with jim. i already felt liberated as a journalist but i was getting to the truth as i would that's what this job. i think because i don't follow your lead to go to explosions and gunfire at an upscale complex in nairobi we'll have an update from kenya in a moment. and this is the world news from al-jazeera it's all coming down to this vote in the british parliament later on choose day that decides the future of teresa mayes brags that. the prosecutor has failed to satisfy the burden of proof. the international criminal court acquits the former president of ivory

coast war crimes and orders his relates. to french president is up a dialogue with the nation as he tries to address the concerns of the vest protest movement. the latest from the kenyan capital nairobi first of all reluctantly hotel complex is under attack and witnesses have reported explosions and gunfire so they say an operation is still ongoing and their main concern is that the attacker was still in the building the group has told al jazeera behind this attack and so far five people are confirmed dead. upon my colleagues. landing into evolution just attending every. so i went to. all the way up and i didn't go to these conditions i didn't measure the industry. you need to reach

that was too dangerous you know we need hear something new i didn't see nothing but after he isolated. for even. more updates on that to come meanwhile it is a big day in the united kingdom make or break time really for theresa may and the government in just a couple of hours parliament will vote on the prime minister's plan for leaving the european union most indicators are that the deal will be defeated meaning more uncertainty for the whole brags that process and probably for prime minister may herself the support from paul brennan. outside the u.k. parliament is a sense of matters coming to a head the increasing be vocal camps of pro and anti bracks it campaign has a making their voices heard. that a sham. this is a constitutional crisis for the u.k.

pitching the government in parliament against each other and potentially pitting parliament against the people or at least against a narrow majority which voted for bracks in twenty sixteen there is disillusionment on all sides whether they betray it with this disastrous appalling withdrawal agreement which is really remain but without the power to vote or whether they betrayed by cancelling banks it if this withdrawal agreement is voted down we expect them to find some way of making sure that the people of this country do not get what they voted for a bit of reaction have been available and. just once said to me although established was a bad night man i wish we could be a citizen can be left out of this negotiation. inside the parliament chamber the prime minister's bricks and withdrawal deal is in its final the attorney general opened the final session of debate with a warning that waiver is are playing with people's lives but there is no sign the

theresa may has done enough to muster the support she needs to win the closing votes this place can't decide we are polarized we're in gridlock if government parliament is in gridlock you don't have to take it back to the people but the big question about a second referendum is if the result was flipped fifty two forty eight does that take into any better place defeat will lead to resubmit needing to produce a plan b. by monday or next week and those with threats of the opposition labor party hitting how with a vote of no confidence even before that there is a noisy almost mechanical atmosphere at westminster but with rival sides chance to get each other there's also an undercurrent of antagonism as well defeat for the prime minister the ceiling looks a certainty but the state of the damage inflicted by that remains unclear will depend on just how many m.p.'s votes against her deal the question that nobody here is able to answer just yet is what comes after that paul brennan al-jazeera

westminster and his lawrence lee now following events as they happen you know it's interesting that there is this much anticipation for this photo obviously it's very important but as you said it may end up being almost anticlimactic given we seem to know which way it's going to go. well yeah i mean the you know there is a debate going on about how many votes she loses by. remarkable as it sounds if they only lost by a vote so something they might regard as a victory because she would then say she's going straight back on some younger in the european commission and say please mr young to come you have some law you know and. but it's it is ridiculous because the european commission in your opinion have said over and over again that there isn't anything else that they can offer. and that's how it is but as you saw illustrated in poll brennan's ripple that you know it is like a maze with no exits and you know at some point that got to basically bulldoze

a wall through the maze and try to find a different way out and they can't find any way of doing that at the moment that there was a projection by i think joint should bank a couple of days ago in terms of what happens next because i've got investors who they've got to advise about whether or not to have anything to do with the british economy off of this and they had no deal that maybe ten percent no. hole or twenty five percent may still a twenty percent something else that we don't know it twenty five percent you know the thing is no one's actually got a clue what happens off loses but if she says i'm going to go back to the european union ever i'm just going to go like this because. she's done it so many times and this and there really isn't that in the else they can offer which explains why there's all this sort of talk about backstairs negotiations between conservative politicians and labor politicians and indicative votes in these or anything else that we might be able to grow out of a range of five or six different options before march twenty ninth but the thing is in overarching. i think i think it's the damage to the reputation of the u.k.

that that for me is the most compelling and disastrous thing about this because you know consider for example you know trees and i says if there's no bricks then it's a betrayal of democracy and people in this country believe in. crissy anymore well supposing there is no brinks it's a new all the foreign secretary and you've got to go up to maine morrow somewhere and explain to them the importance of having elections you know they get a lot of you out of town on the day because it is just it makes the u.k. parliament look so pathetic that it's if he's had a referendum has been told what to do and it just can't get a grip of any sort on how to proceed from here and if you listen to the m.p.'s talking at the moment all they're doing is repeating exactly the same positions of the bells for months or months and months and there isn't any sign apart from wanted to employees being prepared to say ok i'm going to vote for the deal i don't believe in it but actually we've got to get through somehow everybody else is just

it's actually planted their feet in the sand and not prepared to move until lawrence lay will talk again soon thank you in westminster. briggs of course has big implications for the irish many fear the return of a hard border between northern ireland which is of course part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland which is in the e.u. twenty years of peace and relied on that border being open and the sanaa preparing for a possible increase in violence between rival communities and baka reports from london dairy. northern ireland's police service the p.s.n. eyes preparing for a worst case break six in audio the return of a hard border with member island it could soon ask for hundreds of specially trained reinforcements from the rest of the u.k. what we would be very cautious of is as hard for structure going on the border that actually would mean that potentially our officers would be on protracted protectable points for a long time history showed us about those terrorist remains to to be able to plan

an orchestra it attacks on our officers that is something we don't want to see so if that were to happen then it would have to be very very properly resourced and i think would have to be heavily resourced during thirty years of sectarian violence the streets were patrolled by the forerunners of the police service of northern ireland the royal ulster constabulary they are you see it was a conflict between nationalists mainly catholics who identify as irish and unionists mostly protestants who want this province to remain a part of the u.k. for many nationalists the r.u.c. was seen as an oppressive colonial force backed by the british army paramilitary groups including the irish republican army they are a sort to expel them would force a delicate peace has lasted for twenty years but a legacy of hatred remains. last year londonderry sore spike in violence police were set upon in a nationalist neighborhood and there was several nights of rioting hooliganism and

poverty both have a part to play in the armrest but police also say the new ira a combination of republican and paramilitary groups fuels the violence probably gallagher is a member of c. roux a new hard left anti british political party it glorifies the ira but insists it's peaceful the party intends to exploit breaks in to the fore not out of any desire to stain europe but simply to destabilize. the u.k. . as it's called public life rang on. purpose of a call to gain an opportunity for the reality as iran's partition which has congress occupied. the merriment practices as brand of water situation in the people's minds again there has been a time for a competitive camp. breaks it has created a dangerous new context the bitter old rivalries putting the question of identity

and loyalty back at the center of anglo-irish politics need ball couches era diary an update now on that ongoing attack in kenya capital our producer joyce smithsonian is on the line from nairobi george tell us more about what you're saying. kemal just right now i don't know whether you can hear it there's a lot of gunfire going on. and so far there's been a lot of audiences we've seen arguments is coming in and out of the. truck toward cell to be quite honestly just two hundred meters away from where he attacked. and we've seen a lot of underlings who's coming in and out of the place so far. we're seeing people lining up to be the people who was near the gate running away from from. the

location and. we have also they can confirm. we've seen a lot of security operators coming in. this photo also people who were rescued on here when we could see them being walked by by the red cross volunteers. ok joyce thank you for that update we'll talk to begin soon these are live pictures we're seeing from nairobi at the moment darkness falling but this attack ongoing police most worried about the fact that they have not managed to apprehend those attackers in that building the hotel complex that is in nairobi here's what we've got coming up on al-jazeera. has a very in and that's. the man who could influence the rush for investigation hearings underway for donald trump's nominee for attorney general and the center of attention in canada we'll hear from the saudi teenager who says she expects more

women to flee homeland. hello there for some of us in turkey it's pretty wet at the moment we look at the satellite picture we can see the cloud that's making its way across us that's giving some of us a very heavy rain and also a lot of snow as well and there's some strong winds mixed in with that so we all seem blizzard conditions at times the whole system is working its way eastwards we're still seeing a lot of snow over turkey there for wednesday and then it's gradually going to make its way of a further south on wednesday too so across lebanon there's likely to be some more heavy rain could be around fifty millimeters in places that could give us a bit more of a problem with flooding meanwhile for the east largely fine and dry for many of us here but if you look through parts of iraq and into iran there's more in the way of rain here and then the system works its way eastwards but it's still bringing

plenty more in the way of snow behind it i mean for the south as some of that system it's just dragging its feet i reports of saudi arabia and so we are likely to see a fair amount of cloud to that swings its way southwards as we had three thursday and it's behind that that the weather in doha will change so it's fairly mild out for thursday but then on friday the winds will pick up and it will feel quite cold particularly at night the temperatures are likely to drop down to around thirteen degrees but it's all the buzz in africa plenty of what weather across us at the moment and they'll be more over the next few days.

let's take you through the headlines on al-jazeera at least five people have been killed during an attack on upscale hotel complex in the kenyan capital nairobi somali based on the group al-shabaab says it has carried out the right. decision day in the u.k. as parliament prepares to vote on prime minister teresa mayes braggs that deal widely expected to with jet ski agreements. not in barbara's going to look at the

possibilities for us now if the deal is 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 snap 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 donald trump's nominee for attorney general william barr has told a senate confirmation hearing he doesn't believe the special counsel's investigation is a witch hunt. of course this is referring to robert muller who is looking into

allegations rush or interfered in the twenty sixteen us presidential election bar has already served as attorney general once under president george h.w. bush in the early ninety's but some democrats now are concerned about taking charge of the miller inquiry alan fischer with more on the nominee. 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. hopefully that process will go very quickly bill barr has already been attorney general he said 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 enforcement 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 ought to withdraw this nomination. it's been reported bart is personal friends with robert mueller the two what together years ago i am very. excited about hearing that the man who will try to guide his nomination through the senate committee says that should reassure skeptics i can assure you that he has a very in and mr miller and he is committed to saying mr miller. you know complete jeff sessions was essentially fire does donald trump's first attorney general because of the president's increasing frustration he couldn't protect him from the militant quality bill barr has shown but one leading law professor says bill barr

is a good choice for the president bad 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 a republican majority in the senate it's likely bill barr will be the next attorney general but not before he faces some awkward moments as he tries to convince he's the right man for the job especially no alan fischer al-jazeera washington the international criminal court has acquitted the former president of ivory coast of charges of war crimes the i.c.c. role the prosecution did not prove its case against their own back bo who has been in jail for seven years three thousand people were killed in post-election violence and twenty ten went back but refused to leave office a court says he will be released on wednesday morning to allow time for the

prosecution to respond 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 bloomberg will mr childs. orders the even drill ease of both accused. be john who says the decision will likely divide opinion for the victims of the the atrocities in the torture and the killing of the two thousand and if you can live in contested election they you know want to see them back go back into the country they say that justice has not been served but if you speak to the supporters of long background there are many in this country is in this

neighborhood in particular where i stand the neighborhood the pub the neighborhood if you've been a folk hero or a hero. if you judge but what we've seen this morning after the announcement of the judge where we thought people were going on the street screaming isn't a damn thing it is the liberation continues right here where i stand in reality different points of the capital he would have a hero's welcome back to the country tomorrow the french president has launched a national debate and it's finding ways to come recent protests this debate will focus on four things taxes green energy institutional reform and citizenship discussions will be held on the internet and town halls are for a period of two months remember for nine weeks francis seen what violent protests from the so-called yellow vests move. hundreds of asylum seekers from under us some joined a new caravan that is heading for the u.s. mexican border they are the second batch so they funded us in three months but this

time many of them actually intend on staying in mexico to work on rail and reforestation projects. in the underground city of san pedro from where the caravan set off on monday. sitting in waiting near the side of the bus station hundreds of hundred nationals are preparing to leave the country by foot. is traveling with his two young children his four year old and she is to hydro says he understands the risks but says there's nothing left for him in his hometown. i have been told to these isn't easy but i have to take the risk what else can i do if i stay here my children cool stuff to death. hundreds has one of the poorest countries in latin america with more than sixty percent of the population living below the poverty line apart from dire economic conditions many of the thousands of hondurans who fled the country in recent months cite gang violence as the reason for leaving and

last for the medalists in the first fifteen days of the year violence has increased drastically so have the number of violent deaths of hundreds in poverty and people coming into the city in search of opportunities are also rising now choosing to emigrate to get away from the violence is. not their hissing and in response to increased pressure from the united states one hundred government has launched a media campaign aimed at dissuading would be migrants from crossing illegally into the u.s. these t.v. ads however don't appear to be convincing anyone. says he was part of the first micro caravan in two thousand and eighteen he wasn't able to enter the u.s. and it made the trip wasn't easy but he's eager to give it another go. but i made it all the way to tijuana but now i'm back here because i didn't listen. in the us now thanks to god i'm going to try again god has a solution for all of this. finding safety in numbers many hundreds of answer to

call in social media for the formation of a new caravan of asylum seekers we are at the main bus terminal and. this is the starting point for the next migrant caravan there's an expectation that thousands more honduran citizens will be joining this group along the month long journey outside of central america across mexico and ultimately the southern border of the united states. the trip from central america to the united states is fraught with dangers and only a fraction of asylum applications are ever accepted but produce extreme poverty or a threat to their lives at home they don't see they have any other choice but. some pretty soon. we're also hearing u.s. troops will be stationed at the border with mexico until at least september the pentagon has extended their mission about five thousand soldiers and national guard members were deployed as part of an order by president donald trump back in october

that was in response to the group of migrants traveling from central america to that us mexico border the young saudi woman who fled her family and was granted asylum in canada says she hopes to inspire change in their first television interview. she wants to use her freedom to campaign for others this was the eighteen year old arriving in toronto on friday one global attention when she launched a social media campaign from a hotel room in bangkok pleading for help. mair and full of her than of 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 that is above as well with the still i'd have to suffer the army can't even travel on their own they're treated like children even if they're fifty or sixty years old they are 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. and i hope my story encourages them to be brave and

free this might be what causes the change china's hit back at criticism by canada's prime minister after the death penalty was imposed on a canadian for drugs smuggling katrina you has our report from beijing. canadian robert schellenberg looked stunned as he was handed a death sentence by judges in china. the court said the thirty six year old was attempting to smuggle more than two hundred kilograms of methamphetamines from china to a stray when he was arrested in twenty fourteen. he was jailed for fifteen years in november and was in the purses of appealing that sentence when a retrial was suddenly announced last month the canadian prime minister justin trudeau has pledged to intervene on schellenberg behalf 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 as in this case facing a canadian chinese foreign ministry has rejected trudeau's comments calling them irresponsible and saying in china all people are equal before the law jeff are you going to issue the other remarks like the most basic awareness of the legal system urge the canadian side to respect the rule of law respect china's legal sovereignty correct its mistakes and stop making irresponsible remarks. the court sentence has further intensified a dispute between the two countries which began when chinese executive one job was detained in canada in december the heiress and chief financial officer of technology company chua way was arrested at the request of washington for allegedly violating u.s. trade sanctions this infuriated beijing analysts believe shelling there could be spared the death penalty if mom was released there is a lot of room for compromise if the situation cools the tiny so far it is

can always choose to expel or report the canadian citizens diffusing the controversy since the rest thirteen canadians have been detained in china most have been released but former diplomat michael convert and business consultant michael spat will remain in custody on suspicion of endangering china's national security canada says these cases and robert shilling big step penalty are retaliations by beijing on monday canada updated a travel warning to its citizens in china saying that they should exercise a high degree of caution in the face of arbitrary and full support of local laws schellenberg lawyer says he will appeal the death sentence arguing that the harsher penalty cannot be valid as no new evidence was introduced in his case between e.u. al-jazeera. the former chairman of the japanese motor company nissan has been

denied bail color scorn was arrested and detained in tokyo back in november is charged with underreporting is in common a bridge of trust for temporarily transferring personal investment losses to the company lawyers say it's likely to take up to six months for that case to go to trial. a reminder of the headlines for you on al-jazeera a lot luxury hotel in the kenyan capital nairobi is under attack and witnesses have reported explosions and gunfire police say an operation is still going on that they have cleared six of the seven floors of that building the armed group al shabaab has told al jazeera it's find as a behind this attack. five people confirmed dead in front of my colleagues. not even two everybody was just examining everything i saw i went to

i told you we have one i didn't kill he's going to shoot i did myself in the street you. know but he didn't reach that was too dangerous. we need to talk to me why does he not talk about activity i still i don't trust him to be. decision day in the u.k. as polman prepares to vote from prime minister to raise amazed bragg's it to you and widely expected to reject the agreement small from largely in westminster. it makes the u.k. parliament look so pathetic that it's if he's had a referendum he's been told what to do and it just can't get a grip of any sort on how to proceed from here and if you listen to the m.p.'s talking at the moment all they're doing is repeating exactly the same positions that they've held for months or months and months and there isn't any sign apart

from wanted to m.p.'s being prepared to say ok i'm going to vote for the deal i don't believe it but actually we're going to get through somehow everybody else is just it's actually planted their feet in the sand and not prepared to move until donald trump's nominee for attorney general william barr has told a senate confirmation hearing he doesn't believe the special counsel's investigation is a witch hunt this is referring to robert muller who's looking into allegations russia interfered in the twenty sixteen u.s. election some democrats though are concerned about bad taking charge of mullahs inquiry i mean national criminal court has acquitted the former president of ivory coast of charges of war crimes the i.c.c. ruled the prosecution did not prove its case against their own backbone who has been in jail for seven years now we're back with the news hour in around twenty five minutes time next on al-jazeera the inside story.

we saw in the streets of france on the rest that shakes the presidency now. it's the people calling for a national debate he wants to turn into solutions but if you simply buying time this is inside story. welcome to the program for nine weeks now the yellow vests protest in france have been making headlines across the world what started as a response to rising fuel prices spread to general discontent.