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 are totally engaged ladies and gentleman i am proud more. police appeared to be closing in on sheer cats 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 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. but it's myth al-jazeera strong school. still ahead on a refugee detained by australia is honored with an award as he fights to get his fellow a psych asylum seekers out of detention. and

i've recently it's been really quite dry for many of us in the philippines that try with a is going to stick around for a few more days at least i think what will gradually see are a few more showers begin to develop along the eastern coast that will then spread that little bit further inland so for many of us that on saturday and sunday in the philippines there will be a good deal of dry weather but gradually as we head through the next week we'll say we'll see more and more wet weather the wetter weather at the moment is in the western parts of our map say through the southern parts of thailand then all the way down through so much and that's why we're seeing some particularly heavy rain and to k.l. in singapore we can expect some more very sharp showers over the next few days as we head down tools australia can see plenty of cloud air across the northern parts and all the way down the east and within that those two distinct weather systems the first one i'm going to mention is in this is a tropical cycle it's quite an intense system that's going to cross the cape york

peninsula and then edge down the eastern coast of queensland and when it makes landfall in the northern parts of queensland here we're expecting the winds to be nearly around two hundred kilometers per hour so that with the storm surge and some very high heavy rain will cause us quite a few problems if i play the satellite picture again there we can see this little circulation here this is the one that brought us the flooding in parts of victoria and they still will showers to come here. again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our 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 senators also blamed the saudi crown prince for the murder of a journalist a mouth ashaji president trump is likely to veto both resolutions. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered an expansion of settlements and a military crackdown after an escalation of violence two israeli soldiers and two palestinians were killed on wednesday and thursday. police in france of killed the suspected gunman of choose days attack on a christmas market in strasbourg followed a two day manhunt by more than seven hundred offices. a saudi arabia's government has been buying its own stocks to conceal the effects of the political fallout from the murder. of wall street journal reporting foreign investors dumped saudi stocks on hushovd death was revealed more money 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 or 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 or european leaders are getting ready for a second day of talks to find a way out in case the u.k. leaves without a deal in march that softer prime minister it's recent may i asked european leaders in brussels to help sell her brags it planted home but she's been told her proposals are not clear enough for the block to offer a helping hand. 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 the line. suit can never be a happy event we are still south of the british. decided to leave you to new but we are trying to accommodate our own use and the british view sports we're not

here to. dominic angel's is live now from brussels so dominic what are we expecting on this second day given that by all accounts made didn't appear to have made much progress on the first day not much progress at all in fact you could argue that it was a backward step as it were but the united kingdom government's was forced into taking yesterday today strictly speaking breaks it's not really on the agenda and yet it looms ever larger in the minds of all the ministers here at this meeting at this summit we know that it's been reported anyway that driesum a will have a meeting with the french president emmanuel mccaw on the sidelines of the summit today strictly speaking the summit will be hearing from the austrian presidency which is about to end the six month presidency that each member states has austrians hand over at the end of this summit and one of the main issues for them has been migration but as i say clearly briggs it is at the heart of everything the

interesting thing here is that depending on which government you listen to you get a different interpretation of what happened yesterday the british for example a senior cabinet minister talking about it was a welcome first step that emerged but the devil is in the details because he then went on to say in revealing the use alternate intentions and yet as you were saying in your introduction there has been several different e.u. leaders said directly to treason may yesterday evening what is it you really want and yet the answers that she gave them didn't satisfy them a toll and so now we have the situation where the e.u. seems to be coming down fairly and squarely behind the interests of the one member state which is most exposed to bragg's it other than the u.k. course that's the republic of ireland and the comments from the shop from the over the top of the irish prime minister indicates the concern that he and his government have about what might happen if the u.k. does fall out of the e.u. crash out of the e.u.

with no deal at the end of march next year march twenty ninth next year. dominic cain live for us there in brussels thanks don now the u.n. climate conference in poland will wrap up on friday despite desperate pleas from negotiators for progress many issues remain on the side of the event and cut the rates is seen heated discussions between rich and poor nations delegates of failed to agree on issues including how to fund climate action. northern iraq several projects are trying to help the women become more independent by teaching the new skills but funding has been reduced as the threats from i saw appears to diminish rob masson reports from near hankie 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 saw fighters swept through her hometown of singe our. movie if i lost my eldest son

who was the sunshine of my life i still remember him every time i were to meet other women at the camp he was killed on the night he was about to get married. i will learn how to. when i was it was finally pushed out of synch few loosener five remaining children eventually made their way to a refugee camp and conquer in the kurdish region of northern iraq. 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. you see the woman is said to be the backbone of their families but they isolate attacks 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 a husband and several relatives the organizers of projects like this one hope that they will help the women to regain the confidence to become more independent and work towards a more peaceful future. it is true that still many as the women are still suffering what we need is a lot of support from the local authorities and from around the world is he 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. share 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 no 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 a critically ill refugees detained by australia and papua new guinea will have to wait until next year for any chance of getting medical treatment last week australia's parliament failed to pass legislation to fly them out of the managers are in detention center meanwhile one detainee has been nominated for a prize recognizing human rights defenders. my name is abdul aziz i'm an advocate for refugee on manas arlin puppy guinea when i came here i was that twenty years old and now twenty five i'm from darfur they killed many people from our tripes i 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 the 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 had been removed from. from christmas island to darwin from darwin to papa new guinea i was not even a show that i was terrified i was thinking about home home going to see my family again. in five years i've done a lot i've been nominated by community my community to be as a community leader out of thought one thousand six hundred men we were only five or six people speak fluent english so much pressure on us i chose myself to be us a teacher 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 i smuggler phone to keep in touch with the journalists and the advocates i used to be harassed by the security guards all the time it's has my handwriting in every requests in every complaint i was ready for any punishment

that they were so he wants to give it to me and i was ready for it because i know that this is a risk you know we told this man'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 alive we are really really sick and tired of seeing our friends are buying one after another i'm living it is laura ingle transit center for nearly twenty years now since i've been brought to the forests of of the lumber of the detention center i was on the forefront of the guys who decided to stay. i never felt that i'm a freak in a five and hive years except those twenty four they say i feel that people are calling my name as these instead of queuing k. easier to every day i hear it 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 really broke my heart our wall is to 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 that courage i cannot deny that i'm a leader i chose myself to be on that path and i'm not gonna regret 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. a virgin galactic says it could start commercial space flights as early as next year it's rocketplane reach space for the first time on a test flight spaceship two launched in the mojave desert in the western u.s. the original rocket crashed during a test four years ago earlier 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. and 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 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 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 spent their money the airlines were able to start bringing down the price down and 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 up space ships 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. quite likely quite regularly go into space and i think many other people's grandchildren the same hopefully children children as well. this is al jazeera let's get a round up other 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. president trump is likely to veto both resolutions and that follows a breakthrough on the final day of u.n. back talks in sweden between yemen's government and the hooty rebels on thursday both sides agreed a cease fire in the port city of the date of the main entry point for food and medical aid u.n. also says there is what they're calling 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 that's after twenty four hours of violence two israeli soldiers and two palestinians were killed on wednesday and thursday. unleash the young man was born moved 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 taxes and whoever tries to attackers will pay with his life and our enemies know this and we will find them israeli the israeli military arrested forty palestinians in the west bank on friday night it says thirty seven of them are members of hamas including three senior leaders police in france of 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 officers the u.s. stepping up preparations in case the u.k. leaves without a deal in march the softer prime minister to resign may ask european leaders to help sell her braids it plan at home but she's been told her proposals are not clear enough for the block to help virgin atlantic says it could start commercial spaceflight as early as next year its rocket reach space for the first time on a test flight spaceship two launched from the mojave desert in the western u.s.

virgin galactic plans to offer a ninety minute space flights for two hundred fifty thousand dollars a trip those headlines want to what he does next. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so much as i call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. in the philippines president wrote regal deter day has declared a war on drugs has left more than twelve thousand people dead. but they're not the only victims tens of thousands of people are languishing in jail as courts struggle

to process a record number of drug arrests i don't know who i thought where am i mean why am i here i shouldn't be here what is this place. i'm steve cho on this episode of one east we investigate the shocking conditions inside the world's most congested jails and the inmates trying to survive them. it's early in the morning and a full moon is rising. in the shadows lie thousands of bodies waged into every corner of every inch. welcome to manila city jail one of the most congested prisons in the world.

we've been given extended access here to find out why childs in the philippines a so overcrowded and to meet the inmates who've been called monsters by their own government. so tell me about the jail missed the story here on the south side jair expressed in the area is the jails chief records office up even he is shocked by the conditions here right now based on the united nations minimum standards are ideal capacity should be around one thousand one hundred inmates but the actual jail population right now is up to six thousand three hundred inmates. that's almost six hundred percent of the capacity. we should be scared you know because we can be outnumbered there. and that's not an exaggeration according to international standards this should be one god for every seven prisoners. the ratio here is one to about two hundred.

to cope officials have adopted some unusual solutions. i think the most unique is when you use the inmates the police are there you know that they elect their own leaders and then we delegate some of our authority again to their need there's. they act as marshall if they help us in such a place in order to. post in here a admits the jails here have always been crowded but it has reached unprecedented levels since president rhodri go to to take announced his war on drugs two years ago our jail population has increased by fifty percent since the since twenty six been a time where he took office five zero fifty percent yeah fifty percent. in

the slums of manilla this war has become infamous for the extrajudicial killing of thousands of drug suspects rights groups accuse the police of being involved. but look beyond the blood shed and you find tens of thousands of people who are incarcerated indefinitely after being arrested for drug crimes. to see this campaign in action we joined the drug enforcement agency on an operation to bost a suspected dealer. in a manila parking lot undercover agents awaiting in this car to buy crystal meth or shop from the suspect. almost all of them about one of the michelin bomb

about. like that it's a tense weiss as agents negotiate the deal so we're still waiting for we're in signal. in the driver of the car. so what of that subtle delights such. as the agency moving to make the rest. wasn't until they seized just on the hof a kilo of shabu with a street value of about sixty thousand dollars. how much jail time is he looking at . you really begin to be there was a human. in the players before. the operation is a success but our investigation suggests that not all drug arrests on this claim.

since two thousand and sixteen almost one hundred sixty thousand people have been arrested in the anti narcotics campaign. guilty or not they go straight to prisons like manila city jail. jails in the philippines were built to hold around twenty thousand people but today they are housing more than one hundred and thirty thousand most of these people haven't even been convicted of a crime based still waiting for verdicts in the case of. one of the inmates stuck in this limbo is good there maupassant he's already spent more than two years here for a verdict in his drug case. we meet him as he's heading to yet another court hearing. for the first time i set foot inside here i felt like i

was being choked. i thought where am i why am i here i shouldn't be here what is this place. suddenly i found myself crying i was so scared i. was charged with section five and eleven possession and dealing drugs the police report that he. he was busted with zero point two four grams. but glamour says he was set up by a cop during a drug operation in his neighborhood. one a policeman shouted arrest him he has a gun i was like wait i don't have to go. when they didn't find anything the same policeman said i'm going to charge you with five eleven a much more serious crime. says the officers planted evidence against him

at the police station. on the table there was already the evidence and they told me to point at it so they can take a photo but i refused i said that's not mine why do i have to point out that. they told me do you want us to kill you we should have killed you while ago. they asked me how much can you give i said what do you mean they said just give us two thousand dollars you can bail yourself out. i told them i don't have any money i'm poor. i have to admit i was skeptical of glamor story almost everyone in jail says they're innocent but he says he has no reason to lie he's already pled guilty to the charges. even if you didn't do anything you have to admit to it just so you can plea bargain to be released early

. we have to bite the bullet we don't have a choice. we're doing this for the sake of our family. there is no bail for drug offenses if glare mode for the charges he could spend years in prison just waiting for a verdict. by pleading guilty he got a reduced sentence that technically he's already served. and now. i guess i'm in motion when we get there. after a long ways. it's finally go there most turn to appear before the judge. but within minutes. he's back out in the hallway the judge did not grant his

release he still has to have a mandatory drug test to determine if he's an addict and that could take months. is devastated. he was sure he was going home to his family i don't. i don't. get that it. only on one of the number of things. that. you know you want in a moment that wasn't. right. but the. most muslims out in the beginning. their most not the only one having a rough day at the course how many people here i hear for drugs cases raise your hat. most people ok and how many people here

had their hearings canceled or postponed. it's. so all of these people that hearing scheduled but as you can see a lot of them never got to come before a judge. every time a hearing is perspiring and it prolongs the trial adding months to an inmate's incarceration. the courts a so of a stretched that this happens all the time leaving people stranded behind bars for years. it's enough to push some to suicide by. the. at the jail inmates have set up a support group to help each other cope good morning by me being. a. month a month and being shackled all my. so like most of the prisoners many here were

arrested for drugs. for that matter. what. made your nation move these sessions and led by fifty eight year old reyes. he's one of the prisons longest serving inmates with his trial dragging on now for more than fourteen years. he says is what's kept him on my. back not only in my government but my cock up building being. among the young men up i gave up because i know drink or knowing i'm. really i was a decorated public servant working for the manila city council but in two thousand and four he was charged with falsifying public documents and embezzling money

charges he says were politically motivated what should we do when we have a baby helpless here in the gate what should we do. we're aware handover. have you ever been convicted of a crime no conviction. for hell you know has been acquitted of over twenty cases but he still has more than fifty pending today he's missing a jail paralegal to find out if his hearings can be fast tracked. about. a new member. of the two hundred behaving badly. now you would not believe my more done. at this race he could die in jail before the

court gets through all his cases you have spent more than fourteen years in jail are you not angry or bitter about being forced to stay here if you are angry you will not buy. or. need to get i will be main main. about me because i used to be born may merely i. love. all the office i can do is fill out a complaint form for him. but if he's disappointed he doesn't show it he says today he wants to forget his problems. it's prisoner awareness week and

everyone else in the jail isn't a good man and. there are costume parties and dance competitions. and the hill is leading the charge in simba. families have also come to watch the festivities. they were allowed in he has six days a week he wives even get conjugal visits and children get to spend time with their father. many inmates tell me that this is the only thing that keeps them sane. people don't have visited us they get depressed. they start thinking too much they always wonder why they don't have any visitors. their mo doesn't allow his children to visit he can't bear for them to see him behind bars.

you know they. so i was back. there most is that even though he can be with his children he tries to be a good father but it's not easy. and then there. is presumably that isn't about this is my responsibility as a father. i never experienced my father's love in the one that i'm never felt is love and that i'm the one. in them with the saudi diggle i promised myself that when i have kids i will never let them

experience what my father it to me. oh oh oh oh oh. oh. oh. oh oh oh. oh. oh oh oh. i don't feel it. down was it is love a night. live with. the wind. outside don't say that the hell has a visitor a beauty his youngest daughter. but then he asks us to conceal her identity he doesn't want to be stigmatized because of his imprisonment things have been done about. the whole thing by the holy maybe.

they say a baby. they've been one of my passions. was a father of five when he was sent to jail now they have kids of their own you know you are the. changes going on. but despite everything the hero says he's grateful in spite of my many years good in the game the fun military stayed in the bay wait till barry read good prison she is playing the role in the mulder and the bugger children and belle big are all grown up. it's been a good day for heavier. but time has passed too quickly and of the.

fun they get out of the figure among them among among the provisional this alone is not going to. as much as the love seeing his family or his ears says it's on bearable watching them leave. calamity is also having a tough nice to spending the day watching other fathers spend time with their children. sitting between us my kids are my strength. and that's why i'm trying to be strong. for them. he prays for them every nice he says he can never forgive the police for separating him from his family seven of their motto is to serve and protect but the reality is they only serve and protect themselves. again and again

inmates told me disturbing stories about police misconduct allegations of torture extortion and the planting of evidence. but they didn't have proof. then i came across a chilling story. in april last year a team of journalists and human rights activists raided a police station in manila after receiving a tip off what they found inside was shocking. behind this bookshelf diane covered a windowless secret cell hiding twelve terrified people respond to. that the police and the like and then all. they were detained as drug suspects but none of them had been charged with a crime in fact the station had no record of them at all oh i'm not.

saying anything about that when i was found out. i know. that. the detainees said this cell had no water or functioning toilet they were difficult using plastic bags they said police had tortured them and demanded money for their release wouldn't. really quite a bit of noise to go no one could order and. i don't know what is going to go crazy . like in the middle east not finding out about it. now and i'm going to. be. the commander of the station denied the allegations he said that simply run out of space in the holding cell phone example i think oh. if i could do that now what would it be to

find out if we know. you're going to let me know would you have any vision that you know what it is that you have. a war. in the ice a month since the raid none of the officers from the station have been fired. meanwhile the detainees have been forced into hiding. we tracked down one of the men who was in that cell look at the room was the norm we didn't know what it was and when we arrived they just punched me and told me to confess to having drugs but they weren't mine they didn't find anything on me. this former detainees he has been in hiding for months terrified of police retribution he says he spent nine days in that cell while police try to force a confession. after my arrest they wouldn't stop beating me. every

night they would bring me out of the cell and say let's kill this guy in a drug operation. or i was bleeding sweating i even urinated. did you think it was strange that the police were locking you up in this hidden so . they put us in that cell so they could extolled money from us that's the truth i was told i be released if i gave them about a thousand dollars but if none of us could pay they were charge us with section five eleven. we try to put these allegations to the philippine national police they would not talk to us but activists say that police misconduct is endemic with impoverished and innocent people routinely arrested. it's an experience that glare mope a son or says he's had first hand. most of us out of one hundred percent

i only have five percent faith in the police. so many of my neighbors are in jail with me. our whole communities here. their mo says the police and the law have failed him even after pleading guilty and serving the sentence for a crime he says he didn't commit he's still stuck in prison here with the sad news . today he's finally getting his court ordered drug test he needs a clean urine sample and the green light from a doctor before he can be released it would. looking also got a little bit of a one of a lot of unemployed and a lot of the no police for months mostly to say i don't mind your six months talk to her saying one veranda has been working

a drug rehabilitation facility here. what was your assessment of the stick a sign i think when i see my son on drug use or has that using drugs anymore and therefore there is no impaired base on our part to do in your experience to a lot of people are not using drugs and get sick drugs just to get out of jail there are there are people who i mean by less selfish just to be able to get out. of here you are not somebody. stood there my says he has lost faith in justice. now he can only turn to god and the president mr president mr president not everyone who is in jail is. not everyone is a bad person. we are human beings like you. after

more than fourteen years the hell you know is also desperately trying to hold on to his face he still believes that one day he will be free a student one may like to have the purpose that might actually these things have a purpose i am really really i've been cleaned up i shall be out of mission him eventually. business updates. going places together.

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in the. there's face trouble reaching beyond the skies virgin galactic conducts a successful test flight of a commercial spacecraft. welcome to the news of 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 rare unified vote from both parties fifty six senators were in favor and forty one were against but even if they measure gets approved by the house of representatives it faces an almost certain veto by president trump and a separate resolution condemning the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salon for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi roslyn jordan has more from washington d.c. . the results are fifty six days and forty one days 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 raji forces fighting in the yemeni civil war the war in yemen is an authorized 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 demand. it 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 friends. and they've also passed a second resolution that says quote the senate believes crown prince mohammed bin solomon is responsible 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 who the rebels senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says this resolution strikes the right balance between accountability and maintaining a law and says unlike other pending measures their resolution is neither sufficiently prudent nor sufficiently personifies for the job and. you know if the senate 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. joins me now from istanbul in turkey because mohammed ones comments on thursday night certainly highlighted his country's position and perhaps influence on how the u.s. senate voted i mean what did he actually say. yes. these are probably some of the strongest words that the turkish president use

of so far he hasn't been talking much about the case of the man hush of peace been . talking about internal politics during the last several weeks but today he came strong in that address that he gave to members of the organization organization of islamic cooperation in istanbul the judicial conference and he made reference to the senate vote in washington over the night and he said that it came as a result as a result of the contribution that made in this building a strong case for justice. and he was very critical of the role that some of the islamic countries played i mean not the role they played but the lack of support they showed and he mentioned the fact that they gave it to they gave more priority to dollars and in an effort in a direct reference to see justice in this situation it was very clear in also his indication is that the americans have made it very strong and very clear

in those words of nikki haley and boss of the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. she gave names with regards to who is responsible and she mentioned the name of mohammed this a man he did not mention the name of one hundred percent man but he said and he gave specific names and what she talked about was the naked truth that is someone who is responsible for these people who committed this murder are very close very very close to one hundred innocent man. and saudi arabia despite that situation has not contributed in and in feeling all the truth saudi arabia is still hiding very crucial and vital the facts about what happened to them out they are responsible for providing that information including the name of the collaborator about home. saudi foreign minister talked. he said that there is a turkish collaborator to whom the saudis had the body of. he says all of this has

to be clarified countries have to take responsibility justice has to be set for tomorrow and turkey is working on it and it will not let it go until justice is served for the moment mohammed we'll leave it there thanks for the updates. well it all comes after some progress on the final day of u.n. backed talks in sweden between yemen's government and who's the rebels both sides have agreed to a cease fire in the port city of the data which is the main route for food and medical aid into yemen and now the u.n. also says there's an understanding between the two parties on deescalation is that if there's the other major center of fighting another round of clone planned talks are scheduled for the end of january you have reached an agreement on the day the port city which will see will really point of forces from the port and the city and the establishment of a gun or it governor it wide cease fires the u.n.

leaving role in the ports and these will facilitate humanitarian access in the flow goods to the civilian population and it will improve the living conditions for millions of yemenis. murray is the editor in chief of the yemen post he's urging caution until a political solution is found. we were expecting a large break. they did not agree and the political skill is the data are all that was agreed are carried to eden the idea. to give us some authority which will likely how much authority will happen what role that we will have when it comes to our. intelligence gathering it security wise so a lot of big gets in the deal but again our it didn't happen and it's a good first step especially after a large start i do expect to be obstacles when the implementation that's the place

that expected it will be a little blot my major article because this is something you read up and but for it to happen is important and a great start if they want to step well al jazeera spoke to the un special envoy for yemen martin griffiths about the deal struck in sweden he told my colleague amanda her sons the agreement also crucially opens the road linking the data to the capital sanaa and that gives us the basis as your suggesting for great improvement in the throughput of the port and that's linked to the other aspect of this agreement on a day there which is to free up again the crucial sun the. day the road the road from our day to port to sunday 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 come through that port and who are these u.n. supervised neutral forces who are going to be deployed to the port now where are you going to find them. what we the u.n. 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 and 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 watching for speaking there will it speak to simon

a bit in lancaster he's a senior lecturer in international studies that lancaster university in the u.k. good to have you with us some estimate and let's just begin with a very important measure that we saw in the u.s. in the senate a vote that really won't sit very well with the president knowing that some of his own republican party ready voted with the opposition. exactly i think the strength of this bipartisan resolution demonstrates the level of concern about about the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia this is a longstanding relationship dating back some seventy years but this is one of the most delicate most finally balanced issues in crises within that relationship and the fact that it was members of mr trump's own party that were involved in sponsoring the resolution shows just how much.