other people. explores what made him an influential right. and champion of the palestinian cause in the west and what's out of place. anger over fuel prices ignites violent scenes in the heart of paris. i'm sam is this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. i will always stand by people. britain and spain settle their last minute dispute over

a tiny rocky peninsula clearing the way for sunday's briggs's summit. to newseum activists call for protests against a proposed visit from the saudi crown prince following the murder of journalist. to daughters football final this post of one desires after an attack on a team boss fighting in the streets. central paris has been cloaked in tear gas and smoke after fighting between protesters and riot police along a famous shopping avenue it was the violent end to demonstrations against president emanuel micron who's being blamed for rising fuel prices 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 emanuel macross scrapped the fuel tax. riot police stopped thousands of demonstrators on the main avenue the shot saudis 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 and i like most of the citizens we are already here. we are fed up with paying so much all the time it's become the new normal but it's just not possible anymore. 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 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 cathy stansell al-jazeera. the president tweeted his gratitude to police and condemned those involved in the brawls thank you to our forces for their courage and professionalism shame on those who attacked them shame on those who've abused are the citizens and journalists no place for this violence in the republic of paris based university researcher bruno called très says frustration with the president has been building up for some time. emmanuel markov announced revolution it's the title of the book that the man you must call wrote during the campaign he was talking about repairing from that also did the promise of a big revolution in france the fiscal one who distributed over distribution and those people are actually joined by something which is income on the door to the

challenges 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 point in france is consultant to pay tax but we see since recently that the consultant to pay taxes france 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 because expenditure ups it's a very very big and quite difficult question for him and you and mark whole european union leaders are meeting in brussels in a few hours to approve a historic breakthrough deal duke a prime minister to resign may has written an open letter in an attempt to rally support for the agreement back home it says it'll be a deal that is in our national interests one that works for our whole country and

all of our people whether the you voted leave or remain we will take back control of our borders by putting an end to the free movement of people once and for all and we will take back control of our money by putting an end to vast annual payments to the e.u. while the u.k. is divorced still is likely to be rubber stamped by ear member states will still face the scrutiny of the british parliament jonah hall 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 that to see. 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 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 her minority government or threaten 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 own commitment some like briggs it supporting former foreign secretary boris johnson have insisted

to reason may 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 reason mais fight to get it through the united kingdom parliament to help al-jazeera brussels. protesters in tunisia pressuring the government to counsel a planned visit by the saudi crown prince who's touring regional allies the government though is warning demonstrations could threaten much needed financial aid from the kingdom. ports. to this in activists calling for mass protests against a proposed visit by the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sandman is on his first

tour aboard since the killing of journalist. some tennesseans. his arrival could undermine their newfound freedom and liberties with. the crown prince is tainted by the killing of her 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 arab world 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 cinesias cash strapped government is desperate for financial aid to tackle poverty

instability and unemployment. government leaders can. protests might alienate some of the leaders at a 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 yemen more palatable and they're using tunisia after the crown prince is due to visit mauritania before attending the g. twenty summit next week in argentina. or widely seen as an attempt by this parent to repair his image during the international outcry over his suspected role

in the killing of. a good. g.'s murder seems to have accomplished something rare in washington political unity key figures in both the republican and democratic parties are demanding answers from donald trump's administration questioning the president's reluctance to act on the journalist's killing democrat adam schiff is set to become the house intelligence committee chairman early next year he's promising what he calls a deep dive into washington's ties with riyadh examining show g.'s death the war in yemen and the stability of the saudi royal family and some of donald trump's republican colleagues of war and his failure to punish the kingdom will have dangerous consequences president 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 john pale 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 someone. that it considers a threat to its on going up 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 still ahead on al-jazeera the u.s. and mexico discuss the fate of thousands of asylum seekers gathering at the border and fear is a refugee camp will be left without medical care after

a major charity pulls out. hello again it's good to have you back well we did have some very active weather here parts of iraq as well as into iran you can see the systems are still making their way through so we still expect to see very heavy rain at times over the next few days here's your forecast map for sunday not only for iran but also down here towards kuwait saudi arabia and maybe even to bahrain and qatar so that is going to be something we're going to be watching sunday is going to be the day as we go towards monday though a lot of that weather pushes over here towards pakistan afghanistan but across the gulf it is looking much better as we take a look at the gulf in saudi arabia and also the arabian peninsula we are going to see that rain sure i to be here for doha we do expect to see a temperature of thirty maybe anywhere between forty to sixty millimeters of rain

could be expected across the region also maybe dubai could be seeing some rain as well as we go towards monday but for riyadh it's going to be a little bit cooler for you with clouds and forecasts attempts are there of twenty two and here across parts of africa well most of the activity is up here towards the north or is going to be seeing a very rainy day at about twenty three degrees but down towards the south it is going to be cooler partly cloudy for cape town at twenty one degrees durban is going to be a warm day here on sunday boy expect those temperatures come down to about twenty six degrees in johannesburg partly cloudy at about twenty seven degrees. investigating a mud out by the indonesian military in one thousand nine hundred nine zero correspondent step vasant takes us on a personal journey back to east timor recalling memories which impacted deeply on her chosen career the life and the lives of others now ninety two decades later she

goes face to face with those responsible trail of murder indonesia's bloody retreat on al-jazeera. back you're watching now just zero time to recap our headlines now french president amanda micron is condemned violent protesters have been demonstrating against rising fuel prices the so-called yellow vests protests began last weekend they've since spread across the country. the european union leaders will gather in brussels in the coming hours to approve a historic briggs's deal but it will still have to face the scrutiny of the british

parliament prime minister to resign may has written an open letter asking britain to unite behind the deal protesters in tunisia are pressuring the government to cancel a planned visit by the saudi crown prince the government is warning demonstrations could threaten much needed financial aid from the kingdom. mexico's incoming government is in talks with the u.s. officials about a plan for makes it go to host to sign them seekers while their cases are heard in u.s. courts it's a pressing issue at the moment as thousands of central americans have gathered on the mexican side of the u.s. border they're hoping to cross over mexico's incoming interior minister says there's no agreement yet on hosting u.s. asylum seekers but tweets from donald trump seem to suggest some kind of deal has been done migrants at the southern border will not be allowed into the u.s. until their claims are individually approved in court we only will allow those who

come into our country legally other than that very strong policy is catch and detain no releasing. into the us all will stay in mexico if for any reason it becomes necessary we will close our southern border there is no way that the united states will off the decades of abuse put up with this costly and dangerous situation anymore apoel virtue's served as general counsel of u.s. immigration and naturalization service on the president bill clinton he says there are no legal obstacles to keeping asylum seekers in mexico while they await for a decision by the u.s. the us is a party to the next two hundred sixty seven protocol a status of refugees and has certain obligations with respect to the protection of refugees as well as a provision called nonracial model where if a person is more likely than not but subject to harm in their home country the

united states cannot and other other parties to the protocol cannot return that person to their country so there are those obligations if question here or there who is there is the person has to be either admitted to the u.s. or in the united states or canada and an agreement to be reached with a with an adjacent third country mexico in this case to allow the people to remain there as a strictly as a legal matter and i'm not one i'm not talking about the policy implications of this the answer to that would be yes there isn't really there or there is nothing that would prevent such an agreement from him from being entered into. the final of south american football's biggest club competition in the part of the daughters has been pushed back by a day after one of the team's buses was attacked several players were injured when fans of the river plate team threw rocks and wards at their rival bako junior's bus

as it was headed towards the stadium in bonn the cyrus daniel schorr i'm there was there. there were sporadic clashes like this one between police and river plate fans around the ground before the scheduled kick off then this attack on the baka juniors team bus that left two players injured by broken glass others coughing on piece tear gas. to. their star player carlos tevez said they were in no fit state but being obliged to play firstly the kickoff was delayed by two and a half hours the sixty six thousand river plate fans inside the stadium waited and waited the new authorities in the game for twenty four hours in the way of the no you're right it's not a war it's football we have to consider the technical the medical and the professionals and we've decided that neither of the teams meet the conditions and we're in agreement we're here to support them not make demands. they came streaming

out the second leg of the copper lead but a lot is final a victim of the violence that has blighted arjen time for them for years leading to a ban on away fans. didn't know what was going on we were just waiting to barry singh embarrassing that we can't organize events like this in this country anything good. they didn't even tell us what was going on they never said the game had been suspended there was just confusion with people saying they're saying they're saying that. really plates monumental stadium has now been closed for their traditional floor it is casting doubt on where perhaps if sunday's game will be played these fans are angry and they're frustrated but the words we're hearing most frequently here. or embarrassment and shame shame that they couldn't organize the biggest game in the club's history this had to be postponed because of violence because they were unable to organize the security for the games to go ahead. the first leg two

weeks ago at the block a junior stadium was also perspired for a day this time due to heavy rain that game eventually ended in a two two draw and led to days of rising tension ahead of the biggest final in latin american club football between two of the game's greatest rivals but it was attention to into violence. when they're out his era when osiris. a search and rescue operations underway in lake victoria after a party boat capsized twenty six people survived eighteen bodies have been recovered so far but it's thought more than one hundred people were on board at the time the lake surrounded by uganda tanzania and kenya. their only hospital in account for fifty seven thousand souls refuge in mauritania will close in just a few weeks doctors without borders is pulling out as planned after six years but without a confirmed replacement refugees fear they'll lose vital services keeping people

safe around the home there's more. a simple building providing the most basic of health care it's part of the operation run by doctors without borders all remain safe and the embedded camp home to fifty seven thousand mali and refugees that includes the only hospital but that will close down in a few weeks in may see if it's pulling out saying it's time to hand the job to another don't suffer deserve criticism we have been in the embarrass him for six years and now that we've met the urgent needs of the people the situation is stabilizing we've always said we'd leaving for ten between eighteen we extended there to the end of this year to give the people time to find an alternative. but finding an alternative has not been easy difficulty securing funds were reportedly affected and the emmis if decision to leave and other international humanitarian

groups of facing the same funding challenges million refugees are worried the camp will be left with nothing. refugees have a real problem and absence of medical treatment will be a disaster the camp is on sand dunes and we need ambulances to transport patients we had hoped to myself wouldn't leave us the good work molly and sought refuge in neighboring mauritania and conflict engulfed northern mali in two thousand and twelve to our rig rebels declared independence in the north that year a month after the president was pushed out in a coup but within three months they'd lost that ground to unset a ding a group with. links to al qaeda france dipped into back mali and forces a year later and peace deals with the two are regular followed but despite a continued french military and un peacekeeping presence iceland the greater sahara and al qaeda linked fighters still operate that's

a problem for mali and refugees who want to go home pretty much everyone here feels it's still not safe more pressure than on the un refugee agency responsible for the kir we are hoping that the international community will respond positively in the coming days to waterboard the head of sick daughter because it is very important we cannot leave fifty seven thousand refugees life in this isolated corner of the sahil days it is a struggle temperatures as high as fifty degrees celsius ascent storms and drought but for now they have no choice but to stay with this decent health care or not. which is iraq. yemen saudi backed government has rejected a u.n. offer to manage the running of a crucial port special envoy martin griffiths has met senior who agreed to talks on

the un's role in managing the whole day the port votes are being counted in behind after parliamentary elections the country's justice minister says turnout was high at sixty seven percent but human rights groups are far from satisfied pointing to the banning of opposition groups al-jazeera reports. the lyrics in arabic say i am from her from. state t.v. shows the gulf kingdom going to the polls and voters queuing up hundreds of candidates 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. and many many

bahraini is are 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. since the seventeen hundreds the mostly shia population has been ruled by a some leaking the government's recently been propped up by military support from the saudi in iraq 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 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 existed before 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. 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. every woman and every girl has the right to a life free of violence those are the words of un secretary general antonio tears as the world marks international day for the elimination of violence against women tens of thousands of people rallied in fifty cities across france calling for better women's rights march also marks the one year anniversary of the global need to move against sexual assault and harassment. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now dizzier now french president diviner micron has condemned violent protesters have been demonstrating against rising fuel prices so-called yellow vests protest began last weekend and

have since spread across the country through no culture as is a university researcher in paris he says anger has been brewing over the president's failure to deliver on his promises french people consider and many people consider that they have too many times when at the same time the public. expenditure goes don't people don't want to rewind to a place of hysterics when they announce defeat reduction or less but we can expand it europe's it's a very very big and quite difficult question for him and you and michael european union leaders will gather in brussels in the coming hours to approve a historic bragg's deal britain and spain settle their last minute dispute over gibraltar clearing the way for the summit but it will still have to face the scrutiny of the british parliament prime minister to resign may has written an open letter to the u.k. asking people to unite behind the deal protesters in today's here are pressuring

the government to cancel a planned visit by the saudi crown prince but the government is warning demonstrations could threaten much needed financial aid from the king. mexico's incoming government is in talks with the u.s. officials about a plan for mexico to host asylum seekers while their cases are heard in u.s. courts thousands of central americans have gathered on the mexican side of the u.s. border hoping to cross mexico's incoming interior minister says there's no agreement yet but tweets from donald trump seem to suggest some kind of deal has been reached a search and rescue operations underway in lake victoria after a party boat capsized twenty six people survived eighteen bodies have been recovered so far but it's thought more than one hundred people were on board at the time the likes surrounded by uganda tanzania and kenya those are your headlines the news continues after people and power. china has

a serious shortage of women and a lot of lonely men. one on one east meets those desperately seeking love anyway became an al-jazeera. eastern europe stroma communities frequently been the victims of discrimination and prejudice could in ukraine with russian backed separatists and spark that tension surgeon ante room hate crimes to spark trouble we've been to find out.