the labor party would like a general election there are some people in the conservative party who really are trying to obstruct to deal with all costs and so this is making the british people more and more i think third up more and more alienated from the political classes so we have a full blown political crisis we in fact you might say are in a position where given that the prime minister is a person who can command a majority in the house of commons you might almost say that britain is looking at the possibility of effectively being without a government without a government that can do any business at all so this is unprecedented territory and mrs make continues to try and find a way through it but one could only wish a good look because as things go on the problems actually get worse rather than better ok on that idea of a leadership challenge some skeptics are saying boris johnson the co architect of bricks it former foreign secretary he's had a haircut so that means he's up to something some place he's thinking about point he can become prime minister but the reality is no conservative wants to go up

against her yet because it's a poisoned chalice however if if she's leaking political capital that political capital is a finite resource i mean she's got to stop running around sure some point like a political supplicant around the european capitals come back to the house and say let's have the vote she loses she then goes. yes yes well the trouble is that mrs may because this is a desperate situation which requires desperate decisions just yesterday things that people are already beginning to forget but the downing street was saying in the morning very clearly that there would be a meaningful vote after this very long debate and then almost immediately mrs may lets it be known that the vote is going to be put back now that is as you quite rightly say the political capital but then it was felt by a lot of parliamentarians that she's treating parliament with

a lack of respect in the speaker into being yesterday really kind of triggering what is going to be an emergency debate this morning which is all about whether the prime minister has a right simply to cancel a vote which people have been preparing for so bit by bit i'm afraid in this impossible situation other things are still going on parliament's feeling it's having its rights ignored and so as i said as she goes on trying desperately to get through this crisis with all the weapons disposal she's having to use these in ways which alienates even more people now you said earlier about boris johnson if you look for candidates there might be wanted to people who are not very controversial potential leaders of the conservative party but it seems to me that those compromised candidates are exactly the same kind of people who will face mrs may's exact difficulties and so really wherever you look the only thing one could look even further down the line and say maybe a government of national unity but then that government of national nudity would

have to try to unite behind a position which satisfies a british parliament and people and the european union wherever you look even in these desperate remedies for the situation they don't look very promising mark thanks so much for unbundling all the big issues there for us we do appreciate it mungana their life at lancaster university in the u.k. . well mrs may not meeting the french president emmanuel back home because he today busy with lots of other stuff he's promising to lift the minimum wage income tax on pensions and salaries to quell protests against his government in his first national address since the so-called yellow vest rallies began a month ago mr macro says he shoulders some responsibility for the anger of some demonstrators in the concessions just don't go far enough. from paris to. emanuel mcconnell speech was an appeal to french hearts he admitted making mistakes and called for national unity and upon the path to success possibility i admit my share

of the responsibility perhaps i made you think i didn't care i had other priorities i know that i have heard some of you with my words. the french president spoke after four weeks of near silence about the so-called yellow vest protests the grassroots movement was sparked by frustration over high fuel taxes but it's become a symbol of anger over the rising cost of living micro responded with some financial concessions nor in force we want to france where people can live from their work in dignity the minimum wage will be raised by one hundred euros a month from twenty nineteen after watching the speech in normandy this group of protesters say they were unconvinced. i fear that few yellow vests will be satisfied with these crumbs personally i will be out there again tomorrow at the guy you wrote about locate france's far left leader said he believed the demonstrations would continue across the country. i think that there will be an act

five of the beginning of the citizens revolution in our country analysts say this speech was a fine balancing act for him and a wal-mart call because the yellow vests protesters have such a large variety of demands he could never have appealed to all of them but experts say that his tactic was to try and convince the movement's more moderate supporters would. he wanted to convince the majority of people who aren't necessarily demonstrating but annoyed by taxes imagery for shows did going to be too far in his arrogance and liberal politics he gave concessions to the political left but i'm not sure it would be enough to reconquer public opinion doing his presidential campaign makkal vowed to transform from but experts say his ability now to push through his reforms could depend on what happens on the streets in the coming weeks . joins us live here on the news are from paris natasha over to you.

well reactions in france are mad or michael speech a very mixed this morning most people say that you can see a president who is at least trying to perhaps offer some concessions to the l a vest protest as one of their main concerns of course was simply having not enough money in their pockets at the end of the month they say they are furious over the rising cost of living they are struggling to make ends meet but will what he offered go far enough for joining me to talk about this more is veteran political journalist pierre haski pierre thank you for joining us what now for emanuel might call there are some who say that his speech wasn't bad he offered something others say just doesn't doesn't go far enough can we expect these protests to go on well it was a necessary first step there was no way you could defuse such a crisis with a thirty minute speech and and the few announcements so he had probably the right tone people felt that he was our organs and suddenly we had

a humble president there was meats for those who were only concerned about the cost of living but obviously in those few weeks the movement has radicalized and these these announcements are not enough to stop the movement overnight specially as its roots go back in the case of policy of in the qualities between their interests and regions of france and so it's only the beginning probably of a more comprehensive negotiation that has to start and which hasn't really started one of the problems though with a negotiating is this movement is comprised of such a variety of people different viewpoints and no clear leaders i mean who do you negotiate with when you're the president that's the the strength and the weakness of this movement it's a grassroots movement it has no organization the structure and the leaders and as soon as a spokesman emerges is is destroyed by the rest of the movement is not representative

so who do you negotiate with and that's probably going to be. e the key issue of the next few days the problem is that next saturday we have calls for another the protests in paris the previous saturdays have been really marked with serious violence and everybody's really concerned about what's going to happen again they said today the police is exhausted of being on standby all over the place people are really but security in paris are really seriously affected by the emerge of violence so how do you defuse that and that's really after these announcement that's going to be the next issue right pierre haski thank you very much for joining us with more there and of course all of this raises questions for him at all much on his future as a president he wanted to transform france that was his political campaign but of course pushing those reforms through in the future will be very hard indeed if these protests continue. natasha thanks very much twenty more ahead here on the

news hour for you including oil workers walking off the job again and the latest strike to hit one of africa's biggest producers. thailand's military backed government lifts curbs on political activities and i'm soused an election in february. paris and a man facing a make or break game in the champions league details coming up in sports news with in about twenty five minutes. a palestinian has reportedly been killed by israeli security forces in the occupied west bank as well the border police say the man was shot as he drove his car towards them in the city of hebron we'll get more details on that for you just as soon as we can. turn our attention now to libya where rebel groups loyal to the warlord to leave after a mobilising in the oil crescent region it comes after rival factions announced an offensive to recapture the area the oil crescent includes four major oil ports on

the mediterranean and central libya and has been under the control of have to us forces since twenty sixteen months afterwards joins us live now from tripoli so they clearly think this offensive is just about to start perhaps. yes peter a those forces are preparing to launch a new offensive on the i christened area. a coalition of forces that includes forces loyal to the former chief of the facility's god. of the run alongside fighters with what is so called the defense brigades remember both factions are against. the have to provide a defense brigade were defeated by have to forces in one of ozzy in early two thousand and sixteen and to dance forces were expelled from the oil christians might have to his forces in september two thousand and sixteen and since then.

forces alongside the defensive brigades have tried to launch several offensive to recapture the oil ports in the oil present area but failed because have tips forces were also supported by egyptian and united arab emirates war planes now this new this this time local sources in the area say that have to the supporters are mobilizing there are some some people there say they're digging get tunnels around the. it seems that they're getting ready to. defend the area against iran's forces remember joe duran has got the backing of the tribes in the area he is the full moon a chief of the oil petroleum petroleum perceive it is gods that was taking control of the area before have his forces recaptured the ports but remember to drown himself ironically he was responsible for blocking the area for three years and

blocking the oil production in the ports for three years from july two thousand and thirteen until august two thousand and sixteen and that cost the libyan treasury more than one hundred billion dollars according to the national oil corporation that the limit peter is. then they hand over over the christians in july but have those forces do their bit of ozzie branch of the national oil corporation and the fear is that by handing over their the ports to develop as a branch which is affiliated to their favorite administration in top of the hato out that could split the country and this way have to his forces would take monopoly over the oil ports in the crescent peter thanks very much oil workers in the bone have started a three day strike in protest of the sacking of six of their colleagues the walk out of the french company total produces about two hundred thousand barrels of crude oil per day but thousands of workers have been laid off as oil prices fell

workers demanding higher pay and better working conditions held another strike in july and it can such who is chief executive of rich management and an emerging markets economist who joins us from nairobi and he can shine is this particularly significant not necessarily because of production levels historically but because the population locally is very small. so you're absolutely right two hundred thousand barrels a day nine hundred it's just difficult relevance many respects when you consider that the three big boy it's use those to lead and it's dead but i think the important message share is a similar message that if a bit. messy stuff was sent back and it is essentially telling us that the go go days opec would share that money it is fair. and it's deltic pronouncements already meaningful it's telling us that it is losing relevance in this new environment and

i think you know if you take qatar you take out all in that context that's the ultimate takeaway the public relations very small about two million on the per capita income of qatar is quite high obviously it's not suit its mission to date and it's a little bit like cats that sense of course because extraordinary situation of the presence of discard in saudi arabia is currently. so it's a very fragile situation although i don't think of how do you think the company involved in this particular situation to tell could or should react to this. you know of course got all of its parts of france. and the bomb go the president's father was a strong supporter of the french so this is really considered to be a front says and i think they've got to trade quite carefully. they

all to see what i am stood out and they chose not to go into your i don't think outside i think you have to be very careful simply because of the political dispensation the fact the president does say all we are in a situation where politically the president won an election which many felt he shouldn't have done so we've got a very difficult you let's go political economic situation playing into this next story where we can see the crowd of princes use him all relevance in times of being able to control the oil price and the concept here thank you very much. and a few moments we'll have the weather for you with rob and also still ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour reaching the u.s. anyway they can central american asylum seekers resort to desperate measures. the refugee footballer who was arrested on his honeymoon in thailand appears in court bangkok as he fights extradition to bahrain.

by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. and i much essential nature of his duty looking suitably wintry given the months this is better oh such as what about expect to see the capitol meant snow on the ground and fog of fairly frequent companion is sort of weather it's nothing like as deeply caus it what it was in this cold air there were three areas of circulating you could call them storm systems going to rain or snow to bring on the temperature and sometimes a fairly strong wind which was the case just recently for example in berlin this is a picture i mean just enough to blow bikes are mostly in germany it's a picture of snow which is no big surprise now cos our current set up with three systems means got more to comes no running through germany and austria. there's

a drain around the black sea coast which tends to snow quite happily again of ukraine and better routes and then in turkey the right itself is turning to snow now this is probably a particular area of interest because this time of the year when the rain comes across into what are still refugee camps in front of the syria sudden turkey this is what you get every year and it's already happened at least four times so far in the last month the assistance on its way through this line of green is rain and that's going to spread through northern syria even northern iraq in the next two days again. the weather sponsored by cats are always. the tunisian scientist who led a double life so secret even kept it from his family. but his activities would have a military impact for which he would pay the ultimate price.

out as zero world investigates the life and death of mahmoud's. the two new zealand drone engineer. one of the really special things about work in progress here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much employed in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for it is you know it's very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mandate is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

welcomes just joining us you're watching news from my headquarters here in doha my name's peter dhabi let's update your top stories for the european commission president says there's absolutely no room whatsoever to renegotiate the u.k.'s brics that deal the british prime minister to recently is meeting european leaders to try and salvage the unpopular agreement which should lead to praxis in march of next year. the french president is promising to raise the minimum wage income tax but some demonstrators say his concessions do not go far enough in his first national address since the yellow best rallies began last month emanuel macro says he shoulders some responsibility for people's anger. oil workers in the start of a three day strike in protest at sacking six colleagues the walkout the french company took town home produces around two hundred thousand barrels of crude oil per day but thousands of workers have been laid off as oil prices for. one hundred

sixty four countries have signed the first ever global deal to manage the mass movement of people despite strong objections from the u.s. and others but it didn't come without a push back from a number of countries who refused to sign let's go live now to my colleague our correspondent national borrow his life in america ashton is this perceived as something of a pivotal test for the united nations because that's where this goes next year indeed peter they are confident it would be formally endorsed by the general assembly and they say that just a few days ago they were pretty much concerned that many countries word follow suit with the american decision and try to pull out from the american agreement because there were huge concerns voiced by the americans by the austrians by the and gary and by many countries saying that this deal if indorsed by the countries it will pave the way for an influx of millions of migrants into europe and the united

states of america in particular saying that this is something that poses tremendous threats to the sovereignty of those countries but it was interesting peter to say yesterday unger mirka here and her presence her support for the deal paved the way also for many countries to follow suit it was really interesting the moment against all expectations a hundred and sixty the more than one hundred sixty countries decided finally to support the agreement quite a significant achievement because this has been in the making for almost two years he used differences between the countries intergovernmental. delegations n.g.o.s human rights activists lobbying for this moment to happen. what happens in the future would be the biggest challenge facing the international community when you have governments essentially in power and you mentioned hungary there but also

countries like poland and it's really how much how much teeth how much bite does this deal really have peter from a united nations perspective this is a non-binding agreement and therefore it war have huge influence however this is the all the framework that the international community have. to be able to address issues like protecting migrants providing them with safe havens with settling with and given them access to schools and migration and health care now in practical terms the detention of children for example on the border with the mexican us border or the detention of migrants trying to cross from sub-saharan africa into europe all from syria into europe the only way to tackle this illegal ways is through this framework that has been endorsed here in america

. now the hope i've been talking to different senior members here at the u.n. and from different delegations on this saying that they are hoping to change the minds of the americans and the austrians the italians the hungary as in the near future and try to find some common ground when it comes to tackling this issue bitter we're talking about seventy million people forced out of their homes we're talking about twenty four million refugees worldwide and this is something you cannot just by saying that we will build walls this is something that you have to come to terms with because it will continue we have conflicts we have wars we have instability and we have people stranded in different parts of the world looking forward to see and to the situation the cannot go back home because they fear repercussions they cannot go back to places like syria because war is to flaring up and they want the united nations and the international community to step in now they are confident they've made the first significant significant step forward here in america what happens next that would be the difficult challenge for the

international community thanks very much u.s. agents have arrested thirty two people during a rally at the border separating san diego from tijuana in mexico around three hundred demonstrators and religious leaders knelt down in front of gods to call for an end to the detention and the deportation of asylum seekers most were arrested for trespassing. thousands of central americans living in camps on the mexican border are not giving up hope of reaching the u.s. they aim to climb the border fence and claim asylum once arrested on the other side of alchemy met one family trying to do just that. if anything mexico's northern border is a symbol of inequality on one side a world of privileges and on the other stories of people in search of an opportunity. this family from el salvador came first in the early morning to check to situation climbing is not easy. the boys are petrified

and one shouts don't hurt my mama oh my papa. they keep on trying i say the american border patrol loudly. as they fade and finally walk off exhausted. this part of the wall was built nearly twenty five years ago during the clinton years it's been fortified by several administrations since the razor wire was added a few weeks ago. if the heavy presence of the american border patrol is meant to be a deterrent it's not working these young men jumped over in a matter of minutes they have nothing to lose for about an hour later another group arrived kelly left honduras with her twin daughters along the way she became friends with elder and her three children they're relying on each other to take the

leap across the border killing was hesitating at first she told her daughter she was risking so much so they could get an education. but then. it goes very quickly the men first then one child another and yet another it's now the turn of kenyan and. it's too difficult the border patrol has already surrounded those who jumped. right. it's too late for them one of kellin daughters sneaks back through the bars she pushes her back into the united states a desperate gesture by an anguished mother who has little to offer. i have to go to my children she keeps on repeating as a border guard carries them away the rest of the group is also led away detained but now to have the right to claim asylum. is in pain

and wonders what will happen to her eighteen month old baby she was still breastfeeding can we ask where the children spend the night i don't know if dns server. then it slowly sinks in the children are in the us but killin an elder are still in mexico so. rated by the world they will try again and again this time in search of their children held somewhere in america that has meat al-jazeera along mexico's dourdan border. the thai government is lifting its ban on opposition parties for a general election early next year february twenty fourth is the day of the vote which has been postponed five times it'll be the first since the military coup four years ago despite the lifting of the ban human rights groups whether the election will be fair a top executive of the chinese telecoms giant off way is spending another night in

jail a canadian judge says mung one jews bail hearing will continue on tuesday she's been arrested at the request of the u.s. and is accused of violating sanctions against north korea and iran rob reynolds has that story from vancouver. top chinese tech executive wang jo remains in custody after a canadian judge decided he needed more time to consider her request to be set free on bail among the c.f.o. of telecommunications equipment maker while way had offered to pay for round the clock surveillance by a private security firm and to wear an electronic tracking device among lawyers insist she would not try to obscure on as that would bring shame and disrepute on her family and her company among was arrested on december first on a u.s. warrant us officials want her to face charges of fraud in connection with efforts

to evade u.s. sanctions on iran the case has deepened trade tensions between the u.s. and china sending shares an international stock markets lower because off the incidents invest a snow. trade talks might be stalled for this week and made the situation may worsen china has threatened both the u.s. and canada with unspecified serious consequences if money is not released beyond the allegations of sanctions busting u.s. officials have long considered weiwei a national security threat there are concerns that it's far too close to the chinese government to the chinese communist party and that it might take some actions if he gets involved in the u.s. communications backbone which compromises the national security of the united states white house national security adviser john bolton says he has enormous concerns while way could use network tracking equipment installed in u.s.

networks for spying and surveillance the judge presiding over months bail hearing said the u.s. has still not made an official request for extradition. once it does so the judge said it could take months or even more than a year for a decision on extradition to be made. al jazeera vancouver. democrats and the u.s. congress are planning to launch a full review of their policy toward saudi arabia they want to assess the trumpet ministrations response to the murder. and this comes as the turkish president reviewed his call for justice in the saudi journalist case saying it should be tried under international law much at five thirty one describes saudi arabia's decision not to extradite eighteen suspects for trial in turkey as quote

disappointing she has with more now from washington the house foreign affairs committee will have subpoena power so for example we've been hearing a great deal once again about the text messages between jared cushion and crown prince mohammed bin sama and those messages could well be fair game now or indeed any of the business documents or any of the business transactions between members of the trumpet ministration and the saudis those two can be subpoenaed members of the administration can be required to testify to congress all of that might be behind closed doors but we should be kept the closeness between the u.s. and saudi arabia didn't begin with the top administration president obama pretty much gave this audi's whatever they wanted so what will be interesting and key is whether this really is a top to bottom examination off that relationship whether they will really ask whether it's still in the strategic interest of the u.s. to keep things as they are. yemen's warring sides done and talk for the first time

in two years al-jazeera has obtained a un document outlining two initiatives aimed at ending the conflict has been put forward by the un special envoy to yemen martin griffiths is part of the negotiations in sweden is rhetorical. yemen's rival factions are entrenched warning if their demands are not met the un backed talks will fail this man the u.n. special envoy to yemen martin griffiths is trying to stop that happening to that end he's come up with a series of proposals the first calls for fighting to come to an end in yemen's the largest city tie is one of the front lines in the war two hundred thousand civilians are caught up in the violence there the u.n. wants to revive a twenty sixteen peace agreement the other focuses on who data the rebel controlled seaport where most of yemen's food and medicine comes in the u.n. wants a halt to all military operations including saudi led as strikes and for all militia

groups to leaf these are two major. population is arms in every war. i'm hopeful that we can reach agreements on the deescalation drink juice the fighting in both places. i'm hoping that we can we're not there yet. while warring sides in the yemen war have been meeting in sweden hundreds of yemenis have been protesting outside the u.n. headquarters in the capital sanaa calling for an end to the blockade which they say is hampering access to vital goods. we're asking the u.n. to lift the blockade asuna rappel and calling for the international community to have some responsibility toward the suffering of the yemeni people because of this blockade and the inhumane practices of the enemy coalition which is blocking access for commercial ships carrying fuel to have day to pull out your blockade is blocking our access to met.