the occupation of the american mind on al-jazeera. well you. know somebody like. the head of the cia will brief u.s. senators and what she knows about the murder of a saudi journalist. this is al jazeera live from doha coming up after more than fifty years as part of opec is calling it quits leaving the oil cartel to focus on gas. injured who are evacuating from yemen in a deal raising hopes the talks to end the. pressure intensifies on british prime minister made to overturn opposition to have. week before the key parliamentary

vote. now the director of the u.s. central intelligence agency will brief senate leaders on the killing of the saudi journalist. the wall street journal is reporting that gina hospital is due to speak about the murder on tuesday she did not take but ministration briefing on the casualties death last week let's talk to john hendren he joins us live now from washington d.c. john so why is hospital suddenly appearing now before the senate when she was supposed to be prevented from doing so last week. well there in the answer can be summed up in two words congressional pressure members of the senate were very unhappy when they got a briefing last week by secretary of state mike pompei when the defense secretary jim mattis and and in those statements madison pump a zero said essentially they found no smoking gun linking the crown prince of saudi

arabia mohamed bin some on to the killing of jamal khashoggi they were unhappy with that they first of all many of them pointed out that intelligence rarely comes to definitive conclusions but the cia has reportedly concluded with a high degree of confidence that the killing was indeed ordered by the crown prince so members of the senate were not satisfied they felt like they were getting a party line from the trumpet ministration and they wanted to hear from gina haskell she after all is the only one of those three who actually flew to turkey and heard the tapes that the turkish government has of the killing so. senators were very upset about that and they ended up demanding to hear from haskell or they threaten to take action against saudi arabia and that seems to be what has motivated the trumpet ministration to go ahead and allow her to testify it will probably still be a closed door hearing but i imagine we'll hear what goes on in that room daryn john

we know that u.s. sentences on both sides of the house have been calling for stronger action against saudi arabia so what exactly remind us what they're calling for and what happens next. that's right well the senators threaten to invoke the war powers act that has never been used before it was passed in one nine hundred seventy three as after the vietnam era and it would allow congress to stop any kind of military action that was begun by the president within sixty days or sixty days after it started and in this case it is the united states' refueling and other aid to saudi arabia in yemen that they're threatening to shut off and it was a historic rebuke to the trumpet ministration that senators voted sixty three to seven to move that forward that doesn't mean that they will all vote for it in the end but that was really the cudgel that has brought the trumpet ministration back to testify before congress so. in the end would it pass the house of

representatives probably not because the house is still in republican hands the democrats don't take over until january after their historic election where they gained so far forty seats but in any case they trumpet ministration is going to have to answer for this and gina haskell will be the one to do it john thank you. cia officer glen college says he's not expecting any new revelations from gina hostile fire. well i'm not surprised that she will testify the senate the surprise was that trump in his what's now unsurprising acts to break the norms and the separation of powers that forbid her in the first place i don't anticipate that there will be any new substantive information already but it does rebalance a bit the law grants on government the executive in the legislature. i would expect

that it would be behind closed doors if it's going to be at all a meaningful one since the report has leaked some i think that she will speak clearly to that and i don't expect that she would go any further than anything that we know she'll never reveal in of briefing like this the sources are or the methods which she will reveal the substance the main point here is that this you can look at this two ways it's the trump administration just as our colleague in washington brut an excellent briefing said no it's the trouble ministration backing water or or trying to get out from some of the pressure that it is now under from the congress and it is congress's effort to reassert its part prerogatives that's that's really the news here with trump's continuing to try to carry the water for him have been some. kottaras cutting the oil exporting group

opec to expand its position as the world's top exporter of liquefied natural gas the government says the move would allow it to concentrate on increasing gas exports from seven to seven million tons a year two hundred ten million saw been devalued has the details. the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas is leaving the biggest oil cartel after being an opec member for more than fifty years but are says the strategic change is needed for its long term emissions to produce more natural gas or announced a decision as the oil producing nations is due to meet on thursday in vienna. opec's expected to cut oil output amid falling oil prices but there is one of opec smallest oil producers its main commodity is natural gas but the world's third largest reserves tensions between qatar and opec's largest producer saudi arabia suddenly increased and the saudis imposed a land sea and air blockade seventeen months ago three government ministers say leaving opec is not politically motivated but i don't want to politicize it i'm

a very practical engineer i've been running kewpie for a long time the way i do business is really practical so we look at you know what is the value and. you know i like to focus on efficiency is always and i think it's inefficient to focus on something that's not your core business and something this isn't going to benefit you long term so for me to put effort and resources and time . in an organization that i'm a very small player and doesn't have don't have. you know seeing what happens in that organization. does not work it's not been a great year for opec its largest members such as saudi arabia ramped up production while others have carried out cuts meaning the worst compliance by members in years opec is a bit like a family and it has all the good aspects of a family the closeness but it also has the best aspects of a family which means the squabbles that all if i can family is they all squabble

and you all are sad when one of the cozzens think the sides to break rank but his departure comes as both houses in the us have introduced and the opec bills the so-called no back bill has gained traction after the trumpet ministrations increased hostility towards opec if passed the legislation would pave the way for opec members to be sued for operating a monopoly as relations between saudi arabia and russia have improved iran iraq and venezuela have found it difficult to abide by by their opec decisions but there isn't the first country to leave opec but it is the first from the middle east raising questions about whether others could follow some of the job aid how does their. now dozens of wounded who think some arrived in amman being flown from yemen for medical treatment a planned evacuation was one of the conditions the rebels laid out to the saudi led coalition that of talks in sweden on wednesday the u.n. has called on the saudi crown prince to support those negotiations reports. fifty

hoofy fighters wounded in the war in yemen evacuated from the capital sanaa the united nations plane with three doctors on board taking them to a hospital and musk out and oman right that is. yemen is the responsibility of each and every one of his noble citizens just as we sacrifice our souls our blood and our children you too must do so. iran back to thies took the capital sun during a major uprising in two thousand and fourteen forcing president of a drug months or heidi into exile more than ten thousand people have been killed since the saudi u.a.e. coalition began its air campaign in support of how these internationally recognized government the following year the intervention and aerial bombardment of who the rebels has led to what the u.n. calls the world's largest humanitarian crisis the world health organization says

yemen is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak with nearly three thousand deaths and more than a million people infected more than three million people have been internally displaced and twenty two million people are in need of humanitarian help now for years on the decision by saudi u.a.e. coalition to allow the evacuation of wounded truthy fighters is meeting a key condition of the rebels for u.n. sponsored peace talks to go ahead in sweden this week. the previous attempt at the goshi ations organized by un special envoy to yemen collapsed in september when the who these fail to attend the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in riyadh scott. in istanbul may have given western powers more influence and leverage over saudi arabia and iran has announced it backs the talks saying tehran is ready to help find a political solution we should always have cautious optimism because i think that

the first results that we would we would have to look at is whether or not the peace talks take place we will expect some sort of resolution between. the united nations and the saudis over whether the u.n. will take over to management of the port there who died the un's envoy martin griffiths has just arrived in sun to escort the negotiators to sweden he's hoping to arrange for ceasefire in the port city of her data the entry point for most aid to yemen gryphus is also hoping to reopen the son the airport securing a prisoner swap and negotiating for a wider truce now yemenis hope that talk of the transitional government can avert the impending famine and cholera epidemic paul chatterjee on al-jazeera. well mohamed a member of the who things political bureau he explained how the evacuation deal came about. talks about this deal have started months or

a year ago we offer it to the media it is a deal to release all hostages and detainees in exchange for releasing prisoners and hostages at the other side and this is because they are a source of pain and suffering today families the war has been going on for a long time and there is no justification for not releasing them however no agreement was reached and tell two to three days ago at the beginning we signed the deal in the u n envoy was able to convince the other side to sign the agreement. what's got cool is a humanitarian policy lead for oxfam america he says the deal doesn't help the people who needed most. let's remember there are fourteen million people on the verge of starvation in yemen the people who are being let out of prison who are being exchanged who are being allowed to evacuate for treatment these are the men who are closest to the warring parties in yemen as always it's the women and the

children who are suffering most and who will come last and we haven't yet seen a concerted effort from the international community that puts them first so it's a welcome step because it moves the peace process forward oxfam has reached more than three million people with life saving assistance over the past three and a half years local humanitarian agencies yemeni organizations have delivered even more and they're the ones who are really on the front lines and the sad reality of all of this is that everything that's needed to solve the humanitarian crisis in yemen is in yemen sure there's there are spare parts needed here and shipments of medicine needed there those are important but this is an economic crisis and the import restrictions are ultimately and the other policies that are sabotaging the economy are just making it impossible for people to access the things that they need to survive people will die of malnutrition with food in sight and they already are that's really the hardest thing to see when you visit yemen. time for

a short break here not just iraq when we come back protests in france against high petrol prices fuel demonstrations in the country's overseas territories and ethnic cleansing or genocide we look at why the language matters when it comes to investigating crimes committed against the range of more in the stay with us. from dusky sunsets if it's brewing savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. still got some bits and pieces of disturbed weather into central parts of china at the moment they say area cloud will eventually sink its way a little further south with say there is some rain on that so that heavy rain just pushing over toward shanghai eighteen celsius here will have a good deal colder the rain somewhat heavy here down to the south small surround still for hong kong at twenty eight celsius come the middle of the week those

temperatures just falling back to around twenty four degrees at clouds starting to thin and break see the other the rain starting to peter out as well further south or be a few showers across the philippines extending down into south as data loss of wet weather as of course to the in the heat of the day the seasonal showers now extending their way out to some possible asia pushing across into a good part of the nation we can expect more of the same as we go on through choose day and all day and see where to stay a little change in thailand seeing some rather lively showers from time to time bangkok around thirty five degrees in front of a lot of showers across southern parts of the burping goals flank could see some rather wet weather see this little clutches storms pushing its way towards the southeast of india so tumble not the out of pradesh seeing some rather heavy showers pushing a little further north wednesday. the weather sponsored by qatar and nice. the story of one of the most successful p.r.

campaigns in the. study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate american media coverage what part of this can you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it we're not to let you speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. media say the director of the cia will down brief senate leaders on the killing of the saudi journalist. general hospital had been criticised for not taking part in

a government briefing last week. as withdrawing from opec next month to boost its position as the world's number one export of liquefied natural gas. petroleum plans to increase output from seventy seven million tonnes a year to ten. and dozens of wounded who fighters in iraq with it when they've been flown from yemen for medical treatment rebels insisted on the evacuations in return for agreeing to talks in sweden next week to end yemen's four years civil war. yes president donald trump has asked for pakistan's help to advance afghanistan's talks with the taliban wrote the prime minister in one column saying relations with pakistan are important and bringing the armed group to the negotiating table it marks a change in trump's nobody tougher tone on pakistan last month he accused is not a bad of not doing enough to help the u.s. despite getting billions of dollars in aid from al qaeda as more from islamabad. this morning imran khan was talking to. reporters and he basically said that

earlier today. requesting for. dogs and trying to bring the of one taliban to the negotiating table emraan khan of course that pakistan would do whatever it is. in order to achieve peace in afghanistan and to find and that seventeen year old. if you look at that situation recently the taliban they agreed to go to mosque for dogs and so i have been holding talks with the americans. some leverage over the dollar bond right now they are winning the war in afghanistan they have most of their credit rating under their control and they're scared that morning that we're drawing of foreign forces from of one is going to be interesting to see whether they will listen to. august on of god thing that they will do whatever. they have

said all along that the negotiation that of one is done have to be of one own and of on lead. him to rajapaksa says he will appeal against a court order that prevents him from being prime minister of sri lanka a majority of m.p.'s challenge rajapakse as legal authority to hold office he was installed and the president then prime minister running promising them and a move many considered unconstitutional the speaker of the u.k.'s parliament says there's an audible case the government could be in contempt of parliament software defined a demand by politicians to publish the full legal advice it had received on its brakes the deal parliament's to vote next week on the agreement struck by prime minister to resign may the e.u. need reports from london. there is just over a week to go until m.p.'s decide whether to accept or reject the british government's plans but before all of that happens the government could face

a major hurdle a possible embarrassment for the government the opposition labor party has joined forces with other smaller parties accusing the british government of being in contempt of parliamentary protocol by failing to share all of their legal advice that the british government received for its legal advisor the attorney general geoffrey cogs when it came to coming up with its breath plan in its entirety what does the government even need to share this information with parliament well because m.p.'s voted overwhelmingly to demand that the government do precisely that to allow m.p.'s to make the right decision when it comes to the vote next week but only one of the day the attorney general made a very rare appearance here at parliament defending his actions in not sharing all of this information with employees because he said that there was some very sensitive information in that advice that that was not in the public interest he fiercely defended his actions in front of m.p.'s here. i am convinced

that in order to disclose any advice that might have been given would be fundamentally contrary to the interests of this country. it's no use. shouting our members are busy. trying to. cover up greek interest. his time grew up the. leaders of the so-called yellow vest protests in france and you to meet president emanuel mccrone tuesday they're angry at rising fuel prices but the demonstrations have evolved into wider criticism of the president's policies some of the worst rioting in years took place on saturday four hundred protesters were arrested the anti-government anger continued into monday and private ambulance workers blocked traffic in paris penetrator reports. blockaded and besieged another landmark in central paris this time the french parliament and

because drivers are making sure m.p.'s could hear that message a raft of reforms being passed into law or on social security and health care would destroy their jobs. they stood apart from the yellow vests revolt which has seen so much violence across france but shared this concern isn't the money she didn't you know what the c.b.c. to yellow vests a french citizen says we are we stand in solidarity with any movement that speaks about the suffering of french citizens as the ambulance drivers advanced on the national assembly gendarmes for some back with pepper spray was. the. us. they shouted back at them we are friends and to prove it they lit flares in the national colors and sang the end of the the the. was

the. in the end the police switched on their own sirens and lights in a show of solidarity with the protest was the pace i had to protest to be growing. the fifty or one was nothing to do with the yellow that you know that is an indication president and his administration forbid me to face their discontent. students at around one hundred secondary schools right across the country also mounted protests against educational and exam reforms. this dramatic footage comes from the body camera being worn by the riot police as they attempted to drive demonstrators away from the op the tree on saturday this weekend the scenes could be repeated unless president macro and his ministers can diffuse the crisis david chaytor al jazeera paris meanwhile events protests in the fans

territory of a union island have gone into the third week demonstrators are demanding the government tackles unemployment and the high cost of living to meet the miller imports for. protests have gone into their third week here in song condrey in reunion yellow vests here say they want to make life difficult on the island it's the only way they can show resistance they're letting calls through very slowly just making it difficult for people here to get around on the main road networks but of course there has been some anger i was. looking out of the start of the yellow this say they're determined to show the government of that they're serious about their demands they say they're speaking a different language and all their discussions until now have come to naught they say they will continue with these protests and defied the government as long as they possibly can because they say until now the french government has not heard

their pleas but just along with most is sick it's been fifteen days of protests we thought it would bring us results that that would be enough but it's not the government is not speaking the same language as the people they think we're idiots so we're not going to move we will stay here. vegetable vendors in central chile have food with police or venue law banning them from selling on the streets protesting through vegetables and officers responded water cannon city have to move out and send as most of them indigenous women say they've been selling pot use on the streets but that. the body of former u.s. president george h.w. bush is now lying in state at the capitol building in washington d.c. it will remain now until wednesday when a state funeral beheld bush died on friday at his home in houston texas at the age of ninety four during his term as president from one thousand nine hundred ninety three bush oversaw the end of the cold war and assembled a military coalition to remove iraqi troops from joint.

the u.n. secretary general has warned nations that their strategy to reduce global warming is way off course and on your good television made the comments that a major planet change summit known as cop twenty four in poland the urge world leaders to act decisively to avoid imminent environmental disaster delegates from nearly two hundred countries have two weeks to agree a plan to implement promises made at the paris climate accord three years ago. even as we witnessed devastating climate think bags causing havoc across the world's we have still not doing enough not moving fast enough to prevent it reversible and get us through our fic climate disruption in short we need the complet transformation of our global energy economy as well as our we manage lands and forest resources if we don't take action the collapse of our

civilizations. and the extinction of much of the natural world. is on the horizon the people have spoken. leaders of the world you must believe the continuation of our civilization. and the natural world upon which we depend is in your hands now a human rights group is calling for a criminal tribunals to investigate crimes against range of muslims the public international law and policy group says the miramar military is guilty of genocide a report by the group was used by the us state department when it released its findings but use the term ethnic cleansing rather than genocide michaela reports from washington. this as a public international law and policy group report was genocide. in late august last year the armed forces of me and ma launched what they euphemistically labeled

a clearance operation within a few months more than seven hundred thousand bringing had fled their homes to seek refuge across the border in eastern bangladesh military helicopters fired on the fleeing refugees the nabi attacked over crowded ferries the report continues gang rape and mass murder were used as a pall mall military tactic it is clear from our intense legal review that there is in fact a legal basis to conclude that the reading go for the victims of war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide. the u.s. holocaust museum too has long argued that genocide has been committed and join the law group in calling for immediate action to establish accountability in addition insisting on the need for direct action to be taken to curb myanmar's military the knowledge to anyone and so it is important that like us government and other e.u.

countries and international community must qualitative action to intervene to stop this genocide the state department continues to use the term ethnic cleansing the reason once a jew says the word genocide the us is compelled in terms of international law to take immediate cubit of action despite months of debate this is something that trump administration is clearly unwilling to do an earlier report by un investigators also came to the conclusion that myanmar's military was guilty of genocide but under the threat of russian and chinese veto the security council has today taken no action to impose punitive sanctions or even refer the findings to the international criminal court which together with the u.s. reluctance to formally declare a genocide of has little hope to the hundreds of thousands of survivors in refugee

camps and no justice for those killed in what the report made public on this day says it was a highly coordinated military campaign aimed not just to expel but to exterminate mike hanna al-jazeera washington. much more news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. time for a quick check of the headlines here u.s. republican senator bob corker says the director of the cia will now brief senate leaders on the killing of saudi journalists on tuesday you know hospital had been criticized for not taking part in a government briefing last week. as withdrawing from opec next month to boost its position as the world's number one exporter of liquefied natural gas qatar

petroleum plans to increase output from seventy seven billion tons a year two hundred ten dozens of only two hundred fighters have arrived in amman where they have been thrown from yemen for medical treatment rebels insisted on the evacuations in return for agreeing to talks in sweden next week yemen's four years civil war. us president donald trump has asked for pakistan's help to advance afghanistan's talks with the taliban from wrote to prime minister imran khan saying relations with pakistan were important in bringing the armed groups to the negotiating table marks a change and normally tough tone on pakistan last month the accuser's name a bad of not doing enough to help the u.s. despite getting billions of dollars in aid mahinda rajapakse says he will appeal against a court order that prevents him from being prime minister of sri lanka a majority of m.p.'s challenge rajapakse as legal authority to hold office it was installed in october after the president sat then prime minister run a wickramasinghe in a move many considered unconstitutional the speaker of britain's lower house of

parliament says the government may be in contempt for not publishing the full legal advice on its regs that the m.p.'s from six parties want proceedings to be launched after the attorney general only released a summary parliament's due to vote on prime minister to resume his agreement with the next week. leaders of the so-called yell of this protest in france a jew to meet president on tuesday they're angry at rising fuel prices but the demonstrations also evolved into one of a criticism of the president's policies some of the worst rioting in years took place on saturday and four hundred protesters were arrested. to government under continued into monday when private workers traffic in the capital hours. with those with the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story of them so much about.

qatar is set to quit opec oil cartel after more than fifty years and said it will focus on natural gas and boost its position as the world's number one export are so why now what does it mean for the global energy market this is inside story. of the program i'm richelle carey qatar's leaving the organization of the petroleum exporting countries or opec the first gulf country to pull out since joining more than a half cents.