al-jazeera. you and for you. i will contest that vote with everything i've got defiant and combative theresa may braces for a leadership challenge over her unpopular brick city. hello again i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up a nationwide homes across france for the gunman who killed at least two people at a christmas market in strasbourg. free for now a chinese executive is granted bail in

a case that's tightened trade tensions with the united states. calls get louder for the release of two million marginalist named as time magazine's person of the. u.k. prime minister to resign may remains defiant in the face of a vote of confidence in her leadership it was triggered by forty eight m.p.'s from her own party unhappy at her deal if she loses or contests will be held for another conservative party leader and her simmons begins our coverage from london. to raise a may finally facing a vote of confidence not imposed by her parliamentary opposition but her own party and she intends to fight. i will contest that vote with everything i've got 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 what triggered the process was a threshold beyond fifteen percent of conservative party m.p.'s against the rules a quite straightforward the. if if at least fifteen percent of the parliamentary conservative party write letters to various trail to the right straight to committee then it is for me to inform and consult with the prime minister i did that over the telephone last night. and then to proceed with the ballots as soon as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances the prime minister time isn't on may side she has until wednesday evening before her fate is sealed the rot heard really set in on monday when at the last minute may postpone

the vote on the bricks that agreement with the e.u. on the basis that she knew it wouldn't have any chance of being successful in. her last ditch attempt was on tuesday to try to save the brics a deal against the odds firstly she flew to meet the dutch prime minister. then on to berlin where she ended up locked in the back of her limousine before meeting the german chancellor then on to meet e.u. leaders in brussels but she made little progress and headed back to the u.k. to face the showdown she's showing that she can't lead a factory she doesn't listen to colleagues she doesn't listen for advice and she has a box herself into samy corners with her unnecessary red lines she was always going to disappoint people i'm sorry the moment has come to be honest about it and now we're seeing the results i stand ready to finish the job. it's been an extraordinary few days in british politics and the u.k. will find out on wednesday night if may can surprise her critics and survive the

move against andrew symonds al-jazeera. london. in the past couple of hours mrs may face in question time in the house of commons miss may pushing back against calls for another general election which she said would not be in the national interest the opposition labor leader jeremy cotton demanding that was his name and whose vote on her breaks it deal. mr speaker the time for days very young to live by this government is. the prime minister has negotiated her deal she's told us it's the best and only deal available there can be no more excuses no more running away put it before parliament and let's have the vote then whatever happens with her conservative leadership vote today it is artillery irrelevant to the lives of people across our country. he should be honest with people about his position he couldn't care less about rex what he wants to do is bring down the government

creates uncertainty so division and trash our economy. the biggest threat the biggest threat to people and to this country isn't leaving the e.u. it's our core being government. not in barbara's our correspondent on college green so the house of commons there in central london i see that she's probably going to tell m.p.'s at five o'clock your time look i won't stand at the next election so she's clearly signaling to m.p.'s today now is not the time to challenge me vote for me and if you want somebody else to run the party we can think about that down the line. that's right peter that's at least what what is what was implied in a briefing at number ten downing street by a spokesperson for some reason may saying this vote isn't about who leads the party into the next election it's about whether it makes sense to change the leader at

this point in the brics it process now yes if you were one of the. conservative party m.p.'s who who wants to see a deal who doesn't back the idea of leaving the european union without a deal then that would make sense you might be swayed by that argument but to resume a yes she is she is seen by some people in her party as a weak leader and certainly her deal is very unpopular hence her pulling the meaningful vote earlier this week but yes the top the clock is ticking as everyone is aware so perhaps if if in that briefing just an hour or so before the confidence vote she said look i will guarantee you that i will step down at some point before the to next general election in twenty twenty one but let me carry on driving the car carry on taking the country towards what she says what she calls. a

stable breaks it one which will avoid the chaos as many people see it of crushing out without a deal perhaps that will be enough to see her over the line but it's very hard to know we're hearing that at least one hundred fifty eight members of parliament conservative members of parliament have stated that they will be voting for to resume a in the confidence vote in the next few hours but you should take that with a pinch of salt there are people who are going to vote against her in this secret ballot a very unlikely a favor if unless they've already stated unless they're part of a hard line breaks or to group in her party or on likely. to come out openly against her right now particularly if they are cabinet colleagues of course understood thanks the clarity on that particular issue nineteen but also on top of that if she gets through the vote ok she then goes to brussels tomorrow and then returns to the house of commons does she want to do that before the christmas

recess so she can then say look i've got something else to work with it makes my deal better let's vote on it let's vote for it and then we can move forward. it's a moot point clearly she felt that there was very little chance of her withdrawal agreements the government's withdrawal agreement getting passing the commons or they were due to vote on it on tuesday there's been a lot of anger expressed some more sites in the commons that they're not voting on it right now jeremy corbyn did us to resume a. prime minister's question time whether she would guarantee the house that they could vote on a deal before the christmas recess and he didn't get that reassurance to reason he says she's made progress in the last twenty four hours that she's met european union counterparts but she couldn't say what and just in the last few hours we've heard from the german chancellor angela merkel that she does not expect any advance

any progress to be made any changes to that text to be made even after the european union council meeting the summit happening in brussels on thursday well that's really going to concern to reserve the may and the people who still have faith in her to deliver bricks it can get through the house of commons here because she really does rely on some kind of message from brussels that for example that backstop will northern ireland to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and at the republic of ireland gerund some kind of reassurance that that would. and be a permanent measure that's really not looking like it's going to be forthcoming so it's very very hard to see what she can come back with in terms of in terms of sweeteners for parliament therefore some people are arguing well you know what's the reason why if she gets through this confidence vote on wednesday perhaps it's

in her interest to try to delay things as as far as she can to push things towards that deadline of march the twenty ninth next year and then come back to the house and say well the only the only options now are if she's continued to say my deal or no deal breaks it thanks very much. french prosecutors have named the suspected gunman accused of killing at least two people at a christmas market in strasbourg police say the twenty nine year old known as sheriff c. was injured when he fled the scene and smith has the latest. well police have lifted the cordon that was in place in parts of strasbourg city center it remains very quietly christmas markets that would ordinarily be packed at this time of the with shoppers and tourists are closed many people of course still scared off by the terrifying events of tuesday night to the police a hunting a man a twenty nine year old man called sharif shekau and it's possible he's already left

from this and it's crossed the german border strasbourg sitting just on the border with germany see if the in the event sharif's he was born on february fourteenth one thousand nine hundred nine and straws use well known to police in the judiciary mainly for offenses such as robbery and violence his criminal record contains twenty seven convictions in france germany and switzerland he's been jailed many times and was known by present at the ready as for his radicalization work and his efforts to convert others while in detention in two thousand and fifteen he was also known to police for his radicalization and he was put on a watch list and placed under surveillance. home had been raided earlier on tuesday by police investigating him in connection with a crime committed in the summer you'll hardly say that there is no indication yet that there was a terrorist motive behind this attack but should cat's name is on the list of twenty six thousand people suspected of posing

a security risk to the french state. don't 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 kind of a long long while way technologies agreed to a bail bond of more than seven million dollars she also surrendered her passport and is wearing an electronic tag she faces extradition to the us where she's accused of violating sanctions on iran and the 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 june main 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 still

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you don't have to set up your experiment for your experiment in the universe this is a dialogue everyone has a voice you actually raise several interesting point there that some of our community members are going to join the global conversation on how does iraq. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha these are the top stories the u.k. prime minister to resign may says she will contest a leadership challenge again sir with everything she's got mrs may is insisting the challenge from more than forty eight of her own m.p.'s risks derailing the bricks of process french prosecutors have named the suspected gunman accused of killing at

least two people at a christmas market in strasbourg the twenty nine year old known as sheriff steve was convicted twenty seven times in three different countries police say the suspect was injured after fleeing the scene on tuesday night. donald trump says he's willing to intervene in the extradition case against a top chinese executive to avoid worsening relations with china when one job of the chinese telecom giant it has been freed on bail in canada she is wanted in the u.s. for violating sanctions against iran. let's get more on our top story the turmoil in the u.k. over brecht's that people who voted for both leave and remain are growing increasingly frustrated need barca has more. it is a time of great up people for britain the people of came to se. voted overwhelmingly to leave the e.u. many here hope brags it would be the dawn of a new era but they remain in limbo everyone's just disgusted with the government at the moment. that's. because there's not. a lot

of hope a vote for. wouldn't if i knew it was going to break this fast it's turning into a bit of a circus for your message for the promise of. it too and you've had your time sadly behind the scenes the local council is preparing for the worst it's produced this document a contingency plan to avoid being potentially crippled by the effects of brecht's it in the event of a no deal there's likely to be major disruptions to border and customs arrangements causing huge disruptions across kent and beyond. eighty percent ninety percent of all the roll on roll off ferries and trains come out of kent so if there is disruption the impact on the current economy is really severe with the roads getting blocked unplugged by having to hold and park twelve thousand lorries at any one time in two thousand and fifteen

a strike by french ferry workers led to kilometers of congestion the report warns that breaks it could lead to an even worse situation affecting not just the delivery of goods but also the collection of rubbish children going to school the registration of births and deaths and even the transfer of bodies to mortuaries some of the plans on paper are already being realised the government spent seven million dollars keeping this disused airport available as a potential lorry park for thousands of stranded drivers. this is the nearby port of ramsgate serving mainly pleasure craft in the occasional freighter it's been earmarked as a possible over spill for the major cross-channel ferry port of dover. in order to keep the county and the country moving these plans need to be watertight historically the county of kens made its fortune by trading with europe and the rest of the world by keeping its doors open in more recent years the county forged

even deeper time with the european union through the euro tunnel trade and travel depends of course upon speed and ease but post brags that there are absolutely no guarantees at all about what could be on the horizon next. barkha al-jazeera ramsgate kent. u.s. senators asserts a vote on a new resolution to end american involvement in the. war in yemen a similar vote was struck down last march after donald trump voiced strong support during a visit by the saudi crown prince the latest resolution appears to have more backing on capitol hill after the outcry over the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. with more now from washington. all eyes are on the u.s. senate as it prepares to vote on a measure the would be the first in a series of efforts to punish saudi arabia this latest effort to invoke the one nine hundred seventy three war powers act this would essentially force an end to

u.s. support in terms of military support to the saudi led coalition in yemen this is certainly a conflict that has been concerning to members of congress for months but the death of a show she has only ask a lated back concern and the spotlight on the u.s. saudi relationship the fact that senators believe that the saudi crown prince ordered the killing of a fact the white house specifically donald trump the us president has denied now this will be seen when it is voted on if it is passed a formal rebuke of the white house in the trumpet ministration and even as this vote is occurring we see the state department pushing back saying that this sends the wrong message at the wrong time will only embolden iran still this is being seen by the members of congress as an important first step an incremental step in

ultimately shifting the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia even though this initial step will be largely symbolic. well the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o says investigations into the killing of jamal were still ongoing and washington would hold those responsible accountable for his death mr pompei as comments come hours before cia the cia director briefs house leaders on the saudi journalist murder meanwhile donald trump has reiterated his support for mohammed bin zalman as being very strongly in power. appears to have put one of the crown prince's projects in mohammed bin samana has reportedly suggested that foreign investors won't invest in the five hundred billion dollars development of neons city. is the financial times senior energy correspondent and one of the journalists who wrote the story she says many future mega projects could be in jeopardy. we were

a lot of these projects these kind of big. announcements in saudi if they are going to cancel them they never quite say they're canceling them they just say that things are going to move a lot more slowly in fact we're just going to sort of shelve these projects and it seems like that's what's happening here i would say they're completely just canceling it but it does look that way the big neon project was one of the landmark announcements that was made at a big investment conference last year and since then there have been a few of these big mega projects and they're there to sort of signify what the new saudi arabia could look like they're all part of this vision twenty thirty economic reform program that you have been sound man has set in motion. but it's one of these things that was very much linked to the crown prince whether obviously most people in saudi arabia which would have to say yes of course we are behind each one of them but a lot of people domestically and definitely

a lot of foreign investors are already wary about some of the scale and the scale of these projects but also how feasible they were we've already seen signs of concerns that they might not be able to attract these kinds of funds and so what that means is that the kingdom would have to rely more on its traditional economy this is its oil prowess which is why opec policy and the kingdom stance regarding its oil revenues is in focus again saudi arabia will need higher oil prices to fund . social and economic programs that are already ongoing for years palestinian refugees in lebanon have been leaving because of a commitment condition they also go because of a lack of any prospect of returning or a solution to the conflict with israel and more palestinians than ever appear to be seeking a way out in a harder story from beirut. wanted a better life for his family. failed.

everything and. even if. 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 is still very much operational.

and he has reported. to europe and elsewhere and it's. turning. in recent years tens of thousands of. 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 showed the number to one hundred seventy five thousand we hear very frequently. particularly. among those who wants his family to live in such desperate conditions even though he is better. then there is. 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 me to get more from some of 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 then after their beirut. turkey says it will begin a military operation east of the euphrates in syria targeting rebel groups the turkish president made the announcement at the presidential palace a large part of northeast syria on turkey's southern border is under the control of the y. p.g. kurdish rebel group and chris labeled them a terror organization saying the y.p. g. have connections to groups in turkey that are pushing for independence the us has

provided arms to the y. p g in the past in the latest battle for power in sri lanka the sacked prime minister ronnell wickramasinghe as one of the two confidence in the parliament he was dismissed by president metropolit at a senate in october and replaced by mahinda rajapaksa the two time former president is refusing to resign despite parliament voting twice to sack him presidents at a center has repeatedly vowed never to bring in states where promising to reuters journalists among those named as time magazine's person of the year were arrested in myanmar exactly a year ago calls for their release a growing louder on this the first anniversary while lone and shore saw who were investigating reports of a massacre villages when they were detained they were convicted for obtaining secret state documents and sentenced to seven years here's lawrence louis. to win is bringing up her three year old daughter without her husband journalist charles so one of two reuters reporters imprisoned in myanmar having met all

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 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 that 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 miramar 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 with 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 the in the not recognizing the value of breath why it. is silent and why. at the moment untenable if we are to are told press freedom the report. arrested months after the military launched a crackdown in rakhine state that cost around three quarters of a million 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 commandos florence louis. this is a zero these are your headlines the u.k. prime minister tourism a says she will contest a leadership challenge against her with everything she's got this is me insists the challenge from more than forty eight of her own m.p.'s risks do you railing the bricks at 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 brics 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 french prosecutors have named the suspect gunman accused of killing at least two people at a christmas market in strasbourg the twenty nine year old known as shareef c. was convicted twenty seven times in three different countries police say the suspect was injured after fleeing the scene on tuesday night. donald trump says he's willing to intervene in the extradition case against a top chinese executive to avoid worsening relations with china man one joe of the chinese telecoms giant what way is being freed on bail in canada she's wanted in the u.s. for violating sanctions on iran. 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 u.s. senators are set to vote on a new resolution to end american involvement in the saudi u.a.e. led war in yemen a similar vote was struck down last march after donald trump voice strong support for the saudis the latest resolution does appear to have more backing on capitol hill following the outcry over the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi sri lanka's sacked prime minister has won a vote of confidence in parliament where corona singer was dismissed by the president muster policy center in october and replaced by the former president mahinda rajapaksa parliament has twice voted to sack him but he's refused to resign you are right up to date with all the top stories so far here on al-jazeera up next it's the stream i'll see you bright and early from ten g. tomorrow.

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