firefighters in california say they're up against some of the toughest conditions they faced as wildfires continue across the state the death toll has now climbed to twenty three hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes rob runnels has that story from malibu. at least two hundred thousand people in southern california have been evacuated as the wildfire there has doubled in size our far far it's been a seems an extreme. conditions that 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 burn 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 lew 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 plus one you still to come here and i'll just you know including too close to call us midterm election results from florida hanging in the balance. was a waste we'll tell you why some students in south africa skipping school. hello the pattern remains the same weather wise in that much of central eastern europe is largely cloud free and relatively won't time the year or the clouds rolling through from the atlantic into the west it's usually quite active wet and windy whether that will be the case on sunday to raining likely in london over flanders field which is belgium a lot of green extends down through the bay of biscay to northwestern spain and

portugal it's slowing moving here will be a lot of rain in that part of the world i suspect him but i get to monday the thing hasn't moved on very much as you can see but all this time we're still relatively quiet from austria science words towards to he was temperatures in the middle teens now the middle training has been fairly showery in the east recently and is still a chance of showers around crete possibly cyprus but the obvious wrap around here the circulation is over libya and tripoli looks like being a wet place and actually in contrast is warm and sunny analogy isn't robert and further south in both morocco and algeria not as it were last survivor once again the rain swings in from the atlantic to the moroccan coast and we still have a tripoli and the western side of egypt just about but then it's fairly dry all the way down through north africa one to showers in liberia and sierra leone otherwise nothing much.

it is murder when you throw a fire bomb into someone's home and mishit off you know. not insignificant in numbers that insignificant ideologically that insignificant event is a crime against down very significant by dictating big government in the fucked up policy now shall not kill the radicalized series on al-jazeera. welcome back here without zero life from the heart these are the top stories so far today the u.s. and french president say saudi arabia should have shed more light on the murder of

the saudi journalist. presidents in paris and that donald trump ahead of the centenary commemorations marking the end of the first world war that follows revelations from the turkish president won the anchorage audio recordings of last moments with several world powers. leaders from seventy countries are in the french capital for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one the u.s. and french leaders it was a chance to smooth over tensions were surfaced when donald trump criticized emanuel proposal for a european army. the death toll has doubled to at least twenty three u.s. wildfires continue to burn in the u.s. state of california two hundred thousand people have been forced to leave their homes the coastal community of malibu has been evacuated. at least sixty one people have been killed as the fighting intensifies in the yemeni port city of data between the government backed saudia marathi coalition and who see rebels aid groups say the humanitarian crisis. getting dire as many course in the conflict

lack access to basic medical care reports now from nearby djibouti. they call themselves the brigade of giants in reality though they are on the shackle militia from southern yemen by the united arab emirates they are the frontline force in the battle for the strategic port city of kut they supported by the sodium morality coalition air power. today with god's help we've been able to take over the fabric brothers industrial complex in the east of the city and in the next hours we have control of more areas of the city of how data victories coming we need prayers for our fighters and for the injured. today that we did support the bring sinew and under the humanitarian aid has become the center of yemen's conflict with ground troops allied to the coalition struggling to drive out the hold the fighters controlling it these hospital on the outskirts of the city has been

a battleground for the past five days hold the fighters took up positions on its roof to stop the coalition's offensive from this end of the city attacks on school some hospitals are quite common here with children on the frontline of violence and medics unable to cope with the influx of the wounded in the last fifteen minutes there were more than fifteen airstrike fifteen this should be stopped immediately this is the roast meat for the government specially for the city this is the lord's. center and 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 come 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 are not u.n.h.c.r. is worried that people needing to flee for safety are unable to do so their traps my military operations which are increasingly confining populations and cutting off exit routes if the rail of yemeni militias fighting to take her they either succeed it will be their foster victory against who the fighters aid agencies are sounding the alarm they say the bottle on the red sea coast or yemen into an outright farming while the seventh apos hunt of the country's imports go through the ports of the day that are sold us aid and they calls for a cease fire and a political solution but so far these calls have been ignored with neither side willing to compromise mohamed at all just djibouti. the u.s. state of florida again at the center of an election battle a 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 arizona some results still haven't been confirmed five days after the u.s. mint elections mike hanna has more now from washington. 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. thousands of italians have marched against the government's plans to tighten immigration they're angry at a new to create to restrict residence permits for asylum seekers and to strip the citizenship of migrants convicted of terror offenses parliament looks likely to approve the order later this month it was placed under house arrest for welcoming refugees denounce what he called a drift towards racism and fascism right here. i'm here because i am part of these

people who follow a dream of humanity to protest against the hatred the fascists and the racist drift that's emerging not only in italy but also in europe because of my personal situation that's in my city which is that a different type of reception of migrants respect for human rights and human dignity possible. heavy rain in brazil has triggered a landslide which has killed at least ten people rescuers are still searching for at least four people missing in the modern day outside rio de janeiro eleven others have been pulled out alive residents have been advised to move to safer locations but some have refused to leave. the democratic republic of congo says the latest outbreak of ebola is the worst in its history the health ministry says more than two hundred people have died into north east and provinces since the month of august groups are said to be preventing health workers from reaching the patients. assume 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 toilets and some public schools in south africa are dirty disgusting and dangerous especially for children now government leaders are promising improvements following the death of two students but that won't happen for another twelve years campaigners for better education say it's a national disgrace as for me the miller reports now from the eastern cape province . poorly built and hygiene ache and grimy toilets are the only option for thousands of students in the eastern cape province students at horse school outside king williamstown have to use them every day toilets without seats don't flush instead human waste is collected in a pit underground the stench is overwhelming while the department should abide by the basic standards it sit for sanitation many of the toilets here obviously don't

some students are forced to relieve themselves in the bushes outside advocacy group equal education says poor sanitation often means students skip school an overwhelming amount of learn to say that they get bladder infections because they're holding in there they have they they they yearn for the whole day in which when they are conditions that are just an untenable a very serious consequences are known as education if girls are missing school because of their they very normal minstrel cycle then what are we then we're not meeting the educational right in the educational needs of that girl child equal education says a quarter of the more than five thousand public schools in this province have put the trains like these at least sixty schools in the province don't have any sen nation the department of education says it plans to fix existing toilets and build new safe ones by twenty thirty by twenty thirty the government is saying it's going

to eradicate toilets that means for twelve more years toilets like this are still going to exist even then it took the death of two young students to push the government to act apart from being unhygienic put the trains are often dangerous this is the lunar junior school in designer we earlier this year a gold drowned in a particular tree in long term care to was five years old the latrine has since been sealed off and replaced with new flushing toilets this is where it is buried in a grave beside her family's home. there is no safety at the schools not because they just fix the toilets at luna but they have not fixed it at the schools the government did not support us now that i'm standing next to my daughter's grave it gets more painful department of education spokesman wasn't available for an interview but a statement from the department did say close to four thousand schools nationwide need improvements and the government doesn't have enough money to fix them all here

in the eastern cape the government budget will help just twelve percent of schools over the next decade so many students aren't going to get relief any time soon for me to malone al-jazeera in the eastern cape. thousands of ship sank during the second world war their acts litter the ocean floor decades of corrosion title movements and storms of course some of them to break up and to leak oil but now one couple from australia has launched a grand plan to stop an ecological disaster under thomas reports now from newcastle to rob everett films of the nonstop offensive in the pacific the pacific ocean saw some of the fiercest naval battles to the second world war more than three thousand ships were sunk three hundred of them boiled tankers now after decades on the water some are starting to break up leaking oil into the sea as recreational divers pull the wilma adams swam to rex in chocolate boom in micronesia where in one

thousand nine hundred forty 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 pretty clear if you look at other incidents in the past and you know what aisle can do to the environment it really hits the couple has decided to act the ship. so there and they stand a leak someone somewhere has to start taking responsibility for. no one can take responsibility for it also and till 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. the couple is so serious that they've paid new zealand's government hundreds of thousands of dollars but this

second time dive support ship having sailed it back to australia they next plan to convert it into a bessel that can sit over the wrecks of others 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 glance divers on the ad that they need to the bottom of the say and if any of those divers gets into trouble well the ship already has a decompression china on board that could save divers life the ship also has cranes and four uncas one shalit amount is a kilometer age direction of travel on thing and i leave the ship very stable place for exactly how to 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

experiments 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 shipwrecks ultimately dealing with each would take millions more but that would be cheap compared with cleanup operations after big oil spills from ships sunk seventy five years ago. andrew thomas al-jazeera newcastle australia. welcome if you're just joining us a quick recap of the top stories so far this hour the u.s. and french president say saudi arabia should quote shed more light on the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi the turkish president's in paris he met donald trump ahead of the centenary commemorations marking the end of the first will war it

follows revelations from mr erdogan that ankara has shared audio recordings of her showed she's lost moments with several world powers this period we have shared the recordings with saudi arabia the americans the british the germans with everyone they've listened to the conversations on those recordings they know what's been said there's no point in distorting this fact among the fifteen suspects they know who the murderer is all murderers are and saudi arabia can bring all this to light by making those fifteen suspects speak meanwhile leaders from seventy countries are in paris for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one for the u.s. and french leaders it was a chance to smooth over tensions which surfaced when president donald trump criticized emanuel micron's proposal for a european army. the death toll has doubled for these twenty three years wildfires continue to burn in the u.s. state of california two hundred thousand people have been forced to leave their

homes the coastal community of malibu has now been evacuated the u.s. state of florida is again at the center of an election battle a recount has been ordered in the races for governor and for the senate republican candidates have a slight lead in both votes according to the initial count in georgia and arizona some results still haven't been confirmed five days after the midterm elections. thousands of central american asylum seekers have arrived in the mexican city of quite a tardo for the longest and most dangerous leg of their trek up to the u.s. border there were five thousand people hoping to cross into the u.s. in search of a better life the u.s. president on will trump and signed an order that would deny asylum to anyone who enters the country illegally. the democratic republic of congo says the latest outbreak of ebola is the worst in its history the health ministry says more than two hundred people have died in two northeastern provinces since august groups are said to be preventing health workers from reaching patients those are your

headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story i'm back with thirty minutes of well news in thirty minutes so you then went on line for you looking at the wildlife and how the solutions come together to benefit all parties involved that's where we're going to need long term success or if you join us on sand if you could take me around the content well would you tell me you don't have to set up here experiment for your experiment in the universe this is a dialogue everyone has a points you actually raise several interesting point there that some of our community members are going to join the global conversation. the political crisis in sri lanka deepens first the president's saxes prime minister now he dissolves parliament and calls for snap elections just how far will this power struggle go and is democracy in danger this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm homage he sacked the prime minister now he's dissolved parliament and called for elections in january as president my three policy has been accused of violating the constitution the turmoil was triggered last month when he appointed former leader my hand as prime minister the man he sacked run ill refuse to leave the prime minister's residence the case is expected before the supreme court on monday we'll discuss with our guests the effects all this could have on sri lanka's stability but first mel fernandez reports from colombo. the constitutional crisis continues here in sri lanka and basically it's to paddle realities it just depends on whose version you listen to and now reports

continuing about president and city seen as dissolving of parliament at midnight on friday the president has defended his decision saying it's in keeping with the constitution he did what was legal that is what we heard from his foreign minister sorry i'm going to go to brief the media earlier today however the victimise in her camp of ousted prime minister on a vehicle missing are saying that this was illegal complaining that there was no constitutional provision to call an election after dissolving parliament in fact the group went to meet the chairman of the elections commission mind additional british afternoon presented their case and d.c. they expect the commission to be meeting and discussing and acting in accordance with the constitution now this being the weekend obviously we're hearing that a number of petitions will be submitted to the supreme court on monday and the supreme court will be expected to give direction as to where it goes from here in a finance inside story.

all right now over to our panel in beijing hsu dong job researcher on asia pacific affairs and a senior research fellow at the china institute of international studies by skype in korea last sri lanka's former electoral district raja would just send a former government official and in london charu ata hawg an associate fellow at the asia program a chatham house welcome to you all raja let me start with you today what the president in sri lanka has done first by sacking the prime minister then by dissolving parliament how much of a surprise has all of this been. because all the finding you know there wasn't all that prime minister. elect said it was time for him to be breaking down. but there was

a look at the hole at the time and then it was indeed yes as you know you know who but that president at this depth that perhaps he should have taken earlier now in taking that step i think he assumed that he would have a parliamentary majority against the prime minister but that has been doing and throwing up and. there are allegations all by and these on both sides and i think there was a sense that perhaps some saw. or vote of the people might settle things so you'd have you on the brains or on last night it's all parliament has fixed an election for january but didn't book cases that the doubts about the constitutionality of the act should and it seemed best perhaps that will now be a second but even the press should have been taken up before the courts forming

that they should. if that happens but said that it can get over that some certainty charu there are some that are saying what the president has done is unconstitutional and there are some that are arguing that it is constitutional from your perspective what do you say does the president have the power to do all this and is this ultimately going to be resolved in the supreme court. well absolutely from where we're sitting and we're looking at it and indeed the perspective of a sri lankan constitutional lawyer is that this is an early illegality all three steps are unconstitutional the dismissal of prime minister granted we can missing it the appointment of. mahinda rajapaksa as the prime minister the prerogative of parliament and then finally the dismissal of parliament all these steps are

regarded and considered unconstitutional and the question here is whether the supreme court will show the independence and the neutrality to decide that the january elections which have been unilaterally announced by gazette by the by the president are to be upheld and i think that is really the issue if you don't let me get your perspective on all this so there is an argument that is being made that sri lanka was already in a constitutional crisis and that the dissolution of parliament is really the only way out of it what do you say is that really the case. well you know. in china where we watch and they're vents. taking place since are lanka you know what we in china would like to see is a political stability is that because as a historical experiences in china have shown that with political stability we can

see economic development and improvement of liberians of people so you know naturally here in china look at all there. this kind of constitutional crisis people here would like to see that the people in surrounding i can walk out of their internal strife so that they can focus on economic development and improvement of the people a life as a principle in chinese foreign policy. china doesn't interfere in internal affairs of many countries including sir lanka so suddenly had a cause are all part of this lanka to work out what their political differences and the china has enjoyed friendly relations with. no matter who is in. power so a china is not taken sides. with regard to their current political

situation in sri lanka what china would like to see is that they can do is that and solve it as soon as possible so that. they can go back to. economic development i'm sorry i know you were social progress let me just ask you a quick follow up building on what you were saying when it comes to trying his relationship with three lanka is that dependent on who is in power. and no actually you know as a principle no you know actually i would have a sin sometimes ups and downs in china's relations with some countries including and surround her but you know always as a principle china respects the choice of the people in sri lanka who is a lottery lacked and so china got to work with this government seal and you know in

the past few years away have seen that their son some china invested projects have experienced some problems and you know some people may have different opinions about the projects but china respects you not as the final decision of the government officer and the whoever is in power there are you know for example take the. port project in there. in a press the former president. raja pasa and the project was developed there later on when the new and the station came in power they said well they took some and then it is some time to review the project that's a fine and finally you know it was decided by their so lanka government that they should move on because that's good for the economy obviously good for their long

term development goal of. the project that is in operation and it will be provide jobs for saranda by twenty twentieth's presume that maybe ten thousand jobs will be accredited. and the sixty thousand jobs in darkly were will be accredited for the people in sri lanka. rajiv let me ask you building on what should on there was saying when it comes to the economy i mean what are the concerns right now in sri lanka as to how much all this turmoil will affect the economy well the economy was in a complete mess. this. up promptly because there was or i would almost to some sort of dysfunctionality in the approach of the former prime minister brown with the missing out you know take this issue of china i'm afraid

the west will say stimulating the given rocket but supposing. they actually accused him of giving in to much to china but i believe the relations between russia and china are that he feels that if the sri lanka. sadly went into missing of came in to buy he was very insulting about china but china behaved very well and in the end has given. and support to rigorously but i'm afraid on hollande to spend their support they gave up upset and you know i told them since i was on the definition not speak and they said you know the root of the appointment of roger cox was an attack on india message that suit nonsense but i did find it very odd to their remarkably good team which they need in foreign ministers much more circumspect to say that you know to try to not abort and i'm wondering definitely given the stamina. but with the missing a seems to have committed that doing without consulting on the cabinet obama and the minister and shipping who should be in

comes on made it very clear that he felt the east terminal should be developed by sri lanka but he was happy only some boat i'm still hoping to the west i'm in the limit i'm with. as it stands i'm not to be productive investment in strain on guys coming from china i personally believe the terms on which the government got it i'm not as much in sri lanka as interest as was the situation. so i hope they're going to have the correct of your problem the web the free one can movie which will that one hundred fifty to the dog slim two hundred seventy four when we can signal to prime minister and in the columbia business community that's a sense that you know he and his team member absolutely no idea of how to handle the economy so the general sense is that. you know ultimately the more popular prime minister. with regard to the constitutionality aap problem is that it doesn't

fifteen there was an amendment you know somebody from cygnus proponents wanted to give back all of part of the prime minister and this was emphatically not what folly meant one so there's a lot of ambiguity i think. is correct in saying that some ambiguity with regard to the dismissal of the prime minister and indeed the dissolving of parliament intended to give us that it's new or not at and grey but there's absolutely no doubt that the prime minister didn't that flew past a program meant and it pushed hot to because of the run warranted in defense i'm sorry and little rajiv understand i'm sorry interrupt you i just wrote rajiv on turn interrupt you but i want to ask to pick up on a point you were making a char roger was talking about constitutional amendments have been made in sri lanka and indeed a few years back there was a constitutional amendment there was a change of the constitution which power was taken away from the president and there was more power given to parliament so how are we in this situation today.

absolutely i mean this is the current president has stretched the interpretation of the constitution to its widest limit him taking the power to both appoint a prime minister without proving in parliament the loss of majority by the current prime minister and in appointing someone summarily the new prime minister. appointing mahinda rajapakse as as the prime minister he has certainly taken a decision which which stretches to the extreme limits that the current prime minister fails to enjoy his own confidence so yes indeed this president took it upon himself to to check the powers of the executive presidency but we have seen also how this has been by lead to it and absolutely taken to the limit so you have you had scenario eight in which an attempt was made to dismiss

the prime minister without observing the the jew procedure and the due process laid down in parliament that plan failed because they wasn't and you know the bed was too to have. you know by over m.p.'s by creating a situation where parliamentary majority could be proven by the rajapaksa but that attempt clearly failed and the this is plan b. which we are seeing in action which is in the form of the does an illusion of the parliament why have we reached this impasse now in terms of you know despite the checks on the position of the executive presidency while we seeing this unfold i think it's really a question of the way governance has evolved in sri lanka how rule of law has been bent through the years i'd like to pick up on another point which was being made earlier about you know how and where the you know the rajapaksa is seen somebody as

. the who's close to the chinese and the rule that the indian government plays in this whole imbruglia zero ad and what what correlation the current political situation and political crisis in sri lanka will have to the regional dynamics i think that's an important point to be explored and let's not forget that in two thousand and fifteen when mahinda rajapakse lost the election one of the determinant factors was the way in which he had worked with the chinese in terms of securing chinese investments and the debt that the country got into so that was a decisive factor in fact the current president might have a policy to cena use that in as part of his election brief as well as so so you know i mean there is that here there is a backdrop a shadow of the regional politics which is always played within the national

crises that unfolds within sri lanka but however you know this is it and it will continue to play a role but whether this is the determinant factor is a different issue altogether if you don't let me go back to some of the points that you were making about the economy and the economic relationship between china and sri lanka look right now there are concerns that there could be violence in sri lanka the longer that this plays out this is seen in some circles as threatening potential development projects what do you say to that. we all know that franca has experienced decades of violence towards conflicts in the past you know. we all know we'll all we'll all glad to see the end of the war several many years ago

with end of so wards around how can you know could folks sound economic or development of course there are different political parties in sir lanka are going for they've always of a governing in their country and for the current leadership you know there they have different views on how to develop their dipendra how to randall country but the question is that they should try to find a way out of the current crisis they're all the extra no forces party you know powers countries should stay away from this internal political struggle if you're not in fear or in a turn or fears of a third language let the people in sri lanka decide their future decide they are in a government even you know china projects actually so far we

haven't seen any negative impact on that but of course the political arm rest certainly will take a toll if there is any take a toll on economic development a project especially in a china invested major projects there which you know good for the future of lanka raja but what are the repercussions that are being felt on the ground in sri lanka right now how are citizens reacting to all this. well there's actually a great sense of relief i'm out of columbus now the what i would call of the end of it in columbus seems to be very true with the missing but not the business community because of i think the disappointing performance in the last period and the massive corruption you know why there are claims that way that it's line of the proportion of that the china is not particularly large and we've had an optional ball development activities but as you'll probably a western not to this government caving to. but i see it happen with regard to

bonds in which the missing any spot that made a lot of money billions the case is still going on and the governor of the central bank he appointed who is being sought by the police have taken refuge in singapore and there were allegations that you know he was behind a lot of the right greed that took place and the country was really quite horrified by that and that is why rajapakse on his own you know got more votes in the local government elections in separate this is than both the president serious and the prime minister and you know i was one of those who actually supported sitters in an instructive up to one of the first to go through without any benefit but i did find that the way with them singapore banned the corruption and allister the failure of really any good it would be economic policy has nitrous sort of dissatisfaction and in the country at large and in particular amongst public servants and in the rural

areas i think this move has been a webcam so i think that the president in taking some of our decisions has actually made it clear that you know supporting democracy in the whitest sense while remaining within the framework of the constitution talking about how kids correct in suggesting that he's stretching the positive the president the limit but what the west hasn't registered is that through not just him as a presidential system. well the head of the state as well as the government is a diet directly elected president and it is up to the president to work in the interests of the people now the supreme court i hope will make a quick they say should but i think what the west is terrified of is that if they would general election raja would you know his body would win the general election by massive majority i personally would be happy if the present government situation

rockets it continues but with a strong opposition but sadly that will never happen by running into committing readies the head because it's practically destroyed despotic sorry hope that we didn't fall would quit being with us. and a strong up to full charu where things go from here what happens next and can there be a positive outcome from all of this. well i think it is it is a complete ration of complete crisis and meltdown in sri lanka at the moment politically the dissolution of the parliament has created a situation which can be resolved only by the supreme court there is very little faith that there will be a free and fair election given the way that the constitutional issues have been manipulated at this point in time to say i think another important issue that should be brought into the mix since we are considering the tallit of issues in sri

lanka is the fact that that mahinda rajapaksa who has been unilaterally appointed as the prime minister is somebody who faces allegations of crimes against humanity and somebody who presided a wooden army which engaged in egregious human rights violation and these are very serious allegations right charo civil war these are various these are very serious allegations you know there is an entire constituency in sri lanka which is the tamil and the muslim minority community which is fulfilled full of fear with the prospect of the return of mind the rajapaksa sri lanka is not just about the majority sinhalese community salonga is also consists of the tamils and the muslims and christians who are equal and democratic citizens the second point i'd just like to come back on is very quickly is that when we talk about the mandate of the

people and how people are relieved in the country if this was the case then why aren't the parliamentarians supporting rajapaksa why did the president have to take the step of dissolving the parliament because they could not prove the majority in parliament why has the tamil nationalist alliance the un be and indeed a c.v.s. the parties including the biggest muslim party come. out strongly saying that the that this is an unconstitutional move and would like the supreme court to resolve this so let's look at things let's not adopt a partisan view here let's look at things in black and white what has emerged in parliament there not enough m.p.'s who are standing up and saying we won't mind the rajapaksa as the prime minister that's the reality the second reality is that that is the loosen of the parliament is unconstitutional so you know i mean i think the facts speak for themselves where do we go from here i think we are all looking at the supreme court to offer some guidance and to to take saddam out of this this

mess really and to say that the west in a governments and countries have a vested interest everybody is you are rooted in the view yes i'm sorry to interrupt but it is that we have run out of time so we are going to have to leave it there thanks so much to all our guests to don john rajiv. and charu lata hawg and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me mamma and the whole team here bye for now.

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a growing divide between the u.s. and its european allies. headquarters. coming up a bloody day in the war in yemen sixty one people killed. for the people of california one of the state's worst. twenty people. the u.s. and french president say saudi arabia should shed more light on the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi those comments follow revelations from the turkish president that. audio recordings of last moments with its allies and the

authorities in riyadh turkish president has previously said the operation was ordered in riyadh at the highest levels. have already met once over dinner on friday night ahead of the. marking the end of the first world war the u.s. says the killing is an internal matter for saudi arabia but along with france has warned it should not be allowed to destabilize the broader middle east region v's. top it is that we have shared the recordings with saudi arabia the americans the british the germans with everyone they've listened to the conversations on those recordings they know what's been said there's no point in distorting this fact among the fifteen suspects they know who the murderer is all murderers are and saudi arabia can bring all this to light by making those fifteen suspects speak under simmons joins us live from istanbul so clearly under mr erdogan maintaining the pressure on riyadh via washington.

yes we've seen one with the u.s. president at that dinner it was very late on saturday nights what they would have discussed is unclear at this stage did amount to a substantive meeting probably not but then the message has been delivered in a fairly vivid way by the turkish president categorically stating that it stands now with the saudi arabians to to do justice to do the honest thing and actually interrogate those responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi and also he has shadows audiotapes with the u.s. and its main allies those who export arms to saudi arabia those who deal politically with saudi arabia of those who did meet deal commercially with saudi arabia now the pressure is on from to to see some sort of response from donald trump a categorical way forward

a blueprint really on what form of action is going to be taken against saudi arabia that doesn't just apply to the united states all the key players are in paris from europe the will powers who are into twined with saudi arabia's policy is to say so this is a defining moment after more than five weeks of investigations and a point now where if anybody was any doubt about the graphic nature of these audiotapes another response from the sabah newspaper an investigative journalist from that setting al-jazeera mubasher on ad that the last woods of house shoji would often they'd put a bag over his head within a short time after he arrived within the consulates and he was heard saying on that say i'm choking he was resisting the back i'm choking put the bag away.

take it off my had. suffered from costa phobia words to that effect those were the last words heard from his because georgie and now we have a situation where the power has in paris for the commemorative event of world war one ending a hundred years ago but on the side of that there is a major question about future relations with the study arabia and whether or not they are going to be cuts in any way or cut back or shelved or was or will not be some form of cover up that's what the fear that there will be some form of arranged comfortable cover up that is their fear and or thanks very much. well as andrew's mentioning their leaders from seventy countries are in paris for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one for u.s. and french leaders it was a chance to bridge a growing transatlantic divide that he does have sought to smooth over tensions which surface when donald trump criticized emanuel macro's proposal for

a european army we have two reporters in paris and butler is at the arc de triomphe for more on the ceremonies a little later today but first let's talk to our diplomatic go to james bays who is live for us at the palace james what's the direction of travel here when it comes to the diplomacy. well certainly there's going to be conversations in the margins of these events today this is an event to commemorate what happened one hundred years ago but when you've got this many world leaders in the same place they're all going to be having lunch together they're going to be discussing a range of international issues you've already heard from andrew some of the things that have been discussed clearly the war in yemen is also being discussed here for the next few hours i think the focus will be on one hundred years ago it's now nine am in paris one hundred years ago the armistice that actually being signed just after five am but didn't come into a force until eleven am in that period two thousand seven hundred men died in the

last hours of the war really sobering statistic and i think that will be the attention of world leaders for the next few hours but the idea of president macro is that after they've reflected on the horror of the great war they're now going to then go to what he's calling a paris peace forum to look to the future and try and look at some of the problems existing in the world a gathering of leaders that's for a month many of them here will be going there and we'll see the six general of nato the chancellor of germany and president launching that piece for him it's worth telling you that forum which is supposed to be a forum to promote multilateralism at. time of growing nationalism around the world has one person who's not such a big president trump james thanks very much for joining us live as world here on al-jazeera so natasha as far as the ceremony the ceremonial is concerned just take

us through what will happen in the coming hours. or behind me you might have to see in central paris more than seventy world leaders will be coming here to commemorates the centenary of the armistice among them the u.s. president the russian president the german chancellor angela merkel it is a truly international commemoration that really reflects the global nature of the first world war it was a conflict which lasted more than four years it ravaged continents it for families apart across the globe and what we can expect at eleven o'clock local time here in paris at the time when the guns fell silent one hundred years ago is a very poignant moments a moment to remember the many people who lost their lives forty million casualties in the first will rule twenty million soldiers and civilians were killed the numbers really are just staggering and the armistice of course was signed between

the allied and german power as it signaled a defeat for the german forces but for a man who make a speech here later the french president the focus is very much on reconciliation and not on national triumph but i'm sure thanks very much continuing coverage through the day here on al-jazeera. we move on at least sixty one people have been killed as fighting intensifies in the yemeni port city of who data between the government backed saudi and iraqi coalition and the who say rebels aid groups say the humanitarian crisis is getting dire as many caught in the conflict lack access to basic medical care reports now from nearby djibouti. they call themselves the brigade of giants in reality though they are called militia from southern yemen by the united arab emirates they are the frontline force in the battle for the strategic port city of kut they supported by the sodium coalition air power. today

with god's help we've been able to take over the fabric brothers industrial complex in the east of the city and in the next hours we have control of more areas of the city of how data victories coming we'd prayers for our fighters and for the injured today that we did support the bring sinew and under the humanitarian aid has become the center of yemen's conflict with ground troops allied to the coalition struggling to drive out the hole to fight us controlling it. these hospital on the outskirts of the city has been a battleground for the past five days hold the fighters took up positions on its roof to stop the coalition's offensive from this end of the city attacks on school some 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 fifteen minutes there were more than fifteen airstrike fifteen this should be stopped immediately this is the roast for the government specialist for the.

this is their august time. to do this and they're 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 the 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 are not u.n.h.c.r. is worried that people needing to flee for safety are unable to do so their traps my military operations which are increasingly confining populations and cutting off exit routes if the rail of yemeni militias fighting to take her they either succeed it will be their fost victory against her as the fighters aid agencies are sounding the alarm they say the bottle on the red sea coast could throw yemen into an outright farming while the seventh apos handle the country's imports go through the

portal for they sold us aid and then cruising calls for a ceasefire and a political solution but so far these calls have been ignored with neither side willing to compromise mohamed at all just djibouti still to come here on al-jazeera too close to call us mid-term election results from florida hang in the balance. and what a waste we'll tell you why some students in south africa are skipping school. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian.