so the guys have it the guys have it. point toward a cure stoma. 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 live to london and our correspondent journal wholesale journal series a may the u.k. prime minister suffering what three defeats yesterday what does this do to plans. well depending who you listen to it's either the beginning of the end of breaks itself or the beginning of the end of the government or a combination of the two or both it is clear after tuesday's events though that there is a massive fight going on now between m.p.'s and the government and on tuesday it

was m.p.'s it was parliament that resound resoundingly won three lost votes in a day as you said there parliamentary watchers say you've got to go back forty years to find anything like that happening you can't go back far enough in the history books to find a moment when the government was found in contempt of parliament because it's never happened it's not a legal finding it's a symbolic finding but it's deeply damaging to reason mase government to her or therapy as well and in the end the cumulative effect of all of that is to put off for a t. now back in the hands of parliament in terms of what happens if her deal struck with the e.u. is voted down next week parliament will now be able to put forward its own plan b. and vote on that and effectively hold the government to account not legally mind you but what that does is again further narrow down the options available in terms

of this interminable bragg's it process there's no parliamentary majority for a no deal the hardest of all regs it's so that becomes now hugely unlikely and the likely scenarios are narrow down to reason may's deal or some tweaked version of that then perhaps an even softer breaks it involving a norway type deal keeping single freedom of movement the single market customs union or perhaps no brags it at all via the route of a second referendum but there isn't a plan b. is there may be one can't really tell at the moment because we're kind of wrapped up in this this dense do not circulating around series i'm a of what it. might become what it might not become but her central message seems to be look there isn't an alternative if you vote against me or vote against my proposal as it's been signed off by the e.u. there isn't anything else that we can come up with this is as good as it's ever going to get you know and you know and that message comes out with the robotic

effect time and time and time and time and time again that is the government's strategy there's nothing else on the table and we explicitly don't have a plan b. what happens in that vote next week will be won or lost well. you know the numbers are so badly against they're getting worse at the moment on two on tuesday two more conservative m.p.'s turned against the deal that puts the number in her own party well above one hundred add that to opposition parties there could be a defeat by a margin as crushing as two hundred or more and there are even some suggestions that the government may pull that vote to avoid that dreadful scenario the one thing they may be hoping for though in terms of yesterday's events is that the heartbreaks it is the hard conservatives and some of the labor party who want to see a clear break from the e.u. may look at yesterday's events and think there is no more no deal option therefore the only option that still represents a break set of any sort of top is to resume aides deal and the government will be

hoping they come up sides next week there's no sign of that happening but that's what they'll be hoping to all talk to very soon i'm sure in the meantime thank you very much. denmark in the u.k. have been named by academics as top countries in implementing measures to fight climate change but it's a totally different story for brazil not only as the south american nation council hosting the next climate change summit is also broken its own deforestation record clock with more. next year's climate talks with jews take place in brazil but that's being reverse by the president elect also norah has made no secret of his desire to open the amazon to mining farming and down building the world's biggest rain forest is already threatened after a year in which brazil broke its own deforestation record with latest satellite images showing in a twelve month period almost eight thousand square kilometers of forest were cut

loose in human now reports that's five times the size of mexico city. deep inside the world's largest rain forest chain saws drown out the sound of jungle animals. after a ten year low the destruction of the amazon is again sharply on the rise and this is the first step logging much of it illegal requires opening roads and then give access to soil in cattle farmers to clear even more. but despite appearances these lawyers from brazil's tropical forest institute are actually trying to save the rain forest there's a block of this park is the identification of the tree deemed apps for cutting of cord the explain that the institute has developed a sustainable method of logging that requires carefully selecting trees by age and size. we also cut the tree so that it will fall towards the light it indicates that the force is less dense there which reduces the collateral damage. the system which

is now compulsory put strict limits on harvesting no tree can be cut here unless it has a minimum of fifty centimeters in diameter and a maximum of five trees can be cut in an area the size of a football field for the next thirty five years this allows the younger trees to flourish but starting in january when brazil swears in a new government the old system of logging which has little if any restrictions could become the norm again scientists insist that the amazon is vital for countering greenhouse gases responsible for climate change but president elect not all questions its very existence he's intent on opening up the amazon to cattle ranchers farmers miners and construction companies that supported his campaign. amazon expert warns the price of further deforestation is too high we have evidence

that is already harming our climate system brazil depends a lot on the rain that is associated with the forest. not only because of it. but also because of power generation new satellite data shows that in the last year alone amazon deforestation has jumped thirteen point seven percent a loss of nearly one point two billion trees the reduction of forest cover is provoking. extreme drought and forest fires that are actually contributing to c o two gases. it's a manmade phenomenon that if allowed to expand may end up choking the amazon rain forest known as the lungs of the world you see in human al-jazeera brazil the u.s. special counsel has recommended no jail term for president donald trump's former national security adviser michael flynn saying he's cooperated substantially with

the russian investigation. of information about interactions between trump's team and russian government officials the president was transitioning into being in office mr flynt pleaded guilty in december twenty seventh team to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia he is the only member of the trumpet ministration to admit guilt to a crime uncovered during investigation john hendren has more. the office of special counsel robert mueller has issued a surprising recommendation in court filings late tuesday miller's office said they recommend no prison sentence for michael flynn michael flynn is a former national security advisor accused of lying to federal officials about his relationships and his contacts with the russian government during the trump campaign the miller office says that among the things he helped with were links between the russian government and the trump campaign the report was largely redacted due to ongoing probes it did say that he did in fact lie about contact

with the russian government and it also said he misled the justice department about lobbying for the nation of turkey many analysts suggest that trump is likely to issue a tweet storm after a number of tweets about the miller probe on monday this is likely to also prompt some response from the president although he did not respond on tuesday and there is more to come on friday paul man afford the president's former campaign chairman will be sentenced as well in the moeller office says that he is no longer cooperating with them they say that he had lied to them and they are revoking any cooperation agreement then on december twelfth michael cohen the fixer and former lawyer for president trump will also be sentence and president trump has recently said that he is a weak person and he said he should serve his complete sentence that is completely different than what the president says about paul in a ford we will see in the coming days how the president responds. staying in the

states current and former leaders from around the world flown to washington to attend the funeral of the former president george h.w. bush is son george w. bush will deliver the eulogy at the memorial of weapons they also attending will be all living former u.s. presidents and the current president of the trump has declared a day of mourning in the nation's capital federal government on financial markets will also be closed mr bush died in his home in tucson on friday he was ninety four years old let's talk now to n.b.c.'s tracie paltz joining us live from washington tracy just looking at the people who've been invited it's a who's who of american politics past and present. no question about that peter and we have seen not only here at the service today here at the national cathedral but for people visiting the capitol where he lie in state for the last two days politicians sports figures sports legends and ordinary

people who said they wanted to come pay their respects that process will wind down in a few hours with a motorcade to the national cathedral we know that bush family members will be a part of this service a few of his grandchildren will read scriptures as you noted one of the eulogies will be given by his son also a former president and then the final goodbyes this is washington's but he is from texas texas is his home and so a special designation of air force one will take him back to texas for another private service tomorrow and burial at the bush presidential library but you're right peter this is going to be quite a who's who of foreign dignitaries u.s. dignitaries and other invited guest about three thousand of them showing up here at the cathedral today is there a sense that tracy perhaps as well looking at the broader picture that americans of a certain generation are saying goodbye to the passing not so much of an individual

of a man but of a time that was the last u.s. president who had direct war experience because if you fast forward to the likes of bill clinton you know they were fighting more cultural wars more parts isn't conflicts but they've never experienced going to war right. exactly and that makes a big difference obviously when you're the commander in chief and you have to make decisions about whether to go to war how many troops to commit and how long those troops will stay we've seen this in afghanistan we've seen it in iraq we've seen it in other hot spots in the middle east and other hot spots around the world people tend to value those presidents who have that experience and he is the last of what they like to call here the greatest generation who served in the oval office tracy thanks so much we'll check in with you later. still to come here in the north

america's top hockey league gets ready to welcome a new team. welcome

back time for sports news with our peter thank you so much liverpool have the chance to cut manchester city's late at the top of the primarily to just two points later on wednesday the reds face burnley away on shoes day city beat watford to want to establish a five point cushion goals from leroy sana and riyadh marez deciding this game in city's favor fifteen games into the season and the defending champions are still

unbeaten. but the. sixty five seventy means the top level so aggressive. and we do have one good chance in the media but we have many many. zero two zero zero we we you know we lost a little bit don't control the narrative where we play. arsenal can extend their unbeaten run in run in all competitions to twenty games on wednesday standing and front of them however is a media against manchester united at old trafford where they haven't won in the league since two thousand and six this could be a chance to block the trend with joe they merino side not in the best of shape they failed to win their last three e.p.l. games losing one and drawing two leaving them eight in the table arsenal who finished sixth last season looked rejuvenating under new boss and i am really they go into the game on the back of beating rivals taught them for two on sunday and

now sit fourth in the table which much is a big opportunity for us. if by if you will do when there is not now you see in the past and in the future because they had been a big dean be a big player yet. they have a very big on more for bush has been then and is a very big challenge for us six matches in the on wednesday third place chelsea are also in action they face wolves and trail second placed liverpool by five points tottenham boss against arsenal saw them drop to fifth base is southampton terry henri's elevated just his second win in tang games as monaco coach on choose day all resigned be to know when that lifts monaco out of the relegation zone and france's top division this is our ace first head coaching role and he's already seen his side crash of the champions league one of those next matches against nice

who are managed by ariz a former arsenal team mate patrick vieira super intense will do more than spin so that it's not a question of my personal level of confidence we try to win a series of matches one then two and then at least three so we should see match after match and see what happens after that and one. hundreds of broken junior founds lined the streets of la bocca in argentina to wish their team good luck ahead of the final the couple that were so doris poker face for a plate for the most coveted prize in south america club football on december the ninth in madrid organizers tried to move the second life of the final off the continent after the original kick off was suspended twice to do attacks against the boca team by river founds. 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 the decision taken

a meeting in monaco means russian athletes won't be able to take part time to their own flag at the european into more championships next february some will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag if they can prove their drug free. says they're still waiting to receive key information from russian anti-doping officials actually russian athletes do compete they compete on the neutral states as it was from the very beginning of this process one of the first things we actually discussed which is where possible do everything you can to. separate the the clean athletes from the tainted system. in the n.b.a. the dallas mavericks beat the portland trailblazers for their eighth straight home when de andre jordan had twelve points in the game while working forward luca dommage bagged twenty one and nine rebounds leaving five to eight hundred and eleven to one hundred two when portland have now lost eight of their last eleven games. and over in arizona the saudis have continued their dismal run

body heil scored twenty points and seven to lead the visiting the sacramento kings to a one hundred and twenty two to one hundred five when the phoenix of slumped to their sixth laws in a while. the national hockey league is returning to seattle for the first time since one thousand nine hundred twenty four the league approved the expansion making it team number thirty two the yet unnamed franchise of expected to start playing and twenty twenty one before that decision seattle was the largest u.s. city without a major winter sports franchise. so we have a lot of fans we start 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 lot not let you down. though seattle. and the toronto maple leafs beat the

buffalo sabers matching their best start to the season eighty four years austin matthew scored his second goal of the game with three seconds left in overtime to look tronto two in order three when you're going to get the win in a row. peter back to you thanks very much let's just get you right up to date with what's going on coming to us out of westminster in london a series of may the u.k.'s prime minister and his date see of a five day debates on its proposals we're just hearing from the trade minister liam fox now he's saying that he understands that following last night's parliamentary vote there is a possibility and i quote there's a possibility of not having the. does that mean a crash out of the european union in march of next year we don't know does that mean a no deal breck's it we don't know very difficult to pin down the different permutations of what's going on with brics it because trees are made yesterday three back to back humiliations for her and her. colleagues on the front benches there

she is jews have another tough afternoon a little later today continuing coverage of that when we come back on the other side of the break with ali all season. 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 realize a lifelong ambition the story i choose to lose my one and it's transformation

going behind the lens has gone from singing brings his personal story to life. al-jazeera correspondent my own private bollywood. it's a climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan. seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness what it became a democracy in two thousand and eight put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it brittany's happiness is what we ensure it if it is. simply turning its pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has. a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one said the closure one ton of detainees are going nowhere we

have identified as a priority is the construction of a new high value detention center i'm afraid that we're setting the conditions to return back to practice. in state sponsored torture as we passed rendition revisited part two on al jazeera. prosecutor requests arrest warrants for two of saudi arabia's crown prince's closest aides for their role. oh i'm fully back to watching al jazeera live from my headquarters in doha also ahead. to get the parties to this conflict to occur to one place

for consultation. you efforts to end the war in yemen long awaited talks are set to begin in sweden small protests are planned in france despite the delay of a controversial plan to raise the deal fuel diesel fuel tax and fan well to george h.w. bush america prepares to lay its forty first president to rest. thank you for joining us istanbul's chief prosecutors office has filed an application for arrest warrants for two of the saudi crown prince's former top aides over the killing of jamal khashoggi prosecutors say they strongly suspect former deputy intelligence chief siri and royal court advise a saudi out the tiny were involved in the planning of the journalists murder in october turkish officials say the move to issue an arrest warrants reflects

a view that saudi authorities won't take formal action against the men turkey has also called for the extradition of all the suspects saudi arabia is holding that all comes a day after u.s. senators were briefed by the head of the cia about the case of warm air reaction in just a moment but first let's look at what we know about the tiny and a series now sowed on the tiny is a nor school graduate who has held several positions in the saudi royal court he was one of crown prince mohammed bin solomons closest advisers he's accused of leading the hit team that travel to istanbul to kill jamal khashoggi brigadier general was the deputy intelligence chief of saudi arabia he was among those who were sox over the matter a series accused of assembling the hit team that killed her shoji after being assigned to do so by the saudi crown prince. well we have reaction from the u.s. with was in jordan who's standing by in washington but first let's go to mohammed

who is outside the saudi consulate in istanbul for us mom and what more can you tell us about this latest move by the turks and why are they requesting these arrest warrants now. yes for me they are requesting this arrest warrant because they think they have enough information outside of the tunnel and i have been involved on a high on the highest level in this murder plot in a member that's funny and. removed from their posts with a way of dickey right after the information came out from turkey that the plot has been executive the jamal khashoggi has been killed so the turkish side they believe they have enough information to rely on to link those two men to the planning and execution of this murder they also say that we have been receiving information here from the texas side during the last seven weeks that. any where exonerated in

a way in that report by the saudi prosecution they were not nobody not prosecution report was mentioned by name and the prosecution specifically said but the fifteen hit squad who were sent here to the turkish to the saudi consulate in turkey have acted on their own the initial instructions that were given to them where to bring them out back to saudi arabia but the head of the team decided to kill him so that's an exoneration to the top men who actually sent that team and those men. who are sitting remember also that they have not been detained they are not among the eighteen that's the saudis said of the fifteen that the saudis said they have apprehended for questioning and for the investigation so information we have from u.s. sources and from turkey so it's just that i'm at a city and three they are still there and they are still even involved in the

in the collaboration and helping in the police particularly some of the tiny so at the turkish side they believe that we've now to those men are studying their questions about what happened the investigation will. go ahead ok thank you for that mohammed reporting live from istanbul while the winds come right after senior senators in the u.s. said the time had come for the trump administration to condemn saudi arabia for the met. or congress will act it follows a briefing by the cia chief do you know how to senate leaders mike hanna has our report from washington 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 moved in plea agreement about one basic fact. i have zero question in my mind that the crown prince n.b.s.

ordered the killing monitoring the killing knew exactly what was happening planned it 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 that saudi arabian in the search to 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 exist 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 n.b.s. killed a journalist we know he killed a journalist. 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 some one pledge a slave 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 and as he was in jordan in washington for is as we heard there a damning assessment from u.s. senators how much more pressure does this put on the trump administration to take action against the saudi conference. foley it puts much more pressure on the trump white house to actually come to agreement with the cia that this was orchestrated at the direction of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon even

though people like to talk about there's not being a quote smoking gun definitively pending the murder of jamal khashoggi on the saudi crown prince let's be clear u.s. intelligence almost never finds that one key piece of evidence that clears up all. about whether something was carried out at someone's behest and in what fashion they usually build on a preponderance of evidence as we heard several times from senators on tuesday if you brought this before a jury in a u.s. court room there would certainly be a conviction the anger that was coming from u.s. senators on tuesday really indicates that they're not going to let this matter go even though there is pressure one because there's a holiday break coming up and two because this is the end of the current session of congress and there's the thought that there may not be enough time to get the house

to go along with any legislation that the senators want to pass what legislation precisely can we expect what action from congress on this. well at the very minimum there is something called a resolution that would address the sense of the senate it would be not binding it would not be law but it would be the easiest thing for the senators to express their disgust and their frustration with the trumpet ministration for not accepting the blame as it were as gathered by u.s. intelligence that's the easiest thing to pass because there is no real veto threat that comes with it the harder part is something which people do want to see is some sort of legal action that congress can take traditionally foreign policy is considered the purview of the president but on some matters including the waging of war congress does have

a legal voice and because of the very close military relationship with saudi arabia these legislators believe that it is incumbent upon them to send a message that they have they have condemned what has happened to jamal khashoggi and that they want consequences to be imposed upon those responsible for it if that includes the saudi crown prince some senators would like to achieve that but they know that will be difficult because there are some particularly in the house who don't want to go that far out as it were but it's not going to say that they're not going to try and certainly they can always push back the end of the current congressional session if they felt there was enough political impetus for that to be required thank you very much for that wasn't jordan i for us in washington. in other world news u.n. special envoy for yemen and hoofy rebels have arrived in sweden for talks a saudi backed government delegation is also on its way it's hoped the negotiations

will end of a four year old war with say u.n. says has led to the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history and reports. humanitarian organizations are hoping this who the delegation that arrived in stockholm and a yemeni government delegation arriving from saudi arabia will come to an agreement that will help protect millions of yemenis threatened by fighting famine and disease.