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british prime minister to resign may survive the no confidence vote from within her own party but questions remain about the country's breadth of plans. debasing the war in yemen u.s. senators about to start discussing whether to pull military support for the saudi embassy led coalition. president on transform the lawyer michael cohen is going to prison for tax evasion and for violating campaign finance laws but says he's getting his freedom back. and cold get louder for the release of to myanmar journalists named as time magazine's person of the year. two reason may has survived a challenge to head leadership she won a vote of confidence that had been called by some m.p.'s from her own party two hundred voted in her favor and one hundred seventeen against which means she continues to push for britain's exit from the european union on tuesday may was

forced to delay a parliamentary vote on her contentious bricks a plan it's now set for january twenty first the prime minister can't face another vote of no confidence from her party for at least twelve months and she said that she won't stand for election in two thousand and twenty two lawrence joins us now from outside parliament in london lawrence two hundred votes to one hundred seventeen that's still rather a lot of votes against to resume a from her own party is this actually a victory for her. well that's really the question this evening clearly she won and she did more than scrape through she got most of his sixty percent of. the votes from her own party and so forth reason may have self and for loyalists in particular ministers they can say that it was sufficient for her to have seen off the real hard core and see european elements of her party and

that then then she can get on with her program and try to get more concessions and see through some of those and the european elements are still muttering darkly this evening that she that she should have resigned but the real condemnation of tonight's results has come from those opposition parties which either want to maintain a much closer longtime relationship with the european union or indeed don't want to leave the european union saw and they've been busy pointing out that they have to reason may has lost so many of her own backbench politicians and there is no conceivable way that she's ever going to get her deal through parliament and then now busy calling on her to rethink her entire strategy has andrew simmons with a look at another traumatic day in british politics. the result of thing about it. is that the parliamentary party does have

confidence here. it was a convincing win two hundred votes against one hundred seventeen. the secret ballot behind closed doors in westminster was because of tories a maze handling of bricks it but she struck a compromise with the conservative party in order to ensure keeping her jaw a promise not to stand in the next election but she made no reference to such a compromise when she emerged after the vote so here is a new mission delivering the bricks it that people voted for bringing the country back together and building a country that truly works for everyone but some of those who voted against her say there's been irreparable damage she brought back an agreement that has divided the conservative party and divided the conservative party from. this means we don't have a we don't have a majority to govern the country earlier in the day there had been high drama the

tension easing only slightly when conservative m.p.'s publicly declaring their support past the hundred fifty nine figure needed for her survival as party leader cabinet ministers at the church we already have a certain amount of volunteer volatility in the country because the negotiations going on with the think it is a huge mistake to add to that fund volatility by having a leadership fight night and all the confusion would go that. the prime minister had started her day in a defiant mood i will contest that vote with everything i've got she immediately cleared his schedule and headed off to parliament to face the opposition and if he wants a meaningful days i'll give him one twenty ninth of march two thousand and nine. gene let me say you are. here to meet. julian absolutely unacceptable the prime minister not god to do already been found to be in contempt of parliament

today is just contemptuous alter. its speed of extraordinary few days in british politics to resume a return to dumbing street on wednesday night still in the job but at the risk of turning itself into a lame duck prime minister what amanda slow to as a senior fellow in the center of the united states and europe at the brookings institution she joins us now from washington d.c. amanda thanks for being with us were in your mind was this the voters about to resume a's leadership or a vote on have that deal and does she now have the authority is actually even lead the country through to the march deadline i and a lot of ways i think today was a sideshow because the parliamentary math doesn't change at all on brags that the reason that she pulled the vote yesterday was because she felt like she didn't have sufficient support she spent yesterday flying around european capitals trying to get adjustments to the withdrawal agreement which the european leaders were clear

they were not going to provide to her and she needs to go to brussels tomorrow to meet with the other leaders of the european union and explain the way forward and despite today's vote it's clear that there is no parliamentary mass in support of any one particular deal in the british parliament amanda what happens now given that this simply isn't the parliamentary reform it takes for had to be passed what what's likely to be discussed next. so what choice some may was discussing with european leaders yesterday in her visits to capitals and what she'll be discussing tomorrow in brussels with the full group of european leaders is whether there are any changes possible to the withdrawal agreement that will make it more palatable to members of her own parliament the e.u. has been very clear that they are not looking to open the withdrawal agreement but there is some discussion about whether or not they can give some sort of political declaration that will make it slightly more palatable to members but given that members of the democratic and unionist party in northern ireland have come out and

said that they want the backstop gone completely while european leaders including the european parliament have come out and said that there is no deal without a backstop it seems quite clear that theresa may and the e.u. are going to remain at somewhat of an impasse on this issue. an impasse absolutely right now but march is time is ticking away and mts is approaching what are the options that are on the table if there isn't some kind of deal that that british parliament can agree on. so one deal is that the u.k. simply leaves the european union on march twenty ninth with no deal and crashes out this certainly would would not be an ideal scenario it would lead to the reimposition of border controls with northern ireland it would lead to the u.k. leaving the e.u. without repaying off the remainder of its financial contributions without addressing the rights of citizens of those living in the u.k. and the european union as well as a lot of economic chaos

a second option is that theresa may could try and scare members of parliament into voting for the deal that is currently on the table with the prospect of the first scenario that i outlined the third scenario is one that your reporter indicated a lot of opposition parties are calling for which is a second referendum although even that is problematic because there's a lot of debate about what that question would be is it simply a rerun of the first referendum in terms of whether or not people want to stay in the european union or is it a referendum on the deal that theresa may has negotiated whether or not that's going to be preferable to no deal at all and then display it for us in washington d.c. thanks very much for your time amanda. people who voted to leave the e.u. are growing increasingly frustrated about the divorce process. and met some of them . it is a time of great up here of all for britain the people of came to in southeast england voted overwhelmingly to leave the e.u.

many here hope breaks it would be the dawn of a new era but they remain in limbo everyone's just disgusted with the government at the moment so i think that's. because there's not. a lot of hope for a vote for. if i knew it was going to break this fast it's turning into a bit of a circus where 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 lead 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 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 kane's made its fortune by trading with europe and the rest of the world by keeping its doors open in more recent years the county boards an even deeper time with the european union through the euro tunnel trade and travel depends of course upon stream eames regs that there are absolutely no guarantees of poor about what could be on the horizon next. al-jazeera ramsgate kent. the u.s. senate has defied president donald trump and voted to begin discussing a resolution to end u.s. military support for the saudi iraqi led coalition in yemen they could vote on the measure in the coming hours though they have until friday to do so plans for a similar vote was struck down in march after donald trump voiced strong support for the conflict the latest resolution appears to have more backing on capitol hill

following the outcry over the matter of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi speaking to reporters about the resolution republican senator lindsey graham said the u.s. must take a tougher stance against saudi arabia in the wake of jamal khashoggi isn't that. to me it is a defining moment for us as a nation for the future of saudi arabia and for the middle east in general there are a lot of bad actors in the middle east we just don't need to condone anymore than we have to and this is a situation where you don't have to they need us a lot more than we need them the relationship while valuable in the past has become too much of a burden and as long as in the around. think it will ever be normal again. rosalyn jordan joins us live from capitol hill roz there have been already two procedural votes so follow what's happening now and just how significant is this fires. well it's significant because this is

invoking the one nine hundred seventy three war powers act even though it does not appear that this will actually be sent to the president's desk because a similar measure has now failed in the u.s. house of representatives senators from both the republican and democratic parties saying that it is very important to send a message not just to the trumpet ministration but to countries around the world that this sort of behavior luring in a journalist and killing him because you don't like what he's writing or what questions he's asking can not be supported by the united states the discussion is getting under way on the senate floor a number of senators have already come forward to say mainly that they're going to support it but we've heard from at least two senators who say that they are opposed to the measure because they say there is a better way in their view of trying to send the message that the u.s. disapproves of what happened to jamal khashoggi and that ordinary americans also

disapprove of the suffering that yemeni citizens are suffering because of the ongoing air war between the saudi like coalition against the rebels who want to take control of the yemeni government but this just discussed in is very much a contentious one it clearly has seized the imagination and the initiative among senators as well as among a number of representatives over in the house they are saying that regardless of what happens this week and you refer to that deadline of the senate and the house going out of session very soon they say that in twenty nineteen they will be revisiting this issue runs this was a vote that was forced by democrats and as a band he sounded as does this reflect the way that senate has a viewing us saudi relations and and a new mines given that this fight has actually been taking place at all in the senate does that reflect a political defeat for president. well the fact that this is that

a foreign policy issue is dominating the conversation rather than a discussion on for example on infrastructure or on building a tougher and more impenetrable security wall on the border between the united states and mexico the fact that u.s. senators and house representatives are spending considerable time debating this issue certainly has hold the political momentum and the the image as it were from the white house to capitol hill but it also does signal perhaps the beginning of a more robust bipartisan challenge to the trumpet ministrations foreign policy strategy something which we have not seen before in the first two years of donald trump's presidency whether that momentum can be sustained over the next several weeks during the changeover from the one hundred fifteenth to the one hundred sixteenth

u.s. congress remains to be seen but clearly as we heard from lindsey graham who has considered himself an ally of the president this is not a matter that he is willing to drop and as a leading republican he could certainly get the other republicans to join him in the trying to what take a close look at u.s. saudi relations certainly already democrats have already indicated that they're going to do that this could be the beginning of a sea change but again we need to let these events play out as they are as roslyn jordan on capitol hill thanks very much as. well as cia director has briefed neda's from the house of representatives on the killing of saudi janice. off to the classified briefing many house members said they haven't had anything to change their minds about because she is mad several members of congress want to keep the yemen conflict separate from anger over the killing of. the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the u.n.

nikki haley has said that riyadh will not get a pos for. al-jazeera is diplomatic editor james bay is secretary of state. if he agrees with her. i think ambassador really says some is very consistent with what president trump and i have both said which is that we have already held accountable a large number of persons who were a sponsor for the and this murder of jamal khashoggi that we will continue investigate take the facts where they lead and get to a place where we hold those responsible accountable will do that at the same time and i didn't hear these remarks by ambassador hailey but i'm confident that she would share my view that america's interests in the region are important and our partnership with the kingdom of saudi arabia as it is is an important one it has delivered american security in important ways in the present from first two years in office and we intend to continue to work with the kingdom of saudi arabia to

keep america safe both yemeni parties attending talks in sweden have agreed to resume exporting oil and gas the saudis supported governments on the iran back to the rebels on easing in limbo until thursday they're now considering four draft agreements from the united nations they focus on a political framework the reopening of airport the status of the port city of her data plenty more ahead on the news including france detains a suspected war criminal details in just a moment. looking for a way out of lebanon palestinian refugees new routes to escape desperate conditions . in school want to find out if teen wellington could put office of.