it's a story that is impossible to ignore as we've often seen this white house try to sort of sweep under the rug some of the more difficult truths that have occurred in recent weeks and months with regard to the kingdom take for example the saudi led coalition effort in yemen that the fact that there was an attack of airstrikes on a school bus that left dozens of children dead this white house was largely silent about that incident it has been largely silent about the use of the civilian casualties in yemen given the arm cells in the military support mostly aerial that is supplied to the saudi led effort there in yemen and given the humanitarian crisis that has occurred there there have been growing and pressing questions of this white house about how it will respond given this latest concern the allegations that the white house says that it is pressing in terms of an investigation and for more details it is becoming harder and harder for this white house to ignore by the day and that's why you see today the effort by the white

house to show that it is on top of this story the first lady's office saying that it will meet in fact with the fiance. in an effort to try and show that it is reaching out that it has that there is support to get answers and that it is actively engaged in trying to get those answers to the public not just in the united states but around the world can really how could the white house can really thank you let's go live to our state department correspondent roles in jordan in washington so it's not just the white house that seems to be taking more of an interest now it seems most of the senior officials at the state department have actually been speaking to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salon do we know what's being said or what's coming out of these conversations. the deputy spokesperson robert palatino said that diplomatic conversations are private by definition and so on briefing off camera on wednesday he refused repeated questions

about what was actually discussed when both the deputy secretary of state john sullivan spoke with saudi officials in the past week as well as what the secretary of state michael pompei obey have said to the crown prince mohammed bin solomon when he spoke to them he would say however that to the secretary's phone call came after the national security adviser john bolton and senior adviser jared spoke with the saudi crown prince on tuesday now one other important point to stress barbara is that there is this repeated call coming from the state department for a full and transparent investigation into the disappearance and reported murder of jamal khashoggi however mr apology would not say whether the turkish officials have been sharing all of their information with u.s. law enforcement in this case with the f.b.i. and he also would not say under repeated questioning whether the u.s.

wanted to join this investigation he did however say that it's very important for the saudi government to provide full complete cooperation with turkish officials as they investigate the disappearance of the washington post journalist and we now know erstwhile political activist was in jordan at the state department thank you well meanwhile turkish media have released images of what they say is a saudi candlelit team in istanbul on the day has disappeared stephanie deco in istanbul has more for us. turkish sources say these men arrived at istanbul airport with a mission to either abductor or kill. they flew into istanbul 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 hushing he 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 saying ankara believes the treasury was killed inside the consulate at the orders of the highest level of the saudi royal court then gruesome detail the shots 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

in creasing disparate bits of information that corroborates or substantiate the other pieces of commission it would be a shocking act and teske lee glaring one there or we're told this operation would be really in cock up and were someone into your own consulate and then murdered the person and. while you know that your entrance is in exits are all being videoed is. astounding. this new information seems to be the straight attempt by the turkish kurds to ban. on saudi arabia turkey which was a mistake on our camera i know that but it's been presented to back up. the story with major political answer to. her surgeries fiance had teach and is seen here waiting for her fiance outside the consulate and she's written in the washington post the u.s. paper shows 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 stephanie decker or jazeera stumble well jamal a shell joins us live now from outside the saudi consulate in istanbul so i mean obviously since this appearance of. been a lot of you know different things putting together some kind of picture but what's the latest that you're hearing coming out of turkish authorities and the media there as well. well we have in terms of the latest information on top of what we saw in stephanie's piece there has been the identities of those fifteen specifically what they worked as you're talking about the turkish authorities saying we're identifying one of them as the head of the forensics units in the saudi defense forces several special forces officers flying in on that day leaving twenty four hours or less than twenty four hours later despite having

checked into old cells for four nights and it's that kind of information that's led the turkish authorities to conclude early on in this investigation that it was indeed a premeditated murder that took place in the building behind me here are they add on to that some of the information i got a few hours ago which was the according to sources in investigation that they had. some sort of testimony or some proof of. what happened after jamal entered into the consulate building which included a loud exchange of words or arguments or screaming between him and other people inside and then there was a sound of a struggle and then sudden silence this obviously as well as the fact that the texas authorities have been asking to search themselves inside this building as well as other points of interest including the consul general home which is a few hundred meters away from here as well as several vehicles registered to the

consulate now despite media reports earlier that the turkish authorities had allowed for or given a green light for the i had been given a green light by the saudis to enter the building behind me i understand it from my sources that actually they have not been allowed to search you there's a consulate in the way that they would like nor have they been given the green light to search the house of the consul general and the vehicles so it seems that there is a standoff there is a lack of cooperation from the saudis and the turks it seems are adamant to starts releasing all the information they have to make it crystal clear as far as they're concerned that the crime that took place to. inside there was not just murder but preplanned premeditated murder against a journalist well i mean almost from the moment he disappeared the turkish authorities have been saying that he was scaled do they have or are we hearing any series of what actually happened and how he was killed and whether it might have been an accident perhaps well there was what the first report that was mentioned in

staff's piece there about the bone saw coming given them i centrally gruesomely dividing up his his body but recently the reuters news agency had mentioned citing a british intelligence source who is citing a saudi informant that actually what's was the plan of the plan of the this hit squad or kills court or whatever you want to call them was actually not to kill him but doctor him they drugged him but the overdose the drug and therefore was manslaughter the. kind of understanding or the reading into these different theories that are coming out at least by some of the service here is that there is maybe an attempt to find a way out of this that wouldn't look so damning on the saudis manslaughter is less worse than murder one of the reasons why the turks haven't officially come out in a press conference by the police given all the evidence is because the moment they do that barbara they have to also a company that's with severe political decisions with regards to their bilateral

relations with saudi arabia which would almost definitely include expelling some diplomats and maybe even downgrading their diplomatic relations maybe if there is a narrative that comes out that shows that this was a mistake or that there was some other intention behind it then the expectation from the charts will be as much about so far in terms of the actual details of how he was assassinated the methods used to kill him we haven't been given any of those of that information yet about those shales from the latest from istanbul jamal thank you. we know it's bring you an update on a story that also concerns a journalist targeted because of her in this case profession german police have arrested a suspect in the rape and murder of a bulgarian journalist victoria morrow in nova was killed in the northern bulgarian town of saturday on our last t.v. show she'd interviewed two journalists were investigating suspect that corruption

involving businessmen politicians and e.u. funds the suspect seventeen it could have seen made over reportedly left bulgaria for germany on sunday and was picked up by hamburg police on tuesday evening the mccain has more now from munich. 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 german city of hamburg this was following the application for a european arrest warrant gary and colleagues clearly the ball gary in all forty's wants to have this person this individual in their custody not in german custody a process will now start 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 bulgaria. so to come in this half hour a u.n. report accuses the u.a.e. of violating several sanctions including by bearing goods from al-shabaab and the head of a bangladeshi opposition group is jailed for life for an assassination attempt on the prime minister by his lawyer says the timing is political.

hello there we've seen some severe weather over the western parts of the mediterranean recently in new york or that flooding has turned deadly and in barcelona this is what it looked like you have to squint a little bit to see through the condensation on the bus window but it gives you an idea of just how much water is on the ground there and just how much rain they've seen this is the system responsible it's working its way eastwards the heaviest of the downpours currently are over the southern parts of france and that will transfer into the northwest impulse of italy as we head through thursday some heavy downpours as well through parts of corsica and into saudia behind that system there is another one but that will really breaks up as we head through into friday not a great deal left to it some showers yes but also a good deal of cloud and the reason it disappears is because it's making way for this next one that's working in from the atlantic that's going to bring some pretty wild weather that particularly to parts of western island on friday for the other side of the mediterranean there's also been plenty of showers here the latest

system making its way eastwards through parts of tunisia and eventually into parts of libya as we head through friday some shop showers here to us the south of the central belt of africa expect quite a few showers across this region as well particularly over policy the bone looks very very wet here on thursday and friday to. sweden is his home. northern iraq his homeland. from which he ran. camera in hand he retired. to film these tiny taste to run. a story soon transformed by a chance encounter. the girl who saved my life i witnessed documentary on a dizzying. welcome

back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. president says he's spoken to the saudis at the highest level following the disappearance of saudi journalist general shopping his comments come as turkish media name fifteen men allegedly involved in the journalists and disappearance one is said to be a top forensic expert for the saudi government and german police have arrested a suspect in the rape and murder of bulgarian journalist victoria marino. at least ten people have been killed in flash flooding on the spanish island of mine yorka torrential rains hit the town of sound and said they're kind of sad on tuesday residents were forced to evacuate after rivers burst or banks and swum

tolls with muddy water. well meanwhile hurricane michael is currently smashing into the u.s. state of florida after making landfall in the last couple of hours the category four storm is the third most powerful to hit the united states since records began an eight hundred fifty one there are already reports of major property damage and power cuts in northwest florida hurrican michel is being responsible for thirteen deaths in central america florida nor the neighboring state of georgia is preparing for the storm to strike in the next twenty four hours hurricane michael is forecast to be the most destructive storm to hit the florida panhandle in a century the storm will bring torrential rain to most of the panhandle and big bend which means flooding will be a major issue might be worse one place and the other by golly it's going to be it's going to be horrible you know all along that area where the you know look at whether you get six feet of storm surge or thirteen feet of storm surge is deadly

well let me gallagher is in the coastal city of apalachicola lane northwest florida right in the path of hurricane michael so what impact andy is the hurricane having where you are. well the hurricane hit about two hours ago and at that point we were getting some pretty strong gusts of wind up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour here in apalachicola not too much structural damage lots of downed trees lots of searing rain but it really is as governor rick scott was talking about that flooding that is now the issue we've got to meet a tidal surge here in apalachicola it hasn't come up onto the streets which is a good sign but the danger from that tidal surge is far from over hurricane michael is effectively pushing that water inland and even the rivers here may or may flood way inland that's the real danger about three hundred seventy five thousand people were put under mandatory evacuation order across about twenty counties many people

ignored those evacuation orders that you started to hunker down we're seeing people here beginning to emerge from their homes and assess the damage but as i said as that storm moves in and incidentally when the storm did make landfall it was just shy of a category five storm as we've said repeatedly this is the most powerful storm to hit the florida panhandle since eight hundred fifty one so the winds have died down here a little bit there are bands coming in every now and then so it picks up again but the worst of the storm seems to be over and that's the one silver lining here is that this storm is moving so quickly it should dissipate but it is so powerful that even by the time it reaches the state of georgia north of us it will still be a category one it's going to go up into the carolinas as well which just got slammed by hurricane florence only a couple of weeks ago so the worst of the storm has now passed on the panhandle this is the point in which the authorities start to assess the damage we're hearing about structural damage i would towards panama city but it is once again that flooding that is being watched very closely but i mean obviously it's

a deserted street behind but the people that didn't evacuate that are still there i mean what would they be doing now or what have they done so far to keep themselves safe. most of them just hunkered down they decided to just stay put where they were there but there came a point this morning where it was simply too late to leave i think they just took that decision as many people do in these cases they're beginning to emerge from their homes just to see what damage has been done perhaps just check out their neighbors and see how they're doing that was a decision that the authorities were really against they told people if you stay your putting your life in risk that was the case this was a very very powerful storm but as i said it's that point now where the emergency services and the authorities north three thousand national guard on standby start to move into those areas to see how much damage has been done but we're away from that at the moment because it's simply still too dangerous the conditions are not going to allow those people to come in to assess the damage so if there are people in trouble facing those tidal surges they really are in trouble are not going to

get help for some time but we're trying to get a picture of exactly just how much damage hurricane michael has done to the florida panhandle and the gallagher from the coastal city of a political in northwest florida and a thank you. al jazeera has been given first taxes to a u.n. report on the u.s. violations of sanctions imposed on somalia and then we trap the report details the continued illegal construction of an iraqi base in somalia's coastal city of better better it also accuses him iraqi companies of buying embargoed charcoal from the armed group al-shabaab imran khan has more. the report has been prepared for the un security council it says that criminal networks in the u.a.e. are using iran as a transit point for illegal charcoal exports that have on their somali based on group an estimated one hundred fifty million dollars. pledged there and affected state within a state and they collect taxes in all major towns. they also run

a. justice so for many citizens of somalia even. going to court meters away their report was written by the somalia and eritrea monitoring group a un body that monitors sanctions in the region and it says charcoal is shipped from somalia with fake country of origin stiff it gets to ports in iran where it's relabeled a product of iran and put on to small boats to port in dubai the authors of the report say both iran and the u.a.e. did not substantively engage with them when they raise concerns of chuckles smuggling. has been trying to overthrow the somali government for nearly a decade now and despite losing territory it's still controls a significant chunk of the country and levies taxes that fund its attacks one checkpoint is said to the armed group ten million dollars

a year the somalia and eritrea margarine group also says that in some areas al-shabaab has to katie taxation system that is more geographically diversified and systematic than the federal government the u.a.e. is named in the report for breaking other sanctions that include smuggling weapons bought from serbia and croatia into somalia and yemen the u.a.e. is also building a military base in neighboring somaliland despite calls from the federal government in somalia to hold construction saying it was a clear violation of international law the report says work on the site continues somaliland is a region of somalia that declared its independence in one nine hundred ninety one following a civil war and remains under recognized by the international community the u.a.e. is yet to reply to the allegations its u.n. ambassador says they cannot comment because the report is unpublished iran can't. so involved was finance minister is meeting officials from the international monetary fund and the world bank seeking help to ease the country's cash crisis

a new two percent tax on bank transactions is driving up prices and causing shortages the health sector is one of the worst affected with essential drugs now running out how to reports from. some zimbabweans are calling it the worst economic crisis in a decade businesses and shoppers aren't happy with the recently introduced two percent tax on bad transactions products now cost more and supplies it's later shortages and excessive price hikes it is very frustrating actually i'm coming from a farmer. drugs which i used to spend ten bucks a week. it's forty five forty four dollars another pharmacy it was fifty five and this is ridiculous i don't know where we're going is the people health sector has been in a crisis for more than a decade public hospital sometimes run out of essential drugs the pharmaceutical industry says it needs about four million dollars

a week to import enough drugs for the country it's fairly bed of some medications completely for conditions and for those that we have. just a few weeks or months. for production. to near zero. to stay in business some shop owners insist customers pay in u.s. dollars others are operating they say they are assessing the situation until they are sure the government won't again change policies this is a popular fast food outlet it's closed owners say they need foreign currency to restock but the money isn't available several businesses have been affected. president emerson when an increase in tax is a necessary pain to help zimbabwe pay its debts. announcements. made

in these are meant to ensure that. we are somewhere in. the evidence. but few cues which were last seen in two thousand and eight are back for straighted driver spin hours in line waiting to fill up. not currency continues to lose its value on the black market despite politicians insisting it is equivalent to the u.s. dollar the government is threatening to revoke licenses of businesses to mining dollars as payment and hiking prices economists warn if politicians interfere it could lead to even more companies shutting down. al-jazeera. a quarter bangladesh has sentenced the acting chairman of the main opposition party to life in prison for plotting the assassination of the prime minister in two thousand and four. when was tried in absentia after went into self-imposed exile in two thousand and eight prime minister sheikh hasina who was the opposition leader at the time

suffered hearing loss in the attack nineteen other people or sentence that this. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. president has said he has spoken to the saudis at the highest levels following the disappearance of saudi journalist. donald trump says he wants to get to the bottom of what happened to the government critic and is working closely with turkey it's a very sad situation it's a very bad situation and we want to get to the bottom of it. i think i don't want to make i don't want to say that i hope is not i hope people. will have to find out who did it but. people saw him go in but they didn't see him come out as they understand it and we're going to take a very serious look at it it's a terrible thing. i'd rather not but the answer is yes.

president trump's comments come as turkish media named fifteen men allegedly involved in her disappearance turkish security sources say he was killed inside the last tuesday with the suspects being dubbed a kill team one of them is said to be a top forensic expert with the saudi government he and his fourteen accomplices reportedly arrived in private jets from riyadh. prosecutors in germany are investigating whether the suspect in the rape and murder of bulgarian journalist victoria marie nova can be extradited back to bulgaria she was killed in the northern bulgarian town of saturday and over had been investigating alleged fraud with the european union funds involving businessmen and politicians. hurrican michael is it the u.s. state of florida after making landfall a couple of hours ago the category four storm is the third most powerful to hit the u.s. since records began in eighteen fifty one there are reports of major property damage

and power cuts in northwest florida the storm has already killed thirteen people in central america. at least ten people have been killed in flash flooding on the spanish island of new york following torrential rains in the town. residents were forced to flee after rivers burst their banks and swamped homes with muddy waters well those are the top stories do stay with your coming up next it's the stream and i'm going to have more news for you in less than half an hour.

ok and i really could be after a decades long hiatus why is russia so interested in renewing ties tweet us your thoughts or leave them in life you choose chad and he too could be in the street. in the days of the soviet union the kremlin maintained strong ties with african nations but the collapse of the soviet union in the nine hundred ninety schools russia to retreat it would now it appears of ready to once again establish close relationships on the continent in recent months russia has built minute she partnerships with uganda democratic republic of congo and the central african republic the kremlin has also shipped arms to cameroon and has announced plans to build a nuclear power plant in sudan for some african countries the attention from moscow is tempting so how would this situation develop and what does russia want out of it

joining us to discuss this in moscow. she's a senior research fellow at the institute for african studies of the russian academy of sciences in new york wrote not go potus he's a director at signal risk and exclusively african risk advisory firm also in new york i hear he's in nairobi based reporter with towards africa and here in our studio paul strunsky he's a senior fellow with the carnegie endowment for international peace working in the russia and eurasia program welcome everyone to the stream good to have you here this is a topic about resume it's very well with our audience mind and so i want to start with this week from samuel who gives us a little history lesson in bridge he says russia systematically sought to restore the positions of moscow last after the fall of the soviet union and the turbulent decade about followed so obvious he explains why we see russia in on the african continent now but from your point of view your perspective why do you think that

there. thank you millie i think definitely there references to russia having historical ations of the continent well in the soviet era before that but books do seem it's not an interest specifically over the last year because of the change of culture political dynamics in the continent africa you know is both searching for and being courted by new strategic partners and i think one of the reason why russia is very much interested in the region is because what we've seen with the drill down in terms of engagement within the continent from the u.s. administration and other western you know statements. he have added he is in nairobi right now helping that we will reconnect. you know what he's from nairobi he's any york and i was have waiting for that connection to actually kick back in after can even pick up where you left off because any friends for

a second guy had less either so what i was saying is also the reason why russia was interested in this is because in the continent as you know the drill down the missing from either the united states or other western states and also for russia itself the diplomatic isolation one reason is a threat of isolation from europe and the us of a most us policies in syria and before that in ukraine and crimea so this has president to seek african allies not mused also for their votes at the u.n. general assembly and i think the last point is also because of with nations with china you know china's different which. so russia for instance can offer consumer goods like china can but what it can offer for instance is arms and occasional debt relief in exchange for a you know a we're going to drill i don't cover bands of instructables here and there so the other thing is that you know in the end of africa there's going to be an opportunity to build a new power block that could be considered which will be beneficial for both russia

and africa and to talk about the entire continent as if the entire continent is in this with russia dmn mean that. no it's definitely not it's there what we've been seeing specifically is china engaging countries you know that are either dissatisfied with their relations well with the west countries like sudan some barbed wire and central africa republic we're also seeing. comes to russia engaging countries where these political change for instance if you look at the heart of africa in china recently saying that i mean russia stories recently saying that they were going to establish a logistics base in eritrea that is a very significant development because of you know what's been happening in all of africa and mr abbey homage coming into power. extending you know about the fall of relations between you know between if you're going to train rich djibouti somalia and you know yes i'm really interested in

a russian perspective if you could take me around the continent where would you take me to show the greatest area of russian influence. ok here. it is interesting that russia now is really engaging more this africa and. as for the trade relations for example or russian trade is more was the current use of more than of north africa so what also only has interests in other regions and countries of africa and continent so what if these are these are also countries which you heard the strong nations in the soviet. and call. baba and south africa and. also but what i see of our what i see in zimbabwe where i was so i see russians at work what i scenes of other. in zimbabwe. russia is interested in.

mining in the mining sector but there is a there are a platinum resources well in which russians are greatly interested. this is a project in which the russian corporation a last look.