Is there a life and house a coming up. Fifty one. In the nays are forty nine a bill to overhaul the u. S. Tax system for the first time in more than three decades gets one step closer to becoming reality plus. The peace how wise reacting to Nuclear Threats from north korea. And the draw for footballs world cup reveals a powerhouse match up with 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 Administration official to be charged as part of a criminal investigation by special Counsel Robert Mueller the former National Security adviser says a Senior Member of trumps Translation 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 a nearly investigation and could be an important source of information for prosecutors investigating others in the white house a White House Correspondent can be a help it reports. Arriving at federal court in Washington Michael Flynn ignored shouted questions by reporters. Inside moments later the former National Security adviser 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 kislyak. Flynn is said to have suggested to kiss liane sanctions put in place against russia by the Obama White House maybe draw out once trump was sworn in and 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 trunk 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 al jazeera washington bruce fein is a former u. S. Justice Department Official and constitutional lawyer he told aljazeera why this case would be of great concern to the trumpet ministration. 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 mr 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 it 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 kosilek at the direction of jared questioner and now that brings then question or into the play and question or 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 question or 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 tease 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 here a senate has passed a bill to overhaul the tax system the first major its. Changes in more than three decades its a political victory for president chunk of days administration won the support of republicans whod been holding out on friday no democrat voted for the bill the house of representatives has passed a separate version now the two documents have to be merged to agree on a final bill critics say the tax overhaul could add one trillion dollars to the u. S. Budget deficit in the next decade William Black is a professor of economics and law with the university of missouri and kansas city he says Congressional Republicans were desperate to get the tax bill through. The paradox is that the republicans have actually gotten weaker in congress and that 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 past anything thats the first part the second part is they are 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 theories 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 if the rebels say at least forty people have died in clashes between their fighters and forces loyal to yemens former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital sana the two sides are being allies in the fight against assad and coalition and Government Forces but theyve been fighting in the past four days full control of sana talks to end the dispute have failed so. The farmers the other larger bear says the saudi Live Coalition is looking at ways to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance into yemen saudi arabia placed a blockade on yemen last month after a missile was fired from hooty territory towards riyadh she urged the duties to stop fighting and join the political process we hope that eventually the truth is realized that this is not. And that they will make peace the area many citizens they have every right to participate in the political process but we cant control the country not a few fifty thousand and the countrys twenty. Two this is where we are we are very concerned about the situation in yemen we are looking at ways of. Humanitarian assistance into yemeni ports airports in the coming days and few weeks we make more announcements. Thousands of people are expected to join a rally against germanys foreign if tea party which is gathering in hanover to elect a new leadership the demonstrators are against the anti migrant anti islam party that captured nearly thirteen percent of the vote in almost one hundred seats in parliament in septembers general election coleader petrie 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 they will be germanys official Opposition Party if angle americal enters into a coalition with the social democrats the f. T. 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 honor the german army which has been traditionally kept out of politics since the end of World War Two alec helen has more from the german city of hannover. The police are expecting or several thousand protesters we saw groups of several hundred but yeah its a Party Convention say oh it with a Party Convention is being held as the leaders were driving those protesters were running to try and block the leaders from coming they have vowed to stop the some six hundred delegates from reaching the Convention Center but these are far left protesters who police are taking no chances with frankly where im standing right now i can see far more police than i can see the protesters there are helicopters buzzing our our heads they have several water cannon trucks and Police Horses ready to move in if things do get much more tense so far we havent seen anything more than minus scuffles as these protesters move to block the lead is coming in the mood is where i will to get to the Convention Center where theyre going to debate their Party Platform and elect a new leader. Slipped on aljazeera extra powers for Security Forces and hung juries off to violence of a stored president ial election results. Playing with fire the palestinian chief negotiator warns against any u. S. Recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. Hello i think the showers will be a little intense across northern parts of Southeast Asia as we go on through the next couple days Northern Areas of borneo pushing across into the south of vietnam and cambodia and i saw making its way westwards once again theres a lot of heavy showers malaysia and indonesia something of a break in the heaviest downpours for sundays loss you go on into monday and those showers become more widespread yet again they have showers they continue further north there up towards southern parts of thailand you can see this circulation has been making its way into the heavy rain here too plenty of heavy rain recently across parts of victoria Northern Areas of toria in australia could see this area of low pressure seeing huge record breaking amounts of rainfall well over two hundred millimeters of rain in places and thats all making its way east was clear skies do come back in full test in adelaide eighteen celsius here in the southerly braces set is something of a chill and sixteen celsius for melbourne but rising as we go on into monday but the showers will cling on to the eastern side of the country well so much of the making its way into a struggle over the next couple of days its looking rather warm as well with temperatures at twenty five. 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 loss the future of job creation in africa the only continent where the young outnumber the old counting the cost at this time on aljazeera. And again the top stories on aljazeera the u. S. Senate has passed a bill to overhaul the tax system the first major changes in more than three decades its a political victory for president of these administration won the support of republicans whove been holding out on friday no democrat voted for the bill. Through the rebels said least forty people have died in clashes between their fighters and forces loyal to yemens former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital sana the two sides have been allies in their fight against the Saudi Led Coalition and Government Forces but theyve been fighting in the past four days for control of some. U. S. President on trying to form a 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 trumps Transition Team asked him to reach out to russias ambassador to the u. S. Speculation is now turning to who might be implicated next in the investigation to go ahead has been gauging reaction on capitol hill when real 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. Thats right. That chance came back to haunt him friday oh wow. 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 and i think most of us believe its not a witch on her hoax and that 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 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 to call him aljazeera washington. An investigation into White Nationalist violence in the city of charlottesville found major failures by police White Nationalists were writing against the removal of a confederate statue noticed when scuffles broke out with fascist protests as the report says a lack of preparation and coordination by police led to a failure to respond to the violence effectively it also found an officer had been removed from an area where a car later plowed into a protest is killing one woman. 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 a clear winner is yet to emerge from sundays vote present when all other hand is narrowly ahead of opposition candidate salvatore has claimed electoral fraud and called on his supporters to take to the streets again to forces have imposed a nighttime curfew telling us. Forces and the National Police acting in a prudent manner in accordance with the law. On the people to maintain peace and calm to stay tolerant and to not ferment hateful sentiments vengeance or division among the whole people pope francis is wrapping up his asia tour where you find a use the word during a mass on friday the head of the Roman Catholic church blessed people during a gathering for young people in bangladeshs 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 minority and day five of his tour also for his more from near the cut of a long camp in bangladesh where many of the refugees 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 to 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 by their name is generating a lot of good publicist for the cause here the real practicalities about improving the conditions and the future of the river injure remains doubtful the palestinian chief negotiator is warning that the us would be playing with fire if it recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel was referring to reports that President Trump could an ounce the policy change on wednesday the white house insists the final decision hasnt been made the status of jerusalem has long been one of a sensitive subjects of the Israeli Palestinian conflict as both sides claim the city as their capital. And you mustnt almost 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 that promises were made during the Election Campaign which will postpone internal u. S. Problems that are facing trump or anyone else on all concerned but this is a very big issue touching jerusalem and touching the al aqsa mosque touching the church of the holy sepulcher is playing with fire theres no meaning for a palestinian state without East Jerusalem as its capital mark farai is an assistant professor at the Doha Institute he says champ would go against all his previous ss if he recognizes jerusalem as israels capital. Every previous president historically has signed that waiver to not move. The embassy but by actually now break with that tradition i think the pro if you want to call it pro israeli faction of the hardcore boys really faction in his administration questionnaire and others are pushing for this of course question is implicated now in the flynn scandal because he was lobbying with flynn on behalf of israel to get russia to veto settlement resolution in two thousand and sixteen and thats when a big scandal as well as the question of 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 i think its part of the plan he could have signed on to 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 a new york conservative even magenta 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 has kind of given up the earlier policy you had which was to not being implicated in these old brewing conflicts in the region bear in mind that all president s of Brett Barack Obama two thousand and eight said that you and 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 will be up again so well see what happens 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 some issue he says katz i had not accepted the concerns of the countries that imposed the blockade. I cant really speak about a resolution because we havent extracted from any determination that it recognizes the concerns of the four countries that have been mostly affected by the lottery policies until there is that clear the ration of understanding and willingness to change course we find that the situation remains. At the current level a judge in the canadian province of quebec has suspended a law that banned full face coverings when receiving or giving Public Services is part of a religious neutrality law passed in october it was criticized by Civil Liberties groups who say it discriminated against muslim women the judge says more guidelines are needed and how it will work in practice. North korea celebrated its latest long range missile test with a fireworks display in the capital. Thousands of people turned out in pyongyang to mark the occasion the military launched the socalled house song fifteen missile earlier this week it traveled ten times higher than the International Space station orbits the test suggests north korea is not capable of producing missiles that can reach the entire United States the Nobel Peace Prize is due to be awarded on december the tenth picking up the ward is the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons so i can the groups dedicated to creating a World WithoutNuclear Weapons were looking at the new kid stages of Countries Worldwide in the days leading up to the ward in oslo as tension over north Koreas Nuclear program rises the u. S. Is updating its defense plans including testing warning sirens in hawaii for the First Time Since one thousand nine hundred eighty well 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 here this is get inside still inside and see to its a direct response to the growing threat of war with north korea kyung 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 wont 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 has 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 were 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 were 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 encourage 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 Worlds Largest new cat weapons arsenal but look at the friction thats causing with the u. S. You can watch that story later on aljazeera. A mouth watering match between spain and portugal is a highlight of the opening stages of next years football world cup in russia the european power has been drawn in the same group along with morocco and iran defending champions germany are in group f. With mexico sweden and south korea hosts russia will play saudi arabia in the opening match of the tournament as sportscars finally warings looks in detail at 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 werent in the top sage you always expect spined with their brilliant track record to be among the top seeds but by one. Goal what i would sigh is with a walk or with a 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. You could barely of got a more attractive guy for them to apply the smallest lever to take part in the world cup a fantastic achievement to qualify despite what i 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 group. A look at brazil switzerland costa rica and serbia and i think youve got. One really strong this being my favorites and i think were going to call anything the group of death but i think that one looks the toughest along possibly with that group with argentina in it as well as croatia and nigeria. I earned. It is there are these other top stories u. S. President Donald Trumps former National Security advisor Michael Flynn has admitted to lying to the f. B. I. About his contact with russia flynn says a Senior Member of trans Transitional Team asked him to reach out to russias ambassador to the u. S. The u. S. Senate has passed a bill to overhaul the tax system the first major changes in more than three decades it is a political victory for President Trump after his ministration won the support of republicans whove been holding out on friday no democrat voted for the bill who the rebels say at least forty people have been killed in the capital sanaa in violence between their fighters and forces loyal to yemens former president. These two sides have been allies in the fight against society Led Coalition and Government ForcesSaudi Foreign minister. Says the Saudi Led Coalition is looking at ways to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance into yemen. We hope that eventually the hoosiers will realize that this is not. And that they will make peace they are here many citizens they have every right to participate in the political process but they cant control the country not a few fifty thousand and the countrys twenty eight million. Thats ridiculous and so this is where we are we are very concerned about the humanitarian situation in yemen we are looking at ways of influencing the floor humanitarian assistance into yemeni ports airports in the coming days and few weeks we will make more announcements in the. Thousands of people are expected to join a rally against germanys far right of the party which is gathering in hanover to elect a new leadership the anti migrant anti islam party want to miss one hundred seats in parliament in the general election in september Security Forces in honduras have been given extra powers to stop violence that followed a disputed president ial election present one or longer londoners is narrowly ahead of opposition candidates salvador nasrallah has claimed electoral fraud and called his supporters on to the streets those are the headlines counting the cost is up next. This is a really fabulous news for one of the best ive ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody. Writes something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone. Often working round the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer thats what people expect of us and thats what i think we really do well