al jazeera. and for us. turkey says it will search the saudi consulate in istanbul a lot of the journalist jamal khashoggi disappeared them more than a week ago. well on down jordan this is down to zero 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. and a hunger crisis in afghanistan nearly two million children don't have enough to eat with conflict preventing aid from reaching those in need.

not turkish security sources have told al-jazeera they have identified three places of interest in stumble relating to the disappearance of the saudi jenna's jamal khashoggi it was last seen a week ago entering the saudi consulate in istanbul turkish investigators believe he was murdered but saudi arabia denies that stephanie decker begins our coverage from 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 does it and then the dissidents i mean the people who are this is not even being dissidents right they just have an independent mind and to no i don't call myself an opposition. 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. 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 . u.s. weapons sales to saudi arabia could be blocked as washington steps up pressure on says took a shot just disappearance particle hang as the details. with each passing hour it seems more u.s. politicians are weighing in on this disappearance saying that it would pose a serious risk to the u.s. saudi arabia relationship we've heard from senator rand paul putting out a statement saying that he will block any future arms sales to saudi arabia over this probably not that huge practical impact because senators already have an

informal way of blocking those sales after being notified of one senator had already put that in place but this is just to put it in perspective saudi arabia has spent tens of millions of dollars trying to improve its reputation here in washington d.c. this seems to be having real impact that is part of the reason is it is all over the media and american media does tend to cover foreign news but this is different it's being covered on every cable channel including the channel that the president watches the most often which is fox news they've been covering it as well taking a harsh tone about it and this is a man who was very respected in washington there's a small group of intellectual elites they go to the same dinners they go to the same think tanks they respect each other we've seen outrage from that group and that is a powerful voice here in washington on a turkish newspaper somebody has published this photo of the fifteen saudis who police suspect may have been involved in these disappearance local media reports say the group through to stumble onto planes and into the consulate the same day

the journalist was then reported the scenes let's turn. now in a surprise announcement the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley has resigned that will leave her job at the end of the year she said she wants a break from public life and is ruled out running against donald trump in the twenty twenty presidential election michaela 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 know hopefully you'll be coming back at some point but if you want to just be a different capacity you can have your pick if are all in here that are going to ask about twenty twenty no i'm not running for two hundred twenty 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 while dinner certainly a person i would consider as she is under consideration and the president's daughter ivanka i think of aga would be great about that there's a real idea you know what i think or because you fear cues of now 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 rumor is free for the discussion put on hold as the president has yet another campaign rally to attend my kind of al-jazeera united nations. where richard holmes it was the director of the just security twenty twenty program of the stimson center explained why he thinks he did son had to resign now one can only wonder that the political signals in advance of next month's midterm elections or possibly their 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 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 it's true there's been insensitive unprecedented level 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 adviser 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 o. south african presidents are on the porch has accepted the resignation of his finance minister plan plan then a face calls to step down after admitting that he visited two wealthy indian brothers accused of influencing the former president jacob zuma then it was the fourth finance minister in three years for me that miller has more from johannesburg. 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 group to 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 his in an important or was in an important portfolio while trusted and are told 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 african 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. time for short break here on al-jazeera when we come back new revelations on one of the main suspects behind the poisoning of a russian double agent in the u.k. 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.

from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis heller's rainy again quite extensively in china this could be the last gasp of what we're reaching the summer rains is this band is moving story southwards draw for the temperature behind a dense twenty two in shanghai hong kong will see some of that rain and it brightens up behind as temperatures in the low twenty's if you like the beauty drops we still got the cloud back up in sichuan but essential a that could be the last gasp of the rains south of that we still see a good scattering a shot including in still away sea but the majority are still for the west of us are in sumatra the part of southern thailand as well as hard to see where columbine singapore are because there underneath that white cloud which of course is reflected in the forecast for the next couple of days this is no surprise is more or less as it should be the question is how far will how quickly south is that rain

going slowly but say jakarta still looks possibly bit more humid but probably dry to be quite honest now as we see the retreat of the monsoon rains we're seeing two developing cyclons one in the via bangor in this massive cloud heading north was two additional on one in the arabian sea which is slowly want to get it heading towards the arabian peninsula but are going to cause significant rainfall problems . there with the sponsored by qatar race. the consequence of war and not the dangers of roger shoals he served in the marine corps for ninety two hundred ninety five that just doesn't go away. for a living out of his truck for the last couple years. his home was zero follows a group of u.s. army veterans much i used by war. as they struggle to get their lives back

shelter. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour u.s. senators opposing to block arms sales to saudi arabia as washington steps up question over a missing saudi journalist turkish investigators believe jamal khashoggi was killed inside his country's consulate in istanbul. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations vicky haley has denied she's planning on running in the twenty twenty presidential election after resigning from her post she's the latest along a lot of high profile departures from the trump administration. and south african presidents are of course has accepted the resignation of his finance minister plan

plan they may face calls to step down off admitting to visiting two wealthy indian brothers have been accused of influencing former president jacob zuma. now u.k. based investigative web site claims to have revealed the real identity of the second suspect accused of poisoning a russian double agent spending cap says russian military doctor alexander miskin used a different name to travel to salzburg in the u.k. . and his daughter yulia were attacked with a nerve agent last 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 says 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 it also has a mark on it is visible in all the photographs russia digital at nasa photographed them 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 the 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 named 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 we 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 sergei script was a traitor but they can hardly change their story now of course the people who will be most pleased about all this are the british government 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 bulger and police said they plan to release a man who was arrested and questioned in connection with the murder of a journalist officers say the man is not a suspect thirty year old victoria mariner who was raped and killed in the northern town of rooms she'd been investigating alleged forward with the funds between businessman and politicians a body was found in a park and showed signs of suffocation and blows to the head 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 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 officers saya group was not hired and it's unclear if the trump campaign acted on the proposals or 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 big 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 a suicide attack in afghanistan has killed an opposition candidate saddam ahmed chocks i was among eight people killed his campaign office in helmand province eleven others were injured parliamentary elections are due to be held later this month now agencies are warning that the number of civilian monuments children in afghanistan is on the rise up to two million children don't have enough to eat countries sending in food but that's half the battle often groups like the taliban

prevent the food from being delivered to those who need it most to anybody reports from herat. absented 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 hunt 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 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 armed group or another have 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 . we had to leave our area because there was no food coming stopped it i don't know why. instances of convoys being stopped or reduced in the last few years but they still happen that access is essential for mobile medical teams to help needy civilians aid workers have been attacked and killed in the past and they too need

protection from police and national electronics he has taken an economic turn and we can't go everywhere because areas are too prisca and then we can't help children . it's 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 they sell induction in that conflict and improvement in terms of library wants to support communities this intuition affected today and we mainly become much was. happily not for up son or her wages increased by seven hundred grams in just a week soon she'll no longer be an acutely malnourished baby she doesn't know it

yet but hers is a story of hope tony berkeley al-jazeera harat gaza's only power stations 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 crisis gaza's often without electricity for up to sixteen hours a day because of israel's blockade the palestinian president mahmoud abbas rejected the foreign aid plan because of a rift with hamas in gaza. hurricane michael has strengthened as it moves towards the u.s. state of florida the storms well been upgraded to a category three which could bring winds of more than one hundred ninety kilometers an hour a state of emergency has been declared in some parts michael is expected to make landfall on wednesday hurricane michael is a monstrous storm and the forecast kids get keeps getting more dangerous today i firmly as president trump issued a preplanned full disaster declaration for allows to draw down more federal

resources i also spoke with the president this afternoon and he commit to providing any federal assistance for the may need brazil's leftwing presidential candidates trying to gather support ahead of a second round vote later this month and ahead that will face controversial right wing front when a giant bowl tomorrow in a runoff said he secured endorsements from several eliminated candidates and will form a center left coalition if elected holds an aura one almost half of votes in sunday's first round but not enough to declare him the outright winner. well young people are becoming some of the most influential voters in the united states but many so-called millennial is a disillusioned with the state of politics that's pushed them to embrace candidate sound policies from the left john hendren takes a look at how this methot the mid-term elections in the that. 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 become midterm local presidential all of it rising property prices mounting student debt and lack of action on gun control and climate change we recently have millennia of weaning away from capitalism into a war european style socialism your parents sold to a 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 a surgeon support for left wing parties such as the democratic socialists of america the party has grown eight hundred percent in three years democratic socialism is just about returning the democratic party to what its roots are and seeing who. who it's basis and. promoting policies that the base their base wants and sort of an unabashed way. the party now counts nearly fifty thousand members in all fifty states most of them millennial the big question for the november midterm elections will be 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 election or had as low as a question of who is actually going to vote the november elections will determine whether in insurgency of youthful enthusiasm thanks. i think. it was amounts to real change john hendren al-jazeera chicago mixing a big day at the races with a nights out at the opera hasn't been popular in australia the sydney opera house has lit up as a john billboard to promote the world's richest horse race on sunday but this is led to protests as politicians of the town the decision to block the advertisement as it was pulled doesn't explains. 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 still importance of a commercial as 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 stacked against them opera house managers declined the application 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 glad especial jackley on to accept the calling it a no brainer it is done in good tice it's incredibly time down from previous versions and i said 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. time for a quick check of the headlines here this hour u.s. senators were posing to block arms sales to saudi arabia as washington steps up pressure over a missing saudi journalist turkish investigators believe that jamal khashoggi was killed inside his country's consulate in istanbul senator rand paul wants to end u.s. arms sales to riyadh if it's implicated in the motive particle hane has more from washington d.c. . saudi arabia has spent tens of millions of dollars trying to improve its reputation here in washington d.c. this seems to be having a real impact on that in part of the reason is it is all over the media and

american media doesn't tend to cover foreign news but this is different it's being covered on every cable channel including the channel that the president watches the most often which is fox news they've been covering it as well taking a harsh tone about it and this is a man who was very respected in washington middle of turkish newspaper a suburb daily has published photos of the fifteen saudis who police suspect may have been involved in casualties disappearance local media reports say the group flew to istanbul on two planes and then to the consulate the same day the journalist was there as reporter they've all since left. the u.s. ambassador to united nations nikki haley has denied she's planning on running in the twenty twenty presidential election after resigning from her post so african presidents are a force has accepted the resignation of his finance minister. faced calls to step down after admitting to visiting two wealthy indian brothers have been accused of

influencing the former president jacob zuma both gary and police say they plan to release a man who was arrested and questioned in connection with the murder of a journalist officers say the man is not a suspect. the two year old victorian era nova was raped and killed in the northern town of ruse she'd been investigating alleged ford with the e.u. funds between businessman and politicians brazil's left wing presidential candidates trying to get the support ahead of a second round vote later this month. will face controversial right wing jiah both now in a runoff said he's accused endorsements from several eliminated candidates and will form a sentence coalition if elected all right those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera the inside story of such an.

american pressure growing on saudi arabia over missing journalists. president donald trump says he's worried the u.s. secretary of state is urging them to support a thorough investigation. allegations of murder be a turning point in. this isn't story. hello and welcome to the program i'm adopted had made a week after his mysterious disappearance a thousand. in turkey u.s. leaders their fears for. donald trump said.