it what's wrong with you disaster victims deserve help and sympathy the winds are calm here at the moment but that's not going to last the weather forecast is for high winds picking up in the coming days so unless the weather conditions improve california's wildfires may take a long time to die rob reynolds al-jazeera malibu california heavy rains led to flash flooding across the arabian peninsula jordan's been worst hit were twelve people have died 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 the police were running around the main street shouting up up up and going

go up go up go up we were in the. temple so we were up we could see that. it 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 in gauged in the rescue efforts. sitting in coming 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. still ahead an al-jazeera democratic republic of congo struggles to deal with its worst ever outbreak of

ebola which has claimed almost two hundred lives. and too close to call the u.s. midterm election results from florida eyeing in the balance. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. and i was back to snow again with some significance in may because extent prosper took my stand certainly the northern part of the caspian and the cloud to science is rather less significant it might bring a little bit of snow if you're lucky into afghanistan which of course will melt and form right in the showers behind the rain showers in the middle of iran but is that the development might well be this is where winds come again further north the caucasus involved in rain turning to snow big showers seem not to run us by john and the northwest of iraq and here's the snow on central part of afghanistan but

there's a green patch down here which is rather telling that's where the showers which most recently found of and are heading sites that looks like a fairly quiet picture with no more than a scattering of light is shouted in the event otherwise but if you go you do pick up something that could be more significant doesn't look much but any time you've got clout this far into what's normally a quiet part of the world you could get a decent damper as far as i said bahrain possibly qatar eastern side of society maybe even further west to the south it does look quite i'll give you that as cause until you get almost the tropics of africa and then he go the other side is quite again by quite i mean with the exception of madagascar there's not much happens not much short form from the sky in fact if you look up it's blue. they're with sponsored by qatar and. the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this time allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish the job i

haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy. do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is a journalistic integrity and then in this case it was betrayed totally up from al-jazeera. they were not as a reminder of our top stories this hour turkey's president has increased the pressure on saudi arabia to reveal what he describes as the truth about the murder of journalist and there's a lot of money has shared audio recordings related to the killing with saudi arabia

the u.s. france germany and the u.k. . the death toll has doubled to at least twenty three is wildfires continue to burn in california two hundred thousand people have been forced to leave their homes the coastal community of malibu has been evacuated. and at least twelve people have been killed as heavy rains caused flash flooding across jordan tourists have been forced to run for higher ground and petra the kingdom's ancient city. democratic republic of congo says the latest outbreak of ebola is the worst in its history the health ministry says nearly two hundred people have died in two northeastern provinces since august groups are said to be preventing health workers from leaching patients. as a specialist in infectious diseases and tropical medicine and he says medical stuff and d r c are struggling to get infected people in time. well certainly it's a very tragic event and it is a bad outbreak in it had ten zero zero zero groups of people up for it this is the

worst and the largest ebola virus so great 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 outbreak 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 what is the worst outbreak so far the u.s. state of florida is again at the center of an election battle now recounts being ordered in the races for governor and senate republican candidates have a slight lead in both votes according to the initial account in georgia and amazonas some results still haven't been confirmed five days after the midterm elections like connell's got more from washington d.c. . well it's a logistical nightmare for the first time ever in florida's history there's going to be a statewide recount in sixty seven counties that famous recount in two thousand was mainly in broward county this one goes right across the state it's a recount for the post of senate for the post of governor and for the agriculture commissioner now in the senate race that's the tightest of all there's a margin of difference of listen point one five percent this means that the votes

may well have to be counted by hand that's hundreds of thousands of votes being manually counted now legally the count is supposed to be completed by thursday but this is a just tickle nightmare there are other races still unresolved throughout the united states in arizona in georgia however all eyes on florida and certainly the eyes of the president on that area he's been tweeting ferociously over recent days even on the plane on his way to paris insisting that there's some kind of criminal activity underway there claiming that votes are being stolen from republicans this completely denied by the department of state which oversees elections which says at this stage there is no evidence of any criminal activity whatsoever. sure lanka's largest political party says it will legally challenge the president's decision to dissolve parliament and hold snap elections in january president my three partners

said a center has already fired and replaced the prime minister with alpha manders reports from colombo. sacked ministers have complained to the elections chief about the snap balls this is the illegal act and there's 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 in for. rituals promoted by speaker of the house the ninety demand went to the constitution was passed by the serious individual 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 these 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 see. into the entire country has been betrayed. but others are happy with what's happened. because this is my country and i want to save my country. some day. a number of petitions challenging the president's actions are expected to be submitted to the supreme court on monday. leaders from seventy countries are in the french capital to mark the anniversary of

the end of world war one french president emmanuel mccall joins germany's chancellor angela merkel to sign a note of remembrance in a replica of the train carriage where an end to the conflict was agreed a century ago now almost as came into effect at eleven am on the eleventh of november one thousand eight hundred. well the guns may have fallen silent a hundred years ago but the impact of world war one is still etched on memories in france hundreds of thousands of soldiers lost their lives in verdon jaring one of the history's bloodiest battles frontlines have now moved from europe to places such as yemen and syria there are reports from eastern france. it was the most intense artillery barrage the world had ever witnessed after three hundred days a great was the longest battle three hundred thousand soldiers both french and german had sacrificed their lives in the trenches around the bed down when the guns

fell silent the front line was back where it started there were dharma moral museum is still teaching the futility of war to each new generation the displays are graphic and sobering but as world leaders gather in paris to mark the hundredth anniversary of the great war's end has anything really changed or knows will be a no here we have today an economic and political environment that is not very different from a century ago that's why our mission is so important we must convey this memory to the young generation them feel that this group of german schoolchildren visiting the memorial are exposed every day to equally horrific images of conflict broadcast on television news from syria and yemen but they were still moved by the suffering here no one suggests that. this was the been really devastating for. many months in the middle of these woods the village of flurry one stood simple

stone markers show the location of it shops and houses. jump yeah he is the mayor of the village that no longer exists in the middle of the front line exchanged hands seventeen times between the french and german forces. the more the community i am a custodian of memory and is to it was a young generation zimmer's know was that in this place there was a village with peaceful working people running through the structure fully a force these villages were completely destroyed my will is to show you all the lies that was here and to say be careful never get or why more. these days it's hard to imagine the sheer scale of the terror that was unleashed on the hills above . but the last entry in a war diary by a french soldier gives you some impression he wrote that crazy to do what they're doing now what a bloodbath what horrible sights what

a slaughter hell cannot be as hideous as this people are insane it was here president francois mitterrand chancellor helmut kohl held hands in a historic act of reconciliation and friendship between france and germany the tide of warfare may have moved to different shores but is still shows no sign of turning . david chaytor al-jazeera there dan. or thousands or ships were sunk injuring the second world war their wrecks litter the ocean floors decades of corrosion type of movements and storms of course some of them to break up a legal oil a couple from a stray leo has lost a grand plan to stop an ecological disaster under thomas reports from newcastle to rob the films of the nonstop offensive in the pacific the pacific ocean saw some of the bassist naval battles of the second world war more than three thousand ships

were sunk three hundred of them while time it's now off to decades on the water some are starting to break up leaking oil into the sea as recreational don't even pull the wilma adams swam to rex in choke lagoon in micronesia where in one thousand nine hundred eighty four u.s. spy deplaned sank sixty five japanese ships. there the couple saw the early signs of pollution for themselves. like bubbles coming out of the tanks potential of the problem was freddie king if you look at other incidents in the past and you know what all you can do to the environment and it really hits you the couple has decided to act the ships are there and they stand a leak someone somewhere has to start taking responsibility for. no one can take responsibility for it also until we actually find out the extent of the problem the

information that's out there at the moment is so miniscule that research urgently needs to happen before they start actually breaking open the couple is so serious that they've paid new zealand's government hundreds of thousands of dollars for this second time dive support ship having sailed it back to australia they next plan to convert it into a vessel that can sit over the wrecks of all those sending divers down to investigate how damaged they are and experiment with ways to reserve them. this ship is forty years old but it could almost have been purpose built for this task it already has what's known as a diving bell essentially a platform that can take a quick month's divers and the air that they need to the bottom of the sea and if any of those divers get into trouble well the ship already has a decompression chamber on board that could save the divers life the ship also has cranes and four anchors when she let the mount as

a kilometer each direction of cable on thing and i leave the ship in very stable place exactly hold it directly over the wreck where we want to work divers would inspect shipwrecks to work out the likelihood of them cracking up they could also experiment with preservation techniques passing a weak electrical current through submerged metal can help stop corrosion in the longer it's thought genetically modified microbes can be developed to eat oil pull atoms thinks he needs to raise two million dollars a year to cover the initial cost of investigating the ship wrecks ultimately dealing with each would take millions more but that will be cheap compared with cleanup operations after big oil spills from ships sunk seventy five years ago. andrew thomas al-jazeera newcastle australia.

this is all just here are these are the top stories turkey's president has increased the pressure inside a radio to reveal what he describes as the truth about the murder of journalists jamal khashoggi there's a part of one says he's shared audio recordings related to the killing with saudi arabia the us france germany and the u.k. has more from paris. it was a crucial moment for president who was hoping to push the americans towards a tougher stance against sandy arabia against a backdrop of the murder of the saudi journalist. turkey wants the international community to keep up the pressure against the saudis for the kingdom to come out and say who gave the order to kill. he has somehow dominated the agenda of some of the meeting specifically the meeting between presidents donald trump and a man well they said that they wanted the saudis. to give more details about what

happened to the saudi journalist the death toll from a far burning in northern california has doubled to at least twenty three two hundred thousand people have been forced to leave their homes because of destroyed one hundred fifty houses in los angeles county the coastal community of malibu has been evacuated at least twelve people have been killed in flash flooding caused by heavy rain across jordan tourists are being forced to run for high ground in petra the kingdom's ancient city and one of its most popular tourist destinations almost four thousand visitors in the area have been moved to safety dozens of people have been injured the u.s. state of florida is again at the center of an election battle there recounts being ordered in the races for governor and senate republican candidates have a slight lead in both votes according to the initial count in georgia and others on a some results still haven't been confirmed five days after the midterm elections

and those are the headlines the news continues here on al jazeera after fronts by for now. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking news stories listening pounced as we turned the cameras on the media and focus on how they were called on the stories that matter the most listening post on alex's era he lost the house of representatives to the democrats in tuesday's midterm elections and on wednesday he fired his attorney general and stripped a white house reporter of his press pass is a troubled presidency entering a new and dangerous phase in this upfront special i'll ask one of the u.s. president's advisers. steven rogers thanks for joining me up front president trump said that these

midterm elections would be quote a referendum on him given the democrats won back control of the house of representatives after eight years and they won the house popular vote by seven percentage point they should avoid the american people seem to have rejected him. well i have to dispute that because the president's party one key gubernatorial races in battleground states that are going to be very important we're talking about florida iowa ohio very important the twenty twenty alexion that's number one number two when president obama was in office he lost sixty three seats in a midterm clinton forty something seats president trump only about twenty three so the trend was always the president in power would lose seats but the key here and we can't miss this point was the united states senate that is what the republican party focused on because therein lies your control of bringing nominees in for the

u.s. supreme. court to get he definitely held on to the senate what's interesting though is he campaigned for senate candidates in wisconsin montana ohio pennsylvania all states he won in twenty sixteen and yet those candidates lost in every single one of those states and senate races you mentioned governors' races kansas his close ally kris kobach a state he won by twenty points stephen he lost i'm from. kansas where you learn some in politics and you know you it's very difficult to transfer the popularity and the voting public for one candidate to another so i would reject the fact that this was a repudiation of the president made a record about himself stephen i didn't let me also get his response to these midterms was to fire his attorney general jeff sessions on on wednesday an attorney general he's been publicly attacking for months now because sessions didn't stop a special counsel investigation into the campaign's alleged ties with russia isn't firing the attorney general of the united states for nakedly political reasons at best an abuse of power obstruction of justice look i've been in law enforcement my

whole life the attorney general sessions he didn't do his job very well he was not aggressive he didn't go after the d.n.c. he didn't go after hillary clinton with all that we know about her and by the way he should have that mean session should have been up. front with the president about his conversations or his involvement somehow with russia which caused him to a recluse himself he wasn't honest with the president sort of president was patient and that was the time to say the act as he did it's funny that in defending the second you're basically admitting it was political you're saying he didn't go off to the president's opponents he didn't go off to the democrats which is not the job of an attorney general to just go off to the president's opponents if barack obama's election campaign was being investigated by the justice department for its ties to a foreign government and obama had then fired the attendee general the day after the last crucial bit you know policy would have gone nuts wouldn't it how can you not see the hypocrisy hey stephen roach is he he did this wasn't a political move the attorney general just doesn't get it all he said he did go off

to the democrats that's the definition of a liberal move well who who in who was involved think about this who was involved in that whole fiasco with the e-mails were clinton democrats or goodness sake now who was the republicans i would be telling you the same thing the attorney general did not do his job and that's why he is no longer attorney general this is a president who is also accused of running a quote racist nativist fear mongering midterm election campaign he ran a campaign video combining footage of an undocumented criminal who killed two cops with footage of central american migrants tearing down a fence rushing across the border as if they're all cop killers who the democrats want to let into the country and add so inflammatory so racist that even loyal folks news decided to pull it from the airwaves absolute nonsense declaring that as racists everything look a picture and words are ok you can't change what's going on there now you said i work with military intelligence and law enforcement you would be surprised what's coming across the border you've got children that are not with their parents you've

got drug traffickers you've got people perhaps bringing weapons across the border that they're trying to divert the fact that the president is trying to protect this country and the fact that they complain about his term invasion it is an invasion all right it isn't it of. asian of an army i didn't even want to look at it just wanted invasion people asking for asylum is not an invasion by any definition of the us is a good and you were in the nation so you should know that well i do know that and i've got to tell you it's an invasion of people who should not be coming here other than come here legally and they all got seven hundred miles away even if they were invading there not very close to doing it anytime soon one of the very well the white house of one thing was a hoax to use donald trump there but he hasn't mentioned it since the election fox news channel you regularly appear to stop talking about the kind of funny that the caravan just disappeared from the headlines the morning off to the midterms how convenient i'll tell you how it disappeared from the headlines and by the way they could have got asylum in mexico and they turned it down it disappeared from the

headlines because the mainstream media is making it disappear we find out that they're more interested in what just recently or running only think about the care of that's a child of your parents don't play the main street well who controls who controls folks who controls the whole you're troubled rupert murdoch you tell me who controls the media you want to tell us about who you think control is going to get yeah the mainstream media are right the mainstream media is controlled by a lot of liberals and they are ready to control their nipples let me ask you this question to folks refused to run this ad you say it's not a racist at fox refused to run it the networks pulled it down you know who praised the caravan and called it a monster piece look at fox news for whatever reason why their editorial board pulled it i don't know ok but as you know you the phrase the ad as a must a piece no don't do the film a grand wizard of the ku klux klan well called the adam much i wonder what appealed to him about that non-racist ad david duke is a racist he has no place and no worry agree on ministration of the president we

agree that it raises so why isn't there a much well look at there are people that will praise things that complete for their own political agenda we can't control what people think and what they say but you don't hear the president of the united states making racist remarks at. some people are trying to leave really others to believe his own soul the cool cohen who worked for trump for more than a decade has said that trump told him black people are too stupid to vote for me that's not a racist remark and you have the donald trump did you hear donald trump say that night. so we're going to believe a guy that wants to cooperate with law enforcement they get so i got a good chance at it defines us and i've i've i've had people work for me for many years and you've got to be creeps and you don't think going on about george soros is rolled in a caravan that he had no role in at a time when george soros is being targeted by racists who support donald trump that's not racist anti-semitic in any way. at the end of the day when we were

measuring the person is doing we have to we have to not listen so much to the media hype and just listen to the words coming out of their mouth and i think now listening to the president just one last question on the video it's not just racist in the eyes of many people it was completely false it was a lie the guy in the ad the cult killer was last allowed back into the country not on the democrats but on the george w. bush you know that don't you yes that's a fact that's a fact i want to point that was a light said the democrat wasn't in it was it wasn't because it was on their bush and it was on their obama you know as i said clinton but that's not what the ad said city because you know the i said well but it doesn't make it until two cups that's not true. doesn't make it a lie doesn't make it a lie the things people thought so you have a lot of people laugh and then he said he wanted to kill caught more cops yes democrat yes let him back in to kill those cops no george w. bush let him back and you agree with me i'm not sure that's the facts but under the obama administration because of very liberal rules and regulations regarding immigration this guy was allowed to run free so you know what let's do agree on

this they're all you agree with me on a lot of comedy and video was false to say the democrats let him back into the country when it was bush all about oh my god i can feel it all in a that's like the polls i'm confused what you mean little he was let in on to george w. bush not on to the democrats came in but he was a video is false one of donald trump's video defending was false. but he was allowed to run free on their very dogs a different algorithm so what else can the video said the democrats let him in they didn't say they let him run free they said they let him in it was george w. bush who let him in last off to which he killed two cops one in the video say that i'm not going to look at i'm not going to argue that point with you and we both ended up with all those parties are responsible that's a different argument i'm asking about the full city of it and just on this idea of kind of safety and security you're a former naval man you talk about migrants invading the u.s. presumably you think donald trump wants to protect the us the attacks that we've seen in recent weeks in the u.s. an attempt to bomb attacks on twelve people that don't trump targeted

a massacre in a synagogue. shoot these attacks were not carried out by anyone who came in on a caravan whether they will homegrown american terrorists. absolutely ok but you're not you're not hearing about and in some. instances you're hearing about the trial child traffickers the children who are here to be sold to others drug. cartel a little feeling that i was wondering why don't trump sends troops to a border for a caravan seven hundred miles away for security purposes meanwhile in the u.s. domestic terrorists are killing jews in synagogues we don't hear so much outrage well protection from your polity on the i'll answer that question and it's the same answer that we try to find regarding chicago with the toughest gun laws in the country liberal democrat socialist policies of the strong this country there's no more rule of law because of whatever you know that liberty i mean i have no knowledge of anything of it they are now in charge of the house but for the past

two years trump is controlled every branch of government in those two years anti semitic attacks have gone up. because i have gone up anti muslim attacks have gone up on the number of white nationalist groups have gone up as you know as a former intelligence is that a coincidence that this all happened on donald trump look complete coincidence steven rogers and the number and the number of police officers have been. shops that have gone up so you can't blame president trump for all of the ills that are going on these are democrat socialist policies i know i know you socialist policies have led to an increase in neo i'll tell you what it is over the last two years. i'll tell you where the source of your socialism since they have bombs in the mail it was a trump it was a little oil developed trouble supporters who went to the rallies hot and he sent pipe bombs to twelve people who trump targeted by name. these are nuts these are crazy not to. listen we look at we can't stop people from supporting the things we do we can't stop people who look at our

t.v. stations that a lot of nuts watch us or you know that you can stop accepting violent hate filled things that are inciting these people if trump stop saying globalist stop blaming george soros for caravans stop talking about how he likes to reporters who a beaten up and stops talking about enemies of the people maybe some people wouldn't take those words and turn to violence as well maybe you have maxine waters eric holder and the rest of the democrat who through it stop doing the same thing really ok if you want to me if you can you point to me a terrorist attack carried out by a supporter of maxine waters please well you know what the terrorist attack all right could be small or big i think going into a restaurant and you have your wife and kids there and a little of a eleven if you wish what i think what happened down seriously i think no no no i recall it if i'm not saying it's a quote sounds on raising it because because you're saying that what people are saying a little saying that maxine waters is never inspired in any way a terrorist attack i must you to clarify for me and you all you've got is rest.

they've they've they've inspired violence what happened recently with tucker carlson's home a teacher went to his home and terrorized you want to use or terror terrorize the wife and kids an example you're telling me what hope is being sent in the mail to the halls of his horse's mouth and stop raising if it's not the same thing let me also say this let's just let's circle back as we finish this interview about to the midterms are we going to see a change donald trump post these midterms post these losses in the house governor losses or is it impossible for donald trump to change given changing political circumstances well i think he already indicated and he has been consistent about this reaching across the aisle will he change he will not change with regard to his determination to keep america first but saying that even though you had some olive branch. is thrown across the aisle to the republicans and to the president so maybe just maybe and maybe we could at least hope for this that they'll all come together and do what's right for the country the democrats want to be successful the

president is a strong willed individual he's been successful so far hopefully everybody's going to come together and do what's right for the country under his leadership see even religious and not know we'll have to leave it that thanks for joining me on up front. it's a pleasure thank you very much. on tuesday american voters delivered a check on president donald trump's power with the opposition democrats retaking control of the house of representatives for the first time in eight years but the senate remained in the hands of the republicans who increased their majority so what could democrats actually now do to rein in this president who just fired his attorney general joining me to discuss this all a sabrina siddiqi political reporter for the guardian u.s. based in washington d.c. vast new staff writer for the atlantic covering american politics and policy and from florida republican political strategist trouble critic and author of the book everything touches dieties thank you all for joining me. sabrina to start with you

the attorney general just session straight after these midterm results came in is the united states in the middle of a constitution of course on the verge of a constitutional crisis where we are we're only on the crisis spectrum well the president left little doubt that the reason he fired jeff sessions was because of his frustration with the rush hour probe he said that jeff sessions the decision he made to recuse himself because sessions had not disclosed his own contacts with the russians or in between sixteen campaign said that was his primary source of i or he obviously wants more control over the direction of this investigation i think it's the first step that he's laid out in the path toward potentially firing the special counsel that of course is what i think would trigger then that your constitutional crisis and i don't think anyone is holding their breath about the prospect of republicans taking any action to rein this president in. a big piece for the atlantic about how jeff sessions is cracking down on civil rights eroding civil rights in this country which is what trump basically wanted him to do an issue that

he had with jeff sessions a lot of people on the left are happy to see jeff sessions go on but they're not happy the way he's been got rid of the reasons he's got is that fair to say others fear of. a lot of them seem to be tempering. optimism because it all depends who will be named as jeff sessions real successor it's very possible that we could have even more trump asst type who goes into that office who is a loyalist who is going to crack down more at the border and who is going to advocate more sort of open police brutality as sessions and trump have done really well so you made a name for yourself being a critic of your own party in this age of trump the democrats now control the house of representatives do you have faith in your former opponents the democrats do you have faith that nancy pelosi the new speaker elect that this party is right for this moment is able to hold to account in the way that you clearly want him to be

held to account. well i think we have to hope that they're confident in their gauging in serious and probing efforts to hold truck to account across the whole spectrum of issues not only the russia probe but the corruption this endeavor throughout this in ministration and look i would have preferred as a conservative i prefer conservator already did their job but the conservative majority declined to do their job they declined to act like a co-equal branch of government for two and a half years and instead they acted as if they work for donald trump and so they face the electoral consequences of that because they have right now the republicans are complicit in donald trump's behavior and his lawbreaking and explain to a global audience watching the show how much of a obstacle the democrats faced in terms of the voting system in terms of the voter laws we saw a long lines at some polling stations in places like georgia how hard was it for the democrats to win this just win this majority in the house given the way that

the election system is set up in this country while i think explaining all the difficulties in our lesson system we may not have enough time to do that but if you look at it from beginning to end say what it takes for a voter in georgia to get to the polls you have to register which is not a universal thing across different countries you have to have voter id has to be strict photo voter id in georgia you know they had lots of difficulties with people who were voting absentee who were mail in ballots there were polling places that have shifted. under secretary of state brian camp george is close something in order of ten percent of all the polling locations in the last five years so lots of people really rural states has to travel longer now to go vote and that's all before we get to the long lines before we get to now there is a there are thousands of provisional ballots that have just been placed in a box there are people who are saying listen i was running for governor in georgia it was right in the election we have multiple states now where secretaries of state

who are administering their elect. and they're also running for governor just very interested as you cool us elections freedom for no. i don't think the justice department will consider them for sabrina the question i have is all the democrats up to this moment nancy pelosi the speaker elect is now taking charge again of the house she said election we're going to react with bipartisanship is going to be a bipartisan marketplace of ideas a lot of democrats are thinking hold on you know these elections don't look so free and you've now for the attorney general there could be is this really the moment to be trying to do business as usual trying to go about the good old days of bipartisanship when some would argue the american republic the american democracy is at stake well that pledge of bipartisanship will fall apart at the moment that the president tweets something outrageous and then it takes democrats on a different track he's constantly talked up a big game about pursuing a bipartisan infrastructure deal we haven't seen a serious proposal from the white house in nearly two years now i think the

challenge for democrats is really going to be staying on message and not going after every shiny object because as we know there's a president a very limited what is the message well i think that one is going to be restoring a check and balance through their investigative powers that congress has which gives already to subpoena documents and witnesses the white house is preparing for an onslaught of investigations it's not just about the firing of james komi potentially jeff sessions and interfere with the mother probe it's also looking into his business dealings in moscow potentially subpoenaing his tax returns with supposedly has not seen misuse of taxpayer dollars by several cabinet officials in this administration looking at some of the ethics violations potentially in the white house the way that the trump organization has potentially profited off the office that the family now holds and if anything what that does is it reinforces many of the avenues that republicans did not pursue because they did not want to pick a fight with the president that may now will change is there anything that came out

of these midterms this week that you think will give republicans pause make them think you know what maybe we shouldn't souls to the trump wagon as closely as we have. well a lot of the folks to have had a pause already there were forty four retirements and now one to thirty five defeats those folks have all learned the. better where you fall on the spectrum donald trump is political poison unless you are in the deepest of red areas where we don't have many swing seat republicans left anymore and will hurt in texas one of the only ones who survived almost everybody else who either opposed trump that he was insulting from the podium like me a lawyer across her bellow. or who strongly favor trump like kris kobach they got their tails handed to them and the fact of the matter is once you become somebody who is not defined by principles or policies or politics of the republican party or the conservative movement you become to find out what comes out of donald trump's twitter feed that day you become contingent upon donald trump's rise and fall given

every mood and every impulse he has and so a lot of people learned that lesson in the party and they don't understand. why the power he has over the base so shrunken as it is has remained so strong no matter what happens the they can't understand that they are in a cult now not a party. indeed and really you mention the democrats shouldn't chase off the shiny objects people who have chased off the shiny objects a report since i think it's fair to say how much is donald trump being able to play the media and how much is going to change before the next election and twenty twenty the challenge is that and the media has this argument that he's the present united states and so his words matter now there's no question that that's true but you look at the way in which we've been talking now about his war with the media a day after he fired the attorney general which was a day after his party suffered significant losses in the midterms is a distraction from the distraction from the midterms so i think what the media is

going to have to continue to try and refocus on some of the themes that have been that have prevailed during the course of the trumpet ministration one of them is of course this question. of the russia probe and the potential obstruction of justice at the white house but the other for it comes back down to this idea of the breakdown of norms and the threat that he has posed to the democratic process and to the institutions that are so vital to this country and i think that oftentimes we do get back to that conversation but i wouldn't hold any or i wouldn't hold my hopes in the media not still getting distracted by the tweets i think that's going to challenge and so democrats are going to have to kind of work within that construct and try and rise above that conversation and it's even worse than the destruction of from my perspective tommy from being a quote unquote the liberal media in the u.s. doesn't know how to cover a president who basically is openly authoritarian openly nationalist openly violating the norms and somebody mentions the media almost wants to go back to business is usually only trump would behave

a little bit normal they would play along and they just don't quite know how to cope with this guy will it seems to me the so much of liberal media mainstream media whatever you want to call it has been used to covering politics as if it were already reality t.v. as it were a grand game in that over the palace intrigue. they frame everything as sort of a debate between equals and to consider everything that's not if not in good faith to be actually advanced in the purpose of winning the game. you have somebody like trump who has very sort of existence is predicated upon being in front of reality the cameras to wards rigging that game towards what he wants to do and he knows that he can go and say something that's totally false and not be called on it last question i know you're a regular on cable news so sorry to put you in this difficult position but jeff zucker head of c.n.n. said recently when we stop covering trump our ratings go down surely that's trump's

greatest weapon going into the twenty twenty reelection campaign trump is the center of america's political dialogue that you can't look away from it. out of the i think the point is correct that the networks are have a lot of trouble confronting it they don't know how to cover a reality t.v. star they don't know how to cover someone who who really is an amoral liar most of the time he doesn't is no sense of shame and the and the degree to which he's willing to deceive the american people is unprecedented you know it makes nixon look like a piker and so we end up with a situation where the networks they can't look away there's always a train wreck and the end it is a legitimately newsworthy to watch a president drag the american people you know toward a situation where they're not looking at this is republicans or democrats but they're looking at us as people who are worshipping an authoritarian want to be on one hand the people who are fighting against it on the other it's we we live in a remarkable moment in our history and it has to be covered brick sabrina van thank

you all for joining me on up front that's our show up front will be back next week . after one of greece's deadliest forest fires tons of blissful coastal town into a bloody hell people in power asks whether the flames were five point institutional incompetence the number one responsibility we've got is protecting the citizens was not an accident it was a crime but maybe the fire is the real symbol the book recently come up to take. on the series of the fall on al-jazeera. a moroccan man spoke out against french colonial rule and was exiled. you moved big you were isolated by extremist views he stood he spoke out against the regime and was sentenced to life imprisonment he

spent twenty two months in hiding thirteen years in exile and seventeen years in jail. al-jazeera while tells the story of the dissident abraham serfaty morocco's montana. audio recordings i'm a demand for the truth turkey's president steps up the pressure on saudi arabia over the killing of journalists.

under by the sun and this is all just about live from doha also coming up the death toll from a fire burning in northern california doubles it's now the third deadliest blaze in the state's history. searching for the missing in jordan where flash floods have killed twelve people many of those are on account of fall. too close to call the u.s. midterm election results from florida hang in the balance. president is increasing pressure in saudi arabia to reveal what he calls the truth about the murder of jamal khashoggi there's no one has been meeting president donald trump in paris that's where world leaders are gathering to mark a hundred years since the end over world war one before leaving for the french capital president out of one and shared audio recordings about the journalists killing with some countries has more. it was

a question moment for president who was hoping to push the americans towards a tougher stance i guess sandy arabia i guess about all of the murder of the saudi journalist. turkey wants the international community to keep up the pressure against the saudis for the kingdom to come out and say who gave the order to kill so many. of the has somehow dominated the agenda of some of the meetings particular the meeting between presidents donald trump and the man well mike rann they said that they wanted the saudis. to give more details about what happened to the saudi journalist but also they said they were concerned that the repercussions from the merger could further destabilize the region i think they were basically concerned that the fallout from this particular case could destabilize the royal family in the kingdom now turkey is concerned that this saudi or the u.s. and the e.u.

could be using their leverage in a way or another to shield the royal family in saudi arabia because the e.u. and the u.s. have look what has and business deals with the oil rich kingdom but for to be there needs to be a tougher international stance against saudi arabia. it's the first time turkey has officially acknowledged the existence of recordings related to the murder of journalist. at the saudi consulate in istanbul last month and the timing could not have been more telling just before stepping on a flight to paris president. with field has shared the recordings with the u.s. saudi arabia friends germany and the u.k. it was a move designed to put further pressure on the international community and the u.s. in particular to take concrete action against syria and these we have given the

recordings to saudi arabia the the americans. british the germans to everyone they've listened to the conversations on those recordings they 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 and the saudi arabian administration can succeed in bringing this to light by making the fifteen speech. the turkish president did not say exactly what was the recordings but accuse the saudis of stalling the investigation and called on the kingdom to identify his killers. announcement we not have gone unnoticed as leaders gather to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the end of the first world war us president donald trump and french president eman well micron had their own agenda to deal with trying to overcome differences about european defense spending but the journalist death was

not ignored they agreed saudi arabia must provide more details about his murder a former saudi spy chief says the kingdom would never agree to an international investigation. the kingdom is proud of its legal system. it will never accept. foreign interference in that system as other countries have refused to allow. international tribunals to base your gait horrific acts that have happened either on their soil or elsewhere committed by their citizens saudi you dish your system is. running and. it will take its course. police have now under the body it's widely suspected his remains dissolved in us it seems concerned the us and the european union may not be willing to push for

a tough stance against saudi arabia given that look what have weapons and business deals with the old which kingdom but they're hoping that with cool things might force the saudis to reveal who ordered the. possible al jazeera terrorists phyllis bennis is a fellow at the institute for policy studies and she says the killing of zamalka shows a 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. firefighters in california say they're up against some of the

toughest conditions they faced as wildfires continue across the u.s. state the death toll has jumped to twenty three hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to leave their homes rob runnels reports from all of them. at least two hundred thousand people in southern california have been evacuated as the wildfire there has doubled in size are far far it's been a seems an extreme. they say they've never seen him on. two thousand firefighters are battling the blaze many homes have been burnt to the ground in northern california a separate huge wildfire killed a number of people as they tried to flee the town of paradise the town itself was virtually incinerated dozens of people are missing in that area and authorities fear the death toll may rise we've gone to lots of you know wild land fires over

the years and this is one of the worst we have seen personally so. it's pretty horrific. the fires broke out on thursday and fanned by high winds quickly raged out of control towering clouds of smoke were visible from outer space. on a trip to france president donald trump tweeted as california burned blaming the state's liberal democratic government for poor forestry management he threatened to cut off federal funds for overseeing california wild lands california democratic congressman ted lieu responded mr president what's wrong with you disaster victims deserve help and sympathy the winds are calm here at the moment but that's not going to last the weather forecast is for high winds picking up in the coming days so unless the weather conditions improve california's wildfires may take

a long time to die rob reynolds al-jazeera malibu california i.v. rings lead to flash flooding across the arabian peninsula that jordan's been blessed hits what twelve people have died the ancient city of petra is had to be closed for cleaning tourists have been moved to safety o'brien 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 the police were running around the main street shouting up up up and going go up go up go up we were in the. temple so we were up we could see that.

was it was right. before taking with the biggest. thing three minutes or four minutes that were for all of 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 in gauged in the rescue efforts. at the last sitting in coming 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 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 stay.