i wonder if i'm calling on those who have been disabled by the war to hold onto hope also calling on the state institutions to stand by the disabled people and the other victims of the war. as a war continues so does the misery in what the united nations has described the worst humanitarian crisis in the world human is facing famine disease and a lack of health care. us one's experience is shared by thousands like her and their suffering is unlikely to end anytime soon without that were hit zero or as world leaders gathered france to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one there's been a war of words between donald trump and the french president a manual on the american president criticized macron for saying that france needed a european army to defend itself from the likes of russia china and the u.s. they've since agreed that europe needs to spend more on defense although trump says

the u.s. still carries an unfair share of the burden of diplomatic editor james bass reports . at the elisei palace they were in damage limitation mode just as he touched down in air force one president trumpet tweeted the president back rolls calls for a european army were very insulting as they met face to face the french president seemed keen to stress they were still on the same track france has for decades back further integrating the e.u.'s military resources but in a way that doesn't harm nato i do believe that my proposal for european and after the consistent with that because it means more europe was in need to mock fs and not the denial of the earth. would you say that in general. my attitude is good and we want to stick. to this issue which ever way we can do it that there's most

efficient would be the. plans for a formal meeting between president trump and president putin were dropped because the elysee palace doesn't want politics to overshadow a weekend of solemn commemoration but with president trump in town there's always controversy president trump who tweeted throughout his flight late into the night and again well before dawn at the last minute canceled a trip to a cemetery where more than two thousand u.s. marines a barrett the white house blamed logistics and the weather it has been drizzling a little here james pays out zero peris lead for you on the program health officials warn the democratic republic of congo is facing its worst outbreak in recorded history and sri lanka's largest is the president of being a tyrant after he sacks parliament and calls an election.

hallard a surprising rain has returned once again there's not much in the way of clouds you see it's a line across the south of china and a few patches for the north even the development seems likely to sichuan with the line taking you down more rests the vietnamese coast this advancing will probably develop and move down towards hong kong but much of southern china at least away from the coast is likely to see a shower or two and they could still be fairly pokey yet beyond that there's not much to say until you pick up the bay of bengal cloud once more we're into the northeast monsoon ice expected to be dry you expect humidity fairly low but every now and again you find some pretty vicious stuff develop in the bay of bengal the circulation is appearing about it staying over the water for the next two days

where i guess after after that i'm not entirely sure but it seems to be drifting towards the indian coasts a cloud and eventually heavy rain is a possibility otherwise it's a fairly dry picture at the moment showers still around in the arabian peninsula you'll see this green here it hooks up to a system that's what gave those flash floods in jordan further big showers seem likely in kuwait west and south of iran and of course ista took three bahrain into eastern saudi. after one of greece's deadliest forest fires turned a blissful coastal town into a bloody. people in power all six of the flames were found point institutional incompetence the number one responsibility could be god is perfect being sued this was not an accident it was a crime but maybe the fire is the real significant reason speak come up the tape

but he still serves on the phone on al-jazeera. welcome back to point at the top stories this hour turkish president says they've shed or dear recordings relating to the murder of jamal khashoggi with saudi arabia the united states person france and germany. donald trump and emanuel mack one of reportedly read the full album could create an opportunity to end the saudi led war . and the two presidents have been meeting in paris where they're

attending world war one commemorations bought they have had their own war for ads over call for european only. now the u.s. state of florida is once again at the center of an election recount battle to a high profile races for governor and for the senate a currently too close to call in less than an hour all election supervisors in the state have a deadline to submit unofficial electoral results for review so a decision can be made on a recount some races in georgia and arizona are also still to be decided after tuesday's midterm elections where gabriel is on though is live for us in washington so as you were saying of the tallies word jew by midday saturday does it look as though we could be heading for a recount in florida. the short answer is yes that's so all signs indicate

that we will have a recount primarily for these senate races in florida as well as the governor's race as well a recount in florida where if we heard that before you might remember two thousand the presidential election of course we all remember that the big recount in the state of florida in the presidential election between george w. bush an owl gore ultimately bush won the state of florida by less than six hundred votes and that was all that it took to push him over the top in the electoral college to win the presidency of course that recount went all the way up to the supreme court up to see how this one goes but getting to what we know here i mean this was such a tight race here in florida this year once again eight million votes cast just in the state of florida listen to this in this senate race rick scott as the latest numbers holds a fourteen thousand eight hundred vote lead over challenger bill nelson scott fifty point zero percent of the vote nelson forty nine point nine percent

so you can see how tight that is now that also with the governor's race as well the republican challenger ron dissent is holds about a thirty six thousand vote against andrew gillum the mayor of tallahassee a lot of this now is focusing on broward county the second biggest county in florida about two million people there mostly democrats in that state and they've had problems getting some of the approve usual ballots in they've also admitted that they accidentally mixed up some good ballots with some rejected ballots that's not supposed to happen but apparently it did so this is a lot of people crying foul on all sides here donald trump is stepped into the fray he's insinuated that the democrats are ballot stuffing at the last moment of course there's no evidence of that per se yet but clearly this is a very very tight election and the challenger. for example bill nelson he says say

we're not finding any votes here we just want to make sure all the votes are counted before we go forward any more than this and here today saturday is when broward county and all the other counties are expected to release all of their numbers to the state election board and then they will officially decide if it will go to a recount or not but i can already tell you according to florida law anything half a percentage point or less goes to a recount and it looks like both of these races will definitely fall within the recount territory yes it's very close as you say and from the way you describe it gabriel also very acrimonious race we know that the midterm elections reflected divided nation and a divided electorate certainly in the case of florida just how complicated could the recount be. in one word very it's florida this thing could go on a long time both the democrat and republican parties have both lawyers up already

already sent lawyers to florida to try to oversee this potential recount that we think is going to be happening we've already seen protests outside the canvassing board where election officials are starting to count through some of these provisional ballots particularly in broward county this is going to be ugly and it could last a long time and there's probably going to be a lot of lawyers involved there's already lawsuits that have been filed by both sides this is going to go on a while and it's not going to be pretty but i'll tell you a lot is at stake no matter what happens particularly with this senate race it's not going to change the fundamentals of the midterm elections the republicans will hold on to the senate the democrats will course hold on will have taken on the house of representatives so the senate race will not change on how the florida senate map will not change or how the florida senate race goes but it will determine how big of a lead the republicans have in the senate will it be fifty four will be fifty three will be fifty one a lot of this depends particularly on florida but also senate races that have not

been decided in mississippi and arizona as well but in summary florida it's going to be ugly lot of lawyers involved and it's probably going to go on a while tightly contested race thank you very much in washington well thousands of central american migrants left a stadium in mexico city early on saturday for the longest and most dangerous leg of that track to the u.s. border local authorities allowed them to travel on the subway for free as they continue making their way north to the metro to the end of the line and then continued on foot at the hope of reaching tijuana on the u.s. border president donald trump has signed an order that would deny asylum to any life and to america illegally deployed thousands of american soldiers to the border . well at least nine people have been killed and thousands left homeless as two wildfires continue to burn out of control in the u.s. state of california one of the fires is in the north by twenty seven thousand homes were evacuated in the south all residents of the city of malibu have been ordered

to leave their homes a state of emergency has also been declared. seven rain across the arabian peninsula spot flash flooding it left a trail of death and destruction in its wake jordan was west hit with twelve people currently known to have died and thousands of terrorists evacuated from the ancient city of petra paul brennan reports the deluge came barreling down the valley with a thunderous roar sweeping away everything in its path. visitors expecting the serenity of petra's two thousand year old architecture had to scramble frantically to higher ground as the water raged beneath them around three and a half thousand tourists were in the area at the time but none were injured overall petra's flood channels worked as intended the volume and intensity of a torrent four meters high test of the flood barriers to their limits numerous other areas were similarly affected the city of declared

a state of civil emergency and across the country the fatalities included two children and one of the divers in gauged in the rescue efforts. were. searching incoming operations by the jordanian search and rescue teams and divers teams are still continuing backed by our armed forces john dahmer him public security personnel unfortunately the death figures have risen include one of the civil defense divers in saudi arabia to friday's sudden downpours quickly filled traffic underpasses with water and hundreds of motorists faced being stranded by the rising floods. it's only a fortnight since a flashflood near the jordanian dead sea killed twenty one people including thirteen children who were on a school trip when the bus was swept away that tragedy led to the resignations of both the education minister and the tourism minister over perceived failings in the government's response the jordanian response in the aftermath of this latest deluge

has been an extensive search and rescue efforts but the receding water has left the affected areas in jordan need deep in mud and sludge making the search effort doubly difficult paul brennan al-jazeera the democratic republic of congo says it's facing its worst ebola outbreak in the country's recorded history the health ministry says the virus has killed nearly two hundred people since an outbreak was declared in august armed groups battling for control in east india stage regular attacks making it difficult for health officials to help those affected the health ministry is also saying its teams are attacked three or four times a week decades of conflict between me and an ethnic groups in the west and karen state have displaced tens of thousands of people many escaped to thailand and some have been returning home but they all facing new difficulties as they resettle florence li reports a taste of peace the law ok call resettlement village near myanmar's border with

thailand was built to house mostly ethnic karen displaced by conflict between ethnic groups and the myanmar military many have let to thailand over the past decades. but since two thousand and sixteen some of them have been returning home driven partly by diddling funding for refugee camps in thailand and the prospects for peace in myanmar. those who've gone back however find that life is just as difficult. as urgent needs for me now rice and charcoal i would buy food but i have no money now work it's hard to come by also was one of the first to be resettled here after living as a refugee in thailand for eight years. prove facilities in expand then the village will be better as for jobs it depends on the local government although you will manage it for us a donor organization has set up an agriculture center to train villages and provide

employment and. we can take care of everything. back have to help themselves to what we already provide housing water and electricity. so but i is the village chief and right now and he has his hands full the water pump has broken down and there's not enough drinking water to go around plans for another group of refugees to return to this month have been put on hold which is just as well says normal paul who's been living in a refugee camp in thailand for nearly ten years. i don't think i want to go back right now i want to work on the thai side and save more money. but with funding cuts affecting camps in thailand that decision may not be hers to make florence li al-jazeera. now to sri lanka where the largest party says it will mount a legal fight against the president's shock decision to dismiss parliament and call a snap election my tree palace there is saner has been struggling to stem

a political crisis triggered when he sacked his prime minister and replaced him with a former president his opponents say he's violating the constitution and acting like a tyrant when often and as reports from colombo. sacked ministers have complained to the elections chief about the snap polls this is the illegal act and there is no constitutional provision to call an election at this stage and therefore we complain and. we had a discussion with the commission and they will act i go to the law and the constitution of the new government is defending the president by saying he acted in keeping with the constitution the proximate reason for this is that concrete that the legislature. and executive was getting for. which was promoted by the speaker of the house the ninety two men went to the constitution was passed by the

seriously in a vehicle missing her combine in two thousand and fifteen to strengthen parliament but critics like those behind me say the president has undermined the institution with his actions to first suspend and then dissolve parliament demonstrators who've been here every evening since the crisis began to see the president's actions and democratic i would say it is a total between not only put you into jail in that country has been betrayed this is why you feel but others are happy with what's happened the bedouin bad that the moment of a. brave mr either of us are good in that. they're doing no harm then some day then this is the only when the president has taken. i had my night because this is my country and i want to save my country a number of petitions challenging the president's actions are expected to be submitted to the supreme court on monday when if an end as al-jazeera colomba.

is quick look at the top stories this hour turkey's president your type i don't says a shadow already have recordings relating to the murder of saudi janis jamal khashoggi last month with several nations. computer we have given the recordings to saudi arabia the americans the british the germans to everyone they've listened to the conversations almost recordings but you know what's being said there's no point in distorting this fact amongst the fifteen they know who the murderer is or the murderers are in the saudi arabian administration can succeed in bringing this to light by making the fifteen speak. well donald trump and emanuel mark one of reportedly agreed the fallout from khashoggi is murder could create an opportunity to end the saudi led war in yemen the two presidents mess in paris for world war one commemorations they have their own more of words a call for

a european army meanwhile the u.s. is saying it will no longer a fuel saudi led coalition aircraft that are fighting in yemen civil war saudi arabia said it requested the move it comes at a time when riyadh is under increasing international pressure over civilian deaths caused by the strikes and our other top stories the u.s. state of florida is at the center of an election recount to a high profile races for governor and for the senate a currently too close to call in half an hour all election supervisors in the state have a deadline to submit unofficial electoral results for a view so a decision can finally be made on whether there will be a recount thousands of central american migrants have left the stadium in mexico city for the longest and most dangerous part of their trek to the u.s. border local authorities allowed them to travel on the subway for free as they continue making their way north and at least nine people have been killed in thousands after homeless as wildfires burn in the u.s. state of california one of the fires is in the north where twenty seven thousand

homes were evacuated meanwhile in the south all residents of the beach city of malibu have been ordered to leave their homes those are the top stories coming up next people in power with the story of july's deadly wildfires in greece be more news after that in about twenty five minutes time say without his era. like many countries around the mediterranean greece suffers from change or a summer waterfall but the one that africa coast in july twenty eighth was the

worst in the country's history. and leaving thousands of others cruelty and homeless so why was it so deadly. when to investigate. it's way down the mountain like a vengeful god was an overbearing people was in power he will where. it will take a while yet yet many think that. it's

a resort town just thirty minutes drive from athens we're going to fade over a single part that went right through since i was there one wonders that there were not more people. ninety nine people died with no warning of the danger and no attempted evacuation was it an unstoppable freak of nature or staggering incompetence this was an all of cost at a time of peace it was not an accident it was a crime and it is a crime demanding justice and punishment. it's how war zones look when the fighting stops. the red cross patrolling the scorched earth tending to survivors. were loaded with.

every day medical teams visit victims like zahara yes constant tarkus still living in his ravaged home if i was. going to say he didn't know maybe you know getting range the. moon. this year right here i don't know much but boom bum bum bum bum bum. me go model guys i got the eighty four year old air force veteran raced over a burning beach of men that melted his shoes to bring two children to safety. oh no no we're going to do a load and he said. there's a low there's. you build up you go it's you the whole lot. getting mad at. every home every family here has a story of survival you know this is he thinks i was out there on marx who may honestly. believe it's cover not dollars nearly died writing his motorbike through

flames to find and rescue his mother. how is your mother now. the fire. but. i will try to fix. the blaze i will put some through it is. something where. i live so. good. i feel very legit. living. in the was a small but i know it's just so. angry. as in of the north wind blows almost incessantly on

shore. but for days the bureau of meteorology had warned of unusual wind in the opposite direction sweeping down from the hills to the coast. on the morning of july twenty third many of my aunties firefighting resources was sent to a blaze sixty kilometers away. but it full forty nine pm a second fire broke out in the hills above. it was more than two hours before a fire brigade helicopter was diverted to tromp water. unit commander you'll. says by then the wind speed was more than one hundred kilometers per hour. yes to me. there was a. it

was already too late the final had reached the coast suddenly residence and daytrippers was surrounded by smoke and flames the roads were soon gridlocked then blocked by burning cars the only hope of escape was the same. money that. they tried to jam. like one jam from the. schoolteacher maria does illy lives on the waterfront but even she figured she die . marcy is built on cliffs with few puffs of the water and almost not a marked getting in the water but this mild all around us fired their hands on a day larry i find it

a day i can say you knew that there was that down the back you don't because you are like them because i live here mind you so how many people were sheltering here on this beach where around thirty people thirty it's a whole area yes we were like sardines yeah did you feel safe once you were down here you know first of all we were here five dollars and people were around you crying here people were asking for their families there were mothers kurang for their children it was a case that over there we can see the force everything you know with the tourist there is time ago when i was young could you call the folder thirty you. told them what had our moment we called them again and again and we called our families to inform that but they didn't and. so who finally rescued you

just a small say same boat it's. almost seven hundred people were eventually picked up by a flip tiller of small boats and the coast guard many drowned or died of birds as they waited. oh all over. this small community gathers in a church that was somehow spayed by the infant to fan well nearly one hundred loved ones. undressed dimitri who was one of the firemen battling the blaze as soon as he heard the flames would be his home he raced back to try to save his family. he found his wife margarita dying by the water's edge she was alongside the body of their six month old son. is on the up for the couple.

as wrote the note board calls for free up for a cute thing like a month off or more roll gave on is this. going on in a god. of the borders or if this law you know got throw people the dog. in the got the f. yes and i'm. caught in a south of us with or false. this all happened in the midst of a horrid northern hemisphere summer temperatures off the charts across europe but grace was the exception this was an unusually mild summer with more rain than normal this was not a file links to climate change it could have happened any summer the authorities

knew that they just weren't ready for it. so how did the greek government at its emergency services fail so comprehensively i've come to greece's most pristine just research center to make the one man who i have answered i smell conversely welcome to the government coming nice building we're going to be refunded coast time soon the lucky says a crisis management expert and a member of the academy of accidents for he was commissioned by an opposition party to interview survivors and to piece together what went wrong. critically surprised and shocked by the stories were people and. what what happened there was absolutely no pre-planning in greece because there is no culture planning for big public emergencies most people including the government are in complete denial things don't happen here. one of his

most disturbing discoveries was that police had directed intimacy believing the coastal highway behind the town would act as a fire break. and then they voted to traffic to the smaller streets which again in effect block created the gridlock so even the people who cry from the smaller streets. and other people who had absolutely nothing to do with my going live there they were. actually diverted into harm's way that made the absolutely no sense. even more surprising but the actions of the coast got it not only failed to send rescue boats in time for hours it allowed to risk ferries to continue arriving the coast guard did not stop the ferries old coming in the port of if you know which is very close which was a horrible mistake because ferries unloading

a lot of cars these odds to the topic you know you do not the moment you do not want to have more cars from the road you want him of the roads open us open as possible because you want to move traffic it way where is the government not of this i mean the number one responsibility of coming government is protecting its citizens this is the number one responsibility everything else comes second and here the government failed completely. the. wrong careless everywheres oh my god this weeks on the survivors are demanding the government pay for what happened if you like if you live with the mission to be able to reach the middle bottom where the night you were an example of how she. was this was actually meant to be a night of celebrations.