and said no let's wait for all the votes to come in there are still some return ballots that are coming back still they still want to go through some of the ballots that haven't been counted yet that's still a very close race as well the report democrat stacy abrams an african-american woman she would be the first african-american governor of the state of georgia but that's to brace is still too close to calls well all right for the moment live for us there in washington. in california say they're up against some of the toughest conditions they faced as wildfires continue across the state twenty five people have now died from the fire as hundreds of thousands have been forced to leave their homes rob reynolds has more from. at least two hundred thousand people in southern california have been evacuated as the wildfire there has doubled in size are far part of. its sweeny.

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. bangladesh's main opposition coalition says it will contest the upcoming general election that's the spite the ruling party refusing to agree to a series of demands about the vote the leading party in the coalition the bangladesh nationalist party has boycotted two previous campaigns it now says it will take part in the december twenty third election the ruling awami league rejected the opposition's demand to put

a neutral government in place before the vote tender chantry has moved from. a major breakthrough in de there's a sigh of relief among the mass population in bangladesh there's a lot of uncertainty whether they lection we're told they have now this announcement coming from the grand alliance along with the main opposition party bangladesh nationalist party would actually be a positive news for the population they want to have their choice of voting for the candidate of their choice they don't want to repeat of the two thousand and fourteen election which was marred with a lot of violence it was a walkover election now a lot of people we spoke to in the ground do still have some concern because the election will be held under the current gunmen and they can influence the election commission they say whether they'll be really a level playing field opposition didn't have enough time to prepare for the campaign now the opposition today declared that they want at least thirty day different of the election which is supposed to be held on december twenty third now

the government say they don't have any objection to the different men for another thirty days but it will depend on the election commission to decide on that despite everything it was a strategic move bangladesh nationalist party spatially could have lost its registration with the election commission for not participating the next election so by and large this would be a good news for the population it be. a break from done certainly the that the country was facing within the last two months. leadership elections are being held in rebel controlled eastern ukraine critics say the voting done yet and the concert breaks a peace agreement signed three years ago the government in kiev says it is an illegal attempt by russian backed separatists to legitimize their four year oaky patient more than ten thousand people have been killed since the conflict began asenath head on al-jazeera a slower than normal victory lap for the moto g.p. world champion said i was here with best.

a journey of personal discovery about how the soviet rule has shaped the present day georgia if you people who shoot your past you will never have a future in government buildings and the monuments they seem to inspire all indoors always don't mean to show your own people they are small algis there is time and eventually meets a examines the cultural influences of the soviet union al-jazeera correspondent the soviet scar. and unreported world on the. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians

still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to escape the your. comrades girls born at santa. thank you very much a high as in want to pass as have won the asian champions league for the first time the most sought after trophy in asian club football there were two from the first leg but their reigning opponents bristol is that wearing red had one hundred thousand fans a cheering them on into her on they came close to scoring but could not find the net and it finished goalless which was good enough for because she meant to take

the victory on aggregate they've won the japanese jail league eight times but this is the first time they've taken this prize. correspondent. it was the game into the sons who couldn't get into the stadium or as much as part of the story as those who did it. as another football final came to a close iranian fans found themselves once again supporting a team in second place. to her aunt's persepolis came closer to an asian champions league crown than any iranian team since two thousand and ten and even though fans began leaving before the game was over the night was not a total loss watch and i don't want to find the door it was one of the best games ever everyone around the world saw iranian culture and saw how we are considerate people. even though we lost the game with cheered for our players until the very last minute and we are showing people around the world we are proud iranians.

was no you know you are the fact that an iranian club made it to the final the fact that a stadium in teheran was considered good enough to host it for many fans these were major milestones there was a lot of hope for a persepolis win is these fans took their seats at the start i. think that game is our last day of mon perhaps the real struggle for a victory was happening outside these games as tens of thousands of people watched their heroes take to the pitch police blocked a few hundred women from entering the stadium government officials have said football games are unsafe and indecent and that women run the risk of being harassed by male fans strict rules have been relaxed in the past but this time only three hundred seats were reserved for iranian women in a stadium with the seating capacity of more than seventy eight thousand and then you might hear me say once again

a buzzing this is not the first time that we've come here to try and what. we've been arrested we've dressed up like. but we still can't get in. it's always said that football is a man's sport and there's always some discrimination between men and women why why should football be just for men why can't women watch football to get a sense. i've been a football fan since i was a child there's no clear reason for a reason there's no reason i just love it football is an expensive endeavor and experts say one of iran's biggest problems is teams aren't making enough money from televising matches selling merchandise or advertising they say opening the game up to female fans just makes good financial sense. there is also a vigorous public debate about how to alter football culture in iran to make it more family friendly and while there are signs of change for now the government's

preventative measures continue to boil down to one thing punishing women for the sins of men. bad weather could result in a further delay to the first leg of the better there is final between boca juniors and river plate rain and when osiris meant the game couldn't start on saturday and kickoff was pushed back twenty four hours and this isn't it will be made in the next few minutes as to whether the game can now take place it's been a frustrating time for the fans who are waiting to see two of argentina's biggest rivals go head to head. over the troubled ten thousand kilometers to come here i came from barcelona to watch booka i've got a return ticket for monday so i hope i can play the munchen four o'clock on sunday i'm upset about this but at the end of the day it's right in the long run when it's not possible it's not possible for the weather also played a part in italy syria on saturday agenda was home game against napoli was suspended

midway through the second half the plays that were off for fourteen minutes altogether while groundsman cleared the pitch and when they did come back out it was not the only who coped best with the conditions they fought from a goal down to win two one this was the pick of their goals from us on up early our second three points behind leaders event disappear in a simulator on sunday. in the n.b.a. it wasn't the rain but smoke from the deadly wildfires that impacted the l.a. lakers game against the sacramento kings there was a haze in the air of the arena because smoke seeped in from the fires which could have claimed twenty five lives lakers star le bron james complained of a headache and the coach decided to shorten the player's stint on board the brand still back twenty five points and the lakers one hundred one to eighty six. fernando alonso has announced he's going to have another sought to add indiana

policy five hundred and next a year the spanish drivers leave in formula one of the end of this season he nearly won the indy five hundred last year but was forced out a with the engine problem alone so has won the monaco all clear and lamont twenty four hours race if he can win the indy he will become only the second driver in history to complete the triple crown of motor sport. you know if i want to call put before i would i'm on that are legendary gracie's we'd be always on top of more the spore so these three big things you know. any russian driver should disappearance these ones in their career and i'm you know i feel very privileged to reduce your hear. all of those current david rozelle for the penultimate race of the f one season and we'll start eighteenth on the grid that will champion who is hamilton is the man on pole for sunday's race. ferrari were. living really quick all weekend

the last three races that are really quick and so it's going to take something quite special. to hold them today is obviously so close between us so it was really just you needed one hundred percent no ninety nine so i was really happy with that but i didn't think it's good to be as a team we did a great job to get a call where you know to get to a comfortable balance. marquez has been taking part in a slower than normal victory lap but the spaniard left his bike in the go to and instead took a ride on the local side of the parade his hometown. has just won his fifth a motive. and that's it for me has a thanks very much sun i will leave you with scenes and sounds from paris marking the world once and. eleventh of november one thousand nine hundred at eleven o'clock in the morning one hundred years ago today in paris and all over france the church bells were ringing it was the armistice that ended the four long

years of deadly com. let us remember let us not forget because the memory of these sacrifices makes us swarthy those who fought and died so that we can be free. but it's not give up the ideals the principles and the patriotism of those who. think this is fun for me to think i'm having fun it. isn't her previous hunters. just as it is to. thank.

they're waiting for someone you know just making. a disease so stigmatized that those suffering are still shunned by society people is drunk on their penley from the realty from their wives and then they don't have a place in the world war can be done so that they are no longer outcasts in that and community al-jazeera meets the health workers who are challenging al qaeda attitudes and working tirelessly to combat leprosy in india lifeline ancient enemy.

a solemn moment on to the arc de triomphe the president of france lights a flame for the millions killed in.

this is. also coming up a bloody day in the war in yemen more than sixty people killed as pressure grows to end the fighting. president. discuss the killing of face to face for the first time. i will not sit idly by while an ethical liberals try to steal this election from the great people florida. it's not over yet several. victories for donald trump's republican party in jeopardy. french president emmanuel crawl has led tributes to the millions of servicemen and civilians who died in world war one leaders from more than seventy countries are in the french capital for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the conflict

which became known as the great war. clus to sit in the traces of this war will never be wiped away neither in france nor in europe the middle east nor all over the world let us remember let us not forget because the memory of these sacrifices makes us worthy of those who fought and died so that we can be free let us not give up the ideals the principles and the pizzeria tism of those who thought. of the ceremony centered around the arc de triomphe underneath the arc a torch is lit every day to remember the french soldiers who gave their lives during the conflict twenty million people were killed in the war that lasted four years and three and a half months before ending on nov eleventh one thousand nine hundred tasha butler watched the commemoration events. well this was a very moving ceremony is more than seventy world leaders gathered in central paris to the to the unknown soldier under the arc de triomphe to mark the centennial of

the armistice the actions on these commemorations was very much on reconciliation not the national triumph and that was something emphasized by the french president to walks beside the german chancellor angela merkel the shells that he say to the memorial site he also said that it was very important the frogs in germany stand side by side at such a moment the french president gave a speech in which he recalled the foley and the brutality of the first world war fulci million casualties twenty million civilians and soldiers who killed he said he had traveled across northern france see it see the graves of people of all nations of all corners of the world who had fought in this terrible battle the mental map also using his speech to come back to one of the themes that he has touched on during this past week of commemorations and that he says he's warning about the dangers of nationalism in fact he said patriotism should not be confused

with nationalism a swipe perhaps at the u.s. president donald trump's make america great again policy manual mccall is an ardent believer in multilateralism he believes that leaders should work side by side he's been extremely critical of the us president the pulling out of international agreements such as climate change agreements and the iran deal. or diplomatic editor james bass is in paris for us so james listening to president across a speech there in which he talked about resentment between peoples and not not forgetting the past wanting to think of their obligation in the future he couldn't help. drawing the conclusion that he's trying to send a message to to some of the world leaders gathered there. yes absolutely a message he made quite clearly that nationalism was a bad thing that it was patrick says i'm being shown and bravery in world war

one but that is not in any way the same as nationalism it's interesting that there's an echo actually there of things that were said twenty four hours ago in new york around the u.n. security council to a table. and. the second general of the united nations and tony terrace was making very similar points about the only way forward to avoid the wars of the past and particularly the first world war and then twenty years later a second world war is international cooperation international institutions international treaties of course that many would say is somewhat incompatible with some of the policies of some world leaders and of course the most powerful country in the world is the united states and it currently has a foreign policy of america first and james just as we're talking to you we're seeing pictures of world leaders there leaving the lunch at the an easy as we just

saw the canadian prime minister justin trudeau there are lebanese prime minister there as well inevitably when you have a gathering of so many leaders the diplomatic tensions. are going to be on the agenda as well. yeah there are so many trouble spots in the world right now they will talk about and differences opinions on the one i think currently right at the center is the war in yemen where some are hoping with saudi arabia on the defensive it might be persuaded to agree to a cease fire in saudi or in yemen so that's one of the areas that probably was discussed in the margins of that lunch but let me also again as you see those leaders leaving the palace stressed to you the differences between those leaders because as you say just so prime minister. he is leaving the palace and heading

to a venue where there is an event that the french president has put on called the paris peace for a mere idea was to leverage the fact you had all these leaders in france at the same time commemorating the failures of the past to put that put the lessons that have been learned from two world wars into practice to try and help with the conflicts of the now and that's why this paris peace forum is taking place it's starting in the next hour but there are some who are not going or not to that meeting are not attending the paris peace forum in the most notable of those is president donald trump james may's life rests in paris thanks james. nearly sixty one people have been killed as there's been more fighting in the yemeni port city of data seen forces backed by the saudi and iraqi coalition and hooty rebels aid groups say the humanitarian crisis is getting worse many caught in the conflict lack access to basic medical care forces are trying to close in on areas in the

east of the city hooty information minister has defected and sought refuge in riyadh in saudi arabia mohammed atta joins us live now from mohamad first off what more are we hearing about the fighting in and around her data while heavy fighting is going on hossam on the streets or is residential neighborhoods of the which means now this group has three white increase of the bottle but the big gun thousands all pro-government militias supported by as you eat healthy hope this. strikes taking on pollutions in that part of the town and also from a list to other fronts in other parts of the city immediate concern right now is for the people who are still holed up in the holland people who. live in

the city when four hundred thousand or whole people fled the city in the past few days many want to supporting the fighting to come through the city now those who call could not leave because of block roads and many checkpoints and the immediate concern is for their welfare and safety but there's also the constant about what the fighting will do to any of this about them to the effect of its use of the portal for that which is a lifeline for millions of the eminence will have to depend on. all right mohamed atta live for us there in djibouti. by the dishes main opposition coalition says it will contest the upcoming general election the ruling party refused to agree to a series of demands on the vulcan leading party in the coalition the bangladesh nationalists boycotted previous campaigns and now says it will take part in the

december twenty third elections tanveer chantry as. a major breakthrough in de there's a sigh of relief among the mass population in bangladesh there's a lot of uncertainty whether they lection will be held now this announcement coming from the grand alliance along with the main opposition party bangladesh nationalist party would actually be a positive news for the population they want to have their choice of voting for the candidate of their choice they don't want to repeat of the two thousand and fourteen election which was marred with a lot of violence it was a walkover election now a lot of people we spoke to in the ground do still have some concern because the election will be held under the current government and they can influence the election commission they say whether they'll be really a level playing field opposition didn't have enough time to prepare for the campaign now the opposition today declared that they want at least thirty day deferment of the election which is supposed to be held on december twenty third now

the government say they don't have any objection to the different men for another thirty days but it will depend on the election commission to decide on that despite everything it was a strategic move bangladesh nationalist party specially could have lost its registration with the election commission for not participating the next election so by and large this would be a good news for the population it be. a break from done certainly that the country was facing within the last two months. thousands of central american asylum seekers have arrived in the mexican city of quetta tato for one of the most challenging legs of their trek to the u.s. border about five thousand are hoping to cross into the u.s. the president donald trump has signed an order that would deny asylum to anyone entering the country illegally and north and south korean troops have

withdrawn from eleven guard posts on the edges of the demilitarized zone which divides the steps were agreed on doing the into korean talks last month the two are also talking about demolishing post eventually along the d.m.z. almost two hundred in total all right still ahead on al-jazeera more than two hundred people killed by the ebola virus in the democratic republic of congo it is the country's worst outbreak ever. get in china this is no big surprise is it you wouldn't think much of becoming out of the sky for more satellites because the top synoptically weren't there more of a graze it doesn't look like heavy rain but something may well develop in the.