described as a broom in the new york times the intercept revealed that they what they texted pretty regularly and in fact in auburn that article the that there was that famous quote that was famous to some i suppose that. would boast to the emma rockies that he had jared cushion in his pocket i think what this new york times article does is suggest that that it is intercept article was correct what's striking is that what's happening that communication is still continuing that gerrard is a devising mom had been somewhat according to the new york times on how to quote weather the storm of course shoji while defending him in the white house what's another fascinating part is as you said the saudis targeted jared cushion a two years ago the reason his ignorance as they saw it of the middle east the new york times suggested every single time that the u.s. the trumpet to search and comes out in favor of the saudis on yemen on on to shoji it's a result of this brew mounts so clearly that targeting two years ago was

a very very shrewd move both of the believe that she had thank you. now to france where there have been four massive demonstrations across the country for saturday's in a row or began as protests against increasing the fuel taxes spread too wide a resentment against president manuel by calls government the streets of paris and other french cities are relatively calm now as the groups of so-called yellow vest protesters returned home for the night but throughout the day one hundred twenty five thousand demonstrators descended on the streets breaking barricades burning cars and vandalizing shops they were met by large numbers of riot police armed with tear gas and water cannon more than one hundred seventy people are in police custody. demonstrations were held across the country and this was the scene in the southwestern city of bordeaux barricades could still be seen burning overnight this is just one side an apple store and a neighboring to loose several large fires were lit by protesters in the center of

the city project media says some thirty seven people arrested by police the government in paris is calling for calm if you look as you did your book in ducks no tax is that important to threaten national unity we must continue with dialogue with coming together the president will propose measures to bring together the french nation and to deal with the challenges that they have to deal with. they were chaytor was in central paris throughout the day said this report. was the it. was the what the yellow vests called act for all their protests played out with some familiar scenes in the center 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. the third has now picket

out her recently moving in on the yellow best protesters who are trying missiles at the police lines they're now using tear gas to gas and stun grenades was. cut in effect we did a first. act to speak not as act three we don't exist today we do at four to see feel reacts they don't hear the word dignity dignity is all we want the dignity of making a living out of our like people from wanting to be quantum watching how the poor are 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 car . maclin resign but his interior minister had his own message for the yellow vests even it was delivered a safe distance from the fray to syria as if today there 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 war. and it's a war that shows no sign of ending soon the standoff is continuing david chaytor al jazeera paris plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including africa's largest geothermal energy producing kenya sets an example. to the world's biggest polluters but challenges do remain and decades without a closure but now lebanon's new law offer some hope to families of those who were missing during the civil war but will they get justice and chelsea and manchester city's a big brother the english premier league peter one of those details in school. china is warning canada of severe consequences if it doesn't release the top

corporate executive of one of the world's largest telecom companies the foreign ministry has launched a diplomatic protest calling the case we quote extremely nasty chief financial officer mangan one was arrested last week for evading u.s. sanctions against iran the canadian courts are deciding on whether to extradite her to the u.s. where she could face thirty years in prison i did a castro is tracking those developments from washington d.c. . the canadian prosecutor laid out these charges in court on friday and he accuses me of tricking banks that have u.s. operations into doing business with iran against those u.s. sanctions and she's accused of doing this by telling those banks that everything was above board when they did business with her company while way when in fact huawei was operating an unofficial subsidiary out of hong kong that was indeed engaged with businesses any ran now maine was arrested at the vancouver airport but

this happened at the behest of u.s. authorities on monday her bail hearing will resume in canada and the u.s. is working to extradite her for trial in new york that is unless china successfully intervenes it is able to convince canada against cooperating which it is forcefully trying to do now the timing is peculiar because the arrest of ming happened just as u.s. president donald trump was sitting down for dinner with china's president seizing ping in argentina last saturday trump claims he didn't know that this arrest was happening at the same time that china views it all as a national embarrassment particularly because maine is considered to be corporate royalty in china not only is she the chief financial officer of huawei which is the preeminent telecommunications company in china but she's also the daughter of that company's founder so she's widely respected among chinese business elites and their condemnation of her arrest has been swift and scathing they're accusing the u.s.

and canada of kidnapping these summits of gulf cooperation council starting on sunday because of the implications for the group's future the six nation. councils a mere speed of voices but doesn't confirm that he'll be attending saudi arabia is leading a blockade against kosovo which is the book's deepest crisis in decades. well after several false starts the talks aimed at ending the war in yemen have hit a wall who the rebels and the yemeni government are divided on the fate of president of the rebel months who had the fees want him to step down but government delegates think otherwise that the that and several other issues have clouded the talks for a political solution to end of the civil war. reports now from rimbaud in sweden. talks hit 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 of the 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 houthi 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 post on it hard to goes do you think that would solve the problem the problem is cool leaders was elected and it's 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 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 by the separatists themselves are divided between those who want independence and those who want autonomy 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. on the outskirts or stalk all.

libya state oil company n.o.c. has denounced what it calls the occupation of an oil field by protesters local tribesmen are threatening to shut down the field that would stop the production of three hundred fifteen thousand barrels a day that amending financial assistance for the community and if he says the oil is still flowing and warned of catastrophic consequences if the field is closed the beers being in term or since the fall of moammar gadhafi government in two thousand and eleven with large parts of the country still under the control of armed groups . it has been almost three decades since that belongs civil war ended but questions remain over the fate of thousands of people who went missing during that time an independent commission is being formed but the general amnesty issued after the war means perpetrators will not face justice center heard a report of beirut. what that how when he has been searching for her husband adnan

since he was abducted by unknown gunmen thirty six years ago lebanon was at war at the time controlled by lebanese sick tarion militias palestinian fighters israeli forces and syrian troops how when he began her battle for the truth in one nine hundred eighty two attracting other women whose husbands sons and brothers had also disappeared. their protest movement continued long after the war ended in one nine hundred ninety only now has the lebanese parliament passed a law calling for a commission to find out what happened to those who disappeared. this is the first time the lebanese authorities officially admit the war crimes recognize the families of the victims and the missing and acknowledge our rights to know the fates of the disappeared. the higher official figures show at least seventeen thousand people went missing during the fifteen year conflict after years of

campaigning families who have come from diverse backgrounds now hope the new law will give them answers they are urging those who have information to come forward they say they are not seeking punishment but closure. we are not responsible for article thirty seven which is about punishing perpetrators who just want to know the fate of our loved ones the draft bill we proposed has nothing to do with punishing past crimes. the international committee of the red cross has stepped in in the absence of any national institution to deal with the missing the i.c.r.c. hopes the d.n.a. samples collected can be used to a mass graves are finally identified and opened. and will continue storing them until the commission is set in place as long as this this commission is as we spoke about it its independent humanitarian then we are happy to provide all the

support to lebanese authorities. levanon never had a truth and reconciliation commission after the war but what dad how when he is making sure that past is not forgotten over the years successive governments try to close the file and declare the missing dead there's a reason for that many of those in power were once militia leaders responsible for killings and disappearances but the new law will not affect them a general amnesty if it in one thousand nine hundred one which covers crimes committed during the war remains in place. this is the first time lebanon acknowledges the case of the missing now the law needs to be implemented what that how when he is under no illusion that political and sectarian obstacles could yet again leave this chapter in the country's history resolved. beirut. police in egypt have killed two men they say were involved in a bus attack on christians the government says it's killed nineteen others suspects

connected to last month. seven christians returning from a child's baptism were killed six of them were from the same family still had him on the al-jazeera news are. right now it's time to save all the protests outside the major climate conference in poland demanding. the delegates inside all this over a crucial port. and we look at the museum with one of africa's largest collections it aims to reclaim history. and in sports the final of the company but the daughters will take place on sunday after one of the teams involved had appealed to stop its rejected peter one of those details later in the program. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never

sleeps. hello it is raining and it is snowing is the combination of course was the last gasp of the rains as the snow tries to come in through china has already reached who had at least the areas going sides during sunday that line extends out towards shanghai won't affect shanghai itself i don't think but there's rain to the south which could be substantial for hong kong bucks you are going to underground towards the coast of vietnam where it's already produced over one hundred millimeters and then the story starts its return northward so this is the winter line more or less during monday mind you it's only in the high teens for the size of china and not yet usually sunny is a bit of a gap in the weather through the philippines and these dots it shots are both malaysia and indonesia have been focusing recently as far north as bangkok and as far south as jakarta but on this western side singapore still in line i think for

the heaviest showers this is likely to be some in sort of way see but once again jobber is looking launch lee dry which is probably good scene because only about three or four days ago it was still raining fairly heavily in central java and therefore there is some flooding but the picture is certainly wetter the further west you go. the weather sponsored by cats are always. anti fascist anti establishment and pro violence despite the recent official disbanding of its militarized wing a basque separatist movement just found alive and well on the terraces of a bill dal stadium. a place where political revolutionaries share a platform and ideology with violent football hooligans. read all death on al-jazeera. in countries like a mine people have been killed to be like we in the united states have privatized

the ultimate public function more this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the past bombs do you will rumsfeld was meeting saddam isn't that interesting. shadow coming scene. over back you're watching the al-jazeera news hour with me said holroyd with a reminder of our top news stories the us president's chief of staff john kelly has quit his post donald trump is in talks with the vice president about appointing his

eight heirs to replace kelly also the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has made her first public comments on the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi bikie he told the atlantic that saudi arabia can't be given a pass for the killing as he pointed the finger at the crown prince saying his government did this they. him technically responsible. french riot police for running street battles with thousands of anti-government protesters in paris it's the fourth straight weekend of the so-called yellow vest demonstrations against president emmanuel might call this government more than nine hundred seventy people have been detained across the country. activists have marched through the polish city of kut a feature where a two week u.n. climate summit is underway calling for more action from governments to tackle

global warming but attempts to incorporate a key scientific study into climate talks failed after it was blocked by countries including saudi arabia and the united states rhetorical. protest has delivered a message to delegates meeting in poland the un climate change toolchain is caught between we need to do something for now we need action right now not tomorrow not in eleven years that's not delegates from around two hundred countries are hoping to negotiate a way of implementing the twenty fifteen paris climate to cool it's goal is to keep global warming below two degrees celsius so amazing opportunity to be here not only to talk about being part of the negotiations but also like to talk with people like civil society because normally these types of issues though doesn't get in the big media but energy experts say the targets are insufficient and nations are still

squabbling over who will pay for it there's also unease that this meeting is in a country where line home polish government is planning to increase coal production to cut him loose we have to shut down all fired electricity but there's no place to the great world never mind a one point five degrees to go fired electricity and any plant that you decide to build now will be a stranded asset. or. will blow right through the two degrees limit. protests to say the scale of the threat posed by rising temperatures hasn't been fully grasped by politicians after the last some of the droughts and the heavy rains otherwise most of the citizens realize that climate change is hitting them personally but it's the gov. so there are just protecting the business interests of their local companies or multinationals so that's where the problem is with this cop twenty pool and its first week delegates continue to work on establishing

common rules for measuring reporting and verifying greenhouse gas emissions activists from around the world to travel to catechize they progress have to be may . be algis they are. special coverage on what's being done to hold back the rise in global temperatures across the world efforts are being stepped up to develop energy sources that do not rely on fossil fuels and geothermal energy that's basically generating electricity from hot rocks under the surface has huge potential to provide power while reducing carbon emissions in the kenya supplies around forty three percent of its electricity from geothermal power millions of kenyans still do depend on trees to make charcoal but as climate talks proceed in poland the east african nations efforts are an example to the world's biggest misses his malcolm webb. hot rocks deep inside the earth and the

steam to the surface. pipe to a power station here in kenya to generate electricity. be sustainable. it doesn't emit any carbon dioxide. and it's expanding president to hurry kenyatta came to start construction of a new plant. more than half of kenya's electricity is generated by renewable sources system should start it's for a quick transformation to renewable energy and to be more specific we as a country have committed us with jane a hundred percent green sufficiency by twenty twenty. the power stations placards on bailed. delegation drives off in a convoy of diesel fuel cars. ten years fossil fuel usage is increasing to every yeah thousands more people buy cars and take to the

roads but like many african countries the harmful carbon emissions here a tiny compared to those of the world industrialized powers in particular the us and china. can is not contributing much to global warming and its green power programs are going to stop it either this or force can only bear great force if also other countries across the world doing the same because what america does what you what affects what happens in town so far trying to limit them are still lies. some of kenya's power may be green but the energy sector is mired in corruption scandals. electricity uses pay a high price. about half the population can't afford it their main energy source is charcoal made from felled trees another contribution to growing carbon emissions.

i would use electricity but i can't afford it i'm taking care of my grandchildren but just one thousand of chuckle is enough to kill all of them. there are no easy answers. but geothermal power helps. and if the world industrial powers embrace this kind of technology climate crisis might be mitigated malcolm webb al-jazeera nairobi kenya armenians head to the polls on sunday for early parliamentary elections it's the first votes in demonstrations under twenty years of rule by popular republican party opinion polls suggest a landslide victory for prime minister nicola party which said the so-called velvet revolution robert forestry walker reports for me out of a. 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. when we say restoring the disaster zone we need to understand not only meeting the housing needs of the people not only restoring schools and killed it up 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 he's come very much 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. inclinations of candidate of complainer. he'd 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. african nations are hoping relics looted by their former colonizers will be returned to the continent's newest art museum the museum of black civilization in the senegalese capital dhaka r. is also one of the continent's largest with space for eighteen thousand pieces but many of the galleries are empty in the hope that western museums will bow to pressure from african governments and return stolen artifacts the museum aims to be a symbol of the colonialization but it has been built with thirty four million dollars worth of chinese money it will have x. candy is assistant professor of history at american university and he joins me now on skype from washington d.c.

good to have you with us on the program so why is having a black civilizations museum important at this moment in time. when i think it's critically important to this show or the expansiveness and beauty and in the majesty of african cultures worldwide in and for the senegalese government to take on this this project. bodes well and hopefully they will be able to provide a home for many of these artifacts are in europe that should be returning home how difficult will it be to try and reclaim those artifacts because historically you know we have seen in the past museums are quite reluctant in the west to return sometimes some items of of importance just of one of the top of my head would be the elgood marbles in the british museum greece lays claim to them. well i think it's going to be incredibly difficult but the fact of the matter is

that many of these artifacts were stolen during colonization and many of these artifacts are simply should be owned by their home nations and i think if people in france in england in other countries if they found out that artifacts treasure artifacts in their countries were in nigeria or senegal they would have serious problems and they would be demanding for those artifacts to be returned home in the same way west africans are demanding for their artifacts to be returned home it's an invariant press of building that's been established but it's taken decades to come to fruition wouldn't. critics might say that funds spent tables have been better spent told social projects in dakar in senegal would you agree disagree. i mean i think we can also we can always make the case that that funds could be could be spent on something else but they decided to

use the funds on these on this majestic museum and i think it's something that that people in senegal have been talking about for fifty years and i think it's for it to have finally been built and for us to have this space to be able to showcase black civilizations i think that's what we should be talking about in theory on how best to sort of showcase these civilizations and just briefly a professor kennedy of course you talk about the civilizations look communities and it will be specific in terms of black communities in south america the caribbean there's a real distinction here isn't there about what black communities are. yeah and i think that's one of the most interesting aspects of this new museum i mean the fact of the matter is is that when we think of african people and african civilizations and african cultures were those do not just exist on the continent of africa they

also exist in the americas when people were forced over to the americas they also brought their civilization their culture and so the fact that this museum war howell's the cultures in civilizations of black people worldwide i think that's one of the most exciting aspects of it for the moment to profess god i would have to leave it there thanks very much feel tied to washington d.c. controversial museum that exposed belgium's colonial past is ramping up to being close for a year it comes. like in the democratic republic of congo and the museum written some artifacts the touch of butler the polls. for more than a century this opulent museum outside brussels was a symbol of belgium's colonial past it was created by king leopold the second with wealth amassed from his kingdom's plunder of congo its exhibits portrayed africans as savage and primitive hundreds of congolese people were put on display in

a human zoo but there is no mention of the fact that millions of people were enslaved or killed by their oppresses of them till twenty years ago belgium didn't have any critical reflector ryssdal on your past and nobody really questioned about how did google is really perceive it and if you talk to the release of the period i'm in they'll talk about your profession about the way they were treated and so when go to this visit this was a of their star reflecting well maybe the colonial system wasn't all that good. king leopold presented belgium's colonise ation of congo as a humanitarian mission but that was far from the brutal reality congolese artist mam panny hopes his work will force people to reflect on history or the miles around over priscilla posit it is thinking together about the past the present and making sure what happened never happens again and to end stereotypes and colonize the image of central africa. pierre kompany came to belgium as

a refugee from congo in one thousand nine hundred seventy five he's now the country's first black mare he son vincent plays for belgium's national football team he says the museum could be a cultural bridge. from now it is museum would be a different color both congo and belgian would better understand the mistakes made in the future that awaits us. while those behind the reopening of this museum hope that it will help belgians confront their colonial past some critics say it's a missed opportunity that a greater gesture would have been to return some of the looted artworks and objects to congo so what is a these are not mere outworks for us they represent our ancestors so if my ancestors are enclosing the museum frozen in time then they are dead so i don't want to celebrate in this cemetery perhaps i would visit in the future if we start returning the works state museums across europe have come under pressure increasing .