rabia will probably demand some changes be made work oh sure still we don't know all right good to speak you new as always rami koori in boston thanks very much our mohamed vaal has more now on the turkish reaction to what trump's been saying about the shoji case he is outside the saudi consulate in istanbul and we don't have any officer reaction here in turkey on the latest that has been discussed and said in washington particularly by president donald trump what we know from the what has been going on and discussed in turkey that your forty's here are feeling that now that this case has been taken to the highest circles in washington there is a sense of relief here in turkey because they have been. trying with the saudi authorities to do things that could lead to a conclusion like for instance handing the suspects to turkey to be tried on the soil where they had committed the crime or or also given information on the

whereabouts of the body none of that has been done by the saudis so now they are looking to washington to do more on this case to put more pressure on the saudis and there is as i said a sense of relief that the momentum has been created once again after a sense or a feeling during the last several days or weeks that the situation but the case could could die down and the world could forget about it but now they are expected here in turkey that something major could be done by way of a breakthrough in washington to determine who gave the order. to kill him. and probably bring a. bring this situation to a close very soon. all right plenty more ahead there on the news hour we'll be live from california where those trying to identify victims of wildfires face another challenge. britain's prime minister warning against attempts to topple over breaks it. and later in sport one of tennis is rising stars finishes the season on

a high and he's here with that. so all that still ahead but first yemen's hooty rebels say they are halting drone and miss our attacks against saudi arabia the u.a.e. and their yemeni allies there he's released a statement saying they're ready for a broader cease fire if the coalition quote wants peace much of the recent fighting has centered on the rebel controlled city of a day there where most of yemen's food and medicine passes through. everyone knows that when saudi arabia started its aggression against him and we did not respond for forty days we wanted to show who was doing what we wanted to make sure saudi arabia cannot find justification if we respond to back where we were four years after the saudi aggression and after we started using missile attacks

and we started to target saudi forces near the border saudi arabia is now portraying its aggression on yemen as if it is just a response to our border attacks therefore today steve imes to once again clarify our position we also announce that we are ready to stop all operations at all fronts to show the world who is doing what and to give peace a chance we want to prove to the world that we want peace but i'm one of the has been monitoring the conflict in yemen for us from to putin he joins us live from there now some what exactly does this mean how significant is it. well very significant house in what it simply means is that the parties in the conflict in yemen are inching closer to holding peace talks peace talks that are now slated to happen before the end of the year in sweden holds the official say

that they made these concession world responding to a request from the un special envoy to yemen martin griffiths who had pleaded with them to cease fire early on in the week they had rejected calls coming from the sodium but out to coalition force ceasefire saying that this was nothing short of a ploy to have the groups that are in the coalition all being supported by the coalition to regroup and rearm of course this will come as a relief to the hundreds of thousands of people who are still trapped in the city of hit the people who have been preparing themselves and prepping for bracing themselves for more conflict happening in their midst but what guarantees are there that this plan for talks won't fail like it did in september.

well for the first time hossam we're seeing the international community singing from the same hymn sheet france britain the united states and even russia is now calling for a cease fire and to the conflict in the yemen and there's been exulting so much pressure on so did it and the united arab emirates of course who are the ones who are in control when it comes to the conflict in the yemen so sweden has agreed to host the talks with the whole thing is now agreeing to ceasefire it seems as if the stage is set for the peace talks to be held but again the suspicion between the two groups is really really big and it will take quite a while for the ice to be broken for them to agree or of anything tangible however the end result of the united nations special envoy martin gives griffiths wants to

see is some sort of another in judgment that will see yemen in peace and a transitional government all right mohammed atta live for us in djibouti. saying he is a journalist and the affairs analyst he doesn't believe the saudis will accept the who tees off. ahmed and i didn't really have stocked up a lot in july out at the hole he has of course the stock of that tax in the coast of yemen and i was well stocked at that on their own ships like so he was just in that seat but he said that the saudi actually did not. accept it this is this piece and they could do that on the day that i know and i believe that the saudi will not actually stole a lot when young man because that kind of i will sit around and not from the

south and east so i think that they might think that they have a chance to take what is one of the so in that example to say that we have stock our operation on a day like to cut this up by take us at least by supplement that master and me but for the so it will stop at all or on yemen and i think they cannot actually hike if they continue at that and in yemen thought well if you want is like that then i give it a chance to the saudi. that they really want peace in the end i don't think that the soul of the will actually accept it because many times and hold it has of similar peace plan and still this are the it not to get access to. all member countries of the gulf cooperation council are expected to attend the summit in the saudi capital in january that's according to kuwait deputy foreign

minister who says it is a gesture of optimism towards thawing relations with cotton kuwait has been a mediator in saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind and none g.c.c. member egypt put a blockade against qatar in june last year they accused of promoting terrorism a charge it denies. israel's prime minister says he hopes his coalition partners will show responsibility and not bring down the government late on sunday benjamin netanyahu held talks to try and save his coalition which currently has a one seat majority in parliament his government was thrown into chaos when hardline defense minister avigdor lieberman resigned on wednesday over a cease fire agreement with all groups in gaza stephanie decker is in west jerusalem with the latest. a very confident benjamin netanyahu addressing the israeli public saying that he would be assuming the post of the defense minister but also saying that that decision that he took when it came to

a cease fire with hamas was the right one it was a difficult one but he said that the israeli public didn't know all the details of why these decisions are taken basically responding to the criticism that he's been getting from ministers in his government of course of the resignation of abu during even also criticism from the education minister now actually bennett saying that he's gone soft calling this a left wing government so this was really a message to the israeli public to say keep your confidence in me i am still what is known as a many israeli seen him as mr security and i've done this for the security of the state of israel it is of course very much also political back and forth we are expecting to hear a press conference now just recently announced tomorrow morning that is from naftali bennett to see whether he'll be pulling out of this government if he does then it will collapse in early elections will be called that hasn't happened at the

moment so that we're going to have to watch monday morning how things unfold people tell you that nationally on who was keen on early elections also because he's facing corruption allegations but not under these circumstances not when it comes to gaza so i think we're going to have to wait and see how this plays out in the next couple of days but. many people will tell you even though this was perhaps an unpopular decision the ceasefire with hamas after firing four hundred sixty rockets at israel could we'll tell you when it comes to the polls he remains a popular prime minister and if there are new elections he more than likely will retain that post rescuers are ramping up efforts to identify victims of the california wildfires as rain is forecast for the region more than one thousand two hundred people remain unaccounted for and at least seventy six people have been killed in northern california if the rain is heavy it could hurt efforts to find and identify human remains of course the salumi is live for us now from the city of

chico in northern california so what is tell us a little bit about the situation there right now and what it's like for people dealing with all of this. yes well that rain could actually help with fire suppression efforts that's the good news but as you mentioned it could hinder the search for remains it could also cause flooding and mudslides in the deforested areas that something else that officials are concerned about insults a concern for people who are now living outdoors you may see behind me a number of tents people have set up makeshift camps in many areas to ride out this period where they feel they can find more permanent housing we're going to talk to someone from chico the city of chico public information officer betsy totten is here chico neighbors with paradise where so many people have been displaced you've had so many evacuees come to your city how are you dealing with this we're dealing

with it because we are the city of chico and our residents are amazing and we're just coming together in every single day every single hour we have new plans we're working with as many partner agencies as we possibly can to just find places for these folks and folks all over the place to go you there's been a lot of reports and rumors going around that people are going to be forced to move from this location is that the case that's not true and i want to thank you for actually clearing up these rumors we are. in support of the volunteers that put up the shelter to do it to encourage these people out because these rains are coming you've been her overnight you know how cold it's getting this is a flood plain behind us and you can kind of see it this is going to fill with about that much water so we obviously don't want our residents and we consider paradise

residents our residents now we don't want our residents living in water in thirty two degree temperatures that's just not safe yeah i know you've been dealing with a lot of the short term issues just getting people shelter and food and so on what are some of the challenges you face that we may not think about and especially as you move forward but also you know what kinds of issues are you seeing that you have to deal with the biggest issue we're seeing is we basically took on fifty thousand extra people in our town is roughly one hundred thousand between ninety five one hundred thousand impending if our students are here so we have a housing crisis we do so that's been the short term problem we've been seeing we've had to open up shelters and other counties which we are providing transportation to other counties but in the long run we're working with developing places and finding places that we can get those spots get temporary shelter in and have these people go and that that's very close to happening right so thank

you so much betsy for joining us today and all of the work i know we've seen so many volunteers so many city officials out here trying to make sure that people are really taken care of it's actually been quite a heartwarming to see people from neighboring communities just show up delivering water blankets whatever people need but the long term issues are quite serious the federal emergency management agency is in the area they're registering people for long term housing assistance and funding but as betsy mentioned there's a housing shortage so finding those places for people to live is is going to be a challenge another challenge that. you've been seeing health issues arising among evacuees i should also point out that paradise is a lower income neighborhood the median income in paradise where a lot of people were affected is half that of the state less than half of the state income so there's a lot of retirees there are a lot of people on fixed incomes a lot of people with medical issues and they are now moving into shelters in some

of those medical concerns are being of exacerbated there's been outbreaks of neuro norovirus and gastrointestinal problems are a whole host of problems that people are dealing with here but certainly a strong sense of community spirit moving forward and i hope that those wildfires will be under control soon all right kristen salumi live for us there in chico california thanks christine britain's prime minister says attempts to remove her from power will be pointless and risk delaying breaks in negotiations to recent days critics are urging her to return to brussels to demand more concessions for drafty to leave the european union conservative party opponents are gathering support for a challenge to her leadership but it's not clear whether the forty eight letters of no confidence needed to trigger a vote have been sent a change of leadership at this point isn't going to make the negotiations uneasy and it's not going to change the parliamentary arithmetic what it will do what it

will do is bring in a degree of uncertainty that's uncertainty for people and their jobs what it will do is mean that is a risk that actually we delay the negotiations and that's a risk that wrecks it gets all frustrated sagna gago has more on this now from london. it's been a tough week the prime minister to resign may but she is standing her ground doubling down on the what she says is the best option for the u. k. to leave the european union how would draw a deal she says is the rights one for the country to choose meantime she confirms that she would be going to brussels in the coming days to meet with the european commission. to finalize those little details that have made this particular negotiation so broad's in the meantime there is still the issue of

all the opposing voices are within not just her government but her own party to get all those resignations that took place last week now there are a group of m.p.'s who are trying to collect enough letters to trigger off a vote of confidence in may they need to get forty eight of those letters and if that happens then that will go ahead and that will cause even more volatility within the government at this particular time i mean time for the opposition leader jeremy called when the head of the labor party came out and said that he was not happy with the wood drawled deal and that his government his party would be voting against it what he really wants however and what the leadership of been tentatively pushing towards is another general election over how much success they would have with that is debatable they have consistently been behind the conservative party by a few points jury this year but in terms of the other voices within his own party

about the possibility of second referendum a so-called people's vote he said that now was not the time to have but that could be an option quite possibly for the future. of the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan says he is hoping for a peace deal between the. afghan government by april. met with taliban officials for three days in qatar where the group has a political office the taliban spokesman said the meeting was aimed at renewing the peace process and ending u.s. military involvement taliban controlled large parts of afghanistan and frequently attack security forces and government targets are still ahead on the. central american asylum seekers now being forced to sleep on the streets in mexico . smiles but no agreement major economic. and later in sport. as world cup semifinals face each other again and this time

there's a different winner. hello there has developed now if any definitive line between cold waiting winter and warm what's going on for the south that's the line there and where these two come together usually get some sort of weather is nothing. spectacular he's alive three degrees which mark of it is now it's northern flight so it's warmed up in new york in washington only to ten to thirteen degrees only seventeen atlanta are safe in texas and doing much better but this is not really winter temperatures it was minus thirty quite clearly is that's where winter is probably going to stay but they bring a bit of cold weather across the bar on terry and possibly the northeast of the states a bit more snow in the hills of new hampshire new jersey even and even new york

with a hint of it coming through it's not the winter nothing like as bad as it was only about four days ago and here's a good story for you this cloud in southern california may well produce a decent amount of rain over course the bird scar as it now is to the south where we see in frequent showers and that's ranters recently a good amount of rain in bermuda this is a rather good line to follow back to what was also flooding rain in honduras not as bad as it was for the tension still then it moves into billy's as well of course is still there in costa rica. across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants' at all zero immigration but this is the one political topic anybody and everybody is discussing the far right is preparing

for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudiced some pride in hungary on al jazeera. or most memorable moments with al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the crowds in tahrir square talking. as. if something happens anywhere in the world al-jazeera is in place we're able to cover news like no other news organizations. were able to do it properly. and that is our strength .

again you're watching i just there are a minder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump says he hasn't listened to the recordings of the murder of saudi journalists. as they're too graphic the u.s. government is expected to release a report into the dissidents killing on choose that. yemen's hokie rebels say they're halting drone and missile attacks against saudi arabia the u.a.e. and a yemeni allies released a statement saying they're ready for a broad a ceasefire if the coalition quote wants peace. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has helped. ranch talks to save his government after one of his coalition partners withdrew last week it's left him with just a one seat majority in parliament. and more on the fallout from the murder of peter matthews is

a professor of political science at cypress college in california he was once a nominee of the democratic party for the u.s. congress and he joins us live now from los angeles thanks very much for being with us so earlier in the show we were highlighting the divisions within presidents trumps within president trumps republican party on the best way for the u.s. to. handle all of this and their dealings with saudi arabia what's the democratic party's position on this and are they speaking with one voice i believe the democratic party is definitely on the side of human rights and it's would definitely tell president trump pay attention what the cia is saying and deal accordingly based on american the image of the world the image is more the american those of protecting human rights and making sure that some if it's a government involved or a government official in this murder it which it looks very clearly it was someone

involved that's the highest level of the cia say it was bin solomon then there should be repercussions definite ones to stop this from happening again this is about freedom of press and the democracy and human rights a rule of law and the clearly looks like this has been violated and the u.s. republican party side is three of them senators took a very strong position that the president should actually make sure he deals with this and react accordingly i think democrats feel the same way many of them well as democrats now will now control the one house in the u.s. congress the house of representatives what sort of leverage does that now give them to force the president's hand here. it gives them a lot of leverage especially if they have some allies among the republicans such as senator paul rand and lindsey graham and bob corker the chair of the in the senate of the international affairs committee international committee of the senate he came out and said it points toward the crown prince been solomon and you know it's circumstantial evidence there was also a cia there was a mention of

a phone call that was intercepted that were between khalid who's the brother of bin solomon and because shoji in turkey to go ahead and go ahead on into the saudi consulate in order to get his papers for his marriage and that's circumstantial it was very strong go and so republicans like bob corker is saying this is pointing to him then i'm sure democrats a lot of allies among republicans take a very strong position once they come into office in january. and there's been a lot of talk about money i mean as far as where does this rank in in the democratic agenda right now as they take control of the house because there's been a lot of talk in the u.s. about what what the democrats plan to do. with their new power as far as investigating at all of his various. the way the administration ministration has handled a lot of things over the last two years where does the whole fallout of the rank among all of that. it's

a very prominent position because the question arises did the trunk administration it was it with the influence any way by personal relationships arrangement with saudi arabia for example the close cozy relationship between bin solomon and the question of kushner who is the son in law of the president and if that was in any way influential in when how president trump was responding or perhaps even the fact that president trump as the daughter got a charity a lot of money from sort of her charity the question of does private involvement in profit making and in relationships should not affect public public policy which is it should not affect the influence that in this case the democrats will try to find out what has the trump. people especially mr trump himself been doing in a private way that could influence public policy which is very untoward as far as democracy goes so i'm sure the democrats will certainly best to get a lot of trump's economic dealings there look at his tax returns they'll subpoena that and we have to see what has been going on exactly and if it's influencing american foreign policy in a negative way well one thing i will say that i add to this is that the saudis have

had this you know feeling they could do whatever they want basically and they went ahead and did things like you know kidnapped the beirut the prime minister of lebanon they boycotted actually put a you know a terrible economic blockade on qatar those kinds of actions were encouraged by the saudis doing impunity they can do whatever they want to because they have a friend in the white house and this has to be clarified and democrats are about to look into this very carefully in the house report i'm sure good to speak with peter matthews in los angeles. murder has prompted families of dissidents jailed in saudi arabia to raise their voice for justice they include a prominent saudi cleric who is awaiting his fate after the country's public prosecutor called for the death penalty. said a man was arrested a year ago his son has spoken to al jazeera has met he has sent on our front about the case. do you think they're serious about that that they would really execute a cleric as prominent as your father salma outer world do you think those who went

to the saudi consulate were serious to take the liar for the prominent journalist and veteran saudi. it's i mean it's the same mentality it's a pattern it didn't it did not start with my father did not start with it's a pattern that we have it with we have seen through the past one year and a half since the crown prince came to power they did everything in their power to just silence others to crackdown on dissent to just do impulses policy you say it's a power some might say yes it is a power and your father was arrested imprisoned published by the saudi authorities in the past who in the one nine hundred ninety s. when he was a quote unquote islamist rabble rouser his critics said many would say why he's

being presented with m.b.a.'s the saudi government under any prince or king has always taken a very dim view of people who oppose the government is so it's rotarian is always tyranny. trying to ask and demand political reform is never something that you should be punished for political reform that my father and other spoke for. is actually the solution is actually the path towards ability we'll come back to the political reform in a moment just to confirm many say your father was arrested in september twenty seventh because he refused to publish a tweet to his fourteen million followers at the request of the saudi government that supported the saudi led blockade of qatar which full disclosure owns this channel owns al-jazeera english is that true it's a trigger it's true because after he tweeted when he when he heard about the year he comes. between the qatar and saudi government he tweeted

a lot between their hearts for the better of their people few hours after that tweet he was arrested there was the trigger that's of course the direct reason that he was arrested in september two thousand seventy but there is a long yes yes history and relationship and you can watch the full interview on up front with mehdi hasan on monday at eight thirty g.m.t. here on al-jazeera. hundreds of people in the mexican border city of tijuana have been protesting against the arrival of migrants from central america who are trying to cross into the u.s. they're being sheltered at a sports complex in the city joins us now from want to so heidi what kind of reception have they received to do you want to. have them in the first days that they were here there were volunteers coming from tijuana who were helping the asylum seekers distributing food and clothing but

today the headline has been the other side protesters who are against the central american migrants have been protesting in front of the shelter now for a few hours in fact that's why these this line of police officers are trying to hold those protesters back the shelter is just about a block to my left and the protests of the people here are that they feel that their mexican government isn't properly registering the thousands of central american asylum seekers who have suddenly descended upon their city the mayor here has said that upwards of ten thousand maybe here within a week's time and that has some of these people fearful they followed social media that. some of those asylum seekers pushing you ask police barriers on their way toward the ironically when these protesters themselves marched upon the shelter trying to reach it in order to share their grievances directly with the silent

speakers they themselves tried to push past this police barrier in fact and there were some tense moments where violence seems imminent at this point it seems things have dissipated quite a bit inside the shelter it's a completely different atmosphere at the apex of the protest the women and children were quite worried they had the mothers were keeping their children close the fathers the men were kind of spread out towards the. barriers of the shelter itself they said they didn't want any trouble they weren't asking for violence but that if they had to defend themselves and their families they would this is the tension that these thousand plus asylum seekers dhea want in this shelter are now living in and it looks to be that they'll be trying to they'll be experience in this for many days if not weeks to come and you have a sense of the next steps for the city. right

now their major task is to wait and that is by order of the united states policy rather than allowing a person who steps foot on american soil to claim asylum which is sanctioned by international law instead the trumpet ministration has said only people who enter at an official port of entry qualified to apply for asylum so that narrows the path literally for these thousands of asylum seekers to take them because there is only one port of entry that is open to them and you want to only about thirty or so people are being allowed through a day of the thousands who are on a wait list and that's why asylum seekers are here waiting it could be as much as six months by the time the rest of the caravan arrives and there's not much more to do for them they're trying to look for work where they can otherwise they're trying to keep a low profile avoid scenes like this even though it's coming to them and justice.