London coming up on this news hour yemens government edges closer to a deal that could end a power struggle in the Southern City of aden. And election observers killed in mozambique and Rights Groups around the alarm over voting irregularities. And boxing mourns the 4 fighter to die from injuries sustained in the ring in as many months joe will have details in support. The u. K. s Prime Minister is facing a brakes it showdown in parliament after managing to clinch a last minute withdraw agreement with the European UnionBoris Johnson has managed to change some terms over whats become bricks its Biggest Issue out of the border between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland is still unclear if enough m. P. s will back his agreement when they meet on saturday or some of the deals terms Northern Ireland stays in the European Unions Single Market for goods that means checks will take place at ports and airports and not on the land border with the Irish Republic or of the u. K. Will leave the use Customs Union but Northern Ireland or still need to follow the e. U. s rules that means that british authorities will apply tariffs to some products entering the province crucially members of the regional Northern Irish parliament will be able to vote on whether the terms of the deal apply but that vote can only take place 4 years after the agreement takes effect in 2021 talks about the reports from brussels. Having pushed the European Union for voice breaks it deal Boris Johnson finally got what he wanted in brussels he said the new agreement was in everyones interests i want to stress that this is a great deal for our country for the u. K. I also believe its a very good deal for our friends in the e. U. And what it means is that we in the u. K. Can come out of the e. U. As one United Kingdom england scotland wales you are now and together. The last minute deal was welcomed by e. U. Leaders it came after days of intensive negotiations between u. K. And e. U. Officials to take a change in comparison was the version of the Prime Minister just as accept those customs checks at the points of entry into ireland. This compromise. To avoid the border checks between Northern Ireland and the show the integrity of the Single Market the irish Prime Minister welcome the deal but some anti breaks the campaign is in brussels where unconvinced and said they still face uncertainty i wouldnt be able to go back to pay with my husband in case my parents needed more help because what. Income threshold you still have to ratify the deal but the sense here in brussels is that their work is done that however is not the case for Boris Johnson he still has to convince the u. K. Parliament to back his agreement but that wont be easy the deal has failed to win the key support of the Democratic Unionist Party or d u p the Northern Irish party the props up johnsons conservative government its obviously not a day we can support weve made that assessment on the deal itself were not there in a compare and contrast but certainly discuss. Thats our border in the irish sea in terms of the terms of costumes and terms of Single Market without any consent that is meaningful for the people of Northern Ireland if the british Prime Minister fails to win parliamentary backing for his deal hell be legally obliged to seek an extension from brussels to the october 31st briggs deadline result face says that is not going to happen breaks it it would seem is far from over the top aljazeera brussels. Thats going to jenna how hes in brussels for us so theres been a deal before how is this one different. It is quite different its a deal that provides for a much harder break sit in the terminology than to reserve maze delivered a much more distance future relationship between the u. K. And the e. U. In terms of a free trade deal rather than an eventual joint Customs Union and only a nonbinding commitment things like workers rights and Environmental Protection protections the dreaded. Backstop but many employees couldnt vote for before hes gone replaced by a boarder in the irish sea that still many employees will not be able to vote for body text boxes on both sides forest johnsons government can go and make as Many International trade deals as it wants and encumbered by the Customs Union and for the e. U. As natasha was pointing out their external border a Single Market is protected peace is upheld on the island of ireland theres a very palpable sense here in brussels of relief and optimism that they can get on now to the next stage of the brakes a process because its far from over and start negotiating the future trade relationship just as hard possibly even more than long running than this has been up to now but perhaps conducted in a more positive atmosphere with an actual deal signed away rather than combativeness as many will have feared that i think is the the ultimate sense of what has come about today in brussels and the focus now shifts to westminster. It does because of course all of that said this deal has only been dog been indorsed by e. U. Leaders its not ratified yet it isnt law it is not a done deal until its passed by the e. U. Parliament and crucially by the British ParliamentBoris Johnson has been absolutely a bully and. Optimistic mode here telling the other leaders that there is a majority for a deal the numbers though are certainly not. Really there hes lost the support of the do you People Democratic unionists of Northern Ireland the socalled e r g on the right of his party who lined up behind the do you put in the past how many of them will line up behind him we dont know opposition parties wont support the deal but how many labor m. P. s in leave constituencies might be willing to break ranks more interested in the fact a breakthrough than what is in this deal again we dont know when the big question hanging over all of this of course is what happens if that deal doesnt pass the house of commons on saturday hes obliged mr johnson to ask for an extension which he says he wont do so the courts may be ready to intervene but one important point donald the Council President here said this evening the different delay is requested it will be up to the leaders to decide whether theyll grant one and a number of leaders during the course of the day have said that they would be prepared to give a delay if a delay is required john howard thank you very much. Patrick navarro is there Political Correspondent at the new statesman and he joins us now in the studio so just to go back to the deal that theyve done what was the key to the you agree it was a few days ago it all looked pretty bad didnt it what did they come up with in the end well the key was the outcome of the bilateral meeting Boris Johnson live rock hard on the world last week and up until that point it looked like Boris Johnson was dancing to the tune of the d. P. When it came to differences between north and the rest of the United Kingdom you know that too stands on customs were inside of island wanted some sort of some sort of range weve come to now which is where the street is part of as if it were part of the Customs Union up until last week johnson was on willing to countenance the now why did you do that well its been clear from the governments rhetoric that they werent really serious or serious about their threats of crashing out with no deal the 31st october of the follow that logic to its inevitable conclusion that meant they were always going to have to budge on some red line and they did on the r. C. Border and so it seems perhaps at the cost of selling the river as maybe a way of putting it but that the d. P. That talk has been talking to them a lot and ask. Canny. Producer or another rabbit out of the hat and get them onside before saturday no because this is this is very much the final offer you know they thought they thought they would get the d. P. On this question of consent but the problem is the d. P. Dont have a veto under these measures and i lived in particular would have never agreed to a measure which was seen the u. P. A. Assembly members in belfast able to veto this arrangement instead its a simple majority which means the nationalists in the Cross Community party will be able to out vote the d. P. So i mean does he have the what have the numbers breakdown at the moment in your view well that is obviously tricky there is the question of the socalled spartans the 28. 00 tory m. P. s who voted against the Withdrawal Agreement every time of asking now its not axiomatic that they follow the d. P. Wherever they go and i think theres a recognition so in the tory benches that this is the last chance to get a bracks as hard as they like you know the alternative is a 2nd referendum perhaps you know another delay which tory m. P. s wont countenance and the big question is whether labor m. P. s can be induced to go over the line and thats doubtful given that the workers rights Environmental Protections in the political declaration which isnt binding and not in the legally binding would all agree so so whats the likelihood now then if it doesnt if it doesnt go through whats the likelihood of a general election in initial short order what bourse has got a ready made pitch now which is vote for me only a majority for me can get bracks it over the line this is the only deal ive gone to russells ive done what they said i couldnt do and you know got the to budge and that will be his election pitch so it will be incredibly likely when the election is not the question entirely and what about the public mood in the current public appetite does the public really want to know action now what are the polls saying on that well you know on this side if were to brenda from bristol who obviously you know know a little want but to mislead the public want it done and thats what Boris Johnson hammered home that message of focus groups and polling the public always says that and they just wanted to stop and Boris Johnson go to the country saying only a vote for me can stop this madness hes potentially a very strong position thank you very much indeed petrograd new statesman thanks for talking to us. U. S. President donald trump has been accused of directing officials to consult his personal lawyer about washingtons policy on ukraine u. S. Ambassador to the e. U. Gordon sandlin says trump outsourced American Foreign policy to a private citizen Rudy Giuliani told a Congressional Committee investigating trump that giulianis agenda included a push for kiev to investigate former Vice PresidentJoe Biden Giuliani has so far refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry into donald trump and youre castro has more from capitol hill in washington d. C. The white house now says that Foreign Military aid that was promised to ukraine was hinge ing on ukraine complying with the president s demand to nish aid and investigation but the white house says this investigation had nothing to do with joe biden president traumas political opponent but rather into the beginnings of the russia investigation back in 2016 in that u. S. President ial election the White House Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney telling reporters that there was nothing wrong with this request he said that it was standing policy for the u. S. Justice department to reach out to a foreign nation to assist with an existing investigation and in fact he said to reporters that anyone who finds something wrong with that should just quote get over it but thats it thats why we held up the money now that was worth more than just the demand for an investigation into the democrats was part of the reason that he was on the to withhold funding to fray the look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation and that is absolutely appropriate in the form of. It which which ultimately then flowed mulvaney also says that the witnesses who have been cooperating with democratic investigators in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump simply are doing so because they dislike trumps policies and are now joining what mulvaney calls the witch hunt however that doesnt take into consideration witnesses like the person speaking before panels today the u. S. Ambassador to the e. U. Ordered some lynn who is a wealthy hotel owner and trump donor before being appointed to his ambassadorship he is telling investigators that he was troubled when trump directed him to work with a private attorney in conducting what critics have called the Shadow Campaign of u. S. Foreign policy toward ukraine sumlin also said that he was not aware that joe biden was a factor in the investigations that trump was calling for but he said that had he been that if he was that it would be wrong. A key figure in u. S. President Donald Trumps impeachment inquiry illogic cummings has died at the age of 68 your long Standing Health problems the senior democrats committee is the main investigative body looking into trumps governmental dealings cummings was widely seen as a formidable orator who advocated for the poor in his black majority district he was 1st elected to office in 1906 and it served as chair of his committee since january theres lots more still to come this hour. The deadly conflict in south asia thats killing a Record Number of civilians. A latin American Country criticized for detentions and torture wins a seat on an un Human Rights Council. And in sport a shock told by indians rugby coach at the world cup quarter finals. How low the weathers loss he fought in try once again across southern and eastern parts of europe so well as he said a lot of warm pleasant sunshine around fuchsia i was there its further north clear skies lots of sunshine up towards the fall north we have got some disturbed weather just rolling in across the bow Baltic States over towards the northwest the next weather systems waiting in the wings some very wet and windy weather will push in across the purcells over the next couple days and this weather system here just making its way down across france into northern parts of spain and portugal will also bring some very very disturbed weather so there we go thats the picture for friday not a pleasant day only 14 celsius in london in the cloud in the right in those showers streaming in from the southwest right throughout the day and the continue to drive away further research as we go on through into saturday whether theyre coming in across a good passive france Northern Areas a spy and portugal pushing over towards switzerland the race distaste fine and dry athens gets up to 25 celsius anchor at around 24. 00 degrees one of 2 of those showers into central parts of the mediterranean may just bring a few spots of right into Northern Areas of algeria maybe also into libya dry weather pushes in behind. An act of youthful defiance. Your turn next doctor also in the school they arrested me at home at 4 in the morning while the electric shock treatment was the worse that triggered a revolution. The arrest of those children sparked it all of which became a battle without and that was the beginning of the armstrong in syria. The boy who started the syrian war on aljazeera. The latest news as it breaks into this market started peacefully. Is taken. With detailed coverage. Not be having 110 meters which is so deep that only have 15 minutes on the seabed from around the world. May never be found if they still exist his legacy lives on. Going around to the top stories here. Kurdish fighters in Northern Syria say theyll abide by a cease fire plan agreed between the u. S. And turkey u. S. Vice president mike pence says turkeys leader. Has agreed to a truce for 5 days to let the Syrian Kurdish forces withdraw from a 32 kilometer zone and. The u. K. s Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has managed to clinch a new brakes a deal with the European Union but its unclear if enough m. P. s will back the agreement when they vote on it on saturday. And u. S. President donald trump has been accused of directing officials to consult his personal lawyer about washingtons policy on ukraine youre some bastard to the e. U. Gordon songkran says trump outsourced American Foreign policy to private citizen Rudy Giuliani. From colemans Legislative Council has descended into chaos for the 2nd day in a row as heckling nor makers were dragged from the chamber by security theyve been demanding an inquiry into an attack an attack on a prominent human rights activist hong kong has been battered by months of prodemocracy protests. Its quite hard to reports. Here for the 2nd day running hong kong leader kerry lamb had difficulty getting your point across on the floor of the Legislative Council oh ok. d that was drowned out by heckling from members of the opposition chanting slogans of the protest movement now in its 5th month. As on wednesday plans question and answer session about her policy address was twice halted before she could finish also know that Probation Council members condemned the protest in the chamber as a Legislative Council i dont think that any electrical members should use any kind of violence including. All physical law linsky in the chance to express their will i was before the Legislative Council session the leader of a Human Rights Organization behind the largest peaceful marches over the last 4 months here was brutally attacked jimmy sham was assaulted on wednesday night by as many as 5 masked men who beat him with hammers hes in a stable condition in hospital also the attack on the monk cock area of hong kong was the 2nd in 2 months against sham the head of the civil human rights front and also thank you. If the convening of the of civil human rights which is a totem in hong kong for peaceful protests and that this attack this very vicious attack took place practically on the eve of his for a core for. Math. A protest parade in hong kong on from day. One of the messages sham has sent from the hospital hes appealing for sundays march to be safe law abiding and peaceful scott tyler al jazeera hong kong. Protests are broken out across lebanon over the governments plans to impose new taxes amid an economic crisis. Demonstrators in beirut have marched Near Parliament and the governments headquarters where riot police have been deployed there angry over plans to charge 0. 20 per day for the use of the messaging tool whatsapp tobacco gasoline and other social media occasions will also face new taxes state media says the bodyguard of one official opened fire on protesters who were trying to block a road its unclear if there are any casualties. Extinction rebellion activists have disrupted Rail Services in london backing a clash with angry commuters one Climate Change protester was dragged down from the roof of a london train during rush hour underground officials tried to stop passengers from attacking the man Extinction Rebellion activists are in the middle of a 2 week Civil Disobedience Campaign all than 1400 people have been arrested since the group began blocking roads bridges and airports in london demanding radical action on Climate Change. In kenya families have finally received the remains of loved ones who died in the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash 7 months ago the remains of 28 victims have been returned after months of d. N. A. Analysis to formally identify them catherine soy reports from a clue. The remains of. Our carried by her friends into the charge the old used to attend in a quote the teacher was flying home from canada. In 3 grandchildren when they feel be an airlines jet crashed in march killing all a 157. 00 people on board most of the bodies were banged beyond recognition and it has taken months of d. N. A. Analysis to identify the remains. We must hear 1st before anything else even when it comes to compensation. Every. 32. 00 kenyans were on board the boeing 737 max which crashed after takeoff from addis ababa boeing admitted a faulty sense contributed to the disaster the entire 737 max fleet has been grounded since the accident which followed another in indonesia a year ago boeing is paying compensation to the families of all the victims. The pain in this neighborhood and by everybody a Community Neighbors watch. And dont head on have grandchildren on holiday and. Family says for now just glad they can finally bury their loved ones in. The impact was. In the budget. When you rent. The books and. Then try. Again here. So. You just feel the she is the right person whom you have been bringing the drum did before. Shell be remembered for many things some say she brought out the best in children she towards. Mother and grandmother to those who died with. Kenya. Election observers from the European Union have criticized mozambiques election saying it wasnt a level Playing Field between the government and opposition ballot stuffing was reported at several polling stations and many observers were subject to violence one was even murdered by Police Officers after there was markham web reports from a shy shy the capital of garza province. It was right here that anastasio matter valley was shot by 5 gunmen last week he died shortly afterwards in hospital he was an observer in mozambiques election and the director of a rights group. Of his colleague Fernando Young tabby told us hed been within minutes before at a Training Session for local observers and shai shai the capital of gaza province he says anastasio killing sent a clear message from fredericks invisible me it makes me feel scared im living in fear after this the situation is worse were being followed it doesnt sit well with me anastasio and his colleagues had raised concerns about 300000 socalled ghost voters on the electoral register in gaza province before he was shot and his killers sped off in a car just down the road they hit an oncoming car an overturned was right here 2 of the men died at the scene 2 others ran away and one was taken to hospital with bystanders immediately recognize them and identified them as members of a special police unit its only because of the car crash that in this case the identity of the killers was revealed. International Rights Group Human Rights watch has documented 14 cases in the last 5 years where activists and officials from government and Political Parties have been killed or attacked in similar ways. The attackers normally disappear question is no longer aware that there are more i think was on this than on this it did was to provide them out on why members of the Security Forces boy there around the country killing civilians. Anastasio is killing wasnt the only violence during election campaigns opposition parties say their rallies were stopped in some areas by ruling Party Supporters and police after the Murder Police suspended 2 Senior Officers they told us theyre still investigating and theres no evidence of political involvement in the killings usual dozens a song whats being said by some organizations and journalists is entirely their own responsibility the police therefore doesnt agree with these statements that go beyond the police duties. The Electoral Commission says its run a free and fair poll since tuesdays voting opposition and some observers have complained of serious irregularities in the vote counting process the killing of anastasio will certainly affect how safe people feel to speak out malcolm webb aljazeera province mozambique the un says theres been progress and peace talks between yemens government and southern separatists the 2 sides fell out in august where the separatists seizing control of the port city of aden saudi led negotiations in jeddah aimed at rebuilding the coalition as it battles against toothy rebels the Un Special Envoy for yemen says an agreement is within reach. As i said at the outset many of us at hope including myself here in riyadh had hoped the new agreement could have been announced today. I understand were not quite there yet but it certainly does seem the progress has been made very significant progress during the jeddah talks under the leadership of the kingdom of saudi arabia or fights to their strenuous diplomatic efforts the saudis there are encouraging signs as i say that an agreement aimed at resolving the issues between the government of yemen under president heading and the Southern Transitional council maybe well within reach by sort of the worlds longest running war and it appears to be getting deadly at the u. N. Says afghan civilians are dying in Record Numbers in the countrys increasingly brutal conflict with the taliban july was afghanistans worst month since the un started keeping records with more than 400. 00 People Killed and around 1100. 00 injured overall more than 2500. 00 civilians were killed in the 1st 9 months of this year 631 or a quarter of those deaths were children report says the taliban was responsible for 62 percent of deaths and injuries but progovernment forces have also killed more than 1100. 00 people. The leading cause of civilian casualties was suicide in on suicide improvised explosive devices the 2nd was ground engagements followed by Area Operations and when we come to Area Operations this was the leading Incident Type for civilian deaths. Venezuela has taken a seat on the Uns Human Rights Council despite widespread criticism of the countrys own rights record other latin american countries had objected to its candidacy with costa rica mounting a rival unsuccessful bid for the seat advocacy groups have also been critical Human Rights Watch said a vote for venezuela is a vote for torture and murder or a u. N. Report in july found serious Human Rights Violations in venezuela the 7000 people died in alleged extrajudicial killings by Security Forces between january 28th and may 29th well the 1500 people died because of lack of supplies in hospitals between november and february the report says venezuela is violating its obligations to ensure rights to access food and health and the u. S. Says Nicolas Maduro is government is holding a 500 Political Prisoners others have been killed and independent Media Outlets have been shut down or philip will appeal is the Deputy Director for global advocacy at Human Rights Watch he joins us live from United Nations in new york. Not particular pleased with the venezuela getting this seat well thats probably an understatement in fact we find this election appalling we thought that clearly even as well i did not deserve a sit at the Human Rights Council they had a good chance of being disputed because customary car a country with a strong track record in terms of human rights decided to run to prevent venezuela from getting a seat or almost automatically a couple of weeks ago so its really quite extraordinary to see that the majority of the Member States of the United Nations thought that it was a good idea to elect a country like venezuela to join the Human Rights Council which is supposed to defend and promote human rights around the world so in practice does this mean that scrutiny of venezuelas rights record will be more difficult. Well probably you know its it will be certainly an odd situation the Human Rights Council only a few weeks ago passed a resolution creating a commission of inquiry into the situation in venezuela and now venezuela will have a sit at the table so it is still going to be the subject to scrutiny from the Human Rights Council but but from the inside it will be now able to undermine that work and its one of the very compelling reasons why you did not make sense for u. N. Member states to elect venezuela the Human Rights Council is so that the uni Human Rights Council that the u. S. Quit the panel last year and might compare called it a quote and an exercise in shame is hypocrisy with quite some of the worlds most serious offenders sitting in it is the un Human Rights Council effectively a kind of a. Something that is a point is body. No i think thats way too severe of a statement in fact the Human Rights Council has done some very good important work on the range of issues and if someone is critical its probably or he book critical its probably the u. S. When they denounce countries like venezuela when they join the council but say nothing when a country like saudi arabia for example got elected also a couple of years ago in the Human Rights Council sort of the its far from being a perfect body its really disappointing that that Member States such as venezuela are able to weasel their way through getting a seat on the council at the end of the day there are still lots of other Council Members who want to do a good job to help create scrutiny and condemnation of Human Rights Violations around the world and so we have not given up certainly on the Human Rights Council its still an important body we want to protect its integrity and you know Member States we still believe in it and i believe that there are still a majority can still at completion a lot there and just to go back to the situation in venezuela what do you think would help at the moment to try and improve the human rights situation on the ground in venezuela well certainly we need more International Pressure and im very were worried that you know venezuela would look at the vote today and think that this is somehow an endorsement of its pretty says its very clear that the Human Rights Council in geneva as decided that the situation was grave enough that they needed to send investigators in so you know we need for 4 countries