between biological. parents. clients on al jazeera. international pressure on saudi arabia grows as the last known photo emerges of journalist jamal khashoggi entering its consulate in istanbul. on our entire lives al-jazeera live from london also coming up a diplomatic shock at the united nations as nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. resigns. in zimbabwe a return to the bad old days of fuel queues and food shortages this time it's down to a new banking tax. and new details are revealed about one of the man accused of traveling

to the u.k. to poison a former russian spy. and the u.s. president donald trump says he plans to speak to saudi arabia about the disappearance of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi international pressure is mounting with the u.k. and e.u. both saying they're treating the incident seriously because he disappeared a week ago after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul turkish officials believe he was murdered there saudi arabia insists these allegations of baseless stephanie decker has the latest. 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 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 is not even being dissidents right 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 on top of us 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 and u.s. president donald trump spoke about the issue for the second time in twenty four hours prompted by a journalist the president is going to the saudis about a missing person only i have not knowing but i will be at some point you know really i don't think right now i know what everybody else does not think the u.s. secretary of state is asking saudi arabia to support a thorough investigation into the disappearance of 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. he was not there there are 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 stumbled for more in the u.s. reaction we're joined by white house correspondent kimberly help it can be what should we read into those comments brief as they were from from the u.s. president. i think it's fair to say that not just from the trumpet ministration but from congressional members there is growing concern in washington about the whereabouts of this saudi journalist given the fact that the president has said that he is raising the issue with the saudi authorities and we got a similar statement from the u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe saying that they are concerned the trumpet mystery and that is about the disappearance that they have been speaking to diplomatic through diplomatic channels and as well there is a pressing by the united states for what it is calling a thorough and transparent investigation and for the results of that investigation to be made public the vice president mike pence saying that the free world deserves

answers and some of the strongest statements coming from congressional members including the ranking republican on the senate foreign relations committee senator bob corker saying that he has also raised this issue with the saudi ambassador and the united states will respond accordingly very much calibrating the response based on the findings and that is something that senator graham is also saying that he is interested in seeing going a little bit further though saying if there are any truth to some of the very serious allegations it would be devastating to the united states saudi relationship and there would be a heavy price paid economically and otherwise so growing concern in washington pressing for answers and in turn possibly even calibrating response based on the findings of that investigation and how significant is this in terms of u.s. saudi relations move more generally. well certainly this the diplomatic relations

between the united states and saudi arabia really date back to nine hundred thirty three and since then there has been a bit of an overlooking of some of the concerning aspects of saudi arabia the kingdom specifically with respect to human rights seem to be that the united states often as long as the oil kept flowing would sort of turn a blind eye to some of the things that maybe would be of concern to the human rights community that changed under barack obama but then we saw this reset under donald trump in fact his very first foreign trip was to riyadh where there was a lavish sort of display of reestablishment of the relationship so whether that is now being tested remains to be seen given the fact that there is still this awaiting of the relay of the investigation but at the same time i can tell you this is of great interest to americans this is a national newspaper usa today and it says here what happened to the saudi writer this is the entire editorial page dedicated to this issue we should point out that

it also includes a response from the crown prince mohamed bin solomon but these statements come from a week ago where he says the saudis have nothing to hide so that is what the united states wants to get to the crux of whether in fact that is true and they are holding their breath waiting for the results of that communicate thank you very much indeed. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has announced she's resigning she's the latest in a long line of high profile departures from the trumpet ministration and he says she's taking time out from public office. i don't have anything set on where i'm going to go i think that the main thing was i was governor first six years and we dealt with a hurricane a thousand year flood a church shooting a school shooting there was a lot and then to come in and do two years of russia and iran and north korea it's

been eight years of intense time and i'm a believer in term limits i think you have to be selfless enough to know when you step aside and allow someone else to do the job so thank you mr president it's been an honor of a lifetime and i will say this for all of you that are going to ask about twenty twenty no i'm not running for twenty twenty i can tell you sure what i'll be doing is campaigning for this one but she's done a fantastic job and we've done a fantastic job together we've solved a lot of problems and we're in the process of solving a lot of problems at the beginning north korea was a massive problem and now we're moving along it's been a long really nicely i can speak for secretary of state mike pompei oh he thinks the world of nicky and so we're all we're all happy for you in one way both we hate to lose your hope we'll be coming back with some board for the new one just in the maybe a different capacity you could there be a big one kind of joins us live now from the united nations mike how much of

a shock was this resignation. well it was a shock to many diplomats here there's been no inkling they say that nikki haley was resigning in the last few minutes there have been ambassadors filing in for ways to curate a council meeting in the course of the softer noon all of them saying that they deeply regret her departure many saying that yes we had intense disagreements but yes we got on well in on a personal level that's the general reaction that one has from diplomats here at the u.n. that was reiterated by a spokesman for the secretary general saying that there were disagreements but the secretary general and nikki haley had a very warm and working relationship so all eyes now in the u.n. looking towards who's going to be her replacement they spent nearly two years getting to know the trump administration's point person within this building now are they going to have to start from scratch with a new person perhaps a new set of diplomatic initiatives that may be launched through that particular

choice and how awkward is that the timing of this for the trump ministration. well on the face of it it is or could this is the latest in a long line of cabinet appointees who joined and left the cabinet so this is different it's the first one in which the appointee has been invited to return to whatever position she wants when the time does come but with the midterm elections less than a month ago clearly the trump administration was intent on showing it's business as usual we do know that nikki haley's resignation letter was dated on wednesday last week and yet it was only made publicly known in the course of this morning in a very hastily convene news conference between president trump and nikki haley herself so clearly the absolute intent of the said ministration is to demonstrate that things are going on yes the u.n. ambassador has resigned but there will be another appointment made and interesting

though the timeframe that president trying to put on that appointment he says within two to three weeks maybe even sooner a very critically that's just before those midterm elections take place mike hanna thank you very much south african president serum opposer has accepted the resignation of his embattled finance minister nowlan a had been facing calls to step down after admitting to visiting the gupta brothers longtime friends of former president jacob zuma has been accused of corruption now in a miller has war from johannesburg. the resignation of the finance minister and come to an end 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 them in passing at public events now the issue for many south africans is that the minister had lied especially considering that his in an important or was in an important portfolio while trusted and up till that point was credible now these revelations of course have brought into question his credibility integrity as well as his character in front and in a did apologize soon after his testimony to south african saying that he shouldn't have met with that family it shouldn't 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 turned down any 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 of very sad to see the finance minister go but in his place president 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. still to come on the program. aid groups warn that two million afghan children could suffer from severe malnutrition by the end of the year plus. i'm john hendren in chicago here and across the u.s. millennium goals are about to become the largest voting bloc i'll tell you what that means coming up.

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a thirty in car the same sort of temperature regime further west but not surprisingly for a few shots come from iraq or algeria possibly tunisia even the western side of libya now the rains are going sas with the sun i would immediately automata critics and still a long way north africa in south sudan injury just south of here shari regime existence far west as senegal still potentially went. when they're online for humanitarian been taken down there's gold of this one told you about. almost friendship or if you join us on the sand i guarantee no one apple has a back story like yours this is a dialogue and i'm just tired of seeing the negative stereotypes about native americans everyone has a voice resurfacing that's your comments your questions i'll do my best to bring them into the cell and join the global conversation on al-jazeera.

i'm one of the top stories here now which is zero u.s. president donald trump says he plans to speak to saudi arabian officials about a missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi has not been heard from since entering the saudi consulate in istanbul last tuesday. the u.s. ambassador to united nations nikki haley has announced she's resigning because she wants to take time out of public office she's the latest in a long line of high profile departures from a trumpet ministration. and south africa's finance minister has resigned after admitting to meeting members of the family who've been accused of corruption.

zimbabwe's president says a new tax on bank transactions is a painful but necessary measure to revive the economy the levee has led to a public outcry and the reemergence of food and fuel queues i mean fears of shortages her which also has more 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 fill up they cause the central bank governor says fuel shortages because of the introduction of a two percent tax on bad transactions that means products now cost more and suppliers are buying less it's little shortages and many disappointed customers it's up to disappointing because everything is that a standstill i'm going to do any business. 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 or government officials are telling the bobbins not to panic but some people say they are worried. 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 corner and produce. behavior person change with people uncertain of the future . certainties of. very big. prices a tripled in just a few days it's

a question of increasing capacities of my future as my featuring more fill of those shelves because it's just it's age and demand it's speculation that's causing some panic buying but again these things are under control they will be no shortage. but increasing production needs foreign currency us dollars the banks say they don't have enough of some imported by dollars on the black market at a premium some worry that could be more frustration and hardship before things get better. a u.k. based investigative website says it's uncovered the realized entity of the second suspect in the stalls reported in case belling cat says russian military dr alexander miskin traveled to the city in march under a different name that's when a former russian spy or so i guess crypto and his daughter yulia were poisoned early reports. if people are trying to murder you then perhaps you can take a little satisfaction from the facts that they are officially heroes of the russian

federation much of the life of dr alexander michigan was put on display in westminster housing records car insurance documents even the swampy village in the arctic where he grew up all of it providing a body of evidence that he was involved in the assassination attempts on circus cripple this was a man who had claimed he'd abandon attempts to visit souls because the troll because of the snow and slush yet the village he came from is in permafrost most of the year still he rose through specialist medical school spent time on the cover in ukraine and the breakaway republic of trans nesta before being ordered it seems by helping to squirrel ousted president viktor yanukovych out of ukraine to exile in russia in two thousand and fourteen but this of course all hinges on the theory that the investigators who came out with it are right where absolutely sure i mean from the photographs we have alone i mean we have we have published all the

photographs that would feel some vassal sense but we do have multiple photographs showing him here two very distinct damages on his face and his chin and on the bottom of his cheek his it also has a mark on it is visible in all the photographs russia digital at nasa edge custom as well which is the same person is continues to be a bad time for the g.r.u. intelligence agency having also been found out for trying to hack the o.p.c. w chemical weapons building in the netherlands it all looks amateurish the british government feels like it is in fight back mode it's not necessarily a huge problem convincing people in russia who want to believe that government any right i think the rest of the world in the global audience i think the evidence of russian involvement is now overwhelming and we've had hundreds of g.r.u. officers maimed in the past few weeks anyway and if you're trying to run a secret organization if your secret agents are no longer secret then you have a problem of course you might solve you that it's a shame that colonel. totally chepe go and dr alexander if that's their real names

try to present themselves as unhappy tourists called bushehr off and petroff in salzburg for entirely benign reasons of rule to the russian states both men are heroes and circus crip was a traitor but they can hardly change their story now of course the people who would be most pleased about all this are the british governments who've always said that the russians did it and can now sit back and relax as everybody else suggests that russian intelligence is just a base incompetence the russians themselves have always maintained that the british can't provide any evidence but if this isn't proof it's really difficult to know what is lawrence lee al jazeera in london twelve thousand people had to be evacuated from their homes in northern ukraine after a series of blasts at a defense ministry ammunition depo there were no reports of casualties and it's not clear what caused the blasts sabotage is suspected and have been a series of explosions at weapons depots in ukraine in recent years the country's

been battling pro russian separatists in the east since twenty fourteen. a suicide bomber has killed an opposition politician in afghanistan's helmand province sunday mohamad checked sigh and seven others were killed in the explosion during a meeting at his home in lashkar on monday the taliban issued a statement condemning the upcoming parliamentary elections as the polls are a u.s. manipulated event the number of severely malnourished children in afghanistan is on the rise with aid organizations warning it could reach two million by the end of the year countries are sending in food but that's half the battle is tony betty reports from herat it's often armed groups like the taliban who are preventing food from it being delivered to those in need. absented is seven months old she weighed less than seven kilograms when she entered this camp almost half the weight or what a child her age should be. she is one of a growing number of severely malnourished children who are suffering from lack of

food and one hygienic living conditions they have fled to camps like these in harat their families are too poor and helpless to survive without outside help a family traveled three hundred fifty kilometers to herat to skate 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 armed

group or another have to give agreement with both a 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 as are sorry we had to leave our area because there was no food coming on stopped it i don't know why instances of convoys being stopped have 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 select our next guest to compile economic data we can go everywhere because areas are to priska and then we can help children. 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 into conflict and improvement in terms of library wants to support communities this intuition i think to do it in and women would become much was. happily not for obscene or her weight has 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 herat. gaza's only power station has been given enough fuel for the next six months in defiance of the palestinian president diesel tankers carrying sixty million dollars worth of fuel from qatar have crossed into the strip the extra fuel will add several hours worth

of power a day for palestinians living there the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has rejected the foreign aide saying it creates a rift between the occupied west bank and gaza. millennia was in the u.s. are growing in voter power despite a booming american economy low wages high debt and political disillusionment a push many young voters to the left and they're set to have a big impact in next month's midterm elections if they turn up to vote john hendren report card there. it's a generational shift of power and to see such vast change so so early in our lives it shows that pretty much anything is possible. millennia of the bearded coffee shop dwelling 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 overtake 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 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 capitalism into a more 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 his surge in 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 that the party now counts nearly fifty thousand members in all fifty states most of them millennial 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 turning 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 elections are that as low as a question of who is actually going to vote the november elections will determine whether in insurgency of youthful enthusiasm thanks. thanks. thanks thanks. amounts to real change john hendren

al-jazeera chicago an e-mail for you anytime on our website the dresser that is al jazeera dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the live icon he tells what he tells there of a missing saudi journalist out there dot com. a lot of top stories are u.s. president donald trump says he plans to speak to saudi arabia about the disappearance of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi he's not been heard from since entering the saudi consulate in istanbul last tuesday within the last few minutes the state department has been asked whether he's alive they've said we don't know which i should believe he was murdered inside the building a saudi arabia insists these allegations are baseless i want us correspondent can be held that has. the u.s. president saying as he spoke in the oval office in the last couple of hours that he

is concerned and he is raising this issue with the saudis this echoes some of the statements coming from his state department u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o releasing a statement saying that they are concerned about the disappear as they have spoken with the kingdom of saudi arabia through diplomatic channels in the united states is calling for a thorough and transparent investigation the vice president mike pence saying that the free world deserves answers u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has announced she's resigning she's the latest in a long line of high profile departures from the trump an illustration i don't have anything set on where i'm going to go i think that the main thing was i was governor for six years and we dealt with a hurricane a thousand year flood or church shooting a school shooting there was a lot and then to come in and do two years of russia and iran and north korea it's been eight years of intense time and i'm

a believer in term limits i think you have to be selfless enough to know when you step aside and allow someone else to do the job so thank you mr president it's been an honor of a lifetime and i will tell you this for all of you that are going to ask about twenty twenty no i'm not running for twenty twenty i can promise you what i'll be doing is campaigning for this one. south africa's finance minister and on to known a has quit after admitting meeting members of the group to family who've been accused of corruption president cyril ramaphosa said he accepted the resignation in the interests of good governance zimbabwe's president says a new tax on bank transactions is a painful but necessary measure to revive the economy and only has led to a public outcry and food and fuel queues the stream is up next by for now.

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