dropping out has become the lycée evil perseverance to gamble. future gamble part of the viewfinder asia series on notice zero. there's not a smoking gun there's a smoking so all top ranking u.s. senators get a briefing from the cia director on the death of jamal khashoggi and they're convinced the saudi crown prince directed the matter. hello i'm the star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the motor inquiry says x u.s. national security advisor michael flynn has cooperated significantly and should serve no jail time. bowing to pressure from suspends plans to increase fuel

taxes after the country saw its west riots in decades and. which is i think a precedent for this but just as income to. the prime minister suffers major defeats as parliament scrutinizes have. senior senators in the u.s. say the time has come for the trumpet ministration to condemn saudi arabia for the murder of jon lester all congress will act and follow as a briefing by cia chief g. and a hostile to senate leaders those who emerge from the meeting with a unified in their assessment that saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon ordered she is matter and must be held to account mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . the cia director paused on her way in paying respects to president george

h.w. bush lying in state in the capitol the briefing took place behind closed doors only a small group of eight senators invited all of mood sting plea agreement about one basic fact. i have zero question in my mind the. crown prince n.b.s. ordered the killing monitor and the killing knew exactly what was happening planned in advance he 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 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 i think he is dangerous and he has put their relationship at

risk. 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 last week both the secretary of state and the secretary of defense told the full senate there was no concrete evidence linking the crown prince to the murder senator graham used the term willfully blind and questions are asked to about president trump's ambivalence it would be really easy for the president to walk out into the press room today and just date that.

that m.b.'s killed a journalist we know he killed the guy. we know he ordered it we know he we we know that he monitored it these are all people that are very close to him and and that is not acceptable for american standards in the days ahead senators will be discussing what action to take and here there is some division in the senate someone legislation aimed specifically at declaring the guilt of the crown prince mohammed bin solomon others want a y u to bill drawn up which would include economic sanctions against saudi arabia including a ban on all weapons sales only one thing at the stage is clear given the mood after this briefing legislation there will be mike hanna al-jazeera washington john hendren is live from washington d.c. john we're hearing these very strong words from senate says what's been the

reaction from president trying and other officials at the white house. there's been an almost deafening silence from the white house president down on trump did cross the street from the white house to blair house which is where the family of former president george herbert walker bush is awaiting his funeral but the president did not speak about this uproar on capitol hill and he has a full blown rebellion not just among members of the democratic party but as you saw in mike hanna story there members of his own party are outraged about what they heard last week the white house tried to avoid all this by giving the secretary of state mike pompei when the defense secretary jim mattis to brief members of the senate eight key senate leaders and when they walked away the senator said they were dissatisfied with a report that said in essence there was no smoking gun and today you heard lindsey

graham the republican senator who's a close ally of president trump say there is a smoking saw in this case referring to the bone saw that was allegedly used to cut up jamal khashoggi so now the president has to decide exactly how to respond and it is clear that what he tried to do is not going to work with members of the senate and he's got to worry that right now the republicans are in control of the house of representatives which is a much more partisan body that tends to support the president but in january that house is going to be controlled by democrats and they will be inclined to take a much stronger action so the president now has to decide what he has to do in order to quell this uprising and john given the as they say as developments and. see what are the options available to president trump at the states. well he tried option one and that is to make the whole thing go away and say saudi arabia is an american ally we have

a military contract with them which is what he said that didn't work now we've got members of the house of representatives demanding that you know haskel talk to them american officials have told us that al-jazeera that in fact that is likely to happen and now members of the senate are calling for her to address the full senate not just these few senate leaders and they have some specific demands they want perhaps sanctions against saudi arabia including the crown prince some of them would like to stop u.s. aid to the saudi war in yemen and. others of them want at least some kind of statement from the president that the crown prince is responsible for the killing of jamal khashoggi so the president has to decide which of those options he will pursue and if he doesn't the senate has made it clear that even republicans in that body are going to take action and the president is a likely to do something in the short term because in january democrats will

control the house and if they've got republican allies in the senate they can actually pass a measure which has passed in preliminary form which would force the president to stop aid to the saudis and yemen john hendren in washington d.c. thanks fran not sound al-jazeera is tiny betsy is an istanbul with reaction from techie where the matter occurred. i think for sure they're going to welcome this reaction it backs up everything they said from day one i think there's been a lot of dismay within the turkish government about the stand of president trump the you know maybe he did maybe he didn't sort of conclusion about mohamed bin salman and whether or not he was responsible as far as the turkish authorities are concerned without naming him in public they have said that this murder was on the doorstep of the saudi royal court that was in public in private you know left nothing to to to to to conclude they definitely leading towards him on if not him who is it they've been asking that question over and over again but the evidence

has been so circumstantial the turkish government leaked from basically from the moment they have the audio recordings excerpts from that it put together and piece together what happened to mr karzai and it's very clear as far as they're concerned they've got this kind of you know split situation now they want to maintain a relationship with saudi arabia because there is a very important strategic regional partner but also they want to maintain the pursuit of justice they say it happened in turkey and they have a moral responsibility of following that they're very concerned also that the investigation seems to have reached a dead end as far as the turkish authorities are concerned because now the ball is very much in the saudi court and the saudis are saying that eleven people have been charged five of them are facing the death penalty the turkish authorities want those people to come and stand trial in turkey there's no response to that but they've also asked some very important questions if it wasn't had been someone who ordered the killing then who was it and where are the remains of mr kosofsky because they have never been found and they're asking the question now it's been

eight weeks since he was murdered you've got these people in custody why don't we have it in for any information about where the remains are so lots of questions but this news is very important for them because they believe i am sure that this now will reinvigorate the investigation put a lot of pressure on saudi arabia to comply and to cooperate. talks to try to bring an end to the war in yemen due to take place in sweden delegates fears a stockholm from sun on tuesday and other rebel delegates are expected to travel to sweden from oman on wednesday the u.n. sponsored talks are the first since communication between yemen's government and the heat these broke down and twenty sixteen the un is warning that the civil war in yemen could further deteriorate in the new year living even more than eighteen million people in need of food aid the world food program says yemenis are now experiencing the west humanitarian crisis since the united nations was formed more than seventy years ago this is not a country on the brink of catastrophe this is

a country that is in a catastrophe and we see in the severe hunger rate spike from eight million to twelve million the number of food insecure people those eight to twelve are the people that are on the brink of starvation these are people just going to bed hungry these are people who don't know where the next bills coming from. the general food insecurity those you are going to bed hungry has risen up to about eighty ninety million people out of twenty nine million people the u.s. special counsel has recommended no jail time for president donald trump's former national security advisor michael flynn saying he has cooperated substantially with the russian investigation robert muller says flynn provided information about interactions between trump's team and russian government officials as the president was transitioning into office twenty did guilty in december twenty seventeen to

naing to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia he is the only member of trump's administration to admit guilt to a crime uncovered during well as probe bruce fein is a former us associate deputy attorney general he says robert mueller is sending a signal to those who might be willing to cooperate with his probe. it is surprising since the the. something of lying to the f.b.i. kind of sets a baseline for others who have been similarly charged so if flynn charged with lying zero then what about the others is charged with lying man a for the papadopoulos several others are they going to get zero as well on the other hand he may have decided that this was a signal to other potential witnesses that if you cooperate you know you can avoid jail time so it would encourage them to others who are involved to be forthcoming

it's also possible that mr flynn would know what kind of relationships jaron questionnaire had with the russians because he also was speaking with the ambassador remember he flirted with the idea of a private communications channel at one time and maybe others in that loop who were talking regularly how are we going to deal with the russians even in that transition period and that would be something that would be of great interest to muller since he's fine mary charter is to identify what were the contacts and call it maybe it's not collusion collaboration between the russians and the trump transition but we're far from finding the the end point here i think the next step in the equation is next week where mr muller identifies what he things were the continuing alliance of paul man of force and i can think that there will be a very real strict recommendation of a very heavy sentence to give signals not only to man afford but to others

cooperation means to be completely candid and forthcoming if you're not you're going to get a hammer over your head and i also think next week will be informative because it seems as though mr trump is going to defend mr mann afford and maybe even send a signal if he holds tight like roger stone he said in the same signal to he could perhaps obtain a pardon. well the next bit still ahead on al-jazeera a pledge from ukraine's president to relatives of the naval crew detained by russia last month. and the u.s. gives russia and ultimatum to save a cold war on. hello we've got clout on the right i'm finally clearing the way from florida bright skies to come back came behind we have got hold of also talking as well as have

a look at these temperatures betty getting about phrasing in new york of a sort of phrasing there for ross who are four celsius and they say even atlanta well down it's a single figures in my view a twenty four that's on the chilly side as we go on into thursday still plenty of cool air around qwest sunshine should we call a little more cloud coming in across the plains pushing up towards the lakes by this state central iris monna six a top temperature minneapolis but that still ten degrees warmer than what it. was the western side of north america wet weather there for california that's good news we'll see some out of right coming in across a good part of the state as you make our way through the next couple of days basin places a cloud of rights to wind see the western side of the caribbean but plenty of tropical sunshine if the truth be nice to get there around the great friends of this northern cuba much to catch your shower here that would be few and far between as is the case as we go on through thursday was a dry and fog weather that a bit of wet weather just making its way towards the windward dollars as we go

through thursday but for most is fine dry sunny. the important thing if you were walking around in beirut was known to be in the line of fire from the holiday. we heard gunshots i was the first one to flee the whole. battle lasted three days and three nights and there were no prisoners at the control of the hidden under control of the region around and that's why for such a bloody battle an icon of conflict at the heart of the lebanese civil war beirut holiday in war hotels on al-jazeera.

welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour. top u.s. senators say they're more than ever the saudi crown prince ordered the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi they came to the conclusion following a cia briefing on the matter. the rebels and the u.n. special envoy for yemen are in stockholm for a long awaited talks the u.n. hopes the negotiations will signal the start to an end of what it calls the west humanitarian crisis in the wild. u.s. special counsel robert muller is recommending no jail time for president donald trump's former national security adviser michael flynn says flynn cooperated substantially with the investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen election. british m.p.'s have found their government to be in contempt of parliament by failing to publish the full legal advice on the prime

minister to deal with the european union members of parliament begun five days of debate on to resume a is proposed divorce plan and are expected to vote on it next week the democratic unionist party from northern ireland which props up the minority government says it will vote against the deal a senior e.u. legal official said the u.k. can cancel brecht's that without the consent of the e.u. member states that has the latest from london. well tuesday soar 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 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 the full legal advice on this break that 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. it 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 guys have eight are not. on. point two on a care 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 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 x. or the government should do y. and what that really means for the labor party in particular is that it will be able to say we do not we will go out leaving the e.u. with no deal the so-called cliff edge scenario there was another setback in luxembourg when the european court of justice took advice from the u.k. could in theory reverse article fifty the process by which it said it wanted to

leave 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 that's opening up a road for people who say that the only way out of the an pass is to put the question back to the people. after weeks of violent protests over a proposed fuel tax hike france's government has bowed to demonstrators demands president emanuel had all good 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 has spiraled into a larger movement against the french president david chase reports from paris. it was the prime minister edward felipe who was forced into a u. turn in a nationwide television broadcast while present emmanuel macron remained aloof in the early say palace. for more than three weeks tens of thousands of french people

have been expressing their anger around about that 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 but no i don't think it's enough we're on extraordinary movement there are too many demands those from pensioners from young people from all cause 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. china's promising to work quickly to implement measures that it's agreed with the u.s. to avoid a trade will both sides decided on saturday to negotiate a deal within ninety days but u.s. president donald trump or he could impose new tariffs if an agreement isn't reached the uncertainty has led to some of the biggest falls the c.e.o. on the dow jones share index christensen to me reports from new york the dow plunged more than seven hundred fifty points bond prices rose in the youths dropped as traders worried that the united states and china made less progress than initially thought in their trade dispute on monday the stock market rallied on news

of a temporary truce amid the chinese and the americans but on tuesday investors seemed concerned about reports that pointed out the lack of detail coming out of these talks between chomp and c. and growing skepticism that beijing would yield to u.s. demands anytime soon this is all led to renewed fears that a disagreement between the two economic powerhouses could slow the global economy changes in the bond market also signal fear of a recession technology companies banks and industrial stocks accounted for much of the selloff and the market wasn't helped by the president's tweets either while the president seemed to say that he would happily welcome an agreement with china he seemed to leave open the possibility that the talks would fail the u.s. has given russia sixty days to comply with one thousand nine hundred eighty seven nuclear arms treaty or it says it will withdraw from the pact u.s. secretary of state mike compare made the announcement to the nato meeting in

brussels he said russia's alleged violations of the agreement were a 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 to list the rushes into the sax is long georgia ukraine syria. election levelly. and now the purchase straight to name just a few in the 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 fore and verifiable compliance natasha butler has more from brussels or nato is issuing a very strong condemnation of russia it is saying that to 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 eighty. ukrainian president petro poroshenko has met the families of several

sailors held by russia last month russian three ukrainian ships and their crew after a confrontation in crimea and ukrainian region annexed by russian twenty fourteen reports. 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 the men freed the meeting took place nine days after the twenty two sabers to 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 in russia he said of the crew of men three of whom were injured treated as prisoners of war covered by the geneva conventions so. 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 from the ukraine's ports in the sea of as of the first time since the crisis began craney and ministers said russia has partially lifted its blockade back in the capital there were moves to put pressure on russia to release the captive ukrainians as their relatives are moving on for talks with the united states embassy it went into the evening. these men say that 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. isn't letting lawyers or ukrainian diplomats see him. lose i'm not angry at the russian people it's the russian government because they allowed this barbaric behavior at their own offices sailors towards ukrainian sailors in offices like. the meeting here with the u.s. ambassador marie. the relatives they told her that the americans were doing enough to pressure russia to release the servicemen and they say she assured them she would paulson left thoughts to the white house. italian prosecutors as a former opened an investigation into five egyptians over the matter of postgraduate student julio resenting the five include members of egypt secret service and police offices they're being investigated for possible abduction

present he was kidnapped and tortured the several days and twenty sixteen his body was left on a highway just outside cairo the twenty eight year old had been researching trade unions in egypt. the israeli army has begun destroying tunnels under its side of the border with lebanon israeli commanders say the aim is to stop cross border attacks by hezbollah fighters into northern israel the israeli army says the tunnels are not yet operational but pose an imminent threat to israelis. i'm a star detail with the headlines on al-jazeera top u.s. senators say they're more sesson than ever the saudi crown prince ordered the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi they came to the conclusion following a cia briefing on the matter i have zero question that the crown prince n.b.s. ordered the killing monitored the killing knew exactly what was happening planted

in advance if he was in front of a jury you would be convicted in thirty minutes. guilty. so. the question is what we do about. the rebels and the un special envoy for yemen are in stockholm away said talks the u.n. hopes the negotiations will signal the start to an end of what it calls the west humanitarian crisis in the wild u.s. special counsel robert muller is recommending no jail time for president donald trump's former national security adviser michael flynn miller says flynn cooperated substantially with the investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen election fenty did guilty in december twenty seventeen to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia british prime minister to resume aids government is being forced to publish the full legal advice on the bricks that deal m.p.'s found it broke parliamentary rules by only releasing

a summary politicians have begun five days of debate on the agreement. france's president has caved in to protesters and delayed a fuel tax rise the proposal led to weeks of violent protests emanuel had defended the tax saying it was needed to address climate change the u.s. has given russia sixty days to comply with one thousand nine hundred eighty seven nuclear arms treaty or it says it will withdraw from the pact u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or made the announcement at a nato meeting in brussels. italian prosecutors as a formally opened an investigation into five objections over the matter of postgraduate students any the five include members of egypt's secret service and police offices there's any was kidnapped and tortured for several days and twenty sixteen those are the headlines join me for more news here off to war hotels. china could be facing a debt that's according to s. and p. global trumpet ministration just been insisting towards the saudis and other old

producers that they want to have more production to cool down prices we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on ounces era. control of holiday inn and you control the region around and that's why this is a. important thing if you're walking around in beirut was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday inn. the bottle of vodka even completed the division of beirut into two sectors east and west beirut. but also to source. a one hundred.