from paris to. emanuel mcconnell speech was an appeal to french hearts he admitted making mistakes and called for national unity and upon the path to success possibility i admit my share of the responsibility perhaps i made you think i didn't care i had other priorities i know that i have heard some of you with my words. the french president spoke after four weeks of near silence about the so-called yellow vest protests the grassroots movement was sparked by frustration over high fuel taxes but it's become a symbol of anger over the rising cost of living micro responded with some financial concessions nor in force we want to france where people can live from their work in dignity the minimum wage will be raised by one hundred euros a month from twenty nineteen after watching the speech in normandy this group of protesters say they were unconvinced. i fear that few yellow vests will be satisfied with these crumbs personally i will be out there again tomorrow at the guy you wrote about locate france's

that's about there's about a fifth of the french population that lives outside of major cities like paris bordeaux only on the cities in france they live in rural areas and they many of them are working class or on limited incomes and they rely on their vehicles to either drive to work or drive to public transportation drive to basic services and i think that the government has mcewan's government has been looking towards europe they have all of these these big plans and these in the grand visions for the future and for the future of france but in these visions they neglected to look at some of the. problems the domestic problems within france and there's a segment of the population that does feel left behind and forgotten and overlooked i want to play and not a protest to call daniel and daniel explains his situation and why he's protesting on the streets have a listen. try to reflect on these all this go to not argue it goes to normal. don't know about i feel really surprised there isn't a military article where you. open well beyond fear don't think you got the phone who we. don't know

agreement in they are getting together to deliver on the paris agreement and that is a very positive sign which means that you know perhaps our government doesn't feel like they're ready to join an agreement or to be part of a process and that's perfectly fine i think one of the beauties of the multilateral system is that eat eat also is prepared for dissent your meeting in doha for the door for him and many representatives of many countries are here but yet the host country is suffering a saudi led boy called. does that undermine the spirit of multilateralism multilateral action well i would say that. sometimes the capacity of regions to shape their own destiny to come up with solutions is the best approach always the united nations our system can broker facilitate enable dialogue but at the same time i'm a strong believer on the regional responses and i think we can call for an end to the boycott well what i would say is that it is very important that all the parties involved they seat in the talk because the only way to solve problems difficulties conflicts is through peaceful mea

security forces have been deployed on a massive scale in the past week particularly in the last weekend in paris and following the terrorist attack at the christmas park in strasbourg it would be preferable if on a saturday everyone calms down and avoid putting her pressure on the security forces she come gunman in the northwest of mali who have killed dozens of people over the last few days that's according to reports from local officials and officials in monarch or they say at least forty three twelve billion were killed indiscriminately at a number of villages nobody has claimed responsibility but violence between ethnic twelve full loni groups has killed hundreds this year. fire is a warehouse in the democratic republic of congo has been thousands of voting machines just ten days from the forthcoming elections election commission says the vote will go ahead it's all about us. this is what remains of a large election commission warehouse in kinshasa the capital of the democratic republic of congo inside were voting materials distant for polling seem to throughout the city ahead of presidentia

david chase to al-jazeera paris. noyes a senior research fellow at the global policy institute he says people are angry at the pace of the manual macro's reforms. east percy does very out of touch but i don't think he actually eats what he has done he's done some reforms france needed to be a reform and other reforms implemented were in his program but it isn't forget that the french are very conservative rock who don't like to be shaken but at the same time there's are many frustrations in france society which have been going on for years for wages haven't risen to the average wage in france net wages forty nine hundred euro's iniquities have been growing albeit far less in france than anywhere else france is probably the most unequal or the most equal country of order major countries in europe because the lowest poverty right during or is permanent provide you're right it's a country risk rigid distributes the most with the best benefits that can be achieved in any of defined major economies but this frustration of

freeze on the proposed diesel fuel tax that sparked violent nationwide protests including the worst paris riots in decades the so-called yellow vest demonstrations brought streets to a standstill for the past three saturdays let's go live to the paris offices david chase or can tell us more david is this three month freeze going to be enough to stop the protests. well it's yet to be seen of course but the prime minister said that no tax should endanger national unity the violence must stop but you'd have to be deaf not to hear the anger of the french people so he has responded is that enough the first reactions we've got from the the end of vests representatives is that no it's not it's not going to stop more demonstrations on saturday it's not going to stop the public anger there is still a great deal of anger right across the country at gates the sort of policies that president michel is trying to push through this is not nearly enough for them they say they want to d.s. abolished not just suspended but also they of course will not get any tariff increases in gas and electricity this wi

to the streets of paris in force openly a new front of protest against president i outrage was growing at the tactics used by riot police gets high school students demonstrating outside the french capital. this video shows them being forced to deal with their hands behind a police officer can be heard saying now there's a clause. youngest amongst them a people aged twelve. the french interior minister said the images had to be seen in context. green the pure observer is over the past few days the students having joined by about one horace with it yields are met with clubs an incendiary devices and attorney to pick a fight with the police to have a little i the french education minister described the pictures as shocking but said the violence convulsing france justified the heavy handed policing it was not an opinion shared by the students in paris more new friends has always been the country where we can say with people being gay and getting this tweet saying. and their mistakes and. now is my point like they will hold true to demonstrate because the. police officers are very. very lik

a standstill nationwide for the past three weekends so let's get more on this from a david chase in paris so david if this happens there will be something of a climb down for the french government wouldn't it. it is without a doubt a climb down but how far are they going to climb back from that policies with getting more details. of the fuel tax rise was during january the first it's going to be delayed until july the first libya a six month moratorium on that and we're also getting. an idea of other gestures he's going to make this will be an announcement from the the prime minister for leave from his office in about an hour's time a lot of those extra details is that they will lessen the strict rules on the mission the exhaust emissions from all the cars now this is important because the this whole ecological drive of the reforms at present emanuel maccarone has actually made and was trying to make to push through fell unfairly on the shoulders of the poorest people and they've got old cars there in the countryside they need those cars for that work they need those cars for for going sh

it was the worst violence seen on the streets of central paris since the uprising in may one nine hundred sixty eight. scores of people were hurt and hundreds arrested in battles with riot police it all began with a petition posted on facebook by this woman in may calling for a drop in fuel prices at the pumps a million hits and six months later she was live streaming to her followers driving to the first of the yellow vest protests in november. we're streaming live. lots of roads have been blocked by the police. the truck driver eric drew eg call for national blockade against fuel prices on his facebook page it's now receive seventeen million hits but it's mark zuckerberg who's behind their success or a chief executive of facebook introduced a new algorithm this year for the company's news feed with this update we will prioritize post spot conversations and meaningful interaction between people. the result has been the internet gets flooded by the end of s. groups and pages from traditional media outlets are to get a look in and now that they have draw from this. huge tax they realize th

people were injured in protests over rising fuel taxes over the weekend david chaytor has more from paris. as soon as his plane touched down twenty summit in argentina presenter manual macro went directly to inspect the damage at the ark to trail afterwards he walked over to greet police and firefighters who were on the front lines of the writing for so many hours on the because shouted macro resign. well the problem is michael loves the poor fool the buses the bankers he loves the rich people. come and talk to the people stopped talking about the violence and said with tears then it was the lease a palace for an emergency cabinet session on the crisis a spokesman said reintroducing the state of emergency from earlier this year was not discussed the president called on his prime minister edward felipe to invite party members in parliament and representatives of the demonstrators for talks. the real damage was caused by what's being described by police as a handful of extremists determined to confront them and cause as much trouble as they could the yellow vests rebellion is of course not

to helping global warming the world's climate scientists agree the pledges made three years ago in paris just don't go far enough . on our current greenhouse gas emissions will hit one point five degrees celsius and around twelve years and soar past three degrees by twenty one hundred the head of the un antonio good ted has championed new tougher climate pledges those were parked for another day and countries just can't seem to quit dirty energy. there was anger when the united states and poland promoted the use of coal on the sidelines of the cop twenty four gathering and global c o two emissions are up for the second year in a row. a set of rules agreed by all nations is not to be dismissed and the text sets out the way forward for countries to commit to tougher emissions targets at a later date but as it stands it's just not enough to prevent irreversible damage to our planet within decay it's all now bamboo has been an integra part of hong kong's building industry for centuries it's strong and flexible and has multiple uses but it's now creating a waste problem so the government and

france's president is trying to quell anger in paris over a planned increase in fuel taxes emanuel has asked to meet with protest leaders while demonstrators called for his resignation more than one hundred thirty people were injured and violent protests on saturday and four hundred people have been arrested the world bank says it's doubling its funding for poorer countries to deal with climate change to two hundred billion dollars the announcement comes as leaders gather in poland for un talks aimed at tackling global warming delegates from nearly two hundred nations have two weeks to agree on details of the twenty fifteen paris climate accord presidents of previous summits issued a joint statement calling for immediate and decisive action the u.s. and mexico are holding today talks on migration in washington the u.s. government is hoping to sign a deal to allow a group of central american asylum seekers to stay in mexico that's while the u.s. applications are being processed those are the headlines join me here for more news after a viewfinder asia. the important thing if you were wa

and students in paris are protesting as part of a broader movement against the french government many are obsessed about a new university application system. and those are the latest headlines here on al-jazeera up next we speak to the eighty three year old man fighting the canadian government to save his community witness is next. people know people here when everybody was here and everybody be outside walking around walking their dogs you know and just enjoy you know sit with suburbs. it was like a small little community hidden and see it's not easy to go in iraq so you are in clip there for the screwdriver ok it used to be pewter for going here we used to have yard inspections and you know you'd have to make sure that your guy was better than the lady down the street. want to talk about low income housing. now probably doesn't have much of that earning a lot of people in calgary make lot of money saw last month. i've been here thirty eight years and ninety two years old then a good conviction notice. we were given no choice. had a couple of seeds. planted it took a while to come up

delegates from nearly two hundred nations have two weeks to agree on details of the twenty fifteen paris climbers accord presidents of previous summits issued a joint statement calling for immediate decisive action. as the crucial climate talks proceed in poland's most scientists now agree that we've entered a new segment of geological time the anthropocene where human impact is the most significant force in nature in the way greenhouse gases sproule consumerism and technology are altering the planet just as big glass is all means you're strikes have done that when did this is a manmade change begin well is done a lot now reports the answer may lie beneath a small body of water just outside toronto protected by strict conservation laws crawford lake is relatively pristine it's deep low in oxygen waters produce sediments that can be accurately dated year by year like the rings of a tree these scientists are gathering and freezing centuries old layers of mud and material to try to find out when the anthropocene began this is an annual natural archive of all of the impact on the lake so it

one hundred ninety six countries have agreed on a way to enforce the historic climate deal reached in paris three years ago but other delegates in poland say it doesn't go far enough break down the good the bad and the unfinished business from cop twenty four. and has just become the first european country to officially recognize a third i'll have more on why it's a victory but not for others and throughout and so finally my handle is. with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live dot com it's been two and a half months now since the murder of saudi journalist. and we're still. no closer to finding out the whereabouts of his remains it is clear turkey is growing impatient about what it sees as saudi arabia stalling over our answers president richard type one wants them to extradite the murder suspects to istanbul where the killing took place now the turkish foreign minister is lashing out at european countries accusing them of not doing more to help level cover solo address the darfur and same turkey will not give up on finding the truth as they know how

protests in paris the capital city turned into a battleground on saturday as a protest against a micron's fuel tax escalated with buildings torched and vandalized about one hundred people were injured and two hundred others were arrested. mexico's new president has been sworn in beginning his six year term in office under us manual lopez obrador has also been formally anointed leader by indigenous groups at a ceremony in mexico city the new president has pledged to end centuries of poverty and marginalisation for more than seventy indigenous communities throughout mexico the white house has announced that a state funeral will be held next wednesday for former u.s. president george h.w. bush who has died at the age of ninety four donald trump says he'll send his official jets air force one to texas to transport the former president's casket to washington those are the headlines up next people in power once held in one of australia's toughest detention centers now a world renowned surgeon one of when he's follows dr moon. as returns to his hometown berry daring to give up you can use the ho

from maine deadlocked they when secretary general says failure to agree on just how to implement the paris agreement of twenty sixteen would be suicidal scientists say we have a little more than a decade maybe two to cap global warming to a moderate but still serious level that. our planet is heating up and fast what once took hundreds of thousands of years has happened in decay since the industrial revolution where burned fossil fuels or guess and coal to power our changing world and pumped carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere the guess is lit the sun's light in but stopped some of that heat escaping warming the planet much like the glass walls of a greenhouse it's now one degree hotter since pre-industrial times where on trek to so past one point five degrees celsius and around twelve years and three degrees at least by the year twenty one hundred our oceans are expanding as they warm arctic sea ice glaciers are melting sea levels have risen by around twenty two seem to meters since eight hundred eighty and that's it just one degree imagine that in our planet at

well our goal was first to go to paris to show. our. destruction with qantas politics and if we think that's going on in france or. especially the social movement but then when you got arrested i'm not going to say that we laughed about it but if you will we managed. in the police we started saying started last thing. and we'll try to stay positive because when you because the rest of the told us don't worry we're taking you to the police station it's for prevention you're going to be released in three four hours maximum and you're going to be able to join the protest again so for us no worries we didn't think we would be detained. so we caught up papers and put it but no facts later on it turned out that we made more than fifteen hours in detention so all day saturday and we're going to be able to go protest on the shells that he's. there and i want to talk about why the protesters were out there in the first place and we got a tweet here from someone in france at the gun rights expire on the tax maintain the old one that people are al

security forces have been deployed on a massive scale in the past week particularly in the last weekend of paris and following the terrorist attack at the christians pocket book it would be preferable if on a saturday everyone calms down and avoid putting more pressure on the security forces should come. the u.k. parliament to hold a vote on to raise a maze breaks indiana soon as possible in january as according to the prime minister's office it comes as mayor has been meeting a unit is in brussels for two days of talks after surviving a confidence vote from within her ruling conservative party it was triggered by m.p.'s who were unhappy with her withdrawal agreement but the e.u. has already cautioned the deal cannot be renegotiated only clarified. i'm going to be addressing the european council later and i will be showing the with legal and political assurances that i believe we need to assuage the concerns that members of parliament have on this issue and i know the e.u. twenty seven will also be discussing the g.o.p. planning and indeed the government in the u.k. is discussing their geo plann

small groups should say of yellow vest protesters who are trying to converge on the shores leads in paris being met by a heavy security presence police using pepper spray to keep the demonstrators back in southern france one driver was killed in a car crash at a roundabout blocked by protesters the government says at least ten people have died during the demonstrations they began more than five weeks ago against plans to increase fuel tax bill or turnout in paris is seen as a sign of economic concessions by president michel working to quell the anger. after months of hunting him in the colombian jungle security forces have shot and killed the man known as quatro the former far commander refused to surrender as part of a peace deal in twenty sixteen he was accused of drug trafficking extortion and murder charlotte bettas reports. flanked by senior ministers colombia's president rallied reporters for his big news boy. can't confirm that troia was killed in an operation he was killed by the heroes of colombia. this is quote your full name walter patricio. he was one of the most elusive and p

thousands gather in central paris for another big weekend of protests as police are accused of using heavy handed tactics. the medical charity doctors without borders is accusing european governments of a smear campaign it's stopped rescuing refugees in the mediterranean. although the u.s. president has named state department spokeswoman heaven now it's. as the new ambassador to the united nations if approved by the senate she'll replace nikki haley in january who announced her resignation in october she's been at the state department since april last year and is considered a relative novice it's part 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 positio

demonstrations were triggered by rising fuel prices and are now in their sixth week the turnout in paris appears to have dropped significantly after the government canceled the new taxes but many kept traffic disruptions to protest against emanuel micron's economic policies two explosions in somalia's capital have killed at least thirteen people suicide car bombers attacked a security checkpoint near the presidential palace in mogadishu it's unclear who is behind the blasts nine people have been killed in sudan during protests against the rising cost of food and fuel schools and universities are closed in at least five states the city's about to bar and get a rest and the entire white nile state are under emergency rule those are the headlines and the news will continue here after talk to al jazeera. michael. you can. see. the peace treaty signed by government leaders and separatist rebels in mali three years ago was meant to usher in a new iraq of peace and stability in the northwest african country but progress in implementing the agreement has been slow and insecurity has grown the vi

energy the nation is hosting the annual un summit twenty four when leaders are working to implement the paris climate agreement that clark reports will get a bit. across poland this is still a familiar sight the smoke of domestic coal fires burning to keep the chill of winter at bay and it's a sea replicated by the chimneys of millions of homes across the country you know the acrid smell of coal smoke in the air in this part of the city of cloud of it's a weather climate conference is being held is almost overpowering and you can really see why in the weeks leading up to the climate conference that the city was found to be the second most polluted in the whole of europe. i head off to meet me col damas sick third generation miner he receives sacks of coal as part of his pay to feed a hungry boiler that heats his home just yards this is the way ninety percent of rural people heat their properties gas is coming more and more to the cities but coal we still prevalent the climate conference wants to change trains by i don't think it's possible in our country because the mining industry is too est

we can talk to our correspondent dominic cain now he's in paris so these. long awaited talks are now under way because many people saying that president karl has been rather remote and even aloof from these demonstrations that have torn apart france for the last four weekends. very much so many people in this country believe that the sort of that he has been displaying the haughtiness some might say is under fitting of the role that he is in right now particularly given the fact that his capital city and parts of his country have seen such violence over the past four weekends nevertheless as you say he is now meeting with representatives of trade unions with representatives.

blockaded and besieged another landmark in central paris this time the french parliament and his drivers are making sure m.p.'s could hear their message a raft of reforms being passed into law or on social security and health care would destroy their jobs they said. they stood apart from the yellow vests revolt which has seen so much violence across france but share this concern is with the money should be shown you know what the c.d.c. to yellow vests a french citizen says we are we stand in solidarity with any movement that speaks about the suffering of french citizens as the ambulance drivers advanced on the national assembly gendarmes for some back with pepper spray. or on. the roof of the. bus was certain to say shouted back at them we are friends and to prove it they lit flares in the national colors and sang the end of the of the. was. was the end of. the end the police switched on their own sirens and lights in a show of solidarity with the protest was peaceful had a protest to be growing ceasefire to be a was nothing to do with the yellow dust you know that is an indication pres

he meets a prominent activist from paris. for you this is how he was going to be because they were so good with all of this what he's. done a little better. but i think that when the closing days of i might. just be the best moment was. on the outlook with. you know something interesting to do and you don't think you could leave out. sometimes you're not you haven't seen some of the right you're. not circular if you look at those also i think john that what. we're. going to see if he thinks he's the man who was going to keep going to demand it was there. in the main square and the hustle are joined by another far right activist. he tells them about an invitation he's received to meet a senior member of the national front and party spokesman. did he get out of this is it that they're not being fixed do or simply say it's too crystal clear to us that. sebastian shannon is open d.k. . hostile in the far right activist make homophobic remarks. from an office i was recently for it isn't a third of the e.u. so all of those. here. i

to al-jazeera paris well the protests weren't only in paris more than thirty thousand people took part in more peaceful rallies elsewhere in fronts in the southern city of three hundred firefighters set up roadblocks following protests there and anger against rising fuel prices has spilled into french overseas territories especially the indian ocean island of. a meeting with the minister was cut short on friday as yellow vests protesters demanded president calls for resignation from the miller is in the island's capital same don't need to tell us what we expect today and how the government in paris is trying to defuse the situation in. well people here are saying that the approach by the french government isn't one that will bring them any closer to a resolution and the as you say they continue to call for the resignation of the french president emmanuel mccrone people who are expected to take care of the in front in the later in the day to continue what they say it has often been a more peaceful protest here but they are expected to have a video conference with the french minister of

all right david kay said that live on the streets of paris. that we've been speaking to alexander seale his work in france for many years and he says the protests is a mainly the president's failure to fulfill his election promises people are angry because. they can't really be protesting against living costs and those students are also demonstrating they were demonstrating yesterday and farmers are also going to demonstrate next week to really fronts is really going to be blocked next week so really it's a sort of anger against many in mexico in the french president and people want to make. to be out basically a he was very popular when he was elected but now he is its ratings are about twenty six percent when you're a candidate you make his promises but afterwards. you you fail to make your promises to it's very difficult and that same thing happens to former presidents don't he he promised to to raid yeah unemployment rate but he didn't manage to. now let's go to the us are two significant legal developments in the piling the pressure on pr

he makes a prominent activist from paris. for you this is a difficult for me that's what they're going to live with for all of this is what he's going. to have been incredible just because i might. just be the best moment was. on the book with. you know something interesting to you as you. look. back to the lessons of some of the writing. not circular it was also i think i think that what. we're. going to see i think he's a man who was going to get many demands would do the research. in the main square dewey and the hustle are joined by another far right activist. he tells them about an invitation he's received to meet a senior member of the national front and policy spokesman. did he. just sit there nothing fixed up to do or simply say it's too close up here to talk so. sebastian shannon is openly gay. hostile in the far right activist make homophobic remarks. from and also recently from the news that even a third of those you saw the photos. of the general conclusion to get rid of. the hassle confirms that he also had a mee

ordered his prime minister to hold talks with those leading anti-government protests that paralyzed paris on saturday more than one hundred thirty people were injured and over two hundred arrested in the west unrest in the french capital for a decade they were chasing reports now from paris. as soon as his plane touched down the g. twenty summit in argentina present emmanuel macro went directly to inspect the damage at the op the trail after which he walked over to greet police and firefighters who were on the front lines of the writing for so many hours on the because shouted macro resign. from the cripples work the problem is michael loves the poor fool the buses the bankers he loves the rich people. come and talk to the people stop talking about the violence and said with tears then it was the lease a palace for an emergency cabinet session on the crisis a spokesman said reintroducing the state of emergency from earlier this year was not discussed the president called on his prime minister edward felipe to invite party members in parliament and representatives of the demonstrators for

this is the same live in paris way yellow vest protesters are out for a fifth consecutive weekend of demonstrations. hello i'm a fiend initial without is there live from doha also coming up. is the war crimes committed by the government to buy and got thirty inches and you know. the chief palestinian negotiator criticizes israel for demolishing the home of a well known palestinian activist. sri lanka's discretely a minister prime. resigns but there's no guarantee of a lead to political crisis. climate talks go an extra day with big polluters pushing back on the details of a final agreement. hundreds of french yellow vests demonstrators are back out on the streets of paris it's been more than a month since their protest movement began their demonstrations across the country some of which have turned violent or sparked a political crisis what began as a rallying cry against fuel tax increases has grown into a wider movement against president emanuel. well president macro has announced new economic measures in an effort to end this yellow vests movement he offered more than eleven billi

to helping global warming the world's climate scientists agree the pledges made three years ago in paris just don't go far enough . on our current greenhouse gas emissions will hit one point five degrees celsius and around twelve years and soar past three degrees by twenty one hundred the head of the un antonio good ted has championed new tougher climate pledges those were parked for another day and countries just can't seem to quit dirty energy. there was anger when the united states and poland promoted the use of coal on the sidelines of the cop twenty four giving and global c o two emissions are up for the second year in a row. a set of rules agreed by all nations is not to be dismissed and the text sits out the way forward for countries to commit to tougher emissions targets at a later date but as it stands it's just not enough to prevent irreversible damage to our planet with and decades of jennifer morgan is the executive director of greenpeace international she says citizen participation is one way to fight what she calls a lack of leadership. impacts that are happening now in jus

people were injured and violent clashes over rising fuel taxes on the weekend david chase has more from paris. as soon as his plane touched down the twenty summit in argentina presenter manual went directly to inspect the damage at the arctic trio. afterwards he walked over to greet police and firefighters who were on the front lines of the writing for so many hours on the cars shouted resigned. the. ripples well the problem is michael loves the poor fool the buses the bankers he loves the rich people. come and talk to the people stopped talking about the violence and said with tears then it was to lease a palace for an emergency cabinet session on the crisis a spokesman said reintroducing the state of emergency from earlier this year was not discussed the president called on his prime minister at what felipe to invite party members in parliament and representatives of the demonstrators for talks. the real damage was caused by what's being described by police as a handful of extremists determined to confront them and cause as much trouble as they could the yellow vests rebellion is of course

the atlantic weather still prevails in western europe were in the teens temperature was at london and paris cloud often brings rain it's not quite cold off a significant snow except at height in the alps as you can see but some stowe for low ground in either germany or poland but the hint here of course give me got the code a meeting the warm is the active area is tookie maybe the gene and certainly in cyprus where the visit heavy rain recently that's the suggestion of the satellite picture it's in the forecast to the chance to be significant rain still in cyprus sudden turkey the levant north and egypt to the west that enjoy the sunshine it's quiet and relatively mild. the weather sponsored by cats on grease. the important thing if you're walking around in beirut was known to be in the line of fire from the holiday. we heard gunshots i was the first one to feed the whole to. the battle lasted three days and three nights and there were no prisoners at the control of the under control of the region around and that's why it was such a bloody battle an icon of conflict at the heart of the leba

against humanity during the interreligious fighting five years ago natasha butler has the latest from paris well patrice eduardo i so know was arrested by fridge authorities in frogs on a warrant issued by the international criminal court he was wanted for crimes against humanity including murder torture and that what the i.c.c. say is the guy so you know was a senior leader a senior figure in the. 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 of various forms of brutality against each other say the i.c.c. now are so you know will be extradited to the international criminal court to the hague and when we spoke to the i.c.c. they could not tell us why in fact he was in france and where exactly in france he was arrested phil clark is the author of a distant justice the impact of international criminal court on african politics he says this is an important arrest. this is a very significant risk of. criminal. as the leader of one of the

demonstrations in france against president emanuel michael's policies fewer people on the streets of paris. and we speak to the bottom on a family whose hopes for an american dream ended in tragedy others are not giving up. the u.s. federal government is partially shut down for the third time this year the political stalemate follows donald trump's refusal to back down on funding for his border wall an idea strongly opposed by the democrats the president took his frustration to twitter 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 need to keep our country safe let's get out let's work together let's be bipartisan and let's get it done the shutdown hopefully will not last long. well the impulse leaves a quarter of the government unfunded over the christmas holidays eight hundred thousand federal workers will continue to work without pay or be placed on paid leave

become an anti government mass movement calling a macron to resign when it came as the latest from paris. monday is a day of meetings and speeches for president mccall he's meeting trade unionists and delegations from local organizations and business leaders trying to get a sense of what they think needs to be done to justify france the people of frogs this problem is that although he has a majority support in parliament he does not have a majority of support amongst the people his approval ratings are down as low as twenty four percent in other words more than three quarters of people in france disapprove of the way that he is handling the government of france to make things worse for him on monday also the opposition parties who don't have any votes or seats in parliament put down a motion of no confidence which will be voted on on wednesday it's very unlikely that they will win that as i say his movement last week on march has a majority in parliament but clearly it does not command majority support amongst the people what can he do to resolve this well traditionally when presidents o

or a group of protesters have attacked police officers during demonstrations in the french capital paris fighting broke out when protesters started throwing objects at the offices the so-called yellow vest protests began moment five weeks ago against plans to increase fuel tanks which were later scrapped. the u.n. teams landed in yemen to observe the departure of saudi backed government forces and who see fighters from who data the two sides agreed to a cease fire in the port city during their talks in sweden the area is the main entry point for most food aid into a country that's enjoyed almost four years of war. fifteen people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in somalia's capital mogadishu a london based somali journalist was among those killed the country's intelligence agency says those behind the attacks of now been arrested sudan's government says at least ten people have been killed during four days of protests against the rising cost of food and fuel protesters are angry about high inflation which is running at around seventy percent. those are your headlines the news con

responsible for the risks of radioactive contamination i deliberately make an appointment to see her in paris the press department won't get in the way here to make sure she agrees to see me i don't tell her what i want to talk about until we first meet. is like inches long incident saying that there have been one million that's the. kind of. cements this is because they look one of their own at the head and then the money out of one million this is it but this is because they are looking at a broader patch of the bird population one being that you think you can tide one billion but seriously yet do you seriously seem like course you have mortality requested how can you seriously believe that accident caused fifty deaths not only means it but it's still under davidge of websites. so we wrote the other report. and the initials are your r.c.h. which is torch we said right away that we expected somewhere between thirty and sixty thousand altogether worldwide richard. because the plume from chernobyl wide right round the world. not hemisphere and whilst the concentrations were low far far away it

york and i can tell you all three places are quite depressed in so many ways the yellow uprising in paris briggs that paralysis in great britain and certainly the obsession with russia and collusion and so on so for the united states on the other hand you know the moodies the cheese the putins of the world are on the rise they feel very confident at home they are pursuing their narrow state interests something similar to what donald trump is doing the difference is then at the time and through throughout many years the united states used to be a catalyst right used to be the one that will bring if you want to talk about environmental talk about poverty talk about any longer the case not the start interesting comment here from one of our viewers on facebook jamie who says the u.s. has no legal and lawful international right to act as the big boss of the world anymore absolutely especially i mean it never had an illegal right to write a but but it gained a certain credibility and it did for some seventy years build an international order since the second world war whereby the united states

are dominic a live for us in paris dominick thank you. crowds have gathered in london demanding what they call a people's vote on bracks it's a second referendum on the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. with an option to remain inside the block tuesday will be crucial in the brics that process the u.k. parliament will decide whether or not to approve prime minister teresa mayes e.u. withdrawal deal earlier probe rexin demonstrators including far right groups marched to denounce prime minister may and her deal saying it will leave britain trapped in the e.u. . the sangeet. godfrey. the gulf cooperation council has met in riyadh with divisions between the six members increasingly exposed the mirror of kuwait addressed that deterioration in relations head on used a speech to call for an end to the disputes and deepening hostility through media campaigns that was an obvious reference to the blockade of qatar by three g.c.c. members saudi arabia the u.a.e. in bahrain all have used their t.v. and newspaper outlets to criticize qatar to the point o

and reports from paris. the french interior minister christophe past and there was speaking a short while ago in strasbourg and he gave a few more details about what happened on tuesday evening he said that it was just before eight o'clock in the evening local time when a gunman went on something of a shooting spree next to the christmas market in strasbourg shooting at various locations as you said chris of cast and there confirming that three people have been killed and there are other people of course injured he said that large manhunt was underway the police were doing everything they could to try and locate the gunman who fled on foot shortly after the shooting in fact aggressive kastner even said that the borders had been tightened across the country the government has put the country on a heightened state of alert as they try to locate the shooter well earlier in the evening there were reports that perhaps the gunman had been located in parts of strasbourg those areas had been cordoned off by police b

police in paris fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters rallying against fuel tax rises. hello the president to assert america to the end of the cold war and led the nation in the first gulf war against iraq has died george herbert walker bush was ninety four how to go again looks back at the life of the forty first president of the united states the last from the generation of second world war veterans to serve in office five months ago said i'm insane started this cruel war against kuwait tonight a battle has been joined with those words u.s. president george herbert walker bush staked a place in history his successful campaign to drive saddam hussein from kuwait was the one term president's most significant accomplishment the son of a wealthy republican u.s. senator bush served in the second world war and was elected to two terms in the u.s. congress in the one nine hundred sixty s. president richard nixon became bush's mentor appointing him in bassett or to the united nations in one nine hundred seventy i shall resign the presidency that nixon resigned in disgrace but

and make the switch to clean energy problem as the world's climate change experts say al pledges in paris three years ago and nearly enough and fact global c o two emissions have gone up for the second year in a row the fossil fuels industry still powers most economies growing grain requires long term thinking and the bite of change. times be sharp some world leaders appear more concerned with winning votes to stay in office no i don't. know you probably don't then how future generations might judge their actions some of us are already taking action the consequences if we don't we'll be catastrophic this isn't a job for future generations for most of us irreversible damage to our planet will happen in our lifetimes. now virgin galactic says it could start commercial space flights as early as next year its rocketplane reach space for the first time on a test flight spaceship two launched from the mojave desert in the western u.s. and reached eighty three kilometers above the earth's surface the original rocket crashed during a test four years ago virgin galactic plans to offer ninety minut

following morning activists gather at the citadel before leaving for paris. this is it is easy to shoot the full fifty. generation identities demonstration has been banned by the french cool it's due to fears of file and it's. a police call to surround hundreds of g.i. activists from across europe. they include members of leo g.i. . g.i. activist later stage a demonstration outside the box a cloud of theater eighty nine people was shot dead by islamist assailants join the twenty fifteen paris attacks. outside the ball damaged by left wing activists the national director of the identity and is with hostile until the g.i. leader has. plans to exact revenge for the attack that's been put on hold. not because it was on the six hundred seventy. six it's not because of its. clearly jail monye was in the bar at the time of the attack so it was also a contest to something that is about it and something happened to someone who knows i mean something that. a week after the ban demonstrations activists watch a video of the paris bar attack posted by on some fascists chl

this train loaded with goods made in china is headed for budapest the rail yard here in the port of paris is part of china's new silk road to europe the idea is for this port to become southeast europe's main supply line these changes are happening as a result of greece's economic crisis port operations were sold to the china ocean shipping company the government rail monopoly was broken up there are now seven competing train operators and hellenic rail was able to focus on one particular area upgrading track now the industry is trying to make up for lost time. is the smallest in the european union. one percent. and one and a half percent of transport compared to european average of eight percent that's because after greece joined the european union in one thousand nine hundred one most infrastructure spending went to rebuilding its motorways and rail was neglected so the trains currently move only a tiny fraction of these containers inland. most leave by truck is about to change this. is the largest in southern europe and hellenic rail has just taken over its management of the. container

are angry with the lack of jobs as well as the rising costs of living david chaytor joining us from paris covering the protests for us so lots for my colleague to deal with as he chairs or attends that emergency cabinet meeting what do we expect there. to be live of what we've just seen as a marker on leaving the arc of the tree and he's going to walk about on the. people he was greeted with cheers and boos he was trying to talk to the police and commend them for the action they took last night but as you can see behind me of all the things that happened in the os no attacks the attacks on the police the attacks on the shops in the songs that we say it is the building behind me the the monument behind me the arc de triomphe and the graffiti that was pasted over it that is perhaps the the biggest defense as far as the administration is concerned you can still see some of it saying they seem to they've removed before president michael something they said to me still not draw which of course means not call resign now we must distinguish between the violence that we saw and the bottle. of the

and that is going to continue so here on sunday rain anywhere from london all the way down towards paris we do have a couple of systems coming in off the atlantic that will be problems temperature wise not so much a problem we are looking at seasonal temperatures for this time of year out towards the east the it is going to be snow but it's going to be wet snow typical of those temperatures getting just above freezing during the daytime than overnight those temperatures start to come down again so it's going to be a little bit mushy but down here towards the south we're looking a book or us seeing about five degrees or with a mix of rains don't you forecast down towards athens it's going to be a nice day at seventeen degrees there well here across the northern part of africa we are looking at mostly partly cloudy conditions across much of the area nothing in terms of rain though you can see the clouds coming in towards tripoli as well as been gazi with some clouds coming in from the north and winds coming in from the north as well over here towards cairo not looking too bad on sunday as

there is a sort of a popular revolution going on an uprising in the whole of europe yellowjackets in paris you have this protests now over here in our county and they don't want this open border policy towards immigration any more some experts say that the political crisis here in brussels the symbolic car to the european union in some ways reveals the growing challenges that some centrist and liberal leaders face as they try to govern at a time in europe when for right and zuma gratian and teemu policies are on the rise bathed in wood to sunlight the federal parliament building was eerily quiet the big danger is that people abandon the wrath of liberal mainstream and go for alter a tarion parties of the right and the left and to prevent it i think it's very important to mainstream parties take the concerns about uncontrolled migration seriously if belgium's king except the prime minister's resignation it could lead to snap elections early next year a ballot that could be seen as a gauge of just how high the far right have risen in brussels just months before may's crucial european parliam