french police search for a gunman after christmas market shooting leaves at least three people dead. sami say that this is al jazeera live from coming up after more than a week behind bars the chief financial officer of johnnie's telecom giant huawei is out on bail in canada. saudi reinsert jamal khashoggi is among a group of journalists in time magazine's person of the year awards. and the u.k.'s

prime minister pleads for a rethink from e.u. leaders also the deal runs into opposition back home. a gunman who killed at least three people in the city of strasbourg in eastern france is on the run border crossings are on full alert as police trying to track him down at least twelve people were injured when the attack opened fire of christmas markets in the city center. police cordoned off the area around stress books christmas markets after the shooting. while medical workers evacuated victims. what should have been a night of pleasure for shoppers and tourists had turned into a nightmare. i heard several shots and thought maybe it's firecrackers or saw

a lot of people running scared crying kids and all and then when i saw people crying in the crowd leaving they said it was a shooting right next door that was. the city officials said the gunmen went on a shooting spree just before eight o'clock in the evening local time before fleeing they urged people to stay indoors as police search for the suspect. france's president emmanuel might call held a crisis meeting in paris later tweeting the whole nation stands in solidarity with stress of victims and their families the french interior minister who had rushed to strasbourg said that the gunman was known to police. at seven fifty pm a man killed three people and wounded many others soldiers used their weapons he was confronted twice by anti terror forces the hunt continues he's well known to the police three hundred fifty people were mobilized to find him the

french government of placed the country on a heightened state of alert and tightened borders while people in strasbourg try to come to terms with what has happened in their city their hope is that the police will find the gunman soon natascha butler al jazeera paris or facebook says it's dealing with a bomb threat at its california headquarters a spokesman for the social media company confirmed some buildings were evacuated the large menlo park campus police searched the sign but they haven't confirmed if anything suspicious was found. the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant who are way is being granted bail in canada after agreeing to put out more than seven million dollars and surrender her passport mong wang joe was arrested on december the first on suspicion of violating u.s. sanctions on iran rob reynolds reports. while away executive mung one joe was allowed to go free on ten million dollars bail with

a stringent set of conditions among other restrictions imposed by the canadian court she will have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet stay under close observation by a private security firm and she is forbidden to travel outside of vancouver the canadian government argued unsuccessfully that bungs vast wealth and lack of ties to canada made her a flight risk u.s. authorities want mung to face charges of fraud in connection with a scheme to have while way secretly do business with iran in violation of u.s. sanctions the u.s. has until january the eighth to file a formal extradition request but the reuters news agency reports u.s. president donald trump says he might intervene directly in monks' case if it would serve national security interests or help close a trade deal with china the u.s. and china have been locked in

a damaging trade war amongst attention seems to have touched off a diplomatic powder keg canada confirmed that one of its former diplomats michael quote of rig has been arrested in china coverage works for a nongovernmental organization it's unclear whether he's been charged with any crime canadian diplomatic officials have been in touch in touch with their chinese counterparts to to explain how seriously canadians view this and the deep concerns that we have the canadian government is considering warning its citizens of increased risk levels in traveling to china and the u.s. called on china to stop arbitrary detention through her lawyer monk pleaded with the court that if she were released her only goal would be to spend time with her husband and her daughter adding. she's been working so hard for the past twenty five years she hasn't even had time to read

a book now will have plenty of time on her hands free on bail and preparing to fight extradition to the united states robert oulds al-jazeera thank over 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 reuters news agency trump also promised not to raise tariffs on chinese goods while the two sides negotiate a potential trade deal john hendren has more from washington d.c. . president trump is optimistic the u.s. will ended trade war with china soon the president says the chinese are already buying enormous amounts of soybeans from the united states after soybean tariffs were enacted by china against the united states among other things this summer farmers and traders say that is not yet the case the price of soybeans edged up

slightly on tuesday but they remain at about the lowest level in a decade and that is largely because of retaliatory tariffs by china and other countries among those suffering are american farmers who farm corn soybeans milk and beef the chinese buy twelve billion dollars of soybeans from the united states a year that's about sixty percent of u.s. exports however the two sides are at the table president trump says he believes the chinese will lower tariffs on autos from the current forty percent to fifteen percent of the president says he will meet with china's paying one more time if necessary the two sides haven't acted a truce on december first and the president says he will not raise tariffs again on chinese products until he knows there will be no deal. president donald trump has reiterated his support for the crown prince of saudi arabia trump told reporters he was standing by. by the outcry over the murder of saudi journalists. he

described the crown prince very strongly in power director of the cia in the hospital is jews who briefly does the house of representatives of death on wednesday. of the saudi rights or is among several journalists although by time magazine in this post of the year awards for two thousand and eighteen. has the latest from washington d.c. . 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 reporters 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 for the impunity that we see online you are creating you had 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 show she killing in the fallout has opened up. much of the subtle debates we've had behind the public's view and that's why it's become so contentious time editor say cultural g. 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 russell and jordan al-jazeera washington or carlos convey is that research or the asian division those human rights watch and a former journalist he says the time magazine award will highlight the detention of

two reuters journalists and men ma as well as others need to be able obviously magnify the case and the suffering that they have gone through us well as the plight of the rohingya and this also signifies to other hiren's in the region that you know actions against journalists actions against press freedom will have its consequences it may not come immediately it may not come in the next year or so but it will come sooner or later so that is why it is important that the recognition of the work and the suffering of these journalists are are being made tyrants they tend to a permit other they tend to. validate each other and on the case of the ferreted the case of who sent the case of their polluters of myanmar that is no different but i think it does turn up the into not speaking out does turn a team to not recognizing the value of press freedom is quite. silent and that is

why. at the moment untenable if we are to uphold press freedom in the philippines and in many other countries in the region. a number of backbench m.p.'s from the governing conservative party are reportedly preparing a no confidence motion against the u.k.'s prime minister tourism a spent tuesday meeting trying to get changes to the breaks that deal she agreed than three weeks ago she was forced to call off a vote on the agreement in the british parliament due to widespread opposition the e.u. is told may talks cannot be reopened paul brennan reforms. 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 spoke. 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 room enough. to further clarification

and further interpretations we vote open you do we've written the sentiment here exasperated at the british political chaos and grim preparedness now for the worst case scenario which would prevent the only possible agreement and we've done a lot of concessions to reach it so we sincerely hope that there can be a majority. to or ratify the worth of all agreement but they have a killer sound ready for a new deal and we are preparing for it downing street says the bracks it vote perspective and from choose day may now not take place until mid january i think the prime minister is going to see things through a 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 and clarifications has drawn howls of protest from the opposition parties for party

leaders have been to 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 still ahead on al-jazeera good news for small business owners in communist cuba and what's become a surprise move. hello yet more miserable weather is regenerates in turkey has been thrown across the levant and as you can see is winding up again for yet another bite of it and sometimes these rain belts and snow builds generate a long way south this one doesn't this is concentrating more on the coast from

lebanon northeast up through syria to turkey you notice in turkey height is snow stretches up towards azerbaijan otherwise we're talking rain into the size of that it's fine twenty one in baghdad same is true in kuwait they will cool across iran but the sun is virtually everywhere and that's also true on thursday by which time it's also improves throughout the levant and most of turkey so the weather is being kept mostly further north and has been for the last week. not much therefore is happening in the arabian peninsula bit of a breeze still the northerly bit of a shame how carries on through wednesday with temperatures only in the middle twenty's low thirty's to the west of saudi arabia and that that doesn't change very much over the next two days that we may be lightening to the gulf to charmian had to get wet weather every day dancer tanzania mozambique if you're lucky zimbabwean zambia to the sounds of that there is now gone dry couple dry days are in the forecast for south africa disappointingly coup in cape town.

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or come back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines. was. a gunman who killed at least three people in the city of strasbourg in eastern france is on the run border controls on the logs as police to try to track him down at least twelve people were injured when the attack a 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 canada after agreeing to put out more than seven million dollars and surrender her passport one joe was arrested on december the first on suspicion of violating u.s. sanctions on iran. president doll trump has reiterated his support for the crown prince of saudi arabia from told reuters news agency he was standing by one hundred been some despite the outcry over the murder of saudi journalist jamal social g.

u s president donald trump and democratic leaders of the in front of the media over plans to build the wall on the mexican border trump has threatened a government shutdown if the new budget doesn't include money for the wall which he has repeatedly promised to build. there are no votes in the house a majority vote for a wall no matter where you start right if i needed the votes for the wall in the house i would have them in one session and it would be done it doesn't help because we did ten democrats and i just cannot risk putting on a negotiator let me ask you this just and we're doing this is a very friendly matter it doesn't help for me to take a vote in the house where i will win easily with the republicans are it doesn't help to take advice because i'm not going to get the vote one of the senate i need ten senators that's the crowd. kimberly how could has more what led to the argument

. well it was supposed to be a meeting to try and work out differences and avert a government shutdown but it was an apparent very quickly that the conversation and the issues were not going to be resolved the democratic leaders in the senate and the house of representatives in the oval office offering donald trump one point three billion in funding as part of a bill to fund the government this would be funding for his border wall but donald trump was looking for five billion in funding and as a result the two sides quickly began sparring arguing over the facts in combative conversation you would call twenty turns to shutdown the government you say i want to shut down the government we don't we want to come to an agreement if we can't come to an agreement we have solutions that will produce the house and senate right no it will not shut down the government and that's what we're urging you to do not threaten to shut down the government prisoners you know just don't ever close you

can't get to where you shut it down you know it really six of the fighting occurred in full view of reporters cameras and carried on for many minutes nancy pelosi repeatedly urging the conversation to be taken behind closed doors saying that this is a climate of destruction in the public view but it does appear that this combative conversation will continue for some time given the fact that both sides seem very far apart and there isn't much time to resolve the differences if the two sides cannot come to an agreement over the border wall funding and funding the government by december twenty first a partial shutdown will start to occur in the u.s. government essentially twenty five percent of federal agencies including the department of homeland security on a short term spending bill will begin to shut down. the man once was considered the president post no fix now he will learn that he's going to spend the next few years

of his life in prison traumas form a lawyer michael cohen will be sentenced wednesday in the new york courtroom off the pleading guilty to multiple crimes public culhane take some 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 whining and he's trying to get a reduced sentence for things that have nothing to do with race that's just 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 a different reason 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 tramp could be a costly mistake pedicle an al-jazeera washington. google c.e.o. some of her child has testified before congress about concerns over privacy and accusations of bias google is faced criticism from republicans including president

who say the search engine has a left wing slant on monday who has said they had affected more than fifty two million users of its social media platform companies also face criticism over its plans to relaunch a sense and search engine in china. that project is still on the air and any time 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 debated the conditions to operate 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 planned something their delegations from yemen's warring sides have agreed to swap fifteen thousand prisoners of war the exchange will be carried out with the help of armaan and the international red cross talks are being

held in sweden to try and end the nearly four year old conflict hold jetta jan reports. on the outskirts of yemen's capital sana'a the prisoner swap agreement between the government and who the rebels is good news for the family of a high thing. we call upon our brothers who are negotiating in sweden to consider and understand the feelings of the citizens and the detainees and to understand how vulnerable and weak the prisoners are the exchange of prisoners is just one of many issues on the agenda at the talks outside the swedish capital stockholm that of in . the parties have agreed to prepare a mechanism for the exchange of prisoners with the participation of the international red cross which will offer diligence tickle support the opposition and i mean if janet in san juan we dealt with this matter from a humanitarian viewpoint and made some concessions because our list of prisoners included politicians activists media and geo workers. another issue on the agenda

is the port city of hard data controlled by the who these and under attack for months by saudi and u.a.e. coalition forces a large portion of humanitarian aid is shipped to ho data the fruity say they are willing to let the un oversee port operations but the yemeni government backed by the saudis a number roddy's is threatening to resume its offensive to capture her data if the talks in sweden fail. eighty thousand yemenis are estimated to have been killed by fighting or airstrikes as well as a cholera epidemic and lack of food during the four years of war amnesty international and human rights watch say coalition forces have committed war crimes by bombing and indiscriminately killing and injuring civilians and the city also accuses the u.a.e. of illegally detaining yemenis in nearly two dozen secret prisons as well as forced disappearances and torture u.a.e. denies all allegations that the families of p.o.w.

say the swap agreement is a chance to end their ordeal. and. i've been suffering for three years we've been hurt a lot my kids and my family are suffering only god almighty knows the volume of suffering and pain we are facing. the united nations humanitarian chief says living conditions in yemen are catastrophic where twenty million people are on the brink of famine making it the world's worst humanitarian crisis. paltrow dirge on al-jazeera. cuba's communist government has backtracked on new restrictions on private private activity that was supposed to go into effect last week the move has come as a surprise our latin america at its embassy in yemen reports from have on the. the owner of this have an apartment rents rooms to tourists just when you and highly

unpopular restrictions on cuba's fledgling private sector were about to go into effect last week authorities surprised everyone. had to 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 engineering. a lot of you know what i would have preferred to and haw for a quarter of what it was just to stay in my profession which i love but i couldn't even a fraction of that my family working for the state. the dominant state sector is struggling to keep employees which may help explain attempts to limit small

privately run businesses they're very far down that i got there what are the specific got they were using. which people will start their own businesses mean that are you going to do or you going on the 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 given government are afraid that a growing and increasingly sophisticated climate sector well that's the u.s. government's anti communist agenda here in fact both president barack obama and now president donald trump have repeatedly said that they want to help and encourage the private sector because they view it as an engine or 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 needs it you're seeing human al-jazeera happen. and you can find much more all those stories if you head over to our website i'll just call. and let's take you through some of those stories now. a gunman who killed at least three people in the eastern french city of strasburg is on the run for the controls on alert as police try to track him 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 who are always been granted bail in calif there are two agreeing to put up more than seven million dollars and surrender her passport and joe was arrested on december 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 muhammad. despite the outcry over the murder of sally journalist. who described the crown prince as very strongly in power director of the cia gina has flaws too to brief leaders of the house of representatives on the culture of g.'s death on wednesday and time magazine is named as its person of the year along with journalists from the us me and maher and the philippines they're described as the guardians who were targeted because of their work there are reports that some back bench conservative m.p.'s in the u.k. are preparing a no confidence motion against the prime minister to resign may she's been visiting

e.u. leaders to try and get changes to a briggs deal she agreed less than three weeks ago or they've told me there will be no new negotiations and egyptian lawyer has been arrested for wearing a yellow vest similar to those made popular by of the government protesters in france is arrest in the northern city of alexandria comes ahead of next month's anniversary of the two thousand and eleven are prizing which ousted then president hosni mubarak egypt has banned the sale of yellow vests so stop copycat protests google c.e.o.'s from the for china has testified before congress about concerns over privacy and accusations of bias google has faced criticism from republicans including president donald trump who say the search engine has a left wing slant it's the listening post. xenophobia violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of

europe. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's past this growing far right organizations and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marine the poems national party generation hate. part one a special two part investigation on al jazeera. saying that far their contributors are quanell for the richest companies for the true art of israel and that help is called out like which a high wire to try to stay there for three hours. i just think it's hard to see excesses how are they protecting the free speech of their own turn away. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're tracking this week testing the limits of free speech in the land of the free when discussing israel and palestine on american television choose your work.