as that is happening on the house side today it is the former cia director james comey he is testifying behind closed doors and of course this is something that will eventually be made public that transcript will be made public and many people are watching this very closely because this could give us a sense of where that russia probe is headed adding to that we know that robert mueller submitting court filings today that could in fact let us have a better idea about the former campaign chair paul mann of fort he has been accused of lying to f.b.i. investigators now the special prosecutor robert mueller will have to explain how he lied why is that important that lays out the direction of the investigation so yes there's a lot of moving parts here in washington has him and we're watching all of these very carefully because at the end of the day it appears whether strong terms tweets or what he said publicly as he left the white house it does appear that he this is on his mind he is concerned about it and that's why we see him trying to perhaps

divert attention with some of these high profile appointments all right kimberly how can live for us there in washington thanks kelly. we've got plenty more ahead on this new sound to go she ations between yemen's warring sides hit a snag in sweden over the ports of her data. turkey's intelligence chief briefs u.s. senators as they consider ways to punish saudi arabia for the murder of journalist . and later in sport peter will have the latest ahead of the daughter's final as river plate and boca juniors fan start arriving in madrid. it's all are still ahead but first germany's ruling christian democratic union party has elected an a get. to succeed angle of merkel as party leader she is merkel's protege and won more than fifty one percent of the ballots following

a second round of voting merkel is not seeking reelection but her successor could decide how long she stays as chancellor of germany let's cross live now to dominic kane for more on this in hamburg so dominic is if this was a referendum on angela merkel's leadership in will likely be one that she's happy with. yes that's right house so she will be expected to about this she was very close or is rather very close to that bar and have made a coded reference to that compound success as prime minister of thailand a small western states of germany in elections last year in her speech today valedictory address as it were asked to be as leader of this party so for her it's a relief it's the thought that continuity is key that she will be able to hand over the reins of power of the party that come come about today and remain as chancellor

of germany remember berks until very recently and of america would always say that it was impossible to be one without the other and she rode back on that or now she knows person in charge of the party is not going to make waves is not going to agitate to seize the chancellery from her hands any time soon that was her fear have now it's been elected before it's a very close campaign the result well thirty five votes decided the victory front of that compound bow out of almost a thousand and let's be clear now it's being on the sidelines of politics in the wilderness as it were forced by anger of america herself more than ten years ago that's the scale of this election success but out of that compound of our house here she won but only just and. looking forward then what what can we expect from angela merkel's successor in terms of of her approach to tunis

jobbers party leader. oh well in a sense it'll be evolution not revolution she wants to be having a party that's firmly anchored in the center of politics she herself is of the center right in contrast to the two other rivals in this election campaign. and the merits who were wanting to take the party further to the right so no rights were no shoprite would move from this are to staying in the center one of the things that she stressed in her speech before the vote was held but on a come she said she wanted europe to finish some of the projects which are really close to germany's heart as a bridge the shang and so in the border free area in germany should be refinished should be up and running to be working properly with no problems that's one thing she was very strong about something that's been important to her in a previous role as prime minister of a state that borders france she so europe was key but also this sense of staying

firmly anchored in the center so although she would resist the comparison and saying she was a maybe makola version of america she says she's her own woman that clearly the politics that she's going to to pursue in the next few years trying to win elections from the center not from a right would move all right dominic kane life first theory in hamburg thanks tony france is gearing up for another weekend of violence from anti-government protesters eighty nine thousand police will be on the streets across the country as yellow vest protesters rally again on saturday and there's outrage in paris on what some are calling police brutality a video shows rows of students lined up after being arrested by police during protests just outside of paris france's interior minister says none of the high school students were injured. there were. pictures of the young people

a recent model is only hard to watch if 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. we found that high school students who were participating in blockades were joined by around one hundred hundred individuals with sticks and seen devices with the firm intention to battle with security forces these are not movements from high school students but real urban violence. as the latest from paris. extraordinary measures are being taken by the authorities to protect paris on what is being called by the l a vest demonstrators act four of revolt and now it's going to be joined by many more people than we saw last saturday the students of course are the latest people to say that they will join the protest and it's feared of course by the police that they'll be more than just

a handful of extremists from the left from the right and the anarchists this time deliberately trying to attack the police and provoke violence and they are deploying for the first time armored vehicles the police on the streets of paris and these would be used to try and break through any burning barricades and they could well be needed because there are so many extra elements to this act for than even last saturday because it's feared that people from the peripheries of paris the body earth the the the areas which are the most deprived and nearest to the center of paris could also join join the protests in the words of the interior minister christophe cast the net he said that a beast a monster had been born in the last few weeks and it had got away from those who had created it so everybody here in paris is bracing for what could be an even

worse violence than last saturday a day two of talks aimed at ending the war in yemen have hit a wall after some progress on thursday is still disagreements over reopening the capital's airport and managing one of yemen's major ports a somehow but i reports from rimbaud a village north of stock on where the talks have been taking place. yemen talks hanged by a thread as the government delegation toughens its stance against who the rebels. president of the not so hard is loyalists have told you and all boy martin griffiths they weren't allowed reopening sun our airport to international flights the government delegation insists all international flights must be strictly through airports and it's control in aden and how to molt that if mike tomorrow

we came here in order to find a solution to open the airport of santa we cannot just prejudge everything what we are asking is is this in the interest of the people or not we are not here to reward the malicious we are here for peace. the sun our airports was one of the first targets of the saudi u.s. coalition in two thousand to fifteen the military alliance later closed the airport to stop what it said was a flow of weapons from iran to the who these another sticking point in the talks is the port of her data which accounts for more than seventy percent of food imports to yemen the government asked the huth east to pull out immediately warning it will resume the offensive to take control of the city if they don't the healthy is had agreed to partially hand over management of the port to the united nations in exchange for

a cease fire to be implemented then what hell if we are to agree we need a governing authority that represents all of yemen and to which all parties will hand over weapons. the first day of these talks so a rare agreement among yemen's rivals for a president exchange deal. it is widely seen as a significant step forward to and a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world it's unclear if the un will be able to narrow differences between the two parties as the resist calls to solve the dispute now the huth is insist on a presidential council to replace had the and leave the country for an interim period a move that has been rejected by the government as a who the tactic to further expand their influence over yemen. the town of rimbaud

on the outskirts of stockholm. the turkish intelligence chief has briefed u.s. senators about their investigation into the murder of saudi journalist. pressure is growing on the white house to hold the saudi crown prince responsible for the killing she had seen 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 sons involvement there's not a smoking gun there's a smoking cell but only a few senators received that cia briefing turkish sources say feeder 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 in 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 crucial g. 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. hundreds of jordanians face strong winds and heavy rain to protest against the government's new tax plans. get of the outside the government headquarters to demand prime minister amara says step down they're angry over new taxes that will be imposed in january it sparked the country's largest

anti-government protests since twenty eleventh. hour deal to cut global oil production has been struck in vienna the so-called opec plus group of nations agreed to hold back a combined one point two million barrels a day they try to prop up the price were just fallen from eighty five dollars in october to sixty this week but it needed the agreement of non opec member russia to seal the deal for brennan reports. for more than forty years opec controlled the global oil industry the group's near monopoly keeping a tight rein on supply and on prices the events of this week in vienna shows those days are truly over despite consensus that a cut in production is needed to stop a slide in the oil price thursday's gathering of just the opec member states failed to agree to tell the numbers and so on friday as the meeting expanded to include non opec members all eyes were on alexander novak the russian energy minister bush was after thorough analysis which we have been conducting of the market situation

will be ready to come to a mutual understanding on how to take all corporation further. the final figures opec members will reduce output by eight hundred thousand barrels a day the non opec countries will hold back a further four hundred thousand barrels iran libya and venezuela will be exempted the prospect of cutting one point two million barrels a day was enough to push brant crude above sixty three dollars from below fifty nine dollars the previous day go back to the supply demand we believe that there are substantial volumes out there as a result of releasing this work. presently that you could be. withdrawn and we hope that we would come to an agreement where all. producers would contribute or. you could go across the board there was significant transparency and who was going to be doing that so for example the saudi government laid out their path to

basically removing barrels the russian government also gave us in their window about what their with options would be so i think that statement was actually more transparent than expected i think it actually is a more robust than we expected in the last couple days but what happens here in vienna is only part of the picture the united states is now the world's biggest crude oil producer now really eclipsing russia and with saudi arabia in third the fact is opec no longer calls the shots this is been a hard fought compromise deal and the fact it's been so difficult time for size is the limits now of effectiveness and there are still question marks as to how long the deal done here will actually last paul brennan al-jazeera vienna all right still ahead when we come back a medical charity blames a smear campaign as it stops rescuing refugees in the mediterranean. running out of money and hope we talk to some of the thousands of central americans seeking asylum

in the u.s. . and in sports the utah jazz take the indirect route to victory over the houston rockets in the n.b.a. peter will be here with more. 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're 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 the harare it is going to be a mostly cloudy day for you with a temperature of about twenty six degrees. a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror once said the closure of guantanamo bay and its detainees are going

nowhere we have identified as a priority is the construction of a new high value detention center i'm afraid that we're sharing the conditions to return back to practice tally in state sponsored torture as we did have done in the past rendition revisited part two on al jazeera. it is an appalling crime that destroys the dignity of individuals and tears apart the fabric of communities. activists not human rot and congolese gun ecologist dennis macwhich have been awarded the twenty eight hundred nobel peace prize for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence in conflict zones. in an exclusive interview live from all slow we talk to this year's laureates about their fight for justice the nobel interview and al jazeera exclusive. paris.

and i again you're watching are just a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. president has nominated state department spokeswoman heather now out in new ambassador to the united nations if approved by the senate now it will succeed nikki haley in january haley announced her resignation in october. don't trouble also nominated william barr as the new attorney general barr served in the same position under president george h.w. bush in the early one nine hundred ninety s. that will put him in charge of special counsel robert manas investigation into possible russian collusion between the twenty six the an ally. germany's ruling christian democratic union party elected. to replace angela merkel as the party

leader is merkel will decide how long. as german chancellor. of the last rescue ship operating in the mediterranean sea is ending its mission doctors without borders says a smear campaign by european governments has forced the aquarius to stop saving asylum seekers the boat lost its registration in september alexey o'brien explains . packing up the ship that's been a big can of hope for thirty thousand people over the past two years rescuing those making the treacherous sea crossing between libya and europe migrants and refugees risking everything for what many of us take for granted a safe place to call home the aquarius can no longer work the charities doctors without borders and. say that's because of european interference we've been subjected to a concerted campaign of harassment intimidation and obstruction it's taken the

form of criminal investigation on the basis of spiritus 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. the 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. dangerous restrictions on search and rescue boats like the aquarius.

earlier this year there were weeks of wrangling over who would take the aquarius in the six hundred people it had rescued. refused entry and the international condemnation that politics was taking precedence over people's lives. welcome to the boat being at risk. to see what is happening today. no one is that no one is here to see. the u.n. says more than seventeen and a half thousand people have drowned or gone missing in the mediterranean since january twenty fourth tain. last year there were five risky boats there now there are now. 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. our presidential candidates are rallying

supporters across the democratic republic of congo for elections this month twenty men and one woman are competing to succeed joseph kabila the latest the ball outbreak and security problems are mung the big issues on voters' minds laura birdman. was people stream onto the streets of because in their thousands all to support opposition candidates in the democratic republic of congo's presidential race all with hopes of political change to men felix just ahead he and the telecom are haim have joined forces promising changes including regional security and jobs. we are very happy because the leaders came today people want to tell the government that they need to create jobs and they expect safety. and safety is a big concern in the northeast where there's been decades of fighting between rebel

groups. just a few hours after opposition candidate marching to beni on thursday seventeen people were killed in an attack by the armed group the allied democratic forces the u.n. says violence is hampering response to a recent outbreak in the region there are twenty one candidates competing in the presidential race joseph kabila who's been running the country for seventeen years would not take on another term a relief for some he's been accused of vote rigging in the past and his final time expired two years ago. but his refusal to step down sparked by nani's dozens were killed he's chosen emanuel dari as his successor but he's on the e.u. sanctions list speech human rights crimes in the kasai region which he was responsible for at the interior minister one of the biggest issues for any new president is the outbreak which is now the second largest on. record music

all measures have been taken in order to control desert break and we are currently controlling to break in different areas for now. as people prepared to vote for the new leadership many hope violence doesn't hinder efforts against the fatal disease lure about a manly al-jazeera. zambia's a constitutional court has ruled that president can stand for reelection in two thousand and twenty one supporter celebrated decision outside the court in lusaka took office for eighteen months after the death of president michael sutter in two thousand and fifteen one a full five year term the following year the opposition had argued a third term would violate the constitution. arrest numbers are soaring along the us mexico border as thousands of people try to get across and claim asylum most have set up camp in the mexican border city of what are the homemade 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 of getting a rose or 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 american stranded along its northern border the option of staying in mexico with either humanitarian visa or access to a speedy asylum process. pictures traveled with his pregnant. childred he wants to

reach the u.s. before his wife gives birth in three weeks even though the trump administration wants to put an end to what it's called and. 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. their own choices ahead for the thousands of asylum seekers stuck between a rock and a hard place their presence at the border symbolic of an america becoming more and more detached from its as a country of immigration. the story of a young afghan boy. on a run from the taliban that's just ahead in sports. descend

on al-jazeera. from hospitality to hostility more hotels tells dramatic stories about icons of complex and last resort shelters in divided cities an exclusive interview with nobel peace prize laureates not dennis but quite an ad try special antarctic sanctuary follows greenpeace as they campaign to create the largest protected area on. an annual convention that gives a platform to a global dialogue on critical challenges facing our world a new two part documentary that reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade december on al jazeera.

journalist in the philippines says she is innocent after appearing in court on tax evasion charges where rearrest says the case is politically motivated her news agency rappler has been critical of president reagan to turkey's government who is branded as fake jimmy duggan reports from manila. maria ressa is one of the most prominent journalists in the philippines and also one of the most in battle out money and the news agency she co-founded called rappler have been indicted on multiple counts of tax evasion the government also tried to revoke the agency's license to operate with their day calling rappler a fake news outlet. for money and her supporters this is persecution from a government that sees journalists as the. enemy we're going to hold the line but

it makes me think that we must either be doing something right or we must be doing an investigation they don't want to follow through with. we just keep doing our jobs you know we keep looking we try to maintain the news agenda firstly but the government insists the warrant issued against media is not political persecution months after detector was sworn into office the government set up a special task force to focus on media security proof it says of its commitment to press freedom it meant rappler scase is different. you do not believe the rafters and you see in her family they claim the really big claim to be they say that the news agency but then again we have to check it with our loss last year reporters without borders calls the philippines the deadliest country for media.