see britain stumble toward an exit without a deal. on louder voices suggest a second referendum on will to preclude the no hope i'll just rush. dreaminess years journalist a deputy director of the think tank british influence thanks for coming in so we've already had the day you piece and they won't vote for this deal when it comes back to the british parliament and suggestions that many very own m.p.'s weren't either and how difficult it would be for her to push this through almost impossible just in those two groups or even live in ace's any chance of getting a deal three because there was a chance the maybe some labor rebels would support the deal but there were even signs that some of the likely suspects were in do so and even if they were to do so they just wouldn't be enough labor peace as opposed to you and we had that teresa mayes is starting this thing of writing a letter to the british public how effect is that likely to be appealing to america which is trying to do is trying to appeal above the heads of the m.p.'s about the media directly to the people but if they then don't say to their m.p. which way to vote surely makes a difference and do people go and say to them p.r.

i've really liked it this way and that way well it's ironic isn't it because she's going as you say over the heads the m.p.'s the people but she's refusing to grant the people who votes if she was really in saying what the people thought about this then she grants a referendum because that's how the people express their opinion so i just don't you think it's likely that the people were right there in peace to ask them to induce to steal what we're seeing actually is that people are asking their own piece not to endorse this deal because the deal doesn't have support of remain as if it doesn't go through that what alan what the the options are the really realistic what will happen well the first thing will happen is probably the government will go to the e.u. to ask for maybe new terms the e.u. will maybe your first few sweeteners but nothing stance if they'll probably reintroduce its parliament threatening all kinds of disasters of parliament doesn't endorse the second time if parliament still doesn't endorse it we can look at a general election or more likely in a referendum and on the general election the i'm in reason is very keen not to make this about her leadership today but if it doesn't go through parliament first. on

in or likelihood would you say only thing look i mean she says that she's not going to resign we just don't know what the atmosphere will be afterwards but a general election be very very difficult because she'd have to call it herself or the task be very small conference of the government and tory m.p.'s without a very against their own government and that doesn't look entirely likely and what about the prospect of the no deal exit how damaging would that be or how it was the country prepared for it would be extraordinary damaging and we hear news stories every day about just how damaging only yesterday there was a story about we wouldn't have clean water after a couple days because the chemical purifiers going through the channel which we've effectively blocks so it simply isn't a deal since it simply is not the parliament would simply not induce it under any circumstance and has been able to is would suggest that those kind of stories are part of what they would describe as project fear well i mean not the days of project fear long gone these are the experts and officials actually warning the government in private about these outcomes in the government is simply not going to endorse any prospect where people could lose their lives the health secretary said

he couldn't guarantee that people would not die. what about the political momentum you mention is issue the possibility of another vote to resume has been adamant every time she's not going have another referendum she's just going to stick with what was decided before and what would make a change in line you think well i mean parliament induces a second vote a second referendum then that's up to the government to implement the sovereignty of parliament what we're looking at the moment is every single option is on its own implausible but obviously that has to be one option and so it's something that seems impossible now will eventually become the reality and so we're looking at what might be. thank you very much indeed thank you. coming up on al-jazeera this news out searching for survivors in uganda after a party boat capsizes on lake victoria. local elections in taiwan may have dealt a blow to the ruling party would explain why al g.b.t. people have also suffered a setback. and as for the world champion lewis hamilton wraps up the formula one

season in style details coming up later. the man set to leave the u.s. house intelligence committee in january has accused president donald trump of dishonesty of his response to the murder of jamal khashoggi adam schiff says donald trump's links to saudi arabia need to be investigated and official reports from washington d.c. . the us president received his intelligence report into the killing of jamal khashoggi and he's rejected the idea it firmly says the saudi crown prince ordered your permission maybe. maybe. donald trump says he's standing by saudi arabia a country he believes will help with his action against iran and could help sell a middle east peace deal to the palestinians he's also talked about the arms sales

agreed with saudi arabia as important to the u.s. economy even though numerous sources dispute the value in terms of dollars and jobs but the man who will lead the house of representatives intelligence committee in january will immigrant adam schefter says he's seen intelligence reports too early and the answer is more definitive the president is not being honest with the country about the murder of democracy. i think in part he feels that by saying that we don't know or that the world is a dangerous place or everybody does it he thinks it makes him look strong it actually makes him look weak but it's not just democrats are piling pressure on the white house republican senator mike lee says there are bones to be congressional hearings into u.s. links with saudi arabia look i don't know why he's siding with the saudis but i think there are things we can do to change our relationship with the saudis notwithstanding whatever his personal motivations might be donald trump may well come face to face with the saudi crown prince we heads to the g.

twenty meeting of leading industrialized countries in argentina later this week despite widespread international condemnation of the killing of the washington post writer one leading saudi royal says other leaders know they have to do business with mohammed bin selman where their leaders. met. warmly. who would become prince or not i think all of them recognize that the kingdom has a country and they can come and the crown prince. are people that they have to deal with congressional leaders seem united on the conclusion reached by u.s. intelligence services the crown prince mohammed bin selman was responsible for the operation that killed jamal khashoggi senators will receive another classified briefing on tuesday that mean well increased pressure on donald trump not just to use stronger words but to back that up with action alan fischer al-jazeera washington overcrowding and bad weather are being blamed for the latest disaster in

uganda thirty one bodies have been recovered so far from lake victoria is that more than one hundred people were on board dosage of our imports they were having a party on the boat now their relatives are in mourning. close to one hundred people were on the boat when it capsized overloading in bad weather in the exact area is being blamed. people were shouting the music was so loud and we thought that they were just having fun when the theory capsize that's when we realized they wanted help some of the fishermen who went to save them or side died because many people jumped into this small parts of. this woman's nephew who is one of those fisherman who drowned while trying to save others why why did you go to the lake i wish you never went there a nearby resort has been turned into a morgue as police continue to collect bodies there was a boat which was coming towards the shores here but the speech from one of

the islands it capsizes it. just a bit of retired over ninety people. started the bodies will retrieve the glass tonight eleven will feel me. poor man. for the six. lake victoria has seen many similar disasters just two months ago hundreds drowned when a ferry sank on the tanzanian side of the largest of africa's great lakes the number of fatalities is often high because many can't swim and vessels don't have enough life jackets as a search and rescue becomes just a search operation familiar questions are being asked about how to prevent a repeat of this latest lake disaster. door such a pari al-jazeera. over three thousand women marched in madrid to mark the un's

international day for the elimination of violence against women comes just two days after a spanish court failed to convict two men of rape according to amnesty international one in twenty women over the age of fifteen in the e.u. has been raped catherine stuff still has more on the march. the streets of the spanish capital filled with thousands of women making themselves heard there calling for gender equality justice for victims of sexual assault and foreign and to violence and abuse. it was one of several demonstrations held in other european countries the need for a cultural shift and to encourage more women to speak out against abuse is what drove many here to attend but most of my friends they are in those seeking the relationships that their boyfriends control them so much and they can not go with their friends and go outside or go to a party without their man and women have to work together to make these more the

save button and go for travel for everything the march was particularly poignant for women here after a controversial decision by spanish judges on friday tuman were cleared of breaking the judge's rules their attack wasn't rape because even though the victim pleaded for her attire. chris just stop she didn't physically fight back they were sentenced to four and a half years in prison rapists usually get up to fifteen years the judge says that very night the three. no three one of them say if. the woman consent the other two they said that the the one did not consent by their worth more than i think so. why because it was not threaten the woman was more threat than the woman who was not the numbers she did not receive by orleans. so at the end the doctors decided that there was an abuse you know the rape. sunday was international

day for the elimination of violence against women u.n. secretary general antonio the terrorist said every woman and every girl has the right to a life free of violence spanish courts received more than one hundred sixty thousand complaints of violence against women last year a sixteen percent annual increase in the spring we have a comprehensive compression safe and no it gains in their base violence but only when he crap and is buying back by her marrow experiments six so violence is invisible story these are the also read these they are not measures there are no progress is there now and they are mostly dressed for those women that are suffering. is excited by the names of all types. this year alone more than forty women in spain died in gender violence so if it these protestors there's still a long way to go captain stansell al-jazeera. well there also protests happening

across france tens of thousands of people have joined rallies calling for an improvement to women's rights the march also marks the one year anniversary of the bylaws to paul or expose your pig protest policies response to the global need to movement. a little picture of violence against women is alarming one in three women and girls experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime often by an intimate partner where almost seven hundred fifty million women and girls alive today were married before the eighteenth birthday of the women who are married or in a union only fifty two percent freely make their own decisions about sexual relations contraceptive use and health care some two hundred million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation and lastly seventy one percent of all human trafficking victims worldwide are women and girls a quarter of whom are sexually exploited. dreaming now is julia ferrari who's

a research fellow from the gender violence and health center at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine thanks very much for coming to talk to us so that some of the statistics are really quite surprising only in this day and age what you think lies behind these kind of figures yes so thank you for having me first of all and yes indeed violence against women is really widespread across the globe it's sad one in three women experiences physical or sexual violence. from an intimate partner or another man over the course of their lifetime and the key drivers of this phenomenon seem to be related to attitudes in relation to the acceptability of violence against women and. man's power over women. as well as the lack of access for women to economic opportunities and the lack of legal frameworks that make this kind of behavior illegal that have

challenged the legality of their own invention issue legality one of the the points that the nuns to international study pointed out that even in europe so european countries thirty one near one hundred eight legally defined sex without consent is rape which are from government interesting figure is that is that there is a need to change the definition of rape absolutely and there has been most of the house been progress in this area but definitely this is an area that needs where we need to work more to really challenge the legality of these phenomena and also not only to increase the clarity of the law around what is rape and what is violence against women but also the certainty of the law very few. cases that are reported end up in a conviction and this also needs to change though the certainty of the enforcement in a way what difference does. has the me too movement globally made to this issue so

definitely there are indications that it has made a difference in the sense that more and more people are becoming aware of the fact that violence against women and girls is a problem it is why and that it is widespread and happens in areas where we wouldn't necessarily expect it. there is still a lot of work to be done more broadly the acceptability of balance against women and also giving women access to economic opportunities to sort of access and also access to education to really change the perception and i suppose when one wishes where where you know the areas that are particularly bad for this image of the countries that stand up for what they do. yes i would rather not talk in terms of what countries. are better i think what we see is important is that this is a phenomenon that is highly prevalent worldwide as you sat at the beginning one in

three women experiences something like this over the course of their lifetime and there isn't that huge of variation between different areas of the world this is a big problem. and it is connected to shoes iran attitudes and access to economic social change and opportunity one of the figures that was in there is that it's i mean it's often intimate partners who carry out these this violence is that something that surprises people when they when they look at the figures it does absolutely and you're right it is intimate partner violence is indeed one of the biggest contributor if not the biggest contributor of violence against women and this is so true that even in conflict zones intimate partner violence still is the biggest contributor of violence against women thank you very much indeed for coming georges thank you sure. still to come on al-jazeera has criticized cuba and says he'll sanction venezuela we take

a closer look at brazil's new president and his foreign policy plans. death to america the rallying cry chanted in iran for years some say it's promised rhetoric others say it's time to move on. and support the davis cup title it's a new holder will tell you that and. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts well here across europe there's plenty of messy weather around we're talking about areas low pressure down here across the med cold air up towards the north and another system coming in off the atlantic it's going to bring some problems over towards the u.k. in the next several days so let's go to those forecast maps as we go towards monday there's the rain down towards the south now as we go towards the next couple days that rain is going to start to make its way towards the north east and what we're

going to be seeing is that rain entering that cold air and that is where we're going to begin the snow up towards the north is still going to be quite cold in many places with warsaw at zero stockholm and minus two but look at the rain that is coming in across parts of ireland northern ireland as well as into the u.k. heavy rain as well as winds into london by the time we get towards tuesday night well down here across much of the northern part of africa we are looking at some better weather conditions but we still picking up some winds here along the coastal regions of algeria as well as tunisia so for two nights we do expect to see a windy day a few not a lot of rain in your forecast if any but we will be picking up more rain by the time we get to tuesday with a touch there of about sixteen degrees over here towards the east we're looking at some better conditions for benghazi at twenty two kyra looking at about twenty six but we do expect to see some clouds down towards the middle part of the are with us once again twenty eight.

this encampment that we're in today it didn't exist three weeks ago now there's at least twenty thousand or hinder refugees who live here. all i'm hearing is good journalism. has resigned. there's. coverups. some form of closure he saw the syrian army. in the city. of syrian president bashar. but. now.

from under the top stories. ukraine's president has called an emergency meeting in response to rising tensions between moscow and kiev in the black sea russia has stopped three ukrainian navy vessels from entering the carriage strait placing each cargo ship but he said russian controlled bridge. tear gas has been fired at asylum seekers trying to breach the fence separating the border between the u.s. and mexico. have approved and the treatment on the u.k.'s withdrawal and future relations insisting it's the best and only deal possible but british prime minister

to resign may still has a major battle ahead this waiting politicians back home to support the deal. the un's special envoy for yemen is due in saudi arabia on monday for talks with the yemeni government leaders in exile martin griffiths trip to riyadh follows a meeting with hoofy rebel leaders in sanaa over the weekend he secured their agreement to talks on the un's possible running of her data port is also trying to get all sides to attend talks in sweden early next month and only four years of war has left almost eighty percent of yemen's population in dire need of humanitarian assistance three hundred thousand children a severely malnourished or many others have no access to health care or school mom and other reports from neighboring djibouti on the social workers who try to ease their suffering. it's a rare moment for this year many children at an amusement park in the capital sanaa they play and just how far seventy years because of the war and hopes and ambitions

were destroyed but today we're laughing crying and we've enjoyed ourselves and did everything we wanted to do. they have witnessed the brutality of the conflict in their country foster home and many traumatized social workers organize the play date to give them some reprieve from the war and i live in hialeah this event is to provide some help in light of the bad situation our country is going through our most sponsored this event as a way to give some psychological support to the children of yemen this isn't the first such event we organized about a month ago we also organized a similar event and we're planning more in the future the opportunities for these generation have been changed for. extreme hunger and preventable diseases are killing many children every day save the children estimates the daily average is one hundred children dying from starvation approximately thirty six thousand just this year. and that is a conservative estimate based on u.n.

dot on severe acute malnutrition affecting more than one point three million children on top of all bought millions of children have no access to school or proper medical care aid workers say it's not the most of material possessions that affects the children most loved ones will suddenly gone yet many children's hopes for a normal life are dependent on a quick and lasting solution to the conflict muhammad. to booty. russia says they're carrying out air strikes in response to a toxic gas attack on the government controlled city of aleppo in syria which they're blaming on opposition fighters there are no international observer organizations in aleppo to verify the attack but syrian state t.v. reported one hundred seven people are being treated for suffocation in a suspected chlorine strike rebel groups have denied the attack saying they did not have access to chemical weapons this comes ahead of

a new round of syrian peace talks in kazakhstan on wednesday china has welcomed the overall defeat of taiwan's ruling democratic progressive party in saturday's local elections the result that the resignation of president zine when as chairwoman of the pro independence party beijing says the results show that people want peaceful relations with china asian brown reports from taipei. in. a busy farmer's market in taipei the day after voters delivered their verdict on the ruling party and its leader the mood festive relaxed the results being welcomed by china's leaders who say it shows taiwanese people want peaceful relations with the mainland and some here certainly hope that's now possible. the results show that president tie isn't doing a good job she needs to make more africa's to ease tensions with china. due to

political reasons we cannot export our product to china if the markets open up after the elections and be good for us. the election was a remarkable turnaround for the opposition k m t the party china's leaders tend to favor it now has the political control of three quarters of taiwan city's president signing when accepted the blame for the ruling party's poor showing and resigned as party leader. zion when remains president but her power and influence within the ruling party has been weakened and the inevitable questions are being raised about whether she can be the party's candidate to run in the twenty twenty presidential elections analysts say president xi jinping believes china's strategy of isolating taiwan has worked and is unlikely to stop so they will leave. for the next election in years and twenty. down in the continue their effort

and a tad in the syntactic it wasn't just relations with china concerning voters others were pension reform unemployment taiwanese identity and same sex marriage just seventeen months ago gay rights activists were celebrating after taiwan's highest court ruled in their favor. but in a referendum alongside saturday's election voters overwhelmingly backed conservative pro-family groups victorious wafa has been waiting five years to marry her partner she worries the government will now be under pressure to water down the promised legislation this is not a favorable climate for l.t.v. people live in our society so but but technically speaking this would end since the legal rights of gay people to get married victoria

has to stay upbeat but given the setback for progressive politics here she feels uncertain adrian brown al-jazeera taipei sri lanka's president series saina has vowed never to reappoint arch rival run over christmas singer as prime minister at a meeting with foreign correspondents in colombo on sunday he accused her missing of being highly corrupt the country's been in a political crisis since late october when syria's cena abruptly fired from a singer and appointed former president mahinda rajapaksa in his place as you're saying you're trying to dissolve parliament the supreme court and legislators blocked the moves. seven rebel fighters and an indian soldier been killed in gun battles in indian administered kashmir a teenage boy was killed and twenty others were left engine after indian troops laid siege to a village in the southern shop your area leading to an exchange of gunfire kashmir

is divided between rivals india and pakistan and both claim the territory in its entirety you can see. these youths give their lives for islam and for our freedom we should get the freedom from the oppression that we are facing since one thousand nine hundred forty seven we are giving our blog to this struggle and god willing we will achieve this freedom every one of us will see the freedom of kashmir this year and he will not last long and ultimately it will and. brazilian president elect. shaking up foreign relations for his country is said he'll cut relations with cuba affecting his country's most successful health care project and he'll impose sanctions on venezuela trade relations with china also be affected as he steers towards the u.s. and in the arab world announcement that brazil's embassy in israel will be transferred to jerusalem as shaken diplomatic relations in human has more.

the cuban doctors who worked at this primary health center on the outskirts of brasilia are gone than it has begun recalling more than eight thousand doctors who work in poor and remote areas throughout brazil after president elect not all described them as slaves of a communist regime. our community was used to having cuban doctors now we don't know if anyone is going to replace them on. the confrontation with cuba it's just the first step of a major shake up ahead in brazilian foreign policy. the president elect's promise to follow donald trump footsteps by relocating brazil's embassy in israel to jerusalem has outraged muslim nations. in such ways they're trying to emulate to use in the narratives that donald trump in terms of the us the main difference is the fact that brazil is not us we don't have the same power of the us. indeed

brazil sells at least five billion dollars of beef to egypt to the middle east and gulf nations producers fear they could retaliate if the move goes ahead. also not one has added fuel to the fire by saying palestine isn't a country and therefore shouldn't have an embassy here breaking with longstanding support for a two state solution to the palestinian israeli conflict but. brazil has always behaved as an intermediate or a not a participant in the conflict we hope it remains that way for brazil sick for its long standing prestigious as a nation that respects international law oh noddle who's been nicknamed the tropical donald trump is shifting from multilateralism to a strong alignment with washington this is brazil's foreign ministry its new boss will be a mid-level diplomat with no experience as embassador but whose main characteristic is his staunch support for the us president and like and president trump the new

foreign minister questions existence of climate change which he in fact describes as marxist dogma. also not only not be going as far as donald trump who has withdrawn from the paris agreement but north and south america's two largest countries looks set to join forces to push a conservative foreign policy agenda throughout the globe see in human al-jazeera. the deadly northern california wildfire that destroyed the mountain town of paradise and killed at least eighty five people is now hundred percent contained so called camp fire started on november the eighth and burned more than sixty two thousand heck tez more than two hundred people missing and destroyed nearly fourteen thousand homes in and around paradise at least three firefighters were injured battling the blaze. a judge in the u.s. has denied a motion by george papadopoulos former aide to donald trump to postpone his prison

sentence. pled guilty to lying to federal agents investigating claims of links between trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign and russia now to report to jail on monday to start his fourteen day sentence. yes president donald trump has repeatedly accused iran of being a state sponsor of terror it points to the old slogan death to america as a carrot sample of tehran intentions some iranians say merican should not take the chant literally reports from tehran i it's a phrase that has come to define decades of hostility between the two countries. death to america is a rallying call for iranian leaders to bring demonstrators to the streets it's a polarizing statement but many defend it as a minimum response for decades of harmful american policies in the middle east with their hands tied politically and economically for years some say the least they can

do is raise their voice i think he has found policy would be the same but there's that segment of then publics chance that america or not i think if. there was a decree by the iranian government that no one is allowed to say that i don't think you'll see any change in u.s. foreign policy but the slogans critics say in an era of trouble it's a problem of messaging giving his administration political ammunition to use against iran. in some corners of american political society iran supporters say trump is the problem during a visit to tehran nation of islam leader louis farrakhan said trump's policies in the middle east could trigger a global conflict. to bring.