s challenge rajapakse as legal authority to hold office he was installed and the president then prime minister running promising them and a move many considered unconstitutional the speaker of the u.k.'s parliament says there's an audible case the government could be in contempt of parliament software defined a demand by politicians to publish the full legal advice it had received on its brakes the deal parliament's to vote next week on the agreement struck by prime minister to resign may the e.u. need reports from london. there is just over a week to go until m.p.'s decide whether to accept or reject the british government's plans but before all of that happens the government could face a major hurdle a possible embarrassment for the government the opposition labor party has joined forces with other smaller parties accusing the british government of being in contempt of parliamentary protocol by failing to share all of their legal advice that the british government received for its legal advisor the attorney general geoffrey cogs when it came to coming up with its breath plan in its

me in kaufman rajapaksa criticised what he called attempts to run the country without elections rajapakse and president might have a serious say in his bid to hold a snap election ended on thursday when the supreme court ruled that the president did not have the authority to dissolve parliament and call elections a second case challenging rajapakse as premiership is also before the courts and. this is not good should remain prime minister he finished the war it was developing the country our people to mind and about all of this happened because mahindra did not have a majority in parliament when a country is on stable it is difficult for people like us to make a living and his plans messed up and according paused restraining order rajapaksa had few options but he was clear that it doesn't end here. the change of government by the people expected his now here to be put off by the people will definitely be changed. no one can prevent it after weeks of scathing attacks on the man he sacked and vowed never to reappoint presidency to say days due to swear in run a vicar missing or on sunday mo

to be put out in a little over an hour's time now yesterday news broke of prime minister rajapakse is decision to resign. intentions announced at a meeting of his group representatives when they met with the president on friday evening and. making the rounds that this is what he had announced today the sort of formal process a letter of resignation to the president as well as an address to the nation all right so if he steps down today what happens next with promising come back as prime minister do we have another election does the president appoint someone else what happens. it isn't all questions that are up in the air at this moment obviously with the rajapaksa resigning there is a void for the post of prime minister now bear in mind that right now at the point that he resigned he had been handed down a restraining order from acting as the prime minister along with his forty eight ministers that from the court of appeal in response to petition filed by the vicar missing a camp who basically question the authority with which he held this office there was that for a period of two wee

and my rajapakse has resigned as sri lanka's prime minister it is a seven week political battle that sent the country to the brink of a ditch stiefel. was controversially appointed as prime minister was present in october a decision that created an unprecedented constitutional crisis. turning now to catch of its of poland where marathon un climate talks are in overtime but a deal appears to be in reach gets from nearly two hundred countries have been trying for more than two beats to have rules aimed to save the wolves from the worst effects of global warming but they're stuck on how countries should report reductions in greenhouse emissions and how to finance the fight against climate change in foreign nations a small group of countries are holding up the deal. joining us from quetta it's in now is crystal falls he's director of german watch that's a nonprofit development and environmental organization hi christophe good seeing you it's not unprecedented that these talks go into overtime who's holding up the deal this time. this time it's pretty you. want to include a huge loophole

dismissed by the president author polish service santa and october he was then replaced by mahinda rajapakse who has failed to secure support in the legislature and now refuses to step down the president as a piddling valve never to reinstate the missing day a gunman has opened fire in a cathedral in brazil killing at least four people the forty nine year old tacker killed himself after being wounded by police in the south eastern city of pen us he had no criminal record and the motive is unclear. palestinian refugees in lebanon are resorting to increasingly desperate measures in an attempt to reach europe and who are now paying people smugglers to travel through latin america in the hopes of getting to spain. wanted a better life for his family but their attempt to reach failed palestinian refugees in lebanon are ready to sell everything and borrow money when a smuggler offers a way out even if the route to europe is south america. we flew to ethiopia on october twenty ninth brazil where we stayed in a hotel for a night before travelling to bolivia we tried to travel to spain but we were de

government rajapaksa criticised what he called attempts to run the country without in the elections rajapakse and president might have a serious say in his bid to hold a snap election ended on thursday when the supreme court ruled that the president did not have the authority to dissolve parliament and call elections a second case challenging rajapakse as premiership is also before the courts and. this is not good should remain prime minister he finished the war it was developing the country our people don't mind about all of this happened because mahindra did not have a majority in parliament when a country is on stable it is difficult for people like us to make a living with these plans messed up and according paused restraining order rajapaksa had few options but he was clear that it doesn't end here. the change of government by the people expected his now here to be put off by the people will definitely be changed. no one can prevent it. after weeks of scathing attacks on the man he sacked and vowed never to reappoint presidency to say knees due to sweat and run a victim a singer on sunda

meetings the court ruled on a petition signed by one hundred twenty two legislators a challenge to rajapakse as all thirty to hold office he lost to no confidence votes last month rajapaksa was controversially installed after the president sacked prime minister run you were missing in october in a move many consider unconstitutional ukraine is building up its military muscle reservists are being called up to training centers and large scale exercises expected in the coming days for those russia's seizure of three ukrainian ships and twenty four crew members in the black sea within a week ago ukraine wants nato to deploy ships to the region accusing russia of blockading ports nato secretary general says russia must allow freedom of navigation to traineeships there is no justification for this use of force we call for a call under strengths russia must release the ukrainian sailors and soups it must also allow freedom over navigation and unhindered access to ukraine and ports in the sea of also ukrainian vessels military as well as civilian have the right to navigate through the current strait

the man at the center of sri lanka's political crisis is resigning prime minister mahinda rajapakse appointment seven weeks ago caused uproar president may throw a cena picked him to replace run ill with promising the country's been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks now after a court suspended rajapaksa and his campaign that's ever heywood reports. less than two months ago he was being sworn in as sri lanka's new prime minister but after weeks of political turmoil mahinda rajapaksa has to resign to ensure his son said on twitter the stability of the nation rajapaksa was previously sri lanka's president for decades bringing to an end the country's long civil war with the brutal final assault on the tamil tiger rebels his appointment as prime minister though has been controversial from the stars and plunged the country into a constitutional crisis. it began in october when the president matter of policy or a cena appointed rajapaksa and unceremoniously sacked ronald become sanger within days thousands turned out to show that it's or saying his decision since then there have be

nineteen the man at the center of sri lanka's political crisis is resigning prime minister mahinda rajapakse appointment seven weeks ago cause an awful president may support a set of cena victim to replace ron ill with crime singha the government has been without a functioning government for the two weeks now after a court suspended rajapaksa and his cup of that ever he would reports. less than two months ago he was being sworn in as sri lanka's new prime minister but after weeks of political turmoil mahinda rajapaksa has to resign to ensure his son said on twitter the stability of the nation rajapaksa was previously sri lanka's president for decades bringing to an end the country's long civil war with the brutal final assault on the tamil tiger rebels his appointment as prime minister though has being controversial from the stasi and plunged the country into a constitutional crisis was it began in october when the president matter of policy or a saner appointed rajapaksa and unceremoniously sacked ronald bikram singha within days thousands turned out to show that it's or saying his decision

prime minister in the rajapakse and mounting his decision to step down as prime minister to a gathering where party representatives who met the president earlier on on friday had gathered he told them that he hopes to address the nation and then basically step down from the post of prime minister bear in mind that this last forty days or so since my him the rajapaksa this country's former president was appointed prime minister has been controversial to say the least some people describing it as a political call particularly after prison mighty palace seriously in the appointed dropped approx the prime minister having sacked unceremoniously run in a vehicle missing how the man who worked with a broad coalition to actually bring see the center to power as president to defeat mahinda rajapaksa who is trying for the third presidential term i spoke to my rajapaksa son normal rajapaksa who confirmed his father's decision he said this had been taken to ensure the stability of the nation but to be honest in the rajapaksa not having many options he had gone to court because basically the vicar m

rajapakse is resignation may not end their political crisis in needs to be a new government in place by january first to approve next year's budget brian al-jazeera at least seven people have been killed after a gun battle in indian administered kashmir security forces launched a search operation on saturday morning for suspected rebels in the region fighting broke out in protest followed in the confrontations that several people were killed by gunshot wounds four others have been taken to hospitals in the region in a serious condition. within touching distance of a global warming deal after two weeks of talks between representatives of two hundred nations in poland an agreement will cover the fine print that was left unfinished after the u. twenty fifteen powers climate accords this includes how countries will report the greenhouse gas emissions and the efforts they're taking to reduce the let's cross over to nick joins me now from the summit in catch of each are in poland of course this whole summit has been extended by one day hoping to try and get a positive conclusion will it. w

dissolve parliament and hold snap elections blocked one hundred twenty two politicians are challenging rajapakse authority after the disputed prime minister lost two votes of no confidence last month mel fernandez is at the supreme court in columbus just take us through what we think might happen a little later today. peter the supreme court a seven judge bench of the court has begun hearings basically into a series of fundamental rights the titians of which were filed before the court or challenging the president by policy received authority to dissolve parliament most of those petitions basically make the case that he violated the constitution of this country the constitution after the last amendment the nineteenth amendment brought in by this in this in the government itself does not allow parliament to be dissolved less than four and a half years into its term now at the point that presents to the same issue the gaza dissolving parliament if there was act least a year to go all of the lifetime of this parliament before it could be dissolved so these petitions challenging that ability of the

the country's been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks after a court suspended rajapakse and his cabinet following the loss of two confidence votes and the heywood reports. less than two months ago he was being sworn in as sri lanka's new prime minister but after weeks of political turmoil mahinda rajapaksa has to resign to ensure his son said on twitter the stability of the nation rajapaksa was previously sri lanka's president for decades bringing to an end the country's long civil war with the brutal final assault on the tamil tiger rebels his appointment as prime minister though has been controversial from the stars and plunged the country into a constitutional crisis was it began in october when the president matter of policy or a saner appointed rajapaksa and unceremoniously sacked ronald become sanger within days thousands turned out to show that it's or saying his decision since then there have been demonstrations supporting and opposing rajapaksa. sri lanka has now been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks after call suspended rajapaksa and his ca

something he did after appointing one hundred bucks there's also more court action against mine the rajapakse and him holding office in the face of all of that we now have this announcement confirmed ascension me by his son that he will be stepping down tomorrow so there is this an opportunity now for the president or even for lawmakers in parliament to press the reset button do we start again who in fact is in charge of the country. surely in the absence of any form of government we do not have a prime minister we do not have a cabinet or any minister the only one who called formal office and the thirty is the exact the president by tip on the series saying now the option of a reset kind of restart to start again to wipe the slate clean would be an ideal situation but there has been a lot of traction a lot of bitterness obviously my sleep on the city saina brought to power by the government. then try ministers on it become a thing of who basically brought to the scene out of a common candidate to take on president mahinda rajapaksa we back when among the rajapaksa went in for a third preside

that began seven weeks ago when his predecessor was abruptly sacked a court decision suspending rajapakse there and his cabinet has left the country without a functioning government for nearly two weeks. amid daya warnings from scientists delegates from almost two hundred countries are today due to the un talks in poland on stopping irreversible climate change but negotiators remain deadlocked on key issues including what to target to work towards and what science to agree on let's have a look at what's happening the stated goal for the talks was to agree on rules on how to implement the twenty fifteen paris climate accord that deal produced a commitment to limit global warming to below two degrees celsius but that target has since been declared insufficient a panel of leading u.n. scientists released a damning report in october stating a strict cap of one point five degrees is the only chance of getting disaster and they say the new target can only be achieved if countries drastically cut for so fuels and slash greenhouse gas emissions to a net zero by mid century the vast majority of co

who claims he's still the legitimate prime minister and his successor the former president mahinda rajapakse basically has his authority has been questioned in the court of appeal and there is a restraining order stopping him from functioning as prime minister now he has appealed that restraining order but as you can see many things still remaining to be resolved gunman in northeastern mali have killed dozens of people over the past week that's according to reports from local officials in near the border with. they said least forty three civilians were killed by attackers on motorbikes at several nomadic camp sites hasn't been a claim of responsibility but violence between ethnic toric and fulani groups has killed hundreds this year. process government is urging so-called yellow vest protesters not to hold demonstrations this weekend to napoli's to concentrate on finding tuesday's attacker on the christmas market in strassburg on monday president emmanuel mccall offered a minimum wage boost and tax concessions to try to end the protest movement that instructions which began more than four we

s challenge rajapakse as a legal authority to hold office he was installed in october after the president sacked the then prime minister runnel with promising that in a move many considered to be unconstitutional the us president donald trump has asked for pakistan's help to advance afghanistan's talks with the taliban donald trump wrote to the prime minister imran khan saying relations with pakistan were important in bringing the armed group to the negotiating table it marks a change in donald trump's normally tough tone with pakistan just last month q used the government in islamabad of not doing enough to help the us despite receiving billions of dollars in aid money. the speaker of britain's lower house of parliament says the government may be in contempt for not publishing the full legal advice on its bricks that deal m.p.'s from six parties one proceedings to be launched after the attorney general only released a summary the parliament says you should vote next week on the agreement with the european union staying in europe leaders of the so-called yellow vest protest in france are

the rajapakse his resignation may not end their political crisis and its to be a new government in place by january first to approve next year's budget brian al-jazeera. well now some news from india where in east eleven people have died and several more became ill after eating food offered at a temple in india more than ninety people who ate the tomato rice at a hindu temple have been hospitalized in the southern state of karnataka two people questioned by police but no recipe mate. still ahead for you on the program this hour u.s. affordable care under attack again as a judge says tax changes have made obama's health care plan unconstitutional. and joy in the philippines as church bells looted by u.s. troops more than a century ago a look at. how the winter monsoon when the northeast it's been blowing steadily now produce a lot of right down the east coast you wouldn't sigs from the great care that's not normally hard close but the persistent rain those eased off recently has produced several hundred millimeters and flooding there's more to come on sunday maybe especially on monday whe

with eventually is who gets to blame who gets the blame for the bad economy is will people blame rajapakse in syria saying for having plunged the only thing that isis or what they blame the un run over crossing is government for their previous couple of years of running the economy right because this came well it's come just before a big election next year the political instability has affected tourism in the country it's affected it's caused a suspension of foreign aid as you say is it likely that there will be a political backlash against amanda rajapaksa given that he attempted to make a return to power yeah i think there will be the question is how bad it will be and how how will that weigh against his is continuing popularity and the fact that he's charismatic he's strong he has his people his his government won the war against the tamil tigers which has made him quite popular with a lot of people in sri lanka so but i think. the irony is i think everyone was expecting him to come to power anyway if he just waited so having tried to come through the back door has you know has actually

on the vehicle missing out on twenty six october and replaced him with former president mahinda rajapakse . we committing a challenge the decision insisting he commanded the majority in parliament book serious enough and rajapaksa claimed otherwise but when they couldn't prove it the president dissolved parliament. this particular. landmark decision. will give one clear message. to all rulers and the ruled that. if we are citizens of our country. we have to respect the rule of law despite coming to power in two thousand and fifteen we committed no lost credibility for not keeping election promises to stamp out corruption and bring previous offenders justice but the president's move to remove him in such a controversial we brought him wide support no matter what side of the political divide your on one thing is clear the verdict delivered by the supreme court today is historic for sri lanka the fact that the country's highest court found the actions of the executive president unconstitutional but whether this changes the immediate political crisis remains to be seen miller fernandez al-jaz

rajapakse is resignation may not end their political crisis in needs to be a new government in place by january first to approve next year's budget next year brian al jazeera. there has been fighting on the outskirts of the yemeni city of data less than forty eight hours after government turned to the representatives agree to a cease fire in the area video dollar huth the t.v. channel appears to show strikes by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition which is supporting government forces but witnesses say at least one woman was killed and two others severely injured. there this is blood aggression a violation of the cease fire these are two sister died in the other one is in critical condition hanging between like india there and this rant is that there are three women the airstrike targeted the residence right here look at the blood look at the shop know if this is the cease fire they are trying to promote mercy feel god their worries are the front lines not here and civilians areas where there are strikes alone there just as the u.n. special envoy to yemen was briefing the security council

right i mean for the last two weeks this country has been functioning without a government minder rajapakse and forty eight of his ministers were prevented from the court to go forward as functioning in those capacities as prime minister and cabinet so the first time we're hearing from him the rajapaksa since we heard his decision to resign as prime minister he basically has said that there was an understanding that the country would go to an election we need to quiver let's take a listen to what he had to say. i'm going to do. since i have no intention of remaining as prime minister without a general election being held and in order not to hamper the president in any way i will resign from the position of prime minister and make way for the president's home a new covenant but you want to move already how this is affecting sort of the daily lives of those across the country because it has to be unsettling on several levels . absolutely mean as much as we've had all of this sort of legal wrangling and also you know the to ing and fro ing in parliament for the average man on the street it's a

or now to sri lanka where there's been another twist in the political crisis with mahinda rajapakse iset to resign from the disputed prime minister post on saturday rajapaksa son says he has made the decision after meeting with president lightly parlous syria saying or trying to has been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks after a court suspended rajapaksa and his cabinet on the last two votes of no confidence israeli forces have arrested forty palestinians in the occupied west bank it says thirty seven of them are members of hamas including three senior leaders the u.s. commerce the army intensifies its search for a palestinian gunman who killed two israeli soldiers at a bus stop near ramallah on thursday china is suspending additional tariffs on the u.s. made vehicles and auto parts as part of an ongoing trade truce with washington the terror hole will last for three months and it starts on january first. bush prime minister tourism a is insisting she can get the extra clarification she needs from the european union on a break that deal to ensure it's passed fire on

rajapakse is resignation may not end their political crisis and it's to be a new government in place by january first to approve next year's budget brian al-jazeera there has been fighting on the outskirts of the yemeni city of data less than forty eight hours after government onto the representatives agreed to a cease fire in the area video. t.v. channel strikes by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition which is supporting government forces but witnesses say at least one woman was killed and two others severely injured. there this is blood aggression a violation of the cease fire these are two sisters died in other ones in critical condition hanging between life and death. so there are three women the airstrike targeted the residence right here look at the blood look at the shop know if this is the cease fire they are trying to promote have mercy feel god their worries are the front lines not to answer billions areas where there are strikes alone there just as the u.n. special envoy to yemen was briefing the.

rajapakse his resignation may not end their political crisis in needs to be a new government in place by january first to approve next year's budget brian al-jazeera the delegate said the cup twenty four global climate change conference taking place in poland are staying on for at least another day because no final agreement has yet been reached the un event is moving ever at least into saturday as representatives from around two hundred countries discuss how to implement the paris agreement let's go live now to our environment editor clark he's in kind of it's a him poem and for us and nick remind us what this conference is meant to achieve and in simple terms why it's not been able to do so so far. yeah well we'll see how it all pans out right now we're waiting for the latest version of the draft text the first one came out about this time yesterday a few hours before that and ever since then they've been working really hard trying to and out all the contentious issues the u.n. secretary general and trying to get terrorises been shuttling back and forth between all the disparate par

racked by turmoil i mean there was a complete political crisis with the appointment of mine the rajapakse on the twenty sixth of october the answer mourning the sacking of his predecessor run a vigorous singer who incidentally is the man who brought the president to power with the coalition that backed him as a common candidate to take on prison minded rajapaksa who was running right all that water under the bridge and now him resigning ok i mean now it means that sri lanka still has no prime minister does it mean that effectively it's a government that is dysfunctional. basically means there is no government at this point of time martin essentially with prison my him the rajapaksa initially restrained from acting as prime minister and now having stepped down there is no prime minister there is no government the only person who has official authority is the executive president by the policy center so there is no government to make decisions we talked about the budget come the new year two thousand and nineteen there is no money that has been formally passed for the running of the governme

president did not have the authority to dissolve parliament and call elections a second case challenging rajapakse as premiership is also before the courts. this is not good should the rain prime minister he finished the war it was developing the country our people to mind and about all of this happened because mahindra did not have a majority in parliament when a country is on stable it is difficult for people like us to make a living with these plans messed up and according paused restraining order rajapaksa had few options but he was clear that it doesn't end here. the change of government by the people expected his now here to be put off by the people will definitely be changed. no one can prevent it after weeks of scathing attacks on the man he sacked and vowed never to reappoint presidency to say names due to swear in run a vicar missing or on sunday morning and the curtains come down on the main act of the political drama that has gripped. over the last few weeks with the resignation of my hand the rajapaksa but how the broader plot ends of where this country goes politically needs to be wo