nikki haley soon to be former ambassador to the united nations she has been speaking about the u.s. response the killing of saudi janis jamal khashoggi chancy is in washington and joins me now and of course we know that nikki haley is someone who is widely reported to have political possibly presidential ambitions what's she been saying about this. we're going to sing she begins her aunts are about jamal khashoggi with the statement everything's not black and white and actually that's rather a good description have heard about jamal khashoggi she begins by saying we can't give them a pos the saudi or the saudis we comes and we can't condone it thuggish behavior within that same she says but you know what's that country is a complete partner when it comes to fighting iran and already real partner when it comes to fighting iran so it's a balancing act but you have to do both so then she's also do you think you can speak out and maintain them as an ally she says well that's why we've signed

actions the dozen or so saudis that's why we're asking for accountability so she's us does not mean you want the administration to do more that they haven't already done but she goes but it seems to those dozen or so have been sanctioned i think that's what they need to hold these people accountable and we need to see this happen obviously we sanction which is what we can do and they have to hold these people accountable and truncating the senses but i'm just using her words to them kowtow friedman the person who did the interview in sensing that this is a little bit back and forth and a bit vague says ok do you feel there's more to do to hold a crown prince accountable if he was involved in this a tool direct question haiti's response i think all of that the administration needs to decide it's his government his government did this and so he technically is responsible he is technically responsible and what we've heard repeatedly from the cia is that they're telling sentences that he's more than technically responsible he is responsible eventually so that's it's very hedging hedging bunch

of statements balancing things out not black and white which is what you would expect them to do who might be seeking for the political office to do they it's all really in their interest to come out and say something emphatic on one side or another and we can look at her record at the u.n. and we know what she was doing there which is basically doing everything that israel. also to do was just recently and the last thing is roe was do certainly is to have i make it a rupture between the saudi us relationship as you say she had she is bound to be very careful in the was that she chooses and in her language when discussing something sensitive to key when it relates to u.s. . relationship with saudi arabia on that matter of accountability what has she said about the u.s. response because of course we know that the white house is refusing to draw any link between the and the saudi crown prince what did she say anything about what congress might do you know she doesn't deal with that she just talks about how the

u.s. has already sanctioned the dozen or so saudis that's why we're all skin for accountability that's why we're going to push back we need to continue to do the do it until we get it but it's not clear how far she means to go she says that mohamud been sold them is that the is technically responsible but there's really nothing here emphatic to suggest that she wants to go off to be invented says of course it's the administration that needs to decide where it's heading it's how big it always it's saying what so what basically everyone wants to perhaps and i think you can interpret it as you want until she actually does finally make a stand if and when she returns to the political arena thank you very much for ten c. there in washington. well still ahead for you in this news hour from london. rebels call for the key port city of data to be made into a neutral zone as the peace talks continue in sweden seven months on from the

velvet revolution that brought down the government on medians prepared to head to the polls and in support of. dora's will take place on sunday after one of the teams involved has an appeal to stop it rejected the two have those details later in the program. the french interior minister says the yellow vests protests are under control but police levels could remain as they are until sunday thousands of protesters rallied across the country and a fourth weekend of demonstrations which began as a movement against a fuel tax but have evolved into a challenge to president emanuel. david chase reports now from paris. the the it. was the what the yellow vests called act for that protest played out with some familiar scenes in the center of paris. was hundreds of arrests were made but it didn't stop

the clashes the demonstrators tried to storm the blockades mounted by the riot police. cut it has now become the town areason moving in on the other best protesters who are trying missiles at the police lines they're now using tear gas tear gas and stun grenades was the cover we did the first act migrant didn't act to seek not ask we don't exist today we do at ford to see if he reacts they don't hear the word dignity is it just dignity is the only want the dignity of making a living out of following a work. how the pull going to keep feeding their children that's all so i want to know what are we going to give to them by the end of the month what. the shouts

coming from the crowds the car. from resigned the but his interior minister had his own message for the yellow vests even if it was delivered a safe distance from the fray to syria i see food in your house and 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 it's as long as night fell a street full of luxury boutiques that would normally have been full of christmas shoppers was still shrouded in clouds of tear gas. but the prime minister decided it was time to strike a more conciliatory tone with the protest as an open a dialogue so again ok. dialogue has begun and it must continue no tax is important enough to threaten national unity we must continue to talk about its president macron who faces the biggest challenge the show will go on and this year

bandon some of his most treasured reforms david chaytor al-jazeera paris well turning to developments around the war in yemen who's the rebels are saying the main port city of the data should be declared a neutral zone speaking on the sidelines of talks in sweden and that ending the war the iran backed rebels also suggested the united nations could play a role in the running of sun our airports are reports now from rimbaud north of the capital stockholm. talks with a stumbling block just of 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 truth is her control son and the northern part of the country say they are willing to join a national unity government if president of the obama so hardy steps down so a lot 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 years hard 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 his influence has been on the rise in yemen seized

a thousand and eleven. these are the sassiness. 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 that the war comes to an end about al-jazeera rambo on the ask ourselves talk all. saudi arabia is getting ready to host the gulf cooperation council annual summit on sunday the six nation block will be meeting in riyadh catus and there has been invited by saudi king salmon to attend but doha has not confirmed whether he will cattle is currently under a blockade by four arab countries led by saudi arabia the country flag could be

seen in riyadh ahead of the summit all my jobs where is the director of the gulf study center at castro university and told us that the saudis may try to focus on a possible and to the war in yemen to deflect attention from the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi no i think it's right to bring the bring that again and saying look we want a piece of losses to move on we need a peaceful negotiation we need the war to be and i think that is a message to washington this is serious i think that this is to reduce the level of pressure on them so that it's appearing on different cards and the same to now china has warned there will be strong consequences if men one joe isn't released from custody canada prosecutors want to extradite her to the u.s. which accuses her breaching sanctions on iran but the arrest now raises questions about whether the current temporary trade truce between america and china is likely

to hold christensen explains. among china's business elite among ones who is considered royalty the daughter of the founder of telecom giant way the company's c.f.o. and possible heir to the throne but to the united states mom is a wanted criminal the charge confirmed in the canadian court on friday fraud specifically using an unofficial weiwei subsidiary to do business with iran in violation of u.s. sanctions china's foreign ministry has condemned her arrests and demanded the evidence. that you do what i can tell you is that not the canada nor the u.s. has provided any evidence to china that the person of the case is bottles of the two countries until now. canadian prosecutors acting on behalf of the u.s. argued against freeing mongan bail saying her wealth made her an extreme flight risk while her lawyer said she'd never do anything to embarrass her family or her

country in court filings the united states argued that mung was likely to flee to china if released on bail the united states believes that one way officials have been avoiding travel to the united states since april of two thousand and seventeen when they became aware of the investigation and furthermore that they have been moving u.s. based employees out of the country who could have been called to testify in the case that's why when they became aware of her travel to canada on november twenty ninth they requested her extradition. mom's arrest comes amid mounting trade tensions between the u.s. and china and news of her arrest rattled investors the dow closed down more than five hundred points for the week racing gains for the year but experts say the case is not about trade i think it's very much sanctions issue and the desire to make sure that people know that we aren't kidding when the u.s. imposes sanctions nevertheless it could complicate trade relations as the two

countries attempt to work out their differences kristen salumi al-jazeera iran's president has been speaking out calling donald trump's decision to re-impose sanctions against his country economic terrorism the oil and financial sanctions come came into force a month ago after trying pull doubts of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal in may speaking as a conference on regional cooperation has done rouhani want the measures would deprive iran of the benefits of international trade and energy security. panel i woman who imposed sanctions that the for ron's ability to fight drugs and terrorism are affected you will not be safe from a deluge of drugs asylum seekers' bombs and terrorism. moving to armenia now the country's heading to the polls on sunday in the first vote since mass protests that the downfall of the ruling republican party opinion polls suggest a landslide victory for the man who led that so-called velvet revolution he called passion young and his my step alliance all been forced to walk

a brings us more now from yerevan. commemorating the armenian earthquake of one thousand nine hundred eighty eight in which at least twenty five thousand people were killed acting prime minister nicola 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 as well and. when we say restoring the disasters we need to understand not only meeting the housing needs of the people not only restoring schools and kindergartens but also restoring this city's economic potential the potential for change nationwide brought to nickel and to power in mass protests this spring. is open

style including regular facebook live posts has delighted many armenians has 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. organize inclinations of candidate of compare universe. he'd speech is forbidden in the country but nevertheless it's happening every day. he lost his niece in the

earthquake believes passion yan will accomplish what previous leaders failed to achieve. passion jaan is 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. yerevan still ahead for you on the program we're looking at japan and why the country is opening its doors to foreigners in a possible shift. a tale of two cities were also traveling to iraq's mosul to see how it's recovering after the fall of i find it very much depends on which side of the river you're on. and a former open championship winner is one round away from winning his own country's biggest golf event stories coming up in sport with.

hello the deep colors being blasted away you know that if you're in eastern europe or going there and it's cloud just shows you it's a continuing process but that cold is still hanging your least inside of ukraine where it's snowing running up to moscow we're really pushing all out of europe into russia now we did have prior to this cold feet down to the eastern med developing story whether that will be repeated but maybe the contrast from is a great over night during sunday and monday this is already falling in the out so just get more extensive and spread into austria is looking more like a cold picture temperature dropped out of the teens we are northerly flow so maybe the winter is going further west because after all we are seventeen athens in ten ankara and this is re not snow six and two so we've come up relatively speaking

temperature wise in romania and ukraine so given you see what's going on you know it's going to be this streaming wind coming across the central med it produce a storm system south of the g. and they will run into turkey eventually levant which means that most of north africa for about tripoli eastwards will be breezy often cloudy and not very woman nineteen but to the west although it doesn't not particularly warm at twenty degrees with no wind in morocco who is going to complain it's lovely. it base well and doesn't require diplomas. that's why so many in macau work for the casinos. in but for those like and who struggle it school. dropping out has become the less evil perseverance greater gamble. future

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just quick recap of the top stories now u.s. president donald trump says his chief of staff john kelly will leave his administration at the end of the year trump is reportedly in talks with vice president mike pence aide nick a is to replace kelly french interior minister says yellow vest protests are now under control but police levels could remain as they are until sunday more than six hundred people have been arrested and yemen's hoofy rebels say the main port city of a data should be declared and neutral zone if he's made the comments on the sidelines of talks in sweden aimed at ending. on now to zimbabwe where a new outbreak of cholera has killed at least five people infected hundreds of others in the country is puts more pressure on an already weak public health system which is struggling to deal with the fallout of a junior doctor strike. brings us more now from mount darwin.

health workers to speak the cholera outbreak in mount darwin started here is a gold mine is used water from a nearby river that's believed to be contaminated. the area where he works is remote and the roads are bad that's why he said some people didn't get to hospital until it was too late. after i finished eating i started feeling strange and i knew something was wrong but they kept on working in the mine thinking it wasn't serious when it became serious i can do or spittle tests were done and confirmed the date caller. more than two hundred cases have been reported so far in the mud down area doctors and nurses are encouraging people to get treatment early. rescind before meeting in the city which is turtle so. if the. the.

almost hundred. but the shortage of essential drugs and equipment in many public health centers makes it more difficult to deal with the disease some junior doctors are also on strike over pay and work conditions and nurses are threatening to do the same more than fifty people died from cholera in september that was in the capital harare this latest outbreak isn't contained our fears this disease could spread opposition leaders say zimbabwe's health sector has suffered and the years of corruption and mismanagement but government officials deny the allegations insisting sanctions imposed by the west and the economic crisis in the country are to blame. some of these miners planned to go back to work is the only job they can find they know there's a risk of reinfection but say they and their families need the money. dahlan zimbabwe. thousands of people have rallied in malaysia in support of the

government's decision not to sign a un convention to eliminate racial discrimination the protests were largely made up of malays the country's largest ethnic group were worried the convention would strip away the economic and religious privileges florence louis has more now from kuala lumpur. this rally was initially organized as a protest march to demonstrate against the government's decision to ratify a un convention to eliminate racial discrimination and the reason there's a backlash against this year in malaysia is because the majority race the malays who make up more than sixty percent of the population are concerned that this move to a low tide that special privileges and threaten the position of islam as the main religion in this country the privileges granted to the malays and other indigenous groups give them advantages in a range of things from business to education to. affirmative action all of these were put in place decades ago because the malays even though they were the main

group considered economically disadvantaged compared to the chinese and indians the other two main races in this country and the government mindful of the backlash reversed its pledge to ratify the convention but this rally is still going ahead people here tell us they want to send a message to the government that they will be checked anything that threatens the malays special privileges a point. that we've gone through and all that we know enjoy will be affected that is what we don't want you know. there's already an agreement made between the military and the chinese and it was in trying to into the constitution there's no need to change anything we already have human rights or equal rights in malaysia but this is also about politics this rally is organized by the two largest opposition groups in the country one is an islamist group the other is a party that had led to malaysia since independence for more than sixty years until its defeat in the general election in may and it's also intended as

a reminder to show the government and the supporters that they are still relevant. after pan is set to bring in a radical overhaul of its immigration policy by allowing in nearly three hundred fifty thousand foreign workers the contentious legislation will come as force in april will open doors to blue collar workers from outside the country. the government says the measure also aims to address wind of problems in japan of a falling for tennessee right and a shrinking population which has a population is aging faster than any other country in the wild with more than one in four people aged sixty five years and above the situation is expected to get worse by the end of two thousand and sixty five the u.n. estimates japan's population will drop by an additional twenty eight million people analysts fear it's beginning to hold back economic life with its economy expected to shrink by twenty five percent within the next forty is obviously japan has

a fairly unique history of being a country that for hundreds of years was cut off from the rest of the world and what it did open up in the one nine hundred centuries to some amount of. interaction with the rest of the world it it never did have any major waves of immigration from outside at least not in the modern period 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. well now thousands of demonstrators of march through poland's count of the city which is hosting a two week climate summit to demand great action against global warming the u.n. talks aimed to draw off measures to enforce countries to it to stop the planet heating up further progress has been slowed by disagreements over how to finance those measures though in the us saudi arabia and russia also rejected a major report on the impact of rising temperatures for nations say more must be done to support their transition to a low carbon economy well global warming is caused largely by an increase in carbon dioxide from pollution and other emissions in the atmosphere in south korea for example pollution levels can spike in the winter and while they're trying to clean up the air they have to overcome one major challenge which is that much of the

small comes from somewhere else eugene jones explains. wearing masks to filter out the five dust has become the norm for people in south korea especially during the winter of the world health organization says the daily average standard for all to find that can be loud and damaging is twenty five micrograms per cubic meter air here in south korea in november we've seen that number hit as high as five times or more of that daily average standard. the city does enjoy the occasional blue skies but just days after china had turned on its public heating systems in november that blanket of air drifted across the yellow sea to the korean peninsula and the air pollution numbers in seoul were in the red again. when the air quality gets worse an advisory warning is enforced forcing businesses and construction sites that emit air pollutants to stop and also battling big age diesel vehicles from entering the city. eight hundred of these

special vehicles are also dispatched to suck up dust off the streets over the past twelve months they removed sixteen point five tons of it equivalent to pollutants generated by over thirty six thousand to diesel fuel cars. but despite such efforts to calm domestic root causes pollution still blankets the skies and enjoying to report with not shows that one third of souls find dust travels from china even during seasons with relatively low pollution pushing the south korean government to seek for closer cooperation with china to curb air pollution in the country. to reinforce cooperation with foreign cities we've been hosting an international forum to improve air quality in northeast asia in particular and we signed an agreement with beijing and have been conducting joint policy studies to improve the quality china has lowered as targets and how much winter missions should be cut

down compared with the stricter measures imposed last year analysts say that china may be reassessing its priorities while it's in the middle of a trade war with the united states by focusing more on economic growth than fighting air pollution which means south korea's air problems this winter are likely to get worse. it's been a very years since iraq's second largest city of mosul was liberated from the rule of i still tens of thousands of residents were displaced during the armed groups rule while thousands of others were killed well now many iraqis have returned to rebuild their lives and what's left of their homes but matheson now reports the success rate depends on which side of the river you're on. to hear music drifting across a public square in mosul would have been unthinkable just over a year ago when i saw fighters roaming the city streets and being outside after nightfall could mean a beating or even death is that. this is

a message of peace that eisen is no longer here in mosul the society should live in he says in harmony after these dark days. this is the eastern side of the tigris river here people are trying to reclaim the night while knowing a short distance away lies stark remind us of battles. in the west side of mosul is still in darkness most of the people there. is alive but the west side is dead there is total destruction there it is like to hear regime a bomb dropped daylight reveals the devastation on the western banks of the tigris people who used to live in houses of bricks and cement and western mosul and now sheltering in tents in camps like this one thousands have lost everything parts of eastern warsaw may look like they're returning to normal but people from the west say there's nothing normal for them to return to. so do mohammed has been living in

this tent with his family since their home in west mosul was bombed said who lost both arms in the attacks and those with hope we can return to mosul right now security is still fragile our houses are level to the ground there is no life for us there anymore it is better to stay in the camp for the time being despite the harsh living conditions people in mosul say the wreckage west of the tigris as a memorial to the city's dark past. but that the bustling parts of the east are the signs of a brighter future rob matheson al-jazeera the kurdish region of northern iraq. still ahead for you on the news hour we're going to tell you how this eight year old girl scored a goal for gender equality in football get all. the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this to

allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there's a journalistic integrity and then say in this case it was betrayed totally up from its own al-jazeera. bureaus spawning six continents across the do. correspondents live in bringing the stories they tell of this. but you know one of the letters. were at the mercy of the russian camp for a palestinian group called to syria through didn't world news.