al jazeera. entry. this is al jazeera. along well come on peter dhabi you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the convening of the two delegations here is an important milestone. a landmark meeting begins between the yemeni government and the p.c. rebels in sweden. many issues are on the table but an agreement on a prisoner exchange has already been signed by both sides. a rare united

front in the u.s. congress as it introduced the bill criticizing the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. and the chief financial officer of the chinese telecoms giant has been detained in canada. on thursday media police. the first formal talks in more than two years between the warring sides in yemen have now begun in sweden in his opening address the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths announced that the government and the rebels have already signed a prisoner swap deal it will allow thousands of families divided by war to be reunited. the convening of the two delegations here is an important milestone. it demonstrates to the international community here representatives and to whom we speak to each other and most importantly to the people of yemen that you're ready

to come together in the name of a peaceful political solution to the conflict or the reopening of the airport santa is also expected to be high on the agenda is held by the rebels but the saudi backed government has closed the region's airspace then there's the port city who data most of the food aid entering the country passes through it the government wants rebels to give up control before allowing more supplies to be imported but with the looming threat of famine the un's main priority is agreeing a way food to be brought in we need access we need to feed millions and millions of people the price of the food disheartening to be so expensive the world food program is feeding to the eighty million people a month we are scalars to a million people at the end of these months into twelve million people at the end of january i mean that's a huge achievement for the world food program therefore that we need access we need

access to order the country well our correspondent national borders in rimbaud north of stockholm welcome back to the news hour have they set the bar very high here with this quite honestly surprise announcement of a prisoner swap this this close in to the deals. why we needed that announcement peter because over the last few years there's been many talks in different parts of the world sweden. switzerland kuwait with no major progress about confidence building measures and people in yemen are frustrated tired of four years of war so they wanted some sense of positive signal and they got one about the prisoner swap we're talking about thousands of people detained fighters mainly detained over the last few years and many unaccounted for the fear killed during the war so they would have to establish the finalists and start the prisoners exchange but then different it would have to tackle the biggest

issues particularly comes to the data that you mentioned which has become the focal point of the fighting in yemen the healthiest thing that they are going to give some compromise to allow the u.n. to oversee the operations in the vital lifeline in the seaport which is a lot vital lifeline for imports into yemen the government is saying if the talks collapse about that they will resume the military campaign to take over the city of her data now the two parties remain divided largely divided about how to move forward and when i asked the foreign minister. your man who leads the government's delegation about the insistence that in the near future so how do you the president of yemen should step aside and pave the way for a new presidential body let's listen to what he had to say they should respect international community will they should surrender their ads in missions and missiles that they're used to attack that yemeni people and then countries and that

then that there will be no settlement no solution they should withdraw from this additional state would and the hand-bag institution of the states to the legitimate government other that that there would be no peace. he also said replying to the statement of the whole thing is this is so that lee nonsense nonsense and all the i's i have to say what is a on the whole thing delegation the other one who have the upper hand in yemen they control. a huge area that stretches from all the border with saudi arabia that's where there's been some intense fighting over the last few months with saudi army all the way to the city as a city which is basically divided for the whole with these it was quite interesting that this started to sort of play down the whole rhetoric about resuming fighting or shutting down the airport or saying instead

that the prisoner swap was a positive signal that they were helping to extend to words many agreements in the near future let's listen to what. the spokesperson had to say. the exchange of prisoners has been our demand from the beginning it has to be executed between the two parties and it's a great step forward we really hope it's implemented. a statement from a senior member of the government. saying that there would be no peace in yemen if the hope is to have weapons. the problem of weapons is not a problem limited to one party there are many parties who have arms in the south north and center of the country who believe that weapons should be in position of the government especially in this transitional period. that exchange those two statements from the mohammed. and the same time from khalid really a man the sum of the whole political divide in yemen from

a healthy perspective the other legitimate authority that took power in two thousand and fourteen for stop the need to move forward the past isn't turned chapter the the world has to deal with them as the only authority in there in yemen as far as the government is concerned he says no these people came to power in the midst of coup in two thousand fourteen therefore they are the ones who should pull out from the cities they control and hand over their weapons than genuine talks about peace and stability in yemen should start will the united nations top envoy martin griffiths now of those differences well we have to remind our viewers that two top envoy the try the same thing they failed hashim we've been here before there were peace talks two years ago that went precisely no place the game changer this time did the game change on october the second in istanbul because off the back of the death of jamal khashoggi the united states the united nations and all the u.s. allies in this region started focusing in on saudi arabia and what it does and how

it does it across the region. well peter the hope is for example when i spoke with many of their members today very say that they do understand that against the backdrop of the killing of the international outcry they see an opportunity to put more pressure on the coalition to end the military campaign in yemen and they are hoping that that will happen one day or another but they are just waiting to see more of an aggressive stance particularly from the u.s. congress about the. arms sale to saudi arabia against a backdrop of the hearings that we've seen over the last few days the international community is also trying to put more pressure on sandy arabia to stop the war and give diplomacy a chance but as you know peter the saudis have been saying repeatedly that the reason why the interfere militarily in saudi arabia is because they accuse the

whole thing of being manipulated by the iranians to spread radical shia ideology in the region and they consider the who these to be and the runyon proxy to destabilize yemen and i think that line has been over the narrative has been somehow rippling caters in places like washington this explains why the americans have been staunchly defending the saudis over the last few years when it comes to their policy as far as yemen is concerned but now that could really change but from the different parties present here in stockholm. if the fail in the coming days to bring about a genuine political settlement or at least an intention from all the parties that they are willing to move forward it just would have catastrophic repercussions on the people of yemen is there a calculation however hashem being made on the part of mr griffiths and also margo will strummed the swedish foreign minister that those people cannot go back to their different constituencies their different constituents and say ok we failed

because those people are so tired the first four years of this and they've seen peace process the start and feel before. this explains why this with us a foreign minister. was basically saying that it's now going to be a long process for for for for the delegations present here in sweden to come up with one with an agreement and of course the hope is do understand that it cannot go back to sinai and say we failed and the same thing for the government delegation which lives in some sort of self-imposed exile in saudi arabia the thing the irony here is that the government although we control some areas but its representatives cannot live in those areas which are under the control of other militias the these are the only entity which has significant influence over the northern part of the country but both parties have tried war for four years the failed it has resulted

on the most. serious humanitarian crisis in the country affecting millions of you have any and they need to send a positive signal to the yemenis i think the hoping in the coming days to tackle the issue of an extended ceasefire across yemen before they start talking about political settlement particular when it comes to forming a national unity government drafting and you can situation and ending war in yemen thank you very much. a group of six senior u.s. senators from both parties has introduced a senate resolution that holds the saudi crown prince mohammed bin selma accountable for the murder of jamal khashoggi the resolution says i had been some man was complicit in the killing it is the us government and the international community to hold him and all other parties involved to account but it doesn't end

there it also says bin sama is liable for atrocities committed during the war in yemen which saudi arabia entered in twenty fifteen the saudi illusion has lost more than eighteen thousand strikes the resolution is of course in the kingdom to end the blockade imposed by three other arab states on kaesong in june of last year and the senators want the release of the saudi blogger raif but dar we women's rights activists and other detained political prisoners john hendren with more now from washington. it's an extraordinary rebuke from the u.s. senate to a long time american ally a diverse group of senate leaders from both parties introduced a resolution that definitively blames the crown prince of saudi arabia for the murder of jamal khashoggi the measure which could be scheduled for a vote as soon as monday condemns kesho g.'s murder demands that the saudi arabian government negotiate an end to the war in yemen and an end to the political dispute

with could talk and release saudi blogger rice by dolly and other political prisoners they have linked old at least that belies ng actions that m.p.'s says they starting with yemen passing by the sharks the murder on took up on any other level it is the latest bipartisan rebuke of the saudi crown prince and president trump support for him we are with saudi arabia we're staying with saudi arabian oil and not look at the king of the same way senators erupted in anger on tuesday after a long awaited briefing from cia director gina haskell sort of hard to call this a cover up given the fact that everybody in that briefing last week knew that tom peo and madison were misleading us knew that there was no way this murder happened without the consent and direction of m.p.'s of the senate is already considering an unprecedented bill to invoke the never before used one thousand nine hundred seventy three war powers act to force an end to u.s. aid to saudi war efforts in yemen this six page measure would record the view of

the senate that mohammed bin solomon is responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi and it urges the u.s. and the international community to hold him and anyone else involved in the killing responsible and a joint statement democratic senator ed markey calls the crown prince a fuck up and republican senator lindsey graham calls him a wrecking ball rare harsh words for the leader of an allied nation. the resolution falls short of calling for regime change in saudi arabia but whether president trump likes it or not the rift between the u.s. government and its ally of eighty five years has rarely been wider john hendren al jazeera washington. the chinese government has condemned the arrest of the chief financial officer of technologies and is demanding immediate release was detained in vancouver and counted on saturday at the request of us police she's now facing extradition to the u.s. on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran now reports. huawei is the

biggest private company in china worth almost twenty seven billion dollars according to the firm's latest annual report it recently overtook apple to become the world's second largest smartphone maker. joe is not just the company's chief financial officer but daughter of the found a company statement says it's not aware of any wrongdoing by her the response from china's government has been swift and angry it says a human rights have been harmed once her immediate release and a reason for her arrest. china has expressed our solemn position to canada and the u.s. regarding the case china demands them to immediately clarified the reason for their arrest release the detainees and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the detainees. well way has been under scrutiny by governments in the united states and elsewhere over its links to china's ruling communist party and whether its

operations pose a threat to national security the cia director gina has made clear where she stood joining a confirmation hearing in may would you purchase a war we phone or connect your phone or computer to a war we are the t.v. network well senator as i mentioned i don't even have a social media account but i wouldn't i wouldn't use while way products given her high profile in china and the fact that mung is well politically connected there is one obvious question was president from where she was going to be arrested when he sat down with president xi jinping at that diplomatic dinner in one of stories on saturday and if not why not mung was arrested on the very day the leaders of china and the united states where agreeing to a ninety day truce in the trade war between the two countries last year another chinese telecommunications company said t e was fined one point two billion dollars

in the united states over products it sold to iran and north korea but unlike the de holloway has not so far been formally accused of breaching u.s. export sanctions adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. to washington and white house correspondent kimberly help of the chinese government asking for clarity here is it likely to get its. it may not get it until we see. mang in the federal court in new york and that is what the process is now in terms of her arrest in vancouver the united states is seeking her extradition it's expected that canada will comply but this is still tied up in the b.c. supreme court of british columbia supreme court. the province in which vancouver is a part of and so in terms of the clarity sometimes you don't see it until you see that filing but brown reported there certainly is no secret of how the u.s.

government has felt about wall way technologies for some time essentially they see it as a company that is an incredible national security risk to the united states that's why. it is banned for use in the u.s. government commercial carriers here in the united states refuse to use that because they believe that there is within the technology this backdoor ability to spy and that is linked to the chinese government so in terms of this arrest this is something that the united states has been working on potentially as far back as twenty sixteen targeting this company and now believing that in a way to ensnare it that there is this arrest with regard to an accusation that it has violated iran trade sanctions so this is one that is now going to have to work its way through the courts at the same time in the short term it has rattled financial markets and its shares in the company but just to go back to the nature of the potential alleged maybe violations of the iran sanctions do we know any more

about that. oh well the u.s. government has not expanded with regard to which sanctions were violated in what manner they were violated but in terms of the broader look at all of this what this is is very precarious for. the fragile truce that has been struck between the united states and china we've been talking here on al-jazeera for months about this ask a lady tit for tat trade war and we've seen a case like this before with regard to z e t corp this is a rival of this company and certainly the u.s. government also had this company in its sights there was a deal struck between donald trump and chinese president xi presumably to try and deescalate this trade war tamping down on the concerns of the resists settlement with regard to again similar accusations that had been violating trade sanctions so that seemed to be an effort by the united states to appease the chinese side but

now we've seen this is a question of whether or not the united states has done this deliberately after we've seen this truce struck in buenos aires argentina or whether this is a deliberate escalation it's not entirely clear and so we watching the court filings very carefully for more clues can believe thanks very much. still to come here on the news hour including increasing pressure on egypt over the alleged torture and murder of an italian student also ahead so close yet so far central american asylum seekers in mexico seize even the smallest chance to enter the united states. and the sports news we'll hear from the argentinian football team played as they arrive in spain to take part in south america's biggest fine. let's get more on our top story the yemen peace talks kicking off today in sweden

hussein but haiti is approved with the journalist and joins us live from santa hussein albert both the swedish foreign minister and the special envoy to yemen basically saying this is about compromise on both sides where how and when other who sees prepared to compromise. i think in this don't concede it isn't about that it's in a political solution as we have you in what you were actually mainly focus on humanitarian is your own as well like about it but it's not the opening of the un to sort out who they don't want to make it easy for humanitarian aid to flow to yemen the difference between this dog and the previous one it just before in kuwait and geneva do in the belief involved in this night was the shit it was focusing on on the only major subject like the bombs to me sides of all the hundreds of libyans

to withdraw from some cities like with a dozen are and that is because they were focusing on the big issue they haven't realized that millions of yemeni actually are starving to death because of the blockade because of the lack of medicine the lack of clean water out of a lot of just good at outbreaks in really quantity begun ok i think just let me interrupt you there for a second if i may and can i just ask you to address my question you're answering a different question that i didn't actually ask you i asked you to give us an idea of where when and how the who sees would be prepared to compromise you mention the city of tire we know from our discussions today tony this is a city split down the middle between the rebel forces and the government led forces so if they have to compromise there how do they compromise. i think they were given the compromises like they said before they will stop the ballastic missiles i don't i'm going so with the idea it or of this old you just go

it's like i don't stand and they have said there are eighty four now for those in yemen if into the turn of the so would you as well just stop but i thought i didn't think that they were gone but in my eyes anymore they have accepted that twenty to sixty before they are accepted to go to saudi arabia for that all they have acceptable to kuwait which are planned to them. but there's also the inequalities in law in yemen so i didn't think they would be anything else they would call the demise different than what they did before to the who things feel that they've got added leverage when it comes to getting what they want even though there are lines in the sand for the people that they are fighting against here because of the way that we've just been reporting on it here the way that say the us political machine is focusing in on what saudi arabia does and historically has done in this region. yeah i mean it's clearly i mean you have seen what the united states is actually

doing and in the full support of saudi arabia despite all the crimes that has been done into yemen saw i think that the one who want to compromise and want to do hard leads peace in yemen is the one that has started the war which is saudi arabia and is the only actually it saddens me that the i hear the united states another country will take a stand one of but i don't saudi because of their killing of what i don't don't know just which was actually brought down killing for the first time a company kill someone and it's a consulate and on the other side the saudi has done this so much crime in the region and i think this will again only stop if the united states and u.k. and france will stop their work been supplied to saudi arabia and we'll have it here but i see otherwise the dog in sweden or anyone else it will not make a difference because they like the state is back in this one is there a calculation here that's got to be absorbed on the part of the who through

television and it's this your representatives simply cannot return home from stockholm and say we failed it didn't work again because your country is heading towards being completely and could i suggest to you permanently fragmented. well i mean if you look what what's been know what they're going to be talking about instead of call is about some humanitarian issue which may be caused by the. blue cake and if they come back and say we failed in this one but it is not as it will be there so default because the whole thing has been going for two years in the world this is the previous envoy just signed this agreement and they have insisted that must be the sody this i dream about the business while it was signed by the old the only is still full of under under so you have signed it i believe on the front of the sun but almost three weeks after the whole the

signature so we know that the whole thing for them to sign first i believe that they have a compromise before the saudi so if they if they fail in this immediate it is you heat inside i mean i believe that's because of the soviet coalition because all the main guys in yemen now is that look at the farm in the corner and this is because the blockade ok we have to leave it there hussein albuquerque thank you so much opec and other oil producing countries have gathered in vienna to discuss the possibility of cuts in crude put next year the move will look to prop up prices after a volatile year and the global oil markets the us president donald trump has urged opec members to keep pumping to keep the commodity affordable all of this comes as cats are announced this week it is withdrawing from the group on january the first next year paul brennan joins us live from vienna paul good afternoon. yes good afternoon peter we're here in the lobby of the opec building here in

vienna waiting for a glimpse of the ministers to start leaving the meetings been going on for three hours now and still no sign of it coming to an end of this leave debating with some intensity to the next step of opec given the prospects of an oversupply in the markets and the downturn it's coming down the line in twenty nineteen at least that's what the forecasts are to talk me through some of the pressures that the opec ministers are under in relation to trying to balance the markets and keep things straight is louise had told she's the v.p. of orals research a boston based company would mackenzie and louise talk to me about what kind of considerations the ministers are wrestling with at the moment sure it's pretty complicated mix this year because we've got the entry of president trump it's almost as if he was here at the meeting with sending out his tweet just in time yesterday saying please don't let prices go up again so we've got him weighed in

and then we've got the possibility of russia not a little unwilling to join the deal could they bring russia in we have the saudis clearly trying to get others to bear some of the brunt of the cut and then we have the sudden announcement of qatar exit ing so it's going to be a complicated banks but the fact of the matter is the overarching issue for the group is the oversupply for next year and the need to get it addressed because our analysis shows that not opec production next year is going to increase two point four million barrels a day most of that the u.s. says it is going to have to be addressed if they want any stability in the oil market and there's also the impact of u.s. shale as well which is really putting the cats amongst the pigeons and making it quite difficult i suggest for opec to be the ultimate control of the oil market it does in one of the tricky parts about it is that the outlook for the u.s. tends to get revised upward quite frequently so it's almost a mood. in target it also reacts to price and that's something president trump and

opec are aware of that if the price goes down let's say forty dollars a barrel then you're going to see a cutback in that u.s. oil supply growth because the break even prices just aren't low enough in order to enable them to keep producing and using the same sort of rig count there's a balance there that the j m m c the joint ministerial monitoring committee of opec met last night it appears from what i'm hearing is that the there is a consensus that there will be a production cut but the test is by how much now various figures have been put forward what's your best guesstimate while we wait for the official word that. that's a dangerous thing to do but well in our outlook we're assuming we think this is probably a good place to start given the need to be conservative in what they do so as not to get president trump to angry with you maybe a one million barrel a day cut from october twenty eight hundred days to the first quarter year on year

it's not too big this is executing iran this is including russia oman saudi u.a.e. weight and they would be enough to get the oversupply rain did and sort of have a typical seasonal implied stock build in the first half of the year that would work if they could push through a little more it would help in the oil market if they want higher prices will say thank you very much indeed for joining us well that is the meeting there was a news conference supposed to be one o'clock which is twelve gene it hasn't happened it's still inside there you know when we have it ok paul we'll talk to ben thanks very much know how to get two days off work in libya rob you wait for it to rain. here in benghazi it rained yesterday. and this is a result of the airport which is refurbished here something like a meter and a half of rain was a level that's been achieved because the rain itself coals to bursting of a nearby down that's what caused the real front because people can't get around. the airport was closed that's two days off work now since then the cloud has

disappeared eastwards and rather a concentration but the end of it this is the time of year when the central and eastern mediterranean tend to get a bit stormy so the picture. is ok but if i run you forward twenty four hours the quotes coming out from italy yes then another potential little storm he says and this one more like the hit tripoli than benghazi because as you saw all the action it's a little bit further east and we've seen this all north now for a couple of weeks or more recently the circulation of cloud around turkey which is rather enhanced of the cold has been turkey in behind it in the wall of the east and that is given over one hundred millimeters in cyprus some flooding in cyprus as a result of that was more rain in benghazi the circulation itself is spreading eastwards it's the second one in about two days so it's still raining in the eastern side of iraq enough in parts of syria and of course i was inviting back into lebanon and we'll move eastwards of the following twenty four hours peter thanks very much still to come here on the news our heads of state from five sought

help countries in west africa meet to devise a plan to stop years of violence. and gambling on its future a troubled region and me and the stakes its hopes for peace on casinos and sports news the contest to be number one in the n.b.a.'s eastern conference steps off eleven is here with that story from a comeback. fresh

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envoy to yemen not in griffiths used his opening address to announce that the two sides have already agreed to a prisoner swap deal it comes as the world food program appeals that more than fifteen million people are living on the brink of famine. six senior u.s. senators have introduced a resolution that holds the saudi crown prince mohammed bin samana accountable for the killing of jamal also calls on saudi arabia to end the war in yemen and the blockade of cattle. china's government is demanding the release of chief financial officer and she was arrested in vancouver at the request of american police who accuse her of violence and sanctions against iran. italy is increasing pressure on egypt over the torture and killing of a twenty eight year old italian student in cairo nearly three years ago the lawyer representing julio rajini is family says five egyptian policemen and secret service members are under investigation by the authorities in rome is charlotte dallas. the

truth for julio regina he reads the banner it's been nearly three years since the italian students body was found in the chips of the family went off on them but we are now at a very important stage we won't give up because we have taken a big step forward we never give up i want the people in egypt to know this we never give up. this is where jenny while he was in school he was a cambridge university graduate student studying trade unions from the american university in cairo he was kidnapped in january twenty sixth jane a week later his mutilated body was found on the city's outskirts the egyptian government blamed a criminal gang or jenny's family pointed at security services nearly three years on the lewises a telling authorities are investigating five egyptian policeman and secret service members she says that it's just the beginning. we have twenty names but many more people are involved we estimate that up to forty people are full because in order

to follow for months kidnap him and do what they've done to him many people when needed italy and egypt are walking a diplomatic tightrope over the case italy needs justice for a murdered student or not antagonizing an important foreign policy in august the italian deputy prime minister tried to ramp up production in cairo. i hope that by the end of the year we can get to a breakthrough and that the meeting between the judicial authorities can take place as soon as possible both on our side and on the egyptian one there's a desire to ask for an acceleration. and now it's the end of the year and no race so italy has suspended diplomatic talks with the egyptian parliament and announce the names of the suspects. we waited in silence for almost one year because our prosecutors already had many of

those names and many other elements one year ago and they were presented in egypt one year ago as well however we did not receive any answer egyptian officials have repeatedly denied any involvement and origines killing and respond to the charges should be based on evidence and not suspicion. shelob ellis al jazeera. heads of state from the five sawhill countries in western africa are meeting international donors in mauritania the e.u. and france have promised one point five billion dollars for security in a region that seen years of violence and reports from the capital of mauritania nor chuck the fight against the insurgency in this one house starts here. a un funded to radicalization program in a suburb of iraq shot these teenagers will not be attending the g. five so how conference and so as an exercise they play out the meeting. president mccall from france sets the agenda the west will give two billion dollars to its

former colonies if africans stop coming to europe. the chaldean leader agrees always happy to send its troops to war as long as france keeps them in power. money stays silent on the insurgency the north and others in mauritania are happy to use the money to fight terrorism to buy more s.u.v.s for bigger presidential motorcades the chief i say hello for these youngsters is a tragic comedy with an absence of the voices of ordinary people. sure we want human rights and more gender equality but for now we'll do with electricity and jobs and perhaps more leisure centers but we don't get to decide what started as a temporary french deployment in mali to stop armed groups and drink two thousand and twelve has turned into a counterinsurgency operation involving un peacekeepers and the armed forces of five nations across a stretch of land as big as the united states six years on intensive military

operations may be preventing the insurgency from spreading but it's failing to bring peace and stability to the. now the leaders of the sale countries are meeting to raise funds for development projects and then attempt to win the hearts and minds of people and surrounded with young graduates some of them have studied medicine when you will energy is already passed in the us tomorrow an employee into the aim of this group finds themselves to change their perception of this a health. warning. area to a place of one top ten children opportunities. solar and wind energy new hospitals and schools are some of the projects urgently needing investment funding here really hope that the international community respond positively because the scenarios are very clear. what regular migration people. demanded. in security once

again donor countries will make pledges but in the past few have kept them it is these empty promises that many believe learn young people to join rebel groups. what they say they want most is just to be heard. and nicholas joins us live here on the news from the capital nicholas who was president and who wasn't well the usual suspects starting with france the former colonial power represented by joe you've alluded to you know the foreign minister he came on stage and one after the other heads of international donor organ a zation were talking about the world bank and and embassies and chief of mission came on the stage announcing big numbers in the hundreds of millions of funding towards the g five hell and standing on the stage where the five countries were talking about mauritania so and chad the president of mali was absent and

now officially he's unwell but talks in the hallway of this summit some people mentioning that perhaps he was trying to send a signal unhappy by the fact that neighboring countries armed forces from neighboring countries are patrolling the border areas of mali now this is really the heart of the issue for this conference this is to try to get these countries some of them who are suspicious of one another to work together in order to not only fight this counterinsurgency but also to bring development projects to an area that's been largely ignored by their governments peter lots of promises of a lot of money what will it be spent all. well some of the development projects that were mentioned here in this conference i mean we're talking about railway lines across that going across from east to west we're talking about airports even an airline a t.v.

station of course we're talking about an area that is larger than the united states a proper approximately the size of the european union where more than one hundred million people live without access to water or electricity and so there are really really present and urgent needs some of the populations there are held hostage by rebel groups and so be on the railway lines and the soul of projects that the development agencies are announcing here people on the ground want security they want to tricity they want a functioning hospital or a functional functioning school to go to now and again as i said it's trying to get these countries to work together and so far there's been a lot of promises of money but few have actually given the money that they've pledged let's talk about just on the security front there was four hundred million dollars promised by international donor agencies to help these countries to

control the hell area only a fraction of that amount has been delivered so a lot of promises here and a lot of people now waiting to see if they will be delivering on these promises and also the issue. of these countries that are that first used military operations to try to touch the population in this a hell of a region and now in that are trying to use trying to win them over through through development projects and so there is a real challenge for the people in this to help to try to get the these countries in the south to try to reestablish their their legitimacy in this hell area peter nicholas thanks very much. there's been a bomb attack on a police building in the southern iranian port city of chubby gunfire followed an explosion local reports say four people were killed and nearly twenty were injured

the city's in the province of stand close to the border with pakistan no one has yet claimed responsibility an armed separatists group has been active in the region in the past. the british prime minister series m a is meeting with a cabinet trying to convince them about deal the parliament is debating the issue ahead of a crucial vote next week one of the key is suse's northern ireland and the return of a physical border after the u.k. leaves the e.u. health ministers from uganda and neighboring democratic republic of congo have met to discuss the latest outbreak of ebola health workers in uganda being vaccinated after concerns were raised the disease could spread an outbreak of ebola in various parts of the d.r. c. has killed at least two hundred sixty eight people since august. thousands of people from central america are not giving up on their hopes of seeking asylum in the united states now despite increasing efforts from the trumpet ministration to keep them out or a bill for me reports now from. is the morning scramble at the border

asylum seekers hopeful their turn will come to cross into the united states. but these days only a trickle get through every day based on a number system others like martha have to come back tomorrow or the day after or maybe for many more to follow. when i was being forced to sell drugs when i refused said beat me up i had to flee here they told me to come back in three weeks from my turn not far from the official crossing some are trying to sneak in the u.s. on their own but they're still of guatemala with her two children about three weeks ago she wants to go to the us at any cost despite knowing that attitudes towards people wanting to reach there are changing. but again it's still better than at home because there is work it makes me sad to see the other side because you want to be there but i can't it's not easy to climb the wall but i won't lose hope. for

the next stop is the official crossing in a nearby town of take kathy. but there quickly turned away the disappointment is immense but like many others will continue roaming along the border wall to try to find their way in the biggest hurdle is this war but even if you get past it illegally once you're on the underside you're officially on american soil and so migrants usually if they make it will sit and wait for border patrol to show up surrender and claim asylum. the border on the american side has been fortified recently at any weak spot along the metal bars reinforced and it's closely monitored round the clock. it's still not enough to deter cecilia and his friends they decided to take their chance after sunset they walk several thousand kilometers from honduras to reach this point his wife and daughter are already in

the u.s. they took the same route he hasn't seen them in three years when i was just too difficult to get a visa i want financial guarantees that i don't have a hope not to get caught if it happens i will seek a song. almost like for a moment there but i can dream seem so close cecilia looked hopeful as one of the group reach the top of the wall. they were quickly spotted it's game over but only for now as going back home is not an option anymore. but at that hamid al jazeera the one. i mean maher is considering a plan soon legalize casinos some already operate under special provisions but changes to the law being proposed to encourage more tourism and tax collection when he reports. it's still under construction but this eight hundred heck decide has already become known as china town the remote region of korean state bordering thailand is being transformed thanks to chinese investments the extension of town

will include housing a golf course an airport and perhaps at the center of it all casinos which at the moment are illegal in myanmar and we have to mission from the mayor mark of them to build a chinatown developed economy within. the will meet that target then we will build hotels the project is being built in an area controlled by a group known as border guard forces former ethnic qur'an rebels who are now aligned with the me and my army fighting continues in some areas between the border guards and other rebel groups vying for influence and control of the region people here hope the new investment will help promote peace in the area which like many in myanmar has been held back by civil war. we want to be secure like other countries that don't need to worry about fighting and conflict the development is providing employment but it could also provide problems casinos operating in the unregulated

sometimes lawless border regions of thailand and laos are often suspected of being gateways for drug trafficking the communities are vulnerable to exploitation but leaders here say so far this project has been good for them. it's been two years since the chinese company came to invest in our town in the past we didn't have jobs my family and i had to find work in thailand but now we're back and can work here aside from the casinos economic activity is set to increase early next year when a second bridge across the river separating thailand and me and my. the border crossing will help. travel between the two countries. develop his hope the bridge will make it easier. to travel across the border even if gambling remains illegal.

time for sports news here's the thank you peter let's start with cricket australia's cricketers have made a strong start in their first home series since a ball tampering scandal resulted in three of their plays players being banned india finished day one in adelaide on two fifty for nine to test wire pujara scored a century for the world's number one team as they recovered from a poor start for jar went on to score one hundred twenty three his fifteenth test hundred before being run out of the final ball of the day well it is one of my

top innings in cricket i could to top five. i play country it was one of the best but. we had to be made to appreciating this it was one of the best food critic there pajama battle a lot of time on me someone who likes to social pressure and that a long time and critiquing me scored a fantastic hundred ten i so. i think if you asked us at the start of the dice if we take every seed losing the toss and gain or to fifty at stumps something we are on the spanish police say the security operation is the biggest it's ever been for a game in madrid ahead of sunday's cup at liberty doris find out more than two and a half thousand police officers will be on duty for that match river plate have now joined their argentinian rivals baka juniors in the spanish capital fan violence force organizers to move the second leg of the final away from buenos aires the

second kick off was suspended twice after bocas bus was attacked in route to river plate stadium. chese yeah it is so michael janda again we are aware that more than sixty thousand people who have the monument to that they are going to be supporting us what the found some instilled in us is to on the best support with the victory. we know we represent a lot of people wearing this football shit now we need to settle all the anxiety by playing good football athletico jr of colombia and let it go paranoia say of brazil drew the final leg of their corporate suit amerikana final on wednesday in colombia the visitors took the lead in the fifty first minute problem for the big a bit paranoid say the one nil lead less than three minutes later you're only going solace equalised to level things up at one rafael had the chance to give the host the lead but missed the penalty and it won one the cup a student merit is south america's second tier club competition the second like

will be played on december twelfth in brazil jose marino has admitted he is struggling to get the most out of his manchester united team after watching them draw with arsenal it was their four straight premier league match without a win marina saw his side come from behind twice with the game indian two to jesse lingard getting the crucial equaliser with his first united goal this season the draw leaves united in eighth while arsenal dropped to fit the sink. the feeling of everyone connected. with the club is good that at that level maybe you feel frustrated with. the result you feel frustrated with. some mistakes if you frustrated it's moments where a little bit more quality. would be needed. but we have to be happy with. we the spirit there were six games in all chelsea drop down to fourth in the table

after a two one loss to wolves stopping a move to third after a three one victory over southampton and liverpool beat burnley to man city's lead at the top of the table to two point zero. eight u.s. cities will host the x f l l an alternative american football league to the n.f.l. when it relaunches and twenty twenty but life stadium in new jersey along with dallas houston st louis seattle tampa bay and washington d.c. will host the comeback season the league has already registered internet domain names for a further thirteen cities but what exactly is the access fell anyway all it's an american football league that will run during the n.f.l. offseason the real launch is a second coming after launch in two thousand and one it only lasted one season with stadiums often and a half empty t.v. ratings were also quite low the league was criticized for poor quality games excessive violence and for the over use of commercials featuring cheerleaders the

owner of world wrestling entertainment events and mcmahon created excess fell and has already invested one hundred million dollars into the organization it's ironic that. we were about twenty years ago jackie twenty years ago now she original actual trial. and a lot of changed since then just was of course little we know we're twenty years ahead of our time if you're going to be. on the february eighth or ninth that we can fall into super bowl of twenty to one. religion forward to once again establishing a very exciting very exciting and of a go form of football usa gymnastics has filed for bankruptcy a dramatic development for the organization already struggling from a sexual abuse scandal in february former olympic team doctor larry nasir was sentenced to two life terms in prison more than two hundred gymnast delivered statements saying he'd abuse them under bankruptcy the organization will not have

to give more testimony regarding the scandal. the toronto raptors beat the philadelphia seventy six ers one thirteen to one zero two they've now won nine of their past ten games and milwaukee bucks to a one fifteen ninety two win over the detroit pistons so lead with twenty seven points for the bucs wild janice and scored fifteen the milwaukee bucks are second behind the tron a raptors in the eastern conference. and memphis like conley scored twenty two points and eleven rebounds to lead the grizzlies to a ninety six eighty six went over the visiting l.a. clippers and jackson jr added thirteen points for memphis who'd entered the game having lost four of its previous five. that's all your sport for now we'll have more later back to peter. thanks very much to check out the website as the. call was broadcast that was the news we're back on the other side to break with more of

the day's top stories. the important thing if you're walking around in beirut was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday. we heard gunshots i was the first one to flee the heart of. the 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 it was such a bloody battle an icon of conflict at the heart of the lebanese civil war beirut holiday in war hotels on al-jazeera the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s.

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standing up by taking action. be the leader you are looking for stand up for human rights. that was. the yemenis future is in the hands of those opposed to. the u.n. special envoy sets the agenda as talks begin to end the war in yemen. well come on peter dobbing you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up a rare united front in the u.s. congress as it introduces a bill criticizing the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi.