A plea deal for lying about his contact with russia. And agenda and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up extra powers for Security Forces in honduras after violence breaks out of a stalled election results. Playing with fire the palestinian chief negotiator warns against any u. S. Recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel and the draw for footballs world cup reveals a powerhouse match up weve got the details from moscow. A former Senior Advisor to u. S. President donald trump has admitted to lying to the f. B. I. About his contact with russia Michael Flynn is the First Trump Administration official to be charged as part of a criminal investigation by a special Counsel Robert Mueller the former National Security adviser says a Senior Member of trance chumps Transitional Team asked him to reach out to russias ambassador to the u. S. Before the president s inauguration a move that is not allowed his guilty plea shows flynn is cooperating with the Mueller Investigation and could be an important source of information for prosecutors investigating others in the White House White house Correspondent Committee reports. Arriving at federal court in washington Michael Flynn ignored shouted questions by reporters. Inside moments later the former National Security advisor to President Donald Trump pled guilty to lying to the f. B. I. Court documents show the charges against flynn stem from his lying about efforts to obtain advance knowledge of how foreign governments might vote on a u. N. Security Council Resolution about israel as well as phone conversations flynn had before tribe was even sworn in as president with the former Russian Ambassador to the United States surrogate kiss li ak. Flynn is said to have suggested to kiss liane sanctions put in place against russia by the Obama White House may be dropped once trump was sworn in they did not discuss anything having to do with the United States decision to expel diplomats or or impose a censure against russia flints lies to the Vice President about that phone call led to his dismissal after just three weeks in office in a statement trumps lawyer said flynt false claims mirror the false statements to white house officials which resulted in his resignation in february of this year nothing about the guilty plea or the charge implicates anyone other than mr flynn but his plea in fact may directly tie the oval office to the investigation by special counsel Robert Muller and whether or not the Trump Campaign worked with russia this suggests that mr flynt has more information to provide about other things the white house has lied about other things the president himself may have lied about and whether or not the white house including the president himself colluded with russia according to the former f. B. I. Director james comey trump once asked him to drop the case against flynn and despite claims by the president s lawyer flynns cooperation with the f. B. I. Probe shows that most investigation is ask. Could lead to charges against an even bigger target including the president of the United States kimberly helped get aljazeera washington bruce fein is a former u. S. Justice Department Official and constitutional lawyer he told aljazeera why this case could be of great concern to the trump administration. We know that mr flynn got a relatively minor charge that carries maybe a prison term of less than six months in a fine thats clearly lenient and youd expect that mr moeller would have done that only if he expected something in return namely cooperation which would lead to other dominoes to fall moreover mr flynn had indicated later that someone high up in the white house directed him to speak to miss the ambassador of russia and the only persons who would have authority in my judgment at that level would be those who are acting at the direction of the president himself the speculation is that gerrard questioner was the intermediary between the president mr flynn but the idea that jared questioner on his own initiative a junior official whos got no experience at all in government seems utterly ludicrous and that all means that the finger is pointing more and more towards mr trump suppose that mr flynn now testifies under oath that he acted in speaking to mr cozy at the direction of jared questioner and now that brings then question or into the play and questioner then is going to be asked well who spoke to you because we know somebody of that youth and inexperience is not acting on his own a questionnaire at that point could plead the fifth amendment or he could implicate the president one of the hazards that i think mr trump confronts is that hes so narcissistic he doesnt really have friends who are inclined to go the extra step to try to save him from peril he almost alienates everybody because he throws them under the bus and teach them as disposable furniture if he doesnt need that many more so thats going to be a real problem for him because in many of these cases its interpretating intent its interpretive motivation and what people say and in read from body language can be critical here and i dont think mr trump really has a whole lot of allies on that score police in honduras have been given extra powers to stop violence that followed. A disputed president ial election one person has been killed in scuffles between police and opposition supporters and Dozens Injured the clear winner is yet to emerge from sundays vote president why no london and this is narrowly ahead of opposition candidate salvador now has claimed electoral fraud and called his supporters on to the streets the government has imposed a nighttime curfew for ten days and extended the powers of the military and police pope francis is wrapping up his asian tour where you finally used the word during a mass on friday the head of the Roman Catholic church blessed people during a gathering for young people in bangladesh is capital dhaka the pontiff has been on a six day trip to bangladesh and myanmar where the International Community hoped he did address the six hundred twenty thousand who fled violence in Rakhine State he didnt specifically mention the ethnic and minority until the day five of his tour so stratford is more from here they could have a long camp in bangladesh where many rangar live. The decision by the vatican for the pope not to use the word regain judge earing his three days in myanmar had cast a dark cloud over this asia trip but only in coming to bangladesh and meeting those range of refugees that have traveled from this camp to dakar to see him and on him listening to their reflect stories of suffering inside myanmar and inside these camps it seems there was little choice for him but to mention them by name and of course this is generating a lot of positive publicist see about this crisis but the practical the practical challenges that these people are facing remain i mean lets look at the facts in the last week or so the Bangladesh Government or the myanmar government to come together and are putting together a plan what they describe as repatriation of potentially hundreds of thousands of ready to back into myanmar now these refugees still still do not have citizenship still have no more rights than they had when they arrived they are terrified about potential of having to go back and many of them have lost property family members have been killed this plan being put forward suggests that. The residence you will be housed in temporary camps close to their property much of which as i say has been destroyed so while this visit by the pope and his decision to eventually call the river in their name is generating a lot of good publicist for the calls the real practicalities about improving the conditions and the future of the river remains doubtful thousands of people are expected to join a rally against germanys far right f. T. Party which is gathering in hanover to elect a new leadership the anti migrant anti islam party captured nearly thirteen percent of the vote and almost one hundred seats in parliament in septembers general election coleader from patrick quit the f. T. Just days after the election to form her own breakaway party its gearing up to oppose chancellor Angela Merkels yet to be formed government and the f. T. Will be germanys official Opposition Party if angle or merkel enters into a coalition with the social democrats if he wants to introduce a proposal to repatriate Syrian Refugees this will be debated in parliament but is expected to be voted against by all other parties controversially the far right party also wants to own of the german army which has been traditionally kept out of politics since the end of World War Two and the callan joins us from the german city of hanover and i believe there were protests a little earlier on what happened. Well thats right jane we saw a few hundred protesters who were scuffling with police they were minor scuffles on the outskirts of the center where the i have to use holding this conference they have made it they have vowed to block delegates from coming in here this is the same strategy that followed protesters news when the party last met in cologne back in april of course as you say now things have dramatically changed the eye of steve has more than ninety. Seats in call event so they are a Political Force this is a watershed moment in germany because its the first time that a far right party has had seats in the buddha saw the problem and since World War Two those protesters as you say their numbers are growing theres a very tight as ring of Anti Riot Police around here there are Water CannonsHorses Police are obviously expecting some violence you might remember the scenes that happened in hamburg earlier this year with left protestors at the g. Twenty theyre hoping that a repeat of that doesnt happen again were seeing a trickle of delegates actually getting to the Conference Center but in the next few hours we are expecting that thats when the numbers will increase and will see this far right party trying to get to a Conference Center thats surrounded by follett protest its ok whats going to happen inside the Conference Center what are we looking at politically. Im having trouble hearing you now jane but the. Ease as you say a Political Force at the moment the fear is that if i go into his into a grand coalition with the s. P. D. The other the central left. That they will become the main opposition in politics already we have seen that their policy agenda is starting to filter into the problem and they have submitted the proposal to actually reassess syria to send refugees back they claim the pots of the country im now safe and that some of those tens of thousands of refugees who came to germany back in two thousand and fifteen should be sent back this is a very controversial poddy it campaigned on the platform of things like stop is the minds ation and bikinis not burkas but we in the actual party there is also a split they will have to vote on a new leader. As you mentioned earlier there a regional leader who they went through the election with stepped down saying that there were parts of the party that were too radical so now they have to vote on a new leader and the i have to really have to decide whether they give way to the more far right radicals or the more moderate forces in their party now that theyre actually a force in palm and ok well be talking to you throughout the day thanks still ahead on aljazeera. As in the piece how a wise reacting to Nuclear Threats from north korea. Hello and welcome back its cold and snowy across many parts of europe at the moment of course more eastern areas temperatures really struggling frontal system is going to be quite slow moving further south through out some storms across parts of turkey and into greece some snow over the balkans some snow in the Southern Alps and cold air across central parts of europe at the risk of some fall further towards the west its also looking cold and shallow with snow extending down through into parts that period potentially should die out during the course of sunday but otherwise temperatures definitely low for this time of year the snow still in evidence there was a move through into sunday lets head into north africa where we still have some pretty chilly wet and windy across coastal parts of old syria and tunis here tunis with my sort of just ten degrees celsius further along the coast where the conditions are much they should be car in fact is looking very pleasantly warm there with the maximum temperature of twenty seven degrees celsius and later on sunday we should find the temperatures to just begin to recover and shoot us as we start to see the wind ease down move into central parts of africa the weather here is generally took in pretty good for most areas one of two showers across congo kevon congo much of west africa dry and fine should be a nice day in accra in ghana with highs of thirty one. Again the mind of the top stories this hour police in honduras have been given extra powers to stop violence that followed it disputed president ial election president kwan or london and this is narrowly ahead of opposition candidate salvatore knows about his claim to electoral fraud and called his supporters on to the streets. Thousand people expected to join a rally against germanys far right party which is gathering in the hand of a new leadership the anti migrant anti islam party won almost one hundred seats in parliament in the general election in september. U. S. President on toms former National Security adviser Michael Flynn has admitted to lying to the f. B. I. About his contacts with russia flynn says a Senior Member of trying to Transition Team asked him to reach out to russians ambassador to the u. S. Speculation is now turning to who might be implicated next in the investigation particle has been gauging reaction on capitol hill. General Michael Flynn was a very visible part of Trumps Campaign for president one of his earliest and closest advisers his job often go after hillary clinton. That chance came back to haunt him friday. His guilty plea will make it that much harder for the white house to downplay the investigation but the f. B. I. Now admits is looking into potential collusion between russia and the Trump Campaign which the president has called a witch hunt well i think most of us believe its not a witch on her whole. And the f. B. I. Director and all others believe this is a legitimate concern for their part democrats dismissed the white house assertion that flynt was a minor figure in the Administration Hard to distance yourself from one of the most visible of your Campaign Surrogates and your National Security adviser we want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas is on thursday night trump seemed to bask in the spotlight lighting the National Christmas tree it was a much different scene after the news broke friday reporters kept out of a planned photo shoot in the oval office the president who seems to love to talk. And tweet stayed silent general flynn is the fourth person close to president thats been caught up in this investigation now that we know hes cooperating its pretty much guaranteed he wont be the last. Aljazeera washington in this hour u. S. Senate republicans of pos the most sweeping tax reforms in more than three decades it is a key political victory for President Donald Trump after his administration won the support of republicans who had been holding out on friday critics say the bill will add one trillion dollars to the u. S. Budget deficit in the next decade trump says a bill which includes a big cuts in corporate taxes will boost Economic GrowthWilliam Black is a professor of economics and you know with the university of missouri and kansas city he says Congressional Republicans on are desperate to get their key provisions of the tax bill through. Paradox is that the republicans have actually gotten weaker in congress and that trump now has more power over them than he has had it any point in the presidency and that to his strength comes in part from the very weaknesses weve talked about that they gresham republicans are now be desperate to have something pass anything thats the first part the second part is there particularly desperate to get the key provisions of this bill through for their donor base and the donor base of course these are the wealthier people and this tax cut is overwhelmingly going to go for the wealthiest americans and the donors are saying pass this bill or dont come back to us for more contributions and then basically the key political fact is that trumps base is still with trump and that trumps base is what turns out in primary elections so Congressional Republicans dont fear democrats anywhere near as much as they fear trumps base in the prime republican primary and trump has played on these fears quite well well economists say that this is going to add only theyre a tiny amounts in terms of growth theres a clear consensus among economists so overwhelmingly this has nothing to do with growth and everything to do with redistributing income again towards the wealthiest americans. The palestinian chief negotiator is warning that the us would be playing with fire if it recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel so i better cut was referring to reports that President Trump could announce the policy change on wednesday the white house insists the final decision hasnt been made the status of jerusalem has long been one of the most sensitive subjects of the Israeli Palestinian conflict as both sides claim the city as their capital i mean. Everyone has informed the u. S. Administration that jerusalem isnt just a palestinian question its an arab islamic christian question the u. S. Administration understands the enormity of the subject were being told during the Election Campaign which was postponed internal u. S. Problems that are facing trump or anyone else. But this is a very big issue. Touching the church of the plane with boy theres no meaning for a palestinian state without East Jerusalem as its capital. Is an assistant professor at the institute and he joins us here in the studio good to have you with us whats going to do the big question right now i think every president historically has signed that waiver to not move. Embassy but actually break with that tradition because it comes up every six months or. So and i think if you want to call a pro israeli faction of the hardcore boys really faction in his administration questioner and others are pushing for this of course question is implicated now in the flynn scandal because he was lobbying with flynt on behalf of israel to get russia to veto settlement resolution in two thousand and sixteen and thats when a big scandal as well so question right now is a little bit of a liability to trump i would hope the trump would actually you know pursue american interests not israeli interests first but pushing israeli interests is it sort of a diversion at the moment possibly well i think its part of a plan he could kind of. At the end in the beginning it wasnt that clear that he would do that but now he seems to move in that direction to have this. If you want to call and youre conservative even by gender together with saudi arabia to some degree in the gulf states and even pursuing a regime change maybe in syria who knows but it seems that he is kind of given up the earlier policy you had which was not being implicated in these old brewing conflicts in the region not moving the embassy which was first proposed something that also keeps coming up you know recognizing jerusalem as israels capital i mean its nothing other than being highly provocative right now which is not to have aligned with the President Trump of course but bear in mind that all president s of brett barack obama in two thousand and eight said that you will some of the United Capital of israel and all president s basic have endorsed that line they just havent put it into action even trump sign the waiver in june i believe and now it will be up again so well see what happens but it would if it does go to whats a for not going to be well he will lose even more america will lose even more credibility in the region and it will be a further escalation to an already volatile region because thats not what the palestinians i mean obviously that would push it over the edge right probably i mean they would burn all bridges if you want with the palestinians for sure that nobody could accept that in the region it. Remains to be seen but lets hope that america would be forced yes mark thank you. Egypts foreign minister told aljazeera he sees no end in sight to the months long blockade of egypt saudi arabia bahrain and the u. A. E. Cut diplomatic and trade ties in june accusing cats of supporting terrorism denies this so make sure he says katz had not accepted the concerns of the countries that imposed the blockade. I cant really speak about a resolution because we havent extracted from qatar any determination that it recognises the concerns of the three the four countries that have been mostly affected by the qatari policies until there is that clear declaration of understanding and willingness to change course we find that the situation remains. At the current level the European Council president says breaks the talks will go no further unless a border plan is agreed with ireland speaking after meeting islands Prime Minister in dublin donald tusk says island will have the final say on what will be the only land border between the u. K. And the European Union it is the u. K. That started. This possibility the. Commitment to do this necessary to avoid a hard. Let me say very clearly. If the u. K. Unacceptable for ireland it will also be unacceptable for the. Latest missile threats hawaii has tested its Nuclear Warning signs the sirens rather the u. S. Is updating old Civil Defense plans and systems that they back to the cold war rob reynolds reports from los angeles. Eerie wail of air raid sirens sounded across holey. On friday the first test of its Civil DefenseWarning System since one thousand nine hundred eighty Officials Say they would give her wise one and a half million residents just thirteen minutes to take shelter the basic gardens again if youre here this is get inside still inside and see to its a direct response to the growing threat of war with north korea young yanks Nuclear Weapons and Ballistic Missile program is developing rapidly undeterred by months of threats bluster and personal insults from u. S. President donald trump they will be met with fire fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never see before earlier this week north korea tested an Intercontinental Missile experts say could strike all of the u. S. Including east coast cities like new york and washington. Air raid sirens like this one in Downtown Los Angeles were a feature of American Life during the cold war most of them were disconnected decades ago and technology as moved on a text message and email a phone call on your device on your smartphone whatever it is you have and for a scenario like were talking about the Nuclear Detonation that would be a president ial notification that would hit every single phone in this country they have that capability theres no way to override that alert and that alert will give you specific information about what the threat is and whatever the actions of the public can take in the past government funded full out shelters where stocked with supplies thats no longer an option if we did have a detonation we dont have those fallout shelters anymore people call us all the time on our public lines where the shelters so now were looking at sheltering in place so you may have to stay inside your home for about fourteen days do you have enough supplies do you have enough you know first aid those kinds of things within your own home so were encouraging residents to do that no matter how well prepared the general population might be a Nuclear Strike would be horrific its an armageddon scenario its going to be a lot of fatalities a lot of areas that will not be livable habitable for a very long time as a wise governor said this week a revived Nuclear Threat has become the new normal robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. The next part of the series takes us to russia which has the well its not just Nuclear Weapons osten a look at the friction thats causing what the u. S. With the u. S. You can watch that story. And mouthwatering match between spain and portugal is a highlight of the opening stages of next years football world cup in russia the european powerhouses have been drawn in the same group along with iraq and iran defending champions Germany Group effort with mexico sweden and south korea hosts russia will play saudi arabia in the opening match of the tournament sportscars privately wellings looks at more detail the match ups. The first thing that really stood out about the draw was actually a much spine versus portugal that could only come about because spain werent in the top sage you always expect spine with their brilliant track record to be among the top seeds but they werent. Go what i would side with a walker when they run in the group both spain and portugal will expect to progress whatever happens in the match between them as for the first time finalists iceland you could barely have got a more attractive guy for them to ply the smallest never to take part in the world cup a fantastic achievement to qualify despite what they achieved in the European Championship last year and theyre playing argentina in moscow its going to be another amazing day for the people of iceland what i would say is to manage expectations its going to be extremely difficult for iceland to pick up points in that group dont really dont expect them to qualify for the knockout stages if they dont it will be quite a story in terms of the toughest going. I look at brazil switzerland costa rica and serbia and i think youve got three strong tones what really strong tame this being my favorites and i think that were going to call anything the group of death but i think that one looked the toughest along possibly with that ice and group with argentina in it as well as croatia and nigeria. You. You. Sell. These are the top stories u. S. President Donald Trumps former National Security advisor Michael Flynn has admitted to lying to the f. B. I. About his contacts with russia finances a Senior Member of trumps Transition Team asked him to reach out to russias ambassador to the u. S. Hes and soldiers in honduras have been given extra powers to stop violence that followed a disputed president ial election president want to london under is narrowly ahead of opposition candidate salvador. Whos claimed electoral fraud and called his supporters on to the streets. The whole armed forces and the National Police acting in a prudent manner in accordance with the law calling on the people to maintain peace and calm to stay tolerant and to not ferment hateful sentiments vengeance or division among the whole people thousands of people expected to join a rally against germanys far right party which is gathering in hanover to elect the new leadership the anti migrant and islam party won almost one hundred seats in parliament in the general election in September Pope francis is wrapping up his asian tour where you find to use the word during a mass on friday the head of the Roman Catholic church blessed people during a gathering for young people in bangladesh capital dhaka before returning to rome in a few hours euro Senate Republicans have passed the most sweeping tax reforms in more than three decades its a key political victory for President Donald Trump of days of ministration won the support of republicans whove been holding out on friday the house of representatives have passed a separate version so now must meet the senate to agree on a final bill critics say the bill will add one trillion dollars to the years budget deficit in the next decade. The palestinian chief negotiator is warning the us would be playing with fire if a great jerusalem as the capital of israel. Was referring to reports that President Trump could announce the policy change on wednesday as the headlines the news continues on aljazeera first its inside story. On counting the cost the goldilocks oil price is there such a thing as the perfect price of crude for consumers and producers financial bubbles and big point the future of job creation in africa the only continent where the young outnumber the counting the cost at this time on a. Diplomatic chaos in just twenty four hours donald trump goes from threatening to destroy north korea to chipping away at the socalled special relationship with its closest ally the United Kingdom is u. S. Foreign policy at a crime