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 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 ahead on al-jazeera . yes it is rather cool using simple high powered lies to gently nudge decided gently gently nudge. space to read one hundred words were. taken by taking.

by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. al of the details change from day to day but the pattern remains the same in europe there's not much cloud in the east so it's encroaching there's a lot in the west swirling around yet another area of low pressure a storm systems here like the concentration of winds is going to be over the british isles and probably near constant the concentration of rain is likely to be a bit further south immediately through france for the next i think forty eight hours northwest in spain and portugal get hit quite badly at the same time we're enjoying the teens still in bucharest now moscow has cooled down to the area of relative warmth is getting smaller but the rain is in the same sort of place

roughly speaking i suppose west of austria and there's the picture for sunday with the darkest green off the coast of portugal which is like to be with the wettest area jumping sathan because for schools involved it's likely you'd think that northwest of africa is involved where the cloud has been getting as fast size as maybe central geria but not much rain has come out of the sky apart from the occasional share into this jury saturday it's like if we relatively fun even on sundays portugal takes the brunt of it rabbet in fact all of america benefits from drawing up a bit of warmth but in libya it is likely to be rather more stormy. the with it sponsored by cats own use. i'm a historian say for the people every week the news cycle brings a series of breaking stories told through the eyes of the world stan and they see these two voices jan this was one of the few journalists in baghdad that were actually doing investigative work join even listening post as we turn the cameras

on the media and focus on how they were caught on the story so much in demand see bias the rights to those stories but then he never publishes those stories they're listening post on al-jazeera. or watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you they saudi amerada 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. because president author paul us our senate has dissolved parliament and declared a snap elections be held on january fifth comes just hours after his party admitted that it did not happen

a parliamentary support for its designated prime minister turmoil has been heightened sense the president's sacking of his prime minister last month. and two big wildfires in the u.s. state of california have told at least nine people and left thousands of others homeless five of those who died were found in their cars in the northern town of paradise which has been completely destroyed while all residents of the southern the big city of malibu happened ordered to leave their homes. as president donald trump is in paris to commemorate one hundred years since the end of world war one and he didn't hesitate to take a swipe at us. host i will mark on has suggested that europe should create its own army in an effort to reduce reliance on the us for defense trumpet describing the suggestion as insulting and repeated his call that europe should pay for its own fair share of nato. the british prime minister has for the ceremonies to to began in the coming hours to mark the end of the great war more than eighteen million people were killed and that conflict. and germany has been marking the eightieth

anniversary anniversary of kristallnacht the night when jews and jewish properties were attacked across germany by the nazis as long as it was vital to learn the lessons of what happened but a small number of far right protesters are planning to demonstrate on the streets and berlin 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. 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 beforehand that something remembers all too clearly she recalls the day who 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 the other shops that were in the same situation is 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 those 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 a party that sits in the bundestag on the very far right has perfected this. 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 out zero. at least twenty one people have been killed by two car bombs and the somali capital happen there a hotel in the country's police headquarters in mogadishu the armed group is claiming responsibility. terry 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 d.c. officials met to discuss military deescalation and a trade dispute that led to terrorists from both sides the philippines president in his fight against drugs is claiming lives at an alarming rate thousands have been killed in the. launch the controversial clampdown people are becoming increasingly afraid of these police operations. report from central philippines.

grief coming to the town. people are killed in what the police describes as the one time big time operation raid that sweeps through communities for illicit drugs and other petty crimes. remembers how the police barged into their home at dawn looking for her husband. he told me don't be afraid there are no drugs in our home we won't do anything. but maria and her children were made to crawl out of their home while her husband stayed inside the police then shot her husband dead. the police are reassures residents that operations here are meant to restore safety in very communities but that's not exactly what many people here feel they tell us they have never been more afraid the recent spate of killings here on scene in

recent years. across the province drug related killings have gone up to cebu may be one of the most developed and populous cities in the besides region but police here say they will be relentless that's why the president called it drug war because even that will be. the police has to fight back and. sometimes we don't even know who only being at the other side of the house in these houses are made of the materials that will it's going to penetrate if we fire our guns. she admits many officers are now less willing to implement the government's so-called war on drugs that is because president to tear to is now halfway through his term and there could be legal repercussions once his steps down from office complaints against it at that and other government officials for crimes against

humanity are no pending at the international criminal court. police say almost five thousand people have been killed in georgia related operations since that they have been launched his war on drugs in two thousand and sixteen but the rights groups believe the number is much higher. they promise to continue their investigation and say witnesses will soon be ready to testify. for some families that is the best they can hope for they say. their loved ones are gone and there won't be an end to their grief. province central philippines three million venezuelans have escaped the country's economic and political crisis since two thousand and fifteen cents to last count by the united nations in september another four hundred thousand people have joined the exodus many walk for 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 i mean those as been walking for eight hours after school in mountain known as the ice box. this has been the hottest two of our companions passed out the freezing air makes each step harder and this dangerous pass just one hundred kilometers from the border would be nice. 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 a. jacket her knee hurts but she keeps limping along. for me i'm also here for my son he got me one giantess and 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 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. because nobody is really keeping track of the death 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 if. 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 temperatures are dropping by the minute. soldiers helped lead again in haiti get a lift to the closest city the rest of the site to continue on foot that's a good thing you must have faith that will work group along the road. where do the sleep tonight they don't know but with no other option they can only pray so on listen that it. will be a lean and degenerates hunters in bolivia are helping to prevent a rare breed of reptile from going extinct they took on a community has teamed up a conservationist who adopts the stain of a hunting practices the akari came and is

a member of the crocodilian family and is sought after for its meat fat and high extensive hunting teil had driven it to the brink of extinction. scientists are prepared to fire lasers into space as part of a cleanup effort cosmic clutter poses a threat to satellites spacecraft and potentially people on earth around han has more on this out of the 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 deep sea 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 this 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 sentence 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 core 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 use 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 know each and decided gently gently match the space race one would lead to another we don't have a solution for space to bring out we have means to reduce the scale of problem and defer 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 the same and this corner of the universe at least madame holland al-jazeera. world's first started official intelligence news anchor has gone live in china. everyone in an english short official intelligence. it was developed to speak mandarin in english through a machine that learned to simulate the voice actual movements and gestures of real life broadcasters doing her learns from live videos and is able to work twenty four hours a day which should be a lot of overtime. the

headlines now on al-jazeera the saudi moroni coalition fighting the war and yemen has asked the u.s. to stop refueling as aircraft says it now has the capacity to resupply the fighter jets the u.s. says it supports the decision to travel ministration has been under pressure to limit its assistance in a war that's created a huge humanitarian crisis is following the story from there. this is the main part of the support the so devoted coalition gets from the united states but it has been the most divisive because of the massive civilian casualties witnessed in yemen co-developed by the sudanese and the whole nation now they are all spics all the support the united states is giving this live coalition including the fatal as well as. the sharing of intelligence including the positions in various parts of the country which have been thought to think saudi

arabia's former spy chief says the kingdom will never allow an international investigation into the murder of saudi journalist. prince charkhi al faisal added that he expects riyadh will fully investigate his death and insists there was no cover up saudi arabia is under pressure from many parties including the united nations to allow an end dependent. because president senate has dissolved parliament and declared a snap election to be held on january fifth it comes just hours after his party admitted that it did not have enough parliamentary support for its designated prime minister little turmoil has been heightened since the president's sacking of his prime minister last month. two big wildfires in the u.s. state of california have left thousands homeless and killed at least nine people five of them were found in their cars in the northern town of paradise which is been completely destroyed and meanwhile residents all residents of the southern city of malibu have been ordered to leave their homes. at least eleven people have

been killed as heavy rains cause flash flooding across jordan were forced to run for higher ground in petra kingdoms ancient city and one of its most popular destinations almost four thousand visitors have had to evacuate the area. those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more to the listening post it's up next. the u.n. man in charge of middle east and north africa has refugee crisis is that the end is still not inside the war doesn't act like in cos or some other countries of the world does not act like that and there ought to be a new order to make that contribution is about ensuring more equitable i mean i was talking to a zero. iran is bracing for what figures to be a major blow to its already got to go because of. us how she managed that. sector. because it's a good i'm talking about it here there are riots today from. a one

hundred years version you're listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week the u.s. iran and sanctions round two gets its start on twitter where does the story go from here president trump gets into an argument with a c.n.n. correspondent you are rude terrible person in the white house declares the journalist persona non-grata israel and palestinian memories the archives it keeps under lock and key and egypt president sisi gets on his bike cue the cult of personality on the airwaves we begin with the sanctions story there reimposition by washington on iraq and the optics and messaging around it president trump dropped the word on twitter with a game of thrones inspired tagline sanctions are coming november fifth the retaliatory tweet from tehran was no less confrontational back in two thousand and fifteen when former president barack obama signed the multilateral deal designed to

monitor and limit iran's nuclear program few would have predicted that is successor would not only pull out of the agreement but really impose sanctions tehran has put on a brave face trying to convince iranians it can weather this storm and making its case moral and political to a global. audience the trumpet ministration says it wants to force iran back to the bargaining table but given the severity of the sanctions the list of conditions from the u.s. and the tone of the trompe and rhetoric the question becomes is the white house really looking to create a dialogue or a confrontation our starting point this week is washington d.c. . the. president to win the game but again. just before midnight last night trump tweeted starting with a misconception donald trump is not the first american president to conduct foreign

policy with iran on twitter the obama administration did plenty of them in the go shooting the nuclear agreement of two thousand and fifteen which trump has dispensed with what is different now in tweets that resemble something out of the game of thrones television show a medieval fantasy is the language used the term but this shows first on the donald trump side is this cavalier approach towards sanctions we're talking about something that is going to impoverish a very large segment of the iranian population and the fact that this is a movie poster that i think also reflects in the eyes of some folks in this administration this is very much a game it's unfortunate because i think it leaves a lot of room for misinterpretation and a lot of room for a particular kind. of yes social media that can prove to be dangerous in the long term because they're not directly talking to one another but this unforeseen seems

to be the reality i think there are probably elements of the well known governments which don't disapprove of their more than happy to see the u.s. government destroy its own public diplomacy so great you guys are self harming right now we see we spent forty years telling our people down with the united states these guys are your enemy. we failed. you guys did the job for six months it's incredible thank you we cannot allow the world this second round of sanctions against iran did not come out of nowhere the trumpet ministration has been setting the stage making its case for a while now iran's leaders so chaos. death. and destruction and not just through the president on stages such as the u.s. directive is to starve the iranian regime of the revenue it uses to fund violence and stabilize activities secretary of state mike tom pale has done the same as has john bolton who was

a prominent hawkish figure at the state department during the run up to the war in iraq and is now president trumps national security advisor the murderous regime and its supporters will face significant consequences there is nothing diplomatic in what the administration has been saying deriding the leadership in tehran constructing a narrative of iran as a malign actor preparing the ground for the withdrawal from the nuclear agreement and the new set of sanctions most americans don't know anything about iran they know about the hostage crisis maybe they know about death to america death to israel which are slogans that that are chanted regularly and so they are predisposed to believe that iran is a very bad country and of course iran doesn't abuse human rights it does support groups that have committed acts of terrorism it does oppose the existence of the israeli state as presently constituted so you know there's some justification for this but i question whether hyping iran's abuses is going to really get you into

a better place i think it just makes it harder to reach compromises in the future iran has helped the the position of the bad guy in american media and american foreign policy or at least for decades refined twist in the nuclear standoff with iran but that is something that has persist. with democratic or republican administrations at the helm now the obama administration try to do something different by pushing this iran deal but with trump pulling out of the iran deal i just see us returning to that to that rhetoric which is completely american mainstream media establishment i think is willing to be a little bit more skeptical because of the experiences of the two thousand and three invasion of iraq that they're asking for things that are patently impossible to get so is there some other altera motive here but more than that the trumpet ministration has been attacking american media outlets for the past two years fake fake you have to leave that word and so i think that's also made journalists and

media outlets much more willing to be skeptical and to push back on some of its claims not at all but that tell us that politico is that as a peach. the iranian media some of which can be fractious at times has coalesced behind the government there one newspaper abd a car called washington's attempt to reduce iran's economic presence wishful thinking another got reported on anti american demonstrations and said the only response to the sanctions is unity iran has banned twitter and instagram so they cannot be used domestically however the leadership takes to the platforms to get its message to the world in multiple languages if necessary the supreme leader ali culminate did not respond to president trump's game of thrones tweet directly the response i will stand against you came on instagram from a senior army general general hossam soleimani is no diplomat and the optics and

implications of his role have been noted how many himself did his talking in front of students and to the television cameras and ended directory a truck. as well let the iran logic us that that he gets it they get it well you had before that. he wants message as being to be to say to the world where response or even though the other side has abrogated its commitments we're going to keep our word as long as we get the benefits promised to us by the nuclear deal and i think that goes down well with the iranian people they're saying that ok for the first time in the long while we can tell the world we're not brokers saying i misstate which is a vote regime not us supreme leader hominidae he said when he gave permission for the nuclear deal to be negotiated that it was a test you know if the united states would abide by its commitments then maybe we could talk about other things well the united states has not abided by its

commitments it walked out unilaterally but it's a shame really because what the u.s. has done is sort of fed not only iranian paranoia but iranian propaganda. we must beginning to define what it is that we demand. some of the twelve conditions the trumpet ministration has attached to the lifting of sanctions such as iran ending its ballistic missile program and not just missiles built to carry nuclear payloads are clearly deal breakers they are hardly the basis for productive negotiations washington says its goal is not regime change or to hurt ordinary iranians it just wants the regime to change its behavior but the administration's talking points it's stated attempts to get iran back to the negotiating table after abandoning a nuclear deal reached at that same table simply don't add up there are numerous

false hoods that the trumpet mistress she was presenting in their narrative. one is that this will not her tea party nation that is as ridiculous and as a preposterous escape i think sanctions particularly such broad based sanctions always hurt the population first that's one alter the iranian regime's behavior that's already. but cation that's the reason for president trump policy second the trumpington situation saying it or doing this to change iran's behavior and bring it back to you go show. reality is the iranians are after negotiating team the only party that is not and in the ocean is a trump and strange they don't want to know that when any administration for. twelve demands as a very does this is what the us has put on the table you really have not. you're not interested and then. they're telling them we're telling the world they have to comply. we've seen the outcome of this kind of rhetoric in the past and need up to

the two thousand and three new invasion of iraq the perpetuation the kind of demonization of adversaries of the united states is very problematic i think media should now hold itself to higher standards and be more accountable to itself. you know. we're looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers flo phillips flo donald trump's first press conference after the midterm elections went seriously off the rails that ended with the white house revoking the press pass a c.n.n. correspondent what happened there things escalated really quickly and that press conference from. it's not unusual for trying to be aggressive with reporters but that afternoon he seemed particularly irritable it's such a hostile media it's so said what really made the news was the back and forth between trump and c.n.n.'s chief white house correspondent jim acosta was present

right by me i should have a horse are you worried i said no that's a that's a that's one of the you know that's what she and should be ashamed of itself having you working for them you are a rude terrible person you shouldn't be working for c.n.n. because she was pretty persistent when asking the president for a follow up question and eventually had the mike taken from him a few hours later white house press secretary sarah sound has announced a cost is hard pos that's the permit that allows an access to the white house had been revoked but this president is quite accustomed to difficult questioning how has the white house justified this so that too is problematic saunders said decision was in response to a cost quote placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a white house into now some of those included a video in her tweet showing the moment that a cost as might was being taken from the footage is zoomed in and looped a few times the implication that acosta acted improperly is misleading or to say

the very least a stretch this coming from a white house occupied by a president who is in no position to school anyone on her.