them with the skills to overcome any hurdle and sees the threat to his schools existence as a test of his faith. school look to the viewfinder agency it's on al-jazeera. it's official theresa may will face a challenge to her leadership later on in the state leaving the future of bragg's it even more uncertain. hello again everyone and this is the world news from al-jazeera continuing coverage of that story coming up and the rest of the day's news as french police search for a gunman who killed at least three people at a christmas market in stroudsburg. also free for now a chinese executive granted bail in a case that tightened trade tensions with the united states. and looking for

a way out to palestinian refugees seeking new routes to leave desperate conditions in lebanon. so the developing news in the past hour or so is a leadership challenge to the british prime minister theresa may she has just addressed the nation and said she will contest that leadership challenge with everything she has got me insists the challenge for more than forty eight of her own m.p.'s risks the railing the break that process she needs support from a majority of her in place to stay in power during a vote later on wednesday if she loses then a contest will be held for another conservative party leader jonah how covering events from westminster for us hi jonah strongly developments in the last hour or so take us through them. yes indeed extraordinary developments

not that has to be said entirely surprising they've been heavy rumors about this all day on tuesday and following of course the government's decision on monday to pull the meaningful vote that was said to happen on tuesday night there was immediate talk but the reason may was now a leader who heard it who had squandered all credibility and all there was immediately yet more talk the letters were going to be sent in so well it's has come to pass it's been talked about since the summer so grown greater the chairman of the backbench conservative party committee the one hundred twenty two committee to whom those letters would have been sent made that announcement about an hour a little over an hour ago forty eight letters fifteen percent of sitting tory m.p.'s had written we don't know how many indeed but that was the minimum figure. making it obligatory to hold a confidence vote and very quickly that is going to happen time of course at the moment is of the essence the vote will take place at six pm this evening that sixty empty until eight o'clock with a result expected soon afterwards at about ten o'clock and that is the moment when

we will find out when to resume a herself we'll find know whether she is able to stay on course if she wins she's then immune from challenge within a party for twelve months or whether her time is up. a lot of regular sort of talking points in that speech about delivering on the referendum but the point that got me and i think it's fair enough to say is that and you can make this point as well there just isn't much time left a new leader would have to pretty much start from scratch again and twenty ninth of march of next year is really not far away. well i think this is likely to be her big pitch it was certainly a big pitch in that that statement she made outside downing street speaking to the country and she will make a similar pitch to conservative party m.p.'s in the nineteen twenty two committee when she's able to address them at five pm before that vote yes time is running out march twenty ninth is a hard deadline what she said was if you get rid of me which is

a move that creates uncertainty that this country can ill afford you get a new prime minister but you don't get a new deal you then get somebody who's got to go back and make a new deal that may well require extending article fifty extending this process of discussion about exiting european union that's something that we know people on the right of a party are dead set against it also exposes the country potentially to. a general election and and does it a favor to the opposition to jeremy corbyn to the labor party again something that members of her party are dead set against so her pitch will be leave it to me let me carry on we've made sufficient progress extraordinary progress that we've got a deal we're pressing our colleagues in the e.u. to help us get that deal over the line by giving us the legal clarifications we require to make n.p.'s happy with it and making the point that she has a passionate to belief not only that a deal is attainable but that it points to a bright future a bright future that is within our grasp that ultimately is what she's trying to

sell john i will talk to you again soon thank you for all of that information there we will just take a quick listen now to some of what syriza had. had to say just a few minutes ago i will contest that with everything i've got. i have been a member of the conservative party for over forty years i've served it as an activist councillor and pay shadow minister home secretary and now as prime minister. i stood to be a leader because i believe in the conservative vision for a better future a thriving economy with nowhere and nobody left behind a stronger society where everyone can make the most of their talents always serving the national interest and at this crucial moment in our history that means securing a brics it steal the delivers on the results of the e.u. referendum taking back control of our borders laws and money but protecting jobs

our security and our precious union as we do so through good times and bad over the last two years my passionate belief that such a deal is attainable but a bright future lies ahead for our country has not wavered and it is now with in our grasp. so let's now switch to brussels with dominick. dunne if there's been any sort of official reaction there but this is crucial for the european side of things isn't it they've been dealing with series of may for years now and we're actually getting somewhere with her until it all gets derailed like. yeah well no official reaction so far probably still digesting what's just happened from their perspective the fact that the leaders of the institutions here were speaking to just yesterday evening and talking about the further clarifications the further interpretations that could

intelligently be used those were the words of president young people. here in the building behind me just say twelve thirteen fourteen hours ago so they will be coming to terms with that clearly they will very much not want to have to establish a relationship with a successor if there is to be a successor well principally because briggs it as we know has to happen by march the twenty ninth unless article fifty as we were hearing from jonah is moved along if there's a decision to push it back that sort of thing well clearly they don't want to do that not just the presidents of the institutions here but leaders of other countries anglo-american is pretty clear she does not believe that the german chancellor does not believe that this deal should be renegotiated so from the belled from the belgian excuse me from the brussels perspective the belgian capital there's clearly no desire to renegotiate this deal that they felt that they had engaged upon in good faith with the existing prime minister but of course rail

politic will dictate that if they are required to treat with the new prime minister they will do that but clearly with this steer here very much is that we stick with the deal that we thought we'd already achieved did tourism a achieve much yesterday dominic on her trip to europe she was criticized so much back at home for not being on whilst there was an emergency debate but. sure her focus was very much on the continent. yeah but in some ways it felt a little bit like irresistible force an immovable object because the words that she she came to to the continent to meet those leaders who i've just listed and she knew already that president to a group of european m.p.'s in the parliament in strasburg had said there will not be a renegotiation of that deal so with those words ringing in her head she might well have thought this was a trial by ordeal that she had to pass through as it were in essence she's hoping

that the words of president younker this idea of clarifications of interpretations well she hoped perhaps that that would be something that would placate people clearly hasn't the fact that this no confidence or this confidence vote has been posted against well that shows that those words weren't enough and that's a problem here that the deal if it doesn't change how can she say in brussels ok they interpret it in one direction the way that i've been speaking to them about it and yet in london cell but it means something else to us here because at its heart one of the main issues that people were particularly incensed by certainly members of the democratic unionist party who buttress her government in parliament they really don't like that backstop people remember that's the backstop in northern ireland the transitory arrangements as it were the customs union the fact that different regulations would put saying to one part of the united kingdom compared to the rest well how can she interpret what the deal says regarding the backstrap the backstop in one way in brussels and in another way in london in belfast that is

that's the trial by ordeal that she underwent across the european capitals yesterday ok thanks for now doesn't it cane in brussels we're going to return to jonah hall outside house of parliament in westminster he's got a guest with i'm actually just reading jonah your guest tweeting that he says he's going to have some red hot opinions for us so let's go. well we'll get on to that in a moment i'll just give you a little look at the circus out here on college green outside his apartment and if you're see pens across the you'll see. brady giving a little interview to one of the t.v. channels here having announced just an hour and a half or so ago that he the chairman of the conservative party's backbench committee had finally received after months of speculation the requisite number of letters from members of the conservative party asking for a vote of confidence and to resume a he has now triggered that vote we know it will take place during the course of

this evening and as you rightly pointed out i am now also joined by georgia lists from the london based think tank british influence who pointed out a second ago jonathan you tweeted the head of this interview that you had some red hot opinions what's what's your read out opinion on what's going on now the jury because they're an hour before that i tweeted i didn't know what to think about this and i think that a lot of people were that she comes out here because this isn't good news whatever side of the debate you're on actually because if she stays on that means we have to raise money for another year at least. really only of leading us into paralysis she's shown herself way fully unprepared to adapt yourself as different circumstances she's term would stick with ideal even though parliament is certain to reject it so it's very unclear what she can possibly do if she stays on she's not going to call a second referendum as things stand on the other hand if she falls then they'll be immense uncertainty crippling uncertainty at a time we can least afford it and the heart of one participates which will empower

them could well be that there have hard he takes over which looks to be very bad news for the country and it just means that we won't know what's going to happen but on the other hand she is that we can see that we've had in modern history say part of it's time for to go by hard to know if you are a member of the british public watching all of this what to hope for well that's exactly it i mean i changed my mind a few times this morning on the one hand i think that it. i've been saying for a long time i think i see it said to you a few months ago that it's what she said about northern ireland would guarantee her defenestration ultimately not a moment could well be now there she said the box itself into too many corners she was always saying this is the point good book and now is a time when the chickens come home to roost on the other hand if she stays on now and then it might be that can be a little bit of stability at a time we most need it and it could be that it's better the devil you know than willing to she with sort of mantra like efficiency as we've come to expect pointed

out this morning that she believes a good deal is attainable presumably a better deal than she's already got. that points to a bright future that is within our grasp we reject it all if it's within our grasp i want to know he's crossed and why isn't he giving it in that case the deal she has is the best one she's going to get is the only one she's going to get it will not be improved upon the e.u. has told her categorically it cannot be improved upon because the point of the backstory is that the reason it's acceptable to the e.u. is the same reason that it's unacceptable to parliament and that's because he can't leave it unilaterally now if you just swap that over and say that the u.k. could leave even actually it would then be accepted to parliament but not acceptable to the e.u. so it doesn't matter how much tinkering with language the date is going to accept an acceptable to one of the sides and that means that it cannot fly and she is now so a so you say to that deal but if the deal goes she goes to now the problem is that if she survives this no confidence vote today there is no mechanism in the tory

party to get rid of her for another year so she could be a dead duck if you like with this deal that gets breaks down and the tory party will have no mechanism to force her out she would have to resign and she's showing she's not resigning type and yet as you say staying on would give just a little bit of a measure of continuity in the alternative if she's to go. on the logic as you suggested now that there is no other. deal indeed the e.u. has said there is no other deal the alternative if he's to go then is no deal no deal is categorically impossible and parliament will never sanction a deal no deal is an act of wanton vandalism and cruelty sadism if you like on the british people and especially now the european court of justice has ruled that we can unilaterally terminate the article fifty process we can cancel breaks it if we want to at any time before we actually leave so if we were heading towards an ideal scenario parliament would be much more inclined to keep us in the e.u. than to throw us off the cliff and they can send their constituents of the cliff so

we can rule or no deal so really we have three options maze deal which seems completely impossible. for a general election or a no break say with a referendum and the other thing of course this very important to point out is that if may does get replaced her successor will be dealt the same cards that may has of course made the weak leader we have a double whammy the my we have a weak leader and a weak political position but if she goes her successor no matter how and that's how much truth remains side will have nothing more to do jonathan in terms of the mood of the country the sort of state of division that this country is now in not just the conservative party of course not just parliament but people voters out there there doesn't seem to be any majority of any sort coalescing around any one of those options if you were to look forward and i appreciate this is very difficult to do too much the twenty nine thing how do you imagine this country will be looking then. almost certain that we will have extended the article fifty

process because we simply won't be ready if parliament based on this deal which they are bounty or probably next month now they won't be time to introduce a new deal that would be time to have a general election or a referendum so really under all circumstances will need to extend it and remember the cabinet has said today that it may does schools and they'll have to extend it as well so that's the one thing what a lot of experts and commentators now seem to thing. is that we will have a second referendum a lot of them still think it's unlikely but it's the likeliest of an unlikely see reason possibilities as i always say when every one is implausible one outcome that is implausible now will eventually become reality and i think that's what we're looking out of the moment journalists with british influence thank you very much there were you know that when you were talking about the unlikeliest outcome of an unlikely series of possibilities syrian deep trouble and really nobody knows what is going to happen next except that they'll be a vote tonight eight hundred g.m.t. in to reason may's leadership of the conservative party with

a knock on effect of course over leadership of the country back to you excellent stuff jonah how outside the houses of parliament in london thank you there is other news going on today let's get you through some of that french police have arrested five people suspected of having extremist links to a gunman who killed at least three people in strand's book others were injured in the shooting at a christmas market on tuesday evening the manhunt for the gunman who is known to french intelligence is stretching now into germany the security borders in christmas markets has been increased along with the government's terror alert level the latest on that live in stroudsburg for us is bernard smith bernard. kemal well this is beyond all of the streets were shots rang out last night about eight o'clock local time last night and we've heard witnesses describe terrifying scenes as they heard gunfire and people running for cover this would have been it's a narrow street it would have been crowded just crowded just towards the end of the

shopping day shots rang out here in the gunman ran elsewhere the gunman has been named by reuters at least as twenty nine year old sharif checkouts and there's a manhunt underway for him now we are right on the border with france the interior minister ministry suggest it's possible he's crossed from sorry from the french side into germany but that manhunt ongoing at the moment come our. ok bernard smith with the update from stroudsburg. thank you very much for that. so just taking you through these two top stories on al-jazeera this hour on the u.k. prime minister theresa may says she will contest a leadership challenge against her with everything she's got the vote of confidence from more than voted no confidence for more than forty. risks derailing the braggs

a process she needs support from the. party to stay in power the vote will happen later on eighteen hundred g.m.t. six pm local time. and if you've just been hearing french police arrested five people suspected of having extremist links to a gunman who killed at least three people and. others were injured up at christmas market on tuesday evening the manhunt for the gunman who is known to french intelligence is now stretching into neighboring germany. to other news and donald trump says he is willing to intervene in the extradition case against a top chinese executive if it were to help avoid worsening relations with china. has been freed on bail in canada after eleven days or eleven days after her arrest the chief financial officer of the chinese telecom giant faces extradition to the united states where she's wanted. on iran reynolds has that story from vancouver. while away 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 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 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 robert oulds al-jazeera thank whoever got in trouble also reiterated his support for the saudi crown prince and says mohammed bin solomon is quote very strongly in power the director of the cia gina housefull meanwhile has you to briefly dissolve the house of representatives in a few hours about the murder murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. meanwhile the u.s. magazine time has collectively named kushal g. and a number of other journalists as its person of the year rosen and jordan and 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. 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 reporter was 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 that related violence by not writing. the fake news

is reacting violently 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 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 as you saw there in roselands report time magazine also wanted to reuters journalists who have been jailed in me and mom. who were arrested exactly one year ago the two were investigating the killings of muslim hinge in me and mocked by security forces and civilian mobs they were convicted on the colonial era laws and sentenced to seven years in jail i spoke to stephen at the editor in chief of voices who is calling on me and not to release it to look at us. i think there's really three things we can do we have in fact appealed the case so there will be a hearing on the appeal so we are using the legal system we're also trying to get global support and that's been really gratifying countries all over the world have supported while on in just a move the u.n. has been very helpful the government leaders have talked privately on song suchi and to other members of the government so we we hope that both publicity and diplomatic efforts will help as well so far nothing has worked but we're going to

continue our efforts i want to emphasize they're entirely innocent of wrong doing they were doing nothing but reporting a very important story they were arrested in a set up to prevent them from continuing that reporting and also note that we went ahead and wrote the story of that massacre with their full support even though they were already in prison what we hope will happen is that onsides hoochie will part in them and we hope that will happen because she has spoken out forcefully for democracy station in myanmar for freedom of expression for human rights and we think this would be a great demonstration by her post commitment to those principles if she pardoned them so we are still hopeful that you will do that a government open fire in a cathedral in brazil killing at least four people the forty nine year old gunman killed himself after being wounded by police in the southeastern city of compton us he has no criminal record and his motive is unclear and at least nine people have

been killed in an eastern region of democratic republic of congo after an attack the government is blaming on members of the allied democratic force of this is a group that's been accused of killing hundreds of people since twenty fourteen this latest attack happened on monday night in beni region that has been plagued by violence this year. palestinian refugees have been leaving lebanon for years. i am a great because of the dire economic conditions in which they live but they also leave because such a lack of any prospect of a solution to the israeli palestinian conflict from beirut reports now in the recent figures suggesting more. wanted a better life for his family but their attempt to reach failed palestinian refugees in lebanon are ready to tell everything and borrow money when a smuggler offers a way out even if the route to europe south america. 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 libya 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. the so-called middleman is very well known in this refugee camp his name is. and he has reportedly helped a few thousand palestinians to europe and elsewhere and it seems lebanese authorities turn a blind eye to his activities because. courage palestinians to stay. in recent years tens of thousands of palestinians left the country 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 from palestinians particularly the youth that they are very keen to leave and some of them tell us that they have already tried that their not been successful and they will try again . is among those who no longer wants his family to live in such desperate conditions even though he is better off than. just he has a job unemployment among the palestinian workforce is eighteen percent how mad is now waiting to sell his house hoping to make enough money to pay. the middleman wants thirty five thousand dollars and he will help me and my family to travel to belgium hopefully god willing things will go as planned and we arrive safely

palestinian activists and lebanese security sources say up to four thousand refugees made their way to europe this year mohamed atta and his family were not among them but he hasn't given up he says he's planning to make another attempt soon. and the british prime minister has just addressed the nation and says she will contest a leadership challenge with everything she has got more than forty eight pages from her own policy submitted letters of confidence may says the move risks derailing the entire break that process. a change of leadership in the conservative party now will put our country's future at risk and create uncertainty when we can least afford it a new leader wouldn't be in place by the twenty first of january legal deadline so a leadership election risks handing control of the brakes in negotiations to

opposition m.p.'s in parliament the new leader wouldn't have time to renegotiate a withdrawal agreement and get the legislation through parliament by the twenty ninth of march so one of their first acts would have to be extending or rescinding article fifty delaying or even stopping breck's it following events from london for us john hope. on tuesday the talk was of a prime minister who'd lost all credibility all of thora he she may now well be in a position where power is about to be forced from her hands a grown brady the chairman of the nine hundred twenty two committee the backbench committee of the 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 track process of course given the situation the country sort of finds itself

in. and in other news french police have arrested five people suspected of having extremist links to a government who killed at least two people in strasbourg others were injured in that shooting at a christmas market on tuesday evening the manhunt for the government who is no different intelligence is stretching into neighboring germany on security at borders and christmas markets has been increased and donald trump says he's willing to intervene in the extradition case against a top chinese executive if it helps avoid worsening relations with china when she has been freed on bail in canada eleven days after her arrest in vancouver the chief financial officer of the chinese telecoms giant while way faces extradition to the united states where she is wanted for violating sanctions on iraq you're up to date with the headlines plenty more on the news hour with peter dubey in about half an hour on that leadership challenge in the u.k. .

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