i just found this bit of. that's unbelievable and c. is the vegetable of the scene right there. on al-jazeera. the joint resolution is passed. the u.s. house of representatives votes to win support for the board in yemen. and sam is a dad and this is a live from also coming up at least twenty seven revolutionary guards are killed in a suicide bomb attack in iran. this as the u.s. organizes a conference in poland widely seen as an attempt to isolate iran. anger over corruption and living costs sparks violence in the streets in haiti.

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 trumpet ministration support for the kingdom now faces a contentious vote in the senate the u.s. president says he'll veto it habitat and see reports from washington d.c. . 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 rep you refuse

g. 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 dramatic 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 the chaudry south alcatel he remains a close aide of the crown prince and the reported 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's taken more

action in response to the tragic murder of democracy again 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. is the co-director of just foreign policy u.s. advocacy group lobbying congress to find an end to the emmons war he says the house side he's likely to add leverage to negotiations on the ground. it's a wonderful bipartisan moment let's take a look at what's happening on the ground in yemen right now on december thirteenth u.n. special envoy to yemen martin griffis was able to secure a cease fire between the two sides the hardys and the who these because of the congressional pressure on the trump administration and saudi arabia now that has been a fragile cease fire the suffering in yemen remains on the biblical scale twelve

million people on the brink of famine and talks are resuming again right now they're actually grip that is in who data province right now in the harbor on a boat talking to both sides they're trying to agree to the prisoner exchange fifteen thousand prisoners to be exchanged between the two sides and also to have the forces inside her data province redeployed now so this vote the timing of this vote creates tremendous leverage for those peace talks so i think you could have a real of impact on the ground at least twenty seven members of iran's revolutionary guards of being killed in a suicide bombing near the border with pakistan the attack had drove a vehicle filled with explosives into a boss carrying the guards local media say the sunni group has claimed responsibility for the attack happened as the u.s. sponsored two day summit gets under way in poland the focus is middle east security that's been widely labeled an anti iran conference dozens of iranians use the

meeting as an opportunity to call for a change in leadership meanwhile israel's prime minister calls could drive the sea with his explanation of the summits because. these ghostly must this meeting is not in secret this is an open meeting with representatives of leading arab countries that is sitting down together with israel in order to advance the common interest with iran representatives from sixteen nations are at that meeting in warsaw including the u.s. secretary of state and vice president but russia isn't attending and the e.u. is only sent low level delegates reports from warsaw. 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 threats

that didn't sit well with several european countries forcing president donald trump's administration to rename the meeting. despite this a small yet well funded and governments protest was held in warsaw addressed by one of america's most ardent pro israel politicians former new york mayor rudy giuliani well i believe there has to be complete change or i have a change of regime there has to be a democratic regime that respects human rights that is for a non-nuclear iran that for a peaceful right now 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 rather than just attempting to make a statement by themselves on behalf of everybody indicates to you they don't even believe it to c.d.'s if it palestinian leaders to have been critical of the meeting urging federal arab nations to downgrade their representation at the conference they remain angered that the u.s. is 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 come. in groups like i saw but when it comes to those conflicts true there is a lack of diversity in representation with russia and the forty's for example not attending for all the high expectations held by the us for the warsaw. just as much cynicism being expressed by countries who continue to a few of us who roll in the middle east this they believe in 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 there under illegal occupation or trying to drive their destruction. meanwhile the us has issued new iran related sanctions or nine people and two companies it's also charged a former us air force officer with spying for iran comes as the international court of justice ruled iran can proceed to recover billions of dollars of assets from the u.s. the money was frozen by the supreme court three years ago a u.s. judge says donald trump's former campaign chief has breached his plea deal by lying to investigators paul manifold has been found to be in violation of his agreement with the special counsel robert muller is investigating russian interference in the

two thousand and sixteen u.s. election the judge ruled by the fourth lied about his contacts with a russian associate mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . this represents a significant victory for robert miller's team the judge has agreed with prosecutors that paul monophysite has violated his plea bargain by lying on a number of occasions to the f.b.i. and to prosecutors themselves he will face sentencing in the same court before the same judge on the thirteenth of next month and clearly he could face extensive jail time one must remember too that manifold is also facing sentencing in a separate case this one concerning financial crimes sentencing in that particular case was postponed pending the outcome of these plea bargain hearings but very clear that the special counsel's investigation is continuing apace not clear when

or whether his report is going to be publicly released in the near future at least nine people have been killed and dozens injured as demonstrators continue to clash with police and ongoing civil unrest in haiti protesters are calling for the resignation of haitian president john elway's al-jazeera is when you are paolo is in port au prince. was another protester shot dead in the streets of the haitian capital. goods they fired tear gas they fired real bullets but we are determined to get rid of is over and millions if this month. thousands of haitian nationals continue to join the protests in port au prince all of them calling for the resignation of president ship then movies about a general right now we will not have a dialogue with moyes we can have that dialogue when he has gone in the last two years haiti's economy has suffered a sharp financial decline and

a fast climbing inflation rate critics accuse the president and his cabinet of corruption and failing to follow through on promises to improve the national economy cities they not connected the part of each a to me says there's been a tipping point in the haitian people have lost all confidence in the government so there's a confidence crisis people don't trust government people would obvious they don't expect so lucian's from government they don't even believe in what they say and maybe that's why they don't see any it's because for eight days now because they are free they don't know what to say to reconvenes to know what to say to really make people believe. tensions remain high across the city demonstrators preparing for more clashes with police have set up street barricades all over town some taking advantage of the chaos have looted shops and grocery stores in the center of town. there have also been attacks on the presidential

palace most recently an angry crowd attempted to block road access to the airport. ongoing anti-government protests have brought port au prince to a standstill schools are closed supermarkets are closed government services have been halted the economic impact of the political crisis over the last week alone could be measured in the tens of millions of dollars a staggering amount of money for what is already the poorest nation in the americans. despite calls by the international community for a dialogue president has not made any public statement on the unrest for nearly a week with violence escalating it appears there's still room for the political crisis to worsen. port au prince. also i have now dizzy we have more on the man on a mission to strike a deal between the world's two largest economies before march. it's all over for

rover bass's robotic mission comes to an end. well as a last winter system and scrapes through bringing rain and snow to took mr and afghanistan there's a bit of a gap before the next one's already developing developing over turkey will swing through into the west's levant during service a dropping temperatures bringing cloud and rain and some snow ties optically cold system it might well be a wet one once again and here is the big gap so enough gas and looks fine during services and friday but there's the rain spreading right across northern syria northern iraq and the cold front will sweep down picking up the winds ahead of it and behind it and change in the direction which usually picks up sun and the drones quite dampen moments as sand is going to be a big problem to be honest but the wind direction will be noticed had it suddenly

means twenty four in riyadh the cloud comes across the border occasional showers are breaks of rain lasting hour or so and that's heading down towards bahrain and qatar maybe later on friday ahead of it warms behind it dropped yet in fact if anything riyadh picked up that nice little taste of water twenty eight before the following day it will certainly get cooler in the of the breeze active weather has returned once again to this climatic line it's just drift a bit east out of i gotta say from zambia down towards mozambique and south africa big showers. a face can tell a story without touching a single lie. the unconventionality of life. witnessed three demands of the human eye. on al-jazeera. africa's largest democracy goes to the polls to

elect a president parliament and governance corruption insecurity and economic uncertainty that dominate nigerian politics remain widespread al jazeera brings you coverage of the issues the candidates and voters nigeria. all watching out to syria. headlines now the u.s. house of representatives has passed a resolution to end the military involvement in the saudi led war in yemen it's a direct tribute to the trumpet ministration support from the kingdom the measure now faces a contentious vote in the senate the us president says he'll veto it at least twenty seven members of iran's revolutionary guards have been killed in

a suicide bombing near the border with pakistan the attacker drove a vehicle filled with explosives into that bus local media say the sunni group claimed responsibility. this came as a u.s. sponsored conference opened in poland on middle east security it's widely seen as an attempt to isolate iran israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu says the meeting will focus on what he calls a common interest in a war with iran. the u.s. treasury secretary is in china to try and end a trade war between the world's two largest economies steve muchin and u.s. negotiators are hoping to reach an agreement on tariffs before an early march deadline adrian brown has more from beijing. well it may be valentine's day but there's not much love lost between trade negotiators from china and the united states the u.s. treasury secretary steve minucci in left his hotel in beijing on thursday morning

saying he was looking forward to these talks but he wouldn't elaborate for these talks to succeed though there has to be some goodwill on both sides both sides are trying to reach a framework of a deal that they can put to president xi jinping and president donald trump for them to sign but there are a number of sticking points for the united states it's the issue of verification making sure that china sticks to its word on what is agreed here in beijing i understand that the two sides are discussing a mechanism whereby tariffs would be automatically raised if china didn't keep to its side of the bargain now of course the united states has other complaints it believes that the way china does business is unfair many of its trade practices it wants reformed in particular the vast subsidies that the government gives to domestic companies here in china and of course there's also the issue of companies

here in the united states who enter into joint venture arrangements with chinese partners being forced to hand over their intellectual property their know how as a condition for doing business here in china but these are big complex issues and it's doubtful that they can be resolved between now and early march so i think what you're likely to see here in beijing a best is a partial superficial deal on the issue of tariffs and the two sides would have to continue negotiations on those other outstanding issues. well to counter china's growing influence in the south pacific astray as foreign minister says he wants to step up his country's engagement there recently scott morrison visited the tiny island nation of vanuatu where he discussed how the two countries can work closer together under thomas reports from port vila in vanuatu. most roadworks around to vanuatu are overseen by someone from china and it's money from

china that is paying for this either through loans on generous terms or as i there by a huge convention center paid for by china is having its carpark resurfaced across pacific island countries state link chinese companies are becoming increasingly active china has been around for a long time but the nature of its engagement has definitely changed in the last few years both in terms of the quantity and the diversification analysts see projects like the u.s. as a way for china to win friends and with those recipient countries help project its power and influence we continue to try to maximise the opportunities for development for our country and also of course we are happy to support aspirations of friends when they need us to support them with boats and so on in the united nations they have been rumors that china wants to take a specific relationships further and establish a military base in the pacific island country there's concern too that china could

strategically important assets if the pacific island countries are unable to pay back the debts used to build them analysts in beijing though dismiss such concerns we are. even if these countries are in debt to china they can still make independent decisions they won't listen to china just because china is their debt collector that's very unrealistic even so the big western power in the south pacific australia is concerned its prime minister says his country should be the partner of choice in the south pacific mr president finally rightly and prime minister brown often want to australia made it almost thirty years so morrison told this model friday stretching out in the region many say the long range of australian aid in vanuatu is more about human than physical investment in port vila australian paramedics. the training their counterparts but elsewhere in the pacific australia in partnership with the united states has just announced it will

establish a naval base on papua new guinea's man a silent when you say hand on heart but this stepping up would be happening if china's presence wasn't being felt here we're here because we believe in the region and always have and we will continue to be here because we believe in the peace and prosperity and stability and independence and sovereignty of our region analysts say australia sees china's implodes as a potential threat to sovereignty independence stability and maybe even to peace which is why the battle for influence and power in the pacific has begun after it us al jazeera. journalist in the philippines who was arrested for libel has been released on bail. maria ressa is the c.e.o. of the news website and was named as one of time magazine's persons of the year she was repeatedly clashed with president regularly go to terror tape publishing reports critical of his war on drugs. as well as opposition controlled congress is

named new boards of directors to the state owned oil company opposition to the one announced the appointments of directors that petroleum to venezuela and its u.s. subsidiary citgo petroleum the opposition is trying to gain control of the oil industry which venezuela relies heavily on. meanwhile aid remains blocked from entering venezuela u.s. president says but there was making a terrible mistake by not allowing it in he repeated that all options are on the table to force the venezuelan president down newman reports from. opposition leader one white dog confident that nothing will stop him from bringing food and medical aid into than israel on for every twenty third from across the colombian and brazilian borders. but president nicolas maduro vows to use the army to block it calling the main the usaid an imperialist trojan horse. so what

is plan b. venezuela's army remains loyal to mother little. one suggestion from opposition coalition leader might be echoed you know my challenge is to accuse them of little of crimes against humanity if you blocks the aids passage when there is a genocide or crimes against humanity the world cannot stay in the front when we are asking is. peace a peace mission that helps these. being delivered to those who are mostly need she couldn't say whether that meant using military force but on wednesday u.s. president donald trump refused to rule it out when he met colombian president even a key ally and staunch opponent of mughal i just want to thank the president for working with us and we're working together our militaries are very focused on working together. let's see how it all turns out. another strong

man near the colombia border says that business is ready to defend itself from what he believes is the likeliest threat military aggression from colombia freddy but now argues colombia's leader is taking orders from his mentor former president. a sworn enemy of my little. already bases colombia doesn't need the americans to invade venezuela because the colombian armed forces are ready to do it all they need is logistical support from the us. why though insists he wants to avoid a military conflict but he's hoping the threat of one might convince venezuela's military to turn on muddled all this as more calls for dialogue appear to four on deaf ears the clock is ticking and there are absolutely no signs of a compromise on either side and significantly for the first time the opposition appears to be united in that the only thing it's willing to discuss with president

mahmoud abbas is the time and manner of his departure. and that something mother who insists is non-negotiable as the high stakes power struggle escalates we see in human i'll just see that access now the trial of the drug lord known as chapo is big news in the u.s. and around the world but it is home country of mexico story is more of a cautionary tale john heilemann falls. 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 a peace with your conscience and with your neighbor. even the juicy troll 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 the two after his full it simply go to home 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 reckoning 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 won't 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 a list it brought him respect to some he was an. more 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 men. a many others don't unidentified in mass graves across the country and that's what many grieving families here are more likely to remember him john home and i'll just see the mexico city. it's the end of an era in mars exploration nasa has formally announced

the demise of its longest running rover on the red planet the mission lasted a remarkable fifteen years the opportunity rover landed on mars back in two thousand and four with a projected mission of just three months tanya harrison was the science team collaborator on the mars rover mission she says despite its demise nasa 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'd seen a lot of evidence from orbit that there were river isn't oceans and lakes inside craters but opportunity even a glimpse of that and it's on the ground and we were able to piece together a story of how middle water environments on mars that could have supported life as we know it. so we've taken steps a spirit an opportunity the twin programmers 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 a martian version of earthquakes to see if there's any type of internal activity going on ribbon around it. let's take you through some of the headlines now the u.s. house of representatives as possible as allusion to end american military involvement in the saddam led war in yemen is a direct tribute of the trumpet ministration support for the kingdom the measure

now faces a contentious votes in the senate the u.s. president says he'll veto it. at least twenty seven members of iran's revolutionary guards have been killed in a suicide bombing near the pakistan border the attacker drove a vehicle filled with explosives into the local media say some the armed group has claimed responsibility this came as a u.s. sponsored conference opened in poland on security in the middle east it's widely seen as an attempt to isolate iran because. we've got this meeting is not in secret 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 and u.s. judge says donald trump's former campaign chief has breached his plea deal by lying to investigators paul man of ford has been found in violation of his agreement with the special counsel is investigating russian interference in the two thousand and

sixteen u.s. election. as waiters opposition controlled congress is named new boards of directors to the state owned oil company opposition leader one way though and now it's the appointments of directors to venezuela and its u.s. subsidiary citgo petroleum the opposition is trying to gain control of the oil industry which venezuela relies heavily on some news just in now airline manufacturer airbus is announced it will cease production of the world's largest passenger plane the plane has ended the fleet of only a few major airlines biggest customer emirates is just reduced its order for the a three eighty super jumbo the european aircraft maker will not continue production past two thousand and twenty one of the top of the hour. afghanistan has been asked geology both mentally resources and hydrocarbons why are they so poor the measuring you guys would find in which form of government that we

may have the types when essentially now where the more we lead close down the more they push back we knew it was coming to question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprise them with a preemptive strike talking about it until. it . nag. you that video that would work if you cut me that it. will get there if we got out about. i.