well you know. somebody like. this is al jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the on his era news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a turkish newspaper identifies fifteen saudi nationals police want to question over the journalist jamal khashoggi disappearance the new york times reporting he was assassinated on the kingdom's orders. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says she's quitting in a surprise move but president trump 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 a hunger crisis in afghanistan nearly two million children don't have enough to eat with conflict preventing aid from reaching those in the. welcome to the program we begin with a major development on the disappearance of a saudi journalist jamal khashoggi the new york times reports that was killed at his country's consulate in istanbul on the highest orders of the saudi government the article cites a senior turkish official. has been missing for a week now and this is him entering the saudi consulate it was the last time he was seen alive and this is the group of saudi suspects who turkish police want to question these photographs and their names were published in the turkish newspaper the daily. well the washington post which has shocked she wrote four also has some new details it says u.s.

intelligence intercepted communications of saudi officials discussing a plan to capture him well particle hain joins us now from washington d.c. patty this is a fast moving story let's start first with the new york times article that says turkish officials are now saying that she was killed on the highest orders of the of the saudi royal court that's an astonishing claim what more can you tell us. it really is astonishing and i want to point out that the new york times is saying that they only have one source on this but also i should point out that the new york times and the washington post are the two have a hitter's newspapers in the united states they don't tend to print things that turn out to be wrong that said al-jazeera has not been able to independently confirm this story but is just now breaking the new york times saying that this is a source told and they believe that this was basically agreed to by the highest levels of the saudi arabian government and the source says the intelligence committee says that's they feel confident in that because an operation of this

scope this complexity this much of an international problem potentially would have to be signed off by the highest levels of the government and they don't name exactly who that would be but they do say that they believe that he was killed within two hours of entering the consulate and that this team of fifteen people went on to dismember his body and they brought a bone a bone saw with them from saudi arabia to accomplish this task so again this is a new york times incredibly respected newspaper only one source and it is very much breaking but obviously this is going to be the headline to watch for the coming hours in the washington post as you say now claiming that this squad was already in line you know. when the ends of the consulate according to the post this was meticulously planned. yeah in the washington post here's the explosive allegation cover of the washington post they say that u.s. intelligence picked up some sort of communication within the saudi arabian

government that said that they were basically going to lie in wait for it because they said they were going to try to lure him back to the kingdom it was unclear if that was to arrest him or to interrogate him or to kill him but that they had been openly talking about trying to get their hands on him another part of the new york times story i want to mention they are saying again just one source is saying that it's possible that the turkish intelligence service has video of him being killed and that that was done to be able to send back to saudi were rabia is proof that the job had been done so this is obviously a very fast moving story again the washington post saying that the u.s. intelligence community picked up communication that they were going to try and lure him back to the kingdom it's not at all clear if the u.s. intelligence community passed that information along to him but this is going in the fast breaking nature of the story is going to have ramifications since this story first started peaking people of politicians started talking about that this

would be an outrage of saudi arabia carried out that task we have now seen senators congressmen saying it is time to do something to cut off military aid there already been a movement a slow movement in washington to try and do something because of the war in yemen to cut off any sort of sales of or any sort of weapons are i think you're going to see that chorus grow as these two most respected newspapers in the u.s. come out with what is damaging information which of course the saudis arginine in a way from what the newspapers are saying what more reaction have we been hearing about the story in washington. well senator rand paul is very influential in florence of foreign affairs he's always been a pretty strong critic of saudi arabia he tried to do a resolution to cut off military sales because of the war in yemen it didn't pass but just barely he is saying that he will put a hold on any additional sales the congress is notified about likely that's not going to be huge impact because there's already been a democratic senator who informally put a hold on those sales which they can do in the senate but we're seeing

a growing chorus with it seems with each passing day maybe each passing hour we're seeing very influential senators and congressmen saying that this would cross the line that there needs to be consequences for saudi arabia economically and otherwise they're leaving that openness to exactly what that could look like but also keep in mind this is a president president the first president of the united states to not make his first overseas trip to canada or mexico he went to saudi arabia he sees saudi arabia in a relationship there as a linchpin to his entire strategy in the middle east while it comes to israel and palestine and dealing with iran this is going to be a tough one for him because he feels that he needs saudi arabia and he likes to tout how much money they're spending on military hardware but it in many things u.s. foreign policy we've seen oftentimes there's president trump and then there's the federal government which includes senators and congressman so we'll be waiting to see the president said that he really didn't know anything that was going to be having a phone call with saudi officials but i think you're going to see pressure increase

from the other government side on the president to send a strong message if in fact these stories turn out to be true particle hang in there in washington d.c. poppy thank you very much for the update well he took his security sources have told al jazeera they have identified three places of interest in istanbul relating to the disappearance of jamal khashoggi stephanie deca has more now 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 has verified it it's the last time he has been seen in public just a few days ago the saudi journalist spoke to b.b.c. radio recently a saudi columnist an economist who was close to the royal court got the listed and that's a good many people because here we are talking about somebody who is closer 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 have this and even been dissidents right they just have an independent mind and to know i don't call myself an opposition i always say i am just right that i want a free environment to write and speak my mind turkish sources say they believe he was killed inside the consulate saudi arabia categorically denies that saudi authorities have now said they will allow turkish investigators inside the consulate to continue their investigation but this opposition member and human rights activist says he is skeptical anything will be found. it seems like a professional job it's already been seven days the saudis weren't sure about themselves they would not let the turkish authorities in. the saudis did give a tour of the building to a group of journalists on saturday the consul opening a small cabinet and what appears to be a fuse box in an effort to show. was not there there are

a lot of allegations and much speculation about what happened to jamal khashoggi here inside the saudi consulate but turkey hasn't yet provided any evidence to back up their belief that he may have been martyred here and saudi hasn't provided any proof that he ever left the only thing we know for sure is that jamal khashoggi entered the saudi concert a week ago and no one has seen or heard from him since stephanie decker al-jazeera is to. all right let's bring in glenn kahl he was a cia officer and served as a deputy national intelligence officer of the transnational threats at the national intelligence council and joins us via skype from boston then col let's talk first about these claims in the new york times in the washington post that u.s. intelligence agencies actually intercepted saudi communications discussing a plan to kidnap the saudi if it's true that's quite astonishing isn't it but it is astonishing but as an intelligence officer what first astonishes me is that such . an intercept would be made public if in fact it occurred because that bend makes

clear it would make clear to the saudis and everyone else that the americans were intercepting saudi transmissions that would be assumed it should be by every country anyway but i'm very surprised that one would would confirm this by letting the information know now the fact what has been intercepted is also notable because if true and there are now seem to be in creasing disparate bits of information that corroborates or substantiate the other pieces of commission it would be a shocking act and a test. glaring one which there for were an intelligence operation would be really in cock up and two were someone into your own consulate and then murdered a person and and while you know that your entrances and exits are all being videoed is astounding really yes and and and that's an important point to make again

because what about the washington post article that lays out what they see as the sequence of events that a hit squad of some sort was lying in wait for him i mean there's no evidence yet enough fishel evidence to support this yet but how feasible would that have been. well when i read about a private flight or a. reserve airplane flying from one place that was tracked from saudi arabia into turkey the timeline all of that made me think that it first rather than assassination that it was. a. rendition what we say in united states or an official kidnapping it may still be that they wanted they found him to be a proper problem for the regime and wanted to charge him with one crime or another . the fact that now we're talking about even having videos somehow

the healing consider whole different but either way kidnapping or assassination it is. crude series of steps that seem to have been taken and you'll familiar with the inner workings of embassies and consulates on foreign soil and how secretive they are along with being very secure but given the level of security and privacy again could a crime like this be committed with the obvious intent of it remaining hidden. assassinations are not rare they are exceptionally rare i think. if occur within one's own office building or official still or it just. starts. to conceive the event. but. once it's something else that surprised me in this is that we just heard from one of our colleagues that the saudis let the

turkish media into the consulate to show look we have been here. these are vicinities diplomatic facilities really should be in by the saudis shouldn't be inviting people in so it's almost like i protest doc protest too much to do that that also is a violation of the forms and normal practices it's no one you don't let people in other parties into your silly things it's extraordinary just a final thought from you then how do you see this playing out i mean the washington post revealed the photo of him going into the consulate but there's no pictures of him overdye of him coming out but there is now speculation that a black van was seen driving to the saudi ambassador residence so so how is turkey then it happened a massive oil however a lot to reveal any kind of official evidence trial if there is one well. it depends on what the person everyone decides he wants to

do. if he wants them for city to reasons to to be relatively harmonious then there will be official reasons stated the evidence can't you reveal it there is none and. if he wants to use this to pressure saudi arabia then we'll start to hear more if the turks have it. there for the international community one would imagine there would have to be. the material consequences for saudi arabia to be caught doing something as for tests this from the united states are now one last thing president trump has made it for what he thinks are his reasons. american policy to give saudi arabia. a free hand to do more or less whatever and wishes. that was not the case ever before and we may be seeing part of the consequences of.

trump's cozying up to saudi arabia when col thanks very much indeed for your time. now the us is demanding a full investigation into question his disappearance but there are growing calls in washington for action against saudi arabia and fishes move 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 were 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'd like to see the u.s. demand that the saudis produce him and if they can't produce him produce the 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 sales 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 seeing is true and could should you was murdered in the consulate in istanbul the now 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 a lot more so to come on the news hour including new accusations in the u.s. of contact between the time to sixteen trump campaign and foreigners but this time

it isn't the russians plus more details on one of the main suspects behind the poisoning of a russian double agent in the u.k. and in sports a hero's welcome for the fight at the center of one mixed martial arts most infamous contest still to come. now in a surprise announcement the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley has resigned and leave her job at the end of the she says she wants a break from public life and has ruled out running against donald trump in the twenty twenty presidential election mike hanna has more 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 they 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 a big if are all in here that are going to ask about twenty twenty no i'm not running for twenty twenty i can't 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 did is certainly a person i would consider as he is under consideration and the president's daughter ivanka i think of a good being granted all that doesn't mean i you know what i think or because you'd be used of nepotism even though i'm not sure there's anybody more confident in the world but that's ok but but we are looking at numerous people the discussion put on hold as the president has yet another campaign rally to attend my kind of al-jazeera united nations. well nikki haley is a republican a 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 and she's the first in american to

hold office in the state in two thousand and eight she became governor of south carolina to complete turns she was signed in twenty seventeen just as u.s. ambassador to the united nations let's bring in reno she joins us live from washington d.c. and we know as a republican strategist and consultant reno so what do you think is behind nikki haley's decision to quit i mean many observers say look she's got big political ambitions but is this more about self preservation do you think. well if he did i think there's something more here you know she is a political animal that should not be discounted in this moment making this move on the day that justice kavanagh had its first full day in the united states supreme court is truly something i think that was quite calculated she is somebody that is a force to be reckoned with and i was certainly surprised by this move as many washington insiders were people of the white house were taken aback secretary mike

pump aoe was also taken aback these are not small things the fact that she is choosing to move on to the time that is before the u.s. midterm elections that is notable and we should really take pause and consider what this means for the country certainly it was important that she appeared with the present day in the white house but i wouldn't rule nikki haley out from anything moving forward and that is certainly including a twenty twenty run yeah i mean she gave no reason for her resignation but the fact is the reader sheaf she's now another high profile figure going through the white house revolving door isn't cheap. she is she is but look there's a few things here this is a u.n. ambassador ship she has two seemingly young children still there are still in school and she has been in public services two thousand and five she was the governor south carolina beginning in two thousand and eleven she's had a lot going on in her life so for

a woman of public service this type are always have really and i don't think she did this without any sort of calculation certainly it's a surprise like i said earlier but looking at the calculus i think she is really seeming to take twenty twenty quite seriously and you never know we're looking at a senator nikki haley as well how would you assess her time at the united nations i mean many people say she was an internationalist who sometimes protected the u.n. from her bosses and to globalise policies. i wouldn't quite agree with that look she has been very hard on iran and she has been very much friendly with israel so that is something that republicans love to this administration the trumpet ministration loved and so i think she's leaving on very much a high note yes there were moments that were tense there were moments where she didn't seem to be in sync with the trumpets ministration but i wouldn't say that

she is leaving at contention in any case the fact that she appeared at the white house today tells you everything look there's a term that we use it's called frenemy whether president trump use her as a friend or foe we're not quite sure but what we do know is that she is leaving on a high note because a record at the u.n. was notable as you say she had her critics particularly with her repeated warnings about compiling a list of countries that didn't but the u.s. of israel and at times as well she was the only supporter this israel at the u.n. . yeah you look she she played this quite well because republicans love that relationship with israel that's very important that's actually paramount to the way republicans view foreign policy these days that israel must be protected and has to be protected on all accords so this is this is where we're at the red nikki haley was not going to really be a disruptor she if anything was going to really toe the party line and try to do it

quite delicately so i think she did that successfully actually she she didn't make it any of present trump even though there were moments where they seem to disagree she said i am not easily and could fuse as we heard from her a couple months ago really let me get a final thought from you because we're just running out of time here i mean who's likely to succeed i mean this talk of dina powell coming back or even ivanka trump but surely donald trump wouldn't be so nepotistic as to appoint his very own daughter to the role well there you have it he said today today from the white house he said i that would be seen as nepotism i would not be able to appoint my daughter but we also know that the president does tend to talk out of both sides of his mouth so there are actual statutes that would preclude him from being able to nominate a relative to a role in which he is the overseer of a particular agency but this is a u.n. ambassador ship so i think he could probably get around it it seems to be that

ivanka trump is the favored one he said that nikki haley made this rule the role of sorry of of you u.n. ambassador more glamorous so that's certainly a nod to his daughter i don't think tina powell would be willing to come back from what i'm hearing. it would be a great pick for the president again the politics of it all make it very delicate thank you very much indeed for your type. now a new york times investigation has found that a campaign aide to donald trump looked into manipulating social media 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 an israeli companies group offered to spread false information about trump's opponents the company is run by former israeli intelligence officers side group was not hired and it's unclear if the campaign acted on the proposals that a suicide attackers killed an opposition candidate in afghanistan salim ahmed

a chuck side 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. has more from kabul. this is side bomber managed to get into the house of candidates one hundred one who was talking to visitors about his political agenda and about his future plan if he gets elected when the suicide bomber blew himself up killing the candidate his bodyguards and other people the attack took place in the provincial capital of helmand. gar which is a taliban stronghold and this is not the only event we should place in afghanistan in the northern province of jobs that the taliban launched a military offensive to take over the area nine security forces were killed and there are reports the thirty taliban fighters were killed in the attack. officials

in jos that are asking the government of united states of america to provide more to send more troops to break the seas which has been imposed by the taliban the attacks are a strong message by the taliban that committed to destructing the political process in afghanistan south african president cyril ramaphosa has accepted the resignation of his finance minister tang clan then it faced calls to step down after admitting to visiting two wealthy indian brothers accused of influence in the former president jacob zuma then it was the fourth finance minister in three years for me to 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 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 and gotten in a did apologize soon after his testimony to south africa and saying that he shouldn't have met with that family it should have met with the good times and if he had done that it should have been within the finance ministry and that this was an error of judgment and sometimes despite being of well liked and respected specifically because he had according to many south african save the country from

what would have been a disastrous nuclear deal that south africa couldn't afford it some are very sad to see the finance minister go but in his place president saw him up or so has brought in tito and bo any he is the former reserve bank governor he was the first black governor of the reserve bank and is a well respected within business and labor these are african chamber of commerce say that says that this is one of the finest appointments yet in the finance ministry. time for a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back. i'm you generation of voters with the potential to make drastic changes to the u.s. political landscape and two countries one alphabet we look at efforts to give other language to north and south korea and its folds we'll hear from the limpid legends passed on their expertise at the youth games in argentina mana stings.

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back a quick reminder of our top stories here at this hour the new york times is reporting that missing saudi journeys jamal khashoggi was assassinated on the highest orders of the kingdom shoji was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul a week ago the times article cites a senior turkish official al-jazeera hasn't yet been able to verify this. you know all the turkish newspaper the daily star has published photos of fifteen saudi nationals the police want to question of the casualties disappearance the washington post says u.s. intelligence agencies intercepted communications of saudi officials discussing a plan to capture. and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley has denied she's planning to run in the twenty twenty eight presidential election after resigning from her post eighty says she's taking time out from public office. more now on our top story jamal khashoggi whose disappearance robert pierson is a non resident scholar at the middle east institute and served as u.s. ambassador to turkey i spoke with him earlier when he told me the case could change diplomatic relations between america and saudi arabia. 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 solved 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 to saudi arabia but we know that he and trump have very different views on saudi arabia iran pulls move is very significant that 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 after 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'm not going to ask you how do you see this crisis affecting the 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 get more arms sales and investments out of the saudis as perhaps a face saving concession for 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 countries 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 your 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 the. we were smuggled out or is if you

were killed in his body or 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 aired on likes to think of himself as a 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 it influence of saudi arabia in order to enhance his own summit ajah suspected as the cause of a series of explosions at an initial depo in ukraine no casualties were reported but thousands of people have been moved from their homes in the northern region of china have pro russian separatists been blamed for previous attacks on ammunition stores. 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 banning cat says russian military doctor alexander miskin use a different name to travel to salzburg in the u.k. that's where a script of his daughter yulia touch with a nerve agent lost much of the reports from the. 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 you don't see very distinct images on his face and his chin and on the bottom of his cheek his it also has a mark on it as 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 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 we have a problem of course you might argue 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 petrol in salzburg for entirely benign reasons after all to the russian states both men are heroes and segars crippled was a traitor but they can hardly change their story now of course the people will be most pleased about felice 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 largely al-jazeera in london now burned in court as over the past of the german capital must be barred to most diesel vehicles to slash harmful air pollution up to three hundred thousand cars could be affected even environmental ministers are meeting in brussels to decide on future emissions reduction targets. young people are becoming some of the most influential voters in the united states but many so-called millennium olds are disillusioned with the state of politics that's pushed them to embrace candidates and policies from the left john hendren takes a look at how this math fact the mid-term elections and event of. huge 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 a 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 drain 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 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 don't fall for 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 that is a question of who is actually going to vote the november elections will determine whether in insurgence of youthful enthusiasm.

was amounts to real change john hendren al-jazeera chicago. a united nations rights envoy has criticized me and mom for being unwilling to conduct a credible inquiry into alleged abuse against a range of muslims a u.n. fact finding mission once me and miles leaders investigated the genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes more than seven hundred thousand ranger were forced from their homes after a military crackdown last year myanmar's government has dismissed the allegations saying the un body is biased it set up a committee to investigate the crimes it's a red letter day in south korea in fact it's a special day for all netters because it's korean alphabet day north and south korea share a common alphabet but their language isn't grown apart during decades of separation but with relations warming again recently the south koreans want to create a unified dictionary brought 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 on the spoken word but the seven decades of separation after the korean war has not helped that process. the division has been causing the divergence of the meaning and even the usage of the language between the south and the north i different events visitors have been learning that while north korea has been holding on to more traditional words the south has been adopting more loanwords from other languages for example this in the south is called boner. but in the north it's. quite literally finger ring bread and when you take

a shower in the morning you use what translates as have water over in the south will simply stand. with people from the knoll from the south already not understanding up to a good of every day words the others are using academics have been working on a common dictionary as a possible solution to language difficulties were cleared to see at the recently unions of families separated by the war and trying to communicate again after decades of pots consider the prospect of reunification and you can take that problem and multiply it by a nation. financial break your knowledge is out when we come back with the sport pakistan's cricket is take control of the first test against australia and you see it with thanks reaction from dubai money.

welcome back all the sport now here's andy thank you very much from new orleans saints quarterback drew brees is 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 they did a pretty impressive fashion brees 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 money the 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 and

he manning brett farve and tom brady are ahead of him in his career yards total now stands at seventeen thousand one hundred three he has at least eleven more games left this season to add to that record breaking sound school. i don't think it could have happened in any better fashion than to have then that moment with my teammates on the field the office of why. 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 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 as me because you put on a century partnership with six wickets for the hour cif turn 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 eighty sue australia that at least finish 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 are 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 happened to us at the moment so anyway did

that thing after the two thousand and fifteen world cup so that's what we're looking nearly feet feet can be the number one side in the world in this series that will be a great dawn turning point whereas pressure being number one people want to chase you and us you know once you get there i think that's when the hard work really starts because bit of a target on your back in this country to keep in proving and china stay this really tough challenge that brings with the same pressures never djokovic she's looking good is he 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 which 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 up one of the

biggest wins of his thirteen year pro career not at world number seven dominate same in three sets taking that aside ahead in its outbreak. our first ever gold medals at an olympic event for breakdancing of being awarded one is breaking through its followers these forces everything at the youth olympics in buenos aires dances a marks on creativity personality technique variety musicality the world dance federation hopes it will eventually become part of the fall in pics let's argue by some that the olympics has lost sight of the r. deals that inspired the ancient greeks and those who reignited the movement at the end of the nineteenth century movement refutes stars claims and says the use 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 seems it's all a participant in six a lot the game is one friendship respect and excellence and that's no matter what you know now we see is and this is part of my job here in the 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 for 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 dean years old you can be an olympic games you know i think this must be a big motivation for them to dream to be part of a big olympic games in the future he's one of several athletes role models at the youth games imparting their experience their inspiration to 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 to a paki was here is a squash player from pakistan where she says she was as a woman aggressively discouraged from taking up sport 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 and enthusiasm of youth. captured here by guest of honor in one of cyrus 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 a cave. on their own jersey or 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 could 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 though my command of forth with members of mcgregor supports him is when his check is being withheld while in investigations exploits ok but is always for financial more lighter. andy thank you very much for that and you can find much more on our website and in full detail coverage of the investigation and diplomatic fallout of the missing saga janice jamaal a self dressed as a dot com that's out as a couple last of the me down in jordan for the news that my colleague michele carries up next with more the day's news don't go away statement that so much but

up. demand has outstripped supply and inference of a commodity. adoption is a compassionate act for children in need but not against the with their mothers. from uganda of united states full kline's investigates how innocent lives have been courtin in legal tug of war between biological and or don't have parents. food lines on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. that's. where every. brother leader or brutal dictator. with discontent spreading through north africa time was running out for libya's self-styled king of kings. in the first of a two part series the big picture charts the rise and fall of one of the few and the events that helped fuel the violence of his final hours. the lust for libya on a. zero . every. china used to take half the world's recyclable rubbish but not anymore with garbage

generated by one point four billion people they've got enough of their own but where does it go when he slips the lid on china's war on waste on al-jazeera. a turkish newspaper identifies fifteen saudi nationals police want to question about the disappearance of saudi journalist. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up calling it quits u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley announces she is stepping down. south africa's finance minister steps down in connection with the corruption probe into former president jacob zuma. and two countries one alphabet you look at efforts to unify the language between.