it was because of juries amaze handling of wrecks it but she struck a compromise with the conservative party in order to ensure keeping her job thank 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 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. greenland's has divided the conservative party and divided the conservative party from. this means. 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 e.u. think it is a huge mistake to add to that five volatility by having a leadership fight 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 data i'll give him one twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen let me leave they are. here i mean. julian 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 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. outside the houses of parliament in london for us paul brennan now hi paul i guess just back to the negotiating table for to resume business as usual as such. yeah i mean that is not back to the negotiating table because the e.u. is already said it's not going to negotiate any new deal as far as with the withdrawal agreement goes but i mean let's look at what the e.u. can do joined by our men on these academic from king's college university political scientist and director of u.k. and a huge a c don't you carry the independent research site now and the prime minister's gone to brussels still prime minister but what can europe do to help her out but i think broadly there are two things firstly there's the backstop she needs some sort of language the problem she's going to have is the language will be binding and it

probably won't be enough for the d.v.d. but the other thing i think you can do is address the people there in the house of commons who are walking around saying i could negotiate a better deal i think what would really help the prime minister is if the european council were say look whoever is prime minister any withdrawal deal will have a backstop whiteness whoever is prime minister you can't cherry pick the single market because that will put pressure on those who are saying actually there are alternatives that are better and it will help to reason may say it's this deal or frankly it's no deal no brakes on the backstop issue the original withdrawal agreement said best then davis to conclude a deal within the transition a draft has been emerging from brussels saying the new wording could be best endeavors to negotiate include expeditiously so the backstop would only be in place for a short period and only as long as it's strictly necessary that's not going to be legally binding statement will be enough for the people back here. not only is it not legally binding but it doesn't really change anything i mean that's the point is that there is the irish have said

a backstop has to be there the backstop has to be indefinite and they cannot be stopped unilaterally by the brits on that there is going to be. no movement so we're going to try and do is dress this up so it doesn't sound as bad but ultimately the backstop is the backstop and it will remain in place which brings us back here maybe after christmas maybe even before christmas meaningful votes in which the prime minister could lose yeah i would say if you were to bet on this you should bet on the losing because the numbers don't seem right then again that's quite a long time before that things are changing so for instance in northern ireland the feeling of them safe from businesses from the farming community to soften their position because those people in or that are listening to this quite a good deal look at all that and the danger of no deal is that it would have a crippling impact to the north and i think that losing our international viewers too much labor the opposition party here they have their own complications don't they yeah i mean the easiest way to think about brics it is we have an issue here

that is massively important on which both major parties are profoundly divided and that's the main reason why the house of commons is fighting is so so difficult to deal with and i meant on thank you very much indeed for your insights well the prime minister on the eurostar now heading off to brussels he's going to speak with the twenty seven other leaders of the european union trying to convince them of what she needs and get them on side and then those twenty seven will but without her start to have a meeting to try and work out what exactly it is that they can do to help is all still to play for it's been an extraordinary week here and had a chance to pull brennan thank you pulls outside the houses of parliament in london still ahead here on al-jazeera. i'm chris might be asked in the philippines a country grappling with the world's most congested. and russia's president wants twenty five years of the post constitution but many are saying there actually isn't that much to celebrate.

by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. allard has been snowing in turkey it is now you snowing in the ukraine with this occupation here and everything is moving as you say but it's moving within colder now this is not a surprise and it's not new but the code is spreading so although turkey is having a fine day now it's still snowing in ukraine and that circulation no cecily wind is actually mashed to bring the cold along way south and west in fact there's a good old breeze coming out of the sudden baltic into the north sea london's temperature best is five paris for zero one i may be driven or it's ten it's raining so the rains come in from the atlantic we've got weather on both sides of year but this one is swinging in serie the atlantic biggest go to high to overnight there's more snow to come for the balkans as you can see and the temperatures well

syria or a bit above through most of europe now it's a real winter chill spread a lot further than it had just a week ago and it's affecting the weather in the mediterranean this cloud here is indeed producing range of the adriatic and greece the rain he'd be pleased to know the eastern side of the bed the van to disappear if the time being you know come back but unfortunately what swings through spain is also affecting morocco and after america comes out geria a couple of miserable days i suspect. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. and investigation into the real powers that control the world health organization their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of public health can they be trusted with building a healthier future if their loyalty becomes questionable these are the people that are called to me h one n one question is it getting much difficult for you now that w h o has this child who says don't you trust that you trust who's

on al-jazeera. here with al-jazeera and these are our top stories the u.s. senate is likely to take a final vote on a resolution to end u.s. support for the start of the war in yemen senators voted sixty two thirty nine to advance the measure on wednesday it coincides with the final day of the human peace talks in sweden israeli forces have killed three palestinians in separate operations raids were conducted in the old city of jerusalem and in the occupied west bank the military accused the palestinians of being linked to attacks on israelis. and the british prime minister tourism is heading to brussels for me e.u.

leaders less than twenty four hours after she's about to challenge her leadership she is looking for concessions on her brakes a plan that the e.u. is still unwilling to negotiate. that china has confirmed that a second canadian has been detained for endangering its national security canada's trying to figure out the whereabouts of business and michael spoke for he hasn't been heard from since he said he was being questioned in china earlier this week a former canadian diplomat michael clifford was also detained during a visit to beijing. gemini. michael corbett and michael spann are suspected of engaging in activities in danger in national security of the people's republic of china according to our criminal law the beijing national security council has taken necessary measures against them the two cases are still under investigation so to put it into context remember these arrests happened as a chinese executive was released on bail in canada this is why ways chief financial

officer among one joe who faces extradition to the u.s. where she is accused of violating sanctions on iran canada's foreign minister says the case shouldn't be politicized it is thought to be incumbent on parties seeking an extradition from canada recognizing that canada is the rule of law country to ensure that any extradition request is a boat ensuring that justice is done is about ensuring that the rule of law is respected and is not politicized or used for any other purpose with us on skype her from hong kong is joseph chang political analyst former professor at city university of hong kong is to chang. would you strictly call this retaliation from the chinese or is it more sort of a warning that more could be to come. it is typical

defense mechanism on a pop up the chain b.p. tensions of the canadians are meant to convey the message that you accuse some time ease of doing now actually. some canadians have they think a lot in this low at a higher level this. one to keep because a society speed has to be a hot position that they need to be a and at the same time to. stick all the enemies that the chinese this time is under pressure because the united states and some countries to china could become strong they wanted. access to high technology and so on and certainly the chinese have been appealing to. mess with some.

message of support outside of all this do you explain to us what sort of relations did canada and china have and has it all just gotten out of hand now since the arrest. i don't think so hence the thought yes that much will depend on what state the final american trait of shien's slow always ways out like you mentioned self defeating the mess which may contain the damages and then when these things go his calls and go to prison subsequently they may still be we these early for humanitarian reasons these us guesses do exist on.

one to unite us they. have been done in some has indicated that he would see people . for american national interests and for the sake of some more american goals. what is going to ask you about that what do you think would be the real effect of don't trump intervening he says he would do it for the right reasons that being america first i guess is always a risk with that sort of thing. but a basic issue here is to what extent. from administration. national community where the american have been collecting. on the wrong. time it's a couple arrangement. they are ready. to exert pressure on

china so you've met both goals well. the stop. and. go wow wall street journal. then the nation. all. on the part of people. it's a pleasure talking to you thank you for your time thank you. police in france of issued a wanted notice for the suspected gunman in the strasburg christmas market shooting on tuesday white roses and a candle and candles have formed a makeshift memorial for the victims of that attack or at least two people were killed and eight others seriously wounded when the suspect opened fire hundreds of police and soldiers are now looking for sharif. for remains on the run police in france also arrested a former militia leader from central african republic patrice edward. commanded the

aca which is a christian group which targets muslims international criminal court issued a warrant for his detention he is accused of committing crimes against humanity during fighting five years ago. fire has destroyed thousands of voting machines in the democratic republic of congo just days before the presidential election the electoral commission says flames swept through a warehouse in the capital kinshasa around seven thousand machines on election tiriel were destroyed the government says it will quickly replace the machines and the election on december twenty third will go ahead as planned in the philippines congress has approved a twelve month extension of martial law in the southern mindanao region president rhodri go to turkey says it means tough security measures will stay in place to stop muslim fighters from regrouping a place the region under martial law in twenty seventeen after a large scale attack by isolating to find since the philippines actually has the

world's most congested jails overflowing with tens of thousands of people arrested in the president's controversial war on drugs at the moment prisons are holding almost seven times the number of inmates they're supposed to and activists accuse police of just locking up innocent people current vice reports from inside one of the philippines most crowded jails. as night falls the inmates of militia city jail are preparing to sleep waged into every age of space these are the conditions in prisons across the philippines a country with the most congested jails in the world. that i got to the first time i set foot inside here i felt like i was being choked i thought where my why am i here i shouldn't be here what is this place. prison populations have been growing at a rapid rate since president rodriguez due to say announced his war on drugs in two

thousand and sixteen channels in the philippines were built to hold around twenty thousand people but today their housing more than one hundred and forty thousand most of these people haven't even been convicted of upright bass still waiting for verdicts in their cases. there is no bail for drug offenses in the philippines those charged will stay here until the courts process they cases and that can take years but right side to vist and lawyers fear that innocent people are being challenged and jailed for drug crimes the evidence that we got there presents a heart rending a picture of family poor people being sold into jail for no reason and actually congesting the jail system. people like glaire mobissimo know he was charged with drug offenses but says the police fabricated the evidence against him in

a minute not everyone who is in jail is the demon not everyone is a bad person. we tried to put these allegations to the philippine national police but there was no response. after spending more than two years in jail waiting for a verdict the son who says he agreed to plead guilty so he could be released and returned home to his family. but even after admitting to a crime he says he didn't commit and completing the eighteen month sentence he's still in jail corish magyars al jazeera manila. goes out just zero and these are the top stories the u.s. senate is likely to vote on a resolution to end u.s. support for the saudi led war in yemen senators have already voted sixty to thirty nine to advance the measure on wednesday

a similar move was defeated in march but bipartisan support has increased since the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi vote coincides with the final day of human peace talks in sweden the 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 in other news israeli forces have killed three palestinians in separate operations police say a suspected or suspect stabs two police officers in the old city of jerusalem two other raids took place in the occupied west bank the military says they were planned operations to find suspects linked to attacks on israelis turkish officials saying at least nine people have died in a train crash in the country's capital dozens more injured in ankara mystic is investigators say the high speed train was traveling to kanya in central turkey on

thursday this is the worst train accident there since july when twenty four people were killed in a north western province british prime minister to resign is heading to brussels to ask e.u. leaders for concessions on the brig's deal but the blocks released a draft statement saying the agreement cannot be renegotiated may survive a leadership challenge from her own party on wednesday two hundred votes for one hundred seventy me against china's confirmed a second canadian has been detained for endangering its national security canada's trying to figure out the whereabouts of michael spade or he hasn't been heard from since he was being questions in china earlier this week a former canadian diplomat michael coverage was also detained during his visit to beijing and finds destroyed thousands of voting machines in democratic republic of congo's capital just days before the presidential election the electoral commission says most of their equipment was destroyed however the government insists the

elections scheduled for december the twenty third will be going ahead as planned it's you up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next the stream stay with us. stories generate of headlines. separate the spin from. the listening post on al-jazeera. i am for me ok i really could be here in the stream hundreds of thousands of french citizens are rallying against economic inequality the government we explore what the yellow vest demonstrations mean for france join the conversation by leaving your comments in the you chat but first have a listen to what french president emmanuel mccall said on monday after four

consecutive weekends of antigovernment protests. because if you don't. if. he's a mystery but. he's a bit you'd be surprised. to see you control them. yellow vests protests began last month as backlash against rising fuel costs but they evolved into a nationwide outcry against social inequality and present the problem who critics say is out of touch from a strong economic measures to appease protesters but will such policies be enough to convince people to leave the streets here with us to discuss in paris cole

strangler is a french political analyst and journalist aarons leskie is the paris correspondent for the online magazine the daily beast vanessa b. is an editor at current affairs magazine and in st claude. is a yellow vests protester really and went on facebook live on friday to record himself and other yellow dress being detained a video that was widely shared on social media welcomes really and did you a divine will be providing a live interpretation for us i want to show everybody. as he was being arrested i thought he was riding the bus but he was in detention with the police and other protesters i'm just going to play a little bit of his facebook live she then you look like you were in very good spirits you were singing a song about emmanuel mccall which i'm not going to play for everybody but it was very fruity and extremely descriptive in its nature that movement when you were arrested what were you thinking about your aim as

a protest. well our goal was first to go to paris to show. our. destruction with qantas politics and if we think that's going on in france or. especially the social movement but then when you got arrested i'm not going to say that we laughed about it but if you will we managed. in the police we started seeing started laughing. and was trying to stay positive because when you because the rest of the told us don't worry we're taking you to the police station it's for prevention you're going to be released in three four hours maximum and you're going to be able to join the protest again so for us no worries we didn't think we would be detained. so we caught up papers and

put it but not a fact later on it turned out that we made more than fifteen hours in detention so all day saturday and we're going to be able to go protest on the shells that he's. there and i want to talk about why the protesters were out there in the first place and we got a tweet here from someone in france at the gun rights expire on the tax maintain the old one that people are already used to i earn twelve hundred euros and i pay five hundred thirty euros as rent there are miscellaneous taxes already being paid and with utilities my wife and my kids it's not enough the tax is the last straw so this is what brought him out to. be against this fuel hike and what he is upset about that was not out in the streets what is it that took you to the streets free on.

well you know if you will at first there was already the last of the fuel high current people started to revolt and they said they wanted to say stocks we are tired of paying so many taxes just to know that in france we pay about forty percent of starch is that a lot especially for people who have very small salaries like the person who or that week when you earn twelve on the joists and you have to give more a little more than five hundred to get right through the calculation and you have seven hundred or is left to pay a few stacks is electricity and food also of course which is the most important so all of this when it's all added up people cannot live anymore and they have. gone to their head at the end of the mountain today people have no other solution that to protest is to try to find some some level of equality in france and i want to

play you a little clip from one of the protests in his name is sally and money and he told the press about why he was so angry with the current economic situation in france have a listen. to your differences you know. when he could speak to. all the truth we could be here to support almost not for something super so it's so simple so you would think it's only one of the full scope he watched. so couldn't your president has made concessions are you happy with the concessions are you done protesting now. no not at all not at all and i think in my opinion i think i can speak on behalf of a large part of the universe the concessions he made it into drop it was a drop in the sea. i think if i was president based on my call. i'd first

told to french people ok i understand you it's true that there are many many people. have a hard time making ends meet and feeding themselves or their children so i think the time the best solution to appease people would have been to say ok we the government we're going to try to decrease our expenses you have to know that in france. you have a percentage is the senators and even the first lady of france mrs michel. i was sure she's not a minister she's not the president is if they get a lot of money you have to know that this be the standard of living for these people is huge and for the population. it's something we were tired of seeing that preferred up let it. get thousands and thousands of euros per month to

current. and we have to pay taxes and taxes and taxes so that the country going to so i agree that that is unnecessary but you have to try a little less you have to allow people to live ok you know and i'm going to ask you to sit tight as i'm going to bring in some and analysts and some journalists to talk about their take on what's happening in france and i come back to towards the end of the show thank you so much for giving us some insight into why some people are actually protesting of and as you've been sitting there noting and listening to you and also. and co have been as well but i see from your perspective your study as a tax protest what is it. i think it's evolved into a sort of general protest against stary the measures i think we're seeing the backlash of years of neo liberal policies my cool campaign on the sort of

a political platform where you know we're going to have this technocrat come in and just bring in commonsense solutions well there's nothing apolitical so he's coming from solutions have been very pro-business and have sort of left middle class and working class people very disappointed i was nodding while she was talking because you know the concessions i agree with are not enough for instance you look at this meek which he which michael has promised he will now to raise one hundred euros well technically some people who receive this make are allowed to apply for an additional form of government assistance monthly about eighty euros. to supplement their very low smic and so the additional hundred euros is actually only going to apply to what is called this pain that teeth so that's this additional social security benefit not all snake

recipients will have are eligible for this benefit so there's that issue then another concession that michael made is that he intends to he brought into the eighty's a some bankers heads of these large french banks and got them to pledge to reduce or at least cap bank fees for the year twenty nineteen the idea being that we want french people to have just sort of more money and their wallet and we want to increase their power to purchase which is something that has come up again and again during the days when protests. but. reductions in the caps on the fees are. only for twenty nineteen if something's gotta give right either you take this variously and you pass a law that will make them permanent or you're going to give the french people a taste of what life could be like when you were bank and then what happens at the

end of twenty one thousand you have another revolt on their hands you know that part about something's got to give that is what. my ears perked up because that's exactly what people online are saying there's a tweet here from chris chris says what propelled those french protesters wasn't so much the fuel tax on its own rather the notion that the rich in france got a tax break to offset the cost of the supplemental fuel taxes while the quote unquote yellow bus folks largely working class did not know we heard from another protester who sent us a video comment actually then said pickard is a pastry chef and here's what he said about the protests. we're starting to see that these demonstrations have been a success the mobilization efforts have been very strong whether in paris or all over france including in the villages every day across the country people are putting up barricades day and night we eat there we sleep there and everything you know we're trying to blockade the country's economy. so cold i could see you

nodding there he says that the government is wavering hanging by a thread what's your take. well it's very interesting as we're seeing micro on the defensive in a way that we just haven't seen in his presidency so far making concessions seeming very upset in his speech saying that he understood he's hurt people in the working class and i think what you also have to put in this discussion is it's not just about taxes that are affecting the working class and lower middle classes it's also about the fact that micro is one of the tweets you just you just showed you know micro has given a massive tax cut to the super rich a wealth tax that in france applies to people with over one point three million euros in assets those are the people that are getting at a massive tax break and then you look at the working class you're looking at people that are coming out of these protests they weren't getting tax relief and so this question of the fuel tax was really a trigger for a much bigger conversation about inequality and for how the government treats people and friends i think it's important as well you know when i talk to people in the u.s. and you know especially i see some of the.