isn't it just paul brennan thank you for that thanks to your guest as well there in westminster we go into brussels now to talk to dominic cain about the european perspective and. paul made the point there that there's so little available to mrs may when she comes to europe isn't it because europe seems to be standing very firm in saying we will not renegotiate do you think there is some wiggle room here. it depends what sort of wriggle room she's looking for and what they're prepared to give really him and the fact is that they have reiterated many times that they will not be a substantial renegotiation of the deal with drawl agreement which they believe they finalized with to resign may however depending which newspapers you read this morning then there are some which suggest that there may indeed be a draft document from e.u. leaders which talks about the backstop which might give some clarification on the

e.u.'s intentions regarding the backstop the one thing that may not necessarily give whether these newspaper reports are correct or not is the dates and that's the one thing a final date as it were when it would stop that's the one thing that perhaps to reason may might well want to get well if those reports are accurate then you won't get it from this meeting point is the protocol here is she will come they will talk bragg's it and then she will leave and the e.u. twenty seven will then deliberate and work out what action it wants to take but clearly since we already know that they say this will withdraw all agreement is their final answer as it were this is the deal then it's unlikely that they'll be anything particularly substantial we have to see what did president jiang called younger of the european commission mean when he said that with the intelligent use of clarifications and interpretations there may be a way through that's what we have to look at for now but essentially the issue is how do you interpret

a deal one way in brussels and another way in london when it has the same language i dare say there dominic they the european leaders will be glad that it is to resume a coming across the continent today and not. the prospect of a new leader. yes well they've negotiated with the command for the past two years haven't they that's the point they have had certainty or some degree of certainty about who they were negotiating with but obviously had she lost that vote then there wouldn't be any one there at all or at least no one there in the role of prime minister and certainly from the european leaders perspective they are now starting to to contemplate the possibility that on march the twenty ninth of next year there may be a new deal there may be the u.k. crashing out of the european union and they have to put plans in place and to that end we know already that the irish prime minister the teashop has spoken to senior commission officials about what emergency state aid might be available to his

government to his economy to protect it against the worst vicissitudes as it were of bragg's remember that his country is the only one that has a land border with the united kingdom across the northern irish border the backstop that people have spoken about this hated backstop in some political circles in the u.k. all that directly would affect his country the republic of ireland particularly so there's a lot of interest from e.u. leaders perspectives and having continuity so perhaps breathe a sigh of relief that the reason may didn't lose but they still need to get some sort of final agreed accepted whatever clarification is necessary interpreted deal accepted on both sides of the channel. dominic kane thank you for that update from brussels 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 and election materials were burned the government says it will quickly replace the machines in the election on december twenty third will go ahead as. in the news ahead here on al-jazeera. i'm of course my gas in the philippines a country rapidly with the world's most congested jails. and experience the division israelis get a chance to see how palestinians actually live under occupation. hello the showers are just start to form again in the philippines and in the north of borneo but as you can see from the satellite picture not much has happened in the last twenty four hours most the rain has been further west. just off the coast

in singapore and down in this small island north of java all seventy to eighty millimeters typically in daily thunderstorms and that's where the concentration of rain is going to be again for friday but as you can also see rather more green showing up around the philippines a shower to start to come back here you can't have it dry all the time for dry for wheat effectively in the philippines is that the concentration is still for the west though not maybe as far south as you might think having had rain in java's cause flooding is drier largely i suppose because the energy is a bit further east and south so this is a tropical cyclone now that oversees a lot of rain most of the in the gulf of carpentaria till it moves further south she did this circulation in new south wales and victoria is produced a lot of rain recently particularly in melbourne that will spread its rain out of the next day or so this cycle will come across into queens and tropical queens are producing some pretty heavy rain and at first strong winds so it's doesn't do much

to me like an early summer. as britain prepares to exit the people in power investigates disturbing allegations about the tactics used by the winning leave campaign we know that the little was broken and we know that campaigns have spent we know that russia tried to build a relationship with one of the key campaigns paid for breaks it people in power are now just zero.

headlines for you this hour on al-jazeera the u.s. senate is likely to take a final vote on a resolution to and support for the start in the war and yet the senate has already voted sixty two thirty nine to advance the measure on the weapon say it all coincides with the final day of given 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 u.k. prime minister tourism is heading to brussels to meet e.u. leaders less than twenty four hours after surviving a challenge to her leadership she's looking for concessions on their brags that plan on which the e.u. is willing to renegotiate. eritrea's president has landed in the somali capital after the two countries agreed to restore their diplomatic relations.

the countries have not had ties for nearly fifteen years somalia has accused eritrea of supporting the al-shabaab group those who signed their agreement to restart relations back in july. at least nine people have died in a train crash in turkey's capital dozens more injured in ankara investigators say the high speed train is traveling too in central turkey. china has confirmed that a second canadian has been detained for endangering its national security candidates trying to figure out the whereabouts of business and michael space he specializes in organizing trips to north korea remember earlier this week a former canadian diplomat michael coverage was also detained during a visit to beijing. 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 the two cases are still under investigation and to put that into context the arrests happened as a chinese executive was released on bail in canada this is chief financial officer main 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 however should not be politicized we spoke to joseph chang a little bit earlier political analyst former professor at city university of hong kong who told us the detentions show how china has not only taken a hardline stance against canada but the united states as well. it is a rather typical defense mechanism on a pop up the aging hippie tensions of the canadians are meant to convey the message that you accuse some tiny's of wrongdoing now actually i want to show you that some canadians have been bob they think a lot in this low at a higher level this these detentions want to indicate that the chinese leadership

has felt that the a hot inquisition that they are ready to retaliate and at the same time to even form the domestic of unions that the chinese. under pressure because the united states and not the western countries do not want time to become strong these thoughts gestures as much to depend on as with state the sun to americans straight sions if all goes well they are always ways out like dictionaries of the detainees which may contain the damages. even when these detainees go to court and go to prison subsequently they may still be these early for humanitarian reasons these are gestures to

exert pressure on canada to exert pressure on the united states the man once known as donald trump's fixer is going to prison for three years michael cohen or one city take a bullet for trump pleaded guilty to lying to congress and paying off two women who say they had affairs with donald trump kristen salumi without reports from you. ok . all right 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 side differently cohen is a criminal he's a thug and he's

a liar who sought to cover this up for the american people this man is no hero and we look forward to him to serve in every single day in a federal courtroom 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 like no one wanted to 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 new york the philippines has the world's most congested jails overflowing with tens of thousands of people arrested in the president's controversial war on drugs and i to this accuse the police of

just locking up innocent people. report from inside one of the philippines most crowded jails. as night falls the inmates of miller says he jail a preparing to sleep waged into every inch of space these are the conditions in prisons across the philippines a country with the most congested jails in the world. the first time i set foot inside here i felt like i was being choked i thought where am i why am i here i shouldn't be here what is this place. prison populations have been growing at a rapid rate since president rodrigo detesting announced his war on drugs in two thousand and sixteen jails in the philippines were built to hold around twenty thousand people but today they're 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 rights activists and lawyers fear that innocent people are being challenged and jailed for drug crimes the evidence that we got other presents we are being a picture of very poor people being sold into jail for no reason and actually congesting the jail system. people like clare my persona he was charged with drug offenses but says the police fabricated the evidence against him in the morning not everyone who is in jail is a demon not everyone is a bad person. we tried to put these allegations to the philippine national police but there was no response. to spending more than two years in jail while using for

a verdict dishonor 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. al jazeera manila and that full program philippines long that's from what i want to east and you can see it at twenty two thirty g.m.t. on thursday or announces here. police in france of issued a wanted notice for the suspected gunman in the strands bog christmas market shooting on tuesday white roses and candles for the makeshift memorial for the victims of the attack which killed at least two people and seriously wounded another eight when the suspect opened fire hundreds of police and soldiers and are looking for a cop who remains on the run. on an exhibition in west jerusalem is giving israelis

the chance to experience life in a palestinian family home the aim is to break stereotypes and stephanie deck i went to take a look which is basically a replica of the two families rooms of the two families living rooms of the two families it's an intimate introduction of two peoples alienated by conflict this israeli artist has drawn on his own experiences growing up next to a palestinian neighborhood and a friendship that changed but as the years went by and. conflict basically. tore us apart i was really puzzles about how close we are and how far we are from meeting so geographically very very close but the possibility to maintain and to establish and to kind of. create a normal kind of way of relating and meeting each other was really far from the reality so this living room has been split into two what you're looking at now is

israeli families living room and then on this side is the palestinian families living in the hope point of this exhibition is to humanize divided people and that happens when you put on these virtual reality glasses and it takes you right inside their homes to meet the family this is the israeli family who you meet while sitting in the palestinian side of the room it's a three sixty view. the daughter talks about how she likes the singer adele the family sits together to eat the kids scuttle around the room. it's the same at the home of the palestinian family. here too they talk about their life in the virtual reality glasses make you feel as if they're talking directly at you a group of israeli former teachers is visiting the exhibit when we come to film their immersed in the palestinian family's home one lady tells us that it's a visit she's never experienced in real life as

a muslim or mohammad to live there is something heartwarming to say that it is in fact the same thing when we see the horror of the family how things are flowing it is the same thing. god no you ought to see that we are all human beings and to see that we are all equal this is what is significant to me as someone who lives in israel with this conflict. the exhibit is at the youth wing of the israel museum in west jerusalem and the curator tells us it's all about creating empathy our purpose in education here is to break into their lives and bring us in a human level together breaking stereotypes remains a real challenge in a deeply divided region where most personal relationships are defined by a never ending complaint stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem. this is al jazeera and these are your top stories the u.s.

senate is likely to vote on a resolution to end u.s. support for the war in yemen senators voted sixty to thirty nine to advance that measure on thursday similar was defeated in march but bipartisan support has increased since the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the vote coincides with the final days of the talks in sweden to end the conflict the united states with very little media attention has been saudi arabia's part in this horrific war. we are boiling the bombs the saudi led coalition is using refueling their planes before they drop those bombs and assisting with intelligence israeli forces have killed three percent of palestinians in separate incidents this was in the old city of jerusalem where israeli officials say a man was shot dead after trying to stab police officers two other raids happened in the occupied west bank military says they were planned operations to find

suspects linked to recent attacks on israelis that is nine people have died in a train crash in turkey's capital dozens more were injured in ankara investigators say the high speed train was traveling to konya in central turkey. british prime minister to resume is heading to brussels to ask e.u. leaders for concessions on the bags that deal blank has released a draft statement saying the agreement cannot be renegotiated may herself survived a leadership challenge from her own party on which is the night. fires destroyed seven thousand voting machines in democratic republic of congo's capital ten days before the presidential poll electoral commission says most of their equipment in kinshasa was burned but the government is insisting the vote on december twenty third will go ahead. their trade as president has landed in the somali capital after the two countries agreed to restore their diplomatic relations. the countries have not had ties nearly fifteen years somalia has accused eritrea of

supporting the al-shabaab group but the two countries signed their agreement to restart relations in july he did not meet with the news hour in twenty five minutes right now though people in power. the war on drugs in the philippines is pushing jails to breaking point a record number of inmates languished behind bars for years awaiting trial one on one east philippines locked up on al-jazeera. in june twenty sixth seen in the u.k. decided to leave the european union for two years own and made acrimonious last minute political rows on the exact terms of britain's the project a disturbing questions have surfaced about the legitimacy of the referendum that began in two we also veteran investigative journalist paul nash maya to find out

why. so for twenty eight hundreds of thousands of protesters who sent. one of the biggest demonstrations to see you take. aim to get in the second. thing britain's proposed exit from the european union the only way to come politics to cover their own behind by giving us the people's vote and they will begin to decide . the next.

lot of us think the remaining is a much better idea and trying to reform the european union make that better robin running hiding weapons bridgetown point. britain's prime minister might say the same thing but for truce of my not quite seen as meant same face full of the small majority that voted to leave the e.u. two years ago whatever the cause yet what if that focus tainted what if instead of being a free and fair reflection as will the press it referendum was one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on british democracy in any other election if for a lot of basic level had to be uncovered then we have the legislation that puts aside the results and we have the election again as the deadline for britain's exit from the e.u. draws near there are still too many troubling questions about the boat that writes

it on. about its fairness and its legitimacy about who was behind it who paid for it and the motives of many of those involved. my name is dr paul lashmar i'm an author and deputy head of journalism at city university of london. is a watershed moment for the u.k. like everyone else my students will be directly affected and look at the mess they've got that could be one of the most important political events of their lives so i've been looking for answers what i've heard is a story so complex and murky it almost defies belief. it only began in twenty thirty to placate a wing of his party that had long been antagonistic to the prime minister david cameron was taking the biggest gamble of his career we will give the british people

a referendum with a very simple. choice. like ballots in the u.k. the referendum was to be overseen by the electoral commission. anyone to take part in the public debate the commission designated two official campaign poll days one in favor of maybe in the one for leaving and gave each a fixed spending limit of seven million pounds. only british registered donors were allowed to contribute to those campaigns. david cameron became the public face of the pro e.u. campaign better off we are safer in a reformed european union vote leave was fronted by the p.m.'s cabinet colleagues boris johnson and michael gove i think we should take the chance now as a country to take back control of the pro breck sit side have the backing of

another unofficial campaign leave you its most prominent figure was not true for all of the u.k. independence party but cameron's plan backfired against all the old the u.k. opted for the exit the u.k. has no teats to leave the european union was. ready i got their own you know history. in the writing of the i. were her. the shock on the remains side was profound early hopes of an easy victory dashed. how had it gone so horribly wrong. as the post-mortems got underway attention began focusing on the role played by social media a powerful tool to sway in public opinion find out more i went to see one of my university colleagues will be looking at a bracks of debate for a very long time dr marco bastos is

a specialist in communication so this is what we call a network graph or plot if you will he showed me a graph of twitter activity during the referendum strange pattern that. we notice a drop in the number of users that we were monitoring it was a significant drop i hadn't seen anything that big up to that point and they turned out that they had very much to very much sort of work like features but computer generated accounts program to automatically push messages online. what's happening here is that there's bot his we tweeting a range of real world users for this is a single message in all likelihood it was we tweeted several times by this very same bot marco explained that while bots were used by the remaining campaign it was the leave site that made the most of them there were more bots leave out of the campaign for sure. the thing was quite clear some of my colleagues have looked into

similar data and they have come to the conclusion that these accounts war at least a portion of them were operated by internet research agency in russia based in some petersburg the internet research agency or. is a troll for an organization created expressly to sow discord and disinform ation on the web it was identified by american intelligence as having played a key role in manipulating the twenty sixteen election of president donald trump the no one year to the time it now seems that they are also played a role in bret's it. on the death of my friend we found a marked change in behavior so accounts that had been intentionally tweeting on cracks it suddenly started to sing along. and to bring university research got to do well and has examined millions of tweets that were posted prior to the referendum many of them it turns out from the same suspect internet research engine

see accounts of the tweets at the same format which was not hash tag that u.r.l. and they were using that to manage trending topic so that a lot of people saw i'm a nation and that they were trying to affect accent you see that's just what we have here is trolls so it's human people writing tweets while the flag was being. true sky all of the russian twitter activity on breaks it only came to light by accident because the company passed the data to us congressional investigation into the trump election in that probe another key social media player facebook was already playing a starring role. what is facebook doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in u.s. elections one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in identifying the russian information operations in two thousand and sixteen and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry. what no one yet fully understands

is the role that facebook may have also played in brix it the company says it has found almost no evidence of russian interference and repeated that claim in a statement to this program but research was skeptical but facebook is basically a black box so we don't really know what's going on inside facebook and that's not just facebook that's or the instagram what's up in a number of other platforms operated by facebook. the fact that doubts persist is jus in parts of the company's connection to another murky affair. in early twenty eight the guardian newspaper revealed that eighty seven billion personal facebook accounts had been illegally harvested by a u.k. based strategic communications business called cambridge analytical it worked with the trunk presidential campaign and had ties to leave the. an offshoot of a larger company called s c l which had an alleged background in military dissin

from ation cambridge analytic as promised was that it could target people with messages to modify their voting choices so for a highly new erotic and conscientious audience you're going to need a message that is rational and fear based or emotionally based the cambridge analytical scandal would eventually wipe almost one hundred twenty billion dollars off the facebook's market value and raise serious questions about the vulnerability of western democracies to manipulation. to find out more i went to meet the journalist behind the guardian's cambridge alice a can scoop carroll cadwallader told me how she first began to pull the threads together it started when in order to confirm the data company's links that leave you you she contacted the campaign group spokesman and you went more than z. right back and he said happy to clarify came originally did the work for us but we

never paid them. they were happy to do it for free and i was like there's definitely something interesting here so because this looks like a donation to me and donations need to be declared. trump and for all in front of the golden lift andy's the person who took that photo and and the photo of them or he's in one as well the bad boys of bricks it and breaks it he said it was like a petri dish for the chum campaign. you know it was like a test case closed revelations led to the biggest data protection investigation ever held on both sides of the line to we started a conversation with mr zucker jenna little start to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and work to exploit them by targeting information designed to activate some of the worst characteristics in people such as neuroticism paranoia and racial biases. chris wiley a former director of cambridge analytic turned whistleblower gave evidence to the

u.s. senate and a british parliamentary committee that began taking an interest in the brakes at referendum a fake news clicking on the ad and then performing an actual that's what the definition of a conversion so i'm going to say that i had to. do you know she did you would send the outcome of the referendum might have been different i think it is completely reasonable to say that there could have been a difference in the referendum. you know had there not being in my view. there needs to be a deeper investigation of the of fake accounts and a group of facebook groups being used to propagate information and serve it if m.p. damian collins is the chairman of the british parliamentary committee without evidence from facebook we feel that we should hear from opposite because he buys an image he's the person who decides what happens in facebook there are still big concerns are faced with not enough to investigate the role of fake accounts they've

not been transparent on the issue of data breaches in user data and make up in the hands of people who shouldn't have it. fake accounts russian trolls data mining complicated stuff and none of it do much to quell my fears that there was something unpleasant lurking in the bricks if undergrowth but i barely scratched the surface next up was another whistleblower this time someone who'd worked for the official vote believe campaign i was working with of some of the top advisors in the country you know constantly seeing boris johnson michael gove you know some of the most influential politicians in britain. recent graduate sharma's joined vote in early twenty sixteen and was asked to engage with ethnic minorities but we've understood that they couldn't just win on white votes they understood that they couldn't win on like people that hate immigrants. he was tasked with working with one of the official campaigns reach a group called to believe it was led by

a young fashion student i met darren grimes in the first week that i joined it was one of the one of the few outreach groups that was very focused on the liberal progressive message but some he says he later realised the official vote leave campaign and another purpose in mind for their young volunteers to circumvent the legally binding electoral commission spending limits of only understood that they had a spending cap so they needed to find a way affectively to breach that spending cap sunny was told that vocally had found a way of getting the believe outreach group listen with campaign money but there was strings attached effectively vote leave advised us to create ourselves into a separate campaign group so that they could give us almost seven hundred thousand pounds to spend but they gave it on a condition they gave on a condition saying the only way to dig and give it to us is if we give it to

a i q which was a digital company working at. a i q well i got i q as it sometimes known is a canadian based data business it works on us presidential primaries in twenty fifteen with s.c.l. elections cambridge i love it because parent company literally a week before referendum date we were spending hundreds of thousand pounds a day on a q. yep a day the money was sent directly from vote leave to a queue it never touched be back accounts. because we don't even have a bank ready by then son is this quiet at these events later turned him into a whistleblower he passed his evidence to the electoral commission and in july twenty eighth they find focally sixty one thousand pounds for among other things breaching the spending rules the founder of believe down crimes was fined twenty thousand pounds he is now appealing that decision. but there's other stories

involving strange sums of campaign fund in the haven't yet been as adequately explained. belfast northern ireland one of the poorest parts of the u.k. which has benefited the most from e.u. investment for many here there's long been concern that breaks its effects on cross border relations with the irish republic could mean a return to the dark days of the troubles so when a small local political party received a four hundred thirty five thousand pound donation for the bricks it campaign the largest in the party's history eyebrows would raise why he was an ordinary political party being so involved you know in the referendum in great britain in england and scotland. back in twenty sixteen investigative journalist peter keegan was shocked when he saw a proto leave adversus meant in

a local english newspaper the ad was sponsored by ulster's democratic unionist party do you pete. for them is a huge sum of money and they're spending it on a on a piece of material that's not going to circulate norton in ordinary in the dorm at all the single at furthest mn cost the day you paid two hundred eighty two thousand pounds almost five times as much as they had spent on their participation in the u.k.'s general election the previous year but no one knew from where the money had come to pay for it norton aren't these unusual laws there are secrecy of political donations when ordinary and you didn't reveal the names of political donors and the reason for this was kind of a hangover from the troubles the violence in ordinarily. the loophole was used by the piece shadowy benefactor to hide their identity finally after intense media pressure that the u.p.a. revealed the money had come from a body called the constitutional research council for c r c but exactly who or what

lies behind the c.r.c. remains to be seen do you know where the constitutional search came to get its money from you'd have to ask the constitutionally so you're saying you don't know where the other i believe that they have raised their money legitimately and we were delighted to receive the donation from that you say you believe that it really meant you have to know that legally we did you know that in fact uncertain so you didn't tell us what useful research council want to publish where they do their fund raising not as a matter for them not for the. constitutional research council is jargony term it's called non-corporate association it means they don't have to follow company accounts they don't have time to address that and because of the donor secrecy laws in order and we don't they don't have to tell us who they are they don't have to tell us where they got the money from but the democratic unionist party is supposed to be completely sure that has checked where this money came from of the money is the justice we also asked the day you paid what do diligence it had done on the

true source of the money the spokes person told us the electoral commission has raised no issues in relation. today d'you campaign including did our nation which came from a permissible donor who in turn are themselves regulated by the electoral commission interesting lay the do you piece spent another slice of the mysterious donation on the services of agric i.q. same data company to which boat leave sent money when illegally circumventing the u.k.'s strict referendum spend in laws. the d.p. did not declare that they were working with anybody to say that they were working poorly on their own yet they spent money with the exact same companies or for at least part money which despite these curious circumstances the u.k.'s electoral commission said that it does not have sufficient grounds to open an investigation the d u p had broken the law it had committed a criminal offense the. mole is

a director of the good law project a body now challenging the commission's decision not to investigate the law is very very clear to protect out a mock received from foreign interference those who accept donations have a clear positive obligation to look at and to understand who is giving the money so it's the faintly story of liver again. since the breaks that referendum questions about the mysterious donors and the so-called dark money have continued to surface. journalist peter jukes focused his attention on the biggest political donor in you case history the children's mogul banks. allegedly he transferred more than eight million pounds in loans and donations to leave you and other great sick campaigns the been fast questions about how you can afford this because there's no visible means of support he's not a wealthy man has

a big house but has a five hundred thousand pound mortgage on a summer than eighty nine million pounds at least two. leaving the e.u. whenever questioned banks has been evasive about the true source of his wealth his reticence troubles m.p. damian collins chairman of the british parliamentary select committee investigating disinform ation and fake news reason these questions around our backs of money persisted we keep being told different stories we keeping told well he sold this business in the money came from that sale but it turns out there was no real profit made on that sale or it came from these mines or it came from somewhere else and it never makes sense but what really concerns investigators are the multiple meetings mr banks is known to have held with russian officials in london in the months running up to the referendum and why would he be meeting in the monitor breaks at so many meetings and it turned out if you're talking about levy u.s. officials and russian you know embassy staff eleven or twelve.

and i'm up to press one earth why are the russians dangling lucrative offers to british businessman bankrolling bracks and do you have to ask the question did for money making into the rights campaign in june twenty eighth he who believes arun bangs and his business partner will appear before a parliamentary committee but he left before the m.p.'s were able to fully question have he's misled parliament and the public not only about his own financial activities but also the frequency of his contacts with the russian embassy here in london in november twenty eighth the electoral commission referred our own banks to the national crime agency on suspicion that various criminal offenses may have been committed banks declined to answer questions but he has consistently denied receiving money from russia and dismisses other claims as ludicrous the case is on

go in the form of government minister ben bradshaw believes a full inquiry into the referendum is long overdue he wants an investigation similar to the miller probe into alleged collusion between russia and the trump presidential campaign. it is very embarrassing for our government for entourage and services to look flat footed like this and to leave it to an american political and congressional process to reveal the truth about what happened in britain over in brussels they fact a capital of the union representatives want to leave many think the truth is already out there i went to meet sajid kerim a leading u.k. conservative member of the european parliament he lays responsibility for the brics it matches squarely at the feet of russian president vladimir putin a weakening of the european union is in his interests it is his aim it is his goal

and i'm afraid we are on the verge of. delivering that for him today i don't think brits and certainly many of the europeans have actually understood to what extent their lives are about to change. unless our governments including my government in the united kingdom take the step of investigating and protecting our democracy today. it wasn't the only warning about russian meddling i heard in brussels. russia is responsible for eighty percent on the information given it is illegal eighty percent after european commission called principal electoral interference former nato secretary general anders rasmussen is giving a stark warning europe faces and over the past two years already interference

has been detected in at least ten divisions and referendums on both sides of the atlantic and find rest most and says was surely one of russia's targets but i have no doubt and i think we have evidence that they interfere so i think the lesson. is that we should focus on preventing this from happening in the future. back in britain the endless political rally over bricks it was rolling on but always about half implemented rather than the legitimacy of the referendum that got it going on. things were supposed to come to this month the final parliamentary vote on the terms of the u.k.'s exodus. to stay the uncertainty and instability continued. i began this film with questions about the brics a referendum that urgently needed answers what i've heard has only increased those

concerns. as britain's departure from the e.u. draws ever closer i'm left with one chilling thought were we here in britain jute into making one of the worst political decisions in our history if you win our campaign or a referendum or an election by. on. the. business updates. going places together.

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there are a lot of bad actors in the mideast and we just don't need any more than we have. in. the parliamentary party does have confidence here. britain's prime minister survives that confidence vote but now faces the challenge of reworking her deal to leave the e.u. . thousands of voting machines are destroyed in a fire in the democratic republic of congo days before an election for a new leader. with all the support including days after the letter to doris trophy goes to point to cyrus brazil's parliament say when the next best thing and the suit americana finally.

we're getting reports that palestinian shot dead two people in the occupied west bank several others have been injured it happened in the illegal israeli settlements near ramallah this comes after israeli forces killed three palestinians in separate operations the first happened in the old city of jerusalem israel says these suspects two police officers 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 or a force that joins us live here on the news from west jerusalem where we just take us through what happened here. well yes this is a pretty on typical pace of violence from what we've seen in recent months even years in the occupied west bank so much bloodshed in just the space of a few hours and this latest one as you say we're getting reports that there have

been two people killed by a palestinian attack a near illegal settlement about a couple of kilometers south of the settlement of offer in the occupied west bank just to the northeast of the city of ramallah so the only official confirmation we've had is from the ambulance services they say that there were four people who were injured in this attack however the israeli media is reporting that two of those people at least have died no confirmation yet coming from the israeli military this follows in reverse chronological order asbos a an attack in the old city of occupied east jerusalem in which police showed video of a man who appeared to try to attack in his ready ultra-orthodox man and then tried to stab and successfully stabbed two israeli security forces members before being shot and killed and then before that there were these two overnight raids linked to earlier incidents one in nablus in which

a man who these three fourths to say they've been hunting for some two months since an attack in an illegal industrial zone inside the occupied west bank in which he killed two fellow employees it's alleged he was shot dead in what the israeli security service says was a gunfight inside a building and then before that just to the north of ramallah. in a car a man was shot dead he is believed by the israeli security forces of being the man responsible for another attack which took place last sunday near the illegal settlement of offer a drive by shooting which injured six people one of them a pregnant woman whose baby was born prematurely after her injury and was pronounced dead yesterday wednesday and so therefore harry in the past what twelve hours or so we've heard three separate situations but they're all of a piece. four separate situations including

the stabbing attack in the occupied part of east jerusalem in the old city so it's hard to know whether they are of a piece exactly what the linkage may be two of them are related to planned israeli operations trying to hunt down people they believe responsible for violence against israelis then we've had subsequently these two attacks from palestinians the stabbing attack in the old city and what we believe to be in a palestinian shooting attack in the occupied west bank whether those two attacks were in some way in response to the israeli military action of been taking place within the last hours obviously we can't be sure of that but certainly it is an increased pace of violence that's been taking place in the last few hours stay close we'll come back to you if there are any more developments thanks very much

now the u.s. senate is likely to vote on a resolution to end u.s. support for the saudi led war in yemen later on thursday the debate is taking place in defiance of president donald trump support of saudi policy now it coincides with the final day of talks in sweden to end that conflict heidi joe 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 and since two thousand and fifteen the u.s. has provided logistics 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 the united states with very little media attention has been saudi arabia's part in this horrific war we have been providing the bombers 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 that 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 cia director hospital has briefed leaders from the house of representatives on the killing of jamal after the classified briefing many house members said they hadn't heard anything to change their minds about the several members of congress want to keep

the yemen conflict separate from anger over the killing of jamal khashoggi earlier al-jazeera pentacle hayne spoke to democratic u.s. senator chris van hollen he says the jamal khashoggi as we can study influence on capitol hill despite the fact that there's overwhelming evidence as publicly reported the cia concluded that the crown prince was directly implicated in the show you murder despite all that you have the president ited states really acting as the mouth piece for the saudi regime and really becoming complicit in a cover up which is why it's so important that the congress the senate in the house act to make sure that we send a strong signal that this murder was unacceptable what do you think the senate's going to i hope that we will also hold the crown prince directly accountable

through the magnitsky act which is a vehicle already in u.s. law to sanction individuals who have committed gross human rights abuses the main point here is that beyond sort of public condemnation of the crown prince's complicity there has to be some more direct action to hold him personally liable. talks when the civil war in yemen will ramp up in the swedish turn of rimbaud on thursday the u.n. secretary general and tony good terrors will be joining the discussions in the coming hours now he and his special envoy martin griffiths are due to announce what the warring parties have agreed in the latest round of negotiations which began last week yemen saudi backed government and who's the rebels have been given a draft document of an agreement to consider this includes a political framework to outline how a post-war yemen would function there is a plan to reopen the airport in the capital city sun are for international flights and the document proposes fighters from both sides withdraw from the vital red sea

port of who data and international monitors are expected to be deployed to oversee the period of transition deals have already been reached for a prisoner swap and resumption of oil and gas exports the yemeni foreign minister is hopeful the agreement will pave the way for peace. we don't think there should be a big difficulty in agreeing on political issues but first of all we need to have. a security and a military where as the who if he should had bad and didn't initiate this state and this thing should be there only. of fact it off using force and not the militias. joining us now from london and various critic he's an assistant professor at the defense studies department at king's college london he joins us from there andrus welcome back to the news outlets kicked off by talking about this

vote on capitol hill that's imminent today at some point ok it's a rebuke clearly to saudi arabia and to donald trump but beyond that what can it achieve. well i think for the most part this is actually more of a symbolic move that actually the lawmakers of the country of the united states are taking a very strong stance against the white house the executive in basically condemning the saudi arabia and of course we have to understand this within the context of the killing and the cover up of the white house or the somewhat the involvement of the trabant is trying to cover this up however i think it's also very significant that this is a bipartisan. motion that at least passed through senate which meant that republicans and democrats are actually on board condemning the role of saudi arabia sorry of the united states in this war in yemen the problem is over the house of representatives has not passed this bill which means it has to pass both houses which means.