is going on and so it is a fair question to ask what next as far as the turkish president is concerned it is sitting here now with all the evidence bar the actual body the body of course according to one the major prosecution source has been dissolved by acids and chemicals however there are also suggestions that the other could be other other things happening there is a suggestion from the president himself in the briefing that there could have been the body parts cut and then smuggled out of the country again he comes around to the point only the saudis can answer these questions because the saudis have the suspects within within their reach and they he says they should come here regardless of where they go he says that the saudis have to actually give details and interrogate these suspects and come up with some answers to questions that the international community want answered not just turkey and he's made the point that all of those players in paris all the key leaders in paris seem to be in

a different mindset now having listened to the tapes having digested the evidence having really got into the situation whereby they know the enormity of the crime that took place that despite the the pressures of commerce the pressures of politics the pressures of a whole variety of arms deals and so on and so forth that could be much sterner action taken by the international community is felt than some people suspect might be the case so really this is not over however the emphasis now seems to be on how to keep it in the spotlight in terms of international media all right anderson thank you. well iran's foreign minister zarif told a london based news organization there was credible information that saudi arabia had planned to assassinate senior iranian officials the new york times has revealed

that in march last year a meeting in riyadh was held to discuss plans to assassinate iranian officials specifically major general. head of iran's force in that meeting businessmen who were also reportedly presented a two billion dollars plan to use private intelligence operatives to sabotage the iranian economy while the united nations nuclear watchdog says iran has continued to honor its side of the twenty fifteen agreement despite being hit with u.s. sanctions the report says teheran was sticking to the main restrictions before the sanctions were imposed earlier this month a senior u.s. diplomat says there has been no sign dot's changed washington put the restrictions back on iran after pulling out of the nuclear accord. here's what's coming up on the al-jazeera news hour a summit to end seven years of fighting is libyan leaders and foreign power is in the. death toll in california wildfires in the state's

history and the national reaches a tentative settlement in a long legal battle with its players over head injuries joe we'll have the details in sports. but first a supreme court is deciding whether the president's call for early elections is constitutional the island's been in political crisis for more than two weeks after martha. dissolved parliament and set a vote for january two weeks earlier he sparked outrage after he fired and replaced the prime minister bernard smith reports from. because attorney general has been arguing before the supreme court why he believes it's constitutional for the president to dissolve parliament and call elections but over all this everybody here really knows why we've got to this stage and it's because present my three

powers are saying he's playing for time he's not got the numbers in parliament to endorse his decision to sack one prime minister and replace him with another so he's dissolved parliament wants to have elections and whatever legal arguments the government finds to say that this is constitutional there is a feeling really it's gone against the spirit of a constitutional change called a couple of years ago that took power away from the president and gave it to parliament to further this political paralysis drugs on the greater effect it has on sri lanka's economy the rupee has already lost fourteen percent against the dollar this year tourism has been hit as the crisis broke out a few weeks ago people started canceling their holidays at the peak tourist season and next year sri lanka needs foreign exchange to start paying back four point two billion dollars worth of loans in twenty nine teams of the longer this drags on the more serious it is because economies well to opposition leaders in the democratic

republic of congo have withdrawn from a deal to unite under one candidate in next month's presidential election on monday six opposition figures backed martin fire the as their candidates in the long delayed polls president joseph kabila is finally standing down after being in power for eighteen years he's chosen emmanuel shuddery as his successor. new voters because i believe that we must respect the rule of the democratic game we are democrat we want to establish democracy and we must begin by leading by example and we will do it we will support martine he is now our common candidate we must support him. the united nations is warning that mass expulsions from angola goalie's refugees could trigger a humanitarian crisis last month alone hundreds of thousands of people from the democratic republic of congo were forced to leave following an order targeting what the angola government calls irregular migrants as more forced to flee once again this is the border between angola and the democratic republic of congo

these congolese left their country in search of a better life that search has a probably come to an end ok this is. what pushed me to leave angola was the situation just got worse some angolans and the police were coming into our homes and being violent that's when i decided to give myself up to the authorities so they can take me back home to d r c this mass population movement follows the angolan government's decision to expel congolese refugees and migrants many of whom are working in the informal mining sector now thousands are stuck here at the border where complaints include sexual violence and harassment body frisking and theft at the hands of security forces on both sides of the border. those who do make it into the d r c have a long road ahead before reaching the closest town to the border which is chicago that's one hundred fifty kilometers away a most will have to walk there which could take them up to two weeks heavy rains

and security roadblocks have delayed the already treacherous journey i have a lot of the messages that we've been kicked out of angola back to our own country but even in our own country we have problems with security forces along the road asking for money before they'll let us pass a road block this mass repatriation to the d.r. seas eastern and central regions are creating an increasingly heavy burden on an already unstable conflict wary region last year alone some one hundred thousand congolese fled to neighboring countries adding to the five hundred eighty five thousand who are already living in exile the united nations says congolese refugees are now among the ten largest in the world the international committee of the red cross is on the ground helping as many people as possible it's very difficult to mention that the situation is under control because the needs to go way beyond the capacity of the local authorities and. humanitarian community to respond

so there is certainly a need for a stronger and coordinated humanitarian response to the situation as we do not have a clear projection over the next months so we need to be ready to respond as they slowly cross back into the home they left behind it's uncertain what future they'll find here. al-jazeera. well is stern libyan general highly from half that won't join other key players at talks to try to stabilize the country after seven years of fighting libya's leaders and other foreign powers have been gathering in italy for a conference the summit in sicily is the latest attempt to bring all parties together following a similar attempt in paris in may elections next month have been canceled due to ongoing violence john hall is at that conference joining us from the society and capital pilots at palermo to just unpack the morning for us john tell us what's

happened so far. well look this notion that general. renegade general who controls much of the libya he's not joining the conference is something that's been put out by his team say that he will be here but only holding biologicals on the sidelines it's been described by a lot of people i've spoke to here is the actrix and indeed in practice it looks rather that way because as we speak there is a meeting going on which one can only assume forms the substance and backbone of this entire conference bringing together general khalifa and his foreign backers in the form of the prime minister of russia the president of egypt and france its foreign minister joining that meeting as well along with the prime minister backed by the u.n. his power center of course tripoli the capital and his chief foreign backer the italians in the form of the prime minister to separate kaante and drawing them all together the u.n.

envoy who we know has is promoting a new timeline towards elections at least conference so the idea that after is not part of it very much by the scene taking place as we speak as i say all the key players in the libyan drama in one room as we speak at the moment and is the expectation then that all key players as you're calling them them john as well as their foreign backers are going to rally behind that new u.n. plan being put forward by the. well that is the big question here this is a conference with libya for libya the italians hosting it conscious of criticism of pasta libyan many past initiatives to bring peace to libya that have been seen as western powers essentially foisting a solution on libya will this one is to do with the libyans themselves so we're told the new u.n. plan which would foresee a national conference taking place early next year getting the libyans themselves

to decide what sort of election they want to see what sort of parliamentary or presidential system they want to see deciding on an electoral law and then moving towards a vote by the middle of next year this is the plan being put forward now will they all rally behind it that's the key question that will determine at least a minimal benchmark of success for this conference the russians and the americans we know have informally said they approve of the plan i imagine with all of the others will fall into line is something that's being discussed pretty much as we speak all right john hall thank you at least forty two people have been killed in california and the worst wildfires in the u.s. state history investigators are searching for human remains after more than six thousand homes were destroyed in the town of paradise on thursday d.n.a. labs are being used to identify victims and firefighters are still trying to contain wildfires that hit both of these states and this is jennifer your clinton

has this update from westlake village in los angeles county. some of the evacuees here in southern california are being let back into their neighborhoods but have no homes to go back into you can see the damage here in this neighborhood this would have been two or three houses here in a community in westlake village which is just over the hill from malibu where this fire burned fourteen miles deep and twenty miles wide we know that there were two people who are confirmed dead in this particular fire here in southern california and to the north almost thirty others have been confirmed dead but there are still two hundred people missing in these fires across the state they've put up photos of them hoping that they'll check in but they do expect the death toll to rise as they begin to assess the damage the wind conditions in northern california are expected to die down over the next couple of days but in southern california and farther to the south near san diego they are expected to kick up and be even worse for three

four or five days there are still eight thousand firefighters working on the front lines of these fires four hundred square miles still in flames so their work is far from done well in a few moments we'll have the weather with stuff that's still ahead on the al-jazeera news our britain's foreign secretary says a brooks a deal is ninety five percent complete but it's not final five percent that's proving the hardest pos. heroes don't add problems that troy erode their job what are you. tributes pouring in for a stanley comic book legend who turned super heroes into superstars. and in sports a perfect start for novak djokovic and his bid to win a six year untitled that's coming up with joe a little later in the program. from

the waves of this. to the contours of the east. hello there let's start off with a look at the fires in california and see if the weather is going to help us or hinder us in the fight against them or first of all these are all the five that we've got burning across the state at the moment there are actually plenty more very small fires but these are the major ones about fifteen of them that are uncontrolled currently now the winds in the north all are now a lot like to the may have been so the wind the better on monday and things have improved but in the southeast still very strong and during the morning today and it is particularly the morning the sustained winds are likely to be sixty four kilometers per hour that's pretty strong and combined with the very dry conditions we have there the very low humidity this is going to cause major problems so it is in this region just to the east and the southeast of l.a. that's where there's an extreme fire risk for this morning and that's the highest

risk there is so it does look like things that are going to remain fairly bad during the morning and then begin to improve and stay slightly less bad over the next few days or elsewhere and it's just pretty cold and pretty wet for many of us across the u.s. this system here isn't only bringing some rain but only its northern edge is also bringing a lot of wintery weather to. do with sponsored by the time. for many years i kept my pasta secrets but every time violent extremism is mentioned in both those. computor i believe that we were superior how could i beat up other women want to if they really had started a race war. how far would i have gone looking in the mirror to confront the past x eight a witness documentary on al-jazeera. getting

to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human problems in the twenty first century are they are look real war climate change and technological destruction facing realities whatever it is they have to fear is not in me it is in the people of you gotta hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. on the again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour israel's cabinet is

meeting after the country's military targeted dozens of positions across it says are linked to hamas and islamic jihad's at least six palestinians have been killed in gaza and another palestinian died in the israeli town of ashkelon when his house was hit by a rocket from gaza the turkish president has given new details about the killing of . he says a saudi intelligence officer told him whoever killed a journalist was on terror when. he was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul october the second by what turkey has described as a hit squads and sri lanka's supreme court is deciding whether the president's call for early elections is constitutional the island's been in political crisis for more than two weeks after your policy was sent to dissolve parliament and set a vote for january. let's get more on our top story about the violence between israel and hamas on both sides of the gaza israel border we'll speak to get you on levy he's a columnist he's also a member of the newspaper's editorial board he's joining us from tel aviv thanks

very much for speaking to us so we know that the israeli security cabinet is meeting right now at the same time hamas and other palestinian factions have said that they are willing to expand their range rockets if israel continues to target gaza is there a way back from this at this point. yeah there is a way back and. the society lead to a war but it's really touch and go here again we are in this vicious or irresponsibility stevie's reach brings other responsible reactions both parties i believe are not interested right now in the war and both sparky's on the doing good nuff to prevent the war that's something that netanyahu certainly said on sunday when he was in paris he said i'm doing everything i can to prevent an unnecessary war and you yourself have read written that netanyahu isn't

a warmonger but now that circumstances on the ground have changed in gaza after that raid by israel will he be avoiding this war that he's calling unnecessary i think he'll do his best i give him still the credit even though why i'm very criticised for this but i still give him the credit that he's not interested in a war but let's break away from the main core issue the core issue is the siege over gaza and ateneo has no intention to put an end to the siege so as long as the siege goes on we will be again and again put in this trip or vicious circle of one voter land action which leads to another vote in the actions and still i believe that even now the time you know will do anything possible to prevent a war because he knows as we all know that any new war in gaza we lead to nowhere

and by the end of the world war with exactly the same position that we are sending now only reason more killing and more destruction in vain for nothing egypt and the u.n. had been working with both israel and hamas as you know very recently to reach some sort of truce as it's being called does this mean now that discussions have stopped after the events of the past twenty four hours. by all means note there let's not forget also that for the cut in supplying some money to gaza no this is not over because it is a say both parties are very interested in that kind of a deal but the problem of those deals sees that there are always very very fragile and any violence any incidents. in the past any incident can destroy the whole of the standings in the whole deal because finally

those deals don't touch in the core issue and there's a say the core issue is the siege over gaza let me finally ask you about the spark behind of all of this and that is sunday's operation by israel into gaza that's on the ground operation what do you think the motive was behind it at this particular time considering that there were talks that have been going on and there was some sort of easing of the humanitarian crisis in gaza by israel. but that's exactly what i mean that is that both parties but israel is not doing enough to prevent a war and we're going to now speaks about his interest to prevent the war he does not enough to prevent the war because this operation in this timing is crucial as it is the secret operation of the special units who are going by the way quite frequently this operation in this timing was a major mistake it is well spent you know the prize in both parties are paying the

price in this is that should restrain and stop all those adventures and all those heroic operations which nobody knows how important they really are but it's very clear that in this timing they are very destructive and they so that measure actually then if you're saying that he doesn't do enough to stop them domestically what does this tell us about the kind of pressures that he's under a by his coalition partners as well as perhaps by the public to escalate things militarily. unfortunately this very public opinion and his partners in the government for sure they all want to see river which they all think that military shoke on gaza a military operation a cruel brutal one will solve anything will put an end to the rockets falling on the south and time after time we get to the same place that there is no military

solution and people forget it we were there and there were so many sacrifices and it led us to nowhere and now israel as a whole wants another circle another revenge because really four hundred rockets on the south of israel is unbearable but what will you achieve with another bloodshed over gaza nothing you'll get to the same place that you can get with go to war hopefully netanyahu will be strong enough and says and sticks to his words nice words in perry's namely to do anything possible to prevent an unnecessary war and the war now is unnecessary almost criminal gideon levy we thank you very much for speaking to us. now britain's foreign minister says talks to end the war in yemen are more real discussions with saudi arabia and the u.a.e. jeremy hunt says riyadh confirmed its willingness to allow fifty wounded fighters

to go to arm on for medical treatment at least one hundred fifty people have been killed since sunday as the saudi emirates a coalition tries to retake the port city of her data reports from djibouti. fierce fighting on one of the phone lines on the fringes of the port city of data this is one of the largest bottle so far in the war in yemen. hold the fighters who control the day the losing the strategic port is not an option and they are putting up a stiff resistance. we should have attempted another suicide attack but it failed we are advancing. despite earlier promises by the soda coalition and pro-government forces not to fight through bottles in some parts of the city the conflict has already and to that face in one presidential area is still the city borders lie and collect relentless bombardment of killed numerous fighters and this is the

ultimate price the pro-government alliance and their sodhi and their morality buck is off to the port of data a vital lifeline for millions of yemenis more than seventy percent arguments imports including u.n. aid comes through these dogs. as you can see at the front line close to the port of her data right there in front of you in the next few days will be able to storm the port. the u.n. secretary general and tony it will tennis is warning against any disruption to the port operations. it is of work. i think that now all the powers agreed that it must be ended i think that circumstances will allow it i hope to direct actors in the conflict in the stand and i hope that it happens as quickly as possible because if for example the port of her died is destroyed that would be catastrophic for the whole of yemen. please call son to for the safety of hundreds of thousands of civilians was to leave the city there now growing calls for a ceasefire and peace talks between the warring parties in a sign the u.s.

is finally losing patience with the war in the yemen secretary of state mike pompei o create rated enough for all to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon i didn't need for suspicion of hostilities pompei also i did all parties to come to the table to negotiate a peaceful solution to the conflict in a meeting in the saudi capital with the british foreign secretary jeremy hunt spoke of the need to build support for u.n. peace efforts both the fight and convince the bothersome sciatic of some of the loudest voices in the calls for cease fire and could be a while before the. the peace talks the whole feel the need of this supreme council of the whole recently described the whole spy the united states and united kingdom . talk in an op ed in the washington post who ruled that the united states. chosen to support its ally.

britain's prime minister is holding talks with senior cabinet ministers aimed at improving the bricks that withdrawal agreements to reason may says her government is working extremely hard to save the deal with the european union on monday may told finance officials that negotiations were now in the endgame and a senior member of may's cabinet has said a deal could happen within the next two days more on this lawrence is joining us from london this her saying it could be the end game lawrence may herself finds or soften a precarious position with attacks from both leaders as well as remain. yeah that's exactly right it really is i think during the moment a question of so near and yet so far the british government and the european union keep insisting that it's all ninety five percent agreed but the bit they can't see gree and frankly they will never be able to agree satisfactorily is what to do with

the irish border for the millionth time because the u.k. can't leave the european union in the way that it wants to while having to keep the border open as the european union demands under the terms of the good friday peace agreements and that's why it's a reason why has had to confect this deal to keep the u.k. in a customs union with the european union for an unspecified period of time and as you say that's attracted a sort of pincer movement really hard line baxter's can't stand it because they say that the u.k. would be in hock to the european union forever remain as who either don't want to leave it all or who want to second referendum say it's also entirely and satisfactory all the opposition parties don't like it either and the thing that everybody keeps misunderstanding i think is that even if the british government and the european union did say look we've got a deal it doesn't mean it's done because it's got to get through a parliamentary vote here and the all of all the arithmetic suggests that parliament won't back it's in the end for all of those reasons and so it is really

a very difficult situation for for the british government because if parliament doesn't back it then you are in so entirely uncharted territory where there were these sorts of about a no deal scenario in the final for the u.k. falling out of the european union which parliament here doesn't want all of them so then what does this all mean for a potential timing of a meeting with the european union. well they're absolutely desperate the british government to get something green in the next couple of days in order that they could have a meeting with the european side it off in the vendor if it gets pushed back as keeps happening and the meeting with the european union ends up in december then parliament vote on it probably until january that would mean potentially bricks having to be pushed back further back from the march deadline that is supposed to happen that have at the moment but if parliament does collapse the deal and says we don't want to no deal either then there are no plenty of people who you can talk to

around here who say frankly brics it might not happen at all it's on every level it's as big a mess as you can possibly imagine all right a lawrence the thank you the russian opposition leader alexina vali says he's been barred from leaving the country to attend the court ruling on his recent detentions and volley was stopped by border guards at moscow airport and told he couldn't leave he was on his way to strasburg in france for a hearing at the european court for human rights. some eyes below if you find me there are happy passengers at the airport who is tickets haven't disappeared my ticket has disappeared i'm not allowed to travel abroad i bought myself a coffee and i'm heading to work to announce the clocks. amnesty international has stripped of its highest honor the ambassador of conscience award it says the award has been revoked because of her indifference to atrocities committed by me and mars military against muslims suchi who is now the leader of me and mars government was given the prize in two thousand and nine she was still under house arrest after

time. there are reports that north korea's nuclear ballistic missile program is continuing despite president donald trump insisting it stopped a u.s. think tank says it's identified sixteen hidden bases mostly in remote mountainous areas the reports based on new images from commercial satellites the bases are already known to u.s. intelligence agencies but north korea's never acknowledged them rosin jordan has more from washington d.c. . it really should come as no surprise to anyone that north korea is continuing to develop its conventional ballistic missiles program as well as trying to develop nuclear weapons neither was prohibited by the agreement which the north korean leader kim jong il and the u.s. president donald trump signed when they met in singapore earlier this year and in fact critics of this agreement say that not only was there is no prohibition but there was also no way that the u.s. or any other country for that matter could check up on pyongyang's behavior in

either arena now comes this report from the washington based think tank c s i s which says that north korea has been continuing work at at least sixteen facilities around the country including at one facility not even an hour's drive from the border with south korea that of course is very worrisome because south korea has a substantial threat of north korean nuclear missiles the question now becomes what to do there are a number of sanctions that have been imposed on north korea by both the united nations and the united states but because of the u.s. efforts to try to broker a unilateral deal with north korea on denuclearization there is this sense now that north korea feels empowered to basically step up activities that have been deemed illegal by the in an international community that includes expanding trade with both china and russia its two closest neighbors and as the u.s.

has alleged for many years two of its most important protectors on the global stage the question is can the trumpet ministration now find a way to not only make north korea stop development of these military programs but also carry out the sorts of inspections that would verify that north korea is trying to make good on its promise to give up its nuclear weapons program. nicaragua's government says protests against president daniel ortega have caused almost a billion dollars in economic damage but it failed to account for more than three hundred people rights groups say have been killed in demonstrations since april the crackdown on protesters has sparked widespread international condemnation it's caused tens of thousands to flee many reports from nicaragua's border with costa rica out of the little bit he gets says the police recently broke into his house in the west and have been harassing and threatening him he's been an outspoken critic

of the nicaraguan government and is one of the leaders of the anti-government youth . now he's worried his activism might get him killed and wants to leave the.