i'd like to thank the officer that i did read stupidity for help especially make a think you'll be there for several dylan and charles walk up the results of the ballot. this evening is that the parliamentary policy does have confidence to get through

the house have come here to the right as leader of the conservative party the. cast in favor of having conference and to raise and i was two hundred and against it was one hundred seventy. under the rule sets out in the constitution of the conservative party no further confidence vote from take place for at least thank you thank you watching the extreme brady day he's the chairman of that nine hundred twenty two pac thanks committee that the committee of m.p.'s conservative m.p.'s. announcing that the parliamentary party does have confidence in to reason may say she has won that vote and that was set up against her forty eight m.p.'s a challenge to the prime minister to a new conference but it is going to spend two hundred. thirteen in favor of having

confidence in prime minister one hundred seventeen measured against and as per the rules that they brought in there is no further confidence paint can take place for a year centuries amaze position as prime minister is shored up for a year and she is also now at has now facing off an attempt to get her out of power by m.p.'s in her own party as so let's bring in our correspondent has been watching this. quantum look pretty resounding no result for her was met. with well you know i have to say i think one hundred seventeen m.p.'s voting no confidence in is is really a loss because you know these theists group called the european research group the ultra puritanical hard line breaks it is not very many of them in the conservative party in a lot of concerns in peace regard them as prissy lucre frankly in some ways of

a lot of the stuff that they believe in and so the fact that they got i mean more than double the number of letters of no confidence that went in the room of the what they were forty eight they were one hundred seventeen them peace and they had no confidence in i mean they'll probably try to paint this as a victory for because it's actually one more vote than she got when she was when she won the vote to become prime minister in the first place and so i dare say the spin from downing street will be that actually she has more confidence inside her own part of than she did then but it's pretty rocky and if there's a lot of people who have that that level of no confidence in their in this vote then you do wonder what it means when she comes to try to get any of these votes or particular votes on bricks it through through parliament in the fullness of time let's bring back in jonathan list from from british influence the other things what do you think success or failure for treason. i think is catastrophic bitter reason may let's not beat about the bush this is. thirty seven percent of the conservative

parliamentary party voted against their own prime minister in normal times i would be the prime minister would have to it would have to be out of or out on or a faster than you could you know you say say that the number of votes so as to how authorities completely shut up how it's completely shot and let's just take this away from the conservative party for a moment a look at this in context of bracks it you heard one hundred fifteen or so m.p.'s say that they were going to various kinds of deals so we can roughly estimate that it was about that not that those probably stay in m.p.'s very sick and her but that means she has absolutely no chance in getting three basically any city or now because the labor party and the opposition are completely united against her those one hundred seventy nine pieces are never ever going to support whatever she does and that means she is a busted flush she's completely paralyzed and she'll have to go back to the drawing board and completely scrap this deal and either go for a very hard rocks that devastate ireland or go for a neighbor actually i just don't see what else she can do just just to be clear

these one hundred seventeen m.p.'s who said they had no confidence in the do you think all of those hardline breakfasters you want so that they're not are they no it was not and some of them muchly might be concerns in peace who actually want to close a deal with the european union rather than one that's further away how can she possibly get all those people to really think she can't and is interesting because there are many m.p.'s who are very much they remain side such as on a c three who i think probably voted for her because they want to have a breakthrough attorneys have say what this really means a's teresa mayes reaping the whirlwind of her own delusion and her own deceit because for two years she has boxes self into a corner promising every kind of state to every different wing of the conservative party eventually and the reality hit the wall and she's been found out and she has nowhere to go she cannot please everyone and it's hands out she can't really please anyone not to put too fine a point on the over the last two years or so people who have been put in charge of

the u.k. leaving the european union whether they believed in the projects wholeheartedly well they didn't. they've had the top jobs in governments they've had unlimited amounts of taxpayers' money more or less do what they want they've had a very benevolent audience in the british media in particular the press and yet they just can't get it they can't kick it over the line can name it it's it's it's it's the most bizarre situation it seems where there's no appetite to stay in the european union it they can't find a way of leaving the european union either bracks it as has been conceived is unbelievable is simply cannot be delivered free to all the red lines there were established at the very beginning without a massive amount of economic social and political harm look there as he was saying that the weather was very very fine for teresa made the getting she had a lot of good will from a party she they see how the party would have she wanted and at the end of it she has a deal hundred seventeen of her own m.p.'s want to get her out of downing street they say is that there's no effort to go with greg said i just don't know where we got

a reading for a few months of real time on britain where we try to see pick up the pieces if they sing incredibly bruising experience which is much worse injuries most expecting and no one can really know where we going but i can tell you this if one hundred seventeen tory m.p.'s are against enough of those might also vote against the government possibly a no confidence motion against the government and perceived a general election right so that's the next question immediately this is happened attention is going to turn to jeremy colvin the leader of the labor party is under enormous pressure from his own side and from all the nationalist groups the scottish nationalists and the welsh nationalists and and everybody else to call that vote of no confidence in the government's either to have a second referendum or general election as you say or something else do you think this actually puts more pressure on them to do that potentially in the coming days i think it does they could but we were talking about the telegraph earlier when it seems that eighty six m.p.'s are very sick and you seem to be in a strong position with one hundred seventeen thirty seven percent that is really

quite close to comfort so gerry coburn is now going to come under a lot of pressure to no confidence go. meant they'll have to do it eventually when he does either the government will fall in which case the how the general election or by the government will be will survive been a weakened state and then jeremy coburn will probably come under the most excruciating pressure to endorse a second referendum of people's rights and then it's really fifty fifty whether we leave or a when when she comes out and speaks on the steps of downing street which we should note no doubt will do in the next the next hour or so and i dare say she'll talk about that if a compromise and bring that bring the parties together and everybody's got to get behind the deal and parliament's got to get behind a deal to mental the divisions in broken britain and all that sort of thing that does not mean anything anymore do you think or is or is the country too far gone in the divisions too great to actually believe any of those plus a choose that for trees may had a lot of opportunity in twenty sixteen to bring the country together she did not do that she went towards the european research group the hardline wing of the tory

party she put she try to appease than in pursuing the hardest version of direct states and she basically ignored forty eight percent the population he very three main now the chickens have come home to roost she finds that she needs as much support she can get she just doesn't have it and ironically it was the very people that she was trying to appease who turned against her it was in the remaining is used by the force the letters it was jake recent say really she says she's messed up ok so the dollar thank you very much it is one of the multiplicity of ironies about bricks it that you can have some looks like a victory and yet feels like a defeat at the same time it's. quite the conundrum we'll from me thank you very much indeed as lawrence i mentioned there we are expecting to hear from the prime minister to resign may shortly from downing street after that vote and she has. as lawrence put it has she has won the confidence of the party but one hundred seventeen members of parliament did vote against her so still

a difficult position for the prime minister so it's find out how it's going down in brussels dominic kane is there for us dominic any reaction so far. not so far i think people are still digesting this result and working out what it means on the face of it means that she'll be here tomorrow she will be going to the council of ministers for the e.u. summit one would deduce from that result and we'll be discussing brags that this deal with the twenty seven of the e.u. leaders and with the presidents of the two institutions based here but you know as we were just hearing this this this brings it full of conundrums one key can under is how does a deal that is acceptable in brussels be unacceptable in london and that's what we're effectively dealing with right now how does she really go she ate a deal that can't be renegotiated that's effectively the conundrum she's going to deal with at the brussels level and clearly she'll be here tomorrow quite what

she'll do well we have to wait to see what that will be she'll be hoping that this clarification or interpretation that president has suggested could be used intelligently while it will have to be used very intelligently indeed if it is to arrive at a result that will placate all the members of her own party who just voted against it more than a third of her parliamentary party voted against so what deal can they arrive at what about renegotiate a deal can they arrive at what clarification can they find that will clarify the situation that seems to many people looking on to be impenetrable that's the conundrum that they'll be dealing with here in brussels tomorrow morning and why you don't as we've heard from the austrian chancellor has been quoted as saying he's looking forward to seeing the british prime minister at the summit and he's quoted as saying our shared goal is to avoid a no deal breaks it presumably that's one of the anxieties there is that all these votes of confidence or otherwise. amount of time before the u.k.

has to crash out. yes march twenty ninth that deadline loren of course mr cortes is the head the chancellor of austria and therefore because his country has the presidency of the e.u. at the moment it falls to him as it were to comment on it it would be we would expect him to comment on it as i say his country has the presidency it will be austria will be handing over the presidency at the end of this year and for him this summit coming up is very important because not only because of bragg's it but because of other migration related topics that's remember the e.u. summit will go on with or without the reference to bragg's it and migration is a very big issue for this country but as you mentioned in your question or in this idea of the states the member states who are potentially at risk from a u.k. crushing out sort of brags that situation is not just the republic of ireland other countries too certainly the netherlands is very concerned the amount of of trade

cross-tree channel trade that the netherlands has from the united kingdom is very considerable they have invested a considerable amount of money the netherlands government into examining what and the ideal scenario would mean to them what exposure they would have what their economy would be exposed to if there is no deal if the united kingdom crashes out so clearly a great deal of concern for many states but oversleep the republic of ireland is the one state that has a land border which is implicated so much which is involved so much in this backstop arrangement that backstop which so many people in the u.k. parliament seem to have such a problem with but which the republic of ireland is very concerned about and obviously because the european union wants to care is caring about its remaining members it obviously has a concern for the republic of ireland that's why the teashop leo veronica had a conversation with senior commission officials this week about state aid emergency

state aid that might be available to his country to his government to his economy is. the united kingdom crushes out all sorts of questions being asked around the fringes of this issue certainly from the e.u. perspective they want the answers because from their perspective they think this deal is done and they don't want to renegotiate it so we're left in the in the realm of what sorts of clarification might be available but so far at least it's speculation on the mccain thank you very much indeed and we are still waiting to see if promised to resume emerges to talk about oh just lost the picture there. talk about of h.h.s. the one the confidence vote amongst conservative m.p.'s about one hundred seventeen of them voted against her we've had some reaction from the labor leader jeremy corbyn he said may must now bring her dismal deal back to the house of commons next week so that parliament can take back control so reaction coming in from those who

voted against her also. if and and then the possibility i suppose that labor and others might group together and call a no confidence vote in parliament is a possibility somewhere down the line but let's wait and hear from to resume a house she reacts to the vote in the meantime let's bring you a report on the frustration that's been growing among some people who voted to leave the european union in the twenty six thousand referendum over the chaos surrounding bracks it barker visited the county of kent at the closest part of the u.k. to mainland europe and a region that voted resoundingly to leave. it is a time of great up he will for britain the people of canton southeast england 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 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 to be a by port of ramsgate serving mainly pleasure craft to the occasional freighter it's been able to supposable 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 combs made its fortune by trading with europe and the rest of the world by peeping its doors open in more recent. even deeper times with the european union through the euro tunnel trade and travel depends of

course upon us read an easy post regs that are absolutely no guarantees of poor about was debris on the horizon next nuke welcome out to zero ramsgate kept coming up on this news from london french prosecutors name their suspect in the strasburg christmas market shooting as twenty nine year old sherry shakeout. a member of africa's top football governing body has been arrested in france accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity plus. they have consistently chosen to up hold and maintain and defend the abusive atmosphere that they created gymnasts who were sexually abused by former united states team dr larry nasser say reforms aren't happening fast enough.

the u.s. senate has defied president trump and voted to advance a resolution to end u.s. military support for the sounder led coalition in the war in yemen a similar vote was struck down last march after don't voiced strong support for the saudis but the latest resolution appears to have more backing on capitol hill after the outcry over the murder of saudi journalist. the u.s. has been providing logistical and intelligence support to the sound immorality coalition in the war in yemen since twenty fifteen it began under president obama with the aim of stabilizing the region and counteracting iran which backs the hooty rebels in yemen until recently much of the u.s. assistance was in the form of in-flight refueling for saudi jets bombing yemen that was halted last month by mutual agreement between washington and riyadh but the u.s. still cooperates with the coalition on intelligence and is the top arms supplier to

saudi arabia and the u.a.e. it says its offices advise the coalition on potential targets to minimize civilian casualties but saudi air strikes are still being blamed for the deaths of thousands of yemeni civilians as believe the bomb which killed dozens of children on a school bus inside our province in august was sold to riyadh by the us was in jordan is live for us now on capitol hill in washington d.c. so what does this mean this decision by the senate. well this is just the first in a series of votes that have to be taken two votes have now been taken both procedural the first is to go ahead and agree to consider this resolution the second which has just concluded has now decided that only amendments that are related to this hop at hand which is cutting off u.s. support for the saudi led coalition that is fighting who the rebels in yemen.

has just been passed as well it passed by sixty votes there are one hundred senators so two sixty votes in a row in the affirmative means that there is real support from both democrats and republicans for some sort of curve on us and gauge what our support for the saudi led coalition in the war in yemen but there are still some other procedural steps that have to be taken lauren and we don't know whether they will actually get to voting on the resolution itself this evening although there are conflicting reports suggesting that such a thing could be in the offing on wednesday evening because they're running out of time before they break up the holidays. that's right they're running out of time not just because of the upcoming christmas slash new year holiday but also this is the coming to the end of what is known as the one hundred fifteenth congress congress meets for two year sessions that session is coming to an end at the very

end of this year and the new congress won't be in until a couple of days after the new year comes in so they have to finish this work because it's very difficult if not downright impossible to carry things over from one legislative session to the next but there is a real sense of frustration with the trumpet ministration over its support of saudi policies particularly with the war in yemen and now it's big this act has picked up even more support because of bipartisan outrage over the way that the trumpet ministration has responded to the murder on october second of democracy the self exiled saudi journalist who had been living and working here in the united states already we are hearing from a number of legislators in both the house and the senate suggesting that there will be a much more detailed and focused investigation of the u.s. policy toward saudi arabia in light of both the civil war in yemen and the murder

of july because sochi russia and jordan thank you very much. the two warring sides in yemen and now considering four draft agreements from the united nations as peace negotiations in sweden near that end the u.n. documents detail options for a political framework the reopening of santa fought the status of the port city of data and yemen's economic situation and the two parties the saudi government and the iran backed rebels expected to give their responses to the u.n. agreements on thursday inspector general antonio terrace is planning to address the closing session. oh drums former lawyer michael cohen has been sentenced to three is in prison for paying off two women over their alleged affairs with the u.s. president a jail sentence was also following to congress about a possible business deal and russia during the trying to sixteen presidential

election campaign the fifty two year old repeated guilty to both challenges cohen told the court he carried out his actions after a fierce blind loyalty to donald trump christensen to me has more from you. michael cohen fought back tears as he apologized to his family in the courtroom for the pain he had caused them he also apologized to the american people for misleading them and said that it had been blind loyalty to donald trump that had led him to cover up dirty deeds rather than listen to his inner voice telling him to do the right thing in the end he was sentenced to thirty six months three years behind bars that sentence will start in march after the holidays but cohen said for the first time he is truly free from what he described as the mental incarceration that he was under while working for a man he once admired outside of the courthouse michael i have an audio lawyer for one of the women who received hush money from michael cohen stormy daniels and film

star who allegedly had an affair with the president had this to say. michael cohen is no hero he is no patriot his choice time and time again was to degrade my client seek to intimidate her call her liars and seek to degrade the office of the presidency of the united states by seeking to buy effectively an election michael cohen's attorney had argued for no jail time saying that his client had provided information against the most powerful man in the country not knowing whether or not the special counsel's investigation would even continue he also said that michael cohen had been willing and was still willing to cooperate with prosecutors the judge however decided on a sentence that was only slightly lower than the federal guidelines based on his

cooperation and what he described as the serious and high profile nature of the case he said it was necessary to issue a sentence that would serve as a deterrent for others who might be considering similar crimes john hendren is live for us at the white house john what do the sentence mean for president. well there are legal and political implications for this in the news just keeps getting worse michael cohen said his principal reason for funneling the money to the adult film actors known as stormy daniels was to keep her quiet before the election in other words to circumvent anything that would stop donald trump from becoming president and now we hear from the parent company of national enquirer this is a company called a.m.-i run by friends of the president's name david packer and they say in order to avoid prosecution they are agreeing also to cooperate with federal prosecutors and they say specifically that

a payment made to karen mcdougal a playboy model was made specifically for the purpose of suppressing the woman's story so as to prevent it from influencing the election in both of those cases that suggests that if that's a violation of campaign finance laws as michael cohen has been found guilty of doing then donald trump ordering him to do both of those payoffs means that donald trump implicitly broke the law is well vet could cause him some legal problems right now the justice department it has guidance that says you can't be sitting president because the process for that is just you know we're going to go straight to downing street now and hear from the u.k. prime minister to resign maybe. this has been a long and challenging day but whilst i'm grateful for that support a significant number of colleagues did cost of those against me and i've listened to what they said following this but we now need to get on with the job of

delivering bricks it for the british people and building a better future for this country. a brick sit that delivers on the vote that people gave brings back control of our money our borders and our laws that protect job security and the union that brings the country back together rather than entrenching division that most are here in westminster with politicians on all sides coming together and acting in the national interest for my part i've heard what the house of commons said about the northern ireland backstop and when i go to the european council tomorrow i'll be seeking legal and political assurances that will. wage the concerns that members of parliament have on that issue but while delivering breck's it is important we also need to focus on the other issues that people feel are vital to them that matter to them to day to day the

issues that we came into politics to deal with building a stronger economy delivering first class public services building the homes that families need we owe it to the people who put us here to put their priorities first so here is our renewed mission delivering the bricks it that people voted for bringing the country back together and building a country that truly works for everyone. to reason may the u.k. prime minister reacting after the vote of confidence in her two hundred of her fellow m.p.'s voted in favor of keeping her in power one hundred seventeen voted against she said she was grateful for the vote of confidence but she had knowledge that a significant number of her colleagues voted to get a sense she said she would listen to those colleagues and let's bring in our colleague lawrence lee who's been monitoring this. quite chastened wasn't she.

well yeah and so and so she should be i mean if one hundred seventeen conservative m.p.'s voted against her effectively what it means when it comes to her trying to gets her votes through parliament the vote the deal that she struck for the u.k. to leave the european union what it means is that she has to get the supports assuming all those people votes against her deal in when it comes by the parliament has got one hundred seventeen m.p.'s from different parties plus it says you ten more which is a number of democratic unionist party in peace from northern ireland who has been propping up a government so that if actually means she has to get at least one hundred twenty seven probably labor m.p.'s to support her and you have to ask yourself why on earth would they do that and it's all very well talking about bringing the country together and social justice and things that really matters of people which clearly they do because very many people in this country are absolutely sick to death now

talking about bret's it's nothing else because it's taken all the bandwidth out of every single bit of national conversation but it seems inconceivable frankly at the moment that she can get that votes a passage is of the moment and when she goes back to the european council for that summit meeting tomorrow i don't know what they're going to be able to say to her there's going to actually get anywhere near persuading that many opposition politicians are speaking to the list once again from british influence there the campaign group that had to go from here you think is this a victory or not a victory for sinners this is the worst possible thing that could have happened is the reason may we thought the worst thing that could happen toes to lose it turned out the worst thing that could happen to her was to win because now she's trapped in office but not in power she's lost all her credibility or thorazine power and she is now the plaything of the hard right right above us right now is jacob reese mogue the head of the e.-r. g. group the most powerful right winger in parliament i just told him that he was the one he wanted night not to reason a and he greeted me to resume

a can now do nothing she can. the e.u. to get anything needle going to get anything they know that she's a busted flush she's going to come back and go to kilometers to feast in parliament one hundred seventeen of her m.p.'s will never support her whatever she does and she has nothing to do jeremy corbin right now must be planning when he's going to launch his own read against the government and try to call general election. and do you think that that's likely to be in the coming days because it doesn't necessarily follow that all those m.p.c. voted no confidence in stories made this evening would support a labor opposition in trying to bring the government down a lot of them wouldn't do that with a loss there wouldn't the calculus is. there enough of them who would i mean he did the whole droids now are going to be very aggrieved by the fire they launched a ski they're not going to be able to have another go for another year so they are going to be a thorn in theresa may side and as he was saying before it's not just the bricks it is not just the hard liners there were number of remains there must have been

a number of her mainers in not cohort of one hundred seventeen he thought trees amaze and not doing a good enough job and she has to go and remember she has brought this entirely on herself she box itself into so many corners and while she has to go she said she promised the world no surprise she can deliver it now she has a deal which is a turkey which no one can support and there's no other deal on the table. plainly she can't do what tonight i think has meant is that there is no appetite in parliament for no deal if the majority of her own employees don't want no deal and sort of rest upon him and dozens of other but it doesn't look like a lot of them wants a softer deal of the sort that you've been sorting about other than norway option or a second referendum on it or do you think in the fullness of time they might just have to say well we just got to take a deep breath and stop this for the time being and think about where we go from here and potentially not leave it all the problem is you can't suspend our school fifty you either extend it with a unanimous consent of the european union or you revoke it all together wants you to vote it that's it so we revoke it that means that we remain in the e.u.

so it doesn't it doesn't solve the problem the identified we are in a stalemate right now you have the heartbreaks tears like jacob reese mold who are going to be angling for no deal holliman will try and block that because the european court of justice did something amazing and monday they stage that we can revoke article fifty any time we like so if we going for no deals in our apartment can decide and not m.p.'s will force the government's hand into either calling it a second referendum in extremis consing breakthrough together he seems to be where we're going to this thank you very much for all of that this evening attention obviously will now turn immediately tomorrow morning to brussels where the promise to head off for those talks with all the other twenty seven european leaders what they can say to her to make things better for is absolutely anybody's guess but you know actually thank you very much indeed let's bring you now more know one of our other top stories the u.s. senate announcing a resolution to end u.s.

military support for the sounding led coalition in the war in yemen daniel schneiderman is deputy u.s. program director at the international crisis group and also served as the white house national security council director for yemen thanks very much indeed for being with us how significant do you think this summit is. well lauren first thanks for letting me have the opportunity to be with you i think it's important for your viewers to understand that there's a lot of procedural steps still before the united states senate might pass something and send it over to the house of representatives for action but it's certainly a significant moment in that it enshrines that there is a continuing bipartisan level of frustration with the way that the administration is conducting its policy as it relates to yemen and by extension the way that the saudi led coalition has conducted the war in yemen so i think it's a significant moment there's still a number of procedural steps to go through but an important milestone was reached today and why do you think the balance has shifted in this way why do you think

that they've taken the step now well you know it's interesting if you look back since january twenty seventh when president trump was inaugurated there's been a pretty consistent level of bipartisan frustration with the way that the war has been going and the impact of the humanitarian crisis on the people of yemen and i think that that has only increased over time and i think frankly a number of organizations crisis group included have called for a need to push for a peace process pretty consistently and i think the members have been paying close attention to the scope and scale of the humanitarian crisis in particular and there are a number of groups here in washington who are very effective at raising the profile of a conflict people like martin griffiths in leeds ground a from the united nations deserve a lot of credit for helping push this process along move the peace process and the humanitarian situation or tried to in a positive direction so i think that all of that has combined to mix into a very potent sort of feeling on the hill again as i said bipartisan in nature to try to do more to find ways to resolve the conflict and the u.s.

role in supporting the coalition's efforts and practically how much difference would it make if they did stop supporting the saudi led coalition. well i think it's secretary madis that said at an event at the u.s. institute of peace that the coalition could continue a certain amount of excited cities without the refueling support that the united states was providing i think the impact would more be felt in the court of public opinion if the u.s. were to cease its support of the coalition it would be a powerful signal that the united states believes that it's time to push for a peaceful resolution of the conflict it also all of these discussions more and give leverage to the u.s. executive branch to go to the saudis and other members of the coalition and say look the congress may force our here and we need you to work hand in glove with us to try to push for a diplomatic solution and that may very well have helped to break the logjam and get get things to talk so you know that certainly the saudis and iranians would have been involved in trying to help create the environment for participative down

at the table and freedom so even the discussion of the kinds of steps that are being contemplated helps to put pressure on the parties to come to a few solutions and you mentioned the the efforts in sweden we had the the the news this evening the two warring sides are not conceding that these these documents from the national sions which would include options for political frame what can they really mean us and i thought on the status of the data and the economic situation how confident are you that what they've come up with is the right approach does that sound good to you does it sound workable. well first i have to give martin griffiths a lot of credit for getting the process as far as he had he's worked incredibly hard since he took office and he's got a great team working for me is also worked again as i said very effectively with least ground in the u.n. humanitarian coordinator so they deserve a lot of credit for a coordinated approach to trying to resolve the conflict i am cautiously optimistic that what the u.n. is crafting is the start of a process i think it would be unrealistic to expect that out of one side of consultations and sweden or moving immediately to

a priest process but what it sounds like our group has been able to put together is a set of confidence building measures that will help to move the conflict in the right direction deescalate and and really to talk about what we need now we need a ceasefire in the country and guarantee from all parties that who data the major port on the red sea will remain open and that food and medicine will be able to flow to the commercial markets and the humanitarian assistance will be able to continue to flow across the country so i give martin a lot of credit for getting getting things where we are and i'm cautiously optimistic about where things are going but i'm also realistic about how difficult the peace process is going to be on the ocean ottoman from the international crisis group thank you very much indeed i didn't take the time to talk just. french prosecutors have identified the man they suspect shot dead at least two people at a christmas market in the french city of strasburg police are searching for a twenty nine year old named sherry scheck at who has a long history of gun crime he was injured fleeing the scene on tuesday night bennett smith has this report from strasburg. preparing for christmas and

a heavily armed guard strasbourg on wednesday morning noticeably quieter as police continue to hunt a gunman who opened fire on police and shoppers the night before as victims lie on the street other sorts safety in narrow alleyways as the sound of gunfire echoed around the city center. first i heard several shots and i thought maybe it's firecrackers or they're attacking a store i saw a lot of people running scared crying kids and all and i was very very scared because it was really quite a lot of shooting there was a moment of panic so everyone was running around there were police officers saying to leave to hide so that's what we did the gunman named by police as twenty nine year old sharif should cat opened fire on a police patrol just as christmas market stalls were closing panic shoppers run for cover into shops and restaurants while the wounded gunman escaped in the confusion if you don't believe. the assailant the town center just a little off to a pier on

a cab drop him off in the new hoff neighborhood the cab driver said the suspect asked to be dropped off without giving a pacific address telling the driver he would guide the cab driver has attempted but then realized he was carrying a gun and was wounded he told the cab driver that he had opened fire on soldiers and killed ten people. strasbourg is near the border with germany where security has been increased because the gunman may have crossed the open front the police say the suspected attacker has served several prison sentences in france and germany his home was raided hours before the market shooting in connection with a robbery in the summer but your cat wasn't there. more than six hundred french security personnel as well as border guards are involved in the hunt for the gunman and the french government has raised its terrorism alert level to the highest possible sharif account is one of twenty six thousand names on a government watch list of people suspected of posing

a security risk burnitz with al-jazeera strasbourg. a member of africa's top football governing body has been arrested in france accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity but. sauna is also a former militia leader and political coordinator of armed groups in central african republic he was controversial elected to the board of african football in february the international criminal court had recently filed a warrant for his arrest tasha butler has places from paris well petrie's eduardo i so know was arrested by french authorities in france on a warrant issued by the international criminal court he was wanted for crimes against humanity including murder and torture and now what the i.c.c. say is the guy's sona was a senior leader a senior figure in the anti by laugher militia a predominately christian led militia that carried out atrocities against muslims

in the civil war after twenty thirteen now there were a muslim led militia and christian led militia both carried out various forms of brutality against each other say the i.c.c. now i so know will be extradited to the international criminal court to the hague and when we spoke to the i.c.c. they could not tell us why in fact he was in france and where exactly in france he was arrested. calls are growing louder for the release of two reuters journalists who were among those named as time magazine's person of the year while lone unsure so who were arrested in may in march exactly a year ago on investigating reports of a revenge massacre they were convicted for obtaining a secret state documents and sentenced to seven years in prison france three reports. to win is bringing up her three year old daughter without her husband journalist. one of two reuters reporters imprisoned in myanmar having met all

cleared up our daughter started to ask why doesn't that the lover why isn't he living with her so i tell her he loved the phone much that's why he's working at the prison. is also in jail and missed his wife giving birth to their child. 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 religious by security forces in northern. wallow and torso to say they were set up by the police who handed the documents to them moments before their arrest because dead 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 me and maurice 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 marty 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 charge so. human rights advocates say a free press is more important now than ever the alternative to not speaking of doubt there not the recognize the value of breath white. silent and white. at the moment untenable if we are to are told press freedom the reporters were arrested months after the military launched a crackdown in rakhine state that cost around three quarters of a million rejects 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. events into chaos in hungary as parliament after some m.p.'s tried to block an amendment to labor laws which critics have described as slave labor confetti was released into the chamber and opposition politicians sang the national anthem in attempt to hold the vote parliament managed to approve the government backed amendment which allows employers to ask for up to four hundred hours of overtime pay here it also triples the length of time it can take to settle overtime payments from one year to three. russian president has hosted a celebrated dinner in the kremlin to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of russia's constitution but critics say the state's fundamental principles have been used to allow. to tighten his grip on power or a challenge for. russia. so if the twenty fifth anniversary of

russia's constitution was celebrated in the kremlin with the lavish splendor of a grand state event for the ministers senators parliamentarian this regional governors dignitaries and of course the president himself now against. the new constitution made a decisive contribution to overcoming the severe political crisis and civil confrontation of the early one thousand nine hundred as a document of direct application it made it possible to avoid the catastrophe of territorial disintegration and strengthen the stated and sovereignty of our country it's fitting that bloody may putin should be celebrating this document because under russia's constitution the president has given on rivals political power. one nine hundred ninety three russia was a very different country in the chaotic aftermath of the soviet union's collapse president boris yeltsin faced off against rebellious politicians opposed to his

radical reforms he ordered troops to crush them with force they fired tank shells of the parliament building after the assembly being dissolved and then yeltsin pushed through russia's new constitution by referendum but the mere risk of was a politician in the yeltsin's government he says the constitution combines both good and bad. if you take the first chapter of the constitution and second chapter of constitution it's the one of the best liberal constitutions in the world but second part of constitution which is technical which is about structures of power is this balanced and of course brizard and has huge power in a rational system in the era that followed putin used the full powers of the presidency to tame institutions supposedly guaranteed by the constitution is free from political control he brought much of the media under state control and used

the course to prosecute dissidents an oligarchy to challenge his authority he also sidesteps presidential term limits with a constitutionally questionable job swap with prime minister of recently putin's crackdown on anti-government protesters opposition leader alexei no valley is barred from standing in presidential elections and with putin approaching another presidential term limits critics are asking what's next yet the most since you were just you know putting it to shame yet i think that putin doesn't have a solution to this problem he will hesitate between different options he says that he's not planning to stay in power for another term but the circumstances might make him. although the physical scars for nine hundred ninety three long gone russia is still living with a constitution born from that chaos it is much debated some say that putin shows little respect for the document some say that the constitution itself is inherently or thora tarion and some like the liberal politician by the mere risk of say that

actually the same constitution can result in many different political systems in this view ultimately it's russian society that has to choose the politics that it wants or retellings i was there a moscow. so i had this news hour cycling's leading team faces an uncertain future here with that story in sport. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.