this is bbc world news, i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: the death toll from california's wildfires jumps to 25, as more bodies are found north of the state capital. a moment of rememberance. the leaders of france and germany mark 100 years since the end of the first world war. it's too close to call in florida. officials order a recount following the mid—term elections. and the shopping frenzy that makes black friday seem more like a wet sunday. the shopaholics‘ singles day bonanza. hello. more bodies have been found in california, as the state continues to battle the latest wildfires. the death toll now stands at 25, with the town of paradise almost completely destroyed.

officials say the blaze is the state's most destructive in history, although some evacuation orders have been lifted allowing people to return to their properties. peter bowes has the latest from los angeles. the scale of the devastation is overwhelming. this is all that remains of paradise, a quiet retirement community to the north of sacramento. thousands and thousands of homes reduced to rubble. the charred remnants of household possessions unrecognisable in the ashes. the roads are strewn with burned—out vehicles where some people were overcome by the flames trying to escape. others made it, but onlyjust. woman: 0h...oh, my god. oh, my god. i am so scared right now. cat miaows

so terrified. in southern california, many more homes have been destroyed or damaged in two majorfires close to thousand oaks, the city were a gunman went on the rampage earlier in the week, killing 12 people in a bar. as all of you know, it's been a brutal hellish three days for the city of thousand oaks. we are still not where we need to be. i know that firefighters from various agencies, including our fire department in ventura county, have slept in the streets overnight to keep an eye on fires, embers, making sure that there are no additional homes burning or any other property. the authorities are still trying to assess how many homes have been destroyed here. some people have been allowed to return to their neighbourhoods, often not prepared for what they are going to find. there was a house that they took all the motorcycles out but the house made it so i was just coming up to see my neighbours

and i didn't realise my house had gone too! the city of malibu, popular with celebrities, has also been badly hit. it's completely evacuated now and the authorities say they're having to deal with looters who've attempted to steal valuables from abandoned homes. there has been a lull in the strong winds which have been fanning the flames but they're forecast to pick up speed again and may last until tuesday. this statewide emergency is far from over. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. jeremy kriss escaped from the city of chico. a lot of people having to leave their homes, like jeremy. he told me it has been completely destroyed. yes, we were actually evacuated from our home, a rather frightening situation to have chico police department found on your door and say three words, which was "get out now." have you ever experienced

anything like this before, the fires in the flames, the viciousness of the flames? unfortunately, as californians, we are getting used to this now and most people say fire season is a few months, but now it is all year and just this last summer, the community 1.5 hours to the north of us, reading, california, had one of the biggest fires and we know many families, lots of friends of there and we know people who lost loved ones and lost their homes so unfortunately, yes, we are aware and we know this is the reality. i believe you have been evacuated a couple of times now. but had to move, as the danger has followed you. what is it like to actually have to leave your home? what kind of things did you think you might need to take,

given you had such as short space of time? i thought i would be readyjust in case and those of us in chico didn't think it would come down the buttes into town so all i really grabbed was our family photo albums and i threw those into my car and i called a family friend and i asked her, i said, "i am being evacuated, i have to run right now" and she said, "come here right now." now you've moved on to petaluma, some miles away, and i believe the smoke is still bad? have you heard anything about your actual neighbourhood in terms of how things are going? yes, once the new our home was ok at that point, we wanted to get west and we thought we could get out of the smoke because it is beyond unhealthy

levels so we are beyond 145 miles due west, over by san francisco in the smoke is almost as bad here, schools have been cancelled here and all we've heard from our neighbourhood is the fire is changed course, and it is heading down to the direction of butte county. and i believe there are people who are volunteering, getting involved and in fact, my understanding is that you've been concerned about potential looting. so you've tried to work with the community around that? our butte county sheriff, in his press conference,

he said that driving through the shell which is all that is really left of paradise, he saw evidence of looting in one business so i didn't really sneak back but i was able to get back to my neighbourhood that it was a ghost town and there were two other neighbours there so we kind of drove around a little bitjust to make sure no one was creeping around the neighbourhood and then we joined most of our other community members and we were going into grocery stores and buying supplies because there are a lot of people worse off than i am. jeremy chris speaking to me earlier. he escaped the city of chico. —— jeremy kriss. we will continue to

cover those wildfires as they affect communities through the day. events continue to take place across the globe to mark 100 years since the signing of the armistice which ended the first world war. the french president, emmanuel macron, and the german chancellor, angela merkel, marked the centenary with a gesture of reconciliation, as james landale reports. 100 years ago, their nations were still at war. today, under a damp, grey sky, president macron of france and chancellor merkel of germany came to a forest clearing north of paris where the great war finally came to an end. it was here, in a secluded train carriage, that the armistice was agreed, ending hostilities across europe. in a replica of that carriage, the two leaders sat where the allied and german delegations had negotiated the agreement, committing their nations once again to peace. these images are all the more

poignant because the last german chancellor to walk these paths was adolf hitler, who came here to accept the surrender of france in world war ii, hoping to avenge the deal agreed here two decades before. after the armistice was signed, the allied delegation came back here to the elysee palace, and according to one account, theyjoined hands and danced ring a ringo‘ roses with the french prime minister. it was not quite so cheerful there today. president trump arrived in paris saying it had been insulting of mr macron to say europe needed protecting from the united states. but today, they put on smiles for the cameras and agreed europe should do more to share the burden of its defence. it's unfair to have the european security today being assured just by the united states, and we need a much better burden—sharing. i appreciate what you're saying about burden—sharing.

you know what my attitude's been. and we want a strong europe. it's very important to us to have a strong europe. after leaving the elysee, mr trump pulled out of a visit to a cemetery for american servicemen, and faced criticism when his officials blamed the rain. tonight, world leaders attended a dinner in paris ahead of tomorrow's armistice centenary. president macron wants to use the ceremony notjust to remember the dead but also to shine a light on the dangers that he believes nationalism can pose today. james landale, bbc news, paris. we'll have more on the armistace commemorations later in the programme. also if you head to our website, you'll find an interactive journey through world war one, detailing some of the experiences you might have faced during that period. just go to bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app. let's get some of the day's other news. the number of people now known to have died in the latest

outbreak of ebola in eastern congo has passed 200. a vaccination programme is underway, and 25,000 people have been innoculated. but the health minister says armed groups are harrassing the response teams. two medical workers have been killed. indonesia has called off the search for bodies from a plane that crashed nearly two weeks ago, killing all 189 people on board. the lion air flight plunged into the sea, just minutes after taking off from jakarta. the hunt for the missing cockpit voice recorder will continue. a balcony has collapsed during a demonstration in the southern french city of marseille, injuring three people. the incident occurred as protesters marched against the deaths of eight people who died when three adjacent buildings fell down. four days after the us mid—term elections, the state of florida has announced there will be a recount of votes in the race for both the senate, and for governor, with the results too close to call.

president trump was quick to react to the news, tweeting his opinion that it was an attempt to steal the elections, something the florida state authorities deny. republican candidate rick scott has already claimed victory in the senate race. but florida's would—be democratic governor, andrew gillum, said he fully supports the recount. let me say clearly, i am replacing my words of concession with an uncompromised and unapologetic call that we count every single vote. that we count every vote! and i say this recognising that my fate in this may or may not change. what i do know is that every single floridian who took time to go out to cast their vote, to participate in this process, deserve the comfort of knowing that in a democratic society and in this process, every vote will be counted. quentin kidd is a professor

of political science at christopher newport university in virginia. he explained why florida has a special set of electoral issues. florida is one of these states that is deadlocked when it comes to partisan politics. they're only slightly more republican than democrat, but yet there are more democratic registered voters. elections are so close and when you have really close elections like this, what happens is those mail—in ballots and absentee votes matter. in a normal election, one person wins by enough that the absentee and mail—in ballots don't make a difference, but here you have a situation where it is so close on election day that those mail—in and absentee ballots might make a difference, and that's why this is controversial, because it doesn't happen very often. we've seen president trump talk about fraud happening in florida. senator rick scott has even said, he has alluded to some

sort of fraud. are they correct? no, in my mind that's a bunch of politics. what's going on here is florida has this law that some other states have that says that the signature that's on file with your voter registration file has to match the signature on the envelope when you mail in your ballot. of course, there's a lot of human error involved in that. the person is looking at those two signatures and trying to determine whether they match. what's happened is democrats are doing with election officials over whether some of those signatures match or not, because if the signature doesn't match, the ballot is set aside and not counted. so there's an argument going on over whether signatures match or not, and that is what the current florida governor, the senate countedate, rick scott, is arguing is fraud, and that's what the president was alluding to. but it's really an argument over human decisions

over matching signatures. we're now seeing this recount happening, do you think it's going to change the outcome? it very well could. and i say that because the two counties where there are most controversial problems are broward county and palm beach county. those are two heavily democratic counties, so if there are a lot of absentee ballads and mail in ballots yet to be counted, if there are signatory disagreements that get decided by counting the ballot, that could mean more democratic ballots than republican ballots, and in both situations, these races have come down tojust a few thousand votes separating the republican who is leading right now and the democrat, who is behind. it very well could change the outcome is. the state is going to go to an automatic recount because the races are so close, and in that automatic recount a lot

of the ballots could be recounted and we could have a different outcome. quentin kidd talking about the florida recount. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: why the plight of the orangutan is too political. a british supermarket is banned from showing a tv ad about the dangers it faces. the bombastic establishment outsider donald trump has defied the pollsters to take the keys to the oval office. i feel great about the election results. i voted for him because i genuinely believe that he cares about the country. it's keeping the candidate's name always in the public eye that counts. success or failure depends not only on public display, but on the local campaign headquarters, and the heavy, routine work of their women volunteers. berliners from both east and west linked hands and danced round their liberated territory. and with nobody to stop them, it wasn't long before the first attempts were made to destroy

the structure itself. yasser arafat, who dominated the palestinian cause for so long, has died. the palestinian authority has declared a state of mourning. after 17 years of discussion, the result was greeted with an outburst ofjoy. women ministers, who'd long felt only grudgingly accepted among the ranks of clergy, suddenly felt welcomed. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: wildfires in northern california have killed at least 25 people, as they burn out of control. the leaders of france and germany have come together for a ceremony of remembrance in northern france to mark 100 years since the end of the first world war. let's stay with those commemorations. queen elizabeth has led members of the royal family in a special festival of remembrance at the royal albert hall in london,

ahead of events being held on armistice day. the dukes and duchesses of cambridge and sussex were also among the audience. sarah campbell has more. violin playing ‘hallelujah' by leonard cohen on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the 1918 armistice, the audience stood to give thanks to all of those who fought and died in the great war. the sounds and stories from conflicts past were played out. 100 years of the royal air force celebrated. watching, as she does every year, the queen, surrounded by members of herfamily. applause they came because country called. because they knew it had to be done.

that unless they went to fight, there could be no peace. trumpet plays the last post thousands of poppy petals, a silent tribute to all those who served and made the ultimate sacrifice. sarah campbell, bbc news. turkey says it has given saudi arabia and the western powers recordings relating to the murder of the saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi. president erdogan said the us, british, french and german authorities have all had a chance to listen to the tapes. alan johnston reports. the last moments of his life — jamal khashoggi entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. he would never re—emerge. the turkish media always said there were audio recordings of what the journalist went through, revealing how he was killed.

now turkey's president has confirmed that such potentially crucial evidence does indeed exist. and he's made it available to the world powers. translation: we gave the transcripts to saudi arabia, to americans, to germans, to french, to english, to all of them. all of them listened to these conversations. they know about it. there's no need to augment the reality of what happened here. the turks allege these were members of a saudi hit squad arriving in istanbul, preparing to carry out the murder. the saudis insist that the killing was done without the knowledge of crown prince mohammad bin salman. but the turks want more answers from him, where's the body?

and exactly who ordered the killing? by circulating the evidence in those audio recordings among the americans and europeans, the turks have worked to keep up the pressure on the saudis. and at their meeting in paris, president trump and president macron agreed that the kingdom needed to fully explain mr khashoggi's murder. alan johnston, bbc news. a petition to overturn a ban on a television advert by a british supermarket has now reached over 0.5 million signatures. the advert for the chain iceland features a cartoon orangutan and highlights the plight of their rainforest habitat. david campa nale reports. there's a rangtan in my bedroom and i don't what to do... iceland's christmas advert features a young orangutan in the bedroom of a girl, casting her belongings aside as it swings about. the orangutan, named rangtan, grasps hold of a bottle of shampoo

labelled ‘contains palm oil', and lets out a cry. so i told the naughty rangtan that she had to go away. narrated by actress emma thompson, the advert tells the story of rangtan‘s journey from forest to the little girl's bedroom, as palm oilfarmers ravage her habitat. there's a human in my forest and i don't know what to do... the images, from greenpeace, are bleak, but grab attention for iceland in a crowded christmas advertising season. they tell the story of how palm oil demand threatens the habitat of orangutans and iceland's commitment to no longer use palm oil in their own products. environmentalists point out that tv screens at christmas will be filled with adverts for products containing palm oil, such as cosmetics, mince pies and chocolates. palm oil production is a $40 billion global industry and provides employment for thousands of workers and small—scale producers. however, its production has been one of the biggest causes of deforestation in borneo in indonesia, the natural habitat of the orangutan.

oh, rangtan in my bedroom, now i do know what to do. i'll fight to save your home and i'll stop you feeling blue... in promoting the issue, the advert has been barred from television due to its potentially politicised message. iceland's managing director told the bbc he was very disappointed and surprised by the decision. instead, his company elected to share the video via social media, which is exempt. on twitter, the company says: "we want to share rangtan‘s story with you. will you help us share the story?" since then, it's received hundreds of thousands of views through social media, and arguably won unexpected attention for both its own brand and the fact palm oil is used in half of all goods found on supermarket shelves. david campanale, bbc news. singles day has got off to a record—breaking start, with early sales exceeding $1 billion. it was originally a chance for single people to celebrate

themselves, then the online giant alibaba saw a bigger opportunity. lebo diseko reports. the countdown is over and the world's biggest shopping event has begun. singles day brought in $1.44 billion in its first two minutes for the chinese e—commerce giant, a record opening. what originally began as an anti valentine's day, celebrating the unattached, has turned into a shopping extravaganza, with bigger sales than black friday and cyber monday put together. so spare a thought for the people who have to deliver the items bought during china's shopping fest. on an average day, this man says he delivers around 80 parcels, racing through the traffic in beijing. but on singles day, his workload is much, much higher. translation: normally i deliver about 80 goods a day. on november 11, it is about 120—130. no pain no gain, more goods

to deliver on november 11, more money, but surely i'll be more tired. the job of a delivery man is really hard. there have been fears that a slowdown in the chinese economy would lead to a drop in sales, but that doesn't seem to be the case so far. luckily for the delivery folk, the event lasts for just 2a hours, before things go back to normal. lebo diseko, bbc news. orego, we or ego, wejust or ego, we just want to remind or ego, wejust want to remind you to stay with us here on bbc world news because we will have all of our special armistice day commemorations and all those events happening across europe. —— before we go. that includes in france and belgium and president trump and president putin will be attending those commemorations as well, so do stay

with us you on bbc world news. —— here. hello there. the first half of the weekend was dominated by some really heavy showers. with hail and thunder as well, coupled with blue skies. some areas did rather better for blue skies than others, and it will be a very similar picture for the day ahead. we still have this huge area of low pressure driving our weather, so there are more showers forecast for today, which of course is armistice centenary day, and so there are likely to be some potentially very wet conditions for those out and about through the morning hours. now, the showers have been clearing from the north. it's a tad chilly across scotland and northern ireland, with a touch of frost, but look at the showers that have gathered further south and west. as we've gone through the night, those continue to gather and they will then move inland across wales, southern england, south—east, the midlands, the south—east

of england as well. some up through western england. hopefully less for northern ireland. if you're heading to the cenotaph through the first part of the morning, there could be quite a downpour, and again, the risk is there of thunder and lightning and some quite squally winds. it looks as if they should have cleared for 11 o'clock. but they will still be with this across the eastern side of england and again with showers, the devil is in the detail, so please do take something waterproof. similarly, we have got those showers for the north—west of england. close to northern ireland, across southern scotland. where we have that chilly start, it looks as if we will see the lion's share of the morning sunshine. many of us will see some sunshine as the day goes on. in fact, those showers clear out into the north sea and we'll continue to see that south—westerly wind blowing more into southern and western coasts, and for the second part of the day more for northern ireland, where during the day on saturday, it escaped largely dry and fine. temperatures very typical, as they were on saturday, just a little bit above average. with that low pressure still close on monday, we'll see further showers in the north and north—west,

and possibly a spell of rain very close by to southern and eastern counties of england, most likely kent and essex. so in between, hopefully we'll be afforded some drier weather, but still those showers are with us and the wind is from the south and west. so it's still relatively mild, but there will be some chilly spots around first thing, as we'll see this morning with a little bit of patchy mist, frost and fog as well. as for the remainder of this week, that low pressure starts to move away and the high pressure does start to have an influence, not for a while, not through tuesday and wednesday but beyond that, it looks as if that high pressure will settle the weather down. we will see drier days and chillier nights potentially. the big issue may well become foggy mornings. as ever, we'll keep you updated. this is bbc news, the headlines: at least 25 people have died in california wildfires as efforts are stepped up to tackle the devastating blazes during a short window of calmer weather. the fires have ravaged a path of destruction across the state, forcing 250,000 people to flee their homes. the leaders of france and germany have attended a ceremony in northern france to mark the end of the first world war one

hundred years ago. the main ceremony at the arc de triomphe on sunday will be attended by world leaders including presidents trump and putin. four days after polls for the us midterm elections closed, the authorities in florida have announced a recount. votes for the senate and state governor positions are neck and neck between the republican and democrat candidates. president trump says it's an attempt to steal the elections. now on bbc news, inside out.