licious fighting to take but they either succeed it will be their foster victory against jose fighters aid agencies are sounding the alarm they say the bottle on the red sea coast could throw yemen into an outright farming. well that's some of the pasta until the country's imports go through the portal today than sold us eight and then christine calls for a ceasefire and a political solution but still flawed 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 coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback.

and i would still wet and windy over a good part of western europe a huge season in the satellite picture where it's all coming from it's spinning in from the atlantic and it's going north was towards scandinavia multiple frontal systems slowly encroaching on what is still very much warmer than it should be eastern europe so forecast was we got fifteen in bucharest and fourteen in berlin should be a bit colder than that now even within the wind and the rain is about the same level of temperature with the rain itself is what makes a difference because he doesn't feel quite like that and it may well be that portugal and spain get the bulk of the heavy wet stuff in the next twenty four hours but the line remains the same it's going up through france and belgium towards denmark once more and again we're in monday now we haven't seen any change really in eastern europe there is some movement in the northwest of africa that cloud as it increasingly produces rain in portugal and spain but i think effect america if not immediately then twenty four hours off was first of all it draws some warts out there twenty in robot twenty two in algiers you're on notice that

there is still a spinning circle of showers around libya nat'l produce a certain amount of thunder on land as well i suspect and then by the time we get to monday yes it's your turn about that frontal system is finally coming that could be pretty wet. the weather sponsored by cattle lease. the un's man in charge of middle east and north africa has refugee crisis warned that the end is still not incites the war doesn't act like in cos or some other countries part of the war does not act like that and there ought to be a new order to make that contribution is more equitable i mean i was talks to al jazeera. i'm.

watching al-jazeera and peter told me these are your top stories this hour the u.s. and french president so saudi arabia should have shed more light on the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi the turkish president's in paris he met donald trump ahead of the memorization small can be end of the first world war it follows revelations from burdwan that ankara audio recordings of the show last moments with several world powers. and 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 smooth over tensions which surface twenty donald trump criticized the french president emanuel proposals for a european army. one of a story at least sixty one people have been killed as fighting intensifies in the

yemeni port city of the data between the government backed saudi amorality coalition and the rebels aid groups say the humanitarian crisis is now getting dire as many caught in the conflict lack access to basic medical care. now turning our attention to another big story for you stay for. fights in california saying they're up against some of the toughest conditions they faced as wildfires continue across the state the death toll has jumped to twenty three hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes rob reynolds has the latest now 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 burned blaming the state's liberal democratic government for poor forestry management he threatened to cut off federal funds for overseeing california wildlands 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 now heavy rain in brazil has triggered a landslide which has killed at least ten people rescue is still searching for at least four people missing in the mud of the debris outside rio de janiero eleven of those have been pulled out alive residents been advised to move to safer locations but some have refused to leave. thousands of central american asylum seekers have arrived in the mexican city of quite a target for one of the most challenging legs of their trek up to the u.s. border about five thousand to hoping to cross into the u.s. president trump was signed an order that would deny asylum to anyone entering the

country illegally. 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 senate seats 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 mike hanna with 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 office senate for the post of the governor and for the agriculture commissioner now in the senate race that's the tightest of all there's a margin of difference of list seven point one five percent this means that the

vote may well have to be counted by hand that's hundreds of thousands of votes being manually counted now legally they counted 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 decree to restrict residence permits for asylum seekers and to strip the

citizenship of migrants convicted of terror offenses the parliament looks likely to approve the order later this month. the democratic republic of congo since the latest outbreak of ebola is the worst in its history health ministry says more than two hundred people have died in two northeastern 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 and view of these figures my thoughts and my prayers go to the hundreds of families grieving to the hundreds of oftens and the families which have been wiped out major cities across the us a struggling with lead leaching from old pipes and then into the water system the latest a chicago local newspaper has found seventy percent of homes at lead in the tap water john hendren reports from chicago. sam corona fears the pouring from his

tap is a blend of life giving water in brain damage when i was younger i remember one to the filtration plants and taking a tour of it being told this is the safest drinking water in the world right when i was like eleven thirteen years old and here i am thirty seven years old finding out that there is lead inside the water over the past two years the chicago tribune tested water from nearly three thousand homes in nearly seventy percent of the samples the newspaper found lead in three out of ten samples lead levels exceeded five parts per billion the maximum level the u.s. food and drug administration allows in bottled water it's a health hazard in cities across the united states and around the world. lead causes brain damage especially in children flint michigan recently stopped delivering bottled water to residents after declaring its let water crisis over some cities including chicago actually required lead service lines between the main

drinking water line in the street and homes until congress ban the practice in one nine hundred eighty six there's an irony here the great lakes of north america are the largest source of fresh water in the world water from lake michigan is generally lead free when it leaves water treatment plants here but it becomes contaminated when it runs through lead service lines underground and chicago has more than three hundred thousand of them more than any other city in america. chicago's park service has shut off or removed half of its twelve hundred water fountains and it is leaving hundreds of others on around the clock to minimize lead levels but it is not replacing all of its lead service lines i think that cost is one part of it i think there is also just the public at mention of having claimed for many years that the water earth by the city's department of water management tool down to zero in a statement year after year chicago's water exceeds the standards set by the u.s. e.p.a. led in copper rule for clean safe drinking water additionally the chicago department

of water management takes a proactive approach to mitigating lead in the water system chicago is also offering free water testing kits but sam corona is still waiting on his water is basic right we needed to survive and it has a contaminate in it so how is the quality of our life of our residents if they're drinking contaminated water waiting and hoping he and his family have not been drinking poisoned water all these years john hendren al jazeera chicago toilets in some public schools in south africa often see and dangerous especially for children government leaders are promising improvements following the death of two students but that won't happen for another twelve years campaign as a better education say it's a national disgrace for me to 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 learners say that they get bladder infections because they're holding in there they they they they yearn for the whole day in when they are conditions that are just and untenable she gave very serious consequences are known as education it goes amiss in school because of their they very normal minstrels cycle then what are we then we're not meeting the educational right and 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 it 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 but the trains are often dangerous this is the luna junior school in designer where earlier this year a girl drowned in a particular tree in low income 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 yona but they have not fixed it at the schools the governments 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 ships were sunk during the second world war their wrecks litter the ocean floor decades of corrosion title movements and storms of course some of them to break up until the coil but now one couple in australia well they've launched a grand plan to stop an ecological disaster and the thomas reports from newcastle to rob the 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 wrecks in choke lagoon 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 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 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 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 gets into trouble well the ship already has a decompression chamber on board that could save the divers life the ship also has cranes and for anchors when she led the mound is

a kilometer each direction of cable and only the ship. 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 experiments with preservation techniques passing a weak electrical current through submerged metal can help stop corrosion in the longer term it's thought genetically modified microbes can be developed to eat oil paul adams 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 would 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 al-jazeera these are your top stories the u.s. and french president say saudi arabia should shed more light on the murder of the journalist. the turkish president once in paris he met donald trump ahead of the commemorations marking the end of the first world war it follows revelations from the one that ankara shared audio recordings of a shock she's lost moments with several world powers. leaders from seventy countries were in the french capital for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one around twenty million people died in the conflict leicestershire the latest pictures coming to us live from the early sue palace in the new war. along with mrs merkel welcome various presidents prime ministers and other dignitaries from around the world plus seventy people are going to sit down to an early lunch together the agreement on the bank which german armies of course required the latter to leave all occupied territories in western europe they had two weeks to do it once they signed the documentation they had to surrender five

thousand guns twenty five thousand machine guns and one thousand seven hundred planes diplomacy going on as ever on the sidelines when you get that many presidents and prime ministers together they'll be talking about the aftermath of the death of jamal khashoggi they'll also be trying to paper over the cracks between donald trump and your macro over mr macros proposal for european army more on that for you throughout the coming hours. at least sixty one people have been killed as fighting intensifies in the yemeni port city of data between the government backed saudi m.r.i. coalition and from three rebels aid groups say the humanitarian crisis is getting dire as many thought in the conflict like access to basic medical care the death toll has doubled to at least 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 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 the patients. those are your headlines the news continues after talk to al-jazeera we'll have more on the armistice commemorations when we come back in a little under thirty minutes in twenty twenty tokyo will host the paralympic games and the nation has a troubled history caring for people with disabilities when he examines japan's disability shame on al-jazeera. would you warm. to see. according to the united nations refugee agency there are sixty eight and a half million people forcibly displaced worldwide of these twenty five point four

million are refugees sixty eight percent of all the refugees come from just five countries syria afghanistan south sudan. and somalia. even though they are hosted by several countries and many of them aim for one final destination europe. european union declared a refugee crisis in two thousand and fifteen the crisis intensified as thousands kept pouring into the continent e.u. member states have failed to agree on a solution with increased political tension as a result but whose fault is this crisis and are all the countries in the world doing enough to ease the situation or are only a few carrying the burden. we find out as i mean our head director for the middle east and north africa bureau of the united nations high commissioner for refugees talks to. mr i mean our ad thank you for talking to agency or.

now you are director for the middle east and north africa bureau and regional refugee coordinator for syria and iraq at the united nations high commissioner for refugees office that's quite a long title just explain that to us what your job involves what it is that you do my job is a very difficult one manage the crises of the middle east the wars of the middle east and the consequences of war are the twenty plus million internally displaced. syrian iraqis yemenis libyans and all those plus the refugees are coming out of syria and iraq and other places the situation in the middle east is not really looking up when it comes to wars and destruction. and there is a lot of work to be done in the humanitarian front leave alone when we talk about the return of syrian refugees for example internally displaced persons again we're

looking at fifteen million people that should go back to their homes this will be the biggest return since world war two also and it requires a lot of work on the legal side of things of the security side of seeing on a stabilization or recovery on reintegration stabilization throughout the country shelter home probert the land and physical security for people to go back that's what i do it's been just over three years now since we saw that huge migration of people to europe from places like syria and iraq and other countries in the region that really hit the headlines globally how would you assess this then going forward i mean have we. are we over humble have we reached a kind of new normal with the situation a new normal no as far as the syria situation i think that what you're asking i think we have new elements of the war by and large stopped hostilities in many part of the country stop it liberate me and then i hope that the peaceful solution will

be will be found for italy that a war does not break out over it leave as we have seen in aleppo homs and other places because that would be a disaster however there's a lot of ground work to be done to create conditions conducive for return for stabilization and to remove obstacles for it that these are legal protection security livelihood housing. water sanitation health. food security so there's a lot to be done to really want a conflict stops to start rebuilding people's life and in turn. which countries are doing their fair share i mean if we look at syria. for example. it certainly seems that jordan and lebanon and turkey are really taking the brunt of this in terms of the numbers of refugees that they have taken in but a lot of people would be asking why aren't other countries stepping in a particularly other arab gulf countries and since we're talking about

a global problem here as well why not countries in asia like china what to countries like south korea and japan for example should they be stepping up more here this is war wasn't a local one was not a region was global poor that maybe were involved in that war since the beginning of the war on our repeated appeal from the beginning of the year. the u.n. and as an international coalition received about twenty billion dollars twenty billion dollars went into syria and the surrounding countries that's still not enough because our peers were much much higher five times higher than that now i think the international community have been to a certain extent generously for the syria situation but they're in not so when when you talk about the international community who you're talking about the traditional donors what we call the resolution of donors like the european union the member state of european union the arab world the sciences the five countries egypt iraq

jordan lebanon. plus turkey that they have received five plus six million over us and others have contributed to the syria of course but we also have iraq we have levy we have yemen we have many other crises in africa that goes you know silent people are also in many places facing problems and shortages of funding not every appeared by the u.n. for example is feeding the fund to deceive some of them that is having seven eight ten percent and why is that. i think we ought to be a new international or the when it comes to humility. assistance to stabilize people in their communities people do not move across continents or countries or international boundaries to go from one place to another i think should be given to proximity in the proximity of work rices are and their national community the donors that maybe after are more responsibly in addressing these crises in a full and comprehensive manner not in a partial manner but you must have had discussions with your member member nations

or maybe you haven't i don't know about the burden that some of these countries are sharing i mean if we take for example the case of south korea and. yemeni asylum seekers who a number of them went went to south korea what happened there in june is that they removed yemen from the list of countries that allowed. free access to the island of jeju in south korea how do you square that with the with the responsibility that the international community as you say has to them that's what proves exactly what i said there be enough support to avert the crisis that's happening in yemen today financially and otherwise. the spread of. diseases in yemen we would not have had this migration out and far beyond continents across continents to to a place like south korea there are many displaced people from the middle east who

tell us that going to other arab countries is not an option for them because in many of these countries they're likely to face more repression. and hostility from people any refugees arriving in egypt from syria for example have been met with suspicion discrimination violence we've heard lots of stories and i'm sure your graduation is heard the same so europe is still a more attractive option for them what's being done to address that then well if you look at the five point five zero. six million those are five point five we just want to share they could be another half a million that in order to use that for a reason or another who checked into egypt we should just mention a case in point from my visit to egypt they had access to education health they were living among the population not in camps in the bellies of towns and villages and countryside and you know the countryside of egypt when did you last visit egypt because things have changed somewhat since president sisi. during the last three

or four years since the last five years i visited guy or maybe about a dozen times not only cairo i went to examine the villages i met people in a home communities in apartments in collective centers. i have inspected that and as we do also in jordan lebanon iraq i think by and large the five point five million people that came out of syria they were received very well in lebanon jordan turkey egypt iraq there could be exceptions there could be exceptions also in europe don't want to paint the picture of it was being the heaven and on the last the last the summation no also there is this image that there could be discrimination isolated cases here and there we see in germany there were there were some there were some hostility in some areas because of the vast numbers of people who came not only from from syria but from other countries so i think on balance for us the most precious thing is countries open their borders to allow people to come in from prosecution war and killing and that happened in this

very important instance of the syria influx there is an argument as well that says with with this movement of so many people many of them are not really refugees but economic migrants how do you make that distinction in economic migrants they're going for a better life looking for jobs refugees are leaving skipping prosecution wars destruction physical security running for their lives that's what makes the difference for us are entitled to cross borders into safety and the russian process this involved in making there would be a style. there you start is determination to interview those people to see where they're coming from and if there are indeed wars and if they're really free prosecution ones that they confirm that asylum seekers that are for these migrants are fully in condition that sub. standard or poverty and they're looking for better for a better life we should not discriminate against them because of their convention

their conventions like the convention the refugees. governing the movement of people migrants for economy then and there are policies and they should be treated with humility and dignity and they should not be abused and they should not be manipulated or instrumentalist in their journeys for a better life there's been some discussion as well monkey european nations. about setting up a kind of central processing center somewhere north north africa morocco has been talked about this for migrants not us from us for migrants that's right where does the u.n. h.c.r. stand on that particularly since. this is come under some criticism in europe is it seen as abdicating its responsibility at a time when when my graflex are much lower than they were in twenty fifteen what's your view on that well these are discussions that are going on between the european union on the one hand the north african states the bilateral so we are not only in

the middle of that but also there are discussions going on between individual states in the e.u. the european continent with these countries and i think what the europeans are trying to do is to share the burden of the hundreds of thousands or millions that have crossed during the last few years and try to diversify their locations where processing centers can be put up other shirking their responsibilities. who the the european nations they saw that during the last few years they received millions. and they believe that many countries in africa where transit countries where we know some countries like egypt became a destination and transit and the transit in other words some people come and remain in egypt and some try to go further so many countries in north africa became distillation but all across it so not only europe i think there is a there is a way for the europeans and also africans and others in the continent to really fine. find a way out of this the way out of this is really a policy robust policy is to to go.