stream. huawei is chief financial officer men one joe was arrested last week on charges of evading u.s. sanctions against iran the canadian courts are deciding on whether to extradite her to the united states where she could face the feste he is in prison 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 us operations into doing business with iran against those u.s. sanctions 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 in an official subsidiary out of hong kong that was indeed engaged with businesses in the rand now main 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 but 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 arrests has been swift and scathing they're accusing the u.s. and canada of kidnapping. well the next bond still ahead on al-jazeera deep

divisions threatening long awaited talks between warring parties to end the conflict in yemen. and a rebound museum in belgium casts a critical eye on the country's colonial past. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. hello you can breathe easier now in northeastern iraq where there has been serious flooding in the last week actually this is the last of it going through now it will generate showers in the heart of parts of north iran and possibly as a by john could have one hundred milliliters force all going through admittedly in this part of iraq which the west of it is all dried up again there's been significant rain down the coast of the eastern med but that's also dried up it's not the end of it is just a brief rest by posting to get them and

a month ago started rainy again in southern turkey in cyprus maybe lebanon even a touch of northern syria east of that it's looking far in the snow that fell on sunday in afghanistan has gone through is dying out and there wasn't much more in any way and sense of all this it remains quiet but of an orderly brazen think this sunday down through cutouts the u.a.e. that disappears more or less by monday tempest and there's a smore of a base in the middle of saudi arabia through riyadh that's dusty the shah potential just to the north southern africa has gone very shoddy once again particularly on the eastern side of south africa up through eastern cape crossing the tar on the shelves extend into mozambique and property zimbabwe with very little movement in the next couple of days. the with the sponsored by cats on. a roll. 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 the job or

have them said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy do they really think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is a journalistic integrity and then to end this case it was betrayed told only up from only al-jazeera. welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour the u.s. president's chief of staff john kerry has quit his post donald trump is in talks with the vice president's top aides nic as to succeed kelly. french riot police of

fourteen running street battles with thousands of anti-government protesters in paris it's the fourth straight weekend of the so-called yellow vest protest against a government decision to increase taxes on fuel more than nine hundred seventy people have been detained across the country. china is warning canada of severe consequences if it doesn't release a top executive of one of the world's largest telecoms companies coase chief financial officer mango has been arrested on charges of evading u.s. tanks and against iran the canadian courts are deciding whether to extradite to the u.s. . activists have launched through the polish city of custody that say where a two week u.n. climate summit is underway they're calling for more action from governments to tackle global warming but attempts to incorporate a king's scientific study into climate talks failed after it was blocked by countries including saudi arabia and the united states the reports the.

protesters deliver their message to delegates meeting in poland the un climate change talks known as cop twenty we need to do something now we need action right now not tomorrow not in eleven years that's not how delegates from around two hundred countries are hoping to negotiate a way of implementing the twenty fifteen paris climate a code its goal is to keep global warming below two degrees celsius but saudi arabia kuwait russia and the united states have refused to endorse a key scientific study it's dismayed and angered most delicate yes. i will not deny that i'm very disappointed with this result this was important work done by experts and delegates on this issue i have heard your positions positions of all of the parties and i hear strong voices in the room which feel that the report of the i.p.c.c. on the one point five degrees is very important yet we have not achieved consensus

on how to respond but energy experts say the targets all insufficient and nations is still squabbling over who will pay for it there is also unease that this meeting is in a country where line tomko the polish government is planning to increase coal production to cut in cool us we have to shut down all fired electricity but there is no place to the great world never mind a one point five agreeable. tricity and any plant that you decide to build now will be a stranded asset. or. blow right through the two degrees women. protesters 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 governments that are just protecting the business interests of their local companies or multinationals so that's where the problem is. is coped with the food

ends its first week delegates continue to work on establishing common rules for measuring reporting and verifying greenhouse gas emissions i do this from around the world who've traveled to ca to say progress has to be made that tory gate and b. is there. the sun is of the gulf cooperation council starting on sunday could have major implications for the group's future the six nation block will meet in the saudi capital riyadh cut as a mayor has been invited but doha hasn't confirmed if he will be that saudi arabia is leading a blockade against qatar which is the blocks deepest crisis in decades after several false starts the talks ended ending the war in yemen have hit a wall who the rebels and the yemeni government are divided on the fate of president hadi the hoodies want him to step down but government delegates think otherwise that and several other issues of cloud the third day of talks for

a political solution to the civil war has actually malabar explains from member in sweden 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're willing to join a national unity government if president 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 and if you choose a deal you know what i can load. it hardly goes do you think that would solve the problem the problem is cool yours harvey was elected and it's elections that will decide his suite 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 two thousand and eleven. these are the secessionists of the solve it movement that wants to break away from the north they are protesting against what they describe as a sandy occupation of their land but 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 election hope the warring factions will give diplomacy a chance so the war comes around and. rambo on the outskirts of stockholm libya's state oil company n o c has denounced what it called the occupation of an oil field by protesters local tribesmen are threatening to shut down the field it won't stop the production of three hundred fifteen thousand barrels a day they are demanding financial assistance for their community and i see says the oil is still flowing and warned of catastrophic consequences if the field is closed libya has been in turmoil since the fall of moammar gadhafi is government in twenty eleven with a large parts under the control of armed groups. polls have just opened in armenia for early parliamentary elections it's the first vote since mass demonstrations

ended twenty years of one party rule opinion polls suggest a landslide victory for prime minister nicole passion younes party which led the so-called velvet revolution robin forrester walka reports from the. 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 even. when we say restoring the disasters and we need to understand not only meeting the housing needs of the people not only restoring schools and killed. 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 his own family. 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 with passion yan 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 al-jazeera yerevan. two people have been killed during opposition protests in togas capital alone me and identified gunman killed at least one of them the unrest in the west african nation followed a ban on protests with the government citing security reasons the opposition is boycotting a parliamentary election should yield for december twentieth and edging irregularities multiple protests have been held over the past year calling for president for

a nesting baze resignation a controversial museum that explores belgium's colonial past is reopening off to being closed for a year say the revamped museum takes a critical look at the power equations of the past but former colonies such as the democratic republic of congo want some artifacts to be returned natasha about to takes a look at the museum outside brussels. 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 was no mention of the fact that millions of people were enslaved or killed by their oppressors so until twenty years ago belgium didn't have any critical reflect it was below your past and nobody really questioned how

did google is really perceive it and if you talk to police of that period come in they'll talk about your profession about the way they were treated and so when go to visit this museum they'll start reflecting well maybe the colonial says that 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 mars or priscilla process 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 with pierre company 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 belgians national football team he says the museum could be a cultural bridge or you know 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 objects to congo so much. these are not mere outworks for us the rue present our ancestors so if my insistence on closing the museum frozen in time then the date 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 of come under increasing pressure from campaign is to return objects taken from africa they say it would address some past injustices but also force people in form a colonial powers like belgium to know and confront history for too long has been ignored. al-jazeera brussels belgium and only african

continent nations are hoping relics looted by their former colonizers will be returned to africa's newest museum the museum of black civilisation in the senegalese capital dhaka 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 ains to be a symbol of decolonization but has been built with three with thirty four million dollars of chinese money. you can find that story and much more on our web site the address for that al-jazeera dot com. and doha and these are the top stories the u.s. president's chief of staff john kerry has quit his post donald trump is in talks

with the vice president's top aides nick as to succeed kelly. john kelly will be leaving but i don't know if i can say retiring but he's a great guy john kelly will be leaving at the end of the year will be announcing who will be taking john's place it might be ordered it debases i'll be announcing that over the next day or two but john will be leaving at the end of the year he's been with the almost two years now as you know between the two positions so. we're probably going to see it a little while the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the united nations has made her first public comments on the matter of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi nikki haley told the atlantic a saudi arabia cons be given a pass for the killing and she pointed the finger at the crown prince saying government officials carried out the mud making mohammed bin sound man technically responsible french riot police a fourth running street battles with thousands of anti-government protesters in

paris it's the fourth straight weekend of the yellow vest protest against the government more than nine hundred seventy people have been detained across the country if you because you. don't know who talks is that important a threat to national unity we must continue with dialogue with coming together the president will propose measures to bring together the french nation and to do with the challenges that they have to deal with china is warning canada of severe consequences if it doesn't release the top executive of one of the world's largest telecoms companies ways chief financial officer men one joe has been arrested on charges of evading u.s. sanctions against iran the canadian courts are deciding whether to extradite him to the u.s. . libya's stage oil company n.o.c. has denounced what it calls the occupation of an oil field by protesters tribesmen a threatening to shut down the fields it would stop the production of three hundred fifteen thousand barrels a day demanding financial assistance for their community and he says the oil is

still flowing and is warning of catastrophic consequences if the field is closed those are the headlines i'll be back here with more news after upfront. stories generate thousands of lives. separated the speed of. these facts of. the listening post on al-jazeera the u.s. government says china is detaining more than two million winters ethnic kazakhs and other muslim minorities is this the world's biggest most ignored human rights crisis our law school we go activist also on the show the u.k. is trying to quit the european union because the original brics that referendum tainted that's our debate.

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

million members of muslim minorities detained in total that number sound almost unbelievable. yes actually after the force of december the tools their state department of crucial. speed testimony in capitol hill and a lot of news media pick up to eight hundred tall then we were actually it's more than two million because we were is a major population over there. because yes what are you hearing from your friends and family back home and enjoying about what's going on inside those camps because the chinese government say there have been violent attacks by weaker separatists so they're just the radicalizing the terrorists there they say the chinese foreign ministry says these policies are about improving livelihood and preserving stability what do you say in response. to that we have a lot of. the morning witness testimony and also we have the

firsthand information from the chinese government's web site and their information and i will ask them what president you know we're cd was a medical university president and a customer university's president they needed from this work ational education kept there in the campuses where they are in the electorate as well and how can they become a terrorist if they can promote to do to this union university as president reach means it's a provincial level party member also must be a communist party member which means the communist party members become terrorist now are needed to go to what's happening there are we talking about when we talk about the testimony of torture yes it's by the state department of land less indoctrination and the harsh conditions inside and here's a good person's testimony they are in for seeing. their hunger

not giving them enough food and not enough water and sometimes forcing them to take a madison unknown madison and after that some. from the woman's testimony there was a pregnancy. and the some kid who was died over there and the dad is a bully in one cell with. description they have more than sixty are on the people inside and some how do we stand these their families are coming from people who've been released and come out yes very good job in the laboratory of china now we have four make a good. girl and another one lady now he is in turkey so now we have four so the numbers we're seeing the conditions that are getting harsher this is an escalating trend clearly but it's not new the

repression of the we get is being going on for decades tell me about what happened to you you were we were activist in china in the eighty's and ninety's what happened to you years starting very early into the started to abolish that we've got a language teaching in the. university and they always have very strong discrimination. for you sample i was teacher in college your work ational training college the real work. and real early they were the police will visit me and bring me to the police station asking some question and when i give a class to the student into the world put some student more neuter me and. wise and beating me. out. this is. a use the electric. beaten. to me

twice one in authority asian with this roughly it was in the then one at what happened to your family your family suffer as well a brother was killed by the chinese mob in total and four after i left and my sister was get there. because of my activism in poland for dear and now i got lost who is whole my family members now i don't know if my mom she's still alive my sister is still alive my ex-wife lost contact my kid i got here after ten years in two thousand surgeon in malaysia and my. because i sent him some money and the. post told some clothes and his tour. in two thousand and nine to a son was get. beaten tortured and detained for result any

charge and just because i stand money and send some parcel to go talk to other we good living in exile this is a common experience and i want to hear the very heart of the experience what seems to be in recent weeks or some of the media reports from the associated press and other to be believed if this is going beyond discrimination it's something we've not seen pretty much anywhere else in the world there are reports that the chinese communist party has sent more than a million local government workers to live to literally live inside of we go home to watch the prey raise their kids to monitor them twenty four seven even in private it sounds not just crazy it sounds orwellian. yes. it was always morning. was a common practice in the chinese government for the you good if you say no you are extremism and it will you and it can send you to a concentration camp or sentence you because just say you don't like that and they will leave you twenty four hours and one time they go at least have to live in

their home for two weeks and a lot of the family the hard bended son demand was all yours in. concentrating can only laugh to war men and their daughters and the small kids and if they are taking this and wanted it i heard some of them raping the woman. but from what you're hearing it was a secondhand report from things you're hearing from other activists other exiles is just increasing in number they're more people go into more homes though yes. when it started two years ago it was just some family seeing it. targeted in the they needed to mourn in term more closely now. it was all your family and it two years ago first time what i heard it is before they send in a car just or we're going to pass in the car. that we are all villagers you

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

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

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

twenty fifteen terror attack in paris strict state of emergency laws were implemented. however has now incorporated these provisions into ordinary law as a result authorities have been gifted draconian powers to curb the rights of individuals suspected of having links to terrorist networks all without any independent judicial oversight the ombudsman to bar the men in cha. arj of defending civil liberties one these policies stigmatize muslims and threaten social cohesion refugees haven't fared so well in france either yes the occasional refugee has been fast track to citizenship because they went viral scaling a building and saving a child but most haven't been so lucky last august passed a law reducing the number of days one has to apply for asylum from one hundred twenty to ninety and asylum seekers applications are rejected can be deported before the asylum court has the chance to rule on their appeal for freedom of the press doesn't always support those seeking to hold power to account in july it was

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

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

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

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

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

if you're going to have a referendum that is going to affect the foundation the constitution of our country you better do that within the law and we know that is not the case we know that multiple laws were broken and an investigation is. a multiple of the laws that might have been broken even what about our in banks this multi-million businessman who's been donating to the to ukip and to probe records for years now you know him you were at the top of ukip for a while we've seen all these ties are coming up between now and boeing's sources in russia did you know about them when you were working alongside him. well look i never knew about his various meetings with the russian ambassador but he never knew about meetings that i had would have a variety of people in the in the count various campaigns what i do know is that he did meet these people carol has pointed these out but at no stage is anybody ever

said that what he's done is illegal their investigations and that is the point here we can't just run a witch on based upon the idea of evidence that is being pulled together by people that's never been found in a steve carroll carroll you've not convicted these people it's not been proved in a court of law there are three investigations now that the electoral commission carried out and that it has concluded and that has now passed to the metropolitan police so that is overspending by levy overspending by leave and overspending by believe and they that that sent the electoral commission is that concluded those investigations to a criminal level of proof and it's passed those over to the metropolitan police so we can say definitively again and actually those rules were broken and that has been proved to even. know you know carol come on let's be fair about this this is not beyond a criminal level of proof because the electoral commission doesn't have

a criminal level of proof is it did it wouldn't pass it on to the metropolitan committee police in the first place what they're saying is that it has had it and has the table it doesn't fit their particular view which is that is they've ruled they are the government regulate process that is how different is not saying that the law was broken they are the official regulator appointed by the u.s. and the rules and. that is what there says. now all there is and all those laws were broken. no look how right there is a difference it's about the electoral commission is that even make your point carol i appreciate your point of interest to me about sixteen times that in the u.k. we have very different levels there is a civil liability law and the recruitment of laws and in the civil liability law that is where the electoral commission is they have no criminal powers and no criminal designation of what it is that's why they passed it on to metropolitan police because they don't have the powers do you know did you can't get money from

russian sources given you got so much money from aaron banks when you were part of you can't. absolutely know how you know is that there because we wouldn't have been struggling for most of the money that we had in the first place ok karen let me ask you this this is where the nonsense comes from mehdi ok well listen i'm going to sleep well let's try to get a lot of i'm not callous let's try to get to the bottom of the alleged nonsense carol you've written an article for the new york review of books saying britain needs its own russian investigation its own robert muller given how controversial and divisive the motor investigation has been here in the united states do you think that actually be of any value in the u.k. . well i think i look at this at this speech the head of m i six made his only his second ever speech since he's been in office and he pointed to the fact that how m i six had been involved in the mass expulsion of russian spies from britain and that happened after a script was poisoned the foreign office took this action now one of those people

who was expelled from britain at that time we shared my six confirmed was a russian intelligence officer this is the person who's targeting our own banks and he wasn't just targeting our own banks any old time he was targeting him in the months before the referendum and banks was invited by the russian ambassador to meet a russian businessman who offered him these kind of like fantastic gold and diamond deals and i don't think we can it's not a question that russia just like write a check to to a political campaign and that's how it works what we know from patterns all across you it is it's this is it's about enriching businessmen who then donate to campaigns it's about offering sweetheart deals and when we look at the often we look at what was proposed to our banks that just looks like a sweetheart deal it does stephen let me ask you this given you want to get to the bottom of this like carol does would you support almost all investigation an independent investigation i sound like

a liberal democrat the answer is yes and the answer is no on the answer is yes because i think it would be farcical show that there was no involvement between ukip and the russians or leave the e.u. in the oceans or more importantly a connection between vote leave and leave the e.u. but on the other side of it would actually continue the negativity and the divisiveness and the dangerous damage to our political feeling that's happening in the united kingdom at the moment and whereas i believe that carol has a complete duty as a reporter to pursue people like cambridge on a little girl and the courage that she's looking at and. but there is a duty on all of us to look at this carefully and responsibly about how we're damaging our democracy when you link things that are not factual with things that are just kind of ideas you mention damaging democracy as time goes by stephen as more and more evidence of seeming wrongdoing emerges more and more questions go unanswered there does seem to be a momentum growing for a second referendum on sky news did

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

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

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hello i'm mr and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. hundreds detained off to another violent sasa day of protests in the french capital . cost in the middle of a u.s. china standoff beijing warns canada of severe consequences if it doesn't release a top telecoms executive. great power is going to save all whom protest outside a major climate conference in poland demanding action of the delegates inside ourselves over a crucial report. donald trump's white house already has one of the highest turnover rates for senior stuff and u.s. presidential history and now chief of staff john kerry is leaving at the end of the year the retired marine general has been in the role for sixteen months he was

chosen to bring order to what's been widely described as a chaotic white house is in talks with vice president mike pence his chief of staff nick as to take on the role just or the john kelly will be leaving resign but i don't know if i can say retirees but he's a great guy john kelly will be leaving at the end of the year will be announcing who will be taking john's place it might be or that it debases i'll be announcing that over the next day or two but john will be leaving at the end of the year he's been with the almost two years now as you go between the two positions so. we're probably going to see every little while. our white house correspondent committee health it takes a look back at john kerry's time as chief of stuff. we just warring general kelly crisis may have ended john kelly's time in the west wing but the four star marine general was brought to the white house to restore order to preserve the

premier's president donald trump took him from his post as homeland security secretary in july of two thousand and seventeen he replaced the first chief of staff writes priebus thank you kelly his first order of business was firing communications director anthony scare mucci it on the job for just ten days for disparaging white house officials in a profanity laced interview for a time kelley was described as the adult in the white house reportedly imposing military like discipline on staff and limiting access to the president very well but in october of that same year a botched military mission in new share that left four american soldiers dead cause some to question kelly's judgment kelly attacked a congresswoman who criticized the president's mishandling of a condolence call to one of the widows it stuns me that a member of congress with a listened in on a conversation. absolutely stunning. but the controversy surrounding rob porter

a top trump aide may have been kelly's biggest fumble kelly defended porter when his ex-wives accused him of physical and emotional abuse so did the president as you probably know he says he's innocent and i think you have to remember that he said first wrongly yesterday that he's innocent but the administration was forced to back away when photos of one ex-wife's blackeye surfaced bolstering her claims the case led to questions about how porter given his police record had received security clearances and led to others in the administration including the president's own sudden larger cushion or seeing their top secret clearance revoked other tromp reports surfaced that kelley had referred to trump as an idiot something both men denied other top officials like former secretary of state rex tillerson and former national security advisor h.r. mcmaster were let go after allegedly making similar insults in recent months

kelli's tenure has been marked with reports of fights including reported shouting match with national security adviser john bolton as well as disagreements with first lady lonnie a trump. kelly is the latest in a long list of high profile departures can really help al jazeera the white house while the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has made her first public comments on the matter of saudi journalist. this is what nikki haley told the atlantic magazine the whole situation with is we can't give them a pos becomes and the reason is you have saudi government officials that did this in a saudi consulate the saudi government doesn't get a pass we can condone it we can't ever say it's ok because of the support saga spit hevia and we have to say that. the saudi crown prince has been in constant private contact with donald trump's son in law and middle east advisor jared krishna

according to a new york times report their relationship has continued even off to a saudi journalist jamal khashoggi the article reveals that kushner has been a strong advocate for mohamed bin sound the informal contact was made despite a rule that national security council members must take part in all cools with foreign leaders she have returned he has more from washington d.c. . it's been widely speculated that nikki haley will run for political office again one day and this interview suggests she's in no mood to come down emphatically and offend anyone who may be useful to her in the future yes she says the saudis need to be held accountable but she also says they are the key ally for the u.s. in fighting iran her accountability her idea of accountability repeatedly in this interview is what she calls the dozen or so saudis who have been sanctioned by the u.s. she's pushed by the interviewer there what if it's shown that moment is directly

accountable then she says well look then that's up to the trumpet ministration but she does accept that bollard when someone is technically responsible but only technically responsible that's despite what we've heard the cia assessment is that he is fully responsible in their best assessments now we also have this new york times article about jared cush news current relationship with the saudis it confirms what we already know gerard mom had been someone are in very constant what's app contact and text each other a great deal that's continuing since the khashoggi murder that jarred the new york times says is a devising moment been someone on how to weather the storm and is his biggest supporter in the white house in addition the new york times gives us extra information on how that relationship developed the new york times says the saudis targeted krishna two years ago the reason their opinion that jarred knew very little about the middle east. a protest in four acts for saturday's four massive

demonstrations across france what began as protests against an increase in fuel tax has spread to wider resentment against president emanuel 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 some 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 nine hundred seventy people are in police custody demonstrations were held across the country this was the scene in the southwestern city of bordeaux barricades could still be seen burning overnight and in neighboring to lose several large fires were lit by protesters in the center of the city french media reporting some thirty seven people were arrested by police the government in paris is calling for calm. because

you. know tax is that important a threat to national unity we must continue with dialogue with coming together the president will propose measures to bring together the french nation and to do with the challenges that they have to deal with it. well al jazeera is david chase who was in central paris throughout the day and sent us this report the 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 was the demonstrators tried to storm the blockades mounted by the riot police. started to shoot arrows now picket out our isa moving in on the other best protesters who are trying

missiles at the police lights they're now using tear gas tear gas and stun grenade was. the time when the flicked on we did a first act mccrum didn't act to speak not as act treat we don't exist today we do act for 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 qualm 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 see if i see food 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 a fool and it's a war that shows no sign of ending soon the standoff is continuing david chaytor al jazeera paris. china is warning canada of severe consequences if it doesn't release a top executive. one of the world's largest telecoms companies the foreign ministry has launched a diplomatic protest calling the case quote extremely nasty hallways chief financial officer men one joe was arrested last week on charges of evading u.s. sanctions against iran the canadian courts are deciding on whether to extradite her to the united states where she could face that she is in prison 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 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 in an official subsidiary out of hong kong that was indeed engaged with businesses in the rand 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 main 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 but china views it all as a national embarrassment particularly because maine is considered to be corporate.