people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. where everything. this is the most important election. a final push for votes in the us ahead of mid-term elections which are being seen as a referendum on donald trump's presidency. hello i'm adrian figure this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up turkish

media reveals more about how saudi agents disposed of the body of the murdered journalist jamal. finally arrives for thousands of people driven by war to a remote camp in syria stranded without supplies after months of delay. will they stay or will they go people in the french territory of new caledonia vote on whether to cut ties with france and become independent. campaigning in the u.s. midterm elections is into its final stage both president donald trump and forward vice president joe biden have been drumming up support ahead of tuesday's vote trumps campaign has focused on immigration and jobs he's threatened to change the right to citizenship for anyone born in the u.s. the republicans currently control both houses of congress but the democrats hope to

win at least back the house of representatives while vice president biden says the election is a chance to reset the country's moral compass. tuesday is almost here and you all know in your gut that there's something different about this year's election. is bigger than politics this is the most important off year election that any one of you will have ever voted and that's not hyperbole the very character of our country is on the ballot tuesday. in washington. president donald trump held two campaign rallies one in the state of montana where the democratic incumbent senator holds a thin lead over his republican opponent and the other in florida where both the senate and governor's races are too close to call president trump harped on familiar themes especially immigration border security and fear that criminals

coming from abroad would menace americans president trump noted that he has recently sent thousands of u.s. troops to the u.s. mexican border we have our military now on the border. and i noticed all that beautiful barbed wire going up today were. used properly could be a beautiful sight were all of this is red meat for trump's base and therefore essential for the candidates that he's promoting but overall trump's approval rating is remarkably low by historical standards it's forty percent according to the most recent gallup poll and no president has had that low approval rating heading into a midterm election since gerald ford in one nine hundred seventy four there are

some signs that trump's style and policies have turned off and alienated some formerly loyal republican voters especially women living in suburban areas those voters now appear to be moving towards the democrats so that is one of the reasons why the consensus among political analysts pollsters and pundits is that the house of representatives will switch hands to the democratic party on election day with the republican party maintaining its hold over the senate. well as you heard thousands of central american migrants walking north towards mexico city after all for a free bus rides was withdrawn the caravan of months mostly hondurans is aiming to reach the united states to seek asylum a mexican state governor revokes the free buses by saying that mexico city was suffering from a water shortage and that it wouldn't be right to take in the migrants zeros manuel

or apollo reports. after weeks of walking thousands of pondering migrants in southern mexico have been told they'll have to walk some more they were promised free transportation to mexico city by the governor. but the offer was later withdrawn. well worn down they promised us something and didn't follow through we had faith in them because when mothers with children after hearing the government would no longer provide bus rides to mexico city many migrants grew impatient and started walking hundreds of others crowded atop passing trucks and hitch drives from anyone willing to drive the north. we don't have a choice but to risk our lives dangling from trucks our objective is to get there. in the united states along the soldiers have begun setting up barbed wire there the first wave of as many as fifteen thousand u.s.

troops being deployed to the us mexico border under orders by president trump the government offered migrants an opportunity to stay in city where they would be given food and medical attention most of them however turned down the offer coming we going to keep working we have to move forward. despite repeated warnings from the u.s. president that migrants will not be allowed to enter the country most say they have no intention of turning back now the next stop for these five thousand honduran migrants will be mexico city here they are expected to plead their cases to government officials. and transportation to the southern border of the united states although it could still be several weeks before they reach that point but. mexico city.

turkish government media have been reporting more details on the saudi hit squad that the journalist. just over a month ago the newspaper says the men dismembered his corpse and put the remains into five suitcases these with and driven to the saudi consuls residents near the consulate where the show she was killed on the second case president. believes that the order to kill came from the highest levels of the saudi state let's go live now to istanbul as andrew symonds is outside the saudi arabian consulate in the city and it's been some time since turkey's president earlier one made those remarks pointing at the top of the administration full blame in the murder what's going on now with this. reporting. well with a report there is really a suggestion from the latest leak that there was a transfer of five suitcases from here consulates to the consul general zod

residence only a short distance two hundred meters or so down the road and in those five cases said it's reported that there were body parts now there are also suggestions from the seven newspaper that three key figures in the suspect list involved in this they are said to have been transporting those cases to the consul general office not his mouth but three who is a key figure a main suspect senator bayh gay who's also well known to have had a key part in the whole affair and gottlieb these three figures associated with that but in terms of developments are the turkish president's very very strong condemnation of the saudi arabia's actions in accountability there has been

no response from riyadh whatsoever and we're seeing now something of a change in the dynamics a flat spot if you will in terms of world attention in terms of how reaction is going to this colossal investigation and intense crisis the point is this that that the turkish president did not name mohammed bin sad man in fact the fact that he didn't name him is all the more relevant he did make that that juncture that that separation between king salamon the crown prince's father that as far as turkey was concerned it still wanted to do with his man it wanted to keep its relations as normal as is possible under the circumstances but then of course there is this demand for accountability and this is really the absent ling. in everything now you take that link to the other link which is the united states now engaged with the mid-term elections and is trump really talking the language that one wants to hear from this part of the world no

he isn't there is a flat spot it seems and so now the challenge is how the momentum is kept on a high level with this crisis with world attention as it has been will it stay at the level it is right now that is the real big question surrounding this investigation and really what is now not so much the forensics involved but more the politics or the real politic further down the road or is it so you talk about this flat spot in the fact that it's all become so much more political. and that the u.s. midterm elections how is this all going to play out. well you'd really be a brave person to guess on that one there is a shared meeting of world leaders nov tenth in paris around the centenary of the armistice day in organization and the whole big event there of world leaders likely to be a meeting on the tenth of november between. and the us president what will happen

in the midterms could there be more releases of important evidence could there be something more directed at the leadership in saudi arabia these are all unknowns the really the twist and turn of this whole crisis is very very hard to predict and of course the main issue is the concern here the real frustration amongst government officials in turkey that the u.s. is not so much turning a blind eye it's certainly not getting involved really with what some had expected of the united states in this situation so saudi arabia takes a step back stays quiet to the united states gets engaged in the midterm elections further down the road where does it all stand it is an unknown and it's one that's causing great consternation amongst the turks they've been very very clever particularly in giving a drip feed in keeping world attention on this colossal story now will that

continue these are important very important points. and are many thanks indeed i was zero zero seven is there live in istanbul. the united nations children's fund is warning the famine in yemen will get worse if efforts to bring in aid a blocked already millions are hungry the fund says that both the saudi and u.a.e. backed yemeni government who think rebels are making it impossible to deliver and distribute aid unicef is backing u.s. calls for a cease fire within a month to end the conflict. for the first time in more than nine months aid has been delivered to more than fifty thousand people in the camp in syria the u.n. convoy of forty three trucks brought much needed food and supplies the camp is in a rebel held area near the border with jordan and circled by government forces. reports. sandstorm season and rock band we're going blind this boy says our homes are destroyed take us away from here.

rick band is the no man's land in more ways than one a desolate camp in the open desert near the jordanian border caught between warring sides there's no escape. people came here three years ago fleeing i still fighters u.s. russian and syrian air strikes now there are some fifty thousand people many of them women and children. i know you're one of those protests began last month after a smuggling route for food and medicine was closed by government forces. he's disabled he's also malnourished he's almost a skeleton from starvation. officials say a u.n. aid convoy expected last week was delayed because of security concerns but now it's finally here food hygiene and health supplies to be distributed over the next three to four days. humanitarian convoys here require approval from damascus the last

time repond received any aid was in january then a cross border delivery from jordan a red distribution after it sealed its border in the aftermath of a twenty sixteen isolette tack that killed seven jordanian soldiers we said we're not going to or. as syrian people on syrian territory so it is the responsibility of the syrian government and the yuan and the international community but it wasn't established national. this is. by. circumstance where. the strangely borders. u.s. forces have a military base nearby policing a fifty five square kilometer so-called deescalation zone and. russia blames the u.s. for the deteriorating situation the u.s.

says russia and syria using rock band as an excuse to question its presence here and say they really want to help these people or they want to use them as a as a as something to kind of come after us this is not a united states problem started jordan problem these are syrians these syrians are dying and many of these new graves very small the red crescent says despite this delivery the situation remains critical no one perhaps knows that better than those burying their children here. and stasia tayo al-jazeera. we're going to weather update next zero then turkey heads in the choppy waters with an all project that could increase tension with cyprus and greece. at one of the world's largest tea farms turns over a new leaf with some much needed government help.

from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. we're seeing some rather wet weather across the eastern side of the mediterranean and that is affecting the levant is pushed across syria into iraq a lot of cloud in the middle east the king unusually this once again then so further spells of rain set your possibility as we go through sunday saw was could see some life if she was to further east that it's all sixty celsius there for kabul getting up to around thirty three in karate on sunday afternoon similar temperatures as because through monday and similar weather with a little bit of cloud sliding its way into southern areas of the caspian sea maybe northern parts of iran could catch your share i'm afraid the wet weather will continue across syria dial in sioux iraq some heavy downpours that is inevitably likely to lead to some localized flooding in the flooding rains there in place across northern parts of saudi arabia not bad here in constant little bit of cloud

yeah as you can see for sunday possibility of a few spits in spots of fright monday should brighten up little warmup as well temperatures getting up to around thirty one degrees but northern sections of the gulf could still see some a wet weather a little bit of wet weather may even across southern parts of africa as well in areas of south africa was cooler than of late in cape town with a high of around eighteen celsius the recently warming twenty food greece. the weather sponsored by cats on lease. again this is al jazeera the main news this hour campaigning in the u.s. but time elections has entered its final stage both president on the trump and

former vice president joe biden drumming up support before tuesday's vote democrats are hoping to win back control of the house of representatives from the republicans . turkish government media are reporting that three members of the saudi hit squad that murdered journalist jamal a month ago were responsible for disposing of his body the newspaper says the men dismembered the corpse of put the remains of the five suitcases which were driven to the saudi council's residence. for the first time in more than nine months and has been delivered to more than fifty thousand people in the camp in syria the u.n. convoy of forty three trucks brought in food and supplies the camp said a rebel held area near the border with jordan which isn't circled by government forces. more than seventy british business leaders have signed a letter calling for a second referendum on the u.k. sags it from the european union it follows a march by more than half a million people in london last month to month another vote talks have been stalled

over the status of the irish border after a break says the key sticking points in the go ca sions a spokesman for britain's prime minister to resign may play down media reports that a deal is near on friday ireland's deputy prime minister said that agreement could be achieved by the middle of the month. iran's supreme leader is calling the united states a declining power after washington re imposed sanctions the restrictions on energy shipping in the finance sector been lifted as part of the fifteen nuclear deal with world powers ayatollah ali harmony's says that the u.s. hasn't been able to defeat iran over the past forty years. america's power and money in the world is declining and moving towards destruction it is waning. today's united states is much weaker than the united states forty years ago when iran's islamic revolution happened america's power is declining and the important

point is well the u.s. sanctions on iran will come back into force on monday iranians are trying their best to remain positive as the reports from tehran. when you look past all the politics what becomes clear is that american sanctions hurt iranian people more than change iranian government policies american policy some would say trump's brinkmanship has meant economic chaos for iran the value of the iranian ryall has suffered a major fall in the last year adding to high inflation and unemployment concerns. all of this hurts low income and working people first and foremost they struggle to feed their families because prices for some basic goods have doubled. people's purchasing power has been reduced they talk about their problems. when a customer wants to buy something you can tell

a situation some people used to come here to buy meat once a month now they come once every two months when it comes to iran u.s. presidents have pursued a policy of containment for decades trying to limit iranians economically militarily and politically in their regional and global affairs even the twenty fifteen nuclear deal that president barack obama championed that gave iran back some of its financial freedoms many iranians saw that is just a softer approach to the same containment policy but by turning back the clock on bilateral ties with iran what president donald trump has done is to show people here that during his administration there will be no blurred lines between friends and enemies but if trumpet hope pushing iranians towards poverty would inspire them to topple their own leaders he'll likely be disappointed previous protests never got big enough all he's apparently done is make people here miserable. do you think mr trump is a crazy man who made the situation in the region drastically worse his involvement

in the region and sanctions have made the people hate him i really don't think that he's the one that should be the president of america. maybe good for his own people but not as you took office things. it's better not to say anything about his personality everyone knows how. everybody knew. when iran's leaders signed the nuclear deal they said it was the thing to fix everyone's financial problems three years later with american promises of more sanctions than ever before the best that people here can hope for is that iran can manage to sell . enough oil to survive until donald trump has left the white house is in basra the oldest euro to her on turkey's move to start drilling for oil and gas in the mediterranean sea is threatening to escalate a dispute with greece some cassella reports from antalya. there is soon mediterranean is the new frontier for oil and gas it's home to libya thumb and time

are gas fields of the israeli coast the source field facing egypt and also aphrodite discovered by the greek cypriots and the region's underwater wealth appears to turkey which is dependent on energy imports all the g. and g. studies and everything is telling us it is the right locations but you never know without doing so ankara is sending its first ship out to drill for natural resources versus the ship that turkey is using to drill for oil and gas she is called party which means the conqueror the first exploration will begin around one hundred ten kilometers of the mediterranean coast line at a depth of at least twelve thousand meters. but the drilling mission is causing friction with greece and it's set to reawaken tensions with cyprus the island of cyprus will supply it during your turkish military intervention in one thousand nine hundred seventy four triggered by a brief greek inspired coup it forced the mess displacement of people with greek

cypriots now living in the south and turkish cypriots in the north turkey and international recognize greek cypriot government have overlapping claims of jurisdiction for offshore oil and gas research in the eastern mediterranean however experts say political differences could take a back seat when it comes to commercial benefits and even israelis are thinking of joining egypt to develop exploring the export yes so between when that is happening there. between greece and turkey and the two parts that were sections of the island of cyprus the republic of cyprus and the turkish republic within cyprus i think they have to resolve their problems turkey stays its goal is energy independence and accelerated exploration is simply part of that plan another drilling vessel is set to be added to its exploration fleet by the end of this year

seen m.p.'s although al-jazeera and saudia people in the french territory of new caledonia are voting on whether to become independent from france the referendum comes just over thirty years after another ended in political violence al-jazeera as andrew thomas reports. new caledonia is nearly twenty thousand kilometers from paris yet the pacific island territory has been since eight hundred fifty three parts of france but after sunday the bones could be broken new caledonians will be asked whether they want their territory to cede full sovereignty and become an independent. opinion polls suggest those of european descent like a vote on this rally in may want to remain french i think they played only nine france is the best that we can have. but the french state and the french president to visit new caledonia earlier this year are officially neutral that has

a lot to do with history in that ninety seven people of indigenous quranic descent boycotted a referendum because they saw the process then as rigged in favor of french loyalists the following year on the outlying island of ear supporters of independence resorted to violence on the twenty second of april night an eighty eight a big group of pro independence cannot command stormed the play station then stood on this site killing for placement inside and taking a group of more than twenty others hostage france sent in a military team in the assault two of that team were killed as were nineteen of the hostage takers some it's now known were executed this time france is determined both sides see the process as fair and accept the result only french settlers with a decades long history new caledonia will be eligible to vote and should the result be no to independence independence supporters will have to further chances with follow up referendum to twenty twenty and twenty twenty three said. zoeth this time

around political leaders have managed the process well. cannot people especially feel independence is long overdue new caledonia was taken by the french one hundred fifty three there was no agreement from the indigenous people no treaty and supporters of independence think mine. big nickel deposits will be enough for new caledonia to survive economically but loyalists doubt that about one point five billion dollars a year flows from paris to new caledonia capital near france accounts for fifteen percent of annual g.d.p. so that you get us losing that would be a catastrophe many people would lose their jobs the public service would collapse new caledonians are accustomed to a certain standard of living it would all come down at once unless china stepped in in past decades pacific island nations have been reliant on european benefactors

and neighbors in australia new zealand and the united states but china's spending in influence across the pacific region is growing and you caledonia independent of france would quickly become a target andrew thomas al-jazeera over here and you caledonia one of the biggest farms in the world a mug farm in south africa was closed for years but now it's back in business thanks to a government bailout in an area of high unemployment. from adam miller reports from the eastern cape. just months ago these tea fields along the wild coast region in the eastern cape were abandoned and overgrown but a government injection of almost eight million dollars into the mob what t. farm means it now has a second chance stretching for more than one thousand eight hundred hecht is the management says this is the largest operating t. farm in the southern hemisphere to survey lenders and by the community and the go into frosty is

a government owned company and release the land from the community and obviously tronic through as many people from the local community as possible the climate is soil conditions are ideal for growing black t. the farm was first established as a job creation project in the one nine hundred sixty s. and at one time was producing two point seven million tons of season but a drop in the tea price a series of wage disputes and labor strikes as well as looting led to its closure worsening already high levels of rural poverty and unemployment. since it reopened eighteen months ago the farm employs up to one thousand eight hundred people during peak season and processes anywhere between thirty six and one hundred fifty tonnes of teves a day once at ease the plugs are processed at this factory and packaged in bulk before being sold wrote this at the farm hopes to eventually package individual

teabags retailers which it says will bring in more money and create more jobs while the mob or t. farm is entirely government owned the numbers it community and workers could potentially own up to forty percent of it at the have to find the money to buy she's been a few to ponder this shares a very important for a long time the committee was not part of the team from but now the community feels that it is consulted more in is more involved they's a lot of development now in numbers and once we get the. says we can decide what we want to do with them with few of the jobs in the area the people of say the success of the farm is vital they are however concerns about wage and production costs and while the future of mclaughlin not be guaranteed for people here it represents hope from al-jazeera eastern cape south africa.

it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here are the top stories this hour on al-jazeera campaigning in the u.s. midterm elections is into its final stage both president donald trump and former vice president joe biden drumming up support ahead of tuesday's vote democrats are hoping to win back control of the house of representatives from the republicans thousands of central american migrants are walking north towards mexico city after an offer of free bus rides was withdrawn the caravan of mostly con durance is aiming to reach the united states and seek asylum a mexican state governor revoked the free buses by saying that mexico city was suffering from a water shortage and that it wouldn't be right to take in the migrants turkish government media reporting more details on the saudi hit squad that murdered the journalist demolishor g a month ago the southern newspaper says the corpse was dismembered in the consulate and driven in five suitcases to the saudi consuls residence nearby under simmons reports from istanbul. there are also suggestions

from the seven newspaper that three key figures in the suspect list were involved in this they are said to have been transporting those cases to the consul general office nice man but three who is a key figure a main suspect senate baig who is also well known to have had a key part in the whole affair ghalib these three figures associated with that for the first time in more than nine months and has been delivered to more than fifty thousand people in the rock band camp in syria it's in a rebel held area surrounded by government forces more than seventy british business leaders have signed a letter calling for a second referendum on briggs it's it follows a march by more than half a million people in london last month demanding another vote talks have been stalled over the status of the irish border. and those are the headlines we'll have

borne news for you on al-jazeera after upfront next. right. adequate. housing is not just about four walls and a roof it's about. have peace security and most importantly dignity un special rapporteur. after more than seven years of a never ending conflict in syria does one of the world's most famous war crimes prosecutors believe they'll ever be justice for the victims and also on the show on the brink of war. more than two hundred dead in gaza this year alone three palestinian kids killed in

an israeli air strike earlier this week rockets fired into israel from gaza and will the verge of another all out war discussion but first the world continues to.