bernard smith live for us right now in paris so bernard what's happening where you are. bernard can you hear me. we have clearly lost our connection there we're bernard smith you will try to reestablish that in the meantime let's move on to a little bit more about what is happening in paris. as a historian and a co-founder of the group of geo political studies in paris he explains the steps likely to be taken by president not just to save his presidency. the president is not going to resign he's not going to topple there's no way for him to be overthrown illegally however he might try to change some of his government he might try to change his prime minister which has been an option used by his predecessors usually in france if you end up in a deadlock to change the prime minister you try to impose a new policy so he might try to do that it is too bad given his something his in popularity and the general situation in french right now he is going to face at least a very hard here and probably a very hard ending to his tenure to know how it is going to end up what is going

wage demands president is going to find difficult to meet and there's little money to pay for bernard smithal-jazeera powers meanwhile france's foreign minister has told the u.s. president to stay out of french politics after donald trump blamed the violent protests on the paris climate agreement. i say this to donald trump and the french president said it to we do not take domestic american politics into account leave our nation be all over here they've been rival demonstrations in london in support of and against breaks it one of the gatherings called for people's votes on breaks at a second referendum on the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. the u.k. parliament is due to decide on tuesday whether or not to approve prime minister to resign may's e.u. withdrawal deal well earlier pro breaks it demonstrators were also out in force including far right groups marching to denounce may's deal saying it will leave britain trapped in the dark was at that rally in central london. this is a cross-section of britain's political right there are some hardline ultra nationalists here we've even seen some

along with the government's terror alert level the latest on that live in stroudsburg for us is bernard smith bernard. kemal well this is beyond all of the streets were shots rang out last night about eight o'clock local time last night and we've heard witnesses describe terrifying scenes as they heard gunfire and people running for cover this would have been it's a narrow street it would have been crowded just crowded just towards the end of the shopping day shots rang out here in the gunman ran elsewhere the gunman has been named by reuters at least as twenty nine year old sharif checkouts and there's a manhunt underway for him now we are right on the border with france the interior minister ministry suggest it's possible he's crossed from sorry from the french side into germany but that manhunt ongoing at the moment come our. ok bernard smith with the update from stroudsburg. thank you very much for that. so just taking you through these two top stories on al-jazeera this hour on the u.k. prime minister theresa may says she will contest a leadership challenge against her with everything sh

to the european mainland across the english channel is bernard smith in cali france let's go to sonya first so sonia it certainly seems that this is a big worry in the u.k. that this could get bigger. oh that's right and it's not just about the numbers which are relatively small compared to some of the numbers that we've seen in the mediterranean but it's really exactly how it's happened recently this surge when you compare it to last year it really has gone up quite exponentially here and this is what the border force a are concerned about it's what the politicians are concerned about and also exactly how to tackle this as well while this has been declared a major incident by the home secretary. really how to go about it there are two different camps really you have one camp that believes that perhaps the navy needs to be brought on with this while the other a company politicians say that it is really what they do a terrific job in other areas this is not really their remit they've got other things to do and if this is really the job of the border force patrols now you have some of t

seven times for other crimes two people were killed eight seriously wounded including the gunman bernard smith has more. preparing for christmas and a heavily armed guard strasbourg on wednesday morning noticeably quieter as police continue to hunt a gunman who opened fire on police and shoppers the night before as victims lie on the street other sorts safety in narrow alleyways as the sound of gunfire echoed around the city center. first i heard several shots and i thought maybe it's firecrackers or they're attacking a store i saw a lot of people running scared crying kids and all and i was very very scared because it was really quite a lot of shooting there was a moment of panic so everyone was running around there were police officers saying to leave to hide so that's what we did the gunman named by police as twenty nine year old sharif to cats opened fire on a police patrol just as christmas market stalls were closing panic shoppers run for cover into shops and restaurants while the wounded gunman escaped in the confusion if you don't believe. the assailant they are the town center just a

november well look at the view from the british side of the channel in just a moment but first bernard smith begins our report in northwest friends from college the messages being sent to families in africa the middle east iran and afghanistan will be about failed attempts to make it to an. electricity comes for just a couple of hours a day from generators provided by local charities. this camp has nothing but the around six hundred migrants stuck here on a freezing windy december day it's a hopeless place living conditions you are just making people every very desperate and the rebels who did way over. to escape here some migrants are now prepared to pay smugglers to cross the channel in rubber boats for others the risk is too great that we tried taking a boat. then you know i want to save my lives. and give myself for the good this is important my life this is then you lose the board this is this is going to have the main the french and british governments have spent millions of dollars fortifying port against people trying to stow away on lorries it's one theory why more people are turnin

ago and finally forced president emmanuel mccall to back down on his fuel tax hike on his ear as bernard smith reports. the yellow bus protesters are getting ready for christmas on the roundabout camps that have sprung up across france president emanuel micron's decision to increase the minimum wage and cut taxes for most pensioners hasn't persuaded the people here to abandon their protests as an emotional i'm not that don't convince because he hasn't addressed what the people are expecting these are only small meals and they won't be paid for by bankers in financials did you find the president sincere not really i don't get a pity it is who i think is a. teacher of theatre. so has long experience of what we've gone four weeks ago as a protest over an increase in diesel taxes has developed into a wider campaign by people from france's towns and villages who struggle to make ends meet in one of europe's most highly taxed countries yellow vest protests across central paris to a standstill while violent elements have smashed up shops and monuments in those few weeks the movement has radicalized a

even destruction shortly we'll go live to bernard smith who is close to the arc de triomphe pardon but first the parker wraps up the day's events. the avenues of side streets of paris have become a front line between protesters and police firing was tear gas is beautified liberally to disperse the crowds in. the canisters coke back at police lines. oh yeah the arc de triomphe armored vehicles rarely seen on the streets and from cloud for inflating every. this is the full weekend of on the rest police have stepped up their efforts deploying thousands of extra offices and arresting hundreds. more protests have been violent of the seans elisei demonstrators offered riot police flowers but often national monuments were defaced last week major landmarks including the eiffel tower closed. meeting with security forces early on saturday france's interior minister said police are ready to intervene quickly to see if a superior to us they have actually be more injuries on the side of the security forces than on the side of the protesters because the idea is to contain things but the toxic has it

demonstration a major decrease on previous protests and as bernard smith reports from paris or forty's are defending what some say were aggressive police actions. with just a few hundred yellow vest protesters on the shelves elisei on saturday night a small number sparked a violent confrontation with police. as the policeman scrambled to save their bikes pulled a gun. the whole incident lasted about three minutes but is an indication of how quickly a quiet protest can turn ugly. yellow vest protesters described as act six began peacefully on saturday and became a nonstop march through the streets of paris the aim is always to reach the elisei palace on the front door of president emanuel macro but with police blocking roads leading to his official residence the yellow vests just kept walking and walking. in it if you don't it is clear as a response including judicial it would be the most severe possible no it is calm and harmony that must prevail many people here that we've spoken to not at all interested in the concessions present manual drawn up to make they say they don't go far eno

year old sharif should ket police say he was injured while fleeing the scene on tuesday night bernard smith has the latest now from strasbourg. preparing for christmas and a heavily armed guard strasbourg on wednesday morning noticeably quieter as police continue to hunt a gunman who opened fire on police and shoppers the night before as victims lie on the street other sorts safety in narrow alleyways as the sound of gunfire echoed around the city center. first i heard several shots and i thought maybe it's firecrackers or they're attacking a store i saw a lot of people running scared crying kids and all and i was very very scared because it was really quite a lot of shooting there was a moment of panic so everyone was running around there were police officers saying to leave to hide so that's what we did the gunman named by police as twenty nine year old sharif should cat opened fire on a police patrol just as christmas market stalls were closing panicked shoppers ran for cover into shops and restaurants while the wounded gunman escaped in the confusion if you don't believe. the assailant

al-jazeera let's go live now to paris i was there as bernard smith is there but what's happening where you are. just in standing in front of the arc de triomphe which last year last weekend was surrounded by protesters where the graffiti was spray and so what's happened this time is the police have completely blocked access to the arc de triomphe by the yellow bus protesters so we're just at the top of the shelves elisei here and what you have what we've had is the sort of running confrontations with the police and some of the protesters down the side streets of the seans elisei because they want to try and charge up here to get to the arc de triomphe and just in front of me there are the armored vehicles now moving into position so the police have got a much tighter grip on this area that they're hard at last saturday they've been using a lot of tear gas a lot of to gas coming this way to keep people back numbers less than last week but still many thousands of protesters here eighteen voted at the protest is this yemen vest movement and they got what they wanted the government has sai

are denouncing what they see as half measures which are too little too late let's cross over to bernard smith who's following the story from paris there have been seems to be clashes should i say bernard where you are be it the hurling of some sort of canisters with gas in it. plus a lot of the several gathering spots it seems to have been throughout paris today this is. some own yellow bus protesters left behind me but the crowds are dispersing from here the police of essentially got the area sealed off but they're allowing people to make their way through the starting line from the protesters through as long as they have their back searched and everything there have been other parts of paris where there have been confrontations with the police or where the police have used tear gas. was one area and there's another couple of other gathering areas in paris i think although the numbers are down the disruption in central paris has been as bad as it was last week that is because if you a lot of metro lines are being closed if you want to get into the central paris you can't because the stations

committee would be made up of one hundred fifty people representing most strands of syrian society bernard smiths the latest from geneva the hope is that russia iran and turkey have agreed the final fifty names to another hundred that will form a constitutional committee that will then discuss constitutional amendments or changes to syria's constitution before elections are held fifty names came from the syrian regime fifty names.

let's return after that shooting in strasbourg in france three people killed there bernard smith is there for us now bernard an update from you. car with this is central strasburg in between one of the christmas markets where the attack began last night just about eight o'clock in the evening as the markets were beginning to close up for the night's police now hunting twenty nine year old sharif checkouts there's no particular area that they're looking for in strasbourg although it has been the authorities have said it's possible he's already he might have crossed the border we're right on the border with germany so a manhunt going on around the area sixteen victims of this attack three of those people killed and eight other people seriously wounded so the manhunt continues continued of course through the night and continues today come on ok thanks for that for now but it will check in with you again later on palestinian refugees have been leaving lebanon for years either legally or illegally they immigrate because of the dire economic conditions in which they live because of the lack of

wait until saturday and what's being called act five to see how many people turn out and protest bernard smith al-jazeera on the outskirts of paris. an egyptian lawyer has been arrested for wearing a yellow vests similar to those made popular by anti government protesters in france his arrest in the northern city of alexandria comes ahead of next month's verse three of the two thousand and eleven uprising that ousted then president hosni mubarak egypt has banned the sale of yellow vests to stop copycat protests michael cohen was considered u.s. president personal fixer now he will soon learn if he's going to spend the next few years of his life in prison the lawyer will be sentenced wednesday in a new york courtroom after pleading guilty to multiple crimes they call hayne has a look at how he got there. there was only when donald trump first entered the race for president he was always there michael cohen became known to the world is more than the president's lawyer but his fixer he made problems disappear and he once said how could we take a bullet for trump that's not the case anymore cohen

done enough to stop a protest movement that's lasted for weeks and brought chaos to central paris bernard smith reports. the yellow bus protesters are getting ready for christmas on the roundabout camps that have sprung up across france president emanuel macro's decision to increase the minimum wage and cut taxes for most pensioners hasn't persuaded the people here to abandon their protests has been a model to be i'm not that don't convince because he has an address what the people are expecting these are only small meals and they won't be paid for by bankers in financials what we did you find the president sincere i don't get. is the wife is a. teacher of theater so has a long experience of what we've gone four weeks ago as a protest over an increase in diesel taxes has developed into a wider campaign by people from france's towns and villages who struggle to make ends meet in one of europe's most highly taxed countries yellow vest protests across central paris to a standstill while violent elements have smashed up shops and. in those few weeks the movement has radicalized and these these anno

bernard smith al-jazeera house. still more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including in china someone see u.s. ambassador over what he calls the vile arrest of a top corporate executive. and saying no to racism populism on the rise it's an anxious time for migrants a drug tax in italy and heads roll in afghanistan's football federation after allegations of physical and sexual abuse those details coming up with peter in sport. china has some in the u.s. ambassador in beijing to protest against the detention of a top executive of telecom giant highway it's a vice foreign minister called on the us and we quote immediately correct it's wrong actions last week ways chief financial officer meg one joe was detained in canada on washington's request now she's accused of violating your ascensions on iran the company says all its operations in iran were in compliance with the us even the un sanctions then says the she was taken to hospital for hypertension after detention and that she is innocent u.s. republican senato

people took part in saturday's demonstration that's a major decrease on previous protests and is bernard smith reports from paris of forty's are defending what some say were aggressive police actions. with just a few hundred yellow vest protesters on the shores elisei on saturday night a small number sparked a violent confrontation with police. as the policemen scrambled to save their bikes pulled a gun. the whole incident lasted about three minutes but is an indication of how quickly a quiet protest can turn ugly i. want yellow vest protesters described as act six began peacefully on saturday and became a nonstop march through the streets of paris the aim is always to reach the elisei palace on the front door of president emanuel macro but with police blocking roads leading to his official residence the vests just kept walking and walking. you did you don't it is clear that the response including judicial would be the most severe possible no it is calm and harmony that must prevail many people here that we've spoken to not at all interested in the concessions present manual drawn up to make t

the way for elections the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey met in geneva there was bernard smith was there and has this report. the best of the foreign ministers of turkey russia and iran could come up with was a commitment to agree to take efforts aimed at convening the first session of the syrian constitutional committee here in geneva early next year but there is still no indication on exactly who the hundred fifty members of that constitutional committee are going to be because at this meeting these three countries overlooked by the u.n. special envoy stephan to restore it when i were unable to agree on the final fifteen members of the committee there are fifty from the syrian regime fifty from opposition groups but this other fifty there's a been a lot of haggling on who should be on this committee and who shouldn't be on this committee and they clearly haven't been able to agree the final names it was perhaps particularly for straightening for staff and in this story because as he spoke to the press here this evening this was his last statement to the press you report to th

times for other crimes two people were killed and eight seriously wounded including the gunman bernard smith asked more. preparing for christmas and a heavily armed guard strasbourg on wednesday morning noticeably quieter as police can. to new to hunt a gunman who opened fire on police and shoppers the night before as victims lie on the street other sorts safety in narrow alleyways as the sound of gunfire echoed around the city center. first i heard several shots and i thought maybe it's firecrackers or they're attacking a store i saw a lot of people running scared crying kids and all and i was very very scared because it was really quite a lot of shooting there was a moment of panic so everyone was running around there were police officers saying to leave to hide so that's what we did the gunman named by police as twenty nine year old sharif should cat opened fire on a police patrol just as christmas market stalls were closing panicked shoppers ran for cover into shops and restaurants while the wounded gunman escaped in the confusion if you don't believe all the assailant they have at the t

bernard smith al-jazeera strasbourg. a member of africa's top football governing body has been arrested in france accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity a place into our nigga sona is also a former militia leader and political coordinator of armed groups in central african republic it was controversially elected to the board of african football in february international criminal court heard recently filed a warrant for his address for his arrest a bit upon a butler has the latest from paris well patrice eduardo i so know was arrested by french authorities in frogs on a warrant issued by the international criminal court he was wanted for crimes against humanity including murder and torture and that what the i.c.c. say is the guy so you know was a senior leader a senior figure in the anti by laugher militia a predominately christian led militia that carried out atrocities against muslims in the civil war after twenty thirty now there were a muslim led militia and christian led militia both carried out various fo

wage demands president is going to find difficult to meet and there's little money to pay for bernard smith al-jazeera powers. that's want to come here and out there including turnaround in tanzania but at what cost critics expressed concern at tactics the president is using the media. from cool brisk noise and fuel it's. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. hello there it certainly has been quite stormy in europe recently corsica and saudia have seen the worst of the winds and now finally they are easing elsewhere though we're seeing some heavy rain work its way down towards the southeast also a fair amount of snow mixed in with that so as we head through the next twenty four hours we'll see the main system here making its way across parts of greece that and into turkey we've also got more snow over parts of the outs as well towards the west is very different is largely fine and dry for us here madrid getting to around fourteen or fifteen degrees as a maximum temperature over the next few days the next system as we head through cheese say that will be working its way in from the

bernard smith al-jazeera strasbourg a turkey is threatening to enter the syrian town of mann bridge if the u.s. doesn't remove kurdish fighters in the area turkish president says the operation could take place in the next few days a large part of northeast syria is under the control of the y p g kurdish rebel group turkey has labeled them a terrorist organization so in the y.p. g. have connections to groups in turkey that are pushing for independence the us has backed and provided arms to the wife e.g. in the past. zimbabwe's ruling party is holding its first annual conference since former leader robert mugabe was forced out when he's in bob hope it will provide solutions to the many issues the possessed president emmerson mangalore is facing growing pressure to turn the economy around i don't want us to reports from. some people here say zimbabwe has become the tenth province of neighboring south africa inside this trailer brought across the border are thousands of dollars worth of products zimbabwe's other kind of find in shops or are too expensive to buy in south africa. places as w

wage demands president is going to find difficult to meet and there's little money to pay for bernard smith al-jazeera powers. france's foreign minister has told the u.s. president to stay out of french politics after donald trump blamed violent protests on the paris crimes agreement. i say this to donald trump and the french president said it to we do not take domestic american politics into account leave our nation be. jacquie law is a senior research fellow at the global policy institute specializing in french economic and social policies he joins me live via skype from san milo thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so we have now seen a fourth weekend of demonstrations turn violent just looking ahead do you see these protests continuing with the same level of intensity as the has been in recent weeks no i don't see pretty sure that the intensity will go down and it will or do you plan on tomorrow's speech by a man or a michael majority see that as begin to turn the beat against a movement and engage the gaze of a society the broadest what do we need to hear from emanuel

protest began over five weeks ago against plans to increase fuel tanks which were later scrapped bernard smith was with the protesters in paris. this is been an all day protest march nonstop through the streets. from owning right now out. in the far away. from all the way as police try to block there is through. peaceful happen a couple of small home stations but they all of us protestors have wanted it to be peaceful and they try to make sure that everybody has stayed on the right side of the law there are about a thousand people left at this time of the day number similar to last week and many people here that we've spoken to not at all interested in the concessions present manual from how to make they say they don't go far enough they're too little too late and they will keep protesting right into the new year. the government of nicaragua has raided and shut down a t.v. news station it comes a week after similar operations at nongovernmental organizations and a newspaper the director of the one hundred percent news channel new girl laura appeared in court accused of terrorism the president

more on the story from bernard smith. this is one of the streets in central strasbourg gunfire rang out last night at about eight o'clock in the evening the gunman is reported to exchanged fire with police who are on patrol there as part of security measures during the busy christmas shopping period and we've heard witnesses describe scenes of chaos and panic as people run for cover in what is a very narrow alleyway it's now been reported that the gunman hijacked a taxi and this took him to a town not far from here near the only french german border and it was a taxi driver who was forced to drive who told the operative told the police that he believed the gunman had been wounded he's been named by reuters as twenty right nine year old sharif shikata man with a long criminal record according to the interior ministry no indication of the interior ministry says that there's a terrorist motivation to this attack although the gunman is on a list of names a list of twenty six thousand names that they have in france who people

one of the most busiest sea channels in the world all right thanks very much sunny go there in bernard smith is in the channel in france as we were hearing migration to england from france is on the rise what do we know about the factors that have been driving this search. well i am first of all that the small cams that remain here in cali we've been to one of them earlier on today where there's about six hundred migrants from from africa from iran from afghanistan and they are desperate desperate places there's no facilities no sanitation no electricity there just a few tense up against this very cold windy winter weather so it's understandable that people there perhaps might be desperate to escape the conditions that they're in which is why it seems more of them have been taking to dinghies paying smugglers to get them across the channel the forest is here and the local charities don't really know why they people of suddenly turn to dinkies one theory is that so much money has been spent millions and millions of euros spent on strengthening the seaport here in cali the fences the c.c.t.v.

since november well look at the view from the british side of the channel in just a moment a first bernard smith in the northwest of france begins our coverage from cali the messages being sent to families in africa the middle east iran and afghanistan will be about failed attempts to make it to wing electricity comes for just a couple of hours a day from generators provided by local charities. this camp has nothing but the around six hundred migrants stuck here on a freezing windy december day it's a hopeless place all the living conditions here are just making people every very desperate and once you have also it way over. to escape here some migrants are now prepared to pay smugglers to cross the channel in rubber boats for others the risk is too great if you tried taking a boat. then you know i want to save my lives. and give myself well because this is important my life. then you lose the good this is going to have the money the french and british governments have spent millions of dollars fortifying port against people trying to stow away on lorries it's one theory why more people are turn

wage demands president is going to find difficult to meet and there's little money to pay for bernard smith al-jazeera powers. there chile has become the latest country to pull out of a un pact which aims to improve global call cooperation on migration the pact is use to be signed in morocco on monday but a host of countries are refusing to support it including australia and the us but it's in europe in particular that support for the deal is crumbling no more is that more evident than in austria where the government two has withdrawn its support program and has more from the capital vienna. in vienna and across central europe the traditional christmas markets are well underway the symbolic of a christian heritage in a sense of european cultural identity twenty sixteen european nations led the campaign for a global solution to the migration crisis but a string of populist election victories since then means the u. n. compact which emerged from the crisis is being disowned by its architects first to go was hungry. we see that pack coming into the field of national sovereignty certainly tryin

what they see as half measures which are too little too late to cross over to paris where cost of bernard smith is following the story and of course yellow vests protesters started to gather early on in the day was the situation like so far. well so i'm in front of the past a lot at the opera house just behind me which is one of the main gathering points this weekend of the yellow bus protestors i'd say there's about a thousand or so people here it is essentially peaceful but a little bit tense because all every road out of the square has been blocked off by the front right police there and they're blocking off this road just behind me there as well on the water come. at the ready should they need to use it but it is essentially a peaceful gathering although the numbers i think are down on last week significantly while the numbers might be down the disruption in central paris remains the same many metro lines many matters stations closed trains terminating early going to get from one side of paris to the other you can't unless you take a taxi and while not far from me is on the main department

thousands of people who took part when the demonstrations peaked in the past six weeks but as bernard smith reports from paris have been pockets of violence. with just a few hundred yellow vest protesters on the shores elisei on saturday night a small number sparked a violent confrontation with police. as the policemen scrambled to save their bikes pulled a gun. the whole incident lasted about three minutes but is an indication of how quickly a quiet protest can turn ugly i. want yellow vest protesters described as act six began peacefully on saturday and became a nonstop march through the streets of paris the aim is always to reach the elisei palace on the front door of president emanuel macro but with police blocking roads leading to his official residence the vests just kept walking and walking. and if you don't it is clear that the response including judicial would be the most severe possible no it is calm and harmony that must prevail many people here that we've spoken to not at all interested in the concessions present manual drawn up to make they say they don't go far enough but too

wage demands president is going to find difficult to meet and there's little money to pay for bernard smith al-jazeera powers meanwhile france's foreign minister has told the u.s. president to stay out of french politics after donald trump blamed the violent protests on the paris crime agreement. i say this to donald trump and the french president said it to we do not take domestic american politics into account leave our nation be. well there have been rival demonstrations here in london in support of and against breck said one of the gatherings called for a people's vote on breaks it a second referendum on the u.k.'s departure from the u.k. parliament is due to decide on tuesday whether or not to approve prime minister to resign maine's a stroll deal earlier progress that demonstrators including far right groups marched to denounce may's deal saying it will leave britain trapped in the e.u. barker was at that rally in central london. this is a cross-section of britain's political right there are some hardline ultra nationalists here we've even seen some one supremacist flags but also nati

twenty nine year old after the shooting which killed three people and injured thirteen others bernard smith is in strasburg with all the latest. the hunt for sharif has ended here at the end of this street in what we think was a railway. he's been hiding out since the attack on the strasburg market on tuesday night it's essentially the area roughly worship grown up in southeastern strasbourg and it's where close the railways dropped off by a taxi driver on choose united been forced to drive in here should cut suspects of killing three people in the market and leaving another six fighting for their lives after launched a knife and gun attack on tuesday night in strasbourg market this has been a manhunt since then that a swarm the area with police and security officials causing huge delays as well on the border with france and germany on the border there as police stopped all vehicles crossing as a result fear should cut they have crossed into the german border we know he had a long criminal record has served jail sentences for theft and violent crime on the morning of choose day when he the

wait until saturday and what's being called act five to see how many people turn out and protest bernard smith al-jazeera on the outskirts of paris thousands of students in albania have blocked a major highway in the capital tehran to protest against a hike in university fees i know. they're angry at the government for what they see. it is its failure to improve the education system and they want the increase in tuition fees to be reversed protests have been taking place outside the education ministry for a week now prime minister at a rama is on the pressure to act after the protesters rejected an offer of talks. we're going to weather update next year on al-jazeera then thailand's military backed government lifts a ban on political activities ahead of new elections. the bells are back the story behind treasures taken from the philippines more than a hundred years ago. that is small we'll hear what magic city's manager has to say about football's fights against racism. that are that significant storm is over but the consequences of what left behind are still on the ground so we must have a co

syria is warning there is still some way to go to ensure a credible commission is established bernard smith reports the best of the foreign ministers of turkey russia and iran could come up with was a commitment to agree to take efforts aimed at convening the first session of the syrian culture to tional committee in geneva early next year but there is still no indication on exactly who the hundred fifty members of that constitutional committee are going to be because of this meeting these three countries overlooked by the u.n. special envoy stephan to the store when i were unable to agree on the final fifteen members of the committee there are fifty from the syrian regime fifty from opposition groups but this other fifty there's a been a lot of haggling over who should be on this committee and who shouldn't be on this committee and they clearly haven't been able to agree the final names it was perhaps particularly for straightening for staff and in the store because as he spoke to the press is deceiving this was his last statement to the press you report to the u.n. secretary general but h

is continuing david chaytor al-jazeera paris and bernard smith the end paris with the latest now someone or what's happening around here. to show what you see is beyond empty shells a leaves a and in the distance the security forces they've been keeping the chandeliers a fence sense of the clear it's of the protesters they're down their tactic has been to make sure the protesters couldn't get to this group couldn't get to the arctic trail behind me and they've succeeded in preventing them from getting there and in century pushing the remaining protesters down the side streets for show so what effect has all this had today on a man on his government well i mean look around here this is the show's ollie's a central paris it's just after seven o'clock on a saturday evening on the busiest saturdays before christmas carols before christmas and it is deserted there is not a soul the shops are boarded up restaurants closed tourists christmas shoppers stayed away so the effect on the economy certainly of paris is enormous and if the desire of the yellow vest protesters was to make the government

wage demands president is going to find difficult to meet and there's little money to pay for bernard smith al-jazeera house though the future of the international pact on migration drawn up by united nations looks like it's on shaky ground even for it's been formally adopted it will be signed to morocco on monday after eighteen months of negotiations but a number of countries are refusing to support it including australia israel like to fear poland hungary chile and the united states. early results from the media's stop parliamentary election show acting prime minister nicole. has a commanding lead the vote is the first since the velvet revolution process. which swept the reformists to power robert foreseeable reports from the capital. even in a suit and tie nicole passion and acted like the ordinary guy just checking in at his local polling station is the person you're in are you looking for your name on the list a family man is my name your voting is where they were with your father. but this is armenia is revolutionary leader on a mission. i can say that the we would have preached alrea

thousand people took part in saturday's demonstration a major decrease on previous protests and as bernard smith reports from paris well dorothy's are defending what some say were aggressive police actions. with just a few hundred yellow vest protesters on the show's elisei on saturday night a small number sparked a violent confrontation with police. as the policemen scramble to save their bikes pulled a gun. the whole incident lasted about three minutes but is an indication of how quickly a quiet protest can turn ugly. the yellow vest protesters described as acts six began peacefully on saturday and became a nonstop march through the streets of paris the aim is always to reach the elisei palace on the front door of president emanuel macro but with police blocking roads leading to his official residence the yellow vests just kept walking and walking. it if you don't it's clear that the response including judicial would be the most severe possible no it is calm and harmony that must prevail. many people here that we've spoken to not at all interested in the concessions present manual on how to ma

there could be seen wafting down the city's streets but let's cross back to paris now and bring in bernard smith who is joining us there from there bernard what is the situation now where you are because we are hearing that people have been arrested. there have been a restoration a lot a lot less of detentions rather than last week though this. the op are in the past a lot of there was a significant gathering earlier on but are there other parts of a lot of the yellow vest protesters dispersed they were trying to sort of have moving marches today we know that's in smaller smaller gatherings in different parts of the city and occasionally you'll see some screaming sirens hurtling down the road where they might be going in the next gathering but what is significant important to remember is that although the numbers are down the disruption in paris is as great as it was perhaps last i saw them just for example again lots of businesses and the cover was just for business christmas attack in the. boarded up closed this is a jewelry store there's another bank behind me over the boarded up cafe across

call with french leaders over the weekend where we have two teams live on this developing story bernard smith is in cali in france where the migrants have started their boat trip to enter the u.k. but we begin with some of diego in dover where many have washed up on shore near the u.k. government has declared the channel migrant crossings a major incidents they're clearly worried this problem could get much bigger. absolutely and while the numbers are relatively small still the rate at which it has been going up has been quite alarming for the authorities hit in just the three days gone by sixty six people have been stopped trying to reach the u.k. the british coast head on these inflatable dinghies very unsuitable vessels with which to navigate through these extremely busy shipping lanes hit and so with that the concern is according to the home secretary is that they want to monitor the situation in case of loss of life that would happen in one of these cases but also of course that race the the the tone of that is because they do they do not want to see any more accidents happening across t

this hour from strasburg and the shooting of the suspected christmas market killer let's bring in bernard smith live now from strasburg been quite a dramatic or not they told us through what happened happened. well lauren in the last forty five minutes or so behind me is the french police cornered sharif should not to have fact far from where he was born and brought up in noida off on the edge of strasburg and it's the area way was dropped off by a taxi driver on tuesday night after the attacks the christmas market in strasbourg where three people were killed another six are fighting for their lives all at the hands of sharif a car to run amok with a gun and a knife attacking shoppers in the center of strasbourg so it's taken since tuesday night to pin him down there were fears that him out across the border into germany and the been enormous holdups for traffic as border controls reimport reimposed on the bridges that cross between strasbourg and the german side but it seems that he never made it that far he ended up back here there was a police operation earlier on this evening in fact. we go

thank you very much bernard smith just giving us a sense of the mood the atmosphere and what's happening there in the french capital paris thank you bernard well the yellow vest movement has also crossed the border to belgium where police have five water cannon hundreds of demonstrators there belgium hasn't proposed a hike in fuel tax but the protesters are not happy with the government of prime minister shells mashal and a calling for his resignation to seventy people have already been arrested while the area housing european parliament and commission buildings have been sealed off . the u.s. president donald trump is under more pressure following the release of court documents on friday which directly link him to financial crimes allegedly committed during his twenty sixteen white house campaign the documents claim trump directed his personal lawyer to make illegal hush payments to two women ahead of the election additionally documents relating to the special counsel investigation into alleged russian meddling in the election also detailed a previously unknown attempt by russian to hel

to police for his radicalization he was put on a watch list and placed under surveillance well bernard smith has the latest now from strasburg. this is one of the streets in central strasbourg gunfire rang out last night at about eight o'clock in the evening the gunman is reported to exchanged fire with police who were on patrol here is part of security measures during the busy christmas shopping period and we've heard witnesses described scenes of chaos and panic as people run for cover in what is a very narrow alleyway it's then been reported that the gunman hijacked a taxi and this took him to a town not far from here near the on the french german border and it was a taxi driver who was forced to drive who dissent who told the operative told the police that he believed the gunman had been wounded he's been named by reuters is twenty right nine year old sharif shikata man with a long criminal record according to the interior ministry no indication of the interior ministry says that there's a terrorist motivation to this attack although the gunman is on a list of names a list of twenty six