call a snap election for early january was unconstitutional. rajapakse is resignation may not end their political crisis in needs to be a new government in place by january first to approve next year's budget next year brian al jazeera. there has been fighting on the outskirts of the yemeni city of data less than forty eight hours after government turned to the representatives agree to a cease fire in the area video dollar huth the t.v. channel appears to show strikes by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition which is supporting government forces but witnesses say at least one woman was killed and two others severely injured. there this is blood aggression a violation of the cease fire these are two sister died in the other one is in critical condition hanging between like india there and this rant is that there are three women the airstrike targeted the residence right here look at the blood look at the shop know if this is the cease fire they are trying to promote mercy feel

god their worries are the front lines not here and civilians areas where there are strikes alone there just as the u.n. special envoy to yemen was briefing the security council on the recent agreement reached at the talks in sweden wanting griffis describe the deal as a significant step forward he and other speakers that those who supported the talks including the saudi crown prince mohammed bin was the person in charge of saudi arabia's military when it began its strikes in yemen while bashara is al jazeera a senior political analyst explained the political type growth of the u.n. his 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 illusion this way it would be respected by the all parties all the parties

especially those who were planning an attack. on on her day notably the iraqis and the saudis but again even that would still be the first step towards the longer road towards recovery and towards her 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 treasury deal vehemently the which is part of the sort of 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 gesturing 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 mohammed or say for the killing of the four other crises that

he's created that the manufacturer but in a fight as yemen is concerned it is paramount 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 plenty will still to come all the needs are including. i told them you serve the devil and i serve god let's see who is stronger and who's going to win the unholy could see christians split in centuries also. the countries said to be on the cusp of a climate deal will be live in poland. be told to run to the. important to hear but the sport. now ukraine's orthodox priests are meeting in kiev to create a church circle be independent of russian influence tensions have been building

since the fall of the soviet union in one nine hundred ninety one and intensified four years ago when russia and its the ukrainian peninsula of crimea charlotte ballasts explains. i 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 priest and a tall east church is one of more than twelve thousand that aligns itself with russia on saturday he must pick sides orthodox priests 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 counsel is a. 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 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 in november. this. advocate's moscow the state and the russian church some in clergy robes some in military uniforms were not afraid to commit sin in an effort to disrupt the decision but god was with us because we are fighting in iraq just battle for our independence. 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 under moscow so that russia does not implement sarah decisions. because of the three hundred year old st andrew's church in kiev the pro ukrainian orthodox church survived an arson attack last month but it's not clear if regional politics will be as resilient we. respond we shall a ballasts. is the head of the department of theology on religious studies at king's college in london joins me now from the good of you with us on al-jazeera sir if you talk about the separation of church and state a look at sort of protestant and catholic countries where the church is opinion can influence public opinion but doesn't dictate policy how do we read this particular situation of influence of the russian orthodoxy across ukraine and the actions of

the ukrainian state against it. well that's a very complex situation you've got many players in this situation on the one hand but got to see ukrainian churches one is what you call the. kate. more national church the ukrainian orthodox church. but you are kate and also you've got there are smaller or the ukrainian orthodox church you've got also ukrainian state with its interest to canadian government on the other hand you've got the russian side moscow part they are kate and the russian state. interests are quite quite different in each side in on the ukrainian side there is quite a near significant drive for independence or all these churches from look probably even so much from moscow orthodoxy but from the influence of russian politics. and by implication from the influence of the russian orthodox church mosque about the

arcade on the other hand moscow but there kate has a lot at stake here because about a third of its probably more than a third of its parishes in ukraine and the moscow but there it is quite closely linked to russian politics and its interests in international politics in the russian history let me let me just get in there because if that is the case why is the head you might say of the ukrainian church not able to influence the all the docs churches within ukraine even though they might have a bend towards the russian orthodox church surely the head of the cranium church must pull some weight within his own country. well there are all ukrainian churches it's just jurisdiction it is different you've got three sections of moscow but their needs are the biggest church that's the biggest church in the ukraine that's why it's quite difficult for the ukraine as a show orthodox church. to have if you like of this kind of considerable clouds

it's a minority church but it's quite close to the ukrainian government although within ukraine you know if you're keith but you arky there is a considerable number of people who want in the independent church so it's quite difficult a difficult situation in ukraine the speed of the churches it within the churches and what they're doing now is trying to create air a unity the first step was actually an acct all but when the but constantinople they communicant part of the ark recognize the legitimacy of the ukrainian church as if the ukraine to the two craning church is kiev but the arcade at all or they can follow this church but on the other found the days the second step if they manage to do it to unite all the churches then they can have a much more considerable influence you're talking about ok that's the next stage would be would be the independents which can be only given by the american

part your work so called the self which means self governance ok if that's the case the nazi influence you might say of the church church and state as we said before is supposed to be separate but we know the sort of the church can strongly influence people's opinion and that the state can't always with for example during the soviet period the church endured moscow sees how powerful faith is i mean is the ukrainian government playing with fire when it plays with faith in politics. well it's actually that the way around the interests of the state in russia is much more. considerable the influence of the church you know the church is actually you know are they strong control of the of the government has its intrinsic cuz its interests obviously but it's much stronger abut the ditch state is much stronger in its power and influence in ukraine as i would i just said the situation is much more difficult the ukrainian church just cannot have this influence because that i

see all of them the most powerful of the russian orthodox church not school but where he do coming in government is relatively weak. as when or at two that the conflict has to deal with in eastern ukraine then exception of crimea you've just mentioned so it's very difficult you know to identify the most powerful player that's why they are now trying to unify the churches to have a kind of more political influence and actually social moral influence it's a big challenge for the churches because not all people within the churches who want independent also want to be dependent on the ukrainian state you know but all on the other hand there are some people within the ukrainian of the church but the arcade co are in favor of the strong feelings with the state or we'll have to leave it there it's a fascinating subject i will keep a very close eye on developments in ukraine for the moment most i mean thanks for

joining us from our london bureau. well it's either in the program how cold it is in paris snow seems to be falling thick and fast study last year it is and of course all the fires of it ironically many of them coal as a source for all this snow funnily enough is actually the walls of mediterranean it's been stormy in the last two weeks you know and the latest circulation is here in the central med and it's therefore pushing a lot of cloud full of moisture up against the cold has been sitting in central europe i mean it's only just a light start in sarajevo this was actually yesterday rather than today as you can see people are just getting used to but it's not sarajevo is going to get the thick carpet now that's been forming a little bit further north so the hunt garion plane for example this is the picture as it stands the most we're feeding on emotion raining greece snow well really from serbia eastwards towards her mania and all this of course is dragging a feral wind across the mediterranean and wind is the story elsewhere but elsewhere being the british isles currently there are warnings for gusts of like

a hundred sixty kilometers per hour over the higher ground of central england you see the white lines are quite types as weather into parts of europe now coming together to produce these copters snow the first one is you know turn here the next we're running through paris yes indeed and then of course overnight spreading a huge about half a meter across the alps the skiers will love it not everyone will so. i'm sure they will rob thanks very much let's keep on the same theme really of the weather really on the climate because delegates from almost two hundred countries say that they're in reaching distance of a global warming deal after two weeks of talks in poland that agreement will cover the fine print that was left unfinished after the twenty fifteen paris climate accord this includes how countries will report their greenhouse emissions and the efforts they're taking to reduce them let's join nic clarke is at the summit and get the future in poland of course the conference has been extended by one day some

really tough negotiating by all accounts. yeah absolutely there's been a lot of wrangling a very very complex issue trying to get this rulebook established which will implement the paris agreement which comes into effect in twenty twenty the first iteration of the text the final text came yesterday morning they've been working on it ever since then that wasn't satisfactory one hundred forty four pages long and there were too many issues that people disagreed with since then the un said he generally intended to terrorise has been flying around trying to do shuttle diplomacy trying to bring sites together to draw some sort of conclusion we were going to get then get another release of the text one am this morning and that was pushed forward to eight am and ten am and it still hasn't totally emerged it's being driven eating but the controversial issues are still up for discussion is a bit more of a now that's the main plenary hole where all the negotiators will be and that's

where the gavel will finally come down hopefully on the final agreement in the coming hours but it's all up in the air at the moment let's hear now from mohamed today from christian aid. we have a number of like it's included in the photo of nations including the united states . and russia will actually block the rest of the world from welcoming and report to the commission in twenty fifteen the latest i.p.c.c. report and this is a science that is meant to. countries are meant to. respond to so in a process where we're tackling climate change and not welcoming the very business that. this scientific warnings which the world have. endorsed in south korea. is sulking and acceptable we can. actually stop the rest of the world and affirmatively responding to the climate challenge it's going to be

a long day possibly moving into the hours of sunday morning and so we don't know when the huns a very incapable president of the poland. into a cult. there's a lot of bones of contention let's look at some of them. it was a big one it was the whole issue of carbon credits how that tracked and brazil had problems with the antenna could terrorists had to talk to the brazilian president on the phone to try and ease the way there i think that issue has been resolved now many nations one is clear a statement of national ambitions from people and i was just talking to the head of greenpeace and she was saying that actually this is a big area of disappointment in the text so far also transparency about making sure nations do what they say they're going to do and they're making sure that the science is in shrine is embodied in the in the body of the text itself and that comes down to the whole one hundred degrees celsius report that came out in october

saying that we're nowhere near one hundred griese we're actually having three degrees north the implicit catastrophic consequences that that involves one last thing but we're hearing is that the the report. it's may end up being a take it or leave it situation for the all the delegates here and whether or not that's going to be acceptable will depend on all these issues that we've discussed and that's what also through forward how long we're actually going to be here and before we get a final resolution indeed of course we'll come back to nick as a when we do get that resolution nic thank a teacher in poland thank you. well still ahead here on the al-jazeera news are a court rules obamacare is unconstitutional what does it mean for the health care of millions of americans. the fate of a general chinese executive pairings over trade talks between the u.s. and china. also in sport mexico superstar boxer canelo says he's looking forward to

making history when he steps into the ring for his big fight in new york city go stories a little side of the break. radicalism is on the rise across the globe and we're told it's everywhere we're told was supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but our government policies aimed at tackling radicalization in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society impact is utopian long and there's only so much we can take before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth series an al-jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for it as you know it's very challenging they believe particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are with the people we live

to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. you want yours as a whole rather. a reminder of our top stories this hour hundreds of french yellow vests demonstrators have been out on the streets of power it's it's been more than a month since the protest movement began early demonstrations across the country respond to a political crisis. also palestinian president mahmoud abbas has ordered the reconstruction of a home demolished by the israeli military just hours ago soldiers destroyed the

residents of the occupied west bank after accusing the owner's son of killing an israeli soldier. there's been fighting may have been sedated less than a day after a cease fire was agreed a t.v. network showed what appeared to be a strikes by the saudi u.a.e. coalition which is fighting rebels. anger against saudi arabia has been growing in the u.s. with the senate passing a resolution to condemn its longstanding ally for the war in yemen senators also blame the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist mark. the washington post has won a full page tribute to regularly for the paper the post will continue to push for meaningful action against riyadh over its role in the killing friday that is part of a larger campaign planned for twenty nineteen well lindsey graham a senator for donald trump's republican party wards of the dire consequences if strong action isn't taken against the saudi crown prince over the murder and i

would have been within the us those fifteen people of saudi arabia did so under the command in the direction of the in the us who have been focusing on as a critic for two years he's renditioned people he's taken people from other countries saudi citizens brought him back to saudi arabia arabia to abuse them this is a pattern for him he did it he knew about it couldn't happen without his knowledge i'm not going to forgive that big deal we need to come down hard because if we don't we're opening up pandora's box. molly is the president and c.e.o. of the international crisis group joins me now live from doha on the hawthorns been hosted by qatar could have you with us on al-jazeera how important is that senate vote been be it that it will be enshrined in law is possibly going to be vetoed by the president in the bigger picture of what's going on here in the middle east and what's being discussed where you are. on this and the vote was very symbolic and

the symbolic value was one that should be seen and heard in riyadh then and across the region you're you're correct in saying that the odds of it becoming law are at best fifty fifty present could veto it. other things could happen but the fact that you have a resolution like this that if only a few years ago passage would have been unthinkable majority vote in the senate would have been unthinkable it's a majority vote despite the opposition of president trump. and despite the fact that the republican party the republican senators have proven themselves over time to be extremely loyal and faithful to the president i think it's so it's an indication of the depth of anger and the consternation frankly about what happened to the market structure and when you add it to a number of other things it just is raising questions in the americans is about the reliability of saudi arabia in saudi arabia should hear that message if it doesn't want things to get worse do you also feel that it won't be listening to this debate go on that there is perhaps a phase of emboldened for republican lawmakers certainly in the senate that of you

as you say enough of what they're seeing from the white house and feel that they need to stand up and be counted when it comes to the president's decisions of the president's friendships on the part of the president's policy decisions about what's right in the the national interest of the united states. i would say yes and no i don't think one could expect the republican party to stand up to president trump when it comes to issues that matter to the press. instructs based his constituency this issue doesn't really matter there's not a very strong cross out of consistency among the average americans so it was pretty cost free politically for republicans to take the stance it's one that they took because of the emotions that have been generated by what happened then by frankly the not just the cover ups by saudi arabia but the very have handed efforts by the tropic ministration to cover up the cover up and that was a real problem i mean when president trump basically dismissed the findings of his

own intelligence community it made it easier for the republicans to stand up against that judgment but again i think this is a not a pattern it's an event because of this issue that republicans feel that they could take a stand against their president without having to pay a political price and of course the other big issue that saudi arabia is involved in is calls the war in yemen we've seen tentative peace talks old negotiations in sweden and a potential cease fire in the areas of yemen though it seems that cease fire has been breached even within the last twenty four hours if you find it's strange i asked another contributor to al-jazeera earlier in the day do you find it strange that everybody's congratulating saudi arabia on coming to the peace table when they're the ones that actually started the yemen war. listen at this point given the catastrophe that is yemen the worst humanitarian catastrophe that we're experiencing right now the worst in a generation we're talking about half the population that could be facing famine

conditions we have crisis group think it's not time to what to assign blame it's time to fix the problem and to make sure that an assault on the port city for data doesn't occur because that could plunge large swaths of the country into found and so they'll be time to point fingers and tell them to turn to recommendation at this point we have a very fragile cease fire agreement cease fires are always breached the question is whether when they breached you come back to you. come back to to respect that so there's going to be incidents like we seem to experience what matters is that they come back to their senses and that we have a ceasefire around the courts either for that because if we don't know if an assault takes place the country is going to face much worse than it's already faced and it is faced terrible conditions so the irony of the situation is not one that i think we need to look at there's blame to go around but what needs to happen now there needs to be wisdom to the right let's see if it does find its way through to

the people of yemen for the moment robert malley thanks so much for your time at the doha forum thank you. no seven year old guatemalan girl has died of dehydration while in custody of the u.s. border police jaclyn army rose recolor marquand was picked up with her father and other asylum seekers earlier this month in a remote area along mexico's border with the u.s. a father has told officials she didn't get any medical treatment for ninety minutes despite vomiting and running a very high fever the death was or has raised new questions about the treatment of central americans who are trying to reach the us federal court in the u.s. state of texas has ruled that the affordable care act also known as obamacare is unconstitutional the decision carson certainty on the insurance coverage of millions of americans republicans have repeatedly tried and failed to repeal the affordable care act since it was introduced in two thousand and ten rob reynolds is live for us in washington d.c.

i mean millions of people rely on the ac a for their health care where does that really leave them now. well so he'll there won't be any immediate change to those approximately seventeen million people who get their health insurance through the a c. a popularly known as obamacare this is going to continue a long legal battle that will probably go all the way to the supreme court in fact the the attorney general of the state of california who has often challenge to the trump administration on many matters javier basara has already announced that he's going to appeal this ruling to a higher appeals court it could go all the way to the supreme court and bear in mind that with the elevation of judge justice brett kavanaugh there is now a more strongly conservative majority more republican majority on the supreme court

so this does put the ac in jeopardy but it is not immediately destroyed for those seventeen million people sometimes and quite often certainly hit there will be some sort of political fallout the west should we be focusing our attention when it comes to political comment in the coming hour as. well you know the president has already commented saying the he predicted this all along and now it's time to come up with some other kind of health care plan for americans didn't offer any specifics but you know what's been interesting is that obamacare was originally quite unpopular the republicans were able to capitalize for several election cycles on the idea that this was a government interference in people's health care but then over time as the provisions of the a ca took effect it became more and more popular and in the last election midterm

election in november we saw that many of the winning democrats made protecting and expanding affordable health care part of their if not their main. talking point during their campaigns and it is even gone further with many democrats now a spouse thing. a universal health care system not just for people who can't afford their own insurance but what's called medicare for all medicare being the old age health care scheme in the united states so there has been increased support for increases of the type of medical assistance from the government that obama care has provided and this could mean that this will backfire on the republicans if they're seen as sabotaging it for the moment we'll leave it there in washington thank you. top government officials from covenant of the united states have met in

washington d.c. at a time when both countries are locked in disputes with china top of the list concerns while the detention of a chinese tech executive in canada and 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 she 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 as we will find to get money between us a link fillin gunman toerag tries been loyal to the french military on wednesday for a long fight has attacked villages around in the country's eastern minako region at

least forty three people were killed in the attack most of whom were civilians about one hundred civilians have already been killed in the region this year. when south sort of became independent more than seven years ago there were high hopes for the oil rich nation but it's been at war for much of the time hundreds of thousands of people have been killed or millions more forced from their homes now recent peace deal agreed to meet you could change all of that here but morgan has been meeting 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 don't want you to 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 it 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 a 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. and i'll get if i get what deal i'm not aware of any deal signed nobody told me anything if they want to start returning home then we should be informed about what's going on. they greenman provides power sharing between the whirring 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.