i can go and seek asylum officially and you can be processed through a proper system and the claim is that that is what people ought to be doing however if you look at what the a.c.l.u. has been saying and many other immigrant defense rights groups have been saying is that many recruits. asylum seekers who've turned up to the official reports have also been turned away in their hundreds if not thousands and when lawyers for for them in defense of them have showed up then those border patrol people have gone away and let them let the asylum seekers in so already there are blockages officially being enforced by law enforcement at those ports of entry so i don't think that is actually the real issue they're also saying that they are overwhelmed by the numbers of asylum seekers but actually they processed a lot less people this year last compare the two thousand and now they have ten thousand more officers i think there is actually this is a continuation of the anti immigrant very racialized kind of policy and i don't

think that it's really to do with the fact that people are going to the official places the official places are turning people away into always interesting talking to you thank you for your analysis on this story just one other note president donald trump's immigration policy had suffered a different blow actually an appeals court in california held an earlier ruling allowing a program that protects young undocumented immigrants to continue this is dhaka which was created under the former president barack obama giving some rights to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the u.s. as children before two thousand and seven it protects them from deportation and give them work permits this issue likely to ultimately end up just as our last one was in front of the u.s. supreme court. it's what's coming up for you on this news out best against still want to inspect the well at the home of the saudi console but they say the search

for the body of not a journalist jamal khashoggi. and in sports england's long wait for a test when away from home. finally comes to. a developing story in the past few hours at least twenty one people killed in the somali capital mogadishu during a bomb and attack witnesses say a gunman tried to storm a hotel when the bombs went off just a warning some of you may find the images in paul children's report disturbing. the car bombs exploded simultaneously near a hotel and a police department headquarters in the capital mogadishu one of the three bombs ripped apart a minibus victims' bodies were scattered on the street. it was three huge explosions up to now we had am an ambulance carried thirteen wounded people and four dead bodies but we still don't know the exact number of dead it may be more

than thirty witnesses say a gunman tried to storm the hof you know tell by blowing up its security wall security forces reportedly killed the gunman before they managed to enter the hotel but then i pulled many dead bodies from the burning cars one of the cars exploded next to a public transportation vehicle and there were many people in it including women and children but the number of casualties unknown as bodies are still being pulled from the burning cars. to see that for the armed group al-shabaab is claiming responsibility for the attack it's been trying to oust the un backed government for over a decade al shabaab has carried out deadly attacks against high profile targets including hotels and checkpoints in the capital and other cities. john al jazeera. turkish police told prosecutors they have ended their search for the body of saudi

journalist jamal khashoggi sources have told al jazeera that traces of acid were found at the residence of the saudi consul general in all and it's believed these body may have been disposed of using chemicals. with more now from istanbul. with this latest bits of information from the question or of where is the body of the late journalist the there are still several other questions that remain unanswered not least who gave the order for the assassination of the journalist who is implicated in its and why the saudi authorities despite officially claiming that they would cooperate with their turkish counterpart so far have not only refused but possibly even tried to tamper with the ongoing investigation namely sending in chemical experts to destroy evidence but also refusing to allow for that cycle sorties to search once again the consul general's home after they had managed to

get those samples of chemicals as well as i said in the well in the garden of the consul general of the turks have been requesting for several on several occasions over the past few weeks to be allowed to enter again the saudis have refused another big question is the residents of that home the consul general himself why did the saudis feel the need to whisk him away essentially take him away for extract him from turkey despite the fact that the authorities here in istanbul explicitly said that they would like to speak to him he's not only a witness to what's happened inside he was in contact and in touch with jamal khashoggi prior to the journalist answering the consulate and also you obviously the evidence in terms of the district well what is possibly believed to have happened to his body was collected in his home there are questions whether he is allowed to talk whether he is under some sort of controlled or house arrest in saudi arabia or even possibly something much worse a lot of people now wondering whether the turkish authorities will be allowed to

question him as a key witness to this. to the u.s. where a fast moving wildfire is false tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in northern california authorities there say seventeen thousand homes and commercial buildings are in danger of catching fire and there are reports of a number of injuries to residents and to firefighters that itis now from charles stratford. 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 california 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. 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. east and this case they use 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 of. the town located on the mountain ridge there were very few escape routes traffic turned to gridlock one woman reportedly went into labor waiting in

a traffic jam. that was among the buildings reportedly completely destroyed firefighting aircraft were unable to fly because winds were too strong and those winds were expected to strengthen further hampering efforts to extinguish the blaze racing across dry woodland slopes. they have been unverified reports of at least one person dying in the fire millions of dollars worth of property have been burnt to the ground as want to merge and she spokesperson said pretty much the entire community of power device is destroyed. al-jazeera. with us on skype now from idaho crystal colden who is an associate professor of pyro geography at the university of idaho crystal you've got to tell us first of all what pyro geography exactly is ira geography it is a science that looks to understand wildfire on earth right so what do you

understand about this one because you know one of the first questions which i had about this was the fact that it's november now i know that california doesn't get as cold as the other as the east coast in the united states but still it's the cooler month and you've got this enormous wildfire yeah so this is one of the signals of climate change in this region and it's a function of these very strong winds which are incredibly normal for this time of year into the the autumn and spring seasons we do always have strong winds along the sierra nevada but what's unusual is how hot and how dry it has been in this region and that's one of the things that climate change projections are telling us is going to happen more frequently i know a lack of rain i'm guessing as well how long has there been what has it been officially a drought period there. it depends on how far you go back to define

drought but in general it's been about a month and a half since there's been an eighty measurable rainfall that would actually dampen the vegetation is where it wouldn't be able to burn very well and that's a long period for autumn normally october and early november tend to be wetter months in this part of california so is there anything that can be done to mitigate these circumstances we are dealing with issues that are generally beyond control and other than dealing with climate change long term what can be done. well there's a lot of things that can be done short term and they have to be done and sort of in concert multiple fronts have to be addressed and the key things are that people have to prepare for these sorts of fires because we're going to see more of them and understand that they have to be back ready to evacuate at

a moment's notice and not wait for the sheriff's department to knock on their door not wait for a phone call they need to be ready to go particularly when there's these strong wind events because the fire can move very quickly yesterday this fire moved over ten miles for hours and many people were caught unawares because they didn't realize it could move that fast and the other thing is they need to better prepare their homes in this part of the state not a lot of homes have the types of materials in the construction and they don't have the types of space around the home that they need to minimize the potential that the home will burn. and do they need to think and this is more big picture sort of a plan of thinking about where townships and cities constructed you know i was think about other places in the united states the that the tornado prone regions the flood prone regions but you know these things will keep coming. they do

and in the us we have a tendency to just rebuild every time i am a town is wiped out by a hurricane or a tornado or an earthquake and it's really not any different for a while fire and the key is that if we are going to rebuild these towns we need to be building them smarter and we need to be building them in a way that citizens can either evacuate more quickly a lot of these mountainous areas have windy roads and that types of road systems that make it very difficult to evacuate quickly and then we need to be constructing these buildings at a much more plain resistant materials chris so cold and talking pyro geography with us really interesting crystal thank you thank you so much for there is also a growing concern about two other wildfires in southern california both burning

north of would you believe fowls and oaks where eleven people of course died in a shooting at a bar on thursday a mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in several towns as the humidity right remains low and the winds high. also a fire at a housing block in the south korean capital seoul that's killed at least seven people eleven others were injured but the death toll could rise fire investigators say sprinklers were not installed in the low cost dormitory style housing used mainly by laborers and students let's return to those explosions in the somali capital mogadishu at least twenty one people have been killed on the phone now at the scene as journalist mohammad abraham belittle who we've been speaking to earlier tell us about what you're seeing there are likely to be one of forty. mohammed it's come out here in doha you hear what we want to be like i don't think a much larger comfort zone can you hear us. right

i think we might have to leave it there i think obama's probably having a conversation with someone on the ground there as we say twenty one people killed three car bombs and gunfire outside a hotel in mogadishu trying to catch up with him again maybe a little later on. right what if we got coming up few on al-jazeera but this. and i'm nicholas hawk in the diamond rich region of karnow in central african republic despite the escalating violence and a half a million people displaced out of this country find out next why some are returning home. also coming up one of those sounds like science fiction stories but we're going to tell you about the new laser technology enabling scientists to clear the space junk from around the planet in sport they supporting. his lines at the start of the world chess championship and see what that's all about me but.

we've still got some shabby right into parts of the middle east but a cloud still spilling out to syria making its way into iraq making way for the next systematically wanted to lobby shelves just creeping across the sinai peninsula heading towards that eastern side of the mediterranean so i could see want to share some showers to be added to jordan into israel some thick clouds for lebanon central areas all of iran generally fine and dry that dry weather stretches way over towards the himalayas west and south of the himalayas maybe into spec as dan could see want to two showers here absolute wintry night as you can see all match he gets no warmer than around seven degrees celsius a little further south tashkent at twelve degrees cloud of rain will make its way across iraq so baghdad will see some rain for

a time as also the case into kuwait and that right could be a little heavy. chaucer wanted to share just around the eastern side of the met some of the sherry rank it had its way towards the northeast of saudi arabia for every close to us here in qatar hopefully we'll just not a little further more move across the gulf and head into iran said generate drive but we could see some bits and pieces of right there a lesson one to watch out for also keeping a close on a side plane making its way towards the northeast of madagascar this weekend. a moroccan man spoke out against french colonial rule and was exiled. we were isolated by our extremist views. he spoke out against the regime and was sentenced to life imprisonment he spent twenty two months in hiding thirteen years in exile and seventeen years in jail. al jazeera while tells the story of the dissident

abraham so fatty morocco's montana. and monday put it world on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war.

on the news hour here at al-jazeera and these are our top stories there will be a snap election in sri lanka on january the fifth this is after the president just a few hours ago dissolved parliament the move follows two weeks of turmoil aftermath of the sort of santa fired his prime minister daniel become a singer and replaced him with the former president mind that occupy. us president has signed a proclamation that would effectively deny asylum to any migrant crossing the southern border illegally the changes close the option of asylum to those who don't enter the country at an official port of entry until now asylum seekers have been entitled to a hearing in the us. regardless of how they arrived. three large explosions followed by heavy gunfire have been reported in the hot somalia's capital market to shoot the blasts targeted somalia's criminal investigations department headquarters as well as the hotel sofie at least twenty one people have been killed and that area a frequent target of the mess. we have been talking about the wildfires

in california we've got rob reynolds with us now he's just arrived in westlake village where there is a five threatening thousands of homes there rob an update from you well i'm standing in a church parking lot in westlake village that's part of los angeles county and you can see behind me here just this wall of black and white smoke. the wildfires that are burning in some of the. wooded in the brushy locations. and if you look over here you can see on top of the ridge there the smoke also those houses up there are in a very precarious position and i'll tell you why you can tell that it's very windy here because you can see leaves an ash blowing past me the wind gusts called the santa ana wind and it's a seasonal phenomena have been intense here this fire just sprang up less than

twenty four hours ago in the area of simi valley and it's now spread all over southern california there have been about one hundred fifty thousand people evacuated the entire city of malibu that well known coastal enclave along the pacific has been completely evacuated roads are closed and people have been evacuating and fleeing we. you can also see the white smoke up here sorry air quality is pretty bad here that usually indicates that that's burning brush but if it if the wind shifts those houses that you can see up there are going to be in a lot of jeopardy there have already been a number of houses and structures that have burned here in southern california and their wrath already say there have been deaths but they don't they have not yet said how many meanwhile in northern california more wildfires are burning the town

of paradise in northern california turned into hell overnight as it was completely burned down twenty seven thousand people evacuated so far we do not hear about any casualties there what's the cause of this it's the wind it's the extremely dry conditions tinder dry brush and chaparral it's been a very. dry summer and fall so this is the the result of those conditions firefighters are coming from all around southern california to try and beat this there are planes in the air dropping fire retardant and water and that this point they're letting the wild lands burn but they're there trying to save the structures another big factor in all of this is the development in this part of california where houses are built just adjacent to the wild land

it's called urban wild land interface and that's a big factor in making these fires so destructive so again to recap one hundred fifty thousand people at least evacuated here in southern california more in northern california give you another look up here on the ridge it looks like maybe those houses might be ok but they're definitely not out of harm's way yet. ok thank you great relief reporting from rob reynolds west like village in southern california the fires there and as rob points out that is in addition to the ones we were talking about in northern california little bit of. two other news place in australia say they are treating an attack in melbourne as a terrorism incident one person was killed in a stabbing two others injured the lone attack was eventually shot by police after trying to stab them two and he has now been confirmed dead as well andrew thomas reports from australian bureau in sydney just up to four o'clock on a busy afternoon in the center of melbourne shopping district

a full wheel drawing of the settlement those on the street watching in horror as a man who had already stopped by turns his knife on police. officers tried to subdue him with anything to hand one even pushes a shopping trolley to the extent. as he continues to attack was one officer pulls out of iraq. and shoots him once in the chest someone has driven a car that's exploded. in my house this is all on it was an attack witnessed by dozens of people. i was just trying to get my nails done and all of these police does cause started crowding around us and we couldn't really see anything until we saw a guy running across the trying tracks of backstory and the police running backwards and then we heard a gunshot. three men was stabbed one dying from his injuries and police have

confirmed that the attacker later died in hospital too from what we know of that individual we are treating this as a terrorism incident. and he's not to pull a smiley in respect to relatives that he has that certainly persons of interest to us. and he's someone that accordingly is known to be troy police and the federal intelligence authorities. police say the attacker came from somalia in the one nine hundred ninety s. and previously had only been charged with minor offenses traffic violations and smoking cannabis. investigators say the vehicle who drove down bourke street was filled with barbecue style gas bottles before being sent home by. play say they don't believe there's an ongoing threat but more officers will be deployed events around the city this weekend especially as christmas shopping begins we will not as a city in a state be defined by this act of evil will simply refuse to do that we will go

about their business this weekend. and every weekend because we are bigger and stronger than this we will not be defined by this but we're not ignorant to the challenges we face police say they had no information to suggest that anything like this would happen in melbourne on friday but australia's government has been saying for some time that ideologically inspired violence here is likely so while this attack was a shock an attack is not under thomas al jazeera so. that's what the united states and china butting heads over trade their top diplomats and defense chiefs a meeting in washington sectors that might calm peo and the defense secretary jim matheson among those they're meeting their counterparts these were talks postponed from last month after washington amounts new arms sales to taiwan and u.s. and chinese vessels came close to colliding in the south china sea covering this one for us it's rosalind jordan who's a state of iraq's. talks are what is on the agenda has me say trade is always going

to be this thorny issue between the countries but it's still clearly communicating . well they are still clearly very communicating but. just noted during their rather brief press conference. noted that trade really wasn't on the agenda between the u.s. and china because they said this is up to economic officials from both governments to tackle what they focused on in this meeting and they're going into a second session right now is that they looked at big security questions trying to make certain that north korea gives up its nuclear weapons program for the u.s. trying to get chinese cooperation in dealing with iran's nuclear ambitions as well as its efforts to expand its influence across the middle east and to crawl across the world and then they really got into it on an issue that is more controversial

and that's the issue of the south china sea and china's efforts to expand its military presence in that part of the pacific ocean the u.s. does not like it china says it has an obligation to defend its citizens and that it's going to do that wherever it has a legal right to be for its part china criticized the u.s. for conducting you know aircraft carrier trips through the south china sea as well as overflights of these international waters of what the u.s. says we have the right to go wherever we can under the terms of international military law so an agreement to disagree but both sides agreed that it's important to continue the lines of communication especially on security issues because they say that they do have more in common where they share a concern than they do in terms of disagreement with and jordan thank you for that update. meanwhile u.s.

president donald trump is heading to paris for a weekend of ceremonies to mark a hundred years since the end of world war one one of eight he won't be attending those the summit on global cooperation that's been organized by the french president to coincide with the gathering and other sign of the increasingly different views donald trump and emanuel macron have to multilateral institutions this from james spades. this is the paris peace forum final preparations are being made at the venue which the french president wants to use to bolster international cooperation at a time when many leaders are putting domestic interests above global ones before him is the idea of president emmanuel merkel but some are not attending it looks like president trump will be among those who'll be in paris but will be skipping the forum when global leaders last met together in new york at the u.n. in september it was pretty clear there are increasingly different visions of the way the world should work trump talks of strong independent nations putting their

own people first while mark rolls stresses cooperation through multilateral institutions like the un america will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance control and domination and only says yes we should support those working for peace and humanity you know asco the conscience of the united nations the human rights council the international criminal court unaware for whom we are increasing our support. bernard kushner is a former french foreign minister. and i worry about nationalism because this addition of nationalism. even in europe and the foreign minister so many new raw. overseas addition of the nationalism are very dangerous because too much nationalism and drive will drive us to war. the reason leaders from about eighty countries are gathering here a commemoration of

a hundred years since the end of world war one that war was followed by increasing nationalism particularly in germany the league of nations forerunner to the united nations failed after the us didn't join it because of opposition from hardline republicans a wiser person to me once said history doesn't repeat itself but it roy as james plays out zero peris. central african republic refugees most of the muslims have slowly started to return to their homes their arrival there was causing new tensions in the city of qana because the homes and businesses they left have now been occupied by non muslims nicholas hock has that story. it is in an easy return home from a two year long exile. gone are the pictures of his son mohamed do in whom i run the wall so to me the bed leaman shared with his wife and the so for the family sat

around to watch t.v. . only the memories remain. lehman a diamond dealer was looted by friends and neighbors who after a lifetime living side by side in peace chase his family from their home because they are muslim. because i have come back because we will only find peace of my friends and neighbors see me again and accept me as their own it's not easy because after come back here for the love of my homeland my house is my country but some of the homes muslims left behind are now occupied by christian families they too are fleeing sectarian violence. this is last thursday burning our temporary shelters for mostly christian displaced villagers set alight by armed muslim militias wanting them out they burned all the site meaning that they left twenty seven thousand internally displaced people with nothing they have been

displaced one time. those displacement are also hope and without hope how do you want people to get into consideration. repeated cease fire agreements are broken fourteen armed groups continue to fight pitting communities a against each other to control a country larger than france rich in minerals diamonds and gold as a result more than a million people whether christian or muslim are on the move searching for a safe place to live on the surface this may appear as a conflict about sectarian violence christians against muslims but take a closer look and you'll find deep inequalities between those that control land and those that don't caught in the middle are the people of central african republic trying to rebuild their country brick by brick homes for those displaced away from the violence it's an initiative from the norwegian refugee council here both

muslims and christians live side by side like how the the man who once lived. tired of being on the move no longer a refugee in this and then big crisis it is this desire to be part of a community that has brought him back home nicholas hawk al-jazeera cardo central african republic. scientists are preparing to fire lasers into space to blast some of the one hundred seventy million pieces of manmade debris orbiting the earth that cosmic cause or poses a constant threat to satellites spacecraft and people and as many unknowns tells us now while firing into space sounds like science fiction scientists say the technology plays a very real role in keeping our planet safe. we've been launching things and people into space since nine hundred fifty seven satellites be a favorite programs space.