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 turn tech held 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 still heads on al-jazeera. i hope to god nobody else me anymore breakers i want control no more. another u.s. marshal leads to calls for gun control but it's unclear whether congress is this thing. yes it is rather cool using simple hybrid lies used to janet reno each and decided gently gently nudge. space to reach one hundred to another from science fiction to back to will tell you about the high tech first to get rid of space junk surrounding the planet.

well the weather remains still rather disturbed across eastern parts of the united states and it 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 forseeable 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 when the great shakes all the time which is seven ice there for new york and also for d.c. good to warm a good deal drop brighter right across the caribbean jalsa want to see showers into the last around today's four time so you might just catch

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hello again the top stories on the u.n. refugee agency is demanding the u.s. ensure that people escaping violence or persecution are given protection under international law president donald trump signed an order to deny asylum to migrants who enter the country illegally turkish police are officially ending the search for . body but will continue the criminal investigation into the saudi journalist's murder sources have told al jazeera traces of acid were found at the saudi consul general's residence at istanbul it's believed his killers used chemicals to dispose

off his body. the coalition fighting the war in yemen has asked the u.s. to stop the fueling of the aircraft it says it now has the capacity to resupply its own fighter jets the u.s. says it supports the decision. after two weeks of turmoil and there has been another twist in the political power struggle a president. has dissolved parliament clearing the way for a snap election two years ahead of schedule problems began on october the twenty six when the president fired his prime minister running away from a single he replaced him with mahinda rajapaksa an ex-president accused of war crimes since his ousting wickramasinghe has refused to leave his residence saying the move to fire him is unconstitutional and illegal well the move to dissolve parliament came hours after the president's party admitted it could not muster enough votes to nominate rajapaksa we now from and more from colombo. the

dissolving of parliament by president by three policy restrain another bolt out of the blue two weeks after he started off this constitutional crisis by sacking his prime minister and 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 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 are up in arms they've said this is against a constitution it's antidemocratic the ousted prime minister's party has already decried it 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 investigators in california are 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 government killed himself when confronted by police probably call him 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 if i don't know if my son was tell her father if we lost him last night at the borderline in shooting my son was in westbury guess with a lot of his friends and he came home he didn't come on 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 offends me any more prayers i want gun control no more guns 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 in pretty bad things and

a lot of people say he has the b.c.s. the. that's a tough thing for democrats it's about guns this isn't. going to change. this doesn't happen anywhere else on planet earth. and we can't let folks forget that can't lose sight of that can't 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's going to happen. but 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 patty klein al-jazeera washington. israeli soldiers have shot dead

a palestinian man during clashes at the gaza. border the. protests by gaza's rulers hamas have taken place along the frontier with israel's march. calling for an end to the blockade on gaza and the right of return to their ancestral homes in israel vienna and moscow have summoned each other's ambassadors over claims a retired austrian general worked as a spy for russia for decades the seventeen year old allegedly provided russian intelligence information about military and political solutions since one nine hundred ninety russia's foreign minister says they know nothing about the issue. from moscow. and again accusations of spying directed at russia coming from a european union country this time it's austria austrian chancellor sebastian goofs

as he has obtained information that a former military officer has been spying for russia for more than twenty years information that was leaked was apparently about weapons systems although the accusations have yet to be confirmed they have already led to diplomatic repercussions for wonder foreign minister cardin can i so who are supposed to visit moscow next month has canceled her visit and i salute it's good friends with vladimir putin and they both that it's together at her wedding last august the other thing is that the high russian official has been summoned in vienna here in moscow the austrian ambassador has been summoned by the foreign ministry foreign minister left has angrily responded to the accusations coming from austria he says they basically violate all good behavior between two nations in the international diplomacy if there are suspicions of spying normally the countries would hold a dialogue between closed doors first and he said lately western nations have

picked up the habit to shout out loud if these accusations occur without having a conversation first and left office also sad that instead of providing information as requested by the austrian chancellor he will explain to the austrian ambassador how international diplomacy works the british prime minister to resign may has joined the french presidency money when my call in france to commemorate one hundred years since the end of world war one they met near the french belgian border to honor the missing of the battle of the solomon micron's due to host around seventeen world leaders in paris to mark the end of the great war for the teen million people were killed in the conflict. donald trump in paris for the commemorations he didn't hesitate to take a swipe at his host. has suggested that europe should create its own army in an effort to reduce reliance on the u.s. for defense trump hit back the scribing this suggestion as insulting and repeated

his call that europe should pay its fair share of nato. it's not the only area of disagreement between the two leaders trump won't attend the summit on global cooperation organized by the french president james maes has more 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 rolls stresses cooperation through multilateral

institutions like the un america will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance control and domination. only says yes 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 and 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 fight misses so many new raw. overseas addition of nationalism are very dangerous because too much a national is 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. in germany the league of nations forerunner to the united nations failed after the u.s. didn't join it because of opposition from hardline republicans a wiser person to me once said history doesn't repeat itself but it grinds james plays out zero peris the u.s. defense secretary says he wants to find ways to reduce tension with china and the south china sea james mattis made the comments after meeting a chinese delegation in washington d.c. officials met to discuss military deescalation and a trade dispute that's like the tariffs from both sides scientists are preparing to fire lasers into space as part of a cleanup effort cosmic clutter poses a threat to satellites spacecraft and potentially people on earth mariana honda has more on this out of this world push. we've been launching things and people

into space since nine hundred fifty seven satellites be a favorite programs spacecraft to explore the unknown people to take our first steps and in the more than sixty years of space exploration with managed to leave behind around one hundred seventy million bits of junk to give you a sense of just how big the problem is take a look at this graph from scientists at the university of texas these orange dots a functioning satellites orbiting the earth every day everything else the sea of pink the below is daybreak junk basically some of it's tiny some of it says big as a bus all of it's hurtling around the earth at speeds in excess of twenty seven thousand kilometers an hour crisscrossing at different orbits and on a potential collision course with the things and people that we want up there.

scientists warn it has the potential to create a string of catastrophic even unstoppable collisions that could render parts of space unusable nesa scientists donald case the first identified the scenario thirty years ago scientists have been trying to come up with ways to clean up after ourselves if a sense has the predicted that when the population density of space debris reaches a certain point it will start to cool i would self and start multiplying by itself and we're seeing the beginnings of that we see increasing number of satellite collisions. through for you know the best minds on the planet in this to mine we have another ten years we could be very lucky and have twenty years or twenty five we could be very unlucky and it could happen tomorrow scientists are making progress with innovative ways to clear the class a but none of it's ready to launch just yet that's where a new years of well established laser technology comes in ataman astray leah

working with the experts from around the world is preparing to fire high powered lasers to blast space debris away to a safer orbit yes it is rather cool using simple high browed lasers to gently nudge and decided gently gently match the space race one would lead to another we don't have the solutions of space to bring out we have means to reduce the scale of the problem and. the doomsday event so we get more time space based laser technology dates back to the one nine hundred seventy s. and now has a myriad of applications that already make a real difference to us down here on earth but it's this latest use of laser ranging technology to clean up the cosmic junkyard around our planet that's capturing global attention it's the biggest clean up if it ever sane and this corner of the universe at least madame holland al-jazeera.

hello again the headlines on al-jazeera president donald trump has signed an order to change should change who can apply for asylum he wants to limit those claims only to migrants who went to the country illegally his move is aimed at thousands of people from central america currently making their way to the u.s. border the saudi emirates a coalition fighting the war in yemen has asked the u.s. to stop refueling its aircraft it says it now has the capacity to resupply its own fighter jets the u.s. says it supports the decision mike hanna has more from washington. the issue of refueling has been under discussion for months pentagon sources have said that the saudis had been getting better at refueling in midair last week the secretary of defense james mattis said that lists then one third of saudi aircraft were being refueled by the u.s. so certainly this is

a matter that was coming to an end it would appear the saudis now unilaterally announcing that the refueling processes will end the ongoing u.s. cooperation with saudi arabia will go on the turkish police are officially ending the search for a body but will continue the criminal investigation into the saudi journalists murder al-jazeera has learned that traces of acid were found at the saudi consul general's residence in istanbul it's believed these killers used chemicals to dispose off his body a state of emergency has been declared in the u.s. state of california where raging wildfires are causing widespread destruction at least nine people have died and tens of thousands have been ordered to leave their homes the fire has destroyed the entire town of paradise where twenty seven thousand people were forced out it's australian police say the man behind what they're calling a terror incident in melbourne was inspired by i saw has been identified as hasan

ali across the car filled with gas cylinders in the city center on friday before stabbing dead a man and wounding two others he later died after police shot him investigators say he was known to counterterrorism officers those are the headlines on al-jazeera one east is coming up next day with us. dug a stone rife with tensions between islamic separatists and pro russian nationals. course in the crossfire one man has a vision for the next generation empowering. back to seek a better way. with peace dagestan's peaceful mores on al-jazeera. when tokyo hosts the twenty twenty paralympics japan's most talented disabled

athletes will get their shocks at banks and glory. but outside the stadiums is a society that still struggles to accept people who are disabled in the past and the japanese citizens were forcibly sterilized for having intellectual or physical disability now big tips are demanding compensation of what. they were right that the way was. untrue embroidered on this episode of one a one a we make the people fighting to overcome japan the fear of protection. even on a rainy day such about her looks peaceful. but in twenty six states this small town

near tokyo was the size of japan's biggest mass killing since world war two. i. joined tenth a. chickenhawk. to kashi and to kick her own news disabled son was badly injured that day in july twenty sixth jane now the best all. access dog and i've saved a lot on tonight by none of it though they did something when we did an adult day there not a case on it. in the early hours of the morning with a knife the killer sitar she went nuts or broke into a care home for the disabled. the famous i'm going to. write the book right big who got big quinnell. quinnell on along.

a former employee at the care home matsue knew his way around. as he made his way through the building he stabbed the disabled patients murdering nineteen and injuring twenty seven others. after the attack he surrendered himself at a nearby police station reportedly saying it's better that the disciple would just disappear the northern is still named dave who knew that cutting back on my day still nine to one up close to me to me and then a man done to me so when you do not think this is the. only sense. then you can do the utility in rome since you don't and i. did a. month before his killing spree when not super resigned from his job at the care home after delivering

a letter to japan's palomas. in it he wrote the disabled people should be euthanized and offered to kill four hundred seventy of them. he sensed on. more thought since it takes time goes. along and i stay warm coming out to get on this right joe good day but we don't know. what it does it isn't it but not mr mandel i'm going it's. coming up on as they. are you know. we wasn't over at all so for him i'm going to give you a new unit called the ninety who number stand up among. the owners first heard about the attack through news reports. as the bodies were being taken away and the police gathered evidence from the killer's house to kick or rushed to the hospital to see her son because we are all got along i got there now i'm wearing my stuff.

and money. and. before. that it. was. joel our. car or did that's not that or the. there at the all there then. you know kid at a. mall what i was. a lot more. see my stuff. in the days after the cash he says the families remained in the dark so i don't know how. slow is going out more about the money there. were. none of my economy very kind of his make i had to make did. kazuya has

a profound intellectual disability epilepsy and autism he was first institutionalized at sixteen to think i was home while not the bunny. i was some ok ok ok. sort of. up. there doesn't mean. yes i have taken some it's a book i can't because i thought. the whole group that's the condition i. state so that the more this can all. two years after the attack kazuya has physical recovered and lives at another care. but his mother says he is still haunted by what happened call here i see this.

once a month at a makeshift memorial families affected by the massacre lay flowers so that those who died can reach heaven. when a total stranger arrives at the vigil the owners are overjoyed thank all of us that have received. the visitor says he had nothing to do with the incident but was so affected by what happened that he traveled an hour and a half by bus to pay his respects how long that have been on it and then the line any color there when they need. to go to the saloon realigning are they not feel welcome and. the owners are only one of two families to speak publicly about the attack the rest of the victims have never been named. no causal couldn't even look

at the must do the wants to get shown why did six seats in the right to call the law second. i know corey is the matter saw you do him a day you don't need to using a modicum of personal side engine a cutting. style from the institution come to pack up the vigil. was all the good they are there the owners farewell and my friend you are. in twenty twenty tokyo will be the first city in the world to host the paralympic games for a second time. the japanese government hopes this is a date building crease awareness for the more than seven million japanese living with disabilities. at a training camp for the national team i meet long jumper. tokyo will

host the next paralympic games your home country those that make you. a little bit more nervous. a lot. of. you. had you started training in high school at the time a does more junior was growing in his right arm and doctors were considering amputation. rational for the. wrong on this kid or. what if i feel guilty and or.

with these tuman no longer spreading rumors paralympic career is taking off in leaps and bounds. after winning bronze in long jump at the recent asian power games how do you muse ultimate goal is to compete at the summer olympics. japan has a long history of discrimination against the disabled while the country was hosting

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

queen or in the ward and there where the stadium we are in this is you always are the one in summary group can do a new what the zoom up on the zero and the over all of us are now my oldest in a story they will restore and they grew in a more a daze she. says his childhood was tough he contract of polio when he was only two and grew up on a farm with a foster family above the noise there while most. other zumaya. minds albeit they could us they must die so that the murder moved out of their will the one they see. on all. in all it's been so really buddy michael moore who they are there buddy.