republicans one hundred and ninety eight as expected the republicans retain control of the senate rob reynolds reports. the voters have

faced criticism of a multi-million dollar payouts to top executives accused of sexual misconduct rob reynolds has the story. in cities around the world employees of google walked off their jobs in protest over the company's policies and practices on workplace sexual misconduct from its headquarters in silicon valley to new york washington and boston employees streamed out denouncing corporate culture they say tolerate arrest letting accused executives quietly walk away with buckets full of cash is standard and it really should not be the employees were angered by a new york times report that andy reuben the creator of google's android mobile phone software received a ninety million dollars severance package in two thousand and fourteen even after the company's own investigation found accusations of sexual harassment against him to be credible employees say sexism is right that google and allege executives acts with impunity setting high standards of beauty but i'd like to see him here at google's european headquarters in dublin employees showed solidarity with victims of harassment. protests

political agenda for more on this rob reynolds joins us live now from washington d.c. rob secretary of state mike pompei o has been speaking about the case to u.s. media what's he been saying well he's been trying to sort of thread the needle if you will bear in saying that the u.s. is demanding answers and accountability for those responsible for murdering jamal khashoggi but at the same time saying that the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia a relationship that dates back to the one nine hundred forty s. still has to be preserved here's what the secretary of state and others had to say earlier today. more than a month after jamal khashoggi killing at the saudi consulate in istanbul u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe had a mixed message punish the journalists killers but maintain business as usual in u.s. saudi relations we need to get to the bottom of it we need to find out who was responsible hold them accountable and do all of this john wall protecting the enormously important strategic interest of the united states maintains with the kingdom

to be hopeful about that when rob reynolds joins us live now from washington d.c. rob so what more to jamal khashoggi sons have to say well very emotional interview there are a look to show jews thirty three said that quote i really hope whatever happened wasn't painful or that it was quick the sons of jamal khashoggi appealing for the return of their father's body and also eulogizing him saying that they believe he was courageous man and an amazing father in the words of one of the sons and they also expressed some concerns that his life and his work and his legacy were being manipulated after his demise in the pursuit of the varying political agendas and rob said jim state might pump a also spoke about the case on sunday to u.s. media yes that's right the secretary of state was on several interview programs he addressed the iranian sanctions which are being reimposed and also the case in the u.s. response there it was kind of i would say dare and a mixed message. the saudis have acknowledged that this was a premeditated attack and the fact that we are fighting sti

least the house to try and thwart trump's agenda for the final two years of his four year term rob reynolds has more from washington d.c. . president trump isn't on the ballot in this midterm election but with polls predicting the democratic party was when control of at least one house of congress could find himself in the center of political fallout once the votes are counted if democrats take control of the house of representatives they would have the power to issue a flurry of subpoenas and launch a slew of investigations one level it's an embarrassment of riches because there are so many. scandals and. so many allegations of corruption swirling around the president including criminal investigations i think there's certainly going to be looking at his tax returns and frankly looking at any financial involvement that he has had in russia or financial talks financial deals with russia representative nancy pelosi who would likely become speaker in a democratic controlled house in january has described the trumpet ministration as one of brazen corruption cronyism and incompetence but senior

been criticized of a multi-million dollar payouts to top executives who face those accusations rob reynolds reports. in cities around the world employees of google walked off their jobs in protest over the company's policies and practices on workplace sexual misconduct from its headquarters in silicon valley to new york washington and boston employees streamed out denouncing the corporate culture they say tolerate store rassmann letting accused executives quietly walk away with buckets full of cash is standard and it really should not be the employees were angered by a new york times report that andy reuben the creator of google's android mobile phone software received a ninety million dollars severance package in two thousand and fourteen even after the company's own investigation found accusations of sexual harassment against him to be credible employees say sexism is right that google and allege executives acts with impunity setting high standards of beauty but i think to say here at google's european headquarters in dublin employees showed solidarity with victims of harassment protests

people have now died from the fire as hundreds of thousands have been forced to leave their homes rob reynolds has more from. at least two hundred thousand people in southern california have been evacuated as the wildfire there has doubled in size are far part of. its sweeny. two thousand firefighters are battling the blaze many homes have been burnt to the ground in northern california a separate huge wildfire killed a number of people as they tried to flee the town of paradise the town itself was virtually incinerated dozens of people are missing in that area and authorities fear the death toll may rise we've gone to lots of you know wild land fires over the years and this is one of the worst we have seen personally so. it's pretty horrific. the fires broke out on thursday and fanned by high winds quickly raged out of control towering clouds of smoke were visible from outer space. on a trip to france president donald trump tweeted as california burned blaming the state's liberal democratic government for poor forestry management he threatened to cut off federal funds for overseeing californi

the fires may take weeks to bring under control for those who live here it's already too late rob reynolds al-jazeera oak village california leadership elections have been held in rubble rebel controlled eastern ukraine critics say the votes in donetsk break a peace agreement signed three years ago the government in kiev sets it's an illegal attempt to. separatists who. is there for your campaign more than ten thousand people have been killed since the conflict began in two thousand and fourteen. and representatives from the polish government have been holding a joint march with far right groups to celebrate the country's independence the procession marks the first time polish officials will attend the so-called independence march the event in the past has featured racist anti immigrant homophobic and white supremacist slogans on wednesday the mayor of warsaw said he would ban the march for security concerns but the president confirmed it will go on . hello again the headlines on al-jazeera a commander of the military wing of hamas has been killed in an israeli raid in gaza six other pales

city of malibu have been ordered to leave their homes a state of emergency has also been declared rob reynolds is live for us now in the malibu and rob how would you describe conditions there. well this is the aftermath of a really really serious fire storm. you can see this landscape here has just been completely blasted it looks kind of like no man's land from the reports you were doing earlier on the first world war it's just. ash and last night it was embers and flames that were topping the top of the ridge here and i want to bring in our guest can heller a man who had a very close call last night can you live in that house right behind us here that driveway what happened last night well we watched the flames crest that ridge and come down an explosive fashion with embers flying in and and the wind just howling could you feel the heat you could feel the heat and feel the embers and so what happened next how did you save the house but we had been doing some prepared torrie . work in terms of hosing down the the garden areas in the trees and trying to keep it much water on the property you p

orders and the coastal community of malibu has been evacuated in a state of emergency declared rob reynolds joins us live now from malibu in california rob so just tell us where you are now and what you've been seeing on the ground. well you can see behind me a scene of total desolation the hillside that's just scorched and black and and turned to ashes i'm standing right on the edge of the pacific coast highway which normally is chock a block with traffic on a saturday afternoon but today it's just the emergency. workers the police officers and of course firefighters who are on the highway. the number of people as you mentioned. is who have been evacuated from this area and other towns in los angeles and ventura county has reached well over two hundred thousand there are said to be seventy thousand hollis's that are at risk as this fire is just torn through so many different communities at the moment derren the the the winds are calm but that second to last very long is the forecast is for the winds to pick up and remain strong in the coming days so that it's bad news for california firefi

two hundred people are missing and hundreds of homes have been destroyed in los angeles county rob reynolds from oprah village. when the fire ripped through these houses in village it didn't leave much small during wreckage burned out vehicles a charred exercise bike seventeen houses were completely destroyed but thankfully no lives were lost people here are deeply grateful to their firefighters it just flared up and it just went quick. and those firemen god bless them stood on my parents' deck here and fought off the fire from their house the state of california is under siege from north to south high winds and bone dry trees and brush have fueled deadly wildfires this week california has experienced the most devastated destructive fires that we've seen in its history over one hundred ninety six thousand acres burned. thousands of homes and thousands of lives lost everything depends on the wind a calm day can give firefighters a chance to contain the blazes but there are no calm days in the immediate forecast we have to keep understanding it better but we're in a new have normal and things

climate and more severe wildfires what california governor jerry brown called the new abnormal rob reynolds al-jazeera. the chinese president xi jinping says world growth is being overshadowed by protectionism speaking at the apec summit in papua new guinea he referred to the us china trade tensions and criticized president trump's america first policy. resorting to old practices such as protectionism unilateralism will not resolve problems but also adds the uncertainties to the global economy history tells us taking that road of confrontation whether in the form of a cold war open war or trade war will produce no win it under thomas has more from port moresby. the sea in apex stands for cooperation but there was less cooperation on display in the early speeches than the was regional competition particularly in the speeches a president g. of china and mike pence the vice president of the united states both those speeches were really a list of criticisms of the policies of the other country president g. was particularly focused on donald trump's tariff policies he said that trade wars only h

climate and more severe wildfires what california governor jerry brown calls the new abnormal rob reynolds al-jazeera. the chinese president hitting a u.s. trade tariffs and says protectionist actions are shortsighted and doomed to fail sheeting ping's been speaking in papua new guinea at the opening of the apec summit the twenty one members of the asia pacific economic cooperation aim to improve relations and trade but the world's two largest economies the u.s. and china are imposing sanctions on each other's exports so paul. resorting to old practices such as protectionism unilateral ism will not resolve problems but also adds the uncertainties to the global economy history tells us taking that road of confrontation whether in the form of a cold war open war or trade war will produce no when it. thomas has more from port moresby. the c. in apex stands for cooperation but there was less cooperation on display in the early speeches than the was regional competition particularly in the speeches of president g. of china and mike pence the vice president of the united states both those speech

the fires may take weeks to bring under control for those who live here it's already too late rob reynolds al-jazeera oak village california. all right go to the weather now his stuff has him let's first of all look at california and see what's in store for them over the next few days if we look at the satellite picture it certainly doesn't look like a pretty picture you got lots of clouds staying over in the pacific for california barely a cloud in the sky for many of us here though here are the wildfires that we've currently got with us around fourteen of them which is somewhat surprising given the time of year it's not hold here it's just very dry and very gusty and that's led to these massive wildfires now there is good news for northern california as we head through the next few days because the winds are easing today and so things should improve there however in the south things are very different with what these gusty winds that are going to pick up they can sense ana winds there very dry and they could be gusting up to one hundred ten kilometers per hour that's over the mountains b

ok thank you great relief reporting from rob reynolds west like village in southern california the fires there and as rob points out that is in addition to the ones we were talking about in northern california little bit of. two other news place in australia say they are treating an attack in melbourne as a terrorism incident one person was killed in a stabbing two others injured the lone attack was eventually shot by police after trying to stab them two and he has now been confirmed dead as well andrew thomas reports from australian bureau in sydney just up to four o'clock on a busy afternoon in the center of melbourne shopping district a full wheel drawing of the settlement those on the street watching in horror as a man who had already stopped by turns his knife on police. officers tried to subdue him with anything to hand one even pushes a shopping trolley to the extent. as he continues to attack was one officer pulls out of iraq. and shoots him once in the chest someone has driven a car that's exploded. in my house this is all on it was an attack witnessed by dozens of people. i was

has jumped to twenty three hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes rob reynolds has the latest now from malibu. at least two hundred thousand people in southern california have been evacuated as the wildfire there has doubled in size our far far it's been a seems an extreme. conditions that they say they've never seen him on. two thousand firefighters are battling the blaze many homes have been burnt to the ground in northern california a separate huge wildfire killed a number of people as they tried to flee the town of paradise the town itself was virtually incinerated dozens of people are missing in that area and authorities fear the death toll may rise we've gone to lots of you know wild land fires over the years and this is one of the worst we have seen personally so. it's pretty horrific. the fires broke out on thursday and fanned by high winds quickly raged out of control towering clouds of smoke were visible from outer space. on a trip to france president donald trump tweeted as california burned blaming the state's liberal democratic government for poor f

rob reynolds reports.in cities around the world employees of google walked off their jobs in protest over the company's policies and practices on workplace sexual misconduct from its headquarters in silicon valley to new york washington and boston employees streamed out denouncing corporate culture they say tolerate arrests most let any accused executives quietly walk away with buckets full of cash is standard and it really should not be the employees were angered by a new york times report that andy reuben the creator of google's android mobile phone software received a ninety million dollars severance package in two thousand and fourteen even after the company's own investigation found accusations of sexual harassment against him to be credible employees say sexism is right that google and allege executives acts with impunity setting high standards of beauty but i think to say here at google's european headquarters in dublin employees showed solidarity with victims of harassment protests also took place

climate and more severe wildfires what california governor jerry brown calls the new abnormal rob reynolds al-jazeera. it is time to recalibrate your weighing scales because the way scientists to find the exact mass of one kilogram is about to change. this is the grown k. a gold full size metal cylinder to be in the world's only true keel and since eight hundred eighty nine it's the basis for everything from your weight to how much fruit and veggie by the supermarket but it's led to cane with time and now experts gathered in verse i want to take a weight off the grill ok they've approved using the planck constant instead one of the most difficult and celebrated equations in the world of physics it means copies of the growing k. around the world will not have to be sent back to france for comparison with the original nations will now calculate an object's true weight using the scientific formula it will impact things that need ultra precise measurements like computing pharmaceuticals and even the study of climate change they have bathrooms scales went really affected the bucket reports now

on president donald trump's policies democrats are hoping to win back the majority in congress rob reynolds has more on this now from washington. president donald trump held two campaign rallies one in the state of montana where the democratic incumbent senator holds a thin lead over his republican opponent and the other in florida where both the senate and governor's races are too close to call president trump harped on familiar themes especially immigration border security and fear that criminals coming from abroad would menace americans president trump noted that he has recently sent thousands of u.s. troops to the u.s. mexican border we have our military now on the border. and i noticed all that beautiful barbed wire going up today were. used properly can be a beautiful sight were all of this is red meat for trump's base and therefore essential for the candidates that he's promoting but overall trump's approval rating is remarkably low by historical standards it's forty percent according to the most recent gallup poll and no president has had that low approval rating heading into a midt

political calculation and public relations surrounding the murder of jamal khashoggi there to rob reynolds there in washington d.c. rob thank you well more details have emerged about jamal khashoggi is murder at the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second. has the details from the turkish city. turkish security sources telling al-jazeera that when the body of the hotshots there was dismembered inside of a concert the key members of the death squad were scrambling to get a hold of his mobile phone because you'll find there was a as you station inside the consulate where the deaths were was not aware of is that your mouth was theirs about as he had handed over his mobile phones to his fiance had to. change his apparently they were trying to get whole force of some crucial information in from our mobile phone over the last two years the saudi government has been reaching out to the dissidents who live in exile all over the world convincing them with incentives to go back to saudi arabia sometimes they were sending family members to those dissidents warning them that if they don't go

powerful committees in the lower house after the opposition party secured a majority in the chamber rob reynolds wolf in washington d.c. who is a big day yesterday white house spin zone despite the midterm loss of the house to the democrats president donald trump declared victory citing republican gains in the senate they did focus on the senate and we had tremendous success with the senate democratic house leader nancy pelosi said the democrats victory was an opportunity to work together with drum will strive for bipartisanship we believe that we have a responsibility to seek common ground. well we can but we cannot we must stand aside from our control of the house gives democrats power to block much of the republican legislative agenda and launch investigations into trump's russian business dealings taxes and other ethical issues dogging several senior officials yes democrats are here to strengthen the institution in which we serve and not to have a board of rubber stamp. president shop. many democratic voters believe the house should begin impeachment proceedings against trump but the senate

and if you thought this election was intense emotional and divisive just wait for twenty twenty rob reynolds al-jazeera washington. other news now and in the past outtake his foreign minister who is in japan has been speaking about jamal khashoggi. and his response to questions about president a depth recent article in the washington post in which he said the orders to kill a journalist came from the highest levels the emphasize in the article that the instruction didn't come from king sam but it is also obvious that those fifteen people. didn't come to stumble to murder. themselves so they got instructions from somebody so we have to find out who gave this instructions this is the. simple question that we have put to saudi also we made it public that is ongoing investigations the saudis side proposed to have a joint working group we accepted that but this walking group should be a result oriented one. here and human rights council has been reviewing the actions of saudi arabia and us record on rights violations in addressing the council and restated the kingdom's position that it's investig

now jumped to twenty five hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes rob reynolds has. latest now from malibu. at least two hundred thousand people in southern california have been evacuated as the wildfire there has doubled in size our far far it's been a seems an extreme. conditions that they say they've never seen him on. two thousand firefighters are battling the blaze many homes have been burnt to the ground in northern california a separate huge wildfire killed a number of people as they tried to flee the town of paradise the town itself was virtually incinerated dozens of people are missing in that area and authorities fear the death toll may rise we've gone to lots of you know wild land fires over the years and this is one of the worst we have seen personally so. it's pretty horrific. the fires broke out on thursday and fanned by high winds quickly raged out of control towering clouds of smoke were visible from outer space. on a trip to france president donald trump tweeted as california burned blaming the state's liberal democratic government for poor fore

mandatory arbitration clauses in their contracts which prevent them from taking harassers to court rob reynolds al-jazeera well sensuous. as i'm seeking let's get a round up now the top stories on the u.s. secretary of state says sanctions are being prepared against saudis involved in the killing of jamal khashoggi saudi leaders of so far resisted international pressure to reveal who ordered the journalist murder aides to crown prince mohammed bin sandman are implicated in the saudi and iraqi coalition in yemen has targeted an air base in the capital sana'a it says the rebels used to launch missiles and drones it's sending more troops to retake the port city of data as the u.n. relaunches talks to end the war the government has cut foreign services in parts of pakistan an effort to stem protests over a blasphemy case they're demanding the government overturn the supreme court's decision to release a christian woman who was convicted of insulting islam in twenty ten she was acquitted on wednesday. the speaker has parliament says he will reconvene the house earlier than planned as he tries to end

it's now twenty five and hundreds of thousands more people have been forced to leave their homes rob reynolds and with the support now from. at least two hundred thousand people in southern california have been evacuated as the wildfire there has doubled in size our far far has been a seems the extreme. part conditions that they say they've never seen him on. two thousand firefighters are battling the blaze many homes have been burnt to the ground in northern california a separate huge wildfire killed a number of people as they tried to flee the town of paradise the town itself was virtually incinerated dozens of people are missing in that area and authorities fear the death toll may rise we've gone to lots of you know wild land fires over the years and this is one of the worst we have seen personally so. it's pretty horrific. the fires broke out on thursday and fanned by high winds quickly raged out of control towering clouds of smoke were visible from outer space. on a trip to france president donald trump tweeted as california burned blaming the state's liberal democratic government for po

going to be very tough and these california war wildfires may take a long time to die all right to rob reynolds there in malibu rob thank you national anthems largest party is mounting a legal challenge to president muster upon a service centers decision to dissolve parliament and hold snap elections on johnny the fifth series sent to announce the move late on friday night in its plunge the country further into political turmoil after he sent and replaced a prime minister last month but no found is reports from colombia. sacked ministers have complained to the elections chief about the snap. this is the legal act and there's no constitutional provision to call an election at the state and therefore we complain and. we had a discussion with the commission and they will act i go to the law and the constitution but the new government is defending the president saying he acted in keeping with the constitution proximate reason for these he's the concrete that the. legislature and executive was heading for. rituals promoted by the speaker of the house the ninety demand went to the constitution was pa

and if you thought this election was intense emotional and divisive just wait for twenty twenty rob reynolds al-jazeera washington. meanwhile facebook has brought one hundred fifteen user accounts just hours before u.s. voters head to the polls the decision was taken after the social media giant received a tip from u.s. law enforcement about suspicious behavior links to a foreign entity some accounts were focus on celebrities while others on political debate in a blog post facebook said it cannot determine that the stage where the accounts originated from a white house correspondent kimberly how has this update from washington. with the poll set to open in just hours in the united states there are reports of potential election meddling facebook putting out a notice saying that it was contacted by law enforcement because of your regular online activity linked to foreign entities facebook saying it took immediate action removing and blocking thirty facebook accounts eighty five instagram accounts the facebook administrators say that these accounts were in both the russian as well as french lan

would remain unchanged that's despite my pompei are demanding justice for their father's killers rob reynolds reports from washington. more than a month after jamal khashoggi killing at the saudi consulate in istanbul u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe had a mixed message punish the journalists killers but maintain business as usual in u.s. saudi relations we need to get to the bottom of it we need to find out who was responsible hold them accountable and do all of this john wall protecting the enormously important strategic interest of the united states maintains with the kingdom of saudi arabia pump a was cited saudi arabia's role as a counterweight to iran's influence and military power in the gulf and the middle east in general saudi arabia has been an important partner for the united states in attempting to change the behavior of the world's largest state sponsor of terror from that islamic republic one of the kingdom's wealthiest and most famous businessmen spoke to a u.s. television network pushing back against implications from turkey and some u.s. lawmakers that crown prince moham

the city of thousand oaks california that's about an hour and a half drive from los angeles our rob reynolds is gathering more information rob i do know that we are expecting some sort of police briefing but in the meantime what information have you been able to gather. well according to reports from senior server police saying that at least six people have been injured including one deputy sheriff. after shooting broke out at a thousand oaks bar that was packed with college students on wednesday night. he said that the inn at the borderline bar and grill was still fluids the public is being urged to stay away from the area and officials are not confirming whether or not there have been any fake tallaght he's one law enforcement official said that at least thirty shots been fired there is this venue is the country and western. bar and music vocation was college student night was advertised on social media for the place was reportedly very crowded with young people we've seen some. eyewitness accounts saying that a gunman entered the building and began firing at the ceiling but apparently als

live now to rob reynolds who is in thousand oaks for a says so rob i mean it's still less than twenty four hours since the shooting but what more do we know about the killer. well a buddy in long we know the bare bones that he was a twenty nine year old man that he was living with his mother not far from thousand oaks it's been described what he did last night burst into the bar and began shooting immediately and apparently took his own life we know that in the long served at least one term. of service in afghanistan want to or i should say the proper word he was in the marines from the from the two thousand and ten to two thousand and thirteen two thousand and eight to two thousand and thirteen scuse me. and he apparently was a changed person when he came home because we've been hearing stories from people who knew him when he was a high school student or a younger person before he went off to afghanistan and they said when he came home he was a different person with the a lot of hostility and anger issues you just heard the police officer in shihab rattansi story saying about how th

city of malibu been ordered to leave their homes and a state of emergency has also been declared rob reynolds is live for us in malibu and rob we've been speaking about firefighters struggling to contain the blazes which continue in the north and south of the state what are conditions like where you are. well where we are right now conditions are ok the can see the smoldering hillside behind me the wind has dropped down quite a bit and that's a very good thing for a wildfires and for the firefighters are trying to get a handle on things because that of course doesn't lead to this that that means the fire isn't spreading as rapidly as it was that was really racing over the past twenty four hours of this hillside behind me is we're standing right on the famous pacific coast highway though the fire came all the way down to the highway and embers were blowing over there right towards the ocean last night now i have to say this is about as far as we can go and technically that's because the quip when we used to broadcast to you live relies on cell phone no wireless signals and most of the power li

hundred fifty houses in los angeles county the coastal community of malibu has been evacuated rob reynolds is in malibu you can see behind me the aftermath of the wildfires that swept through this area of malibu california going straight down to the pacific ocean two hundred and fifty thousand people have been evacuated from this area and neighboring areas as the fire doubled in size seventy thousand houses are said to be at risk of burning and there are two thousand firefighters on the line trying to put out the blaze. at least twelve people have been killed in flash flooding caused by heavy rain across georgia and tourists are being forced to run for high ground in petra the kingdom's ancient city and one of its most popular destinations almost four thousand visitors in the area have been moved to safety dozens of people have been injured a landslide triggered by days of heavy rain in brazil has killed at least ten people rescuers are still searching for at least four people missing in the mud and debris outside the city of rio de janeiro eleven others have been pulled out alive resident

toll is now twenty five hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes rob reynoldshas more from from malibu. at least two hundred thousand people in southern california have been evacuated as the wildfire there has doubled in size our farm part of. its sweeny. park. they say they've never seen him on. two thousand firefighters are battling the blaze many homes have been burnt to the ground in northern california a separate huge wildfire killed a number of people as they tried to flee the town of paradise the town itself was virtually incinerated dozens of people are missing in that area and authorities fear the death toll may rise we've gone to lots of you know wild land fires over the years and this is one of the worst we have seen personally so. it's pretty horrific. the fires broke out on thursday and fanned by high winds quickly raged out of control towering clouds of smoke were visible from outer space. on a trip to france president donald trump tweeted as california burned blaming the state's liberal democratic government for poor forestry management he threat

state of california more than two hundred people are missing rob reynolds reports from up village. when the fire ripped through these houses in open village it didn't leave much small during wreckage burned out vehicles a charred exercise bike seventeen houses were completely destroyed but thankfully no lives were lost people here are deeply grateful to their firefighters it just flared up and just went quick and those firemen god bless them stood on my parents' deck here and fought off the fire from their house the state of california is under siege from north to south high winds and bone dry trees and brush have fueled deadly wildfires this week california has experienced the most devastating destructive fires that we've seen in its history over one hundred ninety six thousand acres burned. thousands of homes and dozens of lives lost everything depends on the wind a calm day can give firefighters a chance to contain the blazes but there are no calm days in the immediate forecast we have to keep understanding it better but we're in a new have normal and things. like this will be p

a factor in the fires he blamed it however on poor forest management all the details now with rob reynolds. climate change has come to california severe drought and santa ana winds a simple spark launches two fires that still have not been stopped the wind fueled flames moved so fast many had to drive through the fire to get out. this driver survived but many more did not trapped in traffic with the fire moving faster than they could an untold number have died calling for help that couldn't get there in time the number of people who are still looking for or an account for has increased to six hundred thirty one and this number increased by five hundred one people now hundreds of volunteers are doing disk through some work looking for the remains of those who couldn't make it out but experts say it's possible many will never be found my colleagues are finding profoundly degraded human remains the term of art they use as cream ains went to is the consequence of combustion at high temperature for the thousands who escaped now a waiting game of wonder and worry did their houses survive how are

states worst wildfire on record more than one thousand others are missing rob reynolds with the latest. climate change has come to california severe drought and santa ana winds a simple so far launches two fires that still have not been stopped the wind fueled flames moved so fast many had to drive through the fire to get out. this driver survived but many more did not trapped in traffic with the fire moving faster than they could an untold number have died calling for help that couldn't get there in time the number of people who are still looking for or and counting for has increased to six hundred thirty one and this number increased by five hundred one people now hundreds of volunteers are doing disc gruesome work looking for the remains of those who couldn't make it out but experts say it's possible many will never be found my colleagues are finding profoundly degraded human remains the term of art they use is creamy which is the consequence of combustion at high temperature for the thousands who escaped now a waiting game of wonder and worry did their houses survive how are their

days so unless the weather conditions improve california's wildfires may take a long time to die rob reynolds al-jazeera malibu california heavy rains led to flash flooding across the arabian peninsula jordan's been worst hit were twelve people have died paul brennan reports. the deluge came barreling down the valley with a thunderous roar sweeping away everything in its path. visitors expecting the serenity of petra's two thousand year old architecture had to scramble frantically to higher ground as the water raged beneath them around three and a half thousand tourists were in the area at the time but none were injured the police were running around the main street shouting up up up and going go up go up go up we were in the. temple so we were up we could see that. it was it was right. before taking with the biggest. thing three minutes or four minutes there were for all the overall petra's flood channels worked as intended the volume and intensity of a torrent four meters high test at the flood barriers to their limits numerous other areas were similarly affected the city of declared a stat

in climate and more severe wildfires what california governor jerry brown coal the new abnormal rob reynolds al-jazeera. now let's take you to france where a person has died after being struck by a car during fuel price protests dozens of other people have been injured across the country as demonstrators block drugs they've been threatening to block access to fuel depos in the country drivers blame a twenty percent rise in diesel prices this year on the government's so-called green texas president emanuel mccaughan says they're needed to count pollution let's go live out of paris need barca is with us steve what's what's happening where you are. wagering there's a very recognizable tying of pepper spray in the at us because there's been some very lively small scale clashes between some protesters and the police and just at the bottom of the shelves of these a the main artery that runs through the heart of the french capital the demonstrators who were behind me a few minutes ago have now moved a bit further down the road have been pockets of protest in the french capital surfacing similar tan

let's get more now from rob reynolds who is in washington we hear secretary of state might. trying to try to find a line between saying that there needs to be accountability for the murder of jamal khashoggi but also we need to preserve the relationship between washington and riyadh. that's right sort of a mixed message mara it's unclear how the secretary of state or the united states government as a whole would pursue accountability presumably he's talking about the people implicated in this killing being turned over to turkish authorities for justice to be administered but he wasn't specific on that it was specific that he wants to maintain the strategic relation business really business as usual in the relationship between the saudis and the united states in order to maintain a counterweight to iran but there are already some analysts who are saying that the intense focus in the case on saudi behavior is impeding the united states and trump administration's ability. to get other countries to go along with it in imposing sanctions reimposing sanctions on iran over its nucl

protesting the internet companies lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct rob reynolds reports. in cities around the world employees of google walked off their jobs in protest over the company's policies and practices on workplace sexual misconduct from its headquarters in silicon valley to new york washington and boston employees streamed out denouncing corporate culture they say tolerate arrest let any accused executives quietly walk away with buckets full of cash is standard and it really should not be the employees were angered by a new york times report that andy reuben the creator of google's android mobile phone software received a ninety million dollars severance package in two thousand and fourteen even after the company's own investigation found accusations of sexual harassment against him to be credible employees say sexism is right that google and allege executives acts with impunity setting high standards of beauty but i think to say here at google's european headquarters in dublin employees showed solidarity with victims of harassment protests also took pl

and if you thought this election was intense emotional and divisive just wait for twenty twenty rob reynolds al-jazeera washington. let's go live now to our white house correspondent she's in washington d.c. for us and can be a final day of campaigning and making the most of it attending rallies we're looking at live pictures from mystery where crowds waiting for him to attend there is really is one of the places he feels most comfortable in these kind of rallies. well he feels most comfortable in front of a crowd and this crowd particularly in the final hours as he kind of does what essentially says closing argument is something that the those attending are responding to it's almost as i've been watching these final few rallies so much like a rock concert there how it's being handed out people are waving with a lot of excitement it seems that they're always quite boisterous but this is particularly over the top i think what we can see laura from the early voting numbers already that this is going to be no ordinary congressional election typically americans are pretty apathetic they don't us

protesting the internet companies lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct rob reynolds reports. in cities around the world employees of google walked off their jobs in protest over the company's policies and practices and workplace sexual misconduct from its headquarters in silicon valley to new york washington and boston employees streamed out denouncing corporate culture they say tolerate sclerosis missed letting accused executives quietly walk away with buckets full of cash is standard and it really should not be the employees were angered by a new york times report that andy reuben the creator of google's android mobile phone software received a ninety million dollars severance package in two thousand and fourteen even after the company's own investigation found accusations of sexual harassment against him to be credible employees say sexism is right that google and allege executives acts with impunity setting high standards of beauty but i think to say here at google's european headquarters in dublin employees showed solidarity with victims of harassment protests a

days so unless the weather conditions improve california's wildfires may take a long time to die rob reynolds al-jazeera malibu california well heavy rains led to flash flooding across the arabian peninsula jordan's been hit with twelve people have been killed in the ancient city of petra aside to be closed for cleaning and tourists have been moved to safety o'brien reports. the deluge came barreling down the valley with a thunderous roar sweeping away everything in its path. visitors expecting the serenity of petra's two thousand year old architecture had to scramble frantically to higher ground as the water raged beneath them around three and a half thousand tourists were in the area at the time but none were injured police were running around the main street shouting up up up going up go up a co-op we were in. temple so we were up. the river was it was right. before taking with the biggest. thing three minutes or four minutes there were for all the overall petra's flood channels worked as intended the volume and intensity of a torrent four meters high tested the flood barriers to their lim

diplomacy threading a fine line with potentially vast consequences for the middle east rob reynolds al jazeera washington. now the u.s. will weigh impose economic sanctions on iran in just under two hours time we talk to its oil shipping and banking sectors all measures lifted under the two thousand and fifteen coming back to spite to iran's compliance with the agreement and sponsor anger in iran where thousands of demonstrators about thirty nine years since university students storms the u.s. embassy in iran in capital same reports from tehran. well i saw not having any common ground there may have been between iran and america seems to have been lost at a rally to mark the thirty ninth anniversary of the takeover of the us embassy iranians express their anger and frustration at a country they blame for their continued economic isolation i. was. i was. there was also the familiar contempt that has come to define iran's relationship with the united states the country's top soldier said economic warfare america's last attempt to defeat iran is not going to work and warned us president d

now jumped to twenty five hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes rob reynolds has.

protesting the internet companies lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct rob reynolds reports. in cities around the world employees of google walked off their jobs in protest over the company's policies and practices on workplace sexual misconduct from its headquarters in silicon valley to new york washington and boston employees streamed out denouncing corporate culture they say tolerate small rassmann letting accused executives quietly walk away with buckets full of cash is standard and it really should not be the employees were angered by a new york times report that andy reuben the creator of google's android mobile phone software received a ninety million dollars severance package in two thousand and fourteen even after the company's own investigation found accusations of sexual harassment against him to be credible employees say sexism is right that google and allege executives acts with impunity setting high standards of beauty but i think to some here at google's european headquarters in dublin employees showed solidarity with victims of harassment protests als

protesting the internet companies lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct rob reynolds reports. in cities around the world employees of google walked off their jobs in protest over the company's policies and practices on workplace sexual misconduct from its headquarters in silicon valley to new york washington and boston employees streamed out denouncing corporate culture they say tolerate arrest let any accused executives quietly walk away with buckets full of cash is standard and it really should not be the employees were angered by a new york times report that andy reuben the creator of google's android mobile phone software received a ninety million dollars severance package in two thousand and fourteen even after the company's own investigation found accusations of sexual harassment against him to be credible employees say sexism is right that google and allege executives acts with impunity setting high standards of beauty but i think to some here at google's european headquarters in dublin employees showed solidarity with victims of harassment protests also took p