always. hold we accept this type of event. a turkish newspaper identifies fifteen saudi national police want to question about the disappearance of saudi journalist. i'm richelle carey this is. also coming up calling it quits. the u.n. nikki haley announces she's resigning after eighteen months on the job. finance minister steps down in connection with the corruption probe into former president jacob zuma. and afghanistan is changing the way it deals with children accused of fighting with the taliban.

or go into his country's consulate in istanbul has apparently been killed on the orders of his government that is according to the new york times which is citing a senior turkish official. has been missing for a week this is the last time he was seen alive when he was calling in to the saudi consulate the turkish newspaper. published photos of fifteen saudis who police suspect may have been involved in disappearance local media reports say the group flew to istanbul on two planes into the consulate the same day the journalist was there the washington post wrote for says u.s. intelligence intercepted communications of saudi officials discussing a plan to capture him. from washington d.c. . the two most prominent newspapers in the united states both coming out with stories about do the disappearance of jamal khashoggi first the new york times they

are saying that a source is telling them that intelligence community believes that his disappearance was signed off on by the highest levels of the saudi government their side in the store saying that the complexity of the scope the potential ramifications would have had to have been signed off at a high level that they do not specify who that could be they're also reporting that sources believe to show he was killed within two hours after entering the consulate and that his body was dismembered by a bone saw that was brought in by those operatives now to the washington post the washington post is saying that one source has told them that u.s. intelligence found communications within saudi arabia the talked about trying to lure back to saudi arabia it doesn't say if it was to arrest him to interrogate him to kill him it doesn't say whether or not that information was passed along to him before he entered the consulate so these are two of the most respected newspapers in the united states al jazeera has not been able to independently confirm this but this will certainly increase the pressure on president donald trump to say or do

something because this was a prominent american columnist he is a beloved among a small group of the intelligence elites in washington d.c. and they are speaking out this story is making front page news it is on all of the cable news channels including the one that the president watches the most fox news it is being greeted with a sense of outrage and that is only growing as each story reveals new information robert pearson is a non resident scholar at the middle east institute in serve so u.s. ambassador to turkey he says the case could change the relationship between the u.s. 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 correspondent 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 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 research to show 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 and a surprise announcement the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley has resigned imma leave her job at the end of the year she says she wants a break from public life and has ruled out running against donald trump in the two thousand and twenty presidential election i cannot reports on 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 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 promise you when i'll be doing is campaigning for this one so i look forward to supporting the president and 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 given you would be incredible that doesn't mean that you you know what i think or because you fear cues have no business. 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. south african president cyril ramaphosa has accepted the resignation of his finance minister and led a face calls to step down after admitting that he visited the indian brothers accused of employing the same former leader jacob zuma in

a was the fourth finance minister in three years for me to miller haswell 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 in front and 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 then down in it 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 zimbabwe a police say of all stop protests against a new tack. that's being blamed for pushing up the price of basic goods largest trade union has called for a strike against a levy on money transfers president emerson and the measure will help to revive the economy it has caused widespread fuel and food shortages reports from harare. it's perhaps another signs the economy may take a long time to recover some people have been lining up since saturday to fill up because the central bank governor says fuel shortages are because of the introduction of a two percent tax on bad transactions that means products now cost more and suppliers are buying less it's little shortages and many disappointed customers it's up to the very real disappointing because everything is at a standstill in gondolin a business you can do anything in the world. the worsening economic crisis is compounded by

a critical shortage of cash the last time lines were this long was back in two thousand and eight some people would sleep in their cars for days hoping to get fuel government officials are telling the bobbins not to panic but some people say they are worried. in some places feel has started arriving but it's still not enough. others are stocking up on groceries these days bread is in short supply and usually doesn't last long on the shelves in some stores customers are limited to two items per person to prevent hoarding and panic buying. of clothes next month even before even. behavior persons a change of people uncertain of the future. certainties of. very big pressure inclusions prices a tripled in just a few days it's

a question of increasing capacities it's a question of my future as my future. more feelable ships because it's just a demand. is there some speculation that's causing some panic buying but again these things are under control they will be no shortages. but increasing production needs foreign currency us dollars that banks say they don't have enough of some importance by dollars on the black market at a premium sums of worry there could be more frustration and hardship before things get better. al-jazeera had. taiwan's president is vowing to best national security and warning her government will not give in to pressure from china speaking on islands national day when insisted that she won't recklessly provoke child china beijing orders considers rather china beijing considers taiwan to be part of its territory and has been pressuring other countries to cut ties three nations

suspended diplomatic with relations with taiwan earlier this year. so ahead on al-jazeera two countries what alphabet they look at efforts to unify the language between south and north korea. and 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. how there's still want to share is falling and full cost to fall in northern parts around the throes of a job not quite as vicious as were the ones that caused the flooding and was a bit of a circulation in the cloud by the look of it at the tajikistan east and took minister on and afghanistan all producing as it might right a bit of snow hill but not as much as might be light and nothing in the western side of afghanistan and that clouds that massive cloud might develop

a shower or two of a syria iraq or some parts of the wrong but probably mostly cloud to be a bit cooler on the eastern coast of the mediterranean big cooler also through the arabian peninsula but the are as easily drawn to this thing here now this is a cycling. now its course is going to take it towards the coast of oman and yemen somewhere now could after that go down towards the gulf of aden or it might go up over towards the empty quarter to be honest we don't yet know but it almost certainly is going to cause problems with flooding on the coast of amman and yemen that's just stage one. in southern africa beyond the ken usual share of your video sea or north. korea for it to be free of any significant rain there is cloud goes through the west and cape cape town's dropping down to eighty degrees otherwise it's just a few sunshine. has

been described as i believe. the last one is around rubbing against a mound the will. suffer from to come dressed up like. each team because you brush me with. these crystals al-jazeera travels to africa and it's inspiring individuals who are fighting to eliminate these ideas and it's like flying the end is in sight. on al-jazeera. watching out to zero these are the top stories this hour the new york times is reporting that missing saudi journalist was assassinated on the highest orders of

the kingdom so if he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul a week ago the times article cites a senior turkish official al-jazeera has not yet been able to verify that report and turkish newspaper daily sabah has published photos of fifteen saudi nationals who police want to question over his disappearance the washington post says the u.s. intelligence intercepted communications of saudi officials discussing a plan to capture him. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations ticky hayley is to nod that she is planning on running and the two thousand and twenty presidential election after resigning from her post she's the latest in a long line of high profile departures from the trump ministration. well gary and police say they plan to release a man who was arrested and questioned in connection with the murder of a journalist officer say the man is not a suspect thirty year old victoria marin over it was raped and killed in the northern town of ruse she'd been investigating alleged fraud with

a youth violence between businessmen and politicians her body was found in a park and showed signs of suffocation and blows to the head. internal listening has become more dangerous in recent months since anti-government protests began in april reporters have found themselves under attack for doing their job their national organizations say that has led to an alarming decline in press freedom in the country. has more from managua. assaults harassment and death threats have come to characterize the working conditions for many independent journalists. might be part of human there yeah so what we have a video journalist in mind recalls the moment he was shot in the arm while covering an anti-government demonstration only one batter. i tried to stand and couldn't contract and couldn't feel it i mediately thought the worst. moments after being shot other journalists rushed to winston's aid and drove him to

a private hospital winstone says most of his colleagues have also been the targets of attacks. is winston's boss and the founder of one hundred percent news he says that since the unrest began threats against his staff haven't stopped said the thing being a journalist today is a matter of life and death thanks. we've been harassed shot out angry mobs sent by the government to intimidate us at one point you are under siege i'm able to leave the building for several days. last april in the city of laon a radio station known for being critical of the government who set on fire with journalists still inside. the flames are so big they burst through the front door and ignited the clothes on the taxes as well as a security guard. walking through the charred remains of his office fransisco tortoise in an independent radio reporter showed us where men armed with machine

guns explosives and petrol canisters stormed the building the. what is left of the offices of radio deal the fire destroyed the roof and practically everything else this radio station was one of the first media outlets to be attacked when the political crisis began but acts of intimidation and violence against the nicaraguan press continue. attacks against the press have left at least one journalist dead so far government representatives however have ignored our request for a statement on the matter as the political conflict drags on organizations like the interim merican press association are calling on the nicaraguan government to investigate and prosecute those responsible for attacks against journalists and their families when we get up and when i watch. people in florida's panhandle are bracing for what's likely to be the area's first major hurricane in years michael is gaining strength as it barrels towards the state the storm has 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 of the state michaels expected to make landfall on wednesday. afghanistan as introduce new methods to deal with young boys accused of fighting with the taliban some of them are as young as twelve and have been sentenced for offenses such as attempted suicide bombing or possessing roadside explosive devices president authorities are using education and games to reverse what they say has been taliban brainwashing on the berkeley reports. this is a former women's prison bagging kabul has been turned into a juvenile rehabilitation center housing children the government says fought with the taliban we can't identify the children all starve because they fear reprisals but the boys have either been charged or convicted of a range of activities including planting roadside explosive devices and attempted suicide bombing offenses they all deny mohamed is sixteen and he's serving

a five year sentence for possessing a roadside bomb he says he was framed by family. enemies and claims he has no connection with the taliban. i have nothing to do with the taliban bad people paid the police to frame me but i did nothing. this type of facility is the first of its kind in the country it houses thirty four detainees age from twelve to seventeen and they are part of a new strategy by the afghan government to move from previous harsh detention conditions to a new more compassionate approach aimed at winning hearts and minds. we try and reverse the taliban brainwashing we are also using some of the same techniques but they only explain to the kids one side and we explain through education both sides and try to tell them that everything that they've been told is not true. once these were cells and now their classrooms boys are taught to read and write here and given an education they otherwise wouldn't get is designed to

show what life is like away from taliban control in many ways they are more fortunate than children detained in other parts of the country. i am studying them getting to know all about good things now when i am released i will continue with my life. to marchmont aware that some of the juvenile centers have reasonable living conditions but we get reports of abuse in some of them and because of a lack of education there is not violent and sexual abuse from them all and officials say these methods are proving successful in eighty percent of cases but some would argue that the inmates have no choice but to comply but there are no guarantees that once they leave here they won't succumb to the pressures and circumstances that lead them here in the first place. lack of food in prospects can be a driving force behind a young boy's thinking and with a die conditions in many parts of rural afghanistan it will not be difficult for the taliban to find willing recruits there are concerns of these new government

methods don't work these teenagers could pose a threat in the future not only in afghanistan. but also other countries to help create. suicide attacks are global threat not just to ghana stan and if we don't stop them here then they can happen in other countries as we have seen. it's hard to imagine watching them play volleyball that these boys' lives have been so marred by violence like many others they've lost more than their freedom they have also lost their youth tony berkeley al-jazeera. young people are becoming some of the most influential voters in the united states that many so-called millennialist are disillusioned with the state of politics and that's push them to embrace candidates and policies on the left john hendren takes a look at how this may affect the midterm elections and november. 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 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 where the party now counts nearly fifty thousand member. as in all fifty states most of them. 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 things falling the way it is turn 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 the question of who is

actually going to vote the november elections will determine whether an insurgency of youthful enthusiasm thanks. thanks. thanks. so much to real change john hendren al jazeera chicago south koreans have held events to mark korean alphabet day north and south korea share the alphabet but their languages have grown apart during decades of separation with relations warning recently south koreans want to bring a unified dictionary reports from seoul they 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. the great is worth celebrating it was created with the aim of everybody to communicate with

everybody else in korea through 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 are different events visitors have been. holding on to. the south has been adopting. the languages for example in the south. though not. 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 will simply stand. 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. mixing a big day out of the races with a night at the opera hasn't been popular in australia sydney opera houses little billboard to promote the world's richest horse race on sunday that has led to protests as politicians overturn the decision to block the advertisement and has more. protesters pointed lasers on spotlights at one of australia's most famous landmarks they were trying to stop the sydney opera house from being used to promote the world's richest horse race called the everest this is a symbol of a strange. story importance of a commercial house the opera house has promoted the olympics rugby and cricket in

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

their money on the wrong horse paltrow dirge on al-jazeera. the headlines right now on al-jazeera. the new york times is reporting that missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was assassinated on the highest orders of the kingdom and the washington post says u.s. intelligence intercepted communications of saudi officials discussing a plan to capture him to show it was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul a week ago from washington d.c. patty again has more on the new york times revelations there also reporting that sources believe show he was killed within two hours after entering the consulate and that his body was dismembered by a bone saw that was brought in by those operatives now to the washington post the washington post is saying that one source has told them that u.s. intelligence found communications within saudi arabia talked about trying to lure

back to saudi arabia doesn't say if it was to arrest him to interrogate him to kill him and doesn't say whether or not that information was passed along to him before he entered the consulate the turkish newspaper daily has published photos of fifteen saudis the police suspect may have been involved in disappearance local media say the group flew to istanbul on two planes and at the consulate the same day that journalist was there it's reported they have all since left turkey this ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has announced that she is resigning elite says she's taking time out from public office and dismissed speculation that she would run for president in two thousand and twenty. how as president is vowing to boost national security and warning that her government will not give in to pressure from china speaking on the islands national day saying when insisted that she would not recklessly provoke china beijing considers taiwan part of its territory and has been pressuring other pressuring other countries that is to cut

ties south african president cyril ramaphosa has accepted the resignation of his finance minister and lehmann a face calls to step down after admitting that he visited two wealthy indian brothers accused of influencing former leader jacob zuma. it will in florida's panhandle are bracing for what's likely to be the area's first major hurricane in years ok michael is gaining strength as had barrels towards the state the storm has been upgraded to category three which could bring more than one hundred ninety kilometers an hour state of emergency has been declared and some parts of the state michael is expected to make landfall on wednesday. those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera throughout the day much more news in the meantime the listening post is that next. getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human crimes in the twenty first century in a war climate change and technological destruction they seem realities what is

there to fear is not in me it is in the people of uganda hear their story on and talk to al-jazeera. brazil had the polls on october seventh. actually i'm. sorry. but some. are controversial. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week round one of brazil's presidential election the outsider who's bypassing the mainstream media in favor of the social side and some of the stick that he's getting there when the trolling turns ugly and dangerous shocking stories from female reporters about the abuse and threats they get online a saudi arabian journalist living in exile visits this.