most polluted by russian security forces. crimea russia's dirty secret announces a new. fear of violence brings campaigning for sunday's presidential election in the democratic republic of congo to a sudden halt. on the housing seeker this is as it i live from doha also coming up. the prime minister is recklessly running down the clock one hundred days to go to go before breaks it to resign may and the opposition leader trade accusations of the u.k.'s plans to leave europe. is this the hit team sent to kill jim alpha shoji new video

released from outside the saudi consulate in istanbul. south africa issues and arrest warrant for zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe. always one hundred days to go before britain is you to leave the european union the countdown to bragg's it is getting increasingly chaotic prime minister theresa may as told m.p.'s that negotiations with the e.u. are still going on things got heated in parliament between may and opposition leader jeremy coleman. prime minister mr speaker has thrown away two years on her botched negotiations she's now recklessly wasting four billion pounds of public money she's holding parliament and the country to ransom. thank you

thank you mr speaker they said they put down of those no confidence then they said they wouldn't then they said they would then they did it but it wasn't effective i know this is the christmas season and the pantomime season on the road to b.c. for the labor frontbencher the right honorable judge is going to put a confidence vote oh yes it is. the e.u. has piled pressure on may saying a no deal bragg's it could mean british goods being subject to e.u. customs controls of the border may says her deal is the best one available m.p.'s from all parties say it's a disaster she's delayed the final vote by m.p.'s to accept or reject the deal until the middle of next month and again barbara joins me live now from london sort of deem are we any nearer to knowing whether the u.k. will leave the e.u. with or without a deal. not really hasn't as you heard from that exchange between theresa

may and jeremy colvin there is considerable anger from from many quarters about the delay to this meaningful vote on the deal on the withdrawal agreement which is now going to happen in the middle of january in the meantime the cabinets agreed on tuesday to step up to speed up planning for a no deal breaks it promising two billion pounds more than two billion u.s. dollars in extra funding in preparation hiring a large number of civil servants customs agents and civil servants and putting three and a half thousand troops on standby to the disposal of any government department felt they needed them jeremy coburn there saying that that's reckless you're wasting public money on planning for a prospect which would be in his words reckless and which would be highly damaging for the u.k. economy and on wednesday five of the biggest business groupings in the u.k.

have said that they're looking on with horror at the way things are going and have called on parliament as a whole too to bang heads and to find a way out of the un pass as they see it would mean that many businesses simply won't have the time to be prepared for a no deal bret's it at the end of next march to resume a response to all this is my deal is there on the table all you have to do is take that opportunity she's been promising reassurances and more explanations from brussels possibly should get some last minute but nothing substantial and it's likely that in fact her deal will be defeated and that's possibly why she's put it back all the while reducing the time for alternatives to emerge as jeremy corbyn was just saying but he's refusing to at the moment call of ocean a motion of no confidence in the government because he doesn't think that he can win that in the commons so many members of his own party now saying that inevitably there may have to be another referendum hasn't. the prime minister is

recklessly running down the clock all in a shameful attempt to make your own bad deal look like the lesser of two evils in theory to the right honorable gentleman. while until the deal has a day or has been ratified it is the responsible position of government and it is would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal. so some testy exchanges there in parliament between to research may and opposition leader jeremy corbyn is as you would expect but there's been some slight controversy now over something that the opposition leader may or may not have said about theresa may on under his breath. that's right has and if you want watch the video which is circulating on social media it seems fairly clear you don't have to be an expert lip reader to see that jeremy corbyn did say the

words and it's unclear whether it was directly looking at the prime minister but he said the word stupid woman he his spokes person has come out and said that he did not do so and although members of the conservative party in parliament did demand from the speaker that he come back and apologize that happened that hasn't happened so far it's just taken time away from the debate which was carrying on with sajid javid the home secretary outlining what we can expect in the government's new immigration policy paper lots of speculation about what will happen what will happen to skilled workers now he said it's meant to take away the preferential treatment of e.u. citizens a level playing field with anybody who wants to come and work in the u.k. he now says that e.u. citizens will be able to come to the u.k. for twelve months under a transitional temporary work has seem but that won't be enough to allay the fears

of many in areas like the health service which do rely to a great extent on e.u. citizens working in those sectors right now but so will it will need to wait for more confirmation on that in the hours that come our eye for the moment a team bomb a life or stereo in london thanks andy. campaigning for sunday's presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been suspended in kinshasa this means a rally planned in the capital for later on wednesday by opposition leader martin for unity is now considered illegal and he is one of several candidates trying to replace president joseph kabila opposition parties pick for you knew a former oil executive to be their unity can do also vying for the top job is the man known as kabila is in force or emanuel ramadani should darty former interior minister and candidates of the ruling people's party for construction and democracy

felix was until recently part of the opposition alliance that supported for uli but he backed out of that deal and is now running for president. joins us live now from kinshasa saying. catherine bring us up to date what's happening there now. with the members of my people who are traveling with you and that. deal trying to make this thing where the courts are that way through. the course of the final rally. here got to be such that i like what we have that they have a group and they're making their way yeah and it was all about have them as you mentioned. by the local authorities they all rally

in just ten days there but because of security really the. specifically said. information they have that this particular rally could stand badly and they say that's why they have canceled this rally that people have been talking to you i think this is just the way of the government intimidating martin so you do and his supporters that he doesn't hold his rally here many supporters who are here have actually gone off to where this presidential candidate is they're saying they want to act as you soldiers and bring him in. to guide the place and this really is causing a lot of that because it could potentially lead to a violent clash between this of course and then the police has them. are we likely to see. them catherine i mean it's already been quite chaotic quite chaotic campaign period hasn't. yet that has been

a. good end and that's a concern a lot of sequels here have that this could just as we have in the presidential candidates been bad that. that country. very violent in his supporters being dissed by violent hit by police using tear gas using live ammunition as well and. you just get whacked. even if the election. eve election. likely what's going to happen and what is going to determine what is going to happen going into how the election i'm going to react and what instructions they're going to. catherine thanks for that catherine story live for us in kinshasa. our police in south africa have issued an arrest warrant for zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe it centers on an

alleged assault in johannesburg last year the wife of former president robert mugabe is accused of hitting gabrielle angles with an electrical cord in a hotel room last year south africa model suffered a serious head injury gabi has said she was acting in self defense. is live for us from the harare so her any updates there from the authorities in zimbabwe. for the government spokesperson here in zimbabwe has said that we have not received any written communication from south africa when we do the government or will consider it according to the laws of zimbabwe what we know so far as the grace of god is in the country she was in singapore when she was getting treatment she is being protected by the state because she's a former first lady and as far as you know the last time she was in south africa was last year when that incident happened as i'm and grace mugabe is known to travel

a lot how is this going to affect the traveling plants. well she's known here as gucci grace because she loves to shop as involving jokes she's always spending time on planes going abroad to do a lot of shopping so what could happen is if she goes to a certain country and that country takes a serious one seriously they could race and hand over to the south africans which means her travel options are severely limited but she's no stranger to controversy here in zimbabwe she's been accused of seizing lots of lots of land and farms she accused of seizing gold mines that belong to private individuals she's been accused or the allegations that she smiled but ivory outside the country for a number of years she's denied all these allegations but right now all eyes are on the zimbabwean government if there is see this written communication from south africa when it comes if it comes how are they going to react because remember she is a former first lady are they going to be willing to hand her over to the south africans as an artist thank you how much in harare. all right still ahead when we come back

belgium is prime minister resigns so now who's going to run the government we've got a lot to process. going into battle for asylum seekers the group calling themselves the new sanctuary coalition. hello again it's good to have you back well this hour we are going to start here in china with such a lot of rain coming in from the wes all dealing with the remnants of an old tropical cyclone well now all that rain is making its way over here towards the east so for shanghai down to fuzhou we're going to be seeing some rainy conditions as well down towards the south though it's going to be mostly cloudy here for hong kong over the next few days so starting off here on thursday at twenty five degrees and as we go towards friday well more clouds in the forecast we do expect to see

maybe twenty six degrees as your high while also down here across parts of southern india we do have to watch what's happening in the bay of bengal very carefully we did have that cycle in the made landfall here on the east coast but now more rain is going to be developing anywhere from southern india down over here towards sri lanka as well those rain showers are going to be on the increase so for colombo expect to see more rain as we get towards friday time to there of about twenty eight degrees up towards tonight by the time we get to friday night into saturday you will also be seeing some more rain as well and then very quickly across the gulf we are looking at some very nice conditions across much of the area thursday here in doha we're looking at about twenty four degrees about twenty six and by the time we get to friday things get just a little bit warmer with the time to the twenty five in riyadh a sunny day few at twenty four. when the shots came from the holiday and we heard the critics we heard some noise.

this was no no sniper alley is one of the most dangerous intersections in the sun able to. 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 part of took pics of the furniture to to show the school sorry holiday and hotels on al-jazeera. and again you're watching i just hear a minder of our top stories this hour election campaigning has been stopped in kinshasa the capital of democratic republic of congo the governor says there is evidence people are preparing for confrontations just days before voting on sunday

opposition candidate martin for life at been due to hold a rally there. british prime minister theresa may has told m.p.'s the show provide more details on how to break the deal with the e.u. in the new year and peace have been questioning her about present for the final time this year in a session a prime minister's questions. place in south africa have issued an arrest warrant for zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe for the wife of former president robert mugabe is accused of hitting a model in johannesburg last year. a new pictures have emerged on turkish media showing the fifteen men suspected of murdering saudi journalists. they show the men around. having at the istanbul airport and the saudi consulate before and after killing in october saudi arabia's

rejected turkey's request to extradite the suspects for trial this week the u.n. secretary general renewed his call for what he called a credible investigation into the case he said those responsible must be punished. is the managing editor at the. an english newspaper in turkey he says the new images can help put pressure on saudi arabia to cooperate with the investigation this is another. step or another piece of evidence that coming out of the investigation that tookie is is you know maintaining its position on three different questions where's the body where's the the. the actual decision maker in this and who is the local club or took you will keep pressuring saudi arabia to get answers for these and looking at it from a human terry and human human perspective because so far riyadh has not been

cooperated which took you so you with every little piece of evidence that comes up to it you will read to it its position and it will seek answers to this. you know complex investigation and complex issue and took you will also keep pressuring riyadh because. i mean this is now an international issue turkey wants to make sure that this remains a live at the international level and because and turkey is not alone in this actually you know seeking the answers. a belgian is king philip is meeting political party leaders to decide who should govern the country that's after the prime minister announced his resignations schon michel had been leading a minority government for a week when his coalition partners walked out of the alliance the flemish nationalist party was angry at his decision to sign a un migration pact critics say it will increase the number of migrants coming into europe. is live for us now in brussels on attash belgium's party leaders are

meeting king filipe at the royal palace in the capital what happens next seems to be in the king's hands now. yes that's right it's a series of consultations between the king in the party political leaders and they'll have to judge whether more to hold a snap elections early next year the king will have to decide whether or not to accept to show michelle's resignation who it's interesting is the debate over migration really is that the hearts of the european union it's one of the big political issues of course in europe right now and it has led to not only show michel having in his resignation for the collapse of course of belgium's government not just to take you back to what happened last week the right wing envy a party pulled out of the ruling coalition in protest over the fact the show michel the government had supported the un's global migration pact aimed at better management of migration in the world child michelle said it was something that was

positive but the m.v.a. the right wing policy said that it might open the door to more immigration to belgium not something that they are campaigning against or that left shot michel in a position where he had a minority government he could not convince a pole the looks to try and supporting the socialist greens wanted to table emotional with no confidence against him and what experts are saying is that what's happened right here in brussels the heart the symbolic hold of the european union if you like is real. an example of how centrist and liberal leaders are finding it harder and harder to govern in europe and with the rise of the far right anti you anti immigration policies indeed once again migration as it is at the heart of this as with other countries in europe because the prime minister resigned over a migration route tell us more about that. as well as i just mentioned it was the un global migration pact which was something

that the right wing envy a party were angry about it's not why they quit this ruling coalition and that's what led to show michelle's resignation what we're looking at now though is the possibility of snap elections in january that's four months earlier the federal elections were meant to be held here in belgium and if that happens of course there will be a new government but in the time being we need to know whether or not the king will accept michelle's resignation and if he does whether or not she would at least keep sure michel all of ours a caretaker prime minister. or a natasha but a life for us there in brussels or the un's world food program is cutting food aid to more than one hundred ninety thousand people in gaza and the occupied west bank it's blaming a severe funding shortfall the u.n. is asking for three hundred fifty million dollars in funding to help one point four million people across the occupied palestinian territories. a warring parties in

yemen are accusing each other of breaching a fragile ceasefire in the port city of data tuesday was the first day of the truce there were four explosions in and around the city but it's not clear who was behind the blas june hopes. pictures emerging from her data on tuesday show a relative calm at who the checkpoints documents were requested before people were allowed to pass in some areas the streets were largely empty in others the traffic flowed coming in they have it time and we are optimistic about the ceasefire decision but who is implementing the resolution brokered by the united nations who is implementing the decisions taken during this meeting negotiations the saudi aggression did not implement any of the decisions made in sweden yemenis are suffering what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis where millions are facing starvation.

aid workers say the situation remains desperate around her they did the main gate way for eighty percent of much needed food and humanitarian aid in sweden last week representatives from the who the movement and the saudi u.a.e. backed government the president will months old had agreed not only to withdraw fighters but also to establish humanitarian corridors and to allow for the deployment of un supervised neutral forces the redeployment for the ports of ho data salif russy son critical parts of the city associated with the humanitarian facilities shall be completed within two weeks after the cease fires entry into force the full mutual redeployment of all forces from the city of her data and the ports of her data salif and russ is so shall be completed within a maximum period of twenty one days after the cease fire enters into force it is a responsibility of the parties to fulfill the agreement local leaders in her day

to say they're determined to ensure the truce no matter how fragile it is holds. and the would have the i'm sending the agreement that was discussed thank god we in the province of the data and the local authorities are committed to the ceasefire but there are some violations of the aircraft that are still flying over the city despite the reports of explosions and sporadic fighting yemenis in and around the besieged port city are for now at least feeling some small semblance of hope. a polls have closed in the presidential runoff election in madagascar ballot counting is stopped in its former lead as a resume now and market have low manana vying for the job wrench alina narrowly won the first round with thirty nine percent of the votes this is the first time the two face off since two thousand and nine. head of the european union's monitoring commission says the elections have been carried out peacefully. i've just come from

two lawyers the two teams to represent the candidates there told us we are ready to accept the other side's victory so it's a pretty good atmosphere i want the world's biggest stock market flotations in japan has flopped the. share price of softbank fell almost fifteen percent in japan as the telecoms company made his debut on the tokyo stock exchange softbank hope to raise twenty four billion dollars but investors were not impressed analysts are blaming the disappointing start on recent network glitches and links with china's telecoms company. university. says investors are questioning soft banks growth strategy. i would be a little sympathetic considering the fact the market itself environment had been very bad as you seen in the united states in japan following that i mean nikkei has

reached his nine month low and december alone the market has dropped by six percent and that sense it was a very very weak environment to start out with i think one real big worry amongst the larger investors are that this musical chair game that you know the south bank i'm playing on a growth after growth after growth expansion after expansion they're all worried when the music will stop it hasn't and they've been working out quite eloquently but if you look at the external environment of the telecommunications side in japan for example the mobile carrier i would say contract has dropped the growth is definitely winding down on top of it you've got the conventional competition from entity docomo and get it and also a new company you come from iraq and so the environment itself where it's maturing and you've got the pressure from the competition and you've got the government basically trying to lower the price so you have quite a lot of pressure surrounding this industry as a whole facebook has deleted more than four hundred pages it says linked to me

animals military and its crackdown on the hinge of muslims the social media company has been criticized for not doing enough to block inflammatory material against the minority group facebook says it's removed chat groups and personal accounts in its third and biggest push to date when seven hundred thousand rahane jet have escaped military violence in western myanmar over the past year. the president has backed down on his demand for five billion dollars to build a wall along the u.s. border with mexico the us president had been threatening to shut down the government if his demands were not met failure to agree on a budget could see eight hundred thousand government workers sent home without pay just before christmas funding for several agencies expires on friday an activist who's facing deportation from the u.s. is taking up the fight for asylum seekers is organizing an army of volunteers to

help people to help people the president is trying to stop from entering the country christine salumi has more from new york city. people have the right to seek asylum in the united states they are volunteers members of the clergy students and veterans a hastily assembled group training in new york we're calling on. community they've answered the call to help members of the migrant caravan at the mexican border make the final leg of their journey into the united states a call led by robbie rugby or founder of the new sanctuary coalition there is going to be confrontation. going to be confrontational we are going to. be to people to get up to protect those who are facing this. this is where they're headed tijuana a city in mexico is an official port of entry into the united states the law allows asylum seekers to enter california here and have their claims heard but the wait

time has been increasing as a trump administration says it doesn't have the resources to process the growing number of requests organizers believe that's a stall tactic and they hope to have five thousand volunteers there every day for the next four months to help people reach the united states they call themselves the sanctuary caravan we are thinking long term. this is not a one week action it's not a one day action that our goal is to change the national conscience volunteers say they are protecting the rights of people fleeing poverty and violence that migrants are to a large extent good people that are willing to go through a lawful process but have been put in a situation where they had no choice but to flee their own country their own culture and travel a very very dangerous journey ragbir is yourself an immigrant married to an american woman he's fighting deportation based on it fraud conviction in a lawsuit he's accusing the government of targeting him for removal based on his

advocacy work for immigrants you're challenging deportation orders yourself right now or it wouldn't make more sense. and that's the goal of this administration as the goal of the goal of the if the scare you into doing nothing. so we can if we do nothing we lose volunteers pledge to act nonviolently and in accordance with u.s. law but they say when it comes to protecting the rights of asylum seekers they won't give up without a fight christian salumi al jazeera new york. this is al-jazeera it's going to round up of the top stories british prime minister theresa may has told m.p.'s she'll provide more details on her break the deal with the e.u. in the new year with one hundred days to go before britain is due to leave the european union emergency plans are being made for no deal the prime minister

is recklessly running down the clock all in a shameful attempt to make your own bad deal look like the lesser of two evils. thing to the right of the gentleman. while until the deal has a day or has been ratified it is the responsible position of government and it is it would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal. of the governor of the capital of the democratic republic of congo has ordered a stop to all presidential campaigning there under a cited security reasons for his decision on wednesday the governor says there is evidence that people are preparing for confrontations in kinshasa just days before voting takes place on sunday opposition candidate martin full i have been due to hold a rally there

a polls have closed in the presidential runoff election in madagascar ballot counting has started as former leaders andre roger lean and marc ravalomanana vie for the top job roger lena narrowly won the first round with thirty nine percent of the votes. belgium's king philip is meeting party leaders to decide who should govern the country after the prime minister announced his resignation show michel had been leading a minority government for a week when his coalition partners walked out of the alliance the flemish nationalist party was angry at his decision to sign a un migration pact. the un's world food programme is cutting food aid to more than one hundred ninety thousand people in gaza and the occupied west bank is blaming a severe funding shortfall those are the headlines the stream is next. young african footballers are travelling to thailand in hopes of becoming professional players but they risk discrimination and exploitation. when one has

the best of gates thailand's football factory on al-jazeera. i have the ok and here in the stream today was the indian independence icon mahatma gandhi a racist we explore his legacy is the statue of him is torn down in ghana this story was put to us on twitter by community member d.j. sealab but you too can be part of this conversation tweet us your thoughts or leave that in our live q. to chat. session and if you are in the spirit.