sessions you have to ask well is that what mr whitaker told the president he would protect him from the arm of the law and that gets you then into impeachable offenses and obstruction of justice for both mr clinton and mr nixon word concluded by congress to be impeachable now a senior journalist said the u.s. broadcast to c.n.n. has had his press credentials for a vote off that he was accused by the white house of inappropriate behavior during a press conference with donald trump jim acosta was trying to ask a second question what and to try to take the microphone off him and he resisted the white house press secretary sarah sanda shared a video of the incident slowed down and zooming in on a cost as hand she tweeted that we will not tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a white house and to c.n.n. says acosta did nothing wrong and accuse sanders of lying about the incident. still ahead on the vote counting is underway in madagascar the people petron

a crowd of failed thirty six candidates for president and risky business how some sort of traders face mining along the border to chad to turn a profit. we still get more on the settled weather in the forecast across parts of the middle a still a fair amount of traffic just spilling across some wet weather there still making its way across iraq heading towards iran will see some showers lingering around the eastern side of the medicine go on through friday cyprus could see some showers longest spells of brazen rain that say into lebanon into jordan maybe into northern parts of israel for friday iraq is dry and fine twenty five celsius in baghdad twenty. eight city wintry showers just i was at western side of the himalayas over

towards western side of the region just around the levant which also some shastri you know this week i wanted to say as they syria lebanon jordan all to see one of two showers as is the case to all the parts of saudi arabia to spilling out of kuwait could see the odd shower here in qatar as well as we go through friday and only see sas day in a bit of wet weather certainly a possibility chance of some showers too just around the gulf of aden and around the coastal fringes of the red sea and a chance of some showers too into the mozambique channel courtesy of this area cloud which is making its way towards madagascar on the other side of madagascar we are keeping a close eye on a developing cycle that's making its way next week. well the online when you're looking at right now the solutions come together to benefit all parties involved that's where we're going to be long term or if you join us on

sand if you could take me around the continent where would you take me you don't have the fed up your experiment and your experiment in the universe this is a dialogue everyone has a voice you actually read several interesting point there that community members are going to join the global conversation. it's good to have you with us on the things our top story your sources have told al-jazeera that the search for the body of murdered. she has ended the song for traces of hydrochloric acid were found at the residence of the saudi consul general and. investigators have suggested his body could have been destroyed using the

chemicals police in california have released more details about the man who shot and killed twelve people including a policeman and saw the bomb twenty eight year old in long was a former u.s. marine who was lying to authorities and leading democrats have valid to protect the inquiry into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election after attorney general jeff sessions was removed by president trump he's been replaced by matthew who's been openly critical of the inquiry. i sold as understood to have stepped up its movements across the iraq syrian border and legge took toiba iraq's government is reinforcing its border with syria and trying to reassure the people that live muhammad reports. above it off its border with syria security forces are on high alert. military is doing what it can to repel any attempts by eisel members to regroup at

a briefing the commander of anbar operations command centers as pockets of eisel fighters are located in an area north of the euphrates river. at another part of the border a convoy is on patrol on the horizon smoke rises the result of out of the forces shelling eisel fighters a little recently i salute tacked a stiff positions a move forced to retreat from their location but across the border area between iraq and syria there is no sign of terrorist elements even if they do then they'll be talkative by iraq to force. an optimistic assessment even as it of the military commanders estimate that at least two thousand five hundred eisel fighters remain in data and other syrian towns close to the border brigadier general you hear us who says that office positions have been fortified and the border is being secured disability went up where it is a fine our intelligence gathering effort as well and we have installed he seeker

and thermal surveillance cameras supported by drones were also conducting strikes and shelling. where located on the highest hill overlooking the syrian border. the threat posed by ice along the border isn't just worrying it off the forces people living in the nearby town of a caught him are also concerned they've suffered in the past and are still suffering in two thousand and fourteen when a client was still under eisel control samee to how mood lost a leg in an explosion. the improvised device had been planted by isis to halt the advance of the iraqi forces who were attempting to take back the town like the one they started working as a fisherman but the job is difficult i need to feed a large family i call on the government to help us these are not limbs husband was killed by eisel fighters in two thousand and fifteen she tries to support her family by selling milk from her two cows one of my children are students and need

heat electricity at home. sadness and desperation seemingly deepening even as a borders defenses are bolstered. and we're getting reports that three people have been killed and nine injured in a car bombing in the iraqi city of mosul it is the first attack of its kind since defeated there the leader of yemen's houthi rebel says he will never surrender to saudi backed forces more than one hundred fifty people have been killed in fighting as pro-government troops advance on the rebel held port city of day their aid groups have appealed for the safe passage of civilians as the military offensive intensifies an israeli sniper has killed a palestinian man in central gaza twenty one year old was shot by israeli forces east of conde yunus he is the latest palestinian to die from israeli army fire

despite reports that israel and hamas to a long term cease fire. fourteen soldiers have been killed and eight enjoyed after the taliban attacked the afghan national army base in the district of the province. a pakistani christian woman acquitted of blasphemy has been freed from prison the netherlands is now offering her temporary asylum a baby's acquittal after eighteen years on death row on the spot nationwide protests by hardliners local media say she's on the way out of the country despite a supreme court ruling that allows her from leaving the stone was convicted in twenty ten on charges of insulting the prophet muhammad after a dispute with the muslim farmworkers high the has more from islam. after the court ordered her release. baby was released from a prison and

a studio on board on a special leg of their broader do the order been a deed international airport in islamabad reject moorcock your government is saying that the media reports about her leaving the country are totally false and the information minister lashing out against the media saying that this was irresponsible behavior given the fact that the country had come to a word you were stunned then after a violent protests broke out across pakistan and the government forces forced to make it read the protesters the protesters were now warned gatenby that i share bibi leave the country a difficult predicament indeed for the government why did really be interesting to see where the opposition parties are once again going to try to gain momentum and come back on the street. aid agencies are calling the crisis and central african republic one of the world's most neglected conflicts and elected government is now

in power but the violence between groups continues it's forced more than twenty thousand people from their homes. nicholas hogg sent us this report from a refugee camp and. was. it just arrived ulead displaced children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian 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 to the 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 i'm sure there's no hiding from the violence we want the arms to go the violence to stop we just want peace this is silliness 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 soon 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 going to her direction really 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 are 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 we're searching for food when she was gang raped at gunpoint by men she suspects are part of a christian armed group in the camp what is so 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 where the christian or muslim children in this refugee camp sure a brief moment of unity in a country torn and looking for peace nicholas hauke al jazeera. to

madagascar our vote counting has begun after the presidential election so the six candidates were on the ballot with three frontrunners all of whom are former leaders but there are concerns about the low turnout many people saying that they weren't able to cast their ballot form of the miller has the latest from the capital and ton of. results are trickling in here at the results into 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 under or to leno 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 here in madagascar they

are supposed to be about nine million voters it is what some of the main newspapers are leading with at this point one that there were a number 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. irregularities that are on the electoral list there were twelve thousand double copies of the voting records thirty six people and you just did wrong names when the voting caused all those. 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. issues this race is very close if

neither of the any of the contenders they don't get small in 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 for 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 its completion. so donna and the u.s. are moving ahead with the goal to remove the african nation from the list of state sponsors of terrorism so that has been on the list by nine hundred ninety three when president omar al bashir the government was accused of sheltering armed groups including al qaeda leader osama bin laden removal from the list would help revive

sudan's economy and improve its international relations last year sanctions were lifted but sudan was kept on the list now the sudan chad border as a trading hub for merchants and therefore state of the border which has been a point of tension between the two countries in the past is also a route for smuggling goods in and out of the country hippa morgan has more from west for on the border with chad. i believe how much has been in the trade business in west are for for more than twenty years he says his business has expanded over the past few years as he no longer sells his goods to city nice traders only do so . we take our sudanese products to sell some of the things to charity and try to secure our border bring them back to their country. hundreds of traders in sudan buy and sell goods across the sudan chad border for many it's a way to keep their businesses alive but the border isn't always secure

a book at him and remembers the times when violence break the border affecting his business. sometimes clashes with long order and we had a fear that we had to close the shops. border tensions rose when the darfur conflict began in two thousand and three in two thousand and six chaddock usedn't of backing a failed rebel attack on the capital. khartoum returned the accusation in two thousand and eight when darfur rebels attacked the sudanese capital and security isn't the only issue causing tension at the joint border the border has been shut down several times over the past decade due to the smuggling of weapons cars and other goods across the two countries. with a history of smuggling and movement of armed groups between the seven hundred fifty kilometer border between sudan and chad securing it is vital for both countries a special joint deployment force has been increased this year but while that has reduced the number of armed groups the smuggling continues that's because those

joint forces established in two thousand and ten are not present along the whole border with goods worth millions of dollars being smuggled annually local authorities in west are foresee securing the border is the pirates and those who. have the joint forces establish their directives from the presidents of the two countries to protect trade there is an active trade between our country and chad if we want benefits for citizens of both countries so securing the border ensures trade continues in the right way abdullah says he doesn't know if the child in traitors who buy from him take the goods back to their country illegally but he hopes to continue to trade with him regardless so that his business continues to thrive even more going to al-jazeera west are for. the headlines on. turkish sources have told that the search for the body of

murdered. has ended the softer traces of acid were found at the residence of the consul general and istanbul investigators have suggested that his body could have been destroyed using the chemicals well the turkish government is keeping the pressure. to reveal her who was behind the. we don't know who had to die in the orders but i reiterate it's a huge responsibility rich rests entirely on the side a monarch shoulders and his capacity as the custodian of the two holy mosques the most noble title a muslim person can bear namely the responsibility to expose the crime establish the truth and identify who had to die. these orders for the crime but for the whole world it's part of the saudi responsibility to provide security to the. rituals performed by millions of muslims every year as muslims start to see that the security of the rituals would be undermined the kingdom would be abandoned by

muslims therefore the king must dine directives to expose the mastermind who plotted this crime. and he's in california have released more details about the man who shot and killed twelve people including the policeman inside a bar twenty eight year old ian long was a former u.s. marine who had minor run ins with the law authorities say they have no motive for the shooting. leading democrats have vowed to protect the inquiry into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election after attorney general jeff sessions was removed by president trump he's being replaced by matthew what occur he is being openly critical of the inquiry. we're getting reports that three people have been killed in line injured in a car bombing in the iraqi city of mosul it's the first attack of its kind since i was defeated by iraqi forces there in july last year a pakistani christian woman acquitted of blasphemy has been freed from prison the

netherlands is offering her temporary asylum babies acquittal after eighteen years on death row has fought nationwide protests by hardliners local media say she's on the way out of the country that's despite a supreme court ruling that bars her from leaving pakistan well those are the headlines on al-jazeera but do stay with us the inside story is coming up next thank you for watching. mixed results in the u.s. midterm elections the republicans tighten their grip on the senate while the democrats capture the house of representatives what does this mean for president trump's remaining two years in office and how will it affect his foreign policy this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm homage enjoy him the midterm result set the stage for what promises to be a very different washington for the second half of the president's first term in office and there could be consequences for his foreign policies the democrats will have more power to influence decisions from russia and saudi arabia to the israel palestine issue will have an expert panel to discuss this shortly but first robert oulds reports on the shape of things to come who is a big day yesterday white house spin zone despite the mid-term 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 drum who will strive for bipartisanship and believe that lee harvey sponsored me to seek common ground. well we can but we cannot we must stand on it for now 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 oh yes democrats are here to strengthen the institution in which we serve and not to have it be a rubber stamp for 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 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 next election so the democrats in the house will have to decide just how much presidential harassments they think is a good strategy i'm not so sure it will work or 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. all right let's bring in our guests here with us in the studio is carl wider quist political philosopher and associate professor at georgetown university in new york eli clifton fellow at nation institute and contributing editor at low blog and in boston rami hooty senior fellow at harvard kennedy school welcome to the program so carl let me start with you now that jeff sessions has been fired not really

a surprise but how much do you think that could impact robert muller's investigation well it depends what trump has planned he's already whitacre the replacement is somebody who's very anti the investigation whether they're going to follow through and try to fire sessions or not remains to be seen that's a strong possibility but we don't know what's in trump's mind rami let me ask you what about russia overall i mean do you think now that the democrats have taken control of the house of representatives and have much more power to investigate do you think that we're going to be seeing a lot more investigations as far as trump's possible ties to russia. for sure we're going to see vesta geishas we're going to see requests for classified or private material like bank accounts or tax returns and things of that nature which the the committees intelligence and other committees in the house have the authority to do

without necessarily seeking senate approval there will definitely be a probing going on now in the next month or so as people try to figure out what's the most effective way to push back against the many many things that trump has done that the democrats don't like but not to push too far when they might trigger a counter reaction both in the congress and also among the public some for instance that there isn't really a majority in the population for impeachment of trump but many democrats would like that so that's probably not going to happen but yes there's going to be investigations and there's going to be a lot of pressure using the constitutional system the new bills and passing new motions and new initiatives new investigations new hearings all kinds of things are going to be done russia is going to be one of them syria probably will be one iran possibly certainly saudi arabia and yemen and the fallout of the high sugary

situation all of these things will be will be will be on the agenda the question is where they're going to prioritize things arab israeli issues will be pretty minor right now but they'll eventually emerge later. if you could expand a bit on what rami was saying there because he he brought up saudi arabia so if we could pivot a bit more to to the region when it comes to saudi arabia of course we know that the president donald trump is you know very close with the saudi regime but with growing outrage over the murder of jamal khashoggi and with democrats in control of the house. is that relationship going to be affected. i think the relationship with saudi arabia is probably a great example of the two competing and perhaps aspects now of the president's foreign policy decision making at one level members of his administration who work on foreign policy matters such as the secretary of state my pompei o national

security advisor john bolton they're almost certainly going to be spending a lot more time on capitol hill testifying before congressional committees explaining the president's foreign policy decisions so in that sense it's going to be a lot more oversight is going to be a lot more pressure coming down on them to confront the the challenges such as the murder of jamal khashoggi and the and many other of the of the inconsistent. aspects of the united states as a relationship with saudi arabia extending to the war in yemen in particular where there is a large scale opposition within the democratic party to the u.s. is ongoing role in helping to facilitate that through refueling as well as arms sales but you know there's another side of this which is that the president's legislative agenda is almost certainly stalled at this point his ability to get anything through this democratically controlled congress is going to be severely hampered and on for and foreign policy might be one of the few areas where he can act out where he can provide distractions something he is not above doing as he

showed with the migrant is trying to fan racist fears about the migrant caravan coming up through mexico and in that regard it's quite possible he'll double down on the relationship with saudi arabia and the backing of m.b.'s. i think one of the key words that you i was mentioning there is oversight the fact that the democrats have the house are they going to hold trump's feet to the fire on a number of issues now one of them i want to ask you about is yemen of course one of the things that's come out of the growing outrage that we mentioned in the murder of samantha shows he is the fact that there is this momentum seemingly in washington to try to hold the saudis accountable for what's going. on in yemen and to perhaps try to stop us is relationship with saudi arabia when it comes to the war in yemen do you see that being impacted at this point yes and there are going to be able to shine a light on what's going on what's going on that's one of the roles of of an

opposition in the way the u.s. system works you can control the house of congress and still essentially be the opposition they'll be able to sign to shine a light on some of the stuff and they can block a lot of legislation that would have gone through the other what otherwise that's all they can do and it's true they face the big tradeoff of how much of this can they do without without going too far i think in the past republicans have been very willing a very unafraid of going too far when they're doing things like this and democrats have been a little more maybe a low over afraid about going too far and maybe they need to go a little farther this time around what do you think about you know when it comes to this issue of yemen i mean do you think that we're at a stage now that u.s. lawmakers will effectively be able to block the u.s. is participation with saudi arabia in the war in yemen in some way. it's the law hanging fruit in the american saudi relationship and it's the easiest thing for the

united states to do to send a message to saudi arabia that comes out of the widespread anger and revulsion in the us about the murder and not just the murder of her children but the repeated lying and incompetent explanations coming out of the government of saudi arabia and the crown prince's office they keep coming up with different stories so there's really strong offense and anger in the united states and they want to do something to just send a message to saudi arabia and the easiest way to do this is yemen partly because there's also incredible information now with photos on the front page of the new york times and other places about the terrible human catastrophe there i mean i mean i know it's in the u.s. right now you're seeing a hand in there were about the humanitarian catastrophe in yemen really playing out in the media in a way that it wasn't before correct. that's right and it's not you know people don't vote because of foreign policy we know that but at the same time polls show

that americans want their government to be even handed to be decent to have integrity to promote international law and fair fair handedness to both sides in the conflict including the arab israeli conflict but so there can be public opinion pressure possibly pushing some of the members of congress to to at least get the united states to stop directly being a mall in this war and then maybe they'll move on to other things like delaying weapon sales of soda arabia renegotiating issues like that that the american soda relationship is so big and so significant that they don't want to bring it question down obviously but they also want to send a message because it is possible that the democrats in the house will completely ignore saudi in yemen because they might decide that they will they will get more attention focusing on the rush into vet investigation and some of his

donald trump's financial dealings or his past sexual harassment issues they might decide that we can only focus on so many things and they might make the clock elation that those are the things they can the most of focus on maybe they'll drop some of those and spend more time on saudi and yemen it remains to be seen if we're talking about saudi arabia and we're talking about yemen we should of course bring iran into the conversation now that the u.s. is reimposing sanctions against iran where it is this relationship go you know there have been so many reports in the past year that perhaps donald trump wants to reopen negotiations with iran it from your vantage point does that happen what happens next exactly i would find it to be an extremely unlikely outcome because in that there's one actor in this midterm that we haven't really given any attention to it and when i say we i mean mean the. in general and that is the republican party's biggest donor sheldon adelson alongside his wife miriam adelson and you

know they put over one hundred million dollars into this election cycle you could argue that they made a blunder and that it was a huge loss for them because of the outcome for the house but they did ok in the senate and more importantly i might argue that actually their investment into republican house races still couldn't pay a dividend to them because their number one concern is foreign policy it's keeping a hawkish u.s. stance toward iran they're very close with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and by all accounts that is their primary motivation for their political giving has to do with maintaining this close relationship between the republican party and the liquid party in israel and sheldon adelson arguably has more influence here this is a party that is more deeply indebted to him any republican member of congress and a republican member of the senate and donald trump himself all over arguably their positions to sheldon omarion adelson the largest in helping to fund them now

adelson this has proposed in the past that the u.s. to go shooting strategy toward iran should be to drop a nuclear weapon in as he put it in the iranian desert and tell the iranians that the next nuclear weapon will be landing on terror on this is not somebody who wants to see any sort of the goshi ation or diplomacy he he helped fund the opposition to the negotiation of the joint comprehensive plan of action under the previous administration and by all accounts he's played he played a major role in pushing for john bolton thorough a thorough iran hawks who nobody would doubt his intention of trying to spark some sort of a conflict as being appointed as national security advisor if you will sort of i thought the interest on iran it's hard to imagine the u.s. already in refuses i see croll ones that are going to make a point or going out of this way and don't forget. spending a hundred million dollars in elections. it is not just an investment on the outcome of that particular election but it is buying continuing influence with that party

i'm sure i'm sure that's obvious to you but i want to make sure i point that out it's not just about in a short term investment if even if they lose a lot of seats here and that by spending all that money they buy influence with republicans for the next two years i go ahead you wanted to say something precisely . i think that's absolutely right and that is the key takeaway we should be making is that the children marry an adult and have increased their investment into the republican party and the republican party's ties to to their biggest donors have now been deepened so i think on foreign policy matters in particular there's going to be very little daylight between any republicans and where sheldon mary matalin want them to be exactly so let me ask you then of course you heard eli and he brought israel into the conversation and you and i have on this show in the past spoken about this suppose it deal of the century that donald trump jared cushier and others were going to bring to in the israeli palestinian conflict peace for the

region that has not materialized most analysts don't think it will where is all that where has that gone. well the deal of the century was really the fantasy of the century i mean this has been a catastrophic century for much of the arab world certainly for the palestinians and it started with balfour ninety in one thousand seventeen and and now it's we have questioner in two thousand and seventeen eighteen and two figures who have absolutely no interest in giving any kind of human rights or national rights or respect to palestinians and and what we've seen over the century is total disdain by most western powers other than lip service to a genuinely equitable resolution of the israeli palestinian conflict and it's this deal of the century is built on a fantasy of the saudis and the israelis and moderate arabs on the americans and others making a front against iran and it's just not not going to work now i would just like to

add to what my two colleagues said before that we really have two contradictory forces at work here one is this incredible impact of shade. sheldon adelson and and then of course jared questioner and his links to the likud and his total control in many ways or heavy control of obviously in the middle east in the white house and the christian fundamentalists are just out of the legation of the christian fundamentalist meeting with howard been so man the crown prince of saudi arabia that triumvirate really creates a very powerful bloc that is driving much of the policies in the middle east against that is the tradition the current of the last ten fifteen years which is especially seen in the house of representatives and we've saw it in this election with elections of many progressives the first palestinian american somali american a lot of women and. people three arab americans but many progressives many leftist

progressives and and what we saw in two thousand and sixteen with bernie sanders is you can take a fair position on israel palestine in public as a presidential candidate and not get destroyed liked. had been the case in the past so i expect to see within the democratic party in the congress more lobbying for evenhandedness that's all we're asking for that's all they're asking for and this is going to push back a little sun and question around the christian fundamentalists and it's going to create a really fascinating dynamic the question is is this a court can turn out for them to make a priority or are they more going to be focused on russia on syria and yemen iran human rights or other issues we'll just have to wait and see but clearly there's two contradictory forces at work here and this election brought out the progressive leftist forces karl i mean trump has been all about america first do you see him now after the midterm elections actually focusing more on foreign policy yes that's

a traditional thing for presidents to do when they lose control of congress is the one thing that they have most control over is is foreign policy so it's going to be it's going to be a big of a concern for him and when he says america first he says the same thing putin means when when he when he when he talks about russia it's not really about america russia it's about me first it's about showing what a what a dominant great guy he is and he's got a lot of opportunities to bully people around in the foreign policy theater and he'll do that he also has an opportunity with the senate still lots of people lost the house and he lost the senate kept the house he wouldn't be able to support to appoint judges that's going to be a big thing in this in this that's going to be his main domestic thing in the next two years is appointing every conceivable judge he can at the in all levels you lie president trumps you know. he has severely altered some would say harmed america's

relationship with the european allies so you know leaders in europe what are they taking what is their take away from democrats remain in the house are they are they happy about it. well as i think karl just pointed out that typically the president who's just lost midterm elections turns to foreign policy in the second half of their of their term and in this case you're i doubt you're going to see a different donald trump you're not going to see a different mike pump a oh you're not going to see a different john bolton if anything i would warn anyone who's dealing with them that there's a highly or a likelihood that in some ways they're going to feel like the leash has been taken off they no longer have the midterm elections hanging over them they no longer have many of the more moderate voices in their own party trying to pull them back from from whatever they were trying to accomplish and in terms of what their agenda will be going forward i think as you just raise well iran is a good example they're moving forwards with trying to unilaterally reimpose

sanctions including on or getting other countries who had signed on to the joint comprehensive plan of action to now follow this this unilateral move by the united states to or to rescind ssion entities that engage in trade with iran there will be an effort by the europeans to try to create a non dollar based exchange so to continue some degree of trade with iran and hopefully maintain some of the constraints from the joint comprehensive plan of action on iran's nuclear program and but this is all going on in the context of john bolton as national security advisor who hasn't seen a multilateral or international treaty they haven't want to tear hasn't wanted to tear up though the intermediate nuclear forces treaty is almost certainly on the chopping block at this point and i'm sure that there will be heightened tensions as europe tries to salvage what they can of the joint comprehensive plan of action and as we do this as the united states does this it reaches a point where it overplays its influence of the united states leadership or acting

like it's still one hundred forty five and we're still the only intact industrial economy the world and that and that we can unilaterally sanction people in that. will hurt them it's hurting less and less unilateral sanctions come united states is hurting less and less especially with a rand now with with europe trying to undermine the us then has to try to pressure european companies and chinese companies into making a choice between doing business with the united states and doing business with iran and that weakens the united states influence around the world some of these companies going to say ok i won't use the united states and then that a little bit or roads us influence in this is this is this actually what seems like a strengthening of u.s. power is actually in is actually over the medium and long term just weakening just to jump in quickly that to follow that that there's now an actively organized

effort among big powers all over the world russia china turkey europe to organize a pushback against the american sanctions on iran to figure out a way where the world can keep trading with iran so the united states is dealing with opposition within the u.s. and then big opposition in the world this is not a bunch of small little countries but the biggest powers are saying to the u.s. openly what you're doing is unacceptable and we're going to push back against that the last point i make is that there are many democrats who support the trunk position on iran for instance or palestine on the new chairman of the foreign or foreign relations committee in the house eliot engel is is a liquid nick iran hawk as as hawkish as they come so that's not all in the democratic party not everybody is against what the trumpet ministrations doing and this is part of the struggle called if you want to do that yes and this this effort to this this this effort of trying to get where he thinks are better

deals are if he doesn't know what these deals are for yes the u.s. is always paid more for nato than everybody else in nato has and that is because. the deal has the tacit deal has always been the united states pays the most and the united states makes most of the decisions many of our trade deals are similar to that and trump trying to get what he thinks are more equal terms is actually spending america's influence and is weakening america's all right gentlemen we have run out of times we're going to have to leave it there thanks to all our guests carl white request clifton and rami hooty and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me and the whole team here bye for now.

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and welcome to the al-jazeera news hour on live from my headquarters in doha me it is a problem coming up in the next sixty minutes to say the search for. these body has ended after traces of acid onto the saudi consul general's residence a former u.s. marine opens fire. in some california killing twelve people. how argentina is looking to one of its most famous exports to beef up the struggling economy. for the sport including american boxer floyd mayweather says he was juked as he pulls out for fight days after flying to tokyo to promote it. to other sources have told us that the search for the body of murder. has ended

earlier they said that traces of hydrofluoric acid were found at the residence of the saudi calls were in istanbul they believe body could have been destroyed. using the chemicals he disappeared after entering the consulate more than a month ago anderson reports now from istanbul. the revelation follows the poetry analysis of samples taken by turkish investigators more than a fortnight after jamal khashoggi is murder a source of the turkish prosecutor's office has told our jazeera it was here at the consul general's residence that traces of hydrofluoric acid and a non-domestic chemical were found the source says the dismembered body parts were dissolved in a chemical process and the source speaks of samples also taken from a well in the garden of the residence and in nearby sewage systems this information follows on from an early arrival ation by the newspaper accusing two saudi men said

to be a chemical expert at a toxicologist being involved in the cover up operation even though they've been sent out in an official saudi investigation team. turkish president brigette tell you heard of one appeared in public on thursday but made no comment about the new leak all remarks made by the us president officials in turkey's ruling party say it's stronger action not opinion that's needed from the u.s. soldier was going to was an underneath about it turkey's position was made clear from the beginning but a stance adopted by president early on we will not allow any person to cover up this in un crime committed in this cruel and brutal manner believin if as the prosecution source says investigators are convinced that georgie's body was totally destroyed here in the consular residence is there enough evidence to convict the suspects in this case turkey believes there will be enough evidence and it wants

the united states to pressure the saudis to extradite all of the suspects not only that the turks want saudi arabia. reveal who ordered the killing of a man whose remains appear to have been washed away in the sewage system andrew simmons al-jazeera is stumbled. on. the story for us from istanbul what is the end of the search for the body mean for the investigation where does it go from here. well i mean it would give us a sense that maybe they are coming to some sort of conclusion albeit still there are some questions that remain to be. namely obviously as mentioned in his piece what type of indictments will the turks officially. seek turned against who in particular considering that several turkish officials among some senior ministers

have said that they believe that this assassination took place at the behest of the most senior leadership within the saudi kingdom but it also begs the question as to how the turks allowed for saudi arabia to send in a team to actually clean up or destroy evidence after she was killed and after the turks established that she was killed we understand that among this joint investigation as it was called that the saudis set up with the turks that they sent in a team of people among some chemical experts to essentially destroy some sort of evidence and all of that would make people wonder how turkey will wrap this up so to speak obviously people are still waiting for an official decision to be made by the turkish government as to how this will impact on the relationship with the riyadh as to what kind of diplomatic repercussions will this have and what kind of compensation of course they will be seeking we understand that this maybe will be

made clearer in the next few days after president one meets with u.s. presidents donald trump in france on the sidelines of an international summit there so was the criminal side of this seems to be wrapping up maybe is that going to pave the way is that a sign that we're going to see a more conclusive end to this from a diplomatic perspective the next few days will prove significant indeed elizabeth john thank you very much for half an hour. for the very latest live and as well let's get more on this now we're joined by the former head of the u.k.'s national counterterrorism security office chris phillips and hampton court on the outskirts of london a pleasure to have you with us on al-jazeera i want to ask what you make of the latest reports of the hydrochloric acid being found and authorities no longer searching for the body. one unfortunately it does tell us that almost certainly that was used in either the cleanup or operation or the disposal of the body itself

so it's i mean it's terrible thing to have to talk about but it it's clear to me and i think clear to most people that the chances of finding a body are minimal probably worth from day to the investigation the difficulty is of course for anyone that's conducted this can this operation if you find the body then you find a lot of the evidence that tells you so much about who did it and how they did it is hydrofluoric acid. you said either for destroying the body or for the cleanup are they two different things. no the obviously any acid the acidic material will actually take away you thought level. and some of that could be in dissolving a body it's not quite as easy and straightforward it just doesn't get a vote into into acid and it will disappear but certainly if you know what you're doing and you know how to use it then it can be useful that although it takes

a little while is there anything that investigators could or should still be looking for even though they're no longer looking for the body. well they've now to an enormous amount of time now to get their act together really and look as well as they could into a scene that was already there was already tampered with to be quite frank when the investigators got into it so their work there is pretty difficult i think the most important thing that they want to do now is not friends exactly because if the body has been disposed of then it's probably now completely gone what they need to do is speak to the people that were present at the time and it doesn't look as though that started to happen either so i think what's happening here is a i delaying action to prevent a proper investigation should that happen mystify that's do you think that the shell the the saudis should extradite the man who carried out the. well of course they should if you're going to want

a proper investigation to take place but that say they do want a proper investigation to take place and it it may be that they don't because obviously those people will have a lot to say who told them to do it what they did how they did it. you know who was actually involved further up the chain and that's something that perhaps is not going to be good news for the saudis as a fellas it's great to get your expertise on this we really appreciate your time and that is chris phillips joining us live from hampton court london thank you. let's move on to other news now and police are piecing together more details about the man who shot and killed twelve people including a policeman inside a bar in california twenty eight year old in law was a former u.s. marine who had minor violence with the law previously thought haven't found a motive for the shooting they say he shot at random alexy o'brien reports. the borderline bhangra was packed for its wednesday college country music night when

the gunman burst in and opened fire there were people that did a whole day out saying i'm just hanging out having a good time and running you hear that and you just go said lisa. it was before eleven face a in the city of thousand docks about sixty kilometers from los angeles he was making the most time with a ski mask over his face but on the bottom and then he had a black face mock up on these dresses and his mom's all glassy we were shooting everything from the speakers to anything so it was really so it was. just smoke and we just saw shots taking off so we just tried to get down as fast we couldn't get out of there police were there within minutes they heard shots being fired. and felt there might be additional victims inside. on going through the front door . sheriff sergeant was struck multiple times with gunfire the local county sheriff

had to announce his friend ron he less was did. the sergeant passed away at the hospital. about an hour. by the time a police swat team went inside the gunman's rampage was over he was dazed investigators are now trying to work out why he opened fire on college students and joining an icehouse the group that i was hiding out with you know they were strangers for the night you think you're going to be ok you know that. but i take away from this is that even though there's a lot of that in this world there's also a lot of good. it comes almost two weeks after another mass shooting eleven people killed at a synagogue in pittsburgh pennsylvania or i asked to watch over the families. of the fall of the thousand dogs community now joining dozens of others who've come face to face with gun violence in the united states it's a horrific incident it's part of the horrors of our happening and in our country

and everywhere and i think it's impossible to put any logic or any sense to the senseless with the midterm election bringing change on capitol hill gun control will again be on the political agenda brian al jazeera. let's get more on this now we're joined by chris brown who's the co-president of the brady campaign to prevent gun while she is joining us live from washington d.c. very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so given california strict relatively strict gun control laws how is something like this able to happen. well we have a national epidemic of gun violence in this country we have about one hundred thousand people being shot every year about thirty five thousand killed the incident in california yesterday which tragically yielded ten people twelve people being murdered and a dozen other shot is the three hundred seventh mass shooting in america and twenty

eighteen alone we know that there are common sense solutions that will make this epidemic drastically reduce and we need to enact them as soon as pos.