brookland of n.b.c. news over the latest from thousand oaks jennifer thank you. staying in the u.s. leading democrats are warning that the russian vista geisha is under threat after attorney general jeff sessions was removed by president donald trump nancy pelosi who leads the democrats in the house of representatives called the move a blatant attempt to end or impede special counsel robert miller's investigation well is looking into allegations that russia interfered in the two thousand and sixteen presidential vote the democrats won control of the house in the midterms and have vowed to protect it was sessions has been temporarily replaced by matthew whittaker who's been openly critical of miller's investigation was or was the u.s. attorney for southern iowa from two thousand and four to two thousand and nine in that role he prosecuted white collar and drug trafficking crimes it tried to run for the senate in two thousand and fourteen but failed to win the republican party's nomination he then worked as a conservative legal commentator for c.n.n.

before being hired as jeff sessions chief of staff in october last year to get more now from our white house correspondent kimberly so i mean obviously the jeff sessions firing had somewhat been predicted the two men him in prison for by and got on in a very long time so how realistic are these fears that this is going to eventually spell the end of the investigation. well it certainly is a realistic fear for democrats that's why they have penned a letter to the acting attorney general matthew would occur they're arguing event he they have concerns that he because of an editorial he penned saying that that probe has gone too far that he could sharply curtailed the authority of the probe he could limit its budget he could also squash lines of inquiry so that is the concern but also the concern that they've outlined in their letter is what they say

is a pattern of the president trying to obstruct this investigation they make the argument they point to the firing of the former f.b.i. director james comey the threat to fire robert muller who is overseeing the investigation and also the attempt to previously and the f.b.i. investigation of former national security advisor michael flynn they see all of this collectively as concerning that's where they are not only demanding clarity in terms of how this investigation will move forward in the eyes of the acting attorney general but also they're calling for emergency hearings into the forced resignation of jeff sessions given the fact that they believe that this was the president's attempt to obstruct justice with respect to this investigation. and obviously it's the senate that can confirm the new attorney general in the senate is now controlled by the republicans who are has really has remained in republican hands trump right now though it or soon is going to be ad kavanah investiture tell

us a little bit how bad is playing out. well you know all things involving the federal judiciary are pretty active at the moment not only have we seen the departure of the attorney general jeff sessions somebody else put in his place that we should point out many are arguing is maybe not legal under the law of the united states given the fact that the senate must approve the appointment of the attorney general and that has not been done nor has it been done in the position he was filling at the department of justice prior so there's that the president as you point out is up at the supreme court right now he is participating in the investiture of the supreme court justice brett kavanaugh it's like a swearing in a formal swearing in of course this is the highest court in the united states and in the midst of all of that we have learned that one of the supreme court justices ruth bader ginsburg is in the hospital she has fallen that happened on wednesday

apparently and has broken or fractured three ribs so there is a lot of turmoil with respect to the federal judiciary taking place in the united states right now and that is leaving a lot of americans feeling very uncertain yeah i mean the certainly has been a lot of a lot going on in the united states in the past forty eight hours or so and yet when i was just watching a lot of the news channels around the world a lot of the things making news around the world that that spat between the c.n.n. correspondent at the white house and don't trump really made headlines everywhere what's been the fallout of that in the u.s. it's. it's become yet another point of contention for an already divided america this is a spat that has been ongoing we are all familiar if you followed donald trump is presidency for those last months or years you know that he's had an ongoing war with the media and he singled out a particular one news outlet c.n.n. and one of its white house reporters jim acosta this continued yesterday at

a press conference at the white house where the president called him rude the president has in the past called it was the enemy of the people the media is a holes and me of the people but when this particular reporter tried to continue to press and ask questions as a white house aide reach for the microphone on the believe it was the fourth attempt you see the reporter almost karate chopping to block the mike from being pulled away now this was released by sarah sanders the white house press secretary but here's the point that has made so many americans an api she released a doctored video of that moment it was sped up it was put out and edited by a controversy will outlive the conservative outlet known as info wars and then this was used as justification to pull the white house credentials of this reporter because in the view of the white house he had quote laid hands on

a woman just trying to do her job this is just further divided americans it has. outrage on social media depending where you are on the left or the right people are saying this is further evidence of the white house trying to block reporters from just just doing their job the a.c.l.u. the american civil liberties union has issued a statement a protest of this this controversy just continues over what was supposed to be the president's post midterm press conference seemingly innocuous but the number of controversies that have stemmed just from that eighty seven minute press conference continue into a second day but they do can really help it with the latest from the white house kimberly thank you. and still to come in this half hour. will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home one of central african republic so many orphans demands answers in a refugee camp surrounded by on groups and the pakistani christian woman acquitted

of blasphemy has been freed from prison but the government denies that she's left the car. got no shortage of sunshine across southern parts of china further north it is a different story this area cloud here asked pulling out into the open waters bright skies to come back in behind hong kong twenty seven degrees celsius little area cloud and rain then that's just pushing its way all the way down into central and northern parts of vietnam on the north easterly monsoon further north there's that dry weather there's asked sunshine for time central areas will see some outbreaks of right as we go on into sas day southern china stays fine and dry as is the case to across a good part of the philippines central areas southern areas of thailand could see

some showers along dispose of rain last the system just rolling out here and you can see how that cloud extends all the way across the by a single into sri lanka much in the cricket weather has been rain not too far away some big downpour sent across the eastern side of the island where the cricket is over towards the southwest and go all the chance of more dry weather here but still the showers never too far away they come timex system spilling out of thailand making its way into the by a big old certainly want to watch as we go on through next week i have a little drier in thailand as we go on into sassed a cloud that building across the eastern side of india but generally dry to the north. well the story is of life. and to inspiration. for a series of short documentaries from around the world that celebrate the human spirit

against me oh it's. all over the world the old. al-jazeera selects express yourself. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera turkish sources have told al-jazeera the search for the body of murdered saudi journalist. has ended this after traces of hydrofluoric acid were found at the residence of the saudi consul general in its them twelve people have been killed in the u.s. city of. a former marine opened fire in

a crowded bar popular with college students and leading democrats have vowed to protect the inquiry into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election after attorney general jeff sessions was removed by president is being replaced by matthew whitaker who's been openly critical of the inquiry. aid agencies are urging the united nations to step up its efforts to protect the civilian population in central african republic one in four people are displaced with hundreds of thousands forced out of their homes this year alone by the violence next week the u.n. will need to renew the mandate of its peacekeeping force in the country they sent us this report from a refugee camp in calgary. it just arrived ulead displaced children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the. violence in central african republic. some have their homes burnt to the ground others were chased from

their villages by young men with machetes and guns among them are survivors of unspeakable violence. ten year olds his mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors. she hid in the bush with her uncle then tried to return to her village but the men kept coming back so she had again. there's no hiding from the violence we want the arms to go the violence to stop we just want peace this is celine's do you home an overcrowded refugee camp of twenty three thousand people surrounded by armed militia groups under siege and unable to leave the camp is that they are held hostage protected by a few overstretched u.n. troops celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places and she took the microphone. will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home. we put her questions to visiting

secretary general of the norwegian refugee council young angle and i hope she will be able to go back to our house but the reality is that you know the big forces of the armed groups and the lack of intention from this national community is not go in her direction really in this situation for these people is really desperate outside of the camp and outside of where this small girl is there are three armed groups and they deny people returning to their homes among the people living in this refugee camp are armed men in hiding not only do they target the humanitarian workers that bring them health they also attack the people that live in this camp it seems that there is no safe space for people to skate from the violence. at least them but was searching for food when she was gang raped at

gunpoint by men she suspects are part of a christian armed group in the camp. they won't stop hurting girls here they think we're objects for them to take rape is just part of living here despite the trauma and the violence committed by adults whether christian or muslim children in this refugee camp sure a brief moment of unity in a country torn and looking for peace because hawke al-jazeera. early results in madagascar presidential election show former presidents andry rajoelina and marc ravalomanana almost neck and neck but only a small proportion of votes of so far be counted across the large african island nation there are also concerns of a voting irregularities and low turnout for me the miller has more now from antananarivo. results are trickling in here at the results in to in the capital antananarivo there are about twenty five thousand voting stations around

the country where results have to be collated and sent here so far we know that feeley a percentage of those results have come in and they show that two of the main contenders are neck and neck relooking add to marc ravalomanana former president who has about forty two percent of the vote at this stage and his opponent aren't you but still you know has about forty three percent of the vote but of course very early days one of the main concerns of many of the people who have voted against their supposed to be nine million voters is what some of the main newspapers are leading with at this point one that there were a number many irregularities in this election and also a low voter turnout to the electoral commission says that about forty percent of the people who were supposed to have vote turned out at the polls and of course there will be a concern around the electoral mandate for ever wins this election. can be.

irregularities out there on the electoral list there were twelve thousand double copies of the voting thirty six people and where you just did wrong names when the voting caused all those technical issues according to the rules starting from the fifteenth of may they literally cannot be changed in the movie so we have to wait until the first of december to really look at the list all the issues this race is very close if neither of the if any of the contenders they don't get more than fifty percent of the vote to madagascar is looking at a runoff in december between the two contenders who get the most votes once these votes are counted that of course. will take anything between twelve days with the preliminary results and then up to three weeks for final results to come out to the

country people here are very patient it is a very slow process one that millions of madagascar malagasy is rather are going to wait for it's completion. syrian state media is reporting that the army has freed a group of women and children from eisel they were abducted from the southern province in july according to the state broadcaster the last one thousand. killed in opera's killed they belong to syria's minority druze community. pakistan's government is the nine that a christian woman acquitted of blasphemy has left the country amid threats of renewed violent demonstrations by conservative islamic groups ozzie abebe was released on wednesday from jail in the city of multan a week after her conviction was overturned in the supreme court that the sit in provoked mass protests across pakistan both the netherlands and italy have offered her a safe haven from

a height or has the latest now from islamabad. after the court ordered a. baby was released from a prison and a studio on board on a special leg of that broader do the order been a good international airport in islamabad richard mourdock you know all the government is saying that the media reports that are leaving the country are totally false and based on fake news the information minister lashing out against the media is saying that this was sponsored by the behavior given the fact that the country had. done. violent protests broke out across pakistan and the government forced forced to make it read the book that the protesters were warned get indeed that b.b. leave the country a difficult predicament indeed for the government or did really be interesting to see where the opposition party though once again going to try to gain momentum and

come back on the street. pollution levels in the indian capital new delhi have soared to twenty times the safe level the day after the hindu volley festival celebrations in what's becoming an annual problem the government is blaming a combination of the valley fireworks displays and seasonal crop burning by farmers plans to restrict the sale of the most polluting fireworks and restrict the times that they could be set off appear to have been largely ignored. if you like to use pollution rule if you decrease driving an auto rickshaw since nine hundred ninety four it's become very difficult due to the pollution sometimes when we clean a nose or small black when we speak to a coal thoughts that's a problem. much more in everything that we have been covering on the website al-jazeera dot com.

and now a reminder of our main headlines turkish sources say the search for the body of murdered saudi journalist jamal the shoji has ended this after traces of hydrofluoric acid were found at the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul it's been suggested his body could have been the straw to use in the chemicals the turkish government is the man doing that saudi arabia reveal who was behind the murder. that we don't know who had to die in the orders but i reiterate it's a huge responsibility which rests entirely on the side a monarch shoulders in his capacity as the custodian of the two holy mosques the most noble title a muslim person can bear merely the responsibility to expose the crime the stubbornness the truth and identify who had to die in these orders for the crime before the whole world it's part of the society responsibility to provide security to the. rituals performed by millions of muslims every year if muslim start to see

it's the security of the rituals would be undermined the kingdom would be abandoned by muslims therefore the king must ondine directives to expose the mastermind who plotted this crime a former marine opened fire in a crowded bar in the u.s. city of thousand oaks killing twelve people the borderline bar and grill is a popular venue with college students and young people most of the victims are believed to be aged between eighteen to twenty five it's the third mass shooting in the u.s. in under two weeks there have now been three hundred seven mass shootings just this here. leading democrats are warning that the inquiry into russian collusion in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election is under threat after attorney general jeff sessions was removed by president trump nancy pelosi who leads the democrats in the house of representatives called the move a blatant attempt to end or impede special counsel robert will lose investigation. and pakistan's government is the nine that a christian woman acquitted of blasphemy has left the country amid threats of

renewed violent demonstrations by conservative islamic groups ozzie abebe was released on wednesday from jail in the city of milton a week after her conviction was overturned in the supreme court those are the top stories more news in half an hour i'll see you in one thousand g.m.t. coming up next it's a.j. selects. we worked hard to take the place that. was.

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