was very strong in his view which we all live 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 a speak to simon maybin in lancaster he's a senior lecturer in international studies that lancaster university in the u.k. good to have you with us mr maven 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 love and 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 this is an issue that has has brought concern from across all parts of the states it brings together humanitarian concerns and also strategic so i think it's a very serious issue for the president is certainly not going to sort of form a lot the more procedures are required for that to happen but it is a sign is it not from american lawmakers not just to their own public who are concerned about the images as income out of yemen but also a sign to america's allies especially in europe that want to see some positive moves in the right direction when it comes to yemen. exactly i think this is as you say policymakers in the u.s. deciding that they have some agency they have a degree of influence although they haven't ministration that many have problems with on both sides of the house problems with the president but they've decided

that they can do something to try and put an end to this this devastating humanitarian crisis in yemen and in doing this and sending such a strong rebuke to their own president they're calling on of the parliamentarians of the policy makers across across the west across europe to say look there is a way that we can continue to put pressure on saudi arabia and the emirates to try and bring about an end to this devastating crisis in terms of another resolution that was passed and of course you know directly related to what's going on in yemen is of course condemning mohamed bin so man for his involvement in the murder of a shock shimmy what's of impact is that going to have on the white house what are the pressure is that going to have on president trump as he moves forward into twenty nineteen and has a very combative house of representatives to deal with. i think it's just the latest in a long line of expressions of concern about the u.s.

relationship with saudi arabia we saw the a couple of years ago a bill being passed concern and they just this against the prevention of terrorism concerning those people who were affected by the nine eleven attacks and that allowed for legislation and litigation sorry against saudi arabia for example so it's a growing move from people in the u.s. from lawmakers from members of the house and senate to say look this is this is a very serious relationship that needs consideration and we heard in your earlier report that there is going to be round of investigations considering the nature of this relationship both strategic and moral i think it's the latter that is of most concern to people in the u.s. particularly in light of what happened with mr hersh shoji and it was fascinating to hear that that that moral case is being put forward as being one of the key issues integrity to these for further investigations or see what does happen the

saddam a bit always good to get your insight and analysis thanks very much for joining us from the north of england thank you israeli forces have arrested forty palestinians in the occupied west bank it says thirty seven of them are members of hamas including three senior leaders no one suspect is accused of throwing a rock and injuring a soldier let's cross over to stephanie deck you joins me now our correspondent in west jerusalem or seventy what's happening or what has been happening overnight because what we did see was a quite a bit of violence on thursday. yes absolutely and israeli forces sealed off a model which is essentially the seat of power of the palestinian authority it is an area in which means it's under full palestinian security control looking for this man or men we don't know if there are more in the car but certainly that one shooter as you mentioned there forty arrests overnight the roads into them are open now but there are certain checkpoints that remain closed they're checking cars so

it remains a very tense situation we had settlers thursday night get on the streets and pelt honesty in cars with rocks so it's a tense situation so how mass is called for protests after friday prayers so that's in about an hour or so from now at checkpoints we don't usually see numbers come out to protest in the west bank but again we have to wait and see how things unfold today certainly no security incidents overnight we've seen realists in the west bank over the last let's say two months or so starting with that shooting and that can in october that's one of the men who was killed on wednesday night by the israeli forces so it's a complicated picture but again we have to wait and see how it how it unfolds but at the moment the situation on the ground seems relatively quiet it depends i suppose on who you are staff as to what the position of the israeli prime minister is under pressure or is has he been emboldened by the way he's reacted to this

based on the fact that his public support. he's definitely under pressure because just rewinding about a month you know we had a night when one had mass fired over three hundred rockets out of the gaza strip and in response to a botched israeli special forces raid inside gaza he came to a cease fire agreement with how mass it was hugely controversial it led to the resignation of his defense minister avigdor lieberman he is now the defense minister netanyahu is now the defense minister he is under pressure he could no longer deflect this on any anyone else there is pressure particularly from the core of his ideology ideological supporters which is the israeli right wing not of the settlers in the west bank who have been coming out into the streets calling for him to do something we've had a statement yesterday where he said that that he would be legalizing various jewish home settlements in the west bank so that's

a political response but it would have to wait and see what happens on the ground whether these incursions continue and they will as the israelis search for the gunman but we're going to have to wait and see whether that's going to appease the these really right wingers who are calling for him to do more to clamp down on what seems to be an increase in violence in the west bank from louisville and stuff of course a follow events with you through the day when they happen but it's very much. he joins me on set he's a professor of middle east politics at qatar university could have you with us back on the program one alliss on really what's going on in the middle east i mean ramallah closed off a must lawmakers and supporters arrested palestinians and israelis killed you heard what our correspondent had to say there how out of control is this situation becoming in your opinion you know what's important about what happened in the last six hours two things the when it happened in west bank the west bank with it with the there was well there is a serious security coordination between palestinian authority and there is

a government and that all of these incidents happened in west bank and where should be more limited actually so that is that is an important point to be raised the second when it happens also when the prime minister of israel is facing serious of pressure because of. corruption allegation and also because of what's happening in the region and basically has a lot on the table but they're done facing a lot of challenges inside as well and so basically those two reasons together made what happened important and made their israeli prime minister actually trying to benefit or capitalize on this trying to show him self as the protector of israelis and the only the leader of the moment actually let's focus in on what you said about the west bank being quite a unique situation that sense because both hamas and the p.a. have sort of called for protests out on the streets on friday independent of the protests that we've seen over the last several months which are normally at the guard fence with it with israel will palestinians in the west bank come out in

numbers because one always wonders what the position of of the normal palestinian on the street is in the west bank because they don't always reflect sometimes the mood and the anger that we see in garza on a daily basis there is a citizen division within the palestinian society and the obvious there was you know the those who are supporting the palestinian authority and those who are supporting hamas and. approach of how much there was that there's obvious and we see it and romola so what happened there was back then this will reflect of this kind of the vision so we expect to see lists people representing hamas because of the security coordination between israelis and the palestinian authority would be i would i would you know maybe list number of those who are supporting business authority because what happened actually is killing there but it's the ns in the last thirty six hours actually creating more under within the palestinian society so you i expect less people actually to demonstrate against what happened in the

last is that it's us ok well we'll see what does happen and not get more analysis through the day for the moment richard thanks so much for joining us thank you. oh plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including the suspect in the strands mauled christmas market attack is shot dead by police and aspies are involving an alleged russian agent plays out in a u.s. court. in sport james harden rockets into n.b.a. history as houston dominate le bron and the lakers paul will have those details in sport later. the european union leaders are in brussels for a second day of talks expected to focus on britain's exit deal from the european union they say they'll step up preparations in case the the u.k. leaves without an agreement by march prime minister to resign may is asking for help from the blocs leaders as she tries to sell her proposal to the british

parliament but she's been told her proposals are not clear enough when the e.u. will present contingency measures next week when we have two correspondents covering the story in a moment we'll speak to paul brennan in london but first let's go over to dominic kane who's in brussels that dominic let's just get some idea about what's happening is what the prime minister wants is clarification and assurances. and that's what the prime minister wants any progress on that. not on the face of it she wants clarification and assurances but then frankly so do the people she's been speaking to they say that they're not clear what it is precisely that the united kingdom government wants certainly that's what emerged from the deliberations yesterday apparently several different e.u. leaders but the question to to reason may several times what exactly do you want it's all to do with this backstop

a backstop that would be in place in northern ireland in a transition period the question was all about whether that would be permanent or whether a time limit could be placed upon it no answers given no reassurances given there except on either side frankly we know now that separately the front the president of the european commission junk lord will be publishing his commission will publish on the nineteenth of december the information that it has regarding its preparations for the eventuality of a no deal breakers in other words if the united kingdom crashes out of the european union on march the twenty ninth twenty nineteen without a deal in place remember that deals is what the reason may came here to try to get some clarification on whether she could really go shit when we know that all manner of different e.u. leaders said that they had no possibility of renegotiation there was perhaps clarification perhaps interpretation no sign of any renegotiation the two reason

may this morning has been having meetings on the sidelines of the summit she has a meeting with president emmanuel com what will emerge from that the questions are piling up here and so far at least no answers yet so i am well for the moment to leave it but of course probably come back to you when that changes if it does pull brendan is our correspondent in the british capital with a reaction there and paul you heard what dominic had to say and of course while the prime minister fights that battle in brussels just got an even bigger one always simmering in the british capital of calls political momentum apparently is building amongst opposition politicians that nothing will come of that prime minister's visit to brussels so let's just vote on the brics that deal. indeed this kind of strange atmosphere here in london today is a kind of aftermath of the excitement of the past four days of this political week i look around and there's only two or three of the broadcasters who are still here

on abingdon green this patch of grass in front of parliament parliament itself isn't sitting today most of the m.p.'s scattered to their constituencies around the the u.k. back into the mood of the local electorates but make no mistake as you say the feeling about to recent may's prospects is still very bleak indeed and the deputy prime minister david livingstone has been on the radio this morning saying that the step that the reason may has taken in brussels getting the e.u. to agree in a kind of principle way for clarification is a good first step but as you say the pressure is growing to say look this is pointless it's wasting time both kid who's the labor opposition bret's it's spokesman nicholas sturgeon who's the scottish national party leader saying we are wasting time bringing the vote back to parliament and let's have a vote next week i have to say downing street the prime minister's office has already ruled that out so they're pushing against the door which has been very

firmly slammed in their face but it's an example of the simmering discontent here with the way that the prime minister has kicked the can down the road or see what reaction is certainly in london later in the day as well with you paul thanks very much. let's stay in europe now because the u.n. climate conference in poland will wrap up on friday despite desperate pleas from negotiators for progress many issues remain undecided and the ending kind of feature 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 let's join nic clark a lot more for us i'm sure from cut of each or. yes thanks very much and be out of here at six pm tonight that's when the talks

were officially supposed to finish but they're now making preparations for them to go through into saturday and some people are even placing bets on sundays are made to be seen how long it's going to be taking but it's not surprising that they're going on so long they always do in this case it's more complex than ever because they're trying to settle this rulebook for the peris agreements to oversee how countries are going to reduce emissions to sort out the finance especially to more vulnerable nations and then to make sure that nations do what they promise to do and then you throw into the equation that perennial problem of developing versus developed nations over who shoulders the burden of climate change and then you have what we have here right now which has been style to find progress basically and then also you have this lingering row over the i.p.c.c. report which predicts that we're heading for three degrees celsius rather than one half degrees with all its implicit consequences and one hundred ninety two nations

here wanted written into the report that that into the final take that report would be welcomed four nations including the three biggest oil producers which is the united states saudi arabia and russia said that they only want it noted which many his say is makes it more easy to be ignored so let's discuss it all here with the man who's from the union of concerned scientists and it's a very complex set of negotiations this time around isn't it and that i.p.c.c. report is crucial isn't it it is indeed it was an input to the discussion here was requested by countries in paris three years ago to look at what the implications were of going above one point five degrees and what it would take to stay below their level it's alarming report it's really a declaration of planetary emergency it's. as we are running out of time we have to cut emissions sharply over the next twelve years if we're going to have any chance

of avoiding truly horrific impacts of climate change and governments need to heed that wake up call here and get away so we had a draft text released how does that approach this problem well it's a very complicated text as you said it's covering the paris rule book which is the implementation guidelines for countries how they're going to provide information about what they're doing at home how they report on progress once they've started making emission reductions how you ramp up climate finance to the most vulnerable countries to deal with the impacts they're already experiencing from climate change is very complicated very technical but we also need to get a clear signal in the decision at the end of this conference of the parties that says governments have heard the wake up call from the world's scientists and they intend to ramp up their ambition and try to cut emissions sharply they intend to go to the u.n. secretary general's leaders' summit in new york next september prepared to report on what more they are prepared to do to deal with this crisis and they need to show

how they're going to help vulnerable countries cope with the mounting impacts of climate change so it's kind of a three ring circus and it's a bit complicated and there's a lot of shuttle diplomacy going on right now and i just mentioned how the the world's three because all produces to try to get in the way of the wooding over how that report should be recognized the welcome to house not being afraid in well that they they asked the ministers here from sweden and costa rica to take the lead on consulting with other ministers here on some compromise the language they put out a text at three am in the morning which countries are just starting to go over now which tries to square that circle between welcomes and takes note of it expresses appreciation to the i.p.c.c. report notes its findings and then calls on countries to learn from its findings and apply them as they consider actions back home it is a good enough well it's not good enough. that's not what we would like to see but it's a compromise and that's the part of this process of you've got four very powerful countries you didn't mention kuwait they were the fourth country the joined in that

in that effort to water down the language and you have to reach an agreement that everyone can live with that's the art of the deal so to speak and that's what they're trying to do here whether it will fly or whether we can get a strength a little bit more i don't know it would be adequate i would say if it's the final language it's not great but it's certainly not as bad as what the four countries were proposing last saturday night again old believe they have the timing speech again i'm sure before this is all labor the delegates juicer arrive very shortly to start the next plenary to try and look at this draft text and take it forward and hopefully reach a resolution soon as possible for the moment nic thanks very much nic talk they catch of each opponent not waiting for politicians to act on climate change can be frustrating well his memory in a home with five things we can do right now to save the planet climate change it's real it affects us so and climate scientists say if we don't act there will be

irreversible damage to our planet would then decades the solution cut greenhouse gas emissions. enchanting to claim green energy but don't wait for politicians to make the switch base plenty we can all do to reduce our carbon footprint number one become more energy efficient insulate our homes use energy save a light bulbs in appliances and if we're not using the lights switch them off basis still make the switch to renewable energy number two is a bit more of a challenge but the costs of going green are going down as more of us use it number three is another big ask for many of us as a major cubbon dioxide polluters so consider using the car a little less diff we need a new one going to literally and no matter what we drive maintain it deflated ties to now comes into gas guzzlers number four it's the three r.'s reuse what you have

recycle what you don't need and the big focus right now reduce especially single use plastics like these they choke our oceans clogged the landfill and then made from fossil fuels finally consider going flexitarian scientists say you know literalists mate listeria a few eggs and embracing a more plant based diet will help us save our planet from the deforestation water pollution and greenhouse gases that record numbers of livestock produce each one of us can make a difference and inspire a ripple of change to hold our politicians and the fossil fuels industry to account and protect our planet while these still time. well if you moments we'll have the weather was difficult but still ahead here on. a refugee detained by australia is on with an award once he finds to get his side of asylum seekers out of prison. and in sports rules introduced

a whole new mothers when they come back to play on the world but it doesn't go quite far enough to serena williams. from the neo knights of asia. to the city never seems. hello there we certainly have had some severe weather over australia recently the satellite picture is showing plenty of cloud from the north all the way down the eastern coast and then it wraps itself around just in the northern parts of victoria and that's been with us for a couple of days now and for some of us in new south wales and victoria we've already seen a lot of flooding on a lot of power outages and today is another day of that so force in melbourne then we've had some flooding and in sydney we've had dozens of flights cancelled as well and as that system carries on further north these great big bright white areas of cloud are also giving us some rather intense areas of rain particularly this one

that's in the gulf of carpentaria at the moment that one is tropical cyclone owen and it's gradually tracking its way towards the east when it makes landfall we're expecting those sustained winds to be nearly two hundred kilometers per hour so that will be very very strong and add to that some very heavy downpours and a storm surge and we could see some really quite severe weather here about storm will then we can once it's over land because the sea is its energy source and once it's over land it's lost its energy source so begin to disintegrate but a low the winds will be easing the rain will be very heavy and the rain will be all the way down this eastern coast his so torrentially heavy downpours for many of us that live in queens and it's going to affect the majority of the population here. the weather sponsored by cats own ways.

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welcome back you're watching the i was there is news hour with me so romney a reminder of our 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 and senators also blame the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi president trump is likely to veto both resolutions. israeli forces have arrested dozens of palestinians who they say are hamas members in the occupied west bank follows recent violence in which two palestinians and two israelis were killed. the european union is stepping up preparations in case the u.k. leaves without a break that deal agreed to by march elitists are in brussels for a second day of talks as britain's prime minister seeks help to get her plan approved at home. by the french as he was transport has reopened its christmas

market two days after a gunman killed three people. police and soldiers have been deployed to secure the site the suspected attacker chica or shot dead on thursday night after a two day manhunt but smith reports. the strasbourg at 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 it 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 sheer cats when swat teams raided locations in southeastern

strasbourg earlier on thursday the twenty nine year old 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 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 burnet smith al-jazeera stressful. they will accuse of being a russian spy has pleaded guilty in a us federal court marina bettina's faces a prison sentence and deportation to russia alan fisher has more from washington d.c. it reads like the pages of a spy novel a young woman admits she's a russian government agent in america her mission to ship u.s. politics to make it more favorable to more school maria butanol has admitted working to infiltrate the national rifle association a gun rights group with close ties to republican politicians among the people and 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 six thousand presidential election something the president don't 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 see italy i asked all the heads of our intelligence and special services who issues nobody knows anything about her but you know 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 and fisher al-jazeera washington turkey is starting to enter the syrian town the beach's the u.s. doesn't remove kurdish fighters in the area the turkish president says the operation could take place in the coming days a large part of northeastern syria is under the control of the white p.g. kurdish rebel group that has labeled them a terrorist organization saying the white p.g. have connections to groups in turkey that are pushing for independence the u.s. has backed down provided arms to the y.p. gene in the past payments no longer mazin yeah no question that you threw in there you're right next to our borders in syria a third of the country is controlled by kurdish forces which are supported by the us this terrorist organization is targeting our country and we will deal with them directly. he said. we have started operations and will continue

because if there is a risk to us which there is we have to answer to that risk. if these risks and terrorist organizations aren't handled we will take action ourselves. critically ill refugees detained by australian pop or new guinea will have to wait until next year for any chance of getting medical treatment last week's australia's parliament failed to pass legislation to fly them out of one asylum detention center meanwhile one detainee has been nominated for a prize recognizing she would writes defendants my name is abdul aziz i'm an advocate for refugee on matters island property guinea when i came here i was a twenty years old and now twenty five i'm from therefore they killed many people from our tribes 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 feel it in the knees year our borders sunk i've lost five of my friends i still see their faces every day but i just trying to picture out what happened to those people arrested by in the police and they were trying to deport me back to sudan i made it to christmas island the day when we have been removed from stralia from christmas island to darwin from darwin to falcon to guinea i was not even sure that i was terrified i was thinking about home i'm going to see my family again. in five years i have 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 smuggle a phone to keep in touch with a journalist and the advocate 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 are so he wants to give it to me and i was ready for it because i know that this is a risk you know will 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 with free in a five and harvey years except those twenty four they say i failed that people are calling my name as these instead of queuing k. is zero zero two 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 so full of.