people in power. this is the opportunity to understand a very different way where there. is and we don't believe. it's official theresa may will not face a challenge to her leadership later on when say leaving the future breaks that even more uncertain. hello everyone i'm come on santa maria and this is the world news from french police are searching for a gunman who killed at least three people at a christmas market in strasbourg. free for now a chinese executive has granted bail in a case that tyson tried tensions with the united states and looking for

a way out palestinian refugees seeking new routes to leave desperate conditions in lebanon. starting with that breaking news the british prime minister theresa may will face a leadership challenge later on wednesday the contest was triggered after more than forty eight and paste from teresa mayes own party submitted letters of confidence this is may you remember spent tuesday meeting a youth leaders in europe trying to get changes to have breaks it to you but she was told those talks could not be reopened its jonah hull at westminster only an hour ago we were talking about rumor jonah now it's all good. it appears that way on tuesday the talk was of a prime minister who'd lost all credibility all authority she may no well be in a position where power is about to be forced from her hands to grow. brady the

chairman of the one hundred twenty two committee the backbench committee of conservative party m.p.'s has officially announced now that that magic number forty eight letters from m.p.'s calling for a vote of confidence in the prime minister that's fifteen percent of sitting conservative party m.p.'s has been reached he's obliged to trigger that vote now we are told it will take place this evening a fast tracked process of course given the situation the country so finds itself in at six pm six g.m.t. a vote will take place between six and eight with the result hopefully we're told by ten pm and to reason may we'll find herself either in power or out of power at that point one hundred fifty eight m.p.'s would have to vote against her that's a simple majority fifty percent plus one in order for her to have to resign triggering then a leadership contest within the conservative party and we know there are a number of potential candidates for that have to be hustings within the party to whittle those candidates down to just two and then those two would have to be put

to the membership of the party in a postal ballot one m.p. speaking a little earlier on paterson who said he put in his letter on tuesday suggested that at the but in a best case scenario they might be able to come down to two candidates by christmas with the leadership election then among the members and a new prime minister announced by mid january an extraordinary timeframe given what this country is up against time wise later analyze a little further where we are and what we might expect and men and he's with the london based think tank u.k. in a changing europe thanks for joining us at short notice with this breaking news on and a couple of weeks ago when all of this talk was about and when there was all this talk about elections she might well have won it then but has had to have attitude hardened against her sufficiently now that she might well lose but it's certainly true that an awful lot has changed in the last two weeks and that means that a lot of people don't like the withdrawal agreement and they've put their left. in

two weeks ago but another clump of tory m.p.'s i think have been genuinely disheartened by what's happened in poland this week by the prime minister's decision to pull out votes on the withdrawal agreement and so actually on top of the brics it is had already put their names in a number of remain minded tory m.p.'s now are fed up so the math is getting worse for the prime minister doesn't necessarily mean she'll lose but certainly her position isn't a strong as it was a fortnight ago and it's not simply a question of winning by one vote is it really she's got to win by a comfortable magick margin in order to have sufficient authority to carry on do you think that's the case well i mean that's the conventional wisdom but of course the thing about britain at the moment is the conventional wisdom has been torn up every day and this is a prime minister who obviously doesn't want to quit so even though for instance if you go back to margaret thatcher she won the votes of no confidence but not by enough in her estimation to hang on we don't know what this prime minister will do some people around her saying even if she wins by one vote she will cling on because she thinks it's. to do to deliver bricks and to hang around until we

finally have the european union meanwhile of course she's got a deal it doesn't have to be anything like of majority for in parliament let's look at the timeline quickly the twenty first of january in terms of the withdrawal legislation already through parliament is a firm deadline isn't it for the government to come back with a deal or basically hand over control of the situation to parliament itself we're getting very close to that point now we are getting close to that point and it's sort of it sums up the situation that no one is quite sure about the twenty first of january there are some lawyers who say actually we don't need to worry about that date now because the government has brought its deal to parliament so it's done what it said it would do by the twenty first of january the government itself has said that they will bring this agreement to parliament to be voted on before that date that might well slip now of course in the event that she loses this vote today because the conservative party is going after find a new leader and presumably that new leader will want to go and talk to brussels and try and at least. amend the agreement we have so far to be for bringing that to parliament. we've got to wait and see about the brakes on and very briefly

leadership contenders who your top picks well there are people like sajid javid the home secretary boris johnson could ever be discounted michael gove's there waiting in the wings there are a large number of people who seem willing to throw their hat in the ring many thanks for your time and moment there and it's going to be a busy day here in westminster vote now confirmed a vote of confidence against the prime minister to resume a show due to take place on wednesday evening back to you ok we'll talk again soon thank you joe. so the news and french police are hunting a gunman who killed at least three people at a christmas market in stroudsburg at least twelve others were injured on tuesday evening and police have questioned five people suspected of being linked to the gunman it is not clear whether he had a terrorist most. with more from paris. 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. because of 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. as a war there's no there 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 a mobile loss to find him the french government of place the country on a heightened state of alert and tighten borders while people in strasbourg try to come to terms with what has happened in this city their hope is that the police will find the gunman soon natasha butler al jazeera paris. the u.s. president says he is willing to intervene in the case against the chief financial officer of the chinese telecom company huawei if it helps avoid a further decline in relations with china eleven days after her arrest in vancouver among one joe agreed to a bail bond of more than seven million dollars as one of surrendering had possible to wear an electronic monitoring tag as well as he faces extradition to the u.s. where she is accused of violating sanctions against iran rob reynolds with the story from vancouver. weiwei executive mung one joe was allowed to go free 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 away 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 china 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 that 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 rob reynolds al jazeera thank whoever. in the news ahead it is exactly a year since two reuters journalists were detained in may in march and activists around the world still calling for their release. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello as yesterday it is cold and it is gray and for some people it's going to snow if not already this is the most active ball of cloud a marxist mass of the central eastern europe that's picked up a lot of energy from the black sea and it's throwing it out as snow over kiev and also rounding errors as the ukraine temperatures are low single figures anyway for

most of year nasa is grey and not particularly pleasant unless you're looking after the sunshine which you might well be in parts of slovakia will further south in the balkans for example to the west that green line which is rain with increasing wind is swinging through on wednesday night into all in the british isles western france portugal and spain the western med that'll be quite stormy i suspect same time the snows to falling but not for most just for their use in the train to the south and at the moment the activities of turkey has been strong showers for the eastern med and a string running down in the wind towards these inside libya northern egypt announcer lebanon and syria that's on the way out that will die down by the time we get to thursday by which time rain is again focusing greased up to the adriatic and of course it's swinging down through spain in the western med which means its tail will go through morocco and give about a miserable day. the weather sponsored by cats own race.

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face a leadership challenge later on when say more than forty eight m.p.'s from her own conservative party have submitted is of no confidence she now needs support from a majority of her impedes to stay in power and executive the chinese telecom giant way has been granted seven and a half million dollars canada. faces extradition to the united states for allegedly violating iran sanctions. and for hunting a gunman with suspected extremist links who killed at least three people in strong people are police are questioning five people suspected of being linked to the gunman who opened fire at a christmas market. this president has reiterated his support for the crown prince of saudi arabia told reporters he was standing by mohammed bin salman despite the outcry over the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi who described the crown prince as quote very strongly in power the director of the cia gina housefull is due to brief leaders of the house of representatives on his death

later on wednesday meanwhile the u.s. magazine time has collectively nine jamal khashoggi and a number of other journalists as its person of the year rosalind jordan has that story. 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. in traditional 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 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 show she killing in the fallout has opened up. much of the subtle debates we've had behind the scenes in the 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 while still in jordan al-jazeera washington well as rosen mentioned time magazine also wanted to reuters journalists jailed in me and ma and activists and journalists around the world are still calling for the release of. who were arrested exactly one year ago they were investigating the killings of muslim revenge in me and mobbed by security forces and civilian mobs were convicted on the colonial era laws and sentenced to seven years in jail we have got matthew bureau with us now is the head of the asia

program for article nineteen that is a human rights group the defense freedom of expression he's on skype from yangon nice to have you with us. as i was saying to the editor in chief of reuters last hour it's obviously a tremendous honor that the two journalists have been named as person of the year but i mean are they any closer to their freedom at the moment. they are appealing the case and we're holding out hope that some reason will break through into the government will not give orders to keep them in jail it's what's what's very clear is that this is a farcical case that was a poorly concealed sting operation to prevent their really important reporting on the massacre by me i'm army soldiers and what we're worried about is that this is demonstrating that the myanmar government's going to go to any length to stifle reporting on the grave human rights abuses that are are being perpetrated against

their injury so there needs to be some sort of external force doesn't their external pressure on the government because if this is the government and the judicial system which has put them in jail. i would think highly unlikely that i would change their mind anytime soon. yeah it's really worrying that the the judiciary here has become involved in the persecution of journalists but it's important to point out that. that the nobel prize winner has publicly defended the conviction of these journalists she used to be a champion of freedom of expression and in fact she was an honorary board member on article nineteen so board on one on the board and might work in sation and the fact that she's now defending the conviction of journalists for investigative journalism just demonstrates how far she's departed from the values that she used to espouse yeah so if you can go on science to change with any confidence and can you go to you and me and. listen there's

a lot of people that are talking about this case there's diplomats that are resumes case within the myanmar government and also of course we're talking about accountability for some of the crimes they've been perpetrated against their injure and we're hoping that continual pressure will. will change their minds will it will cause a return on this case but we're not sure what we'd really like to see also is more support to some of the the journal the local journalists and civil society members that are standing up and calling for the release of these journalists matthew a from the article nineteen pleasure talking to you thank you you. let's return after that shooting in strasbourg in france three people killed there bernard smith is there for us now bernard an update from you. car with this is central strasburg in between one of the christmas markets where the attack began last night just about eight o'clock in the evening as the markets were

beginning to close up for the night's police now hunting twenty nine year old sharif checkouts there's no particular area that they're looking for in strasbourg although it has been the authorities have said it's possible he's already he might have crossed the border we're right on the border with germany so a manhunt going on around the area sixteen victims of this attack three of those people killed and eight other people seriously wounded so the manhunt continues continued of course through the night and continues today come on ok thanks for that for now but it will check in with you again later on palestinian refugees have been leaving lebanon for years either legally or illegally they immigrate because of the dire economic conditions in which they live because of the lack of any prospect of a solution to the whole israeli palestinian conflict from beirut and what are reports now in the recent figures suggesting more are now seeking a way out. he. wanted

a better life for his family but their attempt to reach failed. everything and. even if the route. we flew to ethiopia on october twenty ninth brazil where we stayed in a hotel for a night before traveling to bolivia we tried to travel to spain but we were detained for about forty eight hours before being sent back to lebanon we trusted this broker because many people including my wife's cousins managed to reach europe . spanish police believe at least one thousand two hundred palestinians from. madrid. since the beginning of this year the criminals being suspected of smuggling them through fraudulent asylum claims has since been caught but the network in lebanon is still very much operational. very well known.

and he has reported. to europe and elsewhere and it's. turned. in recent years tens of thousands of palestinians legally or illegally affected by the dire economic conditions here and government regulations that deny them basic rights four hundred fifty thousand used to be registered with the un earlier this year the first ever government census showed the number dropped to one hundred seventy five thousand we hear very frequently. particularly. again. it is among those who no longer wants his family to live in such desperate conditions even though he is better. so he has

a job unemployment among the palestinian workforce is eighteen percent. now waiting to sell his house hoping to make enough money to pay. thirty five thousand dollars and he will help me and my family to travel to belgium hopefully things will go as planned and we arrive safely palestinian activists. say up to four thousand refugees made their way to europe this year. and his family. but he hasn't given up he says he's planning to make another attempt soon. four people were killed when a gunman opened fire inside a church forty nine year old gunman killed himself after he was wounded by police in the. us he has no criminal record. now a court in argentina is sentenced to former executives from the ford motor company

for colluding with the military leadership in the one nine hundred seventy s. and early eighty's they were found guilty of helping the regime detain union members who were then tortured and reports from. the. justice for these campaigners has taken more than thirty years to arrive but now a court in one of cyrus is sentenced to former executives at the ford motor company to prison for colluding with the military authorities in power for 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 was. one of twenty five union organizers who was then detained and tortured. and. 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 us pushed our faces into the ground. and his colleagues were later released but say many union organizers from other industries they were imprisoned with were not so fortunate. there were about thirty comrades from another union and only three survived in our group we were twenty five and we also by being. released from captivity was however not the end they put us and then they said this 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 made one osiris a testimony to their suffering. according to our a p m. engage the military government out of government who are committed serious crimes against humanity for the all the purpose of obtaining more. profits from just the accused or old men now all those allegedly involved since died an estimated thirty thousand people were kidnapped and killed by the argentine military or florida cities in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's all the victims are remembered here at this memorial on the banks of the river plate 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 them is finally just in time reaping results. to zero one osiris at least nine people have been killed in an eastern region of democratic

republic of congo after an attack that the government is blaming on members of the allied democratic forces the group has been accused of killing hundreds of people since twenty four to this latest attack on monday night in a region that's been plagued by violence. the police operation in new york has led to widespread protests and online video showed officers forcibly taking a baby out of a woman's arms while she was being arrested. as the full story. man was already at the moment what should have been a routine call out turn the controversy a mother screams for help as new york police department officers try to pull her one year old baby from her arms at a government assistance center in brooklyn was a i was. as the officers became more aggressive the outrage from onlookers. witnesses say the chaos unfolded on friday after twenty three year old jasmine he'd

lease sat on the floor of a crowded waiting room with her son as she waited for a child care about sure it escalated when security staff called the police and she refused to get up jasmine was eventually arrested and held without bail charged with offenses including resisting arrest and endangering the child her son was taken and was grandmother's care. the outrage on social media was swift and widespread and on tuesday demonstrators held a rally at new york city hall to call for justice for jasmine and protest what they see as yet another example of police brutality by the n.y.p.d. against african-americans you know she's a young african-american woman single mother who is looking for support and to watch this woman to be demoralized and disrespected by a system that is supposed to help her it's set in the just speaks to

a lot of racism that's that's perpetuating with throughout our country what mother wouldn't hold onto their child in in a situation like that for us we need to make sure that this never happens again the n.y.p.d. commissioners reaction has been more cautious james tweet o'neill. adding the video is very disturbing to me but also saying we were called to a chaotic situation and we're looking at all available video to determine why certain decisions were made on tuesday the charges against jasmine heatley were dropped but in a statement by the district attorney of brooklyn he said he was outraged by the violence that was depicted in the video for those who were upset at her arrest in the first place this is an issue that's far from dying down gabriel's andro just here in new york. oh wait thirty g.m.t. here on al-jazeera the breaking news this hour is that the u.k. prime minister to resign may will face

a leadership challenge later on wednesday this contest triggered after a lot of rumor that it was coming and then we got the confirmation that more than forty eight m.p.'s from teresa mayes own party had submitted lessons of no confidence it results in this actually called a vote of confidence in the leader of the conservative party this comes from what is known as the nine hundred twenty two committee which oversees such things and of course yesterday tuesday to resume a was meeting leaders in europe trying to get changes to the break that deal so let's check in with jonah i should remind viewers as well before we do that we are expecting to resume a to speak sure shortly so if i have to interrupt you jonah please forgive me take us through what's happened in the last hour or so. well yes as you were pointing out there brady he's the chairman of the conservative party backbench committee the one hundred twenty two committee it is to him that m.p.'s in the

party disgruntled or unhappy with their with their leader to reason may would need to send letters calling for a vote of confidence fifteen percent of sitting m.p.'s would need to do so that number is forty eight it's been bubbling away for weeks months even since the summer several suggestions over that time that that number had been reached they all proved false it has now been reached he has made that public and indeed has informed the prime ministers and it was his duty to do so he did it last night so he has told interviews this morning. and with what appears to be lightning speed has triggered a vote this evening between six and eight pm g.m.t. time here in london with the results expected by ten pm. tonight the reason may we'll find out whether she stays on as prime minister or not the leader who on tuesday was talked of as having lost all credibility all authority on monday made

the extraordinary decision to postpone the vote on her break the deal reached painstakingly with the european union and then to dash off to europe on a whistle stop last minute tour desperately seeking support from her colleagues in the e.u. to help get this deal across the line there's no majority for it it is widely disliked here will she now faces that leadership challenge and we will know in due course as i say whether she's to go or whether she's to stay she goes i wonder about there being well there isn't really a ready made replacement as such i've just been looking at twitter and seeing the likes of michael gove and of jeremy hunt tweeting their support for the prime minister but they are the senior members of the government who would probably be in line for the job. well you know what nobody is strictly in line for the job but this is a democratic process for the conservative party the length of time it takes if you were to lose to find a new leader.