the future may be brighter now for filosa and her family but there are many other years eighty's who are still struggling to survive rob matheson al-jazeera the hook the kurdish region of northern iraq now the presidential palace in mexico is usually off limits but the new leader is changing this dress one will love us over the open the residents to the public well it is there is john home and join the talk in mexico city. at the presidential residence los pinos has always been shrouded in secrecy sealed off toward mary mexicans last week that suddenly changed the new president and raise money for lopez obrador opened the gates since then crowds have been swarming in to take a look at the imposing buildings and to even roam around the president's private office. excellent it's excellent a privilege for all mexicans to go in here enjoying the wonders we were all missing out on because it was always close palatial houses cabins and look tree conference

rooms with all the fittings of the ground of alaska's was taking full advantage for a fifty birthday photo session the all important can see on us the way. this is ours really we built this with our own money so it feels good that they've opened the doors. the new president says most people's will become a cultural center to live instead of his own house it's part of his history to drive which is also seen him selling the presidential plane and traveling to his inauguration and his old folks like injector epifanio who traveled from two hours away to visit the overly approves well let me can always come to you that's why the mexican people made the change because of so much corruption and poverty officials enjoyed the best planes the best shoes for their children while the poor in the hills walk barefoot but his wife rosa isn't so sure about opening up those people so they don't think it was but look at that dirt over there. it intimidates

communicate he's opened it up well it's a very nice but give it a year it's going to get very dirty. there's certainly a lot to clean not just the extensive grounds and houses but a few extra features this is the private cinema underneath the main presidential residence and the guides who tell us the directors themselves used to occasionally show the president their films there and there's another interesting room if you move along this corridor. this is the bunker built by former president felipe calderon and he might have thought that he needed it because the so-called drug war started shortly after he came to power. off to see these little students weren't sure if the new president. just showed the what am i don't get idea if he really wants to do it. people. feel the same

about to put this president whether they agree with. this teacher visited his home. collection of time. ahead of his.

welcome back 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 to launch from the harvey does that in the western u.s.

and reached eighty three kilometers above the earth's surface now the original rocket cross chairing a test flight four years ago reggie galactic plans to offer a ninety minute space flights for two hundred fifty thousand dollars well earlier my colleague husband second spoke to virgin galactic founder richard branson and i asked him how big a step it was breaking the eighty three kilometer barrier. it's obviously a great success i mean i think we're the first sort of non-country. run space to put people into space. it's been fourteen years to get here. and it's the start of a whole new 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 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're going up an 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 i don't quibble in 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 to spend spend money the airlines were able to start bringing down the price down and down and down over the decades and the same will happen with space travel it will be initially. fairly well off people who will be able to fill our 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 well a slam dunk for richard branson and we start with a few slum dogs now thank you very much so we're going to start with one of the best performances of the n.b.a. season is so far le bron james went to take on the houston rockets but it was the raucous james harden the who showed the why he's the league's reigning and v.p. the brawn had led the lakers to wins in the last two games but he's twenty nine points on the night it meant little in the face off savage display from harden this one set of the tone as he barreled through the lakers shell mikey for

his first points of the game he had to end with a fifty point triple double the fourth of those in his career and the most now of any play in history le bron kept l.a. inside to of the rockets but he couldn't market an out of the game final score rockets hundred twenty six lakers hundred eleven. the dallas mavericks they're going to played his first game of the season after recovering from ankle surgery the german i was on board for just six minutes making one jump shot to but it mocked his twenty first season for dallas as an n.b.a. record unfortunately this game against the movie team the phoenix suns who ended a ten game losing streak suns winning ninety nine to eighty nine is the seventh straight victory over the mavericks football matches in the french league have been postponed for the second week running due to security around the yellow vests

protest. trip to do you draw is one of five games that called off due to the civil unrest in france mark says hosting of bordeaux has also been affected p.s.g. be to red star belgrade in the champions league in midweek can are three thirteen points clear at the top of the french domestic standings. english club chelsea has condemned its own fans all the anti semitic chants during the europa league on thursday night chelsea were in the best as they played out a two two draw with the f.c. and the group stages a section of their way fans that were heard singing songs with anti semitic language about their london rivals tottenham it comes in the week after their much with manchester city was overshadowed by alleged racist abuse directed at city's right hand sterling chelsea have promised action against any offenders that they can identify of from the incident and hungry. brazilian giants santos i have

announced that arjun times wall couple coach jorge some poly woolley them from next season wallace some left the argentina drop off to being knocked out in the last sixteen and russia has set to travel to a former club in sao paulo to sign a contract this weekend one the corpus of the americano while in charge of universidad did chile and lead the chilean national team to victory in the twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen copa americas. the first gymnast to speak out against a former u.s. age of gnostics national team doctor has received an award from a sports illustrated magazine rachel hall and was given the publications inspiration of the year award on wednesday she visited nassau in two thousand as a fifteen year old has been a sentenced to up two hundred seventy five years on charges of sexual assault it's really

a sign to me that the world is paying attention that sexual assault matters and that we're going to listen to survivors this awareness for everyone. the head coach of the new zealand's all rugby team the hansen has announced he'll step down off the next year's woke up in japan the fifty nine year old has been in charge since twenty eleven following a season this as an assistant coach on the hudson the old black successfully defended that world cup title in twenty eight fifteen. straight as a batsman share the century partnership for the first wicket before india hit back in the second test at perth as the host ending day one to seventy seven four six three have centuries on the score card for the all these india won the first test at adelaide last week. mexico is kind of a lot of this has a chance to win a world title in the third weight division on saturday a virus is in the unified to middle way to wall champion off the beaten to ninety

goals akin to amber the mexican is moving up to super middleweight to fight rocky fielding in new york fielding is five inches tall and has a four and a half inch reach advantage you also look is i know the challenge i have in front of me i know that i have a tough fight secures it or not i like challenges and i know we're going to make history as the two best teams in the n.h.l. went head to head in florida on thursday the toronto maple leafs traveling to the home of the tampa bay lightning the canadian team opened the scoring after a sloppy pass in defense of a lousy s.b.a. cup an end to intercept there were on the attack again they got the puck back to level things up at one one tampa bay and never looked back after this so going on to win for one thing have now won eight in a row and the toronto by eight points in the atlantic division. that's it for me so thanks very much of course that's just bring you in some news coming out of sri lanka the prime minister disputed prime minister mentor rajapaksa has resigned when

he was appointed by the president not at palace or a center of toba after he sat to reveal wickremasinghe about the country's supreme court rules to rescind his decision to dissolve parliament and of course this is now going to happen on saturday according to associated press we'll have more on this on the other side of the break you've been watching the news out thanks for watching seize it.

with bureaus spanning six continents across the globe. to. al-jazeera has correspondents live in green the stories they tell. us about it. here are fluent in world news the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide is the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you think we're going to see some kind of scene change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there's a journalistic integrity and then in this case it was betrayed totally up from its

own al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. not just the murder of one journalist it is the starvation of eighty five thousand children. the u.s. senate takes aim at saudi arabia over the killing of jamal khashoggi and america's support for the war in yemen. and more pressure on riyadh as the washington post

publishes a full. page advert highlighting. the words of the raman this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up in the program u.k. prime minister treason may says the parliamentary vote on bret's it will happen before january the twenty first. i suppose parliament approves a plan to raise an army giving rise to fears of tension with former enemy serbia. well we begin in sri lanka where mahinda rajapaksa son has told al-jazeera that his father the disputed prime minister will step down rajapaksa was formed in october after the country's president sacked incumbent running that we claim a singer in

a surprise move that pushed the country into political turmoil when elephant and there's our correspondent is live for us on the phone and joins me from colombo what are you hearing about this apparent resignation. what we've heard so far this from the son of prime minister mine the rajapaksa number rajapaksa who basically i spoke to a short while ago he confirmed that his father has announced to his party group which met the president a little while ago that he will be stepping down from the post of prime minister now he has said that he hopes to formally resign from the position tomorrow. he will make an address to the nation and release an official statement in terms of the decision to step down sign the rajapaksa has been in the eye of the storm in

the midst of a political crisis in this country after he was appointed prime minister by the president might be policies in a right after the kind of unceremonious sacking of the then prime minister and has become a thing as yesterday we had a nine month judgement by the supreme court in response to a number of fundamental rights the titian that had been filed a challenging basically the president is dissolution of parliament which is something he did after appointing one hundred bucks there's also more court action against mine the rajapakse and him holding office in the face of all of that we now have this announcement confirmed ascension me by his son that he will be stepping down tomorrow so there is this an opportunity now for the president or even for lawmakers in parliament to press the reset button do we start again who in fact is in charge of the country. surely in the absence of any form of

government we do not have a prime minister we do not have a cabinet or any minister the only one who called formal office and the thirty is the exact the president by tip on the series saying now the option of a reset kind of restart to start again to wipe the slate clean would be an ideal situation but there has been a lot of traction a lot of bitterness obviously my sleep on the city saina brought to power by the government. then try ministers on it become a thing of who basically brought to the scene out of a common candidate to take on president mahinda rajapaksa we back when among the rajapaksa went in for a third presidential from that or when truong presidency the same and managed to and see charge of passing what was then seen as a shock defeat and obviously a few years down the road we found this complete traction with the president

unceremoniously sacking prime minister becomes a what has been said will be very difficult to forget on all sides however a d n always a short time in politics and obviously everyone needs to look at the future of the country restoring stability in check that was one of the reasons that president the former president some number rajapaksa who i spoke to confirm that his father would be stepping down tomorrow said that one reason his father has opted to step down is that now with the supreme court judgment about the dissolution that initially his father and his supporters had decided to take on the role of prime minister in order to set up a sort of a caretaker government on the understanding that there would be a general election but with the hopes of that meeting in the near future basically they say that they do not want to continue with an unstable government so that's

where things stand at the moment well we'll have to leave at the foot of my bed to managua because i'll be quite a bit of political fallout in the coming hours and certainly for a class on saturday to see whether that resignation happens toll for the moment thank you. well let's also bring you up to speed with our top story the rising anger in the u.s. against saudi arabia now the senate has voted to condemn its longstanding ally over the war in yemen and its role in the murder of jamal khashoggi the two resolutions have been passed in the first amended that and there should be an end to u.s. military support to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and then go to the house next but it does face the possible veto of that by the president now the second vote held saudi arabian prince mohammed bin salaam responsible for killing there's been reaction from around the world including turkey where the journalist was murdered back in october. the hog.

as you know yesterday there was a vote in the american senate this will develop more because we shared all the information with the american intelligence the english asked for it we gave it to them the germans asked for it we gave it to them the saudis asked for it we gave it to them the french asked for and we gave it to them whoever requests this information we are ready to share why because justice is the foundation of the state we want justice to be pursued. for a little moment we'll have the latest on the response from turkey from one hundred barrel who is standing by in istanbul but first let's go to you can be held get in washington d.c. good to have you with us completes his story vote really and most of us pose a symbolic one that sort of needs to be heeded by the white house and perhaps not ignored but will it. well that's the big question and certainly it is getting more difficult for this white house to ignore the facts the facts that have been shared with knowledge the trumpet ministration but also with

both the house and the senate the facts being the assessment from the cia that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon ordered the killing of his shows you something that donald trump has chosen to ignore up to this point well it has taken some action in the form of revoking visas is certainly has not named the crown prince as the person who ordered the killing and that is what is frustrating members of congress particularly in the senate that's why we saw this historic steps taken on thursday where we saw those two votes the first historic in and of itself given the fact that the war powers act was invoked this is certainly something that now challenges u.s. support for the saudi led coalition in yemen one that the united nations has pointed out as humanitarian disaster in terms of the impact on civilians but also that second measure put in place by a member of the president's own party putting that forward for

a vote that condemns the actions of saudi arabia and yemen but more importantly with respect to the killing of the. condemns the kingdom's role in that murder and of course of the pressure results from all sides really all the wind tunnels because the publicity around all of the death in terms of the print media the not letting this story they want to make sure that government in the u.s. supreme prickly. yeah and for the washington post particularly it's personal in look at this is the cover of today's washington post but it's what's inside that is catching all the attention in the media headlines because it's a full page advert going to hold it up so there's time to take a look at this this is a picture of shows he of course a contributor to the washington post they are determined their editorial board the publisher to keep the story in the spotlight just as the members of congress are

equally determined at the bottom here you can see it as a life is gone the principles of free expression endure this we understand is going to be part of an ongoing campaign that's going to extend into twenty nineteen where the publishers have made a conscious decision they want to try and continue to push the narrative that something needs to be done that this administration has not done enough that it has not fully acted and so what you're going to see you talked about this is the start of the show that we've seen this is stark vote in the senate it's stalled for now in the house but that could change that is likely to change in january because that's when as a result of the midterm elections democrats will take over and they have already said that they are determined to put in place some not only potential hearings but also legislation to continue what we saw in the senate on thursday and that is going to make it very uncomfortable for donald trump he's going to have this pressure from a co-equal branch of government checking his executive power potentially forcing

the white house to do what it is not done so far in the eyes of members of congress and that is take punitive action against the highest levels of the saudi government for the killing of. so they will leave if i can please thank you let's cross over to istanbul now where mohammed ali is standing by and of course the turkish president taking perhaps some credit for american politicians where they stood on thursday night because he's basically saying they wouldn't have voted in the way they did if it hadn't been for turkish intelligence what else has he been saying. the president of the one has spoken not only once but twice today the latest statements agave just an hour ago in front of a confidence for parliamentarians for he insisted on saudi arabia made a new call on saudi arabia to hand over the suspects in the killing of them out. of

them that as you said he he showed satisfaction about the extent of the effort thought he has deployed in making this. case highlighted across the world and taken into consideration in the highest levels of the united states he said information we gave to the americans have contributed to the to the vote in the senate about the point. of crown prince mohammed and said man i was responsible for the killing of he did not he didn't he never mention mohammed this a man himself he he never said i believe how it is a man is the man behind it but he said that all the evidence that has been built and has been found. points to the closest aides of crown prince mohammed bin said those around him and he also referred once again to those words by nikki haley the u.s. .