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and in the senate, as nick schifrin reports, the saudi role in yem, and america's support for its top arab ally, was subject to tough judgment. and a warning: some images in this story may be disturbing to some viewers. >> schifrin: 3,000 miles from the front lines, u.n. secretary general antonio guterres called today a breakthrough. >> this a critical element for the future political settlement to end the conflict. >> schifrin: it's been more than four yearsince the two sides started fighting: shia houthi rebels, backed by an, who seized the capital. and the internationally recognized sunni government backed by a saudi-led coalition and the u.s. after one week of talks, the two sides agreed to reduce the fighting in taiz. armed houthis will withdraw from the ports of salif, and the ras isa oil terminal.an most importantly, a fire in hodiedah, the epicenter of the most intense fighting, and al the vast majority of goods and humanitarian aid.mo mmed abdul-salam led the houthi delegation. >> ( translated ): we have made very large concessions and these concessions we made are for our ye

as nick schifrin reports, is unexpected challenge mrs. comes amid the larger chaos of the drive tard brexit. >> the results of the ballot held this evening is that the parliamentary committee does have confidence-- ( applau) >> schifrin: and with that, the head of the conservatives' parliamentary committee announced that british prime minister theresa may survived. t >> the number of votes c favor of having confidence in theresa may is 200, and against was 117. >> schifrin: that hush spoke to a political fight that was close and difficult. but tonight, may projected confidence. >> this has been a long and challenging day, but at the end of it,'m pleased to have received the backing of my colleagues itonight's ballot. >> schifrin: it has been a tumultuous 48 hours, after her brexit deal faced intense resistance, and she pulled the vote. and then this morning, members of her own party trigged a vote to oust her as their party's, and britain's, leader. so instead of attending a planned meeting in dublin to fight foher version of brexit, may

so in a way it's really just a regime ploy to keep pressure on the area. >> schifrin: keep prsure on the province that is the rebel's final stronghold. no one rebel group is in control, but the most dominant is hayat tahrir al-sham, known as h.t.s., a sub-branch of al- qaeda. the militants' presence provides the syrian government an excuse to continue targeting. that targeting looks like this.a owed buildings, body bags, and thousands fleeing an onslaught that the buffer zone was supposed to prevent. idlib is home to three million people, many of whom are internally-displaced. ndreds of thousands live without basic services, in overcrowded camps or in the remnants of bombed-outdi bus. meriam al-dagheem works at a ngmen's center. she fled the bomn jarjanaz, and says she's a long way from going back. >> ( translated ): as long as the regime forces remain at the front lines and the shelling continues its impossib return, because the situation is nytot secure at all, e we think of coming back the shelling and bombardment starts again. >> schifrin: the only reason the bombing isn't worse,

and, as correspondent nick schifrin reports, the people on the ground are still facing attacks. >> schifrin: just like any one- year-old, omar al-gheem loves his father's motorbike, even if he needs his older brothers' help. these days, he needs more lp than ever. he needs his father's help to carry him. last month omar lost his left leg wh his family home was hit by a government airstrike. a syrian jet targeted their village. it killed omar's mother, seven months pregnant with a boy. also killed that day, another woman, and sev students at a primary school. and just as white helm volunteers were rescuing the wounded, they were also another airstrike. today, al-dagheem is gratefulve his son is a but he al-dagheem misses his wife, and is worried about his omar's future. >> ( translated ): i look at omar and i see he is missingli everything i: the love of a mother, for him to go out and play with his brothers. his brothers will be playing and he tries to get up so he can play with them. >> schifrin: docalrs at maaret -numan central hospital in idlib province are caring for omar. he is just li

nick schifrin returns with that. >> schifrin: thanks, william.ll discuss at question with two people: laith kubba, an advisor to the iraqi prime minister, and a former senior director at the national endowment for democracy. he joins us from tampa. and, our special corresponde jane ferguson, who just returned from iraq for a series we're been airing over the last week, and joins us from her base in beirut. thank you very much you both for being here. president trump went all the way to iraq and did not meet any iraqi officials, and there's a statement out from the iraqist prime mi's office tonight that says "differences in points of view over tearrangements prevented the two from meeting face to face." what differences? >> well, i expect -- im from a distance, but i expect optics matter a lot offi think the president, of course, ha to appeal to his power base here at home, and he needs to be seen with the american flag, american et cetera. and i think, from an iraqi point of view persptive, this is iraq, the iraqi troops, too, the iraqi forces fo

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nick schifrin reporten og the g20 suit in argentina.nk you, nick. >> thank you. >> woodruff: the breach hto the marrioel chain's reservation database is one of the biggest hackin history, second only to the breaches at yahoo that affected three billion accounts. as amna reports, the hackers-- still unidentified-- accessed t reservations system of marriott's starwood hotel properties as far back as 2014. >> nawaz: the breach affected personal data of half a billion custin all. for more than 300 million of them, the hackers were able to get lots of informat including names, phone numbers, email addresses, pasort numbers, dates of birth, and arrival and departure information. the hack affected starwood hotels such as the sheraton, westin, st. regis anw hotels. it's the latest in a series of major breaches. most significantly, the credit rating agency equifax was hit last year th a big breach affecting nearly 150 million people. in 2015, hackers were able to get at the records of nearly 80 million customers of the nce giant, anthem. and one

direc >> schifrin: you said the privacy didn't come up in these documents.hat some of th documents show that facebook was motivated less bday usersta or protecting that user data and more about maxizing profit? >> yeah treally seems to be that wah at the time, representation to the public is these are t abusive apat are taking too much data. but let's step back fair second. facebook's permissions at the time, until 201 were so oose, that, as you heard mark zuckerberg'slip, if i signed into an app, i could actually be giving permission for the deloper to access your profile and all of my friends' profiles, even if you guys er signed into the app. so they're saying these developerdeveloper abused our pc in fact the pos were incredibly loose, and the developers went rampant with them. they built businesses offhem. what you see here and how this data trove adds to the story, is you see how there were really deep, competitive reasons and r businesons yes they were pulling back data. and those didn't appear to have to do very much with privacy. >> schifrin: facebo

i'm nick schifrin. judy woodruff is away for the holiday.on the newshour tonight: can president trump fire the rechairman of the federal rve? "why religion?" the person story of faith and in overcing tragedy. >> one of the things that just amazes me is how resilient human beings are; the things people live through. >> schifrin: and, from around thheworld, we ask members of u.s. military to sing a holiday classic. ♪ ♪ >> schifrin: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

some of the leadership might still remember him. >> schifrin: glik yeah. a lot of the leaders, actually, not only still remember him. those who have been around to remeer him, but also newer leader positive so he heard emmanuel macron of france, who is in his early 40s, who i don't believe ever worked with george h.w. bush, he said he went up president trump and said, "we're sorry for your loss condole and you heard the chancellor of germany, call george h.w. bush one of the fathers ofat unifn in his role at the end of the cold war in unifying germany. just as we're seeing in washington, here in buenos aires, from all of the leaders who represent 80% of the world'. p., an outpouring of >>esidency conveyed to president trump. sreenivasan: newshour foreign affairs and defense correspondent nick schifrin joining us from buenos airesgh to thanks very much. >> thanks very much. >> sreenivasan: mexico swore in a new president today, who has promised to launch a "radical transformation" of his country.e andres mlopez obrador not only won the presidency, but his p

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. >> woodruff: our foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin is here to walk us through the latest some rally strong language from these senators, nick, but what does it mean? how significant is it. >> i think we should pause for a second and examine the words. these are unprecedented. this is unprecedented bipartisan criticism against saudi arabia. these are senators who havdee nded saudi arabia in the past despite human rights abuses in the past, senators who have defended saudi arabia even after 9/11, nine saudis participated 9/11. they called saudi araia a strategic ally, now calling saudi arabia a strategic atability. we don't know appened in that briefing because it was classified, but we heard a couple hints. there one, senator graham saying a smoking saw, seemingly a confirmation of something that tuish officials have said which this team that flew from saudi arabia to istanbul to murder khashoggi brought a bone saw, clearly indicati premeditation. >> woodff: that evidence has been confirmed. >> not officially. not officially. >> woodruff: there's a lot of reference its o.

as nick schifrin reports, the talks come as the conflict grinds on, the immense suffering continues,e over u.s. support for the war heats up on capitol hill. >> reporter: on a grassy, quiet estate, in a renovated castle outside stockholm, yemen's warring parties sat around a table today to try and decide their country's fate. on one side, yemen's sunni, internationally-recognized government. across the table, shia houthi rebels, who ho in the middle, the u.n. envoy ying to make peace. >> the country's institutionsat arisk, the fragmentation of the country is an enormous trncern, and we must act now before we lose conol of the future of yemen. >> reporter: the country is cracking after a four-year war that's killed tens of thousands. it began as a civil war in 2014. but no a saudi-led coalition fights on the ground, and launches air-strikes with the help of u.s. advors. and the u.n. says houthi rebels receive aid and roet parts fr iran. both sides hold thousands of prisoners, and that was today's main confidence-building measure: a swap anunced by u.n. envoy martin griffiths. >> it wi

also became the first male all female so when fifteen world cup races in a single calendar year schifrin still only twenty three years old ok that is high sport is looking for not more lights. and that's it for me peace it will be for this news stay with us i'm back in a moment with more of the day's top news stories here on al-jazeera also use it. on counting the cost the economic factors to watch the ring in the new year why column is so predicting a rocky ride for the global economy and from china to the middle east find out why and where financial storms could be proved. counting the cost on the al-jazeera. resort is one of nigeria's top tourist destinations but in the shadow of the mountain some nigerians continue an ancient tradition with child protection workers say condemns young girls to a life of slavery and sexual exploitation five year old miracle was buried for money just a few weeks ago joan leaves with some missionaries who says she's proved when the marriages happen i couldn't reach it is a missionary or rescues goals the money goes to buy outrightly an oak or maybe one b

but as nick schifrin reports, there are questions about whether the milita is undercounting. >> reporterur years ago, isis controlled territory across iraq and syria the size of belgium. today, the group has lost 99% of that land, and eight-million people no longer have to live inside the so-called islamic state. the u.s. has achieved that success thanks in large airt to a massr campaign.ra inand syria, the u.s. has launched 31,406 air strikes in a campaign the coalition describes as the "most precise in history." but this weekend, the u.s. admitted that those air strikes accidentally killed 1,139 civili as. how did thive at that number? and is it accurate? to explore tse questions i am joined by larry lewis, who used to lead the defense department's effos to prevent civilian casualties. he was also the state department's senior advisor civilian protection, and is now research director at the center for naval analyses. larry, thank you very much. welcome bac you and i have talked about how this is probably aundercount, that $1,139, and one of the main reasons is buildings, something almo

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but as nick schifrin reports, that's the big question: hat did china agree to? what's the likelihood of reaching a bigger deal in the next t tariffs?s to eliminate >> reporter: amna, there were some specific agreements announced by presidents trump and xi he delayed plans to rais tariffs on 200 billion dollars worth of chinese goods from 10% to 25%. and the chinese promised to buy a significant amount of american products. the president and other u.s. officials have said today china is going to remove tariffs on uhe.s. cars coming into country, but china hasn't confirmed that. let's look at the significance of t what happened, and will needs to take place. michael pillsbury is an adviser to the trump administration, and the director of the center for ina strategy at the huds institute. >> welcome back to the "newshour". >> thank you. let's get to some of the core of the al with at least what the u.s. says. the u.s. says chinese promised to pur ase more thantrillion dollar of products i think the number was today. according to t u.s. th agreed to address more sys

as nick schifrin reports, managing this crisis is provi more challenging than any previous outbreak becauses not just a public health challenge-- it is spreading in a warzone. and a warning: images and accounts in this story will upset some viewers. >> reporter: in northeastern congo, the dead are left on dirt roads, and at the grassy edges of remote villages.re familiesargeted, and homes d e burned to the ground, in a conflict that starfore many victims were born. >> ( translated ): they arrived in the village and immediately started shooting, loote shop and setting fire to the shop. they asked me and my aunt to d,me out from under the bend if we refused, they would burn us alive. ( gunfir) >> reporter: for a quarter century this region's residents have fled from armedmist groups, and local militias. they attack the military and anyone they accu of collaborating with the government, and have left villagers in coffins, killed by brutal violence. and now, villars are being killed by brutal disease. ebola causes high fevers and fatal bleeding, and spreads through bodily fluids of the sick, or

here's foreign affairs corrpondent nick schifrin. >> reporter: paris is burning. britain is consumed by brexit. >> the government has lost ncontrol of events and is complete disarray. >> reporter: european leaders trying to respond to the forces of populism are now bein consumed by them. they face serious threats to their power, and their countries face fundamental transformations. >> ( translated ): our enemy is not just macron. this dates back 15, 20, 30be years, and it' a long time since the anger has been growing. today it explodes. and i think it's not yet over. >> reporter: for the fourth straight week, on saturday demonstrators faced off with french police. in downtown paris they created homemade barricades and had running clashes with armored clve and tear gas. they called themselves the "yellow vest" protestors for the florescence every driver has to carry. at first t y objected a gas tax-hike, but now this is france's biggest politicala crisis in lf century-- a sort of primal scream byns citiho feel left behind. in a prime-time address, macronu promised