in community al-jazeera meets the health workers who are challenging al qaeda attitudes and working tirelessly to combat leprosy in india lifelines ancient enemy. now democrats and republicans it's about restoring the constitution the checks and balances to the trumpet. democrats gained control of the u.s. house of representatives in the crucial midterm election. my hope is that texas can help the way to bring this country together a republican in their hold on power in the senate.

and we shall carry this is al jazeera live also coming up but as a matter of the polls to elect a president as the country faces a political and economic crisis. and we are in the green this country can batam protect its poorest while embracing the modern age. mid-term elections that have set the stage for the remaining two years of donald trump's presidency his first term in office and it's a split decision the democrats have wrestled back control of the house of representatives while republicans retain their hold on the senate democrats have met the threshold for control of the house the two hundred twenty two c. the republicans have lost twenty six seats they're down to one hundred ninety three

but the republicans have managed to gain ground in the senate that's the upper chamber of congress two of the most competitive races were in texas were ted cruz regaining to seats and in missouri a long time to mcgrath there sen claire mccaskill lost her seat only thirty five or for were up for grabs republicans have managed to gain two and are now fifty one with democrats winning forty six amid record turnout american voters made their choice while some races are still undecided the most important midterm election is clear a split decision reports. the voters have spoken democrats will control the u.s. house of representatives thank you all for making the future that are already there sam. gardiner a chair for the string of democratic victories began in suburban virginia where democrat jennifer weston prevailed one of many women to claim victory thank you bill where did you pull. the lever.

as had been widely predicted republicans retain control of the senate in the high profile texas senate race incumbent republican ted cruz narrowly defeated his democratic opponent representative beto or rourke this was an election about hope and about the future and the people of texas rendered a verdict that we want to future with more jobs and more security and more freedom . the takeover of the house is a rebuke to president donald trump who held dozens of rallies and explicitly made the midterms into a referendum on his leadership he campaigned furiously in the final days relentlessly stoking fear of a column of bedraggled migrants slowly making their way through mexico to the u.s. border if you want more caravans if you want more crime vote democrat

tomorrow that may actually have hurt republican incumbents in more moderate suburban house districts because exit polling showed the most important issue to most voters was health care democrats campaigned heavily on preserving and shoring up the affordable care act turnout was extremely high for a mid term election long lines formed in states from coast to coast often extending blocks from polling stations in some places people waited for hours to cast their votes once. they take office in january house democrats will certainly launch a series of investigations into trump's ties with russia his family's business dealings his taxes and other issues cabinet members and heads of federal agencies will likely be reeled about alleged ethical lapses the political dynamics in washington shifting under the president's feet robert oulds al-jazeera washington

the outcome of this elections could have an impact on how tunnels are perceived on the international stage and space has its details the world is watching these elections very closely and they'll be watching in iran there were fresh sanctions in the last twenty four hours most of those that were lifted under the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal and now firmly back in place iran's already suffering a great deal of economic damage it's going to get worse they'll need now to make a political decision in tehran and in part it'll depend on these elections perhaps they'll get an early indication if trump is going to be a one term or a two term president and whether they can wait him out. the investigation into the death of jamal khashoggi may also be affected by the elections saudi arabia's not cooperating on handing over the suspects or on helping to find the journalist body so they could now be other legal steps if turkey requests it that could perhaps even be an international un led investigation in congress watch for efforts to take

action against saudi arabia under the magnitsky act or the possibility of new congressional investigations next yemen with saudi arabia under pressure look for congress to take renewed interest in the devastating war there's already a new push for a ceasefire by the trumpet ministration and i can tell you at the u.n. in new york the u.k. is starting efforts to draw up a security council resolution on the ceasefire the plan is all of this would lead to peace talks in sweden at the end of the month highly awaited too is the trump administration's middle east peace plan the u.n. has recently been warning of fresh conflict particularly in gaza but the palestinians have already written off the still to be unveiled plan being devised by trump's son in law jared cushion and i'm also hearing whispers that the international criminal court may soon make a ruling on whether to pursue investigations into israeli actions in syria there could be a final military push by the assad regime and its russian allies efforts by the

u.n. to get talks going on a new constitution have been making very little progress as a new un special envoy pederson from norway prepares to start work afghanistan is another key priority for the administration and for the new congress after seventeen years of war the taliban has been gaining ground on the battlefield there's a new effort by the u.s. to talk to the taliban being led by top diplomats are made. but there's very little immediate prospect of progress because of afghanistan's own political calendar with presidential elections due in april next year. jordan live for us on capitol hill now and so rosalind there wasn't this massive wave by any stretch but there were significant gains for the democrats and the kate thinking now that they control the house they control the committees what is that going to look like.

well it depends on which side of the democratic party you sit on if you're on the far left or part of the progressive wing you're going to be expecting the house to go after the trump presidency with all guns blazing you're going to be looking for impeachment hearings you're going to be looking for increased accountability you're going to be looking for a real frustration of donald trump's domestic agenda and to a lesser extent to his foreign policy in the next two years and of course these next two years are now about electing a new president or reelecting the president and so you're going to see people from the far left insisting that this be the mission for the democratically controlled house if you're a more moderate or if you're conservative you're going to say well we need to be able to give our constituents the people who voted us into office a reason to vote is in again in two thousand and twenty twenty and so they're going

to be putting pressure on the house leadership to well look for ways of trying to work with the u.s. president donald trump whether or not that is going to work really does come down to who ends up becoming the speaker of the house all signs point to nancy pelosi who was the first woman elected house speaker and who is expecting that she will once again be the speaker come early january but there has been a very quiet revolt against her leadership not just because she had the position before but because. members who are in the house who argue that she and many of her colleagues are simply too old and simply out of touch with the growing a changing political reality of the democratic party and that the house leadership needs to reflect that so in the next six to eight weeks expect to see a very vigorous competition between these two wings of the democratic party before

they move ahead and you start trying to run the lower chamber of the u.s. on. a record year for female candidates so far eighty nine have won which breaks the previous record of eighty four and there are there in both parties there is also a lot of diversity and a lot of candidates that one across the country now compare that to the u.s. president who has said a lot of things about women has played very much to race in the in the run up to this so are there still stilts two different americas. very much so and that's so some of the early analysis coming from veteran political reporters that if anything the political divisions have heartened since the election of donald trump and twenty sixteen you certainly do see many more people who became involved in the political process because they were upset with the

outcome of the two thousand and sixteen campaign and they said well if hillary clinton can't do it maybe i can't however there are also just as many people who are as the super asli in support of donald trump and of his policies and they have gone involved in the political process basically to try to institutionalize the changes that they say donald trump has already made not just within the republican party but in national politics so you're going to see perhaps more vigorous policy debate such as it is now that we're going into the two thousand and twenty presidential campaign but you're also going to see perhaps more vigorous debates about the direction of the country in state legislatures remember the election on tuesday wasn't just about electing people to serve in that building behind me it was also about getting governors into many of the state capitals as well as reelecting state legislators and in many local communities new councillors new

mayors new town executives people who actually are dealing with the front line of people's ordinary lives everything from health care to traffic to road maintenance to education so there's going to be a very vigorous political debate the question is going to be can the party leadership not just in the democratic party but in the republican party can both leaderships actually mobilize and build on what they saw happening in tuesday's elections so that they can try to regain power or expand their reach of power in the next two years that's really going to be one of the big themes that top perhaps may not get as much coverage as the fact that you're going to have perhaps as many as one hundred new women serving in the house of representatives what's that they say raw politics is local. and capitol hill. polls have open about a gas cars presidential election where the three front runners are former heads of state there are thirty six candidates all of them promising to create jobs and

poverty by corruption in a bill or has more from the capitol. just months before the hotly contested election president. try to change madagascar's electoral laws the move was met by months of protest and eventually as a compromise a government of national unity was formed a former finance minister john adam on piano is promising the poor nation a new phase in his development if elected but his government was accused of corruption transparency international has accused him of being involved in the trafficking of endangered rosewood in accordance with constitutional requirements he's since stepped down as president in order to stand for reelection. on the entry to the start of what do all's i was never involved in the road would story you think if i was involved we wouldn't have hesitated to send the president to court

but i tell you i was even the person who was fighting obvious route trade was. also contesting the presidency is the man who preceded it has gone out on piano as president. came to power in two thousand and nine following a military coup young and known for his charisma the former deejays popular attracting big numbers to his campaign rallies once the mayor of the capital antananarivo he says his rise to power what was the result of a popular uprising he replaced president marc ravalomanana who went into exile in south africa in two thousand and nine novello manana has since returned to the capital where he enjoys huge support to fight for the top office he does friend free and free delusional program but it is not for their views on reagan this one no. i don't. the world bank says more than eighty percent of the population lives in poverty for the nine million monegasques he's heading to the ballot box this

year's election appears to bring nothing new acing there's a lot of pessimism we have at the same time something that i would call the election of the century mother just because we have or have four former presidents running we have three former prime ministers running so basically there were political classes this represented in this election but at the same time would you realize this is also a battle of the past the electoral commission says it's ready for the vote despite some names missing from the voters roll. analysts predict that none of the candidates will get more than fifty percent of the boat needed to win and madagascar could go to a runoff in december for the people voting this is a little more then a choice between familiar faces and old problems that haven't gone away from al jazeera and. still ahead on al-jazeera undeterred the migrant caravan make a stop in mexico city before pushing on to the u.s.

border a century on france finally recognizes the sacrifices made by the tens of thousands of african and asian soldiers that is a world war one. hello there the weather is a bit of a developing feature over the northern parts of asia over the next day or so we take a look at the satellite picture we can see some cloud just drifting its way eastwards but it is pulling itself together so we'll see some fairly heavy downpours over both north and south korea there as we head through thursday and then as that system works its way eastwards it will be wrapping itself up so for many of us in japan it's looking pretty wet during the day on friday and for us in the far eastern parts of russia and the far north eastern parts of china we could see some fairly significant amounts of snow out of this system towards the west is fine unsettled by the time we get to friday with seventeen as a maximum in beijing

a bit further towards the south and there's been plenty of cloud of rain here you can see the latest system feeding its way up towards the province but officials out as we head into friday and friday should be a lot quieter shanghai won't be that will get to around eighteen degrees and force in hong kong will be ten degrees high of it twenty eight degrees which is eighty two in fahrenheit for the southeastern parts of asia we've got some very very ferocious weather over the southern parts of thailand for the day it does look very wet here there is likely to be some flooding that gradually pulls away towards the west though so it looks draw a force by friday there's heavier rain force a monitor. a moroccan man spoke out against french colonial rule and was exiled. isolated extremist views. he spoke out against the regime and was sentenced to life

imprisonment he spent twenty two months in hiding thirteen years in exile and seventeen years in jail. al-jazeera well tells the story of the dissident abraham. morocco's montana. prachi al jazeera let's recap the top stories for you now the democrats have taken control of the house of representatives for the first time in eight years this means they will now have the opportunity to walk president runs agenda over the next two years republican party has maintained control of the senate and democratic incumbents running in pro trump states have been defeated helping the republicans

add to their current one seat majority. thirty six races for governors in the u.s. will also affect how the president leads there was extraordinary voter turnout in several states including georgia stacy abrams a democrat has fought a tough battle against republican brian camp she hopes to become america's first black female governor to concede. i'm here tonight to tell you votes remain to be counted there are voices that waiting to be heard across our state folks are opening up the dreams of voters and absentee ballots and we believe our chance for a stronger georgia is just within reach. but we cannot seize it until all voices are heard and i promise you tonight we're going to make sure that every vote is counted was all i was very broken down. at arrival republican and cry and have told voters that he expects to win that seat

in georgia what an amazing night that we have had with incredible support in all four corners of our state there are votes left to be counted to count. but we have a very strong lead and both. and both make no mistake there's own arse to win this election. a major issue in the mid-term elections was immigration thousands of asylum seekers and migrants from central america have arrived in mexico city on their way to the u.s. the caravan of mainly honduran says the first of three large groups moving across mexico and awful reports from mexico city by. this is the sound of children laughing and singing. they've just arrived in the capital mexico city after traveling with five thousand other central americans for the first time in several

weeks they're able to really rest. where we want these children to see that mexico is a country that's in solidarity with them so they can take this memory when they leave and they're going to find the mexican authorities have been preparing for their arrival setting up food stands medical tents as well as spaces for a shower and even a haircut. feel nothing though i'm happy with how mexico has treated us we're very thankful to mexico. we met me here while she was waiting in line for donated clothes she says she's bound for the u.s. and has a message for president trump and no better than no there are no terrorists here or criminals nobody is here for fun we're all running from poverty in honduras it's not for pleasure that i'm traveling to the united states. walking along the camp we spotted several volunteers providing legal advice to those looking to claim political asylum either in mexico or the u.s. although with. a volunteer attorney says most are planning to stay in mexico

despite the rhetoric despite the fear that the trumpet ministration is trying to administer these people are intent on carrying out the right that they have to seek asylum in the united states. while it may seem crowded authorities say they're still expecting more people to arrive in the coming days this space at this outdoor sporting arena has been transformed into a comedy as many as five thousand people traveling as part of a caravan that left on douras several weeks ago but their stop here is only temporary they're all to make goal is reaching the southern border of the united states. with a fresh change of clothes in hand and her daughter head off to get some rest knowing the most difficult part of their journey still lies ahead but ended up with . mexico city. a group of students abducted from a high school in cameroon on monday has been free the seventy nine students their driver and teachers were taken by armed separatists from

a presbyterian boarding school and mend a priest involved in the negotiation says the fighters are still holding these principles and also one teacher mendez and cameron's anger phone region where separatists have been fighting to create an and dependent state. came out of the six the morocco has spoken of his desire to improve diplomatic relations with neighboring algeria is proposed opening the border with algeria it's been closed since one thousand nine hundred four when morocco imposed visas on visitors from algeria following a bombing and. the king says he will consider proposals argyria they want to offer to break the stalemate and. since i came to the throne i've been calling for the opening of borders separating the two countries in normalizing the moroccan algerian relations are reiterated that morocco is prepared to engage in dialogue with algeria to iron out differences standing in our way are proposed to algerians to devise a common political mechanism for dialogue and consultation i emphasize that morocco

is open to the proposals that algeria may come forward with to end the stalemate between the two neighboring countries. they're often forgotten that in world war one the tens of thousands of africans and asians soldiers died on the western front in europe for decades the intention has been paid to the soldiers let's talk about reports a century on their efforts to remember their sacrifice. a solemn moment of remembrance as the french monny in presidents pay tribute to the african troops who defended the us in world war one west african soldiers helped save the city and its famous cathedral from destruction by german forces where to disarm me nearly two hundred thousand african soldiers fought during the first world war they fought for the empire up the hill and down dale day and night more often by night them by day they fought for france they fought for themselves as well. faced with manpower shortages france britain and germany recruited troops from their colonies

often by force they faced the same brutal battles as european soldiers but rarely the same treatment for decades their sacrifice has been of looked all forgotten relegated to the footnotes of history but a century off to the end of world war one there are those who are determined not to forget. at knopf chaparral in northern france a service on it more than one point three million indians who fought for the british this memorial commemorates the morter four thousand seven hundred indian soldiers and laborers who died on the western front and have no known graves their names are on the war is a very moving price and it's really hard to imagine what it must be like for them fighting in a non-civilian landscape and climate so far away from enduring fact in one letter home a soldier writes of the heavy artillery shelling he says it's like the heavy monsoon

rains. on that street it got really very. dangerous single wall street or peeping up it can do all the ones who laid down their lives for the cause of peace all they need is wrong and they have to stand up for rights say. it's really proud to be proud to be sikh and also to make sure they. are kids millions of troops fought in world fathers sons and brothers many never returned those who did would never the same they fought for peace now their descendants are fighting for their sacrifice to be recognized given its rightful place in history. al-jazeera. france. as president has hosted mollies later in the city of rains to honor african soldiers who fought during world war one and all marker on an abraham of a car key to attended the commemoration ceremony for more former colonial soldiers

were known as the black army of rains and help defend the city from german advances it's just one of many events taking place this week marking a century since the war and. it's been described by conservationists is the greenest country on the planet the quarters have ta'en is covered by it forests home to rare wildlife but as the country continues to develop its struggling to find new ways to balance economic growth with the protection of the environment a park or reports it is a window on a time before humans time is the only carbon negative country in the world producing more oxygen than it consumes. at least sixty percent of the country must be forested is in trying to the constitution but as b. town slowly embraces the modern age keeping it this way is a huge challenge the pristine wilderness is home to one of the rarest animals on earth the himalayan snow leopard by careful conservation betime successfully

managed to maintain numbers the same also goes for another big cat the bengal tiger for a small country like don sandwiched between india and china we are also biggest contributions is being very symbolic of the things that we can do when you have the right leadership you know when you have the right vision and the right commitment from the people there are stories of large predators stalking these ancient forests for generations which is probably what gave rise to the legendary story of the meat or yeti in reality though in addition to the big cats there are also wild boar and black bears here living in close proximity to these creatures is a major concern for farmers worried about keeping their livestock safe. every evening lock palm okies watch over her fields while boring deer often devour her crops. she resorts to age old techniques to safeguard her livelihood.

the governments installed an electric fence nearby but it needs to. there's a compensation scheme if livestock a killed but the payout often doesn't cover the price of a new animal killing a large predator will almost certainly lead to a jail sentence despite the challenges boots in the show unlikely levels of tolerance towards wildlife helped by hydropower twenty five percent of putin's national income comes from selling energy to neighboring india it also allows the government to provide farmers with free electricity. but hydro projects account for hoff of the national debt political promises conservationists fear the country may compromise its forests in order to balance its books we all hugh sums of money some sums of money we cannot afford sums of money that have been borrowed

from international agencies on the world back in the asian development bank man is such a greedy force and the natural resources of the easiest way to make money the pace of change is increasing. the country's future depends on preserving a delicate balance between humans and nature need. bhutan. pick up the headlines for you on al-jazeera the democrats have taken control of the house of representatives for the first time in eight years this means they will now have the opportunity to block president ronald agenda over the next two years democrat nancy pelosi could again become speaker of the house about her party's whens time ago. it's about the money well the special interest free reign

over washington more than anything it's about what a new democratic majority will mean in the lives of hardworking americans damn i. want to be. democrats pledge a congress that works for the people for the people to trump the public and party has maintained control of the senate democratic incumbents running in pro-choice states have been defeated helping the republicans add to their current one seat majority. senior advisor to the president kellyanne conway spoke about how donald trump's last minute campaigning helped republican candidates. everywhere we go we hear from job creators job holders job seekers they're happy with this economy i think that's reflecting a lot of the results tonight very happy with this president's policies to try to denuclearize the korean peninsula which helps everyone the remains of our fallen from north korea from korea have been returned this president is sanctioning iran

sanctioning russian weenies to pushing back on assad or any gases his people not once but twice he showed a lot of strength and leadership around the world and many people may not say america first but they say stop apologizing for america polls have opened in madagascar us presidential election and voters queued in long lines to cast their ballots the three frontrunners are former heads of state for thirty six candidates all of them promising to create jobs and poverty and fight corruption when a mistake fifty percent of the votes cast for a second round will be held on december nineteenth. a group of students abducted from a high school and cameroon on monday they had been freed the seventy nine peoples' their driver and teachers were taken by armed separatists from a presbyterian boarding school in mend a priest involved in the negotiations says the fighters were still holding the principal and also one teacher amended isn't cameron's angle phone region or separatist had been fighting to create an dependent states. those are the headlines

keep it here on al-jazeera inside story is that next. china in the hot seat over its treatment of weaker muslims the un suman rights council is examining beijing's alleged crackdown on this minority but will the growing international pressure make a difference this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program.