barbara starr you're watching live from london also coming up seventy eight school students kidnapped in cameroon are freed but mystery surrounds who took them madagascan voted for a new leader to lift them out of poverty even though three of the front runners are former presidents. and france remembers the sacrifice of tens of thousands of african and asian soldiers who died in world war one. thank you for joining us we begin in the u.s. and that the vine siv midterm elections which have set the stage for the remaining two years of president trump's first term in office he's that cleared the results a tremendous success for the republicans and that's the spy the democrats winning back control of the house of representatives so far they have two hundred twenty one seats to the republicans one hundred and ninety eight as expected the republicans retain control of the senate rob reynolds reports. the voters have