hospitals are quite common here with children on the frontline of violence and medics are able to cope with the influx of the wounded in the last thirteen minutes there were more than fifteen airstrike. fifteen this should be stopped immediately this is the last minute for the government specially for the city this is the lord's time for. the killing and maiming of civilians including many children in the red sea city has soared in the last three months according to aid workers half a million people are fled the area since june when government forces first started to recover to the city but for many still in her data there's no escape and little chance of outside help while the number of those remaining and how dangerous is he is difficult to gauge you're not u.n.h.c.r. is 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 if the rail here many militias fighting to take what they either succeed it will be their foster victory against hose the fighters aid agencies all sounding the alarm they say the bottle on the red sea coast throw yemen into an outright farming. well the seventh apos hunt of the country's imports go through the ports of the day that are sold us aid and then christian calls for a cease fire and a political solution but so far these calls have been ignored with neither side willing to compromise mohamad at all just djibouti. where the conflict in yemen has killed more than ten thousand people thousands of survivors of lost limbs with their suffering worsened because of lack of proper treatment or even basic medical care mahmoud of the wire reports. as one mohammed says a mortar hit her family's house was two years ago she lost both legs in the attack

but she has not lost hope she says she's grateful to the yemeni doctors who have helped her overcome her injuries but to think that i didn't know i was at home with my mom getting ready to go to school when a motor rocket hits us i woke up and realized i was in the hospital according to the red cross thousands of people have lost limbs in yemen since the conflict started in twenty fifteen. that's largely as a result of bomb blasts mines or gunshot wants the immorality coalition that has been fighting alongside him many government forces has been conducting campaigns to remove landmines it accuses the healthy rebels of planting them but the coolish and forces are accused of targeting areas with air strikes and killing many civilians. at this rehabilitation center in the port city of aden

civil of the able people are receiving artificial limbs as the work continues to create more victims officials here say the center is short of a staff and equipment eleven workers before the war we used to receive up to a thousand cases now we receive up to two thousand cases a month the center's capacity is not sufficient and we don't receive aid from any organizations except the red cross and unicef. is a victim of another war he lost both legs in a land mine explosion in aid in during the one nine hundred ninety four civil war he also lost one of his fingers but he says that does not stop him from making artificial limbs for other this able the people. are going on later 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 the war continues so does the misery in what the united nations has described the worst humanitarian crisis in the world yemenis are 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 their head injuries iraq well phyllis bennis is a fellow at the institute for policy studies she says the killing of. has increased pressure on the u.s. to pull support for the war in yemen. well the murder of jamal khashoggi has certainly put more of a spotlight on the actions of saudi arabia in yemen of course a critique of the war in in yemen was one of the things that jamal had written about so the two issues are very linked but unfortunately i think the united states

to certain degree france as well and certainly the saudi government all view the murder of jamal khashoggi as a public relations crisis not as a human rights crisis whether the human rights of jamal khashoggi or the human rights of the hundreds of thousands indeed millions of yemenis who have been impacted so terribly by this war so until that changes i'm afraid that the murder itself is not likely to bring about an end to the war it is giving some new attention to the horrors of the humanitarian crisis that is the war in yemen which is very important but i think the real pressure certainly here in the united states too for for actions like the beginning action we've seen today with the announcement that the u.s. would no longer be providing the in air refueling of saudi bombers that's an important step but a small one and it came about largely as a result of domestic pressure here not because of lunch with that that trump was

arranging today so i think that we have a great deal further to go but there are some indications that some of the pressure is ratcheting up that we are seeing more pressure on particularly the top administration. lots more still to come here on the news hour including scrambling to safety as floods again hit one of jordan's most popular tourist spots. sri lanka's political crisis deepens with the president's latest moves facing a legal challenge. and support japan's. asian football's biggest title and they'll be here with that story a little bit later in the program. leaders from seventy countries around the french capital for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one for u.s. and french lead as it was a chance to bridge the transatlantic divide and find a political resolution to the war in yemen our diplomatic editor james bays reports

from paris. at the elisei palace they were in damage limitation moment just as he touched down in air force one president trumpet tweeted the president 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 to be consistent with that goal it means more europe was in need to mock f.s.e. . for. my heritage and we want to stay. in each other where we can do it the best most efficient would be. 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. the weather didn't stop other leaders justin trudeau the canadian prime minister did visit a cemetery in northern france and president joined the german chancellor angela merkel signing a note of remembrance in the same railway carriage north of paris where the armistice was agreed one hundred years ago ending a four year war cost as many as nineteen million more lives.

powers. thomas is a professor of political science with the university of paris and he says president trump's not the first u.s. leader to criticize european funding of nato. barack obama actually like started to complain that the u.s. was paying a lot a lot for the european allies he was equating them a free writers in this respect so if this does in the the first one is the contrary but he's like the first one to do it we said diplomatic ton of course is tweets but also like the way he has. addressed the lies and get america in the first place very harshly we could say that he has a point to the fact in the sense that of course the us does spend much more than the european allies in terms of defense for the rest it's a question i think of forms and to and of course i recently like emmanuel mccord drew a comparison between what is happening today and what happened in europe both before

the war and just after the war in one thousand twenties and one hundred thirty with this kind of rise of nationalism software's it's tempting likes to see a story repeating itself so to say. it's basically like with with the rise again of nationalism a little bit everywhere in europe and in the us as well as for me i would say that the comparison is somehow misleading and what's made that europe went into war in one thousand. nine hundred tents is basically exact sense of anything to prevent it's the absence of strong. rubbished me to lateral system and this is standard exist today even though like as we saw with president trump it's somehow election even though it's maybe not as robust as we thought it is still here so i think it's kind of difficult to actually like seeing that what we experience today with nato in europe and in the u.s. has a lot to do with what we saw in europe in the one hundred twenty one nine hundred

thirty s. . the democratic republic of congo is calling the current ebola outbreak the worst in its history the health ministry says nearly two hundred people have died in two northeastern provinces since august armed groups are hunkering health workers from reaching patients the country seems ten upbraids of the virus since it was first discovered. in one thousand nine hundred six. at this point three hundred in one thousand cases and one hundred ninety eight deaths have been registered in view of these figures my thoughts and my prayers go to the hundreds of families grieving to the hundreds of orphans and the families which have been wiped out well let's talk to a specialist in infectious diseases and tropical medicine as he joins us via skype from toronto officials of the d r c now say this is the worst outbreak in its recorded history just tell our viewers how bad is the outbreak and how worrying is this. well certainly it's a very tragic event and it is

a bad outbreak in it had ten outbreaks of ebola before and this is the worst and the largest ebola virus operate so far this outbreak is challenging for several reasons now any bold virus outbreak is difficult to deal with at the best of times but this has several challenges one is that it's both in an urban and rural setting and we know from the prior operate in two thousand and fourteen in west africa that urban outbreaks are challenging to deal with just because there's such a large number of people in a small area it's also close to international borders especially with uganda and it's always challenging when there are porous borders and people can travel freely between different sovereign nations but i think most importantly for this outbreak it's an unstable area and there is some violence and really just a lot of instability in the area and it's extremely challenging for the political and the public health workers to ensure proper access and timely access to medical

care for people who have an infection or a possible infection and also to protect close contacts of people who are infected with ebola virus so there's several challenges as to why this is the worst outbreak so far i know is that what about access to vaccines because there is now a vaccine that works but how readily available is it. so the back scene showed tremendous promise in two thousand and fourteen and in fact before this over in india r.c. there was a one just a few months before and they broke out the vaccine rather quickly and it seems to stop the that be in its tracks now certainly the vaccine has been rolled out here and they're really trying their hardest to vaccinate as many people as possible who have potential exposures to a goal of ours because the vaccines vaccines really seems to work the problem is it's challenging to access people because of the instability of the area and it's hard to ensure that people who who have had a possible exposure to a bowl of virus actually have access to the backseat purely for safety reasons one

other point is that you get that was actually rather nervous that is might cross their borders and uganda has started vaccinating front line health care workers that are working along their border as well so there are some efforts in the area but certainly it's not helped out of because of the lack of stability in the area yet and the world health organization has also warned there's growing resistance by local communities who are deeply mistrustful of government and un health because with some infected patients actually running away from the treatment teams why is this happening. well this is a very big challenge and certainly this is happening to. the wires over race as well and sometimes we have to develop a level of trust between the affected communities and the health care providers who are there to really ensure that these communities have timely access to quality medical care and you know it's a challenging situation there might be some cultural differences or communication issues between the health care teams and the populations that are affected with

with ebola virus and really. beautiful communication and timely communication and ensuring that people are aware exactly what's happening when it's happening and our it's happening is one of them that it is but it's it is it is a challenging situation because rumors spread throughout. quickly and ok and if we're spreading and people are getting timely access to care they can be negatively impacted and just to reiterate finally the point that you're making that there are not concerns that could be across borders spread with uganda possibly facing an imminent crisis this is a huge problem if the disease can't be contained. yeah and we saw this in the west african overate in two thousand and fourteen it primarily three countries were involved and just forty to go public health for any public health effort across borders is rather challenging and certainly can be done it just takes a lot of communication nation and i mean kudos to you again for recognizing that

they are at a potential risk of importing you polarise and starting early to vaccinate front i'll care workers just in case i thought but gosh thank you very much and thanks for letting me know heavy rain has led to flash flooding across the arabian peninsula jordan has been west hit where twelve people have died thousands of tourists in the ancient city of petra have been moved to safety when in 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 police were running around the main street shouting up up up going up.

we were in the. temple so we were up. the river was it was right. before taking with the biggest. thing three minutes or four minutes there were for all the overall petra's flood channels worked as intended the volume and intensity of a torrent four meters high test at 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 engaged in the rescue efforts. were. sitting in combing operations by the jordanian search and rescue teams and divers teams are still continuing backed by around forces john di maria public security personnel

unfortunately the death figures have risen and 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 flash flood near the jordanian dead sea killed twenty one people including thirteen children who were on a school trip when their 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 to 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. time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back too close to call the u.s. midterm election results from florida hang in the balance. and find out why germany

will not be holding national ceremonies to remember world war one. and installed the czech republic close in on their six third cup tennis title and i guess it's more or less stay with us. hello winter is turkey and nasty has already been some early snow around the great lakes and the midwest now for midwest and it was caused by this thing here so a cold front strong through the code is coming down unfortunate slighting trees the wind sets are southern california these santa ana winds which have been causing such trouble with the fires so that's not going to help as the weather itself is forty out of the sky will start comes as far south again as colorado denver's max minus one and that code isn't just in colorado and said it can be long way south dallas is back to

a max of nine degrees you might even see some snow in northern texas you hang around for another day because you get the trough collecting of the south big sandstorms in the cold air coming down from the north and that's why for the snow has got where the sun is the maximum term should by day in minneapolis as an example is minus five just think back to weeks and weep south of all this it's quiet at the moment and the showers are dying dying fairly rapidly with the lesser antilles the focus of fairly frequent daily show's greater antilles and right back through kubrick's generally a fine looking picture we have got showers developing even a spell of rain in mexico basically yucatan and a focus maybe on nicaragua and costa rica otherwise much of it is try.

the furniture. we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international networks months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers are out there going i'm tired no. we are challenging the forces were challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going.

welcome back to the top stories here on al-jazeera turkey's president has increased the pressure on saudi arabia to reveal the truth about the murder of journalist. reza time berta and says he shared audio recordings related to the killing with saudi arabia the u.s. france germany and the u.k. sources say officials who listen to the tapes were horrified by the contacts. leaders from seventy countries in the french capital paris for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the first world war the french president joined germany's chancellor in signing a note of remembrance in the railway carriage but the armistice was agreed to a century ago. and the democratic republic of congo's calling its about the outbreak the worst in its history the health ministry says nearly two hundred people have died in two north eastern provinces all this armed groups are making it

hard to health workers to bring help to patients. now the u.s. state of florida is again at the center of an election battle eighteen years after the presidential race that descended into chaos the recounts been ordered for two high profile races for governor and for the senate after they were too close to call gabler's under reports from washington d.c. . the midterm elections are over but not in florida the race for governor and senate are still undecided too close to call so winners have not yet been announced in the senate race republican rick scott got fifty percent of the votes bill nelson the democratic incumbent forty nine point nine percent only fourteen thousand votes separate the two candidates out of over eight million cast in the state now both

republicans and democrats are accusing each other of wrongdoing and it's gotten ugly i will not sit idly by while unethical liberals try to steal this election from the great people florida the governor's race in florida is also headed for a recount with republican congressman ron decentest at forty nine point six percent of the vote compared to endure guillen's forty nine point one about a thirty six thousand vote difference we don't just get the opportunity to stop counting votes because we don't like the direction in which the vote tally is heading that is not democratic and that certainly is not the american way and america we count every vote regardless of what the outcome may be broward county is florida's second biggest county home to nearly two million people many provisional ballots were counted late and dozens of rejected ballots mistakenly mixed with knowledge ones for u.s. president donald trump it's a personal he campaigned hard for the republicans in florida with them both holding

razor thin leads trump insinuated without evidence the democrats are trying to stuff the ballot boxes and all of a sudden they're finding votes i mean after the election they're finding votes nelson rejected trump's claim votes are not being found they're being tallied the confusion has stirred outrage with protesters on both sides gathered outside the offices election officials are meeting to sort through the ballots. this isn't the first time florida has been at the center of an election controversy who can forget the florida recount between george w. bush and al gore in two thousand presidential race bush ultimately won florida by less than six hundred votes giving him the electoral college victory thus the presidency the florida recount eighteen years ago was ultimately decided here at the supreme court it's unclear if or see a repeat of that what is very certain is that the current recount most likely

involve a lot of lawyers lawsuits and drag on for a very long time gabriel's on dough. washington mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. mike there's growing controversy over this recount there in florida tell us what's been happening well it is such a close call particularly in the senate race the margin of difference is less than point one five percent now what this means legally is that the votes may have to be counted by hand now we are not just talking about one county we are talking about sixty seven counties it's the first time in florida that there has been a statewide recount for the senate for the governor the position and for the administration the group agriculture commissioner so certainly this is a massive exercise that it just sticks absolutely mind boggling and illegally as well the recount is supposed to be completed by thursday so it's

a tense situation there the results too close to call and now you're going to have tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of votes being counted by hand and mike historically the recounts don't tend to change the initial results but could they be flipped this time around though how could that play out politically. well recounts never change unless they do and certainly in this case the margin of error is so incredibly tight that there is a real possibility that either the senate race or the governor race could be flipped from what appears to be a republican victory now the significance of this it's not going to alter the balance of power in congress the republicans will maintain control of the senate and the democrats will maintain control of the house but what it is is that florida more than any other state is a reflection on president trump himself he's invested a lot of political capital in the midterm campaign in florida it's the place he

spends weeks during the winter saying it's the winter white house as it is described his residence there so for president trump this is become somewhat personal this is why we've seen this barrage of tweets in the last twenty four hours even while he was on the plane to paris alleging incidence of criminal activity going on insisting that this something that is not right at the polls now this is being denied by department of state which oversees the election saying no evidence whatsoever of criminal activity has been found but all this reaction from president trump goes to indicate one thing just how personal it is to him to to completely win the state of florida mike thank you now at least eleven people have been killed and thousands left homeless as wildfires continue to burn out of control in the u.s. state of california two bodies were found in los angeles county where fires of this four hundred fifty homes l.a.

county officials two hundred fifty thousand homes in the region are under evacuation orders and the coastal community of malibu has been evacuated in a state of emergency declared rob reynolds joins us live now from malibu in california rob so just tell us where you are now and what you've been seeing on the ground. well you can see behind me a scene of total desolation the hillside that's just scorched and black and and turned to ashes i'm standing right on the edge of the pacific coast highway which normally is chock a block with traffic on a saturday afternoon but today it's just the emergency. workers the police officers and of course firefighters who are on the highway. the number of people as you mentioned. is who have been evacuated from this area and other towns in los angeles and ventura county has reached well over two hundred

thousand there are said to be seventy thousand hollis's that are at risk as this fire is just torn through so many different communities at the moment derren the the the winds are calm but that second to last very long is the forecast is for the winds to pick up and remain strong in the coming days so that it's bad news for california firefighters and residents finally i just want to mention though we were talking we were hearing of course from mike hanna just a moment ago about president trump's tweets about florida well the president didn't accept exempt california from his tweet storm either he tweeted that the wildfires were entirely the fault of california's democratic government state government which practiced he said poor forest management so one of the senior

democratic congressman from california ted lew tweeted back dear mr president what is wrong with you he said people who have suffered from disasters deserve help and support and sympathy and he also noted. that almost the entire the forest land in california is belongs to the federal government therefore is not the responsibility of the state and further pointing out that president trumps budget cuts funds for forest management so the president has weighed in in his own inimitable batter on the california wildfires sparking again quite a bit of criticism rob just briefly if you will they've also been finds in the north of the state as well what more can you tell us a terrible fires up there with the multiple loss of life the town of paradise

completely incinerated many people trapped as they were trying to leave burned to death in their cars that fire is also not under control that last i heard it was only like five or ten percent contained so again it's all about the wind and if the wind picks up on sunday it's saturday afternoon here local time if the wind picks up tomorrow as forecast it's going to be very tough and these california wore out wildfires may take a long time to die all right to rob reynolds there and not to rob thank you. now frank has largest party is mounting a legal challenge to president. decision to dissolve parliament and hold snap elections on jamming the fifth announced a move late on friday night in its plunge the country further into political turmoil after his son and replaced the prime minister last month when l. fernandez reports from colombo. sacked ministers have complained to the elections chief about the snap. 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 but the new government is defending the president saying he acted in keeping with the constitution proximate reason for this is the conflict that the. legislature. and executive was it being for which was promoted by the speaker of the house the ninety demand went to the constitution was passed by the serious in a vehicle missing her combine in two thousand and fifteen to strengthen parliament but critics like those behind me see 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 see the president's actions and

democratic i would say it is a daughter beatrice here not really put into jail in that country has been betrayed this is why.