everyone has a story worth hearing. you cover those often ignored you don't wear your coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined al jazeera. we should to defer to the british people. to resume a ones of a belief future for the u.k. if her plan to leave the european union is voted out by m.p.'s. hello and the saudi obtained this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. escalating tensions justin trudeau condemns the death sentence on a canadian man by a court in china. a country in chaos

zimbabweans events their anger against the president over his walking fuel price hike. is a very mr moeller the man who could influence the russia investigation hearings set to begin on donald trump's nomination for u.s. attorney general. it's d.-day for britain in twelve hours n.p.'s devotion to resume a deal to get house of the european union the prime minister's warning politicians to back the agreement or risk no breaks as a toll but all sides bracing for ten more oil as defeat is widely expected to have plaid let's go to john hall in london john or it seems the prime minister is on course for a possible historic defeat. yeah i think defeat for the prime minister ease all but certain now barring last minute concessions certainly

her interventions thus far do not seem to have carried much weight with wavering and p's notably including those clarifications reassurances received on monday from the european union about the northern ireland backstop that carry arguable legal weight and crucially don't include a cost iow an end date for the backstop should it be triggered this talk of a defeat here of up to two hundred votes that would be historic a government has only lost a vote in the house of commons by more than one hundred votes three times in the last hundred years now that sort of margin would almost certainly lead to calls for treason mase resignation if indeed she survives if she carries on well she could be faced very quickly with another coal for her to step aside to the good for the government a step away a vote of no confidence tabled by the opposition labor party leader jeremy corbyn he'd be looking to marshal a majority of some two thirds in the house for that vote in order to trigger

a general election he's unlikely to get that of course without a lot of tories voting against their own government but that would pave the way then for the labor party to throw its weight behind one of the other emerging options after that the prime minister would have to come back on monday with her plan b. what she wants to happen next will not even our own cabinet knows what that may be possibly going off to brussels looking for concessions possibly putting the vote to another test at some point later but at that point and fees themselves would be able to table their own version of what may happen next possibly a soft brakes if a so-called norway style breaks it all of the nuclear option a second referendum take a listen out of syriza may doing her best to convince doubting m.p.'s. people will look at the decision of this house tomorrow and was did we deliver on the country's vote to leave the european union. did we say god our economy our security

and i. voted tween that the british people down by five we should deliver for the british people and get on with building a brighter future for our country by tomorrow and i commend this statement to the house. and you know what the break said deadline looming on march twenty ninth time's running out to agree on a deal. oh yes very much so i mean even if she wins the vote on tuesday night there is just a matter about conceivably enough time for government for parliament to pass the enormous number of bits of legislation required to implement the withdrawal agreement some six hundred pieces of legislation are being talked about they could just about do that but if this vote is last now becoming increasingly obvious to everyone i think that an extension will be required an extension to that article fifty. spirited the e.u.

has already said they're willing to countenance an extension possibly up to july to take in perhaps a general election to take in perhaps a renegotiation if britain is willing to countenance remaining in the customs union and the single market factor or indeed to hold a second referendum it increasingly looks if there is a defeat on tuesday night like march the twenty ninth will not in fact be the day that britain breaks its if indeed britain breaks its at all it's a fine mess nastasia take a look at my report. thirty three less than eighty days to go until briggs's day and the odds are in favor of britain actually exiting the european union on march the twenty ninth lessen by the day. two and a half years since britain voted to neve the country is run by a government that lost its majority in an ill judged election going on to secure a deal with brussels that by prime minister to resume

a loathed by many others critics see it as a surrender of british sovereignty a trap binding britain to the e use customs union i know this is not everyone's perfect deal it is a compromise but if we let the perfect be the enemy of the good there we risk leaving the e.u. which eritrea and while the prospect of no deal was demonstrated with a fake traffic jam by the department of transport who promised long queues and lengthy customs checks at u.k. borders others in government of warned of grave consequences if the p.m.'s deal is voted down what is more likely if this deal is rejected is that we have the risk of paralysis and. when that happens no one happened the government says that would destroy the public's faith in democracy not that there's much of it around we are closer. than ever. hello freeze over the gets that deal through parliament how do

we get out of this mess or. just accept world trade organization leave in those terms no deal and britain will be fine this is a deal world trade organization is a deal it's a deal the whole world these are extraordinary times in the history of this ancient democracy a country bitterly divided a government clinging to power by its fingernails and a parliament that doesn't seem to want the deal on offer but can't agree on very much else. and an opposition leader himself a lifelong euro skeptic determined to do what the e.u. says it won't renegotiate the brakes deal but first jeremy corbin must also pull off the near impossible win a vote of no confidence in the government forcing a general election i can think of no greater example of democracy in action than for this house to reject a deal that is clearly true this country. the

uncertainty could mean delaying the u.k.'s exit from the bloc extending its article fifty notice period and that would be the very moment when those in favor of a second referendum unlikely to strike campaigners for a so-called people's vote believe the time is close when britain will have no other option. shown how al-jazeera london. looks at the possibility is if the brics that deals rejected. 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 reason may 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. counterparts she could get a deal passed if they offer concessions notably on the back stop 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 brics it 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 idea is 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's not general election herself but she'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 u.s. president's trying to diffuse tension with turkey over the future of kurdish fighters in northern syria donald trump's had a phone conversation with president russia. it follows a tweet from trump on sunday night warning he devastate turkey's economy if its forces attacked the kurds turkey's foreign minister responded by saying nothing would be achieved by threatening his country his government sees the kurdish y p g fighters as an extension of the p.k. k. which he considers a terrorist group mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . well the phone call appears to be an attempt to poor oil on the deeply troubled waters of the u.s. turkey relationship a relationship that was further deteriorate to buy president trumps tweets sunday

in which he threatened the economic options 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 was 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. canada's prime minister says he's very concerned over the death sentence on a canadian citizen by a court in china canadian officials feel the verdict is in retaliation for the arrest of huawei executive know in vancouver robert lloyd schellenberg was sentenced to be executed while appealing his fifteen year prison term for drug smuggling the ruling could aggravate already tense diplomatic relations since canada's arrest of a top chinese executive it is of extreme concern to us as a government as it should be to all our international friends and allies that china

has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply death penalty in cases facing me as in this case facing canadian katrina you has reaction from beijing. chinese state media the global times has responded to just introduce comments saying that it shows contempt for chinese law they said that what he said is unfair because china has made it no secret that they have very harsh penalties for anyone found guilty of drug crimes but if you look at the timeline it's easy to see why those comments might have being made now i was arrested in twenty fourteen and he was actually tried by a chinese court last november and that trial found that he was guilty of attempting to smuggle more than two hundred kilograms of methamphetamines and sentenced him to fifteen years in prison to pay a fine of just over twenty thousand u.s. dollars and he was also due to be deported now and a retrial was announced in december when the court says that there was

a discovery of new evidence and from that retrial we saw the outcome of this week of the death sentence now there is speculation that this harsher penalty is in part response to the arrest of chinese take executive an heiress more one juror in canada in december and now her arrest has in syria to the chinese government and according to canada thirteen canadians have been detained by china's government since one wonders arrest most of them have been released since then but two high profile canadians michael spay will and michael remain in detention now china denies that there's any connection to the while way arrest they say that michael and michael spade will represented some national security threat to china but there are reports that this is indeed a form of retaliation and that robot shelling shelling vince predicament is also a similar to that now robert schellenberg maintains his innocence he says he was just a tourist and from today he has about ten days to appeal his sentence. a second day

of strike action is expected to begin in zimbabwe in the next few hours amid tension at the doubling of fuel prices several people were killed on monday as police fired bullets and tear gas at anti-government protesters pulled to judge in 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 digits someone just wakes up and decides to increase the fuel price we had 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 staying 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 that we can't say we are

a country when 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. on al-jazeera. whether is next still ahead on al-jazeera the center of attention and canada we hear from the saudi teenager who says she expects more to flee her homeland plus.

we have slowly but they are offended by this war it's been tagged. and even the skeletons created didn't want to share in israel. hello well the last meter of snow may have fallen for a while now for the swiss and austrian alps is this massive cloud has gone soft not against across the board has done the following air has not been that cold indeed the high temperature in vienna is forecast to be five on tuesday so a certain amount of thought was already taken place and the even the low slopes of some ski resorts will see running crease in the water content but still a lot of snow tightness more snow to come lower levels in germany and slovakia eastern side of austria and down towards remain here i suspect in the next twenty

four hours or so with an obvious filling in of turkey was a load of snow for a time that disappears to be just in the east for the time to get into wednesday and temps regime is still on the way up slightly mild but it's mild it was so some more forward take place but eleven in london is still quite on the warm side the much the same as madrid but a cloud a lot of wind and very little rain so all the activity that appears to be around turkey so the eastern med which means that the cold wind is rather less than it was in tunisia or out here indeed in in libya we're still only in the teens and mostly and there is still rain grazing the coast of egypt and heading towards lebanon but the sunshine then to follow. inspirational. stories of people

keeping the spiritual freedom alive. by courageously defending tribute. to. be. welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour. the countdown is on in the u.k. to a vote on the maze deal to leave the european union the prime minister's warning politicians to back the agreement or risk no bricks that. several people have been

killed in protests against the doubling of fuel prices and zimbabwe another two hundred people have been arrested during the fest of a planned three day anti-government strike on monday. prime minister just introduced says he is very concerned by the death sentence for a canadian citizen by a court in china robert lloyd schellenberg received a death sentence for drug smuggling in a sudden retrial his lawyer says they'll be an appeal. the young saudi woman who fled her family and was granted asylum in canada says she hopes to inspire change in her first t.v. interview and says she wants to use her freedom to campaign for others the eighteen year old arrived in her new home of toronto on friday couldn't one global attention when she launched a social media campaign from her hotel room in bangkok pleading for help. i want to be free from abuse and depression i want to be independent in saudi there

is control over a woman's life her job and position as well as we're going to still have to suffer when the army can't even travel on their own they're treated like children even if they're fifty or sixty years old they aren't free or equal to their male counterparts i think the number of women fleeing from the rules in saudi arabia and the abuse will increase as it's clear. and i hope my story encourages them to be brave and free this might be what causes the change. well confirmation hearings for president on trump's nominee for attorney general set to begin with him because proceedings are expected to be dominated by questions about the mother and best a geisha and the potential link between the trunk campaign and russia alan fischer reports. he's the man donald trump wants to run the department of justice respected by republicans and respected by democrats he will be nominated for the united states attorney general and hopefully that process will go very quickly bill barr

has already been attorney general he served for two years during the george h.w. bush administration in the early one nine hundred ninety s. it's the attorney general's responsibility don't force the law even handedly and with integrity the attorney general must ensure that the administration of justice in forstmann of the law is above and away from politics if you cruises through the nomination process like he did before he will essentially take control of the ongoing miller inquiry into alleged russian collusion with the trump presidential campaign the recently he wrote to the justice department criticizing the miller inquiry that's enough for some senate democrats to have him disqualified i still believe after the revelations about mr barr's unsolicited memo president trump or to withdraw this nomination. it's been reported bart is personal friends with robert mueller the two work together years ago and very. excited about the hearing

and the man who will try to guide his nomination through the senate committee says that should reassure skeptics i can assure you that he is a very you know mr miller and he is committed to saying mr miller. you know complete its job jeff sessions was essentially fired is donald trump's first attorney general because of the president's increasing frustration he couldn't protect him from the miller inquiry bill barr has shown but one leading law professor says bill barr is a good choice for the president but for the us is view of what the law is is just so extreme so far out of the mainstream and so partial to donald trump that this is the worst time for him to serve as attorney general of the united states with the republican majority in the senate it's likely bill barr will be the next attorney general but not before he faces some moments as he tries to convince he's the right man for the job especially no alan fischer al-jazeera washington

victims of post-election violence in the ivory coast eight years ago have protested against the possible prison release of former president laurent gbagbo the international criminal court is about to decide whether to acquit and free him after seven years behind bars is accused of crimes against humanity three thousand people were killed when he refused to accept defeat against alison ouattara who's now ivorian president an artwork displayed in northern israel is causing outrage among the arab christian minority the artist who created the sculpture says the museum used it without his permission but the museum says it supports freedom of expression or about and money has more. this is a sculpture that's caused so much outrage in titles macc jesus it displays a fast food outlets famous mascot hanging from across an important symbol in

christianity haifa museum is added to disclaimer that it's not meant to cause offense but it has. on friday hundreds of protesters face off with police on the streets at a attempted to force their way into the museum to remove it themselves others are camping outside until the work is taken down. this is something i kneel for i redeem it with my soul i offer it with all the good things and what do you expect i first of all felt that this is a big insult a big insult i hope that everyone will stand with those in solidarity the heads of churches across israel a sickly a court order to have the scope to removed. started with the heads of the churches have petition was offered to the judiciary to remove it will continue through peaceful rallies and vigils with the churches the museum and i mean as a palatal we won't be quiet until we reach a solution. we need to understand that freedom of expression is interpreted in

different ways in different societies we live today in israel if this work was directed against christians the world would be turned upside down it's not only the christian community that's angry but the artist himself he asked the museum not to use his work in september when he joined the boycott divestment and sanctions of israel he told israeli media israel uses culture as a form of propaganda to whitewash the occupation. but the director of the museum says he's defending the freedom of art culture and speech we understand fully in this. feeling of christians but we have to explain to them that this wasn't the meaning and we all saw it. offended by this work the christian population makes up just two percent of israel and

people in the community say it's a daily struggle to free the practice that culture and religion they say the walk was put up against their will and the minority status that concerns of being a knute durable manly al-jazeera iranian cinema already has a wild class reputation now it's getting a wider american audience at the fest and rainy and film festival to be held in new york organizers are hoping it will help bridge the divide between the two countries al-jazeera as christensen in the reports. just getting to new york was no small feat for bachman farmer nora i'm excited whenever a company 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 this 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 them i don't know any religion

that bans happiness but somehow in my country the manifestation of happiness is not allowed. well it. but again. aronian film directors are known for their subtle touch and symbolism the comedy pig uses satire to make its political points its result of their very sophisticated artistic culture but it's also a way of avoiding the censors. 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 cling to 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 tis that are not being shown outside and they don't and they deserve

a platform to be and 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 is in the amazing 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. i'm just on detail in doha and these are the top stories the countdown is on and the u.k. to a vote on terrorism is deal to leave the european union the prime minister's

warning politicians to back the agreement or risk no rexx it at all. people will look at the decision of this house tomorrow and oh yes we did live on the country's vote to leave the european union. we safeguard our economy our security and our you. do it we the british people drown. i say we should to defer to the british people and get on with building a brighter future for our country right right thank you stuart morrow enjoyed the statement to the house. several people have been killed in protests against the doubling of fuel prices and zimbabwe another two hundred people have been arrested during the first of a planned three day antigovernment strike on monday prime minister justin trudeau says he's very concerned by the death sentence for a canadian citizen by

a court in china robert lloyd schellenberg received the sentence for drug smuggling in a sudden retrial his lawyer says they'll be an appeal the young saudi woman who fled her family and was granted asylum in canada says she hopes to inspire change in her first t.v. interview rather felt conan says she wants to use her freedom to campaign for others the eighteen year old arrived in her new home of toronto on friday victims of post-election violence in ivory coast eight years ago have protested against the possible prison release of former president laurent gbagbo the international criminal court is about to decide whether to acquit and free him after seven years behind bars is accused of crimes against humanity those are the headlines join me for more news here after inside story.

confronting iran is donald trump foreign policy obsession he sent his secretary of state to the middle east to drum up support but what action is the united states prepared to take and what will be regional implications but this is inside story. and i welcome to the program i'm nick clegg reassuring allies and talking tough on enemies us sectors that might pump has been touring the middle east to try and win support and put pressure on iran he's pushing for an arab military alliance to counter threats from to our.