all over latin america and the caribbean with the king of spain and the presidents of spain and portugal. the emphasis this year is on sustainable development and inclusion but the regional migration crisis is also on the agenda ahead of next month's refugee and migration conference in america. the crisis in nicaragua could further destabilize the region and fueled a wave of central american migrants to the u.s. border because the i'm happy to return we're here to remind the presidents that without justice the leaders of this region will have no peace the crisis in nicaragua is not expected to even be mentioned specifically in the final declaration of the idea or all american summit nevertheless it will be discussed by the heads of states and foreign ministers here with president ortega just what impact that will have if any is not clear right police have questioned student protesters in colombia's capital bogota tear gas was fired to disperse marchers

trying to reach wealthier neighborhoods of the city the rally is one of several being staged across the country calling on the government to increase investments in education and give teachers better pay activists of venezuela have taken to the streets to demand the release of hundreds of political prisoners they say politicians students and protesters who took part of anti-government rallies are being held in poor conditions. and political unrest has seen months of protest against the government of nicolas maduro rights groups estimate around two hundred thirty five political prisoners are being held in jails. the u.n. says sudanese refugees are returning home after more than fifteen year more than fifteen years after war broke out in force. four excuse me sudan's government insists they're coming back as security has improved but aid agencies say the refugees have been forced to return because there is not enough food in the camps but morgan has more from west star for. it's the first harvest.

since he returned to his farm five months ago he left foot ten years ago to escape the darfur conflict in western sudan but he says life in refugee camps in chad became unbearable. again and there they bad mouth the life is a refugee in chad was hard there wasn't enough food and there wasn't enough water there was no way to earn a living again we couldn't bear it so we came back to our studies abdu rahim is one of nearly three hundred thousand refugees who have returned from chad in the past three years they were started in two thousand and three when ethnic tribes in darfur accused the sudanese government of marginalizing them the united nations estimates more than three hundred thousand people have been killed and three million displaced for those now returning home things are not the same. in and i didn't fit already there the farms have been destroyed by cattle we have farms where the cattle eat everything we plant and nothing is being done about it my farm goes beyond the stream but i can't cross the stream there settlers there when you

go there they'll stop you and so you can't access your own land the un refugee agency says more than three hundred thousand sudanese refugees remain in chad waiting for what they regard as the right condition to go home. challenges in the eight sector in chad are driving more refugee families to return to darfur many are now back in the villages they fled when the worst started but after living as refugees for more than a decade settling back into their old lives is not easy the governments of sudan and chad and the un refugee agency came to an agreement on repatriation but aid agencies say there are many issues that need to be addressed but the key the key issue is. this loss. and the lack of access to basic services and the prospects for social economic integration if these are not addressed then return names have significant obstacles to be able to have the ability to rebuild their lives in

a job or way local authorities say they're working to address those obstacles and provide land for those who lost what they once had. or that they're not allowed. we have a name bush is playing to provide services to those who have returned to their villages we have located three thousand plots of land for the return of these and we'll build seem to to provide them with health services educational services economic support for them to restart their lauds abdur-rahim says he want to go back to chad and will continue to work on his farm ibrahim can only access part of his farm and wants the government to either find him a new plot or find a way to get all of his old one back he bought morgan al-jazeera janina west are for well let's return to our top to our one of our top stories and that is on the two leaders from the compare rouge regime facing genocide charges in cambodia for us there is joining us from rome with the latest so there is a verdict on one of the leaders of florence. it's

been just hearing about. them but true as he was known in the community rouge regime has been found guilty of genocide against two minority groups that the muslim charm minority and the vietnamese minority and during the commune rouge rule between the years of nine hundred seventy five and one nine hundred seventy nine one hundred thousand muslim chums were killed and about twenty thousand get millions for killed now the aedes he's on trial together with another man known as q thumb pond he was the former head of state for the community and these two men are already facing life sentences for crimes against humanity they were on trial a couple of years and they were found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in two thousand and fourteen over the forst time span the for mass evacuations or hundreds of thousands of people in nine hundred seventy five when they marched into the capital phnom penh. bay still have

a chance to appeal but it's this current day that these two men it is clear will already spent be spending the rest of their lives in prison all right florence louis thank you. parliament after the speaker the clear the country has no functioning prime minister or cabinet insults and objects were thrown around the house the country's political crisis the recently appointed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa insists he's still in charge and is now calling for a general election. and former deputy intelligence chief has been arrested part of a corruption crackdown by the new government prime minister promised to weed out corrupt officials when he came to power in april since monday more than sixty top army police and security personnel have all been arrested some accused of being behind a grenade attack on. more on those arrests on our website. where

you'll also find the day's top stories head to al-jazeera dot com. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. senators are proposing a ban on arms sales to saudi arabia over the murder of journalist. the support from members of both the democratic and republican parties and saudi arabia is seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder of journalist. riyadh insists crown prince mohammed bin had no knowledge of the operation and. sort of expectations and wants the suspects to be extradited and tried in turkey the british prime minister to resign may stand firm as politicians from her conservative party launch a bid to remove her from office it's in response to her draft divorce deal to

withdraw the united kingdom from the european union or exit hardliners say the deal makes too many concessions to. my approach throughout has been to put the national interest first not of partisan interest and certainly not my own political interest i don't judge harshly those of my colleagues who seek to do the same but you reach a different conclusion they must do what they believe to be right just as i do i'm sorry that they've chosen to leave the government and i thank them for their service but i believe with every fiber of my being that the course i have set out is the right one for our country and all our people i believe that this is a deal which does deliver that which is in the national interest and i'm i going to see this through yes the death toll in california is wildfire has now climbed to sixty three as rescue workers the skiver more bodies more than six hundred people

are still missing as firefighters battle the state's deadliest fires in a century and one of the surviving leaders of the camaro rouge has been found guilty of genocide by united nations backed war crimes tribunal. a second in command of the cambodian regime forty years ago prosecutors argued he was an architect of an ideology that resulted in the deaths of almost a quarter of the population that's up to two million cambodians the former head of state. is also on trial right now those are the headlines on al-jazeera we will have more news for you coming up right after the stream. al jazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world when all the cameras are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront.

today a chicken all three stories we're following closely here on the stream california is burning wildfires continue to burn the southern part of the state and the death toll is rising and the passing of a real life superhero well take a look at the legacy of comic book writer stanley i mean they could be a lot of be looking for your comments on twitter and of course and our you tube shop first though to a story that we've been covering closely on al-jazeera the political crisis in sri lanka. yesterday in fighting and i'm going to be doing these things of emotion expressed no confidence in the president that i've seen as prime minister and it's not a. constitution that does the cabinet ministers not the. president my. procedure and we move on the president. as prime minister and appoint someone enjoys the

confidence of the house. there was chaos in parliament on thursday as lawmakers came to blows one day after legislators voted the prime minister out of office it has been several weeks of he full on october the twenty six question my three pilar siddhis sena fired prime minister run ill with missing and replaced him with mahinda rajapaksa a controversial former president mr center also dissolved the parliament and call for snap elections in january both men and now claim in the post of prime minister on tuesday in a dramatic intervention the supreme court overturned the president's decision and ordered a halt to election preparations or to help us unpack all of that from delhi india is emily small she is the south asia correspondent for the associated press and she recently returned from colombo welcome to the stream and really i want to start

with some dramatic scenes on my laptop tweets these are some pictures they appear to be screen grabs of people looking on t.v. and seeing these scenes here roll this scary scenes in parliament beings being thrown at the speaker here's another one also from row of journalists she tweets m.p.'s break out in fisticuffs in parliament so a member of our community writes this is unfortunate and what we witnessed in parliament today is frankly embarrassing government has come to a standstill simply because of the president's unwillingness to work with the current opposition of parliament so emily keeping in mind those spoto what happened in parliament on thursday. well essentially that was start with wednesday when and it was wreaking being the first time since this crisis sparked on october twenty sixth so it's been about three weeks and they met yesterday and immediately

a no confidence motion. floor and it passed in essentially meaning that. that the majority of pro-military and in sri lanka do not have in india russia pocs the former strongman president hu. very survive expected to be replaced the sitting prime minister in sri lanka a few weeks ago and so as these images show up today mr russia you men and said that did not recognize the outcome of that vote that it had done properly and you see both sides sort of scrambling for control of the mike and trying to get to be cripps argument who has become sort of. important figure in all of this drama in the last few weeks oh i'm so glad he's of a drama emily because just trying to keep up with who's who and the major motivations behind them feels like a

a major soap opera with different counties returning getting out losing that paul it's getting recall sed can you help us understand who the main player is just very briefly what do you think is motivating the actions right now. right yes so president right your panel a very senior obviously i said and he's been in office for just a few years and he was formerly in the cabinet former president russia. and those two sort of had a falling out serious enough decided to compete against him in the twenty fifteen election in russia perhaps is a very popular figure in sri lanka he oversaw the end decades long conflict with. her rebel group so it wasn't feared at all that serious senior would mitt and in fact he really was only able to prevail by forming a coalition with

a very unlikely partner who is there to sort of main character in this drama ronnell. who's ousted prime minister and the two of them are very ideologically different and have been sorted out in another its roots for a long time so while the ouster itself was unexpected. this was coming to a boil for a while i don't share with our audience just two tidbits of public opinion so unscientific poll here but these are people on twitter who wrote to us about this issue one is black mamba who writes as a sri lankan i am saddened to say this but we need intervention from more enlightened world powers to light up our dark nation there must be an intervention a madman is in charge of our military and police another person writes and this is mohammad on twitter who says the quicker sri lankans understand the importance of separation of powers the better we are on the brink of

a dictatorship so some strong sentiments there emily but what are people that you're talking to how are they feeling about this chaos and a stalemate. yes i mean actually i think this is a pew internet and. you know this and actively pistole on the sarah same decrees saying you know we're not sure that it's constitutional for you to just simply replace your minister in the way that he did or to dissolve the parliament which was why i was able to you know. but i think a lot of civil society people academics and sort of constitutional scholars and sri lanka. were really loud and by that development because they see it as democracy working and streamlined so.