created that the manufacture but in us for as yemen is concerned it is paramount that the yemenis after three years of war to be able to recover from what is a looming famine and total disaster the country anger against saudi arabia has been rising in the us with the senate passing a resolution which condemned its long standing ally for the war in yemen senators also blamed specifically the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi and the washington post has run a full page tribute to mr khashoggi who wrote regularly for the paper the paper says it will continue to push for meaningful action against riyadh over its role in his killing friday's ad is part of a larger campaign planned for twenty nineteen lindsey graham is a senator from donald trump's republican party he says the current relationship with saudi arabia isn't working they're going to sell all or they will starve

they're going to do what's best for the saudi economy which is all based of weapons i'm worried that this guy is crazy enough to kill a journalist in a consulate in turkey why would you give that guy work and said he may give the russians or the chinese as long as m.b.a.'s is around i'm not going to deal with saudi arabia as a normal relationship because there's nothing normal about me and they need a thousand times more than we need them. still to come here at al-jazeera australia recognises west jerusalem is israel's capital find out why it will have little impact plus. i told them you serve the devil and i serve god let's see who is stronger and who's going to win. and on the early rift why also don't stretch because in ukraine they're facing a choice and speaking with russia. hello

there we've got more rain working its way towards tekkie so we'll see the cloud increase during the day and a fair few outbreaks of rain most of those in the western parts and it looks like we'll see plenty more as we head through the day on sunday ahead of it plenty of cloud in the temperatures not too impressive anchor there only getting to around nine degrees so much just filtering a little bit for the south too so you may see one or two showers here as well elsewhere in forcing kuwait is not that well momentum temperature is only going to be nineteen or twenty degrees over the next few days it is malda here in doha so some will be around twenty six on saturday but there will be a little bit of a breeze that wind just easing a fraction as we head through the day on sunday and then all temperature of renewed around twenty five down towards a southern parts of africa air and here we've got a few showers with the system most of those are in the north of stretching from angola all the way across towards madagascar some of those are pretty heavy but also watch out for this cloud in the eastern parts of south africa because that isn't really just going to be we're likely to see some rumbles of thunder mixed in

with there are one or two rather shopper downpours as well a few more are expected as we had three sunday but it does look like saturday will be a more active day despite any thunderstorms that will still be warmed and jo'burg back both getting up to around twenty eight degrees not that warm force in capetown will be at twenty five.

traverses take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera sri lanka's disputed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa has quit resign his resignation letter within the past few hours mr rajapaksa was appointed seven weeks ago and that set off a political crisis that left sri lanka without a functioning government. fighting on the outskirts of the day less than a day after gammons warring parties agreed to a ceasefire in this vital port city video shown on t.v. appears to show air strikes by the saudi m r r t coalition that is battling against

the truth is when this is say at least one woman was killed. that the israeli military has begun demolishing the home of a well known palestinian activist soldiers entered the amati refugee camp overnight and they set explosives around the house of latif honeyed her son was accused of killing an israeli soldier earlier this year palestinians are protesting against the demolition they say it's a form of collective punishment that is illegal under international law bin go live now to ramallah in the occupied west bank a correspondent there in the trash a good name and so many many palestinians at a very angry what's going on at the moment. indeed martine the tension really has ratcheted up though i should mention it's essentially in pockets of the west bank we attended a protest yesterday there appeared to be just as many journalists as protesters but all of this the umbrella of all of this is that there is an intense manhunt

underway by the israelis to track down the people or person responsible for killing two israeli soldiers on thursday they were two men twenty years old so right now what we've got is clashes outside l m r a refugee camp clashes with palestinians and israeli soldiers there are still several hundred in the camp and on the outskirts and it's blocking a main artery coming in to the heart of ramallah universities and schools in ramallah have been cancelled as a result about sixty five palestinians have been injured so far today and in addition to the demolition you mentioned there were raids of several homes so back to that demolition and why it's noteworthy so this morning several hundred israeli soldiers stormed the home of the abu hamid's inside l m r a refugee camp they use sound bombs which we could hear from my hotel a relatively short distance away but pretty loud nonetheless they use drones and

they began to demolish the home their target was a young palestinian named islamabad hamid he is accused in may of taking a cinder block dropping it from a roof and killing and israeli soldier this family is unique there are seven brothers one is dead the other six are sitting in israeli prisons accused of attacks on israelis one of the brothers is considered to be a co-founder of fatah's military wing and their mother latif abu hamid was a woman of distinction or some note you might say because in two thousand and eleven the palestinians sent her to the u.n. to make a presentation regarding palestine's bid for statehood inside the home today. was miss abu have made she said they can go ahead and demolish my home but we will rebuild and quote we will liberate palestine martine also inside the home this morning during the demolition was a minister with the palestinian authority he was calling for palestinians to

protest however he was saying that they should protest peacefully that's actually going to aim live in ramallah australia has formally recognize west jerusalem as the capital of israel prime minister scott morrison says australia will not move its embassy from tel aviv bought will penetrate in defense office their muslim majority countries including internees here in malaysia had threatened to cancel the free trade deal in protest the us recognized all of jerusalem as israel's capital last year a move declared by the un to be null and void a strategy that now recognizes wish to resume being the seat of business and many of us to to show his government is the capital of israel which jerusalem is the capital of israel and we look forward to moving our embassy to west jerusalem

when practical in support of and after final status determination of thousands of france's yellow vests demonstrators are expected to take to the streets again in paris has been a month since the start of their protests which has plunged president macro's government into crisis we can go live now to our correspondent who's there in the heart of paris you can see the up the trail behind him andrew symonds so what sort of turn out to expect today this will be week five wouldn't it. it certainly is much seen fun five weeks now since these extraordinary protests began and they've moved into a much more dangerous political machine for the government it's hard to tell how to gauge right now what sort of numbers you see observers saying right now something like ten times the number of yellow vests here assembled compared with this time

last week but it's very early on a saturday morning here in paris and the atmosphere how to gauge very difficult to gauge but there is a colossal operation going on in the streets around me by the security forces armored vehicles involved the police deploying and all the cross right there right around the central districts the metros close most public buildings closed. desperately important to businesses here they've had to build up their windows as well so really a sense of what's anticipation possibly that could be a reduction in numbers that will be a political relief for the president microland of but the the whole atmosphere as i say is charged but there's an uncertainty about which way it will go and i mean president macro must pretty much forced into making concessions wasn't t.l.e. or in the weeks following last weekend's violent protests that led to a no for a lot of damage not just in paris but around the country and it seems clear doesn't

it that the protests this have not been persuaded that not mean assuaged by president macro's office. yeah let's just take a look at this it's a very different situation this week compared with last year as you mentioned there the house being concessions by the president a lot of them in fact ten billion euros worth of concessions a colossal amounts of money tax concessions. concessions on tax on retirement on pension a whole raft of other measures now the response to that has been guarded some in this presser of different interests involved by people who started off protesting against fuel prices and ended up complaining about every facet of their lives perhaps and in terms of salaries in terms of conditions it would look and so now you have a position where people are really thinking maybe this president is going to go the

full distance but certainly it's not over yet even if you see reduced numbers remember let's just take a look at now as i go to the next point of the shows a lease a just take a look back there you can see who will help in about two three hours' time ten days before christmas it'll be a scene of i'm sure yellow vests and the police deploying certainly no shoppers a colazal costly economy an economy that was really in terms of the tourism industry beginning to recover massively compared with twenty fifteen of the terror attacks that's one foot's of the economic factor how people are feeling towards macro another aspect is the terror attack in strasburg this week in which a total of four of victims and now dead there have been a lot of concerns about this that the extent of pressure on the security forces in the government out cold on demonstrators to reduce their numbers because of that so that's another factor plus as i say the christmas holiday season being

a palm fronds on the mood possibly lightning some want these are all factors but one thing is for sure the french president read a contrast easy right now with the size of this movement and the number of demands they're making him and live in paris thank you. now one of christianity his biggest splits in centuries is expected to be formalized this weekend ukraine plans to create a new church independent of russia's influence there since the fall of the soviet union ukraine's dominant orthodox church has been divided into factions one pro russia and the other prey ukraine charlotte bellis explains. a place to worship god or russia the cathedral of nativity is it the same to over theological rift in ukraine the orthodox faith is split into factions russian laid and ukrainian laid arch priest anatoly church is one of more than twelve thousand that

aligns itself with russia on saturday he must pick sides orthodox priest will meet in q. 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 pro russian 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 pushing co to shore up support ahead of

elections next year pushing co did champion the split he signed a cooperation agreement with the head of the church intervene that. 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. with us because we are fighting in iraq just battle for our independence. 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 implement sarah decisions. of the three hundred year old st andrews church. the pro ukrainian orthodox church survived an arson attack last month but it's not clear if regional politics will be as resilient very. shallow ballasts. there five years

ago the world's youngest nation south sudan descended into civil war that's killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions but a peace deal was signed in september miles some refugees say it may help them go home others aren't even aware that there's been an agreement even more than has met some refugees in neighboring sudan in her spare time monica likes to sue her sheets with colorful stitches she says it reminds her of the good times when she was in her home village in south sudan instead of a refugee camp in neighboring sudan a village she would like to return to with conditions you know you know i know many people i want to go home but peace for me is not just paper they have to be no more guns no more displacement they have to be schools for the children food hospitals. civil war started in south sudan two years after it gained independence when president salva kiir accused his vice president riek machar of attempting

a school nearly four hundred thousand people have been killed and more than a quarter of the twelve million population has been displaced as a result of fighting a deal signed in twenty fifteen collapse less than a year later leading to new fighting and really displacement there was another deal signed in september a deal that's not known to all those it's meant to help you and i'll go get if i get what deal i'm not aware of any deals signed nobody told me anything if they want to start returning home then we should be informed about what's going on among . the green provides power sharing between the worrying party in south sudan will have five vice presidents a three year transitional period to be followed by elections and a unified army but before all that there are state borders to be determined commissions to be formed and verification of forces to be completed many of the provisions of the peace deal are yet to be implemented and a transitional government will not be formed until may next year but refugees here are holding on to the hope that it will provide the stability and security of

a need for them to return home. you hanna is the camp leader for south sudanese refugees in germany a camp here in white nile state he says the talk of return is something that comes up occasionally when he meets other refugees. and although many refugees here talk to me about wanting to return home but that can just happen we have seen it before when the last deal was signed and they say there was peace but fighting happened again and people were displaced we have to be sure this time before attaining. a confirmation that can only be given with time but for now all refugees like monica can do is hope they will get to raise their children in their countries instead of refugee camps he will morgan al-jazeera jamais a camp in white nile state so damn. time physical of the top stories here it is there are three lanka's disputed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa has quit he signed his resignation letter within the

past couple of hours mr rajapaksa was appointed seven weeks ago and that set off a political crisis in the country that left sri lanka without a functioning government there fighting on the outskirts of her day there less than a day after yemen's warring parties agreed to a ceasefire in this vital port city video shown on his t.v. appears to show air strikes by the saudi or r.t. coalition that is fighting the who says. this is blood aggression a violation of the ceasefire these are two sisters one died in the other one is in critical condition hanging between life and death there is an affront so there are three women the airstrike targeted the residence right here look at the blood look at the shop not if this is the ceasefire they are trying to promote mercy feel god the war is out the front lines are not true and civilians areas. israeli soldiers

have begun demolishing the home of a prominent palestinian activist latif who had media her son allegedly killed an israeli soldier in may palestinians are protesting against the demolition in ramallah as collective punishment australia has formally recognize west jerusalem as the capital of israel the prime minister scott morrison says australia will not move its embassy from tel aviv but it will open a trade in defense of this in jerusalem muslim majority countries like indonesia and malaysia have threatened to cancel a trade deal in protest the us recognized all of jerusalem as israel's capital last year a move declared by the un to be null and void anger against saudi arabia has been rising in the u.s. with the senate passing a resolution to condemn its long standing ally for the war in yemen american senators also blamed specifically the saudi crown prince for the murder of john

this jamal khashoggi the washington post is running a four page tribute to mr khashoggi who was a contributor to the newspaper those are the headlines inside stories next. the war on drugs in the philippines is pushing jails to breaking point a record number of inmates languished behind bars for years awaiting trial one on one east philippines locked up on al-jazeera. 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 all military support to the saudi u.a.e. coalition there'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 a mole if these measures pass 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 mohammad 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 ever good measure it also condemns a rons 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

they said it was thought to rabea 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 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 congressmen and 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 young men this this doesn't really send a

a comforting method that you know they're all it will not have a huge impact i would say how came out 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 word is. vinatieri us law even if this does. take months in best case scenario and i'm 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 our free years the suffering of 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 optimistic that anything in senate will are directly attacked yemen it will put more pressure to reveal yes but it will not help and be yet to some yemenis or are the 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 out the closure of some airport because for two and a half years right now so all the things that happened in sweden all the updates the progress has been linked to the material success and or using the pressure on the internationally of the answer how the collision in specific 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 would have keim 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 a 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 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 is 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. the fact the outcome came of us mari if the us 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 stop the war the idea is not to have our congress and senate vote for it in the u.s. to step aside 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 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 result 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 their interests financial gains are are they greater than the lives of the innocent civilians then i'd be killed i 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 and 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 guinness. about the local context about what's going on in terms of iran's support to yemen that the these are really taking advantage often 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 i mean we are running out of time i would just like to bring in professor lynch that hey the other resolution that was passed unanimously by the u.s. senate was blaming the crown prince mohammed bin summoned for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi does that have any teeth does any bites 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're unhappy with it but i actually also don't think that the u.s. 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've 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 taj and then stop and thank you 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 our 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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hello welcome to our jazeera live from doha i'm martine denis also coming up a scramble to get aid into yemen through its main port of a day where more fighting is threatening a truce. israel's army demolishes the home of a palestinian activist susana is in jail accused of killing a soldier. tension on the streets of paris where yellow vest protest is a gearing up for a fifth weekend of demonstrations. thank . you prime minister rajapaksa has quit he plans to address the nation at some point on saturday mr rajapaksa was appointed seven weeks ago that said of a political crisis that is less sure lanka without a functioning government and facing the prospect of being unable to pass next year's budget we'll go live now to the sri lankan capital colombo our correspondent

there is in the else and that is now rajapaksa quits what difference does that make to the situation. basically martin. prime minister mind the rajapaksa giving reasons for his resignation in his formal letter to present much less since they are saying that it was not his intention to remain prime minister with the elections not being held in the near future he did see on the twenty sixth of october when he took on the post of prime minister pointed by the president who sacked from the vicar missing her the prime minister at the time that he expected elections to be held in two months and this is what the will basically working towards a few days ago we had a historic decision by the supreme court which in response to a fundamental rights protections against the dissolution of parliament in the

calling of snap elections by the president the court ruled that that decision was unconstitutional so the whole prospect of elections in the near future has been ruled out and as a result i have the rajapaksa saying that this is one of the reasons that has shaped his decision to resign we heard from his party supporters that it was with a view to ensuring the stability of the country which had been racked by turmoil i mean there was a complete political crisis with the appointment of mine the rajapakse on the twenty sixth of october the answer mourning the sacking of his predecessor run a vigorous singer who incidentally is the man who brought the president to power with the coalition that backed him as a common candidate to take on prison minded rajapaksa who was running right all that water under the bridge and now him resigning ok i mean now it means that sri lanka still has no prime minister does it mean that effectively it's a government that is dysfunctional.

basically means there is no government at this point of time martin essentially with prison my him the rajapaksa initially restrained from acting as prime minister and now having stepped down there is no prime minister there is no government the only person who has official authority is the executive president by the policy center so there is no government to make decisions we talked about the budget come the new year two thousand and nineteen there is no money that has been formally passed for the running of the government for the running of the country so right now it's a case of waiting to see what happens what the next move is by the president there is talk of the coma singer being resold in as the prime minister on sunday but that is not confirmed and we have to see what move it's basically the president's move at this stage by now if a man does live in colombo thank you. this fighting on the outskirts of her data

less than a day after yemen's warring parties agreed to a cease fire in this final port city video shown on his t.v. appears to show airstrikes by the saudi a morality coalition that is battling against the hoofy rebels witnesses say at least one woman was killed and another two were severely injured. there this is blood aggression a violation of the cease fire these are two sisters one other ones in critical condition hanging between life into their fantasy land so there are three women struck targets of the resistance right here look at the blood look at the shop know if this is the cease fire they are trying to promote mercy god the warriors are the front lines not true and civilians areas. well the un's special envoy to yemen martin griffiths meanwhile has been briefing the security council on those talks

that took place in sweden and he said what was agreed was only an interim arrangement his are diplomatic editor james phase of. the day off to an interim peace stealing 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 come before you today with a call for a course in our collective achievements this week where 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 at 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 comments team will be unarmed and we tossed would provide incredible monitoring of the cease fire in the port and city of her 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 byrd's al-jazeera at the united nations

now on bashar is out as their senior political analyst and he explains the political tightrope the u.n. is walking when dealing with saudi arabia. in a u n security council resolution making it basically into defacto into law whereby the saudis and they are this going to have to abide by it so it's very important for the un security council to rush towards the trying the agreements in sweden into those illusion this way it would be respected by the all parties all the parties if specially those who were planning an attack. on iran had they the notably the iraqis and the saudis but again even that would still be the first of the worst the longer road towards recovery and towards solution i think that's why i think that's why the secretary general and the special envoy would go out of their way to thank someone everyone knows including the both of them that is responsible for the tragedy of yemen to the which is how medicine man because

unlike him they're not going to hold yemen hostage to a political calculus now they're say let's resolve the image then crisis even if it means just getting towards the saudi crown prince because this is a first step among many whereby in battle the international community we've seen the american congress perhaps others will take baggage measures against the very particular case of mohamed bin said a man or say for the killing of the four other crises that he's created that he many factor but in us fight as yemen is concerned it is paramount's that the yemenis after three years of war to be able to recover from what is a famine and total disaster in the country. well anger against saudi arabia has been rising in the u.s. with the senate passing a resolution to condemn its long standing ally for the war in yemen senators also blame the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi and the

washington post says run a full page tribute chickasha who wrote regularly for the paper the post says it will continue to push for meaningful action against riyadh over its role in his killing friday's ad is part of a longer campaign planned for twenty nineteen well if he graham is a senator from president comes republican policy and he warns of the dire consequences if stronger action isn't taken against the saudi crown prince and i would have been within the us those thirteen people of saudi arabia did so under the command in the direction of being the us could been focusing on because as a critic for two years he's rendition people he's taken people from other countries saudi citizens brought them back to saudi arabia arabia to use them this is a pattern for him he did it he knew about it could happen without his knowledge i'm not going to forgive it big deal we need to come down hard because if we don't we're opening up pandora's box a seven year old guatemalan girl has died of

dehydration while in u.s. border police custody last week jacqueline i'm a rosemary marchini reportedly didn't receive medical treatment for ninety minutes despite having a fever above one hundred five degrees her father said she hadn't eaten for days when she was taken in at the u.s. border with mexico earlier this month jacqueline and her family are part of the exodus of central american migrants fleeing to the u.s. in hopes of claiming asylum. one of donald trump's main campaign promises was to build a wall on the southern border he wants to stop undocumented migrants crossing into the u.s. people smugglers say previous efforts to fortify the border of make their work more difficult but it hasn't stopped them hoda abdel-hamid ripples 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 is a radio war that was first started an indian ministration of bill clinton. 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. they hire one was added during the obama administration but asylum seekers are resilient and always 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 in nogales it lays on both sides of the border with arizona.