they tried to take a microphone for a reporter and another reporter asked about concerns over the rise of white nationalism that such a racist question the sessions firing in the fall of from the u.s. midterms comes as donald trump prepares to head to paris where he'll attend an event along with russian president vladimir putin on wednesday trump once again declined to directly criticize putin for his twenty fourteen addicks ation of crimea instead blaming it on former president barack obama can really help get al-jazeera the white house on the firing of sessions was announced just after president trump talked up his republican party's gains in the senate from tuesday's midterm elections turnout was unusually high across the country and a night off of good news for both of the main political parties the democrats of claims two hundred twenty three seats so far in the u.s. house of representatives handing them control however it was the republicans who picked up a seat in the senate that's stands at fifty one could be several weeks before we

know the final numbers from both houses of congress fifteen house races and two senate races still too close to call and also be a senate runoff in mississippi later this month well the result set the stage for what promises to be a very different washington both physically and in terms of who serves in congress reports from washington d.c. who is a big day yesterday white house spin zone despite the midterm loss of the house to the democrats president donald trump declared victory citing republican gains in the senate they did focus on the senate and we had tremendous success with the senate democratic house leader nancy pelosi said the democrats victory was an opportunity to work together with the strive for bipartisanship we believe that we have a responsibility to seek common ground. well we can but we cannot we must

stand aside from our control of the house gives democrats power to block much of the republican legislative agenda and launch investigations into trump's russian business dealings taxes and other ethical issues dogging several senior officials yes democrats are here to strengthen the institution in which we serve and not to have been a rubber stamp for the president chop. many democratic voters believe the house should begin impeachment proceedings against trump but the senate republican leader had a warning for democrats drawn from republicans own experience i remember when we tried in the late ninety's we impeach president clinton his numbers one often are going down and we underperform in the national election so the democrats on the house will have to decide just how much presidential harassments they think is good strategy i'm not so sure it will work for them. when it's sworn in early next year

the new congress will include more women than any in history among them will be the first female muslim representatives including russia to t.m. who is also the first palestinian american ever elected a black and latino women one including alexandria cortez who will be the youngest person in the house and the first ever native american women will take their seats in the senate some races are still too close to call and may be headed for recounts but republican control of that body is a certainty there's not very much common ground between the parties on major issues like immigration and health care so the forecast for the next two years is lots of talk but little action robert oulds al-jazeera washington. president trump says he'll have a much stronger opinion on the case of. the ext week saudi journalist was murdered

in saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul last month and that the matter of more than a month since the death of mr can show you here in this very sad thing very terrible thing do you think saudi arabia is guilty of of having a murder and if so much stronger opinion on that subject over the next week and i'm working very closely with congress we're working together some very talented people and we're working with congress we're working with turkey and we're working with saudi arabia and i'm forming a very strong opinion pro-government forces in yemen say they've advance closer to the rebel held port city of her data while the one hundred fifty people have been killed in the last three days as a military offensive against the who these intensifies the leader of the who the rebels has vowed to never surrender. reports. that pro-government forces laid a ground offensive on her data which is being controlled by heathy rebels since twenty forty supported by

a saudi amorality coalition which has been bombing positions in the poor city the collateral damage has been significant the age group save the children says one of its pharmacies providing lifesaving supplies was damaged by an asteroid pro-government forces have taken control of a major road leading into the city but the leader of the rebels in yemen has vowed not to surrender what they were jailed johnny and i direct a call to all freemen of our people to head for the fronts to defend the port city the battle is not a small one it stretches two thousand kilometers along the red sea coast. it's been a year since the saudi amorality coalition imposed an assay and land blockade on yemen the post city of her data was until now a lifeline for the small amount of humanitarian aid the managed to get into the country but is the battle to control her data intensifies it's become almost impossible to get food supplies into yemen about two thousand one hundred people

have reportedly fled their homes in the area close to the fighting humanitarian agencies have consistently warned their protracted fighting inside her data city or any incident that he drafted port operations could set off a humanitarian catastrophe. hundreds of thousands of people who live in her day to face being trapped as fighting places in around them the u.s. and u.n. have called for a cease fire we've been urging all parties to come to the table and to recognize that there is no military victory that can be achieved in yemen and we continue to call for a sation of hostilities but that cool seems to be falling on deaf ears as both sides battle for control of her data the u.n. is warning yemen is just three months away from a devastating famine putting thirty million people at risk victoria gates and be

algis their. a pakistani christian woman acquitted of blasphemy has been released from prison as your baby's acquittal after eight years on death row spot nationwide protest by hardliners she was convicted in two thousand and ten on charges of insulting the prophet mohammed after a dispute with muslim fellow farm workers. all of the students kidnapped from a high school in cameroon have been released armed men took the seventy nine pupils from a presbyterian boarding school and the mender regional governor says four people is still missing including a driver two teachers and the principal amend one of cameron's in the speaking regions where separatists have been fighting for an independent states. but i want you to define the fight at the winter when i left or. was through because i saw. you being harassed to talk loudly you understand i knew you was traumatized and that also made me more. thought acknowledged that i've been

here present i feel and i've talked with you and i'm sure it will be for now and fine but i'm not sure of the safety of the school for my wish is that to close the school for now because of the security problems that are becoming. still ahead here on al-jazeera wildlife experts reveal the troubling side of a video has been viewed more than twenty million times. and a century on france finally recognizes the sacrifices made by the tens of thousands of african and asian soldiers in world war one. from its effects proving. to summarize the top of the tremendous. hello most of the showers are dying away or have gone from iran you can see from the satellite picture this is historic of course irving

is moving in this general direction there's active weather there towards turkmenistan and beyond and winter is thinking about it but the skies should clear for daytime on thursday that's not the case further west whilst i say most of iran is looking fine the likelihood of seeing yet more showers and big ones in the north of saudi arabia sudden iraq or kuwait is still there and it's don't lead just to says they have a friday i think is a persistent likelihood for the next three four or five days there are more showers coming off the eastern mediterranean for israel and quite possibly for lebanon as well and jordan sort of has jumped down to us arabian peninsula and see how far south these shows get there's a line of risk from medina's through riyadh up towards bahrain probably and to the north of that to the size at the moment the risk is minimal but you know cities green spots here saturday sunday monday expect the green to extend across qatar and down towards the south of that it looks fine how are we doing in south africa well

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again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of all top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has fired attorney general jeff sessions and peter pace by his chief of staff matthew whitaker he's been highly critical of the investigation even democrats say which of them must means that you've accused himself from oversight of the russian approach. the firing of sessions was announced just after president talked up his republican party's gains in the senate from tuesday's midterm elections but you have to contend with democrats who chat powerful committees and the house of representatives of the opposition party secure a majority in the chamber. pro-government forces in yemen say they've advanced closer to the group the controlled port city of data that's supported by the saudi ambassador coalition which has been bombing positions in the city more than one hundred fifty people have been killed in the last three days the leader of the who the rebels has vowed to never surrender. can mohammad the sect of morocco has

spoken of his desire to improve diplomatic relations with algeria he's proposed opening the border with. the neighboring country is being played since one thousand nine hundred four. following a bombing and the king says he'll consider proposals algeria may want to offer to break the stalemate. since i came to the throne i've been calling for the opening of borders separating the two countries and 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. a senior israeli politician has been speaking at a transport conference and i'm on just a few days after prime minister benjamin netanyahu met the country's leader

spinning speculation that israel is attempting to normalize relations with countries matheson reports from. israel's transport and intelligence minister in the southern gulf country of oman israel wants to build a railway linking its mediterranean ports at haifa stretching south across thousands of kilometers of our road blind to the western coast of the strait of hormuz israel counts has been outlining the plans at a global transportation conference but he's also the latest senior israeli official to make a high profile visit to an arab country in the last few weeks some say these trips are a sign that relations between israel and some arabic countries are being normalized and the early two thousand countries put together an initiative which said that relations with israel would only be considered normal if there was a peace deal signed by both israel and palestine but there is no peace deal now

palestinians and some others are concerned that a peace deal is a lower priority not just for israel. for some arabic countries as well. at the end of october israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu was also in amman to meet its ruler sultan qaboos bin saeed the last time an israeli leader did that was more than twenty years ago around the same time israel's cultural sports minister was in abu dhabi in the united arab emirates and its minister for communications was just on the coast in dubai significantly just a few days before netanyahu is visit palestinian president mahmoud abbas was also in amman for delegates at the transport conference business not politics is the priority. of on what they had there in the one lipnica to have the conference in oman shows our strategic location in addition to its unique experience in the field of international trade and transport and our impact on the region. but israel and

some arabic countries seem to be sending a message that parts of the power structure in the region may be open to change matheson al-jazeera. mexico has defended its human rights record as united nations review in switzerland mexico's ambassador to the un human rights council says recent laws have improved children's rights and help limit corruption brennan has more from geneva mexico came to this hearing of the un human rights working group with numerous human rights violations to explain perhaps most notorious among them the two thousand and fourteen massacre of forty three student teachers in. a massacre that is still unsolved today but the ambassador from mexico came forward with a raft of recent legislation that has improve the human rights situation gen x. to improve the rights of the child to tackle corruption and to prevent torture and also a whole new criminal justice system since twenty sixteen and the reaction from the

chamber here was broadly supportive there were numerous suggestions and recommendations as to how mexico continue to push forward its progress but in general the other ambassadors the other nations broadly supportive of the direction of travel that mexico is taking. thousands of asylum seekers and y. grants from central america have arrived in mexico says he only away to the united states a caravan made up mainly of hondurans as the first of three large groups moving across mexico in search of a better life when they were reports from mexico. this is the sound of children laughing and singing. we 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 on the. mexican authorities have been preparing for their arrival setting up food

stands medical tents as well spaces for a shower and even a haircut. 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 let everyone know 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 what then as 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 transported to a comedy as many as five thousand people traveling as part of a care. then that left on douras several weeks ago but the stop here is only temporary they're all to me 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. as six body has been pulled from the rubble of two dilapidated buildings that collapsed in the french city of ma say on monday rescuers are still searching deborah with sniffer dogs but have little hope of finding anyone alive angry residents say they had repeatedly told authorities of the state of the buildings in the poor neighborhood but were ignored almost six thousand properties in the city

have been labeled at risk of collapse. boeing has issued a safety notice to airlines operating at seven three seven max aircraft after lie in the air flight six ten crashed into the java sea its advise is pilots on how to handle false readings from one of the plane's sensors which would cause the aircraft to abruptly enter a steep dive the plane was only two months old when it crashed off the coast of indonesia killing all one hundred eighty nine people on board last month turkey's fishing industry accounts for roughly one percent of its economy but that figure is even likely to go down as a result of overfishing. join the captain of a small fishing boat and his crew.