britain for example that continuing to sell arms to the united arab emirates we know for example of the united kingdom is in the final talks of selling forty eight. to the sody so did government also making those statements if we look at. all in the washington post just a few days there. will be the leader of the supreme council of all these who said that the calls from the united states are just talk you say that you the us finish the war if it wanted but it has chosen to support and. thank you very much for the spokesman has told al-jazeera the fighting is only happening in an industrial area outside the city. today they say they've taken over the whole city but the battles are taking place outside of

data and everyone knows that the area of. it is ten kilometers away from the city with as i said the battles ahead outside. now as we've just been hearing the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt is traveling to saudi arabia to talk about ending the war in yemen he'll also be discussing the killing of the saudi journalist jeremy is the first u.k. minister to visit the country since the assassination at the consulate in istanbul more than a month ago he'll meet king selma on the saudi crown prince mohammed bin. well friends and family of jamal khashoggi have held a vigil in his memory in turkey his fiance a teacher gingers was among those at the gathering in is stan bull was killed by a saudi hit squad more than

a month ago when he went into the consulate to get some paperwork a recurrence begun in florida after last tuesday's u.s. midterm elections ballots are being counted again in the race for governor and the senate in the first count republican candidates held a slight lead all counties have until thursday to finish the recount it will it is on the now from washington. they're talking about how this is a or could potentially be a replay of eighteen years ago we all can remember in year two thousand that was a famous recall of the votes in florida during the george w. bush al gore presidential race of course all the rest is history now but bush ended up winning the state of florida by less than six hundred votes and that was enough to get him into the white house and now we're seeing another recount in florida both republicans and democrats are accusing each other of foul play and stuffing the ballot boxes and trying to extend the election or change the results or what

have you but the bottom line is this is a recount of all of the votes there between the senate race between republican rick scott who got fifty point zero percent of bill nelson the democratic point nine percent of the vote only about ten to twelve thousand vote difference there were more than eight million votes cast in the governor's race as well the republican also holds a narrow narrow lead he has forty nine point six percent of the vote in the democrat forty nine point two so you can see how tight these races are and that's why the recount of the votes is happening beginning on sunday expected to last at least five days but it's going to be a long process it could extend well beyond that. including this one demanding justice we'll hear from survivors of ivory coast's civil when we come back.

it's been a pretty miserable weekend across many parts of western europe to get was the northwest you may have seen from the ceremonies taking place there but things will brighten up it will quiet down a cigar one through the next couple of days somewhat ironically to see a fair amount of class still in place for the british isles down across france and then into the iberian peninsula. little further south what's a nice which is to go through monday said dry skies coming back in behind city crossing in the wells part of all in the west of scotland still looking a little to push in central parts on a dry here warm in vienna thirteen celsius and thirteen celsius to or warsaw well above the average is a monastery the top temperature in moscow so that's a paid more like it some cold weather the western parts of russia the heat continues down towards the southeast athens i attain nineteen degrees over the next couple of days so whether that was

a blustery weather and at times when two other makes about two of the baltic states nor the parts of europe staying a little this you can say for the northwest getting up to forty in london and paris once again a little a state will be dry dry two across so many parts of north africa but some cloud and rain just rolling towards northern parts of iraq and for a time and a start to fizzle out as it makes its way east. ard.

am. welcome back you're with. these are your headlines israeli forces have killed seven palestinians including a hamas military commander after entering gaza as part of a special forces operation an israeli soldier was also killed while another was wounded in harness. the u.s. has renewed its calls for an end to hostilities in there have been street battles between forces backed by the saudi m. iraqi coalition and who see rebels in residential areas of the port city of data some reports say at least one hundred forty nine people have been killed in the past twenty four hours and the recount started in florida for governor and

a senate seat after tuesday's midterm elections in the first candidate's held a slightly. more political chaos in sri lanka after the opposition parties decided to petition the supreme court to review the president's decision to call a snap election president. triggered a major political crisis last month when he fired and replaced the prime minister he dissolved parliament last week after his attempts to secure a majority for his party failed. certain members from both sides made statements through the media and its various discussions that there will be a big clash sometimes leading to the death of a few when parliament is convened on the fourteenth if i permitted those incidents to happen by convening the parliament on the fourteenth without dissolving parliament it became apparent that those fights could have brought about a serious situation with these fires creating hardships on the population living in towns and villages across the country which is yours and mine. and our

correspondent minal fernandez where are we right now with this process. right now all eyes on the supreme court of the building you see behind me where there are over ten fundamental rights protections peta people are petitioning the highest court of the land to declare that the president's actions to dissolve parliament at midnight on friday is illegal in violation of the constitution now most of those petitions be submitted by political parties who basically feel that the president has violated the constitution of this country by dissolving parliament before the four and a half year term that was mandated in an amendment to the constitution when this when the city in the government took over so very much waiting to hear what the court decides whether it will give leave to proceed and take up the petitions and

what the rule interesting fact that we're hearing that one of the petitions has actually come from one of the commissioners the election commission as the independent election commission set up in this country has three commissioners and we're hearing that one of the commissioners dr rutledge even who has submitted a petition of his own against the holding of a general election following the dissolution of parliament so all of this petition is to be taken up before the bench they have adjourned for an hour and are due to sit within the hour when we should hear where the they decide to take up those petitions and give leave to hear it peter depending upon what the court decides minal could be fear at a clip in a situation where we go back in time politically a week or ten days so the gentleman who was prime minister becomes prime minister again and there's no chance of an election.

peter completely speculative at this stage but the question can we go back in time it's all down to the courts because the petitions a number of them have been filed on the basis that the president's gaz that his decision to dissolve parliament is illegal and that many of those petitions calling for that gadget to be declared null and void if the president decision to dissolve parliament is declared void then we go back in time and resume to where things used to be before the parliament is of that bearing in mind that president by to file a citizen or essentially accepts that decision and doesn't have anything else up his sleeve visa understood to talk to you later i'm sure thank you very much the government i mean it says it's ready to start repatriating ringle muslim refugees from bangladesh this month at a news conference it was announced that an initial group of twenty two hundred

would be sent back from mid november with a further repatriation of one hundred fifty people a day more than seven hundred thousand refugees crossed into bangladesh from western myanmar since august of last year after a military crackdown thirty one people are now confirmed dead as wildfires burn across the u.s. state of california more than two hundred people are missing and hundreds of homes have been destroyed in los angeles county. from village when the fire ripped through these houses in old village it didn't leave much small during wreckage burned out vehicles a charred exercise bike seventeen houses were completely destroyed but thankfully no lives were lost people here are deeply grateful to their firefighters it just flared up and it just went quick. and those firemen god bless them stood on my parents' deck here and fought off the fire from their house the state of california is under siege from north to south high winds and bone dry trees and brush have

fueled deadly wildfires this week california has experienced the most devastated destructive fires that we've seen in its history over one hundred ninety six thousand acres burned. thousands of homes and thousands of lives lost everything depends on the wind a calm day can give firefighters a chance to contain the blazes but there are no calm days in the immediate forecast we have to keep understanding it better but we're in a new have normal and things. like this will be part of our future and this won't be happening it will be things like this and worse oped village where lawn ornaments live for lauren amid the ashes was out of the fires direct path and would not have burned had it not been for the wind. people here tell us it was embers

born on high winds from another fire perhaps a dozen kilometers away that started these houses alight wildfire makes no distinction between rich and poor famous or obscure all must flee before it's at vance we ran into hockey legend wayne gretzky outside his mansion near thousand oaks we evacuated last night about two am. and still my wife and i are young kids and i came back here to check on the house. yeah we were the three scared and nervous like all citizens around here in oak village weary firefighters were hosing down hot spots more than twenty four hours after the flames swept through people here are deeply traumatized you can see it on t.v. you can see it on social media but when you actually see it and smell it that

the words can't describe the devastation officials say the fires may take weeks to bring under control for those who live here it's already too late rob reynolds al-jazeera oak village california the democratic republic of congo's opposition coalition has chosen martin for you as its candidate for december's presidential election the sixty one year old businessman and politician was chosen after four days of discussions will face president joseph kabila as preferred successor for the ruling party emanuel or amazon e. government officials in bones say the president of the bungalow is being treated for a serious illness in saudi arabia the president's office confirmed bango has been in a hospital in riyadh for three weeks one source told the a.f.p. news wire service that he's had a stroke bongos health has been the subject of speculation for weeks now with his office refusing to confirm his condition memories of the last civil war in ivory

coast remain rule for many seven years on fighting between supporters of rival presidents killed three thousand dollars or eons survivors of torture and rape are demanding justice while the president laurent gbagbo seeks acquittal for crimes against humanity nicholas hawke reports now from abidjan. he says he was driving home when a policeman pulled him over asking for identification. the officer told him his last name didn't sound ivorian enough to foreign and he was arrested. while in custody he says police spat in his face the beatings turned to torture human rights groups say three hundred fifty seven people arrested like him were killed that same day and dumped in mass graves seven years on debby awaits justice someplace on the mother for. religious wanted for society we have not received justice their parents or the children of those mother does of these this did want to let us

express grievance but you can't erase the past. which started as a disputed presidential election in two thousand and eleven turned to a civil war between supporters of a new president alassane ouattara and all but bo who are fused to concede defeat. he wrapped up nationalist rhetorical calling ouattara and his supporters foreigners and enemy of the state. water as father is from neighboring turkey to faso. is home to many african migrants. human rights groups accused of ordering militia groups to attack what are supporters targeting people who appear foreign gibby believes the bag those are behind the killings three thousand people were killed during the four month civil war. while obama was on trial at the international criminal court in the netherlands his wife simone was released from prison in august following the advice to granted by president ouattara which acquitted her of crimes against

humanity. despite that the international criminal court is seeking her arrest it's a rare occasion to see inside her home receiving people publicly since her release from prison she's made only a handful of statements calling for peace and reconciliation it's a change of tone from the former first lady. president to our promises justice for all but the work of the truth and reconciliation commission appears to be stalling after it published a report accusing the government of overlooking war crimes allegedly committed by watch her supporters charges they deny the government says it gave soldiers who staged two mutinies last year twenty six thousand dollars each for supporting what or during the civil war no compensation has been paid to victims of murder torture and rape crimes which remain unpunished. in a very close to our other victims and no need to have that for us to find peace we

need to recognize and forgive the crimes that we have committed. and many victims like him want to see their attackers punished he says ivorian leaders over that to the dead and to their country still looking to heal its wounds of the past nicholas hawke al-jazeera. representatives from the polish government have held a joint march with far right groups to celebrate the country's independence the procession marks the first time polish officials attended the so-called independence march the event in the past has featured racist anti immigrant homophobic and white supremacist slogan. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera live from doha i'm peter dhabi these are your top stories israeli forces have killed seven palestinians in gaza including a hamas military commander after entering the territory as part of

a special forces operation an israeli officer was also killed while another was wounded in han eunice in southern gaza the israeli military says it intercepted three out of seventeen rockets fired from gaza after the operation israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu cut short an official trip to france stephanie decker has more now from west jerusalem. the message from the israeli military establishment is that this seems to have been an intelligence operation it's an intelligence operation that went very wrong and also of course you know the timing of this is crucial because we've had these ongoing talks about a long term calm in gaza between israel and hamas for the first time we had probable movement on the ground when it came to improving the lives of the people inside gaza the humanitarian situation there is that desperate levels the u.s. has renewed its call for an end to the hostilities in yemen there have been street

battles between forces backed by the saudi and the rotty coalition and you see rebels in residential areas of the port city who data some reports say at least one hundred forty nine people have been killed in the past twenty four hours britain's foreign secretary is travelling to saudi arabia to call for justice and accountability for the family of the murdered saudi journalist jamal khashoggi jeremy hunt is the first you pay minister to visit this since she was killed at the saudi consulates in istanbul over a month ago but also be a focus on ending the conflict in yemen the u.k. is a major weapons supplier to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. who are leading the conflict sri lanka's opposition parties are petitioning the supreme court in colombo to review the presidential decision to call a snap election for general the fifth the president made three policy to santa triggered a major political crisis last month when he fired and replaced the prime minister it is old paul about last week and a recount started in florida for governor and a senate seat after tuesday's midterm elections in the first count republican

candidates held a slight lead up next on this channel it's inside story i will see you in half an hour by. a congress divided between democrats and republicans. what does it mean for america and the world in these remaining two years of donald trump's presidency. find down. on al-jazeera. the president of turkey has shared with several world leaders audio recordings of the moment john was schumacher shocked he was murdered the game it appears to pressure saudi arabia into revealing who ordered the killing so will this tactic work this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey turkish president. continues to put the pressure on saudi arabia to reveal who ordered the murder of journalist. has his country has shared audio recordings of these last moments with the u.s. germany france and the united kingdom the leaders of those countries are in france to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the first world war or to discuss the issue with u.s. president donald trump on saturday in paris and also met french president manuel macron and agreed on a number of issues related to the case they said saudi arabia needs to shed more light on the murder and the case should not destabilize the region or one has previously said he believes the order to kill the journalist came from the highest levels of the saudi government vis. to peter 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 old this to light by making those fifteen suspects speak. let's introduce the panel now and joining us from istanbul matthew bryza former white house official now a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council here in doha which ana is a car a assistant professor of politics at the gulf study center at qatar university and also in istanbul salvator an international strategist and financial security expert and welcome to all of you appreciate it. i want to start with you do you think that saudi arabia could have or should have anticipated the what was happening inside that consulate was being recorded. well i think this is a wrong million tons of question or

a couple of million dollar question i have no idea if they would down to bait it or who in the in the the government of saudi arabia is actually responsible in this horrible massacre or slain a from the know some. in man. but i think the the very incident is making us to to question the moral let's say in the international system or the international institutions rule low you moonrise and all the other things that we stand for or advocate for years and years are still in action or are still ballots i think this is a very historic moment as the. centennial gathering of the world the first world war in paris all the heads of the

nation states should be questioning where the international system is going to are and on what grounds they will be supporting or gating the norms and rules of the game it is certainly. relentlessly horrifically is. a government that is disregarding or breaching those rules and international community as well as the political establishment the fulda countries which all the members of the international committee has shown that they are serious about it and saudi arabia has to respect to those values ok touch on a lot of things that we're going to be discussing it's not i want to put that to you that the idea that there was a recording or something happening and that consulate and that turkey has a recording of it do you think saudi arabia even across their minds that what was

happening inside that consulate was being recorded. and well i mean i assume that the if this is something that the sometimes in the diplomatic circles everybody was suspicious about that not every consulate an embassy in the war is safe. being. recorded off everything that is going on i mean we had a lot of things about the spanish between russia and you had to say during the cold war and all the embassies some of of course this is something that maybe they were not very careful in checking what they were doing inside the consulate or they were not even thinking that this could have been possible impunity in which the i mean they were thinking about that they would be able to get rid of this problem without any major publicity of this fact gives you an idea that they were really sure that nobody would pay attention to this or would be a mine or a minority thing that nobody will really be attention to the fact that mohamed bin

salma was surprise i mean this is something that he was allegedly. i was really it was said by my mom i mean some of the he was surprised of the impact overproduce of this case the word means that they were not even thinking that this case where it whoever decided to do it. were thinking in the could be. an advertisement. taken into into the news papers more than one month and creating so much reproducers that even maybe. i mean you have to say he would do something. regarding this matthew what do you make of the timing. now handing over these tapes we've been hearing about these tapes for quite some time that he's just now handing this over to the other countries that are concerned what do you make of the timing and how he's been playing this sure well start with how

he's been handling it as a whole i think he's been handling it with great diplomatic. skill you know i think that of course king solomon and the president trump as well would have preferred that the whole issue be swept under the rug but by allowing this drip drip of information over the course of the past few weeks he president out of one has made it impossible in fact he's kept the pressure on but he has done it in a way that didn't directly accuse mahomedan son and he was careful to maintain respectful good relationship with king solomon so i think he's preserved turkey's relations with saudi arabia strained though they've been for a while and he's also shown president trump he's someone to be dealt with but also he's not reckless and he didn't also make life too difficult for been someone why why the timing now i think it's because you as you said a show everybody's known about this tape for some time and he confirmed it yesterday saturday just before he flew to paris i think he looks at this meeting in

paris as sort of a grand moment on the international calendar i mean he's there as we know with so many heads of state of course including president trump president mccrone chancellor merkel and this was his his moment to shine and dial up the pressure i would presume there's more information even beyond this but this was a major salvo at really you know the biggest international diplomatic event on the near term calendar and when you say that you anticipate that there is more there are actually reports that a turkish newspaper may actually post some of these recordings we don't actually know how much if something like that were to happen math if people are able actually able to hear something like this for themselves is it possible that that could even ratchet up the pressure even more yet to show i think that's the whole idea right i mean i think the turkish government and president are to one are trying to keep as much information in reserve and not you know not not divulge too

much because it actually is a violation of the geneva convention to bugger consulates. or an embassy of course in my diplomatic career twenty three years we always assumed at every moment all of our facilities were bugged and there are secure places to go to have a conversation so but you don't want to admit if you're the turkish government that you may have been bugging the consulate so that's another reason why there's been just a drip drip drip of information however if there's no movement on a just prosecution of the eighteen and if it appears that the crown prince is going to escape any culpability i would guess the direct turkish side would decide we better divulge even more information ok so let's talk about that about this tactic salvo that you know has been you know pacing this and releasing things that at a certain time does he run the risk of dragging in this out too long to where there is no momentum to actually get to the bottom of what happened to

jamal khashoggi could he to key players and the wrong way and make this last too long. well i don't think. fortune and incident just merger is way that. leveraging the whole issue in order to gain some advantage or whatever because turkey you know think about that why turkey and mr add on is pushing the western capitals to acknowledge that there is a while a sion of the me and a can mash and wood in the us over the lens of turkey in a costly building and this is done not. you know the true legitimate way oath doing political action this isn't nation state under state way of. treating political decisions so what really took is

trying to pursue that we need to. deal with only legitimate altered see. nation states and this is also implicitly sending the message to the united states when defining the middle east foreign political decisions they have to behave or day have to choose their contact parts not from terrorist organizations or from chua's a states like saudi arabia is using some. ways that it is. against the rule of law and because it is jeopardizing the very stability of the region this is already very prone to war region of middle east already doing a lot of problems by itself cannot live along with that kind of

a leadership with unfortunately the crown prince. solomon is showing us every day starting from two thousand and seventeen ok just to just one note. starting from starting from two thousand and seventeen crown prince song month including the united arab emirates you know they showed a very you know sort of discipline this stability of the region and you know taking back to this recordings you know we don't know yet how this recording says been. supply to you know. we cannot be sure that hundred percent that turkey has been updated by itself maybe it has been given by an inside source who cannot there to. you know to accept those horrific

events maybe happening in front of his eyes or just ok so we don't know yet the details about it ok so i mean i want to bring into the conversation which ana how key is the relationship between donald trump and to wine to getting to the bottom of this in a public way what what what what at stake for how best to interact with each other . well actually i'm in the relation between both it's very important i mean that between the two countries it's very important and we shouldn't forget that the target is part of nato and of course. the kind of deal with turkey like what he has dinner with other countries in the middle east so and the way i mean the way this situation has been gone in the last year with the sanctions imposed by united states against turkey with four different issues before this negotiation to liberate the us or a few weeks ago in the middle of all this crisis of i mean that the way in which

the plan or the way in which erdogan actually is dealing with the information provided to the american government has been taken with a lot of color shows. because both can see about the relation it's sort of basic and cannot rely only on the case of how successful how so she cannot destroy this so there is a religion that turkey and united states have been out in since long time ago because it is fundamental for both for for turkey in terms of media very honest supplies had to get at the on for the night they said to still count with more nine one star that you got in the region you know this is cannot loose turkey because you don't have many other regional allies that they can rely upon in case of they need the meeting there in their arrangement or more global presence in the whole

region so. if i can add something at the time in the question that you also might make colleague i think is the fact that the decision of releasing this information on actually what it what it said that. gave there they tape or they have recording to tromp after. the midterm election i think it has something to do with. the way in which. terms of i will use some skill in the release of information i think it's not from you know much more we care or supervision done before in terms of. what. we want to do or the how to do we solve the so now the parliament come greely. excited more brits are on the presidency to take some action against saudi arabia given this information to the unless you mentioned before maybe releasing some of the record in the press with different people inclined more balance the i

mean in time the balance on the side of the sanctions if the people the public opinion start to listen they are candidates of the k let me get in for just a moment to bring matthew into the conversation so to the point yano is making obviously the democrats did very well in the house and going forward and donald trump's world is going to look a little different starting in january and there have been a lot of democrats that have been very vocal about the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia but they're not necessarily all of one mind just like the republicans are not all of one mind but what do you think that this. this new congress what role can they or will they play do you think in reshaping the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia. well the house of representatives has very little influence in foreign policy under the us constitution it is the president and the executive branch that have the lead in foreign policy formulation and the senate does have the right to confirm

appointments high level appointments ambassadors and to confirm treaties but really it's the president who is by far the most powerful so what can the house of representatives do well the house of representatives can make it difficult for president trump to acquire funding for certain international policies he might want to pursue but that's not going to be necessarily so relevant in this case. because that would mean you know the u.s. would some the house would have to do something radical like cut off all economic ties with saudi arabia that's very difficult to do what it can do though is call hearing so compel members of the trump administration to testify in public hearings and then subpoena documents so that under the force of law the documents must be shown and if they're highly classified or classified then they can be shown in a classified setting in private to the committee so really what the house of representatives can do is shame president trumps administration for not pursuing

justice in the case of jamal khashoggi and expose more details to the public but again its power is quite circumscribed and silva so is we started off the program talking about one is handed over these recordings to germany u.k. u.s. and france. which of those countries do you anticipate. having a really strong position to continue to publicly push for answers on what happened out of those countries i just said do they all need to be on the same page well saugor b.-a as the main oil suppliers to international comic system is crucial for everybody and on top of that of course germany u.k. and france ok janelle you of course united states is selling syria's

size of arms to saudi arabia so this is economy an energy based thought ice is absolutely very making the issue hectic hectic for everybody and also for turkey that's why turkey is not pushing very explicitly very strongly against is. against to solder mbia because. turkey trying to to manage or balance all this different aspects of this problem including not to jeopardize including not to jeopardizing the issues about energy transfer is a source of for it but the problem here is the crown prince mohammed mung i'm not mistaken his name i think he is not. obviously a good choice night or full saugor obeah nor for the middle east and obviously not

for the global stability so he should be removed i mean in the minds of. turkish foreign policy at the moment and in the mind of mr abdullah and i i'm not of course one hundred percent sure about it but obviously he want him to be. removed from the government. because he is a young person to. be true or thirty four over the next forty years he will be the one who is going to be defining the various the ability or on stability of the region. so far he showed a very very negative performance of this ok which i want to put that question to you what does accountability actually look like if if the international community and the public discussion about what happened to jamal khashoggi if it keeps

happening if it keeps moving forward what does accountability actually look like do you think that there would be any actually not just talk real pressure about about removing the the crown prince. well there is this you could to say i certainly agree with my colleague that graham is pushing for and not to harm the area but to harm. himself and maybe the only way to push his removal is to release in the final information that put him into real trouble but i mean. i mean i don't see my other colleagues said he's a very difficult even for the united states ministration to be forced to take measures against it in saudi arabia directly so the only choice is united nations security council is taking a final decision or even the. court to who are entering the in the scene for that you need. the coronation of different governments to push for more

drastic sanctions altogether and so far we have seen that for instance the united states the best buyer of arms in the whole war is saudi arabia's by and half of their guns that the united states is selling war why it also u.k. has a lot of interest to sell. to saudi arabia and the only country that i can really see that come push for more pressure is either turkey or germany globally speaking but not even jump on or china or even russia are interested in moving forward in that in that sense or the international level international community or international isolation i don't think that it's possible to imagine i'd listen the short time in the short term for us that is there's no way clear indication that mama been solomon was really behind. this case would be bearing the bit if you were to have something in them so matthew. brought up the fact that obviously saudi

arabia by its lots and lots of arms a lot of those weapons had been used in the war and yemen and there has been basically. no accountability for that the final question goes to you what is going to be different this time is the world just going to move on. well i really hope not and i hope you all keep the story alive as well there is some change happening in the u.s. approach to saudi arabia i mean it was just just in the last couple of days the going back to the house of representatives the u.s. house of representatives leadership actually convinced convince the trump administration to take a significant step not a decisive one with regard to the war in yemen and that is that the u.s. is ending its aerial refueling of the coalition aircraft so the saudi and united arab emirates aircraft maybe that's a sign that something could change something's beginning but in the grand scheme of things i think president trump really doesn't want mohammed and son to be held

accountable a because president trump tends to personalize everything in u.s. foreign policy and he's decided bin solomon is a good guy and you know his son in law jared cushion or has a very strong relationship with been silent but but the second reason is that president trump i think understandably wants the crown prince's deep reform plan vision two thousand and thirty to succeed a saudi arabia that really does eventually reform and gets away from such an over dependency and hydrocarbons and uses its investment to modernize its economy diversify it that's a good thing and that will probably lead to greater stability in the region but that said i think this one is different turkey does have i would guess significantly more information including probably wiretaps and other things that are that are garnered from international. trade craft and i think

i do agree with both of my colleagues that president carter one would be would be happy to see been seldom go so stay tuned it remains to be saying and i appreciate all of the for joining me for this conversation very much very much on that the prize which on a safari and salvatore thank you. thank you for watching the program as well you can watch it again any time if you go to our website al-jazeera dot com for further discussion at our facebook page that's facebook dot com for slash a.j. and side story or john the conversation on twitter our handle have at a.j. inside story for me richelle carey in the entire teen i for now. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of the lives. of the stories

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here in doha also coming up. the u.s. the rising violence in yemen at least one hundred fifty more people are reportedly killed in the battle for the port city of data. supreme court hearing petitions challenging the president's decision to call a snap election. words can't describe the devastation. in california struggling to cope with the state's worst wildfires on thirty one people are killed over two hundred. top stories this hour to gaza where israeli forces have killed seven palestinians including a hamas military commander in the territory as part of a special forces operation an israeli officer was also killed while another was wounded in han eunice in southern gaza the israeli military says it intercepted

three out of seventeen rockets fired from gaza after the operation prime minister benjamin netanyahu has cut short an official visit to france to return to israel. is a senior hamas official in the southern gaza strip he told al-jazeera an israeli unit escaped over the border. we know that there is a special. went inside. to the baraka and there are also some of the one and after that. the car which carried the. unit or some collaborators tried to escape and to go to this very altars but they are surrounded by. brigades. and after that tried to cover. the skull of the president all the soldiers.

striking here and. so i think it was. actually want. i think of it would not be easy would not become seventy deca joins us live from west jerusalem stephanie what's your reading of the timing of this. well it's unfortunate timing particularly because some headway had been made possible results seen on the ground when it came to easing the humanitarian situation somewhat inside gaza has been longstanding difficult complicated talks between israel have master intermediaries particularly egypt and the united nations so you had a cash injection from cotton this weekend fifteen million dollars carried in cash and also more fuel to power the fuel plants and well it tricity being allowed in so

this is why everyone was so shocked certainly according to the israeli narrative the israeli army making a statement that this was an operation for israel security and not an attempt at an assassination or a kidnapping we've also now had a tweet from one of the senior a spokespeople spokesman of how massing that this is seen as a victory for hamas because of course one israeli soldier was also killed in this operation so i think we have to wait and see how things unfold but the facts are these in the last eight hours or so there's been no rockets out of gaza into israel have been no air strikes things are calm many people thinking that protests potentially those behind the scenes negotiations have managed to calm the situation somewhat because both sides don't want it escalation having said that of course things are façade this was a serious event last night but the reaction reading between the lines at the

moment has been muted so i think of people have to wait and see how the next couple of hours unfold but at the moment everything quiet and it seems that perhaps some kind of achievement has been made in those negotiations behind the scenes to calm things so pretty calm over the past eight hours why do you think benjamin netanyahu felt the need to leave the commemorative events in paris let me early is that just symbolism because this incident is done and dusted. well he's under a lot of pressure not just from the border communities also under a lot of pressure internally from his cabinet from other ministers particularly having allowed in that money from qatar to pay you know the requirements of that is that civil servants will be paid not have masses military wing kasam brigade but he came under a lot of fire to that his response to that we made those comments even yesterday morning in paris with that this is been done to avoid humanitarian catastrophe the the difference in this point in time peter we've seen many escalations over the

last year or so is that the political establishment in israel seems to have recognized that something needs to be done about the humanitarian situation that military action should be full of military escalation that they should be a last resort because gaza is at breaking point this is been the warning from the military establishment from the intelligence from the united nations from various different actors if you look at the situation on the ground it is a desperate situation for the people compounded by sanctions applied from what i'm allowed by the palestinian authority of withholding salaries because of palestinian infighting so it's incredibly complicated and i think this is why everyone has been taken by such surprise to the timing of this because finally we've seen these negotiations make some kind of a palpable achievement when it comes to salaries and power the salaries will continue to come this is the deal come for call that culture will continue pumping in millions of dollars for the civilian civil servants salaries over the next couple of months if called prevail so i think at the moment it's calm i think we

cannot underestimate the power of these behind the scenes negotiations at the moment stephanie thanks very much mike hanna with more now from washington. we've approached both the white house and state department for comment but as yet there has been none forthcoming this comes at a sensitive time for the united states it was just a week ago that president trump's representative jason green backed held a meeting with prime minister netanyahu in israel at that meeting the issue of gaza was discussed the u.s. very keen to see stability returning to that particular area as a prelude to introducing president trump's initiative for a resuscitation of the long dormant peace process now back in september president trump said that he would make public his plan within two to four months that brings us to the beginning of december but also we heard in the past week from the

president trumps representative that this plan is ready for presentation within days or possibly weeks so certainly the u.s. keen on pushing forward with this initiative from president trump the violence in gaza obviously a bit of a stumbling block at this particular point but remember that president trump is intent on pressing forward with this initiative despite the fact that one of the major parties the palestinians will have nothing to do with it they refused to negotiate they refused to discuss the initiative this because they do not see the u.s. as an independent impartial arbiter in the whole matter and do not believe that they would get anything from it believing that the aim of the u.s. initiative the president trumps initiative is to guarantee above all else the security of israel ok let's get more on the story for you joining us live here now to. he's a professor of political science at the university in gaza he joins us here.

it had been relatively calm quite quiet primarily because of the egyptian involvement here the there was an emotionally into effect that was being felt across. the gaza israel border area has that calm gone never to come back. why it's true that the situation has been quite calm for the past few weeks are as a result of intervention by egyptian security delegation who has been. traveling back and forth between gaza around the law and to live eve to broker a cease fire between hamas and the israelis and also as a result of qatari into invent intervention in which the government of qatar to pillage to give one hundred and fifty million new us dollars to provide fuel for the gaza politician on also salaries for the hamas employees in gaza for the next

six months now with out of this is what either way daughter israeli military operation in the honeymoon this area will look. a skin it the military situation between gaza and israel it will be seen in the next hours and days but it seems to me that the situation is under control right now the egyptians from the early hours of this israeli raid intervened and tried to convince both parties both hamas and these ladies to stick to the cease fire and to quintin the eruption of violence but it seems to me that still the situation is very shaky it's very fragile and we might witness an escalation in the next coming hours and days if this is fragile as you suspect it might be what does this do to the optics surrounding the now we're heading towards thirty fourth friday a day of protests on the gaza israel border does that make that situation more

combustible. well that is definitely a very good question it's not just friday today which is monday supposedly and the palestinians also protest peacefully along the north west borders of gaza with israel on this area and also we are approaching. the coming this coming friday at to continue the march of return and breaking the siege but as i mentioned earlier the egyptian and qatari intervention convinced have us to keep this weekly put this peaceful not via none not on and on none violence way to stop. flaming balloons and flaming kites. now without a doubt will happen or not it will be seen but i think this is a grave violation by the israeli military forces of the latest egyptian i'm cutting

understanding's to keep them honest peaceful without any violence it seems to me that the coming friday would be determined. whether we are going to witness an escalation in the military situation ordered would be under control and. it will continue as peaceful as it was expected. thank you very much. we move on the u.s. is renewed calls for an end to the hostilities in yemen in a phone call with the saudi crown prince the u.s. secretary of state michael pompei you has reiterated that warring parties need to hold talks to end the civil war some reports say at least one hundred fifty people were killed in the past twenty four hours street battles have brought chaos to residential areas the main port city of data thousands of civilians are trapped by the fighting a pro-government alliance backed by the saudi m a rotty coalition is trying to seize control over the city.