situation in other parts of the country were around one hundred thirty four people were detained because of violating electra law the other thing that has been ongoing is that there's been some incidents with a biometric system that is being used to identify people in some states that has generated some delays and some long lines of people waiting to be able to cast their ballots and also we have seen lots of activity of the night of supporters where they show a video where they're casting their ballot or putting the seventy number which is the number of his list for the presidency using a gun and that's something that has shocked and scared many of those that we have spoken to about three hours left in this station before it shut down seven about five hours which was started here in the first results variable so narrow the far right candidate is confident of winning in the first round but the polls have shown that they could be a second round if that happens will there be any surprises. well

most definitely there could be because some analysts suggest that the balls are not a could win in the first round because some people are embarrassed to say that they're actually voting for him also it's been reported that there are around twenty percent of the vultures of remained undecided until today and that could benefit both it could also benefit some other candidates some center left candidates like. coming forward in this election. when the results are on the second round happened. defriended expected. that we'll get support from some of the other center left candidates. already you know that's something that will change to the final results thank you for that terry said valmai for us in sao paulo brazil and still ahead on al-jazeera yes more election is this sunday the polls have just close in boston has

a great has there been a home of one of the world's most complicated political systems we will be live in sarajevo and with the u.s. midterm elections just a month away a young congressman in texas tries for a win no democrat has managed in fact. hello once again the caspian coast has been catching sharks the biggest ones have gone through we've had lighter ones since in the systems clearly joined up still developing further east so in two days worth of rain we've had over two hundred deliveries reports and one of two places this is north of the capital and it's the runoff from the hard ground the margins upon which to round suits now the next storm up you want to two showers but the development i think is going to be over afghanistan where rain or snow. seem likely it's cloud to the west that i'm not

much more than a clod i don't think tempest saying much the same we're just below forty now in baghdad and that's the sort of level that runs all the way down through the gulf states no particular breeze out of it as well but coming into the cost of oman and yemen there was certainly been increasing cloud shield ahead of what looks like a developing cycle about exactly sure where to go and i went most likely is going to be coming somewhere into the i'm on a yemeni coastline but it might go further north sea will keep it all not significant rain is going to be the result and flash flooding of course they happen a few showers recently running down the scouts and coast of namibia nothing dramatic but once it is there i want to see more to come for a day at least. capturing a moment in time snapshots of other nights the story providing

a glimpse into someone else's wild. on. in the lead up to the u.s. midterm elections will be talking to the american people looking at key issues for voters from immigration to economic struggles the health care system to racism and women's rights joined us throughout have told her for special coverage and analysis the u.s. military on al-jazeera. a reminder of our top stories on al-jazeera believe a saudi journalist missing since tuesday has been killed inside the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul songe arabia denies the allegations. disappeared after

entering the building to pick up marriage paperwork president wants is turkish authorities and looking into camera records and monitoring or transits indonesia's disaster relief spokesman says that as many as five thousand people are missing from the villages of about iraq and the total that figure is significantly higher than the one thousand that officially initially estimated were buried beneath the rubble after the earthquake and disaster one week ago the disaster relief agency also announced that the search for victims will end on thursday at this point they'll be listed as missing presumed dead. and brazilians are voting in the most divisive presidential elections in years far right candidate i have also narrow and fernando had died of the workers' party on the main contenders for the top job also has surged in the polls in the past few weeks. and the polls closed in bosnia the elections there are seen as

a test of national unity the country is also through a complex power sharing system involving three presidents and two regional parliaments straight along ethnic lines it's a legacy of a peace deal following the balkans war in the one nine hundred ninety s. which killed more than one hundred thousand people attention remains between the said bosniak and croat ethnic groups and unemployment is high let's go live to david cheney who's in sarajevo for us david so the polls have just closed how did the voting go any early indications. yes but the latest figures we have pretty much out of date no but we'll find out in the next two hours what the real turnout has been but there's an instinct difference of the moment between the percentage turnout in the federation of bosnia and herzegovina i'd also republika srpska which is a serbian entity and their turnout midafternoon was something like forty two percent whereas in the federation it was thirty five percent so there's

a big difference seems like that in republika srpska they're turning out the voters they're getting a strong vote and the point about that is the former president of republika srpska is standing for the tripartite presidency here and it's looking like from those figures he has got a surge he's getting his voters effectively to the polls now very many reasons why that is the case because. they could actually said that he wanted to stand for a sense the independence only republika srpska and that is extraordinary when you've got a man who looks like he will be the tripartite presidency get into that position actually wants to break up the country and secede from the country now if he does come through that will be extraordinary i was going to ask you about that i mean we have to wait of course and see what the final results sob but what would a man run victory mean for the future of the country and what is going to change.

well i think it will start if it is the case it will start to erode the very institutions on which the country relies i mean the campaign that was fought in public of was a very divisive one. the former leader their right of and caricature convicted war criminal was prevost and the fact is that if you've got a president standing for the presidency here and he wants to secede from the country that is obviously going to create a huge amount of trouble for this country and already we've seen the effects of the previous elections essentially the voters have not got what they wanted or the clock is ticking backwards here still the ethnic divisions are still very much alive and on healed and in fact those ethnic divisions are being exploited in this campaign i'm sure in the campaign of course which should have been about unemployment forty percent amongst the youth here should have been about the number

of people leaving here to find jobs in germany and european union because it can't find them here none of these ideas are really being really took hold inside this campaign it was the ethnic divisions that seem to be guiding it so it looks like the votes to get and like in the other previous elections will be the losers but who will be the winner it will be interesting to see what happens of course thank you very much for that david chase live for us in sarajevo. and the polls have closed in cameroon as well in an election that's likely to see africa's oldest president remain in power all b. is seeking a seventh son after thirty six years in power the election has been overshadowed by a separatist uprising in english speaking parts of cameroon security forces killed three armed men in the northwest region hours ago saying they were trying to disrupt the vote here morgan has more from the ellen de. voting is underway in cameron's presidential elections here in the capital one day but the same cannot be

said in two parts of the country which is the northwest and the southwest where the angle from crisis has overshadowed the elections now those two regions the northwest and the southwest have been facing instant insecurity and instability for a year because in your speaking fighters who have called themselves amazonian have been battling the government demanding secession they say that the government has marginalized them but they're not being represented enough and that they want their own independent country that speaks their language which is anguish as a result more than two hundred thousand have been displaced and six hundred have been killed including security forces those two hundred thousand who have been displaced they are here in the capital your own day they're also into oil and many of them are in the bush they have no access to polling stations so they cannot cast their vote for the candidate that they want to see become president for the next seven years the opposition also said that the elections are march with irregularities i care more know who is the candidate for the opposition party called now said that he did not want to be part of this election as of two days ago so he did not want his name to be on the ballot but when he came to cast his vote for his support for the candidate of his choice maurice come to who he is

supporting and he told his supporters to support to vote for he said that he found his name on the ballot and he thinks that is a joke and that is not fair considering the fact that he is no longer a candidate the turnout for this election is not yet clear more than thirteen million eligible voters but less than six million have registered to vote and because of the instability in the northwest in the southwest even less will actually vote. less than a month to go before america's midterm elections and one of the issues dominating the race is immigration a lot of that has to do with donald trump who made it a signature part of his platform first as can his aides and now as president one state at the heart of this debate is texas it has long been a republican stronghold but as rob reynolds reports from houston this year that might be changing. and i know one thing it could be given to him from a friend on a steamy houston afternoon fernanda door today in camilla sokoto a kennedy are pounding the pavement at this largely let tino neighborhood urging

residents to vote in november president donald trump's harsh immigration rhetoric in policies that energize latino voters like eighteen year old elease soto who's enthusiastic about voting for the first time and deeply affected by scenes of family separation at the border i come from a family of immigrants still to really see. families be torn apart it's just really heartbreaking grass roots get out the vote efforts like this may make all the difference in this year's extremely tight race for senate here in texas still actually republican texas has not elected a democrat to the senate in thirty years but liberal democratic congressman beto over ork is now running fewer than four percentage points behind incumbent republican senator ted cruz we need to bring people out of the shadows allow them to get right by law and yes there should be an earned path to citizenship my views

on immigration are simple and i have some of them up many times in just four words legal good illegal bat o'rourke is gaining because people of color who often don't turn out in midterm elections are getting politically involved more enthusiasm of people who vote houston is the most diverse city in the us and nearly a quarter of all people here are foreign born you can see that on the streets and in the kitchens the city is a polyglot polychrome picture postcard of a future us when people of color become the majority a few decades from now but this is not a good time to be an immigrant and use it says immigrants rights legal advocate tatyana obama go permanent residents were gone and say why don't my doing wrong will i be deported sometimes it's not. out of the ordinary but then afraid that fear could lead to change if volunteers like these can convince let tino's and

other people of color to head to the polls as fast as this machine can crank out tortillas texas may elect a democratic senator in november and possibly change the balance of power in washington to rob reynolds al-jazeera houston. a five point nine magnitude earthquake has killed at least ten people in haiti the police chief for the country's northwest region says seven people died in port au prince and port au prince part of pay the northern town near the epicenter three others died further in a town in the south home on in two thousand and ten a magnitude seven point zero earthquake hit the capital port au prince killing more than two hundred fifty thousand people now online critics of lebanon's political leaders say they're being increasingly sensitive especially when discussing topics such as politics and religion some social media users have been interrogated in

jail for the content of their posts then a hunter has a story from beirut. will lead route one 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 victim's family lebanon is supposed to be a culture 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 duty for not standing up to the lebanese armed group hezbollah whose members are indicted by a un court in 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. what a longtime defender of human rights accuses those in power of

a campaign of intimidation and creating an atmosphere of fear as 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 terrorized because they just you know give an opinion that we need. to be strong. to listen to politicians the

problem starts with this political chaos many lebanese are denouncing the detention of people for peaceful criticism while the constitution guarantees freedom of expression protesters say libel laws are being used to silence critics. we contacted the internal security forces cyber crimes bureau for comment but they haven't responded to our request 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. after an al-jazeera report on the worsening humanitarian situation in yemen has had her province healthy health officials are taking action this is two year old he suffers from acute malnutrition as you can see a problem that more than two million children in the country face due to the ongoing civil war jazeera highlighted little bassam situation and received an

exclusive interview with the who's the minister of health about the issues in the region. a woman. bassam and more than two million other children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition according to our surveillance we have in the poorer areas of 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 start 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. well again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera check isha thought he's believe a saudi journalist missing since tuesday has been killed inside the saudi arabian

consulate in istanbul denies the allegations disappeared after entering the building to pick up marriage paperwork to present says authorities are looking into camera records and monitoring airport trances. indonesia's disaster relief spokesman says that as many as five thousand people are missing from the villages of ballarat and after last week's earthquake and tsunami that figure is significantly higher than the one thousand that officials initially estimated were buried beneath the rubble the relief agency also will say is that the search for earthquake and tsunami victims will end on thursday at this point they will be listed as vic as missing presumed dead. china has confirmed that into force president mang hallway is under investigation meng who is a chinese citizen went missing after returning to beijing last month making her first public appearance meng's wife told reporters her husband center a picture of a knife signaling he was in danger of being is

a former chinese vice minister off public security brazilians of voting in the most divisive presidential elections in me is the far right candidate i have also narrow and fernando had out of the workers' party at the main contenders for the presidency has surged in the polls in the past few weeks and the polls are not close in boston at the elections they were seen as a test of national unity the country is ruled through a complex file sharing system involving three presidents and two regional parliament split along ethnic lines this is a legacy of a peace deal following the balkans war in the one nine hundred ninety s. which killed more than one hundred thousand people and the poles have also closed in cameroon for an election that will likely see africa's oldest president remain in power will be seeking a seventh term after thirty six years in power election has been overshadowed by a separatist uprising in english speaking parts off camera and security forces killed three armed men in the northwest region hours ago saying they were trying to disrupt the vote. those are the headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right

after inside story to say with this exhaustion. about hostages into the consulate in istanbul five days ago under water they never walked out turkish authorities say they believe he was killed inside the building and that it was premeditated. or denies it is that journalist the latest victim of his government's own going crackdown understand this is inside story.

welcome to the program. he was banned in saudi arabia for his criticism of the kingdom and wrote his opinions in the washington post while living in the us example now fear is growing for the safety of the well known journalist. he hasn't been seen since going into the sadic on slate in istanbul last tuesday took his police are treating his disappearance as a murder inquiry. and enroll by the case wists tarnishing the kingdom's image and is creating tension with turkey as well from a son born. jamaal hershel g. has been missing for five days the well known saudi journalist was last seen entering his country's consulates in istanbul trues day and hasn't in march since friends and colleagues from around the world now fear the worst off that sucker security officials said late on saturday that they were treating crush his

disappearance as a murder investigation they said he entered a consulate in the left and we don't know what happened but his wife was out there so he didn't leave so that's a that's a fact and i think you're probably true that he didn't leave because the video with which you'll see her nephew days i mean it's just not credible and i think anybody who has a sense of decency should understand that this is something not acceptable it's not acceptable to a citizen because it's new due to a different country and just a doctor or whatever i mean was the operation i don't know the puzzle she was the former editor in chief of saudi media outlets a lot and then what on and was close to members of the saudi royal family last year however and after the rise of crown prince mohammed bin solomon was banned from writing allegedly because of his comments on the kingdom's relationship with u.s. presidents donald trump. shortly after she fled his homeland to live in self-imposed exile in washington he was not necessarily

a dissident i disagree with that description he was a loyal saudi citizen he had his own vision of what the country should be doing that type of freedom needs the type of reform it needs and maybe in the final analysis that's what got him in trouble he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul it's around one pm on tuesday several hours later a saudi official told his fiance who was waiting outside that he wasn't in the building turkish security sources say a group of saudi officials flew into stumble on the day of his disappearance and were at the consulates when herschel she was there three days later turkey's foreign ministry summoned saudi arabia's ambassador to ankara and crown prince mohammed bin some months at circus police could search the saudi consulates they then invited journalists in to show all cultural jew was not there after turkish police announced they were conducting a murder investigation saudi arabia state news agency denied accusations that he

was murdered in their consulates the washington post which questions she wrote opinion pieces for said if the reports of jamal's murder a true it's a monstrous and unfathomable act tomorrow was or as we hope is a committed courageous journalist the disappearance of question she is adding further strain to turkish saudi relations with officials here saying they will be releasing security camera video and other evidence if an acceptable explanation from the saudis isn't forthcoming. al-jazeera istanbul. earlier we spoke to aid in wyatt who is the president of the ethical journalism network his hand as if the reports are true it is shocking attack on global press freedom we're not talking about someone here who is a fringe activist at all we're talking about someone who is well respected and therefore that in a way makes this action even more troubling and even more worrying and that's why

these reports have to be clarified we need to have a clear statement from the saudi authorities about the whereabouts of german now and an answer to these allegations which are now very clearly on the table from the turkish authorities about reports that he was tortured and murdered inside the embassy in istanbul free speech has come under increasing attack ever since we have been so man took over as the crown prince last year public prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against prominent scholar salmen i woulda he tweeted last year hinting that saudi arabia should restore ties with neighboring qatar which has been under study blockade for sixteen months several muslim preachers are imprisoned several how ali was detained after publishing a three thousand page book which accused mohammad been so man of the ruling family of betrayal because of their ties with israel government ministers princes and saudi business leaders were detained days after simone became calm prince in what

was described as a crackdown on corruption some paid billions for their release. let's bring in our guests from istanbul and we have mammoth cheli has a political editor with the daily newspaper joining us via skype in amman is google he's the middle east researcher with human rights watch and finally joining us here in studio three he's director of gulf studies center of the thai university welcome to you all mr chala nothing is conclusive so far we've heard different accounts about the fate of the saudi journalist and critic jim. what we know for sure is that he's found saying that he went into the consulate but never showed up the saudis said he left from a different date the turks say they still believe his inside the

building was the situation the while yes it is it is confirmed that he went on october second to the saudi consulate and he never came out. there has been reports suggesting that he was his fear that he is it's fair that he is killed however earlier today president don spoke on the issue saying that he still hopes that there will be a positive outcome instead and the investigation is continuing saw there has been conflict it conflicting reports and we hope that this situation is not as it has been reported and there will be a positive outcome otherwise i think this will lead to a you know a will put saudi arabia in a difficult position where they need to explain themselves and or this will

definitely affect turkey saudi relations. there. i would talk differently about the saudi. turkish relations but before that and i'm . turkish officials have been really cautious over the last few hours particular president of the last saying that his confident he would come up with more clarity when the. investigation comes to an end wow you explain this cautious statement by the is it because this is really a complex situation that the turkish government is faced with. well i'm not really sure what to make of the various turkish statements and comments to media about the situation they range from comments that seemed to indicate that they really believed that he had has been killed inside the consulate versus the president today saying that he hoped for a positive outcome so i'm not really sure what to make of that i think that the

main factor return to here is that jamal should g.e. went into the embassy on october first and he left instructions with his companion his fiance who was with him to notify the authorities if he did not return in two hours she waited there for him for twelve hours and he never came out now i have a hard time believing that he freely walked out of the embassy and was not able to find her more over the various saudi statements denying their role in this and saying that he left the embassy i find a little bit less than convincing given the fact that they haven't really given any detail as to how long he stayed there if he left you know what what what what what was he doing there he spoke during the saudis theoretically could produce all of these witnesses and people that say they saw him up to it and they haven't done so they've really just offered very vague that iran's mezzo could be just now the turkish government is wants to give it more time for the investigators to establish

solid conclusive evidence about what happened to. you to come out and say this is our version of what exactly happened to the saudi opponent feel over how soon before i go to you or to a question i think we need to put what happened the last forty eight hours in a consequence to live all of the context one is so d. so d. context was what's happening since can someone come to power and there is a regional context was basically about this road the regional international conference was basically the saudi image in the world i think the reason why the way way the world is you know talking about all of this is actually so that if you enter a new phase. as being called that there for a time and there have been sentiment and that that reform so called for reform all of this happening you know you have tens of people are in jail now no one knows what happened to them and you have this event now happened in the last for the

hours and you have also there's this kind of you know image of trying to present the world that there is a reform coming so that any and the what happened to the a journalist was well known internationally especially in of the united states this context is important to understand why why turkey itself seems a little bit. you know giving i would say different. statements on what's happening i think because there is no accurate information is being provided by the saudis i think the saudis. they have one narrative which basically the repeat that was basically they deny that she said well i his and you have and they invited the to your government to come to them consulate and they have and the authorities they have one choice left was basically relying on their own resources and this resources started from the consulate itself was happening surrounding the consulate itself and also depending on the other resources what happened from the airport to the concert i think the reason why we see this

conflict of the statement is actually putting all of the parts of the puzzle together which i think take some time and i think some statement actually taken just some of the events all of this out of the context of time. mahmut i mean we've seen senior officials quoted by local media and by also news agencies saying that. turkish officials believe that the there were fifteen diplomats who came from saudi arabia all the way to into into the embassy of the time when. she was there those officials are reported to have left back to size arabia which begs the question it's going to be an extremely delicate task for the turkish authorities to put together the elements of the puzzle and definitely this is actually overall it on its own it's a very delicate situation the fact that a dissident saudi citizen is you know reported to be killed in saudi arabia

consulate in istanbul there are reports about fifteen saudi citizens coming into turkey have surfaced and bill it's believed that some of them were official saudi representatives however again there has been you know a conflict not conflict and where there's been various reports so it's hard to pinpoint on which one of them is true but i think as president obama said the investigation is going on and the fact that an official statement has not been released i think shows that the turkish government is definitely looking into this matter delicately and in detail the evidences regarding their position needs to be very concrete and so that you know they're in this situation does not go back and forth for i think. it is they're doing their best not to reach to a conclusion that can be you know in a weak position so this is going to take

a few days at the least or i mean the prosecutors are looking at it incident and depending on how much detail how much evidence how much you can create information they need the fact that that piece of information that fifteen saudi citizens came at the same day and they entered the consulate around the same time i think complicates the matter to a different level to if it is if it is confirmed that they were involved in some sort of a let's say and into a geisha at the consulate or you know any other involvements this will definitely. a simple. situation to a more complicated affair between saudi arabia and turkey and turkey and i'm. still missing would a nothing about his one about which is raising concerns the world wide is could

this be from your own perspective an indication of an escalation of the way saudi arabia is dealing with its critics and opponents well that's an interesting question saudi arabia in fact over the last year has embarked on a massive crackdown against any opinion forces any independent thinkers any potential dissidents people who might criticise the crown prince or saudi policies we see dozens and dozens of arrests including of prominent women's rights activists women who were involved in the right to drive campaigns over the last few years and were well known to western media outlets and western diplomats many of them at least nine are in jail in unknown circumstances right now in saudi arabia presumably under investigation in addition saudi arabia also has of course barked out a lot of reckless regional adventures including the. asterisk's conflict in yemen the war on yemen as well as the people negatively affected by its policy of the of

isolation of of qatar you know i would think given all these events that sat that public opinion throughout the world would already have been affected but in fact saudi arabia and the prince it still to at least some extent been able to maintain sort of a positive image of reforming saudi arabia it you know i think that a case like this really actually shows the true face. if that if indeed it is true that that that. has been killed if it is sure i think it shows the true face of how about how mad and the level of repression that he has he has brought with his will the case of. what kind of messages would it send to the saudis in saudi arabia and to the critics who live in exile. of course that would be a very strong message especially that she was part of this that meant to herself she

was working with article vi so who was who used to be the director and so the internet as he used to be the. ambassador of saudi arabia london and washington and he is aware of you know a lot of details about the political function and relations of saudi arabia so he was not really. a normal journalist who was just working and he was you know well away well connected and also with a word of all of what's happening in science or the libya i think that is that is one of the reason it seems to me. made his case very significant internationally and in saudi arabia and i think this was sent a clear message that any any kind of a critique to the current political situation the they would pay a heavy price let's not forget. the in the last when he left saudi arabia he wasn't actually harsh on the political system of course he criticizes the saudi policy

policy in yemen in syria he was he was pushing to word sort of the conciliation between reformist in iran and and and so the idea he was he was he was thinking out of the books interim how so they can play a strong role in the region and he was trying to promote this as part of change the foreign policy of saudi arabia to gain more impact influence in the region and to tackle its own challenges with this has been a perceived its seems to me to the from from within the political circle and so your idea as being a harsh critique and they they cannot absorb that someone from within comes and say all of this and seems to me that is the reason why jamal khashoggi case is becoming a significant when it comes to the all those who are critical sizing the current political situation so that area mammoth if the worst is confirmed. above the theater was a metal hustle to see what does it leave the relations between turkey and saudi arabia well first of all like i said saudi arabia needs to have an explanation for

this this will definitely put a dent in turkey saudi relations if jamal's incident is confirmed and he did the news is unfortunate however saudi arabia we know has internal domestic problems but it would be a big mistake for so to be a to carry its domestic internal power rivalry into carried into turkey this will you know i mean i want to remind something hears mr trump not so long ago said something about saudi arabia's administration and i think we need nor further comment and putting saudi arabia putting itself in a situation that will be confronting would turkey will not be something very smart for for the saudi administration they have their internal problems it's not a democratic. nation there obviously it's not for turkey to decide it's saudi

people that will decide their own fate but killing these rival power rivalry into turkey will definitely not be. a situation that will be you know a smart smart situation for for saudi arabia and the selman administration needs to hold had themselves accountable and whole and nor their responsibility in their relationship with turkey turkey is not a country that they would need it's enmity i think they should see turkey's friendship rather then you know confronting with turkey and its relations given dynamics of the region and did this fear of influence for turkey so i mean they need to come out and have a hold themselves accountable for their for the incident if it is confirmed ok otherwise it will. move to a situation where they will turkey will need to address it in. measures i see

a point. something has been described as a critic an opponent but ultimately his known worldwide as being a an independent journalist and speaking of freedom of expression how do you see its future given the fact that saudi arabia remains a country with massive political and financial clout with many friends all over the world do you think that this political or financial clout could further mute international outcry over the fate of his amount of. well i think good to mouthwash of jihad wanting one of his washington post column some subset at best i think the headline of one of his first ones was saudi arabia wasn't always this repressive and now it's unbearable i think that he really pointed and really put his finger on the extent the massive extent to which freedom of expression was never truly respected in saudi arabia has become absolutely you know not tolerated by hama been

summat and he's a group of security agents who are monitoring twitter who are monitoring every statement made by the citizens looking for criticism and looking to punish the saudi citizen who criticize his policies for all season the state i also think it's important to point out that whatever the fate of jim out even if he even if he hasn't been killed even if even if what we believe is the worst possible outcome here is a true he's already a victim of saudi arabia's crackdown on free expression he himself had to flee his country in september twenty seventh fearing arrest and he was right to fear arrest because shortly after he left many many people did get arrested and you know he's been living in exile as a victim of hama been some man's you know crackdown on free expression already so look i don't think we're going it is. very good place and i'm very concerned about not only the future of your studies being able to express themselves freely but

also the people who have been detained who are inevitably going to put through it put through a very trials and convict the long prison terms. i mean since. some of us and i was appointed as crown prince this huge optimism particular worldwide about fresh in saudi arabia the era of political and economic reforms and work could be seen as a beginning of by a vibrant democracy that has been completely dashed over the last few months is this case particularly now going to further but more damage into the images that i would argue regard this you know the outcome more top with what happened what happened to jamal hush up with the image absolutely massive because even in kidnapping cam in the consulate itself an event and will not be forgotten i think it's not for a good press one of this one man visit that i considered and he has a very famous tour in the united states to introduce a new face to the new saudi arabia and all of this now if you look at what's up in

the last twenty four hours in the newspapers in there that would basically destroying everything he has done i think what's happened absolutely you know the outcome will be massive on the image of saudi arabia i think it's it would be difficult actually to fix it in the future and if something happened really huge amount in that that would be really. something and for and forgotten. for for turkey it's been a now safe haven for many. opponents who have been moving to turkey since particularly after two thousand and eleven and some of them have been tweeting recently particular over the last few hours of the no longer feel safe in turkey if it's confirmed that. has been targeted killed in in istanbul. i think if jamal is unfortunately you know the. news come as a negative unfortunately this is

a message that probably been selman mohamed bin said man was trying to attain with doing this to make all the opposition or opposition figures in turkey from syria or or lead to saudi arabia to feel unsafe but turkey has been a save country for for let's say the syrian opposition figures since the rig out of the war turkey is not as they probably have imagined and turkey will deal with this accordingly turkey is a safe country for the oppositions for the opposition for for anyone for any any members of i mean any citizen of any country and in addition to turkish citizens turkish citizens i mean foreign citizens are as safe as turkish citizens mom or tillich google majuba as well thank you very much indeed for your contribution

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istanbul saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman denies any solid volved meant in his disappearance jamaat a child has a top story from istanbul. jamal hershel g. has been missing for five days the well known saudi journalist was last seen entering his country's consulate in istanbul on true's day and hasn't emerged since friends and colleagues from around the world now fear the worst they said he entered a consulate and he left and we don't know what happened but his wife was out there is so he didn't leave so that's a that's a fact and i think you're probably true that he didn't leave because the video with which you will see her nephew days i mean it's just not credible and i think anybody who has a sense of decency should understand that this is something not acceptable it's not acceptable citizen because it's new today different country and just abducted or whatever i mean well the operation since his disappearance senior turkish officials have held back from speaking on record in an attempt to avoid the diplomatic

fallout with the saudis however on sunday president right up taber iran had this to say version of only the letter and the prosecutor general and a standalone extensively investigating this incident from a security intelligence perspective checking of the records of departure an interest them by airport in particular is ongoing we are awaiting the results of these investigations that said for us to see such an incident taking place in my country mr jamal is an old friend of mine that's why my expectation is still in good faith i wish we don't come up against a situation that we don't desire i do believe that the defenders of freedom and freedom of opinion in our country will follow this matter as president of turkey i will follow this closely and i will announce the results no matter what to the world. was the former editor in chief of saudi media outlets a lot up and then what on and was closed to members of the saudi royal family last year however and after the rise of crown prince mohammed bin said

a man was banned from writing allegedly because of his comments on the kingdom's relationship with u.s. president donald trump shortly after hushed. she fled his homeland to live in self-imposed exile in washington he was not necessarily a dissident i disagree with that description he was a loyal saudi citizen he had his own vision of what the country should be doing that type of freedom needs the type of reform it needs and maybe in the final analysis that's what got him in trouble he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul it's around one pm on tuesday several hours later a saudi official told his fiance who was waiting outside that he wasn't in the building turkish security sources say a group of saudi officials flew into stumble on the day of his disappearance and were at the consulates when herschel she was there three days later turkey's foreign ministry summoned saudi arabia's ambassador to ankara and crown prince

mohammed bin some months a turkish police could search the saudi consulates they then invited journalists into show cultural jew was not there after turkish police announced they were conducting a murder investigation saudi arabia state news agency denied accusations that he was murdered in their consulate the washington post which questions she wrote opinion pieces for said if the reports of jamal's murder a true it's a monstrous and unfathomable act jamal was as we hope is a committed courageous journalist the disappearance of question she is adding further strain to turkish saudi relations with officials here saying they will be releasing security camera video and other evidence if an acceptable explanation from the saudis isn't forthcoming. al jazeera istanbul let's now speak to david harris who is the editor in chief of the middle east i he's via skype from london thank you very much david for being with us again today on

al-jazeera first of all what do you make of the developments self the past is and the very cautious statement we heard from techies president about case. i mean the news is grim. i think the turks know what happened inside the consulate . but the timing of what happened inside the consulate. because the characters they know the people you know the people on the two planes in the house on the same very well and i think they also know how bossy all gennaro are sure she was disposed they say. that he may have been killed while in the saudi consulate in istanbul you say that they have all this information why they're not releasing this evidence. well my understanding is that a forensic team. is still awaiting permission from the scientists go in the forensic

team are very confident that they will find traces of blood and other human remains inside its concert is extremely difficult powerade it's a car result unless you physically destroy the walls in the room in which he was murdered it's. very confident about this but this forensic team is there waiting to go in. they will start releasing the details over the next few days but it's going to be a criminal. investigation is going to be the prosecutor who releases it not the politicians but what they want to do in space can make the world wake up to what has happened in atrocious crime you know consulates in a in a year or in sixty yeah this is unbelievable and how would such an investigation proceed if it is indeed confirmed that g.

was killed inside the saudi consulate any stumble it is in our attack in turkey on a on foreign soil but the saudi consulate is considered saudi territory right how would such an investigation proceed. i'm no expert on on on this or on service nor it would need mission of the saudis to allow the forensic team in i'm standing still waiting to go in i think that our evidence and if the scientists do not cooperate they will release it but my understanding is they know the names of. the saudi officials in four or five officials part of the prettiness arrived on and two there are grains i may know the identity of the others involved right then and we know david at the saudi crown prince has said saudi arabia has nothing to do with this disappearance just you know remind

our viewers why they would want to see the killed. well they've killed other dissidents before. i know your contributor said i am absolutely true jamal was a loyal saudi he did not consider himself this isn't. he did not criticize saudi arabia for instance a nice alicia lee the war in yemen or indeed the reform program what he was talking about was the lack of democracy in inside iraq there ranch huge human rights abuses and he said you cannot have an economic reform unless you have a political hopes he's very moderate mild sensible things to say it's the numeral for not a revolutionary now unfortunately the saudi regime is such that it cannot stomach even moderate criticism and this is what they do so moderate critics some western governments the u.s. the u.k.

among them have been very ambiguous in their treatment of saudi arabia and we've seen it with the war in yemen there's been very muted criticism of saudi actions in yemen you think this is going to change with the case of damascus shoji even though we haven't heard much i must say from the u.s. state department so far. well i think a civil completions that could be drawn from from this case last one is that the state of saudi turkish relations is dead it doesn't exist anymore there is fury unbridled fury in turkey and they're not bothered about now the relationship confessional relationship resign or a the second tactic is that it's now going to be employed by the don't and the presidency is to name and shame and to get twelve's opinion on their side and to leave no iota of doubt as to the facts of what happened. one last question david

before we let you go i know jamal is a friend of yours and i know that the events of the last few days are really troubling for you you know what do you hope still i mean do you do you think there is still some hope that he might be alive our love to believe. but i've heard a lot of calls in the middle of the night of the last twenty four hours to convince me that he is the last no longer a liar and his body is not even whole say this is the greatest of reluctance regrets jamal and i were. sharing a. coffee. last saturday here in loans in the fall that i mentioned in a somewhat he got a new line for himself in washington. ends he's not. they are nice some are more honest journalists a true. free creature couldn't hurt. so

arms. for his family and also the loss of a true friend thank you david thank you so much for speaking to us david harris from the middle east side joining us there from london now after weeks of uncertainty about the fate of the missing interpol president china finally says it's investigating men wholly the anti-corruption watchdog says mang is being suspect investigated for suspected violations of law making a first public appearance area mang home ways wife told reporters that her husband sent her a picture of a knife signaling he was in danger mang disappeared while on a trip to china last month he's a former chinese minister of public security. the indonesian government says it believes they could be around five thousand people still missing in some areas of palo city after last.