at stake what us republican senator lindsey graham called a defining moment for the u.s. and for the future of saudi arabia there are a lot of bad actors in the mideast and we just don't need to condone any more than we have to and this is a situation where you don't have to they need us a lot more than we need them. since two thousand and fifteen the u.s. has provided 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 if united states with very little media attention has been saudi arabia's part in this horrific war. we have been providing the bombs the saudi led coalition is using refueling their planes before

they drop those bombs and assisting with intelligence but it was the october killing of the american based journalist jamal khashoggi that's pushed the u.s. to tell saudi arabia enough is enough the cia says saudi arabia directed killing and dismemberment inside its consulate in istanbul something the kingdom first denied maybe if the saudis were willing to lie to us about what happened to jamal khashoggi they haven't been straight with us as to what's happening inside yemen because if the united states is being used to intentionally hit civilians then we are complicit in war crimes the resolution to withdraw u.s. military support must still clear the house republicans there moved wednesday to make that more difficult and a final signature from president donald trump who is publicly back to saudi arabia is unlikely president trump continues to proclaim is low 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 or rosalynn jordan is live for us now on capitol hill in washington so rosalind we reported earlier that initial votes in the u.s. senate sixty to thirty nine how significant is that and what happens next. kusum that photo. looks so impressive is simply just a procedural vote the real vote is expected to happen and much later on thursday afternoon debate should take place for about another two and

a half hours then the period for debate will be closed the senators will then start voting on eight amendments to this resolution co-sponsored by bernie sanders and mr young and then they will have a vote on the measure itself plus any amendments that have already been passed again that tentative timeline is for after seventeen forty five g.m.t. or just about one pm eastern time here in the united states of course of these amendments are very much focused on clarifying the various parts of the resolution specifying that this does not preclude the u.s. military from going after the fighters or after non-state actors if it deems that it's necessary in order to protect the u.s. is national security but this would if it does pass send a very important message not just to the trumpet ministration but also to countries

overseas that there are consequences for carrying out policies that inadvertently harm civilians in particular or perhaps involve the violation of civil rights or human rights of any number of persons no matter where they happen to be no matter what they happen to do for a living. i'm quite significant isn't it that this is getting more bipod bipartisan support this time around which is not what we've seen in the pos where we've seen republican senators pretty much getting in line behind the trumpet ministration on a number of issues. there is a growing realization among both republicans and democrats that what the united states represents has been harmed in the last two years and that if the united states wants to continue to have significant moral influence and moral authority as well as financial influence over its allies and its partners then it has to

actually be very rigorous in how it acts enforces those norms and when you have persons such as lindsey graham the senator who in recent months has made himself a key ally of the u.s. president donald trump saying that things must change in terms of u.s. foreign policy it is a significant turning point of course there already promises from both republicans and democrats that the ongoing u.s. policy toward saudi arabia as well as the u.s. support for human rights will be considered as quickly as the new congress comes into session and that's on january third all right roslyn jordan my first there in washington. and there's pressure online for rock congress to change its position on yemen as that that's what has and we're seeing the hash tag yemen can't wait to

grow online of the last few weeks and rights groups and also the democratic politicians are campaigning to get the trumpet ministration to withdraw u.s. military support for the saudi us a campaign in yemen now one of them that's leading this is bernie sanders he says that us show the world today that the u.s. senate recognizes that real american power does not come from our ability to blow things up but from our ability to bring people together and barbara lee says that she was disappointed in speak up paul ryan for blocking a vote on the u.s. role in yemen she says history won't forget his role in prolonging these humanitarian atrocities and others like chris murphy are calling on americans to vote also american actress alyssa milano is getting involved she made this appeal to her followers fuel is not being let in to the country meeting the inflation problems even worse and this has the potential to be the worst humanitarian

crisis in a century and the sad part is that this crisis is all manmade it's a manmade problem but the good news is we know how to fix it well as the talks wrapped up in sweden it's important to remind viewers that tens of thousands of people have been killed in what the u.n. calls the worst humanitarian crisis the charity oxfam explains why it's so hard for people in yemen to get food. the fighting has meant that the food supply lines are not only cut off in some areas but also alternative routes always have to be found in addition to that there are restrictions on the own ports of food and that has resulted in a situation where the currency has deteriorated prices has gone up considerably this is happening in the backdrop of salaries not being paid for more than a year and this has resulted in a situation where people are struggling with daily life and as estimated that every

ten minutes a yemeni child dies from war related causes or the red cross and what data highlights the state of medical facilities there today i mean in i thought i was bitten very famous hospital almost on the front line in new data. oversee the place it's crowded a lot of people leave the access to these are spittal dollars to bts the hospital to stay open it's state functional well are you campaigning to end the war in yemen let us know is the hash tag has a thanks or healer you can get in touch with us so we want to hear from you on these stories you can send your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter just use the hash tag a.j. news grid our handle is a j english were also on facebook facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or you can send us a message on whatsapp or telegram at plus mind seven four five or one trip or

one four nine there's the number on your screen. now there's been a series of violent incidents between palestinians and israelis in the last twenty four hours it follows raids by the israeli army in which palestinians were killed in the occupied west bank palestinian attack and later shot dead two israeli soldiers near ramallah all checkpoints in and around the city were closed after that's that in the last hour another palestinian was killed nearby after what the israeli ministry says was a car ramming incident. that followed a stabbing attack in the old city of jerusalem in which two israeli police officers were injured and the attacker killed the israeli military says the raids they conducted were planned operations to find suspects linked to attacks on israelis harry force it is live in west jerusalem for us so harry talk us through some of

what's been happening today. was certainly been a very bloody twenty four hours certainly one that the occupy west bank hasn't seen for a good deal of time and yes this most recent major attack in the occupied west bank near to the illegal settlement of a friend just to the northeast of the city of ramallah that took place just before lunch time and it was according to the israeli military a palestinian attacker or attackers got out of a car and they fired on a collection of people at a bus stop civilians and soldiers according to israeli military although it was two soldiers who were killed and one seriously wounded the army said in that attack and then we have the pretty extraordinary circumstance of the entire city of ramallah the seat of the palestinian or thora t.

in area a where palestinian ministration is supposed to have at least nominal autonomy limited autonomy that has been sealed off as a closed military zone and in the aftermath of that there have been instances of israeli settlers stoning palestinian vehicles along this route sixty this big arterial route on which this attack took place and as you say more recently reports of this attempted ramming attack on a nearby area where there were israeli soldiers. palestine t.v. is reporting that it might not have been a deliberate attack that there may have been a loss of control of a vehicle instead however none of this has been clarified or confirmed what we do know though is that the driver has been killed in all of this as you say following an extremely violent night overnight as well so it's certainly a very serious security situation that has that is still prevailing in the occupied

west bank and harry has this all been part of the result of a larger security operation by by israelis say in the territories. well certainly there were two major operations that took place overnight firstly there was a raid just outside ramallah where a man who was suspected of being the gunman in an earlier attack on sunday a drive by shooting in which several israelis were injured one of them a pregnant woman whose child was delivered after her injury prematurely that baby dying on wednesday just a few hours before this attack before this raid took place and so that was obviously part of that manhunt in which the suspected attacker was shot dead and then just a couple of hours after vatican the early hours of thursday morning another raid

taking place at a refugee camp just outside nablus this was a much longer term manhunt which had been under way since october when there was an attack inside an israeli industrial zone in the occupied west bank like israeli settlements ruled illegal under international law it was a palestinian man who'd been working as an electrician there that police and security forces were trying to find he was suspected of being the man behind the attack which killed two israelis in that incident he too was shot dead inside this building inside a refugee camp so what we're seeing is a real concertina ing of this kind of violence and israeli security forces obviously still operating in and around ramallah. harry thank you harry forsett in west jerusalem for us now to europe in the u.k. prime minister theresa may back in brussels to ask your leaders for concessions on the braggs it deal but the block has released

a draft statement saying the agreement cannot be renegotiated may survive the leadership challenge the day before for members of her own party two hundred voted for her and one hundred seventeen against i'm going to be addressing the european council later and i will be showing the with 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 no deal planning and indeed the government of the u.k. is discussing no deal planning but i think it's i've always said to the best arrangement tragedy for both the u.k. and the risk for us to agree a deal and get this deal into line which on a whole is lifeforce in brussels so gentle what sort of reception is she going to get there any any real chance of a breakthrough. i think probably not and indeed she knows that she's already said as she arrived here she's

not expecting a breakthrough i think she'll get a pretty warm reception probably there's a lot of support for terrorism a around the table among the twenty seven they certainly will have her tenacity a determination her stamina in getting through that vote and i think they'll be a recognition among them now that she is probably the only hope left of getting an actual actual bragg's it deal and therefore an orderly brigs it on top of that they have been sort of repeated gestures of support in terms of say people saying leaders the austrian leader and others that we want to help we just don't know how we can come up with anything that will satisfy the degree of opposition among m.p.'s in the u.k. so i think the reason may we'll know as we know that that draft conclusion has been written she'll she will know that that is likely to be all she'll come away with the wording that says things like the backstop will only be in place for a short period and only as long as it is strictly necessary a nod

a gesture towards concerns but you know no end date no promise of a unilateral mechanism to get out of it for the u.k. and indeed nothing legally binding barely worth the paper that it's written on she'll sit down for dinner with them she'll tell them her concerns she'll give them suggestions she says of what sort of legal assurances the u.k. requires but at this point at this meeting she's probably not going to get more than we've already seen in those draft conclusions so assuming then she leaves empty handed and we get closer to that march twenty ninth break that date when britain will leave the european union as it stands is there a possibility of getting future concessions with perhaps the dynamics changing and a greater sense of urgency. well look i mean there are some signs and suggestions that that is possible consider that the weekend before she called up the meeting call vote on monday she'd been on the phone with both. here and donald tusk what did they tell him we don't know did they

give her some reason to believe that delaying the meaningful vote was a sensible thing to do possibly and in this draft conclusion there is this wording which possibly leads the way or other points the way to concessions later the union stands ready to examine whether any further assurances can be provided. it's been interpreted by diplomats here as a possible legal interpretation of what's in the withdrawal agreement they won't do it though now they'll do it when she when they believe she's going to bring the vote she said that will be sometime in january so i don't think she can expect any concessions real concessions until they believe here that she's about to bring the vote why because well if they give her concessions now they risk the u.k. simply coming back and asking for more this is all negotiation tactic we've seen it before time and again with the e.u. what happens happens at the last possible moment. john how life for us

there in brussels life very much now coming up further those of you watching us on facebook a story about this afghan boy who met leo messi after going viral for wearing a jersey made from a plastic bag but now he's a target for the taliban and had to flee his home you'll meet the afghan boy whose love for football has turned him into a target for the taliban. and later just days before general elections in the democratic republic of congo a fire destroys thousands of voting machines that story right ahead. how the snow's fallen and settled in turkey the clans and i moved on more or less into the caucasus and even the sweeping grey that came through lebanon to northern

egypt is now the past feature so it should be a fine looking day for friday twelve in leopard about fifteen jerusalem so the sun's bit of work is a bit more snow to come for the eastern side of turkey otherwise it's a dry pictures drive through iran as well to forty interim was to twenty two in kuwait city the change to saturday very little slightly warmer otherwise it's ok and that's true further south that there's still a potential for various reasons of occasional showers in northern saudi and even one or two possibly in the high ground in this eastern part of monday's you see more clearly on saturday otherwise it's a dry looking picture but a breeze ring up through saudi arabia thirty three in mecca but i suspect a dusty thirty three and a notable mostly returns to for example qatar twenty five the next he is not very high at this time yeah it's the rainy season knife through well subtropical africa if you like for tanzania catching northern mozambique and the cloud shows it very well it's also there in the forecast it also means that for the time being at least

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take a look at what's trending on our website i just had a dog days of a top stories that you're looking at. on all website west bank tensions shoring up to deadly shootings a story we told you about a little bit earlier on of course the just promised to be some they are surviving that vote of confidence and trying to get back to the negotiating table in brussels and of course in yemen which we talked about at the top of this hour it's all there for you and does it all come. our final warehouse in the democratic republic of congo has destroyed thousands of voting machines just ten days before planned elections the election commission it says the vote will go ahead reports. this is what remains of a large election commission warehouse in kinshasa the capital of the democratic republic of congo inside were voting materials destined 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 issue took place 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 ballot they arrived 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. yes. i know they have money to deceased them. sheens and having a dubious vote as. we cannot participate in elections that we know. will fail because of these voting machines. the election commission has yet to confirm whether the fire was caused by arson tasked with soviet union

a lick that is already delayed 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 nearly sixty years ago. all right so how is this conversation playing out online well has been many people are tweeting about the fire overnight in can that destroyed thousands of voting machines and i'm seeing a lot of pictures and videos of the aftermath showing black smoke billowing over the building the cause of the fire is unknown but many are now pointing fingers. who are says this is how dictators play with our minds how can this happen just days ahead of the elections and others are calling on the government to stop using force against opposition members that's because two supporters of the opposition presidential candidate were killed enjoying violence with police police on tuesday

and the u.n. says it has serious concerns of incidents hampering the conduct of the electoral campaign. and we're also seeing footage from remember where there's been more violence at a rally for opposition candidate martin for you a police truck plowed through a crowd of supporters there. well opposition leaders including for you are calling on president joseph kabila to meet certain standards to i quote ensure free fair credible and also transparent elections we had from a commentator on the d r c and this is how he sees the elections playing out the report of the fire has consumed seven thousand for the machine india see is cause for concern and as he put diluted commission in a very difficult situation and it's doubtful that the election will be held schedule this also comes after we've seen reports of violence between dealers a company. candidates of the opposition particularly much info you are seeing is

meeting being disturbed by the police used tear gas and violence and people feel that this might be another ploy by could be there to stay in power by destroying. the voting machine you know to prolong the stay in power so what are your expectations for these upcoming elections in the in the d r c let us know he is the hash tag aging as good as a vice here and now with just over a day before the end of the cock twenty four climate summit a group of forty eight countries has appealed for greater unity between poor and rich in nations there's also a growing focus on countries like poland where the summit is being held and where coal is the primary source of energy make plotnick clock reports from qatar we sing . across poland this is still a familiar sight the smoke of domestic coal fires burning to keep the chill of winter at bay and it's a scene replicated by the chimneys of millions of homes across the country. you

know the the acrid smell of coal smoke in the air in this part of the city of kind of it's where the climate conference is being held is almost overpowering and you can really see why in the weeks leading up to the climate conference that the city was found to be the second most polluted in the whole of europe. i head off to meet me called dhamma sick third generation miner he receives sacks of coal as part of his pay to feed a hungry boiler that heats his home. this is the way ninety percent of rural people heat their properties gas is coming more and more to the cities but coal is still prevalent the climate conference wants to change things i don't think it's possible in our country because the mining industry is too established people would lose jobs. it's not just emissions from the chimneys of people's homes but also of course from the coal fired power stations that provide eighty percent of the

nation's electricity it's an industry that provides sixty thousand jobs in industry into the fabric of the salafis in region of poland and live history many say is here to stay. coal plays a big part in the so-called energy equation and it's important because simply we have it with the sixth biggest producer of coal and i don't see it changing we need to make the important distinction between coal mining and c o two emissions we can still use coal but in all friendly ways it's clear these are sensitive times for polish coal twenty kilometers from cuts of it this happens. so we literally just arrived started filming the premises here and security from the cold to arrive in the cars block to sit in the calling the police they don't want to hear it too after some debate will move on we can't film at the site say to the hay city stand inside the conference venue remember it's all about cleaning up our

climate and polish coal is the theme is cold jewelry is cold say three of the event sponsors occult companies this is an island of our past we need to focus on our future and in my opinion and the future and therefore see it's green in poland there will be after one hundred thousand new jobs created in clean economic sector in two dozen fifteen so there is an alternative the most important is to come u.k. miners president president john j. do says he will not lead others mud at the polish coal industry coal is here to stay he says it's evident that for coal dependent nations like poland the transition to clean energy is a long long way well i speak to her knickers at the summit there live senate what's what's been happening there. well right now we're just waiting

for the latest version of the draft text that will form the body of the agreement here at the conference and then we'll get a good idea of where we're at the rumor has it things aren't going to well one day like that only just told me that things are looking a little bit shaky to the extent that yesterday the u.n. secretary general antonio terrence flew back and he was here at the beginning of this climate conference and he flew back in to give it more of a kick start to try and get some momentum going because that's what's what makes things happen here at these conferences once you get the ball rolling other nations join up for instance we have the now the high level coalition of ambition which comprises of the e.u. the u.k. kind of there in small on the states pushing for greater and huntsman's on emissions reductions from nations around the world but you've got to remember this isn't a straightforward exercise incredibly complex in fact to try and develop this rulebook for the paris agreement and then to encourage nations to in holland's. efforts to

try and reduce emissions let me bring in our guest it is a yes indeed from climate tracker this is your third climate change conference you're only twenty years old you see things from a very different perspective i'm sure to the aged delicate cigarettes of lee tell us how you view things i think it's a pretty interesting perspective because when i got here the first time it was a life changing experience for me because i got to test to know how things exactly work i always heard about interviews but i never thought it actually affect my life this week so coming here and knowing how things were and knowing how country actually going to see and negotiate and stuff that's going to affect me country and therefore me directly is actually a piece interesting perspective that i never thought about and tell us about how it is going to affect your country and your region particularly which is the middle east and north africa yes for example i come from sudan and in sudan we are affected severely by climate change at time t. . effect is in certification we have water security issues and and certification

was actually one of the main factors that like escalated the war and that for so climate change has affected sudan really badly and it's really interesting for me to come here and understand how things work so i can know how it affects the country and as you observe the proceedings here what's your take on how things are going and things seem pretty much a stalemate right now where do you think the blame lies i think i am going to blame for side in this because we have the developing countries and developed countries and developing countries are still trying to play the victim role which i don't play dumb because just historically speaking they did not actually contribute to the problem as much as developed countries but we are at a critical point right now where countries need to like find a middle ground where developing countries have to work but developed countries also need to contribute so both parties not need to be together in this because we really running out of time and all you can in a sentence that integrates a grass roots movement and

a greater understanding of what's going on in the region that you cover there's a lot of young people who are doing great stuff trying to make like ways to live i mean this incident about how climate change is not just an issue that is not a priority for the country so a lot of young people in sudan are trying to raise awareness on how climate change that everyone in the diet life and how it is in into economic it is linked in a civil war it is think to every aspect of your life so that is what young people instead of trying to do earlier well maybe there is a greater torture and good luck with your your future aspirations as you term as thanks very much indeed i will that's it for these things have a habit of going on late into the night late into the last weekend i don't see this conference being any different whatsoever all right probably not the last time we'll speak to you then then the clock thanks very much let's go live now to washington d.c. where a senator u.s. republican senator marco rubio is speaking at the senate let's listen but i also recognize that a but there is a threat in the middle east posed by iran and their ambitions which must be

confronted. and it must be confronted now regionally or eventually it will pull the united states in and to direct conflict and saudi arabia in our coalition is a key part saudi arabian our alliance is a key part of that coalition so it would be a mistake to shatter in the case of yemen this has become a proxy issue for the broader issue of the murder of mr shogi and i know that hopefully later today there will be a resolution offered by the chairman of the foreign relations committee and the majority leader i hope others will join in it makes very clear that the vast majority of members in this chamber condemn what happened to mr can show he and hold the crown prince responsible for his murder there's no disputing that what's happening in yemen is a horrifying humanitarian tragedy the numbers speak for themselves stiffed over fifty seven thousand human beings have lost their lives or about half the country's population roughly twenty eight million people are starving to death leaving many

women and children two point three million people have been displaced from their homes it's horrifying and there is plenty of blame to go around including iran and their booth the surrogates the first question i would ask is if this resolution passes and were to become law would it end this conflict if we passed this and the white house were somehow forced to do what we're asking them to do it wouldn't end this conflict this conflict will continue. this fight will continue and the reason why is pretty straightforward the saudis view who these as agents of iran they already see agents of iran via hezbollah in syria in iraq obviously for a long time in lebanon and now to their west and south yemen. and they're not just agents of iran they have launched rockets a list of missiles into saudi arabia after civilian populations including efforts to kill members of the saudi royal family and government leadership they have

threatened global shipping in the region where over four hundred million barrels of oil a day transit critical to the world's energy supplies so they're going to have a war there is no way the saudi arabia or the u.a.e. or any of these countries are going to allow themselves to be encircled by iranian agents this conflict will continue irrespective of what we do and the saudis have no problem buying weapons one of the sad facts about the world today is countries have plenty of sources from which they can buy this weaponry and plenty of countries an arm dealers that are willing to sell it to will this resolution of the passes and the suffering the answer sadly is no it will not in fact it is the who does that have blocked the act to access right so that was a us republican or that is still us republican senator marco rubio speaking on the floor of the senate there in washington as the senate prepares to vote tomorrow we understand on this resolution to curtail u.s. support for the yemen and campaign the saudi amarok back to. campaign in

yemen invoking the war powers resolution the momentum for this building over several weeks after the continued war in yemen and the murder of saudi journalist a shoji in the saudi. saudi consulate in istanbul. eritrea's president i.c.e.'s of where he is on his first official visit to somalia afterthought authority relations the two nations this border diplomatic ties in july after a nearly fifteen year break relations grew tense are to somalia accused eritrea of supporting the armed group bab somalia hit back sorry eritrea supported somali opposition groups a french police have been carrying out an operation in strasbourg they are hunting for a man they say killed three people in an attack on

a christmas market in the city on tuesday at least eight others were injured when a gunman opened fire since the attack hundreds of police officers and soldiers have been looking for twenty nine year old sharif cat. all right coming up for those of you watching us on facebook a story about a one hundred two year old great mother great grandmother who is believed to have become the world's oldest skydiver and later. the president is in town and he's talking about plans ahead of the world cup. but first a look at the international weather.

well again let's find out what people are talking about in sport today is full house thank you very much well the president of football's world governing body fifa is ending a three day visit to cattle with its hosting of the twenty twenty two world cup very high on the agenda gianni infancy and i has been piling up the am models with trips to die of lights having toured the stadiums under construction back in october conversations with the catteries might not be without the odd awkward moments in front suggesting recently the tournament be extended to forty eight teams one catalyst planning for thirty two and pushing for them to share it with their neighbors some of whom are currently blockading the country while we're joined by our correspondent on the richardson from outside the summit and di holloway he's been posing in front some questions it's a press conference or on the so what's the whole deal with the summit and anything

illuminating in infancy nice reply steve. yeah it's the phaethon executive football summits to sort of try and translate jenny often seen as soon as he became president back in twenty sixty really took himself on the road and every year he has a number of these summits where he gets to meet fifty or sixty representatives of member associations he sees it as an opportunity to exchange ideas and opinions of those with the most cynical amongst us might see it as a good way of electioneering and making sure he is still going to be the man who stays as fifa president when those elections take place next year now inevitably with this summit taking place and cuts are a lot of the talk about the preparations were four years away now from the middle east's first ever world cup and the on going to talk whether or not this will be a forty eight seeing world cup or thirty two c. world cup which is what qatar bid for and which is what they are planning for. now

infancy of course managed to get through that's in twenty twenty six the world cup will be expanded a very different sort of world cup that will be hosted by the u.s. canada mexico cuts are already hosting the smallest host nation it's a take on this storm and so logistically very difficult and as you mentioned in your lead in qatar at the moment is the subject of a blockade from some of its neighboring countries including saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates bartz mr infancy now still not ruling out the prospects of games going to neighboring countries if it was decided that this event would be expanded that final decision will be taken at a fee for council meeting in miami that's coming up in march of next year and at the moment the feasibility study is ongoing us of listen search what he had to say about. is it feasible or not that's the question is it feasible to do it only in qatar. difficult probably is it feasible to have

a few games being played in neighboring countries well maybe this is an option of course not that naive not to nor not to read the news and not to nor what is going on but we are in football we are not in politics. and in football sometimes i dream come true i understand we've got about a minute to wrap this up you mentioned those elections how much lobbying has been going on and any other issues being dealt with of course at the moment there's no one standing against in france you know in those elections that take place in france next may but he's definitely showing up his position the bottom line things member associations they want revenue to come into view into the fee for it so their association something was under threat in the midst of the corruption scandal that surround his predecessor sepp blatter so he's been talking about expanding the

club world cup something that certainly ongoing in the united arab emirates which involves a handful of seems he wants to see that massively expanded also the nation's leagues such a success in europe this season he wants to see that expanded around the world more money coming into the associations a better chance of him staying on in this job for many more years to come. and the richardson there for us in doha thank you very much well in fronting nice former pats competition when he was head of your wife has reached the end of the group stages champions league title holders realm of dread suffered their biggest ever home defeat in european competition beaten three nailed by c.s.k. moscow at the santiago bernabeu victory for the moscow fights wasn't enough for the russian team to avoid finishing bottom of the group missing out on the europa league row already assured of top spot in group g. and a place in the last sixteen. all santa will be had to kick off the night's auction in the europa league from eight hundred g.m.t.

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senators prepare to vote on ending american military support for the saudi immorality coalition in yemen. unarmed tailless is al-jazeera live from london also coming up. tensions high in the occupied territories after palestinian attacks and israeli raids. the best arrangement for everybody to replace u.k. amsi this for us to agree a deal and get this deal into line a warm welcome for to resume a in brussels but doubts continue about a breakthrough in the brics it talks. and a rat house fire destroys thousands of voting machines in the democratic republic of congo but the election will still go ahead. and there's been a major breakthrough on the final day of talks in sweden between

a yemeni government and hooty rebels organized by the united nations both sides have agreed to a cease fire in her data and the withdrawal of troops from the red sea port city which is the main route for food and medical aid into yemen at the u.n. also says that there's what they call a mutual understanding on deescalation in the city of thais the other major center of fighting all this comes after a deal was agreed on tuesday for a prisoner exchange in january involving around fifteen thousand people on both sides the united nations has announced another round of talks will now take place at the end of january you have reached an agreement on the day the port city which will see a little really prime month of forces from the port and the since the and the establishment of a guard moderate the governor it wide cease fire out. the u.n. will play a leading 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 the millions of yemenis i don't think it would be right to give you a specific outline of the kind of things we would like to see on the port but it's clear and it's public knowledge that the starting point on the airport is opening it up to commercial flights maybe domestic first and that the u.n. wants to see that airport open to soon as possible. as agreed by the parties and i would like to think that over the next week maybe less we might find an agreement on talking about it to james bays is live from the u.n. headquarters in new york james how significant is the deal. well you just had to look at those pictures of a handshake between the yemeni government foreign minister and the who's the chief negotiator and perhaps for me to tell you that before these talks people were

really doubting whether they were even going to sit in the same room so that is very very important they were shaking hands and they were smiling this though is the full text of the agreement they've come up with and it's worth telling you i think it's not a deal it's an interim deal it's what they want to happen and none of these things have yet happened and there's still clearly a lot lot of lack of trust between the two sides in fact even though they were smiling and shaking hands when the two sides spoke to reporters both said we'll stick to this agreement if the other side does and i think certainly on some of the key issues particularly data some things are a little unclear the u.n. going to take a major role at the port but not taking full control what will who thiis still be doing at the port these sort of questions are there and i think there are potential

problems with some of the details but i think what the international community is hoping is that by finally endorsing this deal now they can create a little bit of momentum and what happens next. well we've seen the secretary general of the united nations there in stockholm the swedish foreign minister there to the british foreign secretary arrived at the last minute as well and i think what they're trying to do is move this the next stage which is back here in new york the u.k. involved because they have this role that's known as the pen holder at the united nations on yemen the subjects that means if there's a resolution then normally the one to write it and there is already talk of a new u.n. security council resolution to take what was it what was achieved in stockholm and put it formally as a security council resolution to try and lock in the process the progress that they've made certainly we heard from the kuwaiti ambassador who represents the arab group and in the past has come under very strong pressure from the saudis and from

the united arab emirates not to allow any new resolution he certainly talked about the idea of a resolution is not instantly opposed at this time i think that resolution won't come yet because the next stage will be missed the griffis the special envoy briefing the security council that is happening and they were arranged it very swiftly on friday here in new york games based thank you very much and in the u.s. the senate is expected to vote in the next few hours on a resolution to end the u.s. support for the saudi erotic coalition in yemen senators voted sixty eight to thirty nine to balance the measure on wednesday a similar move was defeated in march but bipartisan support has increased since the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi the united states with very little media attention has been saudi arabia's partner in this horrific war we have been

providing the bombs the saudi leg polish and is using refueling their planes before they drop those bombs and assisting with intelligence. jordan is live from capitol hill in washington d.c. how are events expected unfold in the next few hours. well the period for debate on the amendments and the resolution itself will continue for about another ninety to one hundred minutes or so debate will be closed at seventeen forty five g.m.t. then the senate will move to a vote on each of eight amendments that have been offered to expand or clarify the intent of this resolution which is using the nine hundred seventy three war powers act to as its impetus for stopping u.s. military support of the saudi coalition in the yemeni civil war after the vote is taken on each of those eight amendments lorand then there will be

a vote on the resolution itself including any amendments that have been passed by the senate the thinking right now is that vote might come perhaps in the next four hours or so it really depends on how quickly they move through the debate on each of the amendments and how often they can keep all enough senators in the chamber so that they can actually move from one piece of business to the next and how significant is it that this is getting bipartisan support. well it's significant lauren because there is a real sense not just on the in the senate but also in the house of representatives that the u.s. as a refusal to embrace the conclusion by the cia that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon was behind the murder of the journalist. that because of this reluctance from the white house to accept that conclusion that the u.s.

congress has to stand up and send a message to other countries and indeed to americans themselves that there are certain values for which the united states stands that there is certain behavior that the united states will not support or countenance in any way and so the best way to send that message is for both democrats and republicans to actually step. it up and to try to pass legislation and resolutions that send that message and in some cases compelled changes in the way that the u.s. is conducting its foreign policy this is seemingly the start of what could be a movement both republicans and democrats are saying that when the new congress convenes just after the start of the new year that they are going to come right back to these issues they're not going to just let this matter die whereas this congress the one hundred fifteenth session comes to a close and thank you very much indeed.

it's been a series of violent incidents between palestinians and israelis in the last twenty four hours the israeli army is looking for a palestinian who shot dead two soldiers at a bus stop near ramallah it came after the army carried out several raids by the west bank killing two palestinians and in the past few hours another palestinian was killed nearby after what the israeli army says was a car ramming incident there's also been a stabbing attack in the old city of jerusalem in which two israeli police officers were injured and the attacker was killed very close it has more from west jerusalem . it was still another violent incidents to join the ranks of what has been an extremely violent twenty four hours in the occupied west bank this time what the israeli military referred to as a suspected car running attack on soldiers just outside the west bank city of

ramallah and the driver of that vehicle a palestinian man shot and killed according to palestinian health ministry the israeli army saying he had been neutralized some reports from palestinian media saying that it might not have been a deliberate running attack that he might of lost control of the vehicle certainly there have been a number of israeli settler stoning attacks on palestinian vehicles along the route runs north and south through this part of the occupied west bank route sixty that is where earlier on thursday there was an attack by a palestinian gunman or gunmen on a bus stop where there were israeli soldiers and civilians according to the military. gathered and there were two soldiers killed in that attack one seriously injured according to the israeli army now as a result of vats the israeli military have taken the step of declaring the whole of ramallah the city which is of course the seat of the palestinian authority a closed military zone gridlock on the view on the roads around ramallah at the

checkpoints in and out of that city and all of this following an extremely violent night in which there were two israeli raids on suspects of recent attacks one killed just outside ramallah another killed inside a building in a refugee camp just outside nablus and then in the early hours of the morning a stabbing attack an attempted stabbing attack on israeli security forces one person one of those security forces lightly injured one moderate moderately injured and the attacker himself shot dead so this is a real concertina in of violent events taking place in the occupied west bank over the last day. still to come and i'm just here sure not because supreme court rules it was unconstitutional and the president to dissolve parliament last. reporting from the un climate talks in.