it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species. this is al jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the al-jazeera news hour live from coming up in the next sixty minutes the u.s. calls for a thorough and transparent investigation into the case of the missing journalist jamal khashoggi as international pressure mounts on saudi arabia. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says she's quitting going to surprise move the president says he'd welcome her back any time. south africa's finance minister quits in connection with a corruption probe into the previous president jacob zuma and the hunger crisis in

afghanistan nearly two million children don't have enough to eat with conflict preventing aid reaching those in need. welcome to the program the u.s. state department is demanding a thorough and transparent investigation to find out what's happened to the missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi who disappeared at his country's consulate in istanbul a week ago a u.s. senator is now pushing for a block on american arms sales to saudi arabia over the affair well this is the entering the saudi building in istanbul the last time he was seen alive he was applying for paperwork but turkish investigators believe he was murdered inside the building republican senator rand paul wants to end u.s. arms sales to riyadh if there's any indication of involvement in killing the journalist senator paul wants to force a vote on it in the senate u.s. president donald trump has said he's concerned about his disappearance and plans to

raise it with the kingdom meanwhile the e.u. and the un secretary-general i've also voiced their concerns over the case well we'll have details coverage of the story in the program starting with this report from stephanie decker in istanbul. 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 the 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 descent president then this isn't i mean the people who have this is not even being dissidents right they just have an independent mind and to know i don't

call myself an opposition i always say i am just and i thought 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. 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 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 stephanie decker al jazeera . allan fisher has more reaction from washington. one week on since the disappearance of american resident jamal khashoggi in istanbul and the u.s. is still chasing answers i know nothing right and i know what everybody else does know your state department insists it is pressuring the saudis we're not going to make any judgments about what had happened to him the united states is certainly concerned about his whereabouts a senior officials at the state department have spoken with saudi officials through diplomatic channels about the matter we call on the government of saudi arabia to conduct a thorough trant and transparent investigation at a washington conference discussing come to events in saudi arabia concerned for the journalist disappearance bubbled under the surface one human rights activist says

the u.s. must take much stronger action than just expressing concern i like to see the u.s. demand that the saudis produce him and if they can't produce him produce a detailed explanation including documentation c.c.t.v. footage whatever is necessary to demonstrate what did happen to him. donald trump has forged close links with saudi arabia his first foreign trip was to the kingdom when he entertained crown prince mohammed bin salman at the white house he boasted of significant arms deals he wants the saudis to help bring in iran's regional ambitions and to sell any white house middle east peace plan to the palestinians but politicians on both sides are more shinton see if what the turks are saying is true and should you was murdered in the consulate in istanbul than there has to be a significant change to us so your relations as elected leader we stand with you in the media in solidarity to making sure that this does not go unnoticed if this is true if the saudi regime murdered murdered journalist critic in their own consulate

there must be a culpability and there must be an unequivocal condemnation by the united states one middle east expert says any change has to be well thought out but i do think it needs a retail operation or you. i think a very strong unequivocal message needs to be sent to riyadh that there are consequences for these kind of actions and that american support is not unconditional there's growing pressure on the saudis to come up with answers about what actually happened in istanbul and if they do and there's a growing number of politicians in the united states they say that must significantly change the relationship between the two countries alan fischer al-jazeera washington and particle hang joins us now from washington d.c. patty a rather bold statement there from senator rand paul what more did he say and how could this impact relations between washington and riyadh. well just put in some

perspective senator rand paul has been a frequent critic critic of saudi arabia he's tried before to get resolutions basically stopping arms sales to the kingdom because of the war in yemen and other concerns but he is now saying if this is in fact proven true he is going to start a resolution sponsored resolution and he's going to formally block any future arms sales once the congress is notified that likely as not to have as much of an impact because there's already one senator who is formally blocking those sales they are able to do that under senate rules but i can tell you there's a sense that there is growing momentum and the saudi movement here on capitol hill just to put this in perspective saudi arabia over the years has spent millions tens of millions of dollars on lobbying to try and improve its it's basically how the how it's seen in the u.s. capitol but we're seeing growing calls from republicans and democrats alike say that this would be a step too far and that it would have serious consequences the words of one senator

economically or and otherwise not it going into detail what that means here's why this is likely going to have staying power this is a columnist who was influential in washington there's a small group of basically the intellectual elite that they write in these papers they go to these think tank dinners and and drinks and and they all know each other and they're friendly and we have seen a fierce defense of this columnist and a lot of people saying that this is the going to have to be the last straw in the u.s. saudi relationship now the president president in a more cautious tone as allan mentioned he really staked a lot on improving the relationship with saudi arabia but as we've seen when it comes to foreign policy under the trump administration there are often two different things there's what the president says and there's what the entire federal government does they're not always on the same page it'll be interesting to see how this plays out going forward but i can tell you it's a usual that you foreign news doesn't really end up in local news this. has been

all over the place on every channel including fox which the president we know watches gets a lot of his news coverage from so don't expect that this is going to fade into the headlines any time soon or a political hay in there in washington patty thank you well agnes cullum are is the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial summary or arbitrary execution she says the urgency for a proper investigation cannot be understated i have he send to the various political leaders from around the world to say about these disappearances and i must sense just that the current situation or region months to a serious human rights failure nation we do not need to wait for information as to whether or not he has indeed be killed to react trees therefore must. anger around his disappearance he said so by omission of international convention it's a vital missions of these he'll say is that right so it's

a vital mission so instead of cherry detention that many people are vibrations and picket in his disappearance he's also irish. national sovereignty so surely we do not need to wait for the outcome of an investigation by saudi arabia to already rape is our last chance against points against what has happened. well let's talk to robert pierson he's a non resident scholar at the middle east institute and also served as u.s. ambassador to turkey he joins us now from raleigh in north carolina pearson we've now had calls from president trump from vice president mike pence in a chorus of u.s. senators all saying that look if the saudis are found to be complicit in the disappearance of all the killing of jamal khashoggi they'll be serious implications what do you make of the u.s. response so far. well i think this is really pressure to put the saudis on notice that they must give

a transparent explanation very quickly i think otherwise the tide will really turn against them and it's now been nearly a week and nothing has been shown to be proven about his safety so i just remind our listeners that recently forty seven senators voted to cut off the saudi arms sales now that's four short of a majority but this is exactly the kind of incident that wouldn't just be a senator holding up arms sales as one of your correspondents said but actually legislation in the u.s. senate to stop saudi arms sales so it is beginning to reach a genuine crisis point now which can be very quickly but the saudis are really on the spot yet just going back to the arms sales issue republican senator rand paul who says he will now try and force this vote in the senate this week blocking us some sales of saudi arabia but we know that he and trump have very different views

on saudi arabia iran pulls move is very significant though isn't it. well i mean he's getting in front of the crowd here but i seriously doubt the senate's going to vote to cut off saudi arms sales this week they'll try to get the saudis to give an explanation the administration will try to be as cautious as they can be given the realities of the circumstance that for all mr kershaw he is also a journalist for an american newspaper and but but eventually and that may be quickly if the saudis don't come up with something the arms sales bill the the the lack of interest and pleasure in the yemen war that saudi is prosecuting those are the kinds of things that can turn very quickly into a political statement that will damage saudi relations with the united states and damage saudi's reputation worldwide yeah because i mean i'm going to ask you how do

you see this crisis affecting that relationship between washington and riyadh i mean it's clearly as you say a very cozy one but is trump likely to see this as a serious human rights issue or will he try and milk yet more arms sales investments out of the saudis as perhaps a face saving concession from riyadh in the case. well that's a good thing question but he's shown very little interest in human rights issues frankly and so i don't think he's going to suddenly adopt that kind of position i think that he realizes he's going to lose congressional support for that alliance with the saudis if they don't act so i if anything if he does anything it will be to re-emphasize to the saudis they've got to come clean on this this action and if the turks are right and it's astonishing to me that the turks are leaking information by a unnamed source is the government remaining silent silent that country's press

and media and public relations are totally controlled by the government what is the game that they are playing or are they trying to smoke out the saudis on this what is that they actually have in mind so if they have proof the turks if the turks have proof then they should say so and if they don't have proof then it's curious to me why they are storing up this hypothetical scenario at the moment. without it putting some official imprint to arrive on it ok you you're a former u.s. ambassador to turkey so what about the impact on the relationship between turkey and saudi arabia i mean they already have deep differences over the war in yemen which is what you pointed out the embargo on. and even israel moving its members and so it's just not good to strain relations even more. absolutely this is humiliating to turkey to have this happen in a consulate on their own territory and if he were smuggled out or is if he were

killed and his body were smuggled out that would be outrageous to the turks they don't get along with the saudis in general they're on opposite sides of the muslim brotherhood issue they are on opposite sides of the relationship with carter they are on opposite sides with the relationship with egypt and so this is just the kind of thing that could spark an even greater crisis between the two countries and president erred on likes to think of himself as kind of a moral leader for the muslim world in the middle east and so he will take advantage of any opening he has to diminish the role and influence of saudi arabia in order to enhance his own just a broader point roberts i mean how do you see this incident playing out diplomatically and politically and i mean apart from us politicians at the highest level calling from says we now have a number of european countries and the u.n. said going to general getting involved in this has huge international ramifications

doesn't it well it absolutely does and you know. the saudis have reputedly taken three or four members of the royal family in the last few years and and put them on planes and taken them back to saudi arabia without any legal process maybe they thought that they could do this with a journalist but the journalist has a particular importance as we all know in our cultures and this is exactly the kind of thing that could be a crisis right now but it could also call into question the of the of the effectiveness and the direction of the saudi crown prince his policy to reform the country is quite puzzling in that if he's reforming the country why it is that he has women protesters in jail one of them synods to life in prison i really want to be sentenced to death and why they would have the belief that they

could kidnap a journalist and have him disappear and the world wouldn't react so i do think it has broader implications and it will serve as a good reminder to all of us about this sanctity of journalism yeah i think you've hit the nail on the head. but i mean how much of a blowback is this like there's a beef a saudi arabia internally and you mentioned some of it i mean the saudi leadership has made a number of bad gambles recently as we've been talking about the war in yemen the embargo on cats and now the jamal khashoggi disappearance how is all of this like him to affect that in the workings within the leadership of the kingdom. it's going to increase that tension because of course when the crown prince took over he basically was a palace coup against all the establishment leadership in the country and so they are there licking their wounds today they are not going to be quiet during a process that looks like the kingdom's future and its fate is being jeopardized

what they will do and how they will do it and whether they can do it of course i have no knowledge but the fact that they will want to do it will absolutely be clear robert his'n thank you very much indeed sir for your time thank you thank you glad to be with you nikki haley is a republican and has spent a long time in politics in two thousand and four she began her political career in south carolina a state legislator where she served three terms she's the first indian american to hold office in the state in two thousand and eight she became governor of south carolina and almost served to complete she resigned in twenty seventeen to serve as u.s. ambassador to the united nations let's talk to richard palm's yeah he joins us from washington d.c. he's the director of the just security twenty twenty program at the stimson center that's a program that examines the un's role in addressing global challenges what do you think is behind nikki haley's decision to resign now i mean many people say look she has big political ambitions but why now. one can only wonder that the political

signals in advance of next month's midterm elections or possibly there are policy disagreements with their colleagues in the national security council or white house for example on the refugee policy issue in recent weeks these might have been factors that led to her decision to resign call for her resignation at this time and she'll be leaving by the end of the year or january but at the same time as you indicate in your question she has high political ambitions and this might be the way of preserving her political future within the republican party most observers believe twenty twenty four is the date that she's thinking about but of course and she's even said very emphatically in her resignation letter that she would support president trump if he sought reelection in two thousand and twenty but political futures are uncertain if president from decides not to run in two thousand and twenty there's a good chance many of us believe she would put her hat in the ring. as you say she

gave no reason the resignation but the fact is look she's now another high profile figure going through the white house revolving doors and. it's true there's been incense and unprecedented levels certainly in modern history and u.s. executive branch politics to have so much turnover at the highest levels of government it's well known that she has had tensions and the first few months since national security advisor john bolton a staunch critic of the united nations has come on board and of course it was six months ago when she indicated to president trump of her interest in departing before the end of this year that of course coincides with the decision president trump made and overlooking her candidacy for the secretary of state position when he chose then congressman mike pompei oh how would you assess her time at the united nations i mean many people say she was an internationalist who did much to

protect the u.n. from donald trump globalist policies. that's right she brought in experience as a politician from her state of south carolina where she was a governor she was very high profile right from the get go more so many felt then then secretary of state rex tillerson during the first year of the trumpet ministration she brought attention to many issues that might not have gotten the attention that were needed by the president and she had some real wins during her first year such as bringing the members of the security council to the white house in april of two thousand and seventeen later in the year in cooperation with secretary general of the un and tony good terrorists they had president oversee a meeting where one hundred twenty nine countries representatives endorsed the comprehensive reform program of the secretary general at the same time it would be an understatement to say the last two years of the us un relationship have been

tumultuous and hit many rough patches along the way for instance the us initiating a process of removing itself from the climate agreement in june of last year more recently the us withdrew from the human rights council last month and including at the un general assembly many attacks made by senior officials against the international criminal court so it's been a very difficult period during her tenure at the un and nikki haley has had her critics some of them in they say she was much too aggressive particularly with her repeated warnings about compiling a list of countries that didn't back the u.s. of israel. i would say that she was one of the most vocal critics of countries that didn't adopt the u.s. approach towards israel one could argue though that they know the importance of maintaining strong alliances countries in the middle east close to israel and further broaden the western alliance and in fact most of these statements were made

for domestic political consumption there's very little evidence that the us has been able to implement such a policy of withholding aid from countries that don't align with its views on israel it would be difficult if you consider that congress holds the purse and most of congress including within the republican party don't see eye to eye on this particular issue but there have been real consequences pulling out of the human rights council as i mention is a direct result of the us feeling that israel is unfairly attacked in that body all right so where does this leave the relationship between the us and the un given trumps america first policy and he's no lover all support of the un and its. as we saw just two weeks ago and president from second address at the united nations he made a contrast between what he called globalism versus patriotism somehow suggesting

that supporting the u.n. let alone multilateral approaches as we've seen on trade issues for instance are not in the interests let alone inconsistent with u.s. values to take a specific policy issue that i mentioned earlier refugee issues this is where people like embassador nikki haley helped to soften some of the edges of america first approach by advocating for the u.s. standing up taking leadership on refugees especially at a time when we see an unprecedented level of a crisis regarding refugees whereas within the white house an announcement has been made to have a sharp reduction in the number of intake of refugees by the united states at keeping a cap of around thirty thousand she was left out of those policy discussions only a few short weeks ago signalling away in her influence our richard ponzo thanks very much indeed for giving us your extended thoughts on nikki haley's resignation . trump suggested form advise that dina powell as

a possible replacement and appeared to rule out his daughter ivanka for the role my kind of reports from the united nations. many in the security council disagreed with the policies that the us representative championed again but during eighteen months at the un nikki haley engendered a great deal of respect forming warm personal relationships with those she supported as well as those she so forcibly opposed the secretary general had a truly very good working relationship with her he worked. to get through some of the toughest moments i think between the u.s. and the u.n. some diplomat said privately spoken about haleigh's loss of influence within the trumpet ministration in particular following the appointment of mike pump aoa secretary of state and former u.n. ambassador john bolton as national security adviser but president trump says discussion with haley about her possible resignation had started as long as six months ago and unlike other members who left his administration he keeps open the

possibility of her rejoining it we're all happy for you in one way but we hate to lose you hopefully you'll be coming back at some point but if you want to just be a different capacity you can i be picked up for all in here that are going to ask about twenty twenty no i'm not running for two hundred twenty and i can promise you when i'll be doing is campaigning for this one so i look forward to supporting the president in the next elections the question now who's going to be the next ambassador to head up the u.s. mission just over the road president trump says he'll announce a successor in the next two to three weeks possibly even sooner signaling that he wants to make the announcement before those crucial midterm elections in just under a month well dana certainly a person i would consider as she is under consideration and the president's daughter ivanka i think of a good b. grad of all that doesn't mean i'd use you know what i think or because you fear cues of no business. even though i'm not sure there's anybody more confident in the

world but that's ok but. but we are lucky that numerous people the discussion put on hold as the president has yet another campaign rally to attend my kind of al-jazeera united nations now a new york times investigation has found that a campaign aide to donald trump looked into manipulating social media activity during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the newspaper said rick gates sought to help to create fake online profiles to amplify divisions among rival delegates and sway voter opinion israeli companies side group offered to spread false information about trump's opponents the company is run by former israeli intelligence agents side group has not was not hired and is unclear if the trunk campaign acted on the proposals well russ feingold is a political risk analyst he says every political party would want to use social media 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 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 we have to keep in mind the extraordinary importance of social media engaging with voters to political campaigns not just in the united states but around the world as with many other countries foreign companies or foreign individuals cannot donate or participate they cannot donate goods they cannot be hired 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 have all actions 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 south african presidents are on a person has accepted the resignation of his finance minister not planning to face calls to step down off admitting to visiting two wealthy indian brothers accused of influencing the family that jacob zuma then it was the full finance minister in three years i mean the has more now from johannesburg. the resignation of the finance minister and continental has come as little surprise for many south africans that's often he testified at a commission of inquiry into state capture and corruption here in south africa when 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 a five. unnaturally specifically their relationship with former president jacob

zuma now previously nima 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 role 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 and gotten in a did apologize soon after his testimony to south africans 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 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 still remop or so has brought in tito and boy any he is the former reserve bank governor he was the first black governor of the reserve bank and he's 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 time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back. a new generation of voters with the potential to make drastic changes to the u.s. political landscape. two countries one alphabet we look at efforts to gain a father language to north and south korea and sport we'll hear from the olympic legends passed on their expertise at the games in argentina more on the state.

hello the indian summer continues in most of the eastern states in the u.s. and in east encounter sure markedly woman that's the cutoff this warm front going in that direction that's where the bumps take it means that the warmth is heading that direction for now but against a contrast twenty five degrees in denver so that's rain and then turning easily to snow in colorado the dakotas and in canada within the warmth itself we've got a hurricane coming up to landfall during daylight hours or wednesday on the florida panhandle of course the rain comes one ahead of it and will be a storm surge with a quite significant and i suspect that after that it carries on traveling it will lose some strength but take it rain through georgia and eventually the carolinas beyond that but certainly get to say we're talking cooler air behind it chicago's down to twelve snow is falling pretty heavily there probably the dakotas and he says maybe northern wisconsin and certainly count on terry is focusing on it but

not in toronto you'll notice there's the satellite picture shows and fairly a view of this developing hurricane as it went past cuba which did about twenty four hours ago western cuba because some minor damage it's still raining fairly heavily in cuba not as bad as it was and the rain still falling fairly heavily in nicaragua and costa rica. the consequence of more i'm not sure you think russia will be served during or for one thousand nine hundred ninety five that just doesn't go away. a little knot of true for the last couple years. his home was al-jazeera follows a group of u.s. army veterans traumatized by war. as they struggle to get their lives back. on al-jazeera. challenge your perception.

powerful documentaries. make some. debate some discussions out there with the protesters on the streets where they've been telling you. discover a wealth of award winning programming from around. the world from a different perspective. on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. senators opposing a block on arms sales to saudi arabia as washington steps up pressure over a missing saudi journalists investigators believe jamal khashoggi was killed inside

his country's consulate in istanbul. and u.s. ambassador to the united nations mickey haley has denied she's planning on running in the twenty twenty presidential election after resigning from her post she's the latest long line of high profile departures from the company structure. and south african president zuma paulson is accepted the resignation of his finance minister . calls to step down after admitting to visiting two wealthy indian brothers have been accused of influencing former president jacob zuma. well more now on our top story the disappearance of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi turkish newspaper daily published this photo of the fifteen saudis who police suspect may have been involved in his disappearance or killing local media reports say the group came to istanbul on two planes and to the consulate the same day he was there it's reported that all sins left. sabotage is suspected as the cause of

a series of explosions at an ammunition depot in ukraine no casualties were reported but thousands of people have been moved from their homes in the northern region of china hiv pro russian separatists have been blamed for previous attacks on a mission in stores now u.k. based investigative web site claims to reveal the real identity of the second suspect accused of poisoning a russian double agent belling katz says russian military doctor alexander miskin used a different name to travel to seoul bring the u.k. that's where his daughter were attacked with a nerve agent in march lowenstein reports from london. 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 attempt 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 honored 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 he had two very distinct images on his face and his chin one on the bottom of his cheek his ear also has a mark on it is visible in all the photographs russia digital at nasa edge customers 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 and the right i think the rest of the world in the global audience i think the evidence of russian involvement 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. anatoly chepe go and dr alexander if that's their real names try to present themselves as unhappy tourists called bashir off and petroff in salzburg for entirely benign reasons after all to the russian states both men are heroes and circus crippled was a traitor but they can hardly change their story now of course the people will 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 bit incompetent 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 a suicide attack has killed an opposition candidate in afghanistan salim ahmed our checks i was among eight people killed in his campaign office in helmand province eleven others were injured parliamentary elections are due to be held later this month aid agencies are warning that the number of severely malnourished children in afghanistan is on the rise up to two million children don't have enough to eat countries are sending in food but that's half the battle often armed groups like the taliban prevent aid getting to those who need it most tony bertie reports now from head out. of sun is seven months old she weighed less than seven kilograms

when she entered this camp almost half the weight of 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 high gini 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 a prize to get through 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. we had to leave our area because there was no food coming 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 or medical teams to help needy civilians aid workers have been attacked and killed in the past and they too need protection from police. we can't go everywhere because areas are too prisca 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 the doc show me that conflict and improvement in terms of library wants to support communities this situation i think today and we may indeed become much less. happily not for up sun 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 harat gaza's only power stations being

supplied with enough fuel for the next six months despite 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 and this to me and president mahmoud abbas rejected the foreign aid plan because of the rift with hamas in gaza. young people becoming some of the most influential voters in the united states but many so-called millennial disillusioned with the state of politics and that's pushed them to embrace candidate sound policies on the left john hendren takes a look at how this method the mid-term elections in the. 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. millennial is 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 to come midterm local presidential all of it rising property prices mounting student debt and a lack of action on gun control and climate change we recently have millennia of leading away from capitalism into a more european style socialism your parents so dream go to college you 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 the party now counts new. fifty thousand members in all fifty states most of them millennial the big question for the november midterm elections will be vote a recent ad offers this cross generational torrent dear young people don't vote but with vote three things fine 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 election that is low so the question of who is actually going to vote the november elections will determine whether an insurgency of youthful enthusiasm thank.

god to real change john hendren al-jazeera chicago or united nations rights envoy has criticized me and mom for being unwilling to conduct a credible inquiry into alleged abuse against her hinge on muslims a u.n. fact finding mission wants me and mas leaders investigated for genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes more than seven hundred thousand range of muslims were forced on their homes after a military crackdown last year the in-laws government has dismissed allegations saying the un bodies biased set up its own committee to investigate the crimes it's a red letter day in south korea in fact it's a special day for all it is because it's korean alphabet day north and south korea share a common alphabet but their languages have grown apart during decades of separation with relations warming again recently the south koreans want to create a unified dictionary robert broad 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 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. none of 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 the in that. but in the north it's such a bang quite literally finger ring of bread and when you take

a shower in the morning you use what translates as hair water so over in the south or simply sand well 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 recently unions 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. thank

you very much for new orleans saints quarterback drew brees as put his name in the individual record books he says he's now aiming to win a second super bowl title first same breezes overhauled peyton manning's all time record of seventy one thousand nine hundred and forty passing yards did it in pretty impressive fashion breeze there with a sixty two yard touchdown pass as the saints be washington forty three to nineteen also did it in twelve fewer games the manning a thirty nine year old is in his eighteenth n.f.l. season his standout year with the saints came in two thousand and nine when the team won the super bowl brees has four hundred and ninety nine touchdown passes

only manning brett farve and tom brady are ahead of him and his career yards total now stands at seventeen thousand one hundred three he has at least eleven more games left this season so that record breaking sounds. i don't think it could have happened to me but a fashion. to have then that moment with my teammates on the field the office of wine. i mean it just it played out even greater than i ever could have imagined when something like this happens and i can. you know there's so many people that are responsible for that we can be a part of that it's a makes me happy you know make me proud of it makes me extremely grateful pakistan's cricketers of taken control of the first test against australia day three did start well for australia as openness and finch and as one quarter put on a century partnership with six wickets for the hour cif turned the game in

pakistan's favor carries dismissing top school records of eighty five that source bowled out for just two hundred and two in dubai that's in reply to pakistan's first innings total of four hundred and eighteen so australia that at least finished today strongly taking three wickets pakistan forty five for three leading though by three hundred twenty five runs sri lanka's cricketers are looking to hit back after the disappointment of their early exit from the asia cup they're getting ready to host england in a five match one day international series heavy rain has hampered preparations ahead of wednesday's opener in dambulla england are the world's top ranked o.d.i. team lost sri lanka lost to both afghanistan and bangladesh at last month's asia cup both teams here building up to next year's world cup. when you go back to two thousand and fifteen when you look at the england side the struggle especially. during the world cup saw that same thing happen to us at the moment so anyway did

that thing after the two thousand and fifteen world cup so that's what we are looking nearly feet feet can be the number one side in the world in this series that will be a great turn. and there is a question of a number one people in the chase here and in this you know once you get there i think that's when the heart really stuffs because a bit of a target on your back in this country to people proving in china today that really tough challenge that brings with it is own precious never joke about she's looking good to see i'm still in a record fourth title at the shanghai masters djokovic has already won wimbledon and the u.s. open this year after recovering from a long term elbow injury the world number three beats in french when jeremy shot in straight sets in this second round match that you also in with a chance of finishing the year ahead of rough and out and roger federer at the top of the world rankings. and australia's matthew upton has picked one of the biggest

wins of his thirteen year pro career not at world number seven dominic same in three sets taking that aside ahead in its outbreak. our first ever gold medals at a million pick event for breakdancing of being awarded one is breaking through its followers these forces everything at the youth olympics in buenos aires dances and marks on creativity personality technique variety musicality the world dance federation hopes it will eventually become part of the follow lympics saga by some that the olympics has lost sight of the r. deals that inspired the ancient greeks and very soon reignited the movement at the end of the nineteenth century movement refutes stars claims and says the u.s. games is making the olympics relevant to a new generation of athletes the reports. it's a beautiful day as young athletes aged between fifteen and eighteen from around the world take this sales on to the which is north of one osiris you know what. the

thing with them is argentine sailor santiago. he seen it all a participant in six a lot here games one friendship respect and excellence and that's no matter what you know now we see is this is part of my job here in a big games to explain to the young kids and i think these are very big but you have that in big games. he's a sporting hero not just to what he's done on the water but because just before he raced in rio in two thousand and sixteen he was diagnosed with lung cancer he fought back and he won gold i think it's important that they enjoy this event it's a privilege that. sold you can be an olympic games you know i think that must be a big motivation for them to dream to be part of the big olympic games in the future he's one of several athletes role models at the youth games imparting their experience their inspiration for the next generation. while the youth games give

many young athletes their first taste of major international competition they also provide the organizers with a chance to try out innovative ideas and to help them to gauge the importance of the olympics in y. the society. among the topics being discussed on race and gender equality in the area two of baccy was here is a squash player from pakistan where she says she was as a woman aggressively discouraged from taking up sports but that didn't stop her and for women i think it can give them a lot of power and self. understanding. they should be playing more and more sports and. be be in the leadership position to change it to bring change in that country in their society that. criticism of the olympic movement is not going away but the issues are being discussed inspired by the spirit enthusiasm of youth. captured here by guest of honor in one osiris the thai football team the

wall cause this is their first trip abroad after their all deal this year when they emerge united stronger after eighteen grueling days trapped in the cave. one of cyrus and there was a hero's welcome for the fights are at the center of one of mixed martial arts most infamous concerts to be no good come out of his back in russia celebrating his victory of a comma greg and you have seen title fights after the fourth round victory oh my good man of fourth with members of mcgregor supports him is when his check is being withheld while an investigation's exploits ok but his only sport for now the more lighter. much more news of course on the website. following the disappearance of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi the address for the al-jazeera. al-jazeera. jordan for the news of the moment with more of the day's news.

the nobel committee has announced the joint so this year's peace prize. and. al jazeera has been granted exclusive international rights to interview the winners after the awards ceremony here in oslo in december the nobel interview on al-jazeera. more than seven decades ago a country was split into the big but did get in and now the time comes to be myopic all it took was a pan a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled these seven to the never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood.

al-jazeera. where ever you are. turkey says it will search the saudi consulate in istanbul a lot of the journalist jamal khashoggi disappeared there more than a week ago. and on down in jordan the sound is there at live from doha also coming up a surprise resignation the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley is calling it quits after almost eighteen months in the. south africa's finance minister steps down in connection with a corruption probe into the previous president jacob zuma. on a hunger crisis in afghanistan nearly two million children don't have enough to eat with conflict for them to aid from reach.