to open your eyes on al-jazeera. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i would that's what this job. i will contest that vote with everything i've got. to find and combative theresa may braces for a leadership challenge over her unpopular brags that to you. live from doha everyone i'm come on santa maria and this is the world news from al-jazeera there is a nationwide manhunt across from it's for the gunman who killed at least two people at a christmas market in strand's book also free for now a chinese executive granted bail in

a case that ties in trade tensions with the united states and looking for a way out of lebanon palestinian refugees seeking new routes to escape desperate conditions. to the big news out of the u.k. where the bags of drama has triggered a challenge to to reason may's leadership of her party conservative m.p.'s will vote in the coming hours to decide her fate prime minister may responded to finally saying she will face the vote of confidence with everything she has got she insists the challenge for more than forty eight of her own m.p.'s risks derailing the entire brigs of 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 bricks 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 it. so here's the team covering things that cain is in brussels with european reaction will be refused and starting with jonah hill of course in london outside the houses of parliament there take us through it. you can hardly be described as unexpected or surprising this confidence vote called now by m.p.'s inside the conservative party over their leader to resume a leadership of the conservative party in question but of course as well of the country as prime minister it will take place this evening lightning quick speed i'd be interested to know whether anything has been turned around this quickly by the one hundred twenty two committee probably not and by ten pm. to resume a and the

country will know whether she is to stay or whether she goes and if she goes with her the e.u. the deal that she has painstakingly struck with the european union allowing for breaks at that date of course march the twenty ninth just around the corner so a state of high anxiety here a country some say on the edge of a nervous breakdown over all of this i'm joined by charles littrell field to talk through the permutations here he's with the eurasia group a political risk consultancy charles talk about political risk in this vote tonight if she wins it she gets to stay on immunity from further challenge for twelve months the hard right on her party have no chance of taking control of the briggs's they want if she loses it on the other hand the country faces the prospect of no deal that's true although i'd say the risk doesn't disappear if she wins it she won't win it with a very convincing margin and that will essentially tell us that there isn't

a majority for her deal we already sort of knew that earlier this week if seventy eighty of her own m.p.'s verse against her because of the deal she's negotiated it's hard to see how she managed to get it through as you say if she loses then we face a leadership vote within the conservative party as the clock continues to tick during our countdown to breaks it obviously the candidate who would be most likely to win will be the candidate who has the tougher stance on the european union because the conservative membership is quite euro skeptic lots of tweets of support from people close to her in the party the consensus when you talk to be are. and here seems to be that she's likely to scrape through a bit as you pointed out there she needs a really convincing win not just to restore her or storage but have any hope of getting this deal anywhere like through parliament absolutely i think it's clear that she doesn't really need. it's the rules on how they usually would be it's not really about the anymore it's just about whether she can get the deal through otherwise there's no not much point in her being there and as we've seen there are

many people in the party you are against the deal there aren't that many m.p. she can recruit from other parties to vote for her up to ten or fifteen labor m.p.'s that's it seventy votes against her tonight it's really the question becomes how this deal can get through and what the alternatives are while indeed let's talk about what the alternatives are because let's assume for a moment that she loses you've then got a potentially lengthy certainly weeks long contest ahead to find a new prime minister a little and chairman of the party with the clock ticking down it makes a no deal scenario a lot more possible makes it possible although i think it's important for viewers to remember that a strong majority of m.p.'s from all parties are against such an outcome and they were just sit tight and let it happen i think the e.u. would be willing to extend us to fifty not by long of course because they have their own european elections which this could clash with but they could extend it slightly if there's a new prime minister a race for there to be a new prime minister it could be you could accommodate that and there could be some more negotiations the problem the problem is that if the u.k.'s red lines turn

change the us position doesn't change and we have this one possible deal the alternative the course of no deal breaks it again i don't think m.p.'s will tolerate if they were to or of course the possibility that there isn't a break sit still unlikely lower than fifty percent but the possibility is going to charles misrule will live with thanks very much i hope that clears it up for you because it's all crystal clear here a vote tonight we'll see what happens to you charisma donor thank you for that let's go to brussels now here is dominic cain to take us through developments there i guess they the issue here for european leaders dominic is that they have been working with mrs may for so long now and they will not want seen the sort of change . well certainly for the past two years they've been working with the same person as you say this leader of government in the united kingdom parliament who has come up with a deal that they thought was the final deal indeed that's what they told themselves

yesterday in this building behind me the european commission president john claude younker effectively really reiterating what he'd already said to european m.p.'s in strasburg earlier saying that there's no rigaud no real renegotiation is possible of this deal but there may be with intelligent use of clarifications and interpretations way out but of course the point is that tara do you interpret the deal in one way here in the e.u. the heart of the e.u. institutions and interpret it a completely different way in the u.k. parliament in so far as this morning is concerned the president of the council the council of ministers that is donald tusk has been holding a meeting with the man in power to negotiate bragg's it for the e.u. michele baron you remember that there is due to be an e.u. summit of all twenty eight member nations here in brussels thursday and friday now donald tusk had hoped that this would be the brags that summit well clearly if to reason may want to lose that vote of no confidence then clearly she can't then come

to that summit that brags that summit which puts real pressure then on as we were hearing this this timetable what will happen next so from one sense we can imagine that the leaders of the e.u. institutions will hope for continuity well hope that they won't have to to build a relationship with a future prime minister particularly given as we were saying that the timetable march twenty ninth looms ever larger in people's minds so you have that sense here of they feel they've negotiated with the same person they told her what the policy was that there won't be another negotiation that may be room for clarifications and now they have to wait for the ultimate clarification which is what does the conservative party in the united kingdom want to do next dominic kane with the view from brussels there dominic thank you. we're moving to other news and french police have arrested five people suspected of having extremist links to a gunman who killed at least three people in stroudsburg others were injured at the

christmas market on tuesday evening a manhunt for the gunman who is known to french intelligence is now stretching into neighboring germany the french deputy interior minister says it's too early to tell whether this attack was terrible later he took a new poor do do did he was known for many non tara related offenses and he was never known for offenses linked to terrorism but nonetheless he had a rather extensive criminal record has been sent to prison numerous times where he was radicalized through religion he didn't show signs of committing any acts and security services placed him closely under surveillance for this like many other individuals who may have showed signs of practicing radicalized religion in detention we need to be very careful as we speak the terrorist motive for the attack hasn't been established. more on the story from bernard smith. this is one of the streets in central strasbourg gunfire rang out last night at

about eight o'clock in the evening the gunman is reported to exchanged fire with police who are on patrol there as part of security measures during the busy christmas shopping period and we've heard witnesses describe scenes of chaos and panic as people run for cover in what is a very narrow alleyway it's now been reported that the gunman hijacked a taxi and this took him to a town not far from here near the only french german border and it was a taxi driver who was forced to drive who told the operative told the police that he believed the gunman had been wounded he's been named by reuters as twenty right nine year old sharif shikata man with a long criminal record according to the interior ministry no indication of the interior ministry says that there's a terrorist motivation to this attack although the gunman is on a list of names a list of twenty six thousand names that they have in france who people who the

your forty's consider are a risk to. the french state government remains on the loose the interior ministry also says it's possible he has crossed the border in to germany 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 eleven days after her arrest in canada mongering job of technologies did agree to a bail bond of more than seven million dollars she also surrendered her passport and is wearing an electronic monitoring tag she faces extradition to the united states where she is accused of violating sanctions on iran. i'm a group or any person especially a leader of the united states or a high level figure who's willing to make a positive effort to push the situation towards the right direction then of course deserves to be well received well one man one job being arrested was a mistake from the start we have already made our position clear to united states

and canada who should immediately correct their mistake and release one joe. in the news a head cold for the release of journalists who've also been named as time magazine's person of the year and live in washington. and the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen. how the wind is confirmed now northeastern china and japan the korean peninsula so the clouds sort of irrelevant i wish you see caddie's it was probably snow certain that's true in harkat in a huge amount in the full cost of thursday's still minus one which is consistent the last few days as a par but history otherwise sunshine we are round about zero march the korean peninsula plus or minus a bit and just a bit about in beijing with

a still relatively warm again given the last week bias eleven in rebuttal but you can see the letters on shore cloud some grain is coming to see japan this will be sea fog i suspect most of the weather proper is northern hampshire and hole card otherwise it's generally settled if not all tokyo's ten junk down about a three right time to get to friday defiles changes so the coldest reach that far south it certainly reached the good part of china was single figures were down to seventeen in hong kong and this again is a lot of greyness over plaid very little if any in the way of rain now the rain is being brought down to the coast of vietnam and across and it's been particularly wet recently but actually around the philippines the haven't been that many showers up until this forecast chart says it does but still the heaviest is further west sumatra singapore and k.l. .

the q museum scientist who led a double life so secret he even kept it from his family. but his activities would have a military impact for which he would pay the ultimate price. out his hero world investigates the life and death of my family to ari the two new zealand drone engineer. top stories this hour on al-jazeera the u.k. prime minister theresa may says she will contest a leadership challenge against her with everything she's got may insists the

challenge for more than forty eight of iranian pays risks the railing the braggs of princess. french police have arrested five people suspected of having extremist links to a gunman who killed at least three people and struggled others were injured to at a christmas market on tuesday evening the manhunt for the gunman who is no different intelligence is stretching into neighboring germany. and donald trump says he's willing to intervene in the extradition case against a top chinese executive to avoid worsening relations with china. the chinese telecoms company way has been freed on bail in canada she is wanted in the u.s. violating sanctions on iran. ok we need to talk more bragg's it specifically the leadership crisis in the conservative party what happens next well all three hundred fifteen conservative party m.p.'s in the house of commons are eligible to take part in this vote of confidence in to resume its leadership she needs a simple majority to win that means one hundred fifty eight votes if all m.p.'s if

she doesn't win sorry if she does very clear she remains in office she cannot be challenge for another twelve months but if she loses she has to resign and she can't join the leadership race and the vote to replace mrs may if there are more than two contenders a secret vote would be held amongst tory m.p.'s and the two remaining contenders would then face a postal ballot of all conservative party members of this could go on for quite some time whoever takes charge of the party will become the next prime minister but won't necessarily face a general election we heard from john ashmore deputy editor of the british online news website capek's who says a change of leader isn't guaranteed to resolve the concerns around brags that. i don't see a clear path at the moment for her to get her deal through parliament anyway so we're stuck in this very strange kind of impasse where the city is on the right of the conservative party want to get rid of theresa may but there's no real sign of

a coherent plan on their side either and it's worth remembering in all this as well that let's say that a city or a lever does oust to reason may well their version of brace is not necessarily going to appeal to the more program main wing of the conservative party so it's kind of like a parliamentary game of whack a mole you plug one gap and then another comes up and throughout all this also you've got to bear in mind the position of the the u.p.a. the northern irish party who are implacably opposed to stories amaze so i don't think even even if she comes through this vote intact i don't think it's necessarily bolsters her position all that much i think the sense among a lot of people is that if a very substantial number of tory m.p.'s vote against her that she might then resign anyway even if she has technically won the vote so you know all still very much up in the air i'm afraid now u.s.

senate is set to vote on a new resolution to end america's involvement in the saudi u.a.e. led war in yemen similar vote was struck down last march after donald trump voiced strong support for the saudis the latest resolution appears to have more backing on capitol hill however following the outcry over the murder of jamal khashoggi so let's check in with kimberly how could in washington d.c. hi kimberly what can we expect to happen today. well what we can expect is to see the u.s. senate voting on a few procedural votes and then ultimately on a resolution to invoke the one nine hundred seventy three war powers act centrally what this means is this this would be a measure to punish saudi arabia but this is something that began over the summer when we saw sensually frustration among senators over the number of civilian casualties in yemen there was a push of halt to end the u.s. military refueling and support for the saudi led coalition and its operations in

yemen now there is a more formalized process in the works this really gained can traction following the death of jim the washington post columnist and the fact that the cia has pointed to the saudi crown prince as ordering that killing but the white house has defended saudi arabia and the u.s. saudi relationship so we're going to see this measure put through the senate it is nonbinding and largely symbolic but still is seen as an important incremental first step we are also watching very carefully in the house but that is a process that's moving much more slowly and that legislation there is similar but it is something that would be unlikely for the president to sign so again a symbolic measures but still very much important in terms of the message it sends to saudi arabia that the u.s. saudi relationship could be shifting the balance would it change for the actual trump administration's relationship with saudi arabia already we've heard i think in the past twenty four o's donald trump reaffirming and support for

a moment in the solomon. yeah and the message from the state department has been a very strong and loud one whether it's my pump pay or undersecretaries. they are not happy that the senate is taking this action and the trump administration has expressed that this is the wrong message at the wrong time the administration believes this would empower iran. this is something that is critical in terms of the u.s. middle east rather gee they really counted on the relationship with saudi arabia to confront iran and to pivot towards confronting iran and so this is something that the trumpet ministration is fighting very hard but once again because of the death of. there is almost no support in the u.s. congress now for that position of the trumpet ministration so again this is largely symbolic but this is seen as an important first step in altering the u.s. saudi relationship that has been in place for decades thank you can believe in

washington. welcom cohen was a man once considered the u.s. president's personal fix and now he is waiting to hear if he's going to spend the next few years in prison trump's former lawyer will be sentenced wednesday in a new york courtroom after pleading guilty to multiple crimes at a high now with a look at how he got 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 his line 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 a different reason i think he is less willing to throw under the bus various people with whom he may have committed 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 in al-jazeera washington. the u.s. president and democratic leaders have spotted in front of the media over their

plans to build for donald trump's plans at least to build a 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 he will build there are no votes in the house a majority vote for a walk no matter where you are right if i needed the votes for the wall in the house i would have them in one show sure there will be you know it doesn't help because we did ten democrats and actually put it on the first on a negotiation we have there's just and we're doing this in a very friendly manner it doesn't help for me to take a vote in the house where i will win easily with the republican chairman it doesn't help to take the advice because i'm not going to get the vote one for the senate i need ten shelters that's the problem now the government has opened fire in a cathedral in brazil killing at least four people the forty nine year old killed himself then after being wounded initially by police this is in the southeastern city of campiness most of those who were hit were elderly people of the government

has no criminal record and his motive is unclear to reuters journalists among those named as time magazine's person of the year were arrested in myanmar exactly a year ago and the calls for their release are growing louder on this first anniversary while also were investigating reports of a massacre of revenge of villages when they were arrested they were convicted for obtaining secret state documents and sentenced to seven years their story now from . to win is bringing up her three year old daughter without her husband journalist. one of two reuters reporters imprisoned in myanmar have in their own cleared up our daughter started to ask why doesn't that he love us why isn't he living with us so i tell her he loved the phone much that's why he's working at the prison choice it was quietly while lone is also in jail and missed his wife giving birth to their child so i miss him there are just

a lot of things i miss about him all the time and everywhere both reporters were arrested last december they were sentenced in september to seven years for possessing secret state documents the journalists were investigating reports of a massacre of revenge of alleges by security forces in northern uganda while owen and torso who say they were set up by the police who handed the documents to them moments before their arrest caused an international outcry on the first anniversary of their jailing colleagues are intensifying calls for their release the fact that they remain in prison for a crime they did not commit calls into question meanwhile as commitment to democracy freedom of expression and rule of law every day they continue to be behind bars is a missed opportunity for me and maher to stand up for justice social media users have post itself with the thumbs up sign that was the signature pose of the

reporters each time they appeared in court but the hash tag free wallow in. hong kong journalists held a solidarity rally human rights advocates say a free press is more important now than ever the turn of the in the not speaking out the out there not recognizing the value of breath white. silent and white. at the moment untenable if we are to are told press freedom the report. as were arrested months after the military launched a crackdown in rakhine state that cost around three quarters of a million revenger to seek safety in neighboring bangladesh a u.n. fact finding mission concluded that the soldiers had acted with what was described as genocidal intent against the revenger committing mass killings and gang rape and the un has called for the prosecution of army commanders florence louis al-jazeera . government leaders democratic republic of congo are blaming rebel fighters for

killing nine people the democratic. attack in the troubled eastern region of a teacher in the town of. homes and stole farm animals is accused of killing hundreds of congolese during their battle for power over the past four years. for years palestinian refugees in lebanon have been leaving because of dire economic conditions but also because of the lack of any real prospect of returning home or a solution to the conflict with israel and more palestinians than ever appear to be seeking a way out. reports now from beirut. mohamad wanted a better life for his family but their attempt to reach failed palestinian refugees in lebanon are ready to sell 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 middle eastern countries reached madrid viable 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 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. turning a blind eye to his activities because. courage. 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 . it is among those who no longer want his family to live in such desperate conditions even though he is better off than others 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 mohammad atta and his family were not among them but he hasn't given up he says he's planning to make another attempt soon to. beirut. for the headlines here on al-jazeera the british prime minister says she will contest a leadership challenge against her with everything she's got may insists the challenge for more than forty eight of her own risks deregulating the brig's of priests. 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 deadly. 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 all rescinding article fifty delaying or even stopping breck's it in other news french police have arrested five people suspected of having extremist links to a gunman who killed at least three people and others were injured at the christmas market on tuesday evening the manhunt for the government who is known to french intelligence is stretching into neighboring germany donald trump says he's willing to intervene in the extradition case against a top chinese executive to avoid worsening relations with china among one of the chinese telecoms giant huawei has been freed on bail in canada she's wanted in the u.s. for violating sanctions on iran. the government's opened fire in a cathedral in brazil killing at least four people the forty nine year old killed

himself after being wounded by police in the southeastern city of company he has no criminal record and his motive is unclear government leaders in the democratic republic of congo are blaming rebel fighters for killing nine people the democratic forces are suspected of the attack on the troubled eastern region of benny they are accused of killing hundreds of congolese and facts during their battle for power over the past four years and u.s. senators are to vote on a new resolution this wednesday to end american involvement in the war in yemen a similar vote was struck down last march after donald trump voiced his strong support for the saudis this latest resolution appears to have more backing on capitol hill however following the outcry over the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi pated i'll be back with you in half an hour here on al-jazeera up next inside story.

is it one step forward two steps back for britain's prime minister on drugs it tourism a as far as the palm tree vote on had deal with the e.u. and meets european leaders from multiple while the e.u. commission says there's no room for negotiation so what now this isn't about school . hello i'm in ron cowen and welcome to inside story deal or no deal that's the question dividing britain's prime minister it's reason my fights out both and.