if you moved a bit you were isolated by a extremist views mr 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 so fatty morocco's montana. the democrats vowed to be a check on president trump's power after winning back control of the house of representative representatives in the u.s. midterms despite that trump claims a tremendous success is the republican cement their grip on the senate. barbara starr you're watching live from london also coming up seventy eight school

students kidnapped in cameroon are freed but mystery surrounds who took them madagascan voted for a new leader to lift them out of poverty even though three of the front runners are former presidents. and france remembers the sacrifice of tens of thousands of african and asian soldiers who died in world war one. thank you for joining us we begin in the u.s. and that the vine siv midterm elections which have set the stage for the remaining two years of president trump's first term in office he's that cleared the results a tremendous success for the republicans and that's the spy the democrats winning back control of the house of representatives so far they have two hundred twenty one seats to the republicans one hundred and ninety eight as expected the

republicans retain control of the senate rob reynolds reports. the voters have spoken democrats who control the u.s. house of representatives thank you all for making the future better. parents here. listen very the string of democratic victories began in suburban virginia were democrat jennifer prevailed one woman to claim victory you still have a lot of work to do you. think it would. until tomorrow. 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 roark 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 mid terms into a referendum on his leadership he campaigned furiously in the final days relentlessly stoking fear of a column of the draggled 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 midterm 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 grilled about alleged ethical lapses the political dynamics in washington shifting under the president's feet robert oulds al-jazeera washington. well u.s. president don't trump assented the fi and tweet that he could face heavier scrutiny under a democrat controlled house saying if the democrats think they're going to waste taxpayer money investigating us at the house level then we will likewise be forced to consider investigating them for all the leaks of classified information and much else at the senate level two can play that game so that tweets from

president trump let's go live now to the white house and speak to al-jazeera as james bays who standing by there for us so james sort of thinly will not even batson leave veiled threat there in that tweet by president trump do you think we're going to hear more of that kind of tone seeing is due to speak in about half an hour. almost certainly i think that the tone and the comments of the president are likely to follow what we've already heard on the twitter feed when he gives this news conference from the east room of the white house in about thirty minutes from now we're not clear whether it's going to be one of those news conferences where he takes just three or four questions or one of those much longer freewheeling news conferences that have lasted almost up to an hour and a half i think perhaps it could be the latter because he is keen to paint this as a victory yes he has lost one of the branches of congress and that clearly is not

good for a president it constrains a president but he is gaining seats in the senate that makes it easier for him to make top appointments of judges and generals maybe some of those ambassador posts that are still missing around the world although that many of those have not been nominated yet by the administration and of course makes it easier for him if he is as is believed to be the case going to be going to be having some sort of reshuffle of this midterm election and i'm sure they'll be questions about that too but of course. as he is now constrained in creating legislation that's going to affect what he does domestically and it does suggest perhaps this is a president who in the last two years of this term will dive into foreign policy and that's interesting ajay and so in light of that how are these results of the midterms being viewed around the world. very very closely watched to be speaking to

diplomats here in washington between two ambassadors to the u.n. in new york they always watch this very closely as a barometer of what's going to happen next president knows that in fact in one of his tweets already he said receive so many congratulations including from foreign nations that are that were waiting me out and hoping on trade deals so there he's saying that there are some nations thinking well we can wait another two years of trump of trumps not to be the next president and now he thinks perhaps they're going to negotiate with him he's raising the prospect of trade deals nations worried about that i think they're worried about other things too particularly multilateralism international cooperation around the world we've seen the actions of this administration pulling out of the iran nuclear deal we saw pulling out of the paris climate change deal and not particularly friendly to branches of the united nations particularly with regard to the palestinians and their agency that looks after palestinians. another of the important things to look forward to in the

coming months of course is related to israel and palestine because we were told soon after the midterms we were going to get that peace plan that the trumpet ministration putting forward the president's own son in law supposedly devising a plan of course policy that's not engaging with him at this stage james vai's with the latest there from the white house james thank you let's get the latest now from ross jordan who joins us live now from capitol hill ed rollins a lot of this really hinged on the democrats being able to win over some independent voters and donald trump is already threatening that if they try to block him he'll try to also lead investigations into there so how do you think of them a crowds are going to use this in the next two years. well barbara let's be frank both the republicans and the democrats like to use.

electoral campaign this is. certainly given the. various committees that. one. democratically controlled. articles of impeachment. against.

her turning to the role. that. there are other. roles obviously the democrats are relieved about the results that we've seen over the past twelve hours or so but it has been a historic election anyway so the youngest ever woman elected to the house of representatives the first time two muslim american women were voted into congress the first native american woman to actually have on their respective seats again for the house so a lot more women which is great of course when it comes to equality and representation what impact do you think it could actually have on actual legislation. well a. the campaign line of this congress will. be

more reflective of the overall u.s. population but you're also going to see is one in four of the house of representatives actually being a woman and so that's going to mean that you're going to have more people coming in with different life experiences with different ideas on how to solve the problems facing the country as well as improving its standing around the world you're going to see not just stop political activists and people who are running to try to improve things such as education or health care but you're also going to see people with considerable military experience considerable business experience and people who are saying that there has to be a much broader vision of what the united states is and what the united states government should be doing for his approximately three hundred twenty million citizens of course what also is going to be important will be the breadth of political experience the democratic representation is going to be much more liberal

than it has been for really the last twenty years or so since the days when bill clinton was the us president and so there's going to be a real generational discussion on the democratic side on how to grow the party as we proceed into the twenty first century republicans for their part say that they realize that they have a problem trying to attract young people trying to attract people of color so-called ethnic minorities and winchell minorities and they say that they have to find a way to broaden their base so that they can remain competitive as their largely older and whiter. supporters start to die out so this is really going to be of time energy how much legislation is going to get passed well that's really anyone's guess and it really depends on whether both sides to them to be by. but with. the corner i predict that you will you see probably about the same amount of

blood just listen past as you did in the last few years. jordan with the latest from capitol hill rolls thank you ms rosen i was saying it's been a sort of a night of firsts in these election results and one of the many women who won seats in the house was palestinian american rashida she took michigan's thirteenth congressional district becoming one of the first muslim women elected to the u.s. congress after learning of her victory she had this message for her relatives in palestine. believe. me i know i was because i'm a small village you know what there are literally glued like five or five or six forty one of them and now of course even after glued to the t.v. my grandmother my aunts my uncles impulse i don't feel. they're watching.

i was no you know i love i love the family of the thirteen congressional district i'll let them every single day being who i am visit any american. speaking there was still to come in this half hour they were the main focus of president trump's midterm campaign we meet some of the migrants as the caravan pauses in mexico city and really educating china's weaker muslims or extrajudicial detention on a vast scale we've reported from xinjiang province. hello

there we're seeing a fair amount of cloud and rain over the southeast in parts of china recently the rain isn't too heavy at the moment though you see the responsible still stretching up towards shanghai and i think it will be this region where we see the most persistent of the rain on thursday elsewhere as we head through the day the rain will start to break up and by the time we get to friday there's not really a great deal left to see later on during the day though do expect more in the way of what weather to develop around the who bay province and that could turn out to be a little bit heavier out towards the west of this certainly beats and heavy downpours here in sri lanka it has been throwing it down for a good few days now and there's more wet weather still to come they could be more in the way of flooding than in potentially a few landslides as that rain remains with us and heavy as we head through thursday on friday it will begin to break up a little bit but still want to pockets of heavy rain and those areas of rain will also be stretching a bit further north into the fall southern tip of india as well to the north of all of that it's fine and dry for most of us here now of course still warm thirty two

degrees now for the arabian peninsula a good deal of cloud is expected over the next few days and then the rain will start and that really does look quite heavy so thursday just a good deal of cloud one or two showers around particularly in the north there but that rain really begins to get going as we head through friday. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other life. other stories . providing a glimpse into someone else's world. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. with mace documentaries to open your eyes on al-jazeera.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the democratic party has taken back control of the u.s. house of representatives following a divisive midterm election but the republican party has retained the senate. confirming cabinet members and ambassadors the president has claimed victory for the republicans the democrats against. that two can play that game he's expected to give a news conference in the next twenty minutes or so. a key part of president term strategy during campaigning was to put immigration at the forefront of voters' minds he repeatedly condemned the caravans of migrants crossing mexico

to seek asylum in the u.s. and the third by the promise of a hostile reception the first group of men women and children mostly from doris has now arrived in mexico city. reports. this is the sound of children laughing in c. . he just arrived in the capital mexico city after travelling with five thousand other central americans for the first time in several weeks they're able to really rest. we want these children to see that mexico is a country that is in solidarity with them so they can take this memory when they leave. mexican authorities have been preparing for their arrival setting up food stands medical tents as well spaces for showers and even a haircut. i'm happy with. we're very thankful to mexico. we met 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. 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. . 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 piece of 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. mexico city. a group of students abducted from a high school in cameroon on monday have been freed but several members of school staff are still missing the seventy pupils as well as their drivers and teachers or taken by armed separatists from a boarding school in the northwestern city of bam mendo the men there is in cameroon english speaking region where separatists have been fighting for an independent state the governor of the region has called the separatists to suspend their vote counting is underway in madagascar are people there have been voting in the presidential election the african island nation has been choosing between no less than thirty six candidates but there are concerns about the low turnout with many people complaining that they've been denied the right to vote from either

miller has been speaking to voters in madagascar as capital and tunnel or evil. a steady stream of people at polling stations across the capital while or not i saw rejoinder is trying to cost a ballot a dumb person email but without any luck she can't find a name on the voter's roll she says she'll continue searching but that means looking through dozens of lists in the further order more than me of course is frustrating but i will keep searching but if i don't find my name i would just have to wait to vote next time but many others are not as accepting one woman says she's angry because no one in a family of four can find their names leave partly there are many problems people have cards without their address listed people are on the list but don't have voter cards and people who have voter cards are not on the list. before the election twenty five political parties had formed

a coalition to have electoral this reformed but the electoral commission refused and said the election would continue as planned officials at the voting station say they haven't received all the electoral material they believe civil society organizations say they were similar problems in previous elections and they made recommendations to the electoral commission on how to fix them the stime round but say they were ignored. transparency international says this is worrying for madagascar's nine million voters but i will say one third of the people there live on the electoral list you should be on the electoral list have been dropped in some ways so it's really difficult for people to handle these. votes is about to choose between thirty six candidates but the race is really between just three of them all former presidents. who won the twenty thirteen election

marketable manana returned from exile after two thousand and nine coup ousted him and i wrote celine who was appointed as transitional president after that dixon now when he voting is important to me because i want to see the work that has been done continue among the unions and if the political leaders follow the rules it will be ok but there are too many candidates. the electoral commission says it will release final results in three weeks but it's possible they could be contested for al-jazeera antananarivo. china's government is vigorously defending a mass the pension program for the we go muslim population in the far western xinjiang province at the first denying the existence of the so-called. education camps they now say they're providing vital education for hundreds of thousands of readers it comes in the face of mounting international condemnation from the city of cashcard in xinjiang are china correspondent adrian brown reports.

islam is the dominant faith in shin john but it can come oscar worshipers are reminded of a higher authority. assigned at the entrance proclaims love the party love the country close by photos of president xi jinping are projected onto a giant screen in one he's surrounded by a group of forming local muslim leaders the pictures are more than four years old. the streets are quiet in this ancient oasis city on the old silk road you're closer to baghdad than beijing here but one thing strikes you quickly where are all the young men. in vocational education training state t.v.'s been providing answers some of these men and women are getting an education in what are described as vocational training centers that offer occupational skills language cultural and

psychological training skills their parents prevented them from learning at school says one political commentator but they cannot find productive employment in the cities and other areas where they would need these basic skills reading writing communication in chinese human rights groups say wearing a veil or growing a beard is enough to get you sent here at first vic of a man denied the existence of the camps now it's proudly defending the internment policy. jin is the editor of the global times newspaper a tabloid mouthpiece for the government he says there are more than a thousand violent attacks a year in shin jang there's no independent evidence to support that. through tough control she has avoided the same extremism that has happened in a lot of other places in the world. china's leaders argued that these harsh

measures are needed to prevent bomb and gun attacks associated with separatism violence that they say has cost the lives of hundreds of han chinese people in the past decade one attack in a room she in two thousand and fourteen happened the day after a visit by president xi jinping it was at about this time the president xi jinping began promoting what was to become a key economic policy the so-called one belt one road initiative the plan to bind china to europe and the middle east through infrastructure trade and investment but for that ambitious plan to work has to work. during our time in shin jang our movements were tightly controlled by government minders who later forced us to delete much of our video we were warned not to talk to anyone even about the silk

road project. this is a replica of cashcard old city the original we were told is still being rebuilt just as it was three years ago when i was last here. and here we were presented with a picture of ethnic harmony an elderly wego man and chinese tourist dancing a spontaneous moment insisted our minders but like the setting it felt contrived a dream brown al-jazeera in cash. they're often referred to as the forgotten heroes during world war one tens of thousands of african and asian soldiers died on the western front in europe for decades little attention was paid to their sacrifice but a sentry on new efforts are being made to honor them for their contribution that their reports are. a solemn moment of remembrance as the french marlin presidents pay tribute to the african troops who defended the city in world war one

west african soldiers help save the city in its famous cathedral from destruction by german forces where do some nearly two hundred thousand african soldiers fought during the first world war they fought for the empire up hill and down dale day and night more often by night them by day if not 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 after the end of world war one there are those who are determined not to forget. at chaparral the north of france a service on it more than one point three million indians who fought for the

british this memorial commemorates the mortar 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 place and it's really hard to imagine what it must be like for them fighting in an unfamiliar 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 which to get caught is really very. dangerous single divorced or thinking that it can do all the ones who lay down their lives for the cause of peace all they need is wrong and to stand up for right so. it's really proud to be proud to be safe and also to make sure they. are kids millions of troops fought in world who are one 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. and you can find that much more in everything that we have been covering on our website there is a front page now and obviously our main story the results of those made the term elections all the details inside and blogs on the website. and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the democratic party has taken back control of the u.s. house of representatives following at the size civet made the term election so far they have two hundred twenty one seats to republicans one hundred ninety eight victory allows the party to investigate president trump more thoroughly and makes

it harder for him to push through policy but the republicans have retained that the senate which is responsible for confirming judges cabinet members and the bassett hers the body also has the final say on impeachment proceedings well despite the divisive result president trump has claimed victory and threatened the democrats against investigating him he's expected to make a statement any minute now a diplomatic editor james phase has more he is keen to preach this as a victory yes he has lost one of the branches of congress and that clearly is not good for a president it constrains a president but he is gaining seats in the senate that makes it easier for him to make top appointments of judges and generals maybe some of those ambassador posts that are still missing around the world although that many of those have not been nominated yet by the administration and of course makes it easier for him if he is as is believed to be the case going to be going to be having some sort of reshuffle

of this midterm election and i'm sure they'll be questions about that too. focus on thing is underway in madagascar presidential election the african island nation has been choosing between no less than thirty six candidates including the current president and three of his predecessors the result is expected is not expected for at least twelve days and if nobody gets fifty percent of the vote it will be a runoff next month a group of students abducted from a high school in cameroon on monday have been freed but several members of school staff are still missing the seventy eight pupils as well as their driver and teachers were taken from a boarding school in the northwestern city of blender kind of. speaking. what that is it for now we are waiting for that news conference from the u.s. we're expecting to hear president trump speak about the results of the midterms

stay with us we'll have that as soon as it happens by. the way when you're. in the. i have never really been into any modes or any group i've heard at all like you're not somali enough you're not a good muslim you're not american enaam. have multiple identities most of the

things that make me why i am. that's what makes me me. not an easy thing to be the window.