al-jazeera has teams on the ground to documentaries and. on and on. the u.n. human rights office to the growing chorus of concern over the fate of saudi journey . back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha coming up new details emerge about one of the men accused of traveling to the u.k. to poison a former russian spy retreating from the front line the delicate deal to prevent more violence in syria rebel held province and zimbabwe's president defends a controversial new tax as painful but necessary.

thank you for joining us turkey's foreign ministry says saudi arabia has given permission to search its consulate in istanbul it's part of the growing investigation into the disappearance of saudi journalist. the un's human rights office is the latest organization to join calls for answers about his fate monday night u.s. present donald trump also said he is following the case the washington post obtained what it says is the last known photo of shoji entering the saudi consulate in istanbul a week ago his fiance has very find it to believe the journalist was murdered in the consulate the saudis deny any link to his disappearance. we're very concerned about a number of recent cases of reports cases and reports of violence against journalists . including the murder of victoria marie nova in bulgaria the

disrepute of disappearance of jamal. both publicly and privately the secretary general has often raised this issue with member states the secretary general's position is clear a free press is essential for peace justice and human rights for all he reiterated his call to all governments to strengthen press freedom including ensuring that there is justice in me countability for crimes committed against journalists. well the u.s. secretary of state is asking sound arabia to support a thorough investigation into the outspoken journalists this apparent scabbard elizondo reports from washington submitted because i don't want saudi journalist jamal khashoggi has been missing for a week and for the first time u.s. president donald trump has addressed it and he's not happy 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 that the u.s.

government has mostly remained silent on reports saudi arabia might have murdered. saudi arabia denies any involvement late monday vice president mike pence tweeted deeply troubled to hear reports about saudi arabian journalist jamal khashoggi if true this is a tragic day by incidents journalists across the globe is a threat to freedom of the press and human rights the free world deserves answers the outspoken journalist was a u.s. resident and well known in the halls of power here in washington from his big platform as a columnist at the washington post where his writing was often very critical of saudi arabia's government particularly crown prince mohammed bin solomon to show his disappearance now as many people in this city demanding answers i think it's very disturbing. it's very unnerving we just need to get clear facts from both governments senator lindsey graham tweeted we agree if there was any truth to the

allegations of wrongdoing by the saudi government it would be devastating to the u.s. saudi relationship and there will be a heavy price to pay economically and otherwise he means that there's going to be reexamined nation of the relationship of aid by the military by the united states on military sales to the saudi government and there's going to be once again a distance between the united states and that government it's now clear washington has joined the chorus of coals to saudi arabia for answers on the growing international scandal as disappearance gave rosendo how does it go washington. and to manage child is following all the latest developments for us from istanbul he joins us now live jamal let's start with this latest line from the turkish foreign ministry which it's which says it has permission now to search the saudi consulate in when do we expect this search to happen. given a time frame for folly but it does seem that it is in response to president the one

statement on monday saying that it was for the saudis to prove. the consulate it wasn't enough for them to say that's enough but they had to provide evidence for that so obviously that's why it's also followed up comments by releasing footage of jamal entering and that is the last scene footage of the saudi journalist nobody has seen anything of him since that time one fourteen pm local time in tokyo exactly seven days ago today what the psychs have done aside from this is the only real piece of evidence actually that they released but they have been releasing information through different leaks through different sources in different institutions within the states the latest from the security officials has been more details on those fifteen saudi nationals who we reported on arriving on the same tuesday we understand as we had mentioned from our information that they have come

on two different flights those two flights then left back one to dubai and the other to cairo and tracking their flight numbers that were given to us by the. officials here in turkey we did manage to see a flight route of one of those vehicles one of those aircrafts that went via egypt to istanbul from riyadh and then went back to dubai according to the sources those fifteen nationals amongst them saudi security personnel were divided into two groups they went to the consulate at the same time that was there were in fact you waiting for him prior to his arrival and despite them booking four nights in nearby the consulate it's none of them spent the night in turkey in fact they all flew back on those private jets directly after so a couple i was off the job the consulates and the other group waited for a few hours before they all. so went through the airport finally the other part of

the new information we've been having with the past few hours fully has been the turkish authorities examining certain vehicles who are actually in search of one particular tinted black van that's exited the consulate building we understand that there were four vehicles that left of the compound of the consulates were shortly after tomorrow that was shortly after as in a couple hours after and drove directly to the residence of the consul general even though it's only a few hundred meters away so there is a few questions that are still many questions or rather those two remains to be answered however in terms of the information that's coming the turks seem to be a bit more forthcoming albeit on officially in the sense that they are doing it on the record but the big big concern amongst everyone is that they need to see evidence which turns up the claim are the saudis the left or the turks that jamal was killed ok thank you very much for that jamal shy life or a sunni stumble. and the rest has been made in connection to the murder of

a bulgarian television reporter who is investigating alleged fraud with the e.u. funds police say thirty year old victoria mary novo was raped and murdered in the northern town of roofs or by showed signs of blows to the head and suffocation running over was part of a group of journalists investigating corruption with e.u. money links to businessmen and politicians. an investigative website has revealed more details about the second suspect behind the poisoning of russian double agents a good script in the u.k. belling katz says russian military doctor alexander miskin travelled to souls very using a different name it says miskin is employed by russia's intelligence agency a u.k. accuses him and a man identified by the website as anatoly chip eager of trying to kill script and his daughter with a nerve agent the chalk in march gloriously has more from london. they've got their bodies passports they know where he was brought up in the in the north of russia

where he studied where he was tapped by the g.r.u. . what his real name is michigan. even gave his address in moscow was the geo you had courses so you know his name not petra but all its mission they had they had facial recognition experts match his face for a few years ago as possible to look like in the in the fake possible when he came in is better off to get the cap or what they said it's a longer to find all this out about him than shipping the other operative because he's internet footprint was so small by the guns for the same sort of routine to try to do it publicly available documents and testimonies and all sorts of things like that's and that appears to be the size of it and so it seems only to undermine for. the claim that these two guys gave to russian television in which they said they were tourists and it stayed in london and gone to salzburg to to see the cathedral but were but but were defeated by. half an inch of snow because they now

they now have two identities one one a major operative a decorated g.r.u. officer and another decorated g.o.u. officer who's also a doctor which clearly would make sense if you're dealing with a hazardous substance like not a child and it's really quite difficult to know what what what what further anybody can do to provide any any more proof that these things where the people in their motives were more suspect than they claimed from some of the. a deal between russia and turkey to prevent a syrian government offensive in the last rebel house province is moving forward on . heavy weapons from the front line and creating a twenty kilometer de-militarized this was a condition to avoid an assault on the province which is home to three million people as in a harder 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 it live 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. so upset. with the international community labels radical terrorist organizations because of their links to al qaida among those groups is how 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. october ten and fifteen are deadlines for the implementation russia's president vladimir putin is already calling the zone effective ruling out a military action in the near future. doesn't want. its afraid to publish a 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 the tension is growing between sham and turkey backed rebels there could be more incidents of armed confrontations if the so-called radical groups refused to cooperate. to use force against those who don't comply. on the wall. between. here

and across the u.s. about to become the largest voting bloc i'll tell you what that means coming up. hello there we've got rain gathering over many parts of japan at the moment in fact if you take a look at the satellite picture we can see that system as it gallops its way eastwards out of china across the korean peninsula and towards the eastern parts of russia so that system then continues to put itself together as we head through wednesday still some shop showers here also some snow mixed in with that as well and that extends all the way south towards us in japan say kiyoshi you see most of the wet weather here that system then pulled its way further eastward still as we head through thursday so most of us in japan are expecting a day of roll the heavy rain meanwhile towards the west it should be fine and dry

temperatures not too bad there but i will get to around eleven am force in beijing will beat around ninety other weather across the southeastern parts of china as head just lying across the southern areas still just about making its way across shanghai so expect a good deal of cloud here they could be one or two showers around as well that system then continues southwards as we had three thursday so just cloud along the coast deficit the day most of the heavy rain should have cleared away shanghai then back in the sunshine will be up to twenty two degrees which is seventy two in fire and high for the southeast imposible you know well the brightest sunniest of the weather is across the philippines.

morning. welcome back a reminder our top stories on al-jazeera turkey's foreign ministry says solidere arabia has given permission to search its consulate in istanbul it's part of a growing investigation into the disappearance of saudi journalist. the washington post has published what it says is the last known photo of him entering the consulate a week ago the saudis deny he was there on donald trump has for the first time

voiced concern about the fate of the journalist who is also a u.s. president the u.s. president urging saudi arabia to support a thorough investigation and the un's human rights office is adding to the chorus of concern. and the second suspect in the poisoning of russian double agents in the u.k. has been identified by an investigative website belling count says russian military doctor alexander michigan traveled to seoul is very using a different name the u.k. accuses russia being involved in the case but russia has dismissed the accusation. not millennial in the united states growing in voter power and despite a booming american economy no wages high debt and political disillusionment have pushed many millennial so the left john hendren has this report. it's a generational shift of power and to see such thus change so so early in our lives

it shows that pretty much anything is possible. the bearded coffeeshop willing hipsters and those less easily given to stereotype or on the verge of becoming america's largest voting bloc voters ages twenty to thirty five are expected to. we're take boomers in population in twenty nineteen is their numbers swelled to seventy three million in a nation of three hundred twenty five million the youth demographic the young voter the new voter demographic of eighteen to about twenty nine only shows up to the polls about eighteen percent of the time that's about one in five if we can get it to three out of five we would control and shift every major election become a midterm local presidential all of it rising property prices mounting student debt and lack of action on gun control and climate change recently have millennia of leaning away from him toward european style socialism your parents sold to a dream go to college she can get out get good work provide for your family white

picket fence with a nice lawn but that's not happening nowadays the apparent political leanings of this generation have led to a surgeon support for left wing parties such as the democratic socialists of america the party has grown eight hundred percent in three years democratic socialism is just about returning the democratic party to what its roots are and seeing who. who it's basis and. promoting policies that the base their base wants and sort of an unabashed way the party now counts nearly fifty thousand members in all fifty states most of them. the big question for the november midterm elections will they vote a recent ad offers this cross generational taunt dear young people don't vote but we follow that having fun in the way it is turns out younger voters have always leaned leftward but they've always been outvoted by older americans turnout is always the most important thing especially in midterm election or had as long as

the question of who is actually going to vote the november elections will determine whether in insurgency of youthful enthusiasm. was amounts to real change john hendren al-jazeera chicago. japan is pledging to help develop five countries which lie along one of the longest rivers in asia the mekong flows through cambodia laos thailand myanmar and vietnam their leaders were welcomed in tokyo by japan's prime minister shinzo abhi all agreed to push forward more than one hundred fifty projects in the mekong region they include expanding airports in laos and building roads in myanmar as well as upgrading postal services and using information technology to improve health care the focus was on the three main areas effective connectivity people centered societies and environment and disaster management japan strengthening ties us china

expands its investment and influence to michael penn is the president of the xing this ching gets to a news agency says japan wants a more peaceful development and make southeast asia less of vulnerable to china. i think that you know if if there is going to be an impact in the longer term this would be just one step not the first step and not the last step and i think that that's probably viewed that way by the participants certainly among the countries in southeast asia there are still many tense relationships not all of the governments get along with each other and there's also cases of many refugees and people from one country across the border another so there's always a potential for for problems in that sphere from jan japan's point of view of course they have no particular horse in that in that race so they're more interested in just trying to promote the peaceful development of those countries

with another eye on the fact that they would like to strengthen southeast asia as a whole to make it less vulnerable from japan's point of view to sort of chinese penetration. the united nations rights envoy has criticized the anwar for not being willing to probe alleged abuses against muslims a u.n. fact finding mission wants man march top leaders to be investigated for genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes more than seven hundred thousand range of muslims were forced to flee their homes after violent military crackdown last year knight the deal has dismissed the allegations saying the one body is biased and has set up its own committee to investigate the crime scene. now zimbabwe's president says a new tax on banks transactions is a painful but necessary measure to revive the economy as some as among us first common sense he imposed the levy which has led to the reemergence of fuel queues and food shortages reports from harare. it's perhaps another signs the

economy may take a long time to recover some people have been lining up since saturday to philip because the central bank governor says fuel shortages are because of the introduction of a two percent tax on back transactions that means products now cost more and suppliers are buying less it's little shortages and many disappointed customers it's up to the very real disappointing because everything is at a standstill gondolin a business you can do anything in the world. the worsening economic crisis is compounded by a critical shortage of cash the last time lines were this long was back in two thousand and eight some people would sleep in their cars for days hoping to get fuel government officials are telling the bobbins not to panic but some people say they are worried we. were. in some places feel has started arriving but it's still not enough.

others are stocking up on groceries these days bread is in short supply and usually doesn't last long on the shelves in some stores customers are limited to two items per person to prevent hoarding and panic buying. stock or. even room for. behavior person change with people uncertain of the future. certainties of. very big pressure intrusions prices a tripled in just a few days it's a question of increasing capacities it's a question of my future as my friend. having more full of themselves because it's just that it is sage and demand it is the same speculation that's causing some panic buying but again these things are under control or they will be no shortages . but increasing production needs foreign currency us dollars that banks say they

don't have enough of some importers buy dollars on the black market at a premium sums of worry that could be more frustration and hardship before things get better. al-jazeera had. the number of severely malnourished children in afghanistan is on the rise aid organizations warn it could reach two million countries are sending in food but that's half the battle often on groups like the taliban prevent the food from being delivered to those who need it tony berkley has a report from herat in afghanistan. is seven months old she weighed less than seven kilograms when she entered this camp almost half the weight who would a child her age should be. she's one of a growing number of severely malnourished children who are suffering from lack of food and hunger hygienic living conditions they have fled to camps like these in herat their families are too poor and helpless to survive without outside help. her family traveled three hundred fifty kilometers to herat to escape hunger and

conflict it's an all too familiar story in afghanistan more than forty percent of children under the age of five have stunted growth through lack of food and poor nutrition and ten percent are wasting away to skin and bones it leaves them prone to illness and disease and sometimes an early death by the end of this year it is estimated that around two million children could suffer from severe malnutrition. the u.s. is the largest food donor here this year it has donated nearly seventy million dollars to support food and nutrition programs but the food lifeline can easily be cut afghanistan always needs more food but the question is how to get it through to the people who really need it the volatile security situation means that one group or another has to give agreement with both the prize to get through and that is not always easy the terrain is difficult often crisscrossing territory controlled by armed factions food and medical convoys are dependent on the permission from these

groups no security means no food deliveries more and. we had to leave our area because there was no food coming stopped it i don't know why. instances of convoys being stopped or reduced in the last few years but they still happen that access is essential for mobile medical teams to help needy civilians aid workers have been attacked and killed in the past and they too need protection from police and i see a lot on your chance to compel economic and we can't go everywhere because areas are to preschool and then we can help children it is uncertain if stopping aid is a deliberate policy of armed groups or it's an inevitable consequence of this long running conflict my call to all the parties to the conflict is give people a break they've really had enough this has been going on for nearly forty years for different reasons but you know there are a lot of people here who know nothing but war and they're yearning for peace and

they deserve that unless bizarrely induction in the conflict and improvement in terms of library wants to support communities this intuition affecting children and women would become much was. happily not for up son or her wages increased by seven hundred grams in just a week soon she'll no longer be an acutely malnourished baby she doesn't know it yet but hers is a story of hope tony berkeley al-jazeera her at. thousands of people have been moved from their homes after several explosions hit an ammunition depot in ukraine's no then chain there have been no reports of casualties and it's not clear what caused the blast sabotage a suspected there's been a series of explosions at weapons depot in the ukraine in recent years the country's been battling puerperal russian separatists in the east since twenty forty. now it's a red letter day in south korea in fact it's

a special day for all letters because it's the korean alphabet day north and south korea share a common alphabet but their languages have grown apart during the decades they have been separated and with relations warming again recently the south koreans want to create a unified dictionary romack dr reports from seoul. there can be many countries that have a national holiday to celebrate their alphabet but then as koreans will tell you their unique alphabet invented nearly six hundred years ago by king john the great is worth celebrating it was created with the aim of allowing everybody to communicate with everybody else in korea through the written word and the spoken word but the seven decades of separation after the korean war has not helped that process. the division has been causing the divergence of the meaning and even the usage of the language between the south and the north are different events visitors

have been learning that while north korea has been holding on to more traditional words the south has been adopting more loanwords from other languages for example this in the south is called boner. but in the north it's. quite literally finger ring bread and when you take a shower in the morning you use what translates as pear water search over in the south was simply sand. with people from the north from the south already not understanding up to a third of every day words the others are using academics have been working on a common dictionary as a possible solution to language difficulties were clear to see at the recent reunions of families separated by the war and trying to communicate again after decades apart consider the prospect of reunification and you can take that problem and multiply it by a nation. again

i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera turkey's foreign ministry says sanjay arabia has given permission to search its consulate in istanbul as part of a growing investigation into the disappearance of saudi journalist. the washington post has published what it says is the last known photo op him entering the consulate a week ago the saudis and i any involvement in his disappearance or european foreign for foreign policy chief eric amado rini reiterated calls for an investigation let me subscribe one hundred percent of what secretary from pale said just a few hours ago. we are fully aligned with the u.s. position on this we expect a lot investigation and full transparency from the saudis authorities on what has happened u.s. president donald trump has also voiced concern about who has been living in the united states he says the saudis to support a thorough investigation and the u.n.

human rights office is adding its voice to the chorus of concern. and arrests has been made in connection to the murder of a bulgarian reporter who is investigating alleged fraud with e.u. funds police say thirty year old victoria mary novo was raped and murdered in the northern town of roofs marian over was part of a group of journalists investigating corruption with the e.u. money links to businessmen and politicians the second suspect in the poisoning of russian double agents a script in the u.k. has been identified by an investigative website belling cat says russian military dr alexander miskin travel to souls very using a different name the u.k. accuses russia of being involved in the case but russia has dismissed the accusations brazil's far right candidate is promising to overhaul latin america's largest nation after leading in the first round of the presidential election. to combat corruption and privatized state companies if you wins the top office in the second round later this month and

a united nations rights envoy has criticized me amar for not being willing to probe alleged abuses against range of muslims a u.n. fact finding mission wants me on march top leaders to be investigated for genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes the on mars government has dismissed so as allegations you're upset with all the headlines here on al-jazeera coming up next it's inside story do stay with us. bust his deepening ethnic divisions out in the open a hardliner who wants to break away has been chosen by just serves as their president the top post is also had by muslims and croats milorad duduk selection

pulled the country apart two decades after the brutal civil war and this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm hood of that hamid the results of some this general election in boston had segovia threatening to cause further and stability in the balkans which was wrecked by civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. so voters elected miller at don't take as their candidate for one of the nation's three presidents he wants to split the country that's likely to heighten tensions.