moller looking into potential russian collusion and obstruction of justice and in january a democratic controlled u.s. house of representatives looking into pretty much anything it chooses to. with that a dramatic move his attorney general fired replaced by matthew whitaker a man close to the president in tweets in articles he's made it clear he thinks the moeller probe should be limited whitacre will have tremendous power over the investigation now not just the scope of it but under law he has the ultimate say as to what happens to muller's findings he could simply shred his final report but the midterm elections makes that less likely that the democrats will in fact invite. special counsel mauler to testify before the committee and testify in public about what were the findings in other words there are more ways to get the information to be public now that congress is in the hands of the democrats mother and his team

have kept remarkably quiet letting their convictions speak in their stead. they've got a lot of people close to the president so far those charged include his former campaign manager his deputy campaign manager his former national security advisor and foreign policy adviser all have pled guilty to federal charges and agreed to cooperate giving every indication that special counsel is making his way up the food chain the president has made it clear from the beginning he wants the miller investigation to go away there was no collusion there was no anything the midterm results make it much less likely he has the power to do that in the end. al-jazeera washington. well let's talk more about this now with eric cambs a political analyst and the author of a book on the republican party called the g.o.p.'s civil war sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera a lot has happened of course on the u.s.

political scene in the past forty eight hours let's start with jeff sessions removal and of course i guess that might also lead to the disappearance of the special counsel miller investigation if that did happen how damaging do you think it would be to donald trump i mean obviously the investigation might go away but in the perception especially of republican voters who maybe are supporters but on the sarah lee his base. we could actually see a new level of enmity taking place in washington if in fact the president decides to somehow in the mole approach because now with congress or at least the house of representatives in the hands of the democrats the democrats will use their subpoena power as well as the power of the purse to compel members of the administration particularly the justice department to answer questions on the record and public as to why certain decisions were made to end the probe and also now worse we're

hearing from mitt romney who will be one of the end coming u.s. senators saying that this investigation needs to continue unimpeded so not only will we be hearing directly from the house of representatives but we could also hear from some members of congress i mean some members of the of the senate members of the of the president's own party actually pushing back if he does decide to go forward in the investigation i guess this is just one issue it's a big issue of zero one issue that shows that now that congress that the house of representatives is controlled by the democrats and senate by the republicans that they you could kind of see how there might be an impasse and very little might actually get done how do you see the next two years before twenty twenty. well we are hearing both from nancy pelosi who could be the next speaker of the house as well as the president that they want to be able to work together to get

things done going into the midterms the two biggest issues on the minds of voters were immigration and health care and so i think both both parties want to be able to move forward and actually go and go to the voters and say in two thousand and twenty we have delivered on these two key issues however the president has made clear if in fact the house of representatives does begin investigations into his into his presidency into his actions and into his finances he's made clear all bets are off and that he will not be willing to work with democrats to get things done so we could see an impasse if in fact the president moves forward on on the mall or pro but i think going for right now i think both parties want to see if they can get things done i mean it was interesting seeing the president yesterday obviously in a very combative mood during the press conference we saw that spat that he had with jim acosta from c.n.n.

apparently then jim acosta's press pass being removed how do you think that plays again to especially with the republicans the people that perhaps wouldn't support president trump no matter what but our hearts republicans and are quite happy in general with the work he's doing. you know it was very interesting at that press conference yesterday because it was billed as a victory lap for the president but what we saw out of that press conference was the president actually name names particularly members of his own party who simply did not embrace him during the election people like me a love and barbara comstock and he called them by name and so we heard today from congressman rush out of pittsburgh who said that he felt that that was a new low for the president and also and then you see how combative the president was with the press yesterday and i was just at the white house before coming here and you heard the members of the press actually they were very disengaged

dispirited and frankly upset by what took place and so i think this this level of combativeness that we see between the white house and the press is going to continue over these next two years but crucially do you think that this will damage president trump himself no because you have president trump's supporters his base they like to see the president going after the media and now that the president has a new for oil it nancy pelosi was because she will wield the gavel and the house they are going to want to see this president fight against the fight against her fight against the democrats that's what bold is the president that's what actually keeps his his base with him and so i think you're going to see the president continue along this path eric campbell is allowed to listen to all sort of the book cold the g.o.p. civil war sir thank you for sharing your views with us thank you. well president

meanwhile has been attending the investiture of the new u.s. supreme court judge brett kavanaugh there was heightened security at the event after his controversial confirmation process and the allegations of sexual misconduct against a supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg meanwhile was absent from the ceremony she's in hospital after fracturing three ribs in a fall the eighty five year old is one of four members of the nine strong court seen as liberals if she had to be replaced the trump is likely to appoint another conservative judge shifting the court even further to the right. coming up on the news hour from london. the pilot stopped when will i be able to return. one of central african republic many orphans demands answers in a refugee camps around the buy on. broken dreams why many haitian

migrants in chile are accepting the government's offer of a free flight home and american boxer floyd mayweather says he was due to as he pulls out of a fight days after find tokyo to promote it. united nations brokered talks between the sides in yemen's war will not start before the end of the year that's according to a u.n. spokesman you are in yemen envoy martin griffiths had been hoping to get the rival factions around the table next month meanwhile the world food program says it's doubling the amount of food aid it gives yemen to try to prevent mass starvation the u.n. agency says it's aiming to reach up to fourteen million people yemen is currently suffering the largest hunger crisis in the world and it's almost exclusively

manmade with the ongoing civil war creating huge economic and food supply pro problems. we are joined now from washington d.c. by chalis month donahoe from the world food program thank you so much for joining us so the whole food program has decided to double the sending i mean obviously a good thing why now. well because it's needed now it's very clear already that the number of people who are facing who are really on the brink of starvation who are facing extreme shortages of food is increasing so rapidly that we're going to have trouble keeping up we have already had to double the number of people were assisting in yemen in the last year and a half so we're reaching between seven million and eight million people every month right now and that's going to have to increase because the conflict is worsening the economy is collapsing ordinary people aren't able to afford the food that's available in shops when there's food available in shops and it's clear that the

world is going to have to step up to provide more assistance to people but even more critically than that the war is going to have to ends because we're going to reach the edge of what we as the humanitarian community are able to do in yemen and that's incredibly dangerous i mean this is jewish and we can swear seeing pictures on the screen now next you can see just how horrific the impact of the civil war has been a little relation in yemen i mean obviously getting the food to the people is incredibly important but as well as having the food it's actually getting it to some people that is proving very hard how difficult is it for you and for example the intense fighting around how they die is that making it more difficult. the fighting around her data is indeed making it very difficult it's the port that's that seventy percent of the foods that supplies comes through. we are still

able to work there were still able to offload we still have stuff on the grounds but it is incredibly difficult there are critically there are some flour some some we tamils on the red sea where we've had stocks that have been stranded we haven't been able to to use them and that's and we really need those facilities to turn the wheat that we bring into the country into wheat flour that people can use to make bread and the fighting has cut them off for months we haven't been able to turn as quickly to turn that wheat into flour and that's a real logjam so we've got dozens of stuff on the ground we've got trucks moving every day we've got ships coming in but it's incredibly difficult it's taking longer than it needs to it's more dangerous than it should be and there are humanitarian facilities that have been targeted there humanitarian workers that have been harassed and it really is just one of the most challenging one of the most difficult one and most dangerous places in the world for us to provide assistance which is one of the reasons why yes go ahead and then of please forgive

me continue. i mean it's one of the reasons why the needs are so bad is because it's not only affecting our ability to reach people our ability to bring in the food that we need to reach eight million people each month but also the other twenty one million people in the country who aren't depending on humanitarian assistance but who get the food that they need from the markets the commercial supplies also are struggling to reach to get into those ports and to reach the markets to reach people in northern areas of the countries so the seizure of the ports and the. and the infrastructure that's been destroyed or that that's difficult to maneuver through is really affecting the entire population it's and it's affecting people's ability to afford to the food that is available in the markets and for commercial suppliers to get that critically needed food there in the war in yemen is often referred to as the forgotten war in

a way because it just doesn't hit the headlines perhaps obviously as much as it should it's now the largest hunger crisis in the world there have been threats of being it being classed as a famine for a while now what is the tipping point into being classed the famine in perversely when and if that happens does it make it easier for groups like yourself to get more funding to help the people of yemen. well i think the critical thing is to get funding and to get the parties to the conflict to lift their restrictions and harassment of humanitarian workers before we get to a femen with the definition of a feminist deliberately technical there's a lot of they're gathering that data right now analyzing it and trying to determine whether in fact we do have a famine happening but regardless of how that analysis comes out and it's deliberately technical to keep people from being from manipulating that declaration

either from denying that a feminist happening when there is one or for claiming that one is happening when there isn't in order to attract more attention so it's a deliberately technical definition that covers how many people have what percentage of people have extreme shortages of food how many children are malnourished severely and how many people are dying every day but it's very clear that even before you reach a famine there are already people dying there are already people who are starving there are already children who are too known nourished to recover and so our our job is to try to keep things from getting that bad that's what we've been trying to do for years why we've been ramping up our assistance so intensely for so long and why we're going to you know regardless of what the analysis determines we it's very clear already that we're going to have to double our efforts to reach more people with more food assistance but it's even more clear that the conflict that's led to

that hardship in the first place absolutely has to and the guns have to fall silent parties to that conflict every one of them every one of them claims that they care about the people of yemen and that they're concerned about the welfare of civilians but the actions that they've taken in pursuing that conflict and made a mockery of those claims and it's absolutely vital that they end the conflict as soon as possible so that humanitarian agencies like mine can do our job and can get the assistance to people to try to keep a famine from happening or turn it around if in fact we are already looking at one . chalice with money who from the world food program thank you syrian state media says the army has freed nineteen women and children held by eisel since july and killed their kidnappers they were among thirty members of syria's minority druze community abducted from the southern so way the province of the other hostages one woman died in captivity

a man or woman were killed and six women and children were freed in an exchange with the government last month one of the school children kidnapped in cameroon this week says their captors want to all schools in the region closed the seventy eight children were released on wednesday two days after being abducted two members of staff remain in captivity the kidnappers are separatists from cameroon's english speaking minority who told the children not to go back to school and many parents say they're too scared to send their sons and daughters back. for now i know he's education is no guarantee because i was thinking he's if you can be guaranteed maybe by the church as well you we did the security so for no no it took a show where he rules school here because i'm not sure you see fifty. lots more to come still on this hour we're going to come out in one of the finest we're going to learn how argentina has become one of the world's top of the world once again.

indians flood the new firework restrictions for deval leaving delhi with a toxic drug over. the miami heat great health or you're on the wanted record in the n.b.a. hall will be here with all the details in store. for. the a. hello there it's going to stay pretty hot for many of us in the west of europe we look at the satellite picture we can see one area of cloud here this fizzling out as it works its way across the central belt of europe and then there's another area of cloud and rain following it this is also got some pretty strong winds in with it and as that works his way eastward the yet more wet weather comes in so if we play a forward see what happens on friday you can see that system moving its way

eastwards again easing a little bit as it does say but still very strong winds following it and plenty of showers as well it is quite mild though if you look at the direction of the wind several coming up from the south so dragging in some warm air so despite the fact it's wet and windy the temperatures are holding up quite nicely fifteen as a maximum in paris for the east there's a high pressure in charge so there's a bit of mist him folk around but still it's quite warm here today with vienna apart around thirteen degrees now across the other side of the mediterranean and for most of us here it has improved so. not a great deal of wet weather across that northwestern coast of africa just a few showers perhaps around out geria it's for the east we've got more unsettled weather and this is gradually going to be pushing for the east winds as we head through the day on saturday so breaking up a little bit as well but still i theme showers here and it looks like some around choosier will be happy.

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welcome back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera turkish sources have told al jazeera that traces of hydrofluoric acid have been found at the residence of the saudi general in istanbul the house was searched following the murder of journalist jamal shelton twelve people have been killed in the u.s. city of thousand oaks after a former marine opened fire in a crowded bar popular with called students and democrats are demanding emergency hearings in the house of representatives to investigate president removal of attorney general jeff sessions warning that

a constitutional crisis is looming. central american migrants who arrived in mexico city have asked for buses to take them on to the u.s. border there are nearly five thousand people sheltering in a sports complex in the capital they say the weather is too cold and dangerous for them to continue walking and hitchhiking the mexican government says most of the migrants have refused the offer stay in mexico president trump used the migrants as a campaign issue in the midterms portraying them as a major threat meanwhile chile is offering to fly home migrants who haven't been able to find jobs in the country or than a thousand people mostly from haiti have signed up to the program and the first group left the country on wednesday a latin america. joins us live now from santiago to see a good to see so why is this repatriation happening in a country that let's face it is not even known for having migrants. well hello barbara it certainly wasn't known for having migrants but in the last three years

this country has had a wave of migrants a hundred and fifty thousand haitians are twice as many venezuelans people from colombia from peru from bolivia from ecuador this country's very very stable economy has made it a magnet for immigration for the very first time. really since the conquest since the spaniards came here and so what we're seeing is that it's still a very small country that is having a lot of problems trying to cope with this sudden influx of immigrants and course some of them cannot settle in they can't get jobs they're asking to go home and the normal thing here is that they're asking the government to help. these haitian migrants are leaving chile with a bit more than with what they came but with their dreams shattered. what we thought we were coming to do doesn't exist we came here for a better life for decent work but there's nothing there the first one hundred

seventy six beneficiaries of the government humanitarian repatriation program for migrants who can't afford to leave they've been given a free flight home in exchange for not returning to chile for at least nine years. since they could not adept well reality in their expect we're not mit they asked the governments help to return home. the vast majority like the us say it's because they can't survive here. their mum i christened chile two years ago when i came it was easy to find a job but not now another thousand haitians are on the list and an undisclosed number of colombian migrants are also asking for a free flight home it is an unprecedented offer unique in a world where many more migrants are deported against their will but the very fact that this program exists draws attention to the exploitation and abuses that many many migrants into. face. thousands of haitians live in the polling conditions

employers often underpaid them others complain of racism you know we asked the interior minister what the government is doing to help migrants rather than leave but we're working to police and control employers and landlords and we've introduced measures to ensure that migrants obtain proper residence documents can't be exploited and public services too late for these migrants who've given up any hope of making chile their home as they return to haiti to an uncertain future. so some migrants are leaving but what are the living conditions like for those who haven't left who haven't taken up the government on its offer absolutely barbaric it depends really but a great many of the specially of the haitians are living in appalling conditions and they complain and they complain loudly that they're having to spend two thirds of the minimum wage that most of them make on just renting

a room or sometimes just a mattress in buildings that have one toilet for thirty forty people that are not only unsanitary but also unsafe and also the fact that many of them are not given proper contracts and so the government says that it's doing a lot to try to change the situation but it's been criticised for not doing enough quickly enough to help these people barbara. thank you. 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 nicholas sachs sent us this report from a refugee camp in calgary. was it just arrived you leave this place 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 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 i mean so 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 just 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 whether christian or muslim children in this refugee camp sure a brief moment of unity in a country torn and looking for peace nicholas hawk al-jazeera. two of madagascar's former leaders are way ahead of the field in the early stages of vote counting from wednesday's presidential election less than two percent of the ballot boxes of so far been counted as results come in from remote regions of the african island nation andry rajoelina and marc ravalomanana both of more than forty percent of the early votes still short of the fifty percent needed to avoid

a runoff but opponents including another former president are alleging that several irregularities have occurred in the election process more than four hundred buffalo have been found dead in a river in botswana the mass drowning happened in that cho bit river which is close to the southern african nations border with the media the tourism ministry says they're believed to have stampeded into the river whilst being chased by lions the meat is being donated to local communities. argentinean beef is famous all over the world and it's currently one of the nation's few economic success stories south america's second biggest economy is suffering from massive inflation and unemployment and a deep budget deficit but before exports are bucking the trend in industry experts say it's delta government policy to raise a ball has more now from when i was like this i this is

a leading processing plant in when a site is working nonstop to export before around the globe. it's heading to the middle east europe and china and it is implants like this one where production has increased over fifty percent in the last few months and both as a broader global focused on the me has been in the beef industry for decades he says argentina has lost years of production because of bad economic policies. the genetics of origin time cut was unique among the best in the world fortune teller could be expert in much more but because of policies implemented during the previous administration industry was hurt no we're going back slowly but we are ready to sell our beef to every country in the world was the argentine pump out with its mild weather and extensive land is the perfect region to raise high quality cattle that has made the from here famous worldwide. but production had dropped dramatically because of an increase in the growth of the so you have been

crop and also because of regulated policies during the previous government to former president cristina fernandez the very the push into the way we lost about twenty percent of the cattle it was about twelve million cows that's how big the damage was to this industry that generates jobs and income for the nation the fear was that if we export more beef the internal prices would go up and that's why they regulated exports and in the end people stopped investing fees now despite the continuing economic crisis the beef industry is booming i don't you know the corner was a problem with a very high you may feel that if i'm the evaluation of the preparing for that was before and i was below probably i was on the wire for forty graeme but i believe like this one it was to help the country's economy. and that's why the government has launched

a major campaign to sell products around the world. it's true many argentine industries are facing difficulties because of a drop in demand locally and there is financial stress but we believe it's only in the short run because we're hoping to export more beef grain shoes lemons we are improving the situation in the ports paper ocracy we had before and this will help us sell faster and more. signs eat an average of fifty eight kilos of feed a year and even though the world health organization may recommend otherwise the plan is to spread the passion for beef that exists here to the rest of the world once again. several. pakistan's government is denying that a christian woman acquitted of blasphemy has left the country and its threats of renewed violent demonstrations by conservative islamic groups fozzy abebe was

released from jail in the city of most one of wednesday a week after her conviction was overturned by the supreme court that the session provoked mass protests across pakistan and there were more on thursday person evelyn's and italy have offered her safe haven has more now from islamabad. after the court ordered her release. baby was released from a prison and a studio on court on a special leg of that broader do the order been a deed international airport in islamabad rejected more secure the government is saying that the media reports of her leaving the country are totally false and the information minister lashing out against the media is saying that this was submitted behavior given the fact that the country had come to a word done then after a violent protests broke out across pakistan and a government voice forced to make it be read the british.