u.s. senator to end support for the. war in yemen as administration backs the saudi crown prince on. you watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also ahead ukraine warns of an all out war after a naval confrontation with russia vladimir putin says. georgia ruling party backed candidate is set to be the new leader after a presidential runoff and talks are underway in the hope of finding in the war in

syria. hello senators and u.s. senators that is have voted to debate a bill seeking to withdraw american support for the saudi u.a.e. coalition war in yemen defying president donald 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 saudi journalist. 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 bull should 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 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 the house and senate. nevertheless in what is now likely to be a protracted war between president and congress this vote is just the first salvo

mike hanna al-jazeera washington how tickell hayne has more now on their briefing given to u.s. senators and how they reacted. this is pretty unprecedented one after the other u.s. senators came before reporters using pretty harsh language to describe saudi arabia and its crown prince we understand that saudi arabia is an ally. of sorts and of some important country a despotic dishonest dictatorship it's time to send saudi arabia a message this after the u.s. secretaries of state and defense gave a classified briefing to senators they again tried to protect the crown prince do you believe i've read every piece of intelligence plus in the last few hours i think i read it all there is no direct report connecting it to the murders of

officer we have no smoking gun that the crown prince would involve many senators say they disagree and they wanted to hear directly from the cia director but senator say the white house refused to let her come to the capitol prompting this highly charged threat from a usual ally of the president not going to be denied the ability to be briefed by the cia we have oversight. about whether or not their assessment supports my belief that this could not have happened without m.b.'s knowing. and if the briefing reinforces the conclusion that i already have tentatively formed then there will be no more business as usual saudi arabia senator lindsey graham says he will not vote to fund the government until he hears directly from the cia that is a move that is likely going to force the administration to comply if this briefing

was meant to get senators to move off this issue it appears to have had the exact opposite effect. al-jazeera washington. well the u.s. has been providing logistical and intelligence support to the saudi emirates acoa. in the war in yemen since two thousand and fifteen it began under president barack obama and it's meant to help stabilize the region and counteract iranian actions therefore the rebels fighting the coalition are backed by to run until recently much of the u.s. assistance was in the form of in-flight refueling for a saudi jets bombing yemen that's been halted in recent weeks in the wake of the outrage around the murder of. the u.s. still cooperates on intelligence for the coalition and is the top arms supplier to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. it says its officers advise the coalition are potential targets so minimize civilian casualties well the murder is casting a shadow on the saudi crown prince's visit to argentina he's there for the g.

twenty summit it's his first meeting with world leaders outside the middle east since the murder of. to reasonable reports from one of sirees. he was the first foreign leader to arrive to win 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 jamal khashoggi 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 prints 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 reference 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. this days and most of the streets where the world leaders will be moving around will be completely shut down. 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 for 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's

being i just some of the world's leaders expected him when a site is. 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 this year and the currency lost fifty percent of its value against the u.s. dollar. has to focus on bilateral meetings and get trying to open up export for argentine beef reduced targets for bio diesel and signed agreements with china this is a chance for argentina and this is where the action can focus on concrete issues argentina's own troubles but also major issues from around the world like the killing. will likely draw thousands of protesters containing them will be a major challenge for the government in the next few days.

georgia's former foreign minister. said to be the 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 direct election of a head of state in georgia because the country is turning into a parliamentary democracy the vote has been tainted by allegations of fraud and intimidation robin forster walker has more from the capital tbilisi. really received sixty percent of the votes in yesterday's turnout now that is an extraordinary turnaround when you consider that in the first round of these elections she and her rival rick overshadowed they were practically like an egg i think then she had just a percentage point over here in the first round poll and the reason for that was that she has been very struggled let's say two to resonate with voters because of remarks she made about georgia's war with russia where she said georgia should

shoulder some of the responsibility there was a new p.r. campaign that so want to patrol the opposition. as criminal as dangerous step backwards for georgian politics because they her rival had promised to pardon members of the former government who had been charged with abuses of power while in office some of them are in jail some of them have gone into exile and i think georgians were not ready to see these people come back into georgian politics but perhaps the crucial thing that helped. was this often made by the government to pay off the debts of up to six hundred thousand more georgians around about half a billion dollars this country suffers from extreme poverty and i think this was an opportunity that georgian vote is simply could not resist the opposition accused them of mass vote buying with this initiative they now say that they are going to

meet and they're going to discuss the next steps how when and what to do to challenge these results but it looks like. it will be george's next president still ahead and al jazeera fears of disease with thousands of central american asylum seekers stuck at a camp in mexico plus the queen of the curve leaves her mark on the new york skyline will take you through this building by the late architect. from cool brisk noise and fuel. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. aliza been to areas of rain significant rain the last twenty four hours this one is enduring over turkey it stretched out through such ustream particularly wet and the other one of the british isles not so far stormy

a while now the rain there is passing through fairly quickly the winds are quite strong coincidentally the same amount of rain has fallen in both areas kazik up in the english lake district forty seven millimeters and down the coast of turkey about the same now this rain is going to carry on i think greece and turkey in particular season pretty heavy downpours in the next twenty four hours less so on the other side of the black sea whereas the rain up over the british isles will spread eastwards into france tell of a push in spain and head towards denmark where it's high enough ground in denmark and norway for a bit is snow that's fairly mild there we could see the sun's come out in london whereas we are now on friday and it is still raining in turkey and between the two all this time stayed cold frosty air by day high temperature of minus three in bucharest and minus two in warsaw now of course this leads to the central and particularly eastern mediterranean being the stormiest place that reaches down into

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out of again the headlines zero u.s. senators are voting on a bill to end support for the war despite calls to reconsider from the trumpet ministration many say they have concerns about the u.s. saudi relationship 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. to be the country's new president with nearly all the votes counted she will be the first woman to hold that position and once better relations with. negotiators from iran and russia are meeting and. to discuss ways of finding an end to the war in syria they've reaffirmed their commitment to no violence in the last rebel stronghold representatives of the syrian government and opposition are at the talks as well the formation of

a committee to rewrite the constitution was also discussed joining us from so was there any progress on the u.n. constitutional committee. well like you mentioned a fresh round of talks on asked in the un constitutional committee was top on the agenda of the many meetings that have been held since yesterday but no tangible progress in that joint statement which was read out not too long ago the cousin foreign minister saying that all sides reaffirmed their determination to launch this committee and that further consultations on all levels will take place that you on constitutional committee is a demand by the west by europe they want the u.n. led political process to move forward they want damascus to engage in that u.n. led political progress but damascus has been unbending the syrian government even disputing the mandate of the u.n. constitutional committee saying that we should be leading this committee this

should be a syrian led process not a u.n. led process and that to it shouldn't rewrite the constitution what this committee should do is revise just a few articles because what this committee means is that damascus has to give up some political power yes there's no more talk about a political transition about bashar assad the syrian president leaving power but what the west is insisting is for political concessions on the part of the syrian government and that has so far not happened i've spoken to the head of the opposition delegation he is remaining optimistic he's saying that we're holding talks with the russians and they're promising some sort of an agreement at a later date at the end of the day russia needs to compromise if it is to get the international community on board its own diplomatic initiative which is about moving into the post-war reconstruction phase and on the ground with that fragile cease fire in the last rebel stronghold are they optimistic that it will hold. yes the message from aston is that that deal will hold all sides remain committed

yes there have been serious violations in recent days there have been attacks in a number of areas but the russian head of the russian delegation and turkish officials everybody is rican really confirming that this deal is going to hold it is not going to collapse because really there is a lot at stake in mid september the deal was reached between russia and turkey to create this buffer zone the deadline to for a radical so-called radical groups to leave on august fifteenth was missed but no one declared the deal dead russia needs doesn't want to see a bloodbath in in live simply because it will not help its own diplomatic offensive to get the west on board turkey does not want to see a massive influx of refugees so everyone really benefits even the opposition believes that this deal is going to hold that these for the time being one hundred thank you. ukraine's president is warning off war where russia their neighbor confrontation in the black sea has worsened relations and now moscow is planning to

send more missile defense systems to crimea the peninsula it next from ukraine four years ago and reports from kiev. as nearly 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 threats of a land invasion. so. these tanks 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 f. four hundred missile systems in crimea and donald trump says he may now cancel his meeting with vladimir putin that's jew at the g twenty summit and bought a sari's this week. with a lot of his now trying to dismiss what happened on sunday as a border incident. it's a provocative 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. with. the border incident nothing more than what happened in two thousand and fourteen when crimea decided to reunite with russia it was a completely different man. story. 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 this seems to be widespread support for more. than this that i mean when you begin 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 the united because i knew if there is to be martial law it should be nationwide one law for our daughters it should have been introduced earlier we've been at war for nearly five years. that last point a reminder of the ongoing conflict in the east of the country between pro russian separatists and ukrainian forces 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 excursion mir is threatening to open up a new front line in the conflict. under symons al-jazeera kiev. south sudan has been at war for much of its existence and now report from an e.u. funded research organization says a network of shell companies in the us israel and uganda have helped the country get weapons that's despite a un arms embargo investigators with conflicts armament research found that nearly three million rounds of ammunition delivered to south sudan's army came from bulgaria weapons were also sent from two other european union nations and one military aircraft came from the us 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. mike lewis is the head of regional operations at conflicts armaments research we spoke to him earlier

on. 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 so what we found is that. neighbors have been the primary conduit particularly to gallop the probably quite 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 un arms in bargo 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've 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 there are now more than six thousand people in a makeshift camp and one are looking to cross from mexico into the united states there are 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 horman has more from tijuana. this is a little list for the caravan of central americans into robot volunteers the queue of those waiting to us u.s. authorities for asylum to those all the key question remains do they actually qualify for over a week so it's a serious two to dozens of people traveling from douras told us this the primary

reason for fleeing their homes is. creasing poverty in a country where living costs of salut like marie who make sixty dollars a month not enough to cover the basic needs of herself and 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 shared problem for them and the city. it's becoming a ball tonight on the late shift 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 cross to help out children even when he is going to into fits my faith sick and given the

repeated message of donald trump some likely i don't want him in our country but others in the caravan do have a chance for asylum those who are fleeing immediate danger by a con like e.b.'s who we met in the legal advice that he told us wonderful douras is warring gangs trying to recruit his fifteen year old son and 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 the u.s. authorities a processing asylum requests agonizingly slowly even those who do have a chance of getting in a facing a long way joan home and i was into one. supporters of sri lanka prime minister rhino with missing a have pushed through a vote in parliament to cut funding for the man who replaced him the former

president mahinda rajapaksa took over after the president removed a promising a plunging the country into a political crisis there's been violence in parliament when those loyal to read the facts are rejected to no confidence votes against him. it's been the most violent year for indian administered kashmir nearly a decade that's according to a rights group that monitors violations in the region the coalition of civil society says more than five hundred civilians separatist fighters and security forces have been killed in the region since january. some of the world's most unique buildings are competing for top honors at the world architecture festival in amsterdam one of them is an apartment building in new york by the late iraqi born british architect zaha hadid gabriel is also takes a look at it. it's likely to become one of the crown jewels of chelsea's regeneration and already a distinctive addition to the manhattan skyline known simply as five twenty west

twenty eighth this brand new apartment block represents a dramatic shift away from the hard angles of most buildings in the neighborhood dynamic curves dominate the elegant hand crafted metal facade creating its signature chevron pattern. the chevron councilman's idea of smith's novels. it was designed by the late iraqi british architect zaha hadid. and just one of the shortlisted buildings at the route architecture festival taking place in amsterdam . aidid also designed the inside of the building from the lobby to the spa. and of course the apartment's craig is the executive vice president of the company that built it and we like to bring the architecture theme into the residence as well in this penthouse we have amazing opportunity to have a three level stair cement

a lot of them and these have even if the stair connect all three levels so who would live in a house like this well for starters you will need a lot of money fifty million dollars will get you the penthouse suite and the cheapest unit sells for five million dollars meaning that for most of us we'll have to enjoy this building from the outside it's built right next to the high line a popular elevated park here in manhattan and that proximity brings a special significance says ed gaskin a senior associate at how deeds company been amazing to see how people react and respond to the building as a piece of artwork so i think that contribution to the high line in elevating the rest of the neighborhood first of all it just something back to the community zaha hadid never got to see her first new york building completed she died in two thousand and sixteen this is a note to her this is something that is certain legacy this are only building in

new york city and in this whole northeast actually and so if you want to know is they can come to this building a corner of manhattan that will forever be a reminder of a remarkable life's work gabriel's andu al-jazeera new york. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. senators voted to debate a bill seeking to withdraw support for the saudi coalition in yemen defying president on 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 also calling for more transparency on what the intelligence community knows about the murder of saudi journalist. 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 russian coast guard

opened fire on ukrainian ships and detained three boats and twenty crewmen ukraine says its vessels were operating in line with international rules but moscow says they did not have permission to pass georgia's former foreign minister salome's or it was really is said to be the new president's 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 because the country is turning into a parliamentary democracy the vote has been tainted by allegations of fraud and intimidation negotiators from iran russia and turkey have met in kazakhstan. to discuss ways of finding an end to the war in syria they have reaffirmed their commitment to no violence in the last rebel strongholds representatives of the syrian government and opposition are at the talks as well the formation of a committee to rewrite the constitution has also been discussed supporters of sir lanka prime minister ran away from a single push through

a vote in parliament to cut funding for the man who replaced him the former president mahinda rajapaksa took over after the president removed from a single country into a political crisis there's been violence in parliament when those loyal to raja rejected to no confidence votes against him both men insist they are the lawful prime minister 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 another japanese company for its use of force worth time labor. those are the latest headlines on the stream is coming up next stay with us. stories generate found sense of headlines to. separate the spin from the facts facts.

the listening post on al-jazeera. hi emily could be here in the stream today thousands of central american asylum seekers finally reach the us mexico border but where will they go from there you can join our conversation with your questions and your comments live or twitter. after weeks of traveling on foot through mexico thousands of central americans have reached the country's northern border hoping to cross over and apply for asylum in the united states but an increasingly high.