for an ethnic civil war in the heart of. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's past describing right organizations and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marina pans national party generation hate. the special two part investigation on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm down in jordan this is the out of zero news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes turkey's intelligence chief briefs u.s. senators. as they discuss measures to punish saudi arabia. yemen's warring sides sign

a prisoner swap deal if they start talks in sweden but back home the fighting and suffering continue. a u.s. sponsored motion condemning hamas fails to get enough support at the u.n. general assembly. stock market volatility after the arrest in canada of the chief financial officer of chinese telecoms giant huawei. and in support we'll hear from the teams aiming to ensure that football problem violence is the focus of sunday's copa libertadores fight. welcome to the program the turkish intelligence chief has brief some u.s. senators on turkey's investigation into the murder of a saudi journalist. there's growing pressure on the white house to hold the saudi crown prince responsible for the killing a group of republican and democratic senators have met behind closed doors to discuss ways to punish riyadh where late on wednesday a bipartisan resolution was introduced which holds mohamed bin soundman accountable

for murder. well one of the suspects turkey wants to question is a former top aide to the saudi crown prince who is also now being accused of overseeing the torture of detained female activists earlier this year the reuters news agency is reporting allegations that under south khatami's supervision at least four women were subject to sexual harassment electrocution and flogging at an unofficial holding facility in jeddah alka tommy was an advisor to mohamed bin sound man until october when he was fired over the murder of. so she have a chance he joins us live now from washington d.c. she have so what more can you tell us about this meeting between u.s. senators and turkey's intelligence chief. it's interesting because everything that we are guessing about with with some detail about these meetings coming from turkish sources we understand that this was a prescheduled meeting that the turkish intelligence chief was to have had with his

counterpart in the u.s. we understand a meeting took place with his cia counterpart gina has spoke about a range of issues we understand including syria but then the cording to turkish sources a request was made by some sentences for an informal briefing about the merger and what we understand is that the intelligence chief presented what turkish evidence there is about the. also told some of us some of his whenever he met what evidence the turks had sent to the americans about a question that's quite interesting because you remember from earlier this week some senators were pretty angry that they didn't get any briefing from gina housefull the cia director on the show g myrtus or perhaps perhaps this was a way for some senators who were included in that initial briefing earlier this week from the cia director to try to get a better understanding of what happened having a great deal of difficulty there confirming which sentences the turkish intelligence chief met no one has been prepared to admit to us that they met with

with him with. we do know that the son of our relations committee wasn't involved as a whole we also know that some key senators involved in foreign policy were involved but i'm going to begin to get that sense that perhaps this is for those who haven't been included in some of the briefings or these major cia briefing that we had this week so they can get a better idea of what's going on but we're still waiting to confirm who exactly was spoken to we'll wait for the leaks i guess yeah and should have we know that congress goes off on its christmas recess in a week or so so if anything like it to be achieved by senators before then. we're expecting three trucks to be to be run a problem over the over the coming week so we have that stat second procedural vote which follows last week's procedural vote invoking the war powers act which is congress saying look there is no formal declaration of war with yemen we've had no congressional approval for any war with yemen so the u.s. has to stop all of its involvement in the yemeni war within thirty days we know

there was a meeting on thursday between a bipartisan group of senators to go over the exact details of what may be voted upon next week to try and stop them from being too much debate to do to lessen to reduce the amount of time needed for this for this bill to pass if it does pass if it even gets to the senate floor meanwhile there are two other tracks one a move to have a suspension of all the cells to saudi arabia and another two which is the resolution human and interest to hold had been someone personally responsible for the killing of jamal khashoggi and break with the white house some sort of those who even those who voted last week for the war powers resolution to keep moving in the senate some of them actually now say they prefer some of these other tracks and not the war powers resolution because they worry about various constitutional issues but there are these three tracks on the way it is all symbolic because we are reaching the end of the year the house of representatives it doesn't seem like they will pick up any of these of any of these bills however things are going to change next year when the democrats are in control of the house and what then we

might see some something beyond the very deep symbolism of the u.s. breaking with saudi arabia and congress at least to actual action there was a real action i should say. in washington d.c. shot thank you well speaking to al-jazeera earlier democratic congressman roe conn said the murder of the journalist has fundamentally changed relations between the u.s. and saudi arabia. if i think the relationship will never be the same i have said it's the acquittal and someone cheating in a marriage the marriage may survive but it never will be the same i think that can show you an incident has fundamentally redefined the u.s. saudi relationship there has been a shift in the pinion of members of how the house republican and democrat there's been a shift of opinion in the senate and congress alternately is a bigger indicator of the u.s. relationship with other countries than the president i don't mean that in a partisan sense but presidents come and go every four years the congress is a much more reliable indicator of where american opinion is and that opinion has

shifted so if i were the saudi government i would be very concerned now obviously no one wants to see the total destabilization of saudi arabia but the special relationship with the saudis and the arms sales and the u.s. support really have been called into question in my district in silicon valley taking money from soft bank or the saudis has become a stigma i think has shown he opened people's eyes to the brutality of the saudis human rights practices and then you saw some of the reports from the united nations talking about a famine they could claim the lives of up to twelve to fourteen million yemenis that's on a unimaginable scale the worst famine in recent history in one thousand nine hundred three in west bengal took three million people and you're talking about twelve to fourteen million and most american lawmakers now understand that the basic issue is the bombing of the port of ho data that is not allowing food and

medicine to get in to yemen and causing inflation so that even though the food and medicine may exist until you have a ceasefire it's not being able to get in and there is outrage in on capitol hill to say at the very least we need a ceasefire and we need to allow aid to get in no i'm encouraged today that there see. to me some progress towards peace talks but we need to do everything we can to encourage a ceasefire could show again of course was killed partly because he was trying to bring yemen to the world's attention and he was critical of m.b.a.'s and the saudis war in yemen that was his last column and it really is an irony that it finally has the world's attention in his death and that it took the a washington post correspondent an american resident to call attention to lives being lost when children are being being been bombed for years and the conditions in yemen have been terrible for years but we have been morally blind to that suffering that has

been unfortunate but i'm glad finally people are aware and i think the way we honor this show gay's death is to do something to help people in yemen i mean all the u.n. envoy to yemen has called for both sides in the four year long war to end the violence now he made the comments at the start of talks in sweden the day began with some progress with agreement over prisoner swap bar reports and rimbaud in sweden. it was a rare moment of agreement yet many rivals engaging in friendly chat before the start of towards this is the first time that seems to thousand and sixteen. u.n. envoy martin 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 or groups. the fragmentation of the

country. is enormously so we must work. before we lose control of the future of 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 heard the other parties are serious this time for humanitarian and security situations require all of us to come together and seek a solution we really want to deal with 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 well they should surrender their ads in the nations and myside that they're used to attack that yemeni people and neighboring 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 it's a 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. while the political divide

remains the biggest obstacle to any breakthrough to the human conflict the international community insists the talks here in sweden are a crucial opportunity for the yemenis to end the war. the tunnel north of stockholm well as those talks take place in sweden back in yemen the fighting continues at least seven two thousand fighters and one soldier in the south of the iraqi coalition have been killed in the al dollar province coalition forces are trying to push through these from the hills to the south of the town of damage it's also been fighting in the central city of times well the human cost of the war has been enormous gupta explains it was once known as happy arabia but today yemen has become the epicenter of the world's worst humanitarian crisis. twenty million people that seventy percent of its entire population don't have enough food the conflict has particularly taken a toll of children one point eight million of them are acutely malnourished now

yemen was already the middle east's poorest nation but this conflict has was in its problems to the extent that people living in these large areas marked in red there could soon face famine and here is why the accusations that the saudi u.a.e. coalition is using starvation as a weapon of war yemen relies on food imports and access to most of these ports are heavily monitored and restricted by the coalition fighting has destructed its supplies from the hooty controlled port of what they're about where eighty percent of humanitarian and commercial supplies come in the saudi way back yemeni government is also accused of waging an economic war against people living in who they controlled areas by withholding the salaries for months leading to a complete collapse of government services the price of food have increased by a hundred and fifty percent the cost of fuel has shot up two hundred ten percent in the last three us simply put the reality behind those numbers is this if the wall

continues yemen could face the walls was famine in hundred years when i whispered to mohamad abdalla the country director for yemen at the norwegian refugee council he says even if the war stop today it would take decades to repair the damage and we feel that the negotiation peace negotiation that is starting in stockholm and the move in the right direction and the fact that the parties to the conflict have accepted to go to the negotiation table gives us a lot of confidence that. there will be life and then the tunnel as you know. is doing the humanitarian situation is going to get worse. it's almost hard to imagine it getting worse isn't it those numbers which i just read out are extraordinary is there enough assistance ready to come in we're talking about

access being a problem but donors willing to help if they got the money and the resources ready to go. wanting that. apostrophe yes assistance is there but. we have. the people in need but the most important thing. for us is the fact that this is a humanitarian situation that prevented people in yemen have suffered massively for more than three years in addition to the direct attacks and civilians by warring parties millions of human lives are suffering from hunger and color. and there was thing is that this is. how. can be prevented by ending this conflict. it's going to take years to turn around i was just thinking if the war ended tomorrow and suddenly the ports were open the airport was

open today it was open and all the aid that comes in got in there i mean people are in such an awful state it's going to take years to turn around it's good. because the whole economy has collapsed the public has collapsed. much needed by. by the by the population but but. concerted effort to revive the economy which is. on its knees right now lots more to come here on the news hour including social revolution change in facebook's algorithm helped best protesters to mobilize. celebrations and that's all charges are dropped against an opposition politician for running against president khatami. and in sports news events captain leads the way in the deciding test match against pakistan that's also to come.

now a u.s. sponsored draft resolution condemning the palestinian group hamas has failed to pass at the u.n. general assembly the resolution that would have condemned switch controls gaza failed to win the required two thirds majority the u.s. ambassador to the un nikki haley told the assembly that it could make history and called hamas one of the most obvious and grotesque cases of terrorism in the world with a vote on the resolution got the support of eighty seven nations fifty seven countries voted against while thirty three abstained let's bring in ali abunimah he's the co-founder of electronic intifada that's an independent online news publication he joins us via skype from chicago ali so the un has rejected this u.s. sponsored bid to condemn hamas how much will this be seen as a serious blow to efforts by president trump and by israel to sanction hamas. well it was a huge defeat for israel and the united states and of course all their allies the

european union canada australia and the other usual suspects who backed this resolution the reliably pro israel block in the un. remember if you look at the numbers eighty seven voted in favor but ninety voted against or abstained so it really was a failure and the israelis and americans had been hyping it up before the vote they were i think quite confident that it would get through and it didn't but this resolution was really just an attempt to weaponize the u.s. against the palestinian people against their legitimate rights and the resolution itself the text was just transparently israeli talking points didn't mention military occupation didn't mention the seas that siege of gaza didn't mention israel daily attacks against palestinians in gaza and the west bank so i

think the world saw through it they rightly rejected it yeah and it's quite significant that all arab countries voted against the resolution even countries like saudi arabia the u.a.e. and oman that have warmed up to israel recently. yes that is interesting because of course saudi arabia the u.a.e. and some others including qatar by the way have been cozying up to israel and its lobby i think we should be fair about naming all the countries involved in that or that puppet at least has been trying to mitigate some of the worst effects of what israel is doing to palestinians in gaza nonetheless all these countries have. you know sort of candace tion or sort of informal relations with israel to a greater or lesser extent but the fact that they voted against this shows that those relationships are really really unpopular they carp go against popular

sentiment and openly back israel they can only back israel sort of behind the scenes and it's yeah yeah i'm going to say some of the service say this was us ambassador nikki haley's final grand performance to please the premiers where rights but it clearly backfired as a say and even managed to gun a some rare palestinian unity with the palestinian authority supporting hamas. well it was a massive failure for nikki haley but i'm not sure she cares that much because you know whatever her political ambitions are she's going to be able to to go to the israel lobby and go to the big funders like sheldon adelson and say look i tried you know this just goes to show if i'm president or whatever it is i will go even harder against the u.n. and against all these you know reports of trees of supposedly anti israel feeling

so yes there is a lot of us don't mess the politics of populist kind of posturing but remember the trumpet ministration it has seven about systematically dismantling u.n. structures and institutions designed to protect and support palestinians like under the u.n. agency but i was thrown refugees which to the trumpet ministrations they funded of course trump pulled out of the un human rights council at a protest of its willingness of the to question israel so this is just another effort but this time it failed which is not a just a just a final brief thought from you allissa so where does all of this leave donald trump's grand plan for peace supposedly being brokered by jarrad cushion or with the support of saudi arabia and israel which is not going well that was never going anywhere so that was always dead on arrival or dead in the water and so let's just say it's no more or less dead today than it was yesterday it's dead ali abunimah

thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera thank you now financial markets are taking a beating now after the surprise arrest of a chinese executive among one joe faces extradition from canada to the u.s. on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran some analysts fear this could worsen the trade fight between the u.s. and china particle hain has the latest from washington. from the very start it was going to be a day of losses stocks losing value at a fast clip on concerns the u.s. and china trade dispute is only going to get worse this is happening after news broke that at the request of the us canada arrested when joe the chief financial officer of wall way the giant chinese technology company she is also the daughter of its founder chua way is a really big company and china and munch you know is considered you know tech royalty she is the c.e.o. of the company and so she's a big deal in china her arrest happened saturday the same time that u.s.

president donald trump was meeting with his counterpart president paying hoping to calm fears of an escalating trade war announcing a ninety day truce of sorts in an interview with national public radio the u.s. national security adviser was asked if the president knew about the arrest during the dinner i don't know the answer that i knew in advance but this is something that that we get from the justice department and and that these kinds of things happen with some frequency we certainly don't inform the president on every one of them and bolton wouldn't say nor would anyone else in the u.s. government what she was arrested for although some senators implied it had to do with potentially violating sanctions on iran the canadian prime minister seemed to add to the mystery of the appropriate authorities took decisions in this case we were advised by them with a few days notice that this was in the works but of course there was no gauge meant

or involvement in the political level the chinese are condemning this and demanding her release the timing of the arrest on the same day as the meeting could be seen as a deliberate move to send a message but experts say that might not be the case though on foresman processes work on their own schedule and people sometimes don't understand that about the united states is the parliament of just as. but with the president when they're going to make an arrest we'll know more on friday when monk's her first appearance in court what happens there could impact more than just her freedom but fortunes across the globe particularly al-jazeera washington well let's bring in peter cardillo he's the chief market economist at sponson capital securities he joins us live now from new york peter cardew the news of the arrest of huawei as c.f.o. sent the dow jones plummeting earlier today how has this one incident managed to rattle the global markets so much well obviously you know

because it just simply means that there's a good chance that maybe this truce that was called for ninety days between the chinese government and the united states government on the tariff. situation could unravel and if that's the case then obviously the market is going to continue to. to navigate in a sea of uncertainties. the trade war is definitely impacting economic activity and if this trade war should continue to expand. we could be headed for recession not next year but certainly into the in in two thousand and twenty and so. this is a great worry and you know if you look at the. bond market you'll

see that the curve is flashing signs of. economic weakness ahead. and do you think there's a rest of forced china perhaps to take a more aggressive and confrontational approach to the u.s. and if it does is that a lot to worry u.s. companies big companies like apple and boeing who have considerable exposure to china. well again you know if this thing isn't resolved then there should be retaliation. on the part of china . as i said the truth can unravel and of course. anyone any individual company or the economy in general is going to suffer especially if you do business in china and president trump spooked investors this week by calling himself a terrorist man and that terrorists will quote make america rich again but of

course these levees are paid as we know by american companies and american consumers so what are the markets want to see from trump in terms of a clear policy well i think they want to see an end of this of this trade war. certainly the market doesn't want this trade war to expand. trade was never. on a good note. for any of the economy for any of the world economies and so. you know the notion that. the trade war could make america rich again. i don't think will play well. with the market i think the market kind of thinks the opposite of that peter costello thank you very much for talking to al jazeera now the oil producing group

opec has decided to cut production because of an oversupply of crude ministers from member countries tentatively agreed to the move at a meeting in vienna waiting to hear from now on opec member russia before deciding how much they reduce production will burn and as more from vienna. a highly unusual situation if not unprecedented here at opec headquarters with the day's meeting ending with no formal announcement about oil production cuts as expected now it's left the journalists in the analysts here somewhat perplexed what exactly is going to be the policy of opec going forward but i think it's also an indication that opec is no longer the person is no longer the body the calls the shots in the global oil markets but the bigger body opec plus and indeed there's not opec states such as the united states their influence now is massive and opec's monopoly of power. i think of the past now what we're expecting on friday is the opec plus members that ten non opec members but closely aligned with the opec block they're

going to come here to vienna join the discussions and the expectation is that then figures will be put on exactly how much opec and its allies will cut production into twenty nineteen but as the saudi energy minister said it's not a done deal it's still if as opposed to a when. well clearly a mayor is an oil and gas economist and chief executive of may a resource she says opec is dealing with many competing pressures. on one hand you know the crew producing as much as they can because they were anticipating iran sanctions not over so many waved us that there's just a glass of oil on the market and on one hand yes they would like to take a bow also but some countries would like to take barrels out plus also this to us star mansion to the president a u.s. president likes to tweet about opec and about the oil price and so they need to calibrate very carefully how much oil they will take out of the market without

getting the. provoking the ire of the u.s. president and of course shale from the u.s. could be averaging about twelve million barrels a day come twenty nineteen that's the figure that was the figure that i said some of that so that's a that's a little bit high i think the u.s. has has some sixteen point five it's producing sixteen point five million barrels everything to get there so shale will increase i think the quote the twelve million figure is a little bit high but it is it is still unknown out there and it was for the last six seven years it was known out there and one always underestimated how much a look come on the point i was coming to was that reduces the exactness of opec's maneuverability absolutely and the other thing that it reduces the exactness is you know how much how many barrels will be around sanctions really take out and the third thing obviously is trade was what would amount to you know if we suddenly localized supply chains there's less need to ship stuff around the whole market

seems to be a bit disappointed with the predictions of what is going to announce the price of oil dropped below fifty nine dollars this morning it's recovered just a little bit to around sixty what's your prediction what i think it will be around the sixty level but you know it's not just oil it's you saw what markets that the whole tech stocks were down it's a c.e.o. fred and generally when there's a c.e.o. fret that doesn't bode well for oil but opec what level do you think they'll start the production cuts that well i think that will set it somewhere oh between. one point three million. so we will see today what opec will do and then tomorrow the rest of balance will have to be met made by the allies. rwanda's high court has dropped all charges against the opposition politician diane regard. they celebrated with supporters after the verdict was announced the government critic has been accused of forgery and inside an insurrection after challenging

glucagon in and last year's presidential elections she was arrested imprisoned along with the mother of the three judge panel says the charges against them were betsy's. break here not just when we come back as well leaders continue climate talks we look at the u.s. which is literally sinking. on the penalty miss in colombia that was good news for the brazilian team story the rest of the sport more in the state of. hello there rain is pushing its way across north america now it's creeping up from mexico you can see the satellite picture brings in that cloud from mexico and it's working its way through parts of texas at the moment and then will gradually edge its way eastwards as we head through the next few days so quite a bit of what weather here then for friday and on saturday that pushes further

northwards all the way across towards atlanta heavy rain in the south but on the northern edge that's where we see a fair amount of wintery weather and further north still well plenty of cool weather here it's going to stay pretty cold for many of us toronto the maximum just getting to zero force in new york we're just getting to two which is around thirty seven in fahrenheit a bit further towards the south and we've got a stringy area of cloud hagen see it stretching across the bahamas there across the northern parts of cuba and into parts of mexico it's generally cool to the north of that and a bit hotter more humid to the south and in the south there's also quite a few showers as well say along that east coast there that's where we're likely to see the heaviest of the downpours as we head down towards south america is be pretty cool for some of us here recently particularly in parts of argentina born as ari's again on friday struggling to get to twenty two but the winds change as we head into saturday and the temperatures will rise so this time we'll get to a warmer twenty five.

nowhere in the world is bribery for a specific period faster than it is in seattle. police sending the will fly we have been called genius i heard it totally is and traitors i was a boy so this is now at the designer who has followed me into the fires of flowing river and cannot see in. one man's fight for the rights of indigenous harry teach a time to swim a witness documentary on al-jazeera it is an appalling crime that destroys the dignity of individuals and tears apart the fabric of communities. activists not human rot and congolese gun ecologists denis macwhich have been awarded the twenty eight hundred nobel peace prize for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence in conflict zones. in an exclusive interview live from all slow we talked to this

year's laureates about their fight for justice the nobel interview and al jazeera exclusive. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour the head of turkish intelligence has brief some u.s. senators on turkey's investigation into the murder of a saboteur national fish option as growing pressure on the white house to hold saudi crown prince. accountable for the killing. the u.n. envoy to yemen has called the both sides in the four year long war to end the violence now made the comment that started talks and sweet day began with some progress agreement over a prisoner extract. and a u.s.

sponsored drop a solution condemning the palestinian pass a failed to pass up the u.n. general assembly resolution. failed to win the required two thirds majority. for the body of former u.s. president george h.w. bush has been taken to his final resting place in his home state of texas after a memorial service in houston his casket was transported on a special train to the george bush presidential library in college station to be buried next to his wife barbara the british prime minister has met some of her cabinet members to convince them to support her brigs that deal to resume a says m.p.'s could be given more power over a mechanism to prevent a physical border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland after the u.k. leaves the e.u. parliament is set to vote on the agreement next tuesday may says her plan is the only way the u.k. can leave the block without economic chaos eighty nine thousand police are being deployed across france on saturday ahead of more demonstrations against president

emanuel much the eiffel tower in paris will close with a city fearing a repeat of last week's riots from across scrap to fuel price rise the trick of the protests which have since expanded to other issues there was david schaper reports on how the so-called yellow best movement took off. it was the worst violence seen on the streets of central paris since the uprising in may nine hundred sixty eight scores of people were hurt and hundreds arrested in battles with riot police last saturday. it all began with a petition posted on facebook by this woman in may calling for a drop in fuel prices at the pumps a million hits and six months later she was live streaming to followers driving to the first of the yellow vest protests in november. and. we're streaming live lots of roads have been blocked by the police. the truck driver eric drew eg call

for a national blockade against fuel prices on his facebook page it's now receive seventeen million hits but it's mark zuckerberg who's behind their success or a chief executive of facebook introduced a new algorithm this year for the company's news feed with this update we will prioritize posts that spot conversations and meaningful interaction between people . the result has been the internet gets flooded by the yellow vests groups and pages from traditional media outlets are to get a look in and now that they have draw from this. huge tax they realize that's not enough anymore so i think macro is paying big time on this of the glory of them because the mix the again game for him to play it was tom who came up with the idea of the yellow vests should become the symbol of the protest in a facebook video posted from the south of france it's received more than five million hits i have something with chants on french people will be motivated and go

out traditional forms of journalism are taking a beating television reporters were booed and pushed away by demonstrators join the protests last week academics say according to the demonstrators the real expressions of the people can only be found on facebook and journalists are just another elite who are out of touch with the voice of the matter. now students have joined the protests the demonstrations are gaining momentum at this high school north of the capital one hundred forty six of them were arrested by police after clashes and herded into a garden david chaytor al jazeera paris germany's christian democratic party will elect a new leader to replace angle of merkel on friday the choice they make will shape the future of german politics and may determine how long merkel stays on a chancellor dominic kane looks at the candidates. for weeks these three have been

speaking to a packed hall says at stake the leadership of their party but perhaps also its political soul and direction on the pragmatic wing stance and that company a protege of angela merkel and seen by many is the continuity candidate us i fear that this is a fear competition there must be no doubt that there are no political opponents inside our own party opponents must be in the other party. the most credible opponent is believe this melts he was marginalized by merkel ten years ago but is now back with the powerful indorsement of former finance minister vice gang. matz's using rhetoric that sits uncomfortably with merkel's more humanitarian approach. that like outside. for some time i believe that we must be prepared to discuss the constitutional right to asylum openly if we seriously want to repeat

a regression and refugee policy deep ideological divides are not normally associated with the c.d.u. their leadership battles were always just about power and they were always about who is most likely to get us the biggest share of the vote so the c.d.u. was always very pragmatic about programs and ideology and now it seems for the first time to have an actual ideological the fuse programatic be buried that is also manifested in different personalities and that's very new for the c.d.u. ironically the candidate most likely to lose on friday is the one who has everything to gain in the long run. is seen by some as a potential leader in future but not now so if there's no clear winner after the first round of voting who his supporters opt for could be decisive victory will give the winner the chance to shape their party's political future but it won't give them the keys to this building the federal chancellery for the moment angle americal says she intends to see out her term in office the question is will the

winner let her and after friday's vote what about the party membership dominic al-jazeera. ecuador's president says it's safe for wiki leaks founder julian assange to leave the embassy in london where he's been holed up for six years and in marino says he's received assurances from the british government that assad will not be extradited to a country where he'd face the death penalty he's wanted for questioning in the u.s. and sweden a source says the government's trying to force him out. saddam's government and armed groups are meeting in germany to try to end the fifteen year long conflict in darfur more than one point seven million people remain internally displaced well over three hundred thousand living as refugees in neighboring chad has he been moving reports now from going in or in west awful for more than thirteen years this has been our what is miles home of displacement camp she was forced to flee from

her original home with her mother when the weren't r. for reached her village but over the past few years in the camp have been doing telling. things here have become tough and we have children we need to cook and wash there's not enough water there's no bread they've stopped giving us grain for nearly four years. i want to is one of nearly half a million people displaced in west are four the worst started in two thousand and three when ethnic tribes accuse the sudanese government of marginalization hundreds of villages were burned and more than four hundred thousand people were killed and over three million displaced in what was termed as genocide a hybrid u.n. mission was approved by the un security council to stabilize the situation in two thousand and seven that same year the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for sudan's president and several other top government officials they were charged with genocide work rhymes and crimes against humanity the u.n. says the situation in darfur has become much more stable last year it announced

a decision to downsize its peacekeeping force here by forty percent but more than fifteen years after the start of the war and are for thousands of people have yet to return to the homes they fled several rounds of peace talks have been held between the government and the various opposition groups since the worst part of it some have signed agreements with the government others continue to fight the peacekeeping mission will end in twenty twenty but with more than one point seven million still internally displaced and over three hundred thousand living as refugees in neighboring chad the u.n. says its work will not and the parcher of human two year start does not mean. the departure of the u.n. will be working with all the stakeholders the government of sudan the u.n. country team the. non-profit organizations humanitarian workers to actually provide the conditions and the sustainability for i.d.p.'s to receive the services that they require but the military budget for therefore has only have the money it says it requires leaving millions in means local authorities in the west are for say

they're working to restore stability and encourage displaced people to return home . we've set up judicial systems in villages we've set up police stations for people to feel secure and return home and we've had a successful disarmament campaign so that there are no outbreaks of violence again and some people have left. the camps and returned but for people like the one point seven million who remain displaced more needs to be done to erase fifteen years of war a conflict that was once called a human catastrophe and has consequences people continue to suffer people we're going to al-jazeera janina west are for. now an island in the middle of the u.s. east coast is sinking the people living there could be among the first climate change refugees in north america but as the planet's temperature rises the people of tunji island in virginia refuse to believe that global warming exists caster

reports. 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 on not just talking about saving a peaceful and i'm 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 quite a wall would like for. 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 before the war that is 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 tangier 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 the weather but it seems like to me and the president we talked about compliance with the terms of the pair's 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 saying so tell me that and i'll go along with it but if by the time you see it with your own eyes it's too late. then that that won't be good enough i'm 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. castro al-jazeera tangiers virginia. cuba some of the worst internet connectivity in the western hemisphere but the government's not launching

a new initiative to help its citizens of access the world wide web a latin america editor the sea and human as i'm trying to get online in the couple of ana. cuba is one of the world's least connected countries people can not have internet at home and so the only way for most cubans to surf the net is to do what you see right here come out on to the street with their smartphones or their computers and try to hook up to the many hot spots that exist outdoors and of course you have to pay for it but it is the only way to go and it is very slow in fact so slow that you can literally take a nap waiting sometimes for a page to load up but that is about to change as of right now the government is making available on your smartphone if you can afford it it costs ten dollars for one or thirty dollars for four which is roughly one month's salary yet people are lining up for the service at a wal-mart. to communicate with family and friends who live outside cuba and also

get the information that's available on the internet. she says that this is going to be much more comfortable she can actually get online from our home or from work not outside on the street she can actually surf the web like people do everywhere else in the world now the way this works is you have to wait for the state phone company to send you a text message advising you that you are now eligible to sign up for the plan here who just received his message and he's about to sign up for the least expensive of the plans that are available for those of us who are used to having data readily available on our smartphones this is nothing short of revolutionary unfortunately i'm still waiting for my message and so i'm still offline. all right. about.

thank you so much spanish police say the security operation is the biggest it's ever been for a game in madrid ahead of sunday's cup of liberty doris final more than two and a half thousand police officers will be on duty for the match river plate have now joined their argentinean rivals baka juniors in the spanish capital fan violence forced organizers to move the second leg of the final away from buenos ayres the original kick off was suspended twice after blockers bus was attacked in route to

river plate c.d.n. . almost engine do we are aware that more than sixty thousand people who are at the monument to that they are going to be supporting us what the found some instilled in us is to honor their 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. book the juniors headed into training day after arriving in madrid some of the book the team were injured during the bus attack in buenos aires last month captain pablo prez was cut by broken glass while others suffered the effects of pepper spray police were using to try to control the fans although are fit to play on sunday if you know. it's kind of a weird final and as a player it's important not to lose focus because like i said the lives of doris final played in madrid reversed his book it's weird but the most important thing now is to concentrate on what will happen in the game. athletico jr of colombia and

athletico par and then say of brazil drew the first leg of their copa suit amerikana final on wednesday and colombia the visitors took the lead in the fifty first minute for the play gave perrin and say the one nil lead less than three minutes later yani gonzales equalized to level things up at one rafael had the chance to give the hosts a lead but missed the penalty it ended one one the cop a suit america is south america's second tier club competition the second leg will be played on december twelfth in brazil the president approves football federation has been arrested in connection with a bribery investigation prosecutors have accused edwin of veto of giving a high ranking judge cash and world cup tickets in exchange for immunity from a murder probe earlier this year vito oversaw prue's return to the world cup for the first time in nearly four decades and qatar two thousand and twenty two organizers say there is still planning to host

a thirty two team world cup but haven't ruled out the prospect of staging an expanded tournaments around ten billion dollars is being spent on new stadiums for the event and doha fifa president giani infant teano remains came to expand qatar's world cup to include forty eight teams a final decision is expected to be made next much there have been ideas that have been floated about increasing the number of teams in the tournament which could lead to a requirement for more stadiums however it was very clear that there will be first feasibility study and after the feasibility study there will be a process of consultation the consultation will definitely include fee for the host country will also include the confederation's as this has an effect on everybody. what is also made very clear that there will not be any decision taken unilaterally so it will be a consultation process and everybody has to be in agreement before the session is taken vietnam are back in the final of southeast asia's biggest football tournament

for the first time in a decade vietnam beat the philippines two one in the second leg of their suzuki cup semifinal and in a way that wrapped up the four two aggregate when they'll be taking on malaysia in the five. eight u.s. cities will host the x f l and alternative american football league to the n.f.l. when it relaunches in two thousand and twenty metlife stadium in new jersey along with dallas houston l.a. st louis seattle tampa bay and washington d.c. will host the comeback season the league has already registered internet domain names for thirteen more cities well all this talk about the x f l what exactly is it well it's an american football league that will run during the n.f.l. offseason the relaunch is a second coming after launch in two thousand and one it only lasted one season with stadiums often half empty the league was criticized for poor quality games and excessive violence the owner of world wrestling entertainment vince mcmahon created

excess. it's ironic that. we were about twenty years exactly twenty years ago when i was the original exile. and a lot of changed since then just was of course literally no we were twenty years ahead of our time is going to be. on the feb eighth the night that weekend following the super bowl of twenty twenty we're really looking forward to once again establishing a very exciting very exciting end of a dove form of football. pakistan bowler yasir shah broke a world record on day four of the decisive test match against new zealand in abu dhabi yasir has now taken two hundred wickets in fewer tests than any player in history but despite his efforts the day belonged to move on to their captain kane williamson scored an unbeaten century as his team built up a one ninety eight run second and means we need to that's it for now we'll have

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