this is not the end of this issue. let's also to come here on the news hour including a new offensive to retake a major port city in yemen from who think rebels as the u.n. again warns of a humanitarian crisis. i hope to god nobody will send me any more prayers i want control no more. not the u.s. not shooting leads to renewed calls for gun control but it's unclear whether congress is listening. and in sports a planned match in saudi arabia between novak djokovic and rafael nadal has been called off details with andy a little bit later in the sport. now a bomb on going to attack has killed at least twenty one people in the somali capital mogadishu witnesses say a gunman tried to storm a hotel when the bombs went off a warning some of the images and paul jesús report may be 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. and 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 a number of casualties unknown as bodies are still being pulled from the burning cars. 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 mean 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 percent for that of the armed group al-shabaab is claiming responsibility for the attack it's been trying to oust the u.n. backed government for over a decade has carried out deadly attacks against high profile targets including

hotels and she. point in the capital and other cities. culture dirge on al-jazeera . a state of emergency has been declared in the u.s. state of california a raging wildfires are causing widespread destruction at least five people have died and tens of thousands of residents have been ordered to leave their homes robin is reports from westlake village. fire is ripping through southern california with high winds driving columns of flame and smoke from the mountains to the sea. tens of thousands of homes are threatened many have already been destroyed my friend's house is totally bundt i don't know but my you're fearful that your house will burn yes. ok. very. residents of the wealthy seaside enclave of malibu are fleeing under a mandatory evacuation order the fires sprang up thursday night the source is still

not known but intense wind gusts rapidly spread the blaze through bone dry chaparral and brush into communities how we got the bag and i said i'm not going to remember going to have done what you think you became a good parent a huge tower of smoke rose thousands of meters into the sky and the smoke made air quality hazardous for people with respiratory problems california's acting governor gavin newsom has declared a state of emergency and while authorities say most people heeded their warnings and evacuated when they were told to we are also told by authorities that there have been some deaths firefighters are working desperately to keep up with the fast moving widespread blazes when you have forty fifty sixty mile an hour winds blowing fire 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 severe fires have ravaged large areas of california since october of last year now the state is once more witnessing nature's fury at its worst robert oulds al-jazeera westlake village california well scott mclean is from the california department of forestry and fire protection he joins us via skype from sacramento california scott just bring us up to date then with what's being called the woozy fire we understand it spread rapidly overnight and is now

threatening one of the. right i believe malibu has been evacuated as we speak right now and that fire actually grew to fourteen thousand acres as of a couple hours ago and zero percent containment and we're hearing that nearly one hundred fifty thousand people have been evacuated across the area what's happening to them and where they will going they're either going to their friends their relatives motels camping would or are they can do those with r.v.'s we find will take their arby's and go camping in various parking lots out of harm's way and it's not just southern california that's been affected i mean fires and it's a raging in the north of the state as well tell us what's happening there and then we're going to talk about my hometown my home area that campfire took off yesterday morning about six thirty an exponentially grew to thousands tens of thousands of acres right now we're looking at seventy thousand acres plus and only five percent

containment it went through the community of congo went across the canyon river canyon and went into the town of paradise which is utterly devastated i was in that area all day yesterday it was from that turned day into night for all day what sort of challenges a firefighter is facing on the ground i mean as you've explained to us these fires a huge they're extremely deadly and have moved very fast um no. yes they did we had what's called red flag warnings yesterday predicted winds extreme low humidity these and our vegetation weatherby the trees the brush or the grass is extremely dry drier than ever before and it's been really very receptive to this fire and with all that those winds have been pushing this fire extremely fast so we're talking about extreme arrested rates of spread thousands of acres at any given time unfortunate we just found up this morning as well through the sheriff's department that they have found five individuals that have perished in their

vehicles scott mclean thank you very much indeed for talking to al jazeera. now the reuters news agency says the u.s. may stop refueling aircraft in the saudi iraqi coalition fighting in yemen the u.s. has been under pressure to limit its assistance in the war that's created a huge humanitarian crisis meanwhile yemeni government forces backed by the coalition have launched a major offensive to retake the rebel held city of the data un as one that thousands of people have been trapped by the fighting in the hayward reports. on the edge of her day the battle to territory is intensifying it is a relentless spite with both sides claiming they are making gains data is the prize at the center of this nearly seventy percent of the emmons commercial imports pass through the city's poorest practically un supervised eight pro-government forces backed by saudi arabia say a major offensive is now underway to try to take her data back to the fighters the

ones that have remained in order. what. goods basically it's like food prices or basic commodities. because structurally hospitals and schools have closed because of the war the who think they say they are also implicating heavy losses on saudi backed. this war . began when the point 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 pursue pliable 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 going to see 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 cool suppressed cease fire and a political solution to be found for yemen these so far have been ignored with neither side willing to compromise ever heywood. in california investigators are still trying to establish what motivated a mass shooting on thursday a twenty eight year old former marine walked into a bar and shot twelve people the gunman killed himself when confronted by the

police article he 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 are fine with my son with tell her find out if we lost him last night at the borderline 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 prayers i don't want thoughts i want gun control and i hope to god nobody you know fems me any more prayers i want gun control no more. think you 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 u.s. marines he served in afghanistan well he was a war veteran he was a marine he was in the war he served time he saw some pretty bad things and a lot of people say he has the p.t.s.d. and. i just tough for democrats it's about guts this is america got to 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 that the plan that's going to be. the right now it seems much more likely that we'll learn many

new names new victims new stories of loss and horror long before congress agrees to act. al jazeera washington. the u.s. defense secretary says he wants to find ways to reduce tensions with china in the south china sea james mattis made the comments after meeting a chinese delegation in washington d.c. officials met to discuss minute tradin trade dispute that's led to terrorists from both sides and jordan isolated from washington d.c. . the u.s. and chinese officials agreed during their second strategic and defense dialogue that it's important to make certain that north korea gives up its nuclear weapons they also agreed it's important to try to check the influence of iran but where they differ is on the chinese military presence in the south china sea china says it has the responsibility to defend its citizens from foreign attacks the u.s. says that it's unnecessarily militarizing the area and that its own vessels are

going to fly over the south china sea or sail through them because they are technically international waters the other area where the two countries have a bit of a disagreement the status of taiwan technically the u.s. recognizes beijing as the official capital of the people's republic of china and does not recognize taiwan as a separate independent state however washington's recent decision to sell some military equipment to taipei has angered beijing saying that the u.s. is going back in and on an agreement more than forty years old the taliban says it's not ready the direct talks with the afghan government and will negotiate with the u.s. instead that's according to russian media russia's been hosting a multilateral conference and that ending the violence in afghanistan an afghan delegation and a group representing the taliban attended the meeting in moscow the afghan government did not send an official representative for israeli soldiers of shot

dead a palestinian man during protests in the gaza israel border rami come on was one of twenty eight people who came on the israeli fire during the violence in iraq a protest backed by gaza's leaders hamas have taken place along the front with israel since march. calling for an end to the blockade on gaza and the right of return to their ancestral homes in israel. i'm catherine has donated fifteen million dollars to help pay civil servants in gaza tens of thousands of workers have been struggling to make ends meet since the palestinian authority slashed budgets for the gaza strip the area is governed by rival faction the hamas israel says the money from qatar which will total ninety million dollars over six months will not go to hamas fighters. time for short break here down to zero when we come back. 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. from this it is rather cool using simple high powered lies used to gently nudge him to slow it gently gently nudge. space to read one would to another from science fiction to fact new laser technology enabling scientists to get rid of space junk surrounding the planet. and install the supporting outs and fluffed his lines at the start of the world chess championship stay with us. well the weather remains still rather disturbed across eastern parts of the united states and down towards the panhandle for the panhandle lot of clout there sliding across texas pushing over towards the appalachians we could deal with the rain across the western side of the country because with those wildfires continuing to

rage in california i'm afraid there is no rain in the forecast here for the foreseeable future what disturbed weather we have will be on the other side of the rockies maybe some snow denver struggling to get around minus one celsius on sunday afternoon minus one to four minneapolis dry weather coming back into that eastern side of the u.s. as we go on through sunday and have great sex all the time which is seven days there for new york at also for d.c. good to warm a good deal drop prices right across the caribbean jalsa want to see as shallow as into the last around to this fourth time so you might just catch a few showers into the wind woods until a woods as well maybe pushing over towards puerto rico towards had been it can republic southern parts of cuba just catch a shower or two on saturday it should be large and fly and dry as you go on through sunday the easterly winds that pushes showers into the western side of the caribbean like a regular costa rica could see a few showers but we want to show is to just up towards southern parts of mexico.

a disease so stigmatized that those suffering are still shunned by society people is drunk on their penley from the realty from their wives and then they don't have a place in the home why are you can be done so that they are no longer outcasts in their own community al-jazeera meets the health workers who are challenging al qaeda attitudes and working tirelessly to combat leprosy in india lifeline ancient enemy. the latest news as it breaks the saudi's narrative contradicts the information that turkish officials have been giving for the past three weeks with details coverage this whole flap feria of mud was shot and houses and it was completely washed away along with the people who were inside from around the world the government doesn't call this a detention center but it's surrounded by barbed wire fences and it exits are

manned by armed guards. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour the un refugee agency is demanding the u.s. ensures that people escaping violence or persecution are given protection on the international law president trump signed a proclamation which says migrants who enter the country illegally cannot claim asylum. turkish police officer ending the search for these body but will continue the criminal probe into the saudi john this murder sources have told al jazeera traces of acid work found at the saudi consul general's residence in istanbul it's

believed his killers used chemicals to dispose of his body. and sri lanka's president has dissolved parliament clearing the way for a snap election in january two years ahead of schedule a political crisis began two weeks ago when the president replaced by minister. police in the australian city of melbourne last step up security after what they're calling a terror incident and attack a crushed a car filled with gasland as in the city center before stopping one person to death and wounding two others the suspect later died after being shot by the police under thomas. it's from sydney. just up to four o'clock on a busy off the name in the center of melbourne shopping district a full whale drawing the system only to those on the street watching in horror as a man who had already stepped hawses by times he's not on police. officers tried to subdue him with anything to hand one not even pushes a shopping trolley to the extent. as he continues to attack. one officer up pulls

out of. and shoots him once in the chest someone has driven a car that fits right on the can my house is full 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 so to 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 go off three men was stabbed one dying from his injuries and police have confirmed that the attacker late to died in hospital too from what we know of that individual we are treating this as a terrorism incident. and he's not to play smiley in respect to relatives that he has that i certainly question is of interest to us. and

a someone that accordingly is known to. be troy police and the federal intelligence saudi. police say the attack a came from somalia in the one nine hundred ninety s. and previously had only been charged with minor offenses traffic violations and smike in town of us. investigators say the vehicle who drove down burke street was filled with barbecue style gas bottles before being set on fire. place say they don't believe there's an ongoing threats but more officers will be deployed at events around the city this weekend especially as christmas shopping begins we will not as a city in a stipend to form by this act of evil will simply refuse to do that we will go about our 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. now muslims are scapes sectarian violence in central african republic a slowly returning from nearby cameroon but their arrival is causing new tensions as their former homes and businesses have been occupied by mum muslims the un and aid agencies hope the violence by building new houses reports the city of qana. it is easy returned home from a two year long exile. gone are the pictures of his son mohamed do in whom i wrote the wall so the bad lehman 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 muslims. 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 the 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. those displacement are also hope and we've now told 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 hawke al-jazeera cardo central african republic but british prime minister to resign may has joined french president emmanuel marco in france to commemorate a hundred years since the end of the first world war they met near the french belgian border to all of the missing of the battle of the song. due to host around seventy world leaders in paris to mark the end of the great war more than eighteen million people were killed in the conflict. and president donald trump has arrived in paris for the commemorations but one event he won't be attending as a summit on a global corporation organized by the french president it's a sign of the different view trump emanuel macro had towards multilateral institutions genspace reports from paris. 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 rolle stresses cooperation through multilateral institutions like the un america will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance control and domination. only sessions we should support those working for peace and humanity unesco the conscience of the united nations the human rights council the international criminal court under

water alone 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 edition of nationalism are very dangerous because too much a national isn't drive will drive us to. 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 paris. germany's been marking the eightieth anniversary of kristallnacht the night when jews and jewish properties were attacked by the nazis in germany chancellor angela merkel said it was vital to learn the lessons of what happened in a small number of far right protesters are planning to demonstrate on the streets of berlin dominic came reports. just to be in this building in one nine hundred thirty eight would have made people suspect in the eyes of the nazis angle america made clear what happened then was part of a process that began as soon as fascism began to take hold form split he saw us fully why do i speak in so much detail about everything that happened before november nine one thousand nine hundred eighty eight eighty five nine hundred ninety five years ago because i am convinced that only been can we draw upon the right lessons for us today and in the future if we understand the november pug room of one thousand nine hundred eighty eight as part of the process which ended in the terrible aftermath 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 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 and apartheid in bundestag was an innovation and it's a party that sits in the bundestag on the very far right has perfected this to titian they are spiritual arsonists they have respect for nothing they instrumentalists the career just resistance fighters of the wide roads for their purposes they mark 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 for germany it strenuously denies any links with anti semitism the defeat of nazi ism in one thousand nine hundred five did not eradicate extremist views 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 it came down to zero berlin. three million venezuelans of a skate the country's economic and political crisis since twenty fifteen that's the last count by the u.n. in september another four hundred thousand people have joined the exodus many walks of thousands of kilometers from colombia to cross the andes mountain range in search of a better life. reports. wrapped in a blanket in four months pregnant. been walking for eight hours after being mounted known as the ice box. this has been the hardest to have our companions passed out in the freezing air makes each step harder and this dangerous pass just one hundred kilometers from the border with. yet she says she needs to keep going.

i'm 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 for 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 lacking a jacket her knee hurts but she keeps limping along. for me i'm also here for my son he got me when giantess in venezuela and i didn't even have the money for the vaccine more than three million venezuelans 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 through 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 clear just how many might have died. nobody is really keeping track of the debt or the missing along these routes. and there's little formal help along the way. you can use this to cover your nose mouth neck 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 nowhere to stay and temperatures are dropping by the minute. soldiers help lidiane haiti get a lift to the closest.