been very very clear it is not going to reopen negotiations and even if it did it will not get rid of the back story which is the main thing that this place doesn't like so she's out of options which is going to keep on pretending that she does have options because that's the only way that you can survive for one more day one week one moment. had warned m.p.'s they faced a choice between her deal no deal or no bracks it the options have just narrowed by one paul brennan al-jazeera westminster let's begin our coverage by joining jonah hill who's at westminster jonah really another very big day in parliament just sort of talk us through what's going to happen in the coming hours. yeah that's right well fresh from that defeat on tuesday night the reason may now faces a vote of confidence on wednesday evening seven pm it's thought likely she'll win it this debate to be had in the hours preceding that of course prime minister's questions coming up not too long from now is the first time we'll see her on wednesday i'm joined to talk more about this by tobias hill elwood he's

a defense minister in trees amazed and of course also a conservative party m.p. thanks for joining us is she going to survive she will big defeat yesterday and we have to move on but this is a distraction by the leader of the opposition who stands at the dispatch box but he doesn't have a unified army behind him a doesn't have visitation on bricks and he's an opportunist and that's what we're having to deal with today so was there have been divisions on the bricks at issue in the parliamentary party the conservative party i'm sure that they will it will unite without coalition partners to support the prime minister nobody wants a general election she then says that she will hold quote constructive talks with other employees cross party and these to try and find a plan b. but she's ruled out the customs union that labor want to is ruled on a second referendum many others want is that a viable way to search for a plan b. to kind of to kind of exclude what most people want and just push your own route i'm not sure what has been ruled out i know that up to devote she was making the

case for this deal that's absolutely right for the government they spent much time working with an agreement that was signed off by twenty seven nations to answer rather a pit question know what leave means to great britain but that was defeated and we must accept that that's the democratic process and the cogs of the democracy are churning big behind us as we speak with the prime ministers and seemed to accept that to be special certainly hasn't ruled up bringing the deal back for another well what she has agreed to is to speak to various caucuses across the house let's not forget that why she was defeated wasn't because there was another single idea that was waiting in the sidelines it was because there was a code. of convenience it was these people that came together for very different reasons because some want to second referendum others want no deal she must now speak and work out whether there is consensus compromise that center ground which allows us to honor the referendum result in the meantime as the search goes on we

are perilously close to march the twenty ninth with no deal in place that would mean no deal exit which is widely accepted to be potentially disastrous for this country shouldn't it be the prime minister's main responsibility at this point to be looking at an extension of article fifty which is something she seems to exclude i don't disagree with that but i think her first port of call is to see what can be achieved to see where there is that compromise she will be returning to brussels next week to have these discussions but first she must understand whether there is something in the center that can unite us as a compromise that ultimately is what. politics and democracy is all about ok tomorrow we'll leave it the defense minister into his amazing government there the search for a compromise goes on back to you indeed it does thanks very much joe no it's course over to downing street where barbara starr our correspondent is also listening into what was said there and of course trees in maine are the prime minister fighting yet again for her political survival in a defeat that is quite a body blow for her hopes to try and get that breaks it approval approved.

absolutely i mean so it really is a sign of what incredible times the u.k. is going through right now that we're not seeing to resume a resigning talking here outside downing street either resigning or are announcing at another general election she has decided to stay as jonah was mentioning there is seventy two days now until march twenty ninth when the u.k. a list of ways a deal in some kind of transition period is going to have to leave the e.u. most people in parliament that i have to say in the country as well feel that they don't really want a general election or a leadership challenge but of course at least the reason. may with that insurmountable problem the real challenge of how she gets together of bricks it that she can get through both the parliament and the european union in brussels now she has said that on monday she will consent to announce some kind of plan it's hard to see though what she will be able to do and we were of course hearing that

interview with jonah there you know the difficulties are huge what is she going to be able to achieve in five days that she and her team haven't been able to achieve in two years interesting what she said yesterday in parliament just after losing that historic vote hadn't been such a loss in about one hundred years and she said we're not going to let the clock run down and of course that really trying to reassure the country that there is going to be a heartbreaks if there is going to be a break sit without a deal but again all eyes really here hoping that she will survive and she'll be hoping that she survives the no confidence vote but then really the challenge the real challenge will begin straight after indeed for the moment leave it. through the day of course the e.u.'s chief breaks that negotiator says that the ready to consider changes to the deal if britain is willing to compromise. if the united kingdom chooses to shift its red lines if it makes that choice to be more

ambitious and go beyond a simple free trade agreement which would be quite something in the european union would be immediately ready to go hand in hand with that development and give a favorable response now the european council president. there was even more in a more direct tweet that suggesting that britain could consider counseling books it all together and if a deal is impossible and no one wants no deal then he will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is. so many options to think about let's cross over to david che to is following events for us in brussels a different opinions there from the leaders. and decision makers in the e.u. so what have you been hearing sort of from the e.u. in terms of their reaction to that to u.k. parliamentary vote overnight to mean what more can they say about the events in the u.k. that the world has not already heard. well just listen to

that michel bandy a statement he said that it's the united kingdom it's got to start changing its red lines yes they're willing to open negotiations again but there will be no change to the basic deal that was on the table that was so firmly rejected by the u.k. parliament essentially to sticking point is that the european union must defend its central institutions the the the customs union and the internal market and that means they can't afford not to have that backstop on the irish border so it seems that there's no change at all the battle lines are set the e.u. is expecting more concessions from the united kingdom that simply won't happen there are so many shades of opinion now in the u.k. parliament which one will reach the ascendancy of which one will gain the upper hand nobody knows and least of all any of body any of the politicians here in the

european union but the most likely thing is perhaps we heard from the france's europe minister naturally that was so is that europe is spending too much time on this divorce she said but what needs to happen is perhaps for the withdrawal agreement to be delayed beyond march the twenty ninth to be suspended but first of all the u.k. must ask for that and then it has to be approved by all twenty seven members is has to be unanimous approval by the e.u. and then legally and ten deeply it will be possible to give more time to try and find a clear voice from the united kingdom so that's the position of the european union the ball is back into reason mais court indeed for the moment david thank you david chase there in brussels well plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera new siring tooting to report on the freezing weather bringing more misery. two syrian refugees

. also the taliban threatens to walk away from peace talks with the united states. and in the defending champions league later the asian cup as teams make their move for a place in the knockout rounds we'll have those details later in spores. a leading zimbabwean activist has been arrested in the capital by police after days of protests so for fuel prices even where the hell was taken away from his home in harare there have been demonstrations across several cities in zimbabwe since the government more than doubled the cost of petrol and diesel according to human rights watch security forces of shot dead at least five people and wounded others during a crackdown on protests. also the international criminal court says it will appeal the verdict handed down to former ivory coast to coast president laurent gbagbo he

was acquitted of war crimes charges on choose state judges said the prosecution failed to show his involvement in violence that followed the disputed twenty ten presidential election the ball from. supporters of former ivory coast leader alone by both celebrated as news of his acquittal spread across the country. the international criminal court ordered his immediate release we'll do whatever. it is a moment of incredible joy we feel like we've been freed he is our leader our president a man of peace eighty witnesses gave evidence thousands of documents were produced but after seven years in prison the judges say the prosecution failed to prove that by going codefendant charles blake would they were guilty of crimes against humanity including murder rape and persecution. for all these reasons the chamber

by majority here by decides. that the prosecutor has failed to such as. 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 bull and mr childs bug who was arrested in two thousand and eleven found hiding with his wife simona in a hotel room in the ivorian capital abidjan a humiliating moment for this former head of state unwilling to hand over power after an election defeat to alison ouattara supporters known as the young patriots went from house to house killing anyone they thought were foreigners or supporters of ouattara three thousand people were killed in the four months long civil war now they're back on the streets in the popular neighborhood if you grow a backbone stronghold. the chance is finally free for the people of.

this is the cause of celebration that part of this trial at the enter national committee of. the. judge's decision is a setback for prosecutors and thousands of victims of the civil war who continue to call for justice to no one under way i don't know if bad is free and the violence will come back and it could get even worse maybe another person will take power and create the same problems we don't want to see him walk away from his crimes. but we still be considered a war criminal by some a hero to others. this in a country trying to move on from a violent past in search of reconciliation and a brighter future nicholas hawke al-jazeera. now the taliban has threatened to walk away from peace talks with the united states accusing it of deflecting from the issue of withdrawing forces from the country last week the armed group council plan

negotiations with. the u.s. special envoy for peace in afghanistan he's been touring the region in pursuit of a negotiated end to the years of conflict energy but none yardley's a writer and political analyst he joins me now from kabul good to have you with us on i mean what's the point of the statement that the taliban have put out who are they trying to rattle. the live on in the year we sent and he said elisa have the water in the united states that they have a draft from the east crisis if there are further increases their military operation hours of the diplomatic pressure that are already in our wires and on the taliban groups they have water and that they will mark to further go in that piece for us is given up on it in terms of the statement itself. i mean are they just targeting the u.s. or is it also targeting. the the government in kabul that they need to

do more to bring the taliban into the conversation because the taliban want to direct conversation do they not between them and kabul. it is. a huge pressure to huge diplomatic and political pressure on taliban for every country that they should come to dieting talks with god good i'm in the only solution that i've done good and says is the end of gun dialogue and the sense in the american says that they are just going talks for talks and it is not the official diet ignition the taliban did just push out izing got a pushing taliban to florida come forward with their table talk sound. good image and added to have a peace settlement what in the sense is that they just want to have. what needs to happen for the taliban to either come on board will be

able to have those conversations with either the americans or with the government in kabul if the american drawdown doesn't happen the way that president trumpet wanted it to. the situation is very complicated and critical in the peace process is the gun going stance is very clear this is that only of gun going to mean has the right to talk with the taliban and represent the people and no one other is more than or not lead the peace process just one of them living i've been on peace process that's why they have already had the same statement they have dug with their last night who is on his visit to kabul and he has made the politicians in the hyatt in king of asians here in kabul they have been have insisted that enter our gun dialogue in this see there did is no other alternative other than the gun dialogue or the gun but i mean it does live on dogs

because they're the big. gun cornum in india must be at peace it don't mean peace it could've been signed with only and only that gun going to mean so therefore is is negotiation or potential negotiation by the us more of a hindrance more of a problem for any long term peace solution between the taliban and kabul. my point of view i don't think so that thought about where the vid draw from the peace process they have been out of does very cautiously end they have were just. because there is. military pressure built up inside the country heavens india a sanctuary inside afghanistan that is a very severely that get it in various if works of the country so that's why they want to come out of the british out and start leave the fresh air quality build the

diplomatic bridge and also the military operation saw her i think. they did bristle is a significant but not so serious threat for the peace process. there is a hole there is a hole inside afghanistan that the cease fire will happen and here is our whole they're in trouble and balog would also be soon initiated we'll see what does happen for the moment. in kabul thanks so much for joining us. kurdish forces in northern syria rejected a safe zone proposed by the u.s. and turkey u.s. president donald trump and turkish president recipe the one both of floated the idea of the safe so a solution to prevent a turkish military offensive against kurdish forces continues kurdish representative saying that they will only accept the proposal if the u.n. has a role. we can accept sleep so there is

a decision by the united nations to send international forces under their supervision to these areas and if these forces are neutral to preserve peace and security alternatively if we agree with damascus according to the principles for dialogue that we put forth the syrian forces can enter the area to protect the borders from any external attacks which is considered one of the duties of the syrian army. freezing weather in lebanon is being blamed for the deaths of fifteen children in syrian refugee camps there's been heavy snow and to wrenshaw rain and more is coming down right now more than a million syrians are living in tents and makeshift shelters in lebanon say the holder is in one of those comes on the border town of arcelor and joins me now in the conditions were pretty bad to start with zain and it seems that they are going to get even worse as a new cold front heads in your direction. yes a new storm in less than a week we are in one of the many refugee camps close to the syria border as you can

see strong winds heavy heavy snow fall of people here really facing a lot of hardships children cold they just received these these jackets as donation we have been inside homes you can hear children coughing a lot of respiratory problems one hundred and seventy thousand syrian refugees live in informal settlements like this one they live in tents and it's just plastic sheeting really that is protecting them from the rain from the snow from the strong winds and people are saying that they don't have enough money to buy fuel to keep their children warm so temperatures below zero conditions are very bad according to the united nations last week storm affected twenty two thousand refugees a lot of tents need to be repaired and now yet a new storm and according to the united nations seventy thousand syrian refugees are at risk forty thousand of them are children and that is because they live in

shelters or sites that are prone to flooding if you walk into a number of these homes they're inundated with flood water their mattresses are wet so the conditions are very bad many many stories of human suffering here zain a very briefly what sort of medical attention is there available or is it just in short supply in terms of the aid for those as you say children coughing intense i mean is there any medical assistance. there is medical assistance the united nations they provide as much help as possible a lot of charity organizations but it is not enough you're talking about a million refugees registered with the united nations according to the lebanese government and many more syrians live here some of them to find work but there it's very difficult to make ends meet and last year a few thousand returned to syria the lebanese government would like to see more returns more mass returns but if you talk to people here they tell you what are we

going to go back to our homes are destroyed and a lot of them are scared because of the lack of security guarantees that i can tell you just twenty thousand people in this camp alone come from a border town called qusayr they cannot go back because the government is not going to let them go back to this town which has become a military base so like i mentioned a lot of human suffering these children of course are excited when they see the camera but but they are cold and it is only in the past hour that they were given these jackets by charity organizations for the moment we'll leave it there and of course follow vents with you through the day thanks so much saying well kevin is here in a moment to tell us more about those wintry conditions in the region and then to don's protesters may be united against president but the political opposition is as divided as i don't watch. football fans in palestine hope that he could make history at the asian cup they would have those details in sport. from.

when it's too enchanting breeze you're. well here is a big storm system we are been talking about hits right here across the eastern part of the med a very very strong system you can see the lines around the area of low pressure those isobar and whenever they get closer that means the winds are stronger and as you just saw in the video coming out of lebanon they are dealing with snow they're dealing with winds as well that's going to be the big problem for today with this storm system so take a look at what we have the nerve low pressure in the eastern part of the med we are going to be watching some very heavy rain to the south we're going to be watching some very heavy snow to the north in parts of turkey with this particular storm system today we could see an additional one meter of snow in some of the higher elevations down towards the south we could be seeing anywhere between another twenty to thirty millimeters of rain in some locations but it's going to be the winds anywhere between fifty five and seventy kilometers per hour winds could be

seen with this system i want to put into motion because today is going to be the day that we see the the worst in conditions of the weather but as assistant pushes away look at those temperatures that we are going to be dealing with here in aleppo only nine degrees is going to be a high tomorrow down towards damascus nine the overnight lows are going to go below freezing so anything that melts is going to be refreezing and causing a very slippery and messy situation. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. when the news breaks and the story. when people need to be heard. and the story needs to be told. with exclusive interviews and in-depth reports. the iran has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries. and light news on and done line.

russian filmmaker under a neck or a soft continues his journey across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin during his travels he me. christians and muslims patriots and separatists i told you the locals in the southeast were on our side when i arrived and offer something completely different someone to leave russia but for others the russian passport means hope and the challenge of happens in search of putin's russia on al-jazeera. welcome back to the al-jazeera news our top stories for me so rather than attack

lasting more than seventeen hours that i wrote the hotel is over kenya's president has offered his condolences to the families of the victims and promised to find all of those responsible at least fourteen people were killed. also the taliban are threatening to walk out of talks with the united states accusing it of deflecting from the issue of withdrawing forces from afghanistan last week the armed group canceled plans to go shave sions with the u.s. special envoy for peace in afghanistan. and a vote of no confidence is set to be held against the u.k. government after prime minister teresa mayes bret's a deal was overwhelmingly rejected m.p.'s will debate the motion late on wednesday and it could trigger a general election. so how are events in parliament resonating across the united kingdom while ever hayward is gauging opinions in the english city of darby which where most people voted to leave in the e.u. referendum of twenty sixteen the barker is in carlingford law on the border between

northern ireland on the republic of ireland a major sticking point throughout the brics it negotiations live to both of them after we speak to nadine barber about the economic impacts of cities outside the bank of england in central london and the team of course events in the british parliament often have a knock on effect on the markets and the british currency. that's right so they do but so far really reaction has been quite muted overnight sterling did take a hit but then rebounded against the us dollar. we've seen the footsie one hundred index here in london now it's roughly half of a percent down earlier it was up. bank shares are doing quite well in fact lloyds banking group in r.b.s. two of the biggest banks in the country were up around one point five percent. in

the last couple of hours and we've heard from the bank of england governor mark carney in the last hour or so saying that he thinks the reaction really suggests. that people are now predicting that there will be some kind of an extension to the brics it deadline although he did out that he wouldn't put too much weight on short term market movements so for a bit more on what this all means i'm joined by jeremy nader city financial commentator jeremy exactly what should we make so far of the reaction i think it's interesting as you say we saw some wild volatility last night around about the time of the vote we lost two and a half cents against the dollar for sterling i would ask. and against the euro as well i think interesting enough the markets have now got back to where they were as you suggested but what this means is it means that we don't know that's the bottom line with no clarity we got the vote of no confidence today that labor said that

they would force against the government they're not going to win that doesn't put us into any better position of knowledge and it's knowledge that the markets want the uncertainty is what we don't like you referred to potential extension of article fifty all that's going to do it is just to lay down a path of uncertainty for the longer we're hearing different takes on what this what this result now means in terms of a most likely outcome not marconi was saying obviously that he thinks that the take on the financial markets is that they're probably be an extension but while many people in britain are saying no no deal breaks it what many in finance called it the nightmare scenario is going away some in europe are saying that it's becoming more likely what's your feeling but i think from the city here look at some of the commentary around some of the big believers that we've heard about peter hargreaves lansdown the big lever he's suggesting now that perhaps maybe it's more likely that we will end up getting our relationship back on track with europe crispin ot the same thing big hedge fund manager made

a lot of money last year and he's now turned around he's talking about a monster rally in stocks once it's accepted that when i have a very soft breaks in other words it breaks a deal it's very close to the european union or no breaks at all taking us back into the e.u. jeremy thank you very much for your insights where we will be following developments on the markets throughout the day particularly around the vote of no confidence around nineteen g.m.t. in parliament for the moment thank you. well know what it is the brits sit back stop and how does it really affect the irish border while at the moment more than oil and which is part of the united kingdom and the republic of ireland are part of the e.u. with people and goods passing freely between those two territories as on the map but after a definite line between europe and the e.u. the u.k. the plan is to avoid a so-called hard border where checks and inspections are re-imposed so the e.u. and the u.k. have decided to have a fallback plan or

a backstop keeping britain and the e.u. customs rules if they can't come up with a new permanent arrangement but that's part of political backlash with fears it could leave britain tied to the e.u. indefinitely or leave barca is a column for block on the border of course the border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland continues really to be that contentious issue and it's going to be contentious for well forseeable days. yes all of this uncertainty of course has massive implications for the whole of the island a violent i'm stood right on the border i'm in northern ireland at the moment we are sure public is only a few meters behind our camera position there's pretty much nothing that differentiates the border itself it's a seamless crossing apart from a slight change in the road service and as you can see by this roadside behind me things and over the done in miles an hour kilometers per hour and the republic of ireland it's an open border and sure made that way for twenty years ever since the

all important signing of the good friday agreement the board and the thirty years of violence known simply as the troubles blood has been spilled over this border nobody wants to see the court turned back never since the border has been open both sides have benefited economically and politically as well particularly the just in time economy whereby goods grown and produced in the republic of ireland could be sent to consumers here in northern ireland and very very quickly indeed to meet all the demands of both consumers and producers as well but given to reason may's crushing defeat on choose say there was one real worries about the prospects of a new deal and all of the implications that that may have for a possible return to a hard border here the police that we spoke to earlier on in the week are worried about a return to hard infrastructure here the possible need for security in policing we also traveled to the far west of violence and spoke to some hardline to the

republicans who said that if there is any hard infrastructure they may well be seen as legitimate targets and of course that is a significant so worrying turn back of the clock nobody in these border communities know but none of the politicians both in the north and in the republic want to see that happen no for the moment needs thanks very much nice box of the north all and . well in english city of darby almost sixty percent of people voted to leave the e.u. in the twenty sixteen referendum about a with reports from a reaction to teresa mayes defeat in parliament. it's taken months of maneuvering to get to this point a chance bring peace to vote on the deal table by the british prime minister a vote watched closely in the social club in dhabi. and thirty two. back in twenty six day nearly sixty percent of people in the city voted to leap and

opinion now about the country's future is still divided from a business perspective is really unnerving because what business needs nascence or stability needs direction so that we know as businesses where to our investment i want to leave and that's what should happen that's what the people voted for and it should have been shorter. darby's history is rooted in industry the cotton mills of the eighteenth century have been replaced by big manufacturers like rolls royce and toyota. that a.s.g. workers a making and designing car parts nearly a fifth the jobs in this area are in manufacturing most are in the aerospace automotive and rail industry all have strong economic ties to. what do you think it will go into the supply chain for the u.k. for automotive industry and some of it will end up in your. bruce.

a.s.g. and voted to leave the e.u. and would do so again disorderly breaks it will create chaos for as if we can't plan properly. i do believe we need to leave with a managed no deal on the w t o rules i think we're better off for it give us some short term pain the longer term will be will be a lot better off you could have predicted that the divisions exposed by the twenty sixty referendum would still be so deeply across british society the only certainty now is uncertainty about what the future might hold. who's a darby and of course i wonder what the reaction is that where you are and to what happened in parliament a hundred eighty kilometers away i mean are people any clearer in their thought process as to what the government needs to do next when it comes to brics it. well the word you keep airing on the street

here in darby about last night it's shambles and there is a real sense of frustration among many of the people that we have spoken to that the will of the people back in twenty sixteen whether that was to vote to leave or remain simply in their minds has not.