directly addressing protesters and directing addressing the country in a speech that was viewed more than more than the world cup final actually addressing the country and finally saying ok something is wrong and i think that sense of kind of the. you know the president just stepping away from his responsibilities has fueled some of the fueled some of the rage here oh i saw some of that you retreated out from allison saajan and just mention this while mccrone speech on this he had more viewers on french t.v. than if she is well cup final and to remind you front won the world cup final that was a massive audience i'm just wondering though vanessa how is it possible that a savvy political operator like mccall didn't see something this huge coming. i'm not quite sure. but he has been polling fairly low for. quite a few weeks now so i'm not sure that it was completely blind finding also the protest has been the movement has been frontin yes but the protests themselves are not

protesters are saying we're going to show up on saturday. at this time in place so it's not i think he's had plenty of time to sort of process with happening and to respond in a way that's more a fad or spying you know than what cole has mentioned and frankly i'm surprised and disappointed that he can explain it so we mentioned the world cup final there are a few times i want to bring in this tweet we got in french translated. microsoft's here he was elected because those who complained today have stayed watching football on t.v. and set up going to vote so when we don't go to vote we assume the choice of other another person. same kind of vein aymeric says was elected through a media coup and into program it continues to dismantle france by following the deadly european policies as its predecessors he despises the people still strong

words there and what should the government have done instead of what happened. well i think it but what i keep hearing here is that the people in the streets feel like the government doesn't listen to them that there's a segment of the population that's about there's about a fifth of the french population that lives outside of major cities like paris bordeaux only on the cities in france they live in rural areas and they many of them are working class or on limited incomes and they rely on their vehicles to either drive to work or drive to public transportation drive to basic services and i think that the government has mcewan's government has been looking towards europe they have all of these these big plans and these in the grand visions for the future and for the future of france but in these visions they neglected to look at some of the. problems the domestic problems within france and there's

a segment of the population that does feel left behind and forgotten and overlooked i want to play and not a protest to call daniel and daniel explains his situation and why he's protesting on the streets have a listen. try to reflect on these all this go to not argue it goes to normal. don't know about i feel really surprised there isn't a military article where you. open well beyond fear don't think you got the phone who we. don't know we i don't believe more. divorce off a lot of debris did you. not particular. needs to get lost. this is a lot a lot of. ideas on the ideas are coming from the streets and protesting is that we are sick of the president but realistically the president isn't going anywhere or

is he. well no i think there's no indication right now the micro is going to step down despite all these these these calls for protesters to do so and they really bill and they really believe that you can see that the way that they repeated this this refrain but i think an important point to drought as well as i think some of the tweets hinted at this is that micro never had a really popular mandate for his policies he would he was elected in this in this very bizarre unique presidential election that took place last year in france against marine le pen of the far right of the national front party which is in changes name micro won the presidency because of his opponent if you polled the people that voted for micromanagers most french people their number one reason was voting against marine le pen it was stopping winning the presidency and so micro-loan despite some of the calls that we saw following his election notably in the anglo american press saying that france had embraced centrism straight friends had had a brace there's this this you know pro-business ideology after years of having too much government regulation there was never a popular mandate for these policies so i think in some sense it's pretty

predictable that his presidency has taken such a dive you know around twenty percent approval right now hitting his lowest point there was never a mandate for these policies you know for things like cutting low income housing aid for things like forcing retirees to pay more money in taxes which mccrone is actually since repealed since since monday for a program that involves. laying off tens of thousands of civil servants there is not a popular mandate for this in friends and the problem with micro is he took his alexion his victory and took that to be a huge many for us policies that it doesn't exist and i think we're seeing right now that this fracturing that finally and frankly it's kind of surprising that you know in some sense it's taken this long but we're seeing his presidency really. you know unravel here and we're seeing the opposition that exist to it three and added to adding to adding to what cola saying i covered the election and especially after the second round i went to a lot of the demonstrations and i spoke to a lot of the voters and there are

a lot of people yes exactly it was it wasn't so much a vote it was a vote against le pen i actually had people tell me well it looks like we have to choose between a fascist and a capitalist so we'll choose we'll choose the capitalist and i mean i don't think we should take away from from what the left was doing there to the right like there was significant support for leftist candidates unfortunately been. sort of split voters and so you know that took away from what could have been a larger majority but many french people i think were behind these left more socialist leaning programs so this is interesting you raise that who is actually behind the protests because i want to bring this back to the protests but this tweet from don he says i'm in france and the impact so far is the negative of these protests they hinder movement businesses are destroyed and will be deemed counterproductive if the president then doesn't back down so should he and i want

to go to you with that because i'd like to know what's next for you and your other protesters who are here with will you continue these demonstrations and till you get what you want. well i think yes i think the movement will not end like this it's not because mr mccall. made some small concessions. he said on monday in his speech and that's that's not going to stop the movement because the people are not really an agreement with what he said we reached a point where the real universe protesters and most of the first know what they want now what they would like to see from. would be us that we go to. citizen initiative referendums that would allow us the people. to have a vision. on the whole of the political policies so we would have our work we would

be able to say something in france which is a democratic country. the people can't say anything the people that have the choice of the laws that are voted by the politicians knowing that a lot of the laws that don't go in our direction the people's direction of voted for example night. voted in by somebody that. we have put it to sions who. will. pay the thousands of euros not a turned. and that's not acceptable. it's true of this anger as grown a lot because of taxes because people are fed up with taxes but little by little with the social movement yes mark colvin michael needs to step down to sit down but

the priority for us today would be that the president accept first of all to listen to us think that would be a good start and also secondly that we could have a referendum. and initiative referendum you know thank you so much for starting our show and the national perspective from the protesters the yellow vests protesting in france or to air and to cull to and to. and how is this conversation been going down online libel and to the comment from you tube truth says they deserve a life that is within affordability costing watching our. ongoing story. and i will see you on.

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violating campaign finance laws also. i'm current in the philippines a country grappling with the world's most congested. british prime minister theresa may has survived a challenge to her leadership call by party backbenchers opposed to her deal with the european union all may survives politically for now she still faces widespread opposition in the westminster parliament to her plan well just over three months to go before the u.k. is totally opponents are demanding a general election with others calling for another referendum on bracks it. looks back on a momentous day and british politics. the result of thing about. to save me is that the parliamentary party does have confidence here.

it was a convincing win and 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 with. 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 leave the european. here to me who are being totally and absolutely unacceptable the prime minister not government 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 dining 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 or and has more from outside parliament on what the vote means for tourists. so she lives to fight another day and in one sense you could argue that the margin of victory was sufficient that both her 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 seventy's 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 same 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 head 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 in tories amaze 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 for some 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. ptrace may is due to media leaders at a summit in brussels on thursday you has already said there will be no renegotiation of the proximity of dominic cain imports from brussels winning a vote of confidence means to resume a real be here for the e.u. summit that starts on thursday her victory has been marked by the austrian

chancellor sebastian cortes welcoming the result and saying that he looks forward to welcoming her to the e.u. summit which will have at the top of its agenda on thursday regs it and how the e.u. goes forward with that they will have a frank exchange of views with juries in may and then when she leaves there will then be a chance for the twenty seven e.u. countries those not leaving the e.u. to discuss their position but the clarity that exists is obvious but they will not renegotiate the deal and so there this past continues the fact that the deal is acceptable in brussels but not acceptable in london is very clear and unless there is room for interpretation and clarification as president of the european commission has said well it's hard to see where this goes next and remember all the

time the march twenty ninth deadline of twenty nine teen looms ever larger when britain will leave the european union. and the u.s. senate has defied president on all tramp and has again discussing a resolution to and u.s. military support for the saudi marathi like coalition in yemen al jazeera caster has more. at stake what us 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 us 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 is 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 kristen salumi 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 are 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 still ahead on al-jazeera russia's president celebrates the twenty fifth anniversary of the country's constitution but many activists say there isn't much to celebrate and calls become louder for the release of to me in march on a listening this time magazine's person of the year.

hello there we're still seems of fairly disturbed weather over parts of the middle east at the moment the latest satellite picture shows that the majority of the cloud is currently over parts of turkey making its way towards the caspian sea there towards the south there are a few showers here as well but nothing quite as heavy and persistent as that is for the north looks like the showers here will continue to break up as we had three thursday say beirut should have a pleasant day with a top temperature of around seventeen degrees and the temperatures will be climbing even further as we head through friday friday does look a little bit calmer for many of us across parts of turkey as well meanwhile for the east largely find a dry for many of us here to see a maximum of around fourteen degrees here in doha there's no major changes expected in our weather over the next few days so it's up temperature here will be around twenty five degrees for the south it is a bit milder here over parts of say a lot less so thirty one will be maybe thirty as we head into friday down to was

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this is al jazeera and these are the top stories right now british prime minister theresa may has survived a leadership challenge by m.p.'s from her conservative party two hundred voted for one hundred seventeen against many of her m.p.'s are unhappy about may's proposed deal. u.s. senate has gone against president trump on the war and yemen and voted to began discussing a resolution to end u.s. military support for the saudi coalition. and president former lawyer that's going to prison for three years for tax evasion and for violating campaign finance laws.

guilty to lying to congress and paying all to women who have had affairs for a trial. a suspected gunman in the christmas market shooting in the french city remains on the run hundreds of police and soldiers in france are hunting for sharif who's been jailed twenty seven times for other crimes two people were killed and eight seriously wounded including the gunman bernard smith asked more. preparing for christmas and a heavily armed guard strasbourg on wednesday morning noticeably quieter as police can. to new 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 all the assailant they have at 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 fronted 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's account is one of twenty six thousand names on the government watch list of people suspected opposing a security risk. with al-jazeera. tensions between moscow and washington how worsened after russia deployed two nuclear capable bombs to venezuela to take part in military exercises and as little as president nixon has consistently accused the u.s. of plotting to overthrow him and reports. the pair of russian t.v. one sixty bombers arrived in venezuela on monday to take part in a ten hour joint training mission over the caribbean they are capable of carrying convention or new killer tipped missiles with

a range of more than five thousand five hundred kilometers the u.s. secretary of state might bomb pale issued a tweet condemning what he called to corrupt government squandering public funds and squelching liberty and freedom all the people suffer. the u.s. criticism inappropriate from a country it said could feed the whole of africa with half its defense projects a white house statement said they had been assured by russia that the planes would depart by friday president vladimir putin earlier this month in moscow expressed his support for the venezuelan leader nicolas maduro when you might use and i'm still supposed we know and understand that the situation in venezuela remains dire we support your efforts of reaching understanding in society as well as all efforts aimed at improving relations with the opposition the venezuelan president who was accused the united states of meddling in his country's affairs welcomes russian support he without providing evidence accused the u.s.

specifically national security advisor john bolton of plotting to overthrow him or even going. i mean today i come out once again to denounce the plot set forth by the white house to destroy venezuela's democracy to assassinate me and to impose a dictatorship in venezuela mr john bolton has been assigned once again as the chief of a plot to fill venezuela with violence and to seek a foreign military intervention a coup president maduro also accuses neighboring colombia of working with the americans to undermine him a claim the colombian government in a statement condemned this disobliging disrespectful and columbia south a mason as of an imaginary war. meanwhile been a straightens continue to protest often tashan with police or to leave the country in the thousands to escape rampant inflation food and medicine shortages and what the demonstrators called police and government corruption and repression.

al-jazeera. our spies that has hosted a cell bittorrent dinner in the kremlin to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the country's constitution critics say that. to tighten his grip on power or a challenge supports. the twenty fifth anniversary of russia's constitution was celebrated in the kremlin with a 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. the new constitution made a decisive contribution to overcoming the severe political crisis and civil confrontation of the early one thousand nine hundred documents of direct application it made it possible to avoid the catastrophe of territorial disintegration and strengthen the statehood and sovereignty of our country it's fitting that bloody may putin should be celebrating this document because under

russia's constitution the president is given an rivals political power. 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 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 it's 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 courts to prosecute dissidents in oligarchs who challenge his authority he also sidesteps presidential term limits who.