the joint resolution is passed with the u.s. house of representatives votes to end support for the war in yemen. fully back to boyer watching al jazeera live from doha also ahead at least twenty seven revolutionary guards are killed in a suicide bomb attack in iran this as the u.s. all denies is a conference in poland widely seen as an attempt to isolate iran plus the end of an iraq as nasr announces that its powering down its mars rover opportunity.

will begin with breaking news out of the us where the house of representatives has passed a resolution to end american military involvement in the saudi led war in yemen it's a direct rebuke of the trump administration's support for the kingdom the measure now faces a contentious vote in the senate and trump says he will veto its she had her tons of reports some washington. this is a five minute vote this is the vote that the house of representatives then controlled by the republicans refused to allow last year with control having shifted to the democrats passage of a resolution ending u.s. involvement in the yemen war it was never in doubt nearly all of the bombs that have fallen say the same thing made in the united states of america they fall on weddings they fall on hospitals and on homes they fall on funerals reputable

refugee camps and school busses i am mindful that this debate is taking place a day after the president disregarded the law and failed to report to congress who was responsible for the murder of journalist jamal to shogi. the murder of drama last october has moved allies members of congress against the saudi led war in yemen in fact as one republican noted democrats didn't seem concerned when the previous president began helping the bombardment of a country that would have been nice if our friends were equally concerned with president obama actually was committing us the kinds of activities we're talking about but things have changed and if anything anger has grown on capitol hill for several reasons the white house's refusal to meet a congressional deadline to definitively conclude whether crown prince mohammed bin salman was responsible for the killing a new york times report that revealed u.s. intelligence had intercepted a phone call in which the crown prince threatened to put

a bullet into the journalist reports that despite having been officially fired as a result of his role in the killing of south alcatel he remains a close aide of the crown prince and the report that u.s. weapons supplied to saudi arabia have ended up in the hands of al qaeda fighters in yemen but it was seen as a split between conservative and progressive democrats the republicans did manage to get bipartisan support for an amendment to the bill allowing the president to continue what it calls appropriate information sharing with the saudis last year a similar resolution was passed in the republican controlled senate an unprecedented assertion of congressional authority limiting the powers of a president to make war under the war powers act the resolution sponsors are hopeful it will pass again in the senate however without a two thirds majority from both chambers of congress president trump can and has indicated he will veto the bill the first veto of his term and the administration maintains it is acting appropriately america's not caring for america taking more

action in response to the tragic murder of jamal khashoggi i will continue to take more action but if the white house had hoped that opposition to saudi arabia would dissipate in washington in twenty nineteen they've been disappointed she ever tansey al-jazeera washington and i'm now to mike hanna in washington mike so historic vote every to the trump administration's alliance with saudi arabia but what does this resolution me actually. well it's very much a historic vote it's the first time that congress has successfully in both the war powers act since it was created in one thousand nine hundred seventy three it does very significant message to saudi arabia from members of congress what the house of representatives are hoping is that the senate will quickly take it up and pass it that would mean that would go to president trump for signature the white house has already indicated that it's likely to veto this legislation the white house arguing

strongly that the basis of the legislation is incorrect as u.s. troops on not in formal combat in assisting the saudi forces but very strong signal to saudi arabia and very strong signal to president trump that there's still deep desire dissatisfaction among members of congress about his handling of the khashoggi affair the db resolution doesn't actually impose any sanctions on saudi arabia what does it mean as far as the conflict in yemen itself. well it does mean that there will be no more u.s. assistance in military terms for the saudi forces operating there now the sim volved all sorts of levels including the refueling of solid the flights in which the pentagon said has been halted fairly recently but the provision of weapons obviously the provision of advice all of these played a major role in that conflict now the one

a dent in that was put on to that bill is that the question of intelligence sharing that will continue when it is defined to be in u.s. interest but certainly this legislation as it stands a very sharp blow to saudi arabia's ability to operate in that ongoing conflict but to do it may all be moot looking at that presidential veto that's likely to be coming down the road thank you very much for that mike hanna reporting there live from washington d.c. in other world news at least twenty seven members of iran's revolutionary guards have been killed in a suicide bombing near the country's border with pakistan the attacker drove a vehicle filled with explosives into a bus carrying the guards local media say the sunni on audio has claimed responsibility for the attack happened as a u.s. sponsored two day summit get gets underway in poland the focus is security in the middle east but it's been widely labeled an anti iran conference dozens of iranians

use the meeting as an opportunity to call for a change of leadership while israel's prime minister cost controversy with his explanation of the summit taken as. because. we've gotten the message this week is not in see this is an open meeting with representatives of leading arab countries that are sitting down together with israel in order to advance the common interest with iran. represents is some sixty nations are at the meeting in war so including the u.s. secretary of state and the u.s. vice president but russia isn't attending and the e.u. has only sense low level delegates child has a report from was so. representatives from sixty nations but almost no head of state the much anticipated u.s. led conference to promote peace and security in the middle east convened on wednesday evening in the polish capital warsaw with a little clarity as to what it's in to achieve initially washington had said the conference was being organized to confront what it described as the iranian threat that didn't sit well with several european countries forcing president donald

trump's administration should rename the meeting. despite this small yet well funded and government's protest was held in warsaw addressed by one of america's most ardent pro israel politicians former new york mayor rudy giuliani who i believe there has to be complete change and i had a change of regime there has to be a democratic regime that respects human rights that for a non-nuclear iran that's for a peaceful around and then we can solve the problem the middle east the absence of world leaders and a trumpet ministrations perceived pro israeli bias when it comes to dealing with the middle east is proof the iranians say that the meeting will fail on the course of war so conference i believe it's dead on arrival or dead before arrival i don't think it would do any think it's another attempt at this stage to pursue an obsession with iran that is not well founded and i think the fact that. they're not

even aiming to produce any agreed text they're just attempting to make a statement by themselves on behalf of everybody in the case to you they don't even believe it's a serious affair palestinian leaders to have been critical of the meeting urging federal arab nations to downgrade their representation at the conference they remain angered at the u.s. his decision to move its embassy to illegally occupied jerusalem and are questioning its ability to act as a mediator for peace secretary of state pompei or has said participants will also focus on discussing the wars in yemen and syria and combating grew. like i saw but when it comes to those conflicts truth there is a lack of diversity and representation with russia and the forces for example not attending for all the high expectations held by the us for the warsaw summits knows just as much cynicism being expressed by countries who continue to use us is role in the middle east as the stabilizing rather than positive now the trumpet

ministration will point to the fact that the israeli prime minister will be meeting with representatives of arab regimes in public but that will have little impact on the daily reality of the millions of arabs who continue to live news or under illegal occupation or trying to drive their destruction. works or. policy for the middle east and north africa program at the european council on foreign relations she explains why the summit is being held in poland where much of europe is against iran policy. poland we know has been trying to make an outreach with president trump and the u.s. administration on security and defense issues and so this measure would have been possibly a measure of goodwill on the part of poland to hold this sort of a summit especially at a time where the united states feels quite isolated on middle east policy for i

think a lot of other european capitals this is seen as an attempt by the united states actually divide and conquer european countries particularly on the issue of iran which there's been unprecedented unity amongst member states in the european union for the last year we mustn't forget that the ether the the european countries that are party to this nuclear deal that's germany france and the u.k. were very angered by the u.s. decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal not just start but also wider middle east policy for example the u.s. move its embassy to jerusalem the stance of the u.s. president personally on the qatar saudi crisis and a number of other instances in the middle east including the announced withdrawal from syria that has left a lot of european capitals feeling angry and frustrated that the u.s. doesn't really have a strategy you are a middle east peace plan and so there's a lot of questions about what europeans would actually gain from showing up at this

event and it's not just the europeans but apparently the turks and we know also the russians have also said no to attending this meeting at ministerial level so it's really i think a failure on the part of the united states to get this coalition international coalition against iran in a formidable way. and the u.s. has issued new iran related sanctions on nine people in two companies is also charging a former u.s. air force officer with spying for iran this comes as international court of justice ruled iran can proceed with a spade to recover billions of dollars of assets from the u.s. the money was frozen by the supreme court three years ago the u.s. wants the money to be given to victims of attacks blamed on iraq still ahead on al jazeera spain braces for a possible snap election after parliament rejects a prime minister's budget proposal last was systematic corruption and rising living costs leads to a return to violence on the streets of haiti.

the a. the it was that i lost it snowed in beijing and that snow has really big for the south the cold contrasting with the warmth for the south has done what it will be just as produced a bit of rain and the area of rain dony a bit patchy his you can see as large as from backs who barge was i suspect sichuan during friday and briefly that cloud will do extend the way down towards hong kong so your system up it will cloudy little bit more humid than your friday at twenty four and rain seems like in shanghai the temperature only a two front is well south of this it it's courts at the moment through almost all of southeast asia you see occasional showers to really get down to into these but even these big ones

a lot to be suppressed in the next day or so nevertheless the sort of way see bits of job or maybe bali showers are likely to be around but for bourne iraq the less so for presence in the grazier probably drawing on us but be true for sumatra as well an unusual current i suppose that's true there for the next couple days can't rule out the showers. completely but they are going to be a rare event not so for afghanistan northern pakistan northern india this clouds going to keep regenerating itself producing snow or tides but showers as well run shows maybe as far south as a profession later even behind. the weather sponsored by catalyst. a story of revolution defiance and murder them told. by a major figure in the war against the french occupation algeria. the one whose bravery even impressed him and one to inspire others in the fight for independence

after death give that a good fifty five to get everything right a lot of the ben mcgeady the algerian revolutionary on al-jazeera. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. house of representatives has passed a resolution to end american military involvement in the war in yemen it's a direct rebuke of the child by administration support for the kingdom the measure now faces a contentious vote in the senate and says he will veto it at least twenty seven members of iran's revolutionary guards have been killed in a suicide bombing near the country's border with pakistan the attacker drove

a vehicle filled with explosives into a bus carrying members of the guards local media say the sunni armed group has claimed responsibility and this came as a u.s. sponsored conference opened in poland on the security situation in the middle east but it's viewed as a threat posed by iran israeli prime minister benjamin its now says it will focus on what he calls common interests in a war with iran. venezuela is opposition controlled congress has names new board of directors to the state owned company opposition leader one guy do announce the appointments of directors of its own alias stephen his way to and it's u.s. subsidiary city to go. the opposition is trying to gain control of an industry that is economic backbone of the country last month the u.s. which bans quite all impose sanctions on the venezuela's oil sector i do or say is a sanctions are immoral and criminal meanwhile the u.s. president donald trump says maduro is making a terrible mistake by blocking u.s.

aid from entering venezuela made the comments as he host cities colombian counterpart at the white house and i'll be as one of the ten. eric in countries which has endorsed opposition to one as venezuela's interim president there currently are stockpiles of aid on colombia's border with venezuela which my door is refusing to allow in now the democratic chairman of the u.s. house foreign affairs committee has ruled out any u.s. intervention in venezuela he dismissed such a gesture from president trump at a hearing on venezuela i do worry about the president's saber rattling his hints that the u.s. military intervention remains an option i want to make clear to our witnesses and to everyone else watching us military intervention is not an option congress decides when where and how the u.s. military is used around the world and congress would not support military intervention in venezuela venezuela's neighbors feel the same way. white house

correspondent kimberly hunt cats has more now from washington. u.s. president donald trump is continuing to signal that all options are on the table when asked about military intervention by the united states in venezuela as well of course borders and the colombian president was meeting with donald trump in the oval office donald trump saying that the united states has many plans and there is a lot happening that people don't know about the colombian president even do k. is also meeting with prominent members of congress he is also going to meet with representatives of the world bank while he is in washington he says he is focused on continuing to build support in the western hemisphere to pressure the venezuelan leader nicolas maduro to step down saying the western hemisphere will give one wide old the opposition leader the support that he needs to lead the transition that the obstruction of aid currently is

a crime against humanity donald trump also stating that he believes that nicolas maduro is making a terrible mistake by not letting the food aid in well he will not telegraph next steps he continues to say that all options when it comes to u.s. intervention is on the table. at least six people have died after nearly a week of anti-government protests in haiti and demonstrate is a calling on presidential anomalies to step down they are angry about rising costs economic stagnation and corruption on tuesday seven hundred inmates escaped from a prison in the seventy's i came during the protests and now some reports of looting in the capital port au prince manya rapido has more from port au prince. anti-government demonstrations have reached day seven in haiti clashes between demonstrators and police continue and we should mention that the that the situation on the ground is rather tense apart from tear gas police have been using live

direct live rounds to disperse protesters we can confirm that at least eight people have been killed within the context of this current political crisis we most recently heard of a journalist that was shot in the arm earlier this afternoon now there have been attacks against the presidential palace there was an attempted attack outside of the airport today there's been looting of stores even just driving around the city of port au prince there's roadblocks scattered across the city there's dry wood and tires presumably waiting to be set on fire in the vent that more clashes take place and what we're hearing from people from locals here overwhelmingly is a call for the president to step down unfortunately we haven't heard any sort of speech or any or any statement from president of no more movies he says there was word that the government ministers would be meeting this afternoon although even there we still haven't heard of what that meeting was about or any sort of statement from government ministers members of the president's political opposition have joined in on the demonstrations that are taking part in these in these

protests and once again there's a very unified call for the president to step down and there's one more thing that we should mention that very important is that port au prince itself the city is being brought to its knees it's pretty much at a standstill schools are closed shops are closed supermarkets are closed government services are halted and speaking to an economist earlier today he's told us that just in the last seven days. the impact the economic impact of the political crisis could be measured in the tens of millions of dollars that's a staggering amount of money considering that haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere certainly the poorest country in latin america so the sense that we get is that not only will these protests continue in the coming days there's still room for the political crisis itself to worsen the trial of the drug lord known as el chapo was big news in the u.s. and around the world but in his home country of mexico his story is more of a cautionary tale hocking guzman which is out chappell is real name was convicted in a court in new york on tuesday for drug trafficking and other crimes john heilemann

has a report from mexico. in the u.s. the outcome of the el chapo trial was headline news but the verdict on the man who for a decade symbolized organized crime in mexico barely caused a ripple in his homeland. some newspapers found space for him on their front pages but the president's daily press conference was an hour in before anyone trouble to bring him up the response was a little more than a morality tale. it's a lesson that's real happiness isn't money or material things cheap luxury and fame real happiness is being it at least with your conscience and with your neighbor. even the juicy trial testimony alleging that quacking guzman slipped to mexico's ex-president one hundred million dollars bribe couldn't make him bite simply because to get it right is it possible better only we can punish past errors but the best thing to do is to avoid future crimes i'm a believer in looking forward and starting a new era. this in a low

a cartel of which working guzman was a prominent leader seems a big believer in that too after his full it simply got on with its lucrative business processing and shipping vast amounts of drugs in spite of arrest and conviction really organized crime is as was in mexico before so what we need to understand is that cartels are cartels do not function as top down vertical organizations which can be eradicated by eradicating the guy on top they are more to understood as alliances complex alliances of different groups different clans different interests and if you take out one guy doesn't mean that the whole structure will crumble. that's perhaps why the new president has said his priority would be to go after kingpins in his time walking guzman was undoubtedly the most famous of the movie he escaped prison twice and went from poverty to the forbes

rich list it brought him respect to some he was an. laure hero but that's just part of his legacy the other is his involvement in a brutal drug war this scene hundreds of thousands of minutes to a many others don't unidentified emersed graves across the country amounts what many grieving families here are more likely to remember him for john home and. mexico city. and hotels in spain are bracing for a possible snap election after members of parliament defeated the government's budget proposal among the m.p.'s who voted against prime minister pedro sanchez were panis from the catalonia region and their support had been conditional on having direct talks about independence david tator reports of madrid this oh it was an emphatic defeat for the socialist prime minister petra sanchez wasted little time in leaving the parliament where one hundred ninety one to three hundred fifty m.p.'s voted against his budget an early election is now looming but his cabinet

will decide when they meet on friday all of them are aware of the dangers ahead the endo said about the there's this dilemma that we are seeing the rise of the far right parties in the rest of the european union xenophobic racist sexist homophobic parties which still believe in the values of freedom and we gaining ground in europe the minister was referring to one particular party in spain called fox they gained seats in the regional assembly and andrew thier for the first time helping to break a thirty six year grip on power by the socialists in the south but it was the vote of the catalonians separatist members of parliament it will help break the grip of petro sanchez on the parliament to be treated. as brilliant the leaders were stuck at least in this town he refused to talk about independence just autonomy in a bottle and in the alec displays although he spoke about dialogue a limit was put on this dialogue it's not that we have abandoned the socialists but

they have decided last week to change their focus for the rest of their term. the budget faute defeat came twenty four hours after the start of what's being described as the trial of the century twelve catalan separatists faced twenty five years in jail if convicted of rebellion as additions to the televised trial in the supreme court here richard is expected to last three months by the time a new right wing government could have gained power with no intention of any compromises or catalonia which would probably leave an open wound in spanish politics for years to come david chase to al-jazeera but rid of a journalist in the philippines who was named as one of time magazine's person of the year has been arrested for libel that he is a c.e.o. of the news website she has repeatedly clash with president rodrigo tatty publishing news reports critical of his untied drug crime down rests freedom

advocates say her arrest is an act of persecution but i know is i have not gotten an official copy of the. indictment we would have the chance to file a motion for reconsideration we should the fact that an arrest warrant has been issued well really interesting and i will follow i just shocked that the rule of law has been broken to the point that i can't see it the chief defense lawyer for the former boss of japanese conjoined nissan has resigned a second attorney has also quits without explanation carlos cohen has been in a japanese detention center since his arrest in november he denies a complex fraud scheme of under reporting is income when he served as one of the world's best known and highest paid company executives. it's the end of an evil in mars exploration not a has formally announced the demise of its longest running rover on the red planet

after a remarkable fifteen years the opportunity rover landed on mars back in two thousand and four with a projected mission of just three months powered by its solar panels opportunity was still going strong until communication finally ceased in a massive sandstorm last june tanya harrison was a science team collaborate on the mars rover mission she says despite its demise not will continue to have a robotic presence on the red planet. so opportunity was one of our first missions on the ground where we actually found direct evidence of liquid water in the history of mars so we've seen a lot of evidence from orbit that there river isn't oceans and lakes inside craters but opportunity even a glimpse of that incidents on the ground and we were able to piece together a story of how mobile water environments on mars that could have supported life as we know it. so we've taken steps a spirit an opportunity the twin brokers their goal was to follow the water and

then the next step that we had with the curiosity rover which landed in two thousand and twelve and is still operating today is specifically to look for signs of habitability so environments that could have supported light and then we're taking the next step with the mars two thousand and twenty rover that nasa is launching next year just pacifically cache samples so that we can look for signs of life. the european space agency and china are also planning to send rovers in two thousand and twenty as well so it's going to be a busy place on mars and we have the nasa insight lander which just got to mars near the end of november of last year and that one is a stationary lander that's going to hunt for mars quakes basically the martian version of earthquakes to see if there's any type of internal activity going on we can run it as an animal that for a long time was regarded as mythical but now the first verified picture is of a black leopard for more than a century have been taken in kenya remote cameras captured these images last month that as a fiery camp one hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital nairobi the black

leopard also known as the black panther has an extremely rare genetic mutation that turns that coats jet black the previous confirmed picture was taken in ethiopia in nineteen zero nine. zero again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. house of representatives has passed a resolution to end american military involvement in the saudi led war in yemen it's a direct rebuke of the trump administration's support for the kingdom the measure now faces a contentious vote in the senate and trump says he will veto it mike hanna has more from washington. well it's very much a historic vote it's the first time the congo. successfully invoked the one nine hundred seventy three war powers act so certainly this in itself is significant

what is also significant is that eighteen republicans joined the democrats in voting for this measure a clear sign of the bipartisan nature of this ongoing arguing about u.s. support for saudi arabia at least twenty seven members of iran's revolutionary guards have been killed in a suicide bombing near the country's border with pakistan the attacker drove a vehicle filled with explosives into a bus carrying members of the guards local media say sunni armed group. has claimed responsibility and this happened as a u.s. sponsored call friends opened in poland on the security situation in the middle east in the middle east but it's used as a threat posed by iran israeli prime minister binyamin it's now says it will focus on what he calls common interests in a war with iran venezuela's opposition controlled congress has named new boards of directors to the states and oil company opposition leader one guy do announce the

of an appointment of directors that. venezuela and its u.s. subsidiary citgo petroleum the opposition is trying to gain control of an industry that is the economic backbone of the country. at least six people have died after nearly a week of anti-government protests in haiti the demonstrators are calling on president of anomalies to step down they are angry about rising costs economic stagnation and corruption and voters in spain are facing the prospect of a third general election in four years members of parliament defeated the budget plans of the ruling socialist government and they included parties from the catalonia region you're up to date with the headlines here on al-jazeera coming up next it's entire story i hope you just stay with us thanks for watching.

the thai opposition party is facing the axe but backing the botched election bid by a princess what does it mean for democracy as thailand prepares for its first vote since the military took power five years ago this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program dennis thailand's election commission has recommended the dissolution of the policy that chose a princess to be its candidate for prime minister the march twenty fourth general let.