why she was arrested on december first on a u.s. request as secretary of state has been meeting canada's foreign minister and washington says he's hoping for a good outcome the united states is engaged in an extradition process is making travel to canada the canadians have taken her into custody or released or on bail pending extradition an extradition hearing. will continue to engage through legal processes to get the just outcome that's connected to that. we have a set of trade discussions that are ongoing with the chinese as the chinese have said we're working on that wall all the other issues not just this particular issue of lots of complicated issues going on with china today all around the world and we work on each of those to get good outcomes for the people united states of america and respecting the rule of law each step along the way so i have for you on this news out from london as a seven year old guatemalan girl dies in the u.s.

border police custody we look at the effect is enough that effectiveness of the trauma ministrations strategy of building bigger walls to stop immigration. to reason may insist she will get the brakes a clarification she seeks from the e.u. off. position nebulous. and cantaloupe is facing a toll order as he looks to add to his collection of titles we have from him at his big fight in the big apple. after weeks of political turmoil because disputed prime minister amanda rajapaksa has announced he's going to step down the country's being without a functioning government for nearly two weeks after a court suspended rajapaksa and his cabinet following the loss of two votes of no confidence and what explains. less than two months ago he was being sworn in as

sri lanka's new prime minister but after weeks of political turmoil mahinda rajapaksa has to resign to ensure his son said on twitter the stability of the nation rajapaksa was previously sri lanka's president for decades bringing to an end the country's long civil war with the brutal final assault on the tamil tiger rebels his appointment as prime minister though has been controversial from the stars and plunged the country into a constitutional crisis i it began in october when the president matter of policy or a saner appointed rajapaksa and unceremoniously sacked ronald bikram singha within days thousands turned out to show that it's or saying his decision since then there have been demonstrations supporting and opposing rajapaksa.

sri lanka has now been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks after call suspended rajapaksa and his cabinet when they lost to no confidence votes i don't see lanka's highest cause the decision by the president to dissolve the parliament ahead of it and call a snap election january was unconstitutional rajapaksa his decision to step down as unlikely to mean that sri lanka's political landscape could more turn to a kind of normality any time soon mahinda rajapaksa is expected to address the nation on saturday emma haywood al-jazeera well many alpha nana's brings us along the story now from colombo. 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 my free policy in earlier on friday now he's some number

rajapaksa a century 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 the president might require serious in the advice of the constitution but by dissolving parliament and calling snap elections essentially in the raja 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. well for more on

what's happening trying crime now joined in studio by alan keenan is the shrank a project director at the international crisis group thanks very much for coming in to speak to us so after digging his heels in tell us more about what prompted men to rajapaksa to back down was it based solely on the supreme court ruling i think there was actually two supreme court rulings that went against him one today one yesterday and i think he just there weren't very many options for him left other than you know simply saying we're not going to go which would have i think raise the possibility of a violent encounter so i think he's you know he's probably protecting him he's preserving the possibility of a of coming back to power through elections he didn't want to damage his credibility too much i think but is that a realistic possibility for him now the option would have been to just wait for the presidential election next year he didn't do that has all this political upheaval possibly dealt a permanent blows his prospects of making a comeback i don't think anyone can say that yet and he's always been for

a decade or more he's been the most popular politician in sri lanka particularly among the singhalese majority i think is his brand is damaged but it's certainly not destroyed and and the government that he sort of temporarily replaced was quite unpopular and will probably continue to be unpopular so i think it'll be a tough fight whatever the next election is why will why will they continue to be unpopular because the sort of assessment was that the government he was trying to replace was doing better in terms of media freedom and freedom of speech and so forth but the key problem or the key challenge facing the country was the economy and that side of things wasn't getting any better for many people in trying yes and and it will have gotten worse the last couple of months because this political crisis has meant lots of foreign governments have suspended aid that they've been promising the rupee has collapsed are already the global economic framework a scenario is much. harder for countries like sweden so the question is i think one

of the big questions in the coming months as lections come up with eventually is who gets to blame who gets the blame for the bad economy is will people blame rajapakse in syria saying for having plunged the only thing that isis or what they blame the un run over crossing is government for their previous couple of years of running the economy right because this came well it's come just before a big election next year the political instability has affected tourism in the country it's affected it's caused a suspension of foreign aid as you say is it likely that there will be a political backlash against amanda rajapaksa given that he attempted to make a return to power yeah i think there will be the question is how bad it will be and how how will that weigh against his is continuing popularity and the fact that he's charismatic he's strong he has his people his his government won the war against the tamil tigers which has made him quite popular with a lot of people in sri lanka so but i think. the irony is i think everyone was

expecting him to come to power anyway if he just waited so having tried to come through the back door has you know has actually decreased his chances but not yet you know gotten rid of them oh it'll be fascinating to see how all this on folds next year want it thank you very much alan keenan project director international crisis group. well a seven year old guatemalan girl has died in u.s. border police custody off to entering the country from mexico immigration officers say the go who's been named as jacqueline sol died from dehydration and shock 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 but the american civil liberties union is blaming what it calls a culture of cruelty. let's now speak to catherine hampton who coordinates the physicians for human rights asylum that what program thank you very much for speaking to us so we know that this seven year old girl came into the u.s.

from mexico just a couple of days ago she became sick father says that she started vomiting what else do we know about the medical condition before she died i think we have to recognize first of all that we don't know all the details of the case and that's why the very first thing that we have physicians for human rights would call for is a thorough investigation of everything that happened the actions that that should have been taken by medical professionals in order to to prevent her death and to ensure that she had adequate treatment but most of all in order to prevent this from happening in the future what we really need is for the new congress to meaningfully review. the department of homeland security policies and the policies of this administration related to border enforcement and this is a really a watershed moment and a wake up call for all of us a seven year old girl has died and our priorities need to change so the priority

needs to be respect for health and human rights. what is you will very new york what is your sense about the reaction the response in the country to that the death of this seven year old. all you genuinely optimistic that this could prove a watershed moment a turning point in the way my migrants had dealt with. actually i was in el paso at the end of september i was in tijuana a few weeks ago i was in the desert in arizona also in late september speaking with local partners and what we've seen in the past six months ever since the implementation of the zero tolerance policy is that people around the country are really galvanized around the protection of human rights of immigrants and asylum seekers. and so i think this is really

a moment when the country is ready for more progressive immigration policies and they're ready to support humane reception centers for asylum seekers they're ready to support alternatives to detention because there are viable and feasible policy solutions for all of these issues and i think it's really time for the elected officials to wake up and take these proposals seriously we don't yet see any evidence of that perhaps that will change as you say you have spent time in detention centers what can you tell us about not just the treatment of migrants but in a scenario where an individual a child gets sick in this case she was vomiting she stopped breathing what sort of medical help to do they receive what do they have access to any sort of treatment. so for years rights groups have been warning that conditions in customs and border protection holding cells are completely inadequate and not only that but on tuesday

the commissioner of customs and border protection actually testified before the senate judiciary committee that he feels that the holding cells are not compliant with conditions needed for children and families. it depends from cell to cell and from location to location but these are extremely bare bones another very important fact to remember is that the vast majority of border patrol agents do not have any medical training so if they rescue someone in the desert. the likelihood that they're going to be ability to identify if someone needs urgent medical care is extremely low and so it's extremely important that all search and rescue activities are conducted at the direction of medical professionals involving medical professionals so that they can adequately tree asure people who are coming in potentially very vulnerable health status i will thank you very much for sharing your insights in your experience with this catherine hampton the physicians human rights side of network program thank you. when on the developments president trump

faces further battles with the new democrat controlled congress over and mexican border wall building a wall to keep undocumented immigrants out was a major plank of his election campaign but previous administrations already fortify parts of the frontier and smugglers admits this is made moving people and drugs into the u.s. more difficult to abdel-hamid reports. stopping asylum seekers from crossing into the united states is one of the main campaign pledges of president trump. the t.n.t. one a this is a radio war that was first started in india ministration deal with. it stretches from the pacific ocean through to bounty and into the valleys it's. this is the old wall the new part is higher the razor wire was put up about fifteen days ago so now with the arrival of the caravan they harden the border. to hire one

was added during the obama administration but asylum seekers are resilient and find new ways like through these water drainage pipes metal bars have been added on the american side but police say some just dug a hole and went in. seven hundred kilometers to the east and we are nogales it lays on both sides of the border with arizona i hear the war is part of the daily life along with the sad stories of tragic crossings this part was built on the george w. bush just an hour's drive away from the city and this is how the border looks like we haven't seen any patrol on our way here but anyone can just crawl underneath and on the other side you're in arizona the real challenge is to reach this area that. it was once the territory of the apache now it's under control of its choppers seen the lower curtain. is through here. year takes asylum seekers on

a long trek through the mountains into us he's been doing this job for more than twenty years. it's the same people on the other side they give us the green light to move but it has changed a lot before the journey took three to four hours ten years later it was fifteen to twenty now we can take for five days it's a big deter it used to be a straight line. these rugged mountains are used to smuggle drugs and people both are done in close coordination but not a decision time. could take leaves people trafficking is a business that involves many on both sides. you have bad guys on both sides are no border guards who kept migrants in their homes or put them in the cars and let them go and i saw this happen so build one wall or two walls people will continue to cross and we will continue providing our service. a

fortified border added personnel a new technology has slowed the movement of asylum seekers over the past two decades it will take the border in a war to stop it altogether but at the. mexican us border. on the program. parliament to form an army. to threaten on the intervention. how winning is helping displaced women in northern iraq to rebuild their lives. and in sports a no veteran skier is going as well as ever on the slopes of its loops i don't think it's were explained.

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 his way eastwards it's going to hit the cold air that's already in place over 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 that 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 a sim heavy downpours and some strong winds eva parts of north western spain and 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 we're just not a little bit further east winds behind it it should be fine and dry just not that

warm foursome are bad for 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 though some forgettable. when the shots came from the holiday and we heard cracks we heard some noise. this was no no sniper alley is one of the most dangerous intersections in saudi but. it didn't come in through the front entrance that was what happened to the people who were shot they came into the wrong entrance the night clipart of took pics of the funny trying to come out sure that's good the hell out of your sorry honey day and hotels on al-jazeera. al-jazeera as their want us to embrace the good schools today to see what happens next if bush. fired by the barrier where mobile

barricaded all seventh street that leads to here the movies now it's been all about change people have gone past the fear the area the mission of the national army is just six feet tie opioid complex and i'm just your stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. welcome back just a quick look at 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 port city but desperately needed aid supplies have managed to

get through. donald trump's former 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 trying because prime minister amanda rajapaksa is set to resign from his post on saturday this paves the way for the formation of a new government after rajapaksa lost two votes of no confidence. when all the stories are watching israeli forces have arrested forty palestinians in the occupied west bank it says thirty seven of the members of hamas including three senior leaders the arrest 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 muffler was shot in the stomach jello zone refugee camp near ramallah witnesses say he was among protesters who were throwing stones at israeli soldiers palestinian leaders

had called for a day of rage across gaza in the occupied west bank in response to the violence this week all now aid agencies working in iraq trying to help yazidi women become more independent by teaching them new skills a community was torn apart by ice ill in two thousand and fourteen with thousands of years even men killed and women forced into slavery but is a threat from i still appears to diminish many projects are facing funding cuts well matheson reports from the hook in the kurdish region of northern iraq. philos father says weaving a new future for her family which was ripped apart four years ago when i saw fighters swept through her hometown of sin john. i lost my eldest son who was the sunshine of my life i still remember him every time i was a meet other woman at the camp he was killed on the night he was about to get married. when i was always finally pushed out of synch

filosa no five remaining children eventually made their way to a refugee camp and conquer in the kurdish region of northern iraq have been a marriage i used to cry all the time inside the tent i didn't have food to feed my children we barely had anything at all fearless now works at a carpet factory nearby she's never woven anything before. but her newly learned skills provide an income. you see the woman is said to be the backbone of their families but they isolate hogs and twenty fourteen shattered many of those families and destroyed tens of thousands of lives for lose like many of the women at the center lost her husband and several relatives the organizers of projects like this one hope that they will help the women to regain the confidence to become more independent and work towards a more peaceful future. it is true that still many of the women are still suffering

what we need is a lot of support from the local authorities and from around the world is he the women still have a long road ahead but you can see hope spreading among them. this center is home to several projects run by local and global aid agencies but as the threat from eisel diminishes it seems the world's interest is fading today and we fear the world is no longer paying much attention to our suffering but we shall be asking for our rights until we draw our last breath we want to ensure a bright future for our children and generations to come. the future may be brighter no for filosa and her family but there are many other years it is who are still struggling to survive right matheson al-jazeera the hook the kurdish region of northern iraq british prime minister to resign may is insisting she can get the assurances she needs from the european union on her breaks it deal to ensure it's passed by her own parliament as comes after heated discussions in brussels more

talks are planned but the e.u. is showing no sign of moving from its current position jonah who has more now from brussels. all the talk was of a disastrous summit for to resume a tense exchanges rebuffed by e.u. leaders her pleas for help fall in on 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 leave with a deal this is it but my discussions with colleagues today have shown that further clarification and discussion following the council's conclusions is in fact possible. there is work still to do and we will be holding talks in coming days that's how to obtain the thirty u.k. parliament meets in order to be able to approve the deal prime minister may's brave face probably preempts the furious reaction she's likely to receive at home having delayed a vote on her brakes a 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 all but empty handed and e.u. leaders aren't doing much publicly at least to help i have. we have. opened. mrs may's insistence that legal assurances could yet be forthcoming seems contrary 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 is a reason may still hope some legal sleight of hand can be performed to persuade doubting in peace to back her deal the message from this e.u. summit is probably not join a whole al-jazeera brussels. the christmas market in the french city of strasburg has reopened a day after the suspect in tuesday's attack was shot dead by police french interior minister chris was there amid tight security in the eastern french city the suspect sharif checkouts was shot dead on thursday evening after opening fire on police a fourth person has now died after the gun attack several others were injured. well france is bracing itself for another saturday of yellow vest protest against the

government by concessions made by president earlier this week businesses on the famous paris are boarding up the shop fronts in case of violence and damage tens of thousands of police are being deployed nationwide six people have so far been killed in four weeks of protests. delegates at the cop twenty four global climate change conference in poland will be staying on for at least another day as no final agreement has been reached yet the united nations event is now spilling over into at least saturday is representatives from almost two hundred nations continue their talks on how to implement the paris agreement when the park is preparing for an early start in and joins us now nic what's happening there now. yes these are decisive times here.

as the delegates a negotiator said pour over the various texan trying to find a way through the complexities to come up with a rulebook for the paris agreement has been a lot of anger there's been a lot of intransigence there's been a lot of stalemate a little bit earlier i went to a press conference an emergency press conference they called from the small island states we heard from mohamed nasheed who's head of the multis dedication as saying deeply unhappy with the way the talks ahead of the grenada delegation saying all we really are for a consensus of the lowest common denominator or a decision that is truly indicative of the reality the world faces the u.n. general i'm tony harris is being here trying to achieve a things along he was here at the start of the talks he was here on wednesday went back to sweden to discuss yemeni issues and now he's back again trying to find a way forward this is the text that. this is a text that they're currently working on it was worked on overnight and all day

long they've been pouring over it and we've just had a tweet from the president of quote michael. who has said that the new version of this text it will be made available about one o'clock in the morning and then plenary will be cooled which is the main meeting of this conference at four am and at that point will see what everybody thinks about the new text and just how long this conference is going to go on for four and stop but of how we have we have it only a few neck so they're trying very hard to reach an agreement one of the main stumbling blocks. well the funny thing is not as bad as it seemed it would be back on wednesday then they were even talking about these talks going into monday's quite a lot of work has been done to get holding down the problems but as you say there are outstanding issues not the least of which is the issue of loss and damage and that's an old thorny problem which is a battle between developing in developed nations about who shoulders the burden of

climate change that's still an ongoing issue also article six which is about the big arcane complex area of carbon credits brazil have a problem with that and turning to terrorism has been on the phone to the brazilian president in brazil to try and sort that problem out and also the whole thing of science being in shrine in the body of the final agreements if you remember we had the i.p.c.c. report which came out in october warning of the catastrophic consequences on the trajectory that we're currently on which is taking us to three degrees celsius instead of one and a half to resell says and back last weekend one hundred ninety two of the hundred ninety six countries here wanted that enshrined in the text wanted it to be welcomed but the three biggest oil producers us united states russia and saudi arabia plus q eight said they were interested in that they only wanted it noted in many say that's because it was easier to simply ignore so that's another big

stumbling block here and we'll see what they come up with in the next version of the text thank you very much aaron environment at a ten minute car with all the latest from the cup twenty four talks and cattle. well now some news from kosovo where the parliament has voted to turn its four thousand strong defense force into all regular army arguing it has the right to self-defense a vote in the one hundred twenty member somebody has angered neighboring serbia which has threatened the armed intervention on the cost of his nine hundred ninety nine constitution drafted after serbian forces were driven out nato is the only odd force allowed to operate it secretary general is called the move ill timed serbia believes the army would pose a threat to the ethnic majority in the north of kosovo something called the vice president denies. those forced to kosovo as well as the coastal state and society will be more the medical professional in the service of all citizens of course of all for peace in kosovo and in the region ethiopia will

begin moving its troops from the border with eritrea and 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 offer to withdraw the troops in september it's part of a list of reforms already transforming the political landscape in the horn of africa. on out to the d.r. see where 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's worked because she's now been allowed to return home to her family. it's a good story. a. mexico's new president throws open the doors his official residence is inviting the public. and there's

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