everyone has a story worth hearing. cover often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined al-jazeera. french police search for a gunman after a christmas market shooting leaves at least three people dead. i'm sam and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up after more than a week behind bars the chief. chinese telecom giant huawei is out on bail in canada time magazine person of the year. is

among the group of journalists who are on the. prime minister's reason made pleads for a reason thing from the e.u. leaders on the. less than three weeks ago because of widespread parliamentary opposition back. a gunman who killed at least three people in the eastern city of strasbourg is on the run. for stepped up border controls as police tried to track him down at least twelve people were injured. open finally a christmas market in the city center the interior minister said security will be increased at christmas markets around the country. and reports from paris. the french interior minister christophe past and there was speaking a short while ago in strasbourg and he gave

a few more details about what happened on tuesday evening he said that it was just before eight o'clock in the evening local time when a gunman went on something of a shooting spree next to the christmas market in strasbourg shooting at various locations as you said chris of cast and there confirming that three people have been killed and there are other people of course injured he said that large manhunt was underway the police were doing everything they could to try and locate the gunman who fled on foot shortly after the shooting in fact aggressive kastner even said that the borders had been tightened across the country the government has put the country on a heightened state of alert as they try to locate the shooter well earlier in the evening there were reports that perhaps the gunman had been located in parts of strasbourg those areas had been cordoned off by police but casting their

interior minister confirms that in fact that wasn't the case those reports were in fact inaccurate and the government is still very much at large so that must be very frightening for the people living in strasbourg knowing that somebody is out there a person who is armed and potentially could take more victims the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant who always been granted bail in canada of the green to put out more than seven million dollars and surrender her passport one joe was arrested in december first suspicion of violating u.s. sanctions on iran trying to threaten severe consequences unless they're released immediately. as more from vancouver. senior walk away executive mung one joe has been released on ten million dollars bail by a canadian court she also has to comply with a stringent set of restrictions on her movements where

a monitoring bracelet around her ankle and maintain a team of private security guards who will observe her movements at all times now what happens next is that the united states has until the eighth of january to file a formal extradition request with canada for monk to be given to the u.s. the u.s. wants to prosecute her on charges of conspiring and fraudulent li trying to breach u.s. impose sanctions on iran however the reuters news agency is now reporting that u.s. president donald trump says he may personally intervene with his own justice department in the main case and presumably try to quash the that prosecution if he said it would serve national security interests for the u.s.

or lead to a more favorable trade deal with china monks release on ballot comes just hours after beijing detained a former canadian diplomat my cold covering was working in china as a senior advisor for a brussels based non-governmental organization president trump says he's willing to meet again with chinese president xi jinping to resolve a trade dispute between the two countries in an interview with royce's news agency trump also promised not to raise tariffs on chinese goods while the two sides of potential trade deal john hendren joins us now live from washington d.c. so first of all john is a trade deal coming together. i mean a trade deal may be coming together but the president is going even farther than that to say that the chinese are already buying large amounts of soybeans from the

u.s. and and vats is clearly bluster at least at this stage the president is sometimes said to politely to have had an arm's length relationship with the truth and in this case nothing has come together yet however the prices of soybeans did edge up slightly here in the united states but they remain at their lowest level in something like a decade but those talks are going on last year china bought sixty percent of u.s. oil being exports that amounts to about twelve billion dollars well the u.s. government has now had to put out a twelve billion dollars aid package to a wide array of farmers hit by retaliatory tariffs in the u.s. those include corn soybeans milk and beef and as a matter of fact last year some eighty four farmers in five states in the upper midwest went bankrupt that is a lot higher than the usual amount nevertheless the president insists this deal is coming together and it will just be

a matter of time before we find out if it does but so far things are looking more promising there at least talking what sort of the months go expect from the u.s. side if as you say things from some soybeans to milk can be still remain contentious. well the u.s. is particularly upset about tariffs on u.s. autos going into china right now there's a forty percent tariff president trump says he believes the chinese will lower that tariff to fifteen percent advance the kind of thing the united states is aiming at here the president has a long bet that the u.s. is better able to weather a trade war than china its economy is more buoyant chinese the chinese economy is not quite in the same spot in the whole point about this from trump's perspective is he wants to reduce the u.s. trade deficit with china he thinks that trade war is the way to do it but a lot of lot of economists will say the winner of a trade more is usually no one. hundred thanks so much talking of

the u.s. president or he's reiterating his support for the crown prince of saudi arabia from told reporters he was standing by mohamed bin sunland despite the outcry over the murder of saudi journalist moussa shoji describe the crown prince as very strongly in power and director of the cia jeanne the house bill is due to brief leaders of the house of representatives on death and one stay. is one of several journalists picked to be time magazine's person of the year the group is being called the guardian's ashaji is being honored for speaking out against the brutality of his country's regime he was killed in the south it called salutes in the stumble in october reuters journalists while alone. who were also honored they've been detained him in march for their coverage of the crisis the cover shows their wives holding their pictures also on the list journalists at the u.s.

newspaper can't forget that they vowed to continue their work after five of their colleagues were shot dead in the newsroom in june and rounding off the group is maria ressa the editor of the rappler news agency in the philippines the government accuses of spreading misinformation false and jordan reports. two months after his murder at the saudi consulate in istanbul jamal has been honored for the very reason he was killed for questioning how the saudi regime rules every year the time editors spend months debating and talking about who they think who we think should best represent the trends of the year who had the greatest impact on the news and on the world and this year we've chosen the guardians and the war against truth. introduction and headdress graces one of four covers put out by the magazine we didn't do anything wrong the others feature the two reuters with foreigners jailed in me in march for reporting on atrocities against the revenge of the staff of

a local us newspaper who survived a deadly attack by a gunman angry with their coverage of his criminal case and a former t.v. reporter turned online website editor in the philippines targeted by a president who doesn't want his behavior covered we are not against the government we are not against president detective but we do want to hold him and his government accountable for the tens of thousands of people who have been killed in the drug war from the impunity that we see online you are creating and also a lot of the reporters recreating violence by not writing. the fake news is creating violence analysts say press freedom is more vulnerable than ever because politicians on six continents are attacking the public's trust in the media but they add that in washington jamal khashoggi is murder on orders of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has congress and the public taking

a very close look at the trumpet ministrations priorities alliances and values. this is a moment where one understands that from a foreign policy perspective the us has to demonstrate what it stands for and because shows she killing in the fallout has opened up much of the subtle debates we've had behind the scenes in full public view and that's why it's become so contentious time editors say and the other honorees symbolize the journalists around the world who try to hold their leaders accountable a tribute to those who question even at catastrophic risk to themselves was all in jordan al-jazeera washington set out on al-jazeera. good news for small business owners in communist cuba.

had us significant storm is over but the consequences of what left behind are still on the ground so we must have a couple of fine days for us to last the storm disappears the should be a couple of fine days this is what's happening overnight so wednesday daytime hours cloudy certainly through the southern states because snow across the great lakes more coming into the northwestern as a particular cross the rockies not significant but right for winter nothing there really for california so that's gone dry for a time and the whole lot keeps marching eastward so you end up with a little bit of snow not very much temp is still hovering around those single figures not dramatic but this is one to watch a feed of again this is for texas but we had a lover right in just over the weekend so the potential for further flooding is this extends is definitely there. to the south the last stop went to system is just a trading frontal zone here and it often generates some pretty big but localized

areas of rain cuban bahamas could do the same again but the focus seems more in honduras than anywhere else the next day or so again you wouldn't rule out a shower two in jamaica or cuba otherwise they're pretty well scattered this is a nice time the breezy dry. a reporter's retreat in a brutal civil war if the commodore had been the israeli invasion would not have been so well. the commodore had become a journalistic center you could be in the safe enclave and then you went into civil war i started off leaving this suite the commodore the next room i was in was underground in a tiny prison cell as a hostage beirut the commodore war hotels on al-jazeera.

they want to go on to syria time to recap our headlines now. a gunman who killed at least three people in the eastern city of strasbourg is on the run france's stepped up border controls as police try tracking down at least twelve people were injured when the attack opened fire near a christmas market in the city center. the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant to walk away has been granted bail in calabar after agreeing to put out more than seven million dollars and surrender a passport one joe was arrested on this summer the first on suspicion of violating u.s. sanctions on iran. as an adult trump has reiterated his support for the crown prince

of saudi arabia trump told voices news agency he was standing by and despite the outcry over the murder of saudi journalist amount for sure. rob reports some backbench m.p.'s from the governing conservative party in the u.k. are getting ready to bring a no confidence motion against the prime minister series i'm a spent use day meeting. e.u. leaders trying to get changes to the braggs in the ocean green this than three weeks ago she was forced to call off a vote in the british parliament on the agreement due to widespread opposition of the us told may talks cannot be reopened brenda reports. she's trying to save not just her bracks it deal but also her credibility and her career teresa mayes whistle stop tour of e.u. leaders started in the hague for breakfast with her dutch counterpart mark router

the outcome productive according to her spokesman. in the german capital berlin to meet angela merkel the prime minister found herself momentarily trapped in her car . before the e.u.'s open door policy was finally restored. and then finally to brussels to explain british concerns about the irish back stop whatever outcome you want whatever relationship you want with europe in the future there's no deal available it doesn't have that sort within it but we don't want the backstop to be used and if it is we want to be certain that it is only temporary but do you leaders point out that mrs may signed up to the withdrawal agreement backstop and all just three weeks ago and assured the other e.u. twenty seven leaders that she would be able to carry it through parliament now she's back for more facing certain defeat at home and an uncertain reception in brussels there is no room whatsoever for the negotiation but of course to

this room if used intelligently is enough to give further clarification and further interpretations we vote open you do have to all agree to the sentiment here exasperated at the british political chaos and grim preparedness now for the worst case scenario which would be even if the only possible agreement and we've done a lot of concessions to reach. so we sincerely hope that there can be a majority. to or ratify the whistle agreement but they have two or ten ready for a new deal and we are preparing for it downing street says the bracks it vote perspire and from choose day may now not take place until mid january i think the prime minister is going to see things through number ten until at least christmas which in modern politics constitutes long term planning here at westminster the prime minister's decision to postpone choose day's crucial votes and head off around

europe seeking reassurances clarification's has drawn howls of protest from the opposition parties for party leaders have friends of the main opposition leader jeremy corbett asking him to join them in trying to force a vote of no confidence in theresa may these are grim times for the british prime minister and her room for maneuver is dwindling but so are the options facing the u.k. paul brennan al-jazeera london. tax concessions made to so-called yellow vests protesters will cost the french government more than eleven billion dollars that's according to the budget minister but it's not clear if the government has done enough to take the steam out of the protest movement that instructions began more than four weeks ago and finally forced the president back down on a fuel tax hike but it's worth reports. the yellow bus protesters are getting ready for christmas on the roundabout camps that have sprung up across france president emanuel micron's decision to increase the minimum wage and cut taxes for most

pensioners hasn't persuaded the people here to abandon their protests that's an emotional speech i'm not at all convince because he has an address what the people are expecting these are only small meals and they won't be paid for by bankers in financials did you find the president sincere not only i don't forget. is wife is a. teacher of theater so as a young experience of the end what we got four weeks ago is a protest over an increase in diesel taxes has developed into a wider campaign by people from france's towns and villages who struggle to make ends meet in one of europe's most highly taxed countries yellow vest protests across central paris to a standstill while violent elements have smashed up shops and monuments 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 they kase off

policy in the qualities between their eateries and regions in france the prime minister told parliament he understood where the frustration came from. behind the anger expressed on the way people are paid you are where we are all aware that there is something else that there is anger of being left behind on the lack of perspective that there was the choice. conscious or not to lead the public to sleep that there was the choice conscious or not for years. questions as they were raised for example the question of massive unemployment. the government says it's concessions including scrapping fuel tax rises will cost more than eleven billion dollars that risks pushing the budget deficit to three point four percent past the use three percent. there's no official leadership or the yellow best protesters so it's difficult to gauge a majority opinion on what president markham had to say all the concessions he made

for but we may have to wait until saturday and what's being called act five to see how many people turn out and protest bernard smith al-jazeera on the outskirts of paris. an egyptian lawyer has been arrested for wearing a yellow vests similar to those made popular by anti government protesters in france his arrest in the northern city of alexandria comes ahead of next month's verse three of the two thousand and eleven uprising that ousted then president hosni mubarak egypt has banned the sale of yellow vests to stop copycat protests michael cohen was considered u.s. president personal fixer now he will soon learn if he's going to spend the next few years of his life in prison the lawyer will be sentenced wednesday in a new york courtroom after pleading guilty to multiple crimes they call hayne has a look at how he got there. there was only when donald trump first entered the race

for president he was always there michael cohen became known to the world is more than the president's lawyer but his fixer he made problems disappear and he once said how could we take a bullet for trump that's not the case anymore cohen is cooperating with the special counsel's probe into potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia and he's pled guilty to four other charges in new york the president has repeatedly tried to distance himself michael cohen is blind and he's trying to get a reduced sentence for things that have nothing to do with me that's a lie the president is named in court as an unindicted coconspirator because one of the charges cohen is pleading guilty to is paid off to women to stay silent about affairs with the president before the election at trump's direction if it come out that he committed adultery with a porn star and a playboy model he might not have been elected cohen is trying to paint his plea deal as coming clean clearing his conscience but he refused to sign

a cooperation deal with the prosecution likely for different reasons i think he is less willing to throw under the bus various people and he may have made it much more or in crimes in new york and i think that. the prosecutors. prosecutors penned a scathing sentencing recommendation arguing he should spend between four to five years in prison which they say would send a message to others covering up for trump it could be a costly mistake particularly an al-jazeera washington. google see under per child is testified before congress about concerns over privacy and accusations of bias google is face criticism from republicans including president donald trump they say this search engine has a left wing slot on monday google said adults only affected more than fifty two million users of its social media platform the company's also face criticism over its plans to relaunch a sense and search engine in china but china says that project is still on.

anytime we look to operate in a country i mean we would you know we would look at what what the conditions are to operate there are times in the past we have debated the conditions to operate in and we explore a wide range of possibilities current leaders and their furred only internally for us to we are doing this in china and so you know but happy to come back and be transparent connection be plan something there russia has deployed to strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons to venezuela that's led to an angry response from the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or he says that to quote corrupt governments were squandering public funds while their people suffer russia is a major lender to venezuela whose economy collapsed as the price of oil fell.

argentina sentence two former executives from the ford motor company for colluding with the country's military dictatorship in the nineteen seventy's and eighty's they were found guilty of helping the regime detain union members who were there and it tortured. justice for these campaigners has taken more than thirty years to arrive but now a court in one osiris is sentenced to former executives at the ford motor company to prison for colluding with the military authorities in power from one nine hundred seventy six to nine hundred eighty three. the former manufacturing director was sentenced to ten years and security manager. to twelve years for passing union organizers details to the authorities. among them with. one of twenty five union organizers who was then detained and tortured.

they put hoods on a spy took the handcuffs off and tartars for some while pushed us to the ground and subjected us to a whole series of torture including fake executions they beat us kicked this pushed our faces into the ground. on his colleagues were later released but say many union organizers from other industries they were imprisoned with were not so fortunate. but he said there are about thirty comrades from another union and only three survived in our group we were twenty five and we also are. released from captivity was however not the end they put us in then they see it after nine hundred seventy seven seventy eight when they let us out the suffering continued because we now belong to a group of people that no one would employ we were the weapons of that period. neither ford in the united states nor in argentina has commented on the case they continue to produce and sell vehicles but they complain and say they must bear some

responsibility for their role during the years of military government this sign outside the current ford factory near one osiris a testimony to their suffering. according to our opinion also. engage with the military government to the touch and go government who are committed serious crimes against humanity for the only purpose of obtaining more. profits from the industry the accused are old men now others allegedly involved to since died an estimated sixty thousand people were kidnapped and killed by the argentine military of thorazine in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's or the victims are remembered hair at this memorial on the banks of the river play the fight for justice in argentina has been a slow and complicated one but the persistence of the survivors and the human rights groups that support is finally just in time reaping results that you'll find

there also sierra what i saw iris. cuba's communist government says backtracked on new restrictions on private activity that was supposed to go into effect last week the move has come as a surprise our latin america is in a cinema reports from have. the owner of this have an apartment rents rooms to tourists just when new and highly unpopular restrictions on cuba's fledgling private sector were about to go into effect last week authorities surprised everyone. would have been families from having more than one license but now they've lifted the limit so that for example we can also sell handicrafts or food. in another unusual response to public pressure plans to limit private restaurants to only fifty chairs also scrapped. thirteen percent of the workforce has moved over to the private sector many of them professionals have abandoned their jobs in state run into prizes like mechanical engineer hit. lotto you know what i would

have preferred to and haw for a quarter of what i am here is just to stay in my profession which i look but i couldn't even a fraction of the. family working for the state. government in the dominant state sector is struggling to keep employees which may help explain attempts to limit small privately run businesses they vary from the they want a specific thing which people in their own businesses mean the. other side of reasons in every area in any area of the economy in every sector. new demands and restrictions have been placed even on private taxis despite the acute shortage of public transportation unlike vietnam and china the communist party here still use the private sector with suspicion for many reasons including ideological social and geo political human governments are afraid that

a growing korean. mr kagan i think sector that's the u.s. government's anti communist agenda here in fact president barack obama now president donald trump have repeatedly said that they want to help and encourage the private sector because they know it as an engine for political change here but the decision to backtrack on plans to reduce the private sector even further seems to be recognition that like it or not to the struggling economy it you're seeing human al-jazeera. sound is a band with a look at the headlines here in al-jazeera now. a gunman who killed at least three people in the eastern city of strasbourg is on the run fronts and stepped up border controls as police try to track him down at least

twelve people were injured when the attack opened fire in their christmas markets in the city center with chief financial officer of chinese tech giant to walk away has been granted bail in canada after agreeing to put out more than seven million dollars and surrender her passport when joe was arrested on the some of the first on suspicion of violating u.s. sanctions on iran president donald trump has reiterated his support for the crown prince of saudi arabia trump told reuters news agency he was standing by. despite the outcry over the murder of saudi journalist a man for shoji described the crown prince very strongly in the power of. cia director gina haskell is due to brief leaders of the house of representatives on casualties death on wednesday. time magazine has named its person of the year along with journalists from the u.s.

and the philippines are described as the guardians who are all targeted because of their work backbench conservative m.p.'s in the u.k. are preparing a no confidence motion against the prime minister to resign may's been visiting e.u. leaders to try and get changes to a break the deal she agreed less than three weeks ago they've told me there will be no new negotiations. and egyptian lawyer has been arrested for wearing a yellow vests similar to those very popular by anti-government protesters in france his arrest in the northern city of alexandria comes ahead of next month's anniversary of the two thousand and eleven our pricing that ousted then president hosni mubarak egypt has banned the sale of yellow vests to stop copycat protests or hotel now stay with us. in countries like a mine people have been killed to be. really united states have privatized

public interest. this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis and other arabs from they came to britain will be to help to the past mobs do you know you will rumsfeld this meeting saddam isn't there interesting. shadow coming soon. the commodore hotel was safe and then you went out into a very grave civil war. kind of a commodore the government because of the. debate. if the commodore had been the israeli invasion.