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. is twenty two sixteen and nothing more they should respect international community work they should surrender their nations and miss out that they're used to attack 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 office states to the legitimate government the two parties remain divided over who should run the ports of her data base of vital lifeline for yemen's food imports the who thing 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. has this been soley an intra yemeni conflict many internationally players have huge leverage and they can ask the different parties the government representatives of the who are these to make some concessions before we put an end to the war and resume political talks for what peaceful way out the problem or this is started as a yemeni issue and then evolved into a regional one with assad the u.s. coalition launching a campaign a military campaign insisting that they will not stop the gum pain unless the who these hand over their weapons and pull out from the capital sanaa they say also that the who these have been used by the iranians to further expand a radical shia ideology in the region something that has been dismissed as utter

nonsense by the iranian government but also by the who these however the people that we've been talking to over the last few days say that there might be an opportunity of hope particularly with the pressure building up against saudi arabia for the need to put an end to the military campaign against against the who things and pave the way for serious political talks. live just outside stockholm thank you very much. the head of turkish intelligence has briefed u.s. senators about his country's investigation into the murderous saudi journalist jamal khashoggi there's growing pressure on the white house to hold saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound man responsible for the killing jabber tansey reports from washington. turkish sources say her comfy dumby turkish intelligence chief was

in washington for prescheduled meetings with his cia counterpart gina hospital on a range of issues including syria as cia director hospital has been leading the u.s. investigation into the crucial g murder after she briefed some senators earlier this week they said they were certain that the killing could not have happened without saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman's involvement there's not a smoking gun there's a smoking cell but only a few sentences received that cia briefing turkish sources say feeding gave those he met on capitol hill on thursday information regarding the evidence ankara has in the because shoghi murder as well as the information ankara has supplied to the administration and washington senators are considering three lines of action against saudi arabia not just as a result of the khashoggi killing but the humanitarian disaster that's been caused by saudi action in yemen the a's are sixty three the nays are thirty seven the motion is agreed to first a procedural vote is expected next week following

a vote to move a resolution on invoking the war powers act to end u.s. participation in the yemen war to the senate floor last week if successful a debate will begin and a final vote held meanwhile senators have also proposed a bill to suspend arms sales to saudi arabia and a resolution to personally hold the saudi crown prince responsible for the khashoggi murder some senators who voted to advance the war powers resolution last week now say they would prefer going down these legislative routes instead but while any action by the senate will be a symbolic but historic breach of the u.s. saudi relationship none of these measures are expected to reach the president's desk as the leadership of the house of representatives showing their willingness to also vote on the measures but following november's democratic success there in the midterm elections that may soon change 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 the trumpeters station though says it remains firm in its support for the saudi government she ever turns the washington . and the senior aides to the saudi crown prince is alleged to have been the mastermind of the khashoggi murder is now being accused of overseeing the torture of detained women activists the reuters news agency is reporting allegations that under saod al katon is supervision at least four women were subjected to sexual harassment electrocution and flogging at an unofficial holding facility in jeddah. was an advisor to mohammed bin sound man until october when he was sacked after jamal khashoggi is murder a u.s. resolution to condemn the palestinian hamas movement has failed to win enough votes at the u.n. general assembly it fell short of the required two thirds majority and that angered the u.s. ambassador nikki haley who said it would have been

a chance to quote write an historic wrong diplomatic cadence and james bays has more from the un this was one of the final acts of ambassador nikki haley before she leaves her post she put before the general assembly a resolution condemning hamas as a terrorist organization the united nations has never once passed a resolution condemning hamas never. over seven hundred resolutions condemning israel and not one single resolution condemning hamas. that more than anything else is a condemnation of the united nations itself. today and this moment the united nations can change that awful record in a tense meeting the general assembly first had to decide how the resolution would be voted on it had a vote on whether it would be a simple majority or

a two thirds majority that result was very narrow but went in favor of two thirds giving a much higher bar for the halley's resolution and when it was finally voted on she got a majority but she didn't get the two thirds a blow to the u.s. ambassador but both she and israel said this was a moral victory and president trump is expected to pick heather now it to be the new u.s. ambassador at the u.n. she's currently the spokeswoman for the state department and nomination would need to be indoor speier the republican controlled senate if she is approved now it would replace nikki haley who leaves at the end of the month james warren is executive editor of news god that's an online platform that works to counter misinformation he says heaven now it is an unconventional chuy's. when one looks at the history of u.n. ambassadors going back to one nine hundred fifty s.

yet people like abby stevens at twice the democratic party nominee for president george h.w. bush who was buried today was the united states ambassador you had rather prominent intellectual like daniel patrick moynihan who would later be united states senator from new york and the small group of women which includes nikki elliott included among others now and all right who will be future secretary of state and even a somewhat unconventional pick at the time by president obama samantha power she had been a journalist with a great deal of foreign experience notably in africa covering the wrong genocide so on that level this is notable on another level i think it's very much and easily explained by trump's fascination in particular with american cable news television and in particular with the fox cable news network and where one of his favorite shows is a very popular morning show friends and now or for several years was associated

with that show and that had surely had something to do with her selection initially the united states state department he has an interest nearly an obsession with image and people on the hope that she. still to come here at al-jazeera a chinese business executive awaits koat in canada after an arrest that's him raised officials in beijing. and the lies of vienna where all the oil producing nations have pushing to cut production. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast where here across the central and eastern part of the med we've been seeing some stronger weather over

the last few days and cyprus as well as southwestern turkey has been seeing quite a bit of that rain as well flooding rains have been reported across much of the region and this all due to the serve low pressure that is moving into central turkey right now so today is still going to be a wet and rainy day for some locations as well as snow in the higher elevations now as we go towards saturday that storm system makes its way more towards the east so we are going to be seeing some better weather there but out here towards the west we did see one storm pushing across the u.k. as well as central europe very quickly and now that storm is making its way towards eastern europe with the rain as well the snow there temperatures into the high single digits across germany and poland berlin at nine degrees and warsaw you can be seen by eight to beas as your high we are seeing some rainy conditions as well with this one little area of low pressure that's making its way down across the central part of the men now tunisia saw some rain as well over the last few days now across parts of libya you can be seeing some clouds and rain maybe some windy conditions for you we do expect that really to start to ease over the next few days

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chance to take a look at the top stories here. a second day of peace talks aimed at ending the war in yemen is due to begin in sweden day one so a promising start with the arrival sides agreeing to exchange prisoners. turkey's intelligence chief has briefed u.s. senators about his country's investigation into the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi there is growing pressure on the white house to hold saudi crown prince mohammed bin responsible for the killing. a u.s. sponsored resolution to condemn the hamas has failed to win enough votes in the u.n. general assembly it fell short of the required two thirds majority angering the u.s. ambassador nikki haley who said it would have been a chance to quote right and historic wrong. now an executive of the chinese tech giant trois away is due to face court in canada after being arrested

at the request of the united states among one jews detents. has rattled global stocks as analysts fair it could worsen the trade dispute between the u.s. and china as he culhane reports 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. so is considered you know tech. 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 ping 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 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 with 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 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 all enforcement processes work on their own schedule and people sometimes don't understand that about the united states is the parliament of just as does not consult 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 political home and jazeera washington more now from our china correspondent a.g.m. brown friday looks like being another difficult day for china's biggest private company the japanese government has announced it's no longer going to be buying our way equipment this follows decisions taken by governments in new zealand australia and the united kingdom that they were effectively going to be borrowing holway from

those countries five g. networks in the united states it's becoming clear that at least some senior white house officials were aware that monk was going to be arrested on the day the president donald trump sat down to meet president xi jinping at that all important meeting in one of saris on saturday but it's still not clear if president from himself new one analyst who says the what we have here is a serious legal act happening with political timing here in china there is certainly a belief amongst those online anyway who feel that this was a politically motivated arrest some people saying that canada is acting as the u.s. is thug and demanding that mung be immediately released. the last migrant rescue ship operating of the case of libya is ending its mission doctors without borders say a smear campaign by european governments is false the aquarius to stop saving asylum

seekers in the mediterranean sea the boat lost its registration in september it's been blocked at the french quarter of mile say the oil producing group apec is trying to reach an agreement with with russia on the how much to cart its output of crude oil ministers from member countries meeting in vienna have agreed to reduce production due to an oversupply but russia which is not a member of opec has opposed big cuts on thursday oil prices tumbled as a result of the deadlock hold brennan has 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 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. think of the past now what we're expecting on friday is the opec plus members that's ten 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 ports on exactly how much opec and its allies will cut production into twenty nineteen but as the saudi energy minister father said it's not a done deal it's still if as opposed to a when at least thirty five people have been detained in athens after protests is through rocks and fire bombs at police 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. sudan's government is meeting representatives of armed groups in germany hoping to end fifteen years of conflict in darfur more than one point seven million people are internally displaced another three hundred thousand a sheltering in neighboring chad morgan reports now from giannina. for more than thirteen years this has been a lot of miles home a 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 russians in the camp have been doing tilling. things here have become.