and peter w. watching al-jazeera long from your headlines iran stands accused of supplying the two cs with weapons and tuesday's launch came only hours before the security council met to discuss tehran's nuclear program. they signed up on a table. in the u.s. house republican celebrate a sweeping tax reform bill but barely an hour later the senate tells them try again . and violent protests fail to prevent the passing of a controversial pension rule in argentina. saudi arabia authorities say they've intercepted a ballistic missile targeting the capital riyadh it's the third such attack since november two thousand fighters in yemen say they launched a missile targeting the royal palace king solomon's official residence they say the attack was to mark one thousand days since the start of the war in yemen it follows another launch on november the fourth when a missile was fired from yemen towards riyadh's king colleague international airport and another missile tugs at the city of qom a small sheet before it was intercepted on december the first his empty house tayyab. this is the moment a who he fired ballistic missile was apparently shot down by saudi forces to yemen base who say they were targeting the al your mama royal palace which is west of the capital riyadh a large group of saudi leaders were meeting there at the time including king some money and crown prince mohammed bin someone and i think there were these wanted to make a statement that they're still up and running in the. they're still fighting this fight the fact that you know in recent days and weeks there have been allegations. they would not be able to shoot for the. territory but they proved otherwise. the missile attack happened just hours before saudi arabia was jus to announce its annual budget as well as members of the world family senior ministers were also expected to attend a social media post from a government agency confirmed the missile had been intercepted but that no casualties were reported the saudi led coalition which has been conducting air strikes against the fighters in yemen for nearly three years retaliated with more strikes in the southern part of the capital sanaa speaking on the group's t.v. channel who the leader of the molecule who said that missile attacks marks one thousand days since the start of the war in yemen he today can't tool missile was launched a. palace in the heart of city of saudi arabia this is our answer to them and the whole world the more crimes you perpetrate the more to renig. you will meet nothing but more missiles. this isn't the first missile attack on saudi arabia in november the international airport in riyadh was narrowly missed in a strike the saudi government has accused regional rival your run of smuggling missiles and technology to the who these and allegation the nine s. . the war in yemen has created what the u.n. describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis since the start of the conflict at least ten thousand civilians have been killed and millions are on the brink of famine and as the fighting continues many fear the situation on the ground could get worse if your style of al-jazeera. now the u.n. security council has been discussing whether iran is complying with the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement the missile launch from yemen featured in that debate to mike hanna has more from u.n. headquarters in new york. the secretary general affirmed that iran was in full compliance with its commitment to non-nuclear proliferation under the joint comprehensive plan of action indorsed by resolution twenty two thirty one but he raised questions about the possibility that iran was moving conventional weapons across his border and concerns expressed by some of the security council members were told to mr and by bronco looking at your gauge it would like to express its particular concern over the information and evidence connected with iran supply of weapons and missiles to militias. encouraging them to use those weapons to target neighboring countries the us ambassador was adamant that the missiles recently fired at saudi targets were of iranian origin including the most recent well we don't yet have sufficient insight into this particular attack it bears all the hallmarks of previous attacks using iranian provided weapons it is only a matter of time before one of these missiles hits the target the secretary general said that the origin of the missiles is under investigation and the security council will be briefed at what he called the appropriate time but the russian ambassador was adamant that the u.n. is not empowered to monitor iran's development or deployment of conventional non-nuclear weapons moving with inability to pneumonia we once again need to draw your attention to the practice of the secretariat conducting investigations investigations for which the secretary has neither the authority nor the expertise such actions are carried out without the prior consent of the security council are not legitimate and the information obtained in the course of such actions cannot be considered accurate and cannot be part of the report the russian ambassador rejected the u.s. suggestion that the joint comprehensive plan. action be renegotiated to include conventional weapons something that iran continues to insist it will not do the scene is set for vigorous debate among security council members in the days ahead well earlier on tuesday iran condemned the u.s. for accusing it of supplying the missile fired into saudi arabia from yemen last month tehran summoned the swiss ambassador who represents u.s. interests in iran to pass on that message it described the allegation made by the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley as irresponsible and provocative meanwhile the military coalition fighting in yemen is being accused of killing at least one hundred thirty six civilians in just ten days the u.n. says they died between december the sixth and december the sixteenth these the incidents the u.n. was able to verify so the number of casualties could be much higher one attack involved seven air strikes on a person and so on are last week where forty five detainees were killed and the u.n. has once again warned that yemen is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis and is calling for the saudi blockade of the country to be completely lifted yemen is the largest food insecurity crisis in the world and no recent humanitarian needs overview dented fied almost eighteen million people who are in need of support food wise the prognosis is not good if. the blockade is not fully completely lifted and the interference no workers nor reduce the taken away then the results and pushing back on call and pushing back on famine over the last six months will be lost the other big story this procedural error is forcing the u.s. house of representatives to vote again on a contentious one point five trillion dollar tax reform bill. paying. the bill easily passed the republican controlled house earlier bringing president donald trump one step closer to his first major legislative victory as soon afterward senate officials to clear that three items in the massive bill violate senate rule and the rerun of the house vote is expected to take place on weapons the morning. this is one of the most important pieces of legislation that congress has passed in decades to help the american worker to help grow the american economy this is profound change and this is change that is going to put our country on the right path now the bill represents the most comprehensive revamping of the u.s. tax code in thirty years it permanently cuts the corporate tax rate all the way from thirty five to twenty one percent most individuals and families will also see reductions in the tax they pay but unlike the corporate tax rate these cuts will only be temporary the child tax credit will be increased to an average of about three hundred dollars per child for families earning between twenty five to forty thousand a year but it does virtually nothing for those earning less than twenty five thousand the bill also includes loopholes for getting around estate taxes death taxes gabriel elizondo has more. shortly after the house of representatives passed this historic tax overhaul it just came out very shortly after that there were several provisions that didn't meet house budget rules essential eat the republicans didn't cross all their t's and dot all their eyes when they rushed this bill forward and so now it's going to have to be voted on again come wednesday but let's be very clear there are no indications that this is going to change the vote in any way shape or form this is essentially an embarrassing technical mistake by the republicans to push this forward now the big picture here is that this bill assuming it is passed as we expect that it will be is a big win for president donald trump because it's the first legislative win since he's become president and it's also the republicans say historic in nature that these corporate tax cuts they say will eventually trickle down to lower class and middle class americans and spur economic growth for years if not decades to come that's the spin from the republicans however the vast majority of americans are against this tax overhaul according to recent polls and that's because they look at this bill as favoring the wealthy the top one percent of the income earners in america and corporate america that's already very wealthy are getting the biggest tax breaks while working class americans they're just getting a little bit and what they do get will not be permanent woolley last for a few years so there's certainly a lot of consternation here by working class americans that are looking at this and they're saying we really don't think that this tax overhaul is going to benefit us in the long term nevertheless the republicans have pushed forward with it and it appears like this will go forward argentina's congress is pasko pension law off to the vote was delayed by a violent process in the capitol when a cyrus. it's linked pensions to the rates of inflation which president sees is key to his plans to cut the nation's deficit but there is strong opposition as done reports from the capital. here in the main outside the auction tying congress after the violence here on monday as well as the argentine congress were debating in this building behind me reform. which the government of president . the necessary to prove. he wants to attract more foreign investment he wants to reduce the fiscal deficit and try to control the country's high inflation rate the opposition that were out here in large numbers on monday protesting peacefully but a large group of protesters. with metal bars were attacking the police the police responded with tear gas with water cannon with rubber bullets they were scenes which argentina is today assessing talking about the violence which has shocked many but there's no doubt that there is anger in this around the country with just the first of the reform measures that the government says a necessary they still labor on tax reforms the car so with that with that in mind still many problems to come in argentina but a victory for the government after an all night debate which lasted something like twelve hours or preparing for more problems the car the former chief executive of lesson america's largest construction company has been freed from prison. was initially given a nineteen year sentence for his role in one of the world's biggest corruption scandals it's causing major political and economic upheaval across the region john heilemann explains why from sao paulo. after two and a half years in prison the man who was in charge of this company and behind the biggest corruption scandal in recent history has been allowed to exchange jail for house arrest here in sao paolo on the must sell all the brush leadership his family's already powerful construction company became synonymous with brazil's rise later immersion is it was playing politicians across latin america the lucrative government contracts for roads bridges and even world cup football stadiums the graft was on such an industrial scale that it even had a bribes department even as marcello the brush leaves prison the ripples made by his deals are continuing to spread the president of peru is on the verge of being ousted after his company took over to brush money while he was the economic minister ecuador's vice president is facing six years in jail after taking millions in kickbacks all of rest officials have also said venezuelan president nicolas maduro excepted campaign contributions in return for contracts all of this came to lie in part because muscle or the british and others agreed to name names in exchange for more lenient sentences now who spend the rest of his ten year sentence at home but the man they call the prince's time as one of latin america's most powerful figures is over for now the opposition in honduras will formally challenge the results of the presidential election the incumbent lionel lundell hernandez has declared himself reelected despite calls by his opponent in the organization of american states for a fresh vote after allegations of fraud the police fired tear gas as more protests erupted on the streets opposition presidential candidate salvador nuts rolla is demanding a rerun of the election and that the vote be monitored by international observers. still to come here on al-jazeera on bail and the end of the campaign trail the catalan separatists are waiting the voters verdict on thursday. on the desperate search in the philippines by relatives for their loved ones lost after a tropical storm destroyed their homes. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hell you can tell from the feel in the skies in china the winter is tucked in it's not particularly kouddous would up in the last couple of days hong kong for crosses twenty shanghai's eleven shelters to go is it surprises me to fourteen degrees that won't change very much of the next day or so the cloud largely offshore trying to tuck back into the far south west and still the nest depth to it to give rain on the vietnamese coast but anything that's probably influenced by the remains of tar tack tropical storm once across the middle of the philippines it's now in this mass of white here now it's currently over the water and again it's not a particularly big storm but it's got the potential to bring more rain on its course now eventually in its course the next three or four days it gets towards peninsula malaysia if it doesn't fall apart and that's where of course there could be the problem with the rain but in the immediate future it's it's just starting showers off to the north and the south so for sort of arkansas quite like to there will be rain here for sudden vietnam and maybe cambodia they'll be rain as well generated by this otherwise the showers a philosophical called lot of winter you know it is jakarta in fact all of java is virtually visible underneath the green so the potential for flooding returns to java and might include bonnie. the weather sponsored by cattle and peace. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia and literally vanished it's a big business boggling when they will take the same there in the sand is are there you see the beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so proud of the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sand walls at this time on al jazeera. welcome back you with al-jazeera remind us of our top stories saudi arabia says it intercepted a ballistic missile targeting its capital riyadh yemen's who's the fighters say they fired the weapon waning for the official residence of king solomon is the third such attack since november. iran's condemned the us for accusing it of supplying missiles to u.c. rebels on occasion was made by the us ambassador to the un nikki haley iran's dismissed the claimers irresponsible and provocative. a procedural error is forcing the u.s. house of representatives to vote again on a contentious one of the half trillion dollar tax reform bill that passed the republican controlled house earlier bringing president trump closer to his first major legislative win but senator officials later said the three items in the bill violated the rules of the upper house forcing the revolt. the new head of south africa's ruling a.n.c. is calling for unity after a bitter leadership election the country's deputy president still run the post will take over as party leader from the president jacob zuma he won out over soon as ex-wife at a delicate party conference on monday tanya page has been getting reaction from his hometown so wetter. several of them of course is from soweto most people here are pleased he's the new president of the governing african national congress oh i'm so happy i'm so happy it's a good thing really it is that we were weary and all we wed now doing we're just around each but now i am happy he may have lived its noisy busy streets behind to become one of south africa's richest men but some thought he'd never forget his humble roots i think you take the country to a better live or their lives and news business big grown i don't think is that much and he's been to school you know and he's you grew he was born and grew up in so it so you know nice of the people and there aren't many problems increasing numbers of south africans no longer vote for the a.n.c. which they feel has failed to deliver on its promise of a better life for all i have seen over there is a pink i. you know just need everything together no includes the corruption the wish to be the better. of than one of the more difficult. to many people once a favorite of nelson mandela symbolizes the kind of leader they need after a decade of president jacob zuma scandals they think his business acumen will lead to a stronger economy millions all south africans live below the poverty line many of them and in shacks like they and because economic growth is sluggish they simply aren't enough decent jobs so people can work their way up so generation after generation looks like this and a seemingly endless cycle several bongani zita makes a living guiding tourists through so where so he thinks his namesake should do something about undocumented immigrants who are willing to work for less money in poor conditions in some south africans but he's a bit unsure about. even wreath. there was. a bar team. and you know all that kind of feeling that kind of vibe. everyone was excited but. at the end. the a.n.c. voted to put change and the expectations are high so i'm up or so has a lot to prove tanya page al-jazeera we're taught south africa at least twelve people have died after a bus carrying cruise ship passengers overturned on the highway in eastern mexico the bus was traveling towards the mayan ruins seven americans and two swedish nationals are among the injured but he said they haven't established the nationalities of the people who died. campaigning for catalonia snap parliamentary election is drawing to a close now catalans head to the polls on thursday for a vote that could decide if their region breaks away from spain call pinhole has more now from barcelona as the voters consider their options. it's a last brush the fall campaign encloses a rally for the separatists d r c o catalan republican left party former speaker of the regional parliament come a fork adele is lucky to be here at all she's free on bail for now but faces criminal charges for a rebellion. i don't think anybody that's alone imagine what was going to happen we could never have imagined that. after the october secession referendum prosecutors arrested key cattle and leaders for their role in organizing that vote and the spanish central government dissolved the capital and parliament a front seat is left empty for party leader. judges refused bail and instead kept him in prison fearing he would use the hustings to rabble rouse thursday's parliamentary election isn't specifically about secession but it is the most polarizing issue voters will choose between parties who want catalonia to remain part of spain or others have clearly not renounce their goal of a breakaway republic. veteran cattle politician artur mass hopes madrid look for compromise not confrontation if the central government. had the real positive proposal for the cattle and people what they have to do is to put that proposal on the table and to compare this proposal with the proposal for a real independent country but a necessary mothers riding high in opinion polls has little appetite for negotiating her center right citizens' party has backed madrid in its crackdown against the separatists she'll need to build a coalition but believes the only way to resolve the political turmoil is by beating the secessionists in the election will try to win will try to win and i think it is possible we we are seeing the pools and we see that it is it is not a new to the. as the hours tick down activists from the left wing see you people know vital vote system up for grabs even in barcelona's backstreets their party is small but was kingmaker in the last election they make for an easy political bedfellows they stand against spain in the monarchy and firmly in favor of a cattle and republic run by the working classes. al-jazeera barcelona five people have died during violent protests in the semi autonomous kurdish region in northern iraq eighty people were also wounded in the demonstrations which took place in the town of run your. they are also in wider demonstrations across iraq e kurdistan thousands of protesters rallied against austerity and unpaid public sector salaries insulin and media offices of the political parties were also set on fire. cattle central bank is investigating efforts to harm the country's economy by nations which have imposed a blockade the bank's governor says attempts have been made to manipulate the cattery currency securities and the derivatives markets shake up dollar bin sadal fanny's says a coordinated strategy by the blockading countries is to blame saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt cut diplomatic ties with cats are more than six months ago they accuse cats are of backing terrorism a claim it strongly denies. is a specialist in monetary and political economics he says the cattery rielle is being deliberately manipulated to undermine the economy conspiracy to. under sovereign bond to artificially trade them at an artificially rate to show that they are traded at a visually low rate in order to trigger a panic among investors and among the public and this is usually accompanied with a negative p.r. campaign through the by the book i think continue. to show that this look at this country that is a political crisis that is economic either this is something going on this or this will be for to push the public and then best to dumb but the get out early on to. get rid of the government bond in order to push their prices low through this once you've got a panic because capital out of flow and then when the value of the currency this will make it difficult for qatar to borrow from the international market will increase interest rate it will increase their insurance which will be according to the plot. by the by the us by the way government and this will drain hopefully the sovereign fund reserve of the qatari government at least forty three people have died after tropical storm current tack back to the philippines more bodies are still being retrieved from areas devastated by heavy flooding and landslides however. reports from the town of the government is struggling to respond. fernando clio says his life is no longer worth living his wife was killed in a landslide that devastated this region he buried her before now he has to look for the bodies of his daughter and two grandchildren they were trapped with floodwaters came rushing from the hills he says everything happened so fast there was no time to call for rescue. i dug for my wife through the rubble with my bare hands but our two granddaughters were on top of her so i had to take them out first it hurts so much she was my life partner. tropical storm swept through eastern philippines bringing more than two months worth of rain it triggered landslides that this joy the roads and bridges many communities are now cut off without electricity and running water this is the town. where rescue operations have been hampered by relentless rains making it more difficult for volunteers to manually dig through the rubble. rescuers here it is almost impossible to find survivors here now what i can tell you is that there is a very strong stench of rotting human flesh and it is overwhelming but for those looking for their lost loved ones they see that they signed a hope that their loved ones are still here somewhere and that they are able to still retrieve their bodies and give them at least a proper burial but the rescuers tell us they have mostly been able to recover a body parts women children many of them already beyond recognition and for many here this storm is a reminder of a painful past in november two thousand and thirteen typhoon that young killed at least eight thousand people destroying everything back roads homes all wiped out in an instant edgar his wife and children were preparing for a holiday reunion with relatives with tropical storm hit a few days ago. they say losing eight members of the family all at once is not just traumatic it is also financially crippling especially for those who barely have anything. as people struggle to come to terms with their losses rescue workers spiked and their bodies in the wreckage a young girl already in an advanced stage of the composition she will be taken straight for burial in the midst of so much this chuck shouldn't death there is a sense of urgency people here say morning will have to wait jim duggan al jazeera in the town of level central philippines. this is al jazeera these are the top stories saudi arabia says it's intercepted a ballistic missile targeting its capital riyadh yemen's who the rebels say they fired the weapon and were aiming for the official residence of king solomon is the third such attack since november lovely well beleaguered today and to missile was launched targeting palace in the heart of riyadh city of saudi arabia this is our answer to them and the whole world the more crimes you'll perpetrate the board to run nickel you are you will meet nothing but more missiles iran has condemned the u.s. for accusing it of supplying those missiles the allegation was made by the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. the haiti tehran has dismissed the claim as irresponsible and provocative meanwhile the u.n. is accusing the saudi led coalition of killing at least one hundred thirty six yemeni civilians in ten days they died between december the sixth and the sixteenth one attack involved seven air strikes on a person and santa last week which killed forty five detainees. a procedural error is forcing the u.s. house of representatives to vote again on a contentious one a half trillion dollar tax reform bill it passed the republican controlled house but was later rejected at the senate because it broke up a house rules if the bill goes through it will bring president from closer to his first major legislative win angry protesters a back on the streets of honduras calling for a rerun of last month's presidential election the incumbent won olando one and as has declared himself the winner despite international observers discrediting the vote the opposition will formally challenge the result campaigning for catalunya snap parliamentary election is drawing to a close catalans head to the polls on thursday for a vote that could decide if their region secedes from spain. at least forty three people have died after tropical storm kite tack back at the philippines rescuers are recovering more bodies than areas devastated by landslides and flooding up next it's inside story i'm back top of the hour see that. america is in the game and america is going to win so i said donald trump in a major policy announcement on national security by singling out russia and china how will these plans for u.s. national security affect it.

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