i mean i'm fortunate with the reality in turkey lore is that some things sometimes get lost in translation and the. kind of revive the specific where the things that were used whether that may with the president meant a positive outcome to the current situation i.e. the unfolding fallouts that's happened as a consequence to the disappearance and possible or probable as the police say murder all of the german officials you or whether as it is being interpreted in other circles he means a positive outcome to the actual well being of. obviously as journalists we hope that all the information that has been given to us so far has been inaccurate for once and that's he is indeed still alive but the reality is from the sources that have come so far to us specifically from the security apparatuses is that that may not be the case sadly but the words that's were chosen by the one prior to that specifically just talking about same following the case and that he is waiting for the investigators to speak is something that goes in line with what we've been

reporting consistently here on al-jazeera that the politicians here and so i keep led by the president are trying to. make the focal point of this the police and the security services investigation before they actually come out with a concrete opinion so the president coming out saying that he is waiting for that so happen is another sign of him saying well he's not going to jump in right now and take a stance reserve riyadh in saudi arabia on the potential possibility that agents belonging to that country foreign agents conducted this work here in turkey that he's waiting for a conclusion of the criminal investigation prior to him actually making any statements obviously this story is getting huge traction around the world and obviously here in turkey and therefore it does need to be addressed that called continue to go on day by day without people all coming out on record and as you were speaking to us in professor. there are senior member of the ruling party we

are expecting to hear or see some of that evidence being disclosed within forty eight hours and maybe that's will give us a bit more clarity as to the reality of what's happened to the journalist. you know we certainly hope so jim out for the moment thanks very much. deborah on sunday joins us now from washington d.c. and gaven it's very early there in america but have we seen any reaction yet from the u.s. state department. late saturday when we first got reports of this at the possible. death of the journalist we immediately started calling the state department and government agencies trying to get any sort of reaction we followed up this morning on sunday as well the short answer is the state department if they do know anything they aren't telling us the latest statement we got from the state department simply says we are not in a position to confirm these reports but we are closely following the situation in

quote to that so again if the state department knows anything they're not releasing it publicly but be rest assured that relations between saudi arabia and the united states are very good right now for the best they've been in over a decade or so nearly a decade or so so there are very clear lines of communication that could be happening between washington and riyadh but as of now the state department simply saying they just do not know anything or they're not telling us that they cannot confirm these latest reports he was very well known in the united states he was or actually a u.s. resident after self-imposed exile living here in the united states in washington for some time the washington post where he was a columnist issued a nother statement late on saturday that read in part from this is from the editor of the editorial page of the washington post fred hiatt statement read in part joe mall was or as we hope is a committed and courageous journalist he writes out of

a sense of love for his country and deep faith in human dignity and freedom so many of his colleagues here in washington journalists and otherwise watching this very closely what about little bacon they had anything to say. there has been one lawmaker again he was very well known here so lawmakers know him from speaking at the different events speaking at the think tanks or primarily from his columns in the washington post let me read you something that u.s. senator chris murphy tweeted he tweeted if this is true that the saudis lured a u.s. resident into their consulate and murdered him it should represent a fundamental break in our relationship with saudi arabia and quote again that comes from chris murphy a u.s. senator from the state of connecticut so you can get a sense now that the longer that his whereabouts are unknown the more pressure will

be building on u.s. lawmakers and the u.s. government to try to ride some sort of clarity on what happened or if not leverage their contacts in saudi arabia to try to get any sort of clarity on his whereabouts give those on the joining us that from washington d.c. thanks very much gabriel and to these as disaster relief spokesman says as many as five thousand people may be missing from last week's earthquake and tsunami that figure is significantly higher than the one thousand that officials nestle as initially estimated to be buried beneath the rubble sotto pope will. also announce that the search for victims will and on the day at this point be listed as missing presumed dead when hey is that damage hospital in policy. this gives you some sense of what the medical workers faced on the evening of the earthquake and tsunami this is one of the largest hospitals and palu city and even though it is

partially operational around one side with around ten percent of the stuff reporting for work here it is pretty much completely collapsed there are thought to be around thirty people still missing in there including start from the hospital and also patients so many bodies that still haven't been recovered right around the affected areas which is now creating health concerns for the recovery workers because many of the bodies are now in a badly decomposed state they're not necessarily coming out completely intact so potentially the recovery workers are being exposed to things like to go and cholera the other big health concern is that so many people are homeless more than sixty thousand the government says right now many of them sleeping out in the open in camps with very poor sanitation so we're starting to see an increase in things like diarrhea and skin rashes so while the recovery operation continues an attempt to start to clean away some of the rubble we're now starting to see more of

a concern about potential health problems. the people still ahead here on this. is one of africa's longest serving leaders voters in cameroon decide whether paul barrett gets a seventh. and tested b. and c. is voting also gets under way and it had to governor. bush trying to track. those households and storms to victory in japan and edges closer to a full meal one time. for we'll have all the details. brazilians have begun casting their ballots in the most divisive presidential election in years brazil's far right. has cast his ballot in rio de janeiro also

has surged in the polls in the past few weeks against the strongest opponent the workers' body counts at philander had but its critics are calling for undecided voters to unite against him thread of reports from sao paulo. not him sand visit women and men on the streets of sao paulo. they're asking the undecided voters to vote for anyone except. the former army captain who is leading the presidential race in brazil. it. like. i said thirteen candidates are running for brazil's presidency but poll say it's become a two man race between. and fattah man who replaced former president. as the workers' party candidate. he says that if he's elected people like her will be at risk her whole family took to the streets to support how that's campaign. that

things were different when lula was in power we had schools my son is a professor now because he went to school. opportunities to the people and her dad will continue this policy. serving a twelve year sentence for corruption was banned from running the workers' party strategy to help the mound or that when this election has been to say that voting for him is like in the waiting for results home or president eleven feet off the problem is that that strategy didn't work in many parts of the country where people are furious with the corruption that happened while the workers' party was in power . in spite of the criticism from some adelson numbers have continued to rise since he was stabbed early in september even among those who once voted for. has expressed his admiration for brazil's filmer dictatorship once or beleaguered tory

birth control for poor people and once brazil out of the un because he says it's run by communists and really says he will vote for him but this is a game of those who i'm certain that the change in brazil was trashed with a new attitude and a new political structure we have to banish the corrupt politicians analysts say there's a reason why we are not as popularity has radically increased in the past month as this attack on both or which. was a shock for the country but the most important thing was that both now had free time not. as an advertiser but in the in the headlines he was always in the new. even the internet only when this election round hole suggests he will have to go to a second round of the ballots it is then when people hold center left parties will unite against the one man they see as

a threat. president joins us now live from sao paolo presence really does boil down to a race between two members. well that's correct and one hundred forty seven million brazilians are expected to vote today twenty thousand of them will be voting in this polling center in sao paolo it's been the most turbulent campaigns presidential campaign in brazil history where we've seen former president imprisoned then we've seen him death about the as his successor in the last minute and then the leading the frontrunner for now though being stabbed or losing forty percent of the blood in this attack and now being a frontrunner so trying to understand what's happening here in brazil and joining us now is that the second hour from the catholic university you know it's been a campaign that's been polarized around twenty two percent of the voters remain

undecided and that's what our poll suggests could we have any surprises. and there is depending on the terminal to do the most likely one is that we're going to have a second wrong between fit on the diode and. depending on the turnout we can. finish today if comes up with fifty percent of that there's a chance of that happening to look at he could actually win on the first round. it depends on how many of the votes for the smaller candidates because they don't have a chance to watch at all welcome your mother or silver how much of this is. the actual turnout if we have. around the twenty percent of absentee votes that we have might be a bit harder for him but if more people show up on those both candidates have high rejection rates what does this tell us about the election they have wrote rejection rates but they come from different sides. come from his own ideas racist positions

. shoes or. his positions. on the other side comes from this type of feeling from the corruption scandals that happened the last few years people are polarized but there are pros on different stances on different issues thank you very much. so brazil is going through a profound crisis thirteen million people are unemployed over sixty five thousand people have been killed last year because of violence has the largest corruption cut scandal in brazil's history many here are worried and upset of the player a station that has happened in this campaign where the candidates that have been closer to the center have almost disappeared ok to raise that many thanks for bringing us the scene there from sao paulo on the day brazilians are going to vote . a five point nine magnitude earthquake has killed at least ten people in haiti police chief of the northwest regions and seven people died in port to pay the

northern the epicenter three had died further in a town in the sounds. ok well the skies i have a new mexico are full of a hotel of all the different sorts this is a real holy city we're in beautiful blue skies it's the forty seventh gathering of the international balloon fiesta. it's a nice video that is. a meter often gets a nice mast lift that these guys have to be clear there is nothing much wind not have doesn't happen even in new mexico all the time to create this time the year but it certainly happened on saturday good sing it wasn't planned for sunday because since that time the planets worked in this definite line he developing a frontal system so that means it would have been nice clear blue skies that's part of a big marching system for two masses of cloud that are quite telling in the u.s. at the moment on the eastern side it's nice and warm such degrees in washington seventy in new york well behind it is nothing like as warm the blue showing up in

the higher ground that will produce snow at some point but the warmth is actually surprisingly high ten degrees above average in washington even for both our fridge in dallas and that warmth isn't going to stay there if anything is going to push back and you know what happens when you push warmer which actually is full of mostly from the gulf of mexico gets the cold air you get a lot of rain and that's anywhere from oklahoma right up towards ontario and snow in wyoming you know to our to montana in particular the temperatures there are staying where they are and if i will move you on a bit forward if anything i think despite the clouds the gray and the snow will get more records broken temperature wise for the next couple days laura thanks very much still ahead here on out is there a phase in lebanon that the government is cracking down on criticism and free speech. and a sports mark mark as leaves to the final corner to win thailand's first major g.p.a. and move closer to the world title. we're

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his reminder of our top stories this hour. on this missing since he's been killed and inside the saudi consulate in istanbul the past present. or thirty's i'm looking into come around. transit just five days ago after entering the building pick up marriage paperwork denies the allegations. brazilians have begun costing the ballots in the most divisive presidential election and. his

apparent workers' party can. have cost. has surged in the polls in the past few weeks against. covering the president as voted in the country's presidential election albeit seeking a seventh term in office up to thirty six years in power and is being overshadowed by a separatist uprising in the english speaking regions three armed men were killed by security forces in the north west. elections that are seen as a test of a national unity are under way in both and herzegovina the country is ruled for a complex power sharing system involving three presidents and two regional parliament split along ethnic lines it's a legacy of a peace deal following the balkans war in one nine hundred ninety s. which killed more than one hundred thousand people tension remains between the. ethnic groups and unemployment is high. joins us now live from sarajevo is

a very complex situation they come it produce any change for bulls mia. good question and it's a question that every voter is asking i can give you some of the latest information from here at eleven in the morning they released the turnout that being at the polling stations which are open for twelve hours and that was a direct cold low somewhat eleven point four one percent this does show the huge sense of disenchantment of the voters there once we spoke to said they turned up to vote but they don't think it's going to make any difference now to help me out alive why this sentiment is so widespread here i have with me a professor from the international university at saturday a vote professor. why is there such disenchantment here about what the vote will do we go through this whole complicated process what's going to achieve. well i'm sure that every age water in boston actually doesn't believe you

know all this process and you know when we take a local western democratic a society we often call the election and label them as a festival of democracy i really don't think that the average water in boston has to be enough realize or perceive this as a kind of festival of democracy i'm sure and pretty much convinced that the average water in boston i don't believe that he's single voice can change anything so that might be one thing but also we could see in the previous elections that. pretty large number of the waters were coming to election places very late priority closing. the polls so we can expect some huge. bigger number but i think that it's very significant to see this number and i'm sure that it will show that these elections have been under quotes the worst one that happened in recent

decades in boston is what we know so what do you expect after these elections results. it's going to change anything the total here it's been a very divisive. campaign has been a lot of corruption a lot of abuses they say that many policy of stuff papers have been found in intercepted they've found that being very open intimidation of the voters and bribing is extraordinary to this appears so much in the open well in the recent day . interesting phrase an interesting. word being for a force for that everything that you describe a friend of mine said that the waters here are existentially. jeopardized their lives jeopardize their existence is jeopardized if they wore a conscience and we could hear for certain candidates even for the candidates for

the presidency of how they openly without any shame threatening to the war what the actual war if they will for other candidates that they will be dismissed from their jobs and lose their jobs so having in mind that one million people. one million potential workers working in the public sphere in public services it is then questionable whether that to whole process could be. labeled and show and perceived as an open and free one what will change i don't think it will change anything maybe it will change only that the more people and more young people will leave boston not because of the lack of path to at this into this country but because of a lack of perspective and losing the hope for the future that is vanishing and fading here in boston it's going to follow us. and chimichanga you very much for

talking to us so a very depressing picture being painted here so many young people unemployed forty percent that are you. forty percent so many are leaving because they see no hope in this country now back to you ok david thanks for joining us that from sarajevo. well voters are also heading to the polls in cameron's presidential election as a whole there is a seventh term in office after thirty six years in power security forces deployed in borders close to prevent violence to have a rogue and she joins us from the capital of camera. so how's the voting process and. well the turnout in the capital in there has been fairly average outspoken to observers have spoken to members of the electoral commission and they are happy with it there now but let's remember that there are thirteen million eligible voters and less than six million have projected to vote according to themselves now it's only me only that the vote ever and the polls have

opened there are also many call there are around the world around the country or around the ten regions in the country but in the southwest and the northwest where there have been unrest because of the english speaking crowd who've been battling the government for independence that there have been reports of shooting there's been reports that many people have not opened on time and they report that many people are staying at home partly because on friday they got a notice from the governing thing that they have to close their business they have to close their shops and i don't have to stay at home or come out to the polling stations i'm going to they were going to only two options either stay at home or come out and vote but you're not allowed to do anything on the seventh of october which is the day in the southwest in the north where people have been home they're going to. come separatist fighters have reportedly been shooting at i think your officers and they have been reports of at least three killed so you know what happens at the tell us is ness than half of the rest of the cases. that this is a one time thing so it doesn't matter how many people came out to vote. that

million who have registered with matters which candidate gets more to the opposition has been very. and there is no correlation only on friday one of the one of the opposition candidates withdrew and told his supporters to try to pull. the m.r.c. or. movement candidate. but the fact remains that not a lot of people have come out to hold like i thought earlier and what the turnout will be would need to be less than have or more than i have with the firm but one thing is back in. a majority of the vote he will be president in any of the opposition get a majority of the board then they will become president of cameroon for the next seven years ever morgan joining us from the un dave thanks very much have a. u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un have agreed to meet again as soon as possible i should say it might pompei or deliver the news to south korean allies after returning from a meeting with kim the u.s.

wants to make progress on disarming north korea's nuclear weapons at the last summit kim said he would work towards denuclearization but there's been no agreement on how to put that into action. held the meeting a success. after an al-jazeera report on the worsening humanitarian situation in yemen province health officials are taking action. this is a two year old he suffers from acute malnutrition a problem that more than two million children in the country face due to the ongoing civil war there are there highlighted and situation i received an exclusive interview with the who's the minister of health about the issues in the region. bassam and more than two million other children are suffering from severe acute

malnutrition according to our surveillance we have in the poor areas up to hama. yemeni children suffer from acute malnutrition in both primary and secondary schools as a result we urgently treated them from difficult cases of infections and we also sent medical teams to treat the rest of the malnourished children in these areas in general the number of malnutrition cases has increased in yemen as one in every three children suffer from it. yemen's government says youth rebels have detained ten ships and one day into the main port for one terry and eight has spoken to the who the deputy director of red sea ports who denies the allegations a war of more than three years has devastated yemen's economy and pushed the country to the brink of famine the un says fighting in the port city has crippled monthly food aid shipments to eight million people suffering from extreme hunger. and

a poll of in session police agency has also to clarify the whereabouts of and wellbeing of its chief among the hallway family in france so they haven't heard from him since he flew to china last month french police are investigating his disappearance as a former chinese public minister of vice minister of public security. but cavanagh present time supreme court choice says being sworn in after a contentious senate vote senate has spent more than thirty hours giving their final test things for and against a nominee accused of sexual assault as mike hanna reports from washington d.c. cavanagh's appointment cements a conservative five four majority in the court is perhaps even decades britta kavanagh has been sworn in as a supreme court justice after successfully going through the nomination process the clerk will call the roll xander but earlier the focus was interrupted repeatedly by shouts from the public gallery sergeant in arms will restore order in the gallery an indication of the deep division within and without the senate chamber.

for cavanaugh's and tar performance after debate that lasted through the night only one democrat voted in favor one republican opposed nomination a vote to confirm judge coming out today is a vote worry dark chapter and the threat of history and turn the page toward a brighter tomorrow the confirmation passed by a narrow to vote margin the nomination of brit kavanaugh of maryland to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. by. throughout the day protesters gathered outside the supreme court the vast majority deeply opposed to the appointment of brett kavanaugh and fearful of the impact he will have on the court the supreme court is critical to our democracy they make choices that impact our lives our futures and our children's lives we are

not going to sit here and just lie down and let this confirmation get us down we're going to get right back up keep fighting and get that change that we want even if it's not president trump though saw a different picture of the gathering this tweet before the vote was taken womenfolk of an oar and many others. support a very good man a gathering all over capitol hill it's a beautiful thing to see he continues and they are not paid professional protesters who are handed expensive signs big day for america the spitter nomination process could have a major impact on the midterm elections that take place next month an opportunity for democrats to claw back a majority in both the house and the senate. but even this would not change a simple stark fact with this second successful confirmation president trump has pushed the center of the court firmly to the right by. washington.

lebanon's political leaders coming under increasing pressure. detained and interrogated for the content of the posts and more from barrett's. is back home after three weeks in prison his crime a post on his facebook page read one was charged with slander of public officials under lebanon's criminal code his detention is becoming part of what human rights groups call a disturbing pattern in the victims of them in lebanon is supposed to be a country of freedoms and not advocate or should instead there is no freedom and there are many dictators all i did was write to post on facebook i was summoned investigated and imprisoned. in his post read one criticised prime minister saad of heavy for not standing up to the lebanese armed group hezbollah whose members are

indicted by a un court and the assassination of prime minister rafik unhappy he wrote in his post let us see if you can form a government or take any decision without the consent of your father's murderers. a longtime defender of human rights accuses those in power of a campaign of intimidation and creating an atmosphere of fear. activists are increasingly being summoned by the cyber crimes bureau one case involved a post that addressed the president with complaints including turning the country into a family home he was criticizing the president explaining to. the middle east so. syria. some politicians are trying to fight back among them one time journalist and member of parliament. but she says legislative changes may not be enough we are in

a country where people are. just you know give an opinion that we need. to be strong. to listen to politicians the problem starts with this. many lebanese are denouncing the detention of people for peaceful criticism of the constitution guarantees freedom of expression protesters say libel laws are being used to silence critics. for comment but they haven't responded to our request for human rights groups say at least forty people have been summoned since two thousand and sixteen for what they expressed online. some like ridwan spent time in prison he may now be free but his freedom has its limits. well than seven hundred five.