hill newspaper is reporting that the entire senate is going to get a briefing in the coming week perhaps from the secretary of state like pompei zero and the defense secretary jim mattis about the u.s. his relationship with saudi arabia apparently this briefing is going to take a look at everything from how the white house is not accepting the cia's determination that murder was done at the behest of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solemn on it's also going to be taking a look at the financial relationship between the united states and saudi arabia and

it's going to be taking a look at the national security relationship between the two countries especially when light of the ongoing civil war in yemen one in which the saudis have been accused of violating the human rights of civilians in that war torn country by bombing civilian targets under the pretense of going after the fighters who want to take control of the government this hearing could possibly be made public because it's a opportunity for the general public to listen to senators question these two cabinet members but the real import of this potential hearing is that it would give the senators both democratic and republican more ammunition on deciding how to hold saudi arabia accountable not just for its conduct in the yemeni civil war but just as important for the murder of jamal khashoggi both republicans and democrats have been extremely critical of riyadh because of the murder and they say that it is not

for the united states to be giving any sort of political or diplomatic cover to a country that would go out and willingly target and then murder some. and that he considers a threat to its ongoing a political rule this is also a situation where the members of congress are going to find themselves pretty much in a fight with the white house the u.s. president donald trump has insisted that saudi arabia's importance in jail pill political affairs is much more important than trying to hold its leadership accountable for the murder of jamal khashoggi the president has even been dismissive of the cia's conclusions saying that it's more of a feeling than actual analysis that's not sitting well with members of the senate and certainly not with members of the house so not only is there a potential big hearing coming in the coming days on capitol hill but there will

also be intelligence committee hearings at least in the house of representatives come january. the shocking case has been dominated by gruesome revelations sudden twists and fingerpointing as political ramifications continue to reverberate tony betty looks back at what's happened since the journalist walked into saudi arabia's istanbul consulates 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 recorded them in the end it doesn't really matter what matters is that they expose the lies and deception surrounding this murder but first the denials

are strong on october third the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman denied all knowledge of the killings saying mr casady disappeared after he left the consulate building an october the eighth his brother khaled 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 tom 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 mike 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 consulate 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 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 such an bride. 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 mystic ashanti 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 the 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 leaked 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 salmen 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. still ahead on out there taiwan's pro independence president resigns from have

leadership after heavy election losses that are likely to keys china plus. i'm thinking we stand by. britain and spain settled in last minute disputes over a tiny cape and carrying away for sunday's brax at summit. three tranquil a rape in kenya. i dinna ken freeman tips and it's in the. hello again welcome back we're here across china we are seeing some clouds beginning to develop and push in from the south that's all dealing with a tropical system i'll get to that in just one moment but you can see the clouds right there making their way up here towards hong kong not looking too bad as we go towards sunday the end of the day but you can see the rain showers here in the south china sea now as we go towards monday those will be pushing into hong kong

some of those rain charges could be heavy at times extending all the way up here towards taipei now that one system we are talking about is making landfall here in vietnam a very weak system in terms of typhoon but we do expect to see some very heavy rain over the next few days as this pushes in it's going to weaken quickly but we do expect to see anywhere between two hundred and possibly even three hundred millimeters of rain as the system pushes that rain across much of that northern shore sold watching that very carefully over the next few days the system dissipates but the rain does not so localized flooding is going to be a major problem and then here across india well much better conditions down here towards the south we did have quite a bit of rain last week the rain is beginning to subside up here towards the north though not really looking too bad in terms of temperature new delhi twenty six degrees but crutch it is going to be a hot day for you with a temperature of thirty one degrees hyderabad at thirty one degrees in kolkata about twenty eight degrees for you. the weather sponsored by cats on race. well if we cannot have police my government was certainly not allowed britain to

control french polish time would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows over a century ago britain and france made the secret do the change the sheet in the middle east and so. now we can draw. sikes people. in the sun. just sitting. here watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour french police have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse tens of thousands of people protesting against rising diesel

and petrol prices crowds gathered into the nice in paris building barricades and setting cars on fire the so-called yellow vests demonstrations began last weekend and have since spread across the country. key republican and democrat lawmakers are demanding answers about the u.s. president's reluctance to punish saudi arabia for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi democrat adam schiff is that to become the house intelligence committee chairman early next year and is promising a thorough investigation into the affair. taiwanese voters have backed anti gay marriage referendums and what activists say is a blow to the island's reputation as a rights trailblazer the result came at the end of a dramatic day which saw president sighing when resign as leader of the ruling party after it suffered major electoral losses al-jazeera is aging brown reports from the capital taipei. some voters waited patiently in line for up to two hours to cause 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 her democratic progressive party lost control of taiwan second and third largest city 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. with or without the african demonic dependence we taiwanese decide on our own

future we are always taiwanese and unlike us they are chinese. i'm fine with the referendum to decide whether we go for independence or unification but i personally support my training to stay to 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 saying 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 what 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. the final of south american football's biggest club competition the copilot a door as has been pushed back by a day after one of the team buses was attacked river plate team found through projectiles at the rival junior's bus as it headed towards the stadium and when his aires several players were hurt there were then street battles between fans and police al-jazeera as daniel has more from one is aries. two weeks ago in the first leg of the couple limited orders five of the book a row of judea stadium the game was suspended for twenty four hours because of rain this time at the river plate stadium because of violence the booker juniors boss

arriving at the stadium was attacked by river plate fans graphed glass was broken during some of the players the police fired tear gas. got inside the bus affecting the players they had to be treated the. star player carlos davis was saying they wanted the game suspended the football thought is called they insisted that the game go ahead it was delayed by two and a half hours sixty five thousand five inside the stadium then told that the game had been suspended for the replay to get a twenty four hour a great deal of anger a great deal of frustration here confusion the world around but the game the austerity say will go ahead in twenty four hours mexico's incoming government is in talks with the us over a plan to deal with the thousands of people waiting at their shared border to claim asylum one of the proposals could see asylum seekers remain in mexico while waiting on a decision from the us donald trump has tweeted that no one will be allowed in until

their claims approved in court but the incoming mexican interior minister ruled out the plan trump has expressed outrage about the so-called asylum seeker caravan made up of thousands of central americans police in the u.s. state of alabama now say they killed the wrong man at a shooting at a mall on thursday the center was crowded with holiday shoppers when someone opened fire injuring two people police killed a twenty one year old man saying he was to blame but have admitted he wasn't the shooter there's now an investigation into what happened and the real gunman remains on the loose. britain and spain have settled their differences if an hour over a rocky peninsula that threaten to sink sunday's breck's at summit it means that u.k.'s divorce deal is likely to be rubber stamped by e.u. member states china has more from brussels. the british prime minister was all smiles in brussels on saturday night e.u. leaders are set to approve her briggs's deal at

a special summit on sunday morning that after agreement was reached with spain effectively giving it a veto right over future negotiations involving the british territory of gibraltar a couple of the analysts here. i have informed the king about and agreement on gibraltar firstly i want to tell you that the european council will take place tomorrow 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 spain's delight means a possible end in sight to a three hundred year old dispute with britain over gibraltar for tourism a it could mean a further hardening of opposition to her deal at home the northern ireland unionists to prop up a minority government have threatened to vote against the briggs's deal in parliament because they say it compromises the integrity of the united kingdom more than eighty of the prime minister's own m.p.'s and most of the opposition have said

they'll do likewise i believe she is genuine when she says she wants to see and i come that does no harm to the union and the internal market of the united kingdom. however this draft agreement feels her commitments some like briggs is supporting former foreign secretary boris johnson have insisted to resume a go back to the negotiating table calling the deal a historic mistake. but that's not going to happen the e.u. is adamant there's nothing more to talk about no more negotiating to be done when the leaders gather on sunday morning here in brussels it will be to waive this deal through setting the scene for the ultimate showdown to reserve base fight to get it through the united kingdom parliament killed a whole al jazeera brussels yemen saudi backed government has rejected a u.n. offer to manage the running of a crucial port special envoy martin griffiths met senior truthy rebels who agreed

to talks on the un's role in managing the port of her data the who he is control it and saudi amorality coalition forces have been battling to retake it for months griffiths is expected to meet members of yemen's exiled government in riyadh on monday and other ten bodies have been found after flash flooding in iraq meaning at least seventeen people have been killed heavy rains forced thousands of people to flee the northern town of cher catch they've returned to a massive clean up homes and businesses are swamped with mud the floods of piled pressure on iraq's new government to fix infrastructure and provinces hard hit by the war against i saw. earlier through the entire villages on top of the houses we can come down from the top we curate down children and women into boats and took them to the mountains only children and women crossed to the mountain all by boat. serbia is reimposing visa restrictions on iran after twelve thousand tourists

travelling from tehran never returned it's believed many of them crossed the border into bosnia from where many refugees often try to reach western europe david chase who reports from the town of civil war nick. berg at night time patrolling by boston is border police the fast flowing waters of the river drain the last barrier for the refugees the majority crossing it now a rainy and 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 a 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 struggling to get the 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 it was near was just one step away from the freedom of western europe. this rainy and 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 rainy and entered 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 crossed. by boat and a year we'll be. you know it's good to danny and if 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 ma 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 near bosnia's border with serbia. deforestation in the brazilian amazon rain forest has reached its highest level in a decade experts say almost eight thousand square kilometers of forest was lost between twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen that's up fourteen percent on the year before it's mainly because of illegal logging and agricultural expansion. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories french president and manual macron has condemned violent protesters who've been demonstrating against rising fuel prices police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds who are building barricades and setting cars alight the so-called yellow vest protests began last

weekend and have since spread across the country key republican and democrat lawmakers a demanding answers about the u.s. president's reluctance to punish saudi arabia for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi democrat adam schiff is set to become the house intelligence committee chairman early next year and is promising a full investigation into the affair the final of south american football's biggest club competition the copa liberty door is has been pushed back by a day after one of the team buses was attacked several players were after fans of the river plate club through projectiles at the rival baka juniors buffs. has more from when his aires. the booker juniors boss arriving at the stadium behind me was attacked by river plate fans grass of glass was broken during some of the players the police fired tear gas. got inside the bus affecting the players they had to be treated the. star player carlos davis was saying they wanted the game suspended the

football of the routines calmly bored they insisted that the game go ahead it was delayed by two and a half hours sixty five inside the stadium was then told that the game had been suspended and will be played a good twenty four hours taiwan's president sighing when has resigned as the chairwoman of the ruling pro independence party following a major defeat in local mid-term elections voters have said no to becoming the first asian country to legalize same sex marriage yemen saudi backed government has rejected a u.n. offer to manage the running of a crucial port special envoy martin griffiths met senior truth the rebels who agreed to talks on the un's role in managing the port of her data the who these control it and saudi m. iraqi coalition forces have been backing to retake it for months griffiths is expected to meet members of yemen's exiled government in riyadh on monday those are the headlines the news continues here after inside story.

it's being closely watched in china. for the pro independence ruling posse. of meddling so how will the results affect i'm going with this is inside story. and welcome to the program.