the whole. battle lasted three days and three nights and there were no prisoners at the control of the and you control the region around that's why it was such a bloody. conflict at the heart of the lebanese. beirut holiday. photos on al-jazeera. of sixty u.s. senators seek to end support for the saudi u.a.e. war in yemen as the trumpet ministration backs the saudi crown prince on these murder. you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters in doha and daddy navigator also ahead georgia's ruling party backed candidate it is set to be the new leader after

a presidential runoff. ukraine warns off an all out war after a naval confrontation with russia that vladimir putin says was staged. a missed opportunity the un's envoy to syria says he regrets talks and failed to make any progress on a new constitutional committee. hello u.s. senators 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 journalists so busy 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 job market 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. nevertheless in what is now likely to be a protracted war between the president 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 saudi emirates a coalition 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 there hope 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 surrounding 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 on potential targets to 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. terror is about reports from one of sirees. he was the first foreign leader to arrive to win a society mohammed bin tell men 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 would 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 filemon will be staying at the saudi refuge and while 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 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 cancelled 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. and being i just some of the world's leaders expected him with us. for many a unique opportunity for argentina's precedent. 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 us dollar. has to focus on bilateral meetings to open up the 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 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. is set 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 last the rights 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 for say walker has more from the capital tbilisi. really received sixty percent of the vote in yesterday's turnout now less is an extraordinary turnaround when you consider that in the first round of these elections she and her rival rick overshadowed they were practically neck and neck 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 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 a dangerous step backwards for georgian politics because. 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 ukraine's president is warning of all out war with russia there naval confrontation in the black sea has worsened relations and now moscow is planning to send more missile defense systems to crimea. the peninsula. four years ago reports from kenya. 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 our shankar's remarks will do nothing to calm down the tension 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 june 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 ahead of the presidential election scheduled to open in ukraine in march of next year. due to. 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 massive story. as for the twenty four captive ukrainians including three who are in hospital now 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 and seems to be widespread support for more. that they say from here we don't see what's happening on the russian border but the president knows what to do he knows best.

there is no need to panic we have to support our government through our storage or whatever hurts russia benefits ukraine the united there is to be martial law it should be nationwide one law for our. it should have been introduced early and we've been at war for nearly five years. that last point to remind us of the ongoing conflict in the east of the country between pro russian separatists and ukrainians. in which more than ten thousand people have died since the fighting broke out in twenty fourteen what's happening off the shores of. is threatening to open up a new front line in the conflict. under simmons' al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera we'll tell you about the new deal that's given. plenty to celebrate and look at how to protect the world's water economy worth up to six

trillion dollars. had other been some particularly nasty indeed damaging downpours over indonesia in the last couple of days and every now and again these discrete showers for into masses like that one has a could be further west these little white class can be pretty damaging and forecasts wise are going to see him in the same places stretch out through some of the money reach sudden thailand and this darker green that's over the water at the moment but he's heading towards singapore so the chance of occasionally and locally damaging shower still exists which is no big surprises just internees is not receive a huge amount of rain for months of course not but diabetes the wet season the stormy weather that went through new south wales and ended up causing some damage

from both arraign and wind is this thing here on its way to new zealand least behind what looks like beautifully quiet weather well they'll be some pretty big showers i think thunderstorms in queensland but you're right new south wales coast looks fine other fires are still there unfortunately the early far season is still growing temps are about high as twenty one in melbourne thirty brisbane and perth isn't that pretty early round about the twenty mark still without subtly breeze as to rain the roster toji it's on its way to new zealand and it's going to be there with the wind for a couple of days. what waterboarding. people investigates the private companies. in the illegal use of torture under interrogation sunrise once

a day. not if you're in the hands of. the sun. on the. top stories on al-jazeera u.s. senators are voting want to build support for the war in yemen despite calls to reconsider from the trumpet ministration many say they have concerns about the u.s. saudi relationship since she's murder 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 the position once better relations with russia 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 un envoy to syria says the latest talks involving iran russia and turkey to end the war are a missed opportunity staffan de mistura says he's disappointed with the failure to agree on the composition of the un backed constitutional committee. meeting in. reaffirmed their commitment to no violence in the last rebel stronghold the talks were also attended by representatives of the syrian government and the opposition. reports from a stunner. a new round of talks on syria have concluded with little town jubal progress the meetings over the past two days concentrated on the formation of a un constitutional committee that was supposed to rewrite the constitution. in the joint statement released by the russians and the iranians and the turks the

guarantors are the main power brokers in syria reaffirm their commitment to create this committee and that there will be further consultations this committee is important because the west the international community is linking its creation and its work to post-war reconstruction in syria it's linking this to engaging with russia's own diplomatic offensive russia wants to move to the post-war reconstruction phase it wants refugees to return it really wants to cement president bashar assad's hold on power his battlefield gains but the international community is not on board they want to see political reform first they're withholding money for reconstruction until that political reform happens now damascus has been intransigent and has been unbending refusing to give up political power because when you rewrite the constitution you're going to curtail the president's powers and in effect you are losing your hold on power i spoke to the head of the opposition delegation after those meetings and but he remained

optimistic he said that there was a meeting early this morning with russian delegates and that russia promised that in the next few weeks there will be further consultations and compromises will be made there is a belief on the part of the opposition that russia at the end of the day will have to make concessions if it wants to end this conflict for an internationally backed deal because you're not going to get a deal that is backed by the international community until it is considered legitimate by the united nations. well the united nations humanitarian affairs chief has arrived in yemen's capital to review the crisis caused by the war he described the suffering as very concerning and called for an end to fighting between the saudi u.a.e. led coalition and the rebels. i'm very concerned about the humanitarian situation which has deteriorated since i was here last and as i've said repeatedly to the security council there are five things i would like to happen to improve the

situation and to reduce the suffering of the people first i'd like to see a sation of hostilities especially around the key aid infrastructure especially around the data secondly i'd like to see the environment in which the aid system operates made easier for all the aid agencies keep the force open keep the roads so provide access to all the key facilities supporters of. prime minister run a work or 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 plunging the country into a political crisis there's been violence in parliament when those loyal to rajapakse are rejected to no confidence votes against fernandez has more from colombo. another vote and another defeat for prime minister mohammed rajapaksa this time basically the commencing of facts and prime minister brown of the committing

of the ousted prime minister bringing in the morton basically to cut spending allocated to the prime minister's office that board was passed with a convincing one hundred twenty three wards out of the two hundred twenty five seat parliament now obviously the rajapaksa camp stayed away from the floor of the house they did not attend the session by one of the m.p.'s who addressed the house but no one voted basically what this means in theory is that all the spending by the prime minister's office stands curtailed however the prime minister my in the rajapaksa appointed by prison my policy center has been making statements from yesterday that this entire process is illegal he says such a motion cannot be brought that any motion to do with finances can only be brought by the government in power however as we know in. the last few weeks this vacuum that we have seen even the speaker mentioning in the house and building that there is no government right now so it depends on who you speak to now the president by the palace it is in who met foreign correspondents

a few days ago had referred to this vote saying that if it were taken properly in the proper manner this was an electronic vote that he would be forced to accept the results the inference that he would be forced to accept that rajapaksa had lost his majority however with things moving the way they have during the last few weeks anything is possible and people of this country waiting to see if they can make sense of this confusion pakistan and india have started construction off their first visa free border crossing it will allow safe pilgrims to visit shrines on either side and is a rare moment of cooperation between the neighbors charla bellus reports. the the sikh community have called for this for a long time a car door to allow them easy movement between india and pakistan sikh temple. with the founder of sikhism spent the last years of his life but it significance goes

beyond religion it's the first visa free border crossing in the two nations history yes or no more i see this corridor as a big symbol of friendship and brotherhood this corridor will make people to people contact after a long time of disconnection once again people are connected previously sikhs had to travel more than one hundred kilometers to visit the pilgrims sikes even though that abbas a huge is income so poor just three kilometers from the indian border the new corridor will connect it with the indian shrine of data baba nanuk. pakistan's prime minister approved the idea and led the groundbreaking ceremony building a road an immunity is for the pilgrims is expected to take four months but. the reason i want friendship and a strong relationship with india is because the subcontinent is facing the most poverty in the world if we want to finish or reduce poverty in our region we need to open our borders for trade but the good will only windsurfer is pakistan held

a ceremony the indian foreign minister how to hear our news conference she dismissed a pakistani invitation to attend a regional summit this posturing not just my mother. and i listen. in india. india and pakistan have fought three wars since one thousand nine hundred seventy two of them of the himalayan region of kashmir which both claim in full but rule in part. this was the scene in india to minister kashmir a win stay after police commanders of a pakistan based group. and yet just seventy kilometers from the border of the disputed region building started on a corridor to bind the country's sikhism was founded here in the fifteenth century

as their pilgrimage opens back up its host pakistan and india can begin one of their own shallop ballasts al-jazeera it's been the most violent here for indian administered kashmir in nearly a decade according to a rights group that monitors violations in the region the kashmir coalition of civil society says more than five hundred civilians separatist fighters and security forces have been killed in the region since january. 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 and favor of those seeking damages from a japanese company for its use of force wartime labor. young reports from the south korean capital seoul. there were two rulings by south korea's top court on thursday both ordering japan's i mean to be she had the industries to pay a total of twenty eight south korean laborers who were forced to work on the

company's promises during the second world war and i want to be she will have to pay a minimum of seventy one thousand u.s. dollars to the individual plaintiffs and their families who are mostly in their eighty's and ninety's and many of them have already passed away now this was a ruling watch closely by both japan and south korea as if all those the last months a landmark ruling by south korea's top court ordered another japanese company to compensate south koreans for the same reason now japan's foreign minister was quick to respond on thursday calling the court's decision extremely regrettable and totally unacceptable and he also said that it quote fundamentally overturns a legal basis for friendly tines between japan and south korea and its abuse she also commented calling the court's decision deeply regrettable now tensions between the two countries will escalate south korean government said that they stand with

the court's decision well japan says that the south koreans rights to get compensation was terminated when the two countries signed the treaty back in one thousand nine hundred sixty five to dorm allies diplomatic relations or protecting the world's oceans has been the focus for thousands of entrepreneurs and environmental experts meeting in kenya these so-called blue economy is valued at six trillion dollars and sorie has more from nairobi. on the sidelines of the world's first blue economy conference delegates are treated to a shoe of clothes and bags crafted from fish skin all the way from the shores of lake turkana in nothing kenya to that. and other regions designers he has see the future of fashion can include fish skin. but this conference is more than just about fish and fashion delegates are

discussing how to harness a sustainable water economy that is valued at up to six trillion dollars and to protect assets worth an estimated twenty five trillion. to make us cities. in the cities. this is one of. these. and we have. seen before it will system. time transport systems and coordinated operation. practices and poaching. as well as destruction of coastal eco systems make it difficult to fully harness the potential of the economy people. coming to our waters to fish and doing so without using those

resources. and none is coming to africa everybody asked off about how important this conference is addressing the gathering including heads of state have all the right things about doing more to protect resources empowering local communities and and growing the economy but there's also concern that this may be another talks with many good ideas but. organizers of the event see the real walk. staying true to commitments made here begins now we want to focus on leaders coming here and making commitments about what they will do in their countries not for the world but in their countries and it is the aggregate of what they're saying that we shall use to conceptualize what the world will be doing for the blue economy at the end of this three day conference heads of government and agencies committed to put in place policies to build

a sustainable blue economy they've also promised to help poor counties build capacity to more effectively patrol the seas and oceans as well as strengthen political leadership and international cooperation catching song al-jazeera arabic . microsoft briefly over took its tech rival apple as the world's most valuable publicly listed company it's been sixteen years since the software giant has held the top spot microsoft shares jumped three percent on wednesday pushing its market value to eight hundred fifty billion dollars. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. senators have voted to debate a bill seeking to withdraw support for the saudi u.a.e. coalition 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 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 crew men. the u.n. envoy to syria says the latest talks involving iran russia and turkey to end the war are a missed opportunity stefan de mistura says he's disappointed with the failure to agree on the composition of a u.n. backed constitutional committee negotiators meeting and. reaffirmed their commitment to no violence in the last rebel strongholds the talks were also attended by representatives of the syrian government and the opposition georgia's former foreign minister. is set 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 last direct election of a head of state in georgia because the country is turning into a parliamentary democracy supporters of. prime minister rudd no worker missing a 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 her missing up the country into a political crisis there's been violence in parliament when those loyal to rajapaksa rejected to no confidence votes against him in south korea 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 forced wartime labor those are the headlines on al-jazeera people and power rendition revisited is up next.

china could be facing a debt i suppose that's according to s. and p. global trumpet ministration just been insisting towards the saudis and other uses that they want to have more production to cool down the prices we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. america's president on trumped police told should workers he's pledged to keep the contaminated detention facility open and is set to bring back wall to call of suspects so in the first of a special two project press to go we've been to the u.s. state that was once the heart of america's illegal program of rendition and torture to ask whether the u.s. could be about to return to a dog chapter.