r.-o. and and in the coming days i'm sure that there will be a lot of. attention paid to the to the funerals of the lives lost here and the attempt to find some answers in the attempt to try to figure out why this keeps happening reynolds with the latest there from thousand oaks trump thank you. saying in the u.s. democrats have demanded emergency hearings in the house of representatives to investigate donald trump's ruvell of attorney general jeff sessions they accuse trump of trying to undermine robert miller's investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election people are also currently out in times square and washington protesting against any efforts to undermine it sessions has been replaced by matthew whitaker who was openly criticize the inquiry classical hane with ports now from washington. a day after losing one of the houses of congress

the president was a man on the defensive we keep hearing about. investigations now facing investigations on two from special counsel robert mueller 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 moeller 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 moeller 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.

washington well meanwhile president trump has been attending the investiture of the new u.s. supreme court judge brett kavanaugh that was heightened security at the event after his controversial confirmation process which brought up allegations of sexual misconduct supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg 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 trump is expected to appoint another conservative judge shifting the court even further to the right while the race to be governor of georgia remains unresolved meanwhile two days after the vote took place the democratic candidate stacey abrams is refusing to concede to her republican rival brian kemp kemp declared victory on wednesday evening and has resigned as georgia's secretary of state abram's campaign says it believes thousands of uncounted postal and absentee ballots could force

a runoff election she has vowed to fight on. still to come on al-jazeera. indians fly out to new firework restrictions for deval leaving delhi with a toxic hangover plus i am very proud of what you want to remember her and now argentina has become one of the world's going to be heard once again. and i that for many of us a western australia is going to be pretty hot over the next day will say friday is the hottest day the temperatures in perth are expected to get to thirty two degrees and then to around twenty seven or twenty eight as we head through saturday there will also be quite

a few showers in this region as well and some of them will be very high with funda maybe some rather lively hail as well meanwhile for the east there could be a few showers around the coast but the main area of rain here has kids and it's now affecting us in new zealand so here's all that cloud at the moment it has given us a phenomenal amount of rain and some very strong winds as well some of the heaviest rains that i've seen around three hundred forty millimeters has fallen here we've also had winds way over one hundred forty kilometers per hour and as well as that it's been surprisingly war with the temperature is over thirty one degrees the some of us that all changes of that system pushes its way northward so behind it the winds will swing southerly and it will be a little coolest so christchurch only around ten then as we head through friday a little bit milder as we head into saturday and then that rainfall is all together finally as we head into saturday and we had further towards the north we've also got some very heavy rains here particularly way over the western parts of japan.

when a parent loses their child to a terminal illness. they often feel that they've taken on the weight of the world. but mr huang is determined to find out what caused his daughter's death and brought him such heartache. the story of a committed parent turned activist a father's protest of the if you find asia's series on al-jazeera.

a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera turkish sources have told al jazeera that traces of cassidy have been found that the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul the house was searched following the murder of the journalist among the shoji. people have been killed in the u.s. city of thousand oaks after a former marine opened fire in a crowded bar popular with college students and democrats are demanding emergency hearings in the house of representatives to investigate president remove all of attorney general jeff sessions warning that a constitutional crisis is. the trumpet ministration has announced executive actions that will restrict the ability of migrants to seek asylum at the us mexico border that says thousands of central american migrants make their way across mexico to try and get into the united states there are nearly five thousand people sheltering in a sports complex in the capital mexico city and they've asked for buses to take

them to the border saying the weather is too cold and dangerous for them to continue walking and hitchhiking united nations brokered talks between the sides in yemen's war will not start before the end of the year that's what a u.n. spokesman has said un human envoy martin griffiths had been hoping to get the rival factions are on the table next month meanwhile the world food program says it's doubling the amount of food aid it gives yemen the united nations agency says it's aiming to reach up to fourteen million people in what is the largest hunger crisis in the world the u.n. is expected to the clear next week if yemen is officially suffering a famine but chalice frank donaghue from the world food program says the exact definition is not important. there are already people dying there are already people who are starving there are already children who are too mon nourished to recover and so are 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 end the guns have to fall silent the 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 of made a mockery of those claims and it's absolutely vital that they end that 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

syrian state media says the army has freed nineteen women and children held by ice will since july and killed their kidnappers they were among the members of syria's minority druze community abducted from the southern sue way the province of the other hostages one woman died in captivity a man and 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 children were released on wednesday two days after being abducted two members of staff remain in captivity the government has blamed the kidnapping on separatists from cameroon english speaking minority the children say they were told not to go back to school. there is no one who they don't want us to go to school if something were to happen they could kill all of us they may kill us so when they set us free they said tell the other schools that they should stop they don't want anybody to

go to school. focused on this 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 ozzy abebe was released from jail in the city of multilevel wednesday a week after her conviction was overturned by the supreme court that the sit in provoked mass protests across pakistan and there were more on thursday both the netherlands and they certainly have offered her safe haven. pollution levels in the indian capital new delhi have soared to twenty times the safe level the day after him the festival celebrations in what's becoming an annual problem the government is blaming a combination of firework 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. bulletin board muscular come

on it's highly unlikely pollution will ever decrease our been driving an auto rickshaw since nine hundred ninety four it's become very difficult due to the pollution sometimes when we clean our nose it's all black when we spit or cough that spark that's a problem. 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 the deep budget deficit but be fixed ports are bucking the trend and in the street experts say it's down to government policy traceable has more now from when as itis 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. broder the knee has been in the beef industry for decades he says argentina has lost years of production because of bad economic policies. the genetics of arjen 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 didn't you know that was a problem with a very high you may feel that if you live evaluation of the preparing for that was what i wrote is below probably i was on the wire for the aim 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 argentine 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 people are 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 that passion for beef that exists here to the rest of the world once again. female politicians from eighty six countries have gathered in the u.k. parliament to mark a hundred years since women in britain got the right to vote but as well as celebrating past progress and to also aim to inspire and infuse future generations of female political leaders paul brennan reports. we are here not because we are law breakers we are here in our efforts to become law makers so wrote the

suffragettes a million pankhurst to mark one hundred years since that campaign opened the u.k. parliament to women female parliamentarians from all over the world came to westminster to launch a new push for female political involvement so let us recommit ourselves to inspire a new generation of female social political leaders to end violence against women and girls to grant all women access to family planning and end the barriers of girls education and economically and cowed women those who went before us started a great event for equality lets us be the generation that finishes the job. the statues of parliament's masculine history still dominate westminster to get themselves elected many of the women here have to overcome the suspicion and opposition of their male dominated societies people feel. people feel what does she

bring on the table what does she wants to influence how does she want to change the status quo that is within the society so it becomes very very difficult but all of them are driven by the determination that equality is worth the struggle and that the future requires the effort if you mean well and if you fight well we are here the other women who fight give up and bring this world to a change it's going to contribute to give away the men and make a will. a bit of well sometimes i think off stopping doing this but usually a member of this wish the woman who hundred years ago sacrificed their lives and sacrificed their happiness is in everything and the fought for their kids and grandchildren one hundred years after britain elected its first woman member of parliament the message of the suffragettes suffragists still resonates down the decades inspiring new generations of women and girls to take their rightful place

in the political process paul brennan al-jazeera parliament square in london. finally the classic rubik's cube a puzzle has been entertaining and frustration people for almost forty years now some though find it infuriatingly easy a thirteen year old chinese schoolboy is said the first world record for solving story rubik's cubes simple taney asleep using both hands and why not both feet away zhenyu took a scarcely believe a ball one minute thirty six seconds it's not our record that is expected to attract many challenge how does he do that try for it. in the reminder of our top stories turkish sources have told al jazeera that traces

of hydrofluoric acid have been found at the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul the house was searched following the murder of the journalist of ashaji who disappeared after entering the saudi consulate five weeks ago they believe his body could have been the straw using the substance a former marine has 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 between the ages of eighteen and twenty five this is the third mass shooting in the u.s. in just under two weeks. democrats are demanding hearings in the house of representatives to investigate president trump's removal of attorney general jeff sessions warning that a constitutional crisis is looming nancy pelosi who leads the democrats in the house of representatives called the move a blatant attempt to end or impede the investigation into russian meddling in the

two thousand and sixteen election kimberly halkett has more. they've got a couple of concerns and they've outlined them into formal letters the first letter is requesting emergency hearings but is also being sent has also been sent to michael whitaker the acting attorney general saying to him look you need to recuse yourself from this investigation and here's why we think you need to because you've got the power to curtail this investigation you've got the power to halt lines of questioning you could even get rid of the budget the second one has been sent to the white house counsel here and is essentially saying we need you to preserve any of the documents any and all documents related to jeff sessions firing. the trumpet ministration has announced the start of action to restrict the ability of migrants to seek asylum at the us mexico border that says thousands of central american migrants make their way across mexico to try and get into the united states there

are nearly five thousand people sheltering in a sports complex in the capital mexico city. well those are the top stories remember you can get more on everything that we have been covering on our web site the address al-jazeera dot com my colleagues in doha will have more news in half an hour coming up next one on one east in a few days. the un's man in charge of middle east and north africa has refugee crisis warns that the end is still not in sight the war doesn't arc like in cos or some other countries followed or does not act like that and there ought to be a new order to make that contribution is by the shape more it with a i mean i was talks to al-jazeera. when tokyo hosts the twenty twenty paralympics japan's most talented disabled athletes who get their shocks at banks and glory. but outside the stadiums

is a society that still struggles to accept people who are disabled in the past the japanese citizens were forcibly sterilized for having intellectual physical disabilities now big tips are demanding compensation of what. they were i don't know why it was. untrue embroidered on this episode of one a one a we make the people fighting to overcome japan's pursuit of perfection. even on a rainy day such about her looks peaceful. but in twenty six states this small town near tokyo was the size of japan's biggest mass killing since world war two.

i. joined tenth i saw. him a common chicken hawk. to kashi and to kick her own news disabled son was badly injured that day in july twenty sixth jane now the best all. access dog and i've saved a lot on tonight by one of the oh they did something we didn't until the day they knock a caucus and i'm. in the early hours of the morning with a knife the kill-a went nuts or broke into a care home for the disabled. the famous i'm going to. write big book right big who got big quinnell. quinnell on along. a former employee at the care home when matsu knew his way around. as he made his

way through the building he stabbed a disabled patients murdering nineteen and injuring twenty seven others. after the attack he surrendered himself at a nearby police station reportedly saying it's better that the disciple would just disappear the northern assume named dave who knew that cutting back on night they still nine to one up close to one so me and then a man done to me so when you do not think this is the. only sense of the. can do to the utility in rome since you don't know you there almost been a. month before his killing spree when not super resigned from his job at the care home after delivering a letter to japan's palm and. in it he wrote that disabled people should be euthanized and offered to kill four hundred seventy of them. he something on. more

thought since it takes their. second car. and i stay warm coming else get on the side judoka day but we don't know. what it does that isn't in it but not this one and no i was going to comment on a state. subsidy there ya go. there was an overall funnel so some of the dignity on the net called the ninety who number stand out among. the owners first heard about the attack through news reports. as the bodies were being taken away and the police gathered evidence from the killer's house to kick or rushed to the hospital to see her son because we are all got along i got and now i must stand. a money. and.

before. that it. is a. song. joel learned. that a. car or do that's not that of the. there at the all there then. you get out a. moral code i was. there won't. see much. in the days after to cash he says the families remained in the dark so i don't know. going out more about the money there. were. none of my cunny very kind of his make i had to meet it. kazuya has a profound intellectual disability epilepsy and autism he was first

institutionalized at sixteen hours a day i was home while not the bunny. i was some ok ok ok. sort of. up. there doesn't mean. i couldn't say yes i have taken some it's because i can't because. i mean my second to hold a better condition i. stay so that the more this can all. two years after the attack has busy clear recovered and lives at another care. but his mother says he is still haunted by what happened call here i am guessing. that.

once a month at a makeshift memorial families affected by the massacre lay flowers so that those who died can reach heaven. when a total stranger arrives at the vigil the owners are overjoyed thank all those that have received. the visitors says he had nothing to do with the incident but was so affected by what happened that he traveled an hour and a half by bus to pay his respects how long that have been on it and the line any color there when they need. to get into the saloon realigning are they not feel welcome and. the owner is the only one of two families to speak publicly about the attack the rest of the victims have never been named. no causal coochie with the ma do them wants to get shown why did six seats in the right to call the law.

i know corey is the matter saw you do him a day either later he was in the minority kind of person who said engine i cut. from the institution come to pack up the beach or. they're all going to be awesome they're the owners farewell and my friend you are. in twenty twenty tokyo will be the first city in the world to host the paralympic games for a second time. the japanese government hopes this event building crease awareness for the more than seven million japanese living with disabilities. at a training camp for the national team i meet long jumper. tokyo will host the next paralympic games your home country those that make you. a little bit

more nervous. had you started training in high school at the time a does more junior was growing in his right arm and doctors were considering amputation. rational for that you were. wrong on this kid or. what if i feel guilty and or.

with these children no longer spreading hi jeanne moos paralympic career is taking off in leaps and bounds. after winning bronze in long jump at the recent asian power a games how do you muse ultimate goal is to compete at the summer olympics. japan has a long history of discrimination against the disabled while the country was hosting the paralympics in nineteen sixty four people considered bentley and physically

inferior being forcibly sterilized. the eugenic protection law began after world war two when japan was struggling with food shortages and a ravaged economy. close to twenty five thousand japanese citizens with sterilized over the next four decades sixty eight thousand of them against their will. the policy only stopped in ninety ninety six. for years victims have suffered in silence and shame only now some demanding compensation but such is the stigma most do so anonymously. in the northern province of her cargo kiku okra jima is the first to speak out publicly on tiny green or in the civil war the net well that's the dream we are in this is joys of

the morning so regroup can do a new what the zoom up on the zero and the over all of us are now my oldest in a story they will restore and they grew in a more a daze she. says his childhood was tough he contract polio when he was only two and grew up on a farm with a foster family above the noise there while most. others in my. mind albeit they could us too much stuff so well the merger moved out of the world the one i see. so now it's been so funny as a reader of buddy michael moore who their buddy. called because of the we're about as you are you go there you mean are you seeing one of us there are all sort of moral swords sort of upon this and they're in there with us on all of

that i mean that's how you receive when you dare not you are in that are not on the in then that are me she in this in my head was you are it under seal.