to the civilian population and it will improve the living conditions for millions of yemenis the talks in the swedish castle had lasted seven days some of the language in the deal they produced seems vague and there are many details still to be resolved trust between the two sides is clearly lacking both made it clear they don't abide by the deal if their opponents did too at a low that we can look at to agreement signed serious effort has been taken firstly the release of prisoners and those that have been forcibly abducted and the other agreement is they had a good agreement but these are virtual agreements we are assuming that the other party will withdraw and we'll release the prisons and get them that you don't want we are ready to implement the peace agreement and give the u.n. a logistic 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 the un special envoy martin griffiths who led the negotiations will now brief the un security council on friday here in new york diplomats are pleased the agreement is seen at the high end of their expectations i think it's a breakthrough. and a good first step because now the commitment we've seen is start from shows that there is a genuine commitment i think both sides realize that this war as is bringing the nothing and going nowhere except for a huge you're going to turn suffering so i think this is been the usually important agreement there's still a long and potentially difficult road ahead diplomats from the u.n. security council to be meeting discussing the possibility of a resolution next week to endorse the measures that were taken in stockholm. the

difficult bit though is a last thing political deal for yemen and that is something they still have to come up with james pais al-jazeera at the united nations well al jazeera spoke to un special envoy for yemen mohsin griffiths about the deal struck in sweden he told my colleague mehdi has the agreement also crucially opens up the road linking her data to the capital sana and that gives us the basis as you're suggesting for great improvements in the throughput of the port and that's linked to the other aspects of this agreement on her day there which is to free up again the crucial sun. data road the road from her data port to siler from southern and the rest of yemen through which the humanitarian supplies run seventy percent of the humanitarian needs of the yemen so in such a dire state comes through that point and who are these un supervise neutral forces

who are going to be deployed to the port now where are you going to find them what we the un has to act very very quickly that will be our first challenge to brief the security council on friday that is tomorrow. i will brief the council on all these agreements including obviously very particular data and what we're thinking about and what the u.n. headquarters in new york is already considering or the range of options that i think the kind of thing that we're looking for are civilian monitors but they need to arrive very quickly the secretary general of the united nations was here with us in sweden yesterday and today and he was very strong in his view which we all abide by which is to get this done and get this done quickly we've got to have people on the ground next week you can watch the full interview with u.n. envoy martin griffiths on up front with many has done on friday at one thousand nine hundred thirty g.m.t.

. plenty more ahead on the news allen commuting the top cause in sri lanka hands down a ruling that's a big setback for the president. new president daunts to a different cheery and as the ruling party holds its conference we'll report on the daily struggles facing the people. and could the twenty twenty two world cup and expands from thirty two to forty eight teams the president of football's governing body says this support for his idea we hear from him in sport. after a two day manhunt by more than seven hundred police offices they french police officers have found and killed the man suspected of a christmas market attack and book. was shot dead on thursday night off to opening fire on police then it's myth has all the details. the strasbourg christmas market gunman's time on the run ended in his hometown just three kilometers from where he

committed his last the most violent crime of a life spent as a criminal sure he should catch was spotted by a police patrol when they tried to arrest him he shot at them they shot back killing him that was my thoughts are with the victims the injured with those close to them and my thoughts are with strasburg and of france wounded by this attack my thoughts are also with the security forces who are totally engaged ladies and gentleman i am proud more. police appeared to be closing in on chick outs when swat teams raided locations in southeastern strasbourg earlier on thursday the twenty nine year old had served jail sentences in germany in france for a string of thefts and violent crimes one of chicago's last victims was waiting outside a restaurant for his family seemingly chosen at random in the wrong place at the wrong time she lucky getting the son the husband of a friend of mine was in his restaurant his wife and he's someone to the toilet but

he's dead. spread panic in central strasburg on tuesday evening as he ran through the streets shooting some people with a handgun and slashing others with a knife france remains on its highest level of security alert one thousand eight hundred members of the security forces have been deployed to patrol christmas markets across the country to try and prevent or discourage further attacks for three days sharif's account managed to hold out in an area he grew up in the southeastern suburbs of strasbourg his name was on a list of people who might have been a security risk to the french state but there are twenty six thousand other names on that list and impossible for the police to keep tabs on all of those people all of the time. but it's made al-jazeera stressful. and while police looked for the suspect hundreds in honor of the three people who died in the attack mourners attended a service of the city's five hundred year old cathedral outside candles were lit

and flowers placed at the site of the attack five of the thirteen people injured remain in a serious condition britain's prime minister says she's not expecting an immediate breakthrough as she tries to renegotiate her bricks at deal to resume spent thursday meeting leaders in brussels just a day earlier she survived a confidence vote triggered by her own m.p.'s who are unhappy with her withdrawal agreement the e.u. says the deal cannot be renegotiated more now from. to resume a arrived in brussels a political survivor with her appeal for help in reviving the breaks it deal reached with the e.u. looks likely to found. some clarifications as it was explaining. the e.u. leaders won't make this deal to succeed the old turnitin breaks it without a deal is unthinkable here but the help the prime minister seeks may be out of

reach and promised to be no i cannot see is changing the withdrawal agreement we can of course talk about additional insurances but on those the twenty seven member states will appear united and will make their interests clear it will be impossible to break open the negotiations which will be visiting the sick. we must not start renegotiating again we are not here to renegotiate earlier made it clear without high hopes i don't expect an immediate breakthrough but what i do hope is that we can start to work as quickly as possible on the short says if necessary i will be showing the truth legal and political assurances i believe we need to assuage the concerns that members of parliament have on this issue there is appointed which all of this becomes potentially terminal for tourism is breaks a deal but not quite yet in january its fate will be decided in the british

parliament and such is the professed willingness of e.u. leaders to help but this talk of a january summit here as well at which point maybe some final concession can be made. but there is a fundamental difficulty in the logic of prime minister may's problem dissenting u.k. m.p.'s want britain to be able to control the mechanisms of the so-called northern backstop but that would render the backstop worthless as the insurance policy it's intended to be against a hard border on the island of ireland. thank. you very much a significant health. coverage. and no amount of good will changes that. brussels. thousands of hunger areas have protested in the capital bit a pest against a new labor law i was. right police used tear gas on some of the three thousand people who marched towards parliament there's anger after m.p.'s

passed a law which allows employers to demand up to four hundred hours of overtime a year from workers. a bill that will legalize abortions has passed its final hurdle in ireland's parliament two thirds of people voted to overturn a ban on abortion in a referendum in may the bill allows for unrestricted access to abortion when up to twelve weeks pregnant subject to some restrictions and turning a consultation with a medical professional. police in jordan have cashed demonstrations in the latest protest against new income tax laws tear gas was used to disperse around a thousand people who gathered near the prime minister's office and on thursday jordanians have been holding demonstrations since parliament approved legislation last month but critics say increases taxes for lower and middle class families. sri lanka's supreme court has ruled as unconstitutional the president's order to dissolve parliament and hold new elections the country descended into a political crisis when president my three part series that are sacked his prime

minister running away from a single male fernandez reports from colombo. allowed to win top outside the court as news of the judgement broke the seven judge supreme court bench had to decide with the longest prison might you ponder seriously and had butyrate you to sack the entire parliament earlier last month on thursday it said he didn't. the decision was in response to a series of petitions that said the constitution does not allow the president to dissolve parliament before it completes four and a half years of it the first is in which court actually reviewed an act of an executive president and declared it to be what the president dissolved parliament during a political crisis he triggered when he sacked prime minister on the vehicle missing out on twenty six october and replaced him with former president mahinda rajapakse . we committing

a challenge the decision insisting he commanded the majority in parliament book serious enough and rajapaksa claimed otherwise but when they couldn't prove it the president dissolved parliament. this particular. landmark decision. will give one clear message. to all rulers and the ruled that. if we are citizens of our country. we have to respect the rule of law despite coming to power in two thousand and fifteen we committed no lost credibility for not keeping election promises to stamp out corruption and bring previous offenders justice but the president's move to remove him in such a controversial we brought him wide support no matter what side of the political divide your on one thing is clear the verdict delivered by the supreme court today is historic for sri lanka the fact that the country's highest court found the

actions of the executive president unconstitutional but whether this changes the immediate political crisis remains to be seen miller fernandez al-jazeera colombo a refugee detained by a stray on pup new guinea is not a silent for more than five years has been nominated for a prestigious prize the martin annals award recognizes human rights defenders. left stuff for in sudan twenty thirteen he was picked up while traveling from indonesia to a stranger by boat in recent months many men have started new lives in the united states but advocates say a mental health crisis is now gripping those who remain. my name is abdul aziz i'm an advocate for refugee on modest than poppy guinea when i came here i was a twenty years old and now twenty five i'm from darfur they killed many people from our tribes came to indian easier and i thought that indonesia was a signature to

a convention one nine hundred fifty one convention that they can resettle people from everywhere but i was wrong the first time when i sleep in the knees year to song of last five of my friends i still see their faces every day but i just trying to picture what happened to those people arrested by in the police and they were trying to deport me back to sudan and made it to christmas island the day when we have been removed from. from christmas island to darwin from darwin to pop into a guinea i was not even a child i was terrified i was thinking about home home going to see my family again . in five years i have done a lot since i've been nominated by a community my commute to be as a community leader out of one thousand six hundred men we were only five or six people speak fluent in english so much pressure on us i chose myself to be us a teacher or also speak on their behalf sending emails because we used to have only

one hour of internet every week i never use facebook i only use emails and sending to people's eyes smuggler phone to keep in touch with the journalists and the advocates used to be harassed by the security guards all the time it's house my hand writing in every request and every complains i was ready for any punishment that they were sorely wants to give it to me and i was ready for it because i know that this is a risk you know we tell these men's we give them a false hope for them to go and sleep we do it because we want to keep them positive we want to keep them our life we are really really sick and tired of seeing of friends are buying one after another i'm living it is luring go transit center for nearly one year now seems i've been brutally fourth of of the number of detention center i was on the forefront of the guys who decided to stay i never felt that i'm a freak and a five in harvey years except those twenty four days i feel that people are calling

my name as these instead of queueing k.z. are easier to every day i hear and the stories that i heard from the people from syrian refugee camp yemen refugee camp what can you do to help us which is a really broke my heart our wall it's the full of an inspiring people for the sake of people who have been dehumanised i really want to be a lawyer most of the people told me that you have the courage i cannot deny that i'm a leader i chose myself to be on that path and i'm not going to regrets as long as what i'm doing people are getting a benefit out of it i don't actually feel that pressure i dedicated myself i want to help as much as they can do. still ahead on al-jazeera a setback for election officials in the democratic republic of congo just days before an election friend unita. the feste space tourists could take flight as early as next year. and bob says canelo alvarez and rocky fielding gear up for their title bout in new york that's coming up in sports with summer.

from brisk north in few weeks. to the one trying cool to those of southeast asia. flooding has returned to vietnam a consequence really of the winter cold increasing the contrast in the temperature on the line of the hard to see but has been bringing a persistent rain to the coast and it's still there front and most of china is far in between ten and twenty degrees rather cold start the day fog in some places smorgon others otherwise sunshine same sort of position during saturday the rain still falling heavily on the vietnamese coast there also showers increasing in their frequency in the philippines has also been drying recently but much of borneo even sulawesi is not showing that your tendency to grow shows no mostly to the west

we have seen some pretty big ones in java recently he did in jakarta but the risk i think is for the north to have towards singapore much to sumatra even up into southern thailand which has seen some significant rain recently and it looks like it could well increase come saturday. now if you follow that same line of logic from the northeast monsoon what it produces where the contrast is here it is north east monsoon is the winter one that runs north easterly breeze through india but the cloud of masses over the warm by bengal we've now got a very likely development of a tropical cyclone first. then heading towards the coast near andhra pradesh. the weather sponsored by cats are always. a reporter's retreat in a brutal civil war if a commodore hadn't been there the israeli invasion would not have been so well before the commodore had become a journalistic center you could be in a safe enclave and then you went out into civil war i started off leaving this of

a grand suite at the commodore hotel the next room i was in was underground in a tiny prison cell as a hostage beirut the commodore war hotels on al-jazeera. the two new zealand scientist who led a double life so secret even kept him from his family. but his activities would have a military impact for which he would pay the ultimate price. out just zero world investigates the life and death of mahmoud soiree the tunisian drone engineer.

welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour the u.s. senate has passed a resolution to end all military support for the saudi u.a.e. coalition fighting in yemen in a separate senator's blame saudi crown prince. for the murder of journalist. yemen's warring sides of agreeing to a cease fire and her data at a meeting in sweden the u.n. says as part of the deal government forces and her thin fighters have agreed to withdraw from the port city it's the main supply route for getting aid into the country. after a two day manhunt police in france say they've killed the man that attacks people at a christmas market in strasbourg. was killed late on thursday night after opening fire on police. to palestinians and two israeli soldiers have been killed in a series of violent incidents in the past twenty four hours the palestinian deaths came in israeli military raids while the two israeli soldiers died in later attacks

before that reports from western system. even without the privilege of a particularly violent night this would have been a major incident now it risks becoming part of a wider escalation the israeli military said at least one palestinian man got out of the car near this bus stop in the occupied west bank and fired on a group of soldiers and civilians the army said two soldiers were killed one seriously injured. israelis innocent israelis standing at a bus stop is acceptable and we will not accept this terror here in binyamin here in israel and we're going to have answers to this we expect the government to build as many homes as possible to do everything possible to stop this terror. israeli army says hamas has been establishing what it calls terror infrastructures and units for attacks in the west bank as it began a manhunt the nearby city of ramallah the seat of the palestinian authority was

declared a closed military zone roads in and out choked with stationary traffic in a statement the palestinian president condemned the cycle of violence blaming it on israeli incursions incitement and the stalled peace process. in gaza hamas celebrated the attack. we praised hysteric and brave operation which is a natural reaction is to crimes of the israeli occupation and violations against our people it all follows two overnight raids in which israeli forces shot and killed two palestinian suspected of carrying out recent attacks in the northern city of nablus soldiers stormed a building and shot dead. who made been hunting since an attack in october in which two of his israeli coworkers were killed in a separate raid soldiers shot dead silent barghouti the suspected gunman in sunday's drive by shooting near the legal settlement of it came just hours after the death of a baby who was delivered prematurely by a woman injured in the attack. and in the early hours of thursday an attack in

occupied east jerusalem in the old city a palestinian man stabbing and injuring two israeli security forces members before he too was shot dead and there's been further violence through thursday afternoon a palestinian drive a shot dead by israeli soldiers near ramallah in what the israeli military characterized as an attempted ramming attack israeli settlers stoning palestinian vehicles along route sixty the same highway where the earliest shooting took place for months these races cutey establishment has been warning politicians here of the potential for a renewed eruption of violence in the west bank the events of the last twenty four hours will only have given greater weight to those warnings are a force that al-jazeera westerners. saudi arabia's government has been buying its own stocks to conceal the effects of the political fallout caused by the matter of jamal khashoggi the wall street journal reports that foreign investors dumped saudi stocks when news of death came to light it says the royal court has been ordering its public investment company to buy off stocks when markets are down to make sure

local indices don't promise best nominee is professor of political science at the university of waterloo in canada she says this kind of trading is not sustainable and could land saudi arabia's economy in more trouble the roll street journal's been tracking this and showed that indeed multiple times when there's been sort of a crisis of confidence and potentially a real drop in the stock value of the the market you've seen the sovereign wealth fund basically intervene to buy back some of those stock to basically. change the the message of the allure that somehow there is a problem in the stock market so it's an intervention obviously it's not good news for saudi arabia a stock market is supposed to be in syria allow you know supply and demand to speak for itself and of course this is a big part of what is mohamed been sold man the crown prince's vision of twenty thirty a very ambitious economic reform plan to show that there is confidence in the saudi

economy and if that's not the case and there's government intervention i think it doesn't bode well for the optics of of this kind of private sector type of growth. a fire as a warehouse in the democratic republic of congo has destroyed thousands of voting machines but the election commission says a presidential vote in just over a week will still go ahead salah best 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 distant for polling seem to throughout the city ahead of presidential elections on december twenty third is 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 not implicitly but 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. 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 across the country against the use critics have argued they need power to work and only nine percent of the

country has electricity which is often unreliable others say they are illegal untested and easy to rig at rallies in september and october there was backlash. i know they have the money plated deceased them by. sheehan's and having a dubious vote as. we cannot participate in elections that we know already will fail because of these voting machines. the election commission has yet to confirm whether the fire was caused by arson they are 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 shelob alice. eritrea's president. is in mogadishu

for talks with somalia as they rebuild diplomatic relations the two nations agreed to restore ties in july ending fifteen years of hostilities. a sign of the rapidly changing times in the horn of africa. eritrea as president as dry as a work his presence in mogadishu for talks with the somali leader mohammed. his first ever visit and a continuing attempt to mend what has often been fraught relations between the two countries following orders from eritrea's own softening stance that it's called enemy ethiopia. there is much riding on this visit past somali administrations had accused eritrea of supplying weapons to al shabab eritrean government has repeatedly denied this saying the accusations were concocted by ethiopia but since july this year both countries said they plan to a stop

a diplomatic relations as ties improved across the horn of africa by ethiopia's new reformist leader. the two presidents discussed how to strengthen economic and security cooperation in the somali government has been campaigning for a lifting of the arms and promise of eritrea this visit is also about strengthening the recent transformations in the african countries somalia ethiopia and eritrea before. another factor in the talks the strategic importance of the area representatives from six countries bordering the red sea and the gulf of aden met in riyadh on wednesday saudi arabia has been seeking an alliance as the area is vital to global shipping and increasingly a contentious issue with regional rivals like iran turkey and qatar so far no agreement has been reached meanwhile president off work his visit cama somalia's president up to law he. the impeachment motion filed in parliament last week one of

the grounds for the impeachment is allegations the president secretly signed agreements with ethiopia and eritrea the move failed trumped perhaps by a desire to transform the state of play in this region that has borne witness to conflicts and the humanitarian devastation they caused the meeting on thursday is the third time this year that the leaders will have bet and attempt to reset to troubled relationship in a highly tense region al-jazeera. zimbabweans who are struggling to get by or hoping for some answers from the ruling zanu p.f. party which is holding its first annual conference since the army deposed robert mugabe his successor president. is under growing pressure to turn the economy around harriman tassel reports from the capital harare. some people here say zimbabwe has become the tenth province of neighboring south africa inside this trailer brought across the border are thousands of dollars worth of products the

bobbies are the kind of find in shops or are too expensive to buy in south africa thank you very in zimbabwe in places as well yes hopefully you can afford them i like here in zimbabwe desk so expensive so it's better for me to go into a process is it possible make it here in south africa thank you for your own survival as a phantom forward it's another sign zimbabwe's economy is in trouble people can get foreign currency because of cash shortages shot in local stores where prices are more than tripled in recent weeks fuel is also in short supply and now the frustration for struggling somali. a shortage of essential drugs and equipment in public hospitals has crippled the health sector some junior doctors are on strike over pay and working conditions. right now nothing is happening and the do they know it in for the employer. affecting the doctors and the patients. the ruling parties on is holding its annual conference in dealing with. anime is not the only topic on the agenda reports of infighting within the leadership are again being

heard on the first anniversary of the ousting of veteran leader robert mugabe general factionalism will be stronger than fear and issue i think there was a big discussion he got he said today there will probably discuss the need for unity within the party they need to be for everyone to really be i.e. the current abridging of the party is a measurement of. his biggest challenge is the economy the president keeps saying the country is open for business but others the bobbins want to know how and when he plans to turn things around al-jazeera had a president on trump's inauguration committee may have misused funds that it raised the wall street journal is reporting that prosecutors are looking into whether some donors gave money in exchange for favors such as policy concessions or influencing the administration's positions a woman accused of acting as a russian agent to influence u.s.

policy has pleaded guilty in a federal court maria bertino now faces a prison sentence and deportation back to russia she has admitted her activities were part of an effort by moscow to influence u.s. politics alan fischer reports from washington d.c. it reads like the pages of a spy novel a young woman admits she's a russian government agent in america her mission to ship u.s. politics to make it more favorable to more school maria bitter now has admitted working to infiltrate the national rifle association a gun rights group with close ties to republican politicians among the people it supported over the last few years president donnie trump. britain has admitted this was a concerted effort shaped by senior russian officials the month.