during protests just outside of paris but france's interior minister says none of the high school students were injured. but also. the pictures of the young people at risk. hard to watch you want to say it but i think it's important to put them into context there is truth there is contrary and there is also exploitation by some people. if you do we found that high school students who were participating in blockades were joined by around one hundred who did individuals armed with sticks and syndrome devices with a firm intention to bet on the security forces these are not movements from high school students but real urban violence. are david chaytor is live for us in paris and david a lot of our rage over that video that's been circulating widely are on online in the french government head of this weekend not taking any chances on security.

no you're right on both counts the video has been truly shocking looking at the pictures and it's not only me looking at those pictures and being shocked by what i'm seeing is everybody frankly how can this happen in a democracy people are saying even the education minister said it was shocking but you have to put it into context that there's been a lot of violence in the last week in the demonstrations across france but you can imagine these pictures went viral on social media just as the students were launching their mass demonstrations here in paris so it's had an appalling impact in the matter what the theory of minister says this is going to fuel the anger at what they're calling act for of the yellow vest rebellion which starts tomorrow morning in paris they put an extraordinary number of police out not only just in

paris eight thousand in paris but eighty nine thousand right across france this is really showing that the government is on a knife edge here if we see a repeat of last saturday's of violence or even worse it will be a real destabilizing influence on the whole of france and especially on the government of president emmanuel macro and taking every precaution as you said to try and stop that prevent that happening we saw the interior minister touring police side where they have armored cars painted blue that we haven't seen armored cars go into action and in the center of paris ever before that i know and they're going to be used to try and break through any burning barricades as we saw last saturday a lot of those and the mere fact that they're there on the ground some fifteen or so of them plus a big armored blue. tractors is really going. to change the mood it's not

going to be just a peaceful demonstration by the yellow vests protesters it's clearly going to attract an a curious an extremist on the right and the left determined for violence so i think all of all of us here everybody in france is bracing for a very violent act for and they're taking trying to take every single precaution to prevent that but the mood here is very much on edge at the moment indeed and this is something that began almost a month ago david by some protests by some angry motorists complaining about hikes in the price of fuel and it's now mushroomed into something much bigger than that is there a sense that the the french government has has been blindsided by all of this and underestimated. well certainly that

is the picture that we get from here but we do understand from some of. president macro his cabinet he will talk to the people next week he will give a message to the nation and that's the one thing that most people here have been calling about you know we've been hearing from abroad felipe the prime minister he's been taking the bark he's been carrying a burden but we've yet to hear since he came back from argentina in the g twenty meeting last friday just before the violence he he's not said a word in public to anybody and he he when recently just on the trip outside paris people gathered around when they heard he was there and they started swearing at him and shouting it is a motorcade demanding his resignation the point is that it's now really a protest not on particular policies but against the autocratic style of government that that the president might grow house and he must try and rescue this in some

way his his popularity is down to something like twenty three percent and yet you know vast majority of people are supporting the l a best rebellion that's a massive political capital he's got to try and bridge and you can only bridge it by coming out and talking to the people of france showing that he is listening and showing that he will change his policies but we'll have to wait and see in the light of the if there's any violence to more especially if it's widespread he can't be shown to be buckling to violence on the street so he's in a dilemma there the horns of a very painful dilemma all right david take a life for us in paris. now they've been at the coal face of europe's migration crisis pulling people from the waters of the mediterranean and providing life saving medical care but now the last charity ship operating in the region is ending its mission doctors without borders says a smear campaign by european governments has forced the aquarius to stop saving

asylum seekers alexia bryan explains the aquarius began operations two years ago by the charity's doctors without borders and s.o.s. mediterranean. since then it's rescue to thirty thousand people on the treacherous sea crossing between libya and europe migrants and refugees searching for what many of us take for granted a safe place to call home but the work of boats like the aquarius has been made harder by a growing anti immigrant sentiment in europe. we've been subjected to a concerted campaign of harassment intimidation and obstruction it's taken the pool of criminal investigation on the basis of spirits allegations and we've been shot at and harassed by the libyan coast guard which is funded by european governments including including that of the u.k. aquarius has been blocked in the french quarter say since october after panama

revoked its registration the charity say it was at the request of. government then last month the police ordered its seizure for allegedly dumping toxic waste the charities denied the allegations. more than one hundred seven thousand people arrived in europe by sea this year at the height of the crisis twenty fifteen more than a million people made the voyage. crossings have dropped the u.n. has said the journey is becoming more dangerous restrictions on search and rescue boats like the aquarius. earlier this year there were weeks of wrangling over who would take the aquarius and the six hundred people it had rescued. refused entry and the international condemnation that politics was taking precedence over people's lives. state nato welcome to the bunch being achieved not only risking devoted so just to saying the day or two. to see what is happening today.

no one is that no one is here to educate. the people. saying the u.n. says more than seventeen and a half thousand people have drowned or gone missing in the mediterranean since january twenty fourth again. last year there were five risky boats there now there are none the charity say they're looking for replacement for the aquarius its crew fear that there are vulnerable people out there possibly in danger and no one to help them alexia ryan al-jazeera alexandro porto is a search and rescue worker for s.o.s. military on a he says they're determined to back out to get back out on the water the shutdown of the ship has been planted in the last days and we are currently dismantling the getting the vessel. for us it's important to focus that this may be

the end of the where you are but this is not the end of the mission and this is not the end for the search and rescue in the sea in the mediterranean because this is our mission and our from will is to come back from the possible to do our job of this and the lives we are actively trying to look and that are not like a new ship or a new flag or something that is sustainable to be back in on the sea a sort of possible and believe me i'm a rescuer and one of the people that physically take the people out of the water when they're drawing and this is our strong we putting all our energy. to find a solution at the moment unfortunately aquarius was not in him or a sustainable solution for us to operate. now to the war in yemen and day two of talks in sweden aimed at ending the conflict the negotiations are off to

a rough start the saudi backed government saying a military offensive is still an option if the rebels don't pull out of the port city of hashem hundred joins us now from rimbaud just north of stockholm so hashem after the hope. from from the first day of progress that was made in those talks it would seem on day two reality has set in it seems that the talks have hit a snag with the war of words between the two theories and the representatives of the government a senior member of the government told a while ago that the government is not going to allow for the reopening of inten. for two international flights and that all international flights have to be inspected in airports in i've been and inhabit our most which are under the control of the government and we heard from

a senior member who said that this is something which is rejected by the who these are this is something that could further pose many challenges to the united nations martin griffiths the second sticking point is basically the port of ho dado which is a vital lifeline for about seventy percent of the food imports into yemen there was hope that these talks would pave the way to an agreement between the u.s. and the hope is there would allow the u.n. partial management of the ports now the government is saying that it wants the whole thing is to put out from the board and hand over control to the government and this is something that could undermine the chances for any way out any time soon and hashim while those talks in sweden go on the war back in yemen continues to rage on with so much of the yemeni population on the brink of famine. it is it is

a longing situation for the aid agencies and this explains why momentum was building up since yesterday with the announcement about the prisoner swap deal many thought that this could be the first step forward in a confidence building measure that would allow food to be delivered into yemen that would allow a trust to be rebuilt between the hertha's of the government and to try to tackle the humanitarian situation that has been described as the worst in morden times now there is here's the thing how they do for example is the focal point now with the fighting between the government and between the rebels and the concern now if the talks collapse the government is running to relaunch the military campaign to take over and her data and imagine fighting flaring up in that particular area will automatically mean that ships and vessels carrying food won't be allowed in those areas which is just going to further aggravate the humanitarian situation for the

millions of people desperate for an immediate end to the conflict in yemen are right hashem a hard life for us there in rainbow just north of the swedish capital stock and now u.s. senators have been briefed on the investigation into the murder of saudi journalist shuggie pressure is building on the white house to hold saudi crown prince mohammed bin some men responsible she have returned see 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 is a smoking cell but only a few senators received that cia briefing turkish sources say fida gave those he

met on capitol hill on thursday information regarding the evidence ankara has in because shuggie 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 outer zero washington. a senior aide to the saudi crown prince who is accused of masterminding murder personally oversaw the torture of at least one detained female activists earlier this year according to reuters allegations include sexual harassment electrocution and flogging of the saudi woman and at least three others on the

saudi and qahtani supervision saudi official denies they were mistreated or you can not get in touch with us we want to hear from you on this some all of our other stories you can send your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter just use the hash tag a.j. news grid our handle is a.j. english and we're also on facebook facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or you can send us a message on whatsapp or telegram at plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine this is news grid and if you're watching the facebook live stream we've got a video on how a few south african graduates want to make education fashionable also ahead on the show a rest saw along the us mexico border as thousands of central american asylum seekers try to get to the u.s. .

hello again it's good to have you back well here across the eastern part of the mediterranean it has been quite messy over the last couple days looking at the clouds right there so for turkey we have been sings a very heavy rain that's going to continue here on saturday but by the time we get to sunday things are going to be improving it's going to be a little bit cooler so over here towards aleppo how about thirteen degrees in your forecast there up towards ancora a high temperature if you of about eight degrees in your forecast well down here across parts of the middle east we are looking at fairly dry conditions maybe some clouds down here toward the south across parts of yemen a temperature for sun and maybe twenty three degrees there up towards miska things are looking quite nice at twenty nine may be coming down to about twenty eight but some clouds to the northern part of saudi arabia by the time we get towards the end of the weekend and then very quickly across parts of southern africa we are looking at some cooler temperatures across the region durban has some clouds pushing through as well as some rain that has gone through as well we are going to see that

rain continuing here on saturday cooler temperatures you at twenty one degrees capetown maybe some clouds in your forecast but up towards johannesburg we are looking at twenty seven degrees here on saturday by the time we get towards sunday too we are expecting some more rain across much of the area anywhere from johannesburg down here towards the coast but harare it is going to be a mostly cloudy day for you with a temperature of about twenty six degrees. it is an appalling crime that destroys the dignity of individuals and tears apart the fabric of communities. activists not human rod and congolese gun ecologist dennis macwhich it have been awarded the twenty eight hundred no bill peace prize for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence in conflict zones. in an exclusive interview live from oslo we talked to this year's laureates about their fight for justice the nobel interview and al-jazeera exclusive. the latest

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the news great let's show you the top stories that have been trending on our web site as well as dot com you see there are number one you are rejecting the u.s. drafted resolution to condemn the mass this is a story that we reported on a little bit earlier about us losing that effort. there on the ongoing story of the arrest in canada of the

company's c.f.o. at the request of the united states. all the stories there for you trending on on the web site. let's get more now on the fragile talks in sweden on the war in yemen that we were reporting on earlier speak now to offer nasr she is a senior nonresident fellow at the at length sick council thanks very much for being with us so what do you make of what's been happening so far they made some progress on the first day on the issues of prisoner swaps but on this second day things of hit a roadblock particularly on the issue of a data. all through yesterday we had high hopes and exactly it was a very promising to see that both sides wasn't sitting in the same rule face to face and having this dialogue that was. really made. a lot of yemenis actually glad

that there might be a chance for this dialogue to lead to more deals and and more peace negotiations but today one they hit like the real or the major issues they seem to be just focusing on the humanitarian and economic concerns and not talking politics here or not trying to address the political framework that could you know have some some sort of. pleas from the warring parties so for me yesterday seemed just an only a like a like as an opportunity for the both sides to meet and signed those captives exchange deals which was very important but today unfortunately our only hope is that these talks are not going to collapse and to monitor the military

operations on the ground because for me these are going to be the real challenges if the military fighting continues on the ground it's only going to be a spoiler to these peace talks in sweden and the whole conflict in yemen has been seen as kind of a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran but is that over simplifying things given all of the factional division within the country itself you've got the separatists in south yemen you have a car which still has some areas of control and so on. it seems their u.n. special envoy is only having like a really limited expectations from these peace talks and he only just. these only two sides in these peace talks but each side you have to remember that they

are trying to represent members from all the political spectrum inside of yemen so even the who they have some representatives from the southern herakles movement so it's they're they're trying to live up to the criteria from the u.n. special envoy but. for real it's if i would only hope that the peace talks continue and today actually yesterday there was some statement from one of the. members there talking about that these peace talks are going to extend to other countries as well so in my estimation maybe we will see a series of peace talks so today this time in sweden and maybe probably the next in our money or kuwait we all remain to be seen or i could to speak with you thanks very much for being with us now is

a story that as we mentioned earlier was one of the top ones trending on our web site we'll tell you more about it now the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant huawei is due in court in canada after she was arrested at the request of the united states many one is used the tension has rattled global stocks canada's prime minister is denying there were political motivations behind the arrest. 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 indication or involvement in the political level in this decision because we respect the independence of our judicial processes for that i have not had any idea in direct or indirect conversations with with that any of my international counterparts on

this. all right andy pal is our social media producer lots of moving parts to this story all day how's it playing out online where you can imagine if something like this happened with an executive from apple or from facebook or google one of these big companies that that's exactly how people are following this story and how they're describing the gravity of it chinese state media have accused washington of using what they call hooliganism to try to stop while ways advance on the global market as we all start to shift to five g. networks and the foreign ministry says that neither canada nor the united states has provided china with any evidence that manning has broken any law in those two countries u.s. media meanwhile are reporting that man the arrest is part of a broader investigation into an alleged scheme to use the global banking system to evade u.s. sanctions on iran now hallway is already under scrutiny by governments that are part of the intelligence alliance known as the five eyes these are the united states canada australia new zealand and the u.k.

now several of them suspect that the company's products may contain so-called back doors that could allow the chinese government to spy on users or even kill switches that could be used in the event of a cyber attack now hallway denies these allegations and says its chief financial officer is completely innocence in august australia banned huawei from supplying equipment to its five g. network new zealand followed suit last month after saying a significant security risk was identified and then the british telecom giant bt says it won't use weiwei technologies as the backbone of its soon to be deployed five g. network and and also that it will remove the company's existing parts from the three g. and four g. networks now japan also today or in the last few hours or so said that they will ban away from future purchases of its upcoming five g. facilities now before markets open on friday president trump tweeted that the china talks are going very well none of this is happening in

a bubble he obviously doesn't want to let this affect those talks but he has some vocal members in his party calling on him to take action ted cruz for one says that the company is a communist party spy agency that's thinly veiled as a telecom company. but many people i must say are skeptical this user on social media tweeted to us saying that western telecom companies have faked the so-called backdoor spy lies to intimidate the people to believe that china is vicious so let us know what you think about this you can connect with us on twitter using the hash tag it in this group all right taking a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world germany's ruling christian democrat party will hold a second round of voting to elect a successor to angola merkel after neither of the final candidates secured an outright majority the chancellor addressed her party in hamburg ahead of the secret ballot delegates are choosing between the final two candidates the winner will

determine how long merkel can stay on as chancellor of germany these are still in the substance of your friends after over eighteen years disk will be my last speech as the leader of the german c.d.u. party we've always known that the party is never just one person by him or herself but always all members together called local branches district chapters state associations unions national and federal states amorous polities hand and hand and it was not long ago that we experienced how much strength and momentum we can develop together even though we are facing headedness. of dominic cain is live for us in the dominic is this effectively a referendum on merkel's time as chancellor. in some ways yes it is house and the point here is that she's not on the ballot and yet her legacy is most certainly on the ballot in the shape of the candidates fighting it out to to assume the mantle of party leader we now know that the young

pretender as he might have been called the end but he's been eliminated he got one hundred fifty seven votes out of the nine hundred ninety nine that were cast the two who have gone through and that camp who is the positive angle a miracle she received four hundred fifty votes close to a majority but not a majority because fleet of the mets that rival to wrangle americal roost frozen out by her ten years ago has come back in a blaze of publicity he got three hundred ninety two votes so now it all comes down to who do the voters who opted for the sharon in the first round who do they want to vote for in the second round they are now effectively the ones who will decide the victor who they want to vote for and the question then with for whoever does win as you say is how long are they prepared to allow the chancellor angela merkel to remain in office certainly angela merkel says she feels she won the election the general election last year she has the right to the mandates to carry on to the end of her term which would be twenty twenty one if that can count on bowen's the

received wisdom here in germany is that she'll be allowed to do that the two are very close and that it would be a very easy working relationship between the two of them however if friedrich mets were to win well it may be much more difficult much more choppy water as it were for them to pilot the ship of state through and america froze him out of politics he left politics altogether now he's back how likely is it that he would want her to remain in office that's the main question for him the main question for us now is who's going to win and we expect the results quite soon and depending on who on who wins this what if the case is going to have or how the christian democrats where they go from here and. and the effect on german politics as a whole. but in a sense winning this election might be the easiest election that these two candidates can win because going forward from here next year there are four state

elections several in eastern germany where the christian democrats have found their votes everything away to a certain extent to the far right populist party the alternative for germany mr maritz has made regaining those votes is key in his campaign he said that he is the party who wants to anchor this he the c.d.u. in christian democratic values but also must win back those voters have gone to the air fifty well that would be a clear test for him those four states elections next year and at that camp says no anchored in the middle is where the c.d.u. should be in the center it should be a center right party and that's her perspective a perspective that angular machall shares in so far as how they can co-exist with each other as i will as i was saying if and if that camp cow town bar wins this election it will be almost the status quo ante things will proceed as they work she's been the general secretary of this party for some time before that she was

prime minister of the small state of zeile and in western germany where she won an election getting more than forty percent of the vote so she says look at me i'm an election winner i can win elections for this party if we stay in the center and appeal to the broadest section of society or as mr matt says well we need to be appealing to those who went to the air but as i say the central question right now which of them is going to be party leader we'll know very soon all right for the moment dominic cain live for us in hamburg thanks don. now the number of arrests are soaring along mexico's border with the u.s. thousands of central americans trying to get across and claim asylum most have set up camp in the mexican border town of tier one away conditions are getting worse or at the hammy that has some of their stories. it's a shelter of dashed aspirations and the rainy season has only added gloom to misery

but for marlise a particularly difficult day when she first set off from honduras she was told that the mother was a child would be allowed into the united states now she sits in a soaking wet tent and she misses home. today is my mother's birthday i've been sad since this morning we've never been apart we only had rice and beans but we were happy i've been sad all day and night i wake up and think that i'm home but i'm not i'm here. to when i was supposed to be a transit point but as access to the u.s. is becoming more difficult many of these asylum seekers are opting to start a new life in mexico instead. rosa is also from honduras a country with one of the highest poverty rates in the world and which is also one of the most violent she left her sick daughter behind and wants to join her sister in minnesota to earn money to pay for treatment. she has leukemia and she needs chemotherapy i have to find

a job quickly for her sake we can't get into we will have to wait here many people say you can get through the beach or other points but i don't want to risk it i will loose too much and i have to get a job soon. making money is a pressing issue after more than two months on the road cash has run out for most the vast majority of people here would tell you they don't want to go back to their own country because this is actually better than being at home but with every day that passes that sense of hope is fading away and this fear is sinking in. to help alleviate the situation mexico has offered to thousands of central americans stranded along its northern border the option of staying in mexico with either humanitarian visa or access to a speedy asylum process. hector's traveled with his pregnant play. two childred he wants to reach the us before his wife gives birth in three weeks even though does jump administration wants to put an end to what it calls anchor babies. it's not as

easy as we thought it's not like the doors are open and you get in you have to wait be patient and then when you least expect it you will get there many were here yesterday and today they called and told they were through. there only tough choices ahead for the thousands of asylum seekers stuck between a rock and a high place their presence at the border symbolic of an america becoming more and more detached from its past as a country of immigration but at that how many. all right now japan is giving away homes for free in a bid to tackle its unique housing crisis and who has more on that story thank you well empty homes in japan are known as a key and there are more than eight million of them and counting so if you've got a visa allowing you to live in japan one of them can be yours for free or maybe even a very low price we're talking about

a different sort of property crisis here in japan too many empty houses and few people live in them and most of these are in rural areas but some are in larger cities so the government is reaching out to young families in the hope of revitalizing towns and villages that are at risk of disappearing. but giving away abandoned houses is challenging in a country where people generally prefer newer buildings so it's a counter that websites like this one have been created to make these houses attractive to buyers many of these websites are set up by local governments to better manage the supply and demand as even more homes become available those who do get to these houses often only have to pay the taxes and the fees and the excess in houses is caused by several different factors here japan's population is aging faster than any other in the world more than one in four people are sixty five years old and above and the situation is expected to continue by the year twenty sixty five the un estimates that japan's population will drop by an additional

twenty eight million people and according to government figures by twenty forty nearly nine hundred towns and villages across japan will simply no longer exist so let us know if you'd move to japan or live in one of these homes get in touch with us on twitter let us know the has tag is aging as good as i'm all right thanks sanjay now you can get in touch with us we want to hear from you on these stories you can send your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter just use the hash tag a j news greg handle is a.j. english english we're also on facebook facebook dot com slash zero or you can send us a message on whatsapp or telegram at the number right there on your screen plus nine seven fall of nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine. facebook a bonus story now for you about the controversy over chinese both and then joe will be here to tell you why this seven year old football is running from the taliban

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is a political refugee from bahrain who is now professional football in australia he arrived with his wife for their honeymoon in thailand only to be a respite at the airports he's now facing extradition to bahrain where he says he's likely to be tortured and possibly killed ab fled to australia four years ago after being arrested and tortured by authorities and behind he was granted political asylum in place for pascoe vale football club in melbourne but when he arrived in bangkok last month he was detained until on the interpol's red notice issued on behind request he's wanted for vandalizing a police station something he denies the hash tag save came and freaking aqim are being used online and at protests like this one outside the thai consulate in melbourne on friday. just. to see what the middle east and i mean again we've got to go because the very bottom line. alarie be

recorded that video from his cell at the airport two days after he was detained the red notice has since been lifted and he was told he could fly home but instead has been taken to a detention center to await an extradition hearing is unclear why he's still being held in thailand australian journalist helen davidson who's been reporting on the plight of a.b. tweeted this well what's up message that she received on thursday night it says if i'm deported in bahrain once i'm there if you hate me saying things don't believe me i know i will be tortured to confess things i've never done please continue fights to save me now favor of also released a statement in it they call on the tile thirty's to allow him to return to australia where he enjoys refugee status as soon as possible while amnesty international stray has urged people to tweet the country's minister of foreign affairs marie spain they and other human rights advocates a calling for his immediate release. despite the fact that thailand is not

a signatory to the nine hundred fifty one refugee convention they're obligated under customary international not to return somebody to a country where they may face different taste of liberty or threat to their life in this case mrs hakim should he be returned to bahrain he will almost certainly be arrested upon arrival and would face torture and possibly even do we would strongly urge the diplomatic community to intervene in this case and to ensure that his return to melbourne safely so that he can be reunited with his friends and family now you might remember the story of a young afghan boy nicknamed little messy who captured hearts around the world when he was photographed wearing a blue and white plastic bag with lionel messi his name written on it in pen what he was invited to meet the argentine legend off to his photo went viral and even served as a mascot for the superstar that was two years ago now the seven year old has been forced to flee his home in afghanistan's ghastly province for

a second time because of threats from the taliban his family's living in a room in kabul amongst them many possessions left behind of the football in jersey signed by messi the family have also heard that the taliban is searching for the young boy by name. he can jennifer that some maine which i sing are saying ever since they some has become famous they have become rich and macy has given them a lot of money we didn't care but when the taliban got closer to our place then our lives were in danger and work over the first i don't know why the taliban's become his enemy since he's been famous the taliban say if they capture him he'll be cast into pieces. i like messi a lot i want to live close to him but he should take me out of this place. when i see him i will say salaam and how are you but he will reply saying thank you and be safe then i will go with him to the pitch where he would play and i would watch him

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i know i'm maryam namazie in london with al jazeera also coming up this hour the latest from hamburg where on a gret crumpler karrenbauer has been elected to replace angela merkel as leader of germany's ruling party. as france braces for mass we can protest police are accused of using a heavy hand in their treatment of a group of protesters. the mediterranean rescue ship the equerries to cease its operations after what's described as a campaign of harassment intimidation and obstruction. u.s. president donald trump has nominated heaven now it to be the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations while moussa served as state department spokeswoman since april two thousand and seventeen she's a relative newcomer to the diplomatic stage with no prior policy or political

experience to deal with some of the world's thorniest issues aside from briefly working as a health insurance consultant and as a general reporter of a.b.c. she has largely spent the past twenty years in journalism working for fox news now its predecessor nikki haley also had a little foreign policy experience when appointed although she had a national name is the governor of south carolina but it may not matter as the secretary of state might pompei or who backs now for the role as told aides he wants the u.n. position downgraded from the cabinet well i want house correspondent kimberly halkett joins us live now and so kimberly have a now it is to replace nikki haley at the united nations why was she picked for the role. yeah well she was picked for the role of the peers because of loyalty in fact on the tribe as he left the white house in the last couple of hours making two announcements not just the announcement of his appointment of heather nauert to be the next u.s.

ambassador to the united nations but also his nomination for attorney general and if confirmed it would be bill barr who would be taking that role with regard to heather nauert what's interesting is that she as you point out has very little foreign policy or national security experience that doesn't seem to matter in either of these appointments what seems to matter to the president is the issue of loyalty heather nauert has been a very firm down term supporter from the podium of the state department where she has been the spokesperson there and well she has had some missteps for example when she went to riyadh for a visit with regard to discussing the killing of journalists she posted on instagram what appeared to be almost like a vacation like post she's also cited in the past d.-day as an example of the cooperation the relationship between the united states and germany so a little unusual perspective on history there it is loyalty that donald trump seems to value and that goes also for the appointment with regard to his attorney general

and that could be difficult confirmation hearings for bill barr given the fact while he has experience in this case he served under george herbert walker bush as attorney general he has had some controversy all positions democrats in the senate are likely to challenge for instance he has supported donald trump's call to investigate hillary clinton and as well he has questioned the russia probe and whether or not it is appropriate so certainly this given the fact that he would oversee that probe is going to cause some concern for many senate senate democrats and make the appointments being approved somewhat challenging. perhaps trump will be hoping that these fresh appointments will overshadow expected major developments in the approach. and that's certainly the speculation this is somewhat of a distraction given the fact that today is a pivotal day in the probe with regard to robert muller he is due to submit

a court filing. how the former campaign chair for donald trump's presidential campaign paul manna fort violated his plea deal in other words how he lied to the f.b.i. why is this important this could lay out the direction of the russia probe something that's been somewhat of a mystery and certainly tell us the direction of the investigation but that's not the only news that could come out today as well we have george papadopoulos now out of prison he has been very comfortable speaking to reporters in the past and he was a trump advisor certainly that will be of interest as well in new york new york judge there has ordered the special counsel to provide sentencing memos for michael cohen this could also provide some important details given the fact michael cohen a long time donald term confident and his attorney and finally as well we have happening on capitol hill the former f.b.i. director james comey fired by donald trump testifying on capitol hill on the house side by hine closed doors but there will be

a transcript of that testimony and there are likely to be leaks all of this combined really gives the public a chance to get out and into the public realm some of the things that have been more mysterious about this case namely if there is a line between this white house and russia as many have alleged thank you very much with the latest from the white house can believe it well in all the developments the u.s. congress is grappling with a house of punish the saudi crown prince of as a matter of justice jamal khashoggi are growing calls for the white house to hold prince mohammed bin somani responsible for the killing head of turkish intelligence has already briefed some u.s. senators on turkey's investigation into. the 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 have shown no 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 us 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 outer zero washington.

germany's ruling christian democrat party has elected a new leader and a gret crown karrenbauer has just won the second round of voting to replace angle of merkel as leader of the ruling party so let's get the latest now from dominic cain who is in hamburg dominic what does this mean for the c.d.u. and potentially the germany. over the c.d.u. it means effectively more of the same on it that was seen by many as the continuity candidates as the process. and therefore it will be plain sailing as it were we can expect to see these two ladies in many press conferences now over the course of the next few weeks months few years even where slowly there will be a transition from angela merkel to panic but. she perhaps will be the leading

campaigner for the c.d.u. in states elections next year and so there will be an orderly transition that's what we can expect to see for the c.d.u. for germany well the question is what direction of that compound i want to take her party and i should be very clear she wants the party trimming anchored in the center but to have a broad appeal not just to the center right but the other story so she will in some way be evolving will be an evolution of leadership and her aegis well because the opponents had the person she beat just with a majority of thirty five votes out of a fire was about nine hundred ninety nine votes majority of thirty five. he was beaten while he would have been a little bit more revolutionary he would have taken the past more to the right making appeals to the voters who he feels have left the city left this part of christian democrats and gone to the more populist far right alternative to germany so that's what would have. happens that will not happen and we've got camp will

keep this party in the sense of thanks and of course see as you say she's the consummate see candidate she was the favorite choice of german chancellor angela merkel who gave a farewell speech what did we hear from markel today. well america is all about thankful most of gratitude to her party for giving her the opportunity to dominate german politics for the best part of two decades she'd made great play of the of the need for the party to be an election winning force she'd in a coded way referred to washington felt that her party should vote for and at that compound by saying that that election successes in other parts of of germany last year with the model that germany should be following but in essence it was gratitude it was the sort of thing you don't normally hear from angela merkel there was the suggestion of a tear in her eye when ovations were given to her they've been

a succession of presents at the party is given to her over the course of the day with different cabinet ministers coming to the rostrum and and indoor single american banking her for her service so very much you had the sense of a party saying thank you to angle america and there were rapturous ovations for her and it is fair to say that the ovation got remarried to a certain extent by their very she's a protege that. we see as well because the three candidates here will have a chance to speak one last time before the vote and certainly the loudest applause is given to make that sound bite but it's worth making the point that. came from nowhere when we were going to see the. german public inspiring of america the best possible thanks for thank you must be so right thank you josh he is likely to play a big part see the politics going.