emphasize in the article that the instruction didn't come from king solomon but it is also overused that those fifteen people. didn't come to stumble through the murder kashif to themselves so they got instructions from somebody so if you have to find out who gave these instructions this is the. simple question that we have to sow dues as well also be made to the public that is ongoing investigations. saudis i proposed to have a joint working group we accepted that but these walking groups will be a result oriented one. not miss a check for sure is saying that there is a joint working group but how much cooperation there is in this working group well that remains to be seen through all the comments made from either side in this

crisis but the point that he went on to make the foreign minister was that there still have to be would all of the remains of this man who was killed on his way to try and get permission papers for a wedding to get the papers right for that wedding. but that was took place more than a month ago there is still no word of where the body is and that's what is being pushed home with the messaging from turkey here thank you for that and life any stumble. in other world news china's alleged abuse against its weight or muslim minority will be under the spotlight in geneva on tuesday the un human rights council will be conducting its periodic review of the chinese government's human rights record that says exiled wigger activists urge the international community to take a harsher line against beijing edgin brown reports. there are few more difficult

places for foreign journalists to report from in china than shinji especially in. the provinces vast security and surveillance network is in overdrive as international criticism mounts over china's internment program for ethnic muslim we goes and other groups officially chinese government officials insist they're providing free vocational training for those deemed vulnerable to islamic extremism in. the way but exiled leader activists say these centers are nothing less than reeducation camps were up to a million men and women are being held indefinitely without charge and a grand chinese government is doing that with the international repercussions so i believe that china would accelerate its start to wipe out the whole we were a nation if the world wouldn't be stronger

harsher and china time here i'm in believes he'd be in a camp if he returned to shin jiang he says a chinese state security agent tried to persuade him to go back after he moved to israel to study early last year leaving his wife and daughter behind in shin jang. the agent also a week or telephoned him repeatedly wanting details of women's contacts in israel sometimes the calls were taunting the ship you're watching and it gives you that don't give it your your daughter won't turn out to be a scum like you says a voice she'll be useful to the communist party. with a major the implication was clear her fate was in their hands he said that one day you will need support. one day you will need

assistance from the chinese government if you go back to your homeland your family members your wives your daughter still are in. before him and left china he lived here a room she the provincial capital of shin jang he used to call his daughter all the time but in february she told him don't call me or my mother again her last words to her father with these you're a bad person. with so many people missing in shin jang including his brother and sister i'm in is not sure if his wife and daughter are safe he also doesn't know for sure if they're still in a room she his wife divorced in just after he moved to the united states but he understands why marriage to him he says has made her a marked woman a dream brown al-jazeera interim chief. still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm from

either malaya in madagascar where this week's presidential election could be the most expensive ever hit to more than three quarters of the population lives in poverty. and the search is on in cameroon after on demand kidnaps dozens of children and their school principal. we've got signs as some slightly dry weather making its way into italy as we go on through the next twenty four hours or so you still say fair amounts of cloud easing through italy into the age magic into the balkans we'll see some showers still pushing up into northern parts of italy up towards the up snow over the high ground yes that's nice than just way over towards the pyrenees as well i mean for much

radius on the cool side we've got more wet weather just waiting in the wings there that wet weather stretches right up into all of it will eventually make its way across the british isles i was sixty celsius i say sixty's houses that's mild for london winds picking up as we go on through wednesday fourteen degrees at that stage was not a filled out well with the strength of that wind a very blustery day lots of right rattling its way in across the country by the time come to as they could see some wet weather coming back into southern areas of it's not as heavy as it has been recently not as widespread but then nevertheless further east it stays dry and fine book around still a maasai but rest of about fifteen degrees celsius fun to drive across a good part of north africa chance of want to sow still across the north of genius in there is about here maybe into labor as well for a time drying up by wednesday algeria's twenty degrees.

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midterm elections in years present on trying to hit three states in the in the final day of campaigning holding his last ronnie in missouri the vote is seen as a referendum on his presidency. turkish media reporting that stuff at the saudi consulate in istanbul trying to dismantle security cameras to help cover up the murder of jamal khashoggi the daily saba says they tried to rip out the camera inside the consulate on october second the day the journalist was murdered they also reportedly tried to tamper with cameras at the police security people outside the building and abuses committed against china's wiggle muslim minority will be under the spotlight in geneva on tuesday the united nations human rights council will be conducting its periodic review of the chinese government's human rights record exiled with war activists are urging the international community to take a hot shot mind again speeding. now authorities in cameroon have launched a major search and rescue operation after gunmen kidnap seventy nine students and

their principal they were taken from a school nearby men die in the northwest by fighters pushing for an independent state alexy o'brien has more this dormitory should be full of the sounds of students excited chatter in state they silence absolute protests forced their way into this boarding school on monday kidnapping dozens of children aged between eleven and seventeen their. friends the. national interest. in the video showing the captured students was posted on social media by a group of men who call themselves the ambo boys it's a reference to the independent stated that some separatists want to establish in the english speaking southwest and northwest regions where amanda is a state capitol in spite of what happens here. in the states.

where. these people. are the ones. the governor says the separatists are responsible for a campaign of raping looting and killing he's vowing a tough response by the military cameron's army has been accused of a violent crackdown on protests by english speakers who say the french dominated government discriminates against them hundreds of people have been killed in the past year and hundreds of thousands of others displaced by the fighting some say protests have attacked schools seeing them as an arm of the government there are groups. independent and. cannot find their parents and they will have to stay with them.

on tuesday cameron's leader pulled the will be sworn in for a seventh term he won a contested election last month he says he's the only one who can guarantee cameron remains a united country this is the first time separatists have carried out a mass abduction of children it's evidence that cameron's future is far from secure . al-jazeera. madagascar's upcoming presidential election is expected to be the most expensive in its history but while politicians spend more than ever on their beds for the top office three quarters of the population continues to live in poverty. has more from the capitol and then every feel. deep within antonymous are evil thousands of people eek out a living in the mountains of rubbish at the rally truck dump one of africa's largest dams it's a mess of a waste flies and stomach churning smells from beneath the dirt these people hunt

for what others may consider to be waste but for them potential treasure potential at all i've been working here for twenty years he and his children are looking for any valuable metals all bones which are used to make a local medicine they earn four dollars for every bag of scrap collected. does not pay very much and the most difficult part of doing it is digging deep into the dirt is so much dust by the time i'm sorry mention what i'm covered in sweat and sand nearly eighty percent of the population lives on less than two dollars a day according to a world bank report one political crisis after another has significantly contributed to madagascar's high level of poverty and the country's done very little to improve the wellbeing of its population now is the madagascar hits to the polls critics say far too much money is being spent on electioneering rather than

helping the poor. father pedro picker has for decades been working to help the poor in the suburb of a commercial he says while the election is a chance for democracy politicians serve their own interests he leads many of the people he's helped with food housing and education in the sunday mass. simply this . witness to this poverty. i've been a medic guest of fifty years and i've seen this country descend into hell and here we've shown that with education discipline and respect we can fight poverty this week's presidential elections expected to cost even more than it did five years ago they are more candidates running and there are no laws limiting campaign spending what we know is that probably the election two thousand sooty in was you know one of the most expensive elections in the history of what i guess can also when you compare my guess got to other countries there was a study for instance by the european union that came out in two thousand and

sixteen and it basically claimed that the budget the complain budget of jihad to the north in the last present the outgoing president who was one in two thousand and thirteen was forty three million u.s. dollars that actually means that he has spent you know by voter then present donald trump in the united states as campaigning draws to a close those we spoke to at the rally say they will vote they say if it's voting that saves them from life in the dump then it will be worth it a minimal or al jazeera antenna not evil israel is attempting to improve relations with some gulf arab states the country's intelligence and transport minister is visiting armaan prime minister benjamin netanyahu and a number of high ranking israeli officials have also visit the region in recent weeks experts say policy alignment particularly on efforts to contain iran have emboldened both sides to go public with their discussions hoda abdel-hamid reports from western. it was

a picture does surprise some shocked others and left many wondering. meeting and greeting israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu and his wife sara the first visit by an israeli leader to a man in more than twenty years. perhaps this video resists even more questions israel's ministry of culture and education the grand mosque in abu dhabi. the reg of was visiting the emirate to see israel's winded jew two world championship host countries of international sporting events. including all participants regardless of their nationality israel has a lot of relations with some of the gulf states and other countries and arab countries and muslim countries which we don't know about. which citizen doesn't really know what's going on we know there are connections we know that there is coordination specifically on issues of security regional security especially with

the threat of iran and this has been going on for some turn there was no public condemnation from any of the regional countries except for mildly voiced concerns raised by some palestinian officials but with israel giving the impression that it's on its way to normalization with some of its arab neighbors how long that may take the question is where does that leave the palestinians they still support the arab initiative of two thousand and one in which normalization with all the arab states would come only after signing a peace deal with the palestinians since the takeover of the gaza strip in two thousand and seven relations between the hamas leadership in gaza and fact to him ramallah have been frosty at best the palestinian legislative council hasn't convened for more than ten years crippling all political and economic life a stumbling block the palestinian factions haven't been able to bypass so far. unity is crucial to face challenges like trying to deal in these really ongoing

settlement paul. see in the latest nation state law but reconciliation is further away there is real danger that this will turn into session between ramallah and gaza and that is the worst that could happen the man visit is seen by many in israel as a signal that change could be coming change of political awareness that's going on and israel is now this inevitable adversary that actually could be an ally and a partner and that has existed elite levels for a long time but now it's starting to filter down to wider audience and these countries are not going to. open up embassies in jerusalem the day after tomorrow but i think they were explore ways of building relationships piece by piece that serve their national interest arab countries continue to say that resolving these reilley palestinian conflict we means the priority but it also

seems that some countries at least a willing to change the regional order but that that hamid al-jazeera in west jerusalem. the u.s. top military officer says washington will have to change its posture in the korean peninsula if talks with pyongyang continue the chairman of the joint chiefs assad general joseph dunford says the success of diplomacy would eventually require just men's to military strategy in the korean peninsula done for it also says the military is prepared to do what it can to support the state department but didn't elaborate on what changes might be expected as always much more news on our web site at al-jazeera dot com all the very latest on all of our top stories including the u.s. midterm elections we've got a special page at al-jazeera dot com. hello

again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera polls open in just a few hours for one of the most divisive u.s. midterm elections in years present donald trump it three states in the final day of campaigning holding his last rally in missouri the vote is seen as a referendum on trump and his presidency. democrats immigration policies are extreme danger is reckless and insane they support catch and release they want to free criminal elements they want no pro-tax for american workers and taxpayers and they want totally open borders which means crime will poor into our country. illegal immigration course our country more than one hundred billion dollars every year and that's before them the books of missouri indiana and wisconsin combined former u.s. president barack obama is also on the campaign trail working to get out the vote

for democratic candidates. the killed two of those countries on the bill who we are is on the bill. what kind of politics we expect is on the ballot we conduct ourselves in public life is on the bill how we treat other people is on the bill in other news turkish media reporting that staff at the saudi consulate in istanbul try to dismantle security cameras to help cover up the murder of jamal the daily saba says they tried to rip out the camera inside the consulate on october twenty second the day the journalist was mooted authorities in cameroon have launched a major search and rescue operation after gunmen kidnap seventy nine students and their principal they were taken from a school nearby mende in the northwest by fighters who are pushing for an

independent state china's allege abuse against its wiggle muslim minority will be under the spotlight danger neave on tuesday the un human rights council will be conducting its periodic review of the chinese government's human rights records you're up to date with the headlines on the news will continue right after inside story does stay with this. story is every life. and inspiration. and series of short documentaries from around the wound that's trying to break the human spirit against me on. al-jazeera selects express to south. making it harder for minorities to vote in the u.s. as millions prepare 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 i'm joined 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 georgia. 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 velo ballot came in we get it we just can't take it we don't have the only information we need and the option to you know. you know doesn't up doesn't like yelling we don't really have that option we don't have the barrier. 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

kemp 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 you know is a state of confederacy. the civil war has never ended as 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. on the scale and impact 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 and just because miss a broom's flossy balts lawsuit or the new. georgia project it doesn't mean it's right the lawsuit by civil rights group 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 newman does 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 pete tucker 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 ronnie 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 in 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 is 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 the states to fully participate in the american democratic system it is a shame and a sham in my opinion and is simply a continuation of what we have faced especially in the southern states of the united states for a long time most dangerous lee 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 want to discriminate against blacks lessons government oversight or out saluted 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 in 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 sin to 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 camp you know 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 look like you wanted 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 way with 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 that was 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 romneys 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 a 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 when 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 in the rest of the western democracies vote on the weekend 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 while 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 that 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 the selection to be about him for or against pete your reaction to it 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 where organized meaningful human existence is in jeopardy and republican party it's ignoring what's ahead and a president who is playing footsie and sometimes 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 they'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 ballots system within american democracy if the campaign and the republicans win the house and the senate then we have a congress and 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 with 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 the negative then 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 trauma it's 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 is basti 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. we have run out of time so we're going to have to leave it there and so thanks to all our guests 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. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at inside story for me and the entire team here and by for now. i. thank. you.

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citizens was not an accident it was a crime for many the fire is the real symbol of what greece is become after take a bit from the still spirit of the fallen on al-jazeera getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human crime in the twenty first century and they are nuclear war climate change and technological disruption facing realities whatever it is they have to fear is not in me it is in the people of your clan and hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. to reject the democratic politics of anger division destruction last

minute attempts to rally the american vote polls open in just a few hours for one of the most divisive us midterm elections in the is. later watching al jazeera live from a headquarters in doha. also ahead more accusations of a cover up in the house shoji murder with board saudi arabia tried to tamper with security cameras at the consulate last exiled we grew activists urge the international community to stop trying to as internment of ethnic muslims and israel's government makes a diplomatic push in search of new partners in the gulf. a divisive election campaign in the united states is coming to an end with candidates on both sides encouraging their supporters to vote and bring along others to the

polls with them president donald trump it three states in the final day of campaigning holding his last rally in missouri on tuesday all four hundred thirty five seats are up for election in the u.s. house of representatives along with one third of the senate and dozens of state governorships both want to see the vote as a referendum on trump's frightened. democrats' immigration policies are extreme danger is reckless and insane they support catch and release they want to free criminal elements they want no pro-tax use for american workers or taxpayers and they want totally open borders which means crime will pour into our country. illegal immigration course our country more than one hundred billion dollars every year and that's before then the budgets of missouri indiana and wisconsin combined the character of this country is on the belt who we are is

on the ballot what can i. thank you. what kind of politics we expect is on the ballot how we conduct ourselves in public life is on the ballot how we treat other people is on the ballot all the outcome of tuesday's midterm elections could drastically change the political dynamics in washington rob reynolds has the details. president trump isn't on the ballot in this midterm election but with polls predicting the democratic party will be in control of at least one house of congress could find himself in the center of political fallout once the votes are counted if democrats take control of the house of representatives they would have the power to issue a flurry of subpoenas and launch a slew of investigations one level it's an embarrassment of riches because there

are so many. scandals and. so many allegations of corruption swirling around the president including criminal investigations i think there's certainly going to be looking at his tax returns and frankly looking at any financial involvement that he has had in russia or financial talks financial deals with russia representative nancy pelosi who would likely become speaker in a democratic controlled house in january has described the trumpet ministration as one of brazen corruption cronyism and incompetence but senior democrats are weary of pushing for the ultimate sanction impeachment. that could change depending on how special counsel robert muller's investigation of russian meddling in twenty sixteen and a broad range of other legal issues turns out it really comes down to. how

damning if the report is damning are those reports of demi how damning are they and what ammunition to democrats have on which to what grounds they have to impeach trump on if democrats control the house legislative gridlock would likely prevail for the remainder of trump's term but trump could continue his unconventional foreign policy ventures and he already plans to hold summit meetings with kim jong il and lattimer putin in twenty nineteen the minute the midterm votes are counted the press and politicians will turn their sights to the next election cycle already democratic presidential hopefuls are testing the waters in places like iowa and new hampshire hoping to be the one to run against trump two years from now and if you thought this election was intense emotional and divisive just wait for twenty twenty rob reynolds al-jazeera washington. meanwhile facebook has brought one

hundred fifteen user accounts just hours before u.s. voters head to the polls the decision was taken after the social media giant received a tip from u.s. law enforcement about suspicious behavior links to a foreign entity some accounts were focus on celebrities while others on political debate in a blog post facebook said it cannot determine that the stage where the accounts originated from a white house correspondent kimberly how has this update from washington. with the poll set to open in just hours in the united states there are reports of potential election meddling facebook putting out a notice saying that it was contacted by law enforcement because of your regular online activity linked to foreign entities facebook saying it took immediate action removing and blocking thirty facebook accounts eighty five instagram accounts the facebook administrators say that these accounts were in both the russian as well as

french language even in english in some cases the account seemed to be talking about celebrities as well as prompting political debates but given the spark in a legal activity or potential illegal or regular activity the concern of facebook was well this was a pre limon area investigation they felt given the importance of this congressional midterm election it was important to alert the public about the existence of these accounts of the action that had occurred and also what facebook is doing to combat it. turkish media reporting that staff at the saudi consulate in istanbul try to dismantle security cameras to help cover up the murder of jamal. the daily saba says the tried to rip out the camera inside the consulate on october second the day

the journalist was murdered they also tried to tamper with cameras at the police security both outside the building that speak to andrew symonds who's in istanbul for us outside the saudi consulate andrew another day another revelation and some very interesting comments this hour from turkey's foreign minister. that's right let's bring you up to date with. his remarks in japan the latest a top government person to actually really point the finger at saudi arabia in a very harsh fashion saying it was coming from the very top although it was not king solomon responsible definitely there was an order from on high for this murder operation to take place he's also said something new and that is he said that quite categorically that we have evidence regarding the killing which we haven't

shared with the public yet no elaboration on that but definitely an assertion there that there is something in the way of evidence that hasn't been revealed yet by the turkish government he went on to say that the fifteen man hit team could not have come to turkey with. a mission order to kill a saudi citizen from very own high once again he did say also that president urged one who made that op ed. article in the washington post last friday making very serious allegations against saudi arabia he pointed out the foreign minister pointed out that it was not king salmond who ordered because georgie's killing a clear reference there it would seem to the crown prince mohammed bin salomon although he wasn't mentioned by name this is what the foreign minister had to say about the president's article last friday. the emphasize in the

article that the instruction didn't come from king solomon but it is also all reason that those fifteen people. didn't come to stumble through the murder kushat to themselves so they got instructions from somebody so the have to find out who gave this instructions this is the. simple question that we have put to souders as well also we made that a public that is ongoing investigations. saudis side proposed to have a joint working group we accepted that but this walking groups will be a result oriented one. we are expecting to hear from president later on tuesday when he addresses the ruling party in parliament

meanwhile there has been another revelation in these sad by a pro-government newspaper relating to the video camera you see behind me here which is the main surveillance camera outside the consulate it is a turkish police camera and the recording devices within the box that's the security box inside that in front of the building apparently has been tampered with by the saudi consulates on october sixth one am in the morning according to the reports a concert official went in there asking to check the recordings from the camera and a look code was put in which affected access to the video relating to the the last time we saw him alive going into the building on october the second and also the hit team had of him going into the building that area of video was apparently tampered with in his attempt to delete it effectively digitally later though the

police. looked the digital code and had access again to those pictures but it was pretty irrelevant because they all had already had a recording earlier of that tape but this shows according to the turkish security services that this was another blatant attempt to cover up this murder thank you for that. still ahead on al-jazeera the search is on in camera and off to armed men kidnaps dozens of children and their school principal security on high alert for mexico's most wanted drug kingpin as selecting a jury gets underway in new york city. from diski sunsets if you disproving seven. to summarize the top and.