and they're saying that the behavior of china towards the readers is simply not acceptable many of the people here and they come from all over the world this is the week of diaspora that has gathered here over three thousand of them to mace talking very much. brown's report says that many of them have relatives who have simply disappeared off the face of the they haven't heard from them for months they don't know what their fate is where they are what kind of conditions that being held in their extremely concerned what they're asking for united nations is the whole china to account. all right paula have to leave it there for now thank you for that update from geneva because we'll go back to our top story and that's on the u.s. midterm elections we'll speak to steve clemons he's the washington editor at large of the atlantic is joining us from lisbon though good to have you with us on al-jazeera so let's just look at the broader picture for just a moment then with some of the key issues we saw trump in missouri on monday night

trying to rally the crowds there encouraging people to go out and vote what does that trump factor in these u.s. midterm elections how much is this a referendum on the president himself. well i think there are two dimensions one as i think anywhere in the world all politics is local meaning that it one level what goes on in missouri or ohio or indiana where donald trump visited will have local dimensions on whether people are satisfied or not with how they feel about their what they're getting in their pay how they feel about you know immigration and a lot of other issues but it's absolutely right that donald trump is the big issue and he's made himself the big big issue in every race even in the last rally it took fifty minutes that's five zero minutes before the candidate he was indorsing could even get on stage so donald trump has made this a referendum on himself not the press not the media and i think to a certain degree this election will determine whether trump's momentum continues or

whether it's really constrained by the outcome of the election and how's it looking for you the big question of course is whether republicans will hold on to control of both houses. well i think right now i think the expectations are built in that democrats will win the house of representatives i think that when you look across the way the cook report at the really seven point lead that democrats have across the nation in terms of preferences it looks like they will win the house the senate however is a much tighter thing if the democrats were to win both the house and the senate in this election it would be a true demonstration of incredible frustration with president trump but i think structurally there are a lot of reasons why the republicans may very well hold on to the u.s. senate and that will give them political leverage to balance what may come from the house of representatives so right now a look at mix chambers as we look into this but we have to remember two thousand

and sixteen a lot of us thought we thought the direction the system was going and it very much went against hillary clinton and for president and we just have to be careful and a bit more humble prognosticating a day before an election because we can get it very wrong all right we will wait and see what happens steve clemons for the time being go we thank you for joining us from the been. plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including the search is on in cameroon after all kidnapped dozens of children and their school principal and israel's government makes a diplomatic person search of new partners in the gulf. coming up in sports the race that stops the nation find out which horse won the melbourne cup will be here with the best of the action a little later. on. but first turkish media reporting staff at the saudi consulate in istanbul tried to

tamper with security cameras to help cover up the murder of. their daily as they try to rip out the camera inside the consulate on october the second the day he was murdered they also tried to tamper with cameras at the police security both outside the building and ricin has more from outside the saudi consulate in istanbul. no the turkish foreign minister was speaking in japan when he remarked that turkey was holding evidence related to the murder which hadn't been shared with the public yet and he also said that the responsibility for the murder was ordered at the highest level in saudi arabia but it did not involve king sound man himself now as he was making these remarks there were thorough revelations from the pro-government newspaper about the investigation on october the sixth the reports suggest that in this building the consulate there was a move by a member of staff at one am to access the videotapes kept in this store area here

the main gate area held by the police where there's a video camera which showed the last moves all of the when he went into the consulate and also members of the hit team that went in before him now apparently there were attempts to actually delete the videotape using a pass code in the control center just behind me and that was detected by the turkish police and they managed to crack the code this was actually irrelevant at the end of the day because they'd already accessed the video ahead of this attempt to try and delete the recording so this is really more evidence the turks appointing to suggesting that there was an attempt at the cover up from the very outset of the so-called investigation by saudi arabia where the emir of qatar has told investors his country's economy has become stronger despite the blockade

imposed on it by four arab countries shaft i mean been how he says exports grew by eighteen percent last year but he expressed regrets over the continued dispute in the g.c.c. saudi arabia u.a.e. and egypt and the blockade on qatar in june last year accusing it of supporting terrorism a charge has strongly denied. no started. you know the geo would be your security and stability of arab gulf states cannot be achieved by undermining its sovereignty of other states of meddling in the domestic of fears but respecting the rules governing our relations working to resolve differences through dialogue that serves the interests of all concerned parties history teaches us that crises passover but mismanagement of crises leave behind consequences that will last for a long time israel is attempting to improve relations with some gulf arab states the country's intelligence and transport minister is visiting a prime minister benjamin netanyahu and

a number of high ranking israeli officials have also visited the region and recent weeks experts say policy alignments particularly on efforts to contain iran have emboldened both sides to go public with their discussions with reports from west jerusalem. it was a picture does surprise some shocked others and left many wondering. saeed 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 minister of culture and education to grand mosque in abu dhabi. was visiting the emirate to see israel's winded jew two world championship host countries of international sporting events are obliged to include 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 the average 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. the unity is crucial to face challenges like trying to deal in these really ongoing settlement paula. see in the latest nation state law but reconciliation is further away there is real danger that this will turn into a sensation 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 there is really this inevitable adversary that actually could be an ally and a partner and that has existed 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 will explore ways of building relationships piece by piece that serves their national interest arab countries continue to say that resolving these really 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 and we'll bring in rob matheson he's joining us live from moscow it's an online so all man has no official diplomatic relations with israel rob so what are we to make of the visits by the israeli intelligence and transport minister. the fact that it's is going to be here over the next forty eight hours making a speech at this conference center just outside muscat this is a transport conference that's going on. quite significant for one specific reason in that he was officially invited to come to a man by transport minister now it is

a very long time since any service really official has been invited officially to amman to carry out this kind of visit and to come to this kind of event transport minister is very has been quoted on at least one web site saying that don't read anything into this because he was obliged whether he wanted to or not he was obliged to invite israel's transport minister simply because israel is a signatory to the organization that is hosting this conference and as a result because among his playing host to the conference he was obliged to issue the invitation but as holder was mentioning in her package there the timing of this is significant it was only a few days ago that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife were here in oman and also as again for the mention there were israeli ministers who were in the u.a.e. in dubai and abu dhabi at the same time so it does seem as though there is

a significant push of some sort to show very publicly that israeli officials had a very high level on making very public visits to arabic countries which up until very recently would not have been heard of. matheson giving us the update from moscow thank you all in a moment we'll have the weather with stuff that's ahead right here on the al-jazeera news our french time for you to resume as her cabinet meets to hash out a deal and they may have missed out on the playoffs earlier in the year but joe will tell you why the denver nuggets could be striking gold this season that's coming up and so forth. trying. to use and if going to. the weather has been pretty disturbed over many parts of the middle east

over the last week or so and we still see some of that very heavy rain is the satellite picture then this is about forty eight hours ago you can see this big swirl that it's over many parts of iraq three ran into syria but then you know to see what it looked like smoke signals really don't they working their way out from the southwest across the red sea and those have given a sim very very heavy downpours over parts of saudi arabia look at the rain here absolutely hammering it down in jet it really raining very hard and then we can see that system just works its way northward works its way across saudi arabia and towards q eight and over to eight that system really billions and gives us some very heavy downpours one small so here are pictures from seeing the flooding that we've seen there and some of the underpasses very much not passes anymore very flooded there now that system is trying to move away but we are going to see plenty more wet weather as we head through the next few days and probably in the next week or so so here's the system where it is at the moment through many parts of iran

still giving a lot of very very heavy rain there is likely to be more flooding out of this system in the north over the mountains we are likely to see some snow that system works its way eastwards it fizzles out and lowell's us into a full sense of security but there's more rain to come particularly on friday. the with sponsored by qatar. hate violence revenge an increasingly alienated generation is finding new outlets to vent it sang. in a new series al-jazeera takes an unflinching new could be a little of radicalized organizations to young people revealing their inner workings and the often brutal consequences for those drawn into their extreme ideology radicalized youth coming soon on al-jazeera a journey of personal discovery feel more american here and then more air in the

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alleged abuse against its weaker muslim minority will be under the spotlight in geneva on tuesday the un human rights council is conducting its periodic review of the chinese government's human rights record of exiled wego activists are urging the international community to take a harsher line against beijing turkey's foreign minister says all four days have war. regarding the killing of. me they haven't yet shared with the public his comments come after turkish media reports. try to tamper with security cameras to help cover up the murder. for a top story this hour the u.s. midterm elections in presidential races florida is often considered the most important swing state in the midterms it's host to some crucial senate house and statewide races that could signal the mood right across the country. just what's at stake. florida as political pundits like to say has it all.

the sunshine state's home to a constantly changing populations that includes hispanics retirees young people and a lot jeff a good american voting block brian mast on southwest florida that seat is also flip between republican professor of political science or brit jewett says florida is the definition of a bellwether state and so florida really does represent that swing nature of american politics going back and forth from republican to democrat and the diversity that you're beginning to see in the united states is really reflected in florida as well. the importance of this state isn't lost on the president who often refers to florida as the second home as the midterms approach he's focused on two key races one for governor the other for the senate if you want a leader who shares your values and who will fight for your families you need to

get out and vote for rick scott now i'm really talking about the people on television because everybody it is for the democrats to the stakes are high in many ways candidate for governor andrew gilligan represents the hopes for the democratic party's future. that is big coming out of the white house that right here in the state of. going to remind this nation. can live in a state still recovering from hurricane michel and plagued by environmental issues there's a lot on voters' minds and the race is a tight senator bill nelson has been in office for more than forty years and is now in the race of his career if florida is a reflection of the nation's mood in the two key races here for governor and the senate are deeply relevant in the governor's race it's neck and neck between dissenters and gillum and it's the same for scott nelson for the senate these races literally down to the wire and in florida as ever it's independents who may hold

the key as election results. begin to come in on choose day florida will be watched closely if what happens in this state is a reflection of how voters a feeling nationwide than victories and losses here will be felt far beyond the sunshine state and to go after all dizzy or orlando florida so that is the scene in orlando we'll take you now to new york where we're just minutes away from polls opening right along the east coast of the u.s. gabriel is on the standing by for us there so how does new york fit into all of this election what's at stake there. well very good morning to you it's a little after five thirty here in the morning in new york city the polls are expected to open here in about half an hour or so as you mentioned it will be the first polls opening here in the united states in this very important election here in new york of course just like the rest of the country a lot of attention is being paid on this midterm election they suspect a huge huge turnout here in new york unlike other states there is no early voting so everyone will have to vote here in person. if they haven't done so already if

they're because there is no early voting here so they expect some long lines here in the city here in new york a very important haul apart the east coast in the northeast region of the u.s. there are several key house of representatives states here that have been key across the hudson river in new jersey there's a big senate seat that is currently held by a democrat that republicans are targeting so listen this is a huge huge midterm election here all over the country whether on the west coast or east coast all four hundred thirty five house of representatives seats up for grabs in the senate thirty five out of one hundred senate seats and let's not forget the governorships as well thirty three of the fifty governorships also at stake here on tuesday as well throughout the country so we expect long lines at polls throughout the country including here in new york city when they open in about half an hour or so if anything game for all this has really been described as

a contentious election but what are some of the key assumes that people are voting on. it is you know they we always have a tendency to say that the country is divided you hear that in a lot of elections. and it is very much the case in many elections including two years ago but this one is very unique dan balz who's a long time political reporter in washington over forty years he says this is a midterm election that we haven't seen for a generation and the reason he says that is because so much really is at stake the key issues are really number one the economy the economy in the u.s. is doing very well so a lot of voters trust donald trump in the republican party with the economy not all but a lot because economy is so doing so well right now but there's also immigration which has been a key dividing issue between so many americans lot of people siding with donald trump's hard line policy on immigration a lot of other people simply not to siding with that at all and saying he's using

it as a wedge issue and clearly the third one you think donald trump has been saying is impeachment a lot of people saying that. impeachment could be at stake here with this midterm election because whatever happens with the robert mueller investigation that will be coming down in the next few weeks or so so there's a lot of people that are very anti trump that see that they want the congress to turn democrat so they can really start pursuing it investigating the trump administration and some democratic lawmakers have already been talking about maybe pursuing some sort of impeachment and it's donald trump and trump has come out and said i need republicans in congress to prevent this from happening to continue my agenda so you take all of this together it's very unique it's something that we haven't seen in american politics in recent times really all of these unique factors all swirling together that makes this election so unpredictable. to you

gets underway in new york thank you for the time being from new york with thank you to arizona because a closely fought race could see the state's first democratic side. sir in three decades under the state border in mexico immigration has re-emerged as a defining election issue. has more. the day of the dead a traditional mexican festival also celebrated here in the u.s. state of arizona across the border here amid tokens of the dead and talks of politics is very much alive because of the state of the country. i think that with president unfortunately it's i mean there's people that love him and that's great but there's people that despise him because of his attitude and the way he speaks trump isn't on the ballot but arizona will choose between congressional candidates who either support or oppose him i wholeheartedly support the president moved the

national guard to the border i believe it's our duty to stand up against the president is doing something wrong trump one arizona in the presidential election outside urban centers support for him remains strong but in this state where one in three voters call themselves independents the midterm elections results are anyone's guess i'm kind of a little bit in both ways you know so it depends on what that person stands for there's also the question of whether latino's lean democrat will turn out in high numbers arizona's pride of its mixed heritage is on display here with latinos making up thirty percent of the state's population the fewer than half of registered voters actually cast the ballot in a midterm election so the challenge for the democratic party is to translate the u.v.'s of the streets into action at the core of volunteers with a group me familia vota have been canvassing hispanic neighborhoods for weeks they say the response has been worrying the vote. a lot of them are scared they're

scared to even come out they're scared to even do anything because. because of what trump in recent weeks trump has stoked fears about an approaching caravan of central american migrants these are bad people coming through there these aren't babies little angels coming into our country the president is sending more than five thousand soldiers to the border it's definitely a fear based strategy at the same time i think when you're thinking about arizona it is again those practicalities is that overkill. voters at the day of the dead festival spoke of the dark state of politics in arizona and around the u.s. they say they're ready to move on the question is in which direction i do joe castro al-jazeera tucson arizona the people of madagascar are preparing to go to the polls on wednesday to choose very next leader out of thirty six candidates

competing for president just five are female women have very little representation in the island's government there's been some progress though ahead of the vote but as far as the miller reports from the capital many say it's not enough. funny suer ny was running her presidential campaign from a headquarters in the capital antananarivo she's been a magistrate for almost ten years and is also a consultant on gender issues at the african union she's also a mother and brings her five month old daughter to work she says she does this to show people that they need to change their minds about what women can do. or not is just one of five women candidates competing against the two one men to be president for most. women have for years stepped back from political power and so america as a society has become used to that but i work hard to promote women there are

minimal i guess a proverb says a woman cackle like chicken they talk too much these ideas have to change. just seven percent of political parties in madagascar have women in leadership roles while madagascar's constitution does protect women there are no specific laws promoting gender equality the southern african development community had called on member states to get home for all government positions filled by women white twenty fifteen by the gasket didn't achieve that target before the country's last election a new law was proposed that with the equal representation of men and women in political leadership a male dominated senate rejected that ball. the first in the build up to the selection the national council for malagasy women has been campaigning to get voters to support female candidates or candidates who advocate women's rights. you know using radio and television to get their message that gender equality

matters across to voters even then they'd have to use a male pop star to appeal to audiences react very logical for couture of cold there are plenty here i think and our room leadership course is sure there are naked. for example for. chief. no. according to the council some progress was made during madagascar's transitional government in two thousand and nine when a third of parliament was made up by women. but that has now dropped to less than a quarter we asked them will a woman become president it will be sure. al-jazeera and ten unary will. britain's prime minister to resign is holding a cabinet meeting to finalize bracks at negotiations she is expected to tell

ministers she needs a deal on leaving the e.u. signed within the next three weeks lawrence lee reports from london. it's all still about the irish border which is infallible that they can't find a solution to how to leave the european union while keeping the border open and free but if you cast your mind back there was supposed to result back by the european union summit in june that was the deadline for sorting the irish border out and then they said they're going to do it. and then there was supposed to be another special summit in the vendor now though none of those things have happened but the prime minister is basically saying to her ministers this morning if you can't agree within three weeks then we can have a special summit at the end of november to finalize something which would mean it will go to the e.u. summit in december and then it's christmas and that run of the road you know the possibility of falling out of the european union entirely without a deal becomes the likelihood and so effectively the message to her ministers is

look if you don't like it then you've either got to man up and compromise or face the consequences of no deal but the point of the european union countries keep making is they can't negotiate with the u.k. while the u.k. still at war with itself and that's been the problem for so many months and still there's no sign of any of it being results well the u.s. ambassador to syria lanka has weighed in on the constitutional crisis there saying parliament should have a say in who the prime minister is nearly two weeks ago the president fired a prime minister run from a single who's refusing to leave his official residence in colombo from there bernard smith takes a look at the campaign to restore it would come a single. this is the official residence of prime minister temple trees and it's where ronald missing has been staying for the last twelve days refusing to leave and it's become essentially a place where his supporters rally to differ. and the ousted prime minister's position the center of the temple trees compound has become a sort of a headquarters for supporters of the ousted prime minister they've been having

press conferences in here every day this one is for a minister who's crossing to support. single and on the other side of the compound is like banqueting hall because this is the sort of gathering place for all the people who want to keep the missing guy in the prime minister's job is banqueting hall used to hosting heads of state instead become sort of a campsite people stay here overnight to show their support for the ousted prime minister. to put take the democracy of the country to put protect the construction of the country and to protect the someone to do that because it does become a good lesson for us all the how to safeguard and how to keep respect i mean democracy that's why you must you must thank everybody on this basis of those who are here they have been trained to democracy. in america. and occasionally prime minister ousted prime minister meets his supporters and this is

where we come a singles have to stay for the last twelve days or so impertinent a single and any major lankan politician is a supporter of buddhist monks is the majority mate here in sri lanka and so important for people to show the politicians to show that as well as a parliamentary majority they have put. on the us top military officer says washington will have to change its posture in the korean peninsula if talks with jong un continue the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general joseph dunford says the success of diplomacy would eventually require adjustments to military strategy in the korean peninsula dunford also says the military is prepared to do what it can to support the department of state but did not elaborate on what changes might be expected. jury selection is underway in the u.s. for the trial of one of mexico's most notorious drug lords men also known as el chapo has been held in solitary confinement in new york for the past two years

security for the trial is expected to be high especially for witnesses and jurors cameron's military is involved in a major search operation after a gunman kidnapped seventy nine students two teachers and their principal they were taken from a school in the northwest by fighters pushing for an independent states alexy o'brien has more this dormitory should be full of the sounds of students excited chatter in state they silence and say protests forced their way into this boarding school on monday kidnapping dozens of children aged between eleven and seventeen. nice new. video showing the captured students was posted on social media by a group of men who call themselves the boys it's

a reference to the independent stated that some separatists want to establish in the english speaking southwest and northwest regions which is a stay.