smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world but with more than twelve thousand structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care. local officials say there isn't enough housing stock available. turkey's intelligence chief briefs u.s. senators on the murder as they discuss ways to penalize saudi arabia. although i maryam namazie and london you're with algis there are also coming up this hour yemen's warring sides signed a prisoner exchange deal as they begin talks in sweden but back home the fighting

and the suffering goes on in the stock market slide off to the u.s. in canada or the chief financial officer of chinese telecoms giant huawei. and social revolution how a change in facebook's algorithm helped france's yellow vests to mobilize. turkey's intelligence chief confidant has briefed a group of u.s. senators on turkey's investigation into the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi he's also met cia director gina hospital it comes amid growing pressure on the white house to take action over the killing a group of republican and democratic senators has met behind closed doors to discuss ways to penalize riyad this after a bipartisan resolution was introduced which holds saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon accountable for. let's get more now from in washington and chad are there any details on that briefing between the turkish intelligence chief and u.s.

senate says. well we've just been getting some more information from turkish sources who say that huck on freedom was on a priest scheduled visit to the united states to meet with his intelligence counterparts here in washington so that explains the meeting that we understood to have happened with gina hospital director of the cia we were told from our turkish sources that a range of issues were discussed including syria now according to those turkish sources a group of congresspeople requested an interview with. in order to discuss the case and that happens however we've reached out to various members of congress and we've yet to find anyone who's admitting to of how about meeting so perhaps we'll just have to wait for the leaks the leaks to come in but we do know that the senate foreign relations committee wasn't convened we do know some key members who've been particularly outspoken as far as we can tell have not met with this turkish intelligence official but turkish sources say meetings were held at

the request of members of congress cia director gene hospital as a great deal of work on the case hasn't she shops she's traveled to taki we know that she has listened to audiotapes any information then about what might have happened in the meeting between gina has and and how confident that the technician teligent chief. myrmidon we should stress that this meeting had been arranged before well before what wasn't apparently according to turkish rules wasn't arranged to discuss the shoji this was a meeting in which they were to discuss matters of mutual interests of geopolitical interests so we don't know what was discussed there meanwhile that we do know as you say the house briefed some members of the senate this week and that has led to that momentum continuing in congress to do something and we have three trucks on the way right now we have the next procedural vote and debate on invoking the war

powers resolution to end u.s. involvement in yemen at some point next week we know that members of both parties met in the senate to try and figure out some amendments to add to that war powers resolution in order to limit debate next week meanwhile there are things that may be happening in the foreign relations committee on sanctioning mom had been summoned as you mentioned personally for the killing of jamal khashoggi and some sort of arms embargo in saudi arabia so these are the three trucks that are currently underway in the senate or symbolic it has to be said but deeply symbolic in u.s. study relations but the house of representatives it seems is unlikely to take any of these things up so there are likely to become we're likely to end up on president desk all right thank you very much you have a tense you will the latest on that from washington and so as those efforts continue by u.s. senate says to bring about some sort of accountability in the khashoggi murder and colleagues in the house of representatives have been trying to take similar action out of the war in yemen democratic congressman says capitol hill is determined to act i think the show you opened up people's eyes to the brutality of the saudis

human rights practices and then you saw some of the reports from the united nations talking about a famine they could claim the lives of up to twelve to fourteen million yemenis that's on a unimaginable scale the worst famine in recent history in one nine hundred forty three in west bengal took three million. people and you're talking about twelve to fourteen million and most american lawmakers now understand that the basic issue is the bombing of the port of ho data that is not allowing food and medicine to get in to yemen and causing inflation so that even though the food and medicine may exist until you have a cease fire it's not being able to get in and there is outrage in the capitol hill to say at the very least we need a cease fire and we need to allow aid to get in the irony i mean newt could show game of course was killed partly because he was trying to bring yemen to the

world's attention and he was critical of m.b.a.'s and the saudis war in yemen that was his last column and it really is an irony that it finally has the world's attention in his death and that it took the washington post correspondent an american resident to call attention to lives being lost when children are being being been bombed for years and the conditions in yemen have been terrible for years but we have been morally blind to that suffering that has been unfortunate but i'm glad finally people are aware and i think the way we honor the show gay's death is to do something to help people in yemen and all the developments a former top aide to the saudi crown prince has been accused of seeing the torture of detained female activists earlier this year the ruling his news agency is reporting allegations that tani subjected at least four women to sexual harassment electrocution and logging as an unofficial holding facility in jeddah qahtani was

an advisor to mohamed and sunline until october when he was fined of the ledger of jamal khashoggi. well now talks are underway in sweden to end the catastrophic civil war that has devastated the arab world's poorest nation at stake the lives of millions of yemenis who've been pushed to the brink of starvation the warring sides have already agreed to swap prisoners they've also agreed to discuss reopening salas airport which is controlled by the who the rebels but has also been badly damaged by the saudi m. rotty coalition which is backing yemen's government un envoy martin griffiths wants to shore up the central bank to prop up yemen's battered economy the talks will also discuss ending a brutal siege of the century's old city of ties and facilitating the delivery of aid with the u.n. seeking to take control of the ports in the rebel held city of data which is a vital lifeline for millions most of yemen's food and medicine passes through there. takes

a look at the first day of these crucial talks in rimbaud sweden. it was a rare moment of agreement yemeni rivals in the region give friendly before the start of. this is the first time that sees two thousand and sixteen. u.n. envoy botton griffiths has praised a prisoner swap deal agreed between the two sides but the political process and the war will take time because institutions or groups. the fragmentation of the country . is enormously so we must work. before we lose control of the future of europe the earth is who control most of yemen said they were willing to make concessions hoping the talks in stockholm would lead to a comprehensive peace plan. we hope the other parts a serious this time the humanitarian and security situation require all of us to

come together and seek a solution we really wanted a zero the prisoners exchange deal is a small step forward in a complex political reality most of these government representatives live outside yemen that influence has why did it lined says the who things took over the capital in two thousand and fourteen but they remain determined there. must hand over their weapons before there is a final deal. twenty two sixteen and nothing more they should respect international community work they should surrender their nations and miss out that they're used to attack that the yemeni people and their own countries and that then that there will be no settlement no solution they should withdraw from this additional state would end the hand-bag institution of the states to the legitimate government the two parties remain divided over who should run the ports

of her data it's up vital lifeline for yemen's food imports who think who control the area say they are willing to let the united nations oversee operations of the port the saudi u.a.e. backed government warns if the talks fail it will resume an offensive to capture the city in the meantime eight agencies are hoping the talks make progress so they can deliver aid to millions of yemenis on the verge of. while the political divide remains the biggest obstacle to any breakthrough to the human conflict the international community insists the talks here in sweden are a crucial fortunately for the yemenis to end the war. the tunnel north of so-called meanwhile fighting is continuing in yemen despite those peace efforts underway in sweden at least seven who see rebels on one coalition fighter have been killed in

that province saudi and amorality backs forces are trying to push the who sees from the hills to the sat to south of the town of downed well the world food program has been speaking out speaking out about the situation yemen as well have said at least twenty million people in the country are facing food insecurity more than fifteen million of those are already in a crisis or emergency situation and in desperate need of food aid sixty five thousand are in what's classed as a food catastrophe or close to famine level mostly in conflict zones and then all across yemen one point eight million children are acutely mounir that includes nearly four hundred thousand is suffer from the most severe form of malnutrition this report is devastating to realize our worst fears that people are starving to death in yemen they need our help and we are on the ground doing everything we kid in fact that report is showing that the number of people all the break of starvation is doubly we plan to scale up to about twelve million people is fast as

we can depend upon the axis and the money that we get from people around the world so we need help and we need it now other was innocent families little girls and little boys are going to die. i'm moving to our other top story this hour canada's prime minister says his government has no involvement in the arrest of a top executive from chinese tech giant huawei the company's chief financial officer when joe was arrested in vancouver on saturday and faces extradition to the u.s. on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran the news pummel stock markets away ready nervous about increased tensions between the u.s. and china over trade adrian brown has more from beijing. four way is the biggest private company in china worth almost twenty seven billion dollars according to the firm's latest annual report it recently overtook apple to become the world's second largest smartphone maker. mongering joe is not just the company's chief financial

officer but daughter of the found a company statement says it's not aware of any wrongdoing by her the response from china's government has been swift and angry it says her human rights have been harmed once her immediate release and a reason for her wrist. going to hugh doherty go china has expressed our solemn position to canada and the us regarding the case china demands them to immediately clarified the reason for their arrest release the detainees and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the detainees. while way has been under scrutiny by governments in the united states and elsewhere over its links to china's ruling communist party and whether its operations pose a threat to national security the cia director gina has made clear where she stood joining a confirmation hearing in may would you purchase a walk away from her connect your phone or computer to a war we are the t.v.

network well senator as i mentioned i don't even have a social media account but i wouldn't i wouldn't use while away products among was arrested on the very day the leaders of china and the united states where agreeing to a ninety day truce in the trade war between the two countries given her high profile in china and the fact that mung is well politically connected there is one obvious question was president from where she was going to be arrested when he sat down with president xi jinping at that diplomatic dinner in one of stories on saturday and if not why not last year another chinese telecommunications company said he was fined one point two billion dollars in the united states over products it sold to iran and north korea but unlike that de holloway has not so far been formally accused of breaching u.s. exports sanctions adrian brown algis. beijing hallway is the planet's largest

supplier of telecommunications equipment as we were hearing there it's partly to eighty percent of the world's telecom companies but it's been plagued by control mysie the us is accused of working with the chinese government to spy on american citizens as well as violating sanctions imposed against iran while ways even spot fears about phone security is at it as it's at the cutting edge of the next generation of networks called five g. the u.s. u.k. new zealand and australia of either blocked all of the company's five g. operations because of security concerns well earlier i spoke to abigail grace from the center for new american security she doesn't believe lungs arrest was politically motivated is perhaps the white house might have had a pretty notification period a based on my own government experience but they certainly wouldn't have been involved in directing the sort of arrests which is a criminal offense as you know the department of justice and the white house are firewalled for very good reasons here in the u.s.

with our criminal justice system so i see this argument that miss monk's arrest as part of a u.s. attempt to ratchet up tensions in the trade war to be really faulty through the al jazeera live from london will still ahead for you the wife of one of the twenty four ukrainian service been seized by russian forces last month appeals for his return. and celebrations in rwanda as all charges are dropped against opposition politicians and what garra running against president can gummi. hello there it's very very hot across australia now that hot weather has already broken records in queensland and now the heat is spreading west so if you can see from our temperatures charles we've got some very dark red colors here over parts

of the northern territory and into the northern parts of western australia so that's where the worst of the heat wave is but those red colors also extend all the way down towards the southeast and for many of us in adelaide and melbourne it's very very hot at the moment that change though as we head into saturday so we'll see more in the way of cloud low its way across us and the temperatures will drop as well from this time just around twenty seven here in quezon there around the coast watch out for the showers there because some of them will be very very heavy with some fun during lightning mixed in as well the new zealand also had some pretty stormy weather recently too but that is finally beginning to fade just the remnants of it over us at the moment that moves away as we head into friday it should be dry and brighter and fairly warm as well clint up to around nineteen degrees on friday and twenty one by the time we get to saturday if we had up towards the northern parts of asia is very different here it's very cold and there's an awful lot of snow around to look at these great wintery mass making its way into japan and for the western parts it does look pretty wintery even as we

head into saturday. in nepal poverty leaves children vulnerable and at risk but sometimes those who say they get home because the most harm one of many shines a light on predators in the avian strain. on al-jazeera. u.n. report is given renewed the following to get its climate change over with threats like sea level rise at this year's climate talks in poland and the introduction community see the opportunity to take concerted action starting with al-jazeera the latest from the front lines of the current crisis from the cold fronts itself.

welcome back just want to bring you up to date with our top stories now turkey's intelligence chief is brief u.s. senators on turkey's investigation into the murder of saudi jonas jamal khashoggi group of republicans and democrats have also met to discuss ways to penalize riyadh yemen's who see rebels are holding peace talks with representatives of the saudi backed government they have signed a prisoner swap deal but the u.n. also wants on the airport to reopen and a cease fire in the battleground city of data and canada's prime minister says his government had no involvement in the arrest of chinese tech giant while ways chief financial officer joe is facing extra extradition to the u.s. from canada on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran well in all the developments iran's foreign minister is blaming what he called foreign backed terrorists for an attack that's killed at least four police officers in southern iran at least forty two others were injured in these which targeted a police had courses the explosion which was followed by gunfire happened in the

port city of bahar an armed group called and sorry for khan has claimed responsibility for the attack. a case has been brought against south sudan's government at the u.n. in geneva recusing it of complicity in the rape of thousands of women during the civil war the case is built around thirty women and girls assaulted by the sudan people's liberation army rebel group that became south sudan's military unpresidential god the victims ranging from twelve to twenty seven years old and provided detailed accounts of mass rape and sexual slavery the nonprofit group legal action worldwide says the testimonies show a systematic policy of sexual violence towards civilians and rape is being used as a weapon of war south sudan is the world's youngest nation but it's been at war for much of the time since its independence from sudan in two thousand and eleven well antonia movie is the executive director of legal action worldwide which brought

this case to the united nations she's saying that south sudan's government needs to be held accountable there hasn't been any cases been taken against the government since the conflict began in two thousand and thirteen which is shocking considering tens of thousands of women and girls have been subjected to brutal sexual violence we're representing thirty which is just a drop in the ocean and we're hoping that the strength courage and conviction that they have had to come forward will encourage other women and girls to come forward and also make a complaint against the government the u.n. general assembly has just failed to pass a resolution condemning some us palestinians in gaza protesting against the resolution which a senior hamas official said and to criminalize the palestinian resistance the measure focused on rocket attacks into israel by the armed group and called for an end to the violence. the wife of a ukrainian intelligence officer held captive by russia as appealed to the russian president vladimir putin for his release

a city soroka was one of twenty three servicemen captured after three ukrainian boats were fired upon in the black sea last month last is accused of orchestrating the clash and says the boats were in russian waters under simmons has this exclusive report from a desa this two year old boy wants to know why his father. doesn't come home anymore the two were inseparable until left for work two weeks ago marks a rochas mother. didn't know where his father had gone but it was twenty four hours before she found out he beat it see who was injured and captured by the russians jenna i don't want to even think about him going to jail i hope there are reasonable people that can help us get out of this situation and survive this ordeal this torture that's my only hope i don't want to think about him standing trial. if you are permissive through. what would be here i would ask

putin don't explain to me where my husband is try to explain it to my son why is he running towards the door waiting for his daddy why after each phone call he hopes his daddy is calling him let him try to explain to a two year old child why his father is so far away from his family. irina's husband has worked for ukraine security services the s.b.u. for the past three years he's never divulge the exact nature of his work she fears that he's in more danger than the rest of the men because of his status as a counter intelligence officer. vassily is reported to have a serious on more hand injury and is in a medical unit with a moscow detention center his father has had access to intelligence reports saying he's been heavily drugged as part of his interrogation from a booklet in form of closure of the latest information is that the security

services are using sic a tropic substances on the captured officers including my son i urge russian officers if you still have a drop of dignity of honor stop using the prisoners of war. back at the family home in reno soroka says it seems as if time is standing still. i can hold on and keep a grip on things only because i'm looking off to my son i feel like i'm living in a nightmare and i called my cop i've lost touch with reality i don't know what day it's here. and i'm like the politicians irina's says it's pointless laying the blame on any war i'm drew simmons al-jazeera adesa ukraine. as climate negotiations from around the world gather in poland to try to strengthen measures to limit carbon emissions united states has just made it easier to open new coal fired plants the trouble ministration is roll back

a rock obama era regulation designed to reduce carbon emissions coal mine is happy about it of our mentalists christensen in the reports. it was a regulation aiming to limit climate change that any newly built coal plant must capture its own carbon emissions now the environmental protection agency says it's gone they knew that the technology was not adequately demonstrated which is what is required under the law our proposal will replace those honest untenable requirements with high achievable standards that are rooted in reality the announcement that was sought by the coal industry was made by a man who used to work for the coal industry and praised by the senate majority leader from kentucky. coal farmers throughout kentucky upload the troubled miniature ocean there's runaway regulation news to be rolled back in place with more reasonable tubal sort of standard cold reserve

a level playing field and that's what this white of the frog to of all the moves by the e.p.a. is sure to be challenging for and under federal clean air laws the trump administration is already being sued by a coalition of states including new york for failing to protect residents from breathing in unhealthy smog pollution produced in nearby states the announcement comes as scientists from around the globe gather in poland to discuss climate change and warned that the earth is facing irreversible and catastrophic climate disruption if nations do not cut their emissions in half by twenty thirty the trumpet ministration argues that fewer regulations will help spur investment in cleaner coal technology but environmentalist disagree here there's an urgent need to address climate pollution. and we need all the solutions available power companies across the country have been deploying clean energy solutions and creating jobs and economic opportunity it's not

a time to be rolling back existing protections the miners of pennsylvania we're digging coal again even with president comes after is to bring back the industry at the opening of this new mine in pennsylvania coal consumption in the u.s. is at its lowest level since one thousand nine hundred seventy nine due to competition from natural gas gases cleaner burning and more affordable environmentalist warn that could change with ongoing deregulation christian salumi al-jazeera. well now to france where the prime minister is saying eighty nine thousand members of the security forces will be deployed across the country on saturday eight thousand of them in paris alone where more demonstrations are planned the eiffel tower will also close amid fears of another outbreak of violence in the capital some say the revolt could crush president hopes of reforming france david chase reports on how the yellow vest movement took off. it was the worst violence seen on the streets of central paris since the uprising in may one nine

hundred sixty eight schools of people were hurt and hundreds arrested in battles with riot police last saturday. it all began with a petition posted on facebook by this woman in may calling for a drop in fuel prices at the pumps a million hits and six months later she was live streaming to her followers driving to the first of the yellow vest protests in the event. and i know. we're streaming live lots of roads have been blocked by the police but i found it on the truck driver eric drew eg call for a national blockade against fuel prices on his facebook page it's now receive seventeen million hits but it's mark zuckerberg who is behind their success is an important chief executive of facebook introduced a new algorithm this year for the company's news feed with this update we will prioritize posts that spark conversations and meaningful interaction between people

. the result has been the internet gets flooded by the yellow best groups and pages from traditional media outlets are to get a look in and now that they have redraw from this. huge tax they realize that's not enough anymore so i think macro is paying big time on this of the glory of them because he makes the game how you game for him to play it was. who came up with the idea the yellow vests should become the symbol of the protest in a facebook video posted from the south of france it's received more than five million hits i hope something will change and fresh people will be motivated and go out traditional forms of journalism are taking a beating television reporters were booed and pushed away by demonstrators join the protests last week media academics say according to the demonstrators the real expressions of people can only be found on facebook and journalists are just

another elite who are out of touch with the voice of the matter. now students have joined the protests the demonstrations are gaining momentum at this high school north of the capital one hundred forty six of them were arrested by police after clashes and herded into a garden david chaytor al-jazeera paris. news from rwanda where the high court has dropped all charges against the opposition politician diana rigg are and her mother. wasn't was they celebrated with supporters after the verdict was announced the government and accused of forgery and inciting insurrection to challenging president paul kagame in last year's election but a three judge panel says the challenge is baseless. i don't know why. you guys are like the way you. are you know that i'm sure you must say. that we were at the very peak. hour did at the beginning. of

the video that used to be the only not the. just took a look at the top stories this hour now the turkish intelligence chief confidant has briefed some u.s. senators on turkey's investigation into the murder of saudi jenna's jamal khashoggi a group of republican and democratic senators have also met behind closed doors to discuss ways of penalizing riyadh is growing pressure on the white house to hold the crown prince to account a bipartisan resolution has been introduced which holds mohamed on account of. yemen's who see rebels holding peace talks with representatives of the saudi backed government in sweden they've signed a prisoner swap deal but the u.n. also wants son an airport to reopen and a cease fire in the battleground city of data meanwhile the world food program is one that fifteen million people are in desperate need of food aid this report

is devastating to realize our worst fears that people are starving to death in yemen they need our help and we're on the ground doing everything we hear the fact that report is showing that the number of people all the break of starvation is doubly we plan to scale up to about twelve million people is fast as we can depend upon the axis and the money that we get from people around the world so we need help and we need it now other was innocent families little girls a little boys are going to die. and canada's prime minister says his government had no involvement in the arrest of chinese tech giant while ways chief financial officer long one joe is facing extradition to the u.s. from canada on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran china is demanding her release all those the top stories next how children in nepal of finding themselves at risk of abuse from foreign aid because that story coming up in one i want to

east china could be facing a debt iceberg that's according to us to be global the trumpet ministration have been insisting towards the saudis and other oil producers that they want to have more production to cool down the prices we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. on the streets of nepal young children live in poverty. foreigners drawn to their plight provide money or even set up charities. but police say some are abusing children instead of helping them. on this episode one is the best of gates how those meant to protect children can sometimes be their predators.

nestled in the shadow of the himalayan night a quiet village about two hours from the polls capital.