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on certainty in the democratic republic of congo amid fears that the vote on sunday may be postponed. with one hundred days to go the u.k. and the e.u. prepare for a possible parting of the ways without a deal. also ahead facebook in the spotlight again over your right to privacy. a disaster in the making that's how some u.s. politicians are reacting to president donald trump's decision to withdraw all american troops from syria in a tweet mr trump declared victory over i saw the group that once controlled vast areas of syria and iraq but is now confined to small pockets the drawdown of an estimated two thought. troops is expected within sixty to one hundred days the

defense secretary jim massa's had pushed for u.s. soldiers to prevent eisel from reemerging and several prominent republican senators opposing mr trump's decisions will the news of the pullout follows the turkish president wretch up type threatening a new offensive against u.s. backed kurdish forces the syrian democratic forces in man being age are now calling for demonstrations against the trump decision from washington passing kohei and begins our coverage with this report it's a massive move that will dramatically change the landscape of the war in syria and one not many saw coming the u.s. president tweeting out that isis has been defeated and that was the only reason u.s. troops were in syria seeming to confirm reports that the two thousand u.s. troops in syria will leave over the next few months and then leave them there but according to the u.s. government the islamic state of iraq and the levant is not actually defeated

a point stressed by the president's own state department just last week i think it's fair to say americans will remain on the ground after the physical defeat of the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that that defeatism during the move comes after a phone call between president trump and president urged one of turkey he's made clear he wants to target the kurds who have fought beside the u.s. and that is more difficult to do if u.s. troops are in his way just a few months ago the president himself is fully heralded as a sacrifice the kurds have made we're trying to get along very well we do get along great with the kurds we're trying to help them a lot so they fought with us they died with us they died we lost. tens of thousands of kurds died fighting isis now many worry what will happen to the kurds what this message sends is we don't stick with people our friends without the kurds in the syrian democratic forces we couldn't have beaten isis we couldn't have taken back and rocker because we were not willing to commit all of those troops that were

necessary others say that should be a concern for the u.s. first time in my lifetime we have a prayer a president with the courage to declare victory and bring the troops home this came as a surprise for many on capitol hill some senators calling this a big mistake in this decision is a withdrawal of all of our forces in syria and they were dramatically listen this isn't a bomb of life move it's now that the u.s. has withdrawn or is going to withdraw from syria we have left basically turn the country over to russia into an even greater extent iran the administration and the pentagon both released statements saying the fight against iso isn't over that the u.s. is simply transitioning to the next phase of the campaign they didn't say what that phase might look like. al-jazeera washington. live to washington to my colleague alan fishes so alan how much of a surprise was this for the state department and the pentagon. all those couple of

things you've got to remember here first of all back in april donald trump essentially said at that point he was ready to take american troops out of syria his advisors said that's not a good idea you need to just calm down and we're going to leave them there and we've got numerous speeches numerous statements from people saying that they were there for the long term donald trump seems to have surprised everyone by making this announcement and they're drawing parallels with george w. bush and his famous mission accomplished appearance on an aircraft carrier joining the iraq war and they saying that didn't turn out terribly well for him and it would be awful if the same thing happened here to donald trump in fact is just a couple of months ago that john bolton who is his national security advisor told a meeting in new york that the united states will keep troops in syria as long as a rainy and soldiers continue to operate outside their borders so it seems as to the whole defense establishment this was a real surprise and it was

a real surprise to a number of senators as you point out including bob corker no bob corker is a republican he is the chair of the senate foreign relations committee normally when there's a big decision like this he would be one of those that would be informed that he's leaving the senate at the end of the year but still for him this was a surprise terrible thing for our nation it's a terrible thing for the. for the allies that we've been working with this terrible thing for the. hand is just. it's hard to imagine that any president would weigh been make this kind of decision with this little communication with this little preparation. as patty said in a report there was a phone call between donald trump and also president of turkey in the last twenty four hours the white house is insisting that this wasn't a negotiation it wasn't donald trump doing something that the turks want he had

made as the situation and he was communicating it to the turks as a partner there but there are certainly democratic congress men and women and also those in the senate who are drawing a direct line from that phone call to donald trump's the session and they're asking why are they being so kind to present to one of turkey when there continues to be a threat there from i saw and that is something that they insist inside syria is not going to go away and should be confronted by the presence of u.s. troops allen thanks very much both donald trump's unilateral decision to us allies in the fight against eisel as we've been hearing by surprise many of them believe there's still a threat of eisel regaining ground more now from our diplomatic editor james pays here at the u.n. in new york and in the capitals of the u.s. is closest allies this news was not expected and not welcomed a u.k.

minister making it clear in a tweet we're live in his view eisel has not been defeated a view shared by the ambassador who chairs the security council committee that tracks the group his latest reports reveal eisel still has about twenty to thirty thousand fighters in iraq can syria were delivered by so it's being referred. yes but it's not completed it's not completely because of course i support stronger from other ways to do for. the world president trump says the troops were only in syria to fight isis still but people here say they also performed a number of other roles including diplomatic leverage on the assad regime. u.n. special envoy stefan de mistura is back in new york and will brief the security council on thursday one of the lever's being used to get the assad regime back to the negotiating table was the fact the u.s. military controls a large swathe of the country rich in agriculture and energy it's now

a job that will be even harder one of the main aims of president trumps foreign policy will also be affected the president back strongly by prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel has been trying to constrain the regional activities of iran and their u.s. decision and would respect any decision made by the administration we have our concerns about syria or the presence of a venue and troops there in syria and we will do what every necessary to protect our people regardless if you have american troops russian troops or any other nations so while the u.s. is our allies are dismayed by the trump decision those with very different views about the future of syria the so-called a stana group turkey russia and iran will benefit with more freedom to act inside the country james bays al-jazeera of the united nations. ok let's get more on this for you here on the news as

a senior fellow and syria specialist at the washington institute for near east policy andrew tablet welcome back to the news out there talking about the next phase of the campaign what can that possibly mean. well without troops remaining in syria it would seem to be an air campaign which is been integra part of the operations against the islamic state of course the question would be with the air campaign support what well rather what land component would it support on the ground would it continue to support the kurds which are fighting at the core of the syrian democratic forces or what it's for what it pulled back from certain areas and let the russians and iranians deal with but a lot more questions here than answers or is this in effect an unforced you turn on the state department and the pentagon. that remains unclear it is definitely in conflict with the stated policy on syria and probably on

iran concerns their regional activities and did follow the conversation between air to wine and president trump recently now of course turkey was threatening to invade syria and not mary carried out a military incursion against. against the syrian democratic forces just so it could have brought it to a head much sooner than would have been otherwise but we simply won't know and we won't know the full extent of the withdraw i think for several days as this is hashed out the interagency when you talk about we also pivoting towards a more robust slash aggressive attitude on the part of mr. when it comes to the why peachey on the ground inside northern syria because they've just allegedly reportedly rather signed a deal with three point five billion u.s. dollars for missile holes from the united states going to turkey. yes

so it would seem that turkey is preparing. a military incursion against the p y d y p g forces which serve the core of the syrian democratic forces in this alphabet soup of acronyms here. representing turkey's arch enemy and everyone looking at the situation heading in recent coming munition elections or a whole host of other issues seems to be. seem to be taking aim at what he regards it as a durable see if they've been for terrorists inside of syria i mean is that would jura pull could you could one equally apply that word to the kurds when it comes to doing what they've been doing in terms of the fight against leisel because there was a point i guess what four years ago when the fight against eisel was particularly vicious it was particularly nasty fast forward to three years ago and everyone was

saying look the kurds are the only people on the ground who can at that point take the fight to isolate so why walk away from people who are really good at what they do that's what their supporters would say. yes so that's a very good question because of course the fight against eisel continues down river and there are also other areas where the regimes control where isis is present i think what was causing the concern were two things one. the united states said it was supporting the syrian democratic forces only to fight isis but the the the p y d which serves as the core of the syrian democratic forces they were talking about the creation of a rival or western kurdistan in a belt along turkey southern border this was wow a cease fire with the p k k which the p.y.t. is an offshoot had that the ceasefire had broken down in the war between turkey and

the kurds was erupting and getting worse inside turkey so therefore i think everyone had to take action and i feel that he would want to constrain the p. y. d. and he's seems that would have done so with this threatened invasion of syria very very briefly andrew we're almost out of time what happens if this is not a definite end of the u.s. has to go back in i mean they walked away from the kurds ninety two ninety three they're walking away from the kurds again that's how the kurds might see this announcement from donald trump does this mean that the states won't have any friends that they can cozy up to in the region. i think the u.s. what ways have friends the problem is for how long and i think most of our allies see the u.s. not wanting to stay in the region and i think that's in line with the sentiments of the american people the problem of course is while everybody wants to bring the troops home and i think that includes president trump and also those democratic opponents and the problem is of course that there are areas of the middle east

which become durable safe havens for terrorism and i say this was a certainly a huge one and then of course this also leaves aside the fact that in italy provinces the largest. pocket of al-qaeda fighters in the world. thank you very much a pleasure. still to come here on the news for you including preparing to vote in the shadow of violence. one yemeni was finally on her way to the u.s. to see a dying song. also ahead in the. call club hero to say. more on the new boss in the sports news in about thirty five minutes. an official from the electoral commission in the democratic republic of congo says

sunday's elections might be delayed because of technical difficulties now. the police fired tear gas at a crowd of rock throwing supporters of the opposition presidential candidates. in the capital kinshasa he had organized a rally but was blocked from arriving after the city banned all political gatherings because of security concerns supporters say the decision was a political move to hurt his chances malcolm webb has more now on the uncertainty surrounding the poll on sunday. and the. commission is now a possibility to sunday's poll might be delayed by a few days possibly weeks technical difficulties fishel said the electoral commission would still do everything it could to try to make sure the poll goes ahead on time but this announcement came just a few hours after the governor of the capital kinshasa and the final political campaign rallies from taking place here they were due to happen over the coming

days they now be going ahead the government funded security reasons saying that people within the different political factions were planning violence. very many oppositions of. things like banning rallies and burning elections they see is possible schemes by the ruling coalition to be the election all to try and stay in power beyond this election which has already been delayed for two years. ok let's talk live now to jason stearns he's a senior fellow and director of the conker research group he joins us on skype from new york jason stearns of human rights groups accuse the government here of being at war with their own people is that a fair interpretation of the immediate political history of this country the government has dealt with protests over the last three years since two thousand and fifty very brutally so between twenty fifth he and late last year there were no

protests they were all bans treaty sixty rather hundreds of people were killed by the government and only recently have the opposition believe will to rally somewhat as you just heard their protests have also met with violence are now banned so i would say that it is fair to say that the government as repressed by the opposition and stifles public protests one of the key candidates that we're discussing in our coverage tonight is basically a chosen successor to mr kabila for the voters for the people is that a curse or is it an opportunity. well we'll see what they said the polls if indeed the elections do happen on the twenty third it's difficult to tell but i think that. joseph could be them you ask a question basically about the legacy of joseph could be that the people want more of joseph kabila they want change i think those it could be the came into office with great promise he brought about many reforms to unify the country he shepherded a peace process through and then i think afterwards the reforms he was unable to

stabilize the country especially east of the country and to bring development that would benefit the great majority of probably so from our public opinion polling that we've conducted a great many countries actually do want change and would reject the candidate should arias and wanted successor how dangerous potentially is the situation because it occurs to me you've got a highly mobilize group of people who want to protest one way or the other and then they're not allowed to protest and this is a country that's never had a peaceful transition of government since what independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty from belgium where it's difficult to say certainly in the past protests has been repressed and for example after the twenty eleven elections that were deeply controversial there were protests but the government was able to suppress them bloodily but still suppress them and so i think it's making the gamble that it. may very well. reveals elections i think

that's a very real concern and that the propagation would protest but they would be able to manage that however the mobilization we've seen in the last couple of weeks is such that i think will be very difficult to put the genie back in the bottle you see hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets fill stadiums there's an enormous amount of mobilization across the country so i think it's very difficult for the government to suppress that stance and new york thank you you thank. staying with elections parliamentary elections in togo are going ahead despite deadly riots and a boycott by the opposition the west african country has been engulfed in a political crisis for more than a year now protesters want the president for not seeing day to resign his family's rule the country for nearly forty years has poll to judge him. in the days leading up to legislative elections in togo the number of people killed by security forces is on the increase. the military has been blocking streets to stop

the deadly protests and one of those just killed was a thirty two year old father an electrician named cebu saw the suit. we were on our way to buy food when military men started shooting guns with real bullets saudis who were shot two times on his chest and cheek him much to mr t. un counted this morning to buy food and he was cute but was flowing from his body by the time they brought him home he was already that. president for nursing babies family has been in power since a coup in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the president's father general nothing but ruled with an iron fist for nearly forty years. his son took the presidency in two thousand and five and more than one thousand people were killed during those elections total ease have been calling for him and his government to resign for years now fourteen opposition groups have created

a coalition there asking their supporters to boycott the elections they say the ruling party will pass legislation to let the president run again in two thousand and twenty and then again in two thousand and twenty five. these elections cannot help but trigger violence morning and a lot of suffering if you've had enough here in togo this is why we keep on saying that the government was not told these elections we should have prepared to unilaterally and whose results in. you know we have absolutely no doubt. a regional group of mediators from ghana in guinea have led talks to resolve the crisis the opposition had agreed to participate but wanted an overhaul of the electoral commission and to set term limits but they didn't get what they were promised we'll do on deals to deja in togo people are being shot and parliament members are here and remain silent some others just keep on campaigning not a single judge has taken hold of this case that is if we're living in a lawless state where an ordinary citizen can be broken and even killed and no one

says a thing this is the law of the jungle. the rising tensions have prompted all religious groups in togo to call for the polls to be postponed but the ruling party will not budge. the legislative elections will take place with nursing babies union for the republic party looking set to win what remains to be seen is how many citizens will be killed as the country's long time ruling family holds on to power paltrow dirge on al-jazeera. more explosions have been reported on the second day of a un brokered cease fire and yemen's forsythia for data saudi and u.a.e. backed government forces and the fighters blaming each other for violations on the first day of the truce on tuesday the warring parties agreed on a ceasefire during talks in sweden last week data is critical for the supply of food and humanitarian aid to millions of yemenis on the brink of starvation more now from miami. 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 a plan and now 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 the sweden 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 data 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 or 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 from the ports of ho data salif russy signed 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 isa shall be completed within a maximum period of twenty one days after the cease fire enters into force it is the 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 then the would have the whole island and 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 somebody nations 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. brazil's outgoing president michel tema has been charged with corruption and money laundering he's accused of taking bribes in exchange for extending contracts to port operators called proceedings against him are likely to start only after he steps down as president on january the first term as denied any wrongdoing. the family of a guatemalan girl who died in the u.s. border police custody is calling for an independent investigation seven year old jackson called died from shock and dehydration a family says she wasn't given medical attention despite feeling unwell she was then put on a ninety minute bus journey to a medical facility but by the time she arrived she stopped breathing and later died because due to tional standard is that there is a system of ready access to adequate care and mismanaging or

denying in proper intake screening is a constitutional violation so we need an inquiry to look at the actions taken or not taken to understand whether or not our constitutional standards not the standards set out by portraiture of the opposition in hungary has warned there won't be any less up in antigovernment protests the hungary an alliance of trade unionists has also pledged to hold nationwide strikes of a controversial label or is signed into effect protest as a condemning what they call a slave law allowing employers to force staff to work overtime and delay payment for up to three years the loss provokes more than a week of demonstrations in the capital but the past. still to come here on the news hour for you more media reports emerge of the so-called saudi hit squad that killed jamal. and the relative calm after the storm approached us in nicaragua as the u.s. issues a new threat. also ahead

a winning streak and other hope victory in denver brings the nuggets run to seven he has the highlights in the sports teams and about the. hello rain is the upcoming story for the u.s. at the moment we've had snow and this is remains the snow of the rockies in the cascades but what's coming out from the sas pushing up most of moisture with it is rain developing possibly first the storms in texas starting running through the southern states look at the dark green is going through florida and georgia now that's how far it gets where about time we get to so a bit ahead of it the feed is still going it's warming up slowly but it's still cloudy in new york it's been freezing in toronto you know it is winter is north of the border or in british columbia fairly obviously but watch this as it runs up by

to tell you get to friday a developed system masses of snow on the canadian side masses of rain potential on the eastern seaboard of the u.s. i think flooding is back with us once again south of all this nothing like as much action we still got the training frontal systems hard to pick out but there's a line there across honduras trying to get to nicaragua once more now we've had flooding in honduras it's nice to see there's no rain forecast for thursday that's more billie's back into mexico you'll notice but the time we get to friday rain might be hinting at coming back once again the same is true for the cayman islands and particularly cuba that does look quite wet.

welcome back you're watching the al-jazeera news these are your headlines so far today the u.s. president. for withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria and declared victory against. the decision surprised his foreign allies and angered some members of his own republican party. election official in the. polls might be delayed because of technical difficulties just hours earlier the police fired tear gas on opposition supporters in the capital. after political rallies were banned over security worries. there are reports of more explosions on the. city of data. backed government forces and fighters blamed each other for violations on the first day of the truce on tuesday. a yemeni woman is on her way to the u.s. to see her dying son after a year long legal battle she's been prevented from seeing her child because of a travel ban on people from yemen and for mainly muslim countries as well as north

korea and venezuela the two year old is an american citizen with a rare brain disorder the u.s. granted her a visa after a civil rights group took the case to court john hendren traveled to oakland in california to talk to the two year old's father. here in a california hospital the u.s. travel ban his left a two year old motherless as a rare brain disorder carries him into the final days of his life his second day in and the u.s. took him to the hospital and they were shocked how skinny you were as they were us were those doctors and the nurse. when they were seen and like this all time this is what's happening in backing him and like his father an american citizen is among the youngest immigrants to suffer from the american travel ban since he arrived in the u.s. in october of dollars you many mother has been unable to see him because of the trumpet ministrations ban on travelers from yemen and six other mostly muslim nations on tuesday the u.s.

granted his mother's waiver and a chance to hold abdullah once again but for two years nothing happened until monday when ali hassen in the council on american islamic relations called a news conference to appeal directly to the american people you know we've got a lot of foreign service officers deployed all over the world that are making these decisions on a daily basis and they're trying very hard to do the right thing at all times for the house and the wait has been traumatic ali hassan says it's hard for him to tell such a personal story but he decided if he didn't go public his son would die without ever seeing his mother again and she would regret the day that she gave it to me on september that's when the last time she said she would regret everything so if you had not gone public. what would have happened. i would just see my son dying on on or taking off our mayor mom on. without his mother with eyes and all that

after marrying his wife shaimaa two years ago ali was told her visa would soon be approved. then came the trump travel ban which brought protesters into the streets and airport waiting rooms until a few months ago little of delish stayed with his mother in yemen growing thinner sicker and sharing hospitals with thousands of victims of the war in yemen. desperate ali brought his son to cairo and then the u.s. for care what my son going through. it's really hard for him i mean he was the number from the mother and then his face in just it's crazy you know no matter what color you are. family should be together no matter what this fall a bill is stopped breathing on his own then closed his eyes for the last time and stopped responding entirely doctors say the end is days away a bill is strength in the speed of his mother's plane will determine whether on

wednesday evening the hudson family will get that chance john hendren elders era oakland california the u.s. federal reserve has raised interest rates by a quarter of a point despite pressure from president trump not to do so it's a sign of confidence in the world's biggest economy but the move didn't sit well with wall street's his quest and salumi the decision had been in tis a pated but it was a controversial one nonetheless u.s. federal reserve chairman jerome powell announced a quarter point interest rate hike the fourth consecutive one this year and most of my colleagues expect the economy to continue to perform well in the coming year many f o m c participants had expected that economic conditions would likely call for about three more rate increases in two thousand and nineteen we have brought that down a bit and i think it is more likely that the economy will grow in a way that will call for two interest rate increases over the course of next year. powell noted global cross-currents working against an otherwise solid u.s.

economy like the ongoing trade dispute and concerns about a softening economy in china and the u.k. plunging oil prices and diminishing returns from a one point five trillion dollar tax cut in the u.s. but the announcement was not well received by investors who've seen the stock market plunge in recent weeks the rest of the world is slowing down so you don't want to really shake it up here and slow down the u.s. economy as well by raising rates so what happens is there is a effect when you raise rates the housing prices go up everything goes up so then slows down the economy the dow jones industrial average and the s. and p. five hundred both closed down about one and a half percent bringing the market to its lowest point in two thousand and eighteen investors were apparently looking for an even more dovish statement from the fed so was president trav who had aggressively lobbied for no increase in interest rates christine salumi al jazeera new york. one hundred days to go until bricks at the

e.u. revealing today as contingency plans if the u.k. crashes out of the block without a deal now the plan covers fourteen areas most likely to be affected and is designed to protect the vital interests of the e.u. now that includes temporary measures for air space british airlines would be allowed to operate flights in and out of the e.u. but not within it some financial regulations will be recognized as equivalent to those of the e.u. for one or two years while the u.k. is also ramping up preparations for a no deal breck's it nineteen barbara explains. with the government's plans for a new deal broke soon future heavily in prime minister's questions here in parliament's home wednesday what we know is that they're stepping up those preparations with a least two billion us dollars of extra funding to try to get the country ready for that scenario if you doesn't have a deal and leaves the e.u. next march they are for example putting three and

a half thousand troops on standby there providing for extra special flights to make sure medicines carry on arriving in the country now those prospects are worrying people like him five of the biggest to business organizations in the u.k. you visited a joint statement saying they're looking on with horror of what they call functional infighting here in westminster and are saying it's up to politicians to really find a way forward and avoid that no deal scenario the labor party the official opposition and also said that that should be taken off the table the prime minister is recklessly running down the clock for any shameful attempt to make your own bad deal look like the lesser of two evils. thing to the right honorable gentleman . while until the deal has a day and 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. it's contingency

arrangements for no deal so there's lots of worry both in terms of immigration policy and in terms of the damage a known deal breaks it could bring. the british government setting out his biggest reform of immigration policy for more than forty years for post bricks and relationship with the rest of the world paul brennan has the details. the issue of immigration has been at the heart of the whole breakfast debate with the european union's freedom of movement rules limiting the u.k. government's ability to pick and choose who can enter the u.k. the government's dilemma post bracks it is how to visibly reduce immigration without damaging the economy the future system is about making sure immigration works in the best interests of the u.k. we are absolutely not closing our doors we're simply making sure that we have control over who comes through them. the new law will scrap the current limit on

the number of skilled immigrant workers such as doctors or engineers it will allow low skilled immigrants to work for up to twelve months before they would be forced to leave again and suggested minimum salary threshold equivalent to around thirty eight thousand dollars for skilled e.u. migrants is being deferred for further consultation and the whole system would be phased in from twenty twenty one a new twelve month visa would be used for individual unskilled workers from specific low risk countries they would not be allowed to settle or bring their relatives with them and it seems destined to do little for better integration but it is an explicit recognition from the government that despite anti immigrant sentiments some sectors of the u.k. economy have become dependent on cheap unskilled migrant labor using a salary threshold to define skilled and unskilled workers is worrying to hospitals and health care providers the starting salaries of nurses paramedics and midwives will likely put them below the threshold that's a problem in a service where twenty one percent of nurses and health visitors are non british

and thirty percent of doctors come from overseas axel and tony is a german born accountant who built his business up in the u.k. his frustration at the treatment of e.u. workers here let him to co-found the campaign group the three million e.u. citizens are generating about two thousand three hundred pounds more in tax than the average adult in the u.k. seventy eight thousand pounds net contribution after all costing it take into account over their lifetime. prime minister theresa may emphasised her commitment to immigration control with a visit to london's heathrow airport on wednesday to see border guards at work but reaction to the government's proposals has been mixed some predict an imminent skill shortage in key sectors western as one opposition m.p. pointed out society javid the example of cabinet ministers shows that being highly paid and highly skilled do not always go together. brennen al-jazeera london.

the un's world food programme is cutting food aid to nearly two hundred thousand palestinians living in poverty in gaza and the occupied west bank blaming a severe funding shortfall because of a lack of donations thousands of palestinians will lose access to food and other basic services in the coming year palestinian leaders said the decision will have a grave impact. in the yard and the southwest policy that only cares about the united states' interest wants to just take from the world without giving anything back there for the united states has started to course aid and reduce its contribution that balances the united nations. or the date of this is a dangerous decision and its implications are dangerous hundreds of thousands of palestinian refugees who live in the west bank in gaza are under siege and it will aggravate the palestinian refugee suffering in the west bank and gaza libya's internationally recognized government says the country's biggest oil field will reopen after the prime minister convinced protesters out the facility to stand by

itself travel to the south than. oil field on western states and meet demonstrators there they included tribesmen wanting more development in the region and security guards demanding their wages the tripoli government has approved a development fund for the area south african police have approached interpol to help in the arrest of zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe is accused of hitting a woman with an electrical cord in a hotel room in johannesburg last year gabriel engels says she suffered a serious head injury the wife of the former president robert mugabe says she acted in self-defense turkish media has published new photographs to show the suspected saudi hit team arriving to kill jamal they show istanbul airport and the saudi consulate in istanbul where the journalist died in a shell about us. walking through istanbul airport dressed casually dragging suitcases the suspected saudi hit team arrived for the mission new photos leaked to

turkish media showed them arriving at the saudi consul general residence in istanbul the faucheux time stamped eleven away on the second of october the day jamal khashoggi was killed at the same time others into the consulate this is from the same camera that captured the final images of. the saudi journalist entered through the same doors two hours later at one fourteen pm there is about three thousand five hundred hours of footage that the investigators are actually looking into saw due to the fact that this is taking time and there is new evidence come in notes we get these leaks was no while. within days the world learned khashoggi had been murdered and dismembered inside the consulate over weeks cause mounted for justice and accountability he was put on the cover of time magazine as person of the year saudi prosecutors responded with criminal charges for the men in this

so-called hit squad five face the death penalty six a charged with related offenses it is also rejected turkey's request to extradite the suspects for trial using the vienna convention on diplomatic immunity as a reason not to or the major question of who was at the killing has been left unanswered the results are fifty six and forty one news u.s. senators gave their verdicts last week passing resolutions blaming saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon for khashoggi sticks and calling for an end to u.s. military support for saudi lead a fence of in yemen this is now unanimously unanimous way united states senate has said that crown prince mohammed bin salman is responsible for the murder of damascus. the saudi foreign ministry denounced the senate's position saying it is based upon unsubstantiated claims and

allegations contained blatant interferences in the kingdom's internal of fear is undermining the kingdom's regional and international role but condemnation and denials aren't enough to stop the leaks these timestamp images reveal more about the movements of the suspected saudi hitting before and after the killing of jamal khashoggi ballasts zero. for journalists is becoming an increasingly dangerous world the number of revenge killings nearly doubled this year the annual report from the committee to protect journalists found that thirty four reporters were murdered in retaliation for their work but sixteen more than last year nineteen others were killed while covering conflicts and violent protests the committee is blaming a lack of international leadership on the rights and the safety of journalists thirteen reporters were killed in afghanistan this year making it the most dangerous country to report from however the number of journalists dying in war zones fell to its lowest level for seven years doldrums being asked to approve new

sanctions on anyone in nicaragua or involved in state sponsored repression or human rights violations attacks against government critics and the media have increased since peaceful protests against the president began in april manuel republic reports now from the capital managua. to the i the streets of money are calm the tension remains the presence of security forces is now the norm ready to quickly put down any acts of anti-government dissent like that that there are no protests because you'll get thrown in prison that's why this country has more than six hundred political prisoners in jail and he is a vocal critic of nicaraguan president daniel ortega. this is her being thrown into the back of a police vehicle the last time a public protest was held in mine i work. in a similar manner i actually broke my foot in that moment and they took every one of

us away in an act of absurdity and in front of all the members of the press. but. in the wake of the crackdown government critics and journalists run the risk of attack by pro-government forces i found. now from the start of troubles which began over proposed reforms to a national pension program prison in order to go has underlined his commitment to human rights he says the violence seen so far is part of a right wing conspiracy against him. former nicaraguan ambassador to the oas who said we still ask is says that's nonsense. so. this is more than a police state this is a state that acts completely arbitrarily the rule of law are no longer exists in the hands of hitmen it's like an orioles novel where they speak in newspeak where war means peace and freedom means slavery that's what happened here large protests are no longer allowed civic and business leaders along with mediators from the

catholic church have all pleaded with president to return to the negotiating table despite international condemnation and sanctions imposed by the united states there's no sign the president is willing to accept early elections a condition demanded by the national opposition human rights observers warn the political crisis will continue to deepen. a situation similar to. however what matters is continuing the resistance against the government. we're going to continue until daniel ortega. has taught me anything it's that when . political crisis.

new york times has revealed that facebook has been providing major tech companies with uncensored access to users private messages and it's the latest blow for the social media company under heavy scrutiny already this year for its handling of personal data the report says facebook granted netflix and spotify full access to users private conversations facebook says it never gave access without users permission and denies data was misused kevin delaney is co-founder and editor in

chief of the news web site quartz he says users aren't fully aware how much of their private information is accessible. you have an agreement with facebook to allow it to use your data and then what facebook is saying is that in certain instances margaret soft amazon netflix spotify all these other companies are effectively stand ins for facebook itself so your agreement with facebook itself should actually apply to them as well this was a specific this was defined specifically in the two thousand and eleven consent to create to allow facebook to use service providers like credit card processing companies and other companies that they need to actually do their own business i think most people would say they didn't imagine that it would actually apply to the these tech giants who had access to the state and facebook does give you controls you know if people know to let you turn off who you're sharing information with one

of the most troubling things about this is that these companies that the new york times is reporting on according to the new york times they didn't necessarily appear listed in the controls that you could turn off data sharing with and so you had no idea in the first place that they had access to your data will stay with us story just after the new york times report the u.s. district of columbia announced its suing facebook over the recent cambridge analytical scandal the lawsuit says the social media platform failed to protect the privacy of its uses and deceived them about who had access to the data and information the scandal triggered a wave of investigations and intense global scrutiny of the company's privacy practices to support his lia. now we start with football and gareth bale he scored a hat trick as real madrid booked their place in the final of the club world cup in the u.a.e. so how malik's reports. winning the club world cup could be the bright spot lift what's been a disappointing season for real madrid so far. brown who is struggling down in full

of the league looked shaky on the destiny final against japan. gareth bale settled. however after some clever work by myself. it was just the start of what was to be a destructive spell. the welshman back in a quick fire eleven minutes three. he was hopelessly biased comical defending. it all seemed to be too much that she was managing to handle. there was no luck however about the marcello again with the assist to end any serious hopes of a comeback. because she did go though with thirteen minutes left. but it was all too little too late round winning it three one the spaniards now turned their attention to iraq the sideline face saturday sign so highly i'll just zero.

tottenham have been arch rivals arsenal to book their spot in semifinals of the english league cup spurs winning two nil away at the emirates chelsea have also made it by beating bournemouth one nil both join third tier side burton albion and holders man city in the last four manchester united have named their former striker ole gunnar sol striker as interim manager following the sacking of jos a merino the norwegian played for the club between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and seven after retiring from playing he became reserve team manager the only other top level role he's held in the u.k. was with cardiff city a short lived spell back in two thousand and fourteen so shire will manage united until the end of the season alex ferguson's former assistant might feel it was appointed first team coach. the world trade organization says it's launching an investigation into allegations that saudi arabia failed to protect sports broadcasting rights saudi arabia is one of the countries blockading qatar and have done since two thousand and seventeen and since then qatar is banned sports content

has been blocked in the kingdom bins content has recently been rebroadcast under the brand be out cue the qatari network holds regional broadcasting rights for much of the world's high profile events including this year's world cup saudi arabia has claimed the sports broadcasts are blocked for national security reasons and it says the w t o has no standing to hear the case now earlier we spoke to lars under bird from nordic content protection and an organization working with t.v. channels to prevent piracy he says the piracy crimes will only get more sophisticated. well it's getting bigger and bigger and that also depends on the evolution of the internet connection the high speed so we're seeing ahead many more criminal organizations getting bigger and bigger and taking her illegal outcome of this. ip cheapie streaming in some countries it is a problem but that there is no consensus between conscious on which also

a chill appliance or this kind of criminality so there might be adequate laws in one country but since many jurisdictions can't be involved in this criminal activity that has a need to have it proud about broader understanding of which laws and needed to to cover this crime it's obvious that if you're not able to join forces in the right way you. loss to international cooperation it will be easier for the criminal us to have their it illegal revenue out of this so there's a lot of neat fun for bringing the laws or to speak and also have a much higher possibility of international cooperation trying to force this a landmark agreement has been reached for cuban baseball players allowing them to sign with teams in the united states without defecting talks of been under way

between cuba's baseball federation and major league baseball since the obama administration relaxations on cuba born from the embargo which started in one thousand nine hundred two it's a big boost for players in cuba which has a rich history with the sport they are three time olympic baseball champions. and in the n.b.a. the denver nuggets have extended their home winning streak to seven games beating the dallas mavericks one twenty six twenty team it's the best start for the nuggets since the one nine hundred seventy six season serbian center nicolo joke which drove tuesday's when with thirty two points in the fourth quarter jamal maria took a walk back up court for a two pointer to seal the win after dallas had rallied fourteen point lead down to four points the nuggets top the western conference closely followed by the golden state warriors. there was also a win for the atlanta hawks they beat the washington wizards jeremy lin was the standout player scoring twelve of his sixteen points in the final period for atlanta final score one eighteen one ten. and that's all your sport for now more

later do stay with us on back thirty minutes about your will see that. colleague must much the same has now been held in pretrial detention for two years what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he detained because he said china lust as journalism become a crime have moles become

a tool to silence weiss's of drugs we will continue i news coverage with professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but journalism is not a crime incarcerating journalists is not acceptable we demand the immediate release of all colleague mahmoud to say and all journalists attained in a gyptian jails free mahmoud's and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom. xenophobia violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of europe. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's fastest growing far right organizations and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marine le pen's national rally party generation eight. part two of

a special two part investigation on al jazeera. al-jazeera. where everyone. we have won against isis. the us president declares victory over his own party senators condemn his decision to pull troops out of syria. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching else's here on live from my of course is here and also coming up. with. uncertainty in the democratic

republic of congo over fears that sunday's elections may be postponed.