narrative from absolute denial of the getting was a man has of that into admitting that he went into the consulate something terribly wrong went and then he was killed by later they also said it was a premeditated killing so the pattern of the steady drip of leaks is quite obvious what a political reason which is to put the political pressure of the saudi government to say who gave the order to kids about. their whereabouts because as you know elizabeth the turkish investigators will have to. struggle with the fact of the end of the day which is if they don't have any remains of a body they wouldn't be able to come up with any official indictment to prosecute those culprits responsible for the killing of the mouse question thank you very much for that for now the discussion about a live in istanbul we're going to go to the turkish capital ankara now we're joined by john allen jamal let's talk more about this line from the turks that gina has the cia director has seen all the evidence that turkey has which points to the

killing being ordered by the highest levels of the saudi government just how much more pressure do you think this puts both on saudi arabia and the u.s. . wallace but what we need to do is look at the turkish strategy from the very beginning of this case for over a month it appears that the turks have always used maybe backdoor diplomacy quiet diplomacy as a go to first and when that's maybe doesn't yield the results that they once that's when they go with the public pressure now jeana has pulled did come to turkey over ten days ago now she was made privy to all the details of the investigation will the evidence that it's arcs had gathered and within that ten days maybe there wasn't. a response that's the turks would have liked that would have been worthy enough of the severity of the crime that was calls not just in terms of one that's

was a crime against freedom of expression against a journalist but also against turkish sovereignty against international norms and regulations that deal with diplomatic missions and. essentially a crime that many believe threatens to these further destabilize the region and with that lack of maybe severity in the american soul and it's appears that the turks as you mentioned have now turned up the pressure by publicly saying well the world should know that the cia the u.s. authorities not only are where of the some of the details of what happened but actually have been made privy to everything that the turks had and therefore now the onus will be on the u.s. not just because it is the main superpower internationally speaking but also because it is the closest ally of saudi arabia also because it was the first destination that president donald trump chose to visit after he was elected also because of the billions of dollars between them so the onus is on the u.s.

now that they have the information to essentially dictate what kind of referee tribute. would be inflicted on those who carried out this crime the timing obviously is also significant because this comes just a couple of days before president. burdwan will travel to france where he will be meeting with president trump and we understand from talking to officials that's a large part of that bilateral meeting that will be taking place on the fringe of an international summit will be focused on the. case so as you mention now a lot of pressure at least publicly being put on the u.s. there is no plausible deniability that's can be claimed by u.s. officials now it is up to washington and the white house to decide whether it's going to allow for the mutual beneficial interests between the trumpet ministration on trump and his personal entourage. essentially trump human rights interests or whether they will actually. take

a stance with regards to the crime that's was committed jamal thank you very much that is a live in we are going to get more on this we're joined by my director of policy analysis of the arab center for research and policy studies and always a pleasure to have you with us on al-jazeera what do you think the turks are doing here gita has all this it'd took a couple of weeks ago now they released this information now that she's seen all of the evidence i mean how frustrated are they the about have not said a lot about this in the past week or so they of course have those very important u.s. midterm elections but is this going to force their hand how much more pressure is it going to put on them absolutely like this i think the turks are trying. to put the pressure not what's called the idea what the united states because as you said you know has she came to conclude to fix a go she was presented with the evidence i looked at thirty's in the middle of them on her show and for the past two weeks the u.s.

president has been silent on this so the turks are trying not to put pressure on the u.s. president in order to do something about it like no i mean never mind about the details no of them. actually because we sort of we know almost everything i know about it but. let's put it in perspective we have now the u.s. allies in conflict saudi arabia on one hand and took on the other hand one of them violated the southern tier of the. country the murder of a journalist on its soil and now that country is asking the big ally to do something to work towards that so what the turks are asking they not this is our hope is to stand by them and try to banish the banish those who in fact give the orders for the military. so this is a very difficult position for they are these days as i said before because we all know that president from has been the protect the main protector of burns admin's and the crown prince of saudi arabia and we don't know how the president trump is

going to respond to this but i shall buy the books because as he said he was saying actually to buy more time he was expecting that this case will die with time but the talks are not going of not glowing that the two are not going to go to go to to go away as sort that right now before the summit as. they the turks president is putting this pressure on president from in order to have him do something about this we don't know how the u.s. president will respond but we have seen that he has shown no appetite to actually be tough on saudi arabia or crown prince mohammed bin salim on because of that very important business relationship that the two have so here we have the bargaining starts in fact the talks they know for sure now that is going to be very difficult maybe for president trump to abandon his is a lie he was said that our man is in empowered right now. made

meaning mama disownment so in fact when this old man is the man of but is then to his men to saudi arabia so very few people actually now expect him to abandon her so what the turks are expecting. president right now is to offer something. in return because the turks will not just forget about it they want something and what the turks are needing right now what they are seeking in fact right now is trying to. bring about a strategic shift in the region. by having the united states agree to some of their demands we don't know what that what these demands might be it might be it's might be in in other places it might be considering the kurdish issue because we all know it might be even concerning foreign policy so if they wanted very much right now saudi arabia to end its blockade against the top it was hardly arabia to seize it's

a board for the cordless separatists in turkey syria and iraq we know that the saudis there have been supporting the kurds forces in this in these countries so the turks in my opinion are expecting some sort of a price to be paid by the americans for them not there to have the sort of. let's see what the sort of settlement that the americans are seeking right now to solve this problem between two of the allies in the region two of their most important in the region so much at stake beyond also seeking justice which is so important for the murder mr thank you for breaking down some of that for us that is one couple on thank you. let's move on now to the other big story of the day the midterm elections in the united states voters are giving their verdict on donald trump's stormy presidency deciding whether his twenty sixteen election was a one off all of his divisive style will define us politics the some time to come

trump himself said these elections are a referendum on him he's warned that democrat party victories will be a disaster for hotbed issues like immigration and gun rights the democrats fate rests largely on young people and minorities who usually don't bother voting in midterms so what makes these elections so important well donald trump's republican party is bracing for a likely loss of seats in the house of representatives their rivals the democrats need to gain twenty three seats to take control of that chamber of congress and if this happens it could allow the democrats to launch several committee investigations off the trunk the ministration and possibly even impeachment proceedings as for the senate while several democrats are fighting to keep their seats and states that trump won in twenty sixteen so the republicans believe that they can retain control of this chamber thirty six of the fifty us states and

governors ten of which are considered toss ups republicans control twenty nine governorships the democrats have twenty one. let's go now to our correspondent gabriel elizondo who's in new york one of the first places where polls opened and gave we have been watching that steady busy stream of people behind you since polls opened before daylight even so how is polling going there in this very important state especially given that it is one of the states where there was no early polling. yeah that's right i can tell you that the polls have been open for several hours how are here now in new york city and the rain has come down and not stopped but neither have the lines either take a look at this line outside of this polling station here in new york city hundreds of people in line and we've seen this for the past couple hours now even with the

rain coming down people are still here waiting to cast their ballots his line takes about an hour for people to wait here before they get into this school there you see behind me there's hundreds of more people in there about casting their ballots as you mentioned this is a state where there is no early voting but really the story of this election at least early on is how many people did do early voting in other states were is permitted thirty five million americans already cast their ballots in early voting that's about a seventy five percent increase from the election two years ago so it gives you an idea of how many people are voting and how many are voting early also there's a recent poll that came out that eighty percent of americans said that they plan to vote early or if they didn't they were sure sure that they would vote today so again the interest in this highly contested midterm election very high as you can see at this polling station where we're at thank you very much for that and now that is. joining us live from new york let's go to john hendren now he's joining us

from indianapolis indiana question health care and the state of the economy have dominated the debate up and control of the senate john could come down to closely four contests in just a handful of states one of what sure and. that's right you can tell that president trump is pretty much given up on that the house most polls show that the republicans are going to lose the house of representatives in this election but he's been very focused on the senate for a number of reasons the senate is an important body where he can still get treaties done he can still get his appointees through if there were an impeachment it would have to be approved by the senate so that is a high priority for him and right here in this heavily republican state there is a democratic senator president trump came here just hours ago to campaign for the republican in order to overturn that incumbent democratic seat his last two stops

in fact were in indiana and then in missouri both states where there's an incumbent democratic senator in a fairly republican state that the republicans hope to flip so president trump was here talking about how he wants to continue pursuing his agenda but we haven't seen there's been very active polling and while president trump won this state indiana by nineteen percentage points when he won the election in two thousand and sixteen he's begun considerably less popular so recent polls show him at fifty percent or even below that in terms of popularity and that means it's not really clear how much clout he has in trying to get people to go to the polls today but he does have a very loyal base there was a line outside of the auditorium where he spoke and so he is getting people out to vote and matt is really the name of the game at this point nobody is really trying to change minds in the last couple of days they're just trying to get the people

who are on their side to get out the vote and that is what president trump has been doing but it remains to be seen if the democrats can hold on to about ten seats in hostile territory like this and then flip to additional republican seats in order to gain control of the senate as a. very tall order and that's what donald trump is trying to stop don't thank you very much for that is john hendren joining us live from indianapolis we're going to go now to florida where andy gallagher is joining us live from orlando the perennial swing state of florida and the end one of the hottest senate and governor races this midterm. yeah those are the two races that you really have to watch and i've said this and million times before as florida goes so goes the nation this is a very diverse state what happens here tends to reflect what happens across the nation and those two races you were talking about other ones to watch let's talk about that senate race it's incumbent bill nelson versus florida's current governor

rick scott that race is simply too close to call at the moment bill nelson has been in office for more than twenty years rick scott as governor has got a little bit of an uptick in recent days free its handling of hurricane michael in the florida's panhandle but whoever wins the senate here that will be key to president trump's future plans and as i said that races right down to the wire early voting in more than five million people by monday morning and already been out an early voted with the democrats having a sly age edge but as ever in florida it's the independents that may have the final say the other race the race for governor ship is it is one that really interests me even more than the one for the senate is between andrew gillum who is a african-american progressive candidate versus ron to son to someone who's very much shaped himself in the image and the language of donald trump they in many ways represent the direction of both parties republican and democratic because if andrew

gillum is the democrats' hope for the future he's a kind of bernie sanders time character with with policies for health care for all and then you've got run to scientists who's making ads where he's building a wall with these two year old daughter to stockley different candidates at least moderate voters here with a very hard choice to make but undergo really pulled back from nowhere bringing up polling numbers exciting his base exciting the party in general that is another race that is also too close to call some polls have one candidate ahead one behind but most of them are right down to the wire so that's what makes florida so important this is an incredibly diverse state twenty percent of the population are retire. raises a large african-american voting bloc a large of course hispanic voting bloc which is having a more and more of an influence is the population grows but these are the races to watch in the sunshine state because politics here really reflects politics across the entire nation because the demographic makeup of this state really reflects how

the country is going and how the country is leaning in that governorship race as i said between a progressive left wing candidate and someone who's shaped himself in the image of don't trump is the one i'm really watching very closely because that represents the futures for both parties and whoever wins that will tell you a lot about politics in twenty twenty and he's looking forward to your coverage from florida as andy gallagher live in orlando now an addition to electing members of congress and a new governor of florida of ocean on an important question at the bottom of their ballots and your chapelle is here to explain i was astounded by the numbers in the story now we have covered these issues of voting rights and voter disenfranchisement in so many races but florida's really interesting and important because it's about giving people the right to vote there are one point five million citizens in florida who can't vote in this year's midterms one point five million because they've been convicted of serious crimes but former felons may be able to cast ballots in twenty twenty that's if the voters choose to amend the state's

constitution in their favor is jesse williams here in fort lauderdale miami will have far c.n.n. best will project working hard in the streets to restore voting rights to people felony conviction down here in florida and make you know yes i'm. going to argue with. my own i feel like anybody who's been to prison. when you're down the street if amendment four is passed i believe. sending out a word that he believes in second. so those were just some of the people calling for voters to approve this amendment right now people who've been convicted of serious crimes in florida have to go through a difficult process to win back their voting rights they even have to make their case to the governor himself the charge to change all this has been led by a former prisoner named desmond need this is what he had to say florida is the

worst fate in the country when it comes to this inference as in its own citizens were saying with me. minister of france our laws is that it's used more as a form of punishment even though that's not how it was intended we're running the campaign the body oh everyone even if they don't. even do don't vote like we still don't want the fact there's a you will be and should have the opportunity there was. this is such a massive problem in florida that one out of ten adults is affected by the policy if you look at the african-american community that's one in five african-americans in the state of florida is affected now civil rights groups have been vocal about changing the law for this reason they say it targets these minority communities and our colleagues from a.j. plus examine this further. it's one of only three states that permanently strips

convicted felons of the civil rights these files were implemented in the jim crow era by white politicians who wanted to suppress the black vote today players are still disproportionately impacted and in fact one in five black residents can't currently vote because of this law the amendment would apply to most former felons who completed probation and parole but would not restore voting rights to those convicted of murder or sexual offenses. now there are still plenty of critics of this amendment amendment four who say that these limits aren't enough and that the state can't simply forgive past crimes no matter how big or small or how long ago but let us know what you think especially if you're in the state of florida you can share your thoughts on a member for on twitter using the hash tag major news grid and like andrew said we do want to hear from you you can get in touch with us on facebook facebook dot com

slash al-jazeera or telegram what's the plus line seven four five triple one four nine we have a lot of you was rushing to was encouraging people to get out and vote william says health care is on the line vote we will also have a special panel discussion live from washington d.c. a little later on the news could and don't forget we have extended coverage of these very important elections on our web site you find the page by clicking on us midterms twenty eighteen at the top of al-jazeera dot com. now china's alleged abuse of its whigham muslim minority has been under scrutiny in geneva the united nation's top human rights body has been doing a regular review of the chinese government rights record exiled leader activists have urged the international community to take a line against beijing china's been accused of using so-called vocational training centers to strip the wages of their religious and ethnic identity now china rejects

the criticism saying the allegations are far from facts. c.e.o. cheney the chinese government protect its citizens freedom of religious belief of ministers religious affairs in accordance with the law and fosters active and healthy religious relations we protect the rights of ethnic minorities in accordance with the law all fifty five ethnic minority groups are represented at the national people's congress and the chinese people's political consultative conference let's take a closer look now at the treatment of the weak a population and china a china correspondent adrian brown has been allowed rare access to. jang province he sent us this report. there are few more difficult places for foreign journalists to report from in china the 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. the day. 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 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 chime time here a minute believes he'd be in

a camp if he returned to shin jang 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 telephoned him repeatedly wanting details of a man's contacts in israel sometimes the calls were taunting sure you're watching and it gives you that don't give it you or your daughter won't turn out to be a scum like you says a voice she'll be useful to the communist party. of leader 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 her and she before him in 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 him 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. well let's get more on this now we're joined by professor max or min he researches islamic central asia at georgetown university of qatar very good to have you with us on al-jazeera i know that you've

been travelling what to this part of china for nearly twenty years now i don't under eighteen years eighteen eighteen years and you say that you were completely unprepared for what you saw and shin jang this time how have things changed right so i've been following syndrome pretty closely for a long time and i thought a kind of knew precisely what was going on i certainly was aware of these this new system of in term and camps where really tens of thousands if not perhaps a million readers are being reeducated but nonetheless i will still have fully prepared for what i what i saw when i got off the train in a room she a couple months ago in the middle of ramadan and also and. the main point i'd like to make is that the detention system the system of reeducation camps is only one small part of a much broader campaign to fund fundamentally transform the way that weavers think and act so not only are we seeing weak is being put in these camps and i want to

talk more about how indiscriminate that is in just a bit but we're also seeing what han chinese going into we go holden's to ensure that what there isn't any anti china forto feeling in their homes right exactly one of the primary goals of the current campaign is to make sure that we are citizens of china recognise that the legitimacy of the chinese state and begin to much more practically identifies chinese so the state wants to leave them with a kind of. palatable in their view kind of superficial we are a culture they like the hats they're like that then says they like the culture in the food but they want to fundamentally transform the way people think in other ways and so one of the most radical or remarkable aspects of the current campaign is that the fact that the government dispatching large numbers of activists communist party members university students into weaver homes to live long term and

to supervise the types of things that we are families are doing and on your last visit you were detained yourself for taking a picture of a mosque tell us what happened there so it was not a particularly pleasant situation i had been travelling actually throughout northern china with a group of universes tunes from georgetown county our we were studying the shifting policy of china towards muslims in china and we have been taking visiting mosques but the policy towards muslims in china proper or chinese speaking was lim's is radically different than what's going on in far west since john and so when i arrived in sudan i was really quite shocked because i'd gone overnight from shooting a place where in the middle of the night you could see chinese muslims observing ramadan. going through all their typical routines and you get off the train in a room she and within a couple days you realise that there is no religious activity happening in any kind

of public space space so in that ten to twelve days i was in st john i was on a limited trip i didn't see a single person enter a mosque for religious reasons and the policy not a stated official published policy but the pose that was common knowledge on the street was that not only were mosque but all religious establishments private and public had been closed for the full month of ramadan and thank you very much for coming in and sharing your experience with as we do appreciate it thank you you're welcome. now the list. host has been keeping a close eye on the story i'd recommend this episode change on the story beijing doesn't want reported it's on our website you'll find it by searching for that title i'm looking for listening post under the show's banner on our website al-jazeera dot com now on facebook live find out why a son slope pacific nation is banning many types of sunscreen and just ahead on the news grid more from the u.s.

as voters give their verdict on donald trump's first two years in office we have a live panel discussion from washington d.c. . hello there this is a very wet weather over parts of the middle east recently because this satellite picture you can see the bright white cloud here is it worked its way across the city but it certainly gave us some very heavy downpours in fact some of us so some flooding here and here are the pictures that we're seeing out of q.a. so a lot of wet weather there but as that system works its way eastwards it is breaking up a fair amount so just a trailing area of cloud really left to it by wednesday the main weather will be working its way up through parts of tashkent and into our marty so both these cities with a maximum temperature of eleven degrees under that cloud cover but if we fast forward to thursday you can see the cloud moves its way away and behind it it's

a lot fresher so on marty this time or have a maximum of just five a bit further towards the south and that same weather system has also been bringing a somewhat weather across parts of saudi arabia as well these pictures are from jeddah see the rain absolutely hammering down there there's that system then as it works its way towards the northeast and then it does break up just a bit of a trading leg of clouds left to it as we head through the day on wednesday doha's to the south of that so it should be fine here thirty two degrees maximum is more humid in must get those who will get to around twenty eight or twenty nine over the next few days they could be a little bit of cloud around but still warm and pleasant here. american man spoke out against french colonial rule and was exiled you dummy you moved a bit you were isolated berg stream is to be used mr he spoke out against the regime and was sentenced to life imprisonment he spent twenty two months in hiding

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at al jazeera dot com. on the u.s. the elections now we're going to go shoot who's joining us live from washington d.c. looking at some of the key issues in this election patty. thanks elizabeth you know there is so much going on in decades and decades but that didn't factor in inflation you know and the cost of everything in this country is going up pretty dramatically the companies it's now started to put into their price in the trade war so if you look at that with inflation the wage growth is less than one percent so when do people start punishing the president and the republicans for that let's say tonight you know here's the difference and what's happening in the real economy versus what john's talking about look at where the economy is growing wage growth is up what thirty percent the last four years in san francisco and boston but look at pittsburgh look at cleveland it's up around ten percent over that same time

period it's ironic that the trump tax cuts his economic agenda has done a whole lot for blue state america where he's not picking up any votes in his party sure isn't and it hasn't shown up in red state america and in trump country does that affect his core supporters though it at his rallies they say everything's great look at the economy well you know donald trump got elected because republicans made up ninety percent of his vote and another ten percent of swing voters said you know what i've had enough of stagnation in not actually seeing economic growth and opportunity for the last forty five years when you take into account that there are separate populations of people those folks who care about health care and the fact that the health care insurance or health care inflation is going up what six percent so it's eating up all of the economic growth the income growth those are the folks that are swinging back towards democrats in places like iowa one john i want to ask you about this trade war the president's launched with china china was pretty strategic and picky to exactly the areas where trouble space

is going to hurt by there if he gets trounced tonight which i know you've got to tell me it's not going to happen everything's rosy well it is going to happen but go ahead well we shall see in just a matter of hours but if he does get trounced if the you know the farmers who can't sell their soybeans if the manufacturing people have been laid off. because the aluminum is so much more expensive now if they don't show up if they sent a message to us he backed down no first of all four point five four point five million jobs have been created since this president took office so to say well working people they haven't been affected four point five million of them didn't have a job now they have a job that's a pretty good number those people are turning out today that's why we feel pretty good about this election as far as china is concerned china has been stealing from the united states making products under cost subsidizing them dumping them in the united states strategically to put strategic industries of the u.s. out of business so they could corner the market along with that that was

a loss of jobs because a man drink fett manufacturing jobs and production were going to china for cheap labor so they have taken advantage of us for years cup with the fact that if you do business in china stealing your intellectual property is like a rite of passage this president stood up to them he stopped that john he said this is actually hurting people who support him you cannot deny that talk there are and there are some are they are yes i mean there are some pockets of farmers that can't sell their soybeans to china but as we've seen now they're selling him to mexico they're selling him to paraguay get away they're making a market share there there isn't but farmers understand you've got to take a short term hit short term in order to fix the china problem china has been taking advantage of the u.s. worker in the united states for high work that is pat let me ask you this does he buckle on china if he pays the price at the at the polls you know i can't predict

what donald trump will ever do i don't care but it is what i will say is this and this is a actually a bit of a sobering topic for progressives democrats. we talk to thousands of people every single week all around the country and there are parts of this country where the president's trade agenda is starting to it. it has resonated with a group of people you know the reality is that if you look to your sin he hasn't made a whole lot of substantial progress in addressing the long term decline in wages and clean opportunities and so now he's inflicting pain on his base in more rural communities i'm not sure this is smart politics on his part well and here's the thing john if you look at the i.m.f. forecasts the international monetary fund they say that the stimulus from the tax cut all of these fiscal policies after twenty nineteen it's shoop back to pre-buy about pre-crisis levels how do you dispute what the economic the economists are saying is that this is a short term sugar rush it's as if they gave the consumers

a little bit of a kid a sugar high and then it's going to fade ever it's going to crash and start crying very temper tantrum economists around the globe have been wrong for seventy years now we're going to like make our policy based on what the international side i mean you've got to be kidding you look you you know matt huge huge huge talk about the trump effect african-american unemployment is the lowest it's been recorded history met same with this i didn't respond with asian are we've heard that long in history we've heard that talking a lot of math but i had. do you think it's almost going to get more republicans or brian kemp for example in georgia is going to get any greater share of the african-american vote because of that factoid talk about paying attention to the wrong economic data point look you know the reality is that african-american voters hispanic voters in the dust so in arizona working class white voters in minnesota michigan mccomb county all starting to see through the farce that the republican

bill of goods spin they are looking for a real solution why are my insurance costs so high i'm paying a thousand dollars a month for auto insurance in michigan why is that the health care insurance costs keep going up people are anxious and you know i know people are anxious i don't mean to cut you know we run out of time and i can tell you people are very anxious here in the united states we just have a couple of more hours before we're going to start to see the results the definite sense here is people are gun shy because so many people were so wrong about twenty sixteen so as we get closer to knowing how this votes we're going to see more of these conversations going on there probably get a little bit more heated i will be back here in the next couple of hours to bring you a little bit more of that but for now that's latest from washington as we go ahead thank you very much. one two hundred mass graves containing thousands of bodies have been discovered in areas for me controlled by isolate iraq the u.n. says it found the graves in the north and west and governor of nineveh cook. the smallest grave contained eight bodies well the largest is believed to be

a sinkhole south of mosul with an estimated four thousand bodies last month u.n. representatives traveled to iraq to gather the harrowing stories of some of those who survived isos rain one man escaped a massacre in singe a district in twenty fourteen by pretending to be dead. it's been a year since decided coalition imposed a blockade on yemen's airports seaports and land borders that decisions made an already dire situation even worse the port city of data is a lifeline for the small amount of humanitarian aid that does manage to get into the country that's becoming increasingly difficult for the military operations around make the situation even more complicated i just received today reports from my colleagues in the fuel to try to respond to gether with. other organization which managed to stay in her data but we are running far below

capacity of what we should be able to do and the overall situation has been fragile for yemen for quite some time war has made things worse than we have seen before so food insecurity now is a critical issue and forces as of course to do the best we can with the infrastructure we have at the present moment but we have said for quite many months now that it's not too many tier an organization which will create conditions which allow us to work at the end of the day all depends on whether it is critical juncture in which we are at the present moment finding eventually the way out of the military operations of cease fire whether dissuade will be successful because otherwise it just in the content of what we have done in the past the situation will get more dire and we will see more food security risks and other risks associated to it in the future as well cameron's president has told separatist

fighters to lay down their arms or face the full force of the law the warning comes after seventy nine children were kidnapped from a boarding school in the country is in your speaking region and brian has more. this dormitory should be full of the sounds of students excited chatter in state they silence i'm super tests forced their way into this boarding school on monday kidnapping dozens of children aged between eleven and seventeen it is their right the only. nice thing there. is a 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 where amanda is

a state capitol. here. in the states. where. the. 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. cannot find their parents and they will have to stay with them in the.

camerons later paul is just beginning his seventh term in office he won a contested election last month he says he's the only one who can guarantee cameroon 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. the women in. fact. businesses.

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and. more women elected to. the polls on wednesday but just five of the thirty six presidential candidates are female and that sparked a debate on representation in the island's government. funny sue or naive is 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 thirty one men to be president . 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 with the african development community had called on member states to get hard for all government positions filled by women white twenty fifteen madagascar 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 finot rejected that poll. long after in the build up to this election the national council for malagasy women has been campaigning to get voters to support female candidates or candidates who advocate women's rights. they're using radio when television to get their message that gender equality matters across to voters even then live have to use a male pop star to appeal to audiences real through the couture of cold there are plenty of here i think and are. lydia she pauses should there be 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 really shocked. the media miller al-jazeera and had an aerial. picture in doha for sport lauren thank you red star belgrade have secured a famous victory over last year's champions league final lists liverpool they want to know in the serbian capital both goals coming from milan in the first half redstone had lost four no in england three weeks ago and six one to p.s.g. before that the whole now on their worst run of results away from home in thirty nine years of european cup football. and perhaps more incredibly club bruegel of belgium got their first champions league victory in thirteen years they won four military henri's monaco the belgians the biggest ever win in the group stage giving on reason real headaches as in one in five matches since he took charge of monaco

and monica owner dimitri vote was taken into custody by police a few hours before the match the russian billionaire on the right here was to be questioned by a judge regarding a corruption investigation he's lawyers say they are planning an appeal of a breach of confidentiality in the case and that live should be presumed innocent other matches still getting to full time as we speak this is how it stood a short time ago late goal for pass a learner. straight back up later go defeating dortmund tottenham beating p.s.v. napoli level against p s g. manchester city manager pep guardiola says he has faith in the club's owners in the wake of claims that they've hidden millions of dollars of income to get around financial fair play rules were speaking out of wednesday's champions league match against shakhtar donetsk a claims come from german magazine der spiegel they say they have documents showing

the city football group topped up sponsorship deals with its own money it follows earlier reports that they struck a deal with us for to avoid a ban over breaching rules so he have said they is an organized and clear attempt to damage their reputation. of course it tries a lot with the club with they have done in of course wonderful the rules are the way for the future all this team is in the premier league. they do what we have to do so a part of that believe me completely honest nor would happen because of a manager and focus what happened on the page in the locker room one of the bit about the business about they handle this kind of situation completely. but they are part of the support of the club and we want to do what really we have to do in terms of the rules. earlier this year the denver nuggets fell short of the n.b.a. playoffs on the final day of the regular season now they've really turned things

around in fact they've actually made the best start to a season in franchise history jamal murray had forty eight points to lead the nuggets one hundred fifteen one hundred seven when there were the boston celtics on monday night at nine and won the nuggets off to their best start since one thousand nine hundred seventy six. basketball is the second most popular sport in the united kingdom for teenagers in disadvantaged urban areas but it's one of the worst funded the national champions are from leicester and they want to know why there isn't more help for the sport and the community he willing supports. leicester is a city where sport has been a source of great pride as well as passing through rugby cricket most famously through its football club but the second most popular team sport amongst teenagers in leicester and across the u.k. is basketball born to very good hundreds of thousands of children played every week over half of them from the minorities cup basketball suffers from

a lack of funding because the focus is on chasing medals for community best of riders the champions of england if you're looking to win medals pounds spent per medal basketball's going to be well down on the list i think it's wrong for u.k. sport have been on a botched their job is to generate medals so go find the sport that will produce the medal for the lowest investment this is european much night against italian team dana most a sorry. lester hopeful not expectant of causing an upset i possible gets no money from u.k. sports unlimited funding part or no investment back i'm paying no success so it's a vicious cycle i. did come into focus during the winter when lympics in february when it emerged millions of been spent some obscure sports you case. responded to the wife of criticism with a special part of funding but it's well under

a million dollars a small fraction of what's given to sports that the liver a limp pig medals u.k. sport. we have to prioritize in order to deliver as much success as possible over the performing a not delivering the wider social economic impacts that come from the inspiration delivered from metal success we've recognized the popularity of basketball and the incredible impact it's had in communities and applaud the work done by all those involved what doesn't help basketball's cause is that the domestic leagues. have not been shiela u.k. free to air television for decades and yet look at the crowd in leicester diverse people from all age groups many children we're very accessible here the club like most of the pubs in the b.b.l. you know the kids can meet afterwards autographs and all that kind of stuff so they can get very close to the favorite players and the watching to see if the i feel like i could be obsolete that tells me that what you say to me in the states boys reaches a peak out of the italian team when this guy but twelve points in what was the

first appearance by an english table european basketball for a decade let's divide this will continue there important work in the community there and i medals involved but does that make it less important than success in the olympics. al-jazeera leicester. usa gymnastics may be stripped of its role as the national governing body for the sport the u.s. olympic committee has taken steps to revoke its status after a botched its own attempted rebuilding following the sex abuse scandal involving a team doctor larry nasser the organization has been in turmoil ever since hundreds of female gymnasts including a limp dick champion's alley raise money for kayla maroney gabby douglas and simone biles came forward to accuse nasser of sexual abuse. thing that will feel rather satisfied at the close of play on day one of the first test against sri lanka in go all the tourists won the toss and better luck model took to early wickets deliver one per would take four wickets on the day in total in england were in big trouble

at one hundred three four five but they've beaten ben folks enjoyed a sterling start to test cricket he managed eighty seven unbeaten runs and ably assisted by his low order partners help the english reach three hundred twenty one for eight at stumps. and it was a great day for zimbabwe insulates against bangladesh the hosts were chasing three hundred twenty one for victory but the zimbabweans bowled them out for one hundred sixty nine to wrap up a one hundred fifty one run triumph it's only the third overseas test win and the first one in seventeen years now so the horse race that stops the nation and there was an historic result in the melbourne cup with the first ever british trained when in fact there was a british one two three finish in australia's five million dollar race it was also the first melbourne cup victory for the godolphin stable after twenty years of trying they whole scruffs counter came out of nowhere at the finish to win the head

of mom with a prince of aaron in food jockey karen mcavoy has now won the race three terms ok that's all the support from us for now we'll have another update for you again later on but for now i'm going to hand you back to lauren in london thanks so much pretend a quick run day you can catch up with all the sport and the news obviously that we're covering by checking out our website address that is our dot com as ever made our intent of this news hour on the back in a minute with more news. off to one of greece's deadliest forest fires turned a blissful coastal town into

a budding tell people empower all six whether the flames will find institutional incompetence the number one responsibility of keeping god is perfect being that citizens was not an accident it was a crime of ending the fire is the real symbol the book greece's big come up to take the bid for the still services of the phone on al-jazeera al-jazeera as their want us to embrace but of course a day to see what happens next actuation on foot fired by the barriers for a model barricaded all seventh street that leads to here the middle east now is all about change people have gone to hospital near the area the mission of the national army is to fix the entire point complex and i'll just restore is about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. history has called it the great war in the second out this and the declining also

an empire forges its alliance with germany and the central powers as the war gives birth to three nationalist movements the will determine the future world war one through our own bodies on al-jazeera. al-jazeera it's us swear every. americans have been voting in the u.s. midterm elections the results will determine who runs congress and define president donald trump's remaining term in office.

on the entire this is al jazeera live from london also coming up check your sources tell our jazeera saudi arabia is willing to pay blood money to jamal khashoggi family and fiance. china's treatment of its we get muslim minority at its vocational training centers comes under the spotlight in geneva with a special report from the shingling province. and vying for the top job the women in madagascar trying to break barriers in the presidential election. and americans are voting in nationwide elections that will determine the balance of power in the u.s. congress and shape the future of donald trump's presidency early numbers indicate the turnout might be the highest in at least a generation with record numbers casting early vote election is seen as a referendum on trump's leadership two hundred reports from indianapolis this is.

perhaps the most significant u.s. midterm election in recent history is under way.