doors open in more recent. even deeper toys with the european union through the euro tunnel free and travel depends of course a poem's eames pose rigs that are absolutely no go and see the poor about was debris on the horizon next week welcome how does europe ramsgate. 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 a morality 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 his matter 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 any more 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 valuable in the past has become too much of a burden and as long as him being around. don't think it will ever be normal again al-jazeera castor is live for us from washington d.c. heidi what's the progress of the vote where are we now. in a test yes so the debate continues on the senate floor and now there's reports that the vote may not happen until tomorrow morning but this resolution to withdraw u.s. military support of the saudi led coalition in yemen is has already cleared several

procedural hurdles and it is likely to pass eventually with bipartisan support if that does happen it would be a historic act to be the first time that the senate has used its powers under the one nine hundred seventy three war powers act which has the purpose of making it clear that it is only congress that has the power to declare war and not the president and so if and when this this this resolution does pass in the u.s. senate it is likely to be seen as a rebuke not only of saudi arabia but also president donald trump. if the resolution does actually pass the senate what's next and is this significant for the trump white house. well there are still several more hurdles ahead if it passes the senate then it moves on to the u.s. house of representatives and notably today republicans in the house already threw up another barrier in expectation of receiving this resolution in coming days and

so if it passes the house then it goes onto another hurdle which is the white house itself trump would need to sign this measure into law right now indications are he would not do that however the authors of this bill in the senate have said if it does not clear the house hurdle they will reintroduce the legislation again come january when democrats will take over control of the house and should be a more politically receptive environment for the resolution either way you look at it though whatever the final result is of this resolution it's seen as a rebuke and as a message to saudi arabia that the u.s. has a growing support for not tolerating these human rights abuses. castro there for us in washington d.c. thanks heidi well cia director gina has been has briefed leaders from the house of representatives on the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi after the

classified briefing many house members said they hadn't heard anything to change their minds about cheese mehta several members of congress wanted 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 pass for mete out as there is diplomatic editor james bays secretary of state might compare if he agrees with her. i think ambassador really says something 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 are responsible for the i miss 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 we'll do that at the same time and i didn't hear these remarks by an ambassador hadley 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 that 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 support a government and iran back to the rebels' amusing in limbo until thursday they now considering four draft agreements from the united nations they include reopening some a airports and a third party running the port of her data. well the next about still ahead on al-jazeera the wild has lost about a half its coral reefs in the last thirty years bear in kenya to find out why they're so crucial. mexico's new president moves to undo controversial education reforms and to make study free but at what cost.

from the waves of the sea. to the contours of the east. and we've got an awful lot of cloud with us over the southeast in parts of china the satellite picture shows it stretching across parts of me and ma all the way across the northern parts of vietnam and across many southeastern parts of china it's not a great deal of wet weather though so most of us just seeing a fair amount of haze and just a few areas where we might see some heavier outbreaks of rain at times a bit further towards the south and for many of us in the philippines the weather has been drawing in fine over the past few days look at the satellite picture there's barely a cloud in the sky for many of us here was a few showers i think in the eastern parts as we head through the next couple of days but by and large they're still going to be a good deal of dry weather around the west so weather is out towards the west of us some of us here the showers have been really quite ferocious in singapore looks like we'll see some particularly heavy winds on friday over towards india are

largely fine and dry for many of us here but the same can't be said for all of us across sri lanka we've got a few showers because to the east of us we have a cycle and that's developing that storm is expected to run its way north woods and maybe graze a little bit closer to us in sri lanka so we could see quite a bit of weather here as we head through the next few days some cloud also just be drifting into the southern parts of india but to the north of that it looks fine enjoy the temperatures dropping now new delhi at twenty. the weather sponsored by cats are always. the tunas in scientist who led a double life so secret even kept it from his family. but his activities would have a military impact for which he would pay the ultimate price. out as zero world investigates the life and death of miami. the two new zealand

drone engineer. welcome back i'm the star in doha a reminder of our top stories this hour british prime minister to resign may has survived a leadership challenge in parliament two hundred version four and one hundred seventeen against the verge of no confidence was triggered by a group of m.p.'s from her posse there unhappy about may's proposed breck's that do . the u.s. senate has gone against president donald trump on the war in yemen and voted to begin discussing a resolution to end u.s. military support for the saudi a morality led coalition. the man once known as donald trump's fix is going to

prison festering is michael cohen who once said he'd take a bullet for the u.s. president he did guilty to lying to congress and paying off two women who allegedly had affairs with trump christensen in the reports from new york. michael cohen arrived with his family and nearly broke down in tears when inside the court he apologized for the pain he caused them and for lying to the american people about his contacts with russian operatives before the election. cohen told the judge that blind loyalty had led him to cover up donald trump's quote dirty deeds his lawyer argued he should be spared jail time for providing information to prosecutors about the most powerful man in the country the lawyer for one of the women cohen paid off to stop her from revealing an alleged affair with the president saw differently coleman is a criminal. and he's a liar and sought to cover this up for the american people this man is no hero and

we looked. order him to serve in every single day a federal judge the judge in the case said cohen's cooperation with special counsel robert muller who deemed his information credible relevant had to be balanced against the serious nature of his many crimes and he gave cohen who won't go to prison until march a sentence that was less than federal sentencing guidelines like you. know what michael cohen's conviction ultimately will mean for the president remains to be seen but the man who once said he'd take a bullet for donald trump now beginning in march will serve three years behind bars for covering for him kristen salumi al-jazeera of new york canada's foreign minister has said has suggested that the extradition process of hallways chief financial officer should not be politicized chrystia freeland made the comments after u.s. president donald trump said he's willing to intervene in mangoes case if that meant

he could strike a deal with china men was arrested in the canadian city of vancouver eleven days ago she was released after agreeing to a bail bond of more than seven million dollars man faces extradition to the u.s. where she is accused of violating sanctions on iran it is thought to be incumbent on parties seeking an extradition from canada. recognizing that canada is a rule of law country to ensure that any extradition request is a boat ensuring that justice is done is a boat ensuring that the rule of law is respected and is not politicized or used for any other purpose. the suspected gunman in the christmas markets you're seeing in the french city of strasburg remains on the run hundreds of police and soldiers in france are hunting for cats has been jailed twenty seven times for

other crimes two people were killed and eight seriously wounded including the gunman bennett smith has been. 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 panicked shoppers ran for cover into shops and restaurants while the wounded gunman escaped in the

confusion if you don't believe. the assailant they are 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 a 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. with al-jazeera strasbourg there have been chaotic scenes in hungary's parliament after some m.p.'s tried to block an amendment to employment laws which critics have described as slave labor confetti was released into the chamber and opposition politicians sang the national anthem in an attempt to halt the vote but parliament approved the government backed amendment allowing employers to demand up to four hundred hours of overtime in a year employers will also be given up to three years to settle overtime payments. police in france arrested a former leader of a militia from the central african republic patrice edward and guy sana commanded the and he black or that's a christian group which targeted muslims the international criminal court issued a warrant for his detention he is accused of committing crimes against humanity

during the interreligious fighting five years ago mexico's new president has moved to begin undoing controversial education reforms launched by his predecessor that sparked a violent protests by teachers now it has obrador has proposed a new plan that would scrap teacher evaluations and make public education free john homa reports on tuesday a new president and his mother will look piece of good thought scrap his predecessors education reform and the vote his own plan to rescue crews failing schools if you disagree change is needed the o.e.c.d. ranks the country's education system among the worst in the world the last over who was just five years ago the centerpiece of that plan was the introduction of proficiency tests for teachers those who consistently failed place dismissal that's gone. hamas would never disrespect a teaches like happened recently the government work to offend the teaches that's

finished now such tests will be voluntary if they fail they'll be few consequences it's a move that's popular with teachers less so for some parents the practice of selling teaching post so high in the month for relatives has been common thing years in mexico and the professional exams and the consequences for failing them were meant to root out those not qualified for the job some experts say that not immediately firing failing teachers may be a wise move other countries use such tests to identify teach is in need of further training with dismissal an act of last resort to do with ministration would also bring mexico's education system under direct government control is also a promise of more money for higher education these is dangerous because in that out on a means require precisely to say freely what are the mistakes that go with the third there and the state of florida is coming in the implementation of education policy the president's also promised to pump more money into higher education to long to

read we're going to build one hundred you public universities and have three hundred thousand new grants for students from poor families a key question from experts where will the money come from they were anticipating cuts for universities and then the same time they're saying we're going to be able one hundred universities where are going to put into the in the constitution now that universal right for mexico's to have access to free higher the patient. to make promises is very easy to fulfill it is much more complicated which could have been let down before now many await the final details of the plan and lawmakers approval of it to see if this time things might be different john homan al-jazeera mexico city. news now from the united nations climate change conference in poland where wild

leaders are discussing steps to curb global warming has more from the cup twenty four summit and. climate talks in poland are reaching the final crucial stages and now we've come here to to follow them through to their conclusion in the bid to keep emissions down and to stop temperatures from rising and to explore the challenges that coal dependent nations like poland face in trying to wean themselves off fossil fuels of course what's decided here in poland will help shape the future health of the world that we live in for water supply to extreme weather events to the state of the world's oceans including that most vital i mean because systems the coral reefs welcome with no reports from kenya. every morning kalou make a hindi sense out to sea to catch fish. thousands of people here on kenya's coast do the same. some days he'll make

a hundred dollars some days nothing when i'm going to lead you on how wonderful you work for yourself that you sell it as you choose you sell to we've been on the make their own money it's been a fitting everyone in this community. the fish he catches depend on nearby coral reefs to reproduce. we went to have a look. at. the world's most diverse ecosystems are found here. and there on the threat because of climate change corals are a little bit like tiny upsidedown jellyfish in the sea temperature rises stresses them a bit like a fever and a human being and it causes them to spit out tiny microbes they depend on for their survival and they turned white and they start to die that it looks like this

is cool bleaching and it's already happened to about half the world's coral global warming causes oceanic heat waves at our dive instructor franco witnessed one of the worst ten years ago. but know that developing slowly is only. to coral he made a remarkable recovery that time but scientists say the heat waves are becoming more frequent and more intense what we'll see is more and more coral bleaching events which means more and more coral death and mortality and if we don't change course we can lose up to ninety percent of the world's coral live coral within the next few decades. to support the incomes of five hundred million people through tourism and fishing. collimating among them. he doesn't make

a lot of money and if the coal goes his livelihood goes to malcolm webb al-jazeera on kenya's coast. i'm started ten doha with the headlines on al-jazeera british prime minister to resign may has survived a leadership challenge by m.p.'s of the conservative party two hundred voted for her and one hundred seventeen against many of her unhappy about may's proposed deal speaking after the results of the leadership vote may said it was time to get on with delivering bricks. this has been a long and challenging day but at the end of it i'm pleased to have received the backing of my colleagues in tonight's ballot whilst i'm grateful for that support a significant number of colleagues did cost of post against me but i've listened to

what. following this but we now need to get on with the job of delivering for the british people building a better future for this country a brick suits that delivers on the vote. the u.s. senate has gone against president on all trump on the war in yemen and voted to begin discussing a resolution to end u.s. military support for the saudi amorality led coalition cia director gina hospital has briefed leaders from the house of representatives on the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi after the classified briefing many house members said they hadn't heard anything to change their minds about cheese matter several members of congress want to keep the yemen conflict separate from anger over the killing of. the president on trump's former lawyer is going to prison for three years for tax evasion and for violating campaign finance laws michael cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress and paying off two women who allegedly had affairs with

trump. canada's foreign minister says the extradition process of while ways chief financial officer should not be politicized chrystia freeland made the comments often u.s. president donald trump says he's willing to intervene in his case if that meant he could strike a trade deal with china. faces extradition to the u.s. where she's accused of violating sanctions on iran those are the headlines join me for more news off the inside story. the u.n. finally agrees on a road map to help migrants and refugees well why what's called the global compact

was just been adopted into a cash. and kind of compromise to greece with the countries that rejected the agreement this is inside story. hello and welcome to this special edition of inside story from care in morocco i'm hashim. the global compact for migration was adopted here after two years of intense negotiations are some of the signatories remain divided the compact is not about for the u.n. this is a unique opportunity for well to address the migration and refugee crisis the agreement stresses the need to protect migrants resettle them and allow access to schools and health care by the u.s.

italy hungary austria and other countries pulled out of the deal saying it encourages illegal migration and threatens their sovereignty we'll go to our guests shortly but first paul brennan has this report from austria. in vienna and across central europe the traditional christmas markets are well underway a symbolic of a christian heritage in a sense of european cultural identity twenty sixteen the european nations led the campaign for a global solution to the migration crisis but a string of populist election victories since then means the u. n. compact which emerged from that crisis is being disowned by its architects first to go was hungry. we see that pack coming into the field of national sovereignty certainly trying to make a migration a human right which if you take a closer look is opening pandora's box that's

a perspective though that the united nations insists is just plain wrong the u.n. says that the compact is not legally binding and does not create any new human rights furthermore it says national sovereignty over migration is a specific protected in the document so long as it complies with international law it's caviar just like that which have been pounced upon by europe's new nationalists with austria leading the way. research's points to a new generation of politicians across europe who understand that migration can sway elections it seems that migration is one of the on the remaining topics where somehow nation states are seeing how they can make a point of this this is always one of control and sovereignty and certainly it's also related to more and more polarized public. after austria followed hungary more felt like dominoes slovakia italy bug area czech republic poland and

switzerland of all either withdrawn or suspended their participation why because according to one academic by starting from a pro migration stance the un compact underestimated and ignored the concerns of individual citizens there no kind of conditions with the limit of migration right there is no kind of it it completely ignores the potential cultural aspects which i think i increasingly important for most europeans and i think what we see. in most countries is right it's not about the economic side the people a voice about migration i think it's kind of the fear of loss of cultural identity the numbers of refugees entering europe has dropped sharply since the height of the migrant crisis in twenty fifteen but the challenge of how to address future crises remains n.g.o.s a warning that nationalism cannot solve global problems not signing up to a compact means not participating in the solution. being not barred in the

solution of the google challenge and if we want to. challenge seriously then they have to be part of the global community that christmas is a season of goodwill where families gather and exchange gifts in europe's increasingly nationalistic political landscape their charity begins and ends at home. i'll just vienna. let's now talk to our guests who are joining us here in america yes. stephen company is the home affairs minister of zambia michel a boy she is the director of the platform for international cooperation on undocumented migrants and. he's the spokes person of the international organization for migration welcome to you all with a compelling go how significant is the adoption by one hundred sixty four member

states or. the global compact for migration. it's indeed quite significant and i think speaking on behalf of. my president. president they've got to go along with the president of the public of them they could have been here. not been for the present duties. it's it was good for me to represent him because he was among the heads of states who names the declaration of new york. there's a two thousand and sixteen two thousand and sixteen depression which they're newcomen that their adoption of two complex one for migrants and one for that in fiji and so being here today because that accommodation was two of those two complex adopted within twenty eighteen and so having that being done within time

commanded is going of cunt and deserves to be commended and we can only appreciate those that we have beyond the negotiations that went on after the. sixteen declination you know particularly action little boy i mean we've seen. reactions from the united nations secretary general from member states basically saying that this could be a turning point you said that you know the sentiments yes because it really offers a framework for states to show what their commitments are to upholding the human rights of migrants and it shows and twenty three objectives how they should be doing that. significant is looking at issues such as access to services including health care education for migrants regardless of status access to justice trying to also prevent irregular migration by developing more regular channels such as in the area of labor migration labor mobility schemes family reunification economic mobility without having proper regular channels that are accessible to migrants

that's actually what's creating the regular migration and this is what i mean this is the thing i mean how we have practical terms with this compact be able to find an sr questions like basic white school bike with access to schools healthcare under a supplement which is a huge challenge. i think the important thing is that you have for the first time the international community debating over two years all the aspects of migration so they've looked into all of these aspects from security to border management to protection to returns to the rights of children my child migrants so it's a it's a policy in the round. and the important thing is that now you have or you have a joined up thinking at the international level so when problems arise as they will arise and they will rise unexpectedly there is a place to go there's precedent and there's a cooperation agreement i think that's the big thing that there's a framework here that countries can rally around and seek support and the

international community can in turn support them now. i mean what's next if the the u.s. under obama in two thousand and sixteen was championing the idea of building bridges between nations has now under trump turned its back on the idea saying that it poses threats to the sovereignty how is it possible to implement the deal when the key player is not on board first of all did to get to board member states to pull out of. the deal but. as a your member states we have gone for to buy the fact that information i have so far is that the it is nor your member states that are going to get to that they would pull out of the deal and so before we think oh by the. member states away from the continent of africa. we have heightened debates around the

migration issues and focusing on the free movement of people. from one member states to another and so we have going to continue to rise it within the continent michel you've been working hard to raise international awareness about the plight of the under few months of migrants who seem to be the underdog or overshadowed by the whole this political debate in practical terms what's good news here for them and what's bad news a lot of the objectives in the global compact recognise that migrants have a fundamental human right and regardless of migration status and so when we talk about for example access to health care services it draws on what many member states are actually already doing and it really demonstrates what the commitment should be regardless of status access to justice for example and on documented women who might experience gender based violence many times is afraid to actually

go and report that to the police or to go to the emergency room of the hospital or even to go to a women's shelter so this compact actually defines what access to justice should be also for migrants regardless of status and the fact that states are signing up to this represents a strong commitment to recognize that i'm documenting migrants to have fundamental rights and that they have to be applied in practice and that's actually through ensuring things such as fire walls which is a separation between immigration enforcement and access to services and justice so that they can safely report for example you know it is to possibly the need future to reconcile the differences between those who offer to put out saying this is not good for them and those who seem to be committed to move forward with an international platform that would tackle all the issues related to my question and refugees i think if it is of course it is because this is at the end of the day a voluntary agreement it's a voluntary framework and the point is that it doesn't undermine it's of me. it doesn't interfere with the sovereignty of nation states when it comes to migration

and that's terribly important because however big you are however small you are you want to be you want to be able to have some control over who's coming in and out of your country want to be sure that it's safe so over time as this kind of works its way through and us politics change around the world surely some people will come back and maybe some some will leave but the reporting point is that the overwhelming majority of the world's countries have.