documents of the u.s. president expressed his lack of concern totally clears the president he wrote thank you it's not clear exactly what he was referring to but some believe the contents of the latest memo is true provide some cause for concern for donald trump michael cohen was trump's long time lawyer and fix up he's pled guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations and it's this latter charge that now directly implicates the president in its filing prosecutors in new york say code made to hush money payments to women in contravention of campaign finance law that filing says as cohen has now admitted with respect to both payments he acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one individual one is assumed to be donald trump so prosecutors are directly implicating the president in the crime the special counsel's moment about cohen confirmed what was already in the public domain about failed attempts to build a trump tower in moscow that continued even as trump was on the campaign trail expounding about his proposed russian foreign policy however there are two new areas which might be of concern to trump firstly miller writes cohen provided the

special counsel's office with useful information concerning certain discreet russia related matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with company executives during the campaign and cohen provided relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the white house during the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen time period. it's unclear what information miller is referring to during the campaign but it's striking cohen is also discussing trump's first year in office with the special prosecutor. miller has also submitted a document about former trump campaign manager paul manifold he was convicted of illegal lobbying for the ukrainian government as well as financial fraud the special prosecutor says manifold broke a plea agreement reached to provide information in return for like a sentence this involves a redacted name miller says while negotiating the agreement for provided information about redaction that was pertinent to an investigation in another

district however after signing the plea agreement manifold told the government a different and exculpatory version of the events in addition miller says manifold lied about context he had with the trumpet ministration after he had reached that plea agreement the former director of the f.b.i. happened to be in capitol hill for a closed door questioning on friday he praised the special counsel's investigation but gave a reminder that a lot of questions remain most important indication of that is that you don't know anything about it except when he files something court and that's what makes it so who don't trump has now been implicated directly in campaign finance violations but it's not clear what these latest findings have to do with the russian collusion investigation if anything however taken in conjunction with this heavily redacted document that was filed earlier this week in conjunction with the investigation into a former security advisor michael flynn there's plenty of speculation she had written c. washington short time ago the us president dismissed the latest court documents released

by special counsel counsel. and a tweet of course is what he tweeted after two years and millions of pages of documents and a cost of over thirty million dollars collision course that was not the conclusion of those documents. so ahead on al-jazeera that's months after he led brass protested in the twenty years of one party abroad many is accomplishing in faces and early tests with parliamentary elections. hello this less than one more day i think of rain in the north east of iraq just crossing the border into iran that's been substantial house code flooding from a bill northwards even further south in mosul but the size need to go on and then you should have at least a day of drawing this because there's nothing much back up the coast of the east

and that there's mole forming again the heavy rain that's fallen recently in israel and lebanon is also dying down but it's coming back the picture from monday is once more of an eastern med storm running in but he says that throughout iran is cooling quite eleven terror on twenty one and done in kuwait clearly it's warmer fetisov there's a bit of a north sea breeze blowing still on sundays through qatar and down towards u.a.e. temperatures in the high twenty's not even the low thirty's and most part that is even cooling down in western societies the breeze picks up a little bit of dust to present i think during monday in southern africa optically south africa the showers recently have been very noticeable in cross alluna tell the suit to swaziland now that shari mass is still active come sunday and indeed monday and the dark tops suggest the potential of flash flooding as a whole lot moves only slowly eastwards.

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gas and scuffles with protesters in paris hundreds of people have been detained the so-called yellow vests anti-government movement protests go on for the fourth weekend but as you can see things appear to be called right now and the sticking points to emerge from the third day of talks in sweden is over at transitional government who believe it would work if that includes all political parties but government and go shooters they are resisting it. china has summoned canada's ambassador to laud what it calls a strong protest against the arrest of an executive from tech giant wall way describing the arrest is extremely nasty the chinese foreign ministry warns canada there could be consequences if it does not release name one jew immediately she was arrested last saturday on the request of the u.s. she is facing extradition to the united states where she is accused of violating sanctions on iran for more unless it's to live to hide your castro who is live for

us in washington d.c. so tell us more about what she is exactly accused of. rachelle a canadian prosecutor laid out these charges in court friday he says that maine tricked banks with u.s. operations into doing business with iran that violated u.s. saying sions she is accused of claiming to these banks that everything was above board when all the time her company while way was operating with an unofficial substance city area based in hong kong that was doing business with iran now mon was arrested at the vancouver airport at the behest of u.s. authorities her hearing for bail will resume on monday in the u.s. is expected to rapidly attempt to extradite her here back to the u.s. for trial that is unless china successfully intervenes which it is forcefully trying to do now. how does this impact the trade negotiations in china in the u.s.

. well the fact this arrest happened last saturday at the exact time when president donald trump was sitting down for dinner with chinese president xi jinping at the g. twenty summit that was an unfortunate coincidence in the fact that the white house says that trump was unaware that the rest was happening at this time but chinese officials say that it's seen as a form of embarrassment now most was basically seen as corporate oil tea in china not only is she the chief financial officer of huawei but she is the daughter of that company's founder while way is the tech giant that dominates the chinese mobile phone industry and chinese business elite have reacted to her arrest very swiftly and scathingly accusing the u.s. and canada of kidnapping all of this happening under the context of the ongoing trade talks between china and the u.s.

and now presidency is under mounting pressure to resist more concessions to the u.s. all of this boating poorly to finding a permanent end to this trade war that is ravaging become the economies of both countries ok. in washington thank you. speak now to the former canadian diplomat call and robertson in ottawa via skype he is the vice president of the canadian global affairs institute thank you so much for your time and do you think that the u.s. and canada. anticipated or should have anticipated this type of outrage. well i think it comes to the canadian government like the proverbial lump of coal in christmas this was not something that i think we would have sought because at the we're trying to get to go shake closer economic relations with china there's been some bumps recently the prime minister was over there a year ago and got to rebuffed what he pushed his progressive trade agenda to china

movement since then trying to establish closer economic relations a trade war between china and the united states is the last thing we want because canada becomes collateral damage and now we have this this court case dropped in our lap we came in government did what it had to do there will now be doing this let me let me i want you to stretch on did what they had to do in what sense is there a way that hey let's not have been put in the middle. you know i think that when the american government you know our closest ally were through both norad and nato and we got very close to law enforcement ties when they request extradition of an individual will act on it now the courts will decide whether the american application for extradition is warranted and that's likely to take some time and we've had a couple of cases like not like this one this is the highest profile we've had but we've had a couple in the past where the chinese government has intervened to say they wanted someone back you know move the very quickly and we pointed out as our foreign

minister christopher you and has said you know there's due process this is a rules based society will have to go through this so this is likely to stretch john for you know for days if not weeks because the next step is the american have to present their case which can present before a judge in canada and then they'll decide whether or not the information and then it will go to our justice minister decide whether to proceed with extradition well what we're all what impact do you think this will have on the escalating trade war between the u.s. and china well as you as a reporter just report you know this is having a. this is not what i think the united states necessarily wanted and have it would appear this was not part of the game plan on the part of the administration when they had there when the president of the two presidents mass met last saturday night in buenos aires to try and work out and declared a sort of trade truce for ninety days in which they would not apply new sanctions and that they would try to say work this out in the chinese apparently agreed they

would buy more if the united states something and it and others would like to see happen we want to see the net of this trade war because it's it's harming the canadian economy and it's upsetting the global economy ok as mr coloradan said thank you so much for joining us from ottawa appreciate your insight on this and as you said this is a due process thing it could take a few days at least to play out thank you very much thanks michelle. iran's president says donald trump's decision to re-impose sanctions against his country is economic terrorism the oil and financial sanctions came into force a month ago after trump pulled out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal and may speaking at a conference on regional cooperation haasan rouhani warned western nations risk an influx of illegal drugs if the sanctions weaken iran. panel i would pose sanctions that if iran's ability to find drugs and terrorism are affected you

will not be safe from a deluge of drugs asylum seekers bombs and terrorism. plays in egypt say they have killed two gunmen suspected of attacking a bus carrying christians and many last month the government says it is killed in one thousand other suspects connected to that attack at least seven christians returning from a child's baptism were killed when their bus was ambushed six of the victims came from the same family. armenians head to the polls on sunday and parliamentary elections as the first vote since mastery protests earlier this year and it twenty years of rule by an unpopular republican party opinion polls suggest a landslide victory for a nickel my step alliance which led the so-called velvet revolution and april and may robin forestay walker reports. commemorating the armenian earthquake of one thousand nine hundred eighty eight in which at least twenty five thousand people were killed acting prime minister nicole

passion and ended his election campaign with a promise that if his party wins you marie armenia's second largest city will become his priority thirty years ago the city was a disaster zone and successive leaders have failed to fix it. when we say restoring the disasters we need to understand not only meeting the housing needs of the people not only restoring schools and. but also restoring this city's economic potential. the potential for change nationwide brought a nickel to power in mass protests this spring. is open style including regular facebook live posts has delighted many armenians has all come back. and reinvigorated armenian politics this first live t.v. debate pitted him against all other party leaders nicole passion yan has for many

months enjoyed the power of the street popular power he now wants that power in parliament through what he has promised will be free and fair elections sunday's election will be a test of that promise. some believe that promise has already been broken with passion accused of using aggressive language and tactics nor atmosphere of fear is acceptable during the election it's unacceptable. organized inclinations of candidate of complainer. hate speech is forbidden in the country but nevertheless it's happening every day back in khumri. who lost his niece in the earthquake believes passion yan will accomplish what previous leaders failed to achieve a. passion yanez a man sent by god for the armenian people yes with all my heart i will vote for him

. armenians have high hopes there will be disappointment if those hopes are not realized for a steelworker al-jazeera yerevan. and a law passed by japan's parliament will see the country bucking tradition and accepting foreign workers that contentious legislation will open doors to nearly three hundred fifty thousand outsiders it's designed to plug japan's shrinking and aging workforce the measure will be in effect for about five years starting in april michael pen is president of the chance to a news agency says the japanese government must prepare not only for the arrival of foreign workers but emigrants as well well interestingly enough the debate isn't necessarily along the lines you'd expect because the government itself is the conservative right wing government and the opposition is the more liberal open to other cultures opposition and so where the opposition parties have been attacking

the government is not so much that they're against the idea of having immigrants but they're saying if we're going to have immigrants we need to have a system which deals with it more comprehensively and make sure that you know these people just are brought in as cheap labor and exploited if they're going to be guests in our country if they're going to be here we need to make sure that the overall system an infrastructure is built to handle it and they're attacking the government for not really being willing to acknowledge that this is immigration and not simply a labor policy humans have been exploiting the surface of mars for remotely for more than two decades now for the first time no we have heard what it sounds like. as a vibrations caused by wind as it rolls across the solar pane planes that is a nasa is new mars in sight lander

a touchdown on the red planet last month. and the space x. dragon cargo craft has docked with the international space station it is carrying thousands of kilograms worth of supplies as well as materials and equipment to support more than two hundred fifty scientific investigations that will remain attached to the isis for the next five weeks before returning back to earth one of africa's largest art museums has opened in senegal one hundred forty eight thousand square foot venue houses exhibits from ancient black civilizations as well as modern art work including paintings that recount slaves passage to the americas centuries ago african governments have been stepping up pressure on western museums particularly in europe to return hundreds of thousands of stolen artifacts during the colonial era. make up the headlines for you on al-jazeera police in france have been using batons

and tear gas and scuffles with protesters and paris hundreds of people have been detained the so-called yellow vest anti-government movement protests go into a fourth week and these are live pictures where things are relatively calm now. seven people have been arrested in belgium is yellow vests protests spread across europe police used pepper spray on marchers who tried to break into the european union buildings the protesters are calling for the resignation of the prime minister shall we show one of the sticking points to emerge from the third day yemen talks in sweden is over a transitional government who these believe it would work if it includes all political parties government negotiators are resisting it. this is not the issue. going to have name is the military coup that took place in two thousand and fourteen. a few minutes ago i was going to. through aggression took over our country i thought of part of the. let's say the hajis ultimate goal

you don't much care less is not going to solve them on the contrary. there will be the ongoing fighting over. a lot of. which has hijacked the state so my last question to you do you have any hopes that these talks will bring about some breakthrough how to. i don't know. if you don't want to use general in a piece with general about peace china has some in canada's ambassador to lodge what it calls a strong protest against the arrest of an executive from the tech giant wall way they want to do that is was arrested last saturday on the request of the us she is facing extradition to the united states where she's accused of violating sanctions on iran documents released by u.s. prosecutors have for the first time directly linked onil trump to financial crimes committed during his two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign it's also been

revealed that a russian who offer political center and chain with that campaign reached out to trump's former lawyer michael cohen as far back as two thousand and fifteen or so the headlines keep it here and side story is next. you're. cutting supply to push up prices some of the top oil producing countries have reached an agreement so what does it mean for consumers and how long will this deal between opec rivals and allies launched this is in science or.

hello welcome to the program has them seek of the world's major oil producers agreed to slash production off the meeting in vienna in the hopes of getting prices up again the cuts by opec and other produces outside the katella will take one point two million barrels a day from world markets the price of oil has tumbled from eighty five dollars a bow in october to sixty dollars this week but it needed the agreement of non opec member russia will bring in our guests in a moment but first this report from paul brennan in vienna. 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 tail numbers and so on friday as the meeting expanded to include non opec members all eyes were on alexander novak 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 an understanding on how to take corporation further. the final figures opec members will reduce output by eight hundred thousand barrels a day the non-impact 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 saudi government laid out their path to basically are moving about the russian government also gave us in the window about what their words actions would be so i think the statement was actually more transparent than expected i think it actually is a more robust cut than we expected 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. does opec no longer calls the shots this is been a hard fought compromise deal and the fact it's been so difficult emphasizes the limits now of opec's effectiveness and there are still question marks as to how long the deal done here will actually last paul brennan al-jazeera vienna.

or so in october brant crude oil prices risa three year high but they then crashed around thirty percent from early october prompting this week's decision in vienna that's the spot us president donald trump urging saudi arabia and others to keep prices down the u.s. this year became the world's top while producer for the first time since one nine hundred seventy three for saudi arabia and russia are second and third other big oil producers iran libya and venezuela have all been exempt from making any production cuts in this deal. let's bring in our guests now joining us on skype from moscow we have nicholai served gulf senior research fellow at the institute of world economy and international relations in london salami and international oil economist and in leesburg virginia a sane askari professor of international business and international affairs at

george washington university good to have you all with us gentleman let me start with you what do you make of this decision by opec and others. was it perhaps a bit more aggressive than many were expecting. i think it is a good decision and a practical one to stop the decline of the oil prices it might not the result immediately in higher oil prices but it is a step in their either direction especially with the country beautician or a major contribution from saudi arabia and is slightly less contribution from russia it will even be a correction of a mistake made in june by saudi arabia and that of pressure from president graham

and russia when they added six hundred fifty thousand barrels of oil to the market and that increased at an already existing glop in the market that was wondering isn't why the prices gunned down there is another reason which is the. by the global oil market that the us sanctions on iran have not yet coerced iran a single battle over oil and so the market relaxed as you mean that there will be no all supply definitions see in the global oil market well let's put that point then to a sane askari is this partly an effort to correct a decision that was made earlier in the year in june when they decided to pump more

oil to to make up for the the lost iranian supplies and prevent prices spiking. well i think that the. that what's going on is that in fact saudi arabia as was just mentioned by your previous guest saudi arabia increased its all production and i think that now the sacrifice the saudi arabia is supposed to be making is not really any kind of a sacrifice because it increases all production by quite a bit earlier this year and so when you take that from a base to cut back from that base is not that much of a sacrifice i think that when i look at the history of opec. i can tell you that i don't think that this decision will do very much opec has never been able to. not sheep to be able to stick together and now we're really talking more about not just opec but opec including not opec so i don't think this will have that much of an

effect on prices i think what's much much more important in this room of things is the state of the world economy if in fact what happens to the money i think right now as they keep where you are in the u.s. has a nascar what about the trump factor and all of this and we know we know the u.s. president has been tweeting about and wanting to keep prices low yet the saudi arabia's energy minister. said that this decision was made out of economic necessity and in his words not driven by any political agenda and now in other words he's saying we're going to do what we need to do and it really doesn't matter what president trump tweets about it. well i think the saudi oil minister is rather brave in saying that i'm sorry to say that's not the history of things but i think for mr trump there are number of balancing issues that are at play here on the one hand i think you would like to see low oil prices because that helps his base it's

like a tax cut in the sense when you have low oil prices and also i think why he needs lower prices is that all indications are that the united states economy will go to into a recession later next year as so if you have a recession that will also hurt him because what that will do is that will be more unemployment and with the election coming up in twenty twenty he will be in an untenable position so he would like to see lower prices for that but on the other hand he has another problem which is when you have low oil prices the u.s. stock market generally goes down and that's added to volatility and the u.s. stock market going down and so i think mr trump has got it's got a real problem on his and but on balance i think he would like to see lower prices nicholai sort of the point was made in in paul's report there that this distill

could not be done without russia needed russia on board to get this done what does that say about how important a player it is now in the global oil market not being an opec member itself and what is a say about opec's power in all of this. well i think from the russian point of view opec is still strong and influential that is why russia is actually cooperating with opec and for russia opec is the only partner that can help really to stabilize the prices moscow is no interested in raising the prices as high as possible because well most of the government revenue comes from oil exports in and of course russia is ready to supply most to about one third of the costs so it is the. an important contribution and russia is ready to work with saudi

arabia in maintaining high old oil prices and i think this decision by opec was a very strong sign was a very important sign that russia and saudi arabia will work together on the oil market in order to maintain high prices it's a declaration of sorts both economically and politically and i think both countries are very much concerned we the consequences of the u.s. efforts to increase production of oil north america and. iranian sanctions because despite the fact that until now the sanctions didn't hit iran that seriously there is an expectation that iran very quickly will start exporting more and if you talk about cheating well that's what's being expected and iran will export at much lower prices than now so we need to take precautions in

order to stabilize the market and to maintain high prices mundo said i mean how much how much influence does does opec as it as a cartel really have on on well prices today that the fact they have to bring in russia and others in on this. first up it is not a cut of tears it has never been a tour in fact it's the last found him back that in one thousand and sixteen to confront the kind of thing of the seven sisters its influence has gone through embargoes through wars through conflicts but it has set a vive it has a vital role to play in the global oil market is stabilizing that the market and step realizing oil prices facts start fair the role of opec

because opec accounts for forty two point seven per cent of the global production and more than seventy one point eight of the global proven oil reserves so by all accounts it is a very very influential organisation and it will continue to be but to make it stronger it needs always it cohesion of its members and sometimes the policies of saudi arabia diversion from the policies of the overwhelming majority of opec as happened in twenty fourteen when saudi any abia decided to flood the global oil market in instead of joining opec to cut production to stab realize the oil prices hossein askari what does all this mean then for consumers particularly for motorists for prices at the pump i mean obviously when when if the

prices are going to go up that's that's going to mean higher petrol prices high energy prices. how much of an effect is that going to have on people's pocketbooks . well if i may just go back to what was just said and i will definitely address your question i have to very much disagree with what was just said. in the case of opec i totally agree that opec has never really acted as an effective cartel but if you go back to opec even during the arab oil embargo of one nine hundred seventy three seventy four arab or pick the arab members of opec they even cheated themselves saudi arabia or so or oil to the us fleet iraq in fact did not hold back its output so that you take into account what is said at generally opec meetings is rather meaningless the thing that matters is can they stick together and i can assure you that saudi arabia and iran have nothing in common to agree on

any more during all this time that i have been involved in knowing what's going on between the two countries i can assure you that there has been no cooperation behind the scenes in front of the scenes or anywhere on the scene so whether that what was done at the opec meeting to me is i'm sorry to say rather meaningless i think what matters is can they stick together and for that i'm not really very optimistic not what this does i think to consumers is very clearly this that when you look at it in the case of the united states. people expect oil prices maybe to go up a little bit during next year however this is at the same time will in fact influence shale oil production in the united states it will give a boost to share oil production and so i think that oil prices in the united states makes may go up very very little in the short run but during next year and with the

recession looming i believe world prices in fact will go down in the united states . nicholas serota what's your view on that does this to this further incentivize fracking in the u.s. and what implications is acting to have for for russia's or production. well the this is correct the high prices are a stimulus are in and are an incentive for the u.s. produces to increase shale oil production it's true and we know about this. because of the consequences but currently i think both russia and saudi arabia need high prices and they need them now because of the. because of the current economic situation which requires more income so russia is ready to

take the risks and i think the saudis are also rated to take the risks but in the longer term even in the meat till we understand here that high or low prices will mean more shale oil on the market and that thus we stimulate. production in the us and actually the previous efforts by saudi arabia i mean they increased production and the increased exposure exports they were manna from our point of view they were amount to strangle the u.s. production but they didn't work and besides there is no other choice now. both countries need revenues and they need them now so the risks are. there ready to put up with the risks and speaking about the influence of opec by the way yes back as it was was pretty weak and that was the problem of cheating and it's true that the saudis have their controversies with the iranians but this is why the

saudis are working with the russians and this is why the saudis are trying to create what we call now opec less and opec plus will be a much stronger institution that can really influence the oil market and this is the only solution in the light of the current efforts made by the us in order to increase shale on production and so we have to adjust and opec has to adjust to a new situation when the oil market with the new there is serious competitor coming . mundell salami this disagreement was penciled in for an initial six months right now but could that change depending on what happens with with with with prices and output and so on especially given as well what a sane askari was saying earlier about cheating and countries not sticking to their targets and the agri rand could change from time to time and opec

and plus russia have been monitoring it changes in the global oil market it could change in six weeks if the prices start to go up very significantly i am a great believer and here i hear cannot of what the second speaker has said but i disagree with him completely low on prices are very bad for the united states as well as for the global economy the global economy is myriad of three major. parts the oil industry the economies of the global bruising countries and of course investments are around the world these three are affected adversely by law and prices as we have seen between twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen

a good price and here i am talking about of hundred to one thirty dollars a barrel is good for the global economy as it invigorates this big chunks of the global economy we already chunks of the global economy i'm curious. about your point earlier that the lower oil prices a bad for the u.s. economy that means low low gas prices at the pump for millions of americans how is that a bad thing. yes i tell you it might ben it might act as a. tax cut but you have to see the whole picture the oil industry needs a price between sixty to seventy to break even and the share of oil in the city is growing in importance because it employs two per cent of the workforce

in the united states without higher oil prices they will lose at least two million barrels of that of production in admission to the thousand if not millions of people are made redundant and the third part is that the united states is an intended are a part of the global economy if the global economy is adversely affected by law in prices the american economy is equally affected because it's part of the global economy so it is not good havilland a short term benefit of a tax cut when the whole global economy is affected persona scary what's your view on that. well i would like to go back to one thing and then because if we do have some disagreements here. if i may i you know i can prove this is that when oil prices were around eighty dollars a barrel i said that they will go down to between and between thirty to forty

dollars a barrel and there was a reason for that and that reason is still there in the past we used to say that saudi arabia is the swing producer that it can affect the market with its oil output now what you have is global schadler oil and gas production other swing produces if oil prices go up a little bit because most shale output and i think the danger for opec is that fracking is not just any longer in the united states it is going to be spreading to other parts of this world and so that with oil and everybody used to say that in fact shale oil production would go down its oil prices go down below fifty that was rob it has been proven to be wrong and in fact what you can see is that oil prices will not go to one hundred to one hundred thirty that is a dream which will never come true all right nichelle i sort of give a give what's probably going to be the last word to you then well i don't think

that russia is aiming for one hundred thirty dollars for a barrel i think russia is actually trying to have a balanced price of about seventy eighty dollars which makes. the world production profitable for russia but. still i think the resists a huge concern on behalf of moscow that oh we have a change in situation in the oil market and that is why russia decided to work closely with the saudis because they aren't the only potential partners who can deal with us now these are the taken into consideration the tensions between moscow and washington so i think that these particular partnership will stand and i think both producers will do their best to stabilize the market but within a couple of years well it will definitely see very serious changes if the us shale oil industry continues to develop at the current pace but for now for now

for the short term we expect him ordering the growth of oil prices and then there is what. the that is why the decision was taken i think but in the where there is still no solution or for the longer term because we'll have to adjust to the fracking situation two of the shale oil to the growing shale oil production and it is a pro it will be a problem very soon for everybody or for the established players of the markets all right and on that we will leave it thank you to all three of you a nickel i serve gulf. me and her sane askari thanks very much for being on inside story and as always thank you for watching remy you can see this program again any time by visiting our website edges unit dot com and for further discussion you can go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter the handle there is at

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gas and scuffles and paris's yellow vests protest into the night. disagreements remain but warring parties push in on talks aimed at ending the war again. trying. to protest the arrest of a wall way executive. and. biggest football clubs get ready for a couple. in the spanish capital madrid later in the program. so things are quiet at this hour on the streets of the french capital police in riot gear have cordoned off many streets in paris to prevent crowds of. anti-government protesters from damaging shops and restaurants earlier things were a bit different as thousands of the so-called in yellow vests rally demanding the president resign hundreds of people were either detained or arrested david schaper

reports the the us. was what the yellow vests called act for all their protests played out with some familiar scenes in the center paris. hundreds of arrests were made but it didn't stop the clashes the demonstrators tried to storm the blockades mounted by the riot police. sergeant who has now become the dictionary some moving in on the yellow best protesters who are trying missiles at the police lines they're now using tear gas tear gas and stun grenades the. we did the first act micron didn't the curious act to seek not ask we don't exist today we do ask for to see if he reacts they don't hear the word dignity is it just

dignity only want the dignity of making a living out of following a work how are the poor going to keep feeding their children that's what i want to know what will we give to our children by the end of the month the shouts coming from the crowds are all dead misuari maclin resigned the but his interior minister had his own message for the yellow vests even it was delivered a safe distance from the fray cv a seafood if they have actually be more injuries on the side of the security forces than on the side of the protesters because the idea is to contain things but the toxic has its limits particularly when we're faced with people who want to behave like that and it's a war that shows no sign of ending soon the standard. is continuing david chaytor al-jazeera paris and bernard smith the end paris with the latest now someone or what's happening around here. to show what you see is beyond empty

shells a leaves a and in the distance the security forces they've been keeping the chandeliers a fence sense of the clear it's of the protesters they're down their tactic has been to make sure the protesters couldn't get to this group couldn't get to the arctic trail behind me and they've succeeded in preventing them from getting there and in century pushing the remaining protesters down the side streets for show so what effect has all this had today on a man on his government well i mean look around here this is the show's ollie's a central paris it's just after seven o'clock on a saturday evening on the busiest saturdays before christmas carols before christmas and it is deserted there is not a soul the shops are boarded up restaurants closed tourists christmas shoppers stayed away so the effect on the economy certainly of paris is enormous and if the desire of the yellow vest protesters was to make the governments of france emanuel

macron notice them to notice that complains about high tax rates etc while there may possibly succeeded because the government's involved just it but essentially shut down the city closed down the major monuments stop people getting to the arbitrary on for another monuments in paris and closing down main shopping thoroughfares like this so the government you can be sure has noticed and micron we understand is going to speak to the french people probably on monday evening ok their life for us and paris thank you. evans who the rebels say the main port city of who data should be declared a neutral zone these also suggest that the united nations can play a role in the running of sana airport they're currently intending talks since we named it ending the nearly four year war but as hossam reports remember the two sides remain deeply divided two weeks it's a stumbling block just at the time when hopes of progress were growing. yemen's

rival factions are entrenched warning if their demands are not met the talks will fail and as the negotiations continue the who theater control and the northern part of the country say they are willing to join a national unity government if president obama so hardy steps down so as not out of . the political solution from our point of view should be a new transitional period that has a time frame and must have consensual executive power including the presidency and the government and must work on certain pillars like security and military operations in sharing food control over the yemeni state and solving unsolved problems. the proposal was swiftly dismissed by the government had the loyalists say the healthy rebels seized power in

a coup in two thousand and fourteen and therefore their surrender is a prerequisite for any future deal if you know what i can make. it hard to goes do you think that would solve the problem the problem is cool leaders how he was elected and it elections that will decide his fate but if he resigns now that will be dangerous there will be a power struggle there is a third party that is not involved in the talks but whose influence has been on the rise in yemen since to thousand and eleven. these are the secessionists of the it movement that wants to break away from the north they are protesting against what they describe as a society occupation of their land but the separatists themselves are divided between those who want independence and those who want the tunnel me within a federal yemen the talks were always going to be long and strenuous but the millions of yemenis who have suffered bombings starvation and inaction hope the

warring factions will give diplomacy a chance so the wall. comes around and possible al-jazeera rimbaud or still cool u.s. president donald trump wants general mark milley to take over as the nation's top military adviser if approved by the senate smily would take the post of joint chiefs of staff it is currently held right now by general joseph dunford who's to retire in october of next month really is the army's chief of staff right now and donald trump is again attacking the special counsel investigation into alleged russian meddling saying on twitter that it's a waste of money and there's no collusion traps tweets come after documents released by prosecutors in new york for the first time directly linked the president to financial crimes as allegedly committing and committed rather the two thousand and sixteen white house campaign separately robert muller steen which is investigating suspected russian interference in that campaign says moscow contacted donald trump's then personal lawyer michael cohen as far back as two thousand and

fifteen mahler's team also says trump's former campaign manager paul man afore violated a plea deal by lying to them on five different matters including his contacts with the russian associate but the white house says appear to be worried at least saying that none of this reveals anything new or damaging about donald trump there are several strands to this story share bhutanese breaks it down for us from washington d.c. . shortly after the release of some of the prosecution documents the u.s. president expressed his lack of concern totally clears the president he wrote thank you it's not clear exactly what he was referring to but some believe the contents of the latest memos should provide some cause for concern for donald trump michael cohen was trump's long time lawyer and fix up he's pled guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations and it's this latter charge that now directly implicates the president in its filing prosecutors in new york say code made to hush money payments to women in contravention of campaign finance law that filing says as cohen has now admitted with respect to both payments he acted in

coordination with and at the direction of individual one individual one is assumed to be donald trump so prosecutors are directly implicating the president in the crime the special counsel's moment about co and confirmed what was already in the public domain about failed attempts to build a trump tower in moscow that continued even as trump was on the campaign trail expounding about his proposed russian foreign policy however there are two new areas which might be of concern to trump firstly miller writes cohen provided the special counsel's office with useful information concerning certain discrete rusher related matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with company executives during the campaign and cohen provided relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the white house during the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen time period. it's unclear what information miller is referring to during the campaign but it's striking cohen is also discussing trump's first year in office with the special prosecutor. miller

has also submitted a document about former trump campaign manager paul manifold he was convicted of illegal lobbying for the ukrainian government as well as financial fraud the special prosecutor says manifold broke a plea agreement reached to provide information in return for like a sentence this involves a redacted name miller says while negotiating the agreement mounted for provided information about redaction that was pertinent to an investigation in another district however after signing the plea agreement amount of four told the government a different and exculpatory version of the events in addition miller says manifold lied about context he had with the trumpet ministration after he had reached that plea agreement the former director of the f.b.i. happened to be in capitol hill for a closed door questioning on friday he praised the special counsel's investigation but gave a reminder that a lot of questions remain the most important occasion of that is you don't know anything about it except when you file something court and that's what makes it so

don't trump has now been implicated directly in campaign finance violations but it's not clear what these latest findings have to do with the russian collusion investigation if anything however taken in conjunction with this heavily redacted document that was filed earlier this week in conjunction with the investigation into a former security advisor michael flynn there's plenty of speculation she had. washington based fineness the u.s. justice department official he says all the filing center at russia's intent to influence the truck campaign and they don't prove that the attempts were successful . i don't think certainly we have a smoking gun that connects you know russians with the trunk campaign based upon today's filings but we do have at least an inference that the russians were reaching out as early as two thousand and fifteen to people seeking to ingratiate themselves perhaps influence the outcome so it stablished as

a motivation for the conspiracy or for the terminologies writer collusion whether or not it reach fruition today's fallings are not definitive enough to give any answer but i do so.