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 spying saga involving an alleged russian agent plays out in the u.s. calls. 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 are across the mediterranean out of this huge area of time we're scenes of very heavy downpours more heavy rain stretching its way across parts of it today 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 day today and then that will spread across

towards romania there as we head into saturday so here there will be some very heavy outbreaks of snow and there's likely to be a fair amount of disruption as this happens for the southeast impalas of europe on saturday for the northwest things are quite different we've got a very active system pushing its way and hey this is bringing us some very wet and windy conditions so rather miserable for many of us across the british isles there on saturday for the other side of the mediterranean where we're also seeing some of the unsettled weather across europe say little bit of cloud this getting its way into parts about geria that's giving some of us some or all the heavy outbreaks of rain more still to come during the day today say rather what for many of us in our area that then spreading its way across to new as we head through friday and into saturday by saturday looks bright to hit if all the cool things could be a couple of showers around the coast of libya. the weather sponsored by cattle race . whether online i want to start here on my laptop with

a tweet or if you join us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has cooled our legal protest and instructed police to use force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice. for lots of different reasons different types of bricks join the global conversation on al-jazeera. and again you're watching and you see a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. senate has passed a resolution to end military support for the saudi u.a.e. coalition fighting in yemen senators also blame the saudi crown prince for the

murder of journalist john murtha sheltie president trump is likely to veto both resolutions. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered an expansion of settlements and a military crackdown after twenty four hours of violence two israeli soldiers and two palestinians were killed on wednesday and thursday. police in france have killed the suspected gunman of choose days attack on a christmas market in strasbourg and followed a two day manhunt by more than seven hundred offices. saudi arabia's government has been buying its own stocks to conceal the effects of the political fallout from the murder of jim out. well she journal is reporting a foreign investors dumped saudi stocks when her death was revealed a best moment is a professor of political science at the university of waterloo in canada she says this kind of trading can cause more trouble for saudi arabia's economy. the role 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 intervening to buy back some of those stock to basically. change the the message already 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 or european leaders say the e.u. is stepping up preparations in case the u.k. leaves without

a deal in march that's after prime minister theresa may asked european leaders in brussels to help sell her bracelet plan at home but she's been told her proposals are not clear enough for the block to offer a helping hand. soup can never be a happy event. still south of the british. decided to leave your opinion but we are trying to accommodate our own use and the british spokesman not here to . go i know the twenty seven would also be discussing no deal planning indeed to come into the u.k. is discussing the g.o.p. planning but i think it's i've always said it's the the best arrangement tragedy for the place the u.k. and see here is for us to agree a deal and get this deal into line. or dominic cain joins us live now from brussels so dominic where things stand now i mean the e.u. leaders made it pretty clear to the british prime minister that this is this is about the best it's going to get and the arithmetics back home in the u.k.

parliament haven't changed for her either. yeah that's right house and basically it's almost as if we were with the status quo before this meeting began with one difference which is that the e.u. has narrowed solidified its position around the government of the irish republic backing the irish republic interests regarding what happened yesterday evening that marathon session of the deliberation over breaks that well depending which government you listen to you get a different version of events or a different interpretation of events so for the british government a senior conservative cabinet minister david living living to has been reported as saying this was a welcome first step but the important thing is if you look at the end of the quote that he gave you get the reality which is a welcome first that in revealing the e.u.'s intentions the irony there is that other media reports that several different e.u. leaders during that session they had yesterday evening asked to resume

a several times what is it you really want and she was not able to give them an answer to the question which would satisfy them so clearly that explains why there wasn't really a breakthrough as it were regarding brags that and all the while that march twenty ninth deadline of next year when the united kingdom must leave the european union looms ever larger. all right dominic cain live for stair in brussels thanks tony. woman accused of being a russian spy has pleaded guilty in a us federal court merino faces a prison sentence and deportation to russia alan fischer reports from washington. it reads like the pages of a spy novel a young woman admits she's a russian government agent in america her mission to shape u.s. politics to make it more favorable to more school media bettina 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 donald trump. britain has admitted this was a concerted effort shaped by senior russian officials the man thought to be behind the operation has been identified as alexander torsion the recently retired deputy governor of russia central bank he bankrolled the operation prosecutors laid out a plan which run from twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen which are not held parties and lunches and meetings for key people with political influence she even attended a national prayer breakfast in twenty seventeen she told prosecutors the people there would help us stablish a back channel of communications between russia and the united states the prosecution is not linked to the ongoing investigation by special counsel robert miller into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election something that president donald trump has dismissed as a witch hunt just

a few days ago and more school russian president vladimir putin than i was a russian spy to move seriously i asked all the heads of our intelligence and special services who issues nobody knows anything about her bettina has agreed to help prosecutors and as a result is now expected not to serve any longer than six months in prison and her cooperation may well be welcomed by robert miller it's likely she'll be deported back to russia at the end of her sentence alan fischer al-jazeera washington. as i'm bob was ruling party is holding its first annual conference since former leader robert mugabe was forced out many zimbabweans hope it will provide solutions to the many issues that persist president emerson is facing growing pressure to turn the economy around and what are some reports from 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 other kind of find in shops or are too expensive it's better to buy in south africa than to billions in places as well as awful if you can afford it i like here in zimbabwe death so expensive so it's better for me to go into a mate because i was in the force will make it stay in south africa and to play in survival as i can't afford another sign zimbabwe's economy is in trouble people can't 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 another frustration for struggling the moments 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 if you visit any hospital right now nothing is happening and the do they know it in for the employer the grievances affecting the doctors and the patients. the ruling party zanu p.f. is holding its annual conference and where the economy 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 a general factionalism for being strong. and there was a big discussion that he said they. discussed the need for unity within the party the need for everyone to rally behind the the current abridging of the party imagine many 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 haddadi. the u.n. climate conference in poland will wrap up on friday despite desperate pleas from negotiators for progress many issues remain undecided the event in qatar it's

a has seen heated discussions between rich and poor nations over the past two weeks the delegates from nearly two hundred nations have failed to agree though on issues including how to fund climate action scientists say we have little more than a decade or two to cap global warming to a moderate but still serious level but on a honda 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 where burned fossil fuels or oil gas and coal to power outage changing world and pumped carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere the guess is lit the sun's light then but stopped 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 saw 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 meet his since eight hundred eighty and that's it just one degree imagine there in 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 see still exist many of you joining hundreds of millions of climate refugees from coastal cities around the world on the current trajectory expect extreme 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 as 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. now virgin galactic says it could start commercial space flights as early as next year its rocketplane reach space for the first time on a test flight spaceship two launched from the mojave desert in the western u.s. and reached eighty three kilometers above the earth's surface the original rocket crashed during a test four years ago virgin galactic plans to offer ninety minute space flights at two hundred thousand dollars a trip well you know i spoke to virgin galactic founder richard branson and i asked him how big a step it was breaking that eighty three kilometer barrier. it's obviously a great success i mean i think we're the first sort of norm country. run space to put people into space. it's been fourteen hard hard years to get

here. it's the start of a whole new year 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 who are not connected so today was an historic day and one that we've been celebrating and what about the physical stress that you go through on a flight like this i mean you going up pretty incredible speeds of course leaving and then re entering the it's atmosphere how physically manageable is this for the average untrained passenger. 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 will to 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 that it pretty well anybody should be able to. take this sort of sixty seconds of g. force that that it will entail it's not going to be cheap though is it for a ticket on a flight like this two hundred fifty thousand dollars a person that is well out of the financial reach of most of us what do you say to those who've argued that this whole space tourism project is kind of to another preserve this of the super rich. well commercial space travel was the own

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 the money the airlines were able to start bringing down the price down and down and down over 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 space ships that will help us build new space ships by building new space ships 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 grandchildren the same hopefully your children children as well. this is al-jazeera is going around for the top stories the u.s.

senate has passed a resolution to end all military support for the saudi u.a.e. coalition fighting in yemen senators also blame the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist to mouth ashaji president trump is likely to veto both resolutions follows a breakthrough on the final day of u.n. back talks in sweden between yemen's government and the hoody rebels on thursday both sides agreed to a cease fire in the poor city of data the main entry point for food and medical aid the u.n. also says there's an understanding between the two parties on deescalation 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 and two palestinians were killed on wednesday and thursday. image on on monday morning when we were last night resettled 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 who pay with his life and our enemies know this and we will find them. police in france have killed the suspected gunman of tuesday's attack on a christmas market in strasbourg it followed a two day manhunt by more than seven hundred offices the e.u. is stepping up preparations in case the u.k. leaves without a deal in march that's after prime minister it's recent may ask european leaders in brussels to help sell her brags that plan at home but she's been told her proposals are not clear enough for the block to help. the u.n. climate conference in poland is ending on friday but many issues are still undecided the event in qatar we'd say has seen heated discussions between rich and poor nations delegates fail to agree on how to fund climate action virgin galactic says it could start commercial space flights as early as next year its rocket reach space for the first time on

a test flight spaceship to launch from the mojave desert in the western u.s. virgin galactic plans to offer ninety minute space flights for two hundred fifty thousand dollars a trip those are the headlights. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after a while it borders between five safe countries facing realities. from the very beginning. providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story talk to al jazeera. reports on the so-called caravan of people seeking asylum in the united states often framed as a physical challenge for u.s. president donald trump it coverage why so many people have left their homes in central america to head north is less frequent. and i'm really could be three look

at life in one of those countries from where thousands of people are fleeing hundred us send your thoughts your twitter and you tube. drive from western honduras to the southern u.s. border and your cover more than two and a half thousand miles but consider what it takes to make most of that journey on foot while carrying young children that is the reality for many honduran so if you left their homes in search of a better life in the u.s. their arduous track highlights the lengths that people will go to escape day to day life in hundred us violent gangs controlled suave some major cities and one durham police often use disproportionate force according to the united nations meanwhile the country is also my political division in recent weeks people have continued to protest against president obama orlando hernandez who stayed in power following an election result deemed forder led by the opposition

a year ago more on the challenges faced by people living in hundred us we have jennifer she is a journalist and co-founder of consular day digital media outlet she joins us from san pedro sula in honduras. you see. program director for central america and mexico at the center for justice and international law she is in the costa rican capital of san jose from the u.s. city of oakland we have some of the ok you know here's a journalist and video producer whose work has focused on hundred us avenue honduran capital take us to gallup or we have carlo quaver she is the honduran human rights minister hello everybody it's good data here on the stream minister i'm trying to think what your caseload must be on a regular basis in terms of human rights cases that you're trying to tackle in honduras do you want to give us a little insight into the sort of things that is part of your daily job ok thank

you. very morton for your. love and yours is a very small country we. are in. we have very. oh one of our challenges human rights is especially working trying to generate opportunities for these men on the one who are in office or great challenges especially trying to walk strengthening that i'm. trying to generate opportunity. to help them also in education also trying to work what were more training opportunities to generate employment opportunities in moscow or trying to or in this time trying to create in strengthen the new moon so you are right ladies or

the or the national not my rights but actually. we have a lot of human rights shar in i try i am trying to understand where meetings are important to highlight the importance who are aiming our force trying to combat the violence especially younger women in lots of good in. the bulletin how. much he is really interesting because i offer my second idea of the kind of cases are coming cos i desk every day and shake century has a positive she didn't want to go into the negative i appreciate that but if we're going to be very candid and we're talking about everyday life in honduras what are people having to deal with last year. well they are dealing with the contrary well first of all thanks for having to say that they had this in with a concert with many challenges and basically on daily basis people are afraid to even take a cab for example because they don't know if they are going to be

a selfish and if they ask help that they ask for example the police officer because many of the police officers i'm balding i must well if you'll if they have a program this area help roll them or they saw her accident they are afraid that they go through a hole through that and they don't get the basic needs of the basic medical supplies if they don't have the money to pay for it so we are talking about families that handpick their kids who are not outlets for example from all because they are going to be afraid that something is going to happen to them so this is what is they come from thing on a daily basis and what motivates the higher. levels of violence and slowing women but people with their scandal even not going to and they don't see their rights satisfied marci i hear you there and i think what you're describing is why we see things like this we had this from young edwin who is the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council and he writes after

a recent visit two hundred us that hundred this is not a country out war yet the violence is comparable to a war zone the toll that this violence takes on the city i am in now can be seen and it can be felt we cannot continue to be surprised that families choose to leave when their children's lives are in danger and he wrote that december eighth so jennifer keep in mind what he says here can you understand can you relate to what he's writing about. i think by and since the like and never ending cycle it's fresh and because of the impunity we have had a level of impunity hearing and duress and that's why people is so this period to leave their neighborhoods when they have a threat from my gang member or anybody you know every twenty two hours sees a woman. her husband there is someone close to her and she's not trusting institutionally to to ask them for help to ask police to

help her because impunity is still high i think impunity is like the plague the main issue here people are protesting and the streets and they tried to protest in the streets because corruption is not getting it is not getting into into justice and there is no justice for a man or a man kill them for who i mean he'll be an answer as for young people killed this year we have more or around four hundred john people under twenty three years old murdered in undress so it's we have a lake at big emergencies situation here we have communities being displaced by nerika. in the mountains but also struck to this this project in the mountains and people is not trusting into insufficiently they don't have any where to go to to ask for help so. and or the forced option here is to use the fleet and i have heard

a lot of women saying i need to flee a need to go. to another country because nobody is protecting me i think they are under an state. has a lack of protection or are the main main part of the population hearing interest special equipment and on and young people are not producing protection under a new government was exacerbating the problem and many times is the problem was rampant corruption is jennifer alluded to ninety five percent impunity right what is the government doing about it they just passed a lot recently last january last year clearing themselves up in the impunity in the congress and so who's who should be in jail should be these members of congress that are corrupt that are corrupting the hondurans. and what is i mean when exactly it's interesting that misquote us didn't say that and couldn't allude to a single case that she's brought forth regarding human rights abuses because like

what human rights abuses have been brought to justice i don't see a single one and i want i want to hear these numbers and i want to see who you're putting away where they are and and and and bring people to justice you know this is this is all you're doing is putting lipstick on a pig you know and it's it's it's that's an american expression where there is this pig and you're just painting making it look pretty and that's not justice come on a station real work. ok i will add on the first first of all that we have been working in. doing a lot of you point. in two thousand and thirteen and i wonder how do. i rate all of them are only martyrs for one hundred thousand inhabitants right now we have working on. decreasing these rate to forty percent but it is very important. drain the will create and

strengthening conditionality to investigate human rights coalition you have to understand also that we have our institutions should be strengthened especially that capacity to and nothing. but a national election and in law thought i have to remember that we have one or two particles and already mathy there is what an order which you are taking that . we have a lot of cases we have so on implementing this on corruption in law we have to understand. when we have to our knowledge we are not we have problems yet with bio we are we working on that but also we have to we are not denying that we heard our problems of ireland in honduras but are using blame the bios and do

something about me and mine not in two thousand and fourteen when you were a member of the main causes to migrate was buying in we are knowledge not that that's according to you you don't want to keep the crimes that the government is the only one that keeps the crime statistics so you can say not just everyone was so sick so you are not going to go out so him and so we are minister let me let me just pause for a moment because you were talking about some of the forces that drive people out of one joyous that they get to a point where they think i cannot bear to live here anymore let me give you an example that have a look at this. planful didn't feel like i left for the future of my children they are already in school and the violence in the gangs and everything you can't just leave the children to go to school by themselves there is always danger in my camp only market companies. will come under fire for what is happening in the country where i worked with my brother in law and they killed him they killed both of my brothers in law because they saw them working and they were jealous so they killed

them and they look for us because they want to do away with the entire family and the hardly so as a hundred citizens who actually fled to mexico sylvia you will pushing the minister about so what are you going to do about this what would you suggest because you have been in terms of your family you know what it is like to experience that violence in your own family and stop learning about the crimes and just i mean you come up here you lobby the u.s. government you said look across that six are going down because of your help which is not true like having an independent agency like you did before and look at the crime statistics tell you what the reality is so you that there are the dumbest i'd rate skyrocket you have to share of problems that you're not dealing with you're not facing the corruption you're not taking you're not putting people away in jail for christ's sake i mean i didn't join your numbers have any claims that brought president's brother against him in the country no it had to come.