heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after you while eight borders between five safe countries facing realities. from the very beginning got there by name. providing context housing is not just about four walls and a river hear their story and talk to al jazeera. turkey's intelligence chief briefs u.s. senators on the matter as i discussed measures to punish saudi arabia. this is our desire a lawyer from doha also coming up yemen's warring sides sign a prisoner swap deal as i start talks in sweden but back home the fighting and the suffering continue. the u.n. rejects a u.s.

sponsored resolution to condemn hamas. stock market volatility after their arrest in canada the chief financial officer a chinese telecoms giant. the turkish intelligence chief has brief some u.s. senators on turkey's investigation into the murder of a saudi journalist. as growing pressure on the white house to hold the saudi crown prince responsible for the killing a group of republican and democratic senators met behind closed doors to discuss ways to punish riyadh well late on wednesday a bipartisan resolution was introduced which holds momma been sound man accountable for she's mowed it would she have a chance he joins us live now from washington d.c. so what more can you tell us about this meeting between u.s. senators and turkey's intelligence chief. most of the information we're getting is

coming from turkish sources who say that. it was on a prescheduled trip to meet with his counter intelligence intelligence counterparts here in the u.s. so that means he met with gina hospital in washington we were told from turkish sources a range of issues were discussed including syria now turkish forces then say a group of senators requested a meeting with the turkish intelligence chief about the khashoggi murder and in that meeting which was described as informal the intelligence chief explained what evidence turkey had about about the killing and explained what evidence turkey has given to the u.s. about the killing that's quite interesting because earlier in the week we did have the cia director gina how school brief some senators about what she has concluded about the khashoggi murder but also mentions so one has to wonder whether perhaps some other senators who were in that briefing may have asked for this however as far as capitol hill goes everyone's been pretty quiet about this we haven't been

able to confirm which sentences that the mr met in fact that those that we who some officers we've spoken to some key senators on the foreign relations committee for example some of the more outspoken senators who may have been in the hospital briefing but they seem to be suggesting that they they haven't been involved in any meetings today with the turkish intelligence chief so it's quite interesting right now we're still waiting for more leaks i guess from capitol hill but we understand that you know this meeting did did take place and chad we know that congress goes off on its christmas recess in a week or so so is anything likely to be achieved by senators before then. several things may be achieved before that though they're all of symbolic value because the senate is only one chamber of government that the house of representatives the lower chamber no willing to take up any of the measures that may be voted on in the senate having said that there we just got an interesting bit of news from several sources that there may be some kind of administration briefing

for the house of representatives the lower chamber as well in the coming week so that's quite interesting but what we're seeing three different tracks being being run upon in the senate first of all the was the invocation of the war powers resolution act which says because there is no there's no official declaration of war the u.s. involved in the war in yemen has to and there's also a track which is talking about a suspension of almost cells in saudi arabia and another track which you know to mention that the resolution gates mom had been someone personally so these are the three tracks we're sitting under way however it will depend on whether the house acts if these are actually to to become law and that's more likely next year than it is this year she have thank you well the u.s. senate has tried to hold saudi arabia to account over the. colleagues in the house of representatives have been trying to take similar action over the war in yemen democratic congressman wrote cama says capitol hill is determined to let. well i think his show he opened up 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 all 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 the capitol hill to say at the very least we need a ceasefire and we need to allow aid to get into the irony i mean a shogi 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 could show gay's death is to do something to help people in yemen. meanwhile the u.n. envoy to yemen has called for both sides in the war to end the violence now in may the comments at the start of talks in sweden the day began with some progress with agreement over a prisoner swap reports from rimbaud in sweden. it was a rare moment of agreement yet many rivals engaging in friendly chat before the start of talks this is the first time they've met says 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 are. the fragmentation the country. is enormously so we must work now of before. the who. said there was a chance. and see if peace plan but. we hope the other part curity situations require all of us to camp we really wanted the prisoners exchanged. for work. political reality most

of these government representatives live outside yemen and their influence has why did a client says the who took over the capital it's a thousand and fourteen but the remain determined there. must hand over their weapons before there is a final deal. is twenty two sixteen and nothing more they should respect international community work they should surrender their ads in missions and missiles that they're used to attack the yemeni people and their own countries and that then that there will be no settlement nor solution they should withdraw from this additional state would end the hand-bag institution of a states to the legitimate government the two parties remain divided over who should run the ports 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 billions of yemenis on the verge of. while the political divide remains the biggest obstacle to any brecht through to the yemen 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 one of those talks take place in sweden back in yemen the fighting continues at least seven who things and one soldier from the saudi and iraqi coalition have been killed in our dollar province coalition forces are trying to push the who things from the hills to the south of the town of dam it has also been fighting in the central city of tire. now a u.s.

sponsored draft resolution that would have condemned the palestinian group hamas has failed to pass at the u.n. general assembly the resolution that would have condemned hamas which controls gaza failed to win the required two thirds majority u.s. ambassador to the u.n. the halley told the assembly that it could make history and called hamas one of the most obvious and grotesque cases of terrorism in the world the vote on the resolution got the support of eighty seven nations fifty seven countries voted against while thirty three abstained well i believe is the co-founder of electronic intifada an independent online news publication he says the failure of this resolution is significant. 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 and they are rightly rejected it is 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 all the 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. own 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 can't go against popular sentiment and and openly back israel they can only back israel sort of behind the scenes they're all 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 and now waiting to hear from none of that member russia before deciding how much they reduce production format and has more from the. 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 very

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 khaled out father said it's not a done deal it's still if as opposed to a wet time for a short break here in al-jazeera when we come back pleas for russia to release ukrainian sailors were captured during a naval confrontation. and waiting in line to get on line internet revolution arrives in cuba but things are moving more slowly than expected on the state. by the springtime flower of a mounting leak. to the first snowfall on the interstate.

and either things are definitely turning cooler for us now over parts of china and as they turn cooler we're also going to see more in the way of wintery weather so a little bit more in the way of snow there as we head through friday and then on saturday that snow will tend heavier and just push it further southwards as well the leading edge of it though it's still going to give us rain rather than snow so court a bit of what weather to be found across many parts of southeastern china as we head through the next day or say for the southeastern parts of asia there's also plenty of wet weather here to force in borneo answers some are turning to java the showers really are quite active in the north there it's looking generally dry forcing cambodia and through into vietnam and even force in the philippines as a good deal of dry weather around and just one or two showers in those showers will be lingering even as we head through the day on saturday if we head across towards india in the fall south here we've got the wet weather currently that will say with this in sri lanka in this region it is again looking pretty soggy as we head through friday and into saturday some of the downpours are promising to be quite heavy to the north are staying dry and the temperatures easing now in new delhi

maximum only getting to around twenty three degrees which is seventy three in fahrenheit across the arabian peninsula well a change in the wind here in doha should bring us a northerly flow over the next few days. the weather sponsored by qatar and nice. to know that we're in the world is growing reforest disappearing fast a barely inside our. only bending the wheel fly we have been told the news i heard it totally is and traitors i was a breeze there is no let the child who has followed me into the fires of flowing river into not seeing. one man's fight for the rights of indigenous harry teach a time to swim a witness documentary on al-jazeera. welcome

back a check of the headlines here this hour the head of turkish intelligence brief some u.s. senators on turkey's investigation into the murder of a saudi junction also as growing pressure on the white house to hold saudi crown prince ahmed been some months accountable for killing. a u.n. envoy to yemen has called for both sides in the four year long war to end the violence now made the comments at the start of talks in sweden they began with some progress warring sides agreed to a prisoner exchange. and a u.s. sponsored draft resolution condemning the palestinian group hamas has failed to pass at the u.n. general assembly the resolution failed to win the required two thirds majority. about financial markets are taking a beating after the surprise arrest of a chinese executive show 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 as 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 xi jinping 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 the 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 engagement 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 department of justice does not consult with the president when they're going to make an arrest we'll know more on friday when mom makes her first appearance in court what happens there could impact more than just her freedom but fortunes across the globe. article one al-jazeera washington. police in greece are fired tear gas at student demonstrators they were marking ten years since the fatal police shooting of a teenager the two thousand and eight killing led to weeks of riots and looting across the country more than two thousand police have been deployed to athens ahead of the annual marches. now france plans to deploy eighty nine thousand police across the country on saturday in anticipation of more demonstrations against president emanuel macro the eiffel tower will close with the city fearing a repeat of last week's riots michael scrapped a fuel price rise that triggered the protests which have since expanded to other

issues 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 right 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. 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 is 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 spark 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 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 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 media academics say according to the demonstrators the real expressions of 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 the last migrant rescue ship operating off the coast of libya is ending operations aquarius which saved thousands of migrants from drowning lost its registration in september doctors without borders the charity that operates the boat says a smear campaign by european governments as forced it to stop its rescue missions. the wife of a ukrainian intelligence officer held captive by russia has appealed to president vladimir putin for his release. was one of twenty three servicemen captured after

three your cranium boats were fired on in the black sea last month moscow was accused of orchestrating the confrontation and says the boats were in russian waters under simmons has this exclusive report from odessa this two year old boy wants to know why his father perceivers doesn't come home anymore the two were inseparable until we left for work two weeks ago mark's a rochas mother didn't know where his father had gone but it was twenty four hours before she found out he beat at sea and was injured and captured by the russians in genoa i don't want to even think about him going to jail i hope there are reasonable people that can help us get out of this situation and survive this ordeal this torture that's my only hope i don't want to think about him standing trial. if you are able to pull messages through to the world would be. i would ask

putin don't explain to me where my husband is try to explain it to my son why is he running towards the door waiting for his daddy why after each phone call he hopes his daddy is calling him let him try to explain to a two year old child why his father is so far away from his family irina's husband has worked for ukraine security services the s.b.u. for the past three years he's never divulge the exact nature of his work she fears that he's in more danger than the rest of the men because of his status as a counter intelligence officer. vassily is reported to have a serious more hand injury and is in a medical unit with a moscow detention center his father has had access to intelligence reports saying he's been heavily drugged as part of his interrogation. pleasure of the latest information is that the security services are using psychotropic substances on the

captured officers including my son i urge russian officers if you still have a drop of dignity of stopping of using the prisoners of war. back at the family home in reno soroka says it seems as if time is standing still. there show. i can hold on and keep a grip on things only because i'm looking off to my son i feel like i'm living in a nightmare and i call it white cop i've lost touch with reality i don't know what day it is. and unlike the politicians irina's says it's pointless laying the blame on anyone i'm drew simmons al-jazeera adesa ukraine. now an island in the middle of the us east coast is sinking its inhabitants are bracing to be among the first climate change refugees of north america but as the

planet's temperature rises the people of tunji island in virginia refuse to believe that global warming is to blame castor reports. tens your 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 i'm not just talking about saving a peaceful and i'm talking about a community of 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 to remain 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 would 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 for the it's really where the children play now is probably again 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 everything's the same of the doing it all my life i'd also no difference then i would call it climate change i've seen thing. 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

tangier virginia. cuba has some of the worst internet connectivity but the government's launching a new initiative to help its citizens this the web a lot of america at its at the said newman has been trying to get online in the capital of. 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 onto the street with their smartphones or their computers and try to hook up to the many why fire hotspots 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. which is roughly one month's salary yet

people are lining up for the service and. to communicate with family and friends who live outside cuba and also get the information that's available on the internet my phone. 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 phone company to send a text message advising you that you are now eligible to sign up for the plan here we 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.

the headlines here in al-jazeera the head of the turkish intelligence has briefed some u.s. senators on turkey's investigation into the murder of the saudi journalist. is growing pressure on the white house to hold. accountable for the killing. has more from washington d.c. . we were told from turkish sources a range of issues were discussed including syria now turkish forces then say a group of senators requested a meeting with the turkish intelligence chief about the murder up and in that meeting which was described as informal the intelligence chief explained what evidence turkey had about about the killing and explained what evidence turkey has given to the us about the killing of 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 warring sides

have agreed to a prisoner exchange. you know the fighting continues on the ground in yemen at least seven hoofy fighters and one soldier from the saudi and iran to coalition have been killed in al donna province coalition forces are trying to push the who feeds from the hills to the south of the town of damped has also been fighting in the central city of. a u.s. sponsored draft resolution that would have condemned the palestinian group hamas has failed to pass of the u.n. general assembly and measure failed to win the required two thirds majority. the last migrant rescue ship operating off the coast of libya is ending its operation aquarius which saved thousands of migrants from drowning lost its registration in september doctors without borders the charity that operates the boat says a smear campaign by european governments has forced it to stop its rescue missions . all right those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after

inside story that you're going to watch. a critical moment for donald trump and his relationship with the saudi crown prince u.s. senators blaine mohammed bin sound man for the murder of john this jamal khashoggi but can they force their president to drop his defense of the saudi role and this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program my mouth seen dennis six senior u.s. senate is from across party lines have introduced a resolution.