if women will be able to succeed where his predecessors failed. hashim is that what's focusing mind series that what's got people around the table perhaps no one is winning this war and the humanitarian disaster is just about to get a lot worse indeed the yemenis have had enough of this war and they are putting pressure on their leadership to stop the conflict we're talking about fourteen million yemenis on the brink of famine we're expecting the government delegation to arrive. any time now to the venue of the talks the whole thing is have arrived arrived yesterday i've been talking to different members of the healthy delegations basically this is what they told me they said that they were given orders by their leaders to start immediate talks about a prisoner swap we're talking about thousands of fighters who have been. detained

over the last few years by both parties and also they are hoping to agree on a cease fire that would be extended across the country to pave the way for more humanitarian aid to trickle into the country now. the biggest obstacle is the political framework the un is hoping to see the parties negotiate a transition to democracy with a national unity government but when it comes to who runs the country this is why you have differences present album also had he says he is the one who has been elected to in fresh elections democratic elections in two thousand and twelve and therefore he is the only ultimately determined president the who these say that he is an obstacle to stability and therefore he must go so i think if they can overcome this particular sticking point they would be able to talk about forming a national unity government but we comes to the political framework this is

something which will take one on ones to further evolve and take a final shape then everyone understands that these talks are going to be extremely important if there is one small progress when it comes to the confidence building measures that would send a positive signal across the country if the if the talks collapsed as they could last minute times in the past there would just further proof. deepen the are going to have people like one hundred we've been talking about in this report and the millions of yemenis hoping to see an end to war hashim thanks very much a lot more news of course you know you want on the web site al jazeera dot com how much fun can you have minus minus forty three minus forty thousand properly cold that's grown up cold it is there is colder than your freezer buried long way just how much fun can you have for let me show you i think you know what's coming up mark is forty three the northernmost city in charlie near the border with russia in

siberia this is what you do when it's minus forty you get a cup of hot water and history to have your head and it turns into ice crystals now i'm sure there are there are other things to do but this is. obviously the most dramatic of the things that people are enjoying most the same time of course you can get some pretty unpleasant whether this is ice fall graffiti rare phenomenon but we've seen it elsewhere and i'm showing you this is about to go winter outbreak we've been waiting this code come down into the korean prints you're in japan for a while now it's made it today's temperatures minus eighteen is the warmest in iran but beijing just for freezing pyongyang's down to freezing and the code of course is going to creep it comes up against what's already war and wet and so there be more snow so in the korean peninsula north and south next i'm tempted to mark not a low you know it is plus four in pyongyang still my seven. that is a day ahead let me take you again to the few centuries of snow through north korea and beyond and then the cold properly come in the highest temperature on friday in

pyongyang minus eight ice and so minus two this is proper winter and it's coming fast peter. rob thanks very much still to come here on the news hour more protests are planned in france despite the delay of a controversial plan to raise taxes on diesel fuel. and why a new factory in iraq is giving hope to those injured in war and the sports news with a new manager gets ready to play his part in one of the premier league's oldest rivals . i enjoy bringing my neighbor's children so they can see and get more comfortable five children are at the heart of america's love affair with weapons. mom makes a report and they're planning to shoot and it's fun but the new generation is

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera and peter these are your top stories as stumbles chief prosecutor's office has filed arrest warrants for two senior side. the officials over the killing of jamal khashoggi prosecutors strongly suspect the former deputy intelligence chief. and the world court advisor khatami were involved in planning the murder. you can piece of started a second day of debate about the opposition accused the prime minister to resign me of misleading the parliament after she was forced to publish the full legal advice on her breaks that deal. and yemen's who the rebels have arrived in sweden for talks to end the conflict the saudi backed yemeni government is also taking part earlier efforts broke down in september. let's get more on our top story the growing pressure on saudi arabia over the murder of jamal khashoggi un human rights chief michel but has reiterated her calls for an international investigation into

his killing we don't have the mandate to do a criminal investigation so we ask we mentioned to the to the to the secretary general that we thought it was needed acronym in mr gibson international investigation and he needs to but that there's also some is not in its personal attrition it needs a member state to ask for i mean there is some methodology that needs to be done with member states and the security council so i do believe that is really needed in terms of ensuring what really happened and while they are responsible for that awful killing ukraine's president. has shared with the meeting next week to create an independent church mr potter has been pushing for the establishment of a ukrainian orthodox church that would be free of russian control the move would split the world's biggest eastern orthodox denomination and would reduce the

influence of moscow russia is strongly against the move and or simmons has more from the capital kiev. religion is now following the politics of ukraine with an independent ukrainian orthodox church the decision was made back in october by the patriarch of constantinople a decree was issued that led to the breakaway immediately almost of the russian orthodox church splitting causing a major schism in christianity that goes back centuries in terms of its history and what's happening in ukraine will be the formation of a unified with a new pattern who will start to be appointed in this service on december the fifteenth now the president of ukraine. is very much allied to all of this the politics is intertwined in the religion and that's controversial in

many quarters but he made the announcement although it's the clerics who will go forward there are complications thirty million people involved in this thirty million people faithful to the orthodox church but there are many many russians many pro russian. congregation who feel very differently and also their clergy as well also tensions on the streets in some areas with nationalists demonstrating against the pro russians and even near arrest certainly searches and questioning of some clerics by the security services it looking at possible incitement to hatred is what they're saying so definitely more tension will be created with this new move. students in paris are protesting as part of a broader movement against the government about one hundred high schools across france were blocked by demonstrations on tuesday many are upset about

a new university application system that piggybacking on bylane process this month to force the government to reverse its planned fuel tax increase as more from one university in central paris. hundreds of students meeting here at the pantheon sorbonne university have just decided that they will join the march in the protests on saturday they will join in solidarity with the yellow vests we all know the part of the students still in the may sixty eight uprising in paris this means a new and more difficult front is opening against president marc wrong for reforms instead of the concessions appeasing the protests and scenes of the protests is still growing right across the country and the momentum of the could be given to them by the students will be great and yet another problem for president mike brown's administration lebanon's parliamentary speaker says israel has provided no

evidence to back up its assertion that tunnels have been dug beneath the shared border israel launched an operation of the border area on tuesday its military says it was destroying tunnels to counter a threat from hezbollah in any future conflicts in a hotter killer on the lebanon israel border. com prevails along this volatile border u.n. peacekeeping troops the lebanese army they've stepped up their presence they've stepped up patrols a day after israel announced an operation to find and destroy tunnels it alleges have been dug by the lebanese armed group hezbollah in the distance you can see of a should work under way israel saying that these tunnels are part of hezbollah's offensive plan they believe in any future conflict hezbollah's going to move the battlefield into israeli territory hezbollah secretary general has on the stroller has indicated a few years ago that that would be the club they would no longer just defend territory but shift the battlefield into israel israel is concerned but there is no

indication that there will be a military flare up neither israel nor hezbollah are interested hezbollah under strain because of sanctions sanctions not only against the group but against its patron iran it also has been involved in a costly war in neighboring syria israel also not interested in the military confrontation it is worried about hezbollah's growing arsenal the very fact that it believes it has missiles to target all areas in israel this really is about israel putting more and more pressure on iran trying to prevent iran from spreading its influence across the region in recent years it has been targeting iran and its assets in syria but it seems as of late the focus now is on lebanon because russia in one way or another is clipping iran's wings in syria it knows to stabilize syria and to get the international community on board it's going to need to weaken iran's presence in syria so the focus now in lebanon on israel's aim is to try to contain

hezbollah is growing strength that will not be easy because the group is not only heavily armed it is a controlling parliament and it has the say in the next government the u.s. special counsel has recommended no jail time for president donald trump's former national secure. city advisor michael flynn saying he's cooperated substantially with the russia investigation says mr flynt provided information about interactions between trump's team and russian government officials as the president was transitioning into office clinton pleaded guilty in december twenty seventh teen to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia he's the only member of trump's administration to admit guilt to a crime uncovered during his investigation. current and former leaders from around the world flown to washington today to attend the funeral of the former president george h.w. bush his son george w. bush will deliver a eulogy at the memorial also attending will be all living former u.s.

presidents and the current president donald trump has declared a day of mourning in the nation's capital the federal government and the financial markets will also be closed mr bush died in his home in houston on friday he was ninety four years old. still. ahead of the. best performers the last twelve months.

have been named by academics as top countries in implementing measures to fight climate change but it's

a totally different story for brazil. the south american nation council is hosting the next climate change summit it's also broken in. court. next year's climate talks with jews take place in brazil but that's being reverse by the president elect's jab also norah who has made no secret of his desire to open the amazon to mining farming and done 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 change 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 that then give

access to soil and cattle farmers 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 a few this park is the identification of the tree deemed apps for cutting but of course they explain that the institute has developed a sustainable method of logging that requires carefully selecting trees by age and size but. we also cut the trees 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 the . 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. stream drought and forest fires that are actually contributing to c o two gases. it's a manmade phenomenon of the different now to expand may end up choking the amazon rain forest known as the lungs of the world you see in human al-jazeera brazil ok time for the sports news thank you peter well despite their official reluctance argentinian team boca juniors and river plate are on their way to spain for the cop on the part of doris final book of fans gave their team a huge sendoff out of sunday's game in madrid.