the heavy handed policing. is not an opinion shared by the students in paris or new friends has always been a country where we can say with people being gay and going this street saying come on and they must wait and. now is my point like they we've all been through to demonstrate because the. police officers are very. very like by limiting her and entering their students joining protests were just here in the parish but the country is adding a new dimension and a new momentum to the protests of the interior minister went to inspect the cars that will be deployed by the police for the first time in paris at saturday's demonstrations that were used to clear barricades on turning road blocks. he said these last few weeks a monster has been born that has run away from its creators. dozens of tourist attractions will be closed down in the capital for what the l a vessel calling act

four of their revolt the authorities have also ordered the shutdown of schools of luxury boutiques restaurants and businesses in the seans of the. david al-jazeera paris still ahead for you on the program some of the world's biggest oil producers announced they will slash their output despite pressure from the u.s. president. we must either be doing something right or we must be doing an investigation they don't want to follow through with. refusing to be silenced news agency on the front line of the battle to preserve press freedom in the philippines . hello again or welcome back here in a national weather forecast for your presence a very messy weather particularly down here towards the southeast where parts of

cyprus turkey as well as into syria who in seeing some very heavy rain over the last few days now the good news is a lot of that rain is now moving out here towards the east but out here towards the northwest it is a much different story we're looking at a system coming in off the atlantic brings a very gusty winds across the u.k. as well as into northern europe parts of scandinavia as well we're going to be seeing temperatures still into the low teens maybe the high single digits in this area so not a lot of snow but we do see a lot of rain across this region now as we go towards sunday that system pushes down we are going to be seeing some snow in the higher elevations but the wind continues across much of northern europe so that's going to cause some problems not only on the roads but also in the air so expect some delays there down towards the south in the mediterranean not looking too bad but those temperatures are still going to be in the single high teens across that area up here across parts of northern africa we are looking at clouds across much of the area most of the rain has ended so for tripoli is going to be a cloudy day a few more clouds as we go towards sunday temperature eighteen degrees but over

here towards cairo we are looking at some more clouds in your forecast maybe ninety and because you're sure to where the temperature of eighteen degrees. singapore is being accused of expanding its coast and in the dredge satins some of the islands off the coast of indonesia and literally vanished it's a big business smuggling you say and when they go to take the sand there in filling the sand is our parent here you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so pleasant the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sandals on al-jazeera. talk

about the top stories now u.s. president donald trump has officially nominated state department spokeswoman heaven out as the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations former bush era official william baas also been named for the role of attorney general. german conservative i'm a great crop karrenbauer has been chosen to succeed angola muckle as leader of the christian democrats she won five hundred seventeen votes out of nine hundred ninety nine cost by delegates. and the french government is deploying a huge police presence in anticipation of another weekend of violent yellow vest demonstrations it comes as the police are being heavily criticized after a video of the arrest of a group of students by a virus. well in all the stories of following a u.s.

democratic senator says a vote next week aimed at ending support for the saudi led coalition in yemen is a response to the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi chris murphy said on twitter that pulling the united states out of the war will hurt the saudi crown prince more than any sanctions there are growing calls for the white house to hold and sound man responsible for the murder of the head of turkish intelligence has already briefed some u.s. senators on turkey's investigation into khashoggi is death. well day two of talks in sweden aimed at ending the war in yemen have hit deadlock after progress on thursday was a with a prisoner swap agreement are now issues of the reopening the capital's airport and managing the strategic port of data. reports now from remember the edge north of stock where those talks happened taking place in yemen talks hanged by a thread as the government delegation toughened its stance against who the rebels.

president of the hardie's loyalists have told you an old boy martin with hurts the world reopening son i ought to international flights the government delegation insists all international flights must be strictly through pause and it's controlled in aden and how to molt that if my command 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 militias we are here for peace. the sun porch was one of the first targets of the saudi u.s. coalition in two thousand and fifteen the military alliance later closed the port 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 whole thing is had agreed to partially hand over management of the port to the united nations in exchange for a cease fire to be implemented and 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 and. the first day of these talks so a rare agreement among yemen's rivals for 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 u.n.

will be able to narrow differences between the two parties as the resist calls to solve the dispute now the whole thing 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 has. the town of rimbaud on the outskirts of stockholm. the last migrant rescue ship operating in the mediterranean 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 and brian 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 in the charities doctors without borders and. they 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 port of ma say since october after panama revoked its registration the charity say it was at the request of the migrant 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 but while 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. spain welcome to the boat being at sea it's not only risking people it's so just to feign to dare to watch and to see what is happening today. no one is at sea and when you hear two activity seem to be. dying 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 boat for the aquarius its crew fear that there are vulnerable people out there possibly in danger and no one to help them. brian al jazeera russia says it will only discuss the fate of twenty four ukrainian sailors it captured last month once that trials have concluded russian coast guard opened fire on three crimean navy vessels and detain the crews as they try to pass through the kutch straits they've been accused of entering russian waters which ukraine denies ukrainian defense ministry has warned it will send its navy sailing through the cut straight and response well now after intensive negotiations a deal to cut global oil production has been struck by the opec group of nations and that allies in vienna one point two million barrels per day will be held back to prop up the price which has fallen from eighty five dollars

a barrel back in october to sixty dollars this week but as paul brennan reports from opec had courses in vienna it needed the agreement of normal opec member russia to seal the deal. 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 cuts 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 alexandra nowak the russian energy minister but she was after thorough analysis which we have been conducting of the market situation will be ready to come to me chill understanding on how to take all cooperation further. the final figures opec members will reduce output by eight

hundred thousand barrels a day the non-a pick 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 the spare capacity that used to be. withdrawn and we hope that we will come to an agreement where all. producers will contribute with. equal cuts across the board there was significant transparency and who was going to be doing a cut so for example the saudi government laid out their path to basically removing barrels the russian government also gave us in the 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 cut than we extracted 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 has been a hard fought compromise deal on the fact it's been so difficult emphasizes the limits now of defectiveness america still question marks as to how long the deal done here will actually last paul brennan al-jazeera vienna hundreds of jordanians braved strong winds and heavy rain to protest against what they describe as the government's corrupt economic policies. the. demonstrators gathered outside government headquarters in amman demanding a minister omar result step down angry over a controversial law that would see additional income taxes imposed by january growing backlash against the bill or spark the country's largest anti-government

protests twenty eleven which that's the resignation of the previous prime minister six months ago. a top chinese a top executive of chinese tech from huawei will be prosecuted on fraud charges in the united states allegedly for violating sanctions against iran. is also the daughter of the company's founder and appeared in court in vancouver she was arrested in the canadian city on saturday at the request of the us. a veteran journalist in the philippines has declared her innocence and says she'll fight back after appearing in court on tax evasion charges maria ressa is newsagency rappler has been critical of what triggered detectives government then branded a fake by the president jammeh island and explains. maria ressa is one of the most prominent journalists in the philippines and also one of the most in battle out media and the news agency she co-founded called rappler have

been inducted on multiple counts of tax evasion the government also tried to revoke the agency's license to operate with dirty calling rappler a feat use outlet. for maria 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 briskly but the government insists the warrant issued against media is not political persecution months after due to there 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 a really big name to be they say that they are insane but then again we have to check in with our laws last year reporters without borders calls the philippines the deadliest country for media in asia and what is happening here reflects a growing on the mosty towards journalists worldwide and that to still ety openly encouraged by political leaders and authoritarian regimes pose a threat to democracy. the center for media freedom and responsibility focuses on the rights of filipino journalists it says there have been more than eighty attacks on journalists since president looked at the assumed office in two thousand and sixteen we should not forget that the despite of the big pattern and the pattern had been set march earlier. when the president at that began to demonize mainstream breast since one nine hundred eighty six more than one hundred

sixty journalists have been killed in the philippines most of them worked in the provinces or observers say media protection is virtually nonexistent. down the massacre in two thousand and nine is the single worst attack against journalists anywhere in the world thirty two were shot need to lated and buried while on their way to an electoral event in the southern philippines those accused of being behind the killings reportedly have strong political ties to the government grieving families are angry no one's yet been convicted almost ten years after the massacre and the are losing hope jamila dogon on manila. is quick look at the top stories this hour president all trump is officially nominated have been out with a new u.s. ambassador to the united nations now it is currently the spokeswoman for the u.s.

state department a nomination still needs to be endorsed by the republican controlled senate if she is approved now it will replace nikki haley who leaves the un at the end of the month. if you go to work with the daily you replace the united they will be a bad that it did the united agent is very valid it very hard very quick have a big he's going to be respected by all go there now or will be nominated sure every outfitter to the united nations in our other top stories this hour germany's christian democrats have elected karrenbauer to replace angela merkel as party leader crown karrenbauer is my his protege one five hundred seventeen votes out of nine hundred ninety nine cost by the democrats the result moves into pope was issued succeed europe's most influential leader as chancellor french government is the point

a huge police presence on to the streets in anticipation of another weekend of violent demonstrations it comes as france's government has been heavily criticized often based video of the rest of the group of students went viral but france's interior minister is saying that none of the high school students were injured during the arrests in the town of mount leisure west of the capital. yemen's warring sides are struggling to reach consensus on major issues in talks that many hope could possibly pave the way for an end to the conflicts saudi backed government and who's the rebels have been meeting in the village of rimbaud north of stockholm the government said it would be happy for the new fees to reopen son as airport but only if it could inspect the planes first at one of its facilities the who sees have turned down the offer the u.s. congress is grappling with how to punish the saudi crown prince over the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the head of turkish intelligence has already briefed some u.s. senators on turkey's investigation into. you're up to

date with all of our top stories that will be more news at the top of the next hour that's in twenty five minutes time i will see them coming up next on al-jazeera it's outfront. the u.s. government says china is detaining more than two million winters ethnic kazakhs and other muslim minorities is this the world's biggest most ignored human rights crisis our law school we go activist also on the show the u.k. is trying to quit the european union was the original brics that referendum tainted that's our debate.

according to the u.s. state department more than two million members of muslim ethnic minorities are being held by the chinese government in so-called reeducation camps against their will including eight hundred thousand wingers activists say it's part of a long running government campaign to suppress torture and humiliate the weak as the chinese government say they're fighting terrorism even as they send communist party officials to live inside of we got homes but is the world even paying attention joining me to discuss this human rights crisis is. we got activist who was forced to leave china some thanks for joining me on upfront for having me you're a weaker activist who fled china in two thousand and three how bad has the situation become in providence the historic we got homeland in more recent months and years do you recognize these horrific numbers from the u.s.

state department eight hundred thousand we get to reeducation camps more than two million members of muslim minorities detained in total that number sound almost unbelievable. yes actually after the force of december the tuesday state department of. testimony in capitol hill and a lot of the news media pick up to eight hundred paul then we were actually it's more than two million because we were is a major population over there and shouldn't. because what are you hearing from your friends and family back home in india in about what's going on inside those camps because the chinese government say there have been violent attacks by weakest separatists so they are just the radicalizing the terrorists there they say the chinese foreign ministry says these policies are about improving livelihoods and preserving stability what do you say in response. to that we have a lot of testimony witness testimony and also we have the

firsthand information from the chinese government's web site and their information and i will ask them what president in young university was a medical university president and a customer university's president the need of from this work ational education there in the council there in the electorate as well and the whole can they become a terrorist if they can promoted to the university as president reach means it's a provincial level party member also must be communist party member which means the communist party members become terrorist now are needed to go to what's happening there are we talking about when we talk about this testimony of torture yes it's by the state department of land less indoctrination and the

harsh conditions inside and here's a good person's testimony they are in for seeing. their hunger not giving them enough food and not enough water and sometimes forcing the take a madison are no one medicine and after that someone. from the woman's testimony there was a pregnancy. and the some kid who was died over there and if that is. and in one cell with. description they have model. sixty hour on the people inside and some how to we stand at least our families are coming from people who've been released and come out yes very good job in the laboratory of china now we are out for me. and girl and another one lady now he is in turkey so that we have for so that the numbers we're seeing the conditions that are getting harsher this is an escalating

trend clearly but it's not new repression of the we get as being going on for decades or you tell me about what happened to you you were we were activist in china in the eighty's and ninety's what happened to you years starting very early into the started to abolish that we've got a language teaching in the. university and they always have very strong discrimination. for you sample i was teacher in college your work ational training college that's the real work original and really the only they were the police will visit me and bring me to the police station asking some question and when i give a class to the student into the world put some student morning after me and arrested me twice and beating me. this is the one and the day use the electric. beaten. to me

twice in one in a relation with this roughly it was in the then one at what happened to your family your family suffer as well a brother was killed by the chinese mob in total and four after i left and my sister was get arrested because of my activism in poland fourteen and now i got lost who is whole my family members now i don't know if my mom she's still alive my sister is still alive my ex-wife go. lost contact my kid i got here after ten years in two thousand and thirteen in malaysia and my. because i stand him some money and some. postal some clothes and his tools in two thousand and nine tucson was get.

beaten tortured and detained for without any charges just because i stand money and send some parcel to go talk to other we give living in exile this is a common experience and i want to hear the very heart of the experience what seems to be in recent weeks of some of the media reports from the associated press and other to be believed if this is going beyond discrimination it's something we've not seen pretty much anywhere else in the world there are reports that the chinese communist party has sent more than a million local government workers to live to literally live inside of we go home to watch the prey raise their kids to monitor them twenty four seven even in private it sounds not just crazy it sounds orwellian yes. it was always morning. that was a common practice in the chinese government for the if you say no you are extremism . will you and you can send you to a concentration camp or sentence you because just say you don't like them and they

will leave you twenty four hours and one time they go at least have to leave you in their home for two weeks and a lot of the family so hard when it does son demand was all yours in. concentration camp or you laugh to war men and their daughters is small kids and if they are taking this and wanted it i heard some of them raping the woman. but from what you're hearing it was a secondhand report from things you're hearing from other activists other exiles is just increasing in number there more people go into more homes though yes. when it started two years ago it was just some family seeing it. targeted in the day needed to mourn in term more closely now. it was all your family it and it two years ago first time what i heard it is before they stand in

a car just or we're going to pass in the car. that we are all villagers you cannot lock your door inside when you are sleep at night you'll have to open it and there's a police can anytime come into your heart in me the night ask all your family to go outside to wait in the courtyard they will search your home or they're looking for . any seeing. rags or or any other. righted books so what do you want the u.s. government giora to countries which have been very silent about all this the international community the un what do you want them to do to help we get in how do you put pressure on a country as powerful as china as economically dominant in the global economy as china. currently for example the u.s. government. true to war is that china and if it's combined who is acumen rides

include that we were tibet issue i am pretty sure that we are u.s. government to stand on the high ground also morality and can mobilize all the western countries give us some sanction to the chinese government who is responsible for this atrocity you say that it go the other way couldn't it be that donald trump and president xi do a deal on trade which involves the. looking the other way on what's going on and. yes i'm seeing that. very. optimistic news is calculating what. we already talked about sanctions three months early and until now we didn't see any action and i know if u.s. sanctions some of which all the rest of the wall there will follow and the u.n. can stand firm in their commitment to the human rights who shot her son would have

to leave it there thank you so much for joining me on outfront. french president emanuel macross government is on the defensive following violent protests against a proposed fuel tax credit was supposed to be a hopeful alternative to europe's right wing populists but in this week's reality check out from producer ryan cole examines whether the french president really is a hero of the global resistance in the age of donald trump in rising authoritarianism many have failed french president emmanuel mak or as the savior of the liberal order even declared himself the main opponent of europe's nationalist populist but this is really well since assuming power mccall has passed a massive an unpopular reconfiguration of france's labor laws by decree critics say this weakens collective bargaining rights and decreases workers' security simply dismiss the naysayers as slackers his contempt for some of the inconveniences of

french markets the extend beyond the workplace in the aftermath of the horrific twenty fifteen terror attack in paris strict state of emergency laws were implemented. however has now incorporated these provisions into ordinary law as a result of thirty seven gifted draconian powers to curb the rights of individuals suspected of having links to terrorist networks although any independent judicial oversight the ombudsman. the man in charge. defending civil liberties one these policies stigmatize muslims and threaten social cohesion refugees haven't fared so well in france either yes the occasional refugee has been fast track to citizenship because they went viral scaling the building and saving a child but most haven't been so lucky last august passed a law reducing the number of days one has to apply for asylum from one hundred twenty to nine be an asylum seekers whose applications are rejected could be deported before the asylum court has the chance to rule on their appeal for freedom

of the press doesn't always support those seeking to hold power to account in july it was revealed that one of his bodyguards violently attacked two protesters will be illegally disguised as a police officer attack journalist reporting on the unfolding scandal saying that france has a press that is no longer pursuing the truth and media power that wants to become a judicial power the remark or a swift rebuke from human rights watch who said his arguments were dangerous rhetoric will journalists around the world are coming under fire from populist leaders and other autocrats who wish to discredit or prevent all criticism of power perhaps the greatest lesson of the presidency is that threats to liberal democracy do not always come from the political extremes can arise from the left the right and yes the center. claims of illegal campaign overspending of russian interference of data theft was the twenty sixth referendum in the u.k. a free and fair vote as britain prepares to leave the european union next month

there's a growing chorus of voices calling for a second referendum partly on the grounds that the first one may have been illegitimate one of the reporters who has broken most of the stories related to face book cambridge analytic on the possible role of russian money in the twenty sixteen vote is the observer journalist carole cadwallader she joins me now from london and from brussels member of the european parliament stephen wolff a longstanding bricks at supporter and former member of ukip the u.k. . independence party thank you both for joining me on from. carol let me start with you as a result of your own investigative journalism you have criticized the way in which the brics a referendum in the summer of twenty sixteen was conducted that's when fifty two percent of the public voted to leave as opposed to forty eight percent who voted to stay do you believe that brooks vote was tainted well i think it's absolutely know that that the vast majority of people voted the way that they did because of their very strong and genuine views that is absolutely not in doubt and never

question that at all there are now multiple criminal investigations i think the last count there actually nine ongoing serious or criminal investigations into laws that were broken during the campaign so that includes illegal overspending illegal coordination of campaigns illegal use of data and then that we've got this extraordinary revelation that the the biggest sum of money spent you in the referendum campaign that was supplied by our own banks this were still businessman who supported nigel for raj is campaign the electoral can commission looked at that donation for a year they investigated it for an entire year and at the end of it they said we're not sure where that money came from and we're not even sure that it's british ok stephen moore did you win that vote in twenty sixteen fair and square carroll talks

about all the illegality that's now associated with your come pain. of course we are absolutely won fair and square and i think i'm pleased that. people's votes were based on opinions that they had previously formed there is no way that i was campaigning in the streets of the north of england in the early and blackpool in the middle and the home towns that i grew up in that we were being funded by the russians had some sort of dark money from some organizations in the united states but where i do have a problem with carol's assessment is there was no connection between vote leave and leave the e.u. in fact there was the opposite there was a complete hatred between those like karen banks and those who were leading the the vote leave campaign there was no way in heaven that these people would have been collaborating with one another stephen what about carroll's point about overspending both levy you and not only in the reported to the police by the

electoral commission and the factors and the main thrust of carol's argument is that nigel for she was involved in some sort of illicit campaign with the russians to fund a campaign to undermine british democracy i'm a star is the main case about it then is compiled probably wrong because that is never what i campaigned on never what the millions of people of i'm are i and the people involved in ukip met and worked with ok carol is that palpably wrong is that your main case and is that probably wrong the vast majority of people this made absolutely no difference at all to you but what is key here is that they when targeted by these advertisements that is not where the money was spent all of the money in the referendum was spent in locating a few people who were called the persuadable and they were the people who were targeted with a fire hose of dish information in the last two weeks of the campaign

and that was where the money was spent it's the fact that it's just so essential to . you're going to have a referendum that is going to affect the foundation the constitution of our country forever you better do that within the law and we know that is not the case we know that multiple laws were broken and an investigation is being in some multiple of the laws that might have been broken even one of our in banks this multimillionaire businessman who's been donating to the. cause for years now you know him you were at the top of ukip for a while we've seen all these times now coming up between now and bones and sources in russia did you know about them when you were working alongside him well look i never knew about his various meetings with the russian ambassador but he never knew about the meetings that i had with a variety of people in the in the county various campaigns what i do know is that he did meet these people carol as pointed these but at no stage has anybody ever

said that what he's done is illegal their investigations and that is the point here we can't just run a witch on based upon the idea of evidence that is being pulled together by people that's never been found in a steve carroll carroll you've not convicted these people it's not been proved in a court of law there are three investigations now that the electoral commission carried out and that it has concluded and that has now passed to the metropolitan police so that is overspending by. overspending by leave and overspending by believe and they that that the electoral commission is that concluded those investigations to a criminal level of proof and it's passed those over to the metropolitan police so we can say definitively. those laws were broken and that has been proved to even. no no carol come on let's be fair about this this is not beyond

a criminal level of proof because the electoral commission doesn't have a criminal level of proof if it did it wouldn't pass it on to the metropolitan committee police in the first place what they're saying if they had had that as the that they believe it doesn't fit their particular view which is that the state ruled they are the government regulate process and how different is not saying that a little was they can they are the official regulator appointed by the u.s. and the rules and have broken that ease what they say but now how little there is an old laws were broken laws like heroin there is a different sense about the electoral commission has said make your point carol i appreciate your point of interest to me about sixteen times there in the u.k. we have very different levels there is a civil liability law and the recruitment all laws and in the civil liability law that is where the electoral commission is they have no criminal powers and no criminal designation of what it is that's why they passed it on to the metropolitan

police because they don't have the powers do you did you can't get money from russian sources given you got so much money from aaron banks when you were part of you can't. absolutely know how you know. because we wouldn't have been struggling for most of the money that we had in the first place ok karen let me ask you this this is where the nonsense comes from mehdi ok we're listening closely well let's try to get a lot of final callisto so i get to the bottom of the alleged nonsense carole you've written an article for the new york review of books saying britain needs russia investigation its own robert muller but given how controversial and divisive the motor investigation has been here in the united states do you think that actually be of any value in the u.k. . well i think i look at this this speech the head of m i six made is only his second of a speech since he's been in office and he pointed to the fact that how m i six had been involved in the mass expulsion of russian spies from britain and that

happened off the sick a squeeze powell was poisoned the foreign office took this action now one of those people who was expelled from britain at that time we m i six confirmed was a russian intelligence officer this is the person who is targeting our own banks and he wasn't just targeting our own banks any old time he was targeting him in the months before the referendum and banks was invited by the russian ambassador to mr russian businessmen who offered him these kind of like fantastic gold and diamond deals and i think we can it's not a question that russia just like write a check to to a political campaign and that's how it works what we know from past is all across you it is it's this is it's about enriching businessmen who then donate to campaigns about offering sweetheart deals and when we look at the often we look at what was proposed to our banks that just looks like a sweetheart deal it does seem let me ask you this given you want to get to the

bottom of this like karel does would you support almost all investigation an independent investigation i sound like a liberal democrat the answer is yes and the answer is no on the answer is yes because i think it would be farcically show that there was no involvement between ukip and the russians or leave the e.u. in the oceans or more importantly the connection between vote leave and leave the e.u. but on the other side of it would actually continue the negativity and the divisiveness and the dangerous damage to a political feeling that's happening in the united kingdom at the moment whereas i believe that carol has a complete g.t. as a real reporter to pursue people like cambridge analytical and the case that she's looking at and. but there is a duty on all of us to look at this carefully and responsibly about how we're damaging our democracy when you link things that are not factual with things that are just kind of ideas you mention damaging democracy as time goes by stephen as more and more evidence of seeming wrongdoing emerges more and more questions go

unanswered there does seem to be a momentum growing for a second referendum on sky news did a poll last month that found more than half of britain support a second referendum you're a democrat what's wrong with having a nother vote given all the controversy given it's nearly three years later purely and simply because democracy demands that once you have a vote you have to enact the decisions of the people and this this do you here is different what's being asked is not to enact leaving the european union is to change your mind before actually happens and if you do so there will be millions of people who still would vote to leave and i don't want to see that division between families between rich and poor between the those so-called who don't know what they're talking about and those who believe that they do continue to try and use that carol final question to you said that british politics now is quote conducted in darkness in britain it's no longer possible to keep money out of politics or even to track it so given that a second referendum would probably be in your view as compromised and tainted as

the first one wouldn't how would you get around that problem given your own reporting. well i'm not here to campaign for a second referendum i'm just here to tell you that that was not free of vote it was not conducted democratically we can have absolutely no assurance in the outcome of it and the rest is for politicians to to to deal with but yet the role of the tech companies of facebook and of google right at the heart of this there are so refusal to answer questions to our lawmakers that is a massive ongoing problem that. makes the whole thing free and fair election in years to come. just filled with with enormous uncertainty and that's why it's so important what parliament is trying to do in trying to hold them to account on that note we'll have to leave it there carol stephen thanks for joining me on the arena that's our show from will be back next week.

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officer of chinese tech giant huawei is appearing course in canada after being arrested in vancouver last week long is also the daughter of the company's founder if extradited to the u.s. she could get thirty years in prison on charges of conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions china has been demanding her immediate release u.s. president donald trump has nominated heaven out to be the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations she's currently the spokeswoman for the u.s. state department if approved by the senate now or replace nikki haley who leaves the u.n. at the end of the month also in jordan reports from washington. good afternoon it's been rumored for weeks that state department spokesperson heather now it would be named the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations on friday the u.s. president confirmed the speculation. are.

higher. every. day now or tat no foreign policy experience before she joined the state department in early two thousand and seventeen she was a t.v. news presenter and correspondent most notably at the conservative fox news channel that background made it easy for critics to pelt after podium gaps such as this one looking back in the history books today is the seventy first anniversary of the speech that now announced the marshall plan tomorrow is the anniversary of the d.-day invasion we obviously have a very long history with the government of germany and we have a strong relationship with the government already some senators and foreign policy experts are calling nauert supremely unqualified for the job it which detail nuance and contacts are key to negotiating matters of global security and stability if confirmed by the senate now word would replace nikki haley the former state

governor who was also a foreign policy novice spent her tenure pushing trump's america first policy demanding institutional reforms at the u.n. and defend acumen rights haley also had something important to lean on trump's confidence in her she made that clear when she announced her resignation in october no i'm not running for two hundred twenty i can promise you when i'll be doing as campaigning for this one heather tower it's called formation hearing will happen early in the new year like nikki haley before her she has the president's strong endorsement but now it's going to need much more than that to persuade senators that she's the right person to represent and to defend the u.s. has interests at the united nations rosalyn jordan al-jazeera capitol hill. well now to germany where the christian democrats have elected on a gret karrenbauer to replace angola merkel as party leader karrenbauer who is merkel's protege won five hundred seventeen votes out of nine hundred ninety nine

cast by delegates result moves her into pole position does it see europe's most influential leader as chancellor the french government is deploying a huge police presence on to the streets in anticipation of another weekend of violent demonstrations it comes as france's government has been heavily criticized after this video of the arrest of a group of students went viral but france's interior minister says none of the high school students were injured during the arrests in the town of mont measuredly west of the capital. yemen's warring sides are struggling to reach consensus on major issues in talks that many hoped might end the four year long conflict a saudi backed government and who the rebels are meeting in sweden the government said it would be happy for the who these to reopen some as airport but only if it could inspect the planes first one of its facilities the who seized have turned down the offer. or are you up to date with all of our top stories coming up

now an investigation into the global emergency that's threatening everything from island paradise is to megacities sound wars is coming up next news after that in twenty five minutes time i'll see you a bit later. we bought the house about c. years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world at the time it has been employed we don't look good up look at what a great job to do i like the law i'm not exactly. washed away by rising sea levels

we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand units become just. lost to human greed and stupidity. when we loose. i mean we loose. our life. we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing who will win the samplers. for most of us san makes us think of days at the beach sand castles and sunshine and once the holidays are over we slip back into our busy lives. but is feeling the sand between our toes or caught in our bathing suits the whole story. does this so familiar substance play any other role in our daily lives.

standard is what i like to call the unsung heroes of law it's because there are just endless examples. of the way in which sarah and intersects with daily lloyd's which we all really know commonly aware of. sand has quietly infiltrated every corner of our world melted and transformed into glass it sits on every shelf. it's also the source of silicone dioxide. a mineral found an hour winds cleaning products detergents paper dehydrated foods hairspray toothpaste cosmetics. and an astounding variety of other products we use every day. but it's a strategic mended such as. you. think about your computer. chips can be manufactured if you do not have high quality said. the minerals

extracted from sand are at the core of our hyper connected society they form a basic material for microchips without which our computers credit cards bank machines cell phones and many other devices would not exist. sand even helps us fly in our airplanes the plastics lightweight alloys of the fuselage and jet engines even the paint and tires are all made with sand. it's almost become like a the air we breathe we don't think too much about it but you can't live without it . and the industry with the biggest appetite for sand. construction. for the last one hundred fifty years sand mixed with cement to form concrete has shaped the contours of our increasingly urbanized world. because of its low cost strength and ease of use this gray slurry has become the

dominant building material around the globe. the quantities used are astronomical. to build an average house it takes two hundred tons of sand. for a larger building like a hospital around three thousand tons. each kilometer of highway devours thirty thousand tons. and to build a nuclear plant the estimate is about twelve million tonnes. production of sand exceeds dean billion tons. and that is a quantity that is so huge that it's beyond imagination how much is fifteen billion

you don't know because no other resource is used in such vast quantities as maybe with the exception of water. so where in the world does that much sand come from. let's just say the seven men who work in the aggregate business have not been affected by the economic downturn. behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. business is booming but meeting this demand is not always an easy task sand is not something that's easily found like you might think it is used to be that you'd have a sand and gravel deposit and you'd simply go and dig it up out of the ground so you'd have sand to make your roads bridges and buildings up but that type material has all been taken away it's gone to be used it already. with the process of

service and exhausted we started dredging rivers for sand but this is lead to flooding. now we've turned to the oceans for sand. to satisfy our seemingly insatiable appetite for sand we've been dust for allies extracting it from beneath the waves. and the workhorse of the industry is a dredger. a giant tanker equipped with a suction arm capable of pumping huge quantities of sand to the surface. the right bessel in the right location can pump up to four hundred thousand cubic metres of sand to the surface every single day. each dredger cost anywhere from twenty five million to two hundred million dollars. but the sand is free.

so the thousands of tankers combing the world's oceans at every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a modern architecture it's a sandbox for developers were no fantasies to grandiose. projects. of sand using huge volumes of sand and construction projects concrete and indeed just making more land has been doing with the with the artificially constructed islands. landfills or even bigger consumers of sand the concrete. with up.