within days thousands turned out to show their anger at sarah saying his decision and since then they've been demonstrations supporting and opposing rajapaksa look and on the negative this is not good the should have been prime minister he finished the war and was developing the country our people rushed to mind him again about all of this happened because mahindra did not have a majority in parliament when a country is on stable it is difficult for people like us to make a living. i swear lanka has now been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks after a court suspended rajapaksa and his cabinet when they lost to no confidence votes and on thursday the supreme court ruled that a decision by the president to dissolve parliament and call a snap election for early january was unconstitutional. the rajapakse his resignation may not end their political crisis and its to be a new government in place by january first to approve next year's budget brian

al-jazeera. well now some news from india where in east eleven people have died and several more became ill after eating food offered at a temple in india more than ninety people who ate the tomato rice at a hindu temple have been hospitalized in the southern state of karnataka two people questioned by police but no recipe mate. still ahead for you on the program this hour u.s. affordable care under attack again as a judge says tax changes have made obama's health care plan unconstitutional. and joy in the philippines as church bells looted by u.s. troops more than a century ago a look at. how

the winter monsoon when the northeast it's been blowing steadily now produce a lot of right down the east coast you wouldn't sigs from the great care that's not normally hard close but the persistent rain those eased off recently has produced several hundred millimeters and flooding there's more to come on sunday maybe especially on monday where as a cloud in china is doing virtually nothing or if anything with a lighter wind and still with daytime sunshine is warming up in shanghai i mean deed in hong kong. to the west this we've been watching the same sort of consequence in the northeast monsoon it's developed a lot of cloud and a spinner here tropical well maybe set in a tropical depression so it's in hot seeing the rain it's heading up now towards the coast of india too was under the dash and it was friday train beyond west bengal that's late season fairly heavy rain again flooding seems quite likely and the day after to feel not very warm seventeen not poor nineteen hundred but that's below average even for this time of the year which is not obviously the warmest for the arabian peninsula generally fine weather the breeze is light and down the gulf

potential for sharon east among is there but look at this massive cloud in the arabian sea although it might just be noticed on the coast of amman more luck to produce showers towards the culture and then the horn of africa. has put prepares to exit the people in power investigates disturbing allegations about the tactics used by the winning league campaign we know that the was broke and we know that campaigns i've spent we know that russia tried to build a relationship with one of the key champaign who paid for breaks it people in power on al-jazeera.

welcome back just a quick look at the top stories now protesters have clashed with french police in the fifth weekend together yes demonstrations people have been arrested but overall the number of people taking part has honked to around thirty three thousand israeli army's demolish the home of prominent palestinian activist latif medes and the occupied west bank whose son is accused of killing a soldier protesters have criticized the destruction as collective punishment. and has disputed prime minister manda rajapaksa has resigned he was appointed seven weeks ago setting off a political crisis that go without a functioning government. will g.m.

and now where the vital port city of her data is reported to be calm a day off the fighting broke out despite the warring parties agreeing to a cease fire video ad on a hoofy t.v. network appears to show as strikes by the saudi coalition on friday witnesses say yes one woman was killed and another two severely injured a ceasefire for the city was announced after a breakthrough in peace talks in sweden all day. turkey's foreign minister has once again called on saudi arabia to cooperate with its investigation into the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. said that turkey will continue to seek justice for khashoggi is murder. president made it very clear that. it has been a very transparent and then vetted credible investigation we haven't received any or any. investigation from saw this i saw it has to be a very credible and transparent one and third he will not give up on this issue we

will build them well moving to developments in cameroon when only three hundred people accused of taking part in a separatist movement have been released from prison cameron's president paul bia ordered that release on thursday in an effort to bring calm to the divided country hundreds have been killed in fighting between the military and separatists since two thousand and sixteen when teaches a noise in the english speaking regions complained of discrimination from the french speaking majority hundreds of phone cameroonians are still behind bars the joy everywhere the quiet side. come a room everybody's happy. happy about. this move will calm flaring tempers in the north west and southwest regions it will bring relief to families and friends but the release of those detained alone cannot end this already very deep and a phone crisis. now a cup twenty four global climate change conference in poland has been extended for

another day as no final agreement has been reached yet the un led event was meant to end on friday but will now continue on until early sunday representatives from almost two hundred nations are discussing how to implement the paris agreement which aims to cap the warming to a degree celsius and the clock is live for us now and cast of the surf and so nick how close are they to an agreement. well that's anybody's guess it could be early sunday it could be tonight it's very uncertain how these things will go all we do know is that the next plenary where all the negotiators and delegates get together in that room behind me there is going to take place at six o'clock and then we'll get a good idea of where we're at i want to get straight to our guests because she's an important guy in the proceedings simon steele who's the head of delegation for the island of grenada in grenada in part of the small island states group first of all

what's your assessment here why the delays there's still some discussion taking place on a particular piece of text which speaks to markets and transparency in the need for measurable quantifiable monitoring of performance and there are those that wish that to be removed from the text but removing that. removes an important mechanism to be able to monitor unquantifiable terms where we are and where we need to be right and i think brazil's very much part of that from your point of view as a small island state what's your assessment of the kind of willingness the ambition of the begin a sions. coming into this cop we came in it with the hope that the i.p.c.c. special reports which spoke for the need of accelerated action greater ambition and the consequences if we did not meet those more ambitious targets would set the

stage and set the scene for the discussions and the outcomes of this koppen i must say we're disappointed in the challenges that we have had with the irrefutable scientific evidence that's backing up the the evidence that we as small island developing states vulnerable states have articulated throughout the course of this caught other nations who are negatively impacted by climate change so you have many voices in all of the rooms that are in support of the requirements for greater ambition yet in the negotiating rooms and in the draft outcomes we've seen challenges in getting just some basic fundamental tenants maintained or established and tell us briefly why is this so important to a nation like yours physically one of the threads well. as

a small island developing states we are smaller emitters of greenhouse gases we are not the cause of climate change however we're suffering today and in the future the catastrophic impacts of it so the need for greater mitigation of those who are polluting the responsibility of the developing nations to to mitigate against against the the production of greenhouse gases is absolutely critical so it's in our interest that there is a robust rule book that ambitions for mitigation are strong to suppress the. that the production of greenhouse gases the causes of global warming which is still is great to get your perspective an important perspective we appreciate your time thank you very much indeed thank you well we'll hopefully get things on the way

again at six o'clock and then as i say we'll have a better idea of where we stand how long these things are going to go on for as they seek agreement here the climate conference imposed thank you very much our environment editor nick clark with all the latest from the discussions in captivity . and now ukrainian church leaders have agreed to separate from the russian orthodox church and form narrowed thousands of people gathered outside sense of fears coffee drink you have to witness the event inside orthodox priest were meeting to approve a new charter and elected leader president petro poroshenko push for independence as a campaign issue. now in the us a federal court in the state of texas has ruled that the affordable care act also known as obamacare is unconstitutional it found that a change in tax law last year invalidated the entire act by eliminating a penalty for not having health insurance the decision costs uncertainty only insurance coverage of millions of americans publicans of repeatedly tried and

failed to repeal the affordable care act since it was introduced in two thousand and eight brunell's has more on the story from washington. one of the things that's important to remember about this texas judge's ruling in the affordable care act is that the seventeen plus million americans who rely on the a c. a for their health care insurance coverage will not see any immediate change the law remains in effect while a legal process goes on a legal process of appeals that will likely wind up in the supreme court president donald trump boasted on twitter that he had predicted all along that the affordable care act would be found unconstitutional but actually the judge in texas ruled that it was unconstitutional because of certain changes made in the law by the republican controlled congress and by president trump so that's an interesting side

point now politically this could turn out perhaps not the way that republicans had intended because over the years the affordable care act has become increasingly popular with americans and many of the democratic candidates running in last month's midterm elections who were successful made affordable health care a centerpiece of their election campaigns so it could turn out in fact that this. overturn of obamacare if it goes all the way through and obamacare is dismantled that could turn out to be a deficit or a detriment to the republicans electoral and political hopes. texan democratic congressman beto a rock has called the death of a seven year old guatemalan girl in custody earlier this month heartbreaking yet

all too common jacqueline my rosemary calm and quinn was picked up with her father and other asylum seekers in a remote area along mexico's border with the u.s. she later died of dehydration her father has told officials she didn't get any medical treatment for ninety minutes despite vomiting and running a very high fever argentina is famous for its strong literary traditions and celebrated authors but its economic crisis has had a dramatic impact on the country's book industry with more and more shops and libraries shutting down to raise above has the story now from when is iris. for years i know he has been publishing children's books he sells them to local libraries but also exports them around the world he says the devaluation of the base of these year and the lack of demand is forcing small companies like his to cut costs to survive and they're going to. try mcconnell he is the president on the

u.s. dollar the last evaluation of folk of the continent most companies paper is a commodity and it's in u.s. dollars but we cannot release the price of our books because we will sell even less . argentina has historically had a strong literary culture many here i resprout of authors like. or jorge we jorge's as there of international football stars like. in fact there are more bookstores per person when our site is meant any other capital in the world when a fight is a field with a small bookstores like this one that play a crucial role in the fiftieth cultural life and even though libraries are offering customers the possibility of financing their purchases it has not been enough the ongoing recession is forcing many to shut down. in the last two years more than thirty five bookstores have closed or been bought out by larger companies things

are in getting any better with book sales dropping just over ten percent so far this year see a home in the north and so on the run of this office space has gone up the electricity bills tripled water bills have doubled inflation is over forty percent but we can increase the prices as much because if we did we'd be out of business we're asking for some tax benefits to make it a bit easier for us but nothing has been resolved was the argentine book industry says it's warned about the current situation as impact will be felt not just in lost jobs but also culturally. being the biggest problem is a drop in consumption. and this is something affecting most sectors of the economy there are some small measures that can definitely help but the biggest problem is that people are buying less books that means they're reading last and this is a drop in the consumption of cultural good. austerity inflation and the i.m.f. bailout i will everyone's minds in argentina these days it appears the skate found

in a good book is a luxury many here can no longer afford that is how will. this well to the philippines in our present order go to territories raised his fist while ringing one of three church bells newly returned after they were looted by u.s. troops more than a century ago. the. bells were taken during battles in the town. in ninety one u.s. forces and massacred thousands of filipinos to avenge an attack that killed forty eight a very troops. dogan has more. the but then he got massacre is considered the single biggest defeat for the us military during the philippine american war between one thousand nine hundred ninety two ninety two but for the philippines it is a reminder that over a century ago a handful of philippine agree less on the wall us fought against

a superpower to fight for democracy. here in the fall and of there is a festive air residents say they are thankful after one hundred seventeen years the bills are finally home they say these antiquated bells evokes so much emotion not because they would look good in this town that that's long been held back by poverty basically but they say the bill so represents something deeper like missing chest pieces of history i remind you as well that once upon a time filipinos did whatever it took to fight for their freedom. just a look at the top stories now protesters have clashed with french police during a fifth weekend of yellow bus demonstrations at least one hundred people have been arrested so far but officials say the numbers of people taking part in rallies across the country have hogged to thirty three thousand just there has been it

smith has more now from paris most significant difference on notice this week compared to other weeks though is that you have not time these sort of violent groups within some the protest is a talking in smashing up shops and cars and vehicles that sort of thing the housing been any about i'm not any of that this time around. these peaceful demonstrators moving around paris the numbers are down but of course they are their presence is still disrupted because we've had shops closed you've got roads closed off the metro system many metro stops are closed as well and people are put off from coming into central paris affecting business. well in our other headlines this hour the israeli army is demolished the home of prominent palestinian activist latif abu hamid in the occupied west bank protesters have criticised the destruction as collective punishment and that but clashes with soldiers across the territory meanwhile australia has formally recognized west jerusalem as the capital of israel

prime minister scott morrison says australia will not move its embassy from tel aviv and now but will open a trade in defense office in jerusalem to sri lanka the disputed prime minister mentor rajapaksa has resigned he was appointed seven weeks ago setting off a political crisis that left the country without a functioning government at least seven people have been shot dead and dozens injured when security forces fired on protesters after a gun battle in indian administered kashmir exchange came during an operation targeting suspected rebels and the people of the region three separatist fights them one soldier killed the cop twenty four global climate change conference in poland has been extended for another day is no final agreement has been reached the un led event was meant to end on friday but we're now continue on to early sunday representatives from almost two hundred nations are discussing how to implement the twenty fifteen paris agreement which aims to cap global warming at two degrees celsius you're up to date with all of our top stories that will be news at the top of the next hour that's about twenty five minutes time now it's time for people in

power. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world son i matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current events that matter to you. is iraq. in june twenty sixth seen in the u.k. decided to leave the european union for two years on i made acrimonious last minute political rows on the exact terms of britain's the project a disturbing questions have surfaced about the legitimacy of the referendum that began its all we also veteran investigative journalist paul lashmar to find out why .

so for twenty eight hundreds of thousands of protesters who sent. one of the biggest demonstrations to see you take. aim to get in the second. thing britain's proposed. european union the only way to come over their own behinds by giving us the people's vote as they begin to decide. to be. a lot lot of us think that remaining is a much better idea and trying to reform the european union make that better robin

running and hiding went brits bridgetown quite. britain's prime minister might say the same thing but for a truce of my not quite seen as meant slain faithful to the small majority that voted to leave the e.u. two years ago whatever the cost yes. that focused. what if instead of being a fair reflection. the referendum was one of the biggest ever perpetrated on british democracy in any other election if for a lot of base level had to be uncovered then we have the legislation that puts aside the results and we have the election again as the deadline for britain's exit from the e.u. draws near there are still too many troubling questions about the boat. about its fairness and its legitimacy about who was behind it who paid for it and

the motives of many of those involved. my name is dr paul lashmar i'm an author and deputy head of journalism at city university of london. is a watershed moment for the u.k. like everyone else my students will be directly affected and look at the mess they've got that could be one of the most important political events of their lives so i've been looking for answers what i've heard is a story so complex and murky it almost defies belief. it only began in twenty thirty to placate a wing of his party that had long been antagonistic to the prime minister david cameron was taking the biggest gamble of his career we will give the british people a referendum with a very simple. choice. like

ballots in the u.k. the referendum was to be overseen by the electoral commission. anyone to take part in the public debate the commission designated two official campaign bodies one in favor of maybe in the you one for leave in and gave each a fixed spending limit of seven million pounds. only british registered donors were allowed to contribute to those campaigns. david cameron became the public face of the pro e.u. campaign better off we are safer in a reformed european union vote leaf was fronted by the p.m.'s cabinet colleagues boris johnson and michael gove i think we should take the chance now as a country to take back control of the pro breck sit side have the backing of another unofficial campaign leave e.u. its most prominent figure was not true for all of the u.k.

independence party but cameron's plan backfired against all the old the u.k. opted for the exit of the u.k. has no teats to leave the european union was. a majority i got there on you know history. in the right next. to where the shock on the remains side was profound that early hopes of an easy victory dashed. how had it gone so horribly wrong. as the post-mortems got underway attention began focusing on the role played by social media a powerful tool to sway in public opinion find out more i went to see one of my university colleagues would be looking at the bracks of debate for a very long time. is a specialist in communication so this is what we call a network graph or plot if you will he showed me

a graph of twitter activity during the referendum strange pattern that. we noticed a drop in the number of users that we were monitoring it was a significant drop i hadn't seen anything that big up to that point and then it turned out that they had very much to very much sort of like features thoughts of computer generated accounts programmed to automatically push messages online. what's happening here is that there's bot his we tweeting a range of real world users this is a single message in all likelihood it was we tweeted several times by this very same bot marco explained that while bots were used by the remaining campaign it was the leaves side that made the most of them there were more bots for leave out of the campaign for sure. the thing was quite clear some of my colleagues have looked into similar data and they have come to the conclusion that these accounts war at

least a portion of them were operated by internet research agency in russia based in. the internet research agency or. is a troll for an organization created expressly to sow discord in this information on the web it was identified by american intelligence as having played a key role in manipulating the twenty sixteen election of president from the no one year to the time it now seems that. also played a role in bret's it. on the death of my friend we found a marked change in behavior so accounts that had been intentionally tweeting on practice it suddenly stopped to trust my mom. and to bring university research got to do well and has examined millions of tweets that were posted prior to the referendum many of them it turns out from the same suspect internet research i can see accounts of the tweets at the same format which was not hash tag that a u.r.l.

and they were using that trending topic so that a lot of people saw them mation and that they were trying to affect access that's just what we have here is trolls so it's human people writing tweets while the flight was being. true scale of the russian twitter activity on briggs it only came to light by accident because the company passed the data to us congressional investigation into the trump election in that probe another key social media player facebook was already playing a starring role. what is facebook doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in u.s. elections one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in identifying the russian information operations in two thousand and sixteen and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry. what no one yet fully understands

is the role that facebook may have also played in brix it the company says it has found almost no evidence of russian interference and repeated that claim in a statement to this program but research was skeptical but facebook is basically a black box so we don't really know what's going on inside facebook and that's not a facebook that's or the instagram what's up in a number of other platforms operated by facebook. the fact that doubts persist is jus in parts of the company's connection to another murky affair. in early twenty eight the guardian newspaper revealed that eighty seven million personal facebook accounts had been illegally harvested by a u.k. based strategic communications business called cambridge analytic or it worked with the trunk presidential campaign and had ties to leave the. an offshoot of a larger company called s.c.l. which had an alleged background in military dissin from ation cambridge analytic his promise was that it could target people with messages to modify their voting

choices so for a highly new erotic and conscientious audience you're going to need a message that is rational and fear based or emotionally based the cambridge analytical scandal would eventually wipe almost one hundred twenty billion dollars off the facebook's market value and raise serious questions about the vulnerability of western democracies to manipulation. to find out more i went to meet the journalist behind the guardian's cambridge can scoop. told me how she first began to pull the threads together it started in order to confirm the data company's links that leave you she contacted the campaign group spokesman and you went more. back and he said happy to clarify came originally did you work for us but we never paid them they were happy to do it for free and i was like there's definitely

something interesting here so because this looks like a donation to me and donations need to be declared. trump and for all in front of the gold and lift andy's the person who took that photo and the photo of them or he's in one as well the bad boys of bricks it and bricks it he said was like a petri dish for the charm campaign you know it was like a test case carls revelations led to the biggest data protection investigation ever held on both sides of the atlantic we started a conversation with mr soccer team in general that it can start to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and work to exploit them by targeting information to xining to activate some of the worst characteristics in people such as neuroticism paranoia and racial biases. chris wiley a former director of cambridge analytic turned whistleblower gave evidence to the u.s. senate and

a british parliamentary committee that began taking an interest in the brakes at referendum of fake news it's clicking on the ad and then performing an actual that's what the definition of a conversion they were going to say that i had to these institutions not sheeted you could send the outcome of the referendum might have been different i think it is completely reasonable to say that there could have been a difference in the referendum. you know had there not being in my view cheating there needs to be a deeper investigation of the of fake accounts and a group of facebook groups being used to propagate information and serve it if m.p. damian collins is the chairman of the british parliamentary committee without evidence from facebook we feel that we should hear from opposite because he.