al-jazeera. and. the head of the cia will brief u.s. senators on what she knows about the murder of the saudi journalist jamal. hello again i'm peter you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up after more than fifty years as part of opec is calling it quits leaving the oil cartel to focus on gas. engines who are evacuated from yemen raising hopes for talks to end the conflict. also this hour pressure

intensifies on the british prime minister to resign may overturn opposition to her bricks and plans a week before parliament votes on it. the director of the cia in the united states is to brief senate leaders on the killing of the saudi journalist. the head of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker says gina has full will speak about the murder on tuesday she didn't take part in a trumpet ministration briefing on a show g.'s death last week john hendren has the latest from washington. cia director gina haskell will speak to members of the u.s. senate about the murder of jamal khashoggi that is after she did not appear last week when the secretary of state and secretary of defense held a closed door briefing with members of the senate several members of the senate

afterwards republicans and democrats alike said they were unsatisfied and an persuaded by what they heard in that room afterward madison pompei oh that is jim mattis the defense secretary and mike pompei of the secretary of state came out and said there was no smoking gun that links the crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed bin some on to the killing of chris shoji that is despite reports that the cia has concluded with a high level of confidence that the crown prince did in fact order that killing so members of the senate were dissatisfied they said they wanted to hear from tina haskell the cia director who actually flew to istanbul and listened to the tapes of that killing that the turkish government provided so they believe she will have more information and that she will be more frank with them so they passed a measure that would lead to a vote later on invoking the war powers act that would allow the senate to cut off u.s. aid to the saudi war in yemen that would be an extreme step and it's very far from

being ultimately passed but the threat of that seems to be what is motivating the trumpet ministration to make casper available to speak to members of the senate that is likely to be a closed door briefing as the briefing was last week but members of the senate and administration officials are likely to speak about it afterward so i think we are likely to know what was said in that room full of a cia officer glenn call says he's not expecting any big revelations from g. aspel. 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 a briefing like this the sources or or the methods which she will reveal the substance the main point here is that this you can have that at this two ways it's the trump administration just as our colleague in washington proved an excellent

briefing said now it's the from administration 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 a mound and some if trump can bury it he will clearly what he's doing is trying to relieve the pressure on him from congress with gestures. his standard pattern is to say to deny and then to make a cosmetic change or backing down to tout that and to change the subject and then to move on so he will do what he can to maintain his. shockingly intimate relationship in solomon while congress may pressure him son some more but the advantage in foreign policy always rests with the executive council is leaving the

oil exporting group opec saying it wants to expand its position as the world's top exporter of liquefied natural gas the government says the move will allow it to concentrate on increasing gas exports from seventy seven million tons a year to one hundred ten million some a binge of eight 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 ambitions 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 but the government ministers say

leaving opec is not politically motivated i don't want to politicize it i'm a very practical engineer i 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 efficiencies always and i think it's inefficient to focus on something that's not your business and something this is a good ability to 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 pick bill has gained traction after the trumpet ministrations increased hostility towards opec if passed the legislation would pave the way for pick 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 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 been job it out as their. dozens of wounded who sea fight says have arrived in amman off being flown from yemen for medical treatment the planned evacuation was one of the conditions the rebels laid out to the saudi. head of talks in sweden on weapons day the u.n.

has called on the saudi crown prince to support those negotiations his pull to judge him. 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 has 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 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 four 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. a 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 consulate. 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 who thesis and 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 sa not 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 this on the airport securing a prisoner swap and negotiating for a wider truce now yemenis hope that talk of a transitional government can avert the impending famine and cholera epidemics paul chatterjee on al-jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera ethnic cleansing all genocide we look at why the language matters when it comes to investigating crimes committed against the regime is. going to save the has been about to speak out.

and meet the nobel peace laureate taking his mission against child labor to a new audience. hello we've got yet more clout and ray making its way across eastern parts of the mediterranean and pushing across the syria lebanon jordan we've had some flooding for the weekend. solve particularly small the neighbors of the country and i'm afraid there is more where that came from the day they see the cloud and gathering aside for the southern parts of keep pushing into syria fair amount of cloud already there as we go through choose day into much on iraq and kuwait for a little try a little pricey fourteen sales just

a couple thirty celsius there for karate submodalities as we go on through the middle part of the week by the middle part of the way it will act out a right hasn't made much progress as it pushes in from the med that wall cloud on the right just pushing back into northern areas of iraq might see a little bit of snow to just around amin here as a by john into georgia and then we've got more cloud and right in putting the cross into lebanon into northern parts of children to come down into where the arabian peninsula got some wet weather just around northern areas of saudi arabia maybe around the red sea him katara states five and dry temperatures at around twenty seven twenty eight degrees thick a cloud as we go on into way to stay with the possibility of want to see some spots of rain. on counting the cost the g twenty meets in argentina one year later what's changed for zimbabweans since the fall of robert mugabe the blue economy making

a splash in kenya. counting the cost and i just you. know. in watching al-jazeera reminded of our top stories this hour the director of the cia will brief senate leaders on the killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi on tuesday about according to the man who heads the senate's foreign relations committee bob corker. had been criticized for not taking part in

a government briefing last week. withdrawing from opec next month to boost its position as the world's number one exporter of liquefied natural gas castle petroleum plans to increase output from seventy seven million tons a year to one hundred ten million tons a year. dozens of wounded who the fighters have now arrived in amman where they've been flown from yemen for medical treatment rebels insisted on the evacuation in return for agreeing to talks in sweden on where to end yemen's four year long civil war. sri lanka's supreme court has begun hearing a challenge to the president's decision to dissolve parliament and to call snap elections the three centers move has been blocked until the case is heard on monday a court a temporary ruling barring disputed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa and his can. an interim holding office rajapaksa says he will appeal against about decision for the south asian nation has been in crisis since october when presidents at the

center sacked the former prime minister run away from a singer and installed the former president mahinda rajapaksa as his replacement in november the president had his bid to dissolve parliament and hold snap elections blocked one hundred twenty two politicians are challenging rajapakse authority after the disputed prime minister lost two votes of no confidence last month mel fernandez is at the supreme court in columbus just take us through what we think might happen a little later today. peter the supreme court a seven judge bench of the court has begun hearings basically into a series of fundamental rights the titians of which were filed before the court or challenging the president by policy received authority to dissolve parliament most of those petitions basically make the case that he violated the constitution of

this country the constitution after the last amendment the nineteenth amendment brought in by this in this in the government itself does not allow parliament to be dissolved less than four and a half years into its term now at the point that presents to the same issue the gaza dissolving parliament if there was act least a year to go all of the lifetime of this parliament before it could be dissolved so these petitions challenging that ability of the president to dissolve the parliament and that is what's being heard in the building behind me in the supreme court so basically it's a three day hearing today very much the initial argument being heard and it will continue over the coming days peter thanks very much. a human rights group is calling for a criminal tribunal to investigate crimes against muslims the public international war and policy group says the million mom military is guilty of genocide a report by the group was used by the u.s.

state department when it released its findings but it used the term ethnic cleansing rather than genocide mike hanna reports now from washington. this is a public international law and policy group report was genocide in late august last year the armed forces of myanmar launched what they euphemistically labeled a clearance operation within a few months more than seven hundred thousand had fled their homes to seek refuge across the border in eastern bangladesh military helicopters fired on the freeing refugees the navy attacked over crowded ferries the report continues gang rape and mass murder were used as a formal military tactic it is clear from our intense legal review that there is in fact a legal basis to conclude that the rectangle or 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 they're not listening to anyone and so it is important that like us government and other e.u. countries and international community must look to action to intervene to stop these generals and the state department continues to use the term ethnic cleansing the reason once it uses the word genocide the us is campoli in terms of international law to take immediate putative action despite months of debate this is something that trump administration is clearly unwilling to do an earlier report by u.n. 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 the speaker of the parliament says there is an arguable case the government could be in contempt of parliament follows a refusal to publish the full legal advice the government's been given on its bricks that deal parliament next week on the agreement struck by the prime minister to resign me and the e.u. need parker is unlimited. 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 the legal advice that the british government received for its legal advisor the attorney general geoffrey cogs when it came to coming up with its 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 the pain and shouting our members are busied when i am trying to. cover up greek interest. by. anybody's time grew up. while some of the strongest opponents of mrs may's deal with the e.u. are in northern ireland's democratic unionist party a d u p which props up a minority government that the u.p.a. found itself at odds with its electorate two years ago in the brics it referendum when northern ireland did vote overwhelmingly to stay within the e.u. these staunchly pro british pro breaks that party is afraid that means deal could

split the united kingdom lawrence leena reports from belfast. in the process to loyalist parts of belfast their loyalty is unquestioned country first the four corners of the u.k. in divisible their problem with the brics a deal is that in theory it could lead to a future trade agreements pushing northern ireland closer to the e.u. than the rest of the u.k. that in turn leads to the inconceivable fools that northern ireland could be unified with the republic of ireland our whole purpose of union our system and take on the language thing in young way fail lots of the best interests of northern ireland long term and it is in our d.n.a. where unionists we we're british were all in our eyes and therefore i'm nothing that takes us side with the united kingdom as extremely honesty about them on sapling for a large ordeal this for the politicians who represent these people in parliament of

the democratic unionists by the prime minister of prop up the government's after she failed to win a mage. in last year's election they said they would support but they don't anymore they have made it plain they will vote deal down the simple message. and try again try to be very support. be a choice between. we believe that's in the interest of not just the united kingdom but also the entire of the your opinion and try to get a day what we're trying to set everybody is. this isn't good enough it's not just us not it's many many other people across other political parties as well the state doesn't get enough both sides need to get together in terms of your opinion in the united kingdom and get a sense. it will demonstrate starkly the mess the prime minister is in even. a supposed to back inside her own government to reason may's sales pitch deal with the european union is that it's

a compromise. but it's designed to leave the european union well bringing together a basically divided united kingdom but this constituency says it will never compromise belief in the sanctity of the u.k. and it is prepared to bring down the deal. the prime minister described as a unionist to the core but she is now in a fight with her own side and they're not the kind of people to back down lawrence leigh al-jazeera. leaders of the year. the president emanuel on tuesday they're angry at rising fuel prices but. demonstrations against other. some of the worst rioting in years took place on saturday protests continued on monday when private ambulance workers blocked the traffic in paris was there. and besieged another landmark in central paris this time the french parliament.

drivers are making sure m.p.'s could hear. then message a raft of reforms being passed into law on social security and health care would destroy their jobs they said. they stood apart from the yellow vests revolt which has seen so much violence across france but share this concern is with the money she does john you know what the c.d.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. the world that the. us senate do 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. was. 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 focus on to be growing . to be a one eyed having to do with the yellow that i have no that is an indication president not god and his administration forbid me to do crazy discontent. students at around one hundred secondary schools right across the country also mounted protest 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. al-jazeera paris the body of the former u.s. president george h.w.

bush is lying in state in washington before his funeral on present. donald trump and the first lady melania are among the mourners who paid their respects mr bush died on friday at the family home in husam texas he was ninety four years old. ukraine is building up its military capability as reservists are being called up to training centers large scale exercises are expected in the next few days it follows russia's seizure of three ukrainian ships and twenty four crew members in the black sea more than a week ago now with russia blockading ports ukraine wants nato to deploy ships to the region three astronauts have arrived safely on board the international space station after a six hour flight.