factoring in sea level rise is caused by climate change now every day when the tide rolls out radioactive isotopes from underneath the roll out with it. we're not talking just a marshall we're talking. the trumpet ministration says there is no evidence against the saudi crown prince and his murder but u.s. senators seek to end support to the saudi led war in the. desire in life from a headquarters in doha i'm dating obligated to also heads ukraine warns of an all

out war after a naval confrontation with russia that vladimir putin says was staged the ruling party backed candidate leads the race in georgia as votes are being counted in the presidential runoff. and key players in syria's war in the kazakh capital to discuss options to end the conflict. fellow senators in washington d.c. have voted to debate a bill seeking to withdraw u.s. support for the saudi led war in yemen defying president trump the bipartisan vote ignored warnings from the secretaries of state and defense that it would be a big mistake and damage u.s. saudi relations senators are calling for more transparency on what the intelligence community knows about the murder of. mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . the yeas are sixty three the nays are thirty seven this was the senate and good

fourteen republican senators joined all forty nine democrats in recommending that the bullshit be discussed on the senate floor in all probability a debate that will happen next week it's a direct repudiation of the white house which it sent both the secretary of state and the secretary of defense to persuade senators to vote against the proposal the united states should not be supporting a catastrophic war led by a despotic regime with a dangerous and irresponsible military policy senators furious to a reports that the white house had instructed the cia director not to attend the classified briefing this despite repeated demands that gina has pulled brief the senate on the khashoggi killing and the level of involvement of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon as to whether the crown prince was involved in this killing it's my belief that he was it's my belief that he ordered it i don't have

a smoking gun. but what i do know is that he is responsible for this agency that carried out the killing he has done nothing to show ownership over what has happened the emotion table is agreed to back in march a similar proposal failed to move to the floor for debate fifty five senators voting against the massive turnaround reflected in the latest vote a clear indication of how the murder of joe balkan shoji has galvanized the senate to reexamine the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia the legislation would end u.s. involvement in yemen but even if it is passed in the senate there is little chance it will go to a house that's under republican control and it's only likely to clear congress and be sent to the white house after the new house of representatives with a democratic majority convenes at the beginning of next year and the president's office has been quick to make clear in

a formal statement that any such legislation would face a veto this in turn could only be overwritten by a two thirds majority in both house and senate which nevertheless in what is now likely to be a protracted war between president trump and congress this vote is just the first salvo mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well the u.s. has been providing logistical and intelligence support to the coalition in the war in the yemen since twenty fifteen begun under president barack obama it says the backing is to help stabilize the region and counteract iranian goals the rebels fighting the coalition are supported by iran until recently much of the u.s. assistance was in the form of in-flight refueling for a saudi planes bombing yemen that's been halted in recent weeks in the wake of the outrage surrounding the murder of. its still cooperates on intelligence and selling arms to the coalition and the u.s.

says its officers advise the iraqi counterparts on procedures for hitting potential targets to minimize civilian casualties. well. it's casting a shadow on the saudi crown prince's visit to argentina he's there for the g. twenty summits it's his first meeting with world leaders outside the middle east since the murder of terrorism reports from. he was the first foreign leader to arrive to when a society mohammed bin salmen landed here early on wednesday morning to attend the g. twenty summit a visit filled with controversy after the murder of a saudi journalist. human rights watch asked argentine on monday to investigate the crown prince over war crimes in yemen and the killing of. but experts say it's unlikely he'll be detained. you have universal jurisdiction allows us to pursue crimes against humanity so there's no impunity because they committed in places

where tribunals are captured or do not work but there is an immunity that protects the prince and it would be extremely complex for any type of detention to happen unless there's enough proof and that's why a public prosecutor asked a judge to request more information from saudi arabia yemen and turkey to determine whether there is enough ground for argentina to get involved the process may be a long one mohamed bin file man will be staying at the saudi refuge and while in went outside of that has been prepared for his arrival the windows that you can see there were armored in recent days security is a major concern in west side as this days and most of the streets where the world leaders will be moving around will be completely shut down i the government has asked the residents of when a site is to leave the city or the flights over the capital will be diverted and subways and trains and all public transport will be canceled or did you ration of

the summit. we have so many other problems like violence in football inflation protests every day that right now the g. twenty. summit is the least of my troubles. donald trump vladimir putin and she seemed being i just some of the world's leaders expected him when a site is over for many a unique opportunity for argentina's president. to use the summit as a platform to attract much needed foreign investment. argentina's inflation rate will be close to forty five percent a year and the currency lost fifty percent of its value against the u.s. dollar argentina has to focus on bilateral meetings and get trump to open up exports for argentine beef reduced targets for bio diesel and sign agreements with china this is a chance for argentina and this is where the action can focus on concrete issues i didn't tina's own troubles but also major issues from around the world like the

killing of jamal khashoggi will likely draw thousands of protesters containing them will be a major challenge for the government in the next few days. ukraine's president is warning of all out war with russia their neighbor confrontation in the black sea has worsened relations. to crimea the peninsula. four years ago and simmons reports from. as there a half of his country goes on the war ukraine's president is making a stark warning about russia accusing it of sending more tanks to its border petro poroshenko says he wants ukraine to do more to defend itself against the threat of a learned invasion. say thank you should have. the strength have not yet been removed from there they're still there i don't want anybody to think those are toys

the country is under threat of a full scale war with the russian federation so. the goal of this martial law is to show that the enemy will pay a very high price if he decides to attack us it will be like a cold shower that will stop the mad men who have plans to attack ukraine and if there is no further aggression we will assume that the goal of these actions is achieved. remarks will do nothing to calm down the tension and russia is announcing the deployment of more s. four hundred missile systems in crimea and donald trump says he may now cancel his meeting with vladimir putin that's june at the g. twenty summit and bought a salaries this week. is now trying to dismiss what happened on sunday as a border incident. it's a bit of a cutting missile. i think it's a provocation a provocation organized by the authorities and i think the president himself the

head of the presidential election scheduled to open in ukraine in march of next year. from border incident nothing more than what happened in two thousand and fourteen when crimea decided to reunite with russia it was a completely different massive story here. as for the twenty four captive ukrainians including three hospital they'll remain in detention for at least the next two months under the court's orders of a judge how is this all playing out for people in ukraine's capital kiev seems to be widespread support for more. that this from here we don't see what's happening on the russian border but the president knows where to do you know his best. there is no need to panic we have to support our government. whatever hurts russia benefits ukraine. if there is to be martial law it should be nationwide one law for our. it should have been introduced earlier we've been at war for nearly five years

. that last point to remind us of the old going conflict in the east of the country between pro russian separatists and ukrainian. in which more than ten thousand people have died since the fighting broke out in twenty fourteen what's happening off the shores of an explorer is threatening to open up a new front line in the conflict. and to simmons' al-jazeera kiev the former georgian foreign minister. is set to be the country's new president with nearly all the votes counted she will be the first woman to hold the office in the former soviet republic it's the last direct election of a head of state in georgia as the presidency will be diminished by a new parliamentary democracy the vote has been tainted by allegations of fraud and intimidation robin forestier walker joining us from georgia's capital tbilisi what

are you hearing about the latest results. yes most of them are in now i think ninety nine percent of the counts is done and celebrated to be severely picked up basically sixty percent compared. with just forty percent more or less and that is an extraordinary turn around considering that in the first round the two candidates were absolutely neck in neck and. popularity really was not looking at all. looking good at all so this is really quite an accomplishment and quite unexpected how did you manage to make such a turnaround. i think two things mainly for her first of all the government went into overdrive supporters went into overdrive and they brought out a p.r. campaign that basically painted the opposition as criminal they said that if if the

opposition candidate won what they were going to get was a return to the politics of the past because the opposition candidate had promised to pardon members of the former governments people who had been charged with abuses of power while in office some of them were in exile including the former presidents and i think georgians have not yet given the previous government for what they did while in office nevertheless georgians were very frustrated with the economic situation jobs still stands here the poverty rate is sky high and the last thing that took place was that the scene of an issue really the billionaire who runs the country he's the chairman of the party in the last hour before the second round run off and said that he was going to pay off the debts of six hundred thousand georgians one and a half billion up to one and a half billion dollars and i think that may have really pushed people done it for

people because that was their consideration they've got serious debt in this country and the opposition is a clear cues them of vote buying with this measure but it might just have worked for the government and it appears to have paid off with this big turn around now and this result first salaries are rubbish really. thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera another setback for throwing cuz a new prime minister but we're live in colombo to explain the ramifications of a parliamentary vote against and. how the weather remains rather stormy into southeastern part so if you have lots of class still showing up easing over towards the black sea to see if if you live top of this area cloudy awesomest are rolling in once again is cold enough the

temperatures subzero there for book arrest full kiev at all so for moscow some of the certainly wet and windy across c.e.o.s. decide if you still more heavy showers longer spells of rain rattling in across the british isles western parts of france right the way down to spain and portugal some heavy downpours on thursday evening for the resources we go on into friday tended to snow over the alps brought the skies come back a bit high but there is going to be still less stiff breeze coming through eleven degrees there for london you have a celsius two for athens in the shadows they're going to continue to side of the med after greece pushing into turkey in some of those showers a cools will just graze the fog north of libya pushing across into northern areas of egypt as well so twenty two cells is top temperature there for kyra getting up to twenty in algiers generally fine and dry across the northwest of africa meanwhile a few showers it's around southern fringe is off the gulf of guinea some lovely down poles coming for you but the heaviest right of course if you south.

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hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour senators in washington d.c. are moving ahead with plans for a vote on ending u.s. support for the war in yemen despite calls to reconsider from the trumpet ministration many say they have concerns about u.s. saudi links since the murder of. ukraine's president petro poroshenko has warned of a full scale war with russia after a naval confrontation in the black sea earlier this week the former georgian foreign minister. really is set to be the country's new president when nearly all the votes counted she will be the first woman to hold the office in the former soviet republic better relations with russia. negotiators from iran and russia are meeting in kazakhstan's capital hoping to preserve a fragile truce in northern syria representatives of the syrian government and opposition are also in. the negotiations will not lead to any internet to an

internationally back political deal but russia is pushing for a breakthrough on a un backed constitutional committee that it can sell to the west is joining us from so is there a sign any breakthrough on that u.n. constitutional committee. well the reason not to get no indication late yesterday the head of the russian delegation alexander levin have said we are trying to work on creating that you and constitutional committee it has been the subject of discussions since yesterday it is a demand by the international community a demand by the west they want damascus to engage with the un led political process which involves this u.n. committee rewriting the constitution so far the syrian government has been unbending intransigent not making any compromises even you know disputing the mandate of this committee saying that the it's not supposed to rewrite the constitution it's only supposed to revise a few articles the syrian government also saying that this should not be

a un process this should be a process led by the syrians but russia needs some sort of breakthrough it needs to make concessions to the west if the west is to engage with russia's own diplomatic offensive russia wants to move to the post war phase in syria it wants money for post-war reconstruction it wants refugees to return to cement ourselves hold on power so it's not clear how much pressure russia will put on to damascus government to make concessions and as for the opposition who are also present and. with opposition losses on the ground recently what are they hoping to achieve. well yes they have little leverage but they do want that ceasefire the demilitarized zone deal between turkey and russia to hold but we understand is that there is optimism that that deal will hold yes there have been truce violations over recent days serious attacks but the opposition even the russian head of the

russian delegation saying that all sides are committed to this deal but the opposition feels that the europe's position insisting that damascus engage in the u.n. political process will in one way or another help their position yes nobody's talking about a political transition any longer for assad to leave power but what the u.n. is trying to do is change the system from within and it starts from a constitution and free elections but so far the syrian government is not cooperating all right reporting from us donna thank you. south sudan has been at war for much of its existence and now a report from a u.k. government backed research organization says a network of shell companies in the us israel and uganda helped the country get weapons that's despite a u.n. arms embargo investigators with conflicts armament research found that nearly three million rounds of ammunition delivered to south sudan's army came from. weapons

were also sent from two other european union nations and one military aircraft came from the u.s. during the shipping process documents wrongly indicated uganda was the final destination of the arms but once the cargo arrived in uganda the shipment was illegally transported to south sudan and speak to mike lewis in london he's the head of regional operations of conflicts armaments a research thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera talk us through the mechanisms you used first of all to gather this information. thank you i should clarify that we're not but by the u.k. government funded by the european union in some cases all right thanks for the hundred k. some funding has allowed us. not at all that funding has allowed our field teams to spend nearly four years crisscrossing south sudan alongside both government and rebel forces to physically documents the weapons that are being used in the conflict that's hundreds of weapons from assault rifles to battle tanks over two

hundred thousand rounds of ammunition and then we've tracked those weapons back to their sources and try to understand how they've ended up in the hands of the competence and these weapons you say exported from china or from three countries in the european union and the united states how do they actually get around the e.u. arms embargo on south sudan as well as the u.n. arms embargo. so what we found is that the downs neighbors have been the primary conduit particularly in uganda the primary quant conduits and sometimes the active sponsors of weapons to each side of the conflict now up until july of this year there hasn't been a global u.n. arms embargo on south sudan and that has allowed arms shipments to come in to south sudan's neighbors legitimately and then be passed on into the south sudanese conflict and what we found is that in some cases correspondence between for example the ugandan and the south sudanese government show south sudan arranging for uganda

to provide the paperwork that makes it look like these weapons are coming into for the end use of uganda and you say that you've not received a response from either uganda or itself sudan to these allegations but what are you hoping to achieve with this reports. so this is about more than just uganda or sudan or south sudan this is about the integrity of international arms controls the try to stop weapons getting into conflicts in too many cases that we documented we saw exporting states who weren't aware necessarily that the weapons were on their way to south sudan but you may have missed clear red flags that the weapons will might have been diverted so we saw repeated shipments for example to arms brokers that had been publicly named by the united nations security council the previous involvement in diversion of weapons to south sudan to charles taylor's liberia earlier in the century and it's these kinds of standards it's

spotting these kinds of red flags that exporting states need to get better at doing our writer mike lewis we thank you very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera. now supporters of ousted prime minister rudd overcome a single have pushed through a vote in parliament to cut funding to the new prime minister's office so the president replaced work with former leader departs on last month funding the country into a deepening political crisis violence broke out in parliament when those loyal to rajapaksa rejected to no confidence votes against him both men insist they are the lawful prime minister let's cross live someone else fernandez in colombo so now that we have a vote and it's another vote against rajapaksa mel will he step down. that's the million dollar question right now. we haven't heard any immediate reaction from his camp but right from yesterday we started hearing sort of the lines out of the

rajapaksa camp was that this session the motion was illegal that a motion of such nature cannot be brought by an opposition in parliament that it can only be done by the government so the pro the prime minister by him that rajapaksa who is incidentally the former president saying that the sessions are illegal that had been finalised his party also saying his faction saying that these issues are under court review with a number of fundamental rights applications. and should be taken up to refusing to actually recognise or knowledge the valid duty of such a vote as you can see many here instead of moving on. after that vote earlier today but what it does mean in theory is that all budget allocations to the prime minister's office have to be halted because it in twenty. four and

saying that the president is a key figure in this drama now will he now accept that rajapaksa has no majority. again daryn this is such a moving story all eyes now waiting to see what the president has to say about the vote because the vote was very very clear it was done electronically the first two no confidence motion is against prime minister mind the rajapaksa taken by voice and that was of these and that the president rejected those no confidence motion saying they want done properly meeting the foreign correspondents association a few days ago he did say that the vote on the twenty ninth that's being today if it was taken in a proper manner and even if that the victim missing her faction sort of showed its majority his exact words were that he will have to accept the results so we're still waiting to see because we've seen the results taking place before motions passed through but the executive essential in rejecting those results so if we go

by what he told us a few days ago president city center would have to see this vote and accept the results of this vote but as we've seen during the last couple of weeks here in sri lanka anything's possible right there now from and thank you for that update from colombo. well there are now more than six thousand people in a makeshift camp looking to cross from mexico into the united states their warnings that conditions are worsening with an increased risk of sickness and disease and many of those living there won't qualify for the u.s. asylum they're waiting for john rowland has more from tijuana. but again. this isn't the only pull list for the caravan of central americans into one robot volunteers moats the queue of those waiting twice u.s. authorities for asylum for those on it the key question remains do they actually qualify over weeks out to tierra has talked to dozens of people traveling from

douras most told us this the primary reason for fleeing their homeland is increasing poverty in a country where living costs of salut like no reach to make sixty dollars a month not enough to cover the basic needs of herself or the six children when you do the sums of what you need to buy food clothes shoes for the children it's not enough it's not even enough for the food but there's a problem for her many others economic migrants don't qualify for asylum in the united states that means that many in this care of the destined to be disappointed that's a huge problem for them and the city on the planet it's becoming a bottleneck a makeshift camp set up for people is overflowing onto the pavement outside. the many others we talked to stay because they have faith that if they've got this far things work out i ask god to lucius and the knowledge has crossed to help out

children even when he is going to into fits my faith and given the repeated message of donald trump that's unlikely i don't want to mend our country but others in the caravan do have a chance for asylum those who are fleeing immediate day. like a piece the legal advice that he told us where to pull dura says warring gangs try to recruit his fifteen year olds. i went to speak to them and said my son is honest we're a hard working family and we're not going to do anything illegal and they told me they were going to kill me if he didn't join so we had to flee but u.s. authorities a processing aside the requests agonizing the slowly even those who do have a chance of getting in a facing a long way. home and i was just one south korea's supreme court has ordered japanese industrial giant mitsubishi to compensate twenty eight south

koreans for forced labor during the second world war the decision follows the court's ruling in october in favor of those seeking damages from japan's nippon steel for its use of forced wartime labor japan's foreign minister has called the decision totally unacceptable you can find much more on this story as well as the day's top stories by heading to our website al-jazeera dot com had there for more news all that al-jazeera dot com. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour senators in washington d.c. have voted to debate a bill seeking to withdraw u.s. support for the saudi led war in yemen defying president trump the bipartisan vote ignored warnings from the secretaries of state and defense that it would be a mistake and damage u.s. saudi relations senators are calling for more transparency on what the intelligence

community knows about the murder of john. the former georgian foreign minister. is set to be the country's new president when nearly all the votes counted she will be the first woman to hold the office in the former soviet republic it's the direct election of a head of state in georgia as the presidency will be diminished by a new parliamentary democracy the vote has been tainted by allegations of fraud and intimidation negotiators from iran russia and turkey are meeting in capital hoping to preserve a fragile truce in northern syria representatives of the syrian government and opposition are also in. the negotiations will not lead to an internationally backed political deal but russia is pushing for a breakthrough on a un backed constitutional committee that it can sell to the west's supporters of ousted prime minister nuri and i will become a single have pushed through

a vote in parliament to cut funding to the new prime minister's office president replaced with christmas and go with the former leader mahinda rajapaksa last month plunging the country into a deepening political crisis violence broke out in parliaments on those loyal to other pax are rejected to no confidence votes against him south korea's supreme court has ordered japanese industrial giant mitsubishi to compensate twenty eight south koreans for forced labor during the second world war the decision follows the court's ruling in october in favor of those seeking damages from japan's nippon steel. will be worse off outside the european union no matter how the country leaves that's the upshot of a report from the bank of england in the worst case where britain crashes out of the block with no deal then the central bank says the economy would contract by as much as eight percent in a year those are the headlights on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next stay

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