the nobel interview and al jazeera exclusive. this is al-jazeera. follow him down jordan this is the out as they were news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. there's not a smoking gun there's a smoking so our top ranking senators in the u.s. get a briefing from the cia director on the death of. american vince the saudi crown prince directed the murder. of pressure from suspends plans to increase fuel taxes after the country saw its worst riots in decades. it is i think precedented for this

house to find ministers in contempt a first for british politics the prime minister suffers major defeat parliament scrutinizes have breaks that deal. and the u.s. gives russia an ultimatum to save a cold war arms treaty. welcome to the program senior u.s. senators say they're more certain than ever the saudi crown prince ordered journalists killing in istanbul two months ago their statements some of the strongest so far followed a closed door briefing by the cia director general hospital on the murder she's one of the few western officials who's heard all the recordings from inside the saudi consulate where he was killed well senators on both sides of the political aisle left the meeting unified in their conclusion that mohammed bin sound man was behind

the killing and that the trump administration must hold him to account. i have zero question of the crown prince m.b.'s order to killing monitor detailing exactly what was happening planted in advance if he was in front of a jury he would be convicted in thirty minutes guilty. so. the question is what we do about that. well the washington post which is calling for the cia to declassify its findings and make them public well we have several correspondents on this story john hendren is at the white house and tony berkley is in istanbul outside the saudi consulate where he was murdered we'll be speaking to them in a few minutes but first let's go to mike hanna now who's on top of the hill where that cia briefing took place mike some extremely strong language from u.s. senators off to that briefing in the end they got their way and heard directly from

the cia director. yes it was a very small meeting of senators only eight of them was the chairman of key national security committees and the ranking senator in each of those committees there was some disquiet among other senators that they weren't invited as well as some arguing very strongly that this information should be declassified and made clear to the public but all those eight senators who emerged from the meeting were absolutely united in one basic opinion and that is that the crown prince mohammed bin solomon was responsible for the murder of a jamal khashoggi certainly you this was the strongest statement to be purged from the senators on the matter and certainly among the most angry comments as well very clearly they are intent on getting action taken soon but to give you some idea of the bipartisan nature of this response president trump in the past has been ambivalent on the issue he's refused to draw a direct line between the killing and the crown prince one of his strongest

supporters is the senator lindsey graham and lindsey graham made very clear his disagreement with the president sorry arabia's a strategic ally and the relationship is worth saving but not at all cost. will do more damage to our standing in the world and our national security by ignoring him than dealing with him. in b.s. the crown prince is a wrecking ball. i think he's complicit in the murder mystery shogi to the highest level possible i think the behavior before the cause shogi murder was beyond disturbing and i cannot see him being a reliable partner to the united states saudi arabian in the different entities. if the saudi government is going to.

be in the hands of this man. for a long time to come up and it very difficult to be able to do business because i think he's crazy to. think he is dangerous and he has put their relationship at risk i'm i don't make us on both sides of the house including lindsey graham who we just heard from they have long been calling for much stronger action against the saudi comprende so what's going to happen next that. well there's going to be a variety of things daryn certainly on one level there are going to be questions asked of the secretary of state and the secretary of defense and president trump himself as to why they have such a different interpretation of the information that was provided by the director of the cia eight senior senators today came away satisfied that there was absolutely no doubt about the connection between the crown prince and the killing whereas the secretaries of defense of state and the president himself say there has been no

direct evidence that's the one issue there will be pressure and there will be questions asked then there's a matter of legislation senators are absolutely adamant that something must be done they want to produce a bill that is already a bill on the table which is ready for debate in the senate that has to do with the u.s. support for the saudi operations in yemen and the sanction of weapons sales to saudi arabia but some senators want to even more specific legislation lindsey graham for example once a bill specifically proclaiming the crown prince as being involved directly in the killing of jamal khashoggi he also wants to include in that bill a ban on weapons sales and various other economic sanctions other senators want a much wider range of bill a bill of legislation which would include the naming of the crown prince along with various economic sanctions now this is something that the senators are going to be

discussing in the next few days they have to get together there is the what there is division among them as to exactly what the wording of the legislation should be so all of that and clear at the moment but what is extremely clear and there's one thing that is absolutely certain is that given the mood of the senior senators when they emerge from that briefing legislation that definitely will be hard to my kind of there on capitol hill in washington mike thank you for that. well u.s. democratic senator bob menendez was also at that cia briefing he's calling for sanctions against saudi arabia i am now more convinced than i was before and i was pretty convinced that in fact the united states must have a strong response to both the war in yemen as well as the killing of a united states permanent resident and journalist in germany. and only a strong response by the united states will send a clear and unequivocal message that such actions are not acceptable in the world's

stage and i think that's more important than ever and i hope that senator graham and my legislation which would create a real set of consequences mandatory global make netsky a series of sanctions beyond those that exists would be a very strong answer to what has happened here well let's cross over to john hendren now he's live for us at the white house john so what's been the reaction from president trump and officials there at the white house where you will. well daryn there's been a curious silence emanating from the white house the president just across the street with a large entourage he was over there to visit the family of george herbert walker bush who died just a few days ago but he came back without having responded to the revelations on capitol hill today i spoke to someone a white house official just a few minutes ago who said that there would be no comment tonight from the white

house on that and on that affair we've heard no comment out of the cia we've heard nothing out of the department of defense the white house is clearly trying to grapple with its policy this was a much stronger reaction i think than they were expecting on capitol hill they briefed a week ago the secretary of state in the secretary of defense did senators were not satisfied with that briefing they insisted that gina hess will come because she had gone to turkey she'd listen to those tapes and when she did they were livid dick durbin a democratic senator says he wants the entire senate to be briefed immediately they've only got a little over a week before they take a break for the winter break members of the house we are told are likely to hear from haskell as well that comes from u.s. officials who did not want to disclose their names but everybody on capitol hill now seems to want to hear from gina haskell and they want some reaction so the white house has to consider what it's going to do now the pressure is only

increasing daryn all right john so what are the options open then to president from given these latest developments. well you heard mike hanna talk about some of the things they want to do on capitol hill there is a real push to stop u.s. aid to the saudis in their war in yemen as a matter of fact some senators voted in a preliminary vote sixty three to seven to invoke the war powers act that's something it's never been done before it was a one nine hundred seventy three law enacted after the vietnam era that allows congress to stop the president from from approving any war activity sixty days after it has begun and that would of course stop the activity here where the u.s. is refueling those saudi planes among other things so the president could do that he doesn't want to do that he could decide not to deal with mohamed bin solomon any more or he could actually go for sanctions against saudi arabia he doesn't want to do any of those things but he's going to have to address this probably at least condemn what happened there or people on capitol hill are going to react including

the republicans and the democrats take over the house in january and then things could get really difficult for all right john hendren the live for us at the white house john thank you let's cross over now to tony buckley he's outside the saudi consulate in istanbul tony because officials have been trying to keep up the pressure on saudi arabia over the killing so they must be pretty pleased by the cia briefing. well it's very late here we haven't had any official reaction down but you know for sure they're going to be happy with this because it really backs up everything they've been saying about this from day one you know the turkish government has been leaking the excerpts of these audiotapes from inside the saudi consulate which are kept this murder investigation alive and they've been saying all the way along that without naming mohamed bin soundman by name in public they said this murder goes to the very doorstep of the saudi royal court but not king solomon so in private they've been saying quite obviously the the evidence is so

strong against the saudi crown prince that it must be him but they want our answers to questions they're very frustrated by a number of things warm the so-called protection from president from he when he said maybe he was maybe he you know maybe he did maybe he didn't order the murder referring to the saudi crown prince but also they're frustrated because the saudis are not cooperating in the murder investigation it's reached a dead end here in turkey the saudis have eleven people they've charged with offenses relating to the murder five are facing the death penalty we are told but the turks not being told anything further they want answers to questions about what these people know what they did who gave the order for the murder to be carried out and they also want to know where the remains of visitors are g. are those questions have not been answered they're hoping i think now with what's been happening in washington on the stand of these senators that maybe now pressure

will be brought to bear on the saudis to at least cooperate and comply with the investigation a more then will be revealed for the moment i think they're very happy with what's coming out of washington tony bertie there in istanbul tony thank you well let's bring in john jones he's a former senior congressional advisor he joins us now from washington d.c. john jones why do you think there's been such a big difference in the interpretation of the intelligence and u.s. senators say they are now more convinced than ever that mohammed bin soundman gave the kill order yet secretaries pompei are not to say there's no smoking gun such as gina hospitals briefing shot a huge hole in their argument. well it's apparent that the director at the briefing today presented not only the smoking gun but the smoking saw and the bloody glove members on both sides of the republican and democrat or an equal vocal and their denunciation of prince mohammed

a legit involvement in the murder of mr cruise shogi and when you just take a step back it's quite surprising to see that it actually took this. unfortunate tragic killing of a saudi journalist an american resident to bring about the level of bipartisanship that you see in the united states senate i have not seen senators both republican and democrat this furious since the brett kavanaugh supreme court justice nomination hearings but the big difference is that republicans and democrats are not mad at each other they're frustrated their frustration is like a laser focused on prince mohammed and we're now hearing john that gina hospital may be back in the house to testify before the full senate i mean is this a sign that this story is not going to go away and that senators will not be

satisfied until trump takes much firmer action. well look it's quite apparent that a very quick way to disappoint a united states senator is to leave a senator add of the room and this was a very important briefing and it seems about ninety two senators were included in this briefing and now the administration wanted to focus on briefing members of leadership and chairs of committees with jurisdiction over this matter that's quite obvious while at the same time after the reports were released you could see that senators want the full senate they want to be briefed they want to be in the know and they want to be provided with all of the information pertaining to this killing it's apparent that the cia has the information senators want to see the information

so they can make their own justification but i am quite interested to see it john let me just jump in here because senator lindsey graham seemed to make a point of separating momma been salma from the state of saudi arabia is this in a way giving president trump an out and that he could possibly sanction the crown prince without laws defecting u.s. saudi relations. yes well that's going to be the sweet spot to see if president trump can actually focus on the u.s. saudi relationship goes back seven decades and the policy question will be is there a way to punish and if need be isolate prince mohammed what out affecting the u.s. saudi relationship is there a way that the prince can actually be sanctioned without harming the u.s. saudi security relationship without harming the us saudi energy relationship and

without harming u.s. diplomatic goals in the region especially as it pertains to israel and iran just a final thought from you john so one sentence above cool calm retiring and congress going off on a christmas break what are senators likely to do now i mean what sort of legislation will they try and push full well right now in terms of legislation actually being passed that's going to be. probably unlikely but you could obviously see within the coming weeks legislation passed that would reduce or eliminate u.s. support for saudi military forces and yemen that could happen before the christmas break going into january with the democratically controlled house of representatives you're going to have a democratically controlled congress that will very will be very focused on looking

into prince mohammed involvement in the killing and if the trumps administration's response to the evidence that was presented by the intelligence community was appropriate or not john jones thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera thank you. now after weeks of violent protests over a proposed phil tax hike france's government has bowed to the demonstrators demands president emanuel macro had argued that the goal of the energy taxes was to address climate change but what started as a revolt against an increase in the cost of living a spiral into a broader movement against the french president david schaper reports from paris. it was the prime minister edward felipe who was forced into a u. turn in a nationwide television broadcast while president emmanuel macron remained aloof in nearly say palace. for more than three weeks tens of thousands of french people have been expressing their anger around about tollgates new shopping areas

or in the streets of many french towns this anger has deep roots it isn't burning for a while it's often stayed quiet other fretty sense or pride today it's been expressed with force and in a collective way one has to be deaf not to see or hear it because but protest is manning the yellow vest blockades were already rejecting the concessions and demanding more from the government. no i don't fit it enough we are an extraordinary movement there are too many demands it was from pensioners from young people from locals everyone wants an increase in purchasing power. president macro hopes these concessions will mark the beginning of the end of the protests but the yellow vests believe this could be the beginning of the end for macro the latest opinion poll puts him down a twenty three percent a record low for a man just eighteen months into his presidency. a school on fire in the south of

france the protests are spreading on all fronts to the president's ambitious reforms and what yellow vests are calling act for the revolt in paris is still going ahead on saturday david chaytor al-jazeera paris. let's bring in andrew light he's a senior fellow in the climate program at the world resources institute he joins us via skype from washington d.c. and to light it madame across long defended his energy tax is a move to address climate change but what message does this send to other countries hoping to introduce cost in measures to clean up the environment well i think nothing nothing new in the sense that everyone understands that as we are going to have to move more aggressively on measures to reduce climate pollution then the ways in which this interacts with the economy is going to be difficult and in domestic circumstances are going to play a role in that so i think that i still feel confident that france is making good

progress on the overall mimms of the paris agreement it's probably going to be the case that they're going to have to delay delay and potentially forestall using this as one of the measures and given a less violent protests we saw on our t.v. screens on the streets of the french capital did that the french government go about this all the wrong way do you think well there's a whole lot going on here i mean there was also a lot of frustration with mccrone d.c. decreasing taxes on the wealthy there obviously other things going into his low approval numbers right now and so yeah there's a whole bunch of things that are coming together that are producing because i do not believe it's just simply about one when people point all right so let's just look at the broader picture that i mean this defeat to muck around comes at a time when government some meeting in poland right now to try to come up with ways to curb the damaging effects of global warming so is this a defeat then for the environmental activists no i don't think so at all and in fact what he's got some pull in this week is not national action plans and boosting

emissions what's being discussed in full this week is coming up with a final set of rules so that everyone will understand what each country has pledged to do on climate change going back to the twenty fifteen. and when it comes to fighting climate change under is it is it possible for governments then to implement change that don't seem too costly for the public like we saw on the streets of paris you know i think so i mean if you look at the different kinds of pricing mechanisms that have been put in place around the world to deal with this issue most of them are not come in the form of taxes or fees like this when the vast majority of them are kept in trooper such as the european union hands and china hands and state of california so something reset an overall shortage for reducing emissions in an economy and then you allow cleaner cleaner entities cleaner enterprises to sell no those permits to ones that are are dirtier and entered into a commodity in you get you still hit in overalls reducing emissions what you do in

a way that is generally less regressive than taxes yet just just a final thought for you andrew i mean other than those taxes i mean how else can countries fund find the money in the fight against climate change well i mean this is what the cap and trade system in the in europe has done is one of the reasons why the chinese are moving to the well and why california has locked in very ambitious climate reduction targets twenty thirty at this point so we do actually have economic solutions to this problem which don't run it would probably would not run into opposition will. under lights go to talk to you thanks so much indeed for your time. now it's a first for british politics m.p.'s have found the government to be in contempt of parliament that's because it failed to publish the full legal advice it had received on the prime minister's bragg's that deal with members of parliament begun five days of debate on terrorism a proposed divorce plan and are expected to vote on it next week earlier a senior e.u. legal official said the u.k.

could cancel bragg's it without the consent of other e.u. member states has the latest from london. or tuesday sore a series of setbacks for to resume a and her government it was supposed to see the start of five days of debate on her deal ahead of a parliamentary vote on it showed your old for next tuesday but that was delayed because politicians from all of the opposition parties here in westminster and the northern irish d u p democratic unionist party as well who have been propping up trees amaze government called for a vote on contempt of parliament saying that the government had broken its own promise in november to publish their full legal advice on this present deal given to it by the attorney general the chief legal officer all along the government insisted that was not in the national interest but when it came down to it parliament just wasn't convinced i. was. not

i the are you still the right three hundred eleven the new to the left two hundred ninety three so the are you have eight the i have eight are not. on. point i want to kill starmer. on a point of order mr speaker this house has now spoken and it's off huge constitutional political significance it is i think unprecedented for this house to find government ministers in contempt the motion makes clear the government must now publish the attorney general's final legal advice in full with the government has now promised to publish the full legal advice from the attorney general but it's also been defeated in another vote in the commons and that was on an amendment to the withdrawal agreement saying that if it's rejected by parliament which is looking more and more likely then the commons will get a vote in january on

a plan b. saying that in effect the. should do government should do why and what that really means for the labor party in particular is that it will be able to say we do not we are leaving the e.u. with no deal. scenario goes another setback. european court of justice to. the u.k. could in theory reverse article fifty the process by which. the european union unilaterally so that if for example the country did go to a new referendum on the deal or a general election labor's preferred option right now then that could actually happen that's opening up a road for people who say that the only way out of. the question back to the people . when we come back no way into the united states.

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welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour top u.s. senators say they're more certain than ever the saudi crown prince ordered the killing of the journalist. that came to the conclusion following a cia briefing on the murder. france's president has caved in to protesters and delayed a fuel tax ride to the pows led to weeks of violent protests and on your mark all have defended the tax saying it was needed to address climate change president from says the riots prove him right on the floor the paris climate. and british promise of teresa mayes government has been forced to publish the full legal advice on the brakes of the old m.p.'s found it broke parliamentary rules by only releasing a summary of all iterations of the game five days of debate on everything. now the

un special envoy for yemen and who the rebels have arrived in sweden for the first talks on the war since twenty sixteen it's hoped the negotiations are the beginning of the end of what the u.n. calls the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history bullshitters yet reports the . goofy delegation which bordered this flight from the yemeni capital sanaa to sweden may be able to prevent more killings by airstrikes and help the millions through. by famine and disease. u.n. sponsored talks due to start in sweden are expected to bring together the hoofy supported by iran and yemeni government leaders backed by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates how that the how he talks about this deal started months or a year ago we offered the mediators a deal to release all hostages and detainees in exchange for releasing all prisoners and hostages on the other side. as

a goodwill gesture the saudi u.a.e. coalition fighting the who these allowed fifty wounded rebel fighters to be flown to oman for hospital treatment that was one of the conditions for these to attend talks similar talks collapsed soon after they began three months ago 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. the u.n. says the humanitarian crisis in yemen described as the worst in the world will even get worse in the new year it's appealing for four billion dollars from international donors to help feed starving yemenis next year we think that twenty four million people in yemen seventy five percent of the population will need humanitarian assistance. airstrikes some bombardments. a

cholera epidemic and other diseases as well as starvation is estimated by independent group of researchers to have killed between seventy and eighty thousand yemenis so far in the war. in addition fighting has forced half a million people from their homes and to further complicate the disaster people smugglers are using the chaos in yemen as a route to europe now migration arrivals to yemen a country at war will reach a bout one hundred fifty thousand people this year twenty eighteen this is roughly a fifty percent increase over one hundred thousand. that arrived last year. aid organizations helping the starving infected and the displaced say some progress in sweden is urgently needed to end the suffering of millions paul chowder gian al jazeera. mean all the un is calling for nearly twenty two billion dollars of

funding next year to cope with humanitarian crises around the world four billion would be dedicated to yemen the largest appeal among all countries the organizations latest report says nearly one hundred thirty two million people worldwide will need aid next year that includes food shelter health care and education now the u.s. is giving russia sixty days to comply with a nine hundred eighty seven nuclear arms treaty or it says it will withdraw from the pact u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh made the announcement at a nato meeting in brussels he said russia's alleged violations of the agreement or direct menace to europe these violations of the i.n.f. treaty cannot be viewed in isolation from the larger pattern of russian lawlessness on the world stage the list of russia's infamous acts is wall georgia ukraine syria election meddling skirball and now the curch straight to name just

a few. in light of these facts the united states today declares it has been russia in material breach of the treaty and will suspend our obligations as a remedy effective in sixty days unless russia returns to fall and verifiable compliance. has more now from brussels or nato is issuing a very strong condemnation of russia it is saying that moscow is in violation of the i.m.f. treaty with the united states now this is a treaty which dates back to one thousand nine hundred seventy it was designed to curb land based missiles in europe and therefore help ensure security in europe it is a treaty that the nato alliance is also always supportive people cause of its security aspects but over the past few months the trumpet ministration has repeatedly said that it believes that russia is in violation of the streets but it is the first time that nato has come out and said that it simply agrees now with washington and

donald trump has made it very clear that he would like the united states to withdraw completely from the treaty we have the u.s. secretary of state might compel you saying that the u.s. will suspend the treaty in sixty days unless russia complies the onus now then is very much on moscow says nato to try and comply and save this so-called cold water easy. ukrainian president petro poroshenko has met the families of several sailors held by russia last month the russian coastguard sees three ukrainian ships and their crew after a confrontation and waters off crimea ukrainian region by russian twenty fourteen under simmons reports from kids. it was a collective outpouring of emotion as relatives of the twenty four detained ukrainian servicemen came together president petro poroshenko tried to reassure the gathering that he was doing everything possible to get them in freed the meeting took place nine days after the twenty two sabers and two counter-intelligence

officers were detained by the russians in what crane says was a totally unjustified and the president told the relatives that russia had no legal right to detain the man in charge that there's no truth no justice no law in russia he said of the crew men three of whom were injured and treated as prisoners of war covered by the geneva conventions so would you. i gave an instruction to the foreign minister to contact the international committee of the red cross and to neighbor as soon as possible to send a special mission to check on the condition of our boys as the president was making his latest attack on russia there were some movements of shipping to and from the ukraine's ports in the sea of as of the first time since the crisis began ukrainian ministers said russia had partially lifted its blockade back in the capital there were moves to put pressure on russia to release the captive ukrainians as their

relatives were moving on for talks with the united states embassy it went on into the evening. these men say they're exasperated at russia's refusal to show any leniency. we've heard nothing officially about my son's condition only some information from the russian media and messages from crimea activists that he was seriously injured and has had surgery and that's all. isn't letting lawyers or ukrainian diplomats see him. lose i'm not angry at the russian people the russian government because they allowed this barbaric behavior of their own offices their sailors towards ukrainian sailors in offices. the meeting here with the u.s. ambassador marie event of it went on for more than the relatives say they told her that the americans weren't doing enough to pressure russia to release the

servicemen and they say she assured them she would pass on their thoughts to the white house under symons al-jazeera. 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 israeli army operations focused on parts of the tunnels on its side of the border and he says the tunnels are not yet operational pose an imminent threat to israelis attacks or going to a much more from western. this is the first operation of its kind we've seen along the northern border targeting has a loss and 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 as 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 operation could be a way to divert attention away from that. the iranian president has again threatened to close a major straits if the u.s. shuts off its oil exports nearly a third of all oil is shipped through the strait of hormuz they wonder are made photo shame we will continue to sell our oil despite us sanctions america is unable to stand in the way of iran's oil exports it needs to know that if it decides to do

so then there won't be any oil export it through the persian gulf america wants to weaken our relations with neighboring countries and the world to international credit agencies have downgraded sri lanka's rating by one notch six weeks after the nation was plans and their political crisis on tuesday supreme court judges began hearing a petition that challenges the president's decision to dissolve parliament last month at the palace or assent as planned to call a snap election won't be allowed to go ahead until a court delivers a judgment the suspected new leader one of the world's most infamous criminal gangs has been arrested police on the italian island of sicily picked up said team of mayo along with forty five other alleged gangsters with nato is thought to have been elected to try to rebuild the cosa nostra the mafia would as asian bind several high profile killings the former leader sub a tory rina died in prison last year after spending decades behind bars and italian prosecutors formally opened an investigation into five egyptians over the murder of

postgraduate student junior again e the five include members of egypt's secret service and police officers being investigated for possible abduction again he was kidnapped and tortured for several days and twenty sixteen his body was left on a highway just outside cairo all the time of his disappearance the twenty eight year old was a searching trade unions in egypt. lexicons new president says slowing the flow of asylum seekers towards his northern border with the u.s. is a priority well the eight thousand asylum seekers are not living in a comes close to the u.s. front most of walked all the way from honduras from the border city of tijuana is hard to castro. the fence is three meters tall the american soldiers on the other side carry guns some central americans have made it across and are waiting to be picked up and asked for asylum. but back at the migrants shelter in t. wanna a steel knows what it's like to try and fail she's been through all of this before

she says in two thousand and thirteen gang members burned down her house in honduras she fled to the u.s. where she was detained for more than a year as she waited for an answer to her asylum claim. that it is that they didn't give me asylum they the part took me to under arrest but i couldn't stay there because the gang the burnt my house was a still looking for me right out there me out so she mediately left honduras again and for the last five years has been living in monterrey mexico where she cleans houses. she says she joined the caravan hoping the u.s. would open its borders to a group of so many but she was wrong now she's warning first time asylum seekers to not get their hopes up. i tell everyone if you have your children with you maybe you have a chance but if you're an adult by yourself you will make it. at a base camp at the foot of the u.s. border wall most people here say they would rather not try to cross the border

illegally they prefer to endure the months long wait it takes to submit an asylum claim at an official u.s. port of entry but as that wait grows so too does the desperation look at the conditions especially in these two largest camps it really speaks for themselves because no one would bring their children to walk on foot for weeks at a time live under these kind of conditions where where there's garbage where there's no drainage where it's impossible to keep dry where their court if they weren't doing something that was so terrible that they had no other choice but to live in the middle for a steal and now there is only one choice she'll have to stay in mexico she's joined the long line of central americans applying for mexican work permits as they wait facing an uncertain future heidi jo castro al-jazeera t want to mexico security forces in indonesia searching for thirty one construction workers suspected of

being killed two of them wounded but a lawyer says gunmen attacked a bridge project in the remote part of poplar province on sunday or construction work has been hold in the region and it's deemed safe to restart an armed group has been battling in the nation ruled in the fifty years. farmers and me and miles north eastern shan state are blaming coal mining for major environmental damage the area bordering china in laos is home to several ethnic groups and is only partly under the control of me and government activists say that mining operations have increased recently from abroad reports. mines like this one a largely closed off to the outside world and have to be filmed discreetly but the people living near them say there is no escaping the pollution they cause to their farmland and waterways. on farms just a couple of fields that he says are now ruined. since the company started to mine

for coal i've lost the water from my farm my land is covered with call dust and i can't grow any crops all around this area indian mars eastern shan state is evidence of mining operations recent changes in regulations mean foreign companies can now invest in medium and large scale mining the government has defended its increasing use of coal to meet the country's electricity needs despite objections from environmental groups and civil society groups who have been educating people on their legal rights say the relative stability indian market could lead to a mining boom. at first we thought it's a great idea for development in our community but in fact it's not good it's getting worse and destroying us given the state's proximity to china many investors are chinese but companies from japan and australia are also interested and there are fears about a lack of regulation of environmental and safety standards in this remote part of

the country. this underground fire at one mine was filmed by a monk who does not want to reveal his identity for his own safety we don't expect the government to fix this because the problem comes from the government they're cooperating with military and foreign investors. we are very concerned for our safety because we are. small local group. people who have a lot of money and power. to the outside world has been a boost for people. but for many in this area the existence of cold fields and outside investment is proving a toxic combination. welcome

back thomas bought his r.v. thank you very much from manchester city have extended their lead at the top of the english premier league city beating what food see you want to go five points clear of liverpool goals from me and read maurice deciding this game in city's favor fifteen games into the season the defending champions are still on beats in second place liverpool they played burnley on wednesday four games in all played this tuesday bournemouth are up to six after it see one picture of a huddersfield brighton and west ham also winning their matches now present

football's ballon d'or awards in france as apologize for comments he made solely on strike at the head. fronts football magazine recognized female players for the first time and while he was on stage to pick up the trophy for women's player of the year the d.j. asked this. if you can any file to go become so i switched it to a not. french d.j. matson's of excess his request for to do a provocative dance was a joke said she didn't consider it sexual harassment but wanted the focus to stay on her sporting achievements while her record as a player early on is unparalleled she scored fifty three goals last season as the french team won the european champions league for a third straight sign of the twenty three year old has decided not to play for norway in next year's world cup saying there is a lack of respect for the women's game in her hung country. it's a lot of things that need to be done. to. make the conditions better for women who

play football and not just only talking about younger girls but i'm talking up the ones who actually play national team at the moment so it came to a point where i can perform in markets i can give hundred percent of what i had to give. i didn't get back what i what i was expecting u.s. soccer has a new head coach greg behold so takes the post after spending five years in charge of columbus crew made some work though this year they failed to qualify for the world cup for the first time since nine hundred eighty six looking forward i would say that i'm ready for this challenge. the youth national team the full national team my experiences as a player my experiences in the coaching ranks have prepared me for this moment i'm excited for the opportunity to turn this group of men into a team there's a new team coming in the n.h.l. in seattle the league has approved the expansion making it seem number thirty two

the seattle franchise expected to start playing in twenty twenty one before the decision seattle was the largest us city without a major winter sports franchise so on behalf of our fans restart this journey today to build an organization that will make you proud and to someday bring the stanley cup back to seattle and i promise you we will last night like your dad. athletics world governing body has voted not to lift the ban on russian competitors the country was suspended three years ago when evidence emerged of a state sponsored doping program well the decisions taken at a meeting in monaco means russian athletes be able to take part another on flag at the european indoor championships next february some will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag if they can proof that drug free the other way if say they're still waiting to receive kin formation from russian anti doping officials actually russian athletes do compete they compete on the neutral status and it was from the very beginning of this process it's one of the first things we actually discussed

which is where possible do everything you can to separate the clean athletes from the tainted system now the greek economic crisis is also impacting on sport some athletes receive a little financial support and struggle in what is the birthplace of the olympics reports from athens. from this basement element who has scaled the heights of the karate world championships she became the reigning champion in the women's sixty eight plus kilo category last month in madrid if karate were in a limb pick events know the greek government would pay out a one hundred thousand dollars bonus for her gold medal but karate won't be an olympic sport until twenty twenty in tokyo that leaves only others father who is also her trainer with unpaid debts from financing her career. if i were turkish or

french or italian i'd get fifty and one hundred thousand dollars a year i'd be given a car and a house and i wouldn't have a job to do i'd be covered for life because i contribute by competing for my country but because i'm from greece i had to leave my country to work and pay for my tournaments and when i came back with medals i got nothing. unequivocal i can. has at least her bonus as grease is a little gold medalist in the twenty five metre pistol event she trains in this disused tobacco warehouse it's hot in summer cold in winter and the electricity from a nearby business often cuts out but it's better than what she had before. i had a small metal box which we filled with hot coals i would use it to woman hands every two or three shots because they were stiff as planks this was a basement and the temperature was below zero in winter in the old quarry shack we wired up red and green lights to the paper target behind me to simulate the lights used on

a limb pick targets there was no power so we wired the lights up to the top battery sometimes the problem isn't money but state negligence the olympic shooting center behind me contains hundreds of electronic targets and could have benefited greatly from the use of one but the entire facility was given over to police special forces after the two thousand and four games a limp take athletes have been excluded from it the government sport budget of seventy million dollars is spent mostly on keeping existing facilities open. my we should be for sport federations to spend more of their time building facilities for younger athletes so as to produce the base from which champions might spring up but it's not easy for the government to go and build a facility in which every area champion arises in a given supported. both coached by their fathers and nurtured by their families and they feel deeply patriotic until further financial support arrives family and

country will have to take them as far as they can go jump start ople us al-jazeera athens and the deciding surtax between pakistan and new zealand is evenly poised at the end of date say an unbeaten half century from going help new zealand her first innings total of two hundred and seventy four. in reply pakistan a hundred and thirty nine for three truck boats a couple of wickets while i was around the finish today. on sixty two ok that is only sport. andy thank you very much and finally we'll leave you with a glimpse into what might be the future of motor bikes this two we learn it is made almost entirely from three d. printing except for the electronic parts the german company behind it says it's the first functioning three d. printed motorbike that took twelve weeks to make the process is relatively slow meaning the bike doesn't like to go into mass production. all right that's it for

me for news hour don't go away there are back in a moment with more of the day's news stay with us. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate american media coverage what part of this case 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 go at 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. to stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one said to close guantanamo bay and it's detainees go in no way we have identified as a priority is the construction of an e-mail high value detention center i'm afraid that we're setting the conditions to return back to proxies or we're tally in state sponsored torture as we did have done in the past rendition revisited to on al-jazeera. al-jazeera is a very important force of information for many people around the world when all the

cameras are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. there's not a smoking gun there's a smoking sol top ranking senators in the us got a briefing from the cia director on the killing of. the saudi crown prince directed the mode. follow him down in jordan this is not is there a line from doha also coming up battling to pressure france suspends plans to increase fuel taxes after the country's worst riots in decades. it is i think a precedented for this house to find.