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. 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 wider bill drawn up which would include economic sanctions against saudi arabia including a ban on all weapons sales only one thing at this stage is clear given the mood after this briefing legislation there will be mike hanna al-jazeera washington

well as we've been mentioning the two suspects are close advisors to the crown prince mohammed bin sandman sadal qahtani has held several positions within the saudi royal court he's accused of leading the hit team the travel to istanbul to kill jamal brigadier general ahmed was the deputy intelligence chief of saudi arabia he was among those who were sacked over the murder of a series accused of assembling the hit team that killed her off to being assigned to do so by the crown prince osman is a research director at the anchor institution and formerly an advisor to the turkish government he says the circle is narrowing around mohammed bin sama. first of all the turkish prosecutor for the first time a turkish authority almost pinpoint who is responsible this is mohamed bin said more than a dissenting time in washington the senators are clearly telling that moment is the responsible there's two important you know tugs turkey is trying to keep one is

just keeping the pressure up keeping the momentum high and the president have gone is making some speeches making some statements and just talking to his counterparts on the second side turkey is trying and would leaking some you know evidences with prosecutors decisions tried to keep the momentum up but the other side turkey is trying to keep this as a legal issue it can according to the vienna convention to get has the right to have such an investigation turning our attention to the u.k. to reason may has been defending her brags it plans today of her weekly session of pm accuse prime minister's questions it comes a day after her government suffered consecutive defeats on three parliamentary votes that hasn't happened in four decades the government's been forced to publish the legal advice it's received on the deal in full after being found in contempt of parliament m.p.'s are set to vote on the deal on december eleventh join a whole joins us live now from london journal what's mrs may been saying today

she came out of pm queues curiously unscathed. jeremy corbyn the opposition leader inexplicably to many did not take the opportunity on this occasion to press her on the issues whirling around not just her deal but also her premiership after those three lost votes on tuesday and the publishing this morning of the attorney general's full legal advice that. really calls into question the sense in the deal she has struck over the backstop that guarantee of no hard border returning to the island of ireland in the event that no free trade agreement is reached with the e.u. coben instead went after issues like homelessness poverty and others were the issues but didn't take the opportunity of hammering on breaks as many expected he

might she was though questioned of course about this legal advice from the attorney general geoffrey cox it was released earlier it basically stipulates as we knew on monday but the language here is pretty uncompromising the backstop will endure indefinitely until a superseding agreement takes place there is no unilateral mechanism for the united kingdom to exit if it wants to unilaterally there is legal a legal risk that the u.k. may become stuck in protected and repeated rounds of negotiations trying to get itself out of this customs union purgatory as the breakfasters on the right of her party would say it will tourism a soul during on still trying to sell her deal she's got six days now or not not that many of working days of course to sell it before the vote on tuesday here's what she had to say on the backstop and why she still believes it's the best way forward. recognizer

a concerned about the fact stop that it is indeed the case that it is not an attractive for the european union to have the united kingdom in the backstop for a number of reasons first of all because in that backstop we will be making no financial obligation to the european union we will not be accepting free movement at the and therefore and that will be very unlike touch level playing field requirements these are matters which means that the european union does not see this as an as an attractive as an attractive place for them to put the u.k. they think that's an attractive place for the u.k. to be in and they won't want us to be in it for any longer than is necessary so clearly journal she's got another three tough days around the corner is she looking like she's hemorrhaging power and political capital or might she be able to pull this off. i mean frankly the former is looking more likely than the latter particularly after the events of choose date to remind you of those three

last votes one of them was a very important procedural vote that effectively allowed m.p.'s allowed parliament to amend the statement but the government must produce if it fails to pass that vote next week to amend it with a so-called plan b. allows parliament to take control of the process of what happens next that essentially makes the idea of a no deal breaks it which is always been a threat that the reason may as waved about pretty unlikely because there's no majority for that in the meantime more and more in m.p.'s in their own party are speaking out against that deal and the numbers are stacking up overwhelmingly in opposition to it possibly one hundred or more in her own party add that to the opposition parties they could be facing a defeat the government by more than two hundred votes next week all the while yes she's hemorrhaging or thora tea and the likelihood that her deal will pass looks slimmer and slimmer and one wonders how on earth she could continue in her job if

she fails to get that vote through briefly journey is what we're seeing here the reality of a british prime minister trying to implement bracks it it's impossible it cannot be done you cannot please all of the people not just those people who voted to remain but those people who voted soon the as well. that's true it is impossible to imagine any scenario now that makes everyone happy i mean this is a divided country it's a divided electorate it's a deeply divided house of parliament led by a deeply divided party even the opposition party is divided so in the end whatever arrangement is reached whether it is. breaks it in name only as some will undoubtedly accuse any deal of being or whether it is cancelling breaks it all together via a referendum. you're going to end up with

a country that is divided on the result i can't point you in one way or the other at the moment all options appear to be on the table except heartening lee for the economists and the bank of england and others who've spoken out against the idea of exiting without a deal jonah thank you. still to come here on al-jazeera we'll tell you about the independent church ukraine's president wants to form also ahead by the u.s. special counsel robert muller is recommending no jail time for president trump's former national security advisor michael flynn. hello winter seems to think he's waited long enough in china now nothing much obvious in satellite pictures a cloud still going from west to east from high ground to low ground it does

produce a certain amount of rain and it seems to be a bit more intense during thursday and if you notice that the windows behind it a northerly so the temperature only dropped in new hand got a forecast of eight degrees for take you over night you see a bit of snow showing up so the cold air certainly making its way in there were down to four as a maximum on friday shanghai time to nine more clouds spread science was hong kong down to twenty one i think you'll notice again more cloud in the sky and showers rather more frequent until winds retargeting the same time had a bit of a bulge recently in the shower spread throughout india a streak of cloud he will that in the south and under pradesh has produced significant rain and might do again on thursday mostly they were thinking south of that and particularly in straight line covers most places of course quite dry and disappointingly rather polluted if the air doesn't stir very much in the arabian peninsula the breeze has picked up in the she can see from the west in saudi arabia we've got yet more showers forming in the red sea than in djibouti and quite

possibly briefly in western yemen. a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one said for close guantanamo bay and it's detainees go in no way we have identified as a priority is the construction of a nail high value detention center i'm afraid that we're setting the conditions to return back to proxies or brutality in state sponsored torture as we do have done in the past rendition revisited to on al-jazeera.

welcome back let's just recap the top stories for you so far today istanbul's chief prosecutor's office has filed arrest warrants for two senior saudi officials over the killing of jamal khashoggi prosecutors strongly suspect the former deputy intelligence chief. and a royal court advisor. were involved in planning the murder. senior senators in the us a call for action against the saudi crown prince over the murder of jamal khashoggi they gave their assessment after a briefing from the cia director. one other story british m.p.'s have started day two of their debate but the opposition accused the prime minister to resuming of misleading the parliament after she was forced to publish the full legal advice on her. students in paris protesting today 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 there piggybacking on the violent protests this month that forced the government to reverse its planned fuel tax increase david chaytor has more now from one university in central paris. these changes demonstrations by groups of students are now breaking out in their moving through the streets all to rise and waving workers to go by getting support from passing bands. and even ambulances so this is now what. president macro is facing the protest is pretty weighty on the concessions he's already given and the pressure on him that he's a bit astray should resign only growing. talks aimed at ending the nearly four year long war in yemen are set to begin. in sweden with the delegation has arrived on

the government's side is flying in currently from riyadh on the ground there's desperation but hopes are growing for an end to the conflict as famine looms. reports now from sweden. meet mohammad. one of the hundreds of thousands of yemeni children suffering severe malnutrition he's being treated at a hospital inside the clinic is struggling to cope with the growing number of emaciated bodies of the young. mohammad he's five years old but war famine and blunder tradition slowed his growth he may never be able to fully recover. and so. mohammed's health deteriorated over the last year and we rushed him to hospital hoping he would recover and the doctors are giving him fluids but he doesn't want to wait. the u.n. is brokering a new round of talks between the warring parties in yemen in

a bid to ease the humanitarian crisis. after almost four years of fighting between who the rebels and yemeni government troops aided by saudi u.a.e. coalition fourteen million a year many are on the brink of funny and. now many no less and i pad and there are a couple i prayed talks will succeed we have had enough of all teach aggression and bloodshed we've lost so many people in this war. he met them another minute about the way the yemenis should rican sile and we should end the war in the ring of peace. it's the first time opposing sides in the conflict will have met since two thousand and sixteen past talks collapsed because of growing differences between who should play a bigger role in the future of yemen and. the internationally recognized government says a deal will only be possible when the whole thing is hand over their weapons and

put out of the capital. a demand with jetted by the rebels for say all parties should be prepared to compromise. we're going to talks we made concessions and we want the saudi backed government to make concessions as well the un's special envoy for yemen martin griffiths has insisted the wizard a military solution and that negotiation is the only way to find an agreement but it's unclear if we're birds will be able to succeed where his predecessors failed the toskala the time when the international community is putting pressure on the saudi u.a.e. coalition to and its military campaign and seek a peaceful way out but the biggest challenge is to convince the warring factions in yemen to set aside their differences agree on a national unity government and a transition there would ultimately and the biggest humanitarian crisis in the

world has about al-jazeera stockholm. the u.n. peacekeeping force in lebanon says it will send a fact finding team to the border with israel on thursday it comes after lebanon's parliamentary speaker said israel had provided no evidence to back up an assertion that tunnels have been dug beneath their shared border israel launched an operation in the border area on tuesday its military says it was destroying tunnels to counter a threat from hezbollah in any future conflict. the ukrainian president petro poroshenko has shared jeweled a meeting next week to create an independent church mr poroshenko 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 largest eastern orthodox denomination and would reduce moscow's influence russia is strongly against the move andrew simmons has more now from the capital city 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 yok 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. to international credit agencies have done graded sri lanka's rating by one not six weeks after the nation was plunged into a political crisis on tuesday supreme court judges began hearing a petition that challenges the president's decision to dissolve parliament last month mr palliser dissenters plans to call a snap election won't be allowed to go ahead until the court delivers its judgement a factory for artificial limbs has opened in iraq's second largest city sport hope

to tens of thousands of people who've lost arms and legs after i saw fighters seized mosul but a lack of trained staff means the rehabilitation center can only make a few limbs at any one time matheson reports now from huston sham refugee camp in the province of nineveh. two years ago omar has a walk up in hospital to find his left leg missing data being blasted to pieces as iraqi forces try to weaken isos grip on the city of mosul by last october his right leg had become infected by gangrene to stay alive he spent a thousand dollars made up of deliberations and his own meager savings to have it amputated at a private hospital and now he spends most of his days propped up on the floor of his displacement camp tent staring at the wheelchair he's not strong enough to use . life is difficult for me i wish i could go out of the tent and meet other people

and look after my children the other day it was raining heavily for four days and i couldn't get out to help fortify the tarp of the tent i felt like i'm imprisoned. a new factory making prosthetic limbs has opened in nearby mosul the capital of nineveh province. it's run by the international committee of the red cross the i.c.r.c. says fewer people with disabilities in there never will have to make several long and expensive journeys to get help because it's. we have been shocked to see the huge number of people who are disabled or have lost arms and legs in the war we have to do something so we have teamed up with aid agencies that are providing artificial limb as. if a prosthetic limb is not custom made it could be painful on the skin underneath could become infected if the patient isn't taught how to use it properly their muscles could get even weaker. we used to suffer because there weren't enough

artificial limbs in mosul our lives were so difficult because it was hard to travel to other cities to get treatment and it cost a lot the problem for the center is keeping up with demand the i.c.r.c. estimates there are over four thousand people in nineveh province who need artificial limbs many of them like home are living in camps like this one at the moment the center star can only produce a few limbs and every week that's because it's hard to find experience technicians the training takes time and it costs money. the center opened in mid october and already several hundred people are on its list for artificial limbs others like omar may have to wait much longer rob matheson al-jazeera the kurdish region of northern iraq. the states where the u.s. special counsel has recommended no jail time for president donald trump's former national security adviser michael flynn saying he's cooperated substantially with

the russia investigation says michael flynn provided information about interactions between trump's team and russian government officials as the president was transitioning into office mr flynn 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 the 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. current and former leaders from around the world who are flown to washington to attend the funeral of the former president george bush sr is son george w. bush will deliver the eulogy at the memorial on wednesday 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 financial markets will also be closed mr bush died in his home in houston on friday at the age of ninety four. this is al jazeera welcome if you're just joining us my name's piece of dopy these are your top stories istanbul's chief prosecutor's office has filed an application for arrest warrants for two senior saudi officials over the killing of jamal khashoggi prosecutors strongly suspect the former deputy intelligence chief. and

a royal court advisor. were involved in planning the murder and. we are in communication with our peers in different countries and we won't hesitate to go for an international investigation going to our bismillah that should be rescinded this is a murder that is premeditated planned and we have a duty for the sake of humanity to investigate it and. meanwhile in the u.s. senior senators have called for action against the saudi crown prince over the murder of jamal khashoggi they gave their assessment after a briefing from the cia director gina housefull british m.p.'s have started a second day of debate about the opposition accused the prime minister to resign made of misleading the parliament after she was forced to publish the full legal advice on her proposed deal. emmons who the rebels have arrived in sweden for talks to end the conflicts the saudi backed yemeni government is also taking part earlier efforts broke down in september members of the who three delegations spoke to the

media before flying to sweden and i can make a fact yes i mean you all issues can be negotiated we did not restrict the negotiation to specific areas however in order to build mutual trust there will be several documents documents are captives of the economy humanitarian work to build confidence for the peace talks thereby to produce a comprehensive overall political solution to the yemen crisis current and former leaders from around the world are flown to washington d.c. to attend the funeral of the former president george h.w. bush his son george w. bush will deliver one of the eulogies of the memorial on weapons they also attending will be all living former american presidents and the current president on a trump whose declared a day of mourning in the nation's capital the federal government and financial markets will also be closed mr bush died in his home in houston on friday he was ninety four years old those are your headlines up next it's the stream i'll see you

from tangy tomorrow. you the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. millions of people across brazil are facing gaps in their health care as thousands of cuban doctors leave the country if i was a standoff between brazil's president elect and the cuban government so what's next . here in the streams in your thoughts here twitter and here too. he doesn't take office until january but already brazil's president elect wants to renegotiate

a major deal with cuba last month diane watson are all pushed for changes to the mice medicos or more doctors program under which cuban doctors provided health care in poor regions of brazil but cuba pulled its doctors out rather than accept wilson arles demands al-jazeera as victoria gate will be has more on the impasse the more doctors program was started in twenty thirteen by former president dilma rousseff since then twenty thousand keeping doctors have worked in brazil including in seven hundred districts that had never had a resident doctor but the program is controversial cuban doctors are paid less than that brazilian colleagues brazil pays cuba around three thousand one hundred dollars a month through the pan american health organization for each doctor the doctors themselves receive only about a quarter of that the rest goes back to the cuban government. blamed the collapse of the program on the cuban government's intransigence tweeting we condition the continuation of the program doctors on the completion of skill tests full salary

payments to cuban doctors much of which now goes to the dictatorship and the possibility for doctors to reunite with their families unfortunately cuba refused. so what does cuba's exit from the more doctor's program mean for brazil and for cuba and joining me today from sao paulo to discuss this is probably know about g. he's a doctor who served as an advisor to cuban doctors working in indigenous regions of brazil are today lopez levy is an assistant professor of political science at both of us as elsie college he's also consults with the interim american dialogue on matters of cuban policy he joins us from st peter minnesota louise psyche me is a primary health care research coordinator of the brazilian association of collective house also known as a brosco he joins us from palo to us in southern brazil and in miami we have nor i've got my story is she's a journalist at the miami herald who has reported extensively on human affairs to welcome everyone to the stream i want to start to with

a few words from the president elect not even in office yet and he's already calling something slave labor that is how he described the arrangement with human doctors saying he couldn't agree to it slave labor louise is that something you can understand where does that come from those are strong words. this is. a great problem and now contrary i don't know that cuban. we have a lot of. celebrity in brazil influence. walking through our lives. is low but this is our corporation in. around menstrual states and i think that they can respect all the rules that are just between brasil cuba and they've been american health organization. there is

a view that would not agree with the president elect of course and as you're saying there we got a video coming from one of us people his name is raymond garcia and he is actually one of those doctors is a cuban doctor in brazil and this is what he told the stream when i mean on the net i mean my name is raymond i'm cuban i have a son who was born here in brazil and the wife my son and wife are precisely in cuba and to this program without considering that i have family without consideration for the patients here they didn't think about the people here who need health care not for one moment but no advance warning nothing. but he said give us. a stew. and. this program.

runs between the. built of entire populations and their right of health care professionals to their own careers people solution of president bush on a president elect also not a welsh mark similes he didn't leave a space to me is the art of negotiation he basically said that on the first day everything that was agreed between our whole economy because his organisation if you will go women and the previous government not only goes on the left but even the government of michel turmel that everything these will be i think

immediately. is home because there were no other doctors in the town she goes on to say he tapped laughter made my daughter laugh offered water and coffee and said he would be a bailable at any time i only had to go there once but everyone who went there was well taken care of you could feel the love for the profession so dr paolo about i want to go to you with this talk to us about why this program was in place in the and the first place what why did brazil need human expertise. ok i think toobin

doctors have great ability to add that to two different house scenarios in resume they can get easily know we defeat terrorists and make plans for intervention very quickly. health primary care so. they also allow the cuban doctors also great to be inks between communities even e.g. indigenous communities are higher raney community is and suburbs e major cities very quickly to provide that says so i think for our resume. problem because we we want for good care we prove suman health indicators like x. says he have to like point and. refresh so

we have a big problem now we doubt cuban doctors resume and i think someone on line would agree with you the thiago. received several comments from people in brazil and we've translated them from port to us as i was serviced by cuban doctor today one of the few doctors i'm seen be really worried about the patient i hope.