deal pharmacies to immediately release them and all other peaceful human rights activists some and maybe it's alectryon international relations at lancaster university in the north of england he says saudi arabia could face a serious challenge if international pressure continues to mount but i think if we look at the history of u.s. saudi relations it's been one that's been quite tranquil the saudis aren't really used to any of this type of. rhetoric from from such a prominent organ of the u.s. government so that quite hurt i think by this it's a very strong move that was that was passed on thursday and they're not particularly accustomed to it and so when you put that alongside what mr trudeau's been saying overnight and i think you have there in a very delicate position they're in a position they're not being particularly accustomed to over the past seventy years or so so yeah i think they're in a position where they're having to come out fighting it's important to remember that that only canada and germany have said that they are looking into it to me has

done with regard to some aspects of military hardware and canada has said that it's looking into it but it faces a very serious financial fine if it pulls out of the deal i'm less that can be some some loopholes found the u.s. and u.k. still continue to sell arms and whilst there's been a degree of discussion about reneging on those deals stopping those deals that hasn't really comes or promotion as yet so i think the saudis are managing to to get control of these relationships for now but if the perch if the pressure continues to build then i think that it's going to be a serious issue for them if more and more steps start to pull out of these deals germany's former foreign minister has told her that more countries should follow berlin's example by ending their arms trade with saudi arabia altogether gabriel who still a member of germany's parliament has been attending the shows doha for. we stopped

for example are delivering of defense of defense materials and capabilities after the case when you look at investigation that hasn't even accounted for where a journalist body is after he's gone in a consulate many people say that's simply not an acceptable investing overgross it's not acceptable and i mean it's also a tragedy we should not forget there are relatives because she had a family and i mean the killing of mystical shogi is a catastrophe but it's for the family and the relatives is. a very bad situation that they are not even able to bury the body and to have a place where they can can go to so it for me it's also is not only a political question is also a question of humanity do you think the world will ever believe that n.b.s. was not responsible for that killing and europe everybody thinks that there is

a certain kind of responsibility i don't know if it's personal order or people for that it could be his wish it's an open discussion in europe but everybody things that it will not that the case will not be organized like an accident and you can watch that full interview was it more gabriel on talk to al jazeera at fourteen thirty g.m.t. on monday and the latest fighting there yemen's main port of the data has killed at least twelve people and injured twenty five to the weekend clashes between saudi u.a.e. backed government forces and who the rebels happened two days before a u.n. brokered cease fire is due to begin today to handle seventy percent of all food and aid imports together and has been besieged for months. still ahead here on the al-jazeera news. there refugee camp by the border find out next

this temporary shelter has become the fourth largest town in mauritania. economic fortunes to a giant it's been more than forty years in the making. and lionel messi sets a new barcelona record peter will have those details. security forces in nigeria are being accused of not doing enough to stop farmers and rival herders killing each other amnesty international research has documented more than three thousand six hundred killings since twenty sixteen most of them this year all linked to the fight between the herdsman and farmers and in response to the report the nigerian military has accused amnesty of trying to destabilize nigeria the violence states across central and northern nigeria namely over land

ownership and to use farmers looking to raise crops of fault with has been trying to graze cattle problems between the two communities have been highlighted in recent years by growing population insufficient water and changes to farming methods hundreds of attacks on villages across nigeria have left five thousand homes destroyed and up to two hundred thousand people displaced. is a campaigner for amnesty international based in abuja she says people need to be held accountable for the violence. it's really appalling at this point to see that the government has decided to politicize this issue because it the conflict is not about ethnicity it's not about politics it's not up to even about religion for example it's about competition or very saucy spectacularly by poor governance over the years in the country so when you have a mix of the rising population growth you have this kinds of conflicts keep that

keeps occurring each and every time of course it's a recipe for the kind of violence that we have seen particularly between twenty sixteen and now and for our what we are calling on the government to do is to move the size in that issue and to ensure that they conduct in pascha in effective investigation into the various human rights violations that are caught why this conflict has lasted i must tell you communities are still very vulnerable many people are still living in i.d.p. country with little or no hope of returning back to their communities because they cannot guarantee they are not a short of the fifty so this is what we are calling for as we released this report today to say that government needs to do more beyond deploying of security force these more needs to happen in terms of ensuring that partly to get it set up and that they're doing their job amid the our finest public and ensure that all

those who are dead these human rights violations whether they are state actors whether they are non-state actors the are brought to book that's what we call for today i will say we have a continent a refugee camp in mauritania has grown so large it's equivalent in size to the fourth largest city there many of the refugees are from neighboring mali fighting in the remote deserts north of west africa as the classic reports that are in dire need of help and so is the mauritanian government from donor countries. the people of timbuktu are on the move escaping while they can mohammad. has you know war played out away from the public his family survived rebel occupations drone strikes and bombings. deep in the desert rebel groups and armed forces a fifty seven nations including the united states the u.k. and france are fighting the battle field is spreading across the region as big as

the european union. but it is the continuous attack by the million soldiers meant to protect us that pushed us to flee our homeland we don't feel safe they attack us and pillaged through our villagers like invaders. for the moment this is their home the embarrass you gee camp in mauritania fifty seven thousand people live here refugees from mali came here in the early one nine hundred ninety s. escaping rebel attacks settlements turn to homes refugees turned to citizens mauritania a country where most live on less than two dollars a day has opened its borders and welcomed the refugees this is a weekly market in embarrassed few gee camp here you can find all sorts of goods cabbages fruits vegetables fish spices all of it comes from neighboring mali there are now more people from to look to living inside this county than timbuktu itself and so this temporary shelter has become the fourth largest town in

mauritania. free education in the six primary schools registration and maternity centers water points and food distribution attracts both refugees and locals but the u.n. says this is unsustainable we're bringing disengagement of the international community into a different way of working. and share recognising where the burden is and the burden is on the house countries neighboring this refugee crisis situations and that needs to be. and knowledged and those countries need to be supported. so far mauritania has received only a fraction of the money needs to help communities in this region with nowhere else to go at stake. is the survival of the people to book to. nicholas

hawke al-jazeera and berra along the mauritanian money in order. sudan's president omar bashir has become the first arab leader to visit saracens opposition protests began there nearly eight years ago the assad government stands accused by the un human rights groups of committing multiple war crimes. is accused by the international criminal court of genocide and war crimes in sudan. stone's foreign ministry says the president's visit shows commitment to resolving regional crises. the visit reflects the circumstances and crises experienced by many arab countries and our commitment to find new approaches to arab action based on respect for the sovereignty of states not interference in its affairs. thousands of sri lankans have shown their support for renewal that we claim a single after his reinstatement as prime minister and he was formed back in the early two months after he was sacked by the president which set off a constitutional crisis his replacement two time former president mahinda rajapaksa

failed to win the approval of and p.s. when al fernandez has the latest from colombo. victor missing his party putting on a rally at the goldfields green. this rally had been initially plenty as a call for justice when it was a fight for the prime minister to actually be given the premiership but however now with his appointment basically when ca this huge crowd gathered here basically a d. to talk about the issues the victory for the united national party and its partners that basically you see that they have fought all attempts to pervert democracy and to bring justice country we have the entire of the goldfields green field out with supporters of the united national party that have been brought out here

today and basically they're talking about the fact that they prevailed for over fifty days when there were attempts to oust under the committee here illegally i remember the president my polish very senior who promised never to entertain running to become a singer as prime minister again has had to back down and appoint him once again as this country's prime minister writes a week or two ago is the editor of grown views which describes itself as a citizen journalism movement and she joins me now from colombo in sri lanka thanks so much for joining us live on al-jazeera now where are we in terms of this crisis of the past three months is it really over now. so yes first of all this crisis has been a long time coming. the kind of actions that precipitated this sort of predated october twenty sixth and now that prime minister become

a singer has been appointed it's certainly not over the sort of political tensions that resulted in the actions of october twenty six will continue you know and so all eyes will look to the government to see how they restart the tensions within the coalition government are you saying and don't but there may not be any normality in parliament and that it won't be business as usual on the streets across the country. right so did you hear that do you think it will not be business as usual in parliament that there will still be sort of discord and discontent across the country with what's happened. where to be honest this what has happened hasn't resulted thankfully in violence on the streets although we did see citizens taking to the streets to show their

displeasure about what had happened however there will certainly be a lot of resistance within parliament because as was seen president city saying no . sort of alluded to the crisis of personality and a personality clash with prime minister recommitting and refused to work with him so those tensions will have to be ironed out there will have to be some kind of negotiation between both parties in order for the country to move just lawrence national audience just clarify for us exactly what the roles of the prime minister and president are you say that they have to work together even though they don't like each other personally but isn't it that the prime minister really has full control of the country or obviously not. so there are all of these i mean apart from a personality crisis this is also or what he's alluding to was also the

fact that. the u.n. peace which he represents is somewhat as he alluded to it he didn't kind of remote from what country means in fact in a ground he also used those kind of director that they were g.b.t. i.q. community and said that they were sort of moving towards a western it's kind of the we of life. apart from these kind of personality clashes where but what this also highlights is that they are at ease a need to kind of look at the constitution and kind of strain then the checks and balances that are in place it is because there was checks and balances especially the judiciary. function that we were able to kind of return to return to the position that we are today however that. it still needs to be kind of these institutions need to be strengthened in order for this kind of situation

to not happen again but the problem is is that you see that the economy and society in sri lanka is only just really be recovering after decades of civil war and so much instability sort of politically i mean it's not really good for the country at the end of the day would investment will be jittery businesses generally across the country won't know where they stand and really that the big pull to force rely on cruise tourism as well all of these issues have to be addressed certainly by a stable government under stable presidency to give the right global image and message out to knott's really surely the task of the next few months. most definitely i mean what happened on october twenty sixth did impact business and the economy you know we had people telling us taxi drivers to our credit that's telling us that their business was impacted by the crisis so many people are canceling their trips to sri lanka so this is not just

a political crisis it's something that affects the ordinary citizen and so there really does need to be. a negotiation and the two parties need to come together i mean all parties need to come together and ensure that the country can continue to function because it's already impacting the ordinary citizen indeed we will see what happens in the coming months certainly ricer we commit to thank so much for joining us from colombo north korea has used its seventh anniversary of the death of leader kim jong il to turn the latest u.s. sanctions the troubled ministration is punishing three north korean leaders of human rights abuses state television says america's actions would block the path to denuclearize ation forever progress has been slow since donald trump a north korean leader kim jong un had their singapore summit in june an indian politician has been jailed for life for his involvement in riots in the nineteen

eighties opposition congress leader was convicted of killing five family and setting fire to a sikh temple three others were also given life terms riots followed the assassination of the van prime minister indira gandhi by her sikh bodyguards and that followed her decision to send soldiers into the sikh's holiest temple in its are to hunt up separatists. russia says it's deploying ten fighter jets to the crimean peninsula in the wake of last month's naval incident with ukraine in the black sea the defense ministry says it's made the move because ukraine is preparing a provocation in crimea tension has been running high since russia detained more than twenty ukrainian sailors on november the twenty fifth saying they're vessels that cross into russian territorial waters crimea was an extract from ukraine by russia in twenty fourteen only half of asylum seekers who were part of a caravan travelling to the us have managed to enter the country most of them are

waiting to cross over the mexican border town of to war the u.s. authorities say that nearly three thousand people have now crossed illegally being held in custody while their asylum claim is reviewed. reports from the mexico u.s. border. the border patrol has been in position since early morning. trying to discourage asylum seekers from taking the leap. instead in a matter of minutes to him and five teenagers three children touch u.s. soil and quietly surrendered to the guards who seemed preoccupied with the presence of journalists operating on the mexico side.