From also coming up. With. Words of defiance from donald trump as the investigation into his ties to russia moves closer to the oval office. And he wasnt allowed to leave the u. S. A former egyptian Prime Minister is abruptly expelled from the country. Vulnerable and abused the range of girls being sold as sex slaves in violence in me and. The former yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh has called for a joint ceasefire between his supporters who the rebels and the Saudi Led Coalition it was indicated that he welcomed the move at least forty people have been killed in the capital sanaa over the past few days and battles between the who these and fighters loyal to solid reports. Clashes between two posses meant to be on the same side the rebels and five aligned with former president. Dozens have been killed and wounded since the violence. Began in yemens capital on wednesday now the split has evolved past sana to saudi arabia. Has called for talks not just with the who think but with the Saudi Led Coalition if they stop the air attacks of i want is that they need to lift the blockade and open the airports and allow food and medicine into the country we will open a new page for them for dialogue what is happening in yemen is enough a Coalition Statement welcome solace move saying it would redeem yemen from the evils of iranian terrorist and sick tarion militias returning it to the pen era pure and natural fold but the who things who are backed by iran so they still have support from members of Political Party and interests so led directly. We used to praise your position in the past even though it was one of words only which came with its fair share of backstabbing disappointment discouragement disobedience and many other problems remain patient but that wasnt enough for you shame on you a big shame. They were never natural allies struck a Fragile Alliance with the who these after a Popular Uprising ended his decades long rule in two thousand and twelve salai now says he wants a quick into the conflict which is a volved into the Worlds Largest humanitarian crisis but others believe is personally motivated it seems to me that they might be a collaboration between regional powers. And maybe the legitimate government to somehow overthrow the whole thing is first and then have a sort of serious political talk this is what it looks like with the whole thing is headed the two sides have fought together for years its widely thought that the who things would never have been able to take over the capital without some help but now they fractured allegiance. Threatening to tear santa and its people apart. Until their. Syrian government s trikes have targeted several cities and towns in damascus province at least six people were killed in ive been one or two others died in her arrest or also been attacks an instant go to has been under siege by the syrian army since twenty thirteen. When all the Syrian Government says there can be no progress in talks to end the fighting if the opposition keeps demanding that president bashar assad steps down our diplomatic editor james bays reports from geneva the syrian delegation leaving the talks in geneva its not clear if theyll return their chief negotiator expressing irritation at comments by the opposition side who are still stressing assad must go the language her was not look at here here its possible politically speaking his position is perhaps surprising his russian allies since their intervention in the war in twenty fifteen have turned things around for assad on the battlefield and in recent months president putin has also been in the driving seat diplomatically reaching understandings with two countries that had led the campaign against assad turkey and saudi arabia it held an important meeting last month in riyadh in a major reorganization prominent opposition figures quit their posts as members of another group with close links to moscow and derided by some as a sad stooges were admitted to the geneva delegation theres also been an important change of emphasis by the un at previous rounds of talks special envoy stefan de mistura as main aim was a transitional government. It is clear the political transition ether the mother of all ages he was working to the exact wording of his predecessor special envoy the former secretary general kofi annan who drew up the geneva communique which was signed by the International Community in twenty twelve the communique which was later rian dorst by a Security Council resolution called for a transitional governing body agreed by Mutual Consent that last bit is important as the opposition has in the past said it would never consent to a sad being part of a transition whats changed is that demas stora has now drawn up a list of twelve principles that he says will guide the negotiations in the future can i also get clarification that you are still seeking to form a transitional governing body with full executive power agreed by Mutual Consent dear twelve. Bring to the ball point when you will be reading them and you will recall that affirmed by and we hope to produce this if there is dick common understanding are completely constantly inspired by did you never communicate it and it twenty to fifty four but special envoy ive read them and they dont know ive not read them but ive read a version of that and all versions wait and you would theme i waited and hours are after that exchange de mistura published his twelve principles nowhere in here is there any mention of a transitional governing body of former leader of the opposition as told our jazeera the whole process has been compromised western diplomats say de mistura is changing the rules of the game and that his plan now is very russian flavored james ways out zerah geneva. The Trump Administration has pulled the u. S. Out of a United Nations pact meant to improve the handling of refugees and migrants u. N. Member states are gathering in mexico on monday for talks on the deal which is known as the Global Compact on migration the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. To haiti says the agreement is inconsistent with u. S. Policies. Donald trump remains defiant in the face of a snowboarding crisis around his presidency of a ties to russia he said he had nothing to hide just a day after his former National Security adviser admitted to lying about his contacts with moscow as don estimate reports the controversies of a shouting what should have been a big win for trump and the republicans the senate not only giving his tax bill the green light. Outside the white house saturday morning President Donald Trump wanted to talk more about the new tax plan passed by the u. S. Senate then about his former National Security advisers russian contacts our god what has been shown. Delusion locally has been absolutely has been absolutely no solution so were very happy and frankly last night with one of the big guys on friday Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in federal court to lying to the f. B. I. About efforts to obtain advance knowledge of how foreign governments might vote on a u. N. Security Council Resolution regarding israel and about conversations he had with russias ambassador to the u. S. During the president ial transition as part of the deal flynt agreed to cooperate with special prosecutor robert millers investigation into russian meddling into last years president ial election mohler is looking into whether the Trump Campaign colluded with russia hes also looking into the president s business ties there oh when is the fourth member of the president s inner circle to be charged in connection with the investigation and political analyst eric ham says hes clearly the most significant by Michael Flynn was a very high profile target both in the campaign and in the white house and so what hes looking to do is bomb miller is looking to steadily move up the food chain hes looking to get bigger fish and so i think hes looking at possibly jared kosher questioner and maybe even the president Going Forward laugh. Winter President Trump said he fired flynn just one month into his National Security advisory post because he had lied to Vice President mike pence about his contacts with russia but the president offered another explanation saturday in a tweet saying i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the f. B. I. He has pled guilty to those lies it is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful there was nothing to hide dian us to rock out to Sarah Washington when i just mentioned while President Trump is taking the heat of the russia probe he has managed to achieve his first big legislative victory the u. S. Senate not only approved the biggest tax ever hold since the one nine hundred eighty s. The bill slashes taxes for corporations but democrats complained it only benefits the wealthy and big business this time a comma after last minute changes to appease some holdouts the tax bill passed by the narrowest of margins the yeas are fifty one and the nays are forty nine. All republicans with one exception voted for the bill which their leader hailed as a tonic for the u. S. Economy we have an opportunity now to make america more competitive and to keep jobs from being shipped offshore and provide substantial relief to the middle class but democrats called it a bonanza for multinational corporations and the ultra rich while adding more than a trillion dollars to the u. S. Debt there is a trail of broken promise broken promise to working families in a mad dash to pass this bill and the American People understand this is that was a fired up of continuing attacks on medicare and medicaid and social security. Most economists have been skeptical that the tax cuts will generate enough growth to make up for the loss in government revenue as the republicans have promised Public Opinion polls show that voters largely oppose the bill based on doubt it will amount to a net gain for most households but its passage would be the biggest republican legislative achievement since donald trump became president we got no democrat help but i think thats going to cost him very big in the election because basically they voted against tax cuts and i dont think politically its good to vote against tax cuts the senate and house which already passed its own versions of tax cuts must still agree on bridging the differences but trump said he looked forward to signing a final bill before Christmas Tom ackerman aljazeera washington. Egyptian president ial hopeful ahmed shafik has reportedly arrived in a cairo after being arrested and deported from the United Arab Emirates had been based in the u. A. E. Since losing to the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi in egypts president ial election the former Prime Minister and air force commander announced last week he plans to run for president in twenty eighteen combin president Abdel Fattah Elsisi is widely expected to seek another term whats a professor of law at and m. University she says its likely that there is some truth to claims of being barred from leaving the u. A. E. He clearly has been deported and presumably the reason why he was deported was in retaliation for his claiming that he was barred from departing the u. A. E. For france and a european trip or he was going to be campaigning among the egyptian gasper there and then presumably heading to egypt so i dont think that he would take such a big Political Risk of insulting his hosts for over five years who effectively gave him refuge while he was facing criminal charges in egypt that he would do Something Like that publicly on a jersey if at least it was there was some truth to it so i think he probably was kept but now hes going to pay a higher price and now i think he is going to face Serious Problems in egypt where we dont know if hes going to be detained and i dont think theres any knowledge right now of where he has been sent to in egypt i think that shifty is a formidable contender and the president ial elections primarily because he has legitimacy as a former general and because he represents mubarak era and six years now after the socalled revolution of two thousand and eleven there is a significant number of egypt sions who reminisce. For the mubarak era and they would like that era to come back and thats what he represents and presumably there are people in the military and other parts of the Security Apparatus who have signaled to him that they would support him if he announced his candidacy. Lots more still to come here in aljazeera including well have the latest on the political crisis in honduras triggered by the delay announcing the results of the president ial election. From farmland to. Industry the devastating impact on the occupied west bank more on that stay with us. How the weathers looking she thought enjoy it now across much of the middle east little bit of cloud over towards is back over towards the high ground. Gently settled and sunny for the most part temperatures starting to recover once again well see temperatures around twenty three celsius or by root in the sunshine for sunday but it will cloud over as we go on into monday just spilling across. Cyprus could see a few showers elsewhere and were going to be settled and sunny in temperatures getting up into the low twentys over the next few days itll be a touch woman thats across the river but i still here caught are we getting up to around twenty five stiff breeze by the sunday lifted justice and sandy a possibility im hopeful it will ease as we go on through monday and temperatures picking up to around twenty seven degrees celsius with present sunshine coming through a sunny twenty seven on the. Over the next sundays picture what it was there in the botswana up towards zambia should be fine and dry there for zimbabwe over the next i want to show is a possibility into madagascar the cloud just draping its way out of the congo basin is some lively showers on the cost was there some showers to into cameroon and the possibility of want to showers from liberia. Welcome back to the top stories here on. The call by the president. And the creeping blockade in this country forty people have been killed in the capital of the past few days in battles between the rebels and fighters. U. S. President donald trump has again insisted there was no collusion between his campaign and russia during the twenty sixth election. While he fired his National Security adviser lying to the f. B. I. Making false statements. The u. S. Out of the United Nations meant to improve the handling of. The u. S. Ambassador to the he says the Global Compact on migration is inconsistent with u. S. Policy. Now pope francis has defended his silence in the plight of the hinge of refugees saying he spoke the truth in private hes been facing International Criticism for not directly addressing the crisis during his visit to me in my early this week the pontiff didnt mention the ethnic minority until he was in bangladesh where he met with escape the military crackdown across the border. I mean that is what. I was interested in my message getting through so i saw that in my speech if id use that word the door would have slammed shut but i describe the situation the riots that no one should be excluded citizenship to allow me in my private meetings to go further i was very very satisfied with the discussions i was able to have meanwhile aid agencies in bangladesh say young ranger women are being sold as sex slaves people trafficking is common in refugee camps where injured have sought refuge for decades the recent arrival of six hundred twenty thousand ranger is adding to the profits of the trafficking gangs reports now from coxs bazar in bangladesh cartoon is not her real name we call her that to protect her identity the fifteen year old ranger refugee says her mother father brother and sister all killed by a multi shell fired by the me and my military at a village three months ago she says after she escaped by boat to bangladesh two women approached her on the beach saying they could help her instead they sold her into sex slavery. They told me if i went with them they would look after me and help me find a husband. Says that up to three weeks of being locked in a house alone she was sold to a bangladeshi man she says the man took her to another house raped and sexually abused her for twelve days. He said i will choke you i will stab you i will kill you do you want to be killed the way the military killed people and me and mom i wont let you go a local aid agency the latest a cartoon but doesnt want to be named said its staff working with trafficking victims have received Death Threats from criminal gangs operating in the refugee camps the head of the organization told us riggins you girls some as young as thirteen are being taken by the traffickers. Its thought some have been smuggled abroad. Hasina begum and her family have been living in a refugee camp in bangladesh since fleeing an early a crackdown by the me military in the one nine hundred ninety s. A teenage girl was kidnapped on the way to school the kidnappers were wearing a womans neck out to cover their faces thats why they went recognized. Nation says six labor Trafficking Networks have existed in the camps for years but more than six hundred twenty thousand rangers have arrived here in the last couple of months and at least sixty percent of them are children and aid agencies having to focus on the delivery of vital humanitarian assistance at this stage so the trafficking situation here is getting worse. With so many Vulnerable People coming into a small area in such a short space of time. Its definite almost stunned its increased theres been recruiters here in the bizarre bank that us previous to this influx and we know that theyre getting more business and that new criminal networks have sort of kicked into action we have to start addressing us and we have to do it now urgently after twelve days the man who bought returned to the two women who sold her they left her in the refugee camp where she now lives with a woman who found her alone and afraid its all stuff that aljazeera coxs bizarre and with. A nighttime curfew is in place in honduras following days of protests Security Forces have been given extra powers to stop the violence thats followed last sundays president ial election one person has died dozens more injured after six days a clear winner is yet to emerge from the vote president won all under nine days is now only ahead of opposition candidates. Security forces have imposed a curfew for ten days but has more from the capital to. The night hours have closed in the city of they were we are now in a nationwide curfew and things have quieted down especially compared to just yesterday when riots broke out and demonstrators clashed with Security Forces a wave of looting and violence is really swept the country amidst this political crisis and the response from military police has been the use of tear gas and rubber bullets and people here are still very anxiously awaiting a decision by the National Elections committee its been over a week since the general elections and still no decision now in response to this violence one hundred military isnt forcing a nationwide curfew a strict six p. M. Curfew that restricts some Constitutional Rights for honduran citizens but it also means that anyone out past six oclock is subject to arrest now the concern here remains that the longer the Elections Commission stalls on this decision the higher the chance that violence could spark up again seventeen people have been killed in northeastern nigeria the two female suicide bombers attacked a market it happened in the town of be you thats in borno state one of the women is said to have detonated explosives at a Food Distribution center run by a local a group several Police Officers on a protest to have been injured during a rally against the far right alternative to Germany Party the anti migrant and islam group is electing its new leadership. Votes away from the german chancellor Angela Merkels alliance during septembers election merkel has still not been able to form a government has more from one of the. As the day began police fired Water Cannons at protesters trying to block the straits at least one protester and several police were injured thousands tried to stop delegates from attending the first conference of the far right party since it won more the ninety seats in the german election us we are ashamed that that is do you want. And we dont want them to be in our town and our congress that there is a fight in germany against president s and many nights and and now and the nazis too because you know what ritz is a right opinions do to a land and this is. Not good inside the dispute was not with the leftist protesters but within the party itself a leadership battle between extreme nationalists and a more moderate of the f. T. Was locked in a stalemate forcing parliamentary leader alexander galland to step in and share power with Current Party head voice and. I think we can Work Together very well i didnt intend to do this you know that i didnt want to. But a situation came up which was i dont want to say for the party which was dangerous the question now is whether the party can contain ideological differences and appeal to the wider electorate all of this matters because chancellor merkel is running out of options to form a Coalition Government if germany is forced to go back to the polls could be strengthened by. Some of the social democrats are expected. To become the biggest opposition voice. For germany this has consequences for our political rhetoric for the way we debate in public and for the way for the tone that ive the sets and social media especially once the bastion of stability in europe its now a messy time in german politics. Thousands of people in tel aviv have been protesting against the israeli Prime Minister. Theyre angry about a controversial legislation that prevents police from recommending if Binyamin Netanyahu should be prosecuted on corruption charges the demonstration is part of a Grassroots Movement thats been calling on netanyahu to be indicted and removed from office hes been questioned in two corruption cases. Being involved in a bribery fraud and breach of trust. Now around half of the waste generated in israel finds its way to the occupied west bank with increasing rates of unemployment in the past fifteen years many people risk their health by burning the wasteful valuable role materials. Reports from. The town of ednas one of the most polluted places in the occupied west bank truckloads of electronic waste make their way here every day the vast majority coming from israel to surround the illegal jewish settlements. Computers air conditioners filters for gas t. V. s and many more discarded goods littered in multiple workshops in and around the town. Its a dangerous job for example there are gases in the air conditioners if you dont let them out it could explode in your face one must be very careful each item is taken apart every single component has a different use and price take a computer for example. The hard disk case goes into a pile then we separate the c. P. U. From the motherboard its more expensive but we also look for cables and send them to the grinder to separate aluminum from copper we do this to all the items we receive. The parts then are sold back to israel but its valuable materials such as copper wire that are the most profitable a good chunk of this waste gets burnt illegally because. This way usually happens on the hill surrounding the time but this is Agricultural Land a look at whats left behind. The burning happens usually at night the minerals are distracted the shark old remains left a small door for hours. Furious which each fire more of his crops are destroyed. Its like a cancer no one can walk here anymore. Even the sheep can to be here theyre not breeding anymore look at my all the trees isnt that a shame looking around most of his olive trees have been poisoned by the toxic fumes Scientists Say this unregulated transfer of electronic waste is having a long term impact on the people of it and its landscape recent. Samples have revealed some astonishing results. We were shocked by the high levels of heavy metals i cant me im in the lead they already exist in nature usually around one milligram particular of soil but we found tens of thousands of by the grounds we kill or soil in the samples at a very high level it destroys the soil and it affects human life is a concern with particles of heavy metals that dont decompose and make their way to differ. There was one set down that thrived in agriculture known for its olives and. Now its fields are home to carcasses of t. V. s computers and fridges but at the. Occupied west bank and staying in the occupied west bank people are preparing for christmas in the area believed to be the birthplace of jesus christ. The Christmas Tree lights in bethlehems manger square next to the church of the nativity had been switched on Christmas Eve is a major event in bethlehem and draws thousands of international visitors. Of the headlines here on aljazeera the Saudi Led Coalition has welcomed a call by the former yemeni president. For talks to end the crippling blockade on his country at least forty people have been killed in the capital sanaa over the past few days and battles between who the rebels and fighters loyal to salah u. S. President donald trump has again insisted theres no collusion between his campaign and russia in the twenty sixth election between two that while he fired his National Security adviser for lying to the f. B. I. Michael fanes actions were lawful flynns pleaded guilty to making false statements about his contacts with russia. The Trump Administration has pulled the u. S. Out of a United Nations pact meant to improve the handling of refugees and migrants the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. And he says the Global Compact on migration is inconsistent with u. S. Policies egyptian president ial hopeful ahmed shafik has reportedly arrived in cairo after being arrested and deported from the u. A. E. Should he get in base there since losing to the Muslim Brotherhood candidate nominee morsi and egypts twenty twelve president ial election a former Prime Minister and a force commander announced last week he plans to run for president in twenty eighteen but francis has defended his silence in myanmar over the plight of range of refugees saying he spoke the truth in private and facing International Criticism for not directly addressing the crisis during his visit to myanmar this week the pontiff didnt mention the ethnic minority until he was in bangladesh where he met with escape the military crackdown across the border. I mean that is what. I was interested in my message getting through so i saw that in my speech if id use that word the door would have slammed shut but i describe the situation the riots that no one should be excluded citizenship to allow me in my private meetings to go further i was very very satisfied with the discussions i was able to have a maritime curfews in place in honduras following days of protests Security Forces that have been given extra powers to stop the violence thats followed last sundays president ial election one persons died with dozens more injured after six days a clear winner is yet to emerge from the vote but those were the headlines the news continues here on the al jazeera lives station thanks for watching black enough. Facing the realities if a piece of machinery goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bad getting to the heart of the matter i dont think we need of the wall that some of my producers just did hear their story on talk to how does interact at this time. I thought all john trump do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute that i will faithfully execute its been just over a year since donald trump won the us president ial elections and shook the country and split across a