you know but this vote on capitol hill that's imminent today at some point ok it's a rebuke clearly to saudi arabia and 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 sugar killing and the cover up of the white house or the somewhat the involvement of the problem 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 we're moving into generally probably when anyway the the the the the

balance of power in both of these houses will change after the midterm elections and then we have to go through another motion but it sends it's a very symbolic move to basically say that united states are reconsidering their relationship with saudi arabia and the question is just to what extent will that implement what's going on on the ground yes it is the u.s. role is very important in this war because they have facilitated they have provided facilitating support for the saudi u.a.e. coalition that was absolutely and is and remains instrumental to that war their export of arms has been instrumental as well but just to say if the americans were pulling the plug it doesn't necessarily mean that it would translate into stopping the war in the ground it just puts increasing pressure on the saudis and i think that's where it is important is important the americans are increasing the pressure and saying saudi arabia you have to do everything you can to bring the coalition on board of these peace talks so far the saudis have played played along those lines

but we have to keep the pressure going because if you don't saudi arabia make might make another u. turn is that refocusing minds when it comes to peace talks in rimbaud in sweden because the on the face of it have gone. really rather world leading right down to martin griffiths on day one this time last week talking announcing a prisoner swap even before they've had the photo opportunity so you've got minds being focused in washington and you have four forty four u.s. politicians last march saying i go for that now figure we understand has climbed to sixty and you've got the peace process allegedly so-called going on in sweden. yes i mean let's put it that way the threshold for what people were expecting from these peace talks in sweden was very very low so it's very easy to basically outperform expectational because dictations were really low but what was important and i think anybody who went into these talks and everybody was looking at these talks was saying it was all about trust and confidence building and i think we've made a very important step into that direction the question then is now there's

a road map that has to be agreed upon and to what extent can this rope made be implemented because these preliminary talks now which were touching on some very important issues of the prisoners what was very good for for the for trust building and now i think there has been a agreement reached on the status of sinai airport that again is an important step but i think today that would be another one if we could have an agreement there the who these are saying they're ok with this the status of data being transferred to the control of the data being transferred to the u.n. the yemen government says no we don't want this this with the yemeni government we should have control over it i think that's still a contentious issue but in terms of confidence and trust building we are at definitely on the an in the right in the right direction however this is a very small war of a much bigger war in yemen and it only concerns what's going on between the who these and these coalition in the north there are still other wars going on in the east in the south in the iraqis are still funding massively the southern transitional council which you know has militias that are very much sorry but not

really controlled by the u.a.e. they will continue fighting and let's not forget despite the fact that this is all ongoing there is still the war is still going on you know we're not at a ceasefire point yet in reality and those people who were represented in sweden not those necessarily those people who would control all these different factions on the ground quite on the court are quite the contrary i think saudi in the u.a.e. still have a lot of very long reaches into that into yemen and they need to use this to actually stop all these wearing factions and to put pressure on all these wearing fractions factions to continue fighting but anyway this is a very good step in the right direction and kris kringle there in london thank you very much. thank you. far as a warehouse in the democratic republic of congo has destroyed thousands of voting machines just ten days before the elections machines have been a sensitive subject with opposition politicians holding rallies against their use in recent months the election commission says the vote will go ahead it's all about

us. the first pictures of a burning election commission warehouse in kinshasa the capital of the democratic republic of congo inside were voting materials distant for seem to throughout the city ahead of presidential elections on december twenty third. it started at about two o'clock in the morning local time and used to make should see even thousand voting machines were destroyed the majority of election materials for other provinces had already been delivered. the election commission responded with the statement saying it's investigating the fires origin and extent of the damage and reassured versus the election will go on the voting machines are a sensitive subject in the d.l.c. traditionally elections here are decided by pin and paper ballots they write for the first time in february when hundred thousand are being distributed across this vast nation the second largest in africa to be used by forty six million registered

voters is the government marketed the benefits saying they would cut costs and speed up vote counting. the protests have been how across the country against the use critics have argued they need power to work and only nine percent of the country has electricity which is often unreliable others say they're illegal untested and easy to rig at rallies in september and october there was backlash. yet. i know they have the money plated deceased them by. sheehan's and having a dubious vote as. we cannot participate in elections that we know already will fail because of these voting machines. the election commission has yet to confirm whether the fire was caused by arson tensions are high because these elections a long delayed and momentous president joseph kabila has been in power since two

thousand and one twenty one candidates are vying to replace him and what will be the country's first democratic transition of power since independence nearly sixty years ago charlotte dallas al-jazeera plenty more still to come here on the news hour including why the thera train president has made his first ever visit to somalia. and in sports the toronto raptors beat the defending champions to lay down a marker in the n.b.a. polls here with more on that and the rest of the sports news in about thirty minutes. british prime minister a series of me is heading to brussels to ask e.u. leaders for concessions on that deal but the block has released a draft statement today saying the agreement cannot be renegotiated mrs me last night survived that leadership challenge from her own party under similar back looks back now on a tumultuous day in british politics. the results of. this

evening is that the parliamentary party does have confidence here. it was a convincing win two hundred votes against one hundred seventeen. the secret ballot behind closed doors in westminster was because of to reason may's handling of bricks it but she struck a compromise with the conservative party in order to ensure keeping her. 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. and agreement 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 led the charge 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 they want some meaningful data i'll give

a one twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen when we believe they are. here i mean. 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 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. we have two correspondents covering that story in a moment we'll talk to dominic king in brussels where theresa may will meet european leaders in the coming hours but first paul brennan joins us from london so paul she survived but it's back to business as normal which means her deals are going to fail when she goes back to the house of commons for that vote. well that's certainly the way the arithmetic is still stacking up for p.c.'s i mean you say

back to normal what is normal these days it's been an extraordinary month and particularly the past week since that vote that meaningful vote that was promised to m.p.'s was put off by the prime minister because she knew she was going to be defeated on this around europe and then the challenge that took place in a very short space of time which she won but the margin eighty three votes some say was convincing others say was still too close to the comforts and joining me to discuss the standing of the prime minister in all of this is patrick maguire political correspondent of the new statesman magazine how did the prime minister is off to brussels now she's going to speak with the european council but back here the rumors the speculation the plotting continues what do you think is the standing of the prime minister at the moment well to coin a phrase nothing's changed we know as we did before that a huge chunk of her passing through most of about benches most of you don't have government jobs don't much like her or more pertinently exit plan so we know now

that that's going to suffer a huge defeat when it comes back and you know she has merely deferred the inevitable very messy confrontation that would have come this week i mean doing so she sort of corroded. the trust between her and her party in a northern irish allies in the d a and if you listen to a speech on the steps of downing street last night she's not going to change her approach she doesn't seem to want to pivot to labor to natural majority to house for soft director any studies just carrying on regardless so it doesn't seem that things easier and easier for us and that the party that she leads appears to be in civil war and meanwhile the opposition is also caught between a rock and a hard place as to what's its next move would be but yes so labor now could table a motion of no confidence in the government but they have said that they don't want to do so until such point is they were now the calculation i have to make now and indeed the calculation. the euro skeptic rebels on a series of maze right flank will have to make is whether they can peel enough of

them off to bring the government down whether they are prepared to go nuclear now the prime minister has a year's immunity from food a leadership challenge within the party where they clean up priorities for heart attacks are at best served by bringing the whole parliament on the government down so we'll have to see given what we hear jacob least not the leader of the argy saying last night you know hugh saying the queen the queen must some injuries in may and you know not the whole thing on the head so you know we might see three four five six tory m.p.'s crossing the aisle as it were on voting down their own government relatable have to say it is for political watchers it's fascinating for the public it's builder and what the europeans make of it i think we're going to find out in a second absolutely paul thanks very much donna cane joins us live now from brussels dominic the e.u. has gone again to the announcement and said there's nothing to renegotiate so when she gets off the plane in brussels it's going to be a pretty short conversation. well on the face of it you'd

think so wouldn't you peter but she has several meetings set up one with the tea shop the irish prime minister obviously his interest here is that backstop and also what might happen to his country's economy if the united kingdom crashes out of the european union on march twenty ninth next year with no deal in place this is may also has meeting arranged with the president of the european council of ministers that's donald tusk he's the one who formally sent out the invitations to this meeting they're after a meeting of all twenty eight members of the european union at which there will be a frank exchange of views about breaks that the question will be what sort of assurances what sort of clarifications and interpretations will emerge from that those words are important because those are the words that the president of the european commission used this week speaking to european m.p.'s in strasbourg saying that with intelligent use of clarifications and interpretations there may be a way forward but the essential statistic is this how do you interpret the same

language in one way in brussels that appeases the twenty seven members of the e.u. and yet allows a totally different interpretation of the same language in london in the u.k. parliament those people well those one hundred seventeen conservative m.p.'s who now have no confidence in their prime minister that's affectively what we're talking about here and that's what will take place during the course of the meetings that mrs may has this morning and this afternoon dominic thanks very much . the eritrean president c.s.f. well as arrived in the somali capital mogadishu for an official visit. the two nations restore diplomatic relations recently after a nearly fifteen year break president his visit is the first ever foreign eritrean leader to visit somalia in nearly two decades the two countries signed a deal in july we established diplomatic relations somalia's previous government

had accused their a traitor of supporting opposition groups in somalia all former somali leaders also accused eritrea of providing weapons to the armed group al shabaab joining us on skype from brussels invite and plough to senior research fellow at the university of london and the author of understanding eritrea inside africa's most repressive state smart and welcome to the news hour here on al-jazeera why relations in this region improving so fast well it all began earlier this year when a problem is that even went to eritrea and basically the reconciliation. is in the eritrea that has been the sin is the rest of the region to beginning to open up and not there was recently meetings between the decision the that the. somali. government most recently in november.

and that was when a deal was done which is really behind the day visit to somalia by president assad . they have been having these as you mentioned consultative summits these kind of three way get togethers how far can that process go. oh we're going to go over. this is there are suggestions of what has to be careful of us that they are going to be it's going to be security cooperation between the trip. and the ethiopians and the somali government you mustn't forget the somalis are fighting al shabaab in a very fragile condition and the there are trends now that they've ended this conflict with the ethiopians have thousands of troops of it with. it is it possible that a brigade piece in from eritrea to somalia to increase the security of the city somali government. that is something that is on the cards are perhaps it will be signed

today in mogadishu. on the other side of this evolving diplomatic equation there is a not another scenario going on and saudi arabia seeking an alliance with six countries one of them is somalia should we when it comes to thinking kind of fold in an awareness that there might be other fingerprints or miss process because other countries have a desire to put a vested interest into this region well that's certainly true i mean i think the relationship with the south. they really brutal you between ethiopia and eritrea along with the americans so there. is a wider trippy say arab interest in the with africa and that is something that has developed in the in recent months how far the good we didn't know it was certainly a lot of money changed hands between the saudis. to make the deal we don't know

what has been done with the eritrean. but that is that the side of the relationship with these countries is absolutely critical. martin part live in brussels thanks very much. ok in a few moments we'll have the world weather for you with the who's also still to come here on al-jazeera. reporting from the u.n. climate talks in kind of it's in poland a nation that relies on coal eighty percent of its energy. come from three goals. of the club world cup here with more. from flowing. to an enchanting desert breeze.

there was a new way of getting to work on thursday in melbourne australia with issues they typically have about sixty members of rain in the whole of the month of december and half of that fell just sounds as if there is more to come as a massive cloud in such a not just victorian a.c.t in new south wales and go she looks the north has something else to talk about now in the next twenty four hours i suspect that massive cloud will in fact turn itself into a circulating low so this is stormy weather to rain wind and probably significant sun storms but as i said we've got things to look at further north as well you wouldn't think it's been a summer which i mean this is very active weather. she talked about yesterday has been around for about two weeks is in this massive cloud in the gulf of carpentaria now circulating that she got a proper shape to it i was going to name the rains fall in so far roughly a hundred millimeters on little islands not so much on the mainland it's not a very well populated part of australia at the moment it's the best place forward

however the potential for rainfall up to five hundred millimeters in the next day or so i think and the wave heights increase from yesterday's four to ninety six metres it is classed as a catch a grease three here australians about couldn't force to elsewhere and it's not staying where it is going eastwards in the next day or so and then down towards rockhampton. the weather sponsored by cats own and weighs. anti fascist anti establishment and pro violence despite the recent official disbanding of its militarized wing a basque separatist movement is found alive and well on the terraces of the bilbao stadium. a place where political revolutionaries share a platform and ideology with violent football hooligans. read all death on al-jazeera. the latest news as

a franks yellowcard the failure will continue not only in july but into next week with details coverage plastic of criticism of capitalist economics to a fifty six billion dollar i.m.f. loan to argentina from around the world these are the victims of one of the world's most forgotten conflicts and without agent help they could become a lost generation. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha my name's peter dhabi these are your headlines a palestinian shot dead two people in the occupied west bank several others were

injured so it happened at an illegal israeli settlement near ramallah earlier israeli forces killed three palestinians in separate operations the military abuse them of being linked to attacks on israelis. the u.s. supreme u.s. senate rather is like to take a final votes on a resolution to end support for the saudi coalition in yemen senators voted sixty to thirty nine to advance the measure on weapons day it coincides with the final day of yemen's peace talks in. u.k. pm tourism is heading for brussels to meet the leaders less than twenty four hours after she survived a challenge to her leadership she's looking for concessions on her plan but the e.u. says it's unwilling to renegotiate. because top court is set to rule on whether the president's decision to dissolve parliament is constitutional case involves over a dozen petitions that challenge president. to trigger a snap election. descended into a political crisis when sort of his prime minister run a wickramasinghe has won

a confidence vote on weapons day joins us live from the capital colombo so what are we thinking here might be the possible outcome. peter it's a different story depending on who you speak to obviously the seven judges bench of the supreme court has gathered at the supreme court behind me waiting everybody you see a big clutch of the media outside all of the petitioners have already gone into court waiting to hear the judgment of all of the number of fundamental rights petitions basically challenging as you said the president's right to dissolve parliament now essentially the fundamental basis of which most of the fundamental rights petitions have been filed before the court is that president might upon the citizen of violated the constitution the nineteenth amendment which states that the

president cannot dissolve parliament or the parliament cannot be dissolved before it completes four and a half years of its term at the point of which my policy recently dissolved parliament by gas adult education it was more than they go short of this time frame so basically huge cross-section of fundamental rights petitions a number of them by politicians political parties some by civil society and one even. one of the election commissioners of the independent election commission here in sri lanka so all of them are going on the basis that he has violated the constitution isn't my policy and his entire legal team and that of the prime minister have said that the president acted within his rights and he is within the constitution peter the crisis doesn't end today does it. sadly doesn't seem so because this judgment is very much on the constitutionality

of the president's decision did he violate the constitution by dissolving parliament or didn't he know i had the wit no matter what the court finds we will the end result will be either we have parliament back set up it hasn't been dissolved because the court finds of the dissolution was illegal or that they find that the dissolution was within the president's rights however that doesn't mean that the other constitutional crisis this country does not currently have a government we have no prime minister at one time we had two people claiming to be prime minister at this point of time there is no prime minister no government of daws issues are still to be resolved that is basically a case in the court of appeal which will come up in january contesting the ranch boxes authority to hold the office of prime minister and that of his ministers he however has appealed to the supreme court to basically set aside that estranging order which stops him from functioning as the prime minister and that case will

come up tomorrow and this basically seems inevitably to be going on and draw not for the forseeable coming weeks at least peter thank you very much. china's confirmed that a second canadian has been detained for endangering its national security canada is trying to figure out the whereabouts of a businessman michael spadeful he specializes in organizing trips to north korea earlier this week a former canadian diplomat michael covert 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 is taking necessary measures against time usually the two cases are still under investigation but well the arrest happened as a chinese executive was released on bail in the canadian city of vancouver while ways chief financial officer man one joe faces extradition to the u.s.

where she's 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 a 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. these nine people have died and dozens more were hurt in a train crash at a station in the turkish capital investigators say a high speed train travelling to kanya in central turkey get another train travelling on the same line a collision also caused a pedestrian overpass to collapse onto several train cars is the worst rail accident since july then twenty four people were killed in

a north western province. at six thirty local time the accident occurred at siff dilip neighborhood after a high speed train travelling from current to kanya collided with a locomotive inspecting the track. the police in france have a suit wanted notice for the suspected gunman in the strasbourg christmas market shooting on tuesday or roses and candles form the makeshift memorial for the victims at least two people were killed and eight others were seriously wounded when the suspect opened fire hundreds of police and soldiers and are looking for sharif cuts who remains on the run. 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 at the moment prisons are holding almost seven times the number of inmates there supposed to activists accuse the police of locking up innocent people corish mobius reports now from inside one of the

philippines most crowded jails. as nice for the inmates of millicent jail are 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 for prison populations have been growing at a rapid rate since president rodrigo 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 a crime based 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 other presents a heart rending a picture of very poor people being sold into jail for no reason. and actually congesting the jail system. people like. he was charged with drug offenses but says the police fabricated the evidence against him in the not only more new 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 waiting for

a verdict besides says he agreed to plead guilty so he could be released and returned home to his family. 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. a full program philippines. east. twenty to thirty g.m.t. on al-jazeera still. in sport it all gets too much for some of. the brazilians when the biggest title in the history.