at your heels the importance is to get people out of harm's way and get them to safety. in northern california the town of paradise turned to hell overnight these incredible pictures show a tornado of fire raging there the entire town is believed to have been destroyed twenty seven thousand people fled the area twenty year old colton person field shot this cell phone video as he drove through hellish conditions outside paradise he somehow made it to safety authorities say most people did obey evacuation orders and you see here local resident david he's deploying his own firefighting techniques with a garden hose spraying hot spots of burning brush but just up there there's more fire and you know it's just almost impossible to put this out

completely given the dry conditions and the wind because you can put out some of the burning embers and then moments later the wind will reignite them we're going to keep on top of this obviously and also wanted to mention that the governor the acting governor of california gavin newsome it declared a state of emergency and fortunately most people have responded to the authorities calls for mandatory evacuation this area is actually under a mandatory evacuation we feel relatively safe right now if that changes we're going to go elsewhere but for now back to you mary indeed enormous challenges facing residents that thank you very much rob rannells held in h.s. from west village. well now flash floods of killed at least seven people in jordan including two children twenty four people were hurt and dozens of others evacuated from their homes just skate the rising flood forces hundreds of terrorists were

also forced to seek higher ground in the ancient city of petra here with al jazeera live from london much more still ahead at least twenty one people are killed in three massive blast in the somali capital mogadishu turkish police officially end the search for the body of murdered journalist jamal khashoggi but say the investigation into his death will continue and in sports a planned match in saudi arabia between novak djokovic and rafael nadal has been called off we'll have the details with andy later in the program. as president my trip policy is saying a has dissolved parliament paving the way for a snap election latest development follows two weeks of turmoil which began when syria's say in a sack the prime minister and installed a former strongman into that role as explains. the dissolving of parliament by

president by three policy restrain another board out of the blue two weeks after he started off this constitutional crisis by sacking his prime minister brown of the commissioner and appointing the former president mind the rajapaksa as his successor now the many people had been saying there should be a floor board parliament should be reconvened because the ousted prime minister claimed that he still held on the parliamentary majority he had the support in parliament and he challenge the appointment of mind rajapaksa which was which he said was against the constitution the president had seemed to bow down to pressure and brought the date forward as to when parliament would sit that being the fourteenth of november next wednesday but in recent days we've heard problems and the government seeming to have problems making up that magic one hundred thirty number which would give them a majority in the two hundred twenty five seat assembly and tonight as

a result possibly of not having those numbers we see presidency recently taking the desperate measure of dissolving parliament now the nineteenth amendment of this country's constitution brought in by the citizen a government expressly forbids the president from dissolving parliament less than four and a half years into its term this dissolution comes way ahead of that it's one year and three months before that number and critics. have said this is against a constitution it's antidemocratic the ousted prime minister's party has already the criteria and said they will meet the election commission of tomorrow morning and challenge that so we're bound to see this is not the end of this issue. at least twenty one people have been killed in a somali capital mogadishu in a series of attacks in the house of the city when they say gunman tried to storm the hotel when three explosions went off jan has more. car bombs exploded simultaneously near a hotel in

a police department. quarters 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 tell by blowing up at security wall security forces reportedly killed the gunman before they managed to enter the hotel. 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 the number of casualties on known as bodies are still being pulled on the burning cars. the president said that after 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 and it's carried out a series of deadly attacks against high profile targets including hotels and

checkpoints in the capital and other cities. al-jazeera. some news from yemen where government forces by the coalition they have launched a major offensive to retake the rebel held city of data and a half a million people have fled the area since june although the united nations has warned that thousands of others do remain trapped by the fighting and i would reports. on the edge of her day the battle for the territory is intensifying it is a relentless spite with both sides claiming they are making gains had data is the prize at the center nearly seventy percent of yemen's commercial imports pass through the city's poorest practically who the un supervised eight pro-government forces backed by saudi arabia say a major offensive is now underway to try to take head dated back to the fight as it was the tough remained in order. what sunny dition these

custody of his goods basically it's like would the prices of basic commodities how doubles. hospitals are structurally hospitals and schools have closed because of the war the who think they say they are also impacting heavy losses on saudi backed is this war which is poor years old began when the pike to is captured the capital sanaa a coalition led by saudi arabia then launched a major campaign to try to restore the government recognized by the international community since then the country has descended into chaos and in a place where war has become a daily plight pursued libel hunger has become the norm one child under five in yemen dies every ten minutes the diseases which are killing them are entirely

preventable half a million people have fled the area around to data since june when government forces try to recapture the city but for many in the poor city there is no escape and little chance of outside help while the number of those remaining and how dangerous is he is difficult to gauge you are not you know and it's the hours of worried that people needing to flee for safety are unable to do so they're trapped by military operations which are increasingly confining populations and cutting off exit routes there are continued calls for see spot and a political solution to be found for yemen these so far have been ignored with neither side willing to compromise ever heywood al-jazeera. turkish police say they're officially ending for jamal khashoggi body but the criminal investigation into his murder will continue so says of told al jazeera

traces of acid were found at the saudi consul general's residence in istanbul it's believed the saudi journalist body may have been disposed of using chemicals. as the latest from istanbul with this latest bits of information from the question or of where is the body of the late journalist see 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 the 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 acid in the well in the garden of the consul general 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's 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 entering the consulate and also you obviously the evidence in terms of the distraught well what is possibly believed to have happened to his body was collected in his own home. police in the australian city of melbourne are treating a stabbing spree that killed one person as a terrorist attack a somali immigrant set fire to a pickup truck and stabbed three people in the city center before being shot in the chest by armed police and later died in hospital. meanwhile in the u.s.

state of california investigators are still trying to determine why a twenty eight year old former marine walked into a crowded bar and killed twelve people on thursday the gunman took his own life after being confronted by police officers reports another day in the united states another day to learn the names and the stories of the victims of a mass shooting among them a small business owner a police officer a college freshman just eighteen years old a man who took care of disabled children and a twenty seven year old who survived the mass shooting in las vegas just over a year ago my name is susan or from a new smartphone with tell of her find out if we lost him last night at the border learning shooting my son was unwell spare us with a lot of his friends and he came home he didn't come home last night and i don't want predators i don't want thoughts i want gun control and i hope to god nobody you know films me anymore breyer's i want them control no more.

period q it has become a familiar pattern each and every time americans are killed in mass by an armed man the politics break down into two camps for republicans it is about mental health the shooter was trained to be an excellent shot by the us marines he served in afghanistan well he was a war veteran he was a marine he was in the war service so i mean it's a pretty bad thing and a lot of people say the the the the. it's a tough deal for democrats it's about guns this isn't the kind of change this doesn't happen anywhere else on planet earth. and we can't let folks forget that you can't lose sight of that can allow this to be normalized it's been a constant conversation with little action while the republicans controlled all branches of government that changes in january and the likely house leader nancy pelosi put out

a statement promising house democrats will fight to pass bipartisan commonsense solutions to prevent gun violence in communities across the country and the bill that's going to happen. but right now it seems much more likely that we'll learn many new names new victims your stories of loss and horror long before congress agrees to act. washington. much more still ahead on this news hour from london the united states and china a clash of the military activities in the south china sea as high level officials meet in washington also. 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. and ins for england's long wait for a test when away from home finally comes to.

the weather remains fine and dry across many parts of central and eastern europe but out towards the west it is looking wet and windy as cases as can be the case as we go on through the next couple days supply out spilling in from the atlantic strong winds as well as for them and sunday of course this weekend we are going to see that wet windy weather moving right across the british isles it's a good pasta france into the low countries and gradually pushing over to wards scandinavia and western parts of germany that's. thirteen celsius in london fourteen degrees there for paris a wet one the winds not quite as strong but it will still be blustery the quite a rash of showers blasting away and you can see they stretch the way across into them their consciousness some heavy rain say into portugal more parts of spain

looking still rather disturbed but for central and eastern parts if you have ten we find a dry cold enough in moscow temperatures struggling to get anywhere near freezing in the heat of the day meanwhile across northern parts of africa it is generally dry still a chance of some showers there just around just around and all fringes maybe you'll see stray skipping their way across northern areas of libya stays fun and dry there for a good part of egypt as is the case too for much of algeria and also rocket. i think this is fun for me to think i'm having fun. if she. isn't her contribution hunters and beaches. just as it is to. thank.

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quick look at the top stories this hour now the un refugee agency says the u.s. must ensure migrants fleeing violence or persecution are given protection promptly and without obstruction this comes after donald trump signed a proclamation to deny asylum migrants asylum to migrants crossing the southern border illegally. five people have died in northern california as firefighters continue to battle a fast moving blaze which quadrupled in size overnight more than one hundred fifty seven thousand people have been evacuated from their homes and the united nations and other aid agencies are warning thousands of civilians remain trapped by the fighting in the yemeni city of data this is government forces backed by the saudi led coalition say they have launched a major offensive to retake the rebel held city. germany has been marking the eightieth anniversary of kristallnacht the night twenty two's and jewish properties were attacked across germany by the nazis speaking at a commemoration in the capital the chancellor angela merkel warned germany has

a moral duty to fight rising anti semitism dominic kane reports now from berlin. just to be in this building in one nine hundred thirty eight would have made people suspect in the eyes of the nazi wrangler merkel made clear what happened then was part of a process that began as soon as fascism began to take hold. why do i speak in so much detail about everything that happened before november nine hundred thirty eight eighty five nine hundred ninety five years ago because i am convinced that only being can we draw upon the right lessons for us today and in the future if we understand the november pogrom of nine hundred thirty eight as part of a process which ended in the terrible aftermath of that was the holocaust it was preceded by a before hand. that's something margaret remembers all too clearly she recalls the day her jewish father was taken off to a concentration camp and then how the shop her family owned came under attack.

i was ten years old at the time my father was a book involved at the time and wasn't with us the whole thing began in the morning but the high point was in the afternoon i remember that my non jewish mother asked me to go out and shake the other shops that were in the same situation as us the violence the nazis unleashed so more than thirty thousand men sent to concentration camps also targeted with jewish owned businesses but most especially synagogues. the restoration of synagogues in berlin and in germany is a clear sign that modern democratic germany has felt the need to atone for the sins for the persecution nazi germany imposed on the jewish community and yet it's a sign of the legacy of anti-semitism that synagogues in germany still need police protection jewish groups today point to what they fear is

a rising number of anti-semitic incidents both in the capital and across germany the president of the central council of jews outlined the mindset he feels is at fault i'm a part time. it's a party that sits in the bundestag on the very far right has perfected this situation they are spiritual arsonists they have respect for nothing they instrumentalists the career just resistance fighters of the white rose for their purposes they mock the victims and survivors of the shoah by relativizing the nazi crimes they are clashing with history and want to destroy our culture of remembrance. the party he's referring to is the alternative to germany it strenuously denies any links with anti semitism the defeat of nazi ism in one thousand nine hundred five did not eradicated stream misty's across europe here in germany in twenty eighteen as most people remember the wrongs of nine hundred thirty eight there are others who believe they have the right to disagree on the streets don't it came. pearl and meanwhile the british prime minister terry's

amaze joined french president emmanuel macron in france to commemorate one hundred years since the end of world war one they met near the french belgian forger at a memorial to the missing of the battle of the psalm where they laid wreaths of poppies and cornflowers not on is due to host around seventy wild leaders in paris on sunday at a ceremony on the shells that he say to mark the end of the so-called great war more than eighteen million people were killed in a conflict. the u.s. president on a trumpet also had just arrived in paris to mark the end of the war but one event he won't be attending is a sideline summit on global cooperation organized by the french president it's a sign of the increasingly different views trump and emanuel macron have towards multilateral institutions also says he finds it insulting that on proposed creating european army to protect the continent from potential enemies including the us

james base reports. 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. only versions 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 an award for whom we're increasing our support bernard kushner is a former french foreign minister. and i worry about nationalism because this edition of nationalism. even in europe before you mr so many you wrote. all roses edition of the nationalism are very dangerous because too much nationalism and drive will drive us to war. president trump arriving in paris on air force one he's one of about eighty leaders gathering here for the commemoration of one 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 reuters james plays out zero peris. u.s. defense secretary says he wants to find ways to reduce tension with china in the south china sea james mattis made the comments after meeting a chinese delegation in washington officials met to discuss military deescalation a trade dispute that led to tariffs from both sides but let's get the latest now from roslyn jordan who is at the state department so u.s. china relations taking center stage today amid a trade dispute and of course rising tensions as well in the south china sea what did we hear about that ross. well what we heard mario was about the concerns about the chinese decision to expand its military presence its naval presence most particularly in the south china sea but the u.s.

has objected to that one because it says that these are international waters and that no one country can claim any of that water for itself the u.s. has also criticized the chinese for essentially preventing other countries who are either fishing or sending their shipping vessels through the south china sea from actually doing what they had set out to do under the cover of international law the chinese for their part have said that the u.s. is really meddling in internal security affairs that the chinese have a right to be in the south china sea because this is a matter of protecting their citizens but when it comes to the matter of trade which of course is something which the u.s. president donald trump has made much hay of in recent months the secretary of state like pompei is said to reporters that the issue just didn't come up wasn't the

right venue to discuss matters of trade and on the base a bone of contention between the two countries has been the issue of taiwan what did i say about balance. well it's not just a small bone of contention it's a rather can serious one particularly if you're an official in beijing looking at the us his decision to sell some military equipment recently to taipei the u.s. and china have what is known as a one china policy and that's where washington is expected to recognize beijing as the legitimate capital of the legitimate chinese state the people's republic of china not recognize taiwan as a separate state china has always argued that taiwan is nothing more than a renegade province and that one day it will be brought back into the chinese fold well the u.s. is position is it does have the ability to and it does have the right for that

matter to sell military equipment or other equipment to any government of its choosing and that the chinese can't object because ultimately as far as washington is concerned beijing is the chinese capital and not taipei but there was no final resolution on that dispute during this security and diplomatic hearing here at the state department thank you very much rosen and jordan there in washington the taliban says it's not ready for direct talks with the afghan government tamil negotiate with the u.s. instead that's according to russian media russia has been hosting a multinational conference aimed at ending the violence in afghanistan the afghan delegation and a group representing the taliban attended the meeting in moscow the afghan government did not send an official representative. muslim refugees in a southern area of the central african republic is starting to return home after

they were forced out by armed christian fighters but their arrival is causing tensions in the city of qana because many homes and businesses they left have now been occupied by christian families the u.n. and several aid agencies are hoping to build new houses in an attempt to stop violence breaking out nicholas hock reports now from qana. it is easy return home from a two year long exile. gone are the pictures of his son mohammed do into my room the wall so to the bed with his wife and this so for the family sat around to watch t.v. . only the memories remain. lemur the 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. 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 i have come back here for the love of my homeland my house is my country's but some of the homes muslims left behind are now occupied by christian families they too are fleeing sectarian violence this is but a tug of war with last thursday burning our temporary shelters for mostly christian displaced villagers satellite 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 twice those displacement are also hope. and we don't talk 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 or 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 man who once lived tired of being on the move no longer a refugee in this unending crisis it is this desire to be part of a community that has brought him back home nicholas hawke al-jazeera cardo central

african republic. three million venezuelans have fled their country's economic and political crisis in two thousand and fifteen many are walking for thousands of kilometers through colombia across to cross the andes mountain range in search of a better life and no point on the route is more dangerous than parma our founder up yet is that. wrapped in a blanket in four months pregnant those has been walking for eight hours up this colombian mountain known as the ice box. this has been the hottest two of our companions passed out in the freezing air makes each step harder and this dangerous pass just one hundred kilometers from the border with to be. yet she says she needs to keep going. and doing this for my other children a five year old girl and a two and a half i'm a single mother and things in venezuela get worse every day no food no medicine no

life. left foot three days ago hoping to reach her sister in the colombian city of out of mania seven hundred kilometers away along the route she joined other migrants all poorly equipped for this weather carrying the few belongings they have in this case slacking a jacket her knee hurts but she keeps limping along. for me i'm also here for my son he got me in giantess and venezuela and i didn't even have the money for the vaccine more than three million have fled poverty hunger in crime in their country since two thousand and fifteen in one of the biggest migrations in the world today hundreds of thousands are still walking to the continent it's a dangerous journey and its toll remains largely invisible. in office as registered. to migrants from the cold but it's unclear just

how many might have died because nobody is really keeping track of the deaths or the missing along these routes and there's little formal help along the way. the colombian red cross set up an assistance point at the start of the trick here migrants receive help in health services but the most important thing is information but of course. they don't know what they have to face or where to go most have never crossed the border. by the end of the day and her group reached the top of the mountain there's no where to and temperatures are dropping by the minute . soldiers help haiti get a lift to the closest city the rest decide to continue on foot about this if it you must have faith that will accrue prolong the boat. where.