are tired of both sides and people have shifted opinions those who were supporting the government a few years later they're not really as supportive of the so called in the german government because they're not in control of the country they're all sitting outside the country they have very little ability to conduct the most basic of government services even in the areas that they have liberated from the how these at the same time i think how these have committed quite a lot of. human rights abuses were in areas that they control they've really got our flying in a number of contacts and people have started to question their legitimacy as well and that i've been to thirty two to govern so you're absolutely right this is an incredible pressure from within as well as from outside now to reach an end to this so some broken thank you so much oh well there's another aspect to what's going on in yemen it's in washington in the u.s. the senate is likely to vote on a resolution to end u.s. support for the coalition in the country senators voted sixty thirty nine to dance

the measure on wednesday a similar move was defeated in march but bipartisan support has increased since the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi 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 story like coalition is using refueling their planes before they drop those bombs and assisting with intelligence alan fischer is in washington so alan how do we think the numbers will add up here. well we think the move will pass through the senate we're being told that the we're number of amendments tabled there will be a discussion the senate will reconvene in a boat fifteen twenty minutes time but we expect the vote sometime late this afternoon the interesting thing is in the end they'll be nothing more than symbolic

because the house has already shut down any potential of a debate on what is going on in yemen that was done on whedon's day there is no prospect of that being reopened before this session of the house of representatives ends and of course we have a new house of representatives being sworn in come january and of course the other problem they had with this is that the white house said that even if it did pass the house and the senate which is always highly unlikely then they would veto so this is a largely symbolic no opponent say since the united states stopped refueling planes in midair air to air refueling then they haven't really been involved in military operations in yemen since last month therefore there is no need for this those on the other side would suggest that if you're providing expertise if you're providing intelligence if you're supplying weapons that are dropping bombs on people in yemen you are therefore involved but this really just becomes

a symbolic move now the question is or would the house begin to consider this in january when there's going to be a democratic majority then a couple of hours ago i would have said almost certainly but of course what we've seen happen in sweden in the last few hours changes that dynamic and may well change the calculation on capitol hill but what we are going to see is a very clear message being sent by the united states senate that they are very angry with saudi arabia they're angry with mohammed bin solomon and this is a symbolic message that they are sending when you have people like lindsey graham who in the past big supporter of donald trump republican senator big supporter of so do rabia saying enough is enough then you realize that saudi arabia has more than a p.r. problem in washington d.c. alan thanks very much. you're watching al-jazeera plenty more still to come including this how a fire is raising concerns the forthcoming choose a new leader in the aussie.

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welcome back here with al jazeera live from doha i'm peter dhabi great to have you with us your headlines the u.n. secretary general has announced a series of breakthroughs at the close of talks to end the war in yemen cease fire a crucial port city of the data and deescalation entire. part yemen's foreign minister says the agreements are still hypothetical and that both warring parties need to abide by the terms as they were signed same your money says the internationally recognized government is hoping to see rebels will stick to their word. the u.s. senate is likely to take a final vote on a resolution to end support for saudi coalition in yemen senators voted sixty two thirty nine to advance the measure on weapons. the israeli army says a palestinian attacker has shot dead two israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank it took place at a bus stop outside the offer of settlements near ramallah all checkpoints in and around ramallah have been closed a major search for the suspect is now under way earlier israeli forces killed three

palestinians in separate operations the first happened in the old city of jerusalem israel says the suspect stabbed two police officers two other raids took place in the occupied west bank are a force that has more now from west jerusalem. well even without what was a very bloody president terms of a violent night in the occupied west bank and an occupied east jerusalem this would have been a major incident the israeli military says that a car stopped just outside a bus stop just opposite a bus stop on the major route sixty artery north south in the northern half of the occupied west bank very close to ramallah just south of the illegal settlement of offer and an attacker or attackers got out and started shooting according to the military a group of civilians and soldiers two people killed another with a head wound taken on spital another also seriously injured although said to be

stabilizing in hospital the israeli military is talking about how mass making increased efforts to establish what it says are terror infrastructures and units to carry out attacks in the occupied west bank certainly hamas has welcomed what it calls a heroic action in retaliation against what it says are israeli crimes the palestinian president mahmoud abbas his office put out a statement saying that the cycle of violence could be blamed on israel for its incursions its incitement the lack of any progress towards a peace settlement saying that it condemned that cycle of violence that both sides were losing as a result all of this coming after three incidents during the hours of night time firstly an israeli raid in which the suspect of another shooting close to the offer an illegal settlement was shot dead in that incident there were six injuries and also a pregnant woman who was injured gave birth to

a child who subsequently died just a few hours before that raid took place and then there was another raid at a refugee count just outside nablus where another man suspected of being the shooter in an attack at an israeli industrial zone in the occupied west bank also ruled illegal under international law in which two israelis were killed he was also shot dead so a very violent few hours in the occupied west bank. trying to stop court has to the president's decisions dissolved parliament was unconstitutional seven supreme court judges handed down a unanimous ruling they say president. come dissolve parliament before it's four and a half year term is up. from under us now from colombo the decision that many out here of the supreme court of. historic basically found that president. was in violation of the constitution. when he dissolved parliament now the bases

which had been questioned was the fact that the president according to the constitution could not dissolve parliament before parliament completed whole and a half years of its term at the point that president seriously in the dissolved parliament it was at least a year and two months short of that time period and the seven judge bench where hearing made a unanimous decision all of them agreed that the president had violated the constitution so what this means is parliament stands basically reinstated the disillusion has been knocked down by the court in sri lanka now there are still issues yes the entire disillusion of the changing of prime minister sparked a constitutional crisis but there are for the issues which will be coming up in for the day there is the sacking of prime minister and become a singer who claims he is still the legitimate prime minister and his successor the

former president rajapaksa basically has his authority has been questioned in the court of appeal and there is a restraining order stopping him from functioning as prime minister now he has appealed that restraining order but as you can see many things still remaining to be resolved. the british prime minister is meeting e.u. leaders in brussels for what's being billed as last minute talks over her breaks that deal to resume a arrived in brussels in the last couple of hours less than twenty four hours after having survived the vote of confidence brought by m.p.'s unhappy with her breaks a plan that she got from the bloc she's appealing for help from the european counterparts but she seeks concessions of the brits departure from the e.u. . i'm going to be addressing the european council later and i will be showing the truth legal and political assurances that i believe we need to assuage the concerns that members of parliament have on this issue and i know the e.u. twenty seven would also be discussing the deal planning and indeed the government

of the u.k. is discussing no deal planning but i think it's i've always said that the best arrangement for everybody for both the u.k. and the us to agree a deal and get this deal over the line don akins in brussels who are still the dominant getting it over the line everyone's been looking in on a deal for weeks and weeks and weeks now the arithmetic just doesn't add up so what's the rabbit perhaps that she's going to produce in brussels when she comes back. well if she is going to produce a rabbit out of a hat she is going to need a lot of help from her friends the friends that she believes she has around that very large table with the twenty seven other heads of government heads of states one intervention that perhaps may be helpful it is being reported by a newspaper here in brussels that the austrian chancellor sebastian courts who are just so happens is the current holder of this six month rotating presidency of the

e.u. has said that everybody wants to accommodate to reason may but that whatever accommodation is arrived at must be an accommodation which will gain a majority both in the british and the european parliament or there's the rub peter isn't it because what's acceptable here plainly is not acceptable to a considerable number of parliamentarians at westminster in london so again this conundrum about the form of words which is acceptable here to be acceptable in london also but also remember given that that backstop in northern ireland would be acceptable in belfast that's these are questions which are being posed here today the question is what might emerge paranoid. also that perhaps not quite such a helpful intervention has come from germany because the want to start the german parliament this morning voted through a motion that said it would be an illusion for a ridge for people to believe that a rejection of this deal would lead to a renegotiation so on the face of it it appears pretty clear that whilst there is

a a well of good will for to reason may it doesn't appear to be the the will to renegotiate this deal so what can she do what sort of clarification or interpretation can be placed on this deal which is going to be acceptable both here in london and in belfast interesting times dominic thank you so much. the french government is urging the so-called yellow burst process does not hold demonstrations this weekend following the attack on the christmas markets in strasbourg on monday president emmanuel macron offered a minimum wage boost and tax concessions to end the movement the protests which began more than four weeks ago over a fuel tax hike and diesel quickly escalated its calls for him to resign g.'s on something more than just that with saying simply that it's not reasonable to protest in security forces have been deployed on a massive scale in the past week particularly in the last weekend paris and

following the terrorist attack at the christians park in strasbourg it would be preferable if on a saturday everyone calms down and avoid putting more pressure on the security forces gunman in the north east of mali have killed dozens of people over the last few days that's according to reports from local officials in a monarchy they say at least forty three civilians were killed indiscriminately at a number of villages nobody's claimed responsibility but violence between ethnic. groups has killed hundreds of people this year. fire at a warehouse in the d r c has burned thousands of voting machines just ten days before the elections the election commission says the vote will go ahead it's all about us. this is what remains of a large election commission warehouse in kinshasa the capital of the democratic republic of congo inside were voting materials distant for polling seem to throughout the city ahead of presidential elections on december twenty third is

that it's a dirty trick because they have guards why didn't they call the fire brigade that night but it's all scheme to find ways of pushing back the elections. it started at about two o'clock in the morning local time more than nine thousand voting machines were destroyed the majority of election materials for other provinces had already been delivered another patient allegedly we have the impression that this may be a criminal act as the fire was declared in two places inside the store in the same moment we cannot say more for now but we would like to ensure our populations that the equipment from kinshasa that burned here will be replaced there is no worry about the coming elections even though the damage is serious and the voting machines are a sensitive subject in the d.l.c. traditionally elections here are decided by pin and paper ballots they arrive 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 to across the country against their 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 are illegal untested and easy to rig at rallies in september and october there was backlash. i know the money did this system by. sheehan's and having a dubious vote does. 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 and now tasked with salvaging an election that is already long delays and momentous president joseph kabila has been in power

since two thousand and one twenty one candidates are vying to replace him what may be the country's first democratic transition of power since independence any sixty years ago charlotte dallas. the eritrean president as he has arrived in the somali capital mogadishu for an official visit. the two nations restore diplomatic relations recently after nearly fifteen years of a break somali has accused eritrea of supporting the armed group al-shabaab the two signed their agreement to restart relations in july. this is al jazeera these are the top stories the un secretary general has announced a series of breakthroughs at the close of talks to end the war in yemen a cease fire in the crucial port city of her data and a deescalation entire news were announced. we have reached an agreement on the day

the port and city which will see will really point to forces from the port and the says the and the establishment of a guard moderate a governor it wide ceasefire that the un will leaving role in the ports and these will facilitate humanitarian access in the floorboards to the civilian population and it will improve the living conditions for millions of yemenis the israeli army says a palestinian attack a shot to two israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank that took place at a bus stop outside the offer a settlement near ramallah a major search for the suspect is now under way. earlier israeli forces killed three palestinians in separate operations the first happened in the old city of jerusalem israel says the suspect stabbed two police officers two other raids took place in the occupied west bank israel's prime minister spoken about the murder of

the saudi journalist demolish l.g. after facing questions at a news conference benjamin netanyahu condemned the killing but he warns of the consequences of destabilizing saudi arabia over the incident what happened. to stumble of horrific. nothing short of that it's horrific. and i think that'll be dealt with in its own way each country will have to figure out especially the countries that are forming relations will figure out what to do with it it's balanced by the. importance of saudi arabia and the role it plays in the middle east because of saudi arabia were to be destabilized the world would be destabilized not the middle east the world would be stable. the british prime minister to reason may is meeting leaders in brussels right now for what's being billed as a last minute talks over her deal to resume brussels less than twenty four hours after surviving all those of no confidence. on happy with the plan she's appealing

for help from european countries. those are your top stories up next it's the stream. but the lights are on. there's nowhere to hide do you think we're going to see some kind of change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy. on al-jazeera. ok and you're in the stream hundreds of thousands of french citizens are rallying against economic inequality and the government we explore what the yellow vast demonstrations mean for france join the conversation by leaving your comments in the you first have a listen to what french president emmanuel mccall said on monday after four

consecutive weekends of antigovernment protests. possibility. now he very different than it is. because if you don't. he's a mystery but to. us he said. he. could be 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 president 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 parents correspondent for the online magazine the daily beast that 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 has been detained a video that was widely shared on social media welcomes really and did you a divine will be providing 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 so i'm just going to play a little bit of his facebook live julian 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. satisfaction with qantas politics and if we think that's going to transsexual. 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 we try 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 called up papers and

that's 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 were not 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 cost 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 stock is that a lot especially for people who have very small salaries like the person who or that tweet when you are on a twelve on the joists and you have to give them or a little more than five hundred to get right through the calculation you have seven hundred or is left to pay. taxes 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 he told the press about why he was so angry with the current economic situation in france have a listen. to yourself this is. your. money when it could be taken literally we could be here to support them and not for something super so it's so simple so you would think it's only one of the full discovery 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 find 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 persecution 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 micawber. was sure she's not the minister she's not the president is it 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

grow knows 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 to have 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 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 as i can 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 a stary the measures i think we're seeing the backlash of years of neo liberal policies michael holmes campaigned 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 the confessions i agree with are not enough for instance you look at this meek which he which michael has promised he will now race 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 in 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 think 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 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 treat people and friends i think it's important out as well you know when i talk to people in the u.s. and you know especially i see some of the reactions coming from the right wing in

the u.s. or you know donald trump's tweet that they get about the movement. there's a sense that you know this is an anti government kind of just purely anti tax kind of movement in france it's important to point out people are very attached to the state people believe in public services the question is not about the government's role in the economy the question is how is the government going to treat people fairly it's a question of how is the government distributing resources who's paying for services i think that's at the core of this it's a much bigger conversation about inequality and and wealth in the country yet to add to that i had to that yes there is there's a general and there's a general anger against mccall i would say that it started yes it started as a fuel protests and the of all going to a protest about social inequality but what i keep the refrain i keep hearing is just this anger against medical himself and i think part of that is the policies as a whole was saying about his rolling back of the wealth tax and even in monday's

speech he was quite clear that he was not going to back down on that and it's also been the. a matter in which he's presented himself in france up to this point he's been criticized as as presented himself as a little distant some would say that he's been dismissive disdainful of certain segments of the population he's been called elitist out of touch president of the rich he held a last january for the devils meeting her global business meeting at versace there's a certain that i've had french people tell me he needs to stay home and his government need to stop acting like monarchs and i think that this this attitude this perceived attitude has further fueled the anger here. and a tad to erin's point i think it's if you look at what's fueled the movement i think micros absence as well from the from from the public sphere is part of this the protests started november seventeenth was that first big day of action micro

waited he didn't want to weigh in i'm kind of reminiscent of de gaulle in may nine hundred sixty eight and in a lot of respects he finally weighs in at the beginning of the month and then again this big silence and monday was that was it was him breaking that silence and finally directly addressing protestors and directing dressing the country in a speech that was viewed more than more than the world cup final actually addressing the country and finally saying ok something is wrong and i think that sense of kind of the. you know the president just just stepping away from his responsibilities has fueled some of the fueled some of the rage here co i saw some of that you retreated out from allison saajan and just mention this while the current speech on this he had more for us on french t.v. than this is well cup final and to remind you front won the world cup final that was a massive audience i'm just wondering though vanessa how is it possible that a savvy political operator didn't see something of this huge coming. i'm

not quite sure. but he has been polling fairly low for. quite a few weeks now so i'm not sure that it was completely blind finding also what the protest has been the movement has been frontin yes but the protests themselves are not protesters are saying we're going to show up on saturday. at this time in place so it's not i think he's had plenty of time to sort of process with happening and to respond in a way that's more a fad or spying you know than than what cole has mentioned and frankly i'm surprised and disappointed that he can explain it so we mentioned the world cup final there are a few times i want to bring in this tweet we got in french translated. microsoft's here he was elected because those who complained today have stayed watching football on t.v. instead of going to vote so when we don't go to vote we assume the choice of other

another person. same kind of vein aymeric says was elected through a media coup and into program it continues to dismantle france by following the deadly european policies as its predecessors he despises the people still strong words there and what should the government have done instead of what happened. well i think it but what i keep hearing here is that people in the streets feel like the government doesn't listen to them that there's a segment of the population that's about there's about a fifth of the french population that lives outside of major cities like paris bordeaux only on the cities in france they live in rural areas and they many of them are working class or on limited incomes and they rely on their vehicles to either drive to work or drive to public transportation drive to basic services and i think that the government has mcewan's government has been looking towards europe

they have all of these these big plans and these in the grand visions for the future and for the future of france but in these visions they neglected to look at some of the. problems the domestic problems within france and there's a segment of the population that does feel left behind and forgotten and overlooked i want to play another protest to call daniel and daniel explains his situation and why he's protesting on the streets have a listen to. truckers reflect on these all this go to not argue it goes to normal. to ponder about i feel really separate are good. for you. your party will pull well beyond fear don't jump you've got to move we. don't know we don't believe more. divorce on foetal demitted you know more time we're not

particular. needs to get lost but this is a lot a lot of. ideas on the ideas are coming from the streets and protesting is that we are sick of the president but realistically the president isn't going anywhere or say. well no i think there's no indication right now the micro is going to step down despite all these these these calls for protesters to do so and they really believe and they really believe that you can see that the way that they repeated this this refrain but i think an important point to drought as well as i think some of the tweets hinted at this is that micro never had a really popular mandate for his policies he would he was elected in this in this very bizarre unique presidential election that took place last year in france against marine le pen of the far right of the national front party which is in changes name micro won the presidency because of his opponent if you polled the people that voted for microlenses most french people their number one reason was voting against marine le pen it was stopping winning the presidency and so micro-loan despite some of the calls that we saw following his election notably in

the anglo-american press saying that france had embraced centrism freight france had had a brace there's this this you know pro-business ideology after years of having too much government regulation there was never a popular mandate for these policies so i think in some sense it's pretty predictable that his presidency has taken such a dive you know around twenty percent approval right now hitting his lowest point there was never a mandate for these policies you know for things like cutting low income housing aid for things like forcing retirees to pay more money in taxes which mccrone is actually since repealed and since monday for a program that involves. laying off tens of thousands of civil servants there is not a popular mandate for this in friends and the problem with micro is he took his alexion his victory and took that to be a huge many for us policies it doesn't exist and i think we're seeing right now that this fracturing that finally and frankly it's kind of surprising that you know in some sense it's taken this long but we're seeing his presidency really. you know

unravel here and we're seeing the opposition that exist to it that's right and adding to it adding to adding to what colas saying i covered the election and especially after the second round i went to a lot of the demonstrations and i spoke to a lot of the voters and there are a lot of people yes exactly it was it wasn't so much a vote it was a vote against le pen i actually had people tell me well it looks like we have to choose between a fascist and a capitalist so we'll choose we'll choose the capitalist and i mean i don't think we should take away from from what the left was doing there to the right like there was significant support for leftist candidates unfortunately been. sort of split voters and so you know that took away from what could have been a larger majority but many french people i think were behind these left more socialist leaning programs so this is interesting you're a sad who's actually behind the protests because i want to bring this back to the

protests but this tweet from don who says i'm in france and the impact so far is negative of these protests they hinder movement businesses are destroyed and will be deemed counterproductive if the president then doesn't back down so should he and i want to go to you with that because i'd like to know what's next for you and your other protesters who are here with will you continue these demonstrations and till you get what you want. well i think yes i think the movement will not end like this it's not because mr mccall. made some small concessions. he said on monday in his speech and that's that's not going to stop the movement because the people are not really an agreement with what he said we reached a point where the universe protestors and most of the first now what they want now what they would like to see from. would be us that

we go to. citizen initiative referendums that would allow us the people. to have vision. on the whole of the political policies so we would have our word we would be able to say something in france which is a democratic country. the people can't say anything the people that have the choice of the laws that are voted by the politicians knowing that a lot of the laws that don't go in our direction the people's direction of voted for example. voted in by somebody that. we have put it to who. will. pay the thousands of euros not a turned. and that's not acceptable. it's true of this anger.

grown a lot because of taxes because people are fed up with taxes but little by little with the social movement yes mark colvin michael needs to step down to sit down but the priority for us today would be that the president accept first of all to listen to us think that would be a good start and also secondly that we could have a referendum. and initiative referendum. thank you so much for starting our show and the national perspective from the protesters the yellow vests protesting in france or aaron to call to. the country. and how is this conversation going down one line i will enter the comment from you tube truth says they deserve

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here with the newsgroup live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook . dot com good to have you with us on this. to the war in yemen where there's been perhaps the most significant breakthrough yet in efforts to end that four year conflict the country's warring parties have agreed a number. at the u.n. back talks in sweden they include the united nations playing a leading role in running the ports in the city of her day the withdrawal of troops and the stablish in humanitarian corridors now u.n. secretary general antonio good test says there is now a clear route to ending the conflict if the two sides abide by the terms agreed you have reached an agreement on the day the port and city which will see will really prime months of forces from the port and the system. and the establishment of

a gun order it a governorate wide ceasefire and the un will play a leading role in the ports and this will facilitate humanitarian access and the floor routes to the civilian population and it will improve the living conditions for millions of yemenis our diplomatic etta james bays is with me now for the united and right ninety nations headquarters in new york said james diplomats over there will be digesting this it is cause for cautious optimism perhaps but as with many of these things the devil is going to be in the details and to what extent they're they're going to be adhered to. absolutely and i think that is what is lacking is the detail some of the things that have been announced here are a little on the vague side because that was the only way to get through for example on the date and not a complete huth the withdrawal from the port and city as the coalition had been

demanding and the u.n. to play a leading role in the port at one point it was said the u.n. would take total control of the port well that doesn't seem to be the language that's in this so i wouldn't yet describe this as a breakthrough but certainly higher expectations than anyone had before the meeting i can tell you the diplomats here in new york had said to me that even if they got a deal on detainees alone that would be good news and if they didn't get that even if the talks took place and they didn't break down that would be good news they were saying to me they thought they might not even sit in the same room and yet we've seen handshakes between the two sides here but after the handshakes you need to listen to the comments that came from mohammed abdul salam from the huth the from the only foreign minister colleagues your money because although they were both welcoming what had been agreed both said we'll stick to it if the other side does. oh good can look into to agreement signed upon

and shared u.s. effort that has been taken thirty slee release in the persian nose and those who have been forcibly about did and the other agreement is that what they are that this. agreement however we are assured him and that the other party will with their all under will at least the president has. a lot of we are ready to implement the peace agreement and give the u.n. a logistical role in running sunnah airport and what data port but we need more guarantees because the other side keeps sabotaging everything we didn't get anything major in sweden but there were some good developments there is no military solution in yemen and still we can reach an agreement if the other side agrees to a political solution. well some important developments clearly in sweden and i think that the venue now changes from sweden ahead of the next talks which

just blows take place in january in sweden here to the u.n. and what will happen at u.n. headquarters and at the security council on this as i speak the swedish ambassador to the u.n. is speaking to reporters outside the security council he says this is a hugely important step for yemen we understand that the security council will meet on friday afternoon here in new york to discuss what has happened they'll be briefed by the special envoy for yemen martin griffiths with an update on what has happened at these talks now the more important thing that will go on i think in the coming days is discussions and i understand a meeting is getting underway right now involving experts from the various security council delegations on whether to have a security council resolution on this whether to try and lock in the gains formally in a resolution to the security council will have to look very closely there at the role of kuwait it's the arab member of the security council in the past it's been under

great pressure from the saudi led coalition from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to avoid a resolution that something may have been wanted they wanted the resolution from twenty fifteen the resolution from the security council then that said the who these needed to withdraw all the areas that they captured to be the defining resolution of this conflict i can tell you the quake. has just spoken to reporters and he is saying that there is the possibility of a resolution so things moving fast here at the security council some diplomats telling me they hope to get what has been agreed in stockholm locked in in a resolution by the security council before the end of next week all right we'll see what emerges from that for the moment james bays live for us there at the united nations in new york. now to be a hoot he is a former u.s. diplomat and deputy chief of mission in yemen he joins us now from washington thanks very much for being with us now is very rare in the four years of this of

this conflict in yemen that we've been able to report on something positive here but it looks like we can now people are calling this a breakthrough you saw the handshakes in the smiles there in sweden is there reason to be optimistic here. indeed i think for me personally this is the first time in four years that i have been truly of the mystic i think the handshake between holiday lemony and muhammad of the salaam tells the whole story and the yemeni foreign minister. many told the head of the hoti delegation despite everything that's happened you're my brother. this realisation that after all they're all yemenis this is their country and whatever differences between them they can resolve themselves with us

and help of course that brought them together but i think beyond the atmospherics having come to an agreement on even partial will draws redeployments mainly and where there is a very good breakthrough obviously it's not the whole thing but instead of the u.n. observation from across the red sea in djibouti they can be right there on the ground instead of one side or the other controlling the port that's excellent and that is the best confidence building measure i think so there will be a difficult steps ahead to be sure and didn't you know we talk a lot about this being a proxy war with the with the saudis and emraan. backing that the the yemeni internationally recognized yemeni government on one side and then the have who it

is on the other and iran giving giving support to them as well but this is ultimately a conflict that is going to have to be settled by yemenis themselves isn't it. yes i mean i think the whole proxy thing has been exaggerated and has been a game from the beginning. in the end the any outside intervention has not been helpful because for four years it just lead to destruction and death i think right now the un having brought the two parties most directly involved together some kind of a joint resolution on their part to say to all outside powers thank you very much please make sure there is a general cease fire and we'll take it from here that would be excellent the un security council if they can produce a resolution demanding

a total ceasefire and if the u.s. government can lean on the saudis to stop the aerial bombardment completely i think that would be a terrific second step to this breakthrough in sweden and we can we can look hopefully towards the future indeed hopefully we can a for the moment to be a holy life for us there in washington appreciate your perspective now across the world in the u.s. the war is high on the agenda in the senate where a vote on ending american military support for the saudi emma rotty coalition is being taken senators voted sixty to thirty nine to consider the measure on wednesday a similar move was defeated in march but bipartisan backing has increased in the wake of the murder of journalist in the saudi consulate in istanbul i just see it as highly show castro reports 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 we just don't need to condone any more than we have to. and this is a situation where you don't have to they need us a lot more than we need them. since two thousand and fifteen the u.s. has provided logistics support for the saudi led military coalition fighting against who the rebels in yemen in august a bomb believed to have been made in the u.s. well on a school bus full of children killing many starvation has killed eighty five thousand children since the war stars and a cholera epidemic has swept the country if united states with very little media attention has been saudi arabia's part in this horrific war we have been providing the bombs this.