prime minister mary's brave face probably preempts the furious reaction she's likely to receive at home having delayed a vote on her briggs's deal this week promising assurances from the e.u. the dreaded northern ireland backstop isn't the traffic any 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. open. 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 assurance 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. were clarifications not renegotiation to resume a 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 where the next but still ahead. the face of the jail chinese executive hangs over trade talks between the u.s. and china and the christian stands on the.

from dusky sunsets disproving savannah. to summarize the talking nation metropolis and there's a good deal of dry weather across the southeast in parts of china at the moment we do have this is larry of travelers trying to make its way across us but not with a great deal of success on saturday on sunday i think that's the day it will begin to make headway work its way onto the eastern coast and taken off enough to give one or two of us some rather heavy rain to the north of that line it's quite caution high only it's eleven but fall warm a force in hong kong with a top temperature of around twenty two with twenty three now in the philippines recently being quite dry and i don't think there's going to be a great deal of showery weather as we head through the next few days want to particularly in the east for the west lots of dry weather hip across the rest of southeast asia what is pretty active the wet weather here particularly from the southern parts of thailand all the way down through somalia and i think we're going to see some more very heavy downpours over the next few days as well that includes

force in singapore and k.l. now to the east of sri lanka we've got this huge drop of cloud which is a developing feature and that storm is expected to run its way towards the northwest so it's going to be the eastern parts of india i think where we see the wettest of the weather and the worst that that storm has to offer probably won't reach us until we head into sunday or monday ahead of it lots of cloud and a fair few outbreaks of rain but they'll eventually peter out and by the time you get up to new delhi it's fine and dry atop temperature of twenty. there with sponsored by the time race. xenophobic violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of europe. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's past destroying right to organizations and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marine le pen. generation hate. the special

investigation on al-jazeera. welcome back i missed as. a reminder about top stories this hour there are reports of fighting on the outskirts of the yemeni city of data just a day off the warring factions agreed to a ceasefire in the port city earlier on friday aid agencies took advantage of the truce to distribute free food and humanitarian supplies. donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen says the us president directed him to pay hush money to two women during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign cohen has given his first interview since being sentenced to three years in prison on multiple charges.

because controversially appointed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa is resigning after just seven weeks on the job the country hasn't had a functioning government for nearly two weeks after a court suspended rajapaksa and his cabinet when they lost through no confidence votes. so be it has warns that military intervention is a possibility to kosovo's decision to turn its regular defense force into an army said he is seeking an emergency meeting with the un security council to discuss the issue kosovo is government says it has the right to raise an army for self-defense but serbia says it violates international agreements that ended the war between the two countries in the late one nine hundred ninety s. yellin ibut shots reports from 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 the great 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 a collision with all international documents he added serbia will not be the war drums but won't allow anyone to humiliate the serbs in cos or vida simply alleges the army's main purpose would be to ethnically cleanse course of a serbian dominated north a claim strongly denied by pristina prime minister of course i would almost had it in i said the tree laws have a want us to protect the territorial integrity of course of all and to protect the citizens of all communities in course of syria the deputies begged by belgrade which does not recognize cause it was independence have blocked any such 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 course of zero knowledge to create a national army unless the constitution was amended with the support of the serb minority but true laws promoted by the course of a government and paralyzed by a parliamentary vote other grated the mandate of the domestic also a security force set to transform into an army something which the government said by thursday needs to make changes to the constitution. china is suspending additional tariffs on us made vehicles and auto parts as part of a trade truce with washington this is pension will last three months starting on january the first chinese imports of u.s. vehicles fell thirty percent in the first ten months of this year but already is in beijing say they're expecting volumes to pick up in the new year well top government officials from canada and the united states have mess in washington d.c. as a time when both countries are locked in disputes with china top of the list of concerns

the detention of a top chinese executive in canada at the request of the u.s. has the latest. trying to project a feeling of friendship these leaders from the u.s. and canada went out of their way to say this isn't about politics the arrest of chinese tech executive when joe in canada at the request of the u.s. on charges of violating iran sanctions they say it's just about following the law and their governments can't intervene in the courts insisting this isn't part of the ongoing trade war between the u.s. and china 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 or we're working on that wall all the other issues not just this particular issue have lots of complicated issues going on with china today that is a harder sell now because in a recent interview u.s. president donald trump said he would intervene in her criminal case if it would

help end the trade dispute it's also more complicated now because china has arrested two canadians both sides here called for their immediate release i have spoken this week with the chinese ambassador to canada and we've had many contacts with chinese authorities chinese officials in their contact with canada have not drawn a connection between these different issues this is all happening as we see even more impact from the trade war china's economy is slowing down in the united states the stock market has been plunging downward ensuring that there is much more at stake than just the freedom of three people but the fortunes of millions around the world. al-jazeera washington. has paid tribute to the victims of the attack at the strasberg christmas market the french president laid a white rose near the scene of the shooting the market reopened for the fast time on friday off to the attack which claimed the lives of four people suspected gunman

was shot dead by police on thursday off to a two day manhunt. brazil's president michel ted there has signed an extradition order for a father left activist says. it follows a court decision to issue a warrant for his arrest but he is wanted in italy in relation to format is carried out in the one nine hundred seventy s. he's been living in brazil since two thousand and four. and has more from what is aries the president elect j. boss 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 for interpol for the italian fugitives is already but he's been on the run since he broke out of an italian carolynn nine hundred eighty one where he was serving time for membership of an extreme left wing group the on politics aryans 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 parted he first went on the run to france then to mexico and later on superville 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 in asio lula da silva himself now serving time in prison on corruption charges he often says mr but d.c. 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 jobar scenarios says it will no longer be a safe haven for those fugitives especially if they are of the left. the u.s. department of homeland security says a seven year old guatemalan girl who died in border police custody appeared healthy when agents found her they say she was mentally ill and had no visible trauma when

she and her father were taken in at the southern border with mexico eight hours later she died at a texas hospital where she was found to have brain swelling and you have a failure. well one of donald trump's main campaign promises was to build a wall on that southern border he wants to stop undocumented migrants crossing over into the united states people smugglers say previous efforts to fortify the border have made their work more difficult but it hasn't stopped them how to abdel-hamid reports from the mexican side of the border. 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 people think. it stretches from the pacific ocean to debone tunes 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 cartel. is through here that javier takes asylum seekers on a lone trick through. good amount in him to do 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 four or 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. of the way. 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 woman 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 all together. along the mexican us border. ethiopia is set to begin moving its troops from its border with eritrea it's the fulfillment of a pledge made by ethiopia's prime minister back in september in order to ease tensions between the two sides eighty thousand people died during the two year war between ethiopia and eritrea which ended in two thousand. one of christianity his biggest splits in centuries will be formalized this weekend as ukraine creates a new independent from russia's influence since the fall of the soviet union ukraine's dominant orthodox church has been divided into factions pro russia and

pro ukraine shiela ballasts reports. a place to worship goes over russia the cathedral of nativity is at the same. of a theological rift in ukraine the orthodox faith is split into factions russian lives and ukrainian laid priests and of tony's church is one of more than twelve thousand that aligns itself with russia on saturday he must pick sides orthodox priest will meet in queue to civil same trees on ties with russia and creates a new independent church. we will not recognize its legitimacy this is not a council this is a gang of bandits who have gathered to take over the temples and destroy the church what kind of council is. leading up to the meeting ukraine's religious rapture has had consequences the cathedral of nativity and other production churches were accused of whipping up religious hatred and raided by ukrainian security services.

thought i told them you serve the devil and i serve god let's see who is stronger and who's going to win. russian clergy are outraged labeling it the biggest split in christianity in a thousand years. they say it's a ploy by ukrainian president petro poroshenko to shore up support ahead of elections next year pushing coded champion the split he signed a cooperation agreement with the head of the church intervene death. there's rabbitohs the state and the russian church some in clergy robes some in military uniforms or not afraid to commit sin in an effort to disrupt the decision but god is with us because we are fighting in iraq just battle for our independence from. pushing co has accused of using the church to spread propaganda supporters of the churches split agree with the journal of course we want the ukrainian church to not be on their moscow so that russia does not employ when sarah decisions before.

it goes off the three hundred year old st andrews church. enqueue the pro ukrainian orthodox church survived an arson attack last month but it's not clear if regional politics will be as resilient we very well you'll respond with your own jazeera. delegates of the cup twenty four global climate change conference in poland will be staying on for at least another day because no final agreement has been reached yet the un event is spilling over into at least saturday as representatives from almost two hundred nations discuss how to implement the paris agreement. with the top stories there are reports of fighting on the outskirts of the yemeni

city of her data just a day off the warring factions agreed to a ceasefire in the port city earlier on friday aid agencies took advantage of the truce to distribute food and humanitarian supplies what's in front of us is don't you toscan as ever and in the context of such negotiations one realizes that the end of the goetia that the hard work is actually about to begin all of us don't doubt have different views on this my own is that this is not about whether we can trust one or other on this or that commitment this is about helping them both to make it appear and reporting all the success and noting with those areas where they fall short of that donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen says the u.s. president directed him to pay hush money to two women during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign cohen has given his first interview since being sentenced to three years in prison on multiple charges he insists knew that it was wrong to make

the payouts. because controversially appointed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa is resigning after just seven weeks on the job the country hasn't had a functioning government phinney two weeks after a court suspended rajapaksa and his and his cabinet when they lost to no confidence votes china is suspending additional tariffs on us made vehicles and auto parts as part of an ongoing trade truce with washington the suspension will last three months starting on january first ethiopia is set to begin moving its troops from the border with eritrea it's the fulfillment of a pledge made by ethiopia's prime minister ahmed back in september in order to ease tensions between the two sides. french president emmanuel macron has paid tribute to the victims of the attack at the strasberg christmas market four people died in the attack on tuesday the suspected gunman was shot dead by police on thursday

after a two day manhunt those are the headlines join me for more news here after inside story. the u.s. senate votes to end all support for the saudi u.a.e. coalition fighting in yemen and blames the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi but will president donald trump veto the measure this isn't.

hello and welcome to the program on iran come on the u.s. senate has voted to end old military support to the saudi u.a.e. coalition that's been fighting in yemen since two thousand and fifteen a second resolution blamed saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salon for the murder of journalist. if these measures passed the house of representatives they're likely to be vetoed by the president will bring in our guests in a moment but first roslyn jordan reports from capitol hill. the results are fifty six days and forty one nays the resolution is agreed to as amended a rebuke of u.s. president donald trump's policy to stand by saudi arabia no matter what the u.s. senate has passed a resolution symbolically ending all u.s. military support for saudi and emirates the forces fighting in the yemeni civil war

the war in yemen is on authorize there has never been a vote in congress who allow our men and women to participate in that war and therefore that war is unconstitutional i have also been deeply concerned that the president continues to ignore human rights violations the suppression of dissent and the deaths of thousands of civilians in yemen in order to maintain good relations with the saudis. legislators have been worried for some time about the civilian suffering in yemen but the saudi government's murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in october set off a wave of anger bipartisan anger not seen on capitol hill in some time legislators have demanded and received closed door briefings from the cia director and the secretaries of state and defense i can't mention some of the things that they have told us yesterday and today but i do think that this horrific killing of this

journalist is not something that we can just simply look the other way and say hey what are you going to do. you know this is war and these things happen these things shouldn't happen and. we have to be very pointed about it around prince ahmed and song and they've also passed a second resolution that says quote the senate believes crown prince mohammed bin solomon is responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi it calls on saudi arabia both to quote ensure accountability for his murder and to. release political prisoners and for good measure it also condemns a ron's giving of advanced lethal weapons to the rebels senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says this resolution strikes the right balance between accountability and maintaining a lie and says unlike other pending measures their resolution is neither sufficiently prudent nor sufficiently personifies for the job at hand

yeah if the senate was thought to arabia to act responsibly we want to see a more stable yemen for the sake of the yemeni people we also want to preserve this seventy your partnership even though this session of congress is almost over the legislators interest in saudi arabia's behavior is not legislators from both parties and in both the senate and the house say that come january they will be convening hearings and they will be conducting investigations into how the u.s. and saudi arabia's foreign policy goals intersect they also want to make certain that washington isn't underselling itself either morally or legally rosalyn jordan al-jazeera capitol hill. over to our panel in washington d.c. fatima assad a senior analyst at the arabia foundation joining us on skype from stockholm came

out must mari a political and military mediator who took part in the recent yemen talks in sweden and in essex in the u.k. natasha lyn stat a professor of government at the university of essex and i specialist in authoritarian government and us politics welcome to you all like to begin with you professor natasha lindsay in essex this seems to be a very strong message from the senate both on the war in yemen and blaming the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon squarely for the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi no as we've heard it's likely that the president of the us will use his veto powers but how's the message been heard by. well i think it's sending a very clear message it's a strong rebuke president trump that the senate strongly disagrees with the way the saudis have been waging this war in yemen. and the decided that they want to stop

aid of this conflict and they're also indicating that there's going to be more to come in january that not only are they upset with the way that the saudis have engaged in this war they're also putting the direct blame on the crown prince in his involvement of the murder of the journalist and they're indicating that in january there could be more there could be a suspension of weapons sales and they could be a ban on refuelling and so this is going to be a strong assertion. the war powers act which is where the legislative branch is basically saying that they have a right to dictate. whether or not a war will continue let me bring in fact some. of his. talking of what the u.s. is actually doing the u.s. senate is actually doing do you think this is helpful to trying to bring about an end to the war in human. so far the calls to end the war in yemen hasn't

really considered what the implications are on the ground i think we need to call for peace in yemen that's fundamental but we can't call for an abrupt ending to what is happening in yemen without really having a resolution on the ground otherwise the entire for past four years would be completely folly so we need to think justly about the people we need to think justly about all parties to the conflict there has been sacrifices from you know many independent yemeni citizens and there has been a huge military in crisis a lot of suffering and we ought to find a way to you know find a real resolution restore governance restore you know government institutions and not just abruptly would draw without necessarily finding any

alternative ways what the what the senate war powers act is just that it's a war powers act it just puts the decision back in congress hands it doesn't want the administration to act so if i think about what is what are the implications for yemen it's really not about yemen i think yemen has just been used as you know an example to say you know this this could happen when the president acts with all authority and this is why you need to put things back in the hands of congress because we could better scrutinize you know such such engagement but that's not sufficient to solve what's going on in yemen unfortunately a lot of congressman senators have been somewhat using the humanitarian crisis to point to the suffering of people as something that only the saudi led coalition is responsible to completely ignoring what the violations on the ground we you know

i think. for for yemen this this doesn't really send a comforting method but you know overall it will not have a huge impact i would say how came of us mari it's not going to have a huge impact says our guest in washington d.c. what are your thoughts. guy agree on and also it's a bit too late four years later the u.s. government suddenly clicks in and say this were. finally the u.s. law even if this does. take months in best case scenario and very doubtful that it will pass. it's very sad that you know what's happening in yemen is being made by so many international countries being involved in this war and are free years her since the supreme you know millions of yemenis and we have a becomes the worst military crisis in a century then everyone starts clicking instantly yemen is in need of help for

getting that war was the reason that this country what actually became a catastrophe so i'm not happy that anything in senate will are directly attacked yemen it will put more pressure to reveal yes but it will not help r. and b. at the suffering of yemenis or our. humanitarian situation that the country is. presently now you are in the talks the recent talks in sweden where this ceasefire deal was agreed over the port of her data now things like that are is that what's more crucially needed rather nice like your almost saying is an empty gesture by the the u.s. senate and do we need more of that kind of thing. what happened in sweden. was no political deal whatsoever it was more linked to humanitarian reasons even if

the data. yes there will not be clashes or be a cause for it end of clashes in the lead a province but again for humanitarian reasons and not for. any political gains so are no side is losing when it comes to are they being sold each one is just easing the humanitarian crisis in yemen. other issues later humanitarian problems are still standing right now is the closure of the iraq war it's been closed for two and a half years right now so all the things that happened in sweden all the updates all the progress has been linked to humanitarian success and or easing the pressure on the internationally of the answer how the collision unspecific how to use this crisis while not solving anything politically. or finding a final solution. as far as i see you nodding your head in agreement but surely

there has to be a stop point to these talks that has to be something. there has to be something you know but i think what had kim is is talking about is it's something but it's not the overall picture it's a it's somewhat of a fragile agreement as well. so there is you know more than one reason to be skeptical about how this is going to affect on the long term is this actually going to bring peace right now everybody is sighing a sigh of relief because they think that you know with the with the cease fire you really sparing the lives of the troops i know people who are fighting on the government side and they're extremely extatic that they you know that there could be some type of agreement on the data but they're also skeptical that this

agreement could last or that it could be implemented right now i think because of the signing because of the. high level attendance and the international attention that this event has. has achieved there is just a lot of feelings of positivity but i think that's really truly over exaggerated the devil is in the details the implementation of these agreements is not going to be easy something even as simple as prisoners exchange has a lot of sticking points that need to be solved according in there already chatter out that says that. the majority of or for the majority of the of the of the prisoners that the who these asked for where. basically killed in battle because there were and some of them are prisoners of war so how would the who are these really react to that does the government have all the details of

those who were killed in battle can it send their remains at the same time you know in terms of the prisoners that the government of yemen has. as for the majority of which over a thousand prisoners are prisoners of conscious their political activists their academics their journalists their women their children and these prisoners there is if they are released they're probably would want to stay home with their families and houthi territory there are no guarantees that they cannot be imprisoned again and then there are the realities on the ground are somewhat disconnected because just two days ago or while the people were talking about the agreements there were more reports of abductions illegal abductions that the militia have to inducted on various civilians and these were deemed unjust so. working out these details implementing a cease you know

a truce ceasefire making sure the violations are not you know happening on the ground making sure that there is you know effective deployment of. neutral or independent troops on the ground to enforce the peace this is all i don't think it can actually materialize in the few weeks that have been proposed so i think the agreement is likely fragile professor. let me bring you in here it seems that the white house is certainly throwing its lot in with saudi arabia and is backing certainly the crown prince mohammed bin salon but the senate this is real lot of anger there towards that move by the white house what can the senate do to try and strengthen the agreements things like that sort of the cease fire agreements with in stockholm in places like the what can the senate actually do could do anything. well i mean i think i tend to agree with the panelist that the u.s.

involvement in the conflict has really only exacerbated the conflict by supporting the saudis in such a very visible way with you know providing them with with weapons and fueling and training and intelligence and this is help to just prolong the conflict and make it more deadly you've seen though in the past months the senate has become and the house has become more and more critical of the way the saudis are waging the war and even trying to delay the sale of precision guided munitions because they were worried that the civilian death toll was just way too high and that the saudis were largely responsible for this but in terms of what the senate can actually do it's what already has been said they have made it clear that in january they can try to ban the sale of or at least suspend the sale of weapons to saudi arabia and saudi arabia is one of the biggest imported it is the biggest importer of weapons in the world and the u.s.

is one of the biggest exporters to saudi arabia and then it can also try to ban refuelling it will only affect the way that the saudis can wage the conflict to some extent will it be able to impact the outcome of the war in yemen and more effectively deal with the humanitarian crisis and deal with trying to come up with some sort of peace agreement probably not but you have to we can't underestimate the importance of the steps that we're taking it's important because the saudi u.s. relationship has been one where the u.s. has never rebuked saudi arabia there's been almost no criticism of saudi arabia and so this actually is more significant than it may appear to be simply because they're trying to send a clear message that they do not agree with the way the saudis are conducting the war though we can be pessimistic or cynical about well that really isn't. effect the outcome came out of us mari if the u.s.

then can't do it and the united nations are trying their hardest but there's a long way to go is there any other partner any other honest peace broker that may be able to significantly change the outcome of the war in yemen or and bring about an end to. the us can't help start the war the idea is not to have our congress and senate vote for it in the us it's subsociety and forgetting that it's one of the reasons why this war is happening in the first place or are a reason that it was prolonged so the idea is not the us have a boat and they are done with by right it's to put pressure on saudi arabia which your us can do put pressure on saudi arabia to eason. its attacks i meant to come to a peace deal and be at the sea diameter and the war even possible but that was needed for the us now there are. just

a vote that will get the us are in the picture and keep the results in yemen as it is because saudi can either find other partners so where the mass that the us was involved in has to be cleaned up whether today or tomorrow so the us you us can do it but it's their will not do they have the will to do it or does it their interests financial gains are the greater than the lives of the innocent civilians then i'd be killed that would be more valuable than the millions who are suffering. in poverty and hunger this is where the value of the us. would be clear . fatima we have seen now that the u.s. is very definitely supporting there certainly the white house is very different supporting saudi arabia the senate and the white house seem to be putting sanctions

on iran iran clearly a key player in the yemeni conflict where is iran in all of this is there any other way of pressuring them. iran has been trying to maintain some plausible deniability in terms of its relationship with the who these so this bite all evidence that points to its support to the militia they try to say listen we don't have any control over the militia they can do whatever they want but this is not you know we know from past agreements that were not signed that were not committed to by the militia i think they have completely helped iran stand its foothold in sanaa i think they're giving iran a lot of assurances and this should be a sign of concern whether the u.s. can pressure iran or the who sees i think the u.s. has no leverage over both. the relationship is not at its best and unfortunately i

think during the obama administration yemen was perhaps an appeasement for for iran so and also it's sort of like an appeasement for both iran and saudi arabia so there are many i think i think there are many problems here with in terms of holding iran accountable i don't think that's going to happen easily but what is really needed is sustained international pressure to stop iran from funding the host the militia for you know. perhaps you know influence the the who sees to give up some of their very destructive rhetoric i mean i think it was a real win for the huth even the senator when when senators. do not necessarily understand that the who thiis main chant is death to america and here they are passing resolutions that could somehow benefit and empower iran back to these so

it's it's there is sort of like there there are some layers of forgiveness. about the local context about what's going on in terms of iran's support to yemen that the these are really taking advantage off and that iran is taking advantage of and because saudi arabia is is using conventional powers and because it's buying weapons from the united states that gets attention and not and not the other issue so in here there is somewhat an imbalance what would be reassuring is for the senate to pay attention to all aspects of what's going on in yemen you know again the humanitarian crisis and also the human rights and the other violations that are happening. we are running out of time i would just like to bring in professor. the other resolution that was passed unanimously by the u.s. and it was blaming the crown prince mohammed bin summoned for the murder of the

journalist jamal khashoggi does that have any teeth does any bite what does that actually mean. no i don't think it does have any teeth or bite it is significant in that you have as i said the senate sending a clear message to the saudi regime that they are unhappy with it but i actually also don't think that the us has that much power over saudi arabia i do think that the way that this recent resolution will affect the way that the saudis can wage war in yemen and that may hamper its abilities to wage the war in the way that they want to but i don't see saudi arabia as totally dependent on the u.s. i think it's a very autonomous actor that has links to all kinds of countries and has trade deals with all kinds of countries and it does what it wants to do when it wants to do it the message will that they're trying to send is that and but there are other countries also sending this message as well that they were very unhappy with the

way the crown prince conducted himself and within the fact they'd been implicated in a murder they had to i mean they think that there was really no other way out with that than to just sit there and do nothing but i don't see it affecting the crown prince and the ruling family at this particular moment well we are out of time now i would like to thank all our guests some a lot hakeem must mari and the tussling star and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting a website i'll just there dot com and then further discussion go to a facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story for me in mancala and the entire team here and don't like and.

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drone engineer. the most memorable moments with al-jazeera was when i was on air as opposed to. the crowds in tahrir square. if something happens anywhere in the world al-jazeera is in place we were able to cover news like no other news organizations. were able to do it properly. that is our strength. hello i'm the doha with the top stories on al-jazeera there are reports of fighting on the outskirts of the yemeni city of her data just a day after warring factions agreed to a ceasefire in the port city earlier on friday aid agencies took advantage of the

truce to distribute food and humanitarian supplies our diplomatic as a james bays reports from the united nations in new york. the day are after an interim peace deal in yemen the u.n. negotiator at the talks warm the security council there was still a long and difficult road ahead mr president i also have before you today with the call of course our collective achievements this week were indeed i hope you will agree a significant step forward but what's in front of us is a daunting task and as ever. in the context of such negotiations one realizes that the end of negotiations that the hard work is only about to begin. the u.n. senior humanitarian official warned against complacency he said a quarter of a million people were on the edge of a phase five food emergency the technical term for that stage is catastrophe so i

can confirm again what humanitarian agencies have known for a long time a terrible tragedy is unfolding in yemen and it's getting worse the special envoy revealed that general patrick camera of the netherlands a veteran of the un who's commanded peacekeepers headed inquiries and written reports for the united nations will set up a team of monitors who will deploy to yemen as soon as possible it's believed general comet's team will be unarmed and we tossed would provide incredible monitoring of the cease fire in the port and city of data the monitoring mission will have to be endorsed in the u.n. security council resolution that is likely to be difficult to negotiate with passed resolutions saudi arabia has put pressure on members of the security council including the current arab member kuwait to try and shape the words of the resolution to their interest james pays al-jazeera at the united nations donald

transformer lawyer michael cohen says the us president directed him to pay husk money to two women during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign cohen has given his first interview since being sentenced to three years in prison on multiple charges he insists the president knew that it was wrong to make the payouts. the u.s. and canada say they want to keep politics out of the extradition case involving the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant huawei china has called for mangos immediate release following her arrest in canada on december first u.s. secretary of state's mike compares 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 or we're working on that wall all the other issues not just this particular she have 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 while china is suspending additional tariffs on us made vehicles and also parts as part of an ongoing trade truce with washington the tariff holt's will last three months starting on january first chinese imports of u.s. vehicles fell thirty percent in the first ten months of twenty eighteen ethiopia is set to begin moving its troops from the border with eritrea it's a fulfillment of a pledge made by ethiopia's prime minister back in september in order to ease tension between the two science emanuel mccall has paid tribute to the victims of the attack at the strasberg christmas market four people died in the attack on

tuesday while a fifth victim is brain dead the suspected gunman was shot dead by police on thursday off to a two day manhunt those are the headlines i'll be back with more news here after al-jazeera investigations generation hate. the. little over. thirty last you own a gun is a guy named. al-jazeera is investigative unit exposes links between one of france's largest political parties led by marine le pen. and

a movement demanding the expulsion of muslims from europe. to says he's got his reason. you don't know. what. our investigation unmasks an emerging right wing ideology called identity terry and islam it claims europe's identity is white and christian you suppose they see themselves as crusaders who defends the values of a white in the face of the assaults of the arab muslim world. marine le pen's claims that she's read her policy of the extreme far right all they. knew it was for. the arena of pens demonization it is torn to

shreds by these images. and how members of the identity arean movement behind closed doors celebrates hitler's germany. today it was easy well i could see. the funny part to slip by something many faces because some do not use it yet some listeners . when. the six months legal was home to an undercover reporter from al-jazeera is investigative unit. infiltrated one of europe's fastest growing far right organizations. it calls itself generous you know you don't see ten generation

identity because the forces across the continent. are undercover reporter louie made contact with the group's flounders branch. generation identity and set up a store outside its headquarters a ball called the citadel. announcement. for the public but you know. the origin of the you know the facts about it but i have to repeat it i don't go out of the film ok but you have to develop it's work on the mag reaching out investigator is already i'm. a little bit. louis is lead into the citadel where generation identity members drink and discuss the political strategy even if you don't know. if it's typical for your question which the citadel is the ball with

a courtyard at the back. there's another cool yard by the front entrance. g.i. members usually meet at the ball on a friday evening our undercover reporter uses a concealed camera to record conversations. the hospital says membership has nearly tripled in a year. if a state of that's all you want is the first. focus of. the single. for. you to see if you. or your boss has sole is a very important leader in the north as a bottle his base in leo is a private which welcomes the far right about it's a conference space it's a place where they can hold discussions have some drinks like in pubs but it's private just wouldn't it but maybe brunch is

a generation identity of also being set up in italy austria germany and the u.k. . g.i. presents itself as a patriotic movement that brings together people of similar culture and values it claims to be nonviolent and non-racist it's attracted thousands of mostly young followers across europe. vision the generation identity is the largest following group in france and probably in year in the uk the school it is mainly made of white nationalists then the greatest threat is islam and mass immigration which for them threatens the european identity and the white identity don't. the group has mounted a series of publicity stunts which attracted international headlines around one hundred militants blocked a mountain pass on the france italy border which was used by illegal migrants.

that already in the hospital was one of the g.i. leaders taking pot if you will of fanfare like this it was a keep open see if you can something to me told bill so when you know what they're going to cost when any such couple of your buddies don't have opted out of the. our undercover reporter became a member of the hassles group. in his bar then he discovers the hidden world. behind the facade of respectability is the true face of generation identity. the door to the citadel is usually long enough in college kids to fill in for me is met by cyril when.

in the louis and way i'm joined by another activist charles tessie. sickest. the men discuss a recent night out. the first in one of the call to steal. from the press corps are who food is insisting the crew should clean grease but you know delete whose it was because it. is so freaking you know if. you fall off with me for just a little it will be just sit. in a few store pieces for me to look for. the shelter for the question you know. the failure. is from the recession.