turkey's given the all clear to go into the saudi consulate in istanbul as the search for clues to the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi. doha when i'm come out santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera surprise development the united nations when nikki haley has resigned as u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and also a corruption scandal force in south africa's finance minister. president donald trump says he plans to speak with saudi arabia over the disappearance of the journal's jamal khashoggi his comments comments come as international pressure is

mounting the u.k. and the e.u. are both saying they're treating this incident seriously shoji of course not heard from since the end of the saudi consulate in istanbul on tuesday week ago turkish officials believe he was murdered there saudi arabia insists the allegations are baseless we're heading live now to that very embassy stephanie decker is our correspondent there are stephanie. well come every one's pretty much waiting for some kind of hard facts evidence to know what exactly happened in that consulate behind us i mean right now you look at it it's of course closed but there are lights on the blinds are drawn and of course you know we can only assume that the people who work inside know what happened the only thing we know as we've been saying is that he entered a week ago and no one has seen him since but interestingly we did see a still that was published in the washington post that i now reports so let's take a look at how the last twenty five. it's an ominous image.

on security camera video entering the saudi considered last tuesday his fiance who accompanied him to the consulate is verified it is 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 that 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 dissent dissent dissidents then this isn't i mean the people who are this is not even being dissidents right they just have an independent mind and to know i don't call myself an opposition right 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 dora i do not like that the u.s. secretary of state is all skiing 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 martyred 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. so it's different so much it seems at the moment now resting on when the turkish authorities will actually go into the saudi consulate i mean there's a very good chance that we'll be exactly where we are right now after that happens it's hard to imagine if anything happened in there that the saudis would leave it behind. you know that's what you know the opposition member that we spoke to or you're here when we just heard that you said he said well i'm sure that if there was anything to hide if they were confident that there was nothing to find that they wouldn't allow the turkish authorities in at the same time it's been a week you know there's all these different theories going around jamal but you know the fact is that he has been missing for a week he's disappeared so whether he was murdered in there or whether some people

say he may have been interrogated he may have passed away from some say may have had a heart attack others say that perhaps you know he is still alive but he was taken somewhere else nothing is clear other than the fact that he is missing it is of course a huge concern now one of the turkish investigators going to be going into that consulate we don't know it could happen tonight we will probably happen at some point when the when the consulate is closed and of course is a lot of other investigative being pursued about fifteen saudi officials national i should say who landed here in two separate planes on that day they were in that building when he was in that building they're looking at the cars the diplomatic vehicles blacked out windows that left during that time who was inside them what were their carrying where did they go again many people all sitting now that they need to present some facts these are majorly serious and horrific allegations what are the facts that they have that they're basing them on and certainly the saudis

we heard from the turkish president saying you need to prove that he actually left the embassy because that's what they're saying and they haven't done that yet either i can tell you there's a lot of cameras surveillance cameras around this have a fortified diplomatic mission like all of them and they say the saudis say that they didn't record so it's a very complicated and marcie situation still sure. the consulate. and now to washington. what has donald trump said about cuba. yeah donald trump speaking in the oval office on this when asked by reporters once again echoing his concern something he said as well on monday or rather on yes monday evening but this time going a step further saying he will be raising this issue with the saudis it's very much in part with the statement from his secretary of state my pompei o who says that he is speaking with the kingdom through diplomatic channels also calling on saudi arabia for a transparent investigation and that the results of those will be made public

excuse me for a second i have a be on my foot no need to remove let me continue. yes you know we're out all the elements here at the white house but the vice president also talking about this saying that the free world deserves answers canel i think it's safe to say that. the u.s. congress in addition to the white house co-equal branches of government also very concerned about this in fact from congress some very strong statements from the top republican on the foreign relations committee bob corker saying that we have raised this with the saudi ambassador we will respond accordingly senator graham saying that if there is any truth to these allegations it would be devastating to the u.s. saudi relationship there will be a heavy price to be paid economically and otherwise safe to say they're taking this seriously looking for results of a transparent vest a geisha and then deciding how to proceed further that can be how it gets at the

white house thank you for those but. we have moving on to other news the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has announced she is resigning the latest in a long line of high profile departures from this troubled ministration says she's taking time out from public office. look at what has happened in two years with the united states on foreign policy now the united states is respected countries may not like what we do but they were special what we do they know that if we say we're going to do something we follow through in the president for that whether it was with the chemical weapons in syria whether it's with nato saying that other countries have to pay their share i mean whether it's the trade deals which have been amazing they get that the president means business and they followed through with that but then if you look at just these two years at the u.n. we've cut one point three billion in the un's by two we've made it stronger we've made it more efficient. south sudan we got an arms embargo which was

a long time coming three north korean sanctions packages which were the largest in a generation done in a way that we could really work towards denuclearizing north korea iran deal bringing attention to the world that every country needs to understand you can't overlook all of the bad things they're doing you have to see them for the threat that they are here's my tenure at the united nations on this one you know mike you made this point mickey highly got a lot of talking time there in the oval office and that's not something everyone gets from don't try particularly when they're leaving his administration a sign of perhaps how important she was. indeed years kemal that was a lot of talking time with president trump sitting alongside clearly this news conference which was actually hastily arranged was in response to a leaking of the information that we are is that she was resigning the washington post has just printed a letter of resignation which is dated wednesday last week in other words president

trump knew for nearly seven days that to his u.s. at the u.n. ambassador was resigning however they only call that news conference this morning to publicly confirm it that being said to the united nations generally taken aback at news of the resignation a spokesman for the secretary general says that the s.g. regrets a departure saying that they had a really strong working relationship a tough relationship at times as made clear and that generally is the reaction here at the united nations nikki haley regardless of the fact that many members of the security council staunchly oppose the positions that she adopted she did still manage to work out some very warm relationships with diplomats who she would forcibly engage in debate so all eyes now are looking towards who's going to replace her in what president trump says is the next three to four weeks is there

an obvious replacement mike i mean nikki haley's really she's made this job her own and has been such a powerful sort of force for the past two years and. well at this stage there's no obvious replacement remembering to that nikki haley says she'll be in position until the end of the year but certainly there had been diplomatic speculation in recent months about her lack of influence or waning influence with the trumpet ministration the simpler to kill or follow the appointment of mike pump aoe as head off of secretary of state as john bolton a former u.n. ambassador as a national security adviser in the initial term of her presence here at the united nations nikki haley basically ran the boat by herself liaising directly with the white house and policy issues basically sidelining that then secretary of state rex tillerson this all changed fundamentally with my compos appointment and man with whom though she insists she had a very good relationship but they had been speculation here that nikki haley was

being edged out by the great influence of the secretary of state and the national security advisor that being said though nikki haley kept her seat on the national security body now this is significant because it's very rare that a u.n. ambassador will be on that particular body and just another sign of how much reliance president trump placed on her in terms of forging his administration's policy foreign policy over the last two years so certainly president trump making very clear the that she will be missed as far as he is concerned and saying very clearly too that if she decides to come back she can choose what she wants so very much business as usual by the trump administration making very very clear that they fully in control of this and this should not impact the midterm elections coming up in a month's time but just also trying to gloss over the fact that this is yet another

member of the trump administration who has resigned joining a long procession that have gone before commercial yet can't ignore that fact and we might have is at the u.n. thank you. and joel rubin is in washington d.c. now he's the director of policy and government affairs that she is fun but also a former u.s. deputy assistant secretary of state nice to have you with us how much of a loss do you believe nikki haley is to this administration my producer was pointing a little bit earlier she is a woman a woman of color a daughter of immigrants the type of person we don't really see many off in the trumpet minutes administration no we don't and there will be as a result of a significant gap with her not being at the table and yes there really is not a there are not many women there's only one person of color people of color that is other than nikki haley and so it is

a real loss for americans of versity and diversity is representation at the un in addition to that she has been a strong voice on a number of issues from an international perspective that president trump has not really been seen as championing in particular related to russia and american efforts to punish russia for its election meddling in two thousand and sixteen so her voice will be missed on a variety of issues what do you make of the way all of this is been handled today departures from the trump administration are generally chaotic there is generally a cloud of some sort of doubt how you know them it doesn't seem to have happened this way even though apparently this was all you know organized quite hastily today . well it certainly has a lot of heads turning here in washington with a lot of questions about why now why before the midterm elections what is the nikki haley getting out when the getting is good so to speak before there are potentially

serious investigations from a democratic congress what is it that's happening behind the scenes with john bolton's arrival a lot of questions doesn't seem to make sense it does not fit the pattern that we've seen of other departures with the sort of long goodbye and eventually kicking out like we saw with rex tillerson and in a charm mcmaster the former national security advisor so this is a little bit awkward and now with the reporting of her having sent in her resignation letter we could go makes it even more unsettling and uncomfortable as to what is the political motivation quite frankly for nikki haley in leaving the administration she says she's not running in twenty twenty for president she was very clear about that at the end of her news conference however do you think he had he will be back at some point she's a very formidable candidate she was a governor of a southern state and she gained national prominence for standing up to racism in

her state so she's well regarded and she has done a very good job of colds evading expertise in their national fairs that she did not have prior to joining the trump administration so she does have a future a significant one at that and oftentimes politicians say they're not going to do something and then of course as we we see oftentimes they reverse course if there is a push for them so i don't think she's going anywhere anytime soon politicians changing their mind goodness gracious me don't you know that i'm going to. still ahead for you here on al-jazeera we will tell you why oprah and the sport of kings aren't seeing eye to eye down on the.

other there we've still got some showers with us in the middle east at the moment they're showing out fairly clearly on the satellite picture working their way over parts of iraq and into iran and plenty more of them making their way in from the mediterranean as well so turning a little bit more unsettled head now a good deal of cloud still with us as we head through wednesday and still quite a few showers particularly over the northern parts of turkey there is gradually ease though as we head into thursday the cloud there that's persisting even for us in parts of baghdad a bit further towards the south and here in doha no problems the us our temperatures up around thirty seven degrees at the moment but watch out for this blob just to the south of a man this is all tropical cycle that's making its way towards the north it looks like for some of us in parts of i man and across yemen it's going to give us some very heavy downpours over the next few days the models a showing quite different tracks at the moment which means the confidence of exactly where it's going is fairly low but certainly it looks like the south coast of oman is going to see some very heavy rain over the next few days even further

towards the south of course in the southern parts of africa you can see a fair amount of cloud there over parts of namibia that's giving warnell to showers and there's the risk of seeing one or two more as we head through wednesday even talk though up at thirty two degrees cooler in cape town so right here on the top temperature of twenty. and i had three jobs and now i only have one but i'm soo providing for my family. and the first time i was admitted to hospital i didn't show any signs of imus. and all that but my opinion and i have become very positive and stop thinking about the negative sides of farmers. on al-jazeera while. living with m. and s. in egypt. we're

back with the headlines here on al-jazeera and the u.s. president says he plans to speak with saudi arabia over the disappearance of saudi journalist. his comments come as international pressure is mounting with the u.k. and the e.u. both saying they're treating this incident seriously had not been heard from since the end of the saudi consulate in istanbul last tuesday. president donald trump has accepted the resignation of u.n. ambassador nikki haley the forty six year old the former south carolina governor says she will be leaving the post the end of the year neither highly nor trump gave a reason for stepping down after two years of a band spending time with family. or five months of fighting in eastern libya has

forced many families to seek help in the capital tripoli they fled the city of daraa which is besieged by a self declared army battling to control the oil rich region of the libya correspondent market up the one had reports now some are relying on government aid just to get by. readers she is among thousands forced from their homes by war in data now he says forces loyal to warlords have to ransacked his house another man says his house was bombarded unburden a down they really just are there details in this office into police so they can receive government aid for them returning home is unsafe. on the path to the factory in tripoli can be a reason for half their forces to accuse us of being anti after many people here going to skive so they can return home without being detained or interrogated. durden a has been plagued by five months of heavy fighting have to forces want to seize

this city so they have full control of the whole eastern region of libya they accuse the didna protection for. force of being deter terrorists the durden of fighters deny that and say they defeated eiseley in the area they also rejected the imposition of military rule by have to the head of a government backed aid organization for displaced people says only international pressure on have to can guarantee their safe return he says some search areas do needed by a do not for the displaced students are the only thing they have received in a while. the problem we're facing is that the government is not financially committed to what it was so we're trying to contact international and local aid agencies for support. have to his forces have laid siege to durness city for almost three years in raids on artillery bombardments have destroyed many homes and people are suffering c.v.s.

shortages of all basic needs. dozens of clothing civilians have been killed since have to up the battle for dead in or on may the seventh schools hospitals and other vital infrastructure all damaged by fighting riddle and other displaced the libyans from hope that a case can reach the international criminal court they say what is happening to civilians in the city is a crime against humanity. tripoli and al qaeda commander tuesday of planning attacks in egypt is under arrest in libya. faces a possible death sentence if convicted he was seized by troops loyal to the world during a raid in during or after the libyan national army is backed by egypt's gaza's only power stations being supplied with enough fuel for the next six months to the

depressed disapproval of the palestinian president the qatari government is supplying sixty million dollars worth of diesel to prevent a worsening of guns as a humanitarian disaster as often without electricity for up to sixteen hours a day because of israel's blockade palestinian president mahmoud abbas rejected the foreign aid plan because of the rift with hamas in gaza south african president so rama horse has accepted the resignation of his embattled finance minister and then there has been facing calls to step down after admitting to visiting the gupta brothers the longtime friends of former president jacob zuma has been accused of corruption and then is the fourth finance minister in south africa in the past three years more on this from johannesburg with. the resignation of the finance minister and continental has come as little surprise for many south africans that's after he testified at a commission of inquiry into state capture and corruption here in south africa

where he admitted to meeting with members of the gupta family meeting them privately during his tenure as the finance minister now this family of course has been accused of using their political ties to gain financially specifically their relationship with former president jacob zuma now previously nearly had said that he hadn't met with the family and had perhaps met him in passing at public events now the issue for many south africans is that the minister had lied especially considering that he is in an important or was in an important portfolio while trusted and now till that point was credible now these revelations of course have brought into question his credibility integrity as well as his character and gotten in a did apologize soon after his testimony to south africa and saying that he shouldn't have met with that family it should have met with the good times and if he had done that it should have been within the finance ministry and that this was an error of

judgment and sometimes despite being of well liked and respected specifically because he had according to many south african save the country from what would have been a disastrous nuclear deal that south africa couldn't afford it some are very sad to see the finance minister go but in his place president saw him up or so has brought in tito and bo any he is the former reserve bank governor he was the first black governor of the reserve bank and is a well respected within business and labor these are african chamber of commerce say that says that this is one of the finest appointments yet in the finance ministry. sabotage is suspected for a series of explosions at an ammunition depot in ukraine no casualties are reported but thousands have been moved from their homes in the northern region of chinny chin the hiv i'm sorry russian separatists have been blamed for previous attacks on ammunition stores and arrests been made in connection to the murder of

a bell garion television reporter who is investigating alleged fraud with e.u. funds police say thirty year old victoria martin over was raped and murdered in the northern town of rousseau her body showed signs of blows to the head and suffocation i don't know if it was part of a group of journalists investigating corruption with e.u. money linked to businessmen and politicians. mixing a big day out at the races with the knot at the opera hasn't been popular in australia and the sydney opera house is lit up as a giant billboard to promote the world's richest horse race on sunday but protesting against gambling have reined in the politicians culture gene has more. protesters pointed lasers on spotlights at one of australia's most famous landmarks they were trying to stop the sydney opera house from being used to promote the world's richest horse race called the everest this is a symbol of a strike and it's still important to become much less the opera house has promoted

the olympics rugby and cricket in the past but opponents say horseracing encourages gambling and cruelty to animals what we've got is an incredible groundswell of support within the side it has said they've had enough they've drawn a line in the sand and they have said that they're sick of having the odds stacked against them opera house managers declined the opposition by race organizers for the eye catching ad but the new south wales government intervened and overruled them saying the race is a huge tourist attraction bringing in more than one hundred million dollars australia's prime minister defended the decision by state premier gladys berejiklian to accept the calling it a no brainer it is done in good taste it's incredibly time down from previous versions and i said to the good people of new south wales it's important for us to support our major events it's important for us to promote new south wasse but of course do it in good taste. the everest is all set for sunday but the premier faces

an election in a few months government leaders who gamble to allow the promotion may have put their money on the wrong horse paltrow dirge on al-jazeera. funny it is 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've been separated relations warming though again the south koreans want to create a unified dictionary from abroad reports and song. 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 say 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 i 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 bone that. but in the north it's. quite literally. bread and when you take a shower in the morning you use what translates as water over in the south was simply jammed. with people from the north on 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. headlines for you now on al-jazeera the u.s. president donald trump says he plans to speak with saudi arabia over the disappearance of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi his comments come as international pressure is mounting with the u.k. and e.u. both saying they're treating this incident seriously showed she's not been heard from since the end to the saudi consulate in istanbul last tuesday turkish officials believe he was murdered there but the arabian cysts the allegations are baseless in other news u.s. president has accepted the resignation of u.n. ambassador nikki haley forty six year old former south carolina governor says she will be leaving the post at the end of the year either haley gave an official

reason for her stepping down after two years haley is the latest in a long line of high profile departures from the trump administration and al qaeda commander accused of planning attacks in egypt is under arrest in neighboring libya . faces a possible death sentence if convicted he was seized by troops loyal to the warlord during a raid in the city. after the libyan national army is backed by egypt. gaza's only power station is being supplied with enough fuel for the next six months to the disapproval of the palestinian president the qatari government is supplying sixty million dollars worth of diesel to prevent a worsening of gaza's humanitarian disaster gaza's often without electricity for up to sixteen hours a day because of israel's blockade but the palestinian president mahmoud abbas rejected the foreign aid plan because of the rift with hamas in gaza south african president cyril ramaphosa has accepted the resignation of his embattled finance minister and sal and there has been facing calls to step down after admitting he

visited the gupta brothers they are longtime friends of south africa's former president jacob zuma has been accused of corruption is the fourth finance minister in the past three years and some of tonnage is suspected for a series of explosions at an ammunition depot in ukraine no casualties reported but thousands have been moved from their homes in the northern region of chechnya vive . russian separatists have been blamed for previous attacks on similar ammunition stores that's a look at your headlines here on al-jazeera more of course online at al-jazeera dot com honeyed is here next with today's inside story.

american pressure growing on saudi arabia over missing journalists. president donald trump says he's worried and the u.s. secretary of state is urging the kingdom to support a thorough investigation. allegations of murder be a turning point in relations between yeah lies this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm hit up that hamid a week after his mysterious disappearance of saudi arabia's consulate in turkey u.s. leaders there fears for. donald trump's a.