dika to votes facing m.p.'s earlier theresa may insisted that the brics a deal she negotiated with the e.u. is still the best option available. we are continuing to work to ensure that we can deliver grex it for the british people and guarantee that we deliver breaks it for the british people we have a deal which cancels are you membership fee which stops are you making our north which gives us our own immigration policy and a common agricultural policy for goods and is a common fisheries policy for good other options don't do that other options would lead to delay to uncertainty and now start delivering bricks. all right well let's take a closer look at those proposals m.p.'s will be voting on a set the first option would see the u.k. leave the e.u. on april twelfth without a deal the second is an enhanced norway style deal which would include membership of the e.u. single markets the third would see the u.k. remain a member of the european economic area and reapply to join the european free trade

association for his deal which includes a commitment to negotiate a u.k. wide customs union with the e.u. this is labor's plan to push for close economic relationship with the e.u. including a customs union and close alignment with the single market option six is revoking article fifty two avoids a no deal breaks it seven is a second referendum to approve any deal proposal eight is a managed no deal process in the event that a divorce agreement is not reached confused but some to stand of all let's take you live to paul brennan he is in westminster for us so plenty of options there and peace to juggle with lace of paul the kidneys this hour of course is the announcement by theresa may that she is willing to step aside from her job if her brakes deal goes through why has she set. that's right felicity this the political landscape down here at westminster has more moving parts it seems than

a fine swiss watch it's so many different things the m.p.'s are in the main chamber debating those eight options that you just outlined in the hope that they can find some kind of consensus of an alternative route given the fact that teresa mayes prefer to live on the chin agreed with the european union has been rejected twice already by parliaments but at the same time as the debate was taking place in the main commons chamber teresa myself was beating at what's called the one nine hundred twenty two committee it's a committee of conservative policy backbench m.p.'s and at that meeting she said that she appreciated that they wanted a new approach new leadership and she would not stand in the way of that that she would be prepared to go to chris as prime minister before the next stage that is in the negotiations over the future trading arrangements for the u.k. and europe after breakfast if it meant that the deal would be voted through now joining me to digest as and. allies it is tom how

a direct communication but previously labor party had a research and the author of a book called punch and judy politics how appropriate some what do you make of the prime minister's offer to have backbenchers what is an interesting sort of paradoxical for a sort of buckley and all quits we show is not this sort of thing that said the promise is usually say so she says that if he can pass then she'll stand down by the twenty second of may wish we could be the new me but to date and if if that's something that would if the if tory m.p. self if it provides about the deal in return for that tells us a couple things i think it tells us that send tory m.p.'s never had that principle in reaction to the to the deal in the first place at the reverted back in return for getting a new prime minister and secondly i think it tells us that they think that a new prime minister might give them what they want compared to what theresa may might have so it means that the the shape sits underneath honestly could be very different indeed. and we have to wait and see what that might look like depending on what the various candidates say in the forthcoming election for the conservative

vision and without getting too intricate about it for our international viewers the d u p the democratic unionist party were thinking that maybe a statement from them about their position this evening how critical is their stance to the prime minister's future and to the prime minister's deal what is critical for the two for the deal in two ways firstly because they've got ten votes which are really important to tight parliament and secondly because a lot of tory m.p.'s votes seem to be contingent on what the d.p. say so there are a number of choice you say that if the d.p. which is just which invokes the deal then they would switch to come to the second. in the next hour because we have to throw back the next vote on the eight options and seven o'clock the result about nine o'clock we'll have more throughout the evening back here a long evening for paul and his team thanks so much. all the opposition labor party has demanded answers after reports in the british media that u.k. special forces has been involved in gun battles with yemen's healthy rebels but at the party's foreign affairs spokeswoman also pressed the government on allegations

that british forces may have bided support the child soldiers in the saudi led coalition charlie angela reports. we are not party to the conflict that is the official british line on yemen and has been since the start of the war in two thousand and fifteen but an urgent investigation is underway following allegations that british soldiers were involved in firefights in the northern city of sada an article in the mail on sunday newspaper alleges that five elite special boat service or s.b.s. troops were injured by hooty fighters quoting an s.p.s. source who says the s.p.s. his role is mainly training and mentoring on occasions they have found themselves in firefights and some british troops have been shot. britain does supply billions of dollars worth of arms and just tickle support to the saudis that maintains this is the full. extent of it's help for a key trading partner but the opposition labor party's foreign affairs spokeswoman

is demanding answers there is one especially disturbing allegation in the mail on sunday's report which was that all forces are providing support to locally recruited saudi funded militia where many of the fighters up to forty percent it was alleged are children as young as thirteen years old so i would ask the minister of state if that is in any way true because if he is then he will confirm and off forces are not just a party to this conflict but witnesses to war crimes. the british government has maintained it cannot assess individual violations of humanitarian law because it does not have boots on the ground but the allegations of s.b.s. present has not been dismissed outright i'm hearing that we get to the bottom of those allegations again i am very keen also not to in any way miss mislead the house. but the allegations that were made in relation to any engagement that

involves bringing back child soldiers on board would be i think it would be appalling the only solution to this war is a political one says britain but there are now calls to unpick that definition of playing a supportive role to al-jazeera london or i'll have more from london in this person right now but it's back to come all in the hot thanks for seriously later on india's prime minister meanwhile says his country is now a space superpower after it shot down a satellite as part of a test it's becoming the fourth country to do so announcement just two weeks before indian votes in a general election there are. i want to assure the global community that this new ability that we have achieved is not against anyone it is a defensive initiative of a fast moving india india has always been against this base arms race and this hasn't changed our policy. more on this one so how raman our reporting from new

delhi what the prime minister said was that within the last twenty four hours he could confirm that india become the fourth nation in the world along with the us china and russia anti satellite technology it had shot down successfully one of its own satellites in orbit and that he wanted to tell the nation of course is a policy that was started back in two thousand and twelve under the former prime minister manmohan singh so india's space development through isro the indian space research organization has been developing space technology for decades now but it's a huge feather in the prime minister's cap operation shock the was launched. over in addition region in the east of the country so certainly a major announcement by a sitting prime minister which has reverberations and repercussions at this present moment in time in india thailand's main opposition parties have formed a coalition to take on the military backed ruling group that says it has enough

seats to form a government but the final results of sunday's election still haven't been announced scott hi there with more from bangkok. thailand's lead opposition party has formed a democratic front coalition in the lower house along with six other parties they have two hundred fifty five seats and claim to have a majority and right to form a government the heads of each party signed an agreement that we are seven parties that happen the majority of votes from people who have trusted to work in the house up to teach we are signing the choice to stop the power with the station off to. a new party that ran on the goal of reducing the military's grip on government is part of the coalition the leader of future forward saying the poor candidate for prime minister deserves the job. is to most suitable and dignify candidate for the prime minister put

a thai party the military backed party announce it is working on forming a coalition of its own it's looking to keep prime minister prayer in office. the two hundred fifty members of the senate will be appointed by the military government and the democratic front to gain some of their support to form its own government and that's not going to be easy once they see who will be in the scene they can negotiate or lobby or do something in order to get favor from some see that it is but it's not promising so that's going to be a matter that they have coming up and with senators not expected to be announced until after official election results are released in early may the democratic front of won't have much time to form a government even if they can get support it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. five cases of cholera have been confirmed in mozambique's badly damaged port city of beara two weeks up to psycho needed slammed into the area the u.n.

now fears the disease will spread it says it needs nearly three hundred million dollars in aid to help mozambique's one point seven million victims and killed more than seven hundred people across southern africa tony but they travel to one community in mozambique that's been cut off for twelve days. it's a race against time to reach isolated cyclon survivors before and disease breaking out. helicopters are scouring the three thousand square kilometer disaster zone in central mozambique searching for the vulnerable and overlooked who desperately need help. in the village of greater two hundred kilometers from deraa they found a thousand hungry people if they ate something once a day they were among the more fortunate we are very happy very happy because of the many bears we got forward we got a clean water and we got some extension as well so when we saw this helicopter people were very happy. the world food program brought two tons of high nutritional food much to the relief of the villagers who lost everything in the psych loan

homes crops possessions and some their loved ones this aid is come just in the nick of time for these people their food had run out they were cut off for twelve days the waters only receded here four days ago they still need flour they still need oil and they still need medicine but for now they're ok they're going to survive but there are other isolated pockets like these around the country who still need help in this area they're used to flooding but not with such ferocious winds and more into went for when we didn't expect the cycling to be so bad it was frightening when we were told that the winds will be more than two hundred kilometers per hour and we didn't take it seriously that's why so many people suffered five people from the community were swept away in drowning clued in a young boy most are now having to live in a local school. aid agencies estimate that they have reached six hundred thousand people so far but they need to get to another one million who need assistance

a lot of risk we really need to make a lot of efforts we need more money argentina to be able to bring here on the ground before what they what assistance the medicine things that we need to distribute on time because now banging for is of essence. just a few days ago the land below was covered in water after two days without rain the levels are receding more roads and tracks are becoming passable and that allows the more effective and cheaper way of delivering aid involved. but that help will need to be long term it's harvest season in this region but the village is a barometer like tens of thousands of others have no crops to harvest no fish left to catch today they will eat but what will the future bring. many cycling victims will be dependent on international support for the forseeable future. tony virtually al-jazeera or rather central mozambique. psycho need

a as devastated parts of the two but there are concerns particular on social media about how the aid there is actually being distributed mohammed has more. it's been almost two weeks since my cunny die hit zimbabwe's eastern province the district of the money and shipping the hardest hit areas more than one hundred people have been killed and hundreds more on missing aid agencies from the united nations the e.u. and international governments have been donating tons of humanitarian aid including tents medical supplies and food but someone now accusing the government of the rulings on appeal of party of politicizing the disaster and relief donations this video is being said on twitter claiming state run vans a lining up to collect aid saying it's only being distributed to their supporters or being looted a local news outlet news day zimbabwe said this report online detailing personal accounts of those affected. council gave me two cups of dried beans and potatoes

such as i met you and we didn't get anything all our property was destroyed by the cycling if you want to some effect like political they don't give us anything because the accused m.d.c. supporters. we came at six am to wait for food but none has been brought to us yet and the spokesman of them bodies opposition party movement for democratic change says the aid is being shed along party lines they are moving ahead. they want to put stickers for office on tax. this is. this is discriminatory. but the rulings on appeal party strongly denied those accusations here's what a local government minister had to say. that. that is allowed but i know that. what we're trying to do those. who are many. of them.

with their drugs and. but it hasn't stopped many zimbabweans from expressing their frustration online some say agencies on the ground should be the ones handing over aid to those in need well steve his says when we donated we didn't mention political parties we did it as zimbabweans and jonas says all donations must reach victims of. no political party must benefit from the generosity of the public and international community. one night you could get the media. we have an exclusive report on why and how in a strike the right wing parties saw it cash from the u.s. gun lobby and in sport world number one novak djokovic she suffered another surprise defeat.

the weather still look rather disturbed across many parts of the middle east and in northern sections of the middle east somewhat dry weather now making its way into iran the wettest weather is pushing through a swiss towards of kind of down towards pakistan but you can see this is what we had make its way across terra recently we are going to see it telling a little drier and brought over the next couple of days but still the chance of want to see showers has to be said here we go you can see how that wet weather makes its way across that eastern side of iraq pushes up towards southern parts of turkey we'll see a few showers just around the east side of the mediterranean as well as we go through thursday cyprus could see some rain we'll see showers never really too far away from all lebanon in that wetter weather slot a lot of turkey northern parts of syria peping up notice some snow there across the

high gravity some snow to bushing over towards afghanistan some heavy spells of rain as well but brighter skies did come back into terra tempest here around seventeen souses so we're in the process of improving gradually for iran the wet weather was saying recently that sinking to the south of casa some outbreaks of shabby rain there across the u.a.e. pushing across into northern parts of that where the top temperature twenty eight celsius paris guys for friday. a three year investigation into the pro-gun lobby i've been in florida is making sure it's got a really. reveal secret see what. city out there i mean people out there you know. and connections some don't want to expose many in legacy media hall. last. night al jazeera investigations

how to sell a massacre on al-jazeera. the arab world is going through some unprecedented changes from the saudi u.a.e. led war in yemen to the conflict in syria and protests in algeria. the arab league will hold its first g. eight summit in the two museum capital tunis after a nearly eight year absence will syria return to the leak join us for up to date coverage and in-depth analyses announcers era.

on the news are here at al-jazeera and these are our top stories our jarius are rolling in f.l. in part he is backing a call from the army to remove the president from office on monday the army chief suggested the use of a constitutional provision to have president of the disease but the figure declared unfit for office military intervention follows weeks of protests against the president and his back it's. the u.k. parliament is debating several new options for a break that deal this is after prime minister theresa may address the group still insisting her plan was the best even though it's been rejected twice by its. three year. zero investigation into the us gun lobby has uncovered efforts by a political party in australia to secure twenty million dollars from pro-gun advocates in america the one nation party visited washington d.c. in september last year seeking funds from the n.r.a. the national rifle association paid to charlie from our investigative unit as part two of the story. al-jazeera is investigating

a few new film to covertly about pulling henson from one nation visited the u.s. to attend a series of meetings with gun lobby representatives i'm. the one nation delegation was made up of the party's chief of staff james ashby and steve dixon the leader of the party in the estrangement state of queensland they threw in a million dollars a week when i hate to say it plus five states for the senate there were hoping that kitty donations from the gun lobby would help them secure the balance of power in a strenuous parliament in an upcoming federal election there we would we would be counting down. to see you know. you know what our record. and. if you want one to tell you we've given you a lot of house and you would have felt that. while sitting millions from the gun lobby one nation said it was prepared to soften stricter gun control legislation in

australia that the n.r.a. has frequently criticized the bill whether or not. you'll be there during a visit to the u.s. dixon and ashby attended a series of meetings in which they were offered advise by gun lobby groups on how to prepare the is trillion public for an easing but strict gun laws you have somebody who maybe at least your son i worked at a newspaper maybe he was in city hall or or a little stories about people who are. rob and they're both invasion or whatever it might be that could help out they have a gun and that's going to be the first words and that's where you got the rights going to put out to fire those are we. pulling hanson's one nation party has developed an official gun policy. that proposes a softening of the strict gun when wish to destroy you put in place following

a messenger in the town of port arthur in nine hundred ninety six but in secretly recorded meetings steve dixon promised to work to reverse the laws if we don't understand people are going to go. god help them to get him out of not having gotten to talk of them to get him politically correct but i mean if it is if one portion or you know it will poison our whole life we stop it before charlie al-jazeera sydney. and our correspondent andrew thomas in sydney is following the latest reaction to this story. the revelations are still dominating the news here in australia this is the front page of one paper unloaded now that refers to the two one nation officials who were caught on camera trying to get money out of the us gun lobby now saying that when they were filmed they were drunk they drank too much whisky too much scotch by the filmmaker from al-jazeera who made this program says that's just not true at all he filmed hours of footage of them in business meetings as well as in bars and they were consistently saying that they wanted to

get money out of the us gun lobby consistently saying that they thought they could change the political system here if they got hold of that money the other excuse that the one nation officials have is that this was entrapment by al jazeera a foreign owned in their eyes a muslim broadcaster and for a right wing political party that sort of smear perhaps is no surprise not too surprising that one nation wants to highlight pick atari informs associate out zero with the. muslim world because it runs on a you know islamophobia platform and that fits within its narrative it's important to say too that the filmmaker behind this documentary denies completely that he was in any way compromised editorially because of al-jazeera as financial backer there was no influence whatsoever from qatar no imports no suggestion no censorship nothing whatsoever this was entirely conducted by me and my team in washington and

in australia politically all this matters here because while one nation is an extreme party on the far right of politics they do have about five in some places nearly ten percent support and the prime minister who runs a center right party doesn't want to completely alienated their supporters so he's got to tread a very fine line while on the one hand saying that there are extremists who do stupid things like this in this documentary he doesn't want to say that those who support them are in the same boat. and you can see the full program from al-jazeera is investigative unit it is called how to sell a massacre thursday the twenty eighth of march six hundred hours g.m.t. we are back to london now for more european news has been a city by. the european parliament has voted to push through a ban on a range of single use plastics ten products including plastic plates straws cutlery and cotton buds will be prohibited by twenty twenty one the law also aims for

ninety percent of plastic drink bottles to be collected for recycling by twenty twenty nine and a wattles are to consist of at least thirty percent recycled material by twenty thirty european commission for the legislation last year after its research found that plastics made up eighty percent of europe's marine litter posing a major threat to its coastal bio diversity we can speak now to david as he lay he's managing attorney and director of the environmental health program at the center for international environmental law he joins us live now from geneva in environmental terms david how significant is this. the ban is very significant both in terms of environment because it will save quite a large amount of plastic going into the environment i think according to the commission's estimate it's going to save about twenty two billion euros in

environmental damages by twenty thirty but i think it's also quite a lead mark event because it is the first of its kind regulation goes pretty far you talked about the ban in a number of products but the regulation also includes a number of measures that are quite groundbreaking and quite needed to address the plastic pollution issue and those include not only a ban of certain product but also reduction target for certain other usage or a ban of usage of some toxic product unsanitary products p.r. extended producers responsibility that will finally put in place the polluter pays principle so it is extremely significant yet suddenly very wide ranging doesn't go far enough in your opinion. i think it's a very critical first step will it be enough to address the amount of plastic pollutions in the ocean in land in air probably not the you know in

every long journey the first step is always one of the most important to take indeed and i guess the other key question is whether what's happened in europe might go some way to encouraging other countries around the world to for they see is that likely. it's actually more than likely it's already happening in a number of places around the world both in local towns in states localities in the u.s. but also in countries all around the world i've just come back from the united nations environment assembly in nairobi. at that meeting in the country with over one billion habitants actually proposed a resolution to uncork country to phase out all single use plastic by twenty twenty five this was very strongly opposed by the u.s. but you could see a very broad global vision and common vision among most countries in the world to

be more proactive and more in business in addressing the plastic pollution issue so not only will it continue to happen but it is actually already happening in a lot of places david as the late great to get your thoughts on this thank you for joining us there from geneva. but you. now though it is a new crane go to the polls on sunday in a closely fought presidential election current president petro poroshenko be seeking reelection he's up against former prime minister yulia timoshenko but leading the polls is that autumn is a landscape a comedian who plays a fictional president in a popular t.v. series in action is happening against the backdrop of a war with russian backed fighters which is now in its fifth year and a whole reports from the city of mariupol. in ukraine's war zone a new breed of entrepreneur. alexi used his disability payout as an injured veteran

to set up a pizza business. people are happy to spend their money rather than save it because the anything could happen at any moment. he's not particularly enthusiastic about the upcoming presidential election or have any of them back. because of their spinelessness it took fallen tears to protect this country where the leadership was too weak to protect it at all soldiers like alexi from the port city of mariupol formed the hours of but talon in two thousand and fourteen famous for preventing russian backed separatists from extending their territorial gains in the donbass region all the way to the sea but mario poll has paid a heavy price its once busy port sits idle empty of the cargo ships that carried steel and coal produced here to international markets russia's efforts to disrupt

sea traffic off the annexed crimea peninsula include illegal cargo inspections and a bridge built across the curch strait that's too low for larger vessels heading for mariupol to pass beneath you more but if. they can forgive us that our country is in the band and tells and to stand that ukraine is a free and democratic country unfortunately it will be hard to establish these. then late last year an unprovoked russian attack on three ukrainian navy boats twenty four captured ukrainian sailors are still being held in moscow and international shipping is far less frequently seen in these waters since last november's attacks on those ukrainian naval vessel suggested russia had new territorial designs by strangling traded ukraine's two main for. from the sea of as of russia has taken effective control of this inland sea off the coast of crimea in

response president petro poroshenko declared martial law in the east if he thought that would win him votes he was wrong with more than thirteen thousand dead this country is no longer united behind a war it can't win anna knows that despite losing her brother on the front line in two thousand and fifteen she says it's time for peace and that. he died for ukraine to be trained for the ukrainian language to be spankin and to be crane to be an equal strong european country that hope of a brighter future has begun to fade on the shores and battlefields of eastern ukraine jonah hold al-jazeera mario paul. that is it from europe and thank you for the city council has a new national museum a space spanning fifty two thousand square meters the size of nearly nine football fields us on a binge of eight has more from here into. doug from the

sons of cutter this fossil is more than two million years old an essential part of the country's cultural heritage and a natural exhibit for the new national museum this extraordinary building is designed inside and out to mimic the intersecting discs of a desert rose. each space showcases a different theme designed by a renowned french architect to create the sun rose. to a large scale something very difficult to do when you know that he's as soon as he said to have english restaurant technology be aren't so user centanni cities and he said imagine the russians he was an eternity of the desert and the modern e.t.a. of today. it's taken eight years to complete the building and its contents are intended to educate and inspire visitors at their ease to foreign workers and tourists the nomads of arabia will tell you the.