was a surprise but. this job isn't just about what's on the script or a piece of paper it's about what is happening right now. putting out the fires in france new reports say the government is about to suspend the fuel tax the spot wheats of nationwide protests. has him seek and this is live from doha also coming up indonesians are on the hunt for an armed group blamed for the disappearance of more than thirty construction workers. the israeli army begins dismantling tunnels along its border with lebanon

. brags it can still be shut down that's the opinion of the advocate general of the european court of justice. or the french government is planning to suspend the proposed fuel tax hike that sparked weeks of increasingly violent protests that's according to reports in the french media it follows the worst riots in paris for decades on saturday yellow vests protests brought streets to a standstill nationwide for the past three weekends so let's get more on this from a david chase in paris so david if this happens there will be something of a climb down for the french government wouldn't it. it is without a doubt a climb down but how far are they going to climb back from that policies with getting more details. of the fuel tax rise was during january the first it's going

to be delayed until july the first libya a six month moratorium on that and we're also getting. an idea of other gestures he's going to make this will be an announcement from the the prime minister for leave from his office in about an hour's time a lot of those extra details is that they will lessen the strict rules on the mission the exhaust emissions from all the cars now this is important because the this whole ecological drive of the reforms at present emanuel maccarone has actually made and was trying to make to push through fell unfairly on the shoulders of the poorest people and they've got old cars there in the countryside they need those cars for that work they need those cars for for going shopping for their families for schools and these older cars were about to be sort of phased out because they're simply giving out too much pollution and so this is

a real step backwards by president macro on his whole idea of the new green ecological future so it must have been very very hard for him but the prime minister will be announcing those those two measures and there could be more but those two measures definitely we understand he will be announcing within the next hour and david is it clear at this point if these gestures will be enough to to quell what's been a growing protest movement across the country. absolutely not clear at the moment this is very hard for the government because they can't actually talk to any leaders because this movement the yellow vests rebellion has no essential leaders now he was going to talk to some at his office but they actually withdrew because they were receiving death threats online from other members apparently of the yellow vest rebellion who didn't want them to meet with

the government in any way so that's very difficult for us to realize you know will this be satisfactory there are many yellow vest blockades around fuel deposition in the country at the moment some of total's garages are beginning to run out of petrol this is reaching a critical stage so we're going to have to wait and hear the announcements first see if there are any more concessions and then get the reaction gauge the reaction from those fuel blockaders and it might be enough but i very much doubt if they can now stop this momentum they're already being calls on the social media to gather again in paris around the best deal around the ark not around the up the trail this time but around many other areas it's not quite sure how you can control this the message is already going out will they be able to pull it back will anybody bother to pull it back because they might be celebrating the fact that they have succeeded so i don't think it's going to be easy this weekend there could be more trouble and

maybe that bit too late with these concessions david thanks for that david chain in paris the israeli army has begun destroying tunnels under the border with lebanon israeli commanders say the aim is to stop cross border attacks by hezbollah fighters into northern israel israel has been boosting defenses along an eleven kilometer stretch of the border for the past three years that's the name has more from western recent . this is the first operation of its kind we've seen along the northern border targeting hezbollah since two thousand and six that's when israel and hezbollah off a month long war and since then there's been a kind of tense detente israel is saying the existence of these tunnels is a violation of a un resolution agreed upon at that time prohibiting has the law from operating

near the border and amassing weapons operation north shield as it's been dubbed by the israeli military began last evening they've been destroying the tunnels building walls and rock barriers in an attempt to thwart any kind of attack from hezbollah in lebanon into israel and israeli military spokesman says we see the hezbollah activities as a flagrant and blatant violation of israeli authority so the question is what might happen next will has respond it's important to note that these activities by the israeli military are confined to israeli territory and that's why it's believed that this will not escalate further in addition hezbollah has attention and resources have been diverted in the last several years due to its participation in the war in syria which likely makes that loath to want any kind of military

confrontation with israel last evening prime minister benjamin netanyahu traveled to brussels to meet with u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o to alert him to this operation and also to discuss what they call quote iran's aggression this operation comes literally on the heels of some domestic troubles that netanyahu is having here in israel on sunday for the third time this year police have recommended that he be indicted as part of a wide ranging corruption investigation that has plagued him and his wife since last year some analysts are saying this on. aeration could be a way to divert attention away from that. the. other director of the cia will brief u.s. senate leaders in washington in

a few hours on the killing of saudi journalist. gina haskell's absence last week from a trumpet ministration briefing on u.s. relations with saudi arabia course controversy leaked reports of the cia assessment say crown prince mohammed bin man ordered the operation to murder his critic in istanbul two months ago 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 that is 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 is stand tall 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 haskell 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 afterwards so i think we are

likely to know what was said in that room. of the u.k. you can cancel drags it without the consent of other e.u. member states that is what the leading aliya at the european court of justice the advocate general has told the use highest court in london m.p.'s will vote on whether the government broke parliamentary rules by failing to publish the full legal advice it's been given on the prime minister's plan to leave the opposition parties say that by limiting the information released ministers ignored a binding commons vote demanding they release the full advice. a julian mormonism lawyer and director of the good law project and was a petitioner in the article fifty revocation case at the european court of justice he says it is more than likely the final ruling will follow the advice from the advocate general i think it's very very likely that the final ruling will follow

the opinion the arbitron was i've indicated. the up in terms opinion also has copyrights actually what the advocate general says is that if the united kingdom makes a genuine decision that it wants to remain in the e.u. in accordance with its own constitutional requirements then that decision will be accepted by the by the e.u. in other words be you can't charge us a price it can't just give up our rebate or join sharon you know join the the euro these are important things actually because only last week michael gove was asserting categorically that the u.k. would have to give up all of those things in order to remain in the you are nuts now seems very very unlikely to be to be true but the important point to those is that we can only cancel the article fifty notice if we have decided that we want to remind them that might happen because parliament so directs the government or it might happen after a referendum on whether or not we want to accept the deal that tourism has managed

to agree with with the council our security forces in indonesia are searching for thirty one construction workers who are thought to have been abducted are found two of them wounded but alive gunmen attacked a bridge project in a remote part of papua province on sunday all the construction work there's been stopped in the region for now an armed group in papua has been battling indonesian government rule for nearly fifty years let's go live now to step vasoline who has been following this story for us from jakarta so step what more are we hearing. yes we're talking about a very remote part here of indonesian especially a very remote part of where this incident has happened it's the high lands there's no road access there's no phone signal there and a group of soldiers and police have now climbed up the mountains have reached the first army post here which was actually also attacked late last night by this armed

gunmen who are apparently according to police and military part of an independent group called themselves the free popcorn movement there they found four people wounded but alive they had shot wounds two of them were construction workers on the road this transpired highway that's currently being built by the government to basically bring some some money some economy into this very poor part of indonesia but this independence movement says this is also a way for indonesia to take control of what they called an occupied land so tomorrow it's already night there in part what's more this group of soldiers and police will walk another two hours to go to the location where these workers were allegedly being attacked what exactly has happened it's still unclear but last weekend on the december first was the anniversary of the independence declaration which happened in one thousand nine hundred sixty one and every year bob lines

across indonesia are sort of celebrating commemorating this event this group power leaders group of armed men were doing that as well and apparently one of the workers have taken pictures of this group and then there was a an argument and then apparently this killing was supposed to have happened we still have to wait and see until the daylight is there again and proper to see if they actually find the bodies and what exactly has happened to these workers and step what do we know about this on the group there is as we said been battling the indonesian government for almost fifty years now. well actually more than fifty years for fifty six years already this free popular movement has been active they said they got independence in one nine hundred sixty one from dutch colonizers but soon after indonesia basically took to control over power and since then they basically have been fighting this what they call occupation but it's a very small armed group

a much larger part of popeye's actually having some kind of an armed resistance they have been flak raisings of the independence flag they have been these anniversaries being being held across barbara and every time very often these people also have been arrested for raising their flag and also been locked up for many many years in prison because it was quite a repressive. matter that the government has against these independent activists and there's a lot of concern of course that after this incident because there was also one soldier killed by this group allegedly that repression will only get worse or a step last in life in jakarta thanks dan. still ahead on nigeria when we come back ethnic cleansing or genocide why language matters when investigating crimes committed against the range of. we have arrived. at a nasa mission gets close to an asteroid which could tell us more about the origins

of the universe. hello there we've got some heavy downpours await making their way across japan at the moment you can see the cloud as it got up to its way towards us and now for many of us in hokkaido and through hunchy there's a good deal of good deal of rain and the risk of seeing quite a few thunderstorms as well that system is moving pretty quickly though as we saw from the satellite picture so by wednesday it will be away to the east of us the temperatures not fairing too badly for some places sendai there about fourteen twenty in tokyo for the west there really dropping away quite quickly say force in pyongyang all maximum will just be one. minus twenty one will be able to temperature on wednesday that will see more miffy compared to thursday when i thought temperature would be minus twenty six and in case you're wondering at night

we're dropping down to around minus thirty five at the moment because of the towards the south there's a good deal of clouds here during the day on wednesday and that really begins to ficken off as we head into thursday so on thursday expect some heavy downpours from chung chang across through bay on up towards shanghai so lots of wet weather ahead towards the south generally a lot drier should stay dry force in hong kong the southeastern parts of asia where we're expecting plenty of showers i might draw a force in the western part of the philippines and i'll say three parts of it now and into cambodia to. ever since i was a little boy in india my dream was to meet bollywood films so five years ago i decided i was finally going to do it one man's quest to realise a lifelong ambition the studio choose to lose by one village and it's transformation going behind the lens has gone from saying brings his personal story

to life. al-jazeera correspondent my own private bollywood. and again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this ports in france say the government will announce a freeze on its proposed tax on yellow vest protests over the rising price of fuel for motorists brought streets to a standstill nationwide for the past three weekends. the israeli army starting to destroy tunnels under the border with lebanon israeli commanders say the aim is to

stop cross border attacks by hezbollah fighters and northern israel. the supreme court judges in sri lanka are hearing a challenge to the president's decision to dissolve parliament and course snap elections in the latest twist to the constitutional crisis there must be part of syria seen or cannot go ahead and to my judgment is made for man does as more from the supremes court in colombo. a seven judge bench of the supreme court headed by the chief justice is sitting in the supreme court of the building you see behind me looking into a series of fundamental rights petitions now those petitions are challenging president by three policies saying there's authority to dissolve parliament the decision he took to dissolve the parliament by way of an extraordinary gaz a of the point that the petitioners are making is that the constitution of this country following the nineteenth amendment incidentally brought in by the serious in the government that it does not allow the president to dissolve parliament less than

four and a half years into its term at the point that president seriously in the dissolved parliament it had over a year to go to reach that time limit now the president has repeatedly said that he has acted in accordance with the constitution in accordance with the law but the supreme court initially stated the dissolution of parliament which is why parliament continues to function until it finishes these hearings starting today for three days at the end of which we will hear their decision on president seriously and his decision to dissolve parliament now another reason that all eyes on the court complex today in the rajapaksa was restrained by the court of appeal guess today again by a writ petition by hundred twenty two members of parliament mainly from the vicar missing a faction saying that he has no authority to hold the office of prime minister and neither does his cabinet ministers and deputy ministers he has said he will appeal the supreme court to set aside that injunction so

a lot happening at supreme court today and over the days to come a human rights organization working with the u.s. state department is calling for tribunals to investigate crimes against range of muslims in myanmar why can't a report from washington. because the 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 fleeing refugees the nabi attacked overcrowded 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 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 isn't it 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 accused has the word genocide the us is campoli in terms of international law to take immediate action that 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. the united nations is appealing for billions of dollars to cope with humanitarian crises worldwide next year nearly twenty two billion is needed in all the largest amount required is four billion for war relief in yemen syria will need billions of dollars more the un's

emergency relief coordinator says one hundred thirty two million people worldwide need humanitarian assistance with food shelter health care and protection one in every seventy people are caught up in some kind of crisis and the average length of how long the crisis loss is nearly doubled from five years to nine the u.n. says conflicts will remain the main cause of humanitarian needs next year and not having enough to eat is a major concern particularly in yemen syria and other countries mark lowcock is the un's undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator he says a record amount of money was raised this year to fund humanitarian programs but it's still not enough. well this report the global humanitarian overview which i'm launching today is the waste or thirty of sophisticated and comprehensive assessment of need how we can respond and the money we will aim to raise

where is going to come from is the general citizens and countries around the world who are not caught up in these crises and the good news is that in twenty a team we've raised a record amount of money more than fourteen billion dollars so far towards the meeting all the needs that we have what we're finding is that as we improve the quality of our assessment of need as we improve our response plans we can raise more resources this year more than ten percent more than last year. a nobel peace prize winner and children's rights activists kailash satyarthi is taking is message to the big screen documentary filmmaker he's telling his story at this year's i joe film festival in. barrios more. than what i've been missing for several months the tide has been taken to get to. this is why i got into this area

we have been a. the price of free and award winning documentary has been online for only a few days and already it's been seen by more than two and a half million people. going talking about slavery has been abolished. the film explores chi lies that the arts efforts to expose the plight of young children once who are trafficked into forced labor group in south the art he is now taking his mission to another level i am going to create to pay paul. all through this campaign that hundred million you want and children can become the chain makers sent embryos for the cause off hundred million left out sisters and brothers of them and this film is going to leave that process.

that message was reiterated at the sixth annual film festival in doha as a special guest of the event such the arts he was recognized for his work and took the opportunity to reach out to young people who you know murder murder one of the no murder a chance to use an international platform for a global cause is also part of this year's festival scheme we should really give them hope and a sense of empowerment that faye have. the courage and and the spirit should not know we should break. to get to and the tools to make a change in the future if it only gets more important every year. during the closing night celebrations six awards were handed out in various categories selected by judges aged eight to twenty one the message of this festival is clear

our cinema has the power to raise awareness. and injustices but also provide hope for the future doris is a party else here at the i felt just a little bit of. a u.s. spacecraft has finally reached a distant asteroid after a two year chase it is part of nasa's attempt to gather asteroids samples. we have arrived. at fives all around at the mission control center as nasa spacecraft cyrus rex moved into position alongside the asteroid benu one hundred and thirty million kilometers from earth launched two years ago cyrus rex is mission is to map the giant space rock analyze its chemical make up and bring back some of its material for scientists to study it may reveal secrets about the formation of planets and the origins of life this is a dark asteroid that we have found and that we're going to hunt down we're going to

orbit we're going to take a good look at it and we're going to bring back a sample this is a fantastic mission benu about five hundred meters in diameter is a remnant of the earliest material that coalesced billions of years ago to form the earth and other planets oh cyrus rex will study the asteroid at close range using mapping technology and spectroscope that provide information about what it's made of that phase of the mission will last more than a year then in twenty twenty the spacecraft will approach the new surface there's two additional maneuvers that we do the both match the asteroid spin rate and then put us on a trajectory where we go down towards the asteroid so we actually do take thrusters and push ourselves gently towards the asteroid an arm will reach out to touch its rocky face with a blast of nitrogen gas the contraption will collect some dust and rock that

container will then be sealed and it was cyrus will speed back to earth ejecting its extraterrestrial cargo which will land by parachute in the utah desert in september two thousand and twenty three scientists hope their study of the material will reveal whether it contains certain organic molecules called amino acids that are essential building blocks of all forms of life if they are found in high concentrations on benue it could mean that the universe as a whole is more likely to contain life forms. in ancient egyptian myth cyrus was the god of rebirth who ruled over the darkness beyond our world and taught humanity the arts of civilization the deities twenty first century namesake may help us learn much about the origin of the universe and ourselves robert oulds al-jazeera.

bases edge that let's get a round up of the top stories media reports in france say the government will announce a three month freeze on its proposed tax on diesel yellow that's protests over the rising price of fuel brought streets to a standstill nationwide for the past three saturdays the protests included the worst riots in paris for decades last weekend security forces in indonesia searching for thirty one construction workers thought to have been abducted have found two of them alive gunmen attacked a bridge project in a remote part of path for province on sunday the israeli army starting to destroy tunnels under the border with lebanon commanders there say the aim is to stop cross border attacks by hezbollah fighters into northern israel testimony has moved this is a rare operation since hezbollah had the war with israel in two thousand and six we

simply haven't seen this kind of operation in the north there's been what i would call a tense detente between israel and hezbollah of course are used to seeing israel demolish tunnels in the gaza strip and engage with hamas but not with hezbollah so this is sort of viewed as a kind of rare announcement and it's worth noting that before this operation began last night prime minister benjamin netanyahu flew to brussels to speak and alert the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh that this was taking place. the u.k. can cancel bragg's it without the consent of other e.u. member states that's what the leading lawyer at the european court of justice the advocate general has told the e.u.'s high school. the headlines this more often inside story.

qatar is set to put 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 x. four so why now what does it mean for the global energy market this is inside story . come to 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 habsi.