pax's decision to step down as one likely to mean that sri lanka's political landscape can return to a kind of normality any time soon mahinda rajapaksa is expected to address the nation on saturday and he would which is their main elfin and as has more from colombia mind the rajapaksa running out of options the former president and soon to be former prime minister basically announcing his decision to step down on saturday when he met party representatives who had a meeting with president by three politics in earlier on friday now his son norma rajapaksa essential confirming to me when i spoke to him a short while ago that his father had decided to step down to ensure the stability of the nation they see that mine the rajapaksa and his supporters agreed to take on the premiership set up a government with the understanding that it would be a sort of a caretaker government that would ultimately be working towards elections in the

short run but with a historic verdict yesterday from the supreme court that found that prison might require serious senior adviser to the constitution but by dissolving parliament and calling snap elections essentially in the raj of pakistan's checkmated there is also a petition before the court of appeal challenging his authority and the authority of forty eight of his ministers to hold office and in the meantime till it's heard mine the rajapaksa has a restraining order preventing him from acting in that role 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 the rest come as the army intensifies its search for a palestinian gunman who killed two israeli soldiers at a bus stop near ramallah on thursday. meanwhile an eighteen year old palestinian man has been shot dead by israeli forces during friday protests mahmoud play was shot in the stomach

a refugee camp near ramallah witnesses say he was among protesters who were throwing stones at israeli soldiers palestinian leaders accord for a day of rage across the occupied west bank in response to the violence this week so we have for you on the program to resume a insists she will get the clarification she seeks from the e.u. after she. calls the u.k. don't position nebulus. and we'll tell you about the new born baby girl who's become the world's youngest ebola survivor. hello there we've got plenty of very active weather across europe at the moment in the mediterranean we've got plenty of cloud of that he's giving us in fairly heavy rain as that works its way eastwards it's going to hit the cold air that's already in place a real many parts of europe so the rain will turn to snow so plenty of wintry

weather than all the way across towards rumania some of that snow really will be quite heavy to the south where of course it's too warm for snow will see rain and some of money is likely to be rather heavy as well for the western parts of here we've got another weather system with us is this feature here is going to bring us some heavy downpours and some strong winds a reports of northwestern spain all the way up through the british isles say really rather wet and windy for us here and that will gradually sweep its way eastwards as we head through sunday so some rain and snow and it's leading edge and still some strong winds behind it as well for the other side of the mediterranean will be seeing the scrag ends of what's going on over a year or so a few showers particularly over parts of libya there as we head through saturday then on sunday that would just nudge a little bit further east winds behind it it should be fine and dry just not that warm forcing rabanne to the temperature of around eighteen in the central belt of africa plenty of sunshine with us and actually the showers around sierra leone seem to have disappeared by saturday as well there will be some showers for the south

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welcome back just a quick recap the top stories now there are reports that renewed fighting has broken out on the outskirts of the data a day after yemen's warring factions agreed a cease fire in the city but desperately needed aid supplies have managed to get through dol transform a personal lawyer says the us president directed him to make hush payments during the twenty sixteen presidential elections even though he knew it was wrong and because prime minister amanda rajapaksa is set to resign from his post on saturday it paves the way for the formation of a new government after rajapaksa lost to no confidence votes. all in all the stories we're following closely a seven year old guatemalan girl has died in u.s. border police custody after entering the country from mexico immigration officers say she died from dehydration and shot eight hours off to being detained it's not clear whether she was given food or water when she arrived border police say they

took every step to save her life but the american civil liberties union is blaming what it calls a culture of cruelty. well now china is suspending additional tariffs on us made vehicles and also parts as part of an ongoing trade truce with washington tariff halt will last three months starting january first chinese imports of u.s. vehicles fell thirty percent in the first ten months of twenty eighteen but authorities say they're expecting volumes to pick up in the new year when it comes as disappointing growth data sent china stocks tumbling and raised fears for its economy new figures show china's november retail sales grew at the slowest pace since two thousand and three china's industrial production was also its weakest in nearly three years because of a slowdown in domestic demand and issues in the auto and property markets but a spokesman for china's national bureau of statistics insists economic growth is on track to achieve its annual target in twenty eighteen well the u.s.

and canada is saying they're committed to keeping politics out of the extradition case involving chua is chief financial officer making one joke u.s. secretary of state has been meeting canada's foreign minister chris you're freed and in washington patty call him is there and joins us live now what do we know about the talks. well we know they talk some questions from the press just a couple of questions it's also the secretaries of defense meeting there's a lot to talk about but they didn't make a whole bunch of news and that was by design they're obviously being pressed about concerns that the canadians have arrested this chinese executive among what is joe best part of the trade war the u.s. has been saying no this is because of violations of our own sanctions this is nothing to do with the trade war two separate issues that has been made that much more difficult though because in an interview to reuters wire service president donald trump said that if it would help with the trade dispute that he would by all

means intervene so i think what we saw here was the canadians and the secretary of state try to send the message that this isn't political and the are two separate things happening that there's a trade war and then there's also the legal process that they say will be fair will play itself out so definitely try to put a little bit of that back in the box that the president laid out in that interview thank you very much patty call him in washington now the british prime minister to resign may's insisting she can get extra clarification from the european union on have breaks it deal to ensure that it's passed by her own parliament it comes after occasionally heated discussions and proselyte more talks are now planned but the e.u. is showing no sign of moving from its current position jonah how has moved from brussels all the talk was of a disastrous summit for to resume a tense exchanges replaced by e.u. leaders who pleas for help for all deaf ears. but the tone from the prime minister

reflected none of it the e.u. is clear as i am that if we are going to be with the deal this is it but my discussions with colleagues today have shown that further clarification and discussion following the council's conclusions in fact possible. there is work still to do and we will be holding talks in coming days about how to obtain the further assurances that u.k. parliament needs in order to be able to approve the deal prime minister brave face probably preempts the furious reaction she's likely to receive at home having delayed a vote on her break the deal this week promising assurances from the e.u. the dreaded northern ireland backstop isn't the traffic many m.p.'s fear it is she returns from brussels empty handed and e.u. leaders on doing much publicly at least to help.

we have to. open. mrs may's insistence that legal assurances could yet be forthcoming to the events of thursday night the e.u. twenty seven removed language in their pre-agreed conclusions that had pointed to the possibility of future discussions reportedly some simply don't believe there's any way may can get her break the deal through the british parliament. the northern ireland backstop is intended to ensure that there can be no hard border on the island of ireland until a future trade agreement is in place between the u.k. and the e.u. it is an insurance policy it has to be open ended it can't be unilaterally breached want to reserve main wants from the e.u. therefore a legal issue and that somehow the backstop isn't what it is is a legal assurance that can't be given which is why all that was ever on offer from the e.u. with clarifications not renegotiation. to resume a still hope some legal slope of her own can be performed to persuade doting

employees to back her deal with mercy to prove this e.u. summit is probably north during the whole brussels. christmas market in the french city of strasburg has reopened the day after the suspect in choose days attack was shot dead by police french interior minister christofferson year was there amid tight security in the east and french city suspect sharif checkouts was shot dead on thursday evening after opening fire on police a fourth person has now died after that gun attack several others were injured. well in other developments france is bracing itself for another saturday of yellow vest protest against the government despite concessions made by the president emanuel earlier this week businesses on the famous rolls elisei in paris are boarding up their shop fronts in case of more violence and damage tens of thousands of police are being deployed nationwide six people have so far been killed in four weeks of protests or now to kosovo where the parliament has voted to turn its four

thousand strong defense force into a regular army arguing it has a right to self-defense a vote of the one hundred twenty member semele is angered made during serbia which has threatened armed intervention on the cost of his nine hundred ninety nine constitution drafted after serbian forces were driven out nato is the only armed force allowed to operate it secretary general has called the move ill timed serbia believes the army would pose a threat to the ethnic majority in the north of kosovo something course of us president denies. the kosovo army as well as the coastal state and society will be more the medical professional in the service of all citizens of course for peace in kosovo and in the region elaina glue schatz has more now from the serbian capital belgrade. kosovo's parliament approved the first read of the draft laws on october and during the process cause of a serbian minority remains opposed to the creation of course of the army

a position shared by belgrade which denies course was existence as a state alexander who treated the president of serbia said he did not understand how anyone in the world could approve the creation of course that was army or turn a blind eye to something as he said entirely in the collision with all international documents he added serbia will not be the war drums but won't allow anyone to humiliate the serbs in kosovo simply alleges the army's main purpose would be to ethnically cleanse course of a serbian dominated north a claim strongly denied by prishtina prime minister of course so would i wish had it in i said the tree laws have a want to ask to protect the territorial integrity of course of all and to protect the citizens of all communities in course of syria deputies begged by belgrade which does not recognize course that was independence have blocked and such a move in the past saying creation of a national army required

a change to the constitution and the us led nato alliance which has four thousand troops in the balkan country has also in the past urged the course of or not to create a national army unless the constitution was amended with the support of the syria minority the un rights chief has denounced democratic republic of congo's security forces were targeting the opposition just days before tens presidential election on thursday a teenager was shot dead as an opposition rally in the central kasai region it brings the total number killed at opposition rallies this week to six separate fires destroyed thousands of voting machines and electoral material as a warehouse and can chasa voters will head to the polls on the twenty third of december to choose a successor to president joseph kabila. well staying in the d.r. c. the youngest survivor has officially recovered from the virus baby benedict was just six days old when she showed symptoms of the disease her mother who also had died

during childbirth health workers gave the baby round the clock care for weeks and it worked because she's now been allowed to return home to her family and now ethiopia will begin moving its troops from the border with eritrea in the latest sign of warming relations between east african nations eighty thousand people died during the two year war between ethiopia and eritrea which ended in two thousand ethiopia's prime minister ahmed offered to withdraw the troops in september as part of a list of reforms already transforming the political landscape in the region. well now a judge in brazil is issued an arrest warrant for far left activists is arriba to see who is wanted in italy in relation to four murders from the one nine hundred seventy s. sixty three year old italian who's also a novelist has been living in brazil since two thousand and four daniel sharma reports. the president elect joe biden so not only doesn't take office for another two weeks but he's long stated his opposition to what he calls criminal elements

within the left wing groups both in brazil and abroad a supreme court judge has now why should an international arrest warrant through interpol for the italian fugitives is already but he's been on the run since he broke out of an italian carolyn one hundred eighty one where he was serving time for membership of an extreme left wing group the on politics ariens for communism since disbanded he's accused of his part of the playing a part in the murder of four people two policemen a butcher and a jeweler a murder that he says he denies any part in he first went on the run to france then to mexico and later on soup was ill where he's enjoyed a career as a writer quite often of crime novels he also enjoys the protection of the former president of brazil luis naseer lula da silva himself now serving time in prison on corruption charges he often says mr butt tiste that he would be tortured if he was sent back to back to italy or wants to stay in brazil brazil has long been

a haven for those on the run from justice from their own countries but joe boston ottawa's says it will no longer be a safe haven for those fugitives especially if they are of the left. delegates twenty four global climate change conference in poland will be staying on for at least another day is no final agreement has been reached united nations event is now spilling over into at least saturday as representatives from almost two hundred nations continue that talks on how to implement the paris and queen and our environment editor nick clark has more now from those talks taking place in the . so we were due to be out of here at six o'clock tonight but now they're making preparations for the conference to carry on into saturday people even taking bets that it might go on into sunday which to be fair is not that surprising because these things often run late and this time around it's particularly complex remember

delegates from one hundred ninety six nations trying to oversee the complexities of this paris rulebook to implement the paris agreement in two thousand and twenty three things they need to achieve to oversee how nations reduce carbon emissions the issue of climate finance especially for the more vulnerable nations and then to make sure the people do what they promise to do as a massive oversimplification is lot more complicated than that and then you throw into the mix the perennial problem between the developing nations and the developed nations who shoulders the financial burden and you have what we have here which is at the moment stultifying progress. well for more on that story and everything else we're covering al jazeera dot com is the address. of a recap of the top stories this hour there are reports that renewed fighting as broken out on the outskirts of data

a day after yemen's warring factions agree to cease fire in the port city earlier aid agencies took advantage of the trees to distribute desperately needed food and humanitarian supplies to have data international committee of the red cross delivered more than three thousand possible still assessing a cease fire was a great between his the rebels and the yemeni government at the u.n. backed talks in sweden on thursday. the presence of our delegation in sweden was very important and we've sent a message to the world that we're with peace and we want to achieve peace the talks are successful because on the right path to peace and to improve the humanitarian situation all of human tragedy in yemen is unprecedented and again saudi arabia has been. rising in the united states with the senate voting to condemn its long standing ally over the war in yemen and its role in the killing of jamal khashoggi or engine post is running a full page ad keeping up the pressure all over the motor of the saudi journalist who was a regular contributor to the paper well now there's been another twist in his

political crisis with access set to resign from the disputed prime minister post on saturday rajapaksa son says he made the decision after meeting president my trip out of syria santa. has been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks now after a court suspended rajapaksa on his cabinet on the last two votes of no confidence. 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 the us come as the army intensifies its search for a palestinian gunman who killed two israeli soldiers at a bus stop near ramallah on thursday china is suspending additional tariffs on us made vehicles and auto parts as part of an ongoing traitress of washington the tariff halt will last three months starting on january first i'm british prime minister to resign may's insisting she can get the extra clarification she needs from the european union on her breck's it deal to ensure that it's passed by

our own parliament the e.u. is reportedly said it will not move from its current position. threat with the top stories up front is coming up next. are we any closer to ending the devastating war in yemen after this latest round of peace talks in sweden i'll ask the un special envoy for yemen martin griffith.

i'm at the house and voters in africa's most populous country nigeria will be picking their next president early next year but which of the candidates has the best plan to end corruption and defeat boko haram that's our debate but first after november marked the deadliest month this year for the saudi led war in yemen members of the who three rebel movement and the country's official government met in sweden this week the u.n. sponsored peace talks but are we any closer to ending that conflict earlier i asked this week's headliner from sweden the u.n. special envoy for yemen martin griffiths. martin griffiths thanks for joining me up front this week in sweden you reached what many are calling a major breakthrough in peace talks between you who think leaders and the saudi backed government of yemen are we now a step closer to ending the war in yemen well i certainly hope so it's been seven days of hard work here in sweden both parties who came the governor yemen and.

have worked a great deal to achieve these agreements all of which will be published so that people can see what the people what they can expect to happen in yemen i think it's a big step forward but it's the first big step forward you didn't just get a prisoner swap you got a cease fire and a crucial deal of access to the port city of who data which you've described as the center of gravity in this war will we now see a major and even. media it and urge an increase in the mount of humanitarian aid getting into yemen which the u.n. has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis isn't that the priority well that is the priority and i think the reason why we all focused very very much on her data and by the way we the united nations and the u.n. security council has been focused on her data for many months because of our exile two years about the humanitarian pipeline being affected by the battle and i think

we we've put a spike in the road on that so i think we will stop that happening the first thing that i hope will happen is that the united nations world food program will be able to play a supervisory role in the port and it will backstop the port authority of the three ports of data sally from russia. it will be then for the members of the security council to decide and to decide hopefully very very quickly whether a resolution is needed to provide backing for the un deployment that will need to happen in how did i get that you're a diplomat and then negotiate and you speak diplomatically but you did say earlier this week after an agreement on the release of prisoners in yemen that quote yemenis should be proud of the people sitting around that table today but if you were one of the eight million yemenis on the brink of a major famine if you're one of the families of the thousands who have died in the

war in the cholera outbreak the twenty two million people who are in desperate need of food aid should they really be proud of people on all sides who have brought such a horrific war to that country they should be proud of people whose presence here and whose decisions here. create the conditions for peace and create the conditions for the humanitarian supplies that you've been describing so in my career not as a diplomat but as a mediator i've always wanted to try to understand that how the people who manage wars. can shift into producing peace is not easy you have to take the moment and we hope that one of the first moments in yemen has been here in sweden this week is it one of the problems with negotiations like this one that you bring both sides to the table as if they're equal parties when in actual fact one side is a rebel group which is yes violated international laws being accused of committing war crimes but the other side is

a saudi led coalition which supports the un recognized government but which according to the un itself is responsible for the vast majority of civilian casualties for the tens of thousands of people who have died over the past few years but a job is to find agreement between the parties to stop the war so the people of yemen can be returned to a seville life the people who can stop that war the people who are overseeing the fighting of it and the conflict in yemen is as you say between the government of yemen. and between them and the other as a mediator it's not actually my primary purpose to make political judgments about these two although i'm guided obviously by security council resolutions including the crucial one to two hundred six but my job is to find places where the two can respect each other's decisions to change the narrative in yemen. i profoundly believe not just from we haven't but from my other experience in other conflicts

this begins when you start listening to those two sides when you start respecting them and when you start helping them to find agreements that will move history that's what we're here to do rather than decide who's right who's wrong and why did this start in the first place some say it's not just two sides though the problem with yemen they say is that there's multiple sides dead outside actors it's become more of a proxy war than just a domestic civil war is that a fair assessment do you see this more of a proxy war than a civil war i see it as a strategic conflict perhaps a different slightly different perspective i think yemen is is that the result of the conflict in yemen is frankly as important for people in europe because of the red sea shipping lanes in the trade routes that come through the red sea in a sense it's almost as it is for the region the need for stability in the gulf the fact that member states in the region and beyond the region frankly have interests and stability in yemen is not surprising nor should it shock us having said that

while we need to take those interests into account and certainly in the united nations that's a natural. issue for us to address. the emphasis on the in the process that i'm involved in is on yemenis agreeing between yemenis about ways to run yemen so it's not about other foreigners being around the table to make decisions the people around this table in sweden were all yemenis and i've profoundly believe that this is what the united nations believes that that is right and proper you say it's not shocking the other countries in the neighborhood in the region should have interests in yemen and beyond but it was pretty shocking last month when reports emerged that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. had lobbied the u.n. security council members to stall a cease fire resolution as someone who is trying to get a cease fire a sustainable cease fire surely that must shock you when parties to the conflict the lobbying your bosses at the u.n. security council at the u.n.

building in new york to prevent such a deal i think there were many many reasons why there were different views about the security council resolution as a member of the u.n. secretary i did not get drawn on the rights and wrongs of any resolution that's for there was of that council but if you ask me whether i'm shocked about where the parties to one conflict or another or having some relationship to it have strong views about issues related to it and its resolution if i was it would be absurd for me to be shocked about that what i need to do is to understand why people have different approaches to resolving this conflict i think that's perfectly normal every conflict you see that and we need to understand that so that we can actually find their way through it to resolve the conflict it's easy to call for a ceasefire and if somebody like me and you who want peace in the world naturally stopping people killing each other is has to be a good thing but cease fires are difficult to make work in

a cease fire that is called for and then breaks doesn't build confidence it breaks confidence it takes you back words so it's sensual for somebody in the position that i'm in so look very carefully at the prospects for. any cease fire how would it work how will it build confidence how will it save lives and will it alternatively do the opposite and breach the confidence between the parties so it's not a simple judgement martin you're an experienced negotiator you worked extensively with three u.n. envoys to syria how difficult has this conflict in yemen been to quote unquote resolve end compared to an equally horrific syrian conflict i feel like all of us extraordinarily sad about what's happened in syria i got involved firstly with coffee and out in twenty twelve then with his successor but over here me and stuff and of a story or and you know we all had hopes from the beginning of that

conflict that it would be soon resolved at ceasefire twenty twelve when i look at yemen. in some sense it's simpler it's perhaps at an earlier stage even though it's four year war than something we see in syria and so what i write when i look at you have and i think let us resolve this now before it becomes even more intractable than it is i think yemen is a hope for the international community is hope for the people of yemen first i think it can be resolved the fact that we got these quite remarkable agreements in the last seven days in sweden gives us some idea that that could be true just to push back on that point and i hope you're right about the hope and about the agreement this week but just to push back and say do you understand why a lot of people around the world look at the u.n. in syria the u.n. in yemen the u.n. in libya maybe in myanmar as well and say we've given up on this organization it

just doesn't work anymore just doesn't succeed in doing what it was supposed to succeed you get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the u.n. across the globe right now well i think there's lots of different uns and i've worked in different parts of it if you want to talk about the u.n. humanitarian agencies whether in syria or yemen i think that kind of comment is utterly unfair and utterly inaccurate they do extraordinary work in times of great difficulty and they saved many many lives in terms of peacemaking negotiating let's be very clear i don't say this to make a to be pleading it is the parties who decide to resolve a conflict it is not the u.n. it is not the mediator it is their decision whether they will resolve a conflict or not the decisions that made this week in sweden without my decisions i was here to help them come to those decisions but it is their achievement their compliance their performance which is being watched not mine this isn't the un this

is the parties to a conflict and the un's job my job it's very thing we care through diploma. see through mediation through urging through patience through listening through respect to give them the chance to do the right thing but if they don't want to do the right thing they won't martin griffiths thanks for joining me on upfront good luck . in february nigerians will go to the polls to elect their next president the incumbent muhammadu buhari of the all progressives congress is running for a second time despite promising to serve only one term and his main competitor is a former vice president. running this time for the opposition people's democratic party but which of them is best placed to defeat corruption and violence in africa's biggest economy joining me now from a budget to debate this are the candidates official spokesman festus k r for president bihari and shaved and soon me speaking on behalf of opposition candidate

atic abu bakar thank you both for joining me on upfront festus k r let me start with you president biharis approval rating has been below fifty percent for most of this year do you really expect him to be reelected come next february. where there will be a real record and we're reelected by a very wide margin ok show me how a nigerian supposed to trust former vice president after other barker when he keeps trying to run for president under different parties at least for i counted over the last couple of decades nigerians have to trust. because they know that the democratic experiment in nigeria has been a difficult journey and it just took in the tenacity of people like. the two parties nigeria's and the international community will require that article

was instrumental to the criminal p.d.p. and i. also played significant role in ensuring that their particular and. other back are planning to stay in that party this time i think that's a quibble but come to a point where he believes in terms of budget administration on gets in the party to come alive you have done his duty so i can tell you for free that is going to be staying in the party and isn't the project the state let me off festus this question over two years ago just over two years ago festus president kerry said his government would quote not encourage expending nigerian hard earned resources on any government official seeking medical care abroad and yet he himself the president has been receiving treatment abroad for almost two years for an unknown illness that he refuses to discuss is it not hypocritical of the president's party festus kept trying to rebuild all the damage to infrastructure that he left behind the local health system being held that had absolutely nothing to rely upon you

think it would have been different if we're talking about somewhat upset for people that had never argued before the public in all of this you know how to count in you know knowledge on what this magnitude cannot do not support the stimulus that was going to help us a little bit after abacha what it took the trolley collapse so does it did should he apologize for having said that he would send government officials abroad for medical care and then going abroad himself at taxpayers' expense for medical care abroad he doesn't get you know they're going to come for him for that i don't go i kind of remember that particular price and he made up article after that well you know you have to rebuild infrastructure all this while you do that in my part of it out you have to rebuild infrastructure because l.t. is number one and you don't expect people to die don't want to live in any of that stuff not all. of the help that you see in a sense of help that may be turning out you may have to seek help elsewhere on to

rebuild what the damaged before they left ok let me ask you this what did he go abroad to get help with well i'm not his doctor or i thought country down here and give me. medical records are coming out of your doctor why is it a secret for the president of nigeria to not share his health most leaders tell the public if they have a health problem why is it a secret illness that he won't talk about because that reparative template coming right toward the target of your most reading. booklet i went along i think you're going to school in a democracy the people have a right to know don't know if their president is healthy not healthy if he's going abroad to get treatment at taxpayers' expense what's afore i look at medical doctor oh let me your response why did you want him to be reelected for several more years does the people have a right to know before they vote for him again if he's healthy or not and whether you can even serve another term in office run don't you. he's required medical doctor robot have fresh eyes don't think he's going abroad for two years running

medical doctors. you can't help it i'm not i don't in fact if you're not pregnant. ok let me ask with your candidate who's also in his seventy's i believe will even releasing all his medical records and being completely transparent about his health before the election in february we learn. and. let us bring medicaid we. at the wellness isn't the problem for your candidate that he may not have a health question mark over him but he does have a corruption question mark over him because there's this suspect forty million dollars that went into the u.s. via offshore wire transfers that makes him look pretty bad he may be innocent but it doesn't look good for his image does it when he's running for president when he's got this unanswered questions about forty million dollars being transferred into the u.s. nigeria is a country that relies on very conclusive things. that particular issue that you're

talking about at the time when my candidate yes trying very much to faint an american style university. american vestibular and because he doesn't have the money sitting in one account he tried to get him out of his business interests and some of what is being from the new members activities it has given the owners business is where now the new blank changed and it got the money the. issue is ready it was investigated it was close it was clearly shown not to be preceded crime it's just not to be pissy anything that isn't the only query did they had a right to we must be careful that we do not take. to mean gun in larceny good and dikembe ok i think was not corruption into anywhere as knowing that's what he said anyway let me running out of time i just thought you know ok we're running out of time i know you want to do something i do want to discuss

something else in the show very important let's talk about boko haram festus was it a mistake for president bush kerry to say back at the start of this is that boko haram had been quote beaten because several hundred nigerians have been killed by boko haram and suicide bombings and many other attacks since he made that claim let me put. this progress. can from life your father dying of a result of this after mexico or it's not a good number like not me but i think a far cry from where we are coming from this road around the took its route that developed. or not to rob or the government or the right of the people who can't back up our soil well the president took over park twenty three. i don't know about how to make all go back and get out and not only they are clear what i got locked. there have been

a lot of local government and cannot get out of the long gun shot. three ok. and probably happy to come without so you'll say no we don't really if you're saying you're winning against boko haram what are. you going to buy raw right now the point we're making it got pretty much progress not remember but progress is wrong how do you get your company so why not say that i don't want your president said he said boko haram has been beaten that is incorrect is it not. boko haram have been definitely make things not clear cut and give me nick clegg but i've recommended he said we have beaten we have some we need to know what you are in said none of. us we did not. have been designated because of the if you were looking around they don't appreciate any radical you not what you say your progress ok when i get out you know. let me ask you this is a form a decorated military general like muhammad do bihari can't be to boko haram then

why should anyone believe your candidate former vice president of a buck or a from a businessman is the man to beat the unique plan does he have that no other nigerians have the president i wanted to say that but it said in the not star rejoined before he became president right now but criminal activities of bali has now spread to the not east the not the west the not central and almost every part of the united good into the southeast what you are seeing is up because of his ms and ling he is like an understanding that there is the listen aspect to money and the regime and the military aspect of money did terrorism he's bungled dates well you know if the mission i took my book back i spent the last twenty yes look like it cost him up a side that get him the opportunity to not how to manage the battle. to stop alive

the border to be able to reduce the influence of criminal elements and simply prevent smaller lights coming in early on a bomb that is going to be run in an exclusive country that's just do you want to respond to that about the harassment and she grins critique of your president your respond briefly correct you can't you can't figure out he's trying to back up half of prime response didn't you know i probably read we talk every sense of the abstract before that drugs interview the locking up send up because rahm is operating in the south east and in fact where you're not where that is not true that for every desktop there's a story they want to write on to policy making false claims no every time absolutely no evidence or basis everybody not just didn't need to point out is that rejoicing up with their friends but the president none of them activities economic activity and african presidents have got all skewed because finishing will either of you candace do anything to restrain the nigerian army which has been accused of

gross human rights violations by amnesty by human rights watch of shooting nigerian shia protesters with live ammunition are either of your candidates going to restrain the nigerian armed forces pull them to account. well i get where you are headed right off of the militants in iraq i'm not going to support one but i met. the president to get the book to go and. they said if you're going to have this problem i'm betting you're not different from me they're not a couple of a broken up you're going to prove you've got a problem up a knock at my command and finish your point about the nigerian army festus and then she did not do not military. i told you just essential point and then we'll go to shake and shake and hold on they're not permanently hostile or forgotten why don't you go release i mean help rocket up you go home at a time i'm not going to what i'm going to listen to but if you're not going i'd run the human rights watch disagree with you as you can they're going to do anything about the crimes that some nigerian soldiers accused of the palestinians going to

do in. security and it's at the country to determine whether the men i was eight whether they have acute meant another condition or service is good enough but then the simple answer my candidate is going to do is take a look at the repeated by amnesty and eleven ad agencies and actually i'm serious question ok it does to give the panel said military to precisely how the military and i do this so you cannot kill people want only you cannot do the nigerians and i'm a candidate. and every nigerian letter will meet ok the letter of the said they will let the civilian let me live complete military. ability to make. one last question to both of you more than sixty percent of nigeria's population is below the age of twenty five yet both of your candidates all over the age of seventy both of the born before the jury in independence isn't it time given the

problems nigeria continues to face some new leadership new faces a new generation maybe i have great i have a. rock we are. we're gradually moving at a point point where we have to hand over to the younger generation we're talking to get caught up in a team when you get to cover practice time because we're putting to a very good function oculus appeared well the economy was the most articulate or possible damage and then disappeared out of conference and we have a chance to rebuild our ranks the rebuilding just a very convenient bank we can talk to the younger generation shaken wouldn't you be in a stronger position if you were putting up a new face a fresh face against muhammadu buhari in february you cannot handle two nigeria young people a divided country you need to you need to make it united feel you can do that that's why i will say it is nobody to blank check out our country to get nigeria working again to make nigeria like better to create jobs for the nigerian people to

build nigeria because at the period of a country that has every been and has to be a man to commit your nation thank you gentlemen we'll have to leave it there thank you both for joining me up front. ultimately this is the opportunity to understand in a very different way where there before something happens and we don't leave. on counting the cost we'll assess the state of the u.k. economy is it continues to broker its way out of the new world look at

a major milestone for the internet plus an underwater economy in kenya counting the cost of. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after a while it borders between five safe countries facing realities that's from the very beginning of. providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story and talk to al-jazeera. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london just a quick recap of the top stories now there are reports of renewed fighting on the outskirts of the day a day after yemen's warring factions agreed to a cease fire in the port city earlier agencies took advantage of the trees to

distribute desperately needs needed food in humanitarian supplies and to have data the international committee of the red cross to live in more than three thousand parcels a cease fire was agreed between hoofy rebels in the yemeni government to un backed talks in sweden on thursday. the presence of our delegation in sweden is very important and we've sent a message to the world that we're with peace and we want to achieve peace the talks are successful and put on the right path to peace and to improve the humanitarian situation on the human tragedy in yemen is unprecedented. a special envoy to yemen has briefed the u.n. security council on the recent talks in sweden among the people he thanked for progress made was the saudi crown prince who is defense minister was behind the kingdom's decision to launch a military campaign in yemen nearly four years ago it remains read with no being possible without the extraordinary level of support from world leaders and i certainly feel very privileged to have been able to rely on them i'm thankful to

the saudi crown prince of than some of them who shared his personal support for this process vital times and for the very much we're going to go shave me in sweden i'm grateful to president hadi. who followed very closely are negotiations really returned to riyadh during this process and his involvement was here on all files. well that praise for the de facto leader came a day after the u.s. senate voted to hold him responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi washington post is keeping up the pressure of the killing of the saudi journalist who was a regular contributor to the paper with a full page advertisement oppose says it will continue to push for meaningful action of a saudi arabia's role in his killing friday's ad is part of a launch a campaign plan for twenty nine thousand with a shrine can now wear off the weeks of political turmoil disputed prime minister

amanda rajapaksa has announced he's going to step down the country's been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks after a court suspended rajapaksa and his cabinet following the loss of two no confidence minal fernandez has more from colombo. miami rajapaksa running out of options the former president and soon to be former prime minister basically announcing his decision to step down on saturday when he met party representatives who had a meeting with president my three politics in the earlier on friday now he's some normal rajapaksa essential confirming to me when i spoke to him a short while ago that his father had decided to step down to ensure the stability of the nation they see that my in the rajapaksa and his supporters agreed to take on the premiership set up a government with the understanding that it would be a sort of a caretaker government that would ultimately be working towards elections in the short run but with a historic verdict yesterday from the supreme court that found the prison my three

palace cirrus sr had violated the constitution but by dissolving parliament and calling snap elections essentially in the rajapaksa seems checkmated there is also a petition before the court of appeal challenging his authority and the authority of forty eight of his ministers to hold office and in the meantime till it's heard mine the rajapaksa has a restraining order preventing him from acting in that role 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 the rest come as the army intensifies its search for a palestinian gunman who killed two israeli soldiers at a bus stop near ramallah on thursday china is suspending additional tariffs on us made vehicles and auto parts as part of an ongoing traitress of washington terry holt will last for three months and it starts on january first. now coming up

next we look at the hidden motivations behind the actions of the world health organization that program starts now there will be more news after that in about twenty five minutes time i'll see that. how many of you. have family or close friends with cancer or if you experience cancer perhaps. what about diabetes.

about infertility family or close friends now i want those of you who put your hand up at least once. to put it up again for any of those questions and look around. sad things. i thought i knew that she. would have a face lift which will give she feel just will still be just ask her to describe the groups it is not who gets to. be how we are who can then to me are sixteen or who took up will talk under real. pain this gift i mentioned. because if we want to protect americans from a boy here at home we have to end it over there. sars mers

universal health coverage. that the public health has to offer we will not let the people down. even his own thoughts on his its own courts and beyond i don't know how to think in . any event my duty can all mean for the immediate scene duffy's i'm not going is not soon to find nazi on an internet fight one seemed told me by don often baccarat the mike season and the end zone and he must be done it's not tundish regime. but off to focus i think you can see that everyone knows that there's a kind of official and high level cover up on the w.h.o. he's involved in and. i'm a filmmaker i have

a daughter. it is important to me that she finds the world in good condition that is why i'm travelling to the w.h.o. headquarters in geneva. the american journalist robert parsons lived for twenty years now he's been writing about the w.h.o. . until a few years ago every monday the opening day of the world called for something that was a sumptuous reception at the w.h.o. given by the director general that was the great centerpiece where everybody bed and talk to. it was it was a very good situation for holding everybody together in an informal setting. now more than ever it has that sort of thing has been replaced by a private reception at they are organized by industry. and i'm particularly pleased to have the two ministers of health they have industry spends

a lot of money for them is just part of the cost of doing business. it's a way of making correct contact with the people who back in their home countries have taken the decision to formulate and implement it. suffering of millions of human beings. will be. many many thousands of lives. but. who has positively changed everything for smallpox was completely eradicated which was the first time ever that a disease was why you don't save each one thousand million dollars on vaccines and care of the sick and iron. according to robert parsons the w.h.o. is infiltrated by the industry from the very start. this was an english

this was a chance to score examiner anyway i was not happy with my coverage because it made them look. less them good. ever since the one nine hundred fifty s. studies have shown that smoking damages the health but for decades the w.h.o. does little to oppose the backhoe industry. because far as i can look up. you know as i work on a raffle i've tried i can always apply the majority of politicians take no action against tobacco advertising for decades. basketball as an example. nothing is done to check the profits of the tobacco industry until charges are brought against it by its victims and by the usa. gradually the tobacco companies

are obliged to publish their internal documents. their strategies to combat the w.h.o. are made public one example is the boca raton action plan from the year nine hundred eighty eight senior figures at philip morris met in florida and drew up a number of sophisticated strategies to limit the power of the w.h.o. the first and most important this organization has extraordinary influence on government and consumers and we must find a way to diffuse this. the w.h.o. gets under pressure the evidence. back to back of companies have operated for many years with with the deliberate purpose of subverting the efforts. to control tobacco. institute that water. calls. and three thousand. dollars or so. nominal to three things all the right organism formed in an

honest all can only hope the stalls for three to talk interesting. one of these institutes is led by the american lawyer paul dietrich philip morris finances it with two hundred forty thousand dollars a year at the same time dietrich is a consultant for the w.h.o. regional office in america when his double role becomes known dietrich moves into the finance industry he won't agree to talk to me in the w.h.o. report on the strategies of the débâcle industry six other consultants are mentioned the british toxicologist frank sullivan for instance claims that passive smoking doesn't harm your health his study on the subject is financed by philip morris. in the year two thousand and sullivan's collaboration with the débâcle industry becomes public.