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i would see where the storm only because it is moving so fast but we are going to be seeing some very destructive winds across the region. the weather sponsored by cattle lease. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the last known video of the missing journalist jamal khashoggi shows him entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. these are the man turkish media say may know exactly what happened to him. a possible breakthrough in the murder investigation of a ball garion journalist. and in sport the new york yankees have been knocked out
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of the major league baseball playoffs the boston red sox beating them four three at yankee stadium to reach the american league championship series. just a little over a week since jamal khashoggi just appeared we now have more information about what may have happened to the saudi journalist and critic over the last few hours turkish media have released this video it does appear to show jamal khashoggi walking into the saudi consulate in istanbul they've also published images that show the arrival of what they say is a saudi kill team on the same day. international airport and the washington post for short she wrote for says u.s. intelligence intercepted communications of saudi officials discussing a plan to detain khashoggi and then lure him back to saudi arabia. we've got
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correspondents around the world covering all the angles of the story lawrence leaders of the saudi embassy in london. where a protest has been taking place. in washington where calls for the saudis to conduct thorough investigations are getting louder and stephanie deca is in istanbul where she's been standing outside the saudi consulate will speak to her in a moment first here's her report. turkish sources say these men arrived at istanbul airport with a mission to either abductor or kill. they flew into is stumbled on the same day the saudi journalist was due to return to the consulate to finalize some paperwork they're suspected to have been inside the consulate when the entered the building around a quarter past one local time on the afternoon of the second of october a turkish newspaper has published the pictures and the names of the fifteen saudi nationals that the turks say were part of the so-called saudi hit squad the new york times goes into further detail quoting an anonymous senior turkish official
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saying ankara believes he was killed inside the consulate at the orders of the highest level of the saudi royal court. then gruesome detail he was killed within two hours of this moment and that his body was dismembered by the saudi team with a bone saw in what seems to be a deluge of leaks the washington post then divulging that before his disappearance u.s. intelligence intercepted communications of saudi officials discussing possibly detaining him out. it is unclear whether he was ever warned 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 creasing disparate bits of information that corroborates or substantiate the other pieces of commission it would be a shocking act and tess clee glaring one which there were were telling us operation
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would be really in cock up and to someone into your own consulate and then murder the person and. while you know that your entrances and exits are all being videoed is astounding and this new information seems to be going to strain the attempt by the turks or it's a plan russia and saudi arabia turkish official has gone on camera and evidence and been presented to back up the. story with a major need to go into talks. for surgeries fiance had teacher and is is seen here waiting for her fiance outside the consulate and she's written in the washington post the u.s. paper she contributed to pleading with the u.s. president to clarify what happened to her fiance and also in the saudis to release security camera footage she says she doesn't want to believe that he's been killed . ok we'll go to stephanie in a moment but first
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a turkish newspaper has published more information about the fifteen minutes are involved in the disappearance of jamal khashoggi according to turkey's state owned sabo news one of the individuals as a top forensic expert with the saudi government another individual caught on c.c.t.v. video has been pictured with crown prince mohammed bin cell none in the past all of the men are aged between thirty and fifty seven years old their information was tracked down through open source internet tools by several online researches stephanie decker joins us live from the consulate building in istanbul staff the turkish investigators that angle of the story broke this time yesterday have they entered the building yet. they haven't entered the building what we're hearing is conflicting reports first we're hearing that they may be coming today but then we heard that they want the saudi ambassador to be was may only be on the weekend nothing is clear at the moment clear that they will be going into that
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building that will be investigating and if there's any traces of what might have happened to you but as you mentioned there's been a lot of leaks in the package and i just played in that graphic they released the names the dates of birth knew these fifteen men may be you know the reports in the washington post new york times hugely damning and controversial allegations here and i think the one thing we're missing is hard core evidence peter we haven't had an official come out and say this is hugely political sensitive and i think this is what people are really wanting for and i think particularly also the family where is the evidence where the facts of what happened in there the facts are his missing eight days later but specifically what really happened to him rather than these allegations we still don't know when it comes to what specifically happened to this man clearly this is not a delicate this is a rather indelicate way to put it but if there was any d.n.a. evidence inside the building who have a perpetrated this crime has had plenty of time to clean it up.
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while this is what some people we were talking to soon after the announcement the saudis were going to allow the turks in to investigate said to us they said well it's been a week so unless this if the saudis weren't confident that nothing would be found they wouldn't be allowing them and also we understood some people saying again unconfirmed reports that the turks may not have had d.n.a. his d.n.a. may not have carried out any medical tests here they took away clothes this we know and d.n.a. potential samples from his fiance's house to try and you know continue this investigation i think you know it is eight days on now peter and it is such a high profile case i mean we have attorneys lined up here in front of the consulate talking about it and i think of course you know our job is to verify facts and evidence and it's been very difficult to do so and something so controversial and so horrendous when it comes to these allegations we still haven't been able to independently confirm whether any of that is true and i think also
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just briefly that is why you had that plea in the washington post from his fiance off getting the american administration and also the saudis to try and shed light on what happened to him he walked into that consulate eight days ago and no one has seen him since and also another day today stay of almost complete silence from president not saying anything about this today nothing's going public anyway. that's right he made two comments the first comment he made was a couple of days ago where he said that you know it was it was a personal friend and was monitoring the situation privately personally and that you know he hoped that they weren't going to be doing it with a situation they didn't want to deal with but whatever they found well whatever would have happened would be made public to the world the next day he came out and said that saudi needs to provide evidence and needs to provide footage to show to back up their claim that jamal khashoggi actually met left that consulate this is what the saudis are saying but at the same time they're saying that those video
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cameras surveillance cameras all the diplomatic consulate to diplomatic mission don't record while many people will question that you know why would a surveillance system not recorded only be there to watch so this is where we're at the has been quiet and i think you know he's letting the chargers investigators do their thing but it is of course also a hugely political sensitive story stephanie thanks very much. ok let's talk now to sultan dolly he's a saudi human rights lawyer and he joins us live from the u.k. he will be speaking in arabic but we have a similar tale as translation for you so time dolly as far as your sources are telling you is this story is this event being reported in saudi arabia and if it's not being reported on the formal media the mainstream media is it being discussed on social media.
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thank you for having me. to begin with that as a matter of fact it isn't. confirmed at the beginning that mr crash. has been abducted and transported to the kingdom of saudi arabia. and later at a later stage. according to the evidence is that if. it is established that the man has disappeared within the concert building and has not left the building. what has been reported and the rumors on the social media. there has been strong evidence that mr casualty has been murdered within the consulate building and this was collaborating by some intelligence sources from the united states that they have intercepted calls to senior saudi officials to the raid so get rid of why such
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a game particularly. in simple words the picture portrayed by mohammed bin sell a man to himself and on which he spent millions and millions of dollars this picture is to repeat. only by one single article by command in the washington post secondly when speaking of driving allowing women to drive in saudi arabia mr herzog welcomed the decision however he criticized it saying that all the people who have been advocating. the move. is now all behind bars this is nothing but the fact that the saudi leadership is muscling mausers on the other hand we all know that mr. has been close to family after
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the a.b.s. since the eighty's from the top tier of monarchs to the head of the intelligence. prince turki and many of the secret files operated by this how did it leadership was under mr casualties known as ok when just to let me to interrupt you there for a second term dali you're taking us through two theories theory number one this was a case of extraordinary rendition he was put on a plane one of those two private jets that left the airport neither of those aircraft flew we're being told to saudi arabia you're also saying he may have been killed inside the consulate on balance what do you think actually happened to him.
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not only scenarios or theories as you mentioned are all possible however the security and intelligence sources of turkey. requested to search not only the consulate building but all so the console residence. after tracing the fifteen men arrived in turkey upon. her stroke seize entrance into the building the way they entered the country and the hotel booking for four days while they spent only a couple of hours in istanbul before flying back to jordan and egypt. all these pieces of evidence prove that. something happened within the building
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and all these pieces of evidence may have suggested that mr cutler was transported to the consul's residence field blocks away and that's why the security authorities of turkey to quested to have their residence searched. and also when the consul appeared with reuters correspondent he seemed worried and in deep concern however this man enjoys certain immunity and he cannot nor his or the residents be searched. that's why the security forces of turkey are putting both the consulate building and the residence of the consul within the circles of search and i believe this man has a lot to inform and he mom a have being in future this guy may be sacrificed with the saudi authorities as
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a scapegoat ok jamal khashoggi never self labeled he never self identified as being a voice of dissent he never said i am a dissident you've already explained to us that there was a long period of time in his life when he was very close to those people at the highest levels within saudi arabia so explain this to me why is there clearly such a difference between how the rest of the world perceives this man or perceived him if he's now dead and how the crown prince mohammed bin salma obviously perceives him. so here it is through mr hull junkie has revealed himself and in his interview with the b.b.c. three days before he headed to istanbul and as clear from his tweets he explained
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and pointed out that he is not. of opposition figure he was seeking simple freedom to say his opinion freely and go back home saying. he always pointed out that that freedom of expression should be good and he then this is also a response that is sponsibility of journalists and but why mr castro in particular said the picture portrayed by mohammed bin salmen himself as that if foremost and. oppen leader all these. picture was. undermined and ruined in simple words but his article in the washington post however being close to the royal family and monarchs it is uncertain true. and it might have come to the knowledge.
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that mr stoke there was close to prince turki the head of then televisions since the afghanistan sylvie tinian war it has come to the knowledge of the ruling family that jamelle my be and the process of writing his own memoir and if he has initiated this memoir he would have revealed a lot of secrets still turn we're going to lose the satellite so forgive me for interrupting you one last time because we've got about sixty seconds left on the satellite time whatever has happened to this man this this voice of a desire to illumine eight things happening in your country it is obviously a story of criminality perhaps murder it's also got political consequences around the world diplomatic consequences around the world is there
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a risk here for your crown prince for the saudis that they're actually making this worse not better because the taking the name of a man they're taking a man can i suggest to you and they are turning somebody who for a lot of people was quite obscure he wasn't that well known and they're turning him into a voice an icon of free speech. yes . there is no doubt that mr quest is a figure he is the icon of freedom especially he is a journalist mohammed said man took an incalculable move in the past when the monarch of soldier arabia murdered the nasser seder show marie one of the opposition figures inside and also murdered some of the ruling family all
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these were moves that were not properly calculated mr fastow clear was staying in the united states residing there he has lots of contacts with many journalist television stations and many newspapers as i said mr cutler was not outspoken or clear position yet this was a miscalculation wrong move taken by mohammed bin said man like many others the war of yemen which all failed mohammed bin said a man is lacking the political experience and he is very. person that takes move through that with calculation and that's why. his blood will not go down the drain the whole world and the united states the foreign ministry of the british government all the human rights and journalists. take in. there what they should do and they are standing behind the case ok. thank you so
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much for coming on to talk to zero knowledge zero not an easy interview for you to do but we do appreciate your time we appreciate your insights on what may or may not yet come to pass thank you. in the u.s. after days of silence six days of silence the trump administration reacted by calling for a thorough investigation into what happened to mr khashoggi president trump and his son in law. considered close to the site is speaking on a radio show just a short time ago the u.s. vice president mike pence said washington is ready to help in finding out what has happened to the missing journalist last question the follow up if the saudis were to request our f.b.i. dispatched technicians to the consulate what they do so i think the united states of america stands ready to assist in any way but as i said yesterday that the free world deserves answers the reports that a saudi arabian journalist may have been tragically murdered. in
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turkey. should be deeply concerning to everyone the churches of freedom of the press and human rights ok let's put that interview in context for you my colleague joining us from the bureau in washington kimberly put that put that in context for us sending in f.b.i. investigates is if they're invited in how does that work. oh well it's unclear whether the f.b.i. would be the appropriate agency but i think the point that the vice president was trying to make is that given the f.b.i. is typically domestic in terms of its expertise that the u.s. would lend its assistance in any way and capacity that was requested but i think it's important to note in all of this that how the vice president has been characterizing this so far as an issue of press freedom we've noticed the statements coming out of the state department also from the vice president of echoing there in that radio interview what he said on twitter on tuesday is
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essentially they're tiptoeing around the delicate issue that has been in the united states for some time with regard to its relationship with saudi arabia that is that it has been willing for for a very very long time decades in fact to turn a blind eye as long as the oil is flowing but this case has really thrust some key the powerful players from the white house to capitol hill in an uncomfortable position because of the spotlight in the profile and also the fact that the united states says that it represents and pushes for human rights but this case given the fact that there are some answers that need to be found out in terms of the investigation that is where the u.s. is trying to focus its energy so we saw coming out of not just the state department from the the spokesperson but also a press release from the secretary of state mike pump aoe himself saying that they are pressing for an investigation that is transparent and thorough that they have
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been in contact through diplomatic channels and we also heard from the president who didn't say very much beyond that he was concerned but that he would be raising this issue with the saudis but i can tell you as of now we've not yet seen a readout if that call has taken place with this white house really rather that those voices in congress can believe have been saying look we have a multi-billion dollar relationship with would the trump administration really rather those voices stayed quiet for a couple of more days at least. it appears so but the role of congress has always been to check the role of the white house and it appears in this case that's exactly what's going on and we should note is happening with bipartisan support we immediately saw a very strong statements from senator lindsey graham a top republican in the u.s. senate as well as other strong voices like republican senator bob corker even suggesting that the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia could be in peril if the allegations are proven to be true this is now been acted by
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a prominent democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut who says that if the allegations are true this should represent a fundamental break in our relationship with saudi arabia given that we're in very divided political times here in the united state to see this senate and prominent senators speaking with one voice not only demanding answers about what happened but also suggesting that the u.s. saudi relationship could be at risk if those answers are not provided is certainly notable can believe many things. protests today at the saudi embassy in london to highlight the case of jamal khashoggi correspondent lawrence lee is that lawrence big protests or focused in in a way. small but focused forceful consent activists journalists human rights defenders. just us outside the
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embassy hip finished now i'm drawn joined by jury dyke who is a london based but saudi focus human rights activist if they were to be watching this in that embassy over there what would you say to the saudis at the moment show show in ship to prove he's alive we are chance stay in the in the in the in the demonstration that we held in from the saudi arabian embassy in london was where is jamal we want to know we just want to know where is he what happened to him that's the real question of fact and the fact that they clearly haven't shown in the mean who just on before he went on a few of. these people should he be saying proof of life absolutely producing him at this stage would be the key thing for saudi arabia to do not producing him is creating huge tensions huge worries and concern not least among his family but amongst all those who have worked with him who know him saudi arabia sits on the united nations human rights council i think that's a reasonable position to maintain no not at all has been calling for
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a review of its position on the human rights council if it stands for reelection for the subsequent for three additional years we think that should at least be suspended and their human rights situation reviewed not just because of the disappearance of jamal khashoggi but because of the waves of arrests arbitrary detentions accusations of torture some which have been have been have been shown through the rates of execution and not least what's happening in yemen in some form a question who in the international community is going to say to saudi arabia. iraq so show shows this guy's alive or risk your place on the u.n. human rights council we need the president of the united states and frederica mongering to step up to the plate to to to pull a veil off this unfolding catastrophe. for me thank you very much indeed that's all from for us finding. lawrence thanks very much jamal khashoggi fiance her teacher is made a public plea to the u.s. writing in the washington post today she says this at this time i implore president
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and first lady melania trump to help shed light on jamal's disappearance also. especially king solomon and the crown prince mohammed bin zalman to show the same level of sensitivity and release c.c.t.v. footage from the consulate jamal is a valuable person an exemplary thinker and a courageous man who's been fighting for his principles i don't know how i can keep living if he was abducted or killed in turkey. ok let's wrap up some of the top stories for you german police have arrested a man in connection with the death of a bulgarian journalist thirty year old victoria marin over was raped and killed in the northern bulgarian town of roo say she'd been investigating alleged fraud with e.u. money involving businessmen and politicians a body was found in a park and showed signs of suffocation and blows to the head dominic cain is in berlin. it's now been confirmed that the german authorities apprehended a twenty year old bald garion national on choose the evening in near the northern
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german city of hamburg this was following the application for a european arrest warrant by that boat gary and colleagues clearly the ball gary knell for a geezer wants to have this person this individual in their custody not in german custody a process will now starts the extradition process which could go so long as sixty days if this suspect decides to resist extradition however if he were to acquiesce to agree to extradition the process would be a lot quicker the point to be made here is the german authorities say it's because of the european arrest warrant that this arrest was able to be made so quickly the questions then will be well as i say how quickly can this person be returned to bulgaria and then other questions too about what was the motive behind the attack on the the journalist the thirty year old journalist who was raped and murdered those questions will obviously be part of the investigation that takes place in
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bulgaria. it's really a day of storms today here's kevin with the weather that's right we have one in the gulf of mexico category four there we also have two storms here one in the bay but gol as well as here across parts of the arabian sea now we're going to be seeing one storm making landfall to put his in the motion and see what we have over the next twenty four hours you can see the storms are already affecting that eastern side of india as well as we're beginning to get some clouds here across oman first of all i want to take you over here towards eastern india this is typically it is equivalent to a category one hurricane so it's not that strong but it is expected to strengthen as it makes its way towards the coast right now it is moving to the northwest at fifteen and it's going to be bring some very heavy rain showers and localized flooding across that region so once it makes landfall then it will start to weaken but. not moved too far so in this area just to the south west of kolkata that is where expect to see some very heavy rain showers as well as some accumulations now
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i want to take you over here towards the arabian sea we have been watching this particular storm for quite a while we saw a lot of rain here across carola state india now the storm same intensity it is expected to strengthen but because it is moving so slowly and well we still don't know the exact track of where the storm is going to go we do think possibly over here towards maybe the the east or the western part of amman or the eastern part of yemen either way we expect to see once makes landfall some very heavy rain and also some flooding. yep thanks very much still to come here on the al-jazeera news out. press freedom is under threat in nicaragua with journalists facing attacks and response and death threats. and the sports news belgian police saga some of the country's leading football clubs as part of a fraud investigation santa is here with that story when we come back.
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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera my name's peter dhabi these are your headlines so far today turkey's state media has released video of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi entering the saudi consulate in istanbul he hasn't been seen since they've also broadcast footage of the man believed to have been involved in his disappearance a turkish newspaper meanwhile naming the fifteen men allegedly involved in the disappearance of according to turkish state owned sub and use one of the individuals as a top forensic expert with the saudi government information was tracked down via open source internet tools used by several online researches the u.s.
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state department and the u.n. a calling for a full and transparent investigation into the case washington says it's quote concerned about the whereabouts of the journalist. a panel of u.n. experts is accusing the united arab emirates of violating an international arms embargo on somalia and eritrea in an unreleased report seen by al jazeera the u.n. panel points to the illegal construction of a military base in the somali coastal city of berbera the report also accuses companies of illegally buying charcoal from the al-shabaab armed group large parts of somalia are controlled by armed groups and the u.n. sanctions were aimed at reducing levels of violence bryden is chairman of the political think tank focused on peace and security across the horn of africa he joins us on the line from nairobi met brighton why would the u.a.e. do this well from parts of the report i've seen it doesn't look like at least the.
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even that have been described aren't all of fish are you a policy with the exception of a cinder the charcoal for example the charcoal was doing. i'm going to start here then i do so and i sincerely apologize the skype line is not as good as it might be will try and reestablish contact with you and come back to you if we can before the end of this news hour program so sit still stay with us we'll try to get back to you just as soon as we can. the leader of she's main opposition party has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the two thousand and four grenade attack against the current prime minister tariq ramadan is the son of the former opposition leader. who's already in jail rahman was tried in absentia after he went into self-imposed exile in two thousand and eight the prime minister sheikh hasina who was opposition leader at the time of the narrowly
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escaped but suffered a hearing loss roman's lawyer says the timing of the verdict is aimed at keeping him out of forthcoming elections to be a treasury has more now from the capital. very dramatic and to a very sensational political violence case in bangladesh as a state took fourteen years and almost about one thousand four hundred fifty four days of deliberation to come to the conclusion one thousand people were given that sentence nineteen were given life in prison men eleven were given lesser times now out of those eighteen people are still absconding now one of the convict is a very high profile person party elder son of the former prime minister. he happens to be all for the acting chairperson of the bangladesh nationalist party this puts the opposition party in a very precarious situation because chairperson ourself is serving a prison sentence right now she is in the hospital because she is ill and the government on its say that they are going to appeal the verdict of particular man
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and request for the death sentence the opposition hasn't come out with a formal request or protest yet didn't demand any reaction either but they have the right to appeal to this case in a political. situation during the election this is a major case that is going to put the opposition in a precarious situation no doubt. the deal with. demilitarized province is being fulfilled. already withdrawn from the area. over the fifteenth deadline the last rebel held area reports from beirut. have been removed from a planned demilitarized zone in. turkey state media say the syrian opposition and what it called. armed groups complied with an october tenth deadline it was the
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first major test of a deal with russia to avoid a syrian government offensive a twenty kilometer zone will surround the rebel controlled province that borders turkey which is overseeing its creation so far there is no opposition particularly . which controls most of the province the armed group is considered a terrorist organization by the international community it hasn't commented on the reported withdrawal and it has yet to announce its position concerning the agreement but it has been quietly complying it is also required to withdraw its fighters many of them foreigners by october fifteenth. experts who have been watching. or. over the years say it is part of its policy of pragmatism which began when it tried to rebranded self by publicly disengaging from . so no way out
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of there. and keep much of a. war committed. or be pragmatic keep its positions trying to negotiate a deal with the turkish authorities the turkish government has been trying to convince h.t.s. to disband the enjoying the mainstream syrian opposition the most powerful alliance is divided. still rings a conservative one that called stark an enemy that surging their regime and the other is led by giuliani he wants a diplomatic solution. turkey use diplomacy force and it was ready to mobilize its syrian allies against those who oppose the deal. the deal is being implemented but statements by syrian government officials including president bashar assad are raising concern said the deal is temporary and. return
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to state control but many believe it will be outside players particularly russia and turkey who will decide the future of syria's north. a new front line has now been created between opposition fighters and syrian government troops it's expected to remain quiet but the deal doesn't decide the fate of it the province as a whole and it doesn't end the war said. beirut. top story the mystery surrounding the disappearance of jamal khashoggi has again brought attention to the plight of journalists around the world is no exception there the profession has become more dangerous in recent months al-jazeera has manuel reports now from the capital. assaults harassments 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 i well recalls the moment he was shot in the arm while
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covering an anti-government demonstration only one batter. i tried to stand and couldn't contract 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. winston 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 but only thing being a journalist today is a matter of life and death. we've been harassed shot at angry mobs sent by the government to intimidate us at one point you're under siege unable to leave the building for several days i mean he had only a few minutes last april in the city of laon a radio station known for being critical of the government who set on fire with
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journalist still inside the us the flames are so big they burst through the front door and ignited the clothes on the attackers as well as a security guard. walking through the charred remains of his office fransisco tortoise an independent radio reporter showed us where men armed with machine guns explosives and petrol canisters stormed the building this is 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 requests 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
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their families when it happened and dizzy when i was. parts of florida already seeing flooding as hurricane my cool begins to lush the coast it's gained strength and is now a category four storm with sustained winds over two hundred thirty kilometers an hour is set to be the worst storm florida's. northwestern coast in over ten years and strongest in terms of wind speed to make landfall in the u.s. this year officials are predicting a potentially dangerous storm surge of up to four meters around the heights of a one story building hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to leave joins us now from panama city in florida which is one of the areas with american is expected to properly make landfall just give us a sense of what's going on there right now and how bad are they thinking it's going to get well it will likely be the worst they've seen here in the florida panhandle peter and that's saying something because they've dealt with their share of hurricanes here
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what are we getting right now the outer bands of this storm which is bringing rain and wind and waves what's been constant are the waves the surf behind me continuing to churn and grow here all of these conditions are going to continue to drop off for the next several hours landfall expected in the early afternoon here so three four five hours away from complete landfall here we know that this is a massive system you talked about the wind speed two hundred thirty kilometers or so it's intensifying as it moves inland peter it's going to continue to cause major problems really across the entire southeastern united states for the next several days are they expecting hurrican michael to do what the last big storm system did when it tracked north and kind of anchored itself over the carolinas.
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well it's going to move north and likely through the carolinas unfortunately they're still dealing with florence but this is a fast mover this storm will not anchor itself it will continue to move through and push through but not before it does significant damage across the region are they quite well prepared for this because i mean the people of the state they must be sick and tired of another storm system coming through. yeah no preparation have been going on over the last couple of days and for many what that's meant peter is moving to higher ground getting out moving to the north and being safe the time for those preparations that's clearly ended we're getting some of the effects of this storm and really again this is just the beginning those who have stayed they need to have enough food and water and other supplies to last a couple of weeks it's going to take that long for teams to get in and really start the work of restoring power there's going to be flooding it's going to be
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a real top goal for several days for a lot of people ok thanks very much a great reporting live there from panama city florida. let's go back to that story that we pulled away from just a little earlier here on the news hour a panel of u.n. experts accusing the u.a.e. the united arab emirates of violating an international arms embargo in somalia and eritrea we've reestablished columns with brighton is the chairman of the political think tank focused on peace and security across the horn of africa he's in nairobi for us thanks for sticking with the technical issues there the past twenty minutes or so you were just running us through why the u.a.e. would want to do this want to behave in this way in the first place i think there are a number of issues the sanctions regime on somali are highly complicated. because all the great deal with respect to charcoal first of all. the accidents amount of charcoal is was initially intended to prevent al-shabaab from benefiting from the
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revenues which from the ports of just myron's earns were tens of millions of dollars a year. for it is now controlled by a legitimate offer to be a regional state of somalia and it's actually the state which is fighting. that. trade so i certainly don't condone the charcoal trade as a source of deforestation i mean certainly not the source is also not financing that it used to be it's also seems that the charcoal was fraudulent be routed through iran and it just coming from other countries so it's not clear is that whether the u.a.e. knew that it was purchasing somali charcoal in violation. ok here's the thing though so many parts of the country particularly in relation to somalia in that region so many parts of somalia are controlled in effect by armed groups
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anyway if you've got the u.a.e. deliberately or no in the unknowingly violating an arms embargo that makes that country more violent surely not less violent well. it's not just the u.a.e. that provides support to somalia most of somalia is actually controlled now by. regional or g.'s or federal member states plus the state of somalia not rich declared independence in the northwest. there are a lot of actors providing support to the federal government to these regional governments and the biggest problem. we get from the national army and from other somali security forces into arms markets and then on to al-shabaab so the big kinds of. number of
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actors and transactions don't just include the u.a.e. where you have western countries the european union without turkey the united states all trying to help somalia and yet in various ways sometimes undermining their own half. as. the government. ok we'll leave it there matt bryden thank you very much apologies again for the quality of scotland but we did have enough of a conversation there to get a sense of where matt thinks that region is heading in the future one of the sons of egypt's former president mohamed morsy has been arrested at his home in cairo the family of abdullah morsy say they don't know where he was picked up until the morsy is one of five children he was sentenced to a year in jail in twenty fifteen for alleged drug possession the former president mohamed morsy has been in jail since he was ousted in the military coup in twenty thirteen. is a world mental health day globally the illness is becoming more prevalent with
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government health budget struggling to cope by twenty thirty depression is expected to be the world's leading cause of ill health and according to the world health organization one in four people will experience one form of mental ill health yet the condition currently receives less than one percent of global aid a report to join a whole is up that mental health summit in london. if the countries of northern europe sweden norway denmark and finland regularly feature among the world appears then why do so many people report being unhappy in sweden alone one in five young women point to rising stress levels affecting their mental health. i think that we have a lot of pressure being perfect. and achieving things and not listening and slowing down. it's expected that by twenty thirty depression will be the
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world's leading cause of ill health at the fountain house group of international clubhouses they're focusing on something conventional treatments sometimes overlook the person behind the illness hospitals doctors medications all important but they don't have the resources or perhaps the goals to build relationships and once you get to know somebody you can see beyond a diagnosis. i'm a healthy person i'm chasing i'm not my diagnosis. people always. ask me to do stuff and i think why they ask me i mean i don't know but i do know and i can help. found another save me save me i don't think i'll be around is it fun to be here for you it began in new york in the one nine hundred forty s.
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patients and social workers got together to create a shared community that would ensure that those who got out of the often brutal mental detention facilities of the time it would never have to go back so these are there were three hundred thirty houses that currently are around the world really.

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