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people are there's one. hundred days. a ceasefire has begun in yemen's port city of her data. under threat after weekend violence. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. this house has no confidence in the prime minister the u.k.'s opposition leader tables a motion of no confidence and to resume as she says there will be a parliamentary vote on her present deal in january. the us says it's warplanes
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have killed more than sixty al shabaab fighters in somalia. and a day in custody of u.s. border patrol is better than life back at home the grim story of a central american asylum seeker. begin in yemen where a un backed cease fire has come into effect for the strategic port city of her data it follows a weekend of violence where at least twelve people died and twenty five others were injured who the rebels and saudi backed government forces have been fighting in the south and east of the rebel held city since saturday tuesday's cease fire was agreed after a breakthrough in peace talks in sweden last week under the deal international monitors will be deployed in her data and all armed forces must pull back within twenty one days
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a day to process is about seventy percent of yemen's food aid and other imports and is considered the country's lifeline. earlier who the rebels accused the coalition of violating the agreements reached in sweden but the system was shot after concluding the swedish consultations the coalition did not comply with what was agreed on the whole day to city witness the following aggressions on the first day of the talks the coalition warplanes launched twenty one raids and on saturday the coalition launched hurty eight raids on how data and its outskirts this is considered a clear breach of the truce. let's take a look now at who controls what in yemen and the areas marked in yellow under the control of forces loyal to president rebel months or heidi backed by a credit kodesh in the forces led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates don't strike and he told you fifteen to support the internationally recognized government there fighting to see rebels to hold the area marked here in red or
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includes the capital sanaa which they seized in september twenty four teen and held ever since they have the backing of iran who the territory takes in the hotly contested port city of her data which has been an important source of revenue for the armed group and port is also a vital hub to get food aid to millions of yemenis right across the country as the fighting has intensified barely a trickle has got through or separate to these groups is al qaida marked here in green slowly and who see it in a new way and lined with a government coalition arsenal handed i have been following the yemen conflict closely joins us now from doha there's been an already this evening of reports of clashes from pro-government forces what we just about that. well over and residents of the data say that there's been an al break off sporadic clashes in the south a neighborhood of the day the saying that both sides traded gunfire and missiles of
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course this a taste of what is said to come as we embark on the timeline toward the top to strict deadline for the withdrawal of all compartments from the city of the day that of course yemeni officials are saying that the. the cease fire coming into force would not result in an immediate cessation of hostilities because they say these are still frontlines facing each other and they're accusing the fighters already or of hiding weapons and fighters within the city they say there who these have been recruiting locals ever since they took control of the city in two thousand and fourteen and they say these people they want to leave behind of course also claiming that the patchwork of pro-government forces are the ones who started the clashes that erupted in on friday and have been going on since then in the
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city what are the main obstacles to this peace deal lasting. well there are many obstacles law and particularly the one that many diplomats are looking at is how vague the agreement that was signed in sweden for example the agreement talks about a neutral force taking over control of the city once the combatants from both sides withdraw from the city but there is no talk of a peace force meant force or peacekeeping force being deployed from outside the country these suggestions that the two sides are going to form a joint a unit that is going to take care of the security of the city something many consider nearly impossible this also the issue of running the office of the port where the money is going to is going to go to the central bank in sanaa controlled by the who the it's all to the one in the other than which is under the control of
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president of the rebel man sort of this government which has been backed by the sodium bratty coalition and then the east the east or who actually is going to move out of the day that in terms of the combatant itself forces the locals and have been recruited by the host is over the past four years they were going to be asked to leave their homes and then the other main obstacle would be that mop who things are supposed to provide to the united nations which would show where they have booby trapped and where the land mines as well as where their. improvised explosive device is something many consider would be a stumbling block. thank you very much indeed. canada's prime minister has been warned his government faces being sued for billions of dollars if he scraps an arms
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deal with saudi arabia just introduce says he's looking for a way out of a deal that would see the canadian arm of general dynamics corporation supply armed armored vehicles to the kingdom and the agreement is were thirteen billion dollars but trudeau says saudi arabia's recent behavior can't go unanswered. the murder of a journalist is absolutely unacceptable that's why canada from the very beginning has been demanding answers and solutions on that secondly we inherited actually a fifteen billion dollar contract signed by stephen harper to export light armored vehicles to saudi arabia we are engaged with the export permits to try and see if there is a way of of no longer exporting these vehicles to saudi arabia a senior white house official says donald trump did not discuss an extradition deal for two no good men with turkey's president at the g. twenty summit it comes after the turkish foreign minister said trump had told the
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one he was quote working on extraditing the u.s. based muslim cleric turkey accuses couldn't of orchestrating its twenty sixteen failed coup is lived in self-imposed exile in the u.s. for nearly two decades the u.n. has confirmed two tunnels allegedly dug by hizbollah fighters in lebanon crossed the border into israel in total four tunnels were discovered by the israeli military which alerted the u.n. peacekeeping agency those crossing the border violate a cease fire agreement that ended the two thousand and six lebanon war. thank britain the leader of the opposition has submitted a motion of no confidence in promise to treason may. hold a crucial vote on the country's deal to leave the european union to january tourism a is facing intense opposition over a proposed agreement and suspended a vote on it last week as exit day approaches and with
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a deal still not officially in place some politicians say the deadlock can only be resolved through a second referendum paul brennan reports. with prime minister theresa may adamant there would be no meaningful vote on bracks it until january parliament appeared almost pointless on monday but having failed to make any concrete progress in her talks with european leaders in brussels last week is may was duty bound to report back to the lawmakers in london she acknowledged the widespread hostility to have a plan but she warned gravely against holding another referendum another vote which would do irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics because it would say to millions who trusted in tomorrow for see that our democracy does not deliver. another third which would likely leave us no further forward than the last and another vote which would further divide our country at the very moment we should be working to unite around the threat of a no confidence vote in the prime minister organized by the opposition labor party
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appear to have been neutralized wintery some a set the week of january fourteenth for the rearranged meaningful vote but just as proceedings drew to a close labor leader jeremy called and decided to go for it so mr speaker as the only way i can think of of ensuring a vote takes place this week i'm about to table a motion which says the following that this house has no confidence in the prime minister due. to our failure to allow the house of commons to have a meaningful vote straightaway on the withdrawal agreement and framework for future relationships during the u.k. and the european union and that will be tabled immediately mr speaker thank you. the procedure now is that confidence motions tabled by the opposition will take precedence over government business and its parliamentary convention that any such request be granted this week that seem to be winding down into a christmas holiday just warmed up again paul brennan al-jazeera. the
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u.s. military says it killed more than sixty fighters who. you're a series of. yes trikes in somalia the attacks took place in just south of the capital mogadishu over the weekend it was in coordination with somalia's government has been fighting to overthrow the administration for more than a decade atika hain has the latest from washington d.c. the u.s. military not giving out a ton of details but they do say that on december fifteenth air strikes were launched at. about forty kilometers southwest of the capital mogadishu and that thirty four fighters were killed air strikes the following day on the sixteenth killed another twenty eight fighters for al shabaab the u.s. military says they don't believe any civilians were killed or injured in the bombing campaign to press is reporting that sources inside the somali government say that the reason for the attack was they believed al shabaab was about to launch an attack on
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a somali government military facility so the air strikes were called in we've seen a pretty sizable increase in the number of air strikes in somalia since u.s. president donald trump came to office he's given the u.s. military pretty much across the globe more authority to launch air strikes this will be the most airstrikes in recent memory in somalia conducted by the u.s. in cooperation with the somali government this brings the total to forty six airstrikes for the year or so to come when i was there a u.s. senate report which reveals russian interference operations are still active and ongoing on social media and thousands of lives lost in the battle for resources in central nigeria security forces are accused of complacency. hello again it's good to have you back well here in sydney on monday we saw
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a rare event where sea fog came into play reducing the visibility on bondi beach as well as areas inland we are looking at better conditions as we go towards tuesday in terms of they're about twenty six degrees but here on the queensland coast we're still dealing with the old tropical cyclone the remnants of it still brings a very heavy rain along the coastal areas here on tuesday wednesday though we do expect to see some better conditions but still some gusty winds up here towards the northwest and over here towards adelaide we're looking at some rain coming into play with attempts there of about thirty degrees over here towards new zealand well things are still looking quite nice over here towards the north island and for auckland we do expect to continue to see a partly cloudy day with a temperature of twenty four degrees but rain is going to be increasing down here towards the south and by wednesday that is going to be making its way toward the north island as well windy conditions across church as well as rain with the temperature there of about eighteen degrees and then very quickly towards japan a lot of messy weather for japan with snow and rain in the forecast here on tuesday
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that is going to continue as we go towards wednesday for much of the area would snow in the higher elevations but for the korean peninsula we're looking at partly cloudy conditions and cooler weather for you so a temperature for you at six degrees in pyongyang a temperature for. when the shots came from the holiday and we heard cracks we heard some noise. this was no no sniper alley is one of the most dangerous intersections in saudi arabia. he didn't come in through the front entrance that was what happened to the people who were shot they came into the wrong and the nightly parra took pics of the furniture to. show the hell out of sarajevo holiday and war hotels on al-jazeera.
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or mine of the top stories here have been reports of clashes in the yemeni port city of her data despite a un backed are coming into effect a little more than an hour ago it follows a weekend of violence between duty rebels and the saudi iraqi coalition which left nice twelve people dead and twenty five others injured. britons opposition leader has submitted a motion of no confidence in the prime minister after a day of heated debate in the house of commons to resume a confirms her breakfast deal will go before u.k. parliament during the week beginning in january the fourteenth next year. and the u.s. military says it killed a woman sixty fighters from the group during a series of mass trikes in somalia which a place in just south of the capital mogadishu over the weekend.
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a report released by the u.s. senate has revealed the russian interference operations are active and ongoing on social media the report by private researches says the russian operation discovered after twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election was much broader than once thought and fisher has more from washington. if you can think of any social media then it's likely that the russians used that to target the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election they reached around one hundred forty million users by using the likes of facebook instagram you tube what linked in read it all across the board know what they tried to do was divide the u.s. public opinion by using the existing divisions that were there so they would target conservative voters with messages about gun control and immigration and they would try and target the likes of the african-american community by saying no point in voting why you're going to vote it's all
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a waste of time and in that way they tried to suppress for the democrats and bush donald trump and they see you continue to do that today even though the two reports still haven't looked at the midterm elections which we saw recently so it really is quite a damning report and certainly backs up what we've heard from the u.s. intelligence agencies and also from robert mueller of the special counsel who is in their guest investigating possible russian collusion in the twenty sixth election and he of course is indicted a number of russian operations a number of organizations and a number of individuals as for donald trump well we know that he has at various occasions said that he totally accepts what the u.s. intelligence agencies say and there was russian interference in the election and has also said that of course the idea of any russian interference in the twenty six thousand election was all a complete hoax. 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
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the defense ministry says it's made the move because ukraine is preparing quote a provocation in crimea attention has been high since russian detained on twenty ukrainian sailors on november twenty fifth saying their vessels have crossed into russia's territorial waters and there was an extra ukraine by russia in twenty fourteen. members at the un security council expressed concern over kosovo's decision to turn its security force into an army announcement last friday angered serbia and prompted the security council meeting on monday un's peacekeeping chief . called on the two sides to refrain from any steps that could escalate the situation gober got them of kosovo has made a mistake it's only that we had it for five years unnecessarily to establish an army the decision for the army might be belated but in no way is it the wrong one it's believed it because we waited for goodwill from those that never showed any goodwill towards kosovo we are free seeing more and more
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difficulties in the area of course we're not all here and i have to say the time very much worried very much concerned and a bit even afraid of the future and for the future not only. for my people of our country serbia but of an entire region too independent politicians have been ejected from hungary's state television building after they tried to block controversial new labor laws i don't think the more you want to stand. they were thrown out after trying to broadcast a petition against the reforms which could about companies to demand more overtime from employees and delay payment the pair were among a dozen members of parliament who had camped at the office overnight in protest against promised of it to obama's policies. security forces in nigeria have been
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accused of not doing enough to stop deadly violence between farmers and cattle herders in central nigeria polani herdsmen and farmers have been fighting over land and resources and the group international has documented more than three thousand six hundred killings just twenty sixteen most of them this year in response to the report the nigerian military has accused amnesty of trying to destabilize nigeria. and more ritual tend to than it creates in nigeria in nation particularly the nigerian military or security forces in the case may be time and time again they have been burned being false allegations of human rights violations against security forces and these lies just in demoralize our troops and has serious implications to our national security there for instance is one of the allegations is that a well the nigerian military has called for was a sting or was it in or respond and i dare them to mention which community was that
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and when was that and in any case where you look at some of the issues raised you look at the circumstances under which some of the instances of go and the how remote those areas and the response time you know so basically that is what embarrassedly the nigerian security forces particularly the nigerian army has been over and doing and doing the best to the point that we all are sacrifice our lives for the sake of in your national security correspondent many interests has more from the bitter. this conflict predates nigeria's independence but the intensity of it over the last thirty years has been unprecedented more than three and a half thousand people have been killed two hundred thousand others have fled their homes and then that has sold seeds of distrust and conflict among communities which according to some analysts would be a very very difficult thing to sort of smooth over now the nigerian government said
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it has set up various panels to try to bring the two sides together this conflict has been access abated because of two factors first is the impact of climate change and of course the population explosion from a population of sixty million people in one thousand fifties in one nine hundred sixty s. to more than one hundred ninety million in two thousand and seventeen a means that farmers will need more land to cultivate crops to feed hungry markets now they have moved according to some officials to areas specifically designated as grazing results and cattle routes and opening up farms there which has set the two sites on a warning path and the nigerian military in a response to the amnesty report is accusing a missed international of trying to sabotage its operations at all as well as create division and create crisis in the nigerian society something that i missed international has tonight so far. sri lanka's new prime minister says his united
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national party or for new political alliances to safeguard the country against corruption addressing tens of thousands of supporters at a victory rally running away from a singer frank those who stood by him during the country's fifty one day political crisis right now fernandez report in colombia. and as a fight for justice this rally in colombo became a celebration of running of the committee his reappointment as prime minister and the man who's been at the center of the two month long constitutional crisis was in his element of it and i'm i guess he'll be telling people that they were his strength in the historic fifty one days the appointment by president mighty policy to say no of mine the rajapaksa to replace victor messina brought together a fractious united national party angry at what they called a blatant violation of democracy the party and its alliance partners rallied to protect their leader so did party supporters operating at the one lp
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a peach and we voted against mahinda but the president ought to mean it's that pain we need to defend our rights that's brought people here. it's become missing his fifth time as prime minister he's being careful not to criticize president syria cena despite scathing attacks by him party leaders are following his cue realizing they have to work with the president for at least another fifteen months because missing had told supporters that mistakes had been made during his three and a half year government the fifty one day political crisis has given run over her missing her and his political partners a shot in the arm helping them bring together the largest political gathering that they have had in recent years they have admitted shortcomings when they were in government and promised to correctly i believe that. the prime minister ministers and parliamentarians must get closer to the people and we acted against
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corruption but legal action has been slow we will address this. with the former president and now former prime minister mind of rajapaksa says he resigned to ensure the stability of the country and allowed president series ina to appoint a new government something the president vowed never to do with become a singer at the helm and on sunday he insisted that his personal stance was not to appoint become a singer but said he was doing so to respect parliamentary to dition. seriously in his bid to dissolve parliament and called snap elections was ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court last week become a singer says a new political alliance will be formed to safeguard the country a possible reference to plans for his new government and elections that will be tested when they go ahead in the coming months when if an end is al jazeera. soldiers are enforcing a two day lockdown in indian administered kashmir and. the current process of
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ruby broke out i don't know what has been fought at protestors in the city srinagar kashmiri separatist leaders called for demonstrations following the deaths of three rebel fighters and seven civilians over the weekend indian army commanders say they come batting a proxy war i focused on a stone's army spokesman has condemned what he calls state sponsored terrorism by indian forces in the disputed region. only about half of a six thousand central americans who are part of a so-called caravan of asylum seekers have managed to enter the united states the rest is still waiting to cross through the mexican border town of to juana and those who have made the crossing and are being held in custody for their saddam claims are reviewed by dr hamid reports from the mexico us border. the border patrol has been in position since early morning to. meet trying to
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discourage asylum seekers from taking delete. instead in a matter of minutes to him and five teenagers and three children had to touch u.s. soil and quietly surrendered to the guards who seemed preoccupied with the presence of journalists operating on the mexico side at times using a threatening term that's what some people say their reporters are helping and punishments all of them just wrong it's against the law. but also coming under pressure from american citizens you know separate children from their hair was brought up on a girl god last week border patrol care. with each day that passes more silent seekers are crossing illegally into the u.s. it's a scene that happens in many spots along mexico's northern border just a few days ago we witnessed several people crossing from this exact point in the meantime a second layer was added to the wall and it's nearly doubled the height making it
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more difficult to scale and riskier to jump off on the u.s. side. but a few kilometers away it's still possible and it follows a pattern get over the wall then look for the border patrol to take you away see federal law leeway in my explains that months in custody in the u.s. is better than one day back at home in el salvador and safe she has already done this once before in june and was deported back to her country she fed that game under threat and. now hopes to be accepted as a refugee. this time she's with eight months pregnant everyone who wants to get turmeric up before the baby's jute being born american will give the baby opportunities she never got in life it's a practice that president trump was to put an end to the herd them honestly i'm not afraid now but i might get nervous at the very moment now i am calm. for a brief moment to side stare at each other every one of these people and off they
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go this is a little hesitation. a sense of urgency evelyn's father is worried about. over there more to. come on darling you can make it he says. it looks like she's not feeling too well she either hurt yourself while getting over that wall or maybe it was just too much stress for her pregnancy. we don't know but evelyn is taking away the rest the question they will spend the night in custody one of the rare times where detention represents the possibility of a new life. but at the hemi al-jazeera along mexico's border border. malaysian authorities have filed criminal charges against the u.s. bank goldman sachs it's part of a money laundering probe which has seen the former prime minister najib razak
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charged with corruption. case targets goldman sachs and two of its former employees are accused of diverting two point seven billion dollars in the state fund one and the bank denies any wrongdoing and a quick reminder you can catch up anytime with all our stories on our website. dot com. and one of the top stories on our jazeera they've been reports of clashes in the yemeni port city of her data despite a un backed cease fire being implemented it follows a weekend of violence where at least twelve people died and twenty five others were injured tuesday a cease fire was agreed by warring sides after a breakthrough in peace talks last week but if the rebels accused the coalition partners of breaching the agreement just hours before it came into effect that the
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system was shot after concluding the swedish consultations the coalition did not comply with what was agreed on the whole day to city witness the following aggressions on the first day of the talks the coalition warplanes launched twenty one raids and on saturday the coalition launched thirty eight raids on how diana and its outskirts this is considered a clear breach of the truce. canada's prime minister has been warned his government faces being sued for billions of dollars if he scraps an arms deal with saudi arabia justin trudeau says he's looking for a way out of a deal that would see the canadian arm of general dynamics corp supply and armored vehicles to the kingdom they agree mint is worth thirteen billion dollars the traders says the merger of saudi journalist. can't go unanswered. the un has confirmed two tunnels allegedly dug by hizbollah fighters in lebanon crossed the border into israel in total of four tunnels were discovered by the israeli military
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which alerted the un peacekeeping agency those crossing the border violate a cease fire agreement that ended the two thousand and six war. the u.s. military says it killed more than sixty five group during a series of a strike since somalia attacks took place in just south of the capital mogadishu over the weekend it was in coordination with so mali is government has been fighting to overthrow the administration for more than a decade britain's opposition leader has submitted a motion of no confidence in the prime minister after a day of heated debate in the house of commons jurys amazes a vote by politicians on how brics it do will be for the week beginning january fourteenth also ruled out the possibility of a second referendum on the u.k.'s membership of the european union. there's a top stories do stay with us and war hotels is coming next thanks for watching. young african footballers are traveling to thailand in hopes of becoming
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professional players but they risk discrimination and exploitation. when he's the best against thailand's football factory on al-jazeera. the holiday inn hotel was our house. people were shot dead on the entrance of the hotel. i do remember a time when hotel was shelled and started burning. resume your fellow. below the rest of us to. show. up and turn to the camera man said look let's get the hell out of your. out of this place continued to function in a half years of siege. on again was the best.
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