leaders to help that there's 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 storm 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. was going to see a resurgence of health. coverage and no amount of good will changes that go to whole al-jazeera brussels. and the un climate conference in poland is expected to wrap up on friday and despite desperate pleas from negotiators for progress many issues remain undecided the events in the lead say has seen heated discussions between rich and poor

nations over the past two weeks twenty four insiders say delegates from nearly two hundred nations failed to agree on issues including adopting the latest environmental science and how climate action should be funded scientists say we have little more than a decade or two to cap global warming or moderate but still serious level maryanna harm has more. our planet is heating up and fast what once took hundreds of thousands of years has happened in decay since the industrial revolution with burned fossil fuels or will guess and coal to power our changing world and pump carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere the guess is lit the sun's light in but stop some of that heat escaping warming the planet much like the glass walls of a greenhouse it's now one degree hotter since pre-industrial times where on trek to

so past one point five degrees celsius and around twelve years and three degrees at least by the year twenty one hundred our oceans are expanding as they warm arctic sea ice glaciers are melting sea levels have risen by around twenty two seem to me to since eight hundred eighty and that's it just one degree imagine then our planet at triple that this is the coastal city of shanghai in a three degree world more than seventeen million of you your homes your businesses your lives could be swallowed up by the rising tide the coastal city of miami could cease to exist many of you joining hundreds of millions of climate refugees from coastal cities around the world on our current trajectory expected stream weather events to increase along with insurance premiums for our homes and our health our

water supplies and l. food will be affected some crops just won't grow with they once did and they in this the declining health of our oceans the carbon dioxide they absorb is making the waters acidic large underwater areas are becoming uninhabitable from the hate all of this amounts to a compelling case to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and make the switch to clean energy. problem is the world's climate change experts say al pledges in paris three years ago and nearly enough and fact global c o two emissions have gone up for the second year in a row the fossil fuels industry still powers most economies growing grain requires long term thinking and the bite of change. times be sharp some world leaders appear more concerned with winning votes to stay in office no i don't. know you probably don't then how future generations might judge their

actions some of us are already taking action the consequences if we don't we'll be catastrophic this isn't a job for future generations for most of us irreversible damage to our planet will happen in our lifetimes. all right still ahead on edges it out when we come back find out why easing violence in iraq is making it harder for people to build a peaceful future. mexicans get the red chance to walk the halls of one place usually reserved only for their presidents. and investigation into the real powers that control the world health organization their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of public health can they be trusted with building a healthier future if their loyalty becomes questionable views of the people that

are involved in the h one n one push isn't getting much difficult for you now that w h o has a chance who says don't you in terms of trust that you trust the knowledge of the euro. you're watching i do see a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. senate has passed a resolution to end all military support for the saudi emma rotty coalition fighting in yemen senators also blamed saudi crown prince mohamed bin sandman for the murder of journalist. president trump is likely to veto both resolutions. french police have killed the suspected gunman of the stratas christmas market

attack after a two day manhunt by more than seven hundred offices sheriff she kept the shot dead on thursday night after opening fire on police. the e.u. is stepping up preparations in case the u.k. leaves without a deal in march that's off the e.u. leaders told britain's prime minister proposals to help sell the braggs the deal at home were not clear enough for the block to help. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered an expansion of settlements and a military crackdown after twenty four hours of violence two israeli soldiers were killed outside an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank on thursday it triggered protests in jerusalem calling for action the attacks on soldiers happened after israeli forces killed two palestinians in separate stephanie decker is live for us now in western islam stephanie what's been happening overnight after what was a violent day on thursday the israeli army

has said that they've arrested thirty five people in the occupied west bank in raids they are course looking for that attackers you mentioned there the attack outside ofra that ends up killing two soldiers and one in critical condition it sealed off at a mall which is essentially the headquarters let's say of the palestinian authority in the west bank that is now open certain checkpoints remain closed but traffic is flowing again now how mass is called for protests at checkpoints in the west bank in response to the to the escalation let's say fatah has called for protests in the center of the city center is and of course the that the search for him by the israeli army continues they've called up reservists just because it repent manes a very very tense situation has a man this is what the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had to say in response to all of this on thursday. on monday morning when we would see last night

we settled accounts with the murderers from the terrorist attacks we will settle accounts with whoever did this our guiding principle is that whoever attacks and whoever tries to attack is will pay with his life now enemies know this and we will find them. and how much share pressure is netanyahu under with all of this stephanie. well he is now also the defense minister not just the prime minister and foreign minister the post he holds he was under a lot of pressure when he agreed to a cease fire with a mass just last month so that as you i think showed the pictures earlier there were protests in front of his residence here in west jerusalem last night calling for him to expand settlements calling for him to clamp down settler violence last night to in the occupied rest mass pelting palestinian cars with stones also again calling for their bid to be a harsh response by the prime minister so what we know at the moment to the

response has been this the prime minister came out yesterday and said that there will be an expansion of the authorization that say the legalisation of jewish homes inside the west bank this does happen it's happened in the past when the government response to attacks by authorizing the continuous expansion of settlements will have to wait and see how things unfold today on friday but certainly at the moment thing seems to have been contained for now but again we did also have the prime minister warned how mass because how mass is getting involved in terms of calling for protests in the west bank that that truce that ceasefire in gaza cannot hold and will not hold if these kinds of attacks in the west bank continues so we're going have to wait and see how the day unfolds but for the moment no massive incidents overnight all right stephanie deca live for us in west recent thanks stephanie saudi arabia's government has been buying its own stocks to conceal the effects of the political fallout from the murder of jamal khashoggi the wall street

journal reports that foreign investors dumped saudi stocks when her show g.'s death was revealed abbess mamani is a professor of political science at the university of waterloo in canada she says this kind of trading can cause more trouble to saudi arabia's economy. 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 interviewing 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 theory allow you know supply and demand to speak for itself and of course this is a big part of what is mohamed been so 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 led type of growth. in northern iraq several projects are trying to help the women become more independent by teaching them new skills but there's less money available as the threat from i saw appears to be lower rob masson reports from near frankie refugee camp in the hope in the kurdish region of northern iraq. philos father says weaving a new future for her family which was ripped apart four years ago when i was so fighters swept through her hometown of sin john chan movie if i lost my eldest son who was the sunshine of my life i still remember him every time i was a meet other woman at the camp he was killed on the night he was about to get

married. when i was always finally pushed out of synch filosa no five remaining children eventually made their way to a refugee camp and conquer in the kurdish region of northern iraq have been a marriage i used to cry all the time inside the tent i didn't have food to feed my children we barely had anything at all fearless now works at a carpet factory nearby she's never woven anything before. but her newly learned skills provide an income using the woman is said to be the backbone of their families but they isolate hogs and twenty fourteen shattered many of those families and destroyed tens of thousands of lives for lose like many of the women at this center lost her husband and several relatives the organizers of projects like this one hope that they will help the women to regain the confidence of become more

independent and work towards a more peaceful future. it is true that still many of the women are still suffering what we need is a lot of support from the local authorities and from around the world the women still have a long road ahead but you can see hope spreading among them. this center is home to several projects run by local and global aid agencies. but as the threat from eisel diminishes it seems the world's interest is fading to. hear the world is no longer paying much attention to our suffering but we shall be asking for our rights until we draw our last breath we want to ensure a bright future for our children and generations to come. the future may be brighter now for filosa and her family but there are many other years it is who are still struggling to survive rob matheson al-jazeera the hook the kurdish region of northern iraq or the presidential palace in mexico is usually off limits but the

new leader is changing that underwrites manuel lopez obrador has opened the residence to the public and it is john home enjoying the tall in mexico city. the presidential residence los pinos has always been shrouded in secrecy sealed off toward mary mexicans last week that suddenly changed the new president under his money well look the door opened the gates since then crowds have been swarming in to take a look at the imposing buildings and to even brome around the president's private office. it's excellent a privilege for all mexicans to been here enjoying the wonders we were all missing out on because it was always close palatial houses cabins and look tree conference rooms with all the fittings around of alaska's was taking full advantage for a fifty birthday photo session the all important can see on us the way. this

is ours really we built this with our own money so it feels good that they've opened the doors. the new president says los pinos will become a cult true center to live instead his own house it's part of his of drive which is also seen him selling the presidential plane and traveling to his inauguration and his old volkswagen jetta epifanio who traveled from two hours away to visit thorley approves. can always come to you that's why the mexican people made the change because of so much corruption and poverty officials enjoyed the best planes the best shoes for their children while the poor in the hills walk barefoot but his wife rosa isn't so sure about opening up most people's don't they get a look at that dirt over there that are in it to mean those communique that is open there now well it's very nice but give it a year it's going to get very dirty. there's certainly a lot to clean not just the extensive grounds and houses but a few extra features this is the private cinema underneath the main presidential

residence and the guide to tellus the directors themselves used to occasionally show the president their films there and there's another interesting room if you move along this corridor this is the bunker built by former president felipe calderon and he might have thought that he needed it because the so-called drug war started shortly after he came to power. after seeing you these little students weren't sure if the new president's gesture means much who's just to show not since you know what i'm i don't know if it's really a good idea if he really wants to do it or if it's just to get points to show he lives like the people then he may feel the same about a populous president whether they agree with lopez obrador decision or not there's certainly no shortage of visitors john homewood out zero mexico city. of virgin atlantic says it could start commercial spaceflight says early as next year its

rocketplane reach space for the first time on a test flight spaceship to launch from the mojave desert in the western u.s. in reste eighty three kilometers above the earth's surface the original rocket crashed during a test four years ago virgin atlantic plans to offer a ninety minute space flights for two hundred fifty thousand dollars earlier i spoke to virgin atlantic founder richard branson. it's obviously a great success i mean i think we're the first sort of norm country. run space line to put people into space. it's been fourteen hard hard years to get here. and it's the start of a whole new new era of space travel for. individuals around the world who would love to become astronauts for putting satellites into space and create and connecting people around the world were not connected so today was an historic day

and one that we've been celebrating i talked to our pilots today about the physical stress on their body because obviously i'm going up in a few months time and i'm interested to know exactly how it was. and they said it was. we also do centrifuge testing to help people get their bodies prepared he said it was nothing like the centrifuge test it was just just stunningly beautiful and you're going straight up yes that you know from north to three thousand miles an hour in seven seconds there's a little bit of g. force on the body but you're just looking out of the window distracted by the beauty of what you see. and. what he says is he believes it pretty well anybody should be able to. take this sort of sixty seconds of g. force that that it will entail well commercial space travel was that i don't

quibble and price when it started in the early one nine hundred twenty s. across the atlantic and over the years as more and more people who had money spent money the airlines were able to start bringing down the price down and down and down over the decades and the same will happen with space travel it will be initially. fairly well off people who will be able to fill our spaceships. that will help us build new spaceships by building new spaceships will be able to bring the price down so. my grandchildren. i think will. you know will quite likely quite regularly go into space and i think many other people's grand children the same hopefully. children children as well. this is al jazeera let's get a roundup of the top stories the u.s.

senate has passed a resolution to end all military support for the saudi and iraqi coalition fighting in yemen senators also blamed saudi crown prince mohammed bin sandman for the murder of journalist president trump is likely to veto both resolutions and follows a breakthrough on the final day of un back talks in sweden between yemen's government and the hooty rebels on thursday both sides agreed to a ceasefire in the port city of her data the main entry point for food and medical aid the u.n. also says there's an understanding between the two parties on the escalation in the city of ties. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered an expansion of settlements and a military crackdown after twenty four hours of violence two israeli soldiers were killed outside an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank on thursday the attacks on soldiers happened after israeli forces killed two palestinians in separate raids french police have killed the suspected gunman of the strasbourg

christmas market attack after a two day manhunt by more than seven hundred officers. those are the headlines inside story is next. al-jazeera. where ever you are. a confident reason may emerge is from ten downing street to surviving a critical low confidence vote now the u.k. prime minister is back in brussels can call them intrigue victory give a leverage with the new leader this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program all i'm in wrong britain's embattled prime minister has survived a no confidence vote by members of our own party it was a narrow victory but it allows tories and made to continue negotiating with the e.u. leaders for concessions on have briggs that deal but e.u. leaders have insisted the agreement is non-negotiable we'll get to our guests in a moment but first here's what the prime minister said as he arrived in brussels my focus now is on ensuring that i can get those assurances that we need to get this deal they've denied because i genuinely believe it's in the best interests of both sides the u.k. and the e.u. to get the deal of the nine to agree a deal time recognise the strengths of concern in the house of commons and that's what i will be pushing to colleagues today i don't expect an immediate breakthrough but what i do hope is that we can start to work this quickly as possible on the

shore and since it's necessary. put to reason may she must hope that the words of president jiang called younker of the european commission but with intelligent use of clarification and interpretation there may be a way ahead but central to this is how can the same form of words be acceptable in brussels and unexceptable in london and vice versa that is the question that dominates the proceedings here the question is is of such importance that it's hard to see what sort of resolution that can be given what the government's concerned certainly the german government but also the e.u. institutions have said that there will be no renegotiation. let's introduce the panel joining us on skype from london julian who is a french national living in the u.k. also a policy analyst for vocal europe an online news service in the english city of daraa tom brooks dean

a professor of law and government at darren law school and also in london jonathan lis deputy director at british influence welcome to you all to reason may has survived just a belt survived a vote of no confidence in her by her own party however has her brags that deal survives let's start with you in london jonathan lest you think the brig's it deal is in any better position than it was twenty four hours ago. no it's even worse if i was possible first of all the the e.u. has already said on numerous occasions that they can't alter this northern island backstop and they can't fundamentally reopen the withdrawal agreement legally anyway and so all they can do is take it with some language but that's not good enough for m.p.'s it want to see the whole thing renegotiate is so treason may is going to be asking people to renegotiate it but she simply won't get what she wants and on the other to add to that she has now seen arrow thorazine vastly diminished

in the vote yesterday so if she was able to do something before she's even less able to do it now because the e.u. won't take a seriously and there are one hundred seventeen tory m.p.'s it will probably vote against the deal no matter what she brings but because they can't support her as leader let me bring in julia know is here from london also you wrote an article that said keep calm and carry on negotiating is that still the case right now. i don't think we consider still the case any longer because of the fact that the e.u. has itself said that it is no longer negotiating you have even though you have sebastian could saying that they're going to work together to prevent an earlier brags it's all that means is they're going to the ear is going to try to help through his main get this deal through. they are has already said that he's not going so france is not interesting negotiating this is not into negotiating this de most of the e.u. will be able to offer to reason that this point is a few clarification's

a few notes and maybe even as was said yesterday in the possibility of trip continuing the trade negotiations even if the backstop comes into effect tom brooks and everybody seems to be agreed that the are going to renegotiate however to reason may is looking for some sort of clarity on backstop what that might mean is does she get some sort of deal that says yes it's temporary and this is the date will come to an end why can't she renegotiate what's the legal precedent behind all of this. well the legal precedent behind this is that the negotiations have come to an end and there was a final deal that she then took to her cabinet clearly there was something short of complete unity on that and in particular worry about parliament not agreeing to this prime minister then went to the country and has been losing popular support for her particular exit plan so she's kind of in this model of kind

of signing up to something that she's not able to sell it would seem perhaps probably not to her cabinet but certainly not to parliament or the country with the negotiations over and it was noted at the b. start of this up a cd things that really they're supposed to be concluded about six months before march no one thought that it was going to go on a bit longer than that and it and it has but she's effectively run out of road which is why that the legal part has come to an end and she's really in a real pickle with this with this scenario. because in order to try to get that confidence vote from her own party she was making promises about getting changes to the legal agreement that she simply not going to be able to deliver and i think will frustrates members of her own party even more. and make up like tick people in the opposition parties jonathan less in london is true is

a may simply rearranging deck chairs on a sinking titanic that is all she's doing right now. she's playing for time lurch she delayed the very torn on tuesday because she wants to save her own skin which enraged party which is why they moved this very safe no confidence against her and so now she's going to the e.u. and asking for something which she knows she must know cannot be delivered and the reason she must know that is because they've been telling her for months and months so it seems extraordinary that she's setting herself up for failure the problem is that there is never going to be any way of squaring this impossible circle like so much else and brags that it is simply undeliverable the reason for the us is that the k. parliaments are the reason that some conservatives are against the backstop is that it cannot be unilaterally terminated by the u.k. and there is no set endpoint but that is what makes it acceptable to the e.u. unprotect or the irish government so if you were to change that and make it

acceptable then to the u.k. parliament it would necessarily become unacceptable the irish government and the e.u. and if objects which won't happen anyway because they're not relating the negotiation but if he were to fudge it that it would satisfy no one because he would lose trust so really there is no middle ground here satisfy the a parliament or you satisfy the e.u. and for that reason you simply won't get it still through some books in durham you heard joe english just had to say there's really nothing that can be done we've not been in this situation in the u.k. before so is there any kind of legal precedent is there any kind of room for maneuver that the prime minister might have or is it simply this is the deal and she has to sell it or not if a she doesn't sell it it's a hard drugs it. i think this point about the prime minister playing for time she's certainly been doing an awful lot of that remember that for most of the two years that she or her team have been negotiating this breaks that deal they've been

keeping the details secret even from her own cabinet he didn't find out about the details until a checkers meeting at the prime minister's residence in september and that's when we started seeing several i profile resignations including your presence the secretary and foreign secretary and then many others of course to follow and she's been trying to play this as it's either her back sits which is the only back sets or some kind of new deal scenario which the government is not planned for and would really genuinely cause cause some serious problems now the game changer in all this kind of what the legal way out potentially might be for her or or the legal way out for others in parliament is that on monday the european court of justice ruled that parliament can unilaterally without getting any new agreement from me you could could pause breck's it's a good pause it's leaving it could decide to not leave and revoke its its trigger

that option is potentially attractive to those of course who would want to remain anyway that's not surprising but it could also be potentially of interest to those who want to leave those who recognize that the that the deal has been a lot more complex and more arduous than a lot of people probably thought at the beginning on both sides and would be able be an opportunity to kind of get the right kind of bridge for those who want bracks it get the right kind of exits in in place this is still on the table of course other option is parliament could choose to hold to the referendum i'm somewhat surprised the prime minister has not gone for that in failing to get parliament on her side one way of getting them on her side in the next few weeks would be to call a referee. in amman her deal or to remain make it set between her trying to follow through on the referendum of her having the only option versus staying in the european union risky of course for her to do that but if she were to win that would

give a i think a significant push to get her plan through parliament even against very reluctant m.p.'s she's chosen not to do that general election she could also call a snap election called but that would be very difficult because while she would be well while the power is there this could be used the difficulty is it would take a few weeks to kick off it would be at least six week process and we would really get dangerously close to that march state that any new government that came into place whether it be led by her with be led by germany corben in labor or someone else they wouldn't have much room at all to get this deal agreed back they might miss the deadline to have that legal thing signed off to have the march. or if they wanted to do something else so general election is a very particularly difficult thing to see happening right now but a referendum is possible and and i'm still surprised he hasn't done that judy ho is

is it time for the british government to hit the poles bus and briggs and call for a second reverend. so the problem with that question is that you firstly need to figure out if there's actually a majority in parliament for a car from them as it is it may be the case we're not having much but we have to admit that the number of people speaking publicly for a second referendum in parliament is relatively low we also have the issue that jeremy corbin's labor party is also at the top for the time being not supporting one another clearly we're having a lot of things behind the scenes but like many things to break this is going to affect we come out of war like many things is going to come out of nowhere and germy coppin may be waiting for the last moment to call one to see if he can sort of take him chicken to reason may maybe he's hoping to hold one to call for one after there's a vote of no confidence and if he can force a general election of hitting the pause button i think that the british government

is trying to avoid that at all costs simply because the fact it will be seen as a sort of weakness in the woods possibly embolden the far right in a party within the energy to move against in some way or embolden them to push for their version of rags it or a harder brogues it will check its plus what have you because while it may seem like the conservative rebels or the fisa law. there was still a third of the conservative party that voted against terrorism and the uniform meaning behind the scenes have been that their votes against reason is deal regardless of what happens it's not necessarily sure that this is going to solve any of the issues at hand and on the off chance that there is a referendum and even within that char there's a chance that the referendum could just validates what happened in twenty sixteen and we still end up back in square one we're going to have a severe issue or we had to referendums both for to leave the beacon sudden

a deal these patients run out a lot about what happens now and again regardless of what government comes in that issue is going to remain. jonathan julian makes a very interesting point about jeremy called in there saying that he might be waiting for the very last chance is a game of chicken but surely we're at that stage now. well the jeremy lin and the labor party have a very clear policy on brics it which is in some ways they have a very table a sea of rice it which is first of all they will try to get a general election and get elected so they can try and renegotiate brax it themselves which of course the e.u. is very light is a deeper let's go with it and if they can't get a general election which would involve no confidence in the government then they would keep all options on the table which most people would understand speak a second referendum now obviously i agree that coogan is trying to delay the moment

where he gets that but coburn does not want to resume a to be in power so if the if the labor party thought that there was a chance of removing the government then they would take it and the important thing is now hundred seventeen tory m.p.'s have signalled that their willingness to remove threes in may is it possible but there are a handful of them which would be enough to actually vote with the opposition and force the government out of office so that's the key but one one point that the other panelists have mentioned which i know sure is correct actually which is the idea of causing it the lure is that he can extend the article fifty process with the unanimous agreement of the e.u. or you can revoke it all together but the idea of pausing it's like cutting the top and then to restarting at a later date is not really in keeping with the judgment as far as i understand it of the european court of justice if you're very good will have done by nots

parliaments by certainly the will of parliament and that would have to be settled where it wouldn't be a kind of delaying tactic it would be we are going to remain in the e.u. so there might not be a panacea in mind not be an option for just do we have more time to think about this work you're shaking your head in disagreement with jonathan less just tell me why. yeah actually you had because parliament can revoke treating article fifty and stuff that makes it breaks a process but it can then choose to trigger it again in future there's nothing preventing problem for doing that legally so we have a legal mechanism immediately but we have a legal mechanism there but don't think you're clearly disagreeing with this you don't think it's a great option for the country before our questions when it was cheap a paper you point to be it would be bad faith that so well let me come to julian then and. please make a comment make a comment i was going to comment on the fact that i think it was made clear within

the judgement that if the u.k. chose to revoke article fifty one counsel to break the person's all together and that would need to be done in good faith and under the understanding that this was going to be used to stop as jonathan said to stop the negotiations give them time to brief and in effect in terms of how the e.u. would see this if the u.k. chose to revoke article fifteen then it would be doing so under the guise of staying within the e.u. not just to have a quota reenacts what happened in last year one last period of time since the fifty's and acted it would need to be sort of a definitive action jonathan people increasingly getting frustrated with the power games that are going on there's a lot of talk now that nobody in the u.k. is showing any kind of statesmanship that everybody is in it for themselves to try and either grab power or stay in power is that accurate do you think. i think there's a lot of treat in that we are seeing kind of

a breakdown of britain's reputation the political office has been revealed not to be out in the national interests which has been a great international shop for a country which brought its polls is renowned for its pragmatism its good sense its reliability britain is sort of defying a world opinion right now and the problem is that the fundamental problem is the bracks it in the form in which it was promised could never be delivered and to reason may in our cowardice and dishonesty and afraid to say never made that clear quite the reverse she went along with the pretense for two years that all of the promise is and the guarantees could be delivered with none of the resulting pain so she could have all of her redlines but with no economic harm with no let's go damage with no threats to the canonical political integrity of the united kingdom that wasn't possible so obviously the people that she made those promises to and now incredibly disappointed so there is no majority as other pundits have said for

any particular deal so it seems the like yours option that they'll either be a general election if enough people fed up or there will be a referendum and the referendum would most likely be as tom said with between may steel and remain and so if may still date when then parliament will presumably be compelled to announce that deal and then we would leave an orderly way told let's just talk about the question that was asked in the first referendum it was a very simple question would you like to be part of the e.u. or not to do you think that people were informed enough about what that actually meant and you think there is a legal challenge to be made to simply say that there wasn't enough information available at the time to make an informed decision. i think people did know enough and i don't think there's a basis for challenging that as it were i took part in a public consultation advise he looked royal commission on that question advising

the change to remain or leave versus a yes or no format that was initially put forward by the then david cameron government on the basis of it was a more can a neutral question that wasn't biased for one side or the other so that's why i think what one thing that's different that that's clearly come out of this is to compare this referendum with another one the one for scotland's independence were these guys national party lost in that referendum the s. and p. put forward a white paper a long document about what exactly would mean on the british pound the place of the queen their immigration policy domestic policy borders security and so on people had a sense about what exactly they were going to gets and so if they won or indeed if they lost people who knew how to get a clear sense with their going forward now i think when it came to leaving the european union that meant lots of different things different people i think when

trees that may something up as pricks it means practice it that was actually probably pretty accurate because they had some people in the official leave campaign talking about the point space immigration system that was then promptly ruled out curiously exists right now in law for non e.u. citizens we had others saying that there was going to be big reductions of all types of immigration we had. it seemed it met or who wouldn't you want different camps had different stories as to what exactly it meant and of course you could leave the european union but still be in the customs union and so still have the freedom of movement that it seemed many people wanted to stop so there's a lot of confusion that frankly was probably deliberate that in the vote leave aside trying to find any set straw of. was to kind of make sure that people could grasp to take that side and take them and when it was all about winning and not so much about details i spoke to one national leader of the of the official camp and

asked why didn't they have a blueprint like scotland's independence referendum did and i was told because they learned from that that would scotland win digimon details about exactly what this meant they found they got into a lot of trouble because people had a lot of things they could on pig but they only kept it around a few kind of central themes about taking back control and it more money in people's pockets or in the n.h.s. that might be a better way of winning and that they would sort of the details later and i think we're all paying the price to that now judy let me just ask you as a frenchman living in london speaking to a lot of people across the european spectrum what's the view what would what does europe think is going on in britain right now. so i mean there's nothing positive it's actually quite sad when we think about you know britain has always been around for a level of the poena see if it's governance for us bureaucracy which competitive french help that and so years. hasn't held above those organization there's also the sense

of confusion about why they're doing this i mean for example i was at the wedding this summer with my family in our shell and what people asked me was i mean you you know politics i mean we fought things are bad here in france like one of going on in england that they were last in lines and even with colleagues that i've spoken to across europe as far as hungary in brussels when i've been travelling around the fronts and even in the u.k. with the citizens that means for tennis working here people simply don't understand how does being such a breakdown and you know political disappear and diplomatic disappear in just the functionalities that's a require. for this process to be effective i mean even myself i was quite taken aback when i mean i knew the media had a bites an unhealthy affect on the political landscape however when you hear seeing

titles like enemy of the people all of these people traits or these kind of really sort of war like this criminal tory language use against people who simply don't agree of you for me personally it was horrifying to see and for people abroad it's actually quite scary i mean that had friends of mine who said oh i don't want to go to a kenyan mall i know i've have former colleagues who have left the u.k. because they just didn't want to live in this country anymore and as a member of the free million i feel it's important for me to say as well that when it comes to citizens' rights uses it can do here also quite worried because we don't know what's going to happen none of our rights are being enshrined in law in a way that they can be modified later on down the line and so you know for everybody it means something different but for everybody is quite scary and worrying thank you very much to all of guest certainly a very difficult period coming out for britain the prime minister and the opposition perhaps to tom brooks julian hose and jonathan lest thank you of two for

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response to the murder of jamal khashoggi. and has him seeker this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up police in france killed a suspect behind choose days christmas market attack in strasbourg. the u.n. climate summit is set for a heated final day as nations warned of the growing impact of global warming plus. it's the start of. a whole new new era of space travel reaching beyond the skies virgin galactic carries out a successful test flight of a commercial spacecraft. the u.s. senate has voted to end all military support to the saudi u.a.e.

coalition for the war in yemen a second resolution blame saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sandman for the murder of german. if the measures passed the house they are likely to be vetoed by the president as it has rosen in jordan has. seen the results are fifty six days and forty one nays the resolution is agreed to as amended a rebuke of u.s. president donald trump's policy to stand by saudi arabia no matter what the u.s. senate has passed a resolution symbolically ending all u.s. military support for saudi and emirates the forces fighting in the yemeni civil war the war in yemen is on authorize there has never been a vote in congress who allow our men and women to participate in that war and therefore that war is unconstitutional i have also been deeply concerned that the president continues to ignore human rights violations the suppression of dissent

and the deaths of thousands of civilians in yemen in order to maintain good relations with the saudis. legislators have been worried for some time about the civilian suffering in yemen but the saudi government's murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in october set off a wave of anger bipartisan anger not seen on capitol hill in some time legislators have demanded and received closed door briefings from the cia director and the secretaries of state and defense i can't mention some of the things that they have told us yesterday and today but i do think that this horrific killing of this journalist is not something that we can just simply look the other way and say hey what are you going to do. you know this is war and these things happen these things shouldn't happen and. we have to be very pointed about it around prince mohammed and song and they've also passed

a second resolution that says quote the senate believes crown prince mohammed bin solomon is worse. multiple for the murder of jamal khashoggi it calls on saudi arabia both to quote ensure accountability for his murder and to release political prisoners and for good measure it also condemns a rons giving of advanced lethal weapons to the rebels senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says this resolution strikes the right balance between accountability and maintaining a law it says unlike other pending measures their resolution is neither sufficiently prudent nor sufficiently precise for the job at hand yeah if they said it was saudi arabia to act responsibly we want to see a more stable yemen for the sake of the yemeni people we also want to preserve this seventy your partnership even though this session of congress is almost over the

legislators interest in saudi arabia's behavior is not legislators from both parties and in both the senate and the house say that come january they will be convening hearings and they will be conducting investigations into how the u.s. and saudi arabia's foreign policy goals intersect they also want to make certain that washington isn't underselling itself either morally or legally rosalyn jordan al-jazeera capitol hill assigned him down he is a yemen analyst and georgetown university visiting fellow she says american politicians finally woken up to the suffering of yemenis. what we see is that the u.s. is feeling that this is a war that america does not want to be involved in at least that's the message that the senate is sending out today they're saying that the weapons that are being used are american and some of the attacks that have happened in yemen can amount to war crimes which implicates the u.s. even further in this conflict and so by refusing to refuel airplanes there and to

decrease the assistance and now entirely withdraw it from the saudi led arab coalition they are saying that this war needs to and definitely and most center interestingly the atlantic just broke out news that the pentagon charged the saudi led arab coalition and they undercharged them for refueling oil so saudi arabia still has some some money to pay to the u.s. for refueling these jets and so it seems that the u.s. is more involved in yemen's conflict than they would like and the senate is stepping down they're putting their foot down and they're saying enough is enough for the sore comes off to some progress on the final day of u.n. back talks between yemen's government and the rebels both sides have agreed to a cease fire in the port city of a day which is the main route for imports of food and medical aid the u.n. also says there is what they call an understanding between the two parties for

deescalation in the city of ties the other major center of fighting another round of talks is planned for the end of january you have reached an agreement or no there is a port city which will see will really points of forces from the port and the city and the establishment of a good moderate government it wide cease fires view where the leading role in the ports and these will facilitate humanitarian access on the floor to the civilian population and it's really improve the living conditions for millions of yemeni. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered an expansion of settlements and a military crackdown after twenty four hours of violence two israeli soldiers were killed outside an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank on thursday that triggered protests in jerusalem calling for action the attacks on soldiers happened after israeli forces killed two palestinians in separate raids. on.

last night we settled accounts with the murderers from the terrorist attacks we will settle accounts with whoever did this our guiding principle is that whoever attacks is and whoever tries to attack is will pay with his life and our enemies know this and we will find them stephanie decker has more from west jerusalem. these really army has opened the access points to however some checkpoints do remain closed they do carrying out extensive checks on cars they're still looking for the gunman that carried out that attack outside the legal settlement of ofra on thursday that ended up in the killing of two israeli soldiers the situation remains tense we had settlers attacking palestinian cars on thursday night there were protests outside the residence of the israeli prime minister in west jerusalem calling for him to do more now israeli prime minister has come out and said that

they will be legalizing hundreds of jewish homes of settlements inside the occupied west bank this is a response that sometimes does happen to these kinds of attacks where you see the government legalizing further expansion of settlements inside the occupied west bank now have masses called for protests at checkpoints across the occupied west bank fatah has called for friday prayers to be taken to take part at city centers will have to wait and see how friday on folds but certainly in terms of the violence and the escalation that we've seen over the last twenty four hours even went relatively quiet let say yes there were arrests thirty five arrests by the israeli army in the occupied west bank as they continue to search for the attacker of that incident on thursday. after a two day manhunt police in france have found and killed the suspected gunman of tuesday's christmas market attack in strasbourg sharif a cat was shot dead on thursday night after opening fire on police spawn of snit's

reports. 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 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 were totally engaged ladies and gentleman i am proud more. police appeared to be closing in on chick out when swat teams raided locations in southeastern strasbourg earlier on thursday the twenty nine year old would serve 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 didn't get so and this is 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 states 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. good at smith al-jazeera school all right still ahead when we come

back well zimbabwe's new president dance to a different chief the ruling party holds its conference report on the daily struggles facing. and a spy saga involving an alleged russian agent plays out in a u.s. court. from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. and there's lots of action in the weather across europe at the moment currently the heaviest downpours there across the mediterranean out of this huge area were scenes of very heavy downpours more heavy rains stretching its way across parts of italy and across the other side of the adriatic as well but then it hitting the very cold air that's in place across many parts of europe and as it does say is tending increasingly wintry so we'll see a fair amount of snow there during the.