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talk to al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes u.s. president donald trump is his voice today putting international concerns over the fate of disappeared. as an extreme far right candidate almost wins brazil's presidential vote in the first look at what's next before the final. time. i'm reporting from. some of the areas affected by the earthquake and tsunami is
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beginning to return to some sort of normality but here thousands remain unaccounted for. and scientists deliver their sharpest alert yet on climate control warning of disastrous global consequences unless action is taken now. allies of saudi arabia have joined a chorus of international concern over a saudi journalist who went missing in turkey nearly a week ago the u.s. u.k. germany and the u.n. are all demanding answers to the disappearance of jamal khashoggi well this is the saudi consulate in istanbul where he was last seen applying for documents turkish investigators believe he was murdered inside saudi arabia denies this and says he left the building but the turkish president says he wants proof when a short time ago u.s. president donald trump told reporters he was concerned about the disappearance while the speaker of the. paul ryan called it very disturbing the u.k.
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said it wants on says to what it described as extremely serious allegations against the saudis the u.n. secretary general is also following the case closely what journalists have also rallied in solidarity with to show they staged a protest outside the consulate in istanbul and also here at al-jazeera his headquarters in doha where we're covering the story in detail during the program but first for the latest reaction in the u.s. gable elizondo joins us live now from washington d.c. david so what more has president trump been saying about the show jim how significant is this well first of all it's significant because up until now no one has really spoken from the trumpet ministration it all about the show his disappearance trump had not spoken about it until late this this afternoon the white house had not put out any statement the state department who would shout too many times had only been saying that they could not confirm reports that saudi arabia might have been behind his death these allegations of course that saudi
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arabia denies and of course is just disappeared at this point so when trump did speak at the white house about this case this is what he had to say and he did not sound very pleased i am concerned about it i don't like hearing about it and hopefully that will sort itself out right now nobody knows anything about it but there's a pretty bad stories going around i do not like it and good so what is the reaction has been in the u.s. to a crucial g.'s disappearance. there has been a lot that's been coming out from very powerful people here in the united states as you mentioned paul ryan the speaker of the house cities very disturbed and unnerved by this and he also said that he will fight for answers so we can bring transparency and accountability to this we also heard from trump allies senator lindsey graham who said we agree if there was any truth to the allegations of wrongdoing by the saudi government it would be devastating to the u.s.
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saudi relationship and there would be a heavy price to be paid economically and otherwise another senator bob corker said no that we will respond accordingly to any state that targets journalists abroad these these comments here all coming on monday and then we heard over the weekend from senator tim kaine who said that we've got to get to the bottom of this and impose strong consequences on whoever was behind his disappearance so what you're seeing here is now a bigger chorus of people here in washington senators and otherwise all we have for answers of where is the journalist they want to know where he's at and they're asking saudi arabia for answers or rights. in washington d.c. dave thank you for that well let's bring in joe ruben he's the president of the washington strategy group and served as the deputy assistant secretary of state he joins us by skype from chevy chase in maryland joe good to have you back on the program how significant are president trump's comments i mean he says he's very
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concerned about what happened took a shot just so why is trump talking now. it's great to be with you our president is talking now because now because this is becoming an international scandal and the longer it goes where there's no solution to what happened to jamal khashoggi the longer the pressure will be on the trump administration to take concrete action frankly i'm disappointed that it's taken him this long to publicly speak out about this this is a situation where we should be in the lead the united states in asking for permission to help send our investigators over to really figure out what took place but this statement nonetheless is a welcome welcome addition and joe how will the saudis do you think be viewing what trump has said given the kind was a nature of the relationship between riyadh and washington well they have to understand that it's not tenable for the american president to not comment on this kind of situation journalists international journalists in particular we the united
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states have a long track record of advocating for and even the president has been very critical of the press here and of journalists abroad as well as been very weak on his human rights advocacy nonetheless the united states takes this seriously and the saudis need to understand that they don't have much time to produce real answers to what took place yeah the number of u.s. senators john olsen adding their voices senator lindsey graham says nope if there's any truth to the allegations of wrongdoing by the saudis i'll bet a heavy price to pay what do you think he means by that. well lindsey graham is not one to mince words and he has control of the state department budget he can not only use his bully pulpit also the power of the purse to really put pressure on the state department to get answers and we have to remember that the state department just recently endorsed additional spending of u.s. dollars for military support of the saudi activities in yemen and that was very
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controversial politically the administration took a lot of risks with congress if congress now feels like saudi arabia is going further in aggressive tactics it's going to really be embarrassing to them including lindsey graham and they're not going to respond well jonah final thought from you so how much pressure then can the u.s. put on saudi arabia i mean is washington a lot of the tougher with the riyadh and demand on a stone says as to what really happened here well what we have to repair is that this is a saudi diplomatic facility so ultimately saudi arabia needs to produce information about what took place there they are in control but yes it should be putting pressure on them to open up their doors and we should be offering assistance to turkey as an investigation unfolds to get to the bottom of this and get clarity because the longer there's uncertainty the worse it is for saudi arabia if they don't have any culpability in this situation and if they do then clearly we're going to have to work on that as well john ruben thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera thank you what many people in istanbul unaware of casualties
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disappearance and the implications for their countries relationship with saudi arabia so i'm costello reports. the saudi general comes late in istanbul where journalists general hushovd he was last seen and trained by his fiance now the center of so much attention from the world's media. to the annoyance of saudi consular officials. and while they stumble chief prosecutor's office has often to probe and ask for a search the level of interest among turks is mixed and your doing no i didn't know that because i'm not following the news i don't watch t.v. i'm really busy with work weekends and it is that he seems to be an important person both research the arabia and turkey it's a subject that must be well investigated but for our up tourists visiting turkey the comments are much more telling i will disappear as well if i will talk about.
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turkey has become a sanctuary for many opposition figures from the middle east since their apps a printing of two thousand and eleven has shipped g.'s disappearance spreading fear amongst them now there are asking the syrians to come and to call for their being in turkey to be interested and also again. if we go inside and when they would get out the vanishing of the saudi is seen as a clear warning to others that even if this is a matter of detention by this authorities or perhaps we shouldn't spare the word kidnapping of this individual this still cost you it's a very serious breach of international law and international diplomatic traditions many turkish people are unaware or just mysterious disappearance and a stumble but the incident is further escalating the tension between both countries
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who have been strained since turkey's government criticized the kingdom support for the military coup in egypt five years ago but for now both turkish and international media keep watch at the saudi council eight hoping to get some clues about fellow journalist g.'s whereabouts seen him because although i'll just stumble. well staff at al jazeera have taken a stand in solidarity with jamal khashoggi the managing director of al-jazeera english giles trendall says the world needs answers about his disappearance is should be free or has he been detained and kidnapped in contravention of the most basic human rights and diplomatic privilege is even alive or has he been a victim of state sponsored murder the international community needs answers we as fellow journalists need answers we stand here today to reaffirm journalism is not a crime we reassert our demand for the release of al-jazeera journalist mahmud hossain detained in egypt without trial for six hundred fifty seven days we stand
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in solidarity with the two reuters reports as imprisoned in myanmar we stand in solidarity with all journalists who have been harassed detained imprisoned or killed just for doing their jobs today in the wake of jamal cut short his disappearance the world needs information about his whereabouts and his fate and the committee to protect journalists says it shocked by the murder and rape of a t.v. reporter in bulgaria victoria marin over his body was found in the northern town of rooms police say the thirty year old had been beaten and suffocated it's not yet clear if her killing is linked to her investigation into alleged corruption in bulgaria involving european union funds. that's what's coming on the news hour including iran comes with unclean hands iran takes the u.s. to court over the consequences of a bombing nearly forty years ago. retreating from the front line the delicate deal
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to prevent more violence and syria's last rebel held province and in sports the west african country of senegal celebrates on a limb the first and is here with that story a little bit later in the program. but brazil's far right presidential candidate jaya both scenarios says he won't be toning down his rhetoric ahead of the second round of voting in just under three weeks time the former army counted it looks most likely to become the next leader of latin america's biggest nation after easily winning the first round on sunday the sea and human reports from rio de janeiro. secondary school students in rio de janeiro stopped the traffic to try to stop what they see as a major threat to democracy in brazil even though i think both doesn't like indigenous people black. scenarios fascism has regressing to nine hundred sixty four when he had a dictatorship we need to move forward look back at the future of latin america's
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largest country will be decided in less than three weeks in a runoff between ultra right wing presidential candidate nat'l and financial had that the candidate of the discredited left wing workers' party. the underdog is clearly had died a moderate former education minister who stepped in at the eleventh hour to replace his mentor former president lucy nasser lula da silva. boy in twenty days of campaigning we were able to get more than thirty million votes and take a little known candide it into a runoff on the strength of our political platform. but my trade anger against lula was serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption is had bad eighty's he'll but it's an . oh it's a very long uphill battle has to find some way to connect to this people has to find a way to put for his own message to disentangle himself from. what the day after the election had that's first move was to visit lula in prison. who has
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a commanding lead says he won't back off from his most controversial views like supporting torture shooting criminals on sight and vilifying gays in women's rights groups i can't suddenly turn into a peace and love joey said bull sonata in a radio interview i can't violate myself that way i have to continue being myself. already disturbing signs of intolerance reminiscent of a different time are emerging at this school for example parents demanded that a novel about a family that was forced to go into exile during brazil's military dictatorship be taken off the curriculum arguing it was too leftist and brazil's national university chapters dealing with human rights were found ripped out of books and thrown on the floor crowded hour in brazil has never been more polarized and given an unprecedented barrage of fake news on social networks international observers
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warn the campaign could get uglier before it's over see in human al-jazeera rio de janeiro. joins us live now from. what's the reaction been in brazil to the results of the first round of voting. well as the c.e.o. was saying in her report brazil is a polarized country a divided country so it all depends where you want to look at it there's people who are afraid that a man like the matter can make it of power they're afraid of the possibility of human rights abuses of political persecution of the persecution of minorities and they say that of course they will vote for that but then there's others who say that they will do anything so that the workers' party never makes it to power again they're saying that they're to blame for the biggest corruption scandal in this country's history and most of the people you talk to in many cases say they're
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going to vote for the least worst candidate for them but there was been a positive move and that's brazil's economy we've seen that the stock exchange has been on the rise but the brazilian reality has been soaring. maddow has said that he will in a way liberalize the economy reduce the presence of the state privatized state home companies try to reduce the fiscal deficit he has also named as a key financial advice or and economies from the chicago university a liberal economy so of course it seems that markets like this that on the other hand he's been going to he said that he's going to take a more center left approach towards the economy and analysts say that the markets do not like that very much the trees are so what's the strategy then it's a both candidates over the next few weeks the run up to the second row.
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well the next few weeks are going to be intense one especially for a federal law that who's seventeen points behind in this last election and he has a lot to catch up i mean as you see i was reporting just recently. visited former president lula da silva in prison and what lula said and told how about this just take to the street. convince people talk to them tell them what's at stake here for a man that has also said that what the stake is brazil's democracy and he's whole idea is to create an anti-fascist bloc that will you know way fight back against both or not or both and i don't strategy will continue to be the same it's going to be to attack the workers' party to say that they are to blame for what's been happening in this country for the corruption for the economic crisis that has left around thirty million people unemployed and that he will continue what he's been doing now he also said that if necessary and if his doctors allow him he will go to the debates that so far he has missed oratory suppose. thank you for that what is
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on skype. he's a political science professor at the state university of rio de janeiro what's your reaction to the results of the first round of voting that seeing john bolton i was does it come as a surprise. because it was a surprise because we were expecting him to get to vote but it was even bigger than the bulls were showing and it was not just only the presidential election but also in their actions in the states that actually. so it was really a big picture fortified right in brazil and it's the first time that we see anything like that in this country and many analysts say the rise of both sonar is due to brazil's deep political and economic crisis but what is behind the rise to the front of brazilian politics for boats on araa. well we're talking about five years of deep political and economic crisis in brazil corruption i'm scared of
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those economic recession very high level of unemployment and also some problems with public security with virus on the rise on the streets so people are very angry and very afraid in brazil and most are not always able to presenting self as a kind of outsider strong leader there were somehow take the country out of the crisis and he's putting the blame of the troubles on brazil or both on the shoulders of the left who are in brazil for the last thirteen years and this is a kind of narrative that has a lot of followers to the brazil so it's not just only about the rise of books on our but also about a very high level of rejection against the left against the workers' party and many of many of us critics say that j. ball sonar is a real threat to brazilian democracy what are those threats do you think. i think that the most serious threats that most are now to present to the brazilian democracy is the way that he uses hate speech against minorities against
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homosexuals indigenous peoples feminist activists we are already seen many violent incidents on the streets against this this kind of social activist and that is the frats that this is going to be even worse during the next two weeks because the cult are so polarized right now so full of read that it became so think this is scary people ok so what do you think the strategy will be for both the morrow and had for the next few weeks as a second round vote approaches. well one of the challenges that they face though they are the front runners in their lakshman they also have very high to reject a hates so it's a kind of action where we are true zing the guy to three rejected the least but there is a lot of disappointment in brazil right now with the political system with the political parties it makes sense for them drives to try to get to the median voter
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right to be a little more moderate in their speech but so far this is not happening so far what we can see is that bush on iraq is trying to boost their supporters with this feeling that they already won the election and that that is making some very shy movements throughout the center drive to to initiate a dialogue with more conservative voters or right to moderates here santora thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera thank you now an investigative web site has revealed more details about one of the main suspects behind the poisoning of a double agent so i guess ripple in the u.k. betting cap says russian military doctor alexander miskin travel to salzburg under the alias alexander petroff the site says michigan's employed by russia's intelligence agency the g.r.u. the u.k. accuses him and a man identified as an attorney chap ego of trying to kill scribbled on his door to unia with a nerve agent novacek. full court case has begun in the netherlands which pits the
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united states against iran iranian lawyers at the international court of justice trying to win back two billion dollars from the us government iran says the americans are violating a nine hundred fifty five friendship treaty which the us terminated days before the case began u.s. lawyers argue iranian leaders have been coordinating with the white attacks for decades so i was ready as morton tara. it was nine hundred eighty three in the lebanese civil war had been fought for eight years in an attack the united states would blame on iran a truck bomb explosion killed two hundred forty one marines at their barracks in beirut. fast forward to two thousand and sixteen the us supreme court upheld a ruling in the case of bank markazi versus peterson the judges froze two billion dollars in iranian assets and held iran financially responsible for acts of so-called state sponsored terrorism. identified the us is defending that decision at the international court of justice in the hague just in iran comes to the court
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with unclean hands. indeed it is a remarkable shown a bad face that iran now seeks relief from this court because of the outcome of the peterson proceeding which arose from iran's support for a brutal and deadly terrorist attack an act which the iranian leadership post in iran denied any involvement in the beirut blast but at the time celebrated the incident the u.s. legal team linked today's iran to wars of the past you will also see the name of hassan rouhani the current president of iran who was at the time a member of the supreme security council as a representative of iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini. in other words mr president members of the quote there is continuity at the most senior levels between then and now. as the americans made their case missing perhaps was historical context to the attack itself u.s. back to iraq had declared war on iran in one thousand nine hundred. lebanon was
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halfway through a complicated civil war exacerbated by the israeli invasion of southern lebanon. in the weeks leading up to the barracks bombing a u.s. warship in the mediterranean sea backing israel and its proxies in lebanon launched missile strikes on neighborhoods in beirut with links to iran and syria where america is trying to paint a picture in black and white iranians are likely to see regional conflicts in shades of gray at home because. america cannot put itself in the position of an international judge accuse iran in their domestic court and then condemn iran implement the ruling and confiscate iran's assets it's obvious that their evidence is illegal and the incident itself is also under question while the world court has no power to enforce decisions for iran there's more on the line than two billion dollars which this case is another chance for iran to take america to task on a world stage opening remarks by the u.s. legal team looked to be a tough act to follow lawyers representing the iranian side begin their opening
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remarks on wednesday same boss ravi all just here at the wrong. forces in libya have captured an al qaeda commander accused of masterminding attacks in egypt. he was caught in a raid by the libyan national army in the eastern town of dunn a the army is led by the warlord honey for half ton who is backed by egypt a small is facing a death sentence in egypt and is also wanted in connection with the attempted assassination of a former interior minister back in twenty thirteen pakistan's new government has decided to start talks with the international monetary fund on the country's second bailout in finding is the finance minister says the talks will be held to kickstart a recovery program pakistan struggling to repay foreign debt its foreign currency reserves dropped by six hundred twenty seven million dollars in september to eight point four billion dollars. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back a nationalist who wants to break up bosnia is set to take the reigns of power. soon temperatures will be subzero here and people will die displaced by drought millions
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of afghans face a bleak winter ahead and in sport the russian footballer finding a new way to take a penalty and is here with that story line up stay with us. hello there's a big dome of warmth still sitting over the u.s. releases all the states of the u.s. and stretching into eastern canada that's been pushing slow up into what is still cold as came down sat so we have got on monday forecast a twenty eight and she cargo not a huge empty space but you can see the colors drop to blue and the ground sonu going to pick denver rather closer same difference that's where the weather will be a massive re not through the plain states dancer or western texas that will be rain
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and it could well be some pretty stormy stuff and you just see the edges the snow starting to appear if i take you between tuesday and wednesday quite a lot of snow from colorado right up through across the canadian border another key falling for hours on end and he up one degree in winnipeg and snow on the ground and by the time we finished that it's record waltz in one to places like michigan even new york or wednesday and the hurrican yet something else is happening that's coming up for the gulf of mexico currently it isn't a massive cloud it's a tropical storm and it's here around the yucatan so its immediate future means vast amounts of rain just catching her tan on the western side of cuba but it goes north. it is as been described as i believe. that the lashes around rubbing against the eye among the million suffer from tricon and dressed up like. each team because
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you brush that you were using them is. disgraceful it's al-jazeera travels to africa and it's inspiring individuals who are fighting to eliminate these ideas innocents lifelines the end is inside. on al-jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know it's very challenging given the but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.
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welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has added his voice to deepening international concerns over the disappearance of a saudi journalist jamal khashoggi investigators believe was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul but the kingdom denies. his ills farai presidential candidate says he won't be turning down his rhetoric ahead of the second round of those in in just under three weeks time it's most likely to become the next leader to ease the winning the first round on sunday and a court case is underway in the netherlands which has put the united states against iran iranian lawyers at the international court of justice trying to win back two billion dollars from the u.s. government lawyers argue the iranian leaders have unclean hands because they've
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been coordinating worldwide attacks for decades. but the top story now in the disappearance of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi the mother child has more from istanbul on the background to the case. almost a week has passed since she went missing and still no evidence has emerged of what has happened to him turkey's foreign ministry summoned the saudi ambassador on monday for the second time and police formally requested permission to search the saudi consulate in istanbul speaking from budapest president. called on saudi authorities to release information on jamal's fate but. consulate officials cannot save themselves by saying that he left the building don't you have cameras if he left you have to prove it with footage of those who asked turkish authorities where he is should ask what happened. she was last seen entering this six story building last tuesday saudi diplomats there insist he left shortly after his fiance waiting
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outside sees she hasn't seen him since when asked about the consulate surveillance system the saudi consul general said. the cameras didn't record so there's no video of casualty entering or leaving turkish security sources have said they're dealing with a murder investigation after concluding that special she had almost certainly been killed inside the saudi diplomatic mission president or the one who told reporters that he was personally following the case that the united nations has spoken out if it's proven. and it does seem at this point that this is what the turkish government believes that democracy 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 journalists gathered again on monday outside the saudi mission in istanbul in solidarity with their missing colleagues and to denounce the saudi government if i thought that's it could find
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a diplomatic way out of this crisis then the continued refusal by saudi arabia to cooperate or to disclose or any information that would lead to. subtrees whereabouts or wellbeing is fast proving them wrong. to stumble well for more on the international reaction to the disappearance we're joined from new york by john yearwood he's an executive member of the international press institute and president of the you would media group u.s. president donald trump has joined a number of u.s. senators raising their concerns how important do you think u.s. pressure is here given the cozy relationship between washington and riyadh. well first of all thank you for having me on and i think certainly that u.s. pressure is really critical however though it would have been more helpful had the president made a stronger statement beyond saying that he's following what's happening in istanbul i think saying that he has been talking to
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a state department to us the state department to look more closely into what happened what's happening particularly when you look at an american national or american resident was. missing in turkey i think that would have sent a stronger message but i think overall the any reaction from from the u.s. the u.s. government or other u.s. politicians i think is helpful at this point and a growing number of media outlets and organizations are calling francis from the saudi authorities what do you make of those schools so far and all those media voices likely to get louder. i think they will and then we just say though that and i heard parts of your report in which. people were saying that the saudis were saying that they don't have any videotape but the saudis were very adamant at the beginning to say that he actually left the consulate well then there has to be given the fact that cameras all around the council that there has to be
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some videotape of mr leaving the consulate that would clear everything up if they were to provide the video proof as they said that he left in his own power absent that proof it leaves all of us to one conclusion either that he is still within the grounds of the consulate or the situation might be far worse far more horrible than any one any of us would like to imagine on the international press institute of which you are a member has urged the saudi king to accept press freedoms as a condition of reforms and liberalization but this latest incident with just proves assad is of course would be extremely reluctant to allow press freedoms. and that's most unfortunate and let me also say a word to journalists in saudi arabia that i think it's critical that they also
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speak out in terms of calling for answers about what happened because that silence within the in the kingdom gives the impression that they are in agreement with what the government may or may not have done in istanbul because as i've said to other journalists around the region today it's mr shogi to morrow it might be you it's critical that you speak up to tell your government to work aggressively to finances to either allow mr shogi to leave if he's inside the consulate or to explain what's happened to him. or as a john you were in new york thank you very much indeed for talking to us thank you very much now bangladesh's president abdul hamid has signed a controversial law that critics say threatens free speech under the digital security bill journalists could be jailed for fourteen years for secretly recording
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government officials or spreading negative propaganda editors say the law poses a serious threat to freedom of expression a search for earthquake and tsunami victims in the nature will officially end on thursday nearly two thousand people are now confirmed dead with thousands more still missing people are returning to some of the worst affected areas to pick up the pieces when he reports from public. there is some signs of normal life restarting here after the earthquake and tsunami electricity food and fuel were largely unavailable for days after the disaster now supplies are arriving in parts of palu allowing some economic activity to get going again. we only reopened so we could help people get food easily even. are still difficult to get and because we are spared from the zoster we feel like we have a duty to help other people when indonesia's president joko widodo visited affected
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areas last week he said restarting the economy was one of the priorities which people remain afraid of more earthquakes but the removed from what's left of their homes others are returning having fled when disaster struck on some streets there is color and vibrancy once again. but you don't have to go far for reminder of what happened here and that there's still much to be done bodies continue to be recovered but given the difficult terrain it's slow going. you may never know the exact number of people who died in this disaster particularly in areas like this which are so vast and the destruction so immense yes in some of the affected areas life is beginning to return to some sort of normality but here it is difficult to imagine how that will ever be possible. the government says they may be up to five thousand missing under the rubble and mud into areas of palu but the search will be wound down all stopped on thursday that contradicts an earlier statement from the
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indonesian president who said all the victims must be found relatives of the missing want the search to continue. in these conditions we realize it's very difficult to get all the bodies out but we expect our family members to be found but they haven't so the government needs to give us a solution are they going to ask our permission before they convert this into a mass grave yard the government officially ending this search will be something many won't be able to accept and with entire communities wiped out it's expected to be a long time before most will be able to contemplate normality wayne hey al jazeera indonesia. a serb nationalist who wants to break up bosnian had to governor has won a seat in the presidency after elections on sunday the office must contain one. and a crow at each holding the rotating position for eight months it's a legacy of the peace deal that ended the war in the one nine hundred ninety s. they were has more now from sorry. the night sky above sarajevo was lit up by
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fireworks and the streets filled with the sound of celebrations as bosniak and croats welcome to day a new president. but in the serbian capital of daniel lucas. welcomed his own ascension to the stage of international politics by singing a popular love song. in the cold light of day though the realisation was sinking in that a serbian nationalist who wants to break out of bosnia herzegovina will be the first of the rotating presidents to be in power. for the well this is something i really don't know if i can even bear to see the name of dr but i think haiti's coming to power so that's another four years of misery and poverty without jobs pensioners are abandoned without anything i mean it's a catastrophe. has promised the serbian entity of republika srpska will break away from bosnia herzegovina he's also said on his first day in office he'll write a letter to president donald trump to demand the abolition of the office of the
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high representative it's a key part of the dayton accords which brought an end to the bosnian war and is meant to protect the country's constitution in a break with tradition the door dick will talk to his fellow members of the presidential council here in the eastern suburb the so dominated suburb of sarajevo and he'll do it by video link. in sarajevo a scottish artist and photographer opened this exhibition on the eve of the polish it's made up of old election posters he called it disintegration he first came to the city in one thousand nine hundred ninety five as the war was about to end and i think what we've ended up with in the country is this sort of cycle of provocation growing on. it's not progressive i'm as not knowing the country from. some political analysts
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a bit by bit the new serbian president appears intent on demolishing the institutions of the country refurbishing the facade outside parliament these masons may be wasting their time david chaytor al-jazeera sorry aver a spanish court has freed a doctor found guilty of stealing and selling a baby during general francisco franco's dictatorship the court said eighty five year old wada velour did take a new born in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine and gave it to another woman but he couldn't be convicted because too much time had passed since the crime that i was the first person prosecuted over the so-called stolen baby scandal around thirty thousand children are removed from families the franco's regime identified as left wing a deal between russia and turkey to prevent a syrian government offensive in the last rebel held provinces moving forward rebels have removed all heavy weapons from the front line in creating a twenty kilometer demilitarized zone this was a condition to avoid an assault on the province which is home to three million
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people they know how to reports. the turkish army has reinforced its observation posts all around province which borders turkey and send additional troops to patrol a planned demilitarized zone to separate government forces from opposition fighters the demilitarized zone is being established after a deal between russia and turkey it's aimed at preventing a possible syrian government offensive against adlib the last remaining rebel controlled province in syria turkey's task is to free the zone from heavy weapons and so-called radical groups the state news agency says the syrian opposition and other anti-government groups have completed the first phase of the withdrawal. i. was. sure. the day was. probably
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a. very. turkey's president. says turkish intelligence agents an ad lib are playing a major role rebel factions allied to turkey hold a third of the twenty kilometer deep buffer zone but the rest is controlled by what the international community labels radical terrorist organizations because of their links to al qaida among those groups is a sham it controls the majority of the province and the planned zone and it has not officially declared whether it will withdraw its weapons and fighters by october the fifteenth regardless russia seems satisfied president vladimir putin said turkey is treating the agreement seriously and fulfilling its commitments but moscow is accusing the so-called radical groups of trying to create provocations to torpedo the deal. oktober ten and fifteen are deadlines for the implementation russia's president vladimir putin is already calling the zone effective ruling out military action in
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a future. doesn't want an armed confrontation with turkey that's why it's afraid to publish the reject the deal it's still trying to reach a peaceful solution turkey wants to prevent armed conflict but its challenge is to implement the deal but tension is growing between the hate a sham and turkey backed rebels there could be more incidents of armed confrontations if the so-called radical groups refused to cooperate turkey has signaled readiness to use force against those who don't comply santa for their ashes into beirut a new u.n. report on climate change is calling for urgent transformational change to avoid disastrous levels of global warming living barbour has the details the threats been clear and present for many years climate change caused by human activity is putting our very survival in peril now the un's climate change body says concerted action needs to come much sooner than previously thought early action to eliminate to
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reduce greenhouse gas emissions is possible they are options available there are signs that mitigation is going on but if this is to be achieved there's an urgent need to accelerate. three years ago at the paris climate change conference many governments gave themselves a pat on the back they pledged to take action to limit temperature rises to one point five degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels now the experts say they're failing and time is running out the i.p.c.c. says meeting that one point five degrees target requires a forty five percent cut in carbon emissions by twenty thirty and alarmingly zero net carbon emissions by twenty fifty with steep cuts in other greenhouse gases like methane it's a question of whether we can make certain decisions in the coming years. with the benefit of fisheries gone that with our children and grandchildren and. coming generations the i.p.c.c. says by the end of this century global sea level rises would be ten centimeters
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lower with warming of one point five degrees compared to two degrees and the arctic is likely to be ice free in summer around once a century at one point five degrees but at least once a decade if warming reaches two degrees none of this is academic faster action will reduce flooding giving people living on the world's coasts islands and river deltas time to adapt to climate change then there are the millions affected by drought many on the african continent we need to look at climate finance and strategies that ensure that we sort of speed up climate climate action related to issues like our culture our food security livelihoods and migrations and that's because migrations and migration is no longer a choice for lots of people in the continent it is now in must because of global warming the i.p.c.c. report says renewable energy must account for at least seventy percent of electricity by twenty fifty compared with twenty five percent now to stay within the one point five degree limit carbon will have to be sucked out of the air by
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machines installed on the ground and billions of trees will have to be planted and they'll be tough choices between using land for food or for biofuel crops we've been shown the solutions now it's over to our politicians and to us that even bother al-jazeera. more than three million people are suffering from a devastating drought in afghanistan there's been no rain for months and crops failed forcing families to leave their homes aide workers say the situation is now at a critical stage tony burke has been to one of the worst hit areas the province of badness. in the barren in the hospitable terrain of northwestern afghanistan life is a challenge at the best of times but the drought that to salvage this region has made survival even more difficult. we haven't had rain here for nine months it's devastated our community. but luis province is said to be one of the worst affected in the district of cali nor more than one hundred twenty thousand people
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have arrived in this one area the lack of water cause their crops to fail so they abandon their homes in villages muhammad his wife and four children walked eight hours in search of water and. we had nothing we couldn't stay night tonight and it was hard that we had no choice. un agencies are bringing in supplies but so many people are arriving at the camp they can't keep pace with the demand. the number is much much bigger than we expected and there are sources we have is even much less than what we expected so a woman talent is actually to get the necessary resources to the scale of the response the u.n. raise more than one hundred thirty two million dollars to tackle the emergency but that was based on estimations made months ago now the number of displaced people has swelled to more than three million and another seventy million dollars at least is needed this emergency is now into its fifth month and still these people are not receiving the humanitarian aid they desperately need
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a cold winter is approaching and that will make a critical situation even worse unless help comes quickly so you can see from some of the shelter around when people are basically. out in the open now that's fine when it's twenty eight twenty nine degrees. centigrade during the day and only. fifteen at night but soon temperatures will be subzero here and people will die. phones could take weeks to get through and the pull of this camp don't have decent shelter sufficient food or time. many children are showing signs of acute and moderate malnutrition winter is just a few weeks away these basic shelters will offer little protection in temperatures which can drop to as low as minus ten degrees and many people complain that the afghan government has done little to help but the local government says the huge number of displaced people is putting a strain on resources and. my didn't but we are giving one million liters of water
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a day and our water table has dropped to thirty meters at this rate we will have no water within six months the international agencies need to get people back to their homes and feed and water them there in an area with significant taliban presence that plan depends on money and security no one can promise either for now the struggle for survival for drought victims goes on tony berkeley al jazeera but greece province northwest afghanistan the nobel prize for economics has been awarded to two americans for their work on economic forecasting william nordhaus studied the impacts of climate change in economic modeling and paul romer looked at how governments can spur growth by investing in research development and people skills the nobel committee said the two men were on a for their studies into the most pressing economic issues of our time.
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thank you very much well the international olympic committee has officially named senegal as the host of the twenty twentieth's youth games the west african nation with the first country from the confidence to stage any elim pick events senegal's was the only bid so make it through to the final stage of the selection process with nigeria botswana and soon is yet dropping outs youth olympics ripens athletes asian all seem to eating the latest edition under way right now in point as aires
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argentina runs and toby the eighty eighth what did this is your. your decision as a novelty in the history of the olympics it honors our country and our continent that is why i want to pay tribute to botswana nigeria and tunisia who had submitted their bids at the same time as cynical. a maiden test century by harrison has put pakistan in a strong position after the second day of the first test against australia sail combined with a such a feat for a big partnership in what was a pretty attritional day's play in the united arab emirates should think eighty playing in a six test landmark moment was to come from two hundred twenty three balls nathan lyon did eventually get his man for a hundred and ten pakistan scored four hundred and eighty two in their first innings. australia finished today third c. without was coord and aaron finch the unbeaten batsman they still trail pakistan by
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more than four hundred fifty runs now for the third straight year nick curiosus made a controversial and early exit from the shanghai masters the australian nearest soon as he appeared to be putting in a less than one hundred percent effort during his first round loss to american qualifier bradley clonaid also to prolong dogging it with the umpire last year the world number thirty eight stormed off midway through his first round match in twenty sixteen curiosus was hit with a ban after being accused of purposefully giving away points in another defeat. three time grand slam winner at stamford brink is also out he still struggling to find his best form of the knee surgery over and compete in three sets here by crochets or each. twenty year old great players to form a sense of us having a breakout year havey gael men face and its height three set match this time outs reached the second round of this event twelve months ago since france won the first a.t.p. main draw much of his career to getting through qualifying is now the youngest
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player in the world's top twenty of the n.h.l. season in its early stages robin lehner has made the perfect start for the new york islanders lenna becoming the first ever oilers goalie to get a shot sounds in his debut the swedish player has arrived in new york for the buffalo sabers this game against the sun as a sharks finished forty nothink last season the islanders with twenty second in the n.h.l. seventh in the metropolitan division. chinese basketball player being young you hang scored his first point for the n.b.a. it seen the dallas mavericks and he could hardly have done it in a more fitting location doing on sockets with a free throw for the mavericks in their preseason game against the seventy six is which was taking place in china the mavericks going on to win this game one fifteen someone's well. liverpool manager you can claw past describe the away from ations league as the most senseless competition in world football domestic leagues are on hold with leading players heading off on international duty the spain squad have met up ahead of their nations league match against england it's
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a competition designs for a place the majority of friendly games klopp not a fan. the boys unfortunately go away again and have to play nations cup games the most senseless competition in the world of football. and europe and then we hope that they come back healthy and their plate is this easy competition premier league and champions league and f.a. cup is waiting all that sub so it's tough times for the boys wayne rooney has continued his good run of form in major league soccer the form when kept scoring twice on sunday hoping they see a night of comeback from a goal down so when we want to get to the chicago fire d.c. united now within two points of a playoff spot it's. the colors of the place to come from behind him it's easy to. see in autumn almost changes get the draw and you could see after we got a fair go in you could see the same nation is the time to learn. again thankfully
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we didn't. go on and could this be the future of penalty taking in russia rubin designing his team pioneering after the answer good unique approach to the responsibility in this game in admittedly the country's student league is so hard going on to win this game four nil he has been something of a mismatch across the chess board as a world champion so can a world cup player from a different sports chess champion magnus carlsen able to find a few gaps in the defense of liverpool and england player trends alexander who's played the game from a young age but once the twenty year old unable to do anything about an opponent's attack losing after just seven st us ok that is only sport for not wall eight or. all right all the news of course on our website they would it is on the screen that address al-jazeera dot com and that's of may down in jordan for the news hour don't go away that was i'll be back in
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in the lead up to the u.s. midterm elections we will be talking to the american people looking at key issues for voters from immigration to economic struggles to health care system to greece's and women's rights to join us through i took told her for special coverage and analysis the u.s. mood times on all jersey. what makes this moment this period we're living in for so unique. we haven't seen the president this unpredictable freedom of speech is a valid watley constant that is a perfect formula for authoritarianism and here in the early years the lights are on and there's nowhere to hide let me ask you straight out here is the two state solution no upfront retellings on al-jazeera.
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al-jazeera. swear every. finally weighing in u.s. president donald trump is his voice to deepening international concerns over the fate of the disappeared saudi journalist. live from doha also coming up an extreme far right candidate almost wins brazil's presidential vote in the first round going to what's next before the final runoff in just under three weeks time. i'm wayne hay reporting from palu indonesia where life in some of the areas affected by the earthquake and tsunami is beginning to return to some sort of normality.

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