so palestinian cabbies. the prosecutor has faced two such as for the burden of proof. the former president of ivory coast has been acquitted of war crimes and ordered released from jail immediately. following the saudia tehran this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. we should to the british people to resume a once of a belief future for the u.k. if m.p.'s reject plan to leave the european union. beijing heads back off to

canada's prime minister justin trudeau condemns china's death sentence of a canadian man plus. from the school it's been tagged to make jesus and even the sculptures create didn't want to churn in israel. while it's an acquittal for the former president of ivory coast has been jailed for seven years for war crimes the international criminal court ruled the prosecution has not proved its case against. three thousand people were killed in post-election violence in one bag but refuse to leave office the court ruled by both should be released from prison immediately the chamber by majority here saw its. that the prosecutor has failed to satisfy the burden of proof to the

requisite standard. as for seen in article sixty six of the rome statute grants the defense motions for acquittal from all charges against mr bloomberg and mr. lee could. eat media driven east of both accused let's go live now to nicholas hatcheries standing by for us in abidjan nic what kind of reaction we seeing on the streets that. by i think you can see right behind me i mean people are streaming being out to their work place to own to the streets just a moment ago that the crowd behind me were chanting. free free victory for his supporters especially in this they prefer to be. a popular stop or . we thought at the international criminal court itself or.

bleakley de facto is right now a man hugging. a bug really and at the same time you hear you know. i mean one thing being on the streets really you know more of a joy here on the streets of you people why well because just by being held at the international criminal court for crimes against humanity he really ocular figure of the opposition here and i recall notably. the liberation of his white human backbone that happened just a few months ago she was being held on charges of crimes against humanity here it accords in ivory coast and was released and she and the announcement made that very thing that her husband could be freed at that moment there were people going out on the street party and it's certainly going to be a party here in this neighborhood but there are eight thousand big. out of

this. or enough to contest the election of two thousand and eleven who still want to see justice first some of them the fact that backbone has been freed from the clear from detention is the move forward to reconsider the ation but for others it's a blow towards. the certain type of justice that people here are seeking no matter what but the fact that the prosecutors and international courts despite eighty witnesses thousands of documents were not evil to bring about bringing charges that provide sufficient evidence for the judges to rule is a real blow to the prosecution it was really under pressure we've heard it might compare with the secretary of state called the international criminal court back in september describing it as a rogue board for many people here the deed that charge you know as charging over

representing and charging most of the african leaders we've seen the kenyan president of kenya that was. that was that was held in you we've got we've got them back from the vice president of. the r.c. that was then released a few months ago now many people here feel that the justice there is actually justice that people want to be here here in ivory coast they want to see the victims of these things those that created those time but for the moment the release of a roll back book for people here is a victory. al-jazeera is nicholas hot with that update from thanks very much nic well jeffrey nice as a law professor gresham college and a former prosecutor at the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia who led the case against ahmed on the last of it he joins us now on

skype from the hague. so given that bad boy has already been in prison for seven years and now he's been acquitted of all charges many will be thinking this doesn't inspire a huge amount of confidence in the i.c.c. . that's one of the consequences of this fire decision and generally where you have criticisms and this is a true understanding are going to years and years of evidence it's hard to explain to the ordinary no you wouldn't even non-specialist member of the public why they should repros trust in judges. so that's a problem second problem is the africa problem which you're all creepy a war correspondent referred right you're wrong the courts been accused of being an anti african court and we've now been. acquitted finally and maybe this man now these two men now acquitted finally that's further going to say that the original pursuit of african leaders was wrong in the first

place the third thing is that it is just very difficult to prove leadership cases and i don't mean to prove them on the basis that they are in fact true cases but it's far too that it's actually very hard to know on the basis of evidence or otherwise when and wherever a leader is responsible for the actions of those committing terrible offenses on the ground he may be the man it's connected or obscured it or he may not be and others that may have to increase in independently or at a lower level of responsibility so for all those reasons this decision is not good for international justice not good at all expect can be grew close transmitting on the other hand and i heard a reference to trump's. attempts to destroy the court this court and others like of prescreen this school must be given support because it is in principle the only mechanism that's how to bring judicial oversight to crimes

committed in conflict and once the school is gone which is what trump would like there will be no way of supervising companies either when they're going on or off the definition so let me ask you about that because as you say three african leaders have now had their convictions as a ten and that's presumably not helping with credibility just how damaging is this for the credibility of the i.c.c. and could it affect ongoing cases cases awaiting trial. i don't know about cases awaiting trial but i do think that it's going to affect the credibility of the court at exactly the time when it meets the beginning credibility and some would say that. would say well this court this particular case was overlaying will lose. pressure right from the beginning cringe pressure and if that if there's any truth in that interview that to that pressure group these proceedings when they should never be bored is not only bad for the particular case and bad for the particular defendant but it back to justice and we have seen similar examples of

pressure brought against prosecutors on prosecutor is in order to bring people to trial or not to bring them to trial when all of that shows that if there's going to be a future great national just as it has to be run by people who are absolutely free of political pressure not saying these were subject to pressure but they're certainly accounts of it so that one very important lesson we should learn. so many would argue that there is an inherent tension between international justice and potential reconciliation which side of that debate do you come down upon because a lot of people in in ivory coast would say well this actually sets that the country on a on a path closer towards peace. the peace and justice debate is a difficult one but i've changed my view over the years i'm not really in favor of justice in some small always being registered in respect of competence doesn't

necessarily have to be by very long trials against the leaders it has to be said by some mechanism that leads to a reliable judicially measured recorder of events it can be by peace commissions it can be by include all tribunals or it can be by full tribunals what has to happen is that those tribunals have to have ready and quick access to evidence and they have to be able to bring in decisions in a reasonably quick period a reasonably short period of time because the prolongation of these trials and this isn't the only example of this just extend the misery and happens in the end. for in the place where the comps originally internet there be judicial oversight in some form or another in my view always should. say for example in the crimes if they were crimes in north korea could they not be quite receptive right by the strongest report suggesting that carol international the committee that because

maybe you can bring north korea and creating enough you know that have to be left some kind of reliable judicial record and here in what that will to be some satisfactory you get surely overseen process that will be able to leave the present and future inhabitants who could be who are able to know what happened and where responsibility lay but it just may be that these long criminal trials against individuals i'm not the best way of doing that jeffrey nice a former prosecutor at the i c t y thank you so much phil in. your. well all eyes are on breasts and the all important breaks at vote in less than eight hours members of parliament are jews of various countries amaze deal to leave the european union the prime minister has been telling them to back the agreement or risk no breaks it it's expected had planned it will be rejected china house starts us off from london. 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 lesson by the day. two and a half years since britain voted to leave the country is run by a government that lost its majority in an ill judged election going on to secure a break sit deal with brussels that by prime minister to reserve may by many others critics see it as a surrender of british sovereignty a trap binding britain to the e.u. use customs union i know this is not everyone's perfect deal it is a compromise but if we may let the perfect be the enemy of the good then we risk leaving the e.u. we turn to you 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 knows what happened the government says that would destroy the public's faith in democracy not that there's much of it around we are close. have a. hell of freeze over before she gets out of it how do we get out of this mess. we'll try organization leave in those terms no deal and britain will be fine. if there is a deal world trade organization is a deal is to do with 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 called in must also pull off the near impossible when 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 banned for 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. well let's go live now to china how those outside the houses of parliament in london and all indications suggest the government will be soundly defeated in

tonight's vote the question is by how much. yes that certainly is the only question in the air here over a vote that some say is the most important take place in parliament behind me since the early years of the second world war others say it will leave us no closer to knowing how this breaks it drama is going to end well i'm joined by an m.p. who will be in there and voting this evening crispin black your conservative party m.p. a former justice minister thanks for joining us it's going to be a potentially historic sized defeat for treason may tonight it is almost certainly but. this is going to happen people's positions have been well established some time now we were at this place about five weeks ago and she went back to the european union to see if she could get something more concrete out of them she hasn't and so what we're expecting five is yes we're going to have him tonight which is she'll lose by the order of. two hundred votes or so i would imagine.

it's then what happens that's going to be decisive that i'm resigning margin of different notice and it's very clear for us all she's justified voted confidence by the conservative on much of body says she's she's in position for a year without challenge. everyone knew all the situation was when that fighting conference took place as far as i'm concerned that issue is dealt with and there is a clear route for her now because what she's presenting parliament with this evening is this is the way george gregan i've negotiated a few joint except it which paul and won't eighty's voting to leave was no agreement and bob the european union coming back to the united kingdom and saying we recognise the view of parliament we recognise that the frankly the european negotiators run rings are going to show we now know as a result of last week's vote that there is a majority for or against no deal there is no merit there is a parliamentary majority against no agreement however that majority and that has

already passed the law is for us to leave the european union on the twenty ninth of march say when have to change the laws to over time that the government would have to be involved in any change of the norms now as long as to resume a stance from and says the choice today is my agreement or no agreement and if that comment rejects her agreement then the option and the default option the option in statute is that we leave the european you know it's a not so much and then we're going to have the whole government machine running around making claims all the nonsense we've been hearing about what the difficulties of no agreements are actually would all be dealt with as they have i don't typically judge it because democratically speaking and this is all about bottom entry sovereignty taking back control and democracy if there's no majority for no deal surely it is then incumbent upon to extend article fifty and i was in office the people voted twenty sixteen to leave the european union eighty percent of the m.p.'s in that place were elected in twenty seventeen on

a mandate to make breaks it out. a very large majority five hundred fifty to fifty majority of five hundred which will dwarf just the saving seats the start of school fifty two years ago so we put ourselves on this course we've legislated in there was george arch leave on the train you know it's of march and it's going to take legislation to change that position is to leave it going to serve out. the for nothing else are they that probably illustrates the point is the deal goes down tonight and by a large margin we really aren't entirely clear what happens next on al-jazeera and health following all things bret's it for us from westminster thank you china. well still ahead on al-jazeera us government workers left without a paycheck because of the historic partial shutdown and now lining up at three banks.

hello there we've got a fair amount of wet weather that's crossing japan at the moment if we look at the satellite picture we can see this area of cloud hayward is bringing some rain and in the northern parts we're seeing a fair amount of snow from that as well the whole system is moving through pretty quickly though so by around lunchtime on wednesday it'll be hit away to the east of us but behind it is not going to be completely dry there will still be a few outbreaks of rain and snow particularly in the northern parts of honshu towards the west and for many of us here it is milder than it has been but the winds are coming in from the west so forcing beijing that's not a clean direction expect the pollution to be getting worse as we head through the next couple of days down towards the south and here's that huge area of cloud and rain that we've got with us as it hits the cold air in the north we'll see a lot of that tend to snow and the whole system is sweeping its way southeast would say most of us here are going to see some of that white weather as we head through the next few days ahead of it for us in hong kong has been quite. cool with the

temperatures a will be recovering on thursday so it's up temperature around twenty degrees meanwhile for the philippines kinds of sunshine here not a great deal of what whether it's cold most of us seeing blue sky but for the south that's where all the wet weather is and for some of us here have a positive job it's been incredibly wet over the last twenty four hours and still to come. it could be the biggest in history. as powerful nations lay claim to territories under the ocean twenty one geologists are secretly plotting you board. as the struggle for resources intensifies some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. oceans manakin on a zero. welcome

back i'm the star and a reminder of our top stories this hour the international criminal court has acquitted the ivory coast's former president of war crimes three thousand people were killed in violence following a disputed election and twenty ten when their own bag refused to leave office. the countdown is on in the u.k. to a vote on two reason may's deal to leave the european union the prime minister's warning politicians to back the agreement or risk no brakes it at all. china's foreign ministry is calling for the immediate release of huawei executive men running the show as a dispute with canada wesson's the move follows the death sentence given to

a canadian citizen by a chinese course robert lloyd schellenberg was appealing against his fifteen year prison term for drug smuggling canadian officials say the sentences retaliate for the arrest of mang in vancouver in december 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 increases. in this case. and china's foreign ministry has hit back at the canadian prime minister's criticism of the death sentence general you would issue the remarks not to the most basic awareness of the legal system the canadians are to respect the rule of law respect china's legal sovereignty correct its mistakes and stop making irresponsible remarks. u.s. president donald trump has rejected

a call by members of his own party to temporarily reopen the government the partial shutdown is the longest in u.s. history and has left eight hundred thousand public workers without pay committee help that reports. washington at a standstill it's weekend snowfall only compounding the problems brought on by the historic partial government shutdown some federal workers off because of the shutdown or the snow are ending up at food banks the strain of uncertainty is evident. bad. these families depend on this page. to 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 these 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 where government workers remain frozen out you want to shut eye on early 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 mantle of shutting down and he has new poll numbers show more than half

the country fifty three percent blame president russian all 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 borders of urgency this is so simple you should not know i have absolute legal rights to follow it but i do not refuse 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 joins us live now from washington d.c. kimberly with the majority of the public blaming the president and some members of his own party turning against him what chance is there that trump might declare a national emergency. well there still is a very real chance the president is consistently inconsistent that means well he says that he's not looking at the moment to declare

a national emergency his intentions can change on a dime so there's the real possibility as this drags on and the anxiety continues to build that the president could declare a national emergency having said that this is something that republicans members of his own political party are deeply concerned about why because they know that if that happens immediately there would be a court challenge put forward by democrats and a court challenge could drag on for years and it would certainly ensure that this wall would not get built so for now republicans are urging the president not to take that option the u.s. congress is in session right now and so there's the hope that this week with both the house of repub house of representatives and then the u.s. senate working that they may be able to come up with some sort of compromise deal what we are very likely to see although donald trump is dismissed this is the suggestion put forward by the senior senator republican lindsey graham of the

senate he had pushed forward the idea of temporarily reopening the government to allow the border security to continue for now donald trump has rejected that but is there continues to be pressure within his own party this may be something that the advisers to donald trump may continue to lean on him to take up in terms of an option but for now this is absolute stalemate both sides digging in their heels refusing to budge and it certainly is discouraging for the federal workers that remain off the job can be how could life for us in washington d.c. thank you candy. and artwork displayed in northern israel is causing outrage among the arab christian minority the artist who created the sculpture says the museum used that without his permission but the museum says it supports freedom of expression there are about a nanny 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 as they 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

a municipality and 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 on 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 understand. that feeling of christians here but we have to explain to them that this wasn't the meaning and we all saw it that they are.

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 work was put up against their will and to their minority status their concerns of being ignored durables manly al-jazeera. i'm a saudi attainder hall and these are the top stories the international criminal court has acquitted of the ivory coast's former president of war crimes three thousand people were killed in violence following a disputed election in twenty ten when our own backbone refused to leave office the chamber by majority here by decides. that the prosecutor has failed to satisfy the burden of proof to the requisite standard as for seen in

article sixty six of the rome statute grants the defense motions for acquittal from all charges against mr long but bo and mr childs. ordered the e-mails to drill ease of both accused the countdown is on in the u.k. to a vote on terrorism is dale to leave the european union the prime minister's warning politicians to back the agreement or risk no breaks it at all. people will look at the decision of this house tomorrow and oh yes did we deliver on the country's vote to the the european union. we safeguard our economy our security and our you. or to the british people drown. our eyes say we should to live for the british people and get on with building a brighter future for our country by writing this to you all tomorrow and try to

lead this statement to the house. china's foreign ministry is urging canada to immediately release while away executive. the move follows prime minister justin trudeau expressing concern at the death sentence handed to a canadian citizen by a chinese court donald trump is trying to diffuse a growing dispute with turkey over the future of kurdish fighters in northern syria the president has spoken to turkish leader. on the phone and it follows a tweet from trump on sunday night warning he devastate turkey's economy if its forces attacked the kurds the saudi teenager who fled her family and was granted asylum in canada says she hopes to inspire change in her first t.v. interview conan says she wants to use her freedom to campaign for others those are the headlines next up inside story.

confronting iran is donald trump's foreign policy obsession he sent his secretary of state to the middle east to drum up support but what action is the united states because of 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 u.s. sector state 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.