your development manager is x.m.a.s. this is my nigerian. my nigerian on al jazeera. turkey has given the all clear to go into the saudi consulate in istanbul as it searches for clues to the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi. we should all be here in doha you are watching al-jazeera live this hour the other top stories new details are emerging about one of the men accused of traveling to the u.k. to poison a former russian spy. in afghanistan a suicide attack on a key politicians home. also ahead retreating from the front line the delicate deal

to prevent more violence in syria's last rebel held province. the u.k. foreign secretary is calling on saudi arabia to explain what happened to the missing journalist jamal khashoggi he says friendships depend on the shared values and that if media reports about proved to be correct britain will treat the incident seriously this is the latest expression of global concern over the disappearance of mr khashoggi we begin our coverage this hour with this report with the latest from stephanie jacques. it's an ominous image. on security camera video entering the saudi considered last tuesday his fiance who accompanied him to the consulate has verified it it's the last time he has been seen in public just a few days ago the saudi journalist spoke to b.b.c. radio recently a saudi columnist an economist who was close to the royal court got

a listed and that's a good many people because here we are talking about somebody was close to the government right right i don't even want to use the term this is a descent a descent president then this isn't i mean the people who are out of this and even when dissidents write they just have an independent mind until you know i don't call myself an opposition i always say i am just right that i want a free environment to write and speak my mind turkish sources say they believe he was killed inside the consulate saudi arabia categorically denies that saudi authorities have now said they will allow turkish investigators inside the consulate to continue their investigation but this opposition member and human rights activist says he is skeptical anything will be found. it seems like a professional job it's already been seven days the saudis weren't sure about themselves they would not let the turkish authorities in. after almost

a week of silence the u.s. president and a close saudi ally had this to say right now nobody knows anything about it but there's a pretty bad stories going around i do not like that the u.s. secretary of state is also king saudi arabia to support a thorough investigation into the disappearance the saudis did give a tour of the building to a group of journalists on saturday the consul opening a small cabinet and what appears to be a fuse box in an effort to show. was not there there are a lot of allegations and much speculation about what happened to jamal khashoggi here inside the saudi consulate but turkey hasn't yet provided any evidence to back up their belief that he may have been murdered here and saudi hasn't provided any proof that he ever left the only thing we know for sure is that jamal khashoggi entered the saudi concert a week ago and no one has seen or heard from him since stephanie decker al jazeera stumble. a correspondent is following the story for us live outside the saudi

consulate in istanbul jamal a far as we are aware what do we think might happen when this team of turkish investigators go into the building. well i mean it's very unlikely that they will find something good peter because so long has passed since jamal entered the door behind me and. never to come out seven days is a very long time it's more than enough time to cover up a new remanent of any sort of crime as it is allegedly that the saudis have committed in or behind those walls now whether this is just a procedural matter as far as the turks are concerned to show that when they do sum up their investigation that they've covered all their bases soldiers speak that they've visited every site and every place and every. point of interest or whether indeed they do have some sort of hope to find something or maybe they're tipped off

with regards to something. we'll wait and see but as for the significance here is that the saudis are also trying to show that they are cooperating after seven days of refusing to give any information whatsoever not that they are giving any information now but at least in accepting the turkish request to enter that for them will be spun as a way to say well we've got nothing to hide but the one thing they definitely haven't disclosed is what's happened after you entered we sold the still picture of him going in and this is the footage of him going again we have seen nothing from the saudis to prove that he exists what's your sense as to how mr. is handling this most people are saying the same thing they're saying he's being quite temperate with this and there's there's a delicate hand on the tiller of this investigation. indeed i mean from the very beginning the fact that the turkish authorities are staying

tight lipped the fact that they had opened several avenues to try and find a way from the saudis to essentially exit what is a very precarious situation ultimately it's not just about the well being of. even though that is the most important thing from my humane perspective it is also about diplomatic relations it's also about the vienna agreements whereby you're talking about the sanctity of diplomatic missions it's about bilateral regional stability and many other things what the turkish government has tried to demonstrate is that it wasn't going to point the finger straight away that it wasn't going to expel the ambassador states away it was going to try and give diplomacy a chance to work but in the absence of that working in the fact that it has failed that the saudis of not admitted to what's happened to them they have not given any evidence to prove one way or the other the. top of the fates of german officials

the turks started stepping it up we started hearing early one initially before he in ankara at the end of an act party events saying that he was following it personally so that was the first steps then he raised it up a bit and he said ok where proving that it is entering you prove that he exits it and now i guess we will hear something when he reads all it returns from a foreign trip later on wednesday but speaking to. people who are in the know here and officials in different government ministries and buildings for them it is just as much obviously as important to find out what happened as it is to establish the sovereignty of charkhi and to demonstrate that other countries cannot come and act as and when they please particularly when it's involves a crime as grievous as is alleged which is. we had until this morning local time had what forty eight hours of people saying look you've got to let an investigative

team go in but did those calls get more powerful when you get the u.k. foreign secretary saying you got to do something when you get donald trump saying you've got to do something when you get the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o saying the same thing. indeed and i mean with that increase in calls maybe that's something that persuaded the saudis to say ok the turks can come in but you know let's not kid ourselves everybody's got a vested interest in this the saudis obviously are they accused of sorts of the accusers really of people really want to find out what's happening to modify children should be an independent investigation that is taking place one that doesn't have the kind of burden of trying to politic around things and tiptoe around bilateral relations one that is purely interested in not only the well being of a citizen or civilian but also the freedom of press and everything that's goes along with the ability for journalists to travel or to work without fear of

assassination that i could it is that's not going to happen the likelihood is that any investigation will be peppered with some sort of. consideration being given to those bilateral relations but whatever it does happen it's very difficult to see especially when i'm looking at all the press that's gather in every day the press pool here gets bigger and bigger and we see these. growing calls as you mentioned there peter like it is the one thing that people want to know is where he is. for us in istanbul thank you very much. and some breaking news coming to us from the reuters news agency the u.s. president donald trump we understand has accepted the resignation of his u.n. ambassador nikki haley she's been in the job since he got his job inside the white house she has been a suspect if it is a liked and didn't equal measure by fellow members on the u.n.

security council of course the permanent five i'm talking about the former governor of south carolina we saw her very close literally politically and physically literally i mean with mr trump when he and his wife melania went to the u.n. general assembly two and a half three weeks ago now a difficult job for her perhaps in one regard because every analyst we've spoken to on this channel has said the same thing about mrs haley and it's been this that sometimes depending upon what situation she's dealing with at the u.n. security council and who she's talking about or talking to specifically she seems sometimes to be following a very clear transparent state department line and then on other occasions she's clearly following the white house line but the top line on that story is that donald trump has accepted the resignation of his u.n. ambassador nikki haley does that mean she's stepping back from frontline

international politics slash diplomacy we don't know does that mean that she's going to pursue. the description that's been given of her since she got that job at the u.n. of being a rising star within the republican movement we don't know so we need to get her on that for you will get a correspondent from our washington bureau and get you more on that just as soon as we can if you're just joining us donald trump accepting the resignation of nikki haley more on that for you in the next couple of minutes or so. an investigative website has revealed more details about the second suspect behind the poisoning of the russian double agents in the u.k. it's called belling caps now they're saying that the russian military dr alexander travel to souls pretty using a different name as michigan is employed by russia's intelligence agency the u.k. accuses him and the man identified by the website as anatoly. of trying to kill swear paul and his daughter with

a nerve agent navi chalk in march lawrence lee has more now from london. they've got their bodies passports they know where he was brought up in jail 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 g.i. you had courses so you know his name got petrobras all its mission and they had they had facial recognition experts match his face for a few years ago it's possible to look like in the in the fake passport when he came in is better off to get the cap or what they said it's along to find all this out about him than shipping the other operative because he's into that footprint was so small by the guns for the same sort of routine to try to do it publicly available documents and testimony as in all sorts of things like that's and that appears to be the size of it and so it seems only to undermine further the claim that these

two guys gave to russian television in which they said they were tourists and they stayed in london and were going 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 claim from so have been. there's been a suicide attack at the home of a politician in afghanistan the opposition candidate salah mohammed was among eight people killed in the explosion in the province of helmand eleven other people were injured. but has the latest for us from kabul. this is side bomber managed to get into the house of candidate one hundred one who was talking to visitors about his

political agenda and about his future plan if he gets elected when the suicide bomber blew himself up killing the candidate his bodyguards and other people the attack took place in the provincial capital of the helmand. which is a taliban stronghold and this is not the only event we should place in afghanistan in the northern province of jobs that the taliban launched a military offensive to take over the area nine security forces were killed and there are reports the thirty taliban fighters were killed in the attack. officials in jos that are asking the government and united states of america to provide more to send more troops to break the seas which has been imposed by the taliban the attacks are a strong message by the taliban that committed to destructing the political process in afghanistan plenty more news still to come for you here on al-jazeera including

in the u.s. new accusations of contact between the twenty sixteen from campaign and foreigners but this time it's not the russian. by the writing's on the wall for the shared alphabet between more and south korea. hello there we've got plenty of rain over the southeastern parts of china at the moment actually it's stretching up from what's going on in the bay of bengal you can see it here working its way up through the southwestern parts of china and then all the way up to shanghai where things are fairly hefty downpours out of this but it's breaking up a little bit as we head through the next few days and still some heavy rain for wednesday still a fair amount of cloud for shanghai as well and then the system breaks up as it works its way southward so then we'll just see a few showers perhaps around the coast towards the north and staying dry for us on

thursday with the top temperature of twenty two and as we head across to woods india well we've got plenty of talk about here because just to the east of us in the bay of bengal we have one storm developing and we already have another one to the west this one is making its way towards parts of oman and yemen certainly looks like it's going to give us a lot of flooding here the other system well that's coming ashore in the eastern parts of india so that's where we'll see the flooding here and very very strong winds as well it will gradually disintegrate as it drifts its way northwards but still giving some very heavy rain that could get flooding as we head through thursday to the west of that a good deal of cloud at the moment but generally speaking a good deal of dry weather as well new delhi should be dry to wear at thirty three . when they're online for humanitarian been taken down there's going to exist when talking about numbers almost but she or if you join us on assange i guarantee no

one apple has a back story like yours this is a dialogue i'm just tired of seeing negative stereotypes about native americans everyone has a voice this ferguson that's your comments your questions i'll do my best to bring them into the cell join the global conversation amount to zero. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of top stories and we have a breaking story for you the u.s. media reporting that the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has tended her resignation to the u.s. president we're not getting as yet any reason for her decision to depart the job no

reason has been given but we are hearing that she and president trump will appear together at the white house in about fifteen minutes time she is formally the governor of the state of south carolina and she was widely regarded as a rising star in the republican party stay with us for latest on that as it happens the u.k.'s foreign secretary is calling on saudi arabia to explain what happened to the missing journalist jamal khashoggi he says that friendships depend on shared values and that of media reports about should she prove to be correct the u.k. will treat the incident seriously it is the latest expression of global concern over disappearance a week ago after he entered the saudi consulates in istanbul. the second suspect in the poisoning of the russian double agents in the u.k. has been identified by an investigative website called belling kept an account saying that the russian military dr alexander michigan traveled to souls pray using

a different name the u.k. accuses russia of being involved in the case but russia has dismissed those claims . and you know time's investigation has found that a top campaign aide to donald trump requested the manipulation of social media activity during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election brigades allegedly tried to hire an outside company to create fake online identities the goal was to amplify divisions among donald trump's rivals for the republican party nomination the israeli company is called side group offered to spread false information about donald trump's opponents the company is run by former israeli intelligence officials sign group wasn't hired and it's uncertain if the trump campaign acted on the proposals russ feingold is a political risk analyst he says social media is a tool that every political party would want to use to get their message across. well it's no surprise that there may have been fake social media accounts during

the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election whether during the primaries amongst the republicans or the general election amongst democrats who are a public but it's clear from this article that the trump campaign ultimately did not hire this company so ultimately it may have just been an inquiry about what are the possible tools that a political campaign can use and this company is obviously very experienced at implementing these tools but it's unclear and frankly it's probably unlikely at least as a result of this article that any u.s. laws were broken and one aspect of us election law as with many other countries is that foreign companies or foreign individuals cannot donate or participate they cannot donate goods to copy hire to provide services and they cannot make cash contributions to candidates and the u.s. has laws like this just like many other countries that haven't actually and again it seems that the new york times acknowledges that this company

a foreign company was not hired so there's no crime simply by consulting or inquiring what their capabilities are we have to keep in mind the big extraordinary importance of social media in gauging with voters to political campaigns not just in the united states but around the world and it's very understandable whether it's a democrat or republican in the united states inquiring from the private sector what kind of technological capability to exist to get a message across a deal between russia and turkey to prevent a syrian government offensive in the last rebel held provinces moving forward groups of pulled out heavy weapons from the frontline and it lib creating a twenty kilometer demilitarize of this was a condition to a vote on a soldier in the province which is home to three million people his in a hold on. 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. wasn't. sure. and the day was. probably a. matter of. turkey's president. says turkish intelligence agents an adlib 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. october ten and fifteen are deadlines for their deals implementation russia's president vladimir putin is already calling his own effective ruling out military action in a future. here. 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 it's challenge is to

implement the deal the tension is growing between higher to hit 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 seven for their ashes into beirut. ok let's get you more on the developing story coming to a search of washington and the u.n. building in new york nikki haley donald trump's ambassador to the united nations as we understand just tendered her resignation to donald trump donald trump on twitter in the past couple of minutes is saying he's going to make a big announcement quotes with my friend ambassador nikki haley in the oval office at ten thirty am washington times so that's in six minutes from now we'll bring that to you live as and when that kicks off nikki haley of indian descent she's a high profile woman of color within the republican party within the trumpet ministration nikki is shorthand for. there we have pictures of donald trump at the

u.n. general assembly a couple of weeks ago flanked by nikki haley there on his left camera right with antonio terra's the u.n. secretary general mr trump of course was chairing the u.n. general assembly meeting over the space of four or five days and he gave that keynote speech at the beginning of his chairing of that diplomatic process. a difficult tenure perhaps a controversial tenure maybe one should say for nikki haley she had a bumpy relationship with her russian opposite number james bays is our diplomatic editor joining us on the line now james what else do we know. we don't know a lot of but i think there are some very interesting questions about the timing of this weekend haley in many ways has been one of the stones of the trumpet ministrations she's been one of the most competent and efficient members of the

trump cabinet she is of course a politician the south. of south carolina and we don't been watching those that watch the u.n. closely tonight political ambition most notably when you look at an ambassador of the united nations and around the security council table you think they're making decisions in the national interest the more washington wants with nikki haley the other ambassadors would tell me yes with thinking about when we watch calculations you're looking at calculations not only of what the trumpet ministration ones but what would be useful to mickey haley going forward because she certainly has never denied when she didn't ask questions but she might have political ambitions potentially being a candidate to be the first woman president of the united states spoken to diplomats and other to this in recent weeks has been speculating whether she would leave her job at the u.n. after the mid-term election was it now seems that she is resigning before.

election i think peter she's found her role a little constrained in recent months compared from the early days of the trumpet ministration because you had a secretary of state in rexx to the sun at the beginning it really was not fully invested millions killed many believe many diplomats was was not always there in washington with a clear u.s. policy and nikki haley because she had distance from him in media will cause able to come back around her own policy and certainly on russia confronting the russians around the u.n. security council table. to know about change that may well have a thank you the dynamics of the job and that is the change in actual security advisor charm of moscow the general who did have the job is known to be very friendly with nikki haley of course the job now occupied by i'm back to the john

bolton who is in itself a former u.s. ambassador to the united nations but there was tension that we need to listen very closely to the words of advice of the highly when she appears with president trump shortly so clearly james she was going places and she me yet still be going places i mean from memory she was touted at one point i think twenty twelve as a potential vice presidential running mate for was it mitt romney yes challenge she is being seen as a political stop for a long time she way and i'm only speculating here i've calculated that she's got what she needs from this job which is foreign policy credentials which would help if she has a russian president but i'm but shouldn't going forward any maybe but she sees this trumpet ministration which we already know is pricing big troubles as something she doesn't want to be connected to the much longer walks i would look at

a distance from donald trump so that it doesn't sink because future presidential ambitions clearly mr trump likes there is a genuine political friendship there has she ever put a foot out of place for the trump white house when it comes to delivering policy because i think it's maybe worth reminding ourselves james that when those permanent members from the u.n. security council permanent five rather when they talk in that big old dettori in a run the big run table it's the president's it's the prime ministers who are ciphering their information through those u.n. ambassadors yes. absolutely and normally those ambassadors have very clear instructions from my capitals but i think in the early days of the trumpet ministration there really was no policy this is an administration that hadn't thought out all of the key foreign policy issues before they took office because frankly many didn't expect donald trump would win the election so they were making

some of it off as they went along she was not getting clear guidance i think from the white house all from the state the problem and it was the key haley often who's making foreign policy. that sometimes lead to some difficulties with the white house when it seems that nicky hayden these policy particularly from line on russia. from what you're hearing from washington d.c. but despite all of that i think over rule it will be seen as a successful lambaste of the haiti i can tell you all the diplomats around the security council table charmed by i can remember early on in her tenure people were a little worried that she had foreign policy experience within a matter of months they were saying what a quick study she was and how well she had crossed all of the issues and i can also tell you. many of us to this talk about civil charm and how much they

like. born in one nine hundred seventy two she was recently put into the time magazine top one hundred most influential people in american's last global politics so clearly she's the right age to still be very very ambitious given the rates of churn of people at the highest level within the trumpet ministration she may be heading for the state department and maybe perhaps to a speculation james of course maybe mr pump a low is moving on to a different brief. well i suppose that is a possibility although missed the problem is seem to have done much better job than his predecessor rex tillerson it may it may be she's moving on to another job and it's certainly a joint announcement with the president suggests that supports ability on the other hand maybe they don't want this to be politically damaging and if she is just stepping back they want to show. that she's still on good terms with the president

because don't forget those in the band but. they do know one thing could be damaging to to the republican policy well so i think maybe maybe tell me peter although obviously critical career in some ways with put on hold by being the ambassador to the united nations she certainly never dropped links to her home state of south carolina and i can tell you recently she actually suggested when she was president of the u.n. security council last month she was going to take all of the security council to south carolina to visit her home state that i mean didn't happen because of storms that weekend they were going to visit james for the moment thanks very much stay close we'll come back to in a couple of minutes i suspect will stay with these pictures just to remind us of the the relationship that close symbiotic relationship between nikki haley imminently now officially just about to become former u.s.

ambassador to the united nations and we'll bring in our washington correspondent kimberly how could so kimberly just just wrap this all up for us what we know so far she has tens of her resignation but there is a quotes big announcement still to come. yeah i mean we've certainly seen the media reports the widespread media reports in the united states that she let her staff know she intended to resign she walked past reporters on her way to that fourteen thirty g.m.t. meeting with donald trump and then of course we have the tweet from the president a very warm tweet we should point out and this is a president that has been known for some very strongly worded characters and when he's talking about people he doesn't like including members of his own cabinet like attorney general jeff sessions in this case he says that there is an imminent announcement with respect to his good friend nikki haley that will be taking place at any moment so presumably that me.