need to run off when she arrived at the airport and walked through the arrivals gate with making a statement saying that he did not wish to talk at this particular stage she just wanted to go and rest for a while no indication as to when she will talk to the media however the foreign minister then returned a little bit later and made very clear candidates believe that run up was in very real danger this was one of the reasons why sanctuary was granted so quickly just to walk back on that she tweeted from a hotel room in thailand pleading for sanctuary the un high commissioner for refugees got involved approach canada and canada very quickly agreed to grant asylum so now run off here in canada she stated before that what she wants to do is go to college become an architect and that might just fill us in give us some context to some of the background to the relationship of course between saudi

arabia and canada which has been volatile to say the least. volatiles a very strong way to put it and certainly the relationship has been extremely rocky since august that is when the very same foreign minister criticized saudi arabia for some of its practices saudi arabia responded with fury it withdrew its ambassador immediately it stopped all saudi arabian flights to canada and very importantly to the whole arms deal that had been underway this is the provision of canadian light on the vehicles to saudi arabia a contract worth billions and billions of dollars that was concluded by the previous canadian government this canadian government under justin trudeau says that this sale is now being reviewed this intense pressure on the prime minister to cancel the sale the prime minister himself appears reluctant he says it means a lot of jobs a lot of revenue for canada but there is very strong pressure on him to abandon

this particular sale not only of to the incidence of human rights abuses as we've seen in this particular case but also of course the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi all of these factors coming together to make the relationship between canada and saudi arabia even more fraught than it has being right mike in toronto thanks for that still ahead on the program we're going to report on a surge in attacks on palestinians point israeli settlers most of which go unpunished plus. his musical hamilton takes the american founding father home to help raise money for hard question week.

hello the rain is gone for the most part we still got streaks of cloud running from me and my trust northern vietnam and through china and something bit more obvious where the cold air sits but it's a dry forecast for sunday increasingly i would suggest it may not stay that way and i think if you put a motion correct we're going to rain developing in middle or suppose starts was to hand the yangtze valley this is it's find in hong kong turns to probably fairly humid degrees actually look at the wind direction to the west that again there's a little bit of cloud falling we've seen it comes from afghanistan through the hindu kush and there it is again up to the kashmir valley as well so we will see once again rain showers and more likely snow rapidly across maintains its surface knows it has to western the pole gets to on sunday nothing much happens as far south as new delhi the rest of india generally speaking sri lanka to generally find this cloud clearly in sri lanka possible to the old shower eighty new delhi follow the line back of your eyes new sees

a live on to northern side where the cloud has gathered there's not much rain in this sunday but there will be some developing at least on the iranian side but it's hard to get to monday to sayas i think is just cloud which simply takes away the sunshine. in the sheer new immigration laws and projects funded by european governments have seen a rapid decline in the migrant transport trade people in power travels to agadez to explore the realities faced by the drivers left out of pocket and the migrants who are choosing to return home who would like to go back to the country where they are from this would be a dismal he's going to be one bottle of white about one of the. europe migration on a zero.

hello again undermines at the top stories on al-jazeera in the democratic republic of congo presidential candidates. the constitutional court to order a recount of votes in the election he's challenging the victory of his opposition rival felix she said katie. the u.s. government shutdown has entered its twenty second date making it the longest in american history eight hundred thousand federal employees are going without pay as republicans and democrats fail to reach an agreement on the mexico border wall. and the saudi teenager or her falconer in the has landed in canada but she's been offered asylum how could and says she's fleeing an abusive family in saudi arabia and fish she'll be killed if she returns that. for israeli settlers to be released

into house arrest after being held in connection with the killing of a palestinian woman three months ago ayesha robbie died off the rocks were thrown through the windscreen of her call a fifth teenager is in police custody violent crimes by settlers against palestinians rose steeply last year hari force reports now from the occupied west bank. robbie is finding comfort where he can mainly it comes from his family he and his wife i raised eight children together he says they always planned once the kids have finished their schooling to devote more time to each other to travel together about future was shattered in october last year when driving home past an illegal settlement outposts in the occupied west bank their car came under a hail of rocks and stones enough said. there was a huge explosion in the car the glass fell n. my wife and i have been talking in the rocket on the side of her had she fell on me

blood came out from her ears and nose my daughter was screaming i didn't know what to do the car was swerving right and left it was the longest three seconds of my life three months on the israeli security services have arrested five students from a religious school at the outpost in connection with a shower robbie's death saying that they collected evidence of extremist and anti zionist religious ideology consistent with what's referred to in the israeli media as jewish tara the suspects are reported to be from the illegal settlement of utah near the palestinian city of nablus for all the attention of this raise this attack is not an isolated one it's part of a patent a surge according to recently published figures of attacks by settlers on palestinians in the occupied west bank in july twenty fifteen a husband wife and their toddler son were killed in the fire bombing of a palestinian home in the west bank village of duma a crackdown by israel's security services saw a reduction in settler violence but last year the numbers rose sharply again it's reported there were four hundred eighty two and the palestinian crimes

a three fold increase on the previous year the incidents include assaults vandalism of vehicles and property as well as threatening graffiti israeli human rights group ph d. and recorded twenty five such incidents in just one day last month after two israeli soldiers and one baby were killed in palestinian attacks it says too many settler crimes against palestinians go unpunished we've had about over twelve hundred investigation falsely documented and want to turd since two thousand. five in eight percent of those indictments were served and in a mere three percent were any convictions served we also noted that eighty two percent of investigation files are closed in circumstances that suggest police investigate a failure to israeli police call those figures misleading and incorrect your google robbie says he is finding some solace in the fact that suspects have been arrested in connection with his wife's killing he hopes that any eventual punishment will act as a deterrent to others but whether the freed or jailed for one hundred years he says

nothing will bring back his wife hari forsett al-jazeera in the occupied west bank at least fifteen hundred syrian refugees in camps in lebanon are being displaced again a snowstorm is adding to the misery of more than three million refugees who fled the conflict in syria snow and ice blanketed many of the tents at this camp in lebanon's bekaa valley for many it's their fourth winter living in makeshift camps with just plastic sheeting for warmth the lebanese government doesn't allow permanent refugee settlements in this area. the u.s. secretary of state has described venezuela's government on to president nicolas maduro as illegitimate michael pay up says the u.s. will work with other countries in the region to restore what he called real democracy and his way as opposition which controls congress is also challenging the jitters mysie of the duros second term of stories about reports from caracas.

was it's been a day since the quantum of the rule was sworn in for his second term in office and already members of the opposition controlled national assembly took to the streets to denounce him as an a super of the executive office. that his daughter is one of the millions that have left when it's women in the past year she says families shouldn't be forced to leave apartheid so we don't have our quality of life there is the poll the guy in them because we don't have the medication for food. we don't have secret in the streets the demonstration was small compared to the massive ones that happened in two thousand and seventeen one thousand stuck to the streets to protest against mandalas attempts to disregard the national assembly for most of the people here and this is the first step towards opposing what they call it the dictatorship of precedent we call out model but they're also calling on the armed forces to rebel against the government even though the military has played

a crucial role in a war child the socialist revolution was the precedent of a national assembly is one why though he was elected last week and now says he's ready to become the interim president and called for new elections he told al-jazeera he first needs the support of the armed forces and the venezuelan people to hand them the guy uniforms or the strength of the people is crucial in this process we have people that were forced to leave the country others to teams murdered and even tortured with nothing to stop us it has not been easy for us we. survivors and we are in resistance what is it. your position has called for a demonstration on january twenty third and promises the national assembly who is considered to be in contempt by the administration will be in charge of defending democracy in this country international pressure may also help but analysts say it is not enough then the most assume politico coolant the need to force the

government to negotiate the international community plays an important role but it's not enough there has to be a true leader that can connect to the masses to force majeure or to negotiate you need a population ready to defend their rights. says this is another attempt orchestrated by the united states to generate chaos. this is a show to try to destabilize the country they are a group of kids who control the opposition and want to play to create chaos it's the same group that carried out the street protests and every day they will have a new show. but many of those opposing the government are desperately looking for someone that would show them a way out of the crisis that has forced millions of venezuelans to emigrate in search of a better life. three people have been killed by huge explosions sparked by a gas leak at

a bakery in paris two of the dead were firefighters searching for the cause of the leak on the third was a spanish national thirty seven others were injured in the blast ten of them seriously. thousands of yellow vests protesters have been out on the streets of paris for ninth weekend mulching against the government police fired tear gas at demonstrators near the arc de triomphe the french president emanuel macro has promised billions of euros in tax relief and will also discuss citizenship at a national debate on tuesday which was cool to address the protest as can silence let's take you live to paris and speak to our correspondent. and the tasha how do today's protests compare with previous weekends. well that we know a few more thousand people across the country some thirty two thousand according to interior ministry i think is the that's up from last week is still not huge a number of people when you compare those numbers to the sort of numbers you see in

other protests but if you i just want to give you an idea of what it's like here at the arc de triomphe which has become something of the symbol of the yellow vest protests you can see it there it's actually clearing out there with thousands of protesters that marched across paris earlier and they congregated here the police as you can see beside me if you look a very heavy police presence they are trying to disperse this square the whole area around the arc de triomphe to make people go home they've used tear gas and water cannon but it is it's it's worth noting that these protests have been in fact without violence the people here have marched through the city peacefully this is just a really a procedure as the police tried to clear this part of central paris and get it moving it gave now eighty thousand police like this across the country because they've been various protests they are very unpredictable that's what we've seen over the last two months and that's why it's such a challenge for the security forces. nine weeks now of these process what is

president doing to try to stem this on rest. well it really seems that whatever the government or president marc. tries to do but it doesn't seem to be enough we have had the french president come out on television at the end of last year offering a number of financial concessions often to boost things like the minimum wage is also noting this week a grand national citizens debate that snork unity for people to have more of a say in politics but people here say it's not enough they say that they want m.p.'s to have their salaries slashed they say they want more taxes they want the government to do more for the poor because they say the moment they feel that model marco and his government only care about the wealthy and talk about life there from those protests in paris the king. now after two hundred sixty two years alexander hamilton has made it home to the caribbean the broadway musical hamilton telling

the story of the person rico born u.s. founding father has premiered in san juan the production is raising money to help the island which was badly damaged by a horror can two years ago president trump pass a gesture using disaster relief funds to fund his five billion dollar border wall instead reports. transported from broadway to a performing arts seemed in san fran a new audience is experiencing the pop culture phenomenon hamilton. moved a lot of things to the spirit with the people tonight responsible you speak with. the stories come full circle alexander hamilton lift the caribbean after it was devastated by a hurricane in the eighteenth century he became an american founding father and the first treasury secretary in the musical has returned to support puerto rico still reeling from hurricane maria and twenty seven tane nearly three thousand people

were killed and much of its infrastructure destroyed in how this island has come out of devastation and come out of really just nothing and real. built and coming alive again i feel like the lin thing that don was so powerful i get emotional this thinking about it. hold your nose and close your eyes hamilton has taken politics from the stage to the president creation in man well miranda has used the success of the play winning a live in tony awards in the pulitzer prize for drama as a platform his the cost addressing vice president elect mike pence and twenty six sting urging the administration to our poll americans values are diverse and there . are issues that you new administration can take a census broadway debut in twenty fifteen miranda a new york native of puerto rican descent has lobbied for the u.s.

territory he joined a chorus of criticism of president trump accused by many of not doing enough to help the victims of hurricane maria and on friday reacted to trump suggestion to reallocate funds from hurricanes and floods to build the southern border wall. it's obvious that. the worst is in a british accent sounds like they say the process was slow going to say that. they're right so it's a nice i think that's absolutely monstrous it's an emotional homecoming for miranda who's bringing politics to life all raising money for puerto rican arts over the show's two week run i shall a bellus al-jazeera. of the top stories on al-jazeera presidential candidate martin has asked the

democratic republic of congo's constitutional court to order a recount of votes in the election he is challenging the victory of the opposition rival felix's a k.d. as his catholic church election for service but his own vote share at sixty one percent the u.s. government shutdown has entered its twenty second day making it the longest in history eight hundred thousand federal employees are going without pay as republicans and democrats failed to reach an agreement on the mexico border wall the saudi teenager who has arrived in canada where she's been offered asylum says she's fleeing an abusive family in saudi arabia and feels sure fears she will be killed if she returns that a story has prompted a social media campaign to end saudi arabia's strict male guardianship tools. mark my words is going to start a revolution in saudi arabia go on social media now and watch the accounts of star

many young saudis saying rob you have shown us that we can do this at least fifteen hundred syrian refugees in camps in lebanon are being displaced again a snowstorm is adding to the mystery of more than three million refugees who fled the conflict in syria so and ice blanketed many of the tents at this camp in lebanon's bekaa valley for many it's their fourth winter living in makeshift camps with just plastic sheeting for warmth the lebanese government doesn't allow permanent refugee settlements in this area. three people have been killed by a huge explosion sparked by a gas leak at a bakery in the center of paris two of the dead were firefighters searching for the cause of the leak the third was a spanish national thirty seven others were injured in the blast ten of them seriously. and thousands of yellow vests protesters were on the streets of paris in the ninth weekend of demonstrations police fired horses cannons on tear gas a protest just really up to trail food demanding the right to call referendum

through mass petitions the french president emmanuel michel has promised billions of euros in tax relief and is called a national debate on tuesday to address the demonstrate his constituents and those latest headlines here on al-jazeera more in twenty five minutes people power is coming next stay with us. this year in west africa was located a staging point for migrants and asylum seekers risking everything to reach libya the mediterranean and the europe now and she trafficking was introduced with the

hope of the european union are said to be stemming that tide and produce she fatality in the southern somalia desert but not everyone is not as giuliana rufus has been fun together. a checkpoint on the outskirts of out of this seven gateway into the sorrow. of. it is here that business men matter i mean mossad dispatches vehicles that carry people and goods between egypt and libya. you know. with

the mortgages and. i thought you know what the novels are. m r i g needle and. that's not. three years ago pick ups like these filled with migrants from across west africa passed this barrier on their journey to europe. today the flow of cars has become in me a trick of the me jerry and government has passed a law that has made the transport of such migrants illegal. because it at us is. not. what the. course of incident here and we get after. the journey between egypt and libya is dangerous. and migrant desk and desert roads

have been frequent. the new law will save lives according to the european union who pushed for its introduction. men like mad i mean who organized the migrants transport had previously risked those lives. today is the largest per capita recipient of e.u. aid including funds to train guards at this checkpoint. and because i was way over the bar i don't know if you know as you know. but the e.u. has a vested interest it wants to stop african migrants from reaching europe and it's been argued that by passing the law has helped europe move its most southern border right into africa. in return for managing migration new share is rewarded

by europe with lots of development aid and if successful this is a model that could be exported to other countries around the world so we've come here to find out how it works. for centuries the city of agadez has been the gateway into the sun harra. caravans departed from here and the one nine hundred eighty s. saw a boom in tourism until a series of travel by belgians turned the region into a no go area. with the so-called migrant crisis and twenty fifteen hour days started making global headlines once more three quarters of all migrants and asylum seekers who reached the italian coast line made the journey from the share. desperate to stem the flow to europe struck a deal with libya's coast guard to deter migrants from going to sea. with the

introduction of the new jerry an anti trafficking in law migrants and refugees was stopped even further away from europe shores. we have come to see more about me more subtle to find out what effect the law has had since it was passed three years ago. with. his compound was a so-called ghetto a place where migrants and drivers gathered before starting the journey to libya. after the law was introduced the authorities arrested many of the drivers calling them people smugglers. you know and as. i like a minute. i'm going to say nearly every one of my editors and

a bachelor before the migration ban passengers paid around two hundred fifty dollars each meaning lot of emmys profits might have been as high as a quarter of a million dollars. would you want would you want to. who. would want to. do an op madam these cars have been confiscated by the military and he takes us to see them to make up for financial loss the e.u. is funding a compensation scheme that helps former migration workers start new businesses. but ghetto and it's like miami are excluded and are not reimbursed for confiscated cars .

madam he is a leader of the tube usnach group that is home in the north of new jap and the sellers of libya nine years ago when the rebellion and the arbutus region came to an end the government gave the to boost the transport route through the eastern desert. their role in cross border trade means the two were disproportionately affected by the migration ban. well know what they. do not divide by zero which are more. than the one the e.u. has been investing heavily in stopping migrants from reaching it shows but that's not all it's also funding the return of migrants back to their home countries this so-called trans migration center is run by the international organisation of

migration or i.o.m. who arranges the migrants return maurice. shows us around. where the politicos expression is not well and then we are so many. informal quizon says the closure of the mediterranean migration route into europe and the violent behavior of libya's militias has caused migrants to feedback in tunisia but the processing of return nice is not always straightforward for the person of. id for many they can be lost all they can be called. a crowd is building outside nigeria security forces are violently rounding up africans dumping them quite literally across the border in tunisia. this is my money this is so

many different to take me from it. has become a repatriation hub not only for migrants who get stuck here but also for those who have been turned back in neighboring countries you want your people playing softball to differentiate and for so that they have a long time who would like to go back to the country where they're from you know knowledge of you know the more you are. free buses deal to. leave. that matter a new group of migrants is starting their journey. but. when you see other people go how do you feel. the difference will be for a bit it will be obvious that. in twenty eighteen alone over fifteen thousand men women and children have returned to their home countries with the help of the

i.o.m. . from europe's point of view the flow of migrants has been successfully reversed. but not everyone is ready to go back. a contact takes us to a ghetto that is still operating in spite of the new law mohammed balladeer has been picked up three times by the new jerry in military trying to reach libya and now he's run out of money. asian diplomas show me. he feels he's got nothing to lose. because well up early. enough to do beautiful. mohammed is from guinea conakry on the west african coast a country that's seen violent ethnic clashes. and there are

once again. be a v.m. brotherhood the result. of one man who knows he's a. bug. me a long and narrow as you for me in a long way i'm a pretty solid flick little. sun lit up lovely girl as a. male going to the. that i was only as. we set off from our goddess to follow the route migrants take to reach europe our destination is still cool. and from there we want to drive towards the libyan border we will travel with an i.o.m. team that's on a rescue mission. looking for migrants who are lost in the desert as three car army

escort provide security. we soon get a taste of what travel in the desert is like we're just outside decor and we're already having the second public car breakdowns often leave migrants stranded in the desert our first stop is the village of the thai with thousands of migrants used to drink water from this well to day military patrols are frequent and i am team leader. is told that cars with migrants no longer stop here. soon we're back on the road driving towards a nearby oasis called to member it is known as a hiding place for migrants a desert ghetto as our work once to show us something very disturbing. few. of them. tend to do not really. the driver who took these migrants avoided the main roads but his car broke down

after three days of walking the migrants arrived here. as you see did you.