broke little miss the issue who gave the order for the murder to be committed on our soil we are searching for the sensor it was more than a month after his murder his two sons have spoken for the first time. lives in saudi arabia and has to get permission to fly to the u.s. to be with the rest of his family or what we want. is to bring him in but here within medina with his with the rest of his family in saudi arabia yes i talk to talk about that with. the saudi authorities. and. i just hope that it happens or but you need to find somebody needs to find his his body yes. i think that the sessions are going. to be hopeful about that turkish officials fear they may never be able to find the

remains of which they believe was dissolved in acid something which is likely to prolong the agony of his family which has been hoping to bury him as soon as possible in saudi arabia. a stumble. still ahead here on al-jazeera saudi arabian officials are grilled in geneva over the kingdom's human rights record. and jury selection begins in the trial of one amazing goes most notorious drug lords do stay with us here officer. from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. however got more very heavy rain into central parts of china at the moment thickening class still piling its way in further south that's fine and dry we'll see temperatures in hong kong getting up to around twenty eight celsius once again further north as you

can see iran really ganging together could see some localized flooding is there for tuesday is there on into wednesday very much a case of spot the difference stays five and dry further south and that dry weather extends its way into northern parts of the philippines for much of southeast asia those going to be case of sunshine and showers the showers stretch right through malaysia some showers there pushing into northern parts of indonesia carter could see some heavy rain behavior does look likely to be a little further north heading up towards the march just easing across the western side of the region as those easterly winds push the showers in those showers join up with the showers that we have across southern parts of the go a little circulation just developing our rounds flying here a little area of low pressure and that could cause some very heavy rainfall to come in as we go on through the next couple days and want to optimistic actually for the test match between. and anglo-indian goal as we go through tuesday and wednesday

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like you're watching on just their arms a whole rob a reminder of our top stories donald trump has warned his supporters that the media is treating choose days midterm election as a referendum on his presidency as both republicans and democrats hold last minute rallies on the eve of the vote trump's republican party is trying to protect its majority in the house of representatives and the senate. turkish media have reported that saudi officials sent to istanbul to investigate the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi focused instead on removing evidence of his murder. in the derive nine days after because shoji was killed included a chemical expert and a toxicologist. and people the same story the u.n. human rights council has been reviewing the actions of saudi arabia and its wreck ordered all rights violations addressing the council it restated the kingdom's position that is investigating its killing i will prosecute those responsible paul

brennan has more from geneva. the conflicting perspectives about saudi arabia's human rights record were highlighted before the session even began and documents submitted in advance firstly the national report from saudi arabia itself detailing what it says are the reforms that have been enacted the royal decree which have been passed improving the role of women and improving the human rights record but in contrast to the two reports were put before delegates firstly one from un committees and another from n.g.o.s which complained about the operative detentions about the use of the death sentence about the stonings amputations against children on the issue of jamal khashoggi could not be a scaped. the king of saudi arabia has already expressed regret and for the death of. king and in a season has already instructed the prosecution to proceed with the investigation into this case according to the applicable laws in preparation to reaching all the

facts and bringing all the perpetrators to justice to the facts to the probably. the interrogation here in the chamber split along broadly partisan lines close allies of saudi arabia chose to simply patting them on the back and encourage them to continue the existing progress of reform but what was really interesting was the history teacher allies such as the united kingdom and the united states pointedly make reference to the jamal khashoggi murder and to criticize a broad raft of other problems that they see with saudi arabian human rights record . united kingdom is great be concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in saudi arabia progress on women's rights has been overshadowed by severe constriction of political space mass arrests of human rights defenders increased use of terrorist groups to political dissidents and continuing extensive use of the death penalty but most concerning is the murder of them out. it was

indicative i think of a greater willingness here to hold saudi arabia to account for a whole raft of issues that the international community is concerned about on the back of the murder of shoji and the final report when it comes we are very interested to read indeed the u.s. is calling the latest sanctions against iran its toughest so far as accuse washington of bullying and said its tactics were firing because the u.s. was internationally isolated the measures implemented on monday target iran's oil and financial sectors but president trump they were taking things slowly. we have the toughest sanctions ever imposed but on oil we want to go a little bit slower because i don't want to drive the oil prices in the world this has nothing to do with the rand i don't want to drive the oil prices in the world up so i'm not looking to be a great hero and bring it down to zero immediately i could get the iran oil down to

zero immediately but it would cause a shock to the market i don't want to lift oil prices long diplomatic into james bangs ripples in washington d.c. . the message the treasury secretary and the secretary of state wanted to send was that the sanctions lifted when the u.s. during the obama administration joined other international partners in the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal a rule now back in place but if you read the small print that's not exactly the case some of the iranian nuclear facilities have been given waivers so they can still work producing nuclear energy for civilian use the trumpet ministration wants all countries to stop importing iranian oil but for now secretary of state might come pio says age nations who gets temporary waivers the u.s. will be granting these exemptions to china india italy greece japan south korea taiwan and turkey the two cabinet secretaries said they'd keep a laser focus on iran but why single out just one country in the region james face

from al jazeera english you talk about the destabilizing the behavior of iran in the region how does that differ from the bad behavior of saudi arabia. so let me just go through the list underwriting lebanese hezbollah presents a threat to united states of america and to israel underwriting the hoodies and yemen causing an enormous conflict to take place there in that country the efforts in iraq to undermine the iraqi government funding shia militias that are not the best interest of the iraqi people their efforts and syria the list goes on the difference in behavior between. as to countries it is. remarkable. that france perhaps needs some fact checking the un says there is no evidence iran has recently supplied the who peace with weapons while the saudi led air campaign has been responsible for the majority of civilian deaths in yemen saudi arabia

certainly has its own destabilizing role in the region just look at the blockade of carrots are and if you are criticizing iran for its human rights then saudis appalling record also needs to be scrutinized particularly in the light of the murder of jamal khashoggi in istanbul james. washington. part of the trip and ministrations efforts to put maximum pressure on iran's economy is getting the switch to global banking network to cut off iranian banks says it's complying reluctantly sensible nine hundred seventy s. it's basically a messaging system that banks used to communicate payment instructions to each other it makes it possible to move trillions of dollars around the world every day tens of thousands of financial institutions and almost all the world's nations are connected to the system exclusion would make it much more difficult for rein in companies to get paid by partners based elsewhere for damaging trade. well iran's

president says it'll be business as usual despite sanctions. simply chanting death to america is on the time has come for the u.s. to truly feel. small from the iranian capital. one of the reasons president donald trump gave to pull out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions on iran was the country's growing military influence in the middle east. and their ballistic missiles program. so it was perhaps not a coincidence that iranian scheduled one of their largest military exercises of the year on the same day as u.s. sanctions kicked back in. multiple air defense units took part in war games spanning half a million square kilometers across the country. and as the missiles took flight on the ground the iranian president lobbed insults at the american president. was able to go scout that i don't think any other administration in the history of the

united states has been as opposed to the law and international treaties i've not seen any administration in the white house as racist as these people and you cannot expect anything else from them in a speech to his recently shaken up economic team rouhani laid out a broad plan for the future come what may iran will sell oil and will break u.s. sanctions in the face of american threats iranians put their faith in the basic principle of supply and demand i believe the sanction was. but that they couldn't sanction is not the. sudden need they had some think in their mind and then put sanctions and you give me the supply side you cannot expect the prize good though. it is simple price goes up iran has used unmarked ships to sell oil in international waters traded oil using the barter

system and rouhani has also floated the idea of selling oil in alternative currencies to the u.s. dollar iran is also counting on a european bypass to the american banking system but months of promises and public support by the european union have not led to practical solutions behind closed doors some iranians are asking if that was the plan all along despite rouhani is insistence that european support is a big deal for iran keeping iran's trust will not be the only challenge for europe to keep iran in the nuclear deal with american sanctions at full strength and more said to be on the way they'll also have to figure out how to turn the temperature down between hawks into iran and washington. separatists income or kidnapped at least seventy nine high school students and three members of staff they were taken from a presbyterian boarding school in the city of the linda part of the english speaking region which has seen a surge in violence over the past year and

a group known as the freedom fighters fighting for an independent state apart from the government dominated by the french speaking majority kohlberg wayne is a journalist in them and he says the separatists have taken the students into the bush. man invented a school in the arse of someone they're breaking monder and then took away some of the the children and as a break and as the events are on for their words in videos of some eleven to then i've been i've been that with by the groups asking them why they have to go to school when the know that they're fighting for independence and people are living in the bushes and some cannot find that their parents and that they'll have to stay with them in the bushes on. the war is over and that wasn't their independence before they released them this group operates in various ways and in various

functions and just last month a common chant and article actually determine the way this group of functions and that kidnapping is becoming the new move those apparently with the new cartridges for for the i'm group so they are not resort to kidnappings. more four four four four four economy for four around some done for for political ends and a long time but it will become a very interesting study of our growth our strength and our schools were not going to be often especially in the english speaking areas but suppose similar is the resumed after the presidential election the first apparent thought that the program was just about the presidential elections and i thought the presence of presidential elections schools to militarism and i love larry and that route. seven years launched an appeal against the convictions well alone and chilled so who was sentenced in june for violating me and most state secrets they say police

planted documents on them while they were investigating the killing of writing to muslims allegedly by the security forces jury selection is beginning in new york for the trial of a man accused of being one of mexico's biggest drug lords known as old chap. who's been has been held in solitary confinement in the u.s. for the last two years gabriel is on the house move from new york. for the last two years joaquin el chapo guzman has been held in solitary confinement in new york jail after his extradition to the u.s. on an array of drug trafficking charges. security for the trial be tape considering guzman famously escaped from prison twice in mexico once through an elaborate tunnel in his prison cell. even with guzman in handcuffs prosecutors and the judge worry his associates could still pose a danger to people involved in the trial they cooperated witnesses and even jurors

this former new york city police detective says precautions will be taken and the jury will likely be kept in a secret location that they don't want to get any witness tampering they don't want to have any threats they don't want to put their families in that position too so they are going to be extremely careful with what they do it with despite this seeming mountain of evidence against guzman this is a trial that will be very complicated and along with dozens if not hundreds of eyewitnesses expected to be called to testify the judge is saying this is a trial that could go on for more than three months. edgardo buscaglia a world renowned expert on organized crime and drug trafficking says many of guzman's crimes took place in the u.s. from ordering killings to trafficking drugs. to the signing the money laundering channels into u.s. criminal networks. commercial activities within the u.s. they infiltrated the banking system through

a very well known banks around the world so you have an incredible number of. cases who are the criminal network let. up which money has being involved in all kinds of crimes within u.s. borders and in many other countries he says the trial will have little impact on the day to day operations of those months in a low a cartel as a message is fine in terms of the actual impact on a criminal network it will not make any impact the prosecutor saying he conviction of guzman will do one thing it will put an infamous drug kingpin away pretty good gabriel's on doe brooklyn. you want you know just their arms the whole realm and these are all top news stories that will trump has warned us of supporters that the media is treating

choose days midterm election as a referendum on his presidency as both republicans and democrats hold last minute mounties on the ease of the vote comes from public and party is trying to protect its majority in the house of representatives and the senate so when you enter the voting booth on tuesday you will be making a simple choice a vote for republicans is a vote to continue our extraordinary prosperity. a vote for democrats is a vote to bring this economic boom crashing down very rapidly. the democratic agenda will deliver a socialist nightmare. the republican agenda is delivering the american dream optimism the american.

turkish media is reporting that some of the officials were sent to istanbul to remove evidence relating to the murder of jamal khashoggi these thirty team was supposed to be in turkey to investigate the crime the nine men team included a chemical expert and a toxicologist the u.s. says its latest sanctions against iran are the toughest so far but some of tehran's leading business partners have got a waiver allowing them to import oil iran's accused washington of bullying and said its tactics were backfiring because the u.s. was internationally isolated. to separatists in cameroon of kidnapped at least seventy nine hundred school students and three stuffed members they were taken from a presbyterian boarding school in the city of but mender it's part of the english speaking region which has seen a surge in violence over the past year group known as the zone here freedom fighters is fighting for an independent state apart from the government dominated by the french speaking majority of course you can follow all of those stories by

logging on to our website at al-jazeera dot com and back with more news in half an hour next on al-jazeera it's inside story do stay with us. making it harder for minorities to vote in the u.s. as millions for kerry to cast ballots on tuesday democrats are accusing the republicans of voter suppression tactics so will every vote count in this crucial election this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. in the final hours before the u.s. midterm elections many minorities are concerned about the issue of voter suppression from native americans in north dakota to hispanics in kansas and black voters in georgia they're all fighting republican led efforts to limit their votes president donald trump often pushes the theme of voter fraud during his many rallies with little evidence to back up his claim in georgia the republican candidate for governor who's also secretary of state has launched an investigation into the state's democratic party he accuses them of trying to hack into the voter registration system but many have called this a political stunt there's a lot to talk about today with our guests but first john hendren with more from george. daniel known go was puzzled by the government letter the civil servant had voted in georgia for a decade but this time the state told him he'd done it wrong so he phoned the

secretary of state's office. the woman on the phone told him he filled out his ballot correctly and signed it but he failed to sign the on below the ballot came in we get we just can't get a credit we don't have the only information we need and the option to you know. you know doesn't up doesn't like yelling really don't really have that option but again. this voting rights advocates say is voter suppression in action the man they accuse of leading a campaign to prevent minorities from voting is georgia's secretary of state brian camp he oversees voting in the state and just happens to be running as a republican for governor he's in a dead heat against democrat stacy abrams who hopes to become georgia's first female black governor. camp has purged one point four million voters from state electoral rolls critics say disproportionately blacks and minorities who tend to vote for democrats georgia is one of several states who

knows the state of. the civil war has never ended has a campaign with many too many ways to continue to try to suppress the vote a lawsuit by the new georgia project and other civil rights groups says three hundred forty thousand in georgia were wrongfully purged most of them minorities it is a conflict of interest on its face you can keep your thumb on the scale and impact the results of this election video camp is strictly enforcing voter id laws in an registering those who have not voted for two elections or have moved this is someone who has to be held accountable to do his basic jobs we have made it easier to vote and hard to cheat in just because miss a brahms flossy balts lawsuit or the new. georgia project it doesn't mean it's right the lawsuit by civil rights groups says similar voter purges are happening in twenty six republican controlled states across the u.s.

many polling stations like this one in atlanta you can vote early but for some voters by the time they found out there was a problem with their registration it was already too late one thousand year old linnea gordon was looking forward to voting in her first election for stacy abrams . a letter where i got. no same that i'm even more information but i gave all the information that i needed they sent the letter before me after. more information in daniel knew and his case the state has the discretion to allow his mail in ballot it's just decided not to as he phoned kemp's department he got one other bit of bad news so and that's the case with line and my wife's that is correct. with a few days left election day his wife will also be notified that her ballot has also been rejected by the state of georgia john hendren al-jazeera at lamda.

all right let's introduce our panel joining us from washington d.c. is lara brown program director at the graduate school of political management for george washington university also in washington peter an independent journalist and contributor to counterpunch and joining us here in doha rodney taylor coordinator of international studies and professor of language and literature at the community college of cutter welcome to you all right let me start with you so you saw john hendren report there he's in georgia and in georgia you have a race if for governor in which the person who's overseeing the elections in that state is also a candidate for governor many say that that is improper many say that that is unethical how exactly is this allowed to happen this is simply a continuation of the status quo since the jim crow era and which blacks recently freed blacks were disenfranchised by the government by the slave state legislature

to make sure that they could not use the power at the ballot box to change their political destiny and that is what is at stake once again he has refused mr kemp has refused to recuse himself so this is a highly unethical he has also raced many people from the voter rolls including new immigrants recently naturalized citizens who came to them in states to fully participate in the american democratic system it is a shame and a sham in my opinion and it's simply a continuation of what we have faced especially in the southern states of the united states for a long time most dangerously in two thousand and thirteen a more conservative supreme court overturned articles section four and five of the voting rights act of the one nine hundred sixty s. which no longer has a federal surveillance of those southern states that wants discriminated against blacks lessons government oversight or out of salute lee so now there could be more intrusions disenfranchisement of minority groups because of the fact the more

conservative our supreme court the more these types of injuries to civil rights will be prevalent the issue of voter suppression of course is being reported as being talked about much more in this election cycle but laws that would make it harder for certain groups to vote i mean that's really nothing new is it. well look it isn't anything new this is something that has gone on in the united states for all of our history part of the problem is actually the structure of our elections our constitution basically allows and pushes the states and the localities to do all of the cascine and counting of the ballots so the federal oversight is fairly weak but in addition there is this recurrent problem of who should be overseeing the elections is it the secretary of state at

the state level or is it the secretary of state at the federal level i'm not so sure that democrats who are minorities would be better off if the trump administration were overseen so we do have just generally a problem that needs to be worked out and i agree a general recusal of those officers who are in place who have a political interest in the election should be sufficient but we also have republicans who are filling the seats who seem to have no shame or sort of moral compass when it comes to this and you simply want to know that from my own home state the eternal general jeff sessions himself was accused of voter suppression when he was the state attorney general in alabama and i remember that as a child growing up the shock of knowing that he was about to presume the position of a federal judge forcing that was overturned that he did not a sense of that power but now under trump he has been appointed the attorney

general of the united states in charge of enforcing the laws including civil rights pete i saw you shaking your head so i wanted to ask you are so you actually rather not in there i want to ask you is this the election cycle that is really awakened many more americans to the possibility that voter suppression could be happening in their midst. both rodney and lara pointed out this is a long standing thing and it's a tactic that is crucial to the republican effort i mean that donald trump and the folks running on his cam along those lines are appealing to a narrow segment of the population and then they've got to erect barriers for the majority of the country particularly voters of color to get to the polls so this is long standing but it is i think getting a lot more attention today and it's something that needs to get attention because if we're going to have a democracy everyone's got to be able to get to the polls and clearly that's been

a real challenge of have been serious impediments to particularly voters of color in this country larry look like you want to add something there or did you did you want to say something. yeah well i mean i think there is a positive side to all of this attention i mean whatever the downsides are about people having a sense of also being disenfranchised and actually being prevented from voting there is this other side where the reports about it are so shocking i think to many americans to think that this is still going on in the twenty first century that it could also help to increase some of the vote i think you know when you saw oprah winfrey in georgia talking about the importance of voting and what it meant from a legacy standpoint i'm not sure that you've had those sort of emotional appeals backed up with kind of this urgency of the moment in

a very very long time so we might well see kind of you know huge minority turnout even despite the obstacles that exist right in there you want to jump in just a me ask you first though if you can incorporate this into your answer so obviously president trump has made himself really front center in this election cycle how much of this midterm election is it is going to be a referendum on him. it depends on the blue wave or the blue tsunami if you will i don't expect it to be a dramatic shift from the status quo that we have currently i think he will continue to rule with his agenda in place i think that there will be some give away when the house of representatives but in general the senate is the sort of the the fire wall of american leadership in congress and therefore i think he will maintain control his agenda will continue the referendum might show up in the sense of this latest kavanaugh situation with appointment to the supreme court to see how women

decide what they're going to do or or accept in leadership the case of the election of mccaskill senator mccaskill in missouri will also be an interesting litmus test and she opposed kavanaugh will she be able to maintain her power so i look at it more broadly as just one more lobby in the midst of a culture war if you will that's going under going right now in the united states pete many many expect that the democrats will be able to flip the house on this election if that were to happen you know what what will they be able to do how will they be able to counter trump going forward does it depend on how much how much of a majority they would hold it does and i think the romney's point also depends on the senate but i think it's crucial that democrats move forward not just on focusing on trump which i think that was the electoral strategy in two thousand and

sixteen but i think really addressing whether it's fifteen dollars an hour or medicare for all or ending the incarceration craziness that has been this country's. policy for so long addressing the policies that really impact people's day to day lives are doing everything they can to address it i think is going to be crucial i don't think it's enough just to go. into two thousand and twenty saying trump and russia well i think the problem is that we have a president who bypasses all traditional norms for the presidency all sense of decorum and civility and he bypasses the traditional mainstream media to do that appeals directly to visceral emotional racist reactions from people and that stirs them up and motivates them to vote i would like to say that pete is right we need to focus on substantive issues and lars right there are some positives out of this setting a light on this issue of voter suppression which affects poor people which affects

do it big rates noone newly naturalized citizens but also there needs to be a campaign and i think president obama former president obama and former attorney general eric holder have launched a campaign to deal with the gerrymandering issue which is the which is the the bedrock of this problem how we we position ourselves in our neighborhoods to vote one way or to destroy the voting power of certain communities as was shown recently in the state of pennsylvania that went all the way to the state supreme court in pennsylvania because the republicans had rigged the general ban drink so much that it totally diluted the voices the votes of people of color so we have to address the issue of german during full participation in a democracy why is it that we still voting on tuesdays and the rest of the western democracies vote on the we can make it easier for the working class people to be able to vote why can't we have an automatic registration to vote across the board why are the republicans so insistent on limiting the ways in which people can vote

that is the real problem to rodney's point if the democrats were to be able to retake the house do you think that there will be efforts made at at legislation perhaps to try to counter some of the gerrymandering efforts that have been going on for decades now well i think there are sort of a couple different types of problems i mean we do have a reality that our constitution does put much of that redistricting effort. in fact all of it at the state level the civil rights and voting rights act ensured that the states had to do some things in more appropriate ways we had legal cases that required that each house districts have the same number of people in it but the bigger problem isn't just sort of the gerrymandering because in fact our senate is not gerrymander each senator represents an entire state the bigger problem that we have in this country is what we call sorting meaning that people have moved into

areas where they want to be near people who agree with them and so we do have a geographical distribution issue but i want to go back to the referendum for just one moment much of what we have seen in the polling is that this midterm election will be a certainly a nationalized election people will either be voting in favor of trump or against trump more than two thirds of the public say that that's what their vote is representing and that's highly unusual in a midterm election to have that sort. of support and energy one way or another we also at the moment have about thirty five million people who have already cast a ballot early and in a typical midterm election we generally have about eighty five million people voting we're likely to go for far past that number and this is going to be an

unusually high turnout election and some of that does have to do with how trump has nationalized this election to be about him for or against pete your reaction to what laura was saying just how momentous are these elections. yeah i was listening to noam chomsky the other day and he said it's not the most important election of his lifetime it's the most important election in human history. you have a republican party that is ignoring climate science as we head rapidly towards a future that's difficult to think about and were organized meaningful human existence is in jeopardy and a republican party it's ignoring what's ahead and a president who is playing footsie and sometimes is not so subtle with white nationalists. so this is an election about trump it's really an election about the

direction of this country and so yeah this is this is a momentous occasion and it is heartening to see turnout so high and i think that. hopefully i'll continue and i think one of the things about polling is often we say well who's up who's down but the end of the day as we saw in two thousand and sixteen as we've seen in the primaries particularly when it comes to progressive candidates of color. polling is enabled isn't always the best measure and polls don't vote people do so we'll see if this continues but my hope is that people will continue to step up and vote and send the message that this is not the direction that we want to head in this country no doubt i think as pete mentioned is a definite very decisive election especially when you think about the checks and ballot system within american democracy if the trump campaign and the republicans win the house and the senate then we have a congress of the legislative branch we have the executive branch and we have

a conservative supreme court also more likely to to decide in favor of republican standards and ideas about constitutional philosophy so this would be very dangerous for our democratic system to have all three branches of government under one umbrella if you will i mean to expand on what romney was saying i mean if the republicans were to keep the house and the senate what does this mean as far as what trump will do going forward won't he just be more in bold and i mean would the last two years you know this is purely speculation but would the last two years from your point of view essentially look like child's play compared to what he might feel emboldened to do. yes i think that's right it would be seen by president trump as an affirmation of all of his tactics he doesn't ever really seem to have a strategy but he has many tactics that so confusion and create kind of a chaotic legislative environment but he would see all of the votes as being an

affirmation of his direction that he wants to take the country and i think more importantly though what you would see is that his republican opposition which has been meek but persistent over the course of his last two years would all but disappear so the most important thing is not just how the president behaves in his cabinet would react but in fact how all of the republicans across the entire party up and down sort of the state to the federal would basically roll over to the sense that the republicans had become trump's party many republicans of have questioned why president trump isn't running more on the strength of the economy in the u.s. at this particular moment but others say look the reason that the president is is relying on on scare tactics is essentially gin up his base do you think that is

correct is that why he is highlighting more negative than the the things that are going well in the u.s. right now. i think trump is a master of dominating the news cycle and so when things go away from him in a direction that he doesn't want then he's going to reach deep down into that bag he did that in the primary and he will appeal in ways we've just never seen it i've never seen a president do. to race and even racism. and he will keep the attention on him and that is as laura saying it is a disorienting experience both on his legislatively and also just as a country it's hard to think about any issues other than him but it's crucial that we do from climate change to to the minimum wage to you name it this is all is not and it's not just about trump is about all of us

a problem but he's going to make it about himself and. you know right here he's the he's the chief executive of the nation and he's also a master of ceremonies he's a brilliant reality t.v. show host so he knows exactly how to appeal to a certain audience and he has pinpoint exactly who to appeal to to get them out to the polls and what issues to touch upon he has continued his presidency just as he started his candidacy maligning and desecrating the name of minorities important politicians like obama questioning whether or not he was born in the united states . a random stereotypes about mexicans and other peoples and muslims this is outrageous and everyone should be enraged by what he is doing on the flipside however what trump has massively done is appeal to white rage and white fear about people of color in the united states which is further polarizing the nation and is not going to give us a better society can you envision

a scenario by which democrats retake the house and yet because of potentially legislative gridlock or voters not seeing democrats doing enough to actually put forth an agenda going forward that that would benefit trump going into two thousand and twenty. well sure that is something that you could say happened with both ronald reagan and bill clinton whereby in their first midterms they essentially you know lost seats in the house of representatives president clinton in fact lost the majority but they were able to reach across the aisle and start creating legislation and building a record for themselves that helped them win re-election in their campaigns in eighty four and ninety six respectively but what you really do with that is you assume that you have

a president who can reach across the aisle and be unified and i think as our panelists have so eloquently said very little of this president is an attempt to reach out to others who are not his base he has a very difficult time engaging in any sort of presidential unifying type of conversation rhetoric or or strategy he just doesn't like the idea of sort of american americans coming together he is much more interested in driving the wedges between them to divide them further apart and win at all costs and win at all costs very dangerous we have run out of time so we're going to have to leave it there and so thanks to all our guests p. tucker brown and rodney taylor and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j.

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each year hundreds of thousands of women die in childbirth. until recently we had the highest rate of maternal mortality in the world for a non-conflict country but it has achieved a dramatic turnaround towards the global target set for twenty fifteen feet. this is a story about how villages have been recruited to help get women to deliver in health facilities and the drive to improve the care at those facilities. and it all started by turning tradition upside down. namely an endo an event a minute she allegedly going jodi duddle would very busy. well you were and what am i guys a one billion dollar men with in a lady did sounded demand out at. tennis coach lindy had safely delivered many babies before the woman's death. in the past traditional birth

attendants were the only help available. to. them. is part of changing all of that she is a field officer for one of many organizations working with the government to save mothers and babies since two thousand and seven more than seven hundred fifty women's groups have been formed to governance rural communities to help pregnant women. goes from village to village to communicate a stark reality that women in malawi who give birth in health facilities are less likely to die or lose their babies than those that don't.

this is the force they'll be coming up with how many pregnant women there how many did you find in the month and how many went for a clinic which place did they did evasive behave it was it at home. i might have. to hear i was over one zero. when i joined the program their info is way down in the communities at home sometimes on the road and of the traditional base at the end of my way to do that so i know how . for or we're going just started working i experienced in near little there there woman was so much in prayer and she delivered and then after daily very. brief it did not even cry. they had to recess there that bird bit by the after to me is it was cool for him to

have the baby had died. i could feel the prevent a woman have gone through it read it to me. when a baby dies at birth the village women take it for immediate burial. traditionally men have taken no part in the birth or death of babies. babies are even more vulnerable than their mothers at birth globally over three million babies are born dead and a further two million die in their first and only day of life but even after.