but he puts a nice happiness is but when sure it's here that it is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy time has done what no other country have. yemen's warring sides sign a prisoner exchange deal as they begin talks in sweden but will they agree to a truce in the vital ports of had data we need help and we need it now the world food program says more than fifty million people are now in crisis or emergency conditions in yemen. hello there i'm christi paul and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up . the chief financial officer of the telecom giant huawei is arrested in canada

china says it's an abuse of her human rights. and senior u.s. senate has ramped up the pressure on the saudi crown prince introducing a bill holding him accountable for jamal khashoggi is murder. hello talks are underway to end a catastrophic civil war that has devastated the arab world's poorest nation at stake the lives of millions of yemenis who've been pushed to the brink of starvation the u.n. which is sponsoring the talks in sweden wants to reopen sanaa airport is controlled by the who the rebels and has been largely destroyed in air rights carried out by the saudi an iraqi coalition which backs yemen's government the u.n. envoy mohsin griffiths also wants to shore up the central bank to prop up yemen's battered economy after the value of the reality plummeted but at the heart of these

talks is a danger the rebel held port city that's both a battleground and a vital lifeline for millions most of yemen's food and medicine passes through there and the u.n. wants a cease fire albert reports from rimbaud in sweden. so it was a rare moment of agreement yet many rivals engaging in friendly chat before the start of talk that this is the first time that says to thousand and sixteen. u.n. envoy barton griffiths has praised a prisoner swap deal agreed between the two sides but said the political process to and the war will take time because institutions are various. the fragmentation of a country. is normally so. we must work. before we lose control of the future of europe the earth is who control most of

yemen said they were willing to make concessions hoping the talks in stockholm would lead to a comprehensive peace plan. we hope the other parts a serious this time the humanitarian and security situation require all of us to come together and seek a solution we really wanted a zero the prisoners exchange deal is a small step forward in a complex political reality most of these government representatives live outside yemen that influence has why did a client says the who things took over the capital it's a thousand and fourteen but they remain determined there. must hand over their weapons before there is a final deal. it's twenty two sixteen and nothing more they should respect international community work they should surrender their nations and myside that they're used to attack that the yemeni people and their own countries and that

then that there will be no settlement no solution they should withdraw from this additional state would end the hand-bag institution of the states to the legitimate government the two parties remain divided over who should run the port of her data is of vital lifeline for yemen's food imports who think who control the area say they are willing to let the united nations oversee operations of the port the saudi u.a.e. backed government warns if the talks fail it will resume an offensive to capture the city in the meantime eight agencies are hoping the talks make progress so they can deliver aid to millions of yemenis on the verge of fire me. while the political divide remains the biggest obstacle to any wreck through to the human conflict the international community insists the talks here in sweden are a crucial opportunity for the yemenis to end the war about our al-jazeera the

tunnel north of stockholm. the world food program says at least twenty million people in yemen are facing food insecurity more than fifty million of those already in a crisis or emergency situation and in desperate need of food eight sixty five thousand are in what's cost as a food catastrophe or close to famine level that's mostly in conflict zones and across yemen one point eight million children are acutely malnourished that includes the four hundred thousand who suffer from the most severe form this report is devastating to realize as our worst fears that people are starving to death in yemen they need our help and we're on the ground doing everything we can in fact that report is showing that the number of people on the brink of starvation is doubling we plan to scale up to about twelve million people is that as we can depend upon the access and the money that we get from people around the world so we need help and we need it now otherwise innocent families little girls and little

boys are going to die or to speak out of course he's in mumbai that's north of stockholm for that conference and those figures that we've just brought out from the world food program highlighting just how important these talks are hashim all the any signs of progress on the ports of the data. felicity of the port of her data is one of the most important sticking points in these talks the who thiis told us the were willing to negotiate an agreement with the united nations that would pave the way for the un to oversee some of the operations of the ports particular when it comes to the aid delivered to yemen knowing that her data accounts for something like seventy five percent of the imports coming into the country the government says that it is monitoring the situation but it is determined to see the who of these not only pull out from the

port support the want them to pull out from the whole. area and that if the there's not happened they will go for a military of. the problem here felicity is that against the backdrop of the tension now as we speak today there have been clashes in different parts of yemen and if the fighting intensifies near and her data that could also disrupt the delivery of aid and food into yemen which means that the twenty million people face a delicate situation in yemen or the two million children who face severe malnutrition are just going to face further problems in the near future is an alarming situation for the international committee of this is why they want to see an imminent deal here in yemen in stockholm yashin given all the issues surrounding these talks what does the u.n. realistically hope to achieve do you think in the coming days there in.

they have one week to convince all the parties to extend to agree on a ceasefire to be extended across yemen and this is quite crucial because you would pave the way for aid to be delivered for the united nations and other international aid agencies to be able to assess the situation particularly in rebel held areas in the northern part of the country where there's been some uptick in the. confrontation between the sandy u.a.e. backed government troops and the houthi on the other hand now the hope is that to convince the parties of the same time to agree at least in principle on really talking in the near future about comprehensive political settlement there would pave the way for a new national unity government to take over and did your presidential committee to take over in the near future and they will be followed by a drafting and you can situation that's the ideal plan for the un but as you've

seen throughout the day from the both delegations the main entrenched the government representative for example saying that the the who thea's should hand over their weapons and pull out because we don't recognize their presence in yemen the hope is on the other hand consider themselves to be the defacto leaders in yemen and they refused giving any further concessions in the near future and i think this is what the international community and the u.n. in particular would how to work on in the coming days a very delicate very mammoth task i have to say i was never going to be easy cash by force thank you. now china's government has condemned the resting canada of the tech guy who was always chief financial officer up there demanding the immediate release of monk when joe he was detained in vancouver on saturday at the request of u.s. police she's facing extradition to the u.s.

on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran adrian brown has more from beijing . hallway 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. mongering 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 her human rights have been harmed wants her immediate release and a reason for her wrist to warn you when you're going to he don't let you go china has expressed our solemn position to canada and the us regarding the case china demands them to immediately clarify the reason for their arrest release the detainees and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the detainees. while

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 spoke made clear where she stood joining her confirmation hearing in may would you purchase a why we phone or connect your phone or computer to a while 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 away products 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 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 last year another chinese telecommunications company said he was

fined one point two billion dollars in the united states over products it sold to iran and north korea but unlike that de holloway has not so far been formally accused of breaching u.s. export sanctions adrian brown al jazeera beijing life else washington d.c. is free to al-jazeera as party culhane a party how does all of this play into this current trade war dispute between china and the u.s. . well the timing is very unusual i think it's important to stress that we do not know why she was been arrested we've had u.s. senators link it to potential violations between the company and iran sanctions but we're not hearing that from the courts we're not hearing that from the justice department we're not basically getting any information so far from the u.s. government i can tell you it would be exceedingly rare to have a person actually arrested for what would be violating sanctions still it is

possible we do know that the justice department is investigating while away for potential sanctions violations i've reached out to the just the treasury department to ask has anyone ever been arrested criminally held liable for this and waiting to hear back but as far as how this plays out between the u.s. and china it is going to dramatically increase tensions in this ninety day window that was already really confusing investors and businesses in the united states because donald trump has been giving a bunch of different tweets about what he actually accomplished and his advisers are saying something very different so this is not going to help the situation what are the effects on the stock market. it's been bad it was bad when he tweeted about it than the stock market was closed yesterday because the funeral for president george h.w. bush now the stock market just the dow jones industrial which is basically how you judge how the stock market's doing huge drop more than six hundred points as of

right now and all the experts are saying it is because of this arrest they were already uncertain about how things were going to play out with the u.s. and china this as the tension and so it is having an immediate impact the president though not really focused on that right now more he's tweeting about his approval rating and focused on the special counsel robert motors investigation basically saying he'd be much more popular if it wasn't for that so the drop not enough to get the president's attention on twitter but we're going to wait to see if they give any more details on this arrest we do expect we'll hear from the state department today perhaps we'll get some information from them all right thank you. they want as high court has dropped all charges against the opposition figure diane rowe a garra the government critic had been accused of inciting insurrection and fortunately off the challenging president paul kagame e in last year's election she was arrested and imprisoned along with her mother but a three judge panel says the charges against them were baseless. or are still ahead

on the program the price of oil could be about to go off it all depends on what's decided in this for him in vienna. and why the residents of tangier island off the u.s. east coast refuse to believe global warming exists even as the waters rise around. alor winter is marching in at a pace through northern china this cloud here you see is watches and we've been used to for a while that's because it's rather deep and it's the meeting place of the warmish air from the south and the cold is korea from the north so we're on the best is five degrees that snow could be quite substantial is it spread slowly eastwards overnight the rain to the south of it also could be enhanced that dark green

suggest some pretty big gamble when that was six to reason shanghai twenty in hong kong a cloudy picture for you three in hong kong in the clouds a build up right in vietnam we've had the same sort of thing rain for the northern about expect in india so just north of chennai ninety minute meters in the lower well that's a lot really his time you'd expect that sort of thing of a sri lankan certainly there is cloud than here in sri lanka it might come across into town not too as well otherwise it's a dry and fairly cool picture to night with subsistent rather poor quality is funnelled as new delhi then down the valley towards cork other. for the arabian peninsula has gone quite the snowy significant bridge on that is tempest mid to high twenty's there are avatar b. for example a hint of tribe in the red sea possibly even across in djibouti but no board in the hint was shy was actually rather unlikely.

the important thing if you were walking around in beirut was known to be in the line of fire from the holiday. we heard gunshots i was the first one to flee the whole. battle lasted three days and three nights and there were no prisoners at the end control of holiday inn and you control of the region around and that's why there's such a bloody battle an icon of conflict at the heart of the lebanese civil war beirut holiday in war hotels on al-jazeera. again out of our minds at the top stories here on al-jazeera yemen's heathy rebels are holding peace talks with representatives of the saudi backed government they've

signed a prisoner swap but the u.n. also wants sunnah airport to reopen and a ceasefire in the battleground city of data. the u.n. says more than fifteen million people in yemen are in crisis or emergency situation on a desperate need of food eight point eight million children are acutely well nourished . and china's governments demanded the release of the tech giant hallways chief financial officer when joe was arrested in by cuba on saturday i was facing extradition to the u.s. suspicion of violating sanctions against iran. six senior u.s. senators have introduced a resolution to hold the saudi crown prince accountable for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi if approved it would officially condemn the had been solomon for killing

a saudi consulate in istanbul hundred has more from washington d.c. . 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 kingdom the same way senators erupted in anger on tuesday after

a long awaited briefing from cia director gina haskell it's sort of hard to call this a cover up given the fact that everybody in that briefing last week knew that tom pale and madison were misleading us knew that there was no way this murder happened without the consent and direction of m.p.'s in 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 your 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

fall 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. at least four police officers have died after a suicide attack in southern iran at least forty two others were injured in the attack which targeted a police headquarters the explosion which was followed by gun fire happened in the port city of chapel ha border with pakistan an armed group called for calm has claimed responsibility iran's foreign minister has blamed what he called foreign backed terrorists for the attack now the organization of petroleum exporting countries is waiting to hear from nonmember russia before deciding on a cuts in world oil production the fifteen opec members are currently meeting in the austrian capital vienna hoping to go sheet of reduction outputs to prop up oil prices which of fallen by a third since october russia's oil minister report on friday after speaking to

president putin of the world's other big oil producer the united states wants prices to be kept low to put pressure on iran. and i'm serious paul brennan is up past opec meeting in vienna for a son paul talk us through more of the factors involved before this decision is made by those opec ministers. well i mean there are pressures from all sides on the opec nations at the moment you've got the u.s. president donald trump crew tweeted on wednesday that he wanted to keep prices low in fact even lower obviously saudi arabia and the u.s. are close allies saudi arabia wants to maintain the support of president donald trump but at the same time what you've got is the production which has increased after the june meeting of this year by opec in anticipation of the impact of sanctions on iran for example and also the prospect of lower production than

expected from venezuela that hasn't happened because of unexpected sanctions waivers that the u.s. president allowed to iran meaning that iran was able to export more oil than originally believed so what we're facing is an oversupply of oil going into twenty nineteen and the prospect of a lower demand for oil in twenty one thousand is the economic prospects of twenty nine and seen are looking weaker than they were six months ago into all of that you've got russia as well which is not keen to cut production or cut production by a huge amount and that is creating a real complicated story for opec to try and deal with and an hour ago viewers would have known that we were expecting a news conference to give the conclusion of today's events that news conference in the past half hours just been counseled abruptly. told in no uncertain terms there will be no announcement from opec tonight they're going to wait until the larger opec plus group that's opec members and the group of ten not opec members in coming

minutes here the day after the opec meeting that's going to take place on friday could be no announcement until valid logic body can meet to talk about the best way forward. and the reality paul is whatever the decision you can't please everyone can you. know exactly. the pressures from all sides aside. they are complicated you know the. u.s. shale industry which is putting is a spanner in the works of opec's previous monopoly on controlling the oil markets in opec used to be able to make a decision and you know a long period of time the decision would stick now there are so many other operators in the market that opec's were no longer holds sway in the oil industry and what opec is trying to do is fight fires and it's having difficulty doing that as the u.s. jail for example is putting billions of barrels into the markets opec's influence it's funding difficulty in actually making that influence matter. paul brennan live

in vienna for us thank you. the u.s. military says it's carried out an extraordinary flights over ukraine to reaffirm its commitment to the nation following recent tensions with russia president petro poroshenko has also visited power trip is in the northwest as they prepare to leave for the border this size the ukrainian parliament voted to allow border guards to open fire on potential attackers and not to prolong the country's friendship treaty with russia the recent conflict began when russia sees three ukrainian naval vessels vessels off crimea. at least one hundred forty six people have been arrested during a student protest their high school in the outer suburbs of paris demonstrators set fire to calls and force with police two hundred schools across france have been disrupted with with another forty seven people arrested in the north of the country students are rallying as part of a broader movement against president emmanuel mccall's policies it comes

a day after the government was forced to completely abandon a fuel tax hike which had led to weeks of violent protests. in greece police have fired tear gas at demonstrators during a student march the protesters were marking the tenth anniversary of the state police shooting of a teenager the two thousand and eight killing fault weeks of major riots across the country more than two thousand police have been deployed to the needs of students hope their march is. the twenty fourth global meeting in the fight against climate change is underway in poland since the first meeting took place in berlin way back in ninety ninety five the scale of the dangers ahead have become more and more apparent this is a problem facing the whole world including the richest economies in the united states an island in the middle of the chesapeake bay is literally sinking its

inhabitants set to become among the first climate change refugees of north america but they refuse to believe that global warming exists. as more. tangier island is no more than a speck in the water two square kilometers of land pummeled by wind and waves shrinking just a bit every day are not just talking about saving a peaceful and of talking about a community people. james eskridge is a crab fisherman just like his father and his grandfather before him he's also the mayor of this island of seven hundred a community so isolated its inhabitants have retained their own distinctive accent tracing back three hundred years we've been here for a quarter wall would like to run for a lot longer but the island is vanishing every year meters of soil disappear into the water. fifteen years ago the shoreline extended all the way to these wood

pilings now sticking out of the water and the fear is that in another fifteen years or less the water will reach all the way to the house already entire neighborhoods have gone under it's hard to imagine that. where we are now there was actually a thriving community it went on for the more than it's really where the children play now is probably ten or twelve feet underwater people here know without dramatic efforts to rebuild the soil or break the waves this is the future that awaits the entire island but they disagree with scientists who say global warming is to blame the sea level has been rising and in more recent years it's rising more quickly tenure is politically conservative wisdom here tends to come from experience not studies ever things to say involve the doing it all my life i'd also no different than i would call it climate change i've seen seen. i've seen changes in a well or but it seems like to move. ourselves on the president we talked about compliance

with the terms of the paris accord that's president donald trump a fellow global warming skeptics who pulled the u.s. out of the paris climate change agreement last year days after making that announcement trump called tangiers mayor to tell him not to worry about a rise in sea level here the love for trump come second only to the love for crabs we fully support the president on the oil and despite what most people would say is evidence at his door the mayor remains disbelieving i'm just not going along boy you know people say it's or feel me that you know or go along with it but if by the time you see it with your own eyes it's too late. then that that will be good and sure that's what i'll be remembered for that you know i didn't go along with it it's a dangerous wager but one people here are still willing to make they see their beliefs simply run deeper than the water's rising around them heidi to castro al-jazeera

tangier virginia. and a quick reminder that you can find out much more about that story and many of the other stories we're covering by going to all web site is addresses al-jazeera dot com al-jazeera dot com keep up to date with the laces international news and sport . on the top stories here on al-jazeera yemen's truthy rebels are holding peace talks with representatives of the saudi backed government they've signed a prisoner swap but the u.n. also wants sunnily airport to reopen and a cease fire in the battleground city of her data the negotiations are taking place in sweden meanwhile the world food program has warned that fifteen million people are in a crisis or emergency situation and in desperate need of food days. this report is there to say it realizes our worst fears that people are starving to death in

yemen they need our help and we're on the ground doing everything we hear that fact that report is showing that the number of people all on the brink of starvation is doubly we plan to scale up to about twelve million people this fast as we can depend upon the access and the money that we get from people around the world so we need help and we need it now otherwise innocent families little girls and little boys are going to die china's government has demanded the release of tech giant wall ways chief financial officer among when joe was arrested in the canadian city of vancouver on saturday she's facing extradition to the u.s. on suspicion of violation sanctions against iran rwanda's high court has dropped all charges against the opposition figure diana rowley garra government critic had been accused of inciting selection and forgery but a three judge panel says the charges were baseless go around her mother were arrested after she challenged president paul kagame

e in last year's elections six senior u.s. senators have introduced a bipartisan resolution to hold the saudi crown prince accountable for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi if approved it would if it should be condemned mohammed bin sultan for killing in the saudi consulate in istanbul at least four police officers have died after a suicide attack in southern iran the sole talk is it a police headquarters injuring at least forty two others the explosion which was followed by gunfire happened in the port city of chapel hall iran's border with pakistan an armed group called ansar al folk has claimed responsibility and those are the latest headlines next the hotel with an opium pulse that ended up on the frontline of a civil war stay tuned for hotel spikes to watch the fight. control

the holiday inn and you control or to the region around and that's why it was such a bloody battle. the important thing if you were walking around in beirut was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday inn. the bottle of adi de incomplete it's did division all badal it into two sectors east and west beirut. but also puts us publish on the record on a. hug.