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 are not up and on 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 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 encourage and crown prince mohammed bin some months at circus police could search the saudi consulates they then invited journalists in to 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 cattle 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 casualties i think further strain to talk of saudi relations with officials who are saying they will be releasing security camera video as well as other evidence if an acceptable and convincing explanation from the saudis is not forthcoming. they stumble the delegation of saudi prosecutors has visited the kingdom's consulate in istanbul the saudi ambassador says the group is there with the turkish count to find out what happened to the shock she david kay is a un special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression he says given the severity of the allegations an independent investigation should be carried out. if it's proven. and it does seem at this point that this is what the turkish government believed that jamal khashoggi was murdered in the saudi consulate then at the very least i think

i i would like to see the international community imposing some consequences on this brutal brutal act and to do so in a number of different ways one would be creating some kind of independent mechanism to ensure that there's accountability for poor the alleged murder of jamal and secondly really to think about what other kinds of consequences might might be borne by the saudi government directly there are different kinds of steps that we might think about i don't know what those are at the moment but a a an act of this kind cannot go by without reaction by the by the international community and i would be calling for some kind of action for sure. i'm speaking out to henri barkey who joins us via skype from chevy chase maryland

he's a professor at lehigh university in specializes in turkey and the middle east a professor good to have you with us what's your take on this what do you think has happened to jamal khashoggi. listen this is a sixty four thousand dollars question as they say here i have no idea. and at this stage i think i would take everything that's going so different large again. because look. you know her present that i don't say we're investigating but he did not say that mr kushner he had been murdered and i think the concerts he was kind of care for all. summer she is deputies and some of his allies are being. calling mr kushner you know he was really good guy but he was his buddy i didn't destroy that ship jobs so these are heating costs legations and it's hard to take any of these things very seriously at this stage because the

turkish officials don't have much credibility and the saudis when they say they don't have it and they are over the don't have much credibility either so we are in a situation where we can only just wait and watch and see what clues emerge. but the consequences are a serious one way or the other i mean if. if he hasn't being. demanded i think to custody in concert maybe well maybe he was shipped out to study or. not not at the bank but we don't really know but but the consequence is not trying to start relations will be will be dire no matter what happens ok let's explore the potential then for the for the deterioration in relations between saudi arabia if it turns out because she is alive and has been spirited out of the country and is back in saudi arabia what happens between turkey and saudi arabia if it turns out that that the took for right away why would they

say that he's been killed if he if he happened what happens in that event to turkey saudi relations and what about washington. well let's think that's actor first i mean the first option. if he has been spirited out of the consulate into back into saudi arabia alive still instantly each of the plotted public all you don't do these things the chance they're going to be the upset at the at the saudis only check sure the elections were not so great because of the problem or for siding with protection siding with qatar against the and saudi arabia so that's that's one but on the other hand the saudis will also not forgive the turks for having i should use them of having murdered somebody in cold blood and he didn't and given all these horrific details and so the saudis are you can be sure how also

going to exact then he manage. it for argument's sake let's talk so right about that. but the claim not to and again but by his by his people that mr kushner he has been rather then this is elevated to the international level i mean this is not something that is just going to be between turkey and saudi arabia this as you also heard from mr kay this is going to be taken up at the. u.n. and other other international bodies and he's going to make relationships were sort of use the and. but the sides are going to be the ones who are going to lose procedure wise a great deal here but again we don't know maybe question really what we don't know where he is. there's no question that this is a very bizarre situation when really you know. we are maybe being played by

somebody we don't know that somebody is. but we all we have to set the stage is that we have to be patient and find out what really what's really happened always happening professor really good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us. professor henri barkey that professor of international relations at lehigh university. from out zero still to come on the program results come again in. presidential elections where a man who wants to break up the country could take the reins of power. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of north korea's kim jong agreed to arrange another summit as soon as possible as denuclearization efforts continue and find out why qana mcgregor's congress could be in danger of losing his championship title that's coming up a little later in schools. in

bosnia and herzegovina early results show nationalist miller has won a seat in the presidency the office of the presidency must contain one. and once each holds the rotating position for eight months is governed through a complex power sharing system involving three presidents and two regional parliaments split along ethnic lines it's a legacy of the dayton peace agreement that brought an end to three years of war in the one nine hundred ninety s. . david chaytor is live for us now in sarajevo david what does it mean for bosnia herzegovina with miller adored it becoming one of the tripartite presidents them. well as you said this is the man who actually said he wants to hold a referendum in republican serbska which is the main serbian entity inside the state food for to get the to get the people to break away from

bosnia herzegovina and that means the man elected to this retaining presidency each of the presidents has eight months in office under the dayton accord agreements which ended the war he will actually be working to split the country split the country away from what he has always described as an arranged marriage and a marriage that doesn't work he wants a divorce and that means that a huge shadow is going to be cast over the already unstable country that is mired and many people say the clock is ticking back here where he really wants to send the clock back he actually is an ally of the the russian president his first trip we've heard from his his team is he's going to go to serbia it's very very clear that he's an extreme serbian nationalists and that the very fact that he's in the presidency rotating presidency of the country means that he has the ability in the

power to actually start degrading the institutions which actually support this very unstable structure and so it will be very serious indeed for the country will probably increase the number of young people here with forty percent unemployment trying to leave many observers fear that this is going to be a very dangerous period adrian david tell us something about the man himself and what it means for the country's ambitions for joining the e.u. and nato. well that's absolutely right he's fifty eight he's a very tall man he used to be a basketball player and a very effective one he established a cigarette business in an oil business during the war in ninety two to ninety five is now reported to be a multi millionaire and he's very much seen as a very dangerous threat to everything that so the european union and and the united

states have tried to provide here which is to try and keep the country together to keep the dayton accords going but is a mere fact that the dayton accords created a cease fire but the war has been going on and during his campaign he definitely pushed that idea of serbia and republican first almost an echo of trump's america first and it's very clear that he is going to start destabilizing many other institutions he wants to be sworn in in by new luker the adhoc capital of republika serbska he doesn't want to come to sarajevo he wants nothing to do with syria over he wants any serb who's been elected in these elections to sit in banda luka that is really going to have a huge impact now what it means also is that there is no chance a century now for this country to move towards the european union is looking faint

hopes anyway it also means that any chance of joining nato are blocked because his main ally and it's been a very visible ally is the russian president vladimir putin now whether putin and the russians will urge him to calm down his rhetoric and try and keep some sources ability here we have to find out certainly the russians would prefer a destabilized state but not one that is split they were after all a party to the dayton accords so this is a very dangerous period for the country many people will be realizing that something has changed very much for this vote and the fact is that their future is now even more under threat than it ever was. david many thanks on the series david chase of the live i'm sorry abel interpol says that it's received the resignation of its missing chief longway effective immediately china says that monk is on the investigation from specified violations of law. the reports.

among conway was reported missing by his family after he flew to china last month interpol has repeatedly asked the chinese government to clarify his whereabouts and well being instead on sunday staff at its headquarters in the french city of leone received his resignation grace his wife says she fears for his safety the last message she says she received from her husband was an emotion of a knife. i can see my husband we are always a connected by hearts here were supposed to me doing days the matter belongs to the fairness and a job status the matter belongs to that international community the matter belongs to the people of my motherland. china says money is under investigation for unspecified violations of the rule he was previously china's vice minister of

public security and once worked directly on the zhao young kang he was then one of china's top leaders. is now in prison after running foul of chinese president xi jinping is anti corruption campaign other prominent figures who've gone missing in china recently were later found to have been under investigation by authorities these include the actress fan being being she disappeared three months ago and popped up again last week publicly expressing regret for allegedly dodging millions of dollars in taxes. interpol says kim jong young of south korea will be acting president until a new chief is elected in november month detention is put china's civil liberties and human rights again under the spotlight victoria gate and be al-jazeera the indonesian government believes they could be around five thousand people still missing in some areas palu it was one of the region's worst affected by last week's earthquake and tsunami which is killed close to two thousand people this satellite

image shows the speed and extent of the damage solid ground turned into rivers of mud sweeping away hundreds of homes and people in one neighborhood called more than seventeen hundred homes were destroyed some of them sunk twenty feet on the ground under thomas has more now on what will happen next to some of the worst affected villages. if things five thousand missing people did indeed lose their lives it would more than triple the overall death toll that we know about already now the estimate has been reached by talking to community leaders and local government leaders about who they think is still unaccounted for so the could be some double counting going on or it could be that people left the city in the aftermath of the earthquake and didn't let anybody know so we have to be a bit cautious with that figure nevertheless it is believable standing here this is one of the two areas of the city most devastated by the earthquake here and

elsewhere in another part of the city but tobe over the other side the ground liquefied during the earthquake swallowing everything in on itself the government in this press conference also said that this area and the other will be for a state people will not return here they'll be big parks memorial parks to remember what happened here they've also revealed that back in twenty twelve geological surveys were carried out and they knew that this part of the city was vulnerable to liquefaction so there will be some questions asked there the government says the search will be scaled down significantly from the eleventh of october after then it's really the point at which bodies to compile used to the degree that you can't make identifications so this will essentially become a mass grave and the government has said as well that they will allocate thirty seven million u.s. dollars to the reconstruction of this part of the wiser. let's hear now from our zeros wayne hay who's he has more on the difficulties that medical professionals

are facing in the aftermath of the disaster. hospitals in central sulawesi are struggling to cope following the earthquake and tsunami many patients have to wait in stiflingly hot tents with limited medical equipment to treat them most of the doctors and nurses are gone this is one of the largest hospitals in palu and is operating with around ten percent of its original start. of what we're trying to call the stuff to get them to come back and then we'll be able to identify we're still here. and all we lost are two disaster the damage shows what the medical workers had to deal with on the night of the disaster is that there are around thirty people still unaccounted for inside this building including hospital staff and patients there are so many bodies still buried in mud and beneath rubble around the disaster areas that it's increasingly becoming a health concern particularly for the search teams. handling the decomposing bodies

and body parts exposes the recovery workers to diseases such as tuberculosis and cholera the disaster has also left more than sixty thousand homeless many are living in the open where rubbish is not being collected and there are no toilets doctors say they are starting to see an increase in diarrhea and skin rashes the primary how clean it is. not working up to right now so you feel supported by the volunteers however in the fall into the media here so it's kind of we have to educate people to go to the clinic or any. medical team that provide the health care but there's a constant risk of survivors suffering injuries so free tetanus shots are being given many people spend their days making dangerous tricks across the rubble and debris to where they used to live more than a week on the scale of this disaster is still emerging and the number of casualties

continues to grow the many potential health risks could make the crisis even worse when hey al jazeera indonesia. another quake in haiti has killed at least twelve people the five point nine magnitude quake followed by severe aftershocks brought down buildings in the north of the caribbean nation around two hundred people are reported to have been injured. a weather update next year on the countdown begins for the u.s. midterm elections in november we'll have more from the republican. texas. and storms to victory in japan and edges closer to a fifth one title all the details coming up in schools.

hello again we're here cross united states we're seeing a big temperature contrast happening over the next couple days and the reason being is a very powerful front is making its way across the united states and what could we see as well just take a look at these temperatures denver eight degrees for you over here towards chicago it is twenty eight so because we have such a contrast that means the front in between is going to produce quite a bit of convective activity and severe weather we're talking about damaging winds over the next few days and it's going to be mostly here across the central plains so we can watch that very carefully also snow is going to be an issue up here across parts of canada well down or towards the caribbean we are watching what is happening here off the yucatan very carefully we do have a tropical disturbance that is developing you can see all the clouds right there over the next few days this is going to develop to a tropical storm as it makes its way into the gulf of mexico so here on monday very heavy showers here across the yucatan we could even be seeing some flooding rains

in your forecast but then as we go towards tuesday it stays a tropical storm we do think by the time we get to tuesday and wednesday it could be a hurricane and it is heading towards the coastal regions of the southern united states i would watch never a carefully over towards kingston it is going to be a rainy day for you at thirty degrees and nasa at about thirty degrees as well. al-jazeera won't travels to the lebanese city of tripoli. to meet the widows living and one of the world's most ancient refuges. more than seven hundred years old it's still up homes the charitable tradition of sheltering those with no means of supporting them sounds the way to sanctuary on al-jazeera. and then he put it well on i j z the u.s.

and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed my case one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. it is good to have you with us adrian for going to here in doha with the news from al-jazeera the top stories the far right candidates jaya about an hour as

a big lead with most of the votes counted in the first round of brazil's presidential election but he's just short of the fifty percent mark needed for an outright victory a runoff is expected to treat him as leftist rival for. turkey's president says he's personally following the case of the missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi that is hoping for a positive outcome show she disappeared in istanbul last week government sources say that small shop she was murdered after visiting the saudi consulate in the city . of interpol says that it's received the resignation of its chief among them way long had been reported missing by his family after he flew to china last month beijing says the monkey is under investigation for unspecified violations of the law. china has cuts the level of cash that banks must hold in reserve for the falls time this year it's an attempt to counter the effects of the tariff dispute. with its largest trading part of the part of the united states beijing has pledged

to invest billions of dollars in infrastructure projects to boost the economy in the latest round of escalating tension on thursday u.s. vice president mike pence accused china of trying to undermine president donald trump out of next month's midterm elections the u.s. president and north korea's leader have agreed to hold a second summit as soon as possible on denuclearization secretary of state mike pompei or has been holding talks with kim jong un in pyongyang the state department says that the pair have refined options for when and where the next summit will take place at the last meeting in singapore kim pledged to work towards denuclearization but there's been no agreement on how to put that into action or might pump a.o.l. the meeting as a success. or . polls of close in cameroons presidential election

president paul b. a is seeking a seventh term in office of the holding power for thirty six years but there are already concerns about the process the opposition says that the election was rigged had been morgan has more now from the capital gang on day. voters in yellow and they were eager for the opportunity when the presidential election polls opened it was quite small just came from minutes ago and i checked my name on the board i read it and then i came in one thousand. different names of course and put my ballot to this unless. you have first of all good those so everything is nice and you know it's difficult to do anything. africa's oldest president eighty five year old fall is seeking a seventh term in office determined to stop that our seven opposition candidates some alleged voting irregularities even before polls closed. condon easy for him

scandalized as in this polling station the number of ballots just not much to look to a list this is nonsense people are having fun with this country peace and security people are dying in the northwest in the southwest it's not a small matter some weren't able to vote it's all because of fighting in western kenya room english speakers there who make up twenty percent of the population accuse the french dominated government of marginalization and some have taken up arms their fight for independence has displaced more than two hundred thousand people through separatist fighters were killed in gun battles on voting day observers say the independence crisis may affect the election results result. will come in to secure to do because we were awarded first we thought with everything we've been hearing from the anger from regions people would not go out to vote but according to all observers there people have gotten out to vote but let's not be

mistaken for the people competent whose yesterday because of the security issues they look told commission l.a. county said less than half of the thirteen million eligible voters have registered to vote voters who have caused their ballots they will have to wait for a week maybe more to know if their candidate is their new president some opposition candidates have declared victory even before polls had all. and something which the electoral commission said was illegal the results will either see the reelection of president paul be a for another seven years or cameron third president since independence from france fifty eight years ago he will morgan art is there a young. jarius former vice president at a coup has won the main opposition party's nomination to challenge president mohamed to bihari elections next february but address reports now from my degree in northeastern nigeria. i took what we were kind of got nearly as much as the total number of votes cast for eleven other contestants at the people's democratic party convention held in puerto rico to this victory came hours after the ruling all

progressives congress and else mohamad were highly as their flag bearer in the two thousand and elect two thousand and one thousand election after delegates of him for the position i took a look at it's no stranger to politics in nigeria it was former vice president for eight years before he also ran for the presidency in two thousand and fifteen in two thousand and fifteen he dumped the ruling party then that's the people's democratic party to join the all progressives congress which was of course a coalition of two political parties and defectors from the former ruling party the people's democratic party while a few probable cause has the backing of some of nigeria's powerful elite mom and while the mayor and his supporters are banking on the goodwill that still exist among the nigerian poor who are still all still seem ahmed wali as a solution to some of their problems but at equal side or the pupils democratic party side would be keen to show that security threat still exist to the economy

it's not completely out of the woods yet and also because there is another alternative former ruling former president or lucia one of us in your is trying to cobble together another call ition that he wants to call an alternative to the current ruling political party the a.p.c. and the former ruling party now the biggest opposition in nigeria the people's democratic party now the next four months will determine who becomes the president of nigeria based on their promises based on the reaction within the two parties as a result of the fallout of the two conventions as well as what happens what promises they make to the nigerian electorate. there is less than a month to go now before america's midterm elections and one of the issues dominating the campaigning is immigration a lot of that has to do with donald trump the way to the signature votes of his platform one state's at the hostel the debate is texas it has long been a republican stronghold but as soon as roe brunell's reports now from houston this

year that might be changing. from her fingerprints to given him from a friend on a steamy houston afternoon fernando duarte and camilla sokoto a kennedy are pounding the pavement at this largely let teano neighborhood urging residents to vote in november president donald trump's harsh immigration rhetoric in policies that energize latino voters like eighteen year old emily 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 so it's a really key. families be torn apart and 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 bad o'rourke is gaining because people of color who often don't turn out in midterm elections are getting politically involved you see 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 joe pema residents were calm and say why do i doing wrong will i be deported sometimes it's not. out of the ordinary 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. gay rights campaigners in romania celebrating the results of a referendum that was declared void because too few verses turned up the votes and proposed to change the definition of marriage into a union between a man and a woman instead of between spouses. just ahead in sports benfica step out of the shadow of last.