right now 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 nineteen let me believe they are. here i mean. totally and absolutely unacceptable the prime minister not government have already been found to be in contempt of parliament her behavior today is just contemptuous of this policy and it's been an extraordinary few days in british politics to resume a return to downing street on wednesday night still in her job but at the risk of turning herself into a lame duck prime minister and drew simmons al-jazeera london lawrence lee has more from outside parliament on what the vote means for theresa may. so she lives to fight another day and in one sense you could argue that the margin of victory was

sufficient that both a reason may and her loyalists can argue that it was a decisive victory to see off those hardline n.c. europeans who wanted to bring and her entire withdrawal agreement from the european union down but the real criticism the real opposition to what's happened tonight has come not from those hardliners but from those politicians inside westminster who want to maintain a much closer relationship with the european union because they're busy pointing out that if one hundred seventeen can serve then please that's almost forty percent of tory m.p.'s here in the parliament have no confidence in their leader eighty's effectively impossible for to resume a whenever it happens to come back to parliament and get her deal through it means effectively that she has to get at least one hundred seventeen and probably more opposition m.p.'s to support and they are in absolutely no mood to do that at all

because what they want is an entirely different deal that keeps the u.k. in a much closer and stronger long term relationship with the european union and so in the coming days i think tomorrow thursday and friday two things are going to happen first of all trees and they will have to brussels for the european council meeting which will have to say to the e.u. twenty seven look you need to give me something at least some sort of assurance that the u.k. won't be stuck in a long term economic relationship with the e.u. that's to assuage the hardliners in her own party and yet at the same time there's going to be a growing body of opposition parties here at westminster who are going to suppress the leader of the opposition labor party the main opposition jeremy corbin to say to him you need to now have a vote of no confidence into reason may's entire government to try to force either a second referendum or a general election i don't think that's likely to happen. this side of christmas on the grounds that they would probably lose it for the time being but i think it is

very likely to happen at some points in the new year so it's one of those nights where it's a reason may she can paint things as a victory but many of her opponents say she's actually looking more and more as if she's heading towards a long term defeat the u.s. senate has to five president donald trump and has begun discussing a religious resolution that is to end u.s. military support for the saudi coalition in yemen have until friday to vote on it plans for a similar move or struck down in march after donald trump voiced support for the conflict. castro has more at stake what u.s. republican senator lindsey graham called a defining moment for the u.s. and for the future of saudi arabia there are a lot of bad actors in the mideast and 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. since two thousand and fifteen the u.s.

has provided logistic support to the saudi led military coalition fighting against who the rebels in yemen in august a bomb believed to have been made in the u.s. well on a school bus full of children killing many starvation has killed eighty five thousand children since the war stars and a cholera epidemic has swept the country if united states with very little media attention has been saudi arabia's part in this horrific war. we have been providing the bombs the saudi led coalition is using refueling their planes before they drop those bombs and assisting with intelligence but it was the october killing of the american based journalist jamal khashoggi that's pushed the u.s. to tell saudi arabia enough is enough the cia says saudi arabia directed killing and dismemberment inside its consulate in istanbul something the kingdom first

denied maybe if the saudis were willing to lie to us about what happened to jamal khashoggi they haven't been straight with us as to what's happening inside yemen because if the united states is being used to intentionally hit civilians then we are complicit in war crimes the resolution to withdraw u.s. military support must still clear the house republicans there moved wednesday to make that more difficult and a final signature from president donald trump who is publicly back to saudi arabia is unlikely president trump continues to proclaim his love and affection for the crowd prince and the saudi regime but that is not how in my view the american people feel it may be a long time before the message from u.s. capitol hill turns into action but the important thing supporters say is that the

u.s. is sending a message at all heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. the man once known as donald trump's fixer is going to prison for three years michael cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress and paying off two women who allegedly had affairs with trump essentially me reports from new york ok ok. ok 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 cohen is a criminal he's a thug and he's

a liar he sought to cover this up for the american people this man is no hero and we look forward to him for being 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 and 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 likely going to take a good one 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 new york. canada's foreign minister says the extradition process of what ways chief financial officer should not be politicized chrystia freeland made the comments today after a long slow was arrested or rather released on bail she was arrested in vancouver

on december first and she now faces extradition to the us where she's 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. reports from toronto. you heard from the foreign minister chrystia freeland there saying that no party who wants to extradite someone from canada should politicize their request and she made that reese in response to a question about president donald trump statement earlier this week that if needs

be that help expedite a trade deal between the u.s. and china then he would intervene in the way extradition process that's something that ms freeland didn't expect to be answering questions on they call this news conference to discuss the fact that there are certain safeguards that will protect miss one joe's rights that will also make sure that senior canadian judges hear this and that it will take some time for this to unfold equally canada's got a problem because a canadian former diplomat who's on leave to work for the international crisis group has been picked up in china and is being questioned by the beijing state security bureau and it's not been directly confirmed that this is a tit for tat move but many former canadian diplomats think it is it's a real problem unfolding for the canadians still ahead on al-jazeera france detained a suspected war criminal details in just a moment and russia's president celebrates the twenty fifth anniversary of the country's possible constitution that many activists say there isn't much to

celebrate. hello again we're looking at yet more wet weather for the southern states of the u.s. if we look at the satellite picture we can see the area of clouds that galloping its way towards us that still putting itself together and for some of us in texas and across into oklahoma it will be pretty wet on thursday that system will then work its way towards the southeast corner by friday almost exactly the same place we saw the last storm just a few days ago the last one there was very wintry had a lot of ice and snow. no mixed in this one is generally bringing some far warmer weather with it so it will be rain and a big rain event that meanwhile towards the west we've already got lots of wet weather for the western parts of canada and yet more is expected as we head through the next couple of days before the towards the south and there's

a good deal of cloud for many of us across the central americans and one or two showers but nothing too particularly heavy except taya just the tail end of what's going on over the u.s. that will be just graze in the uk a temp an inch or so we will see a few outbreaks of heavy rain here we've also seen a lot of wet weather over parts a year ago i recently as well thanks to this huge system here because they've been with us over parts of argentina to notice a lot of heavy downpours and over twenty thousand people in europe quite lost power in this storm that system is working its way eastwards though it should have cleared by the time we get to friday. anti fascist anti establishment and. despite the recent official disbanding of its militarized wing a basque separatist movement just found alive and well on the terraces of a build bound stadium. a place where political revolutionaries share

a platform an ideology with followed football hooligan. read old death on al-jazeera. watching out in syria let's recap the top stories for you right now british prime minister trace them am has survived a leadership challenge by m.p.'s from her conservative party two hundred voted for her one hundred seventeen against many of her m.p.'s are unhappy about these proposed deal the u.s. senate has gone against president obama trump on the war and yet met and voted to begin discussing a resolution to end u.s.

military support for the saudi marathi like coalition. as are donald trump's former war lawyer that 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. this is getting then in the christmas market shooting in the french city yes barbara maines on the run hundreds of police officers and soldiers and france are hunting for story she caught who has been jailed twenty seven times for other crimes two people were killed eight seriously wounded including the gunman bernard smith has more. 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 to cats 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 they are the town center just a little off on a cat that dropped him off in the new whole 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's account is one of twenty six thousand names on the government watch list of people suspected opposing a security risk vernon smith al-jazeera strasbourg. place in france have arrested a former leader of a militia from the central african republic a trace edward and his son commanded the anti bloc that's a christian group which targeted muslims the international criminal court issued a warrant for his detention is accused of committing crimes against humanity during

the interreligious fighting five years ago the talked about were as a latest from paris. well patrice eduardo i so you know was arrested by french authorities in frogs on a warrant issued by the international criminal court he was wanted for crimes against humanity including murder and torture and that what the i.c.c. say is the guy so you know was a senior leader a senior figure in the. militia a predominately christian led militia that carried out atrocities against muslims in the civil war off to twenty thirty now there were a muslim led militia and christian led militia both carried out various forms of brutality against each others 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 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 authorization politicians saying the national anthem in an attempt to stop the 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. russia's president has hosted a celebratory dinner in the kremlin to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the country's post soviet constitution the critics say it's been used to allow the putin to tighten his grip on power or a challenge reports from moscow. the twenty fifth anniversary of russia's constitution was celebrated in the kremlin with the lavish splendor of a grand state event ministers senators parliamentarians regional governors dignitaries and of course the president himself now we're going to do just. barely

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 an 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 had been dissolved and then yeltsin pushed through russia's new constitution by referendum but he may 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 is 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 president 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 court.