a government shutdown also triggered a sell off in markets across the wild more from mike hanna in washington on this vote the yeas are forty seven as evening fell it was clear there would be no agreement in the senate democrats adamant they would not vote for any bill that included funding for the border wall and the senate majority leader acknowledged the inevitable hope show democrats will work with the white house on an agreement they can both houses of congress and receive the president signature democrats have offered three proposals to keep the government open including a proposal offered by leader mcconnell that passed the senate unanimously only a few days ago we are willing to continue discussions on those proposals with the leader the president the speaker of the house and the leader of the house all five are necessary to get something done a procedural bill was pos that essentially places the onus on congressional leaders

mike hanna joins us live from capitol hill in washington mike outright condemnation from the senators. well it was quite extraordinary in a number of ways there were eight senators in that briefing the chairman and the ranking senators of each of the key intelligence committees they emerge from that briefing making absolutely clear there was total agreement about one fact that the crown prince mohammed bin salman was involved directly in the murder of jamal khashoggi certainly this is a very bipartisan issue as well both republican and democrat senators present at that briefing were absolutely adamant that is the case this is what senator lindsey graham had to say. i want to make sure that saudi arabia is put on notice that business as usual has come to an end for me no not look at the kingdom the same way that i used to look at it i will not support arms sales until all responsible for the death of mr show good have brought them brought to justice. yes and i will no longer. support the war in yemen as constructed. so what is actually impact be of the senator's comments. well there's

policy that subsequently sell away particularly with regard as i say to the middle east mike hanna for us there in washington d.c. mike thanks so much we'll be hearing from him in the next few days about what happens next. trade deals dancing and protests day one of this year's g. twenty summit had it all leaders from the world's top economies are in argentina for the annual event but the topics dominating the discussions are in fact those not on the formal edge and latin america editor at lucy and human reports from when is aries. leaders of the world's most powerful nations wrapped up day one of the g. twenty summit with a gala when aside this is a cologne theater a venue that helped mask some of the bitter disputes that divide them inaugurating the summit earlier host president. called for the spirit of the g. twenty to prevail it was founded in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine with the aim of setting a global policy and achieving financial stability and its expanded its agenda since the two thousand and eight crisis. we have the obligation to show the world the global challeng

mike hanna has more. she is giving a confidential briefing behind closed doors to a very small group of senators it's essentially the chairman and the ranking senator on each of the key national security committees a number of senators actually incensed at being excluded from the briefing them chris murphy who has tweeted angrily that the public has a right to know if there's any possibility that the crown prince of saudi arabia ordered the murder of jamal khashoggi france's prime minister says he's suspending controversial plans to hike fuel taxes it offered knowledge that public anger against the policy had been growing for a while the proposal led to mass protests that descended into some of france's worst riots in years the demonstrators who came to be known as the yellow vest movement demanded that emmanuel michel step down as president. the u.k. can still cancel breck's it without the consent of other e.u. member states that's what the advocate general of the european court of justice has told the e

and the president should just come out and actually say that let's run through some of this with mike hanna our correspondent on capitol hill who's been listening along. i made the point a little bit earlier mike that these are the strongest voices these are the senators who want to be heard this is typical of the type of comments they make but still this is incredibly strong language as i say against both saudi arabia and president. it's incredibly strong language coming from senator after senator speaking after the briefing there was some speculation that the senators would not directly address the content of the briefing given the fact that the cia director had reportedly complained about leaks as she put it from the legislative body however the senators clearly incensed by what they heard in that particular briefing merging to make absolutely clear there is no doubt in their mind that the crown prince mohammed bin solomon was directly involved in the murder of jamal khashoggi senator lindsey graham has been stating this for a period of time he came out of that briefing and he said he we

only one thing at the stage is clear given the mood up to this briefing legislation there will be mike hanna al-jazeera washington. another wild new zealand special envoy for yemen and who theory rebels have arrived in sweden for talks a saudi backed government delegation is on its way it's hoped the negotiations were and a four year old war which the u.n. says has led to the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history culture that gen reports. humanitarian organizations are hoping this who the delegation that arrived in stockholm and a yemeni government delegation arriving from saudi arabia will come to an agreement that will help protect millions of yemenis threatened by fighting famine and disease it would be the first time in more than two years that the parties are meeting now to get the parties to this conflict to to come to one place for presentation has not been easy. but is now a decisive step in our efforts to end the suffering in yemen. u.n. sponsored talks to to start in sweden are expected to bring together the who the supported by iran and yemeni government leaders backed by sa

or congress would act it follows a briefing by the cia chief gina housefull two senate leaders mike hanna that story from washington the cia director paused on her way in paying respects to president george h.w. bush lying in state in the capitol the briefing took place behind closed doors only a small group of eight senators invited all emerged in clear agreement about one basic fact. i have zero question and the crown prince n.b.s. ordered the killing monitoring the killing knew exactly what was happening planned in advance he if he was in front of a jury he would be convicted in thirty minutes guilty. so. the question is what we do about that saudi arabian in the different entities. if the saudi government is going to. be in the hands of this man. for a long time to come up and it very difficult to be able to do business because i think he's crazy and think he is dangerous and he has put their relationship at risk. only a strong response by the united states will send a clear and unequivocal message that such actions are not acceptable in the world's stage and i think that's more impor

only one thing at this stage is clear given the mood after this briefing legislation there will be mike hanna al-jazeera washington ok let's get more on joining us live here on set is our senior political analyst marwan bashara everyone in template on capitol hill saying the crown prince is complicit that's the word they are literally using in some cases or maybe using in other cases everyone saying that except donald trump not a big surprise no not a big surprise but what is to me anyway as someone who's been observing this congress and the white house for many many years is the intensity. of the senators and the senators leadership in confronting an issue that's already been more or less handled by the white house and to come out with such nuance with the white house and yet so categorical speaking about zero zero chance that muhammad was a man was not involved not only in planning but also monitoring not only ordering but also monitoring the killing of you so really it's quite the statement coming from corker and graham and others that you don't usually see and each one of them walked out

he has a full blown rebellion not just among members of the democratic party but as you saw in mike hannastory there members of his own party are outraged about what they heard last week the white house tried to avoid all this by giving the secretary of state mike pompei when the defense secretary jim mattis to brief members of the senate eight key senate leaders and when they walked away the senator said they were dissatisfied with a report that said in essence there was no smoking gun and today you heard lindsey graham the republican senator who's a close ally of president trump say there is a smoking saw in this case referring to the bone saw that was allegedly used to cut up jamal khashoggi so now the president has to decide exactly how to respond and it is clear that what he tried to do is not going to work with members of the senate and he's got to worry that right now the republicans are in control of the house of representatives which is a much more partisan body that tends to support the president but in january that house is going to be controlled by democrats and they will be i

of a personnel shakeup president trump is looking to make for the second two years of his term mike hanna joins us live now from the united nations so mike what are we to make of this appointment. well it has a nurse certainly a lack of international foreign affairs experience this is going to be picked up during what is likely to be a grueling nomination process particularly from democrats opposed to this particular point meant but what it indicates to is the downgrading of the position of u.n. ambassador now nikki haley actually held a cabinet position she was on the national security council as well however that does not appear to be the case with the current nomination it is known that she's likely not to have a cabinet appointment which will downgrade the importance of the post of the u.n. ambassador and will certainly move her out of the mix in terms of making policy to an extent which nikki haley did at times do but it's also a reflection of the differences that have been there within the trumpet ministration have the knowledge reportedly did not get in an all with the previous sec

mike hanna al-jazeera washington well she had her tansey joins us now live from washington d.c. she have it's been quite the whirlwind of withdrawals including this one from the white house what sort of reaction are we seeing in washington to mass as resignation. shock in the political class the political establishment of washington there really is this sense now that hope trump is out of his box off the box that we have contained him with and look for the political establishment especially for the republican establishment trump was was was acceptable because despite his rhetoric despite what he said on the campaign trail he was surrounded by establishment figures like mattis who were keeping him in a foreign policy book so he wasn't actually doing what he said he would do on the campaign trail we should also remember that mathis i mean he did do a great deal on the trump trump gave him a lot of leeway and the civilian casualties on the mat is exponentially risen because trump basically said do what you want bomb whoever you want in afghanistan and in syria and iraq in somalia a

mike hanna joins us live now from washington for more on this story and the deadline is fast approachingisn't it president trump's position is pretty entrenched entrenched how likely is a shutdown looking at this point. well there is some developments that would appear a delegation from the president consisting of the vice president mike pence jarrett questioner and the newly appointed chief of staff mick mulvaney of shuttered shuttling between the house and the senate they've just had a meeting with the house speaker paul ryan they are now on their way back to the senate for discussions there it's understood that they are trying to get some kind of compromise deal together in a bid to avert the shutdown the democrats have been absolutely clear they will not vote for any legislation any funding that includes money for president trump's war president trump is equally clear as you heard that if that money is not forthcoming he will not sign off on any funding if that does not include money for the wall so it did appear that the positions were completely entrenched but now there are signs c

day says it was a highly coordinated military campaign aimed not just to expel but to exterminate mike hanna al-jazeera washington the speaker of the parliament says there is an arguable case the government could be in contempt of parliament follows a refusal to publish the full legal advice the government's been given on its bricks that deal parliament next week on the agreement struck by the prime minister to resign me and the e.u. need parker is unlimited. 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 the legal advice that the british government received for its legal advisor the attorney general geoffrey cogs when it came to coming up with its plan in its entirety what does the government even need to share this information with parlia

islamic relations has appealed to the state department to see her waiver there's been no response mike hanna reports from washington. post travel ban was imposed just days off to president trump took office it faced numerous challenges before the current version was upheld by the supreme court earlier this year it prohibits the citizens of iran libya somalia syria and yemen from traveling to be u.s. without a special waiver. and among those barred from entry is the mother of a two year old boy dying of a rare brain disease in a california hospital abdulla has son was brought to the u.s. for treatment by his father early he's now being kept on life support so his mother can bid farewell but despite numerous requests there's been no way that issued by the state department now we see the muslim beza fact in the most dehumanizing way and we're running out of time we're calling for the department of state to issue a muslim ban waiver to allow same as will of the wife of a u.s. citizen the mother of a u.s. citizen to hold her child one last time until allow her to mourn with dignity and a direct p

only one thing at the stage is clear given the mood after this briefing legislation there will be mike hanna al-jazeera washington and let's talk to mama drama was outside the saudi consulate in istanbul as we said a damning assessment was some reaction from. as for me it's too early now for a reaction we haven't yet heard from the government officials here but i can only expect but this relation the latest developments in washington over the night will be music to their ears because they have been building a strong case they think they have been talking to the americans on the top on the highest level saying that we have a job unfinished in many ways many aspects have yet to be worked on not only the condemnation that the congress is trying to legislate but also in terms of the case itself the judiciary approach itself they want the u.s. to put more pressure on the saudis and they think that they have now been vindicated by those statements by the congress leaders when they heard the testimony of the cia leader chief and now they think that this can only galvanize their efforts and help the

mike hanna al-jazeera washington. and the trumpet ministration has announced that migrants seeking asylum along the southwest border will no longer be released into the u.s. while their cases play out now that change means they'll be forced to wait in mexico while the asylum requests are being processed the mexican foreign ministry has agreed to accept them but says it still has the rights to night entry to non mexicans human rights groups have condemned the decision john coleman has more now from mexico city. this is really quite a big change in quite a big win also for president trump and the u.s. administration this is what happens now a lot of people from central american countries like honduras and guatemala el salvador eva fleeing violence or poverty cross mexico and then cross over the mexico u.s. border illegally into the united states once they're in the u.s. they then asked the first floor and offer. an order and officer that they can find poor asylum in the united states now while that case is being process

adding while we wait to see if the democrats will help us to protect america's southern border mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well ahead of the shutdown the u.s. stock market has had its worst week of losses in several years concerns of slowing economic growth and the recession has worried investors all major u.s. indices of lost between sixteen and twenty six percent from their highs over the summer and autumn the likelihood of a u.s. government shutdown also triggered a sell off of stocks around the world well the dow jones industrial average finished the week nearly seven point seven percentage points lower was its worst weekly plan since two thousand and eight and the tech rich nasdaq was down eight point four percent this week this is also the sharpest drop since two thousand and eight and the s. and p. five hundred was down nearly seven point one percent this was his biggest fall since two thousand and eleven alive or johnson is founder and c.e.o. of the lansing investments he says americans will start to feel the pinch of a slowing economy in twenty nineteen. we've had nine stra

nikken senator bob corker chaired that session he says there must be a price to pay for the killing mike hanna reports the cia director paused on her way in paying respects to president george h.w. bush lying in state in the capitol the briefing took place behind closed doors only a small group of eight senators invited. all in. agreement about one basic fact i have zero question in my mind that the crown prince n.b.s. ordered the killing monitor to killing knew exactly what was happening planned in advance if he was in front of a jury you would be convicted in thirty minutes guilty. so. the question is what we do about that i want to make sure that saudi arabia is put on notice that business as usual has come to an end for me oh not look at the kingdom the same way that i used to look at it i will not support arms sales until all responsible for the death of mr cruise shogi have brought them brought to justice. yes and i will no longer. support the war in yemen as constructive only a strong response by the united states will send a clear and unequivocal message that such actions are not accep

to take a tougher position mike hanna reports from washington. the public international law and policy group report was genocide in late august last year the armed forces of myanmar launched what they euphemistically labeled a clearance operation within a few months more than seven hundred thousand had fled their homes to seek refuge across the border in eastern bangladesh military helicopters fired on the being refugees the navy attacked over crowded ferries the report continues gang rape and mass murder were used as a poor more military tactic it is clear from our intense legal review that there is in fact a legal basis to conclude that the reading go for the victims of war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide. the u.s. holocaust museum too has long argued that genocide has been committed and join the law group in calling for immediate action to establish accountability in addition insisting on the need for direct action to be taken to curb myanmar's military the knowledge into anyone and so it is important that like us government and ot

or congress will act it follows a briefing by the cia chief do you know how to senate leaders mike hanna has our report from washington the cia director paused on her way in paying respects to president george h.w. bush lying in state in the capitol the briefing took place behind closed doors only a small group of eight senators invited all of moved in plea agreement about one basic fact. i have zero question in my mind that the crown prince n.b.s. ordered the killing monitoring the killing knew exactly what was happening planned it in advance if he was in front of a jury you would be convicted in thirty minutes guilty. so. the question is what we do about that saudi arabian in the search to different entities. if the saudi government is going to. be in the hands of this man. for a long time to come up and it very difficult to be able to do business because i think he's crazy. i think he is dangerous and he has put their relationship at risk only a strong response by the united states will send a clear and unequivocal message that such actions are not acceptable in the world's stage and

only one thing at the stage is clear given the mood after this briefing legislation there will be mike hanna al-jazeera washington well john hendren now has more on political implications in the u.s. after the senate briefing by the cia chief. president donald trump is dealing with a rebellion from within his own republican party senators listen to the testimony of cia director gina haskell on tuesday and walked out saying they were convinced these are eight senate leaders saying they are convinced that the crown prince of saudi arabia ordered the death of her shoji among other bits of evidence that they heard was that the cia had information that that the crown prince had spoken to a top aide of his. tiny eleven times during the course of that day before and after the murder and senators said they want the trumpet ministration to respond so far president trump has said we side with the u.s. with saudi arabia but the senators say the united states reputation is on the line here and they've already passed a preliminary vote to stop aid to saudi arabia in their war in yemen so the drug adminis

adding while we wait to see if the democrats will help us to protect america's southern border mike hanna washington well the departments and agencies now left unfunded make up about a quarter of the u.s. government more than four hundred twenty thousand civil servants across numerous agencies will work without being paid on time that includes fifty four thousand customs if it customs officers responsible for securing the u.s. as southern border with mexico and other three hundred eighty thousand federal workers are expected to be placed on temporary leave without pay all of that lost could cost taxpayers billions of dollars nine federal departments including homeland security and the state department will close from saturday dozens of agencies will also be closed for business. hopes the situation doesn't last long we're going to have a shutdown there's nothing we could do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes call it a democrat shutdown call it whatever you want but we need their help to get this approved so democrats we have a wonderful list of things that we n

senator described the former nato commander as an island of stability in the chaos at the white house mike hanna joins us live now from washington mike did he suffer on the on the cost on if you will of policy or was it personality well i think it was clearly both james mattis making very clear in his resignation letter that he differed from the president on a number of issues but the core issue he pointed out was a belief in electoral system and respect for allies clearly pointing out incidents in the trump presidency the rebutting of nato the refusal to signed communiques the g. twenty summits so there's a lot of the detail to james mattresses disenchantment with the president but then again the policy difference matters a career military man very quiet very reserved keeping his opinion to himself at no stage has he publicly criticized or rebuffed president trump being very much the loyal soldier with the in the administration and democrat politicians at least insisting the linchpin of stability within the administration saying that now that he goes the last adult is leaving the room so a grea

congress will act it follows a briefing from the cia boss gina housefull two senate leaders last night mike hanna has that story from washington the cia director paused on her way in paying respects to president george h.w. bush lying in state in the capitol. the briefing took place behind closed doors only a small group of eight senators invited. all in. agreement about one basic fact. i have zero question in my mind that the crown prince n.b.s. ordered the killing monitor and a killing knew exactly what was happening planned in advance if he was in front of a jury he would be convicted in thirty minutes guilty. so. the question is what we do about that saudi arabian in the us are two different entities. if the saudi government is going to. be in the hands of this man. for a long time to come up and it very difficult to be able to do business because i think he's crazy i think he is dangerous and he has put their relationship at risk only a strong response by the united states will send a clear and unequivocal message that such actions are not acceptable in the world's stage and i think that's m

let's check in again with mike hanna now on capitol hill mike this was all unfolding about twenty four hours ago you and i were on air as all those senators came out what's transpired since then. kemal today is a federal holiday in the united states for the funeral of george h.w. bush so nothing formal is planned at all here in the senate there is some speculation that senators will meet privately and informally to try and discuss what legislation they are going to introduce now let me clarify all of this there is already legislation that has been passed for debate early next week that deals specifically with action against saudi arabia because of its operations in that war in yemen the bill proposes cutting off aid to that operation stopping the fueling off air flights and a number of other economic measures but some senators are insisting that they they want something different that either want to add to this bill or they want to create a new one and it's a bipartisan move you got both lindsey graham republican bob indent is a democrat who want to co-sponsor a bill that first of all

since the financial crisis of two thousand and eight live now to washington and our correspondent mike hanna so mike if it's even just a partial shutdown that will be something of a victory i guess for mr trump but he won't get his money anyway. well he may regard it as a victory but certainly the bulk of the american people will not partial shutdown of government for an unspecified period of time as now and as you mentioned president trump will not be getting his money because senate democrats were absolutely adamant that they would not vote on any measure in the senate that provided funding for that wall or fence so they will that was passed in the house of representatives thursday basically goes into limbo it just does not go to the president for signature but there were some developments in the course of the day the senate decided to take a vote. basically a procedural one saying that there would be no further debate until there was agreement among all parties on what bill could be passed it's basically been left to congressional leaders to seek a deal with president trump to try and for

mike hanna joins us live from capitol hill in washington d.c. mike oxycontin nation from the senators. very much so eight senators went into that meeting with the house bill to house pull eight emerged and all were in complete agreement that the crown prince mohammed bin solomon was directly involved in the murder of jamal khashoggi and certainly this is a bipartisan matter present at that meeting with the chairman of all the national security committees as well as the ranking senators and each of those committees so both democrats and republicans present there and one of the strongest reactions came from a very strong supporter of president trump and some time gulf partner lindsey graham this is what he had to say. i want to make sure that saudi arabia is put on notice that business as usual has come to an end for me no not look at the kingdom the same way that i used to look at it i will not support arms sales until all responsible for the death of mr show give brought then brought to justice. yes and i will no longer. support the war in yemen

that role effectively without maintaining a strong alliances and showing respect to those allies mike hanna is our correspondent following that story that's developing as we go on out of washington mike he was at one point so influential what changed. well what has changed is not something sudden it's over period of time but it's interesting to note peter that james mattis his letter of resignation is dated on this day december the twentieth so clearly the president trumps unilateral decision to withdraw troops from syria probably the final straw for the secretary of defense this resignation letter coming the day after president trump unilaterally without consulting the defense department withdrew or announced withdrawal of troops from syria but that the many differences between president trump and the secretary of defense james mattis has taken pains not to express any of his reservations public publicly at any particular stage in his resignation letter he says as well because you have the right to a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects

mike hanna al-jazeera washington. ell as mike was saying that matters has been seen as a restraining influence on president trump during his two years as defense secretary nicknamed mad dog the label he disliked he was widely respected in the military in which he served for forty four years he held key positions during the wars in iraq and afghanistan and became a senior nato commander as defense secretary he was a moderating influence on trump of assyria north korea and persuaded him to boost u.s. forces in afghanistan with big disagreements however of a nato and quitting the iran nuclear deal but despite these riffs marcus outlasted one secretary of state to national security advisers and two white house chief of staff among others the former u.s. assistant secretary of state p.j. crowley says the trumpet ministration has lost one of its last reteaching thinkers . we were setting record after record in terms of turmoil within the trump administration turnover for a variety of reasons whether in this case intellectual

adding while we wait to see if the democrats will help us to protect america's southern border mike hanna al-jazeera washington well the shutdown has spooked already unsettled the u.s. stock markets the dow jones and nasdaq saw their worst week in losses since two thousand and eight concerns of a slowing economic growth and fears of a recession how worried investors all major u.s. indices of lost between sixteen and twenty six percent from their highs earlier this year the u.n. security council has approved a team of observers for a cease fire and yemen's port city of the data the u.n. monitors who won't be uniformed or armed will be deployed for an initial thirty days is all part of the peace deal agreed by who the rebels and a saudi an iraqi but yemeni government talks and sweetly last week. demonstrators of running again in hungary to protest against a new amendment to the labor laws what critics are calling the slave law would allow employers to force people to work more of the time or even delay payment for up to three years nationwide protests have been held since last week. in spai

mike hanna al-jazeera washington. let's bring in our guest joining us from maryland on skype is david eros is professor of near east south asia center for strategic studies at the national defense university and former director of nato operations at the pentagon from kabul habib or doug founding member of transparency afghanistan and national security analyst and from the us hold off on skype and craig assistant professor at the defense studies department king's college london and a specialist on jihadist groups in the middle east welcome to the program i'd like to begin with you in maryland david rush's we've heard a lot in the last twelve hours about the adults in the room and about james mattis being the last adult to leave them by that they mean a tempering influence to some of the u.s. presidents more mecurio tendencies is that a fair way of describing the current situation. well we're not sure it's certainly a common way of describing the situation the president is mercurial the president is not a member of the

to take a harder stance mike hanna reports from washington. this says the public international law and policy group report was genocide in late august last year the armed forces of myanmar launched what they euphemistically labeled a clearance operation within a few months more than seven hundred thousand had fled their homes to seek refuge across the border in eastern bangladesh military helicopters fired on the being refugees the navy attacked over crowded ferries the report continues gang rape and mass murder were used as a formal military tactic it is clear from our intense legal review that there is in fact a legal basis to conclude that the reading go for the victims of war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide. the u.s. holocaust museum too has long argued that genocide has been committed and join the law group in calling for immediate action to establish accountability in addition insisting on the need for direct action to be taken to curb myanmar's military they're not listening to anyone and so it is important that like us gove

adding while we wait to see if the democrats will help us to protect america's southern border mike hanna al-jazeera washington well ahead of the shutdown the u.s. stock market has had its worst week of losses in several years concerns of slowing economic growth and a recession have worried investors all major u.s. indices of lost between sixteen and twenty six percent from their highs over the summer and the autumn the likelihood of a u.s. government shutdown also triggered a sell off of stocks around the world well the dow jones industrial average finished the week nearly seven percent lower that's its worst weekly plunge since two thousand and eight the tech rich nasdaq was down eight point four percent the sharpest drop since two thousand and eight and the s. and p. five hundred was down nearly seven point one percent the biggest fall since two thousand and eleven president trump's hard line policy on asylum seekers has been dealt a serious blow by the supreme court trumps proposed restrictions have been rejected five to four by the courts judges the measure had sought to ban anyone s

troops withdrawal from syria mike hanna reports now from washington d.c. . i can say is he is the real deal he is the real deal the president trump an issue lisa rounded himself with generals james mattis the secretary of defense michael flynn as national security adviser followed by another general h.r. mcmaster and of course john kelly who was moved from homeland security to take over as chief of staff all are now gone or going to matter some particular seen as a central figure in keeping a largely dysfunctional white house party functional secretary mabus was one of the few symbols the few items of strength and stability in this administration everything that indicates stability everything that indicates strength everything that indicates knowledge is leaving this administration when president trump criticize nato and threaten to leave it matters was the one reassuring allies behind the scenes he helped push the president to moderate his position on the g.c.c. crisis. and he was able to get the president to make an open ended commitment in afghanistan whi

no democrat has called for shutting the government to live to washington to my colleague mike hanna so mike in amongst all this political argy bargy is this a trump shutdown or a democrat shutdown well last week president trump was claiming that he would claim it proudly this week saying that if there is a shutdown it will be the democrats fold so certainly he's done a complete about turn on that particular issue but there have been some developments in the senate the senate leader mitch mcconnell has just told the senate that they will not be a vote in the senate until agreement is achieved between progression all leaders and the president on the issue off the funding he said if there is a shutdown it's going to be a very short one but what is behind all of this is last minute negotiations by the president's chief of staff jared krishna one of his advisers and the vice president by pen say been shuttling between congress and congress between the hill the house and the senate attempting to get some kind of compromise that all will accept now what is happening now that mcconnell has ann

of a personnel shakeup president trump is looking to make for the second two years of his term mike hanna joins us now from the united nations so mike she's seen as something of a novice in in foreign policy circles what are they likely to make of her at the u.n. . for very much a novice her main claim to this position appears to be the fact that she was on president trump's favorite television show fox and friends but certainly she has been at state department for the past year is that lack of foreign policy experience something that's going to be brought up very strongly during her confirmation hearings she has been working on well it would appear with the secretary of state might pompei or accompanying him on a number of overseas trips not the case with rex tillerson his predecessor there was reported to be differences between them she never companied him on any foreign visits and certainly there did appear to be a distance but the key issue here is what is the status of her appointment now all her previous sessa nikki haley was both a member of the cabinet and importantly on the natio

more than eight hundred thousand government workers sent home without pay just before christmas mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . well a week ago president trump said he would be proud to shutdown the government should he not get the five billion dollars for his border wall in the budget however he now appears to be retreating from this rather extreme position in the case in saw that they are other avenues for raising the funds being explored this is what the white house press secretary had to say religion every avenue available to us possible the president's asked every one of his cabinet secretaries to look for funding that can be used to protect our borders and for that give the president the ability to fulfill his constitutional obligation to protect the american people the having a secure border but a shutdown still not averted democrats of turned down a compromise republican offer of a one point five billion dollar amount for border security not the wall but democratic leader nancy pelosi says this would amount to giving president trump a one billion dollars slush fund as she

that role effectively without maintaining strong alliances and showing respect to those allies mike hanna joins us live from washington so mike did he jump over as he pushed. well it does appear in this particular case that he jumped to his letter of resignation dated today the twentieth of december this right after president trump unilaterally announced the withdrawal of american troops from syria reportedly without any consultation with the secretary of defense this would appear to have been the last straw there's been a long line of disagreements between the secretary of defense and president trump though james mattis was at pains never to state so publicly he was firefighting behind the scenes on many an occasion going to a g. twenty summits for example getting an agreement that wasn't there when president trump left also reassuring nato allies that president trump didn't mean it when he criticized nature or said he was going to leave so once again you've seen the secretary of defense who has soldiered on we've already heard from democratic politicians how much he will be missed decla

to have ms house will go to capitol hill to brief them well that's what's happening and here is mike hanna to talk us through it he is in the u.s. capitol hi mike so closed door does that mean we won't hear anything or is there likely to be some information that would come out afterwards. well it's closed doors on it's especially a very small group of senators it's basically the ranking senators and the chairman and senior senators on all the key national security committees now it is unlikely that we are going to hear from house for herself and that there is a possibility some of the senators may speak after the meeting but as you mentioned in that introduction there are reports that the house bill was and sensed at what she saw as the leaks coming from nor makers about the cia investigation there were rumors last week that she was prevented from attending the briefing by the secretary of state and the secretary of defense however subsequently a spokesman for the cia has said that she decided not to come because she had already briefed a number of members of congress but this is a can bri

of his own administration have indicated that they disagree with that move so let's now speak to mike hanna who is live for us in washington mike what more are you hearing about this. well in the latest development president trump has tweeted in the last few minutes that his secretary of defense james mattis will be retiring at the end of february this is a shock in a number of ways not beliefs the way in which it is being made public clearly james matters very upset it is said with the decision to withdraw troops from syria withdraw which many contend the president carried out unilaterally there's also be the increasing talk in the last forty eight hours of a trump inspired unilateral withdrawal from of the stan now the secretary of defense very very clear that he want to troops kept in syria that he wants the troops kept in afghanistan clearly at odds with what is an emerging policy a by his president and now an announcement by that president in the form of a tweet that is secretary of defense will be retiring by the end of february. and just very briefly my madness has said that it's the

consulate where he was murdered we'll be speaking to them in a few minutes but first let's go to mike hanna now who's on top of the hill where that cia briefing took place mike some extremely strong language from u.s. senators off to that briefing in the end they got their way and heard directly from the cia director. yes it was a very small meeting of senators only eight of them was the chairman of key national security committees and the ranking senator in each of those committees there was some disquiet among other senators that they weren't invited as well as some arguing very strongly that this information should be declassified and made clear to the public but all those eight senators who emerged from the meeting were absolutely united in one basic opinion and that is that the crown prince mohammed bin solomon was responsible for the murder of a jamal khashoggi certainly you this was the strongest statement to be purged from the senators on the matter and certainly among the most angry comments as well very clearly they are intent on getting action taken soon but to give you some idea

is the document mike hanna reports borne out of recession the devastation of war and an act of genocide executed on industrial scale the declaration was passed by the un general assembly in one nine hundred forty eight with the us ambassador eleanor roosevelt a guiding force its intention to ensure that such tragedies did not occur again but in the decade since the declaration has been marked more by transgressions and example the key problem the lack of enforcement the body established to protect these rights is a un security council and often divided body in which national agendas rather than individual rights remain supremum. the syrian state that carries out chemical attacks against its own people is shielded from sanction by a russian veto which is joined by china in blocking any action against north korea and in threatening a veto to hold the myanmar military to account for what the us own investigators call a genocide. any attempt to take action against israel or even condemn a transgression is an occupied territory is routinely blocked by a u.s. veto and even former champions of

state department to issue a waiver but there's been no response mike hanna reports now from washington d.c. . the first travel ban was imposed just days after president trump took office it face numerous challenges before the current version was upheld by the supreme court earlier this year it prohibits the citizens of iran libya somalia syria and yemen from traveling to the u.s. without a special waiver and among those barred from entry is the mother of a two year old boy dying of a rare brain disease in a california hospital abdulla her son was brought to the u.s. for treatment by his father early he's now being kept on life support so his mother can bid farewell but despite numerous requests there's been no way that issued by the state department now we see the muslim beza fact in the most dehumanizing way and we're running out of time we're calling for the department of state to issue a muslim ban waiver to allow seamus willow the wife of a u.s. citizen the mother of a u.s. citizen to hold her child one last time until allow her to mourn with dignity and a direct plea made by a gri