this spying case it's an old case apparently it has been going on for more than twenty years the chancellor also made it clear there there's not real hard evidence yet but that the case is being investigated and of course that moscow was supposed to give answers but instead of giving answers and love for they're going to give the asked for austrian ambassador basically teaching him a lesson steverson life in a moscow thanks there were all the russian government is hosting peace talks in moscow to end the violence in afghanistan and afghan delegation and a group representing the taliban are attending the meeting leaders from a dozen countries were also involved. or the u.n. of brokered talks between yemen's warring sides have been pushed back to the end of the year the u.n. is warning yemen is just under three months away now from a devastating famine with fourteen million people at risk the world food program says it is doubling the amount of food aid to try and prevent mass starvation.

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trying to stab them two police are treating it as a terrorist attack. turkish police have told prosecutors they have ended their search for the body of saudi journalist jim our sources tell us that traces of acid were found at the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul it is believed the shelties body may have been disposed of using chemicals. russia is summoning the austrian ambassador in moscow through over an espionage route austria says one of its retired army colonel spied for russia he retired five years ago but is accused of working for the russians since one thousand nine hundred ninety. fos moving wildfire has forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in northern california it is engulfed an area around the town of paradise in the northeast. it now covers more than eighty square kilometers qualify as a been a growing problem in california in august the worst one in state history was

finally put out of the spreading of a two thousand square kilometers reports say several people have been injured among them firefights and traffic as more. flames engulfing trees and buildings on both sides of the road branches falling on the windscreen of this car the driver is lucky to be alive as the wildfire ripped through woodland on the east north californian hills emergency services ordered the entire population of the town of paradise some twenty seven thousand people to evacuate their stuff really burning on all sides of us on the way out here some residents abandon their cars this driver tries to remain calm but go go go go go. or yeah people go it's not known what started the fire which was reported at six o'clock in the morning within six hours it had spread across an area of more than sixty eight

thousand five hundred square kilometers serenely hazardous lots of smoke dark devastation active burning all throughout the town to me and i lived there for eighteen years and it looks like the fire came from. east enders came straight through town all the way to the west a vast spreading cloud of smoke filled the sky some people were said to be sheltering in a nearby hardware store i know there was a plan put in place they used the walgreens up in paradise as a temporary refuge area and why we do that is to get civilians or people that are out in the elements meaning the fire in the smoke we try to get him into an area that is safe away from the fire and smoke until that fire front pushes through we did have fire personnel with them and so once they deemed it safe we were able to get them out. with the town located on a mountain ridge there were very few skate groups traffic turned to gridlock one

woman reportedly went into labor waiting in a traffic jam the hospital was among the buildings reportedly completely destroyed firefighting aircraft were unable to fly because winds were too strong those winds were expected to strengthen further hampering efforts to extinguish the blaze racing across dry woodland slopes. they have been on verified reports of at least one person dying in the fire millions of dollars worth of property have been burnt to the ground as one emergency spokes person said pretty much the entire community of paradise is destroyed john strafford. an appeals court in the u.s. state of california has up held an earlier ruling allowing a program that protects young undocumented immigrants to continue the back up policy as it's known was created under former president barack obama for

undocumented immigrants who came to the u.s. as children before two thousand and seven it allows hundreds of thousands of them to work legally and protects them from deportation the issue is likely to end up in front of the u.s. supreme court the u.s. government is aiming to make it harder for people crossing the us mexico border illegally to claim asylum people crossing anywhere other than official border post will not be allowed to present asylum claims a caravan with thousands of people from central america is currently traveling towards the u.s. border to get more on this now from kimberly healthy to is live for us in washington so i guess the queen the key question here kimberly on the asylum issue is does the the president have the authority to do this. yeah well that is what is going to be open to debate the president clearly thinks he does and this is a similar sort of tactic that he used with the travel ban that ultimately was

upheld at the supreme court level so it's not surprising that we're seeing president trump trying again but this again the debate here is that immigrant activists say no the president doesn't have the authority in fact they believe it violates international law so how this is working right now is the president says that what this is going to do is going to mean it's going to force asylum seekers to channel through official government ports of entry and previously they were allowed to make an asylum claim regardless of how they entered the united states if it was illegally or if it was through a legal point of entry so what this means is that it's going to get a lot more difficult to make the asylum claims but also this is essentially what activists say it's going to do is cut the claims significantly dramatically and that's what they're very upset about they say this is a draconian measure used by the president much as we saw with the travel ban and

that's why already activists are organizing consulting with their lawyers to try and push back and what options does congress have in. response to this. congress definitely has the ability but what we've seen for almost twenty years is a congress that seems able to put in place any meaningful immigration reform and that's why we see the president doing this now this is one of the reasons that he was elected initially and certainly this is why we saw him in the midterm elections which we've just wrapped up using this as a major platform for trying to advocate for members of congress as we face those elections this is a point of division in the united states and this is real rally many conservative voters particularly and so what we have here essentially is a situation where congress is not even in session at the moment it won't be back until november twelfth so what this appears to be doing is heading towards the

legal pathway just as we saw with the travel ban the administration does believe that is going to be sued on this but here's the deal because the president has now got judge cavanagh and justice cavanagh now on the supreme court they expect when this ultimately gets challenge it will make its way through the federal judiciary up to the supreme court the highest level where the administration believes that it will win so what this essentially is doing is it's cutting down in the short term the number of asylum claims the president does believe that it will have a series of legal challenges but again it believes once it makes it to the highest court the supreme court that ultimately it will prevail on the tactics that is push forward on thursday we expect to make the president make official with proclamation today all right kimberly thank you kimberly halkett in washington would want to back it is an immigration attorney at the beck and law firm in texas says the decision is against the law. if only if the due process clause of the u.s.

constitution guarantees that no one in to accuse some seekers of be deprived of life or debris without due process of law that also bypasses congress oversight and so i think on those grounds i hope that the high court will or overturn this executive order. that as also has a badge is racism behind it when you're in a desperate situation you know you're going to enter any means necessary and so c.p.s. actually encouraged asylum seekers to enter illegally and now they want to pass this law to score political points and they're using the polar populations just to make political points and make their base happy it is a tragedy because we are the ones who live on the border and i can tell you i feel very safe i'm not being overrun no one's trying to kill me or come to my home there's a process in place in this administration it's violating that process third human

izing. human one thousand deporting denying depriving asylum seekers a u.s. federal judge in montana has blocked construction of the controversial keystone oil pipeline he said the government failed to properly account for the risk of oil spills or the impact low oil prices could have the nearly two thousand kilometer pipeline would transport oil from canada to the u.s. ahead of sappho it is there were searches at the university of california davis policy institute for energy environment and the economy i asked how the decision may affect the trumpet ministrations energy plans. i think it illustrates two challenges the trump administration is facing the first challenge is of course in moving so quickly to overturn environmental decisions put forward by the obama administration they're finding now that they didn't go really go through the exercise of dotting their i's and crossing their t's they issued this permit to

a pipeline for going forward just a couple of months after trent took office and now they're trying and ing out that the judicial system is really they didn't do all the proper permitting in order for that and to go forward they're also finding the challenges of relying so heavily on an oil and gas heavy energy strategy it's becoming increasingly difficult to do that when there's recognition of the climate impacts and other environmental impacts of that and now the trend in mr asian has neglected investment in solar energy and another type of energy mix to fall back on so yes certainly a blow to the chair ministration how how legitimate are the environmental grievances about they see how strong a case of they have in this. certainly illegitimate you have to look at both the direct environmental impacts associated with the construction of the pipeline as well as the more indirect impacts that you have of extracting oil from the oil sands of the keystone pipeline originates that shortly after the champion

ministration issued their permanent allowing construction to go where ridge you cited two hundred thousand plus a gallon an oil spill from the south dakota portion of the pipeline that already exists so it's clear the date the pipeline itself even if it's possible to construct in a way that might not have those direct environmental impacts isn't being done in a way in that way because we've already seen those types of damages and then again the judge ruling to block the construction of the pipeline found the trump administration hasn't demonstration chart of the counting for the climate impacts of the oil sands incident that something needs to be brother study so where does this case go from here from the legal standpoint is this something that could go all the way to the supreme court it certainly is that would be the next step in this judicial system so right now that injunction was done by a federal district court so there's two options here it is the champion ministration could decide to comply with the district court's ruling and continue

to do that sort of environmental assessment that's been requested or they could appeal up to a higher court my guess is that the trumpet ministrations going to look to do the latter since that of the master process of final preparations are underway in paris to mark one hundred years since the end of the first world war on sunday french president emmanuel mccall will host world leaders to mark the armistice that ended the war when sixteen million people were killed along for years rosalind jordan looks at the legacy it has left on the american people. on april second one nine hundred seventeen u.s. president woodrow wilson issued the battle cry the world must be made safe for democracy many americans approved of the decision to go to war against germany and its allies a government that is running amok but despite the headlines and propaganda efforts just as many americans opposed fighting in the so-called great war the u.s. historian michael king isn't described the antiwar movement in his recent book war

against war it did seem like a war that was in the american national interests seem like a war that most europeans had not wanted to fight in the first place so there was a sense that if america got involved the war it would only make their eyes face more militarist country which is just the fall face so in the european powers that had gone to war in the first place even so kazan says the impact of the war on us society was far reaching some suffragist leveraged women's performance in the workplace to convince congress they should have the right to vote black soldiers including the harlem hell fighters who fought in france discovered their service did not protect them from racism after the war and that inspired the work of civil rights activists in the decades ahead and the us started a long running debate about what it means to be a global power economically militarily and diplomatically. wilson had resisted

calls to enter the war since it began in one nine hundred fourteen but after a german u. boat torpedo the cargo ship aztec on april first getting congress to declare war was easy by the time the armistice was signed on november eleventh one thousand nine hundred eighteen one hundred sixteen thousand u.s. troops had died either in combat or because of the flu pandemic kazan says that does not mean the antiwar movement had failed what the story there to were movement doing what one can teach us is that it's crucial for americans for people for any nation to force their politicians and their media. and their businesses those of other businesses to. think very carefully about this decision because once you decide to go to war there's no going back an important insight one hundred years on especially given that

americans still don't agree on when and why the u.s. should go to war rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. this is a just you know it's going to round up of our top stories a man who stabbed at least three people killing one in the australian city of melbourne has died in hospital the lone attacker was shot and arrested by police after trying to stab them two police are treating it as a terrorist attack bystanders were seen on video stepping in to try and stop the attack an attack of a premium of the state of victoria thank them for their courage as strange as people who bystanders people who knew nobody involved who stepped in with an a minus hesitation to render support an assistance to those bright members of the tour replaced by two. people whose qualities michael or spread this world.

the turkish police have told prosecutors they have ended their search for the body of saudi journalist. sources tell our jazeera traces of acid were found at the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul it's thought for sure g.'s body may have been disposed of using chemicals russia summoning the austrian ambassador in moscow austria says one of its retired army colonel spied for russia he retired five years ago but is accused of working for the russians since one thousand nine hundred ninety meanwhile the russian government is hosting peace talks in moscow to end the violence in afghanistan an afghan delegation and a group representing the taliban are attending the meeting leaders from a dozen nations were also invited the united nations broke and talks between the warring sides in yemen have been postponed until the end of the year u.s. warning yemen is just three months away from

a devastating famine with fourteen million people in risk the world food program says it is doubling the amount of food aid it sends there. fost moving wildfire has forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in california the entire town with a population of twenty seven thousand people was empty. 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 in 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 i 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 we are home sponsibility to seek common ground where we can but we cannot we must stand with them 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 b.s. 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 national 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 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. 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 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's 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 distraction 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 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 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 lower 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 low 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 u.s. 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 a strong offense and anger in the united states and they want to do something to just send a message or so to maybe on the easiest way to do this. 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 it's in the u.s. right now you're seeing a hand in there is 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 weapons sales associate arabia renegotiating issues like that to the american soda relationship are so big and so significant that they don't want to bring that 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 re imposing 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 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 the media in general and that is the republican party's biggest donor sheldon adelson alongside his wife miriam adelson and.