to make up for its past now the have also been frequent rallies near the japanese embassy in south korea's capital seoul for that same reason but what do protesters and some of the comfort women alive today once exactly well the answer is an apology one they believe japan is yet to sin city offer and japanese prime minister shinzo be refuses to saying that the matter has already been discussed and settled so does japan still owe an apology and lets us know what you think has been by so much sorrow well you can get in touch with us want to hear from you about these stories send us your comments to any of our platforms as always on twitter just use the hashtag a.j. news grid our handle is a.j. english we're on facebook as well facebook dot com slash zero or send us a message on whatsapp or telegram plus nine seven four five zero one trip or one four nine or for a facebook live us

a bonus story about the cat man of l.a. poto mark world animal day. and still ahead on the newsgroup turkey summons a saudi envoy over the disappearance of a prominent journalist. i am. hello again it's good to have you back well here across parts of the parts of china we are looking at some very dry conditions across the region on the satellite image almost clear skies for many of you we're looking at up towards shanghai twenty three degrees now we will see some windy conditions as well because we do have a typhoon just off the coast and this is congress now it's making its way towards the north it is weakening but still on the edges of that we are still seeing those feeder boundaries and that will cause some rain showers across many parts of the coast and swell is down here towards taiwan where we do expect things to get

a little bit better but still quite cloudy across much of that area down here towards hong kong well thirty degrees for you so not looking too bad and also dry conditions well across much of india to the north we're looking at dry conditions for the south though unfortunately we are still seeing quite a bit of rain now the big problem over the next few days is we are watching a tropical storm winds down here just off the coast what that is going to be doing is bring some very heavy rain showers across carola over the next few days and that is potentially going to leave us with maybe two hundred to two hundred fifty millimeters of rain so flooding is going to be something we're going to be watching especially as we go towards the beginning of next week up here towards the north well quite dry and warm new delhi at about thirty four degrees and crutching about thirty six degrees for you. were. i have didn't get it almost my entire professional life

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some of the top stories trending on our website. at number one deal with india and that the threat of u.s. sanctions. trade deal trade relations with china. featuring prominently

the story we've been covering for the last couple of days saudi arabia giving its. responding to the controversy when he was left at the consulates in turkey and now the article there on russian relations with saudi arabia and the history of how far that goes back so. must see there on our web site the top trending stories at dot com. now germany israel agree that iran should never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons but the two nations defer on how to achieve that goal german chancellor angela merkel in jerusalem where she's meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who agreed that iran's military presence in syria and lebanon was a threat to israel. and there during anger merkel's

a visit palestinians school students had a message for saul is back with that or more. wall they certainly made it loud and clear on wednesday schoolchildren in the palestinian village of mar they helped placards in front of representative office of germany in the law now the banners read we're not sleeping and photos of angela merkel as well they held now they've been appealing to her to intervene against the demolition order of their homes and schools handed down by an israeli court now last month the european parliament described the order to make way for an illegal israeli settlement as a grave breach of international humanitarian law and this was the scene just a few hours ago in the village itself. oh. they sang traditional palestinian bedouin song about forty five families live it was the village itself was built by refugees in one thousand nine hundred fifty two only what later became the legal settlement of rafah

a domain and they've long complained of being attacked by the settlers there and harassed by israeli soldiers as well almost half of those living in the final are children. this is shift that you're seeing here she's a student at the local school and she's reading a poem she wrote about her own village as part of a sit in by local school staff and members of the palestinian fattah party the largest political parties there now the deadline given by the israeli court for the demolition was october first it hasn't happened yet but israeli plans israel rather plans on moving them to a rubbish dump now an m.p. from the u.k. has shown solidarity with hina by visiting it earlier today. two years ago i visited the community of qana lacma east of jerusalem in the area known as the one in the palestinian west bank we came with other labor m.p.'s because we were aware that the community here was a threat and demolition two years on i've chosen to come back because this

community this beautiful school that provides education not just the tuition of college but the palestinians from other towns and villages in the west bank is the threat of imminent demolition following an israeli supremum court order these people are no threat to anyone the education that's provided here is wonderful i've met with the children who want to grow up to be mechanics electricians the teachers who are really proud of the quality of education that they provide and they're worried they're afraid that any day now the bulldozers will roman and the school of the community here will be lost now i'm this international has several times called it a cruel blow and a war crime saying tamil demolishing palestinian homes to make way for israeli settlers violates the fourth geneva convention now final ahmad is in the west bank which international considers as illegally occupied by israel for the past fifty years and israel says palestinians home are written down because they're built

illegally botts building permits are nearly impossible for palestinians to obtain now let me know your thoughts you'll find me on twitter. has been by so much as imran khan has been following this story very closely for us here is his account on the collective will of the people of qana amore to confront israeli demolition you can find that in the reporter's notebook section on al-jazeera dot com. all right now turkey's foreign ministry has summoned saudi arabia's ambassador over the disappearance of a prominent saudi journalist saudi officials say. he disappeared after he left the consulate building in istanbul on tuesday but the turkish government says they believe he's still inside because he had been living in self-imposed exile in the u.s. while writing columns critical of the kingdom and its policies on the crown prince

mohammed bin said man of sin and a soldier has more on this from istanbul. saudi journalist does worry bots are still unknown however the saudi officials still repeat the same statement the latest official statement came from saudi consulate general through their twitter account later this afternoon saying that they have no idea about his disappearance and they're working in close coordination with the turkish authorities to find about the reasons of his disappearance but the latest awful statement from the turkish side was from presidential spokesperson brian cullen yesterday he said that they know that jamal khashoggi is inside saudi consulate building in istanbul and when we spoke to the turkish security is security sources in istanbul they told us that the sick there was no picture of. a getting out of the consulate building

according to c.c. cameras around a saudi consulate in istanbul that's why still turkish side believes that he is inside the building we know that turkish foreign minister is someone saudi ambassador in korea and talked about the reasons of his this appearance but again and the saudi side repeated the same thing that they have no idea about his whereabouts and he's not inside the building and the turkish foreign ministry says they are still in coordination with the saudi embassy and the talks are still ongoing but of course it's been more than twenty four hours that just fiance claimed his disappearance that's why according to turkish official records jamal khashoggi is the missing in turkey. i you can read this article by journalist bill law on our website he's written an opinion piece entitled i know jamal khashoggi personally and i fear for his safety gives more detail about the saudi journalist

background and why he and others like him have caught the attention of crown prince mohammed bin sandman you can find that on al jazeera dot com and the opinions that are taking a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world i saw no longer holds towns and cities but its fighters still operate in the desert regions around the iraq syria border iraq's military has launched another offensive to target eisel sleeper cells and pockets long after the group lost territory al jazeera got rare access to the vast unbar desert saladin jab reports from the border town of claim. even after i feel it's been defeated the safest way to get to the border between iraq and syria is by air this is about empty quarter to unbar desert which spans most of iraq's more than six hundred kilometer long border with syria isis fighters though still holed up here. and soon after we took

off this happened. the u.s. millipedes blackhawk helicopters flew through the altitude of the pilots didn't tell us what they were shooting at and we didn't see any moving targets they had planned on their failure four years ago on bar was their final destination if this caliphate did not work out which it did not a u.s. led coalition is still helping iraqi forces but it insists its role is to aid and assist and not engage in the fight. much of that comes in the shape of intelligence sharing and training iraqi soldiers and nuts of critical importance in hard to reach areas such as province iraq's open desert has valleys and dunes trying to create safe havens on the rough terrain let me tell you that now we have great knowledge of the desert and we have secured areas has launched multiple attacks in the past two months and killed at least seventeen iraqis including soldiers and shia militia fighters iraqi security officials insist that the operations are not

just a calm but a genuine effort to maintain security. will conduct attacks and dispose of forces in every area of iraq forces concentrated one busy part to another vacant area iraq wants to spend more than three million dollars to build a fence. and watchtowers to secure the border against were also known as. a geographic area across the border on the other side. this is very important. really for the iraqi security forces and for iraq to prevent. the fighting in syria and then coming into coming back into iraq. and to root out the coalition troops on one side of the border and the most democratic force on the other side.

forward operations inside iraq by the u.s. led coalition but the french artillery is hitting targets inside syria. the fighting has taken a major infrastructure and it's not over yet iraqis in remote parts see that security forces may control the daytime but the night still belongs. and the real challenge is to counter rising from regrouping in either side of the euphrates river osama bin. the iraq syria border. u.s. vice president mike pence is accusing china of trying to undermine the trumpet ministration a comes just a week off the us president alleged china was interfering in the upcoming midterm elections to help his democratic rivals beijing is employing a whole of government approach to advance its influence and benefit its interests it's employing this power in more proactive and coercive ways to interfere in the domestic policies of this country and interfere in the politics of the united

states the chinese communist party is rewarding or coercing american businesses movie studios universities think tanks scholars journalists and local state and federal officials and worst of all. china has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence american public opinion the two thousand and eighteen elections and the environment leading into the twenty twenty presidential elections to put it bluntly president trump's leadership is working and china wants a different american president of three evolutionary scientists whose work on enzymes and antibodies led to new drugs have won the nobel prize in chemistry hoff the million dollar prize will go to us for such a francis onil sixty two year old from california institute of technology is the

only the fifth woman ever to win the chemistry prize the other two whenas being on a full working on protein based antibodies to treat disease. now if you're watching us on facebook a brother tong a chinese man who. by live streaming his life to the world still to come on the news. hits back at allegations of sexual assault he denies raping a woman in las vegas nine years ago we'll speak to one of the journalists who covered the story that's coming up joe but first a check on the world. i

guess now right now doubt is making headlines but it's not for his work on the pitch josee itself hasn't thank you yes christiane i'm an elder is trying to carry on with life as normal despite facing an allegation of rape in the united states now this was the five time footballer of the year leaving the event his training ground on thursday he strongly denies the claims of katherine majorca who has filed a civil lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting her in las vegas nine years ago

on twitter renaldo said i firmly deny the accusations being issued against me right is an abominable crime that goes against everything that i am and believe in keene as i may be to clear my name i refuse to feed the media spectacle created by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense he then goes on my clear conscience will thereby allow me to whites with tranquility the results of any and all investigations and earlier this week on instagram we're now to dismiss the story as fake news. fake fake news is you want to you want to promote or buy my name it's normal they want they want to be famous to say and my name yeah but it's part of the job i'm up there man. well unrelated to the allegations rinaldo was left out of the

portugal national team to allow him to wrest the coach was also about the right allegations and is sticking by him. beginning much since really the incident that this is happened previously with other players and it's not a question in solidarity i know christiane every now and i well and i fully believe what he says and i know he is in my perspective would not carry out a crime at this kind i do not believe that he said that the if a las vegas police department has reopened its investigation into the alleged incident back in two thousand and nine but yoga claims that ronaldo sexually assaulted her at the las vegas palms results she signed a non-disclosure contract and agreed a three hundred seventy five thousand dollars settlement to keep quiet but her lawyers now claim the deal is not valid because she was and still is suffering from depression and anxiety related to the alleged attack they say she's also been inspired to come forward by the me to movement the. need to movement

was very important to cancer. bird surgeon to. consult with us and go forward in this case. i think she looks at that women who are involved in the two movements heroes well this story was first reported by german magazine der spiegel it's said to christophe into joins me now christoph what's your response first of all to rinaldo those tweets in that instagram video. well first of all thanks for having me the tweet spy christan a ronaldo in its core messes weren't really news they were into breaking news because since we since becoming the story in two thousand and seventeen ronaldo has always denied the allegations of rape made by catherine mayorga it happened through his lawyer spec in two thousand and seventeen that he strongly denied sexually assaulting her and he has been just following this up with now

a personal message from his twitter account yet take me back a little bit through how you magazine has covered this story you've been aware of these allegations as you say for some time and just tell me about the reporting process that you went three. yes we are a team here at dish figure it's of it's been a team effort to this investigation for the whole right we work on the football league steps of base which is the biggest leak in sports history it contains millions of documents that we're digging through and trying to find stories that are of public interest and that we can report on and in early two thousand and seventeen we found first traces about this incident in june two thousand and nine and we kept digging and search for more documents and went outside did some open field research went to las vegas for example and gathered as much information as we could about this case this is a very sensitive case obviously so we need to be very careful on on what we're

doing and what we're reporting we came out for the first time with office to kill in april two thousand and seventeen and now the past week we published a further piece with catherine may your go for the first time putting her name and her face to it and actually speaking with us which she refused to do last year. right now does lawyers say they're going to say you have they been in touch are you intimidated by what action they may want to take. well right now those lawyers have always been in touch with us because we confront them before we publish any article so we say that we're going to publish a piece about ronaldo and we say what we're going to say about him and what we're going to quote from so we give them an opportunity to deliver a statement to us and to comment on the things that we that we want to publish and they've always threatened us to take legal action when we actually pack publish or if we published but we've gone through and continue to do that anyways since two

thousand and seventeen and they threatened to sue us last year already but to this day right now to this moment we have never received anything like that all right chris of winter that will come back to you as the story progresses that for now thank you. well peter will be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now hand you back to hasn all right thanks very much joe these remember all the ways the you can get in touch with us we will see you back here at the newsgroup at fifteen hundred g.m.t. twenty four hours from now thanks very much for being with us and more news in a couple of minutes with our colleagues in london two minutes from now this is a newsgroup.

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accused of indiscriminate and reckless hacking russia is blamed for a series of cyber attacks around the world. live from london also coming up. mass burials in indonesia as the country continues its recovery efforts on the island. i was. at the fight against isis but it's still continuing. and football superstar cristiana ronaldo is left out of portugal's.