was taken away after his plane landed in beijing it's believed he left france on september the twenty fifth and that he was taken away to an undisclosed destination and that he was now quote under investigation although it's not specified what he's being investigated for now before monk took up his position with interpol in two thousand and sixteen he had been a vice minister of the public security bureau that made him a very powerful man now some important context his boss had been a man who was jailed three years ago for corruption joe young kind had been basically the j. edgar hoover of chinese politics the securities are of china and then in two thousand and sixteen another vice minister of public security was also jailed for corruption so there is a pattern emerging it is quite possible the monk found himself on the wrong side of the political divide in china at

a time when president xi jinping is intensifying his anti corruption crackdown hong kong's immigration authorities have refused to renew that these are of a prominent foreign journalists raising concerns of a clampdown on the city's press freedom this is being linked to an event the journalist hosted involving an independence activist in august to pick up paul and has been at the immigration department where people are demanding also. many are calling it a revenge tactic victor mallett asked vice president of the foreign person and club he had to provide the beijing government and the hong kong government's objections and refused to cancel an event involving an independent activist says than the political party funded by that independence activist has been banned under national security grounds that's the first time that's ever happened and just weeks later when mallett went to renew his work he said right let's switch it. over. the past

few years the process of this deterioration of freedom has been exaggerated and it is one reason us and we should. be international community. very angry about the section but we still feel pressed they are working with freedom and they should be respect the. what used to story the protesters are calling this a disgrace they say the journalist is being punished for not toeing the government line boy who's now this is an alarming development particularly for the media community on kong has always been a base for foreign journalists where they can operate without restrictions and the visa regime here has always been seen as transparent and fair for the financial times the amount of work says this is the first time they've encountered such a problem it was not believed a lot of heat pump people like me was born and raised in hong had never thought that one day the international media would be expelled from hong kong like that we

believe that such things would only happen in china hong kong has semi autonomous status and enjoys freedoms not seen across the border in mainland china but since landmark twenty fourteen pro-democracy protests the chinese government and hong kong government have made on president it moves to limits political activity and freedom of expression raising fears that it's just a matter of time before hong kong becomes just like any other city in china. hong kong free press a nonprofit online newspaper he says the case sets a dangerous precedent on press freedom in the region. it was a very first time and this full reason moment that we heard of a journalist being not able to use these it renewed in hong kong there were cases of people who were not able to get into but never the case of a journalist who has been in hong kong being more or less expose from. being bank

all of this is that during the talk and before all before talk the activist policy was completely legal the talk is so what's legal what whatever mr about mullet what's the go so that the government has to explain what is the legal ground for not really new. but the government has said we're not usually not comment on individual cases so we will probably never have an official on what was the reason so has hair on al-jazeera where is to ask the question being asked by taking human rights groups and even the saudi government. and then my sons are on high as japan's beloved zuki j.f.s. market running for eighty is has forced to close down.

however in most to china it's been dry for a week and it still is satellite picture reveals something congress the tibetan plateau and that's enough to produce a little bit of rain or of course no appetite that's there in sichuan is more rain in parts of northeast india and minima otherwise generally he's trying that's true for vietnam too that's also true for the next two days it is to be expected this time of year waiting for the northeast monsoon to be the dominant knockoffs and dry season for a few months and with the receding monsoon rains you sometimes get developments as it was spinning us not so much in the bay of bengal but you watch this massive cloud he never switched to forecasts it's already got a little interesting. view from space it's a cluster of thunderstorms if they start to spin and we think they will that could turn into a cycling and indeed ocean or arabian sea cycle and if you like and it's a moment it's heading towards the horn of africa now it could change course for

other way it will affect the likely rainfall on the coast from our probably yemen in the next four or five days in the immediate future that comes on board ahead of it is virtually dough breeze and humidity is not that high it's quiet and it's dry which is to be expected but we will of course watch this. what makes this theory we leave it to you. we haven't seen the president this unpredictable. leader speech is a valid motley fool and that is a formula for authoritarianism and here in the immediate the light so. there's nowhere to hide let me ask you straight are these the true statesmen should know from return on which is era.

again you're watching us is there has reminded us of our top stories in government is considering calling off the search for victims of last week's earthquake and tsunami telling some areas and to mass graves doctors also always the island issuing new warnings about the threat of disease and more decaying bodies found in the rubble. there present donald trump's pick for the supreme court brett kavanaugh is merrily cleared a procedural vote in the senate and these are live pictures from washington d.c. that is have been voicing final testimonies for and against capitals approval final votes on his confirmation is expected in the coming hours. interpol has officially

china's government for clarification on the status and well being of the president of the international police agency bunghole why he hasn't been heard from since he flew home to china from france late last month. protests have been organized across france and elsewhere in europe in support of a bike rescue vessel that has had its registration revoked the aquarists is attempting to have his papers renewed to musée upon a mall pulled its flag last month and the past four years over fifteen thousand have drowned whilst tempting to cross the mediterranean aquarius said as rescued almost thirty thousand people. from paris. demonstrators here in paris all wearing orange your shirts and t. shirt starts to symbolize the life jackets on the hall of the aquarius ship and they are joining the two charities behind the aquarius don't just grab borders and s.o.s. medicine or any i'm calling upon european leaders any country really to try and reregister you corneas because what happened last month was the panama withdrew its

resident registration now the crew say they believe that is because of pressure from italy the far right government in rome has closed its borders to be aquarius it says it doesn't want any more migrants riding on its shores and there's no doubt that anti immigration sentiment across europe has made to the aquarius rescue boat a lot harder but this is supposed good in the past ten years has rescued thirty thousand people out of the central mediterranean an area a fifth of those children many of them unaccompanied underdogs the crew say when we met them in march today and told me friday what they told us was that every hour every day the policies they know that i'm very much training screen there are people who could be imperiled desperately would need lifesaving assistance and for them it's very difficult indeed being stuck in that border knowing that they call do the work that they are tossed to do. every a number of high profile cases in the

us means that they were white police officers of sawsan killed young black men yet few police officers are ever convicted after these incidents but on friday a jury in chicago returned a different result as one hundred reports i hear it's the verdict vent for weeks put an anxious and divided city on edge we've been hearing the band day and guilty of second degree. a white chicago police officer jason van dyke was found guilty of the killing of a black teen a crime that carries a sentence of up to twenty years in prison then sixteen times ok but i've heard that there's more than one for each bullet he fired into a seventeen year old look one mcdonald in two thousand and fourteen van dyke was convicted of aggravated battery with a firearm the teen was armed with a knife later found closed and shown walking away on police video it was vandyke

who emptied the chamber the only officer to fire when video of the killing emerged a year later protesters filled the streets the trial featured cheery sometimes testy testimony from the first chicago police officer charged with murder in decades his attorney mounted in impassioned argument and one drop that knife. would be here today but prosecutors argued that van dyke had planned to shoot before he got out of his car one week donald was never going to walk home that. the definitive i get back on the way to the seeing chicago which still bears some scars from the infamous one nine hundred sixty eight riots was prepared for an outcry the city's twelve thousand police officers were on alert many of them already deployed around the city as protesters began to gather at city hall officers had a one hundred fifty page contingency plan demonstrators had planned to shut chicago

down a vandyke were not convicted instead they celebrate. everywhere across the country received justice is happening the buck stops here chicago and we pray and we hope that this race in any courage for me now only to the city of chicago but all cities across america. about. the verdict put this city and police on notice that the residents of chicago will no longer simply accept police shootings of young black men john hendren al-jazeera chicago and saudi arabian journalist jamal khashoggi has now been missing for four days was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on tuesday saudi arabia says as allowed to search the compound off to write scripts called on riyadh to verify his whereabouts. and gave the go ahead. has nothing to hide and to marcel has more from istanbul.

there is a growing belief among some circles that she has actually been rendition kidnapped by the saudis and taken out of turkey glassy a renowned saudi opposition figure who's been in exile in london for many years he claims to have information of how the saudi authorities managed to kidnap and smuggle. out of turkey obviously until now there has been no independent verification of the whereabouts of turkish authorities have been tight lipped they haven't responded to crown prince one of inside man's offer. have the consulate searched it seems that they're trying to use some sort of back channels to find a solution to this crisis because whilst the raise concern right from the saw about the whereabouts and well being there is also growing concern about the diplomatic fallout which will happen as a result of that because up until now both ankara and riyadh have enjoyed good

diplomatic relations finally there have also been caused by human rights watch and other human rights organizations to have questioned the release they put the onus on the saudis because ultimately the last place where he was seen was entering this how do you consider that is essentially to a saudi territory albeit on turkish land and therefore the saudis it is up for that to them to confirm his well being and to release him and confirm his whereabouts as soon as possible. pakistan's opposition leadership has been jailed for ten days for alleged links to a housing scam and twenty fourteen was arrested on friday in lahore and his detention means he'll not be able to campaign for his party of by elections next week hundreds of activists from his pakistan muslim league now once party gathers in support outside the court he's the brother of ousted prime minister nawaz sharif who was sentenced this year to ten years in prison for corruption but has been released on bail at least twenty three endangered asian lions have

died in the past three weeks in a national park in western india conservationists say in fighting in the rare virus for the main causes for the deaths india's government is being to take immediate steps to save the remaining lions. there's actually a state as in japan to discuss efforts or chiva nuclear free north korea after meeting prime minister shinzo our way my palm pair is due to go to north korea for a second round of talks with leader kim jong us once progress in the effort to rid the korean peninsula of nuclear weapons of the kim agreed to denuclearize during the singapore summit with donald trump in june. japan's famous fish market has closed its doors off to more than eighty years supplying tech is color a world of twenty million dollars a fish is bought and sold some of us i was from prices every day a new sites will open in a way as more and

a hundred ports many of the fishmongers believe this contaminated inconvenience and i'm say. to kids the market where a single tuna can sell for more than a million dollars this ritual has played out here for more than eighty years wholesalers chefs the owners of japan's top sushi restaurants carefully inspecting bluefin tuna using techniques honed over many years. before the contest and spectacle begins. this is the famous two kids tuner option and this is the final time. it spells brain works just what. i was trained at sukie i've spent my entire professional life here so you can imagine that living here saddens me a lot more fish passes through to kids than any other market in the world bush and sold in a proces taken so seriously that the tourists who flock here aren't allowed into

the whole settle area until after the business is over forty thousand visitors every day five hundred wholesale is employed thousands located in the heart of tokyo two kids she is part of a long tradition of riverside markets dating back centuries it's also prime real estate needed for the twenty twenty lympics taiye emma gucci has been working at her family's fish store for more than fifty years. i don't want to move but the government is powerful doing everything to make us move with cover ups and lies . like many of the fish mongers she opposes the shift to the new five billion dollars. site built on a former gas plant they say it's some safe despite thirty three million dollars spent to clean it up and years of delays the new purpose built to your sumach it will replace the hustle and bustle of two kids the next week with improved

refrigeration earthquake resistance and sanitation opponents have sought a court injunction to stop the move but for now the two kids the market is going to go and gone. to syria the opera world has lost one of its most popular singers. this dream. spain's montserrat dies at the age of eighty five. and barcelona last month to be an import health the summer. with the singer freddie mercury helped introduce her to a new generation of fans the great tenor jose the opera world has lost its best soprano. and without zero these are the top stories the indonesian government is considering

calling off the search for victims of last week's earthquake and tsunami and sending some areas into mass graves doctors onslow easy islands are issuing new warnings about the threat of disease as more decaying bodies are found in the rubble there is spoke to his to his name from the international red cross and red crescent he says medical teams have launched campaigns to try to stop disease from spreading. we've had. reported from our medical team. in problem we're at a temp time so providing basic medical therapy to affected populations we're also doing campaign going to health and connotation bringing you know awareness among the affected population on what to do and what not to do indeed crikey through that you know their avoided from. a final vote on us president donald trump's pick for the supreme court is expected in the coming

hours this is live scene from washington d.c. where a full debate on brett kavanaugh has been taking place throughout the night as consisted mainly of senate democrats speaking to an empty chamber seven hours nomination all but confirmed after he won the backing of key senators despite an f.b.i. investigation into sexual assault allegations interpol is asking china's government if it knows where the president of the international police agency is home away hasn't been heard from since he flew home to china from france late last month protests have been organized across france and elsewhere in europe in support of a migrant rescue vessel that's had its registration revoked their querulous is attempting to have his papers renewed in musée off to panama pulled its flag last month in the past four years over fifteen thousand people have drowned while trying to cross the mediterranean aquaria said has rescued almost thirty thousand people. now with all

the headlines more news continues here on al-jazeera after upfront. they were wrong . they were brazen. and for nearly a decade they committed crimes with impunity. it's. they were. decorated police officers. baltimore is once again at the center of a debate over how to police the police. the gang within on al-jazeera. from its support for bashar al assad to a nuclear deal that's on the brink of failure iran is at the center of a whole host of middle east and global controversies in this outfront special at the united nations i'll challenge iran's foreign minister just odd zarif on his country's policy in syria and its approach to donald trump.

foreign minister thanks for joining me on up front good to be with you last week u.s. president donald trump tweeted that he had no plans to meet iranian president hassan rouhani at the u.n. but he would quote someday in the future i'm sure he's an absolutely lovely man but you actually don't want your president to meet with trump do you why not well we're not actually that eager to meet with him because the united states is not a reliable negotiating partner. they were always saying that we want a treaty with iran now they just withdrew from the only treaty that we have with the united states because in the international court of justice ruled against them that tells you that whatever you negotiate with this president and with this administration they're not going to be. bound by it and that is why we're

not that. to set aside a fully negotiated document which took us almost twelve years to years of intensive negotiations between iran and the united states and be negotiated every ward of one hundred fifty page document not between two countries but between seven countries plus the european union and then it became a resolution of the security council and president trump just decided to get rid of it and then he said we need to because we didn't have the approval of the u.s. senate i can get rid of it here. was wrong because it's a security council resolution but he just got rid of a treaty that had the approval of the u.s. senate just because the i.c.j. ruled against the sanctions so on that basis then are you saying the president rouhani will never meet with donald trump are you ruling it out for the next two years in politics never say never but i believe that there is need for

a serious change india administration that is. in my view dialogue does not require mutual trust that's a hope to hire your. treasure hold for for dialogue to take place usually dialogue is not based on mutual trust but dialogue requires mutual respect and mutual respect starts with each side respecting themselves and their own signature and as long as we do not see that in the united states in the current administration of the united states then it makes dialogue not necessary and not conducive to any positive outcome and i understand that point and it's fair to say that trump is not someone who can be necessarily trusted he's not a consistent politician clear he's not reliable and maybe he just wants a photo op i get why your hesitant but the reality is that the tension on the korean peninsula for example has gone down since kim jong un had that meeting with donald trump earlier this year trump now says they've even fallen in love why

wouldn't president rouhani want trump to fall in love with him if only to reduce tensions between us you can introduce basic international relations is not about the love affair international relations is about reliability is about. maintaining your promises everything in international relations is based on one principle and that is in latin patterson served under you observe what you promise so it's it's stat which is required unlike the situation in korea we have a document we have a document one hundred fifty spelled out but he can't but imagine if a president hollywood to meet with him. win him over in the way that kim won him over you can get him back into that valuable but he can he can and he can leave that document again as he did with the g seven. communique he agreed to it and once he was born he has basically never do any deal with trump well it's very difficult you can always do deeds if the other side shows that it is reliable president trump

it's not it's not that difficult the nuclear deal let me tell you and let me tell president trump the nuclear deal is the best the united states can get and it's the best iran can get and it's to best the international community can get it doesn't mean that it has everything don't know either one of us wants that's what it means but i'm going as it is the president trump i wonder if it's also for your colleagues and friends and voters back home because you spent years negotiating with john kerry and your european counterparts and yet the supreme leader of your country and i was never a fan of nuclear diplomacy he said earlier this year quote with the issue of the nuclear negotiations i made a mistake in permitting al foreign minister to speak with them it was a loss for us do you agree with your supreme leader that was a mistake for you to talk to what he said was it was it was a mistake to talk to the americans not to mistake and then his office clarified that the nuclear deal was not a mistake talking to the americans was

a mistake so do you believe that it was a mistake for you to talk i believe the americans showed particularly discipline history that they are not reliable that you cannot trust their board you cannot rely upon their signature you cannot even rely upon their treaty obligations. so it's makes it a very difficult proposition to engage me but was it a mistake to come and i said it was a mistake but he believes it was a mistake you well i believe that the americans have not fulfilled their promises with respect and when i asked was it a mistake for you to sat down with the american people i said the americans did not fulfill the promise you say that trump is the problem and trump clearly is a problem he's the one who has violated the deal he's undermined it but what if what he's done course has been welcomed by a lot of influential iranians including some of your top generals listen to general mohammad just three head of the revolutionary guards we welcome trump's decision on

pulling out of the deal he called a good omen general abdulrahim musawi head of the iranian army and said thank god that america left the deal because that deal legitimize sitting at the table with america and these top generals of yours wrong. i believe you are stating the frustration of the beach is a general prostration of the iranian people than. the united states is not a reliable partner they believe that their belief and you has been now. accepted. but they were never found very clearly were they let's just be honest there were people in iran who didn't like the fact that you were negotiating you know that of course there were people in iran and now they feel vindicated they could be indicated and they say it's a good omen do you think it's a good omen well i don't agree with them and it's because they didn't with me but i was negotiating you think it's a bad omen that the u.s. i think it's not good for the international community that one country as powerful

as the united states would decide to leave international agreements and it's not just you know that they left unesco day left the climate change agreement they left nothing day late date left turns traffic part are you going to follow them is the question we know the u.s. are now leaving all these treaties we're not in and nobody's defending the u.s. here is iran now going to stay in the nuclear certainly not follow the united states because there's a bad example or are you planning on the deal indefinitely but. iran has given the europeans some time because they asked us for some time to try to compensate for us departure from their nuclear to go from the nuclear deal that means that iran needs to receive the economic dividends of that now they have made very strong political statements as you've seen then they have. elaborated on practical solutions now we need to see those practical solutions implemented and the next

phase would be to see whether the private sector would welcome those practical solutions aren't we being gauged in those practical solutions these we will. examine these. very carefully and we'll decide based on the outcome big staying in the deal for now we'll we believe it's a good deal ok we believe it's a deal that is in the interest of the national community in our interest we are in no hurry but we will not accept to be the only party that is complying with the let's turn to syria foreign minister iran despite its economic problems at home has spent billions of dollars every year since twenty eleven propping up bashar al assad in syria arming him sending in special forces militias his blood to fight for him do you believe that he has with your help now won the war in syria and can go back to being president of syria for life first of all we were in syria for a very specific purpose and that was to fight extremism we were for the same

purpose in iraq occurred to stop we bend when isis was about to take over erbil we went and helped masoud barzani we went to baghdad and help the iraqi government win over die a shrine they were. coming in and taking over iraqi territory we have had a consistent policy of standing against extremism and extremist terror which is an existential threat for everybody in the region we have said you quoted the leader on another occasion you need to go to munt this that had we not faced. isis in syria and iraq we would have had to face it in iran or they all supported assad way before i suppose we can pretend iranian support for us and began with isis no no we we have good relations with that but the. eason i mean countries have good relations and saudi arabia had even better relations with the last from two

thousand and three to two thousand and eleven so it's not the question of who supported who it's a question of who came to fight extremists ok now that the now that the fight against extremism is in its final stages it doesn't mean that extremism is gone now we need to do a number of things first we need to do it with the issue at hand and that is it we have done our best i went to ankara i went to damascus i we had a summit in tehran all within the space of less than a week and then the summit in sochi between turkey and russia to avoid bloodshed in it now we have achieved that we have a plan to have. a political not a political but a nonmilitary solution in that we are faced with a major problem and that is foreign fighters what to do with a large number of foreign fighters who are in it these are fighters that were brought into syria by out so no one is denying the presence of foreign fighters or

the crimes that they have committed we've covered on the show but the problem is they're not the ones that are the only ones dying in syria when you look at the sheer suffering in syria hundreds of thousands dead millions displaced from their arms widespread torture in government prisons have been photographed airstrikes barrel bombs attacks on bakeries schools hospitals bread lines isn't iran complicit in all the suffering doesn't matter what you say your goal no motive was no bad starts happening on the behalf of five years ago when i assumed office as foreign minister i presented a four point plan immediate cease fire inclusive government political negotiations for constitutional reform and elections based on a new constitution those who insisted. that they wanted a military solution we said from the very beginning i said in the u.s. history meetings that there won't be a military solution to syria that we need to put in to cause solution and we've been saying that for the past five years those who have insisted on the evolution

that they could win back syria that they could push bashar assad from office and they have sacrificed all these people of syria an insult or force just they haven't acrophobia they have they have cause they say when the syrian air force drops a bomb on a bakery that's the fault of the people in the bakery no no that's a false of the people who prevented the political settlement is not the fault of bashar al assad for sending in plays to bombay this is just false of the people who prevented political solution because of an illusion that they saw the syrian government has a responsibility that they could remove bashar assad from i get the argument i understand that ok i'm asking about the responsibility from work rhymes i'm talking about iranian responsibility are you some are government i'm not even money i'm not here to defend anybody i'm here to defend it i guess you're asking about it when i wanted a political settlement date if used they wanted their mercenaries these foreign fighters that today we don't know what we will do our own fighters into syria also

from afghanistan you see from a pocketful don't you know that hold on there is a government in syria and last time i checked that government has a seat in the united nations those who try to overthrow that government through the use of diversion through the use of isis through the use of nostra are the ones who have created this not just crimes by the syrian government the united nations and the other meaning war crimes nothing justifies war crimes and iran has had its own history of fighting a war against iraq where war crimes were committed against us they were there chemical weapons were used against us and all of these champions of international humanitarian law state side and kept their mouths shut completely agree ok we insisted from the very. beginning that people need to investigate who used chemical weapons ve said from the very beginning that they did rebels had chemical weapons and they were in an investigation and there was no investigate on the united nations and the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons that

a joint investigative mechanism unanimously supported by the security council they concluded the syrian arab republic is responsible for the release of sarin at a concert who are known for the seventeen and the russians then shut them down as soon as it is on the wall and done here hold on we ask this investigative team to go to hans sheehan and to go to show you got to check whether these chemical weapons how do these chemical weapons were used we used to this in the iran iraq war iraq used chemical weapons we asked the united nations iraq objected damon to the warfront they check they verified these teams never been there they accepted the arguments of the white helmets we said from the very beginning that teams need to go under site to investigate the best people entered that from taking place because the best did not want to show because they would say the assad government is prevented not only as a investigate she asked her government invited them to go to show it out but as but

as an iranian as you say who clearly are very passionate about some of your country was subjected to sarin and chemical weapons and you're now allied with the government of the o.p.c. w human rights watch amnesty even hans blix not exactly a u.s. lackey has said it was probably the syrian government air force that carried this out when all of these organizations are saying assad is using chemical weapons he have said from the very beginning that we object and reject the use of chemical weapons no matter who uses them and no matter who is to be counted that is our categorical statement we don't differentiate whether it's iranians who are victims of chemical weapons or syrians who are victims of chemical weapons we condemn it categorically we've made that point very clear to president ford not let me finish we've said that chemical weapons are an. to go to us and that remains our position our problem is chemical the use of chemical weapons alleged at a diner that was construed conducive for americans to use it as a pretext for an attack this is a problem we need a full investigation the o.p.c.

w. under pressure from the united states and from the west refused to conduct a full investigation of reality to any investigation to find out said guilt and have been several you will always dispute notice he's your no life no he's using a local weapons no no it is you iran of all countries shouldn't be supporting someone you think of course we wouldn't have had had there been any investigation proving because we were insured up we know that showed up was not used that you know the the base that was hit by the americans on the claim that is this was the base that chemical weapons were launched from we know that it wasn't done from sugar ok and that is why we know that this allegation by the united states was false and we know that chemical weapons are being used we know who is using them and we believe that this is a dirty game that is being played in order to allow a credit aggression by the united states so it's easy to go to the judge alone and

come back a minute but it's good to go to the judge together and see which arguments we have and the united states each time it goes to a judge it comes back a loser and then it be dropped from the court you're not going to agree on chemical weapons what about the bombs of bakeries schools hospitals documented by cook reporters on the ground eyewitnesses human rights groups amnesty human rights of the u.n. commission of inquiry says the syrian government response before war crimes in our getting civilian area don has not participated in any activity in any populated area and we would never do so in the future we condemn any attack against civilians do you condemn the syrian government weaken typing make reschooling or send them any attack against civilians you know by the syrian govern. no matter who does but i'm asking no matter mostly about zero matter who does it ok but i'm asking about the syrian government no matter who does so you won't condemn the syrian government i condemn anybody using chemical weapons i do not like instilled in us but i condemn any look at any government but at the same time condemn groups who use it

millions as yet and the us she'd and the un has condemned rebels as well they condemn the syrian government and rebels ok let me ask you this question you said very clearly earlier that last time you checked at the u.n. the syrian government the government of syria they invited you in your there with the syrian approval as is there as are the russians so does that mean you support the saudi attacks in yemen because they've been invited in by the government of yemen and the president of yemen on that logic and that place called on the government we're not bombing anybody in yemen we're not killing innocent human beings so you're saying lying militias have killed. him and saudi arabia is bombing yemen on a daily basis killing people in yemen and refusing any opportunity to engage in peace talks we have offered a peace plan for syria we offered a peace plan in the yemen but but the saudis rejected the peace of thirty in syria

forty years ago they rejected the peace out there in yemen three years ago hoping to be able to have a military victory in three weeks and they continue to bomb innocent people in the air and no one's defending that and what's interesting is you're reminding me that i came to new york a couple years ago interviewed the saudi ambassador to the united nations and i said why are you in yemen why are you there bombing all these people and he said we're invited by the government we're fighting terrorism and all of the reports of civilian casualties are disputed and when i hear you talking about syria i feel it's the same argument though it's iranians are using the same logic to syria as the saudis are using in yemen that's what it sounds like is it the same argument. i mean people many people say the same things but is it the same argument sounds very similar and it does it yes does it that it's is is saudi arabia fighting i think are they killing civilians no no no no yes are they fighting the syrian government bank for your healing seven are they fighting terrorists in yemen they say they are

there they are but those are sort of no no no no people are in serious and most are and there are internationally recognized in their response who which internationally recognized terrorist group the saudis are fighting in yemen but this is again a dangerous i know this is a dangerous and you know if you because you support hamas hezbollah which they are not which allows which the e.u. in the e.u. and the us calls terrorists everyone calls an enemy terrorism carmel's that is the problem down there are organizations that are recognized as terrorist by the united nations security council and the last i checked therefore organizations that are supported by saudi arabia are taliban. and die so let's talk about that and other groups there is no consensus saudi arabia is supporting them we are fighting them ok so let's settle on that and let's not just try to confuse they say you're supporting who these were fired rockets into saudi arabia and the and un groups of pointed out human rights massive human rights abuses by with these and

the un you see first of all who thieves have enough rockets of their own to fire into saudi arabia they don't need us anybody who's bombed out of existence would find a way to defend themselves who he's defended themselves yemenis defended themselves long before anybody was in iran to help them. they have been there for a thousand years they have forty aggressions they have defeated aggressions they will defeat this aggression this war should not have started we told the saudis that they did not want need to start this war there was a political settlement that could have been reached they wanted a military victory they needed a military victory for domestic reasons for very childish domestic reasons and they continued that they could have stopped this war three and a half years ago so they faded to do something that was that in their own interest

because they were hoping you remember in syria seven years ago they said we will have. we will pray in damascus by the end of ramadan it's been seven ramadan since then they said we will have a big tree in yemen in between if we are into the fourth year because we're almost out of time i do have to ask about the domestic front you have you're seen as part of the kind of reformist pragmatic moderate part of iranian politics you've called iran a democracy you've called it a democratic system in the past and of course your president rouhani has been elected twice overwhelmingly by the iranian people but his boss the supreme leader of iran ayatollah common i wasn't elected by the people has been in office for nearly thirty years and if you insult him you risk going to prison in iran how is that democratic by any definition i question your premise because the leader in iran is also elected. please check our constitution twenty nine years

ago no no and he can be removed any day by a body by a party that elected him and that party was elected by the people every country has their own the assembly of experts the assembly of experts but the guardian council which he appoints has a veto over that you know has a veto over the assembly of expert in picking the members of the other live expert on but it's not popularly elected by any definition of the word and if you look out when he was actually popularly totally elected for a twenty nine year total no popularly elected twice was present yes and then i'm going to speak to the iranian president elect ok saying that really it isn't and then we we have a constitution that was approved twice by a referendum in that constitution that is a constitutional process. and in that constitutional process is an office of the supreme leader and that office is elected and then. observed boyd you're somebody of expert this is the constitution on mechanism twenty nine years i

mean some some people lead countries democratic countries for longer than that but it doesn't mean that there are they're not a democracy the last question for a minister for nearly forty years now the u.s. and iran once great allies have been the best of enemies both sides have their grievances of course is there not just talk about trump here but looking into the future beyond trump is there any common ground beyond nuclear issues beyond trump the you can see the united states an islamic republic coming together oh well once the united states abandons its obsession that it wants to defeat iran in the region which won't happen because we are in the region we are not in some seven thousand miles away from from our home we are at home and that is why our influence in the region is to stay and the united states needs to recognize the realities of the united states failure has been its lack of recognition of the realities in our region and probably to rugby world so once the create that. i mean once they

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know one thousand six hundred fifty people have been killed and now the race is on to stop the spread of disease. also on the grid that lots hurdle for president trump supreme court pick brett kavanaugh nomination has to a final vote in the u.s. senate with. certain confirmation for weeks his future as hanging in the balance over allegations of sexual assault. even if kavanagh is confirmed their fight is not over and could brazil soon have a trump like leader in less than twenty four hours voters will head to the polls to choose a new president senators and deputies all eyes on the presidential race which jaya balsam narrow the controversial far right candidate is predicted to win we'll have a live report and an ounce and a social media is a new battleground in brazil's election we're going to be looking at what's fact checking groups are doing to counter fake news ahead and how it connects us

throughout the show using the hash tag aging is great. to. get you all with the news straight live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us flattened neighborhoods in indonesia soon away sea island may soon be declared mass graves as a search for missing people week's earthquake and tsunami continues president djoko we doto says all victims must be found but so far the rescue operation has been slow and difficult neighborhoods in some parts of the island have been completely destroyed authorities say heavy machinery can't operate in areas affected by leaky faction that's when solid ground shaken by the quake turns liquids the death toll now stands at more than sixteen hundred and there are growing concerns about the outbreak of disease now we have reported in in the worst affected areas to me linda gun is in cd in central sulawesi a first his way in his report from

a neighborhood in powell city which has been at the center of the disaster. most of this suburb of palu city is reduced to a vast wasteland of rubble and debris which is shrouded in the smell of decaying bodies when the earthquake struck the ground turned to mud and sank by several metres in a process called liquefaction hundreds of houses collapsed the search for the missing goes on but the government is considering calling off the operation that's unimaginable for people who want a chance to say goodbye to their missing family members. seven hundred month i hope my sons are still a lie even if i can't meet them again i want to see their faces for the last time even if they're dead i want to see them. mahmoud comes here each day and watches the search teams hoping for any sign of her children there was and again today the

area they're searching here was the field at a preschool presumably people thought it would be a safe place to run to when the quake struck but the ground beneath them turned to mud and swallowed them up so far they've pulled thirteen bodies out of here. those with the grim task of searching the deep mud say they don't want to give up either but sometimes it's overwhelming. the most difficult thing when searching for bodies here is that there are sometimes you'll find a body but the area isn't clear enough to get it out it can be dangerous for us to some survivors such as this boy whose mother was killed come back searching for positions and memories of those they lost. the government says people who used to live here will be relocated at a memorial built to remember the disaster but survivors don't want their home to become a mass grave and want to eventually return. we're sons were born and raised here we have to build this see the again because we have to survive and

we are strong it will go on as the day draws to a close some of the few bodies found are brought out for identification. they may be some of the last from this area to have a proper farewell. wain hey al jazeera indonesia. age is finally trickling into the remote parts of central sulawesi but. linda and reports from ciggy survivors in the devastated communities don't even know how to begin the long time rebuilding their lives and their homes. this is what's left of. everything that she worked hard for it's gone after last week's earthquake when. the market was up to here i tried to run to my neighbor's house there i ran around

in a flowing much but i held on to a plant for a while and that's how i survived. village in central sulawesi was a home to around four thousand people. little is left with the ninety percent of the village is obliterated it is hard to make sense of this devastation and survivors here tell us it was as if came no erupted this mud surfaced fifteen metres from underground and then it started to drag homes and people in waves in waves of mud and rock four kilometers from their original location rescuers here tell us they don't even know where to start digging they fear half of the population here is dead homes schools mosques all swallowed by mud and rock. hundreds of survivors are displaced here as well as many other

areas in central sulawesi. we met a y. e insider in one of the mosques just outside the village wide tells us this was not his place of prayer the mosque in the village is gone his parents and brother died in the earthquake too but he says he is not alone. he's the only one who knows humans like us never will know the real reason why this happened this disaster is a test for the fried food because the more faithful we are the heavier the trials are given to test us survivors is on the all give village to try to salvage whatever slips of their belongings some of them refusing to leave the devastated area the spite the danger and certainty an act of resistance they say because they

know their suffering is in permanent. duggan al-jazeera seek essential silhouettes see indonesian area we spoke with hosni hosni who is with the international red cross and red crescent he says medical teams have launched campaigns to try to stop the spread of diseases we've heard. diarrhea reported from our medical team. here in problem we're at attempt harm so providing basic medical therapy to affected populations all you're doing can been going to help and connotation bringing you know awareness among the the affected population on what you do and what not to do indeed so that you know their avoided from. the. what indonesia's double disaster left behind in pictures that al-jazeera dot com stories of survival like this mother and her son both

injured by the earthquake and tsunami waiting to be airlifted out by the military but also heartbreaking images of devastation like this one the ruins of a house district in palo it's on our website at al-jazeera dot com on to other world news now he is the man who has divided an already fractured country brett kavanaugh president donald trump speak for the u.s. supreme court and depending on where you stand he's either a judge fit to sit on the highest court of the land for possibly decades to come or a man whose character has been called into question in the coming hours kavanagh's fate will be decided when the senate votes on whether to approve him for the bench and it's looking likely after key senators end decay to their support the vote will cap off it to move to a few months since trot nominated him in july this year at first it appeared kavanagh's confirmation was a short but then several women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct one

alleged victim christine blassie ford was question by the senate committee about the night she says was the worst of her life an f.b.i. inquiry was ordered the republican said it found no evidence the democrats slammed it as a whitewash but despite that as well as weeks of public outrage the vote is set to go ahead and we're covering this story both inside capitol hill and outside the supreme court where there are protests happening right now we'll be speaking to gabriel elizondo in just a moment but first we go to mike hanna on capitol hill for us so mike it looks like cavanagh is going to be confirmed talk us through the process how soon until there's a vote well at ten thirty yesterday morning there was a cloture vote that essentially sits a time period of thirty hours within which.