national operations are propping up north korea's economy. lete fueling the nation's missile in addition. want to win east investigates north korea's secret money on al-jazeera. the day for a divisive deal is the u.k. parliament gets ready to vote on the agreement. you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters in doha i'm telling you navigate also ahead from threats to a conciliatory phone call the leaders of the u.s. and turkey discuss a security plan for northern syria protests deaths and defiance people in zimbabwe demonstrate against a rise in fuel prices like the talks begin the french president is launching

a national debate to address the grievances of anti-government protesters. hello in just a few hours the u.k. parliament will vote on a deal to leave the european union on monday prime minister to resign may urged m.p.'s to take a second look at the brics that agreement but she's facing likely defeat later on tuesday lawrence lee has been following events in westminster on the final day before the vote. to reason may spend the whole of today and the evening trying to persuade a still deeply skeptical parliament and crucially her own conservative party to try to back the deal but on all sides people plainly have not changed their opinion the hardbacks has those who want to leave plenty without any deal still regard what she has to offer as giving in to the european union and those who want a much softer brecht's it's all no blacks at all don't appear to have changed their

minds either arguing that the u.k. would stay in an all base of the european union but would still not have any powers and frankly it would end up being a much worse deal than the deal that the u.k. has at the moment inside the european union so at this point in time it does look very much as though her deal will fail one projection tonight from the british broadcaster suggested that she could even lose by upwards of two hundred votes and if that happened it seems to me to be absolutely inconceivable that she could then claim that she could go back to the european union and ask for some more so than to go see a sions or concessions from them when she tried to address parliament in the afternoon before the debate started she said when peace look history will judge you very badly indeed if you don't vote for my deal in return they laughed at him and the history books are written people will look at the decision. the poor.

people will look at the decision of this house tomorrow and so did we deliver on the country's vote to leave the european union. did we safeguard our economy our security and our you. or did you mean that the british people damn. so of course the question everyone is asking is what happens if her deal goes down by a substantial margin the real nuclear options either abandoning the whole project calling a second referendum or a general election seems to be relatively remote for the time being since there are still about seventy five to eighty days left before the u.k. is supposed to leave one option is that she could hold what are called indicative votes with m.p.'s basically raising their hands just as just as a test to see if there is any support for any other sort of deal but there appears not to be that's either and frankly the most likely scenario at least in the

shortest is that in the coming days to reason they will have to announce either a suspension or a delay to article fifty the withdrawal agreement for leaving the european union and sick it further down the road but at the moment it looks like she has lost or is about to lose the battle to get a deal through and if that happens then you can expect something else as yet unknown to have to happen instead for nobody knows exactly what will happen if the deal is rejected and barbara some look at the possibility. if the reason mays withdrawal agreement is defeated what happens next depends partly on how big the defeat is the opposition labor party's promising to bring a vote of no confidence in the government soon afterwards it's hoping to trigger a snap general election but vats likely to fail because to resume a's northern irish allies the d u piece say they'll back her in that scenario one thing we know is to resume a will only have until next monday to outline her plan b. to parliament if the defeats not as heavy as expected she might seek changes to

withdraw agreement before then that means telling her e.u. counterpart she could get a deal passed if they offer concessions notably on the backstop solution for the irish border recent trips to brussels though suggest she wouldn't get very far there's growing speculation about cross party attempts to agree a different deal for example permanently staying in a customs union with the u. if that doesn't happen one alternative would be throwing the question back to the public through a new referendum recent polls suggest the ideas backed by a majority of the population but nobody's sure what options the so-called people's vote would include and to reason may's consistently ruled it out now she could actually try to break the deadlock by going for that snap general election herself but you'd need two thirds of the commons to vote for it and few conservative m.p.'s would want to put their jobs on the line so in theory it's still possible the u.k. will leave the with no divorce deal with all the uncertainties about food supplies

medicines and travel that entails but the use reportedly prepared to push back brakes it day until july and even further if the u.k. decides to hold a fresh referendum or general election the presidents of the united states and turkey have discussed the situation in northern syria over the phone the conversation comes a day after donald trump warrantied devastate turkey's economy if its forces attacked kurdish fighters in northern syria the turkish foreign minister responded by saying nothing would be achieved by threatening his country his government says curtis why pleading fighters as an extension of the p.k. k. organization which is outlawed in turkey mike hanna has the latest from washington d.c. . well the phone call appears to be an attempt to pour all of the deeply troubled waters of the u.s. turkey relationship a relationship that was further deteriorate to buy president trump's tweet sunday in which he threatened economic outshone against turkey should it take action

against kurds when the u.s. troops withdraw from north eastern syria but the phone call in the course of the day went ahead reports both from the white house and the turkish presidency indicate very satisfactory talks there was a broad base of agreement on what is happening in north eastern syria and it would appear some agreement as to what happens next when those u.s. troops withdraw now importantly there was no mention in the original white house statement about a safe zone being established in northeastern syria this despite the fact that in the turkish presidency statement there words reference to a safe zone to be established that would not infringe on syria's territorial integrity however in the course of today president trump has now tweeted saying that it was a very satisfactory conversation with the president earlier one and making mention of a twenty mile safe zone not specifying exactly where it is but matters may clarify

in the course of the week when the chairman of the u.s. joint chiefs of staff holds talks with his turkish counterpart that will be tangible discussions one would expect as to exactly what happens when the u.s. forces go ahead and leave northeastern syria america's top diplomat is in armaan on the final leg of his middle east for earlier on monday secretary of state my pompei are held talks with saudi leaders and riyadh's has some reports. u.s. secretary of state mike bump with the leaders in rio a crucial stopover in his bill east toward you they have agreed on the need for. continued deescalation in yemen and the implementation of the recent agreements signed in sweden saudi arabia faces bounty and international pressure to and the nearly four year old war in yemen. another important issue hanging over the visit

is the murder of saudi journalist. or expectations have been clear from early on. every single person who has responsibility for the murder of democracy needs to be held accountable. and the crown prince i spoke about this with king salmon as well. they both acknowledged that that accountability needed to take place it was killed in a toll inside the kingdom's consulate in istanbul or the findings of a saudi prosecutor what dismissed by the turkish government and world leaders as insufficient on sunday pompei a was in qatar where he called on gulf countries to and that dispute the political crisis in decades for the gulf cooperation council america's top diplomat also visited jordan behind the u.a.e.

egypt and our man after canceling a visit to kuwait to attend a family funeral emir has played a crucial role in trying to mediate and to the blockade of qatar in june two thousand and seventeen saudi arabia u.a.e. barren and egypt cut off relations with doha accusing it of supporting armed groups a charge has strongly denied the u.s. is due to host a conference in poland next month to discuss ways to curb iran's activities in the region you have arabian backed who these iranian backed hezbollah are rainin backed shia militias in iraq. iranian backed forces in syria each case the root of the challenge stems from the revolutionary nature of this long regime and their efforts abroad but many u.s. allies be a u.s. iran confrontation could lead to further instability in the region modify violence

has about al jazeera. several people have been killed in protests in zimbabwe police fired bullets and tear gas to stop demonstrations on the first day of a three day government strike they're angry about a recent hike in the price of fuel culture john reports. frustration over zimbabwe's worst economic crisis in a decade ignited rights and prompted a three day strike by unions protesters tried to shut down the capital harare and the southern city of bull away oh by erecting barricades and burning tires police responded by shooting live rounds trying to disperse rioters with water cannons and tear gas the uproar began over the weekend when zimbabwe's president emerson and dog announced that fuel prices would more than double digit someone just wakes up and decides to increase the fuel price we have demanding that the price be reduced to its proper price the information minister tweeted clever people know what to do

avoid fuel guzzlers cancel unnecessary trips and use bicycles do not protest in the streets you can lose a limb in skirmishes that unprecedented increase is seen by qana missed as a way for the government to control an economy that is once again in danger of freefall not only is there a shortage of cash and fuel but eighty percent of the population is unemployed or not is good you know has a career as a date anyone above eighteen years of age is standing at home without a job the government should do something because we've farted for them. lack of fuel barricaded roads and burning tires have prevented people from going to work and school protesters are demanding the government meet with opposition leaders to figure out how to end the economy's downward spiral others are resorting to looting for overpriced basic goods and drivers are queuing for hours to try to get fuel at petrol stations that have mostly run dry but i wonder why we can't say we are

a country where we are paying five dollars for public transportation and spending more than five days in a fuel queue and when the president appears on t.v. not saying anything useful inflation rose to thirty one percent two months ago that's the highest it's been since two thousand and eight when the international monetary. fund reported it at more than five hundred billion percent the president at the time robert mugabe abandoned the currency his government adopting the dollar and the crisis wiped out people's savings and pensions ten years on president emerson man on dog was touring russia europe and asia hoping to lure investments into his mineral rich country and avert an economic disaster. john al-jazeera still had spread here on al-jazeera with the economy in venezuela on life support we look at the state of health care. somehow in my country the manifestation of

happiness is not allowed and the film banned in iran gets its u.s. premiere at a festival celebrating the best and everything in cinema. through tranquil a rave you can use. to use and if any should go into. hallow the satellite shows masses of cloud creeping right across from iraq syria iran towards afghanistan and beyond usually indicates something but not always in this case it's mostly clad they will be some rain and some snow in the high ground up in the sea hindu kush and beyond but otherwise it's clouds for you pick up the next system completely detached from the circulation of a turkey she says masses of rain and snow running into northern lebanon more especially in northern syria as you can see now the overnight picture between

cheese day and wednesday takes the whole of into southern caucasus but brings that arc of rain right there way down south to sinai jerusalem nine degrees miserable day for you there's still rain butting up against the eastern side of iraq on the higher ground as you get into iran as well but it's mostly rain rather than snow and the tail end probably will catch q eight and then we may with that band of clades which is just that probably will induce a southerly breeze it's going to feel a bit warmer in bahrain doha if you see some sunshine that is the breeze good evening please increase come wednesday and twenty eight degrees in riyadh we are on the high end of average for this time of the year. the with the sponsored by nice. weather online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on saying it was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for

this is a dialogue the government has cool face and legal protest and instructed police to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice. and look at the reasons what's the difference like to join the global conversation on how does iraq. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera britain's prime minister has urged and used to take a second look at ibrox a deal ahead of a key vote on tuesday may is facing likely defeat when parliament votes on the divorce agreement she negotiated with the e.u. the us and turkish presidents have discussed cooperation on northern syria they talked about creating

a safe zone trump welcome the talks and said there is great potential to improve economic ties with turkey zimbabwe's security minister says a number of people have been killed in protests against a hike in the price of fuel a three day general strike is underway during the worst economic crisis in decades france's president will kick off a national debate later on tuesday to address the concerns of yellow vests protesters in my new one might call unveiled his plan for the three month initiative in an open letter and it's my call said that he'll do he'll listen to ideas but warns you will not back down from his twenty seven thousand election promises that's also butler reports from paris. who moved in two months francis gannon faced protests. his have been on the streets angry over the cost of living and a political system and president they say ignores the poorest kid movie vertical news you could part with discuss us is that no one listens we accept paying taxes but why don't the richest pay the government has tried and failed to stop the

demonstrations by offering some financial concessions now in a letter to the nation emanuel mccall says he hopes that a new national citizens debate will transform people's anger into solutions we won't agree on everything that's normal that's democracy but at least will show that we are a people who are not afraid to speak to exchange views and debate and perhaps will discover that we might even agree despite our different persuasions often more than we think the protestors we spoke to in paris all saturday will take some convincing and fit. this debate is the creation of an oligarchy that controls everything but imposes the themes to be discussed yes they will let us talk but they won't listen of the national debate or be divided into things such as social services taxes and citizenship people will be able to take polls or knowing or in person at meetings organized by men as villages and towns across the country and while some people

welcome the initiative others say it's nothing more the political marketing this deputy mayor from normandy is in paris along with other regional leaders to discuss the debate with ministers. in a prison i think people are tired and fed up they expect nothing from this debate they want actions speak louder than words people on the president to come up with concrete measures that respond to their needs some analysts say the two months debate is a gamble for macro awfully sweet of him either he succeeds in unifying some moderate voters mostly in the political center and he shows that he can continue to reform the country all the debate. comes to nothing and he will no longer be able to pass his major reforms. when micro came to power in twenty seventeen he promised to reform france two years on and he's battling his worst political crisis the question now is whether he can calm tensions and stop protesters like these who say

they have no intention of backing down natasha butler al-jazeera paris well u.s. president donald trump has rejected a call by some fellow republicans to temporarily reopen the government the partial shutdown is now the longest in u.s. history and has left hundreds of thousands of public workers without pay karalee health reports washington at a standstill it's weakened snowfall only compounding the problems brought on by the historic partial government shutdown some federal workers aft because of the shutdown or the snow are ending up at food banks the strain of uncertainty is evident. bad. families that depend on this page. have two little ones my wife who doesn't work. it's hard for single income families . in louisiana on monday u.s. president donald trump insisted there is widespread support for his bid to get five

point seven billion in funding to build a wall between the united states and mexico to stop illegal immigration the key sticking point to ending the stalemate he suggests his democratic opponents are simply campaigning for the next presidential election they think that's a good thing for twenty twenty because they're not going to win. they think if they can stop me from building the wall that's good this is the reason why they don't want the wall built but over the weekend some top republicans including trump ally senator lindsey graham suggested temporarily reopening the government to restart border security negotiations with democrats trump's rejected the idea steady took jabs at some democrats who instead of negotiating attended a fundraiser in sunny puerto rico government workers remain frozen out you want to shut it i only in negotiations trump promised democrats and take blame for the

shutdown in order to make good on his border wall campaign promise i will take the man who shot him and he has new poll numbers show more than half the country fifty three percent blame president rational republicans for the shutdown but even more sixty six percent believe the president should not declare a national emergency to break the stalemate that the board of urgency the so several should not do now i have the absolute legal right to call it but i'm not ready to do that congressional members are back in session this week and could craft a deal on immigration to reopen the government. but they'll still need the president's support to get it done kimberly help get al-jazeera washington for u.s. troops patrolling the border with mexico will continue their mission until at least september pentagon has extended their stay more than two thousand soldiers were

deployed as part of an order by president trump in october it was in response to a so-called caravan of migrants who are making their way from central america to the u.s. . venezuela's president nicolas maduro has increased the minimum wage as part of a series of measures to boost the country's crippled economy is under growing pressure to step down after countries in the region denounced his second term as a legitimate stories about reports from qatar casts where public health services are crumbling. the hospital of the university of us was once one of the best not just in venezuela but in latin america but matters have dramatically in the recent years as institutions and people deal with the impact of the ongoing economic crisis good morning eighty years old and fell in the subway she says she's barely getting any food. there is nothing here nothing look at what we are being fed it's cold and i don't want to eat it but what am i going to do also in the room there

are patients who have suffered heart attacks and strokes others being treated for gunshot wound employees from the hospital allowed us to come here to this emergency room to see the situation on the ground they say that they need many things food for the patients but you can see here. last weekend electricity in the hospital went out for several hours at least two patients died during that time staff say the toll may be in fact higher so do you think it's on the but do you think it's on scene they said there were five and then seven who died there are twelve bodies in the morgue and we're trying to find out when they died we have been telling the government that the generators were broken for months and nobody heard us. venezuela's president. blamed the blackout on the opposition describing it as a terrorist act with infrastructure feeling empty shelves and shortages of even the most basic drugs president maduro announce his latest economic recovery plan he

told the country's constituent assembly that it was aimed at ending what he's described as an economic war gets a lot of you. i mean the more. the national minimum wage is going to be in half of petrol and eighteen thousand bolivars for the working class are three hundred percent increase he also pledged to distribute food supplies every fifteen days and said the country had now enough money to cultivate at least three million hectares of crops but many believe he's being unrealistic isn't important at worst no matter what you do two thousand and nineteen is going to be a year with brutal hyperinflation and the government's response is primitive because they are right of the potential costs of reducing public spending in hospitals and on the street it's the people of venezuela who are paying the price of an economic crisis which has left the country virtually bankrupt and unable to help those in desperate need. of us cambodia's prime minister has

threatened retaliation against the opposition if the european union imposes tariffs on its goods in october that in you began a process to cancel cambodia's tariff free access to its markets the decision was in response to the cambodian government's crackdown on the opposition in the run up to last year's election when he reports. this was a typically fiery aggressive speech from the cambodian prime minister hun saying and it was delivered on the day that my fourth year in office and to a large extent he's been able to stay in power for so long through keeping the opposition at arm's length and more recently completely stamping it out ahead of last july's general election the leader of the largest opposition party chemist was arrested on treason charges his cambodian national rescue party was dissolved many of its key figures were banned from politics for five years and after all that the prime minister's party the cambodian people's party won all seats in the national

assembly in that election all of this of course was strongly criticised by the european union which is now started a process that could ultimately mean tariffs placed on goods exported from cambodia to europe we're basically in a six month probationary period and if the e.u. doesn't see any significant improvements in the situation in cambodia within that timeframe then it will trigger a formal process to place tariffs on those goods from cambodia to europe and ultimately if it follows through with this threat then it will be a huge blow to the cambodian economy around forty percent of all exports from cambodia go to europe so in his speech the prime minister of cambodia said if you want the opposition did just that referring to that trade deal between the e.u. and cambodia and he also said he also had a warning for those in cambodia who have been calling on western governments to take action against cambodia you'd better be prepared to flee iranian cinema

already has a world class reputation now it's getting a wider american audience of the first airing in film festival to be held in new york organizers are hoping it will help bridge the divide between the two countries al-jazeera stressed in salumi reports. just getting to new york was no small. feat for bachmann farmer nora i'm excited to do whatever accompany your the only iranian director able to travel to the iranian film festival under the trumpet ministrations travel ban but the seventy eight year old is used to having to navigate tricky political situations his film i want to dance is getting its u.s. premiere at the festival after a four year ban back home where dancing is forbidden i don't know any religion that bans happiness but somehow in my country the manifestation of happiness is not allowed. to. but again the

bushnell tested. aronian film directors are known for their subtle touch and symbolism the comedy pig uses satire to make its political points its result of they are very sophisticated artistic culture but it's also a way of avoiding the censors you know strict because there are a lot of rules and regulations that are placed on iranian film and. the country's film industry has gained international acclaim clued into oscars for best foreign film in the last decade but still is not well known in the u.s. something organizers are hoping to change there are so many films being produced by younger tears that are not being shown outside and they don't and they deserve a platform to be to be shown they hope that people who come to watch films like sheeple will go home believing that ronnie ends on americans have much in common there was in the mazing be distorted view of. how and what iran is about

they think that you know. everything is grim yes life is grim and so many ways because of the sanctions and other things but people are calling people of the generous farmer nora hopes the festival can also help change the script when it comes to us iranian political relations kristen salumi al jazeera new york. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera britain's prime minister has urged m.p.'s to take a second look at ibrox a deal ahead of a key vote on tuesday may is facing a likely defeat when parliament votes on the divorce agreement she has negotiated with you. know it is not perfect and yes it is a compromise but when the history books are written people will look at the decision.

the decision. on the countries of the european union. to safeguard our economy our security and. the british people drown the presidents of the united states and turkey have discussed cooperation on northern syria they talked about creating a safe zone on sunday trump war and he devastate turkey's economy if its forces attacked us back to kurdish fighters the international criminal court is set to decide whether to release the former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo has been detained for the last seven years he's accused of four counts of crimes against humanity following a disputed election in two thousand and ten lawyers argue that he can't be directly linked to the post-election violence zimbabwe's security minister says

a number of people have been killed in protests against a fuel price rise police fired tear gas and injured dozens of people in harare venezuelan president they called us about duro his promise to raise the minimum wage by three hundred percent in an effort to hold hyperinflation maduro made the pledge during his annual state of the nation address on monday days after being sworn in for a second six year term as president. riot police fired tear gas at primary school teachers marching towards parliament violence broke out when demonstrators tried to break a cordon next to the parliament buildings the teachers who are on a twenty four hour strike say their schools are understaffed and they're demanding be creation of more permanent positions. those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera more news coming up right after this stream that's next they with us. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so

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