and to bring him back to safety and we're also here to pressure the u.s. government and their complicity in the war on yemen which has targeted millions of civilians and most recently thirty four schoolchildren were killed with american weapons so we're also here to speak out against the war. from code pink thank you so much for joining us and i should point out that the american based committee to protect journalists has. written a report about the situation in saudi arabia and expressed their concern their calling for answers in the disappearance. and also highlighting what they say is a pattern of priest repression not only journalists but bloggers and activists in saudi arabia since prince mohammed bin salman has taken power in that country about a year ago barber backed person salumi with the latest from new york kristen thank you illustrate some developing news on this story because we are getting reports

that twenty two u.s. senators have signed a letter to president trump triggering an investigation into the possibility of sanctions against saudi arabia following of course. g.'s this appearance in particular and joins us live now from washington d.c. apache i was just speaking a few minutes ago to jordan at the state department about another letter to donald trump i presume these are two separate letters so what do we know about this second one that does seem to relate specifically to jamal khashoggi. it is one hundred percent about the missing columnist so we've just gotten this letter from really these are the who's who of senators when it comes to influence in foreign policy it's democrats it's republicans it's the chairman and ranking members a very powerful committee from the appropriations committee that's who spends the money and to the foreign affairs committee so what they've done is they've triggered an investigation over the global magnitsky act so this is a statute under law they've sent this letter to the presidents are now once he

receives it which is right now they have one hundred twenty days and they want to see a thorough investigation into exactly what happened. and they're saying that after hundred twenty days the administration needs to report what they have found if they found that it's violated any sort of human rights then they expect the administration to follow through with sanctions and here's the important part in this letter it's buried at the bottom but it says our expectation is that in making your determination you will consider any relevant information including with respect to the highest ranking officials in the government of saudi arabia so what we're seeing here is these incredibly powerful senators or trigger in this formal mechanism the white house is not going to be able to avoid this issue we heard the president speak about this today but now they're saying it's formal we expect that there is a violation of human rights here we want to see how high up because in saudi arabian government and if it does and if you determine that something has happened that by late civil rights they want sanctions and again they're saying up to

potentially the highest levels of the government of saudi arabia this is a big development has to contain with the latest from washington thank you. hurricane michael is currently smashing its way across the u.s. state of florida after making landfall a few hours ago the category four storm is the third most powerful to hit the united states since records began in the middle of the nineteenth century there are reports of major property damage and power cuts in northwestern florida hurricane michael was responsible for the death of thirteen people in central america far does nor the neighboring state of georgia is preparing for the storm to strike in the next twenty four hours and the gallagher was in the west coast old town of political or as the storm passed through. or when hurricane michael slammed into

florida's panhandle it came almost as a category five storm the most powerful storm seen in this part of the state since eight hundred fifty one it's a few hours now since it came here it's apalachicola bay it's not been too much damage you can see the tidal surge here that is receding quite quickly there are some businesses there that are under water but it could be a lot worse in this part of the state given how powerful this storm was and is now heading steadily towards the state of georgia as a category one storm something they haven't seen in decades is now a state of emergency there but it may be a few hours till we get a true picture of just how much damage has been done. at least ten people have been killed in flash flooding on the spanish island of new york a torrential rains hit the town. residents were forced to evacuate after rivers burst their banks and homes with water you're watching al-jazeera still to come on the program german police make an arrest over the murder of bulgarian

journalist victoria marino. and a new u.n. report alleges the. good group. and i know that we've had some pretty wild weather over parts of australia recently in perth the temperature has been around thirty degrees but then we saw a very violent thunderstorms that was choose day on wednesday was still pretty warm the temperatures will be quite as high as we head through the next few days we're looking at around twenty four still want to showers around here not a quite as violent as those that we see recently there and there's more showers further north across parts of the northern territory even in the east we can expect some outbreaks of rain some of them very welcome because we could do with all the rain we can get me not only if we head across towards new zealand that's far more

rain here in fact for some of us in westland and nelson it is going to be pretty west as we head through the next few days could be some flooding as well you can see the system that's making its way north woods really intensifying as it does so heavy heavy downpours out of this then and eventually as we head through the day on friday begin to ease as it works its way eastwards now as we head up towards japan lots of heavy rain here looks pretty wet for most of us really on thursday less systems pulling away and by friday it should be a good deal dry air for many of us but not that warmer and you're looking at around twenty three in tokyo it's going to towards the west now as well with sixteen for beijing but woman for us we're up at twenty. demond is outstrips supply and inference of a commodity. adoption is a compassionate act for children but not much against the women the. crew

uganda to the united states lines investigates innocent lives in a good chunk of money between biological. parents. front lines on al-jazeera. welcome back his own mind up the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. president says he's spoken to the saudis of the highest levels following the disappearance of the saudi journalist of july should his comments come as turkish media named fifteen men allegedly involved in the journalist's disappearance one is

said to be a top forensic expert for the saudi government and hurricane michael is that the u.s. state of florida after making landfall a little earlier the category four storm is the third most powerful to hit the u.s. since records began in eighteen fifty one. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov says its deal with turkey to establish a demilitarized zone and in syria's a province is on track he says more than a thousand fighters have already withdrawn from the last for a bull held stronghold ahead of an october fifteenth deadline sent a hoard of reports now from neighboring lebanon. militarized zone in which they. say the syrian opposition and what it called. armed groups complied with. it was the 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 and it has yet to announce its position concerning the agreement but it has been complying it is also required to withdraw its fighters many of them by october fifteenth. experts who have been watching. or. over the years say it is part of its policy of pragmatism which began when they tried to rebranded self by publicly. so no way out either i will go through a side door and keep much of a. war committed. or be pragmatic

keep its positions trying to negotiate a deal with. the turkish government has been trying to convince h.t.s. to disband the enjoyed the mainstream syrian opposition the most powerful alliance is divided. still rings a conservative one that called starkey an enemy and that serving 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 opposed the deal. the deal is being implemented but statements by syrian government officials including president bashar assad are raising concerns assad said the deal is temporary and ultimately return 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 at least province as a whole and it doesn't end the war said. beirut. german police have arrested a man in connection with the rape and murder of a bulgarian journalist victoria marie novo was killed in the northern bulgarian town of saturday on our last t.v. show should interview two journalists investigating suspected corruption involving businessmen politicians and european union funds the suspect several reportedly left bulgaria for germany on sunday and will speak up by how police on tuesday evening dominic cain 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 by their bold garion colleagues clearly the ball gary know for a season 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. the u.n. has released a report on the u.s. violations of sanctions imposed on somalia and every tray at it details the continued illegal construction of an iraqi base in somalia's coastal city of better better the report also accuses emirati companies of buying embargoed the 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 in even.

barely. 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 is relabelled a product of iran and put under 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 modeling. has been trying to overthrow the somali government for nearly a decade now and despite losing territory it 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 faced a 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. some barbarous finance ministers meeting officials from the international monetary fund and the world bank to seek help to ease the country's cash crisis a new two percent tax on banks transactions is driving up prices and causing shortages. reports from harare. 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 the bobbies health sector has been in a crisis for more than a decade public hospitals 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. out of some medications completely for. conditions and for those that we have we are left with 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. that were made in these are meant to ensure that. we are going somewhere in. the economy. but fuel queues which were last seen in two thousand and eight are back for straight to dr astin hours in line waiting to

fill up so bob is a bar 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 demanding dollars as payment and hiking prices economists warn if politicians interfere it could lead to even more companies shutting down. al-jazeera. now if you're scared of heights might be a good time to look away this is the moroccan tightrope walker most of fire danger living up to a pseudonym high above the streets of china's capital now he entertained commuters seventy five meters below as he made the precarious crossing between two tower blocks in the center of santiago to promote an upcoming circus festival good grief but he's ok.

and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. president has said he's spoken to the saudis at the highest levels following the disappearance of saudi journalist jamal has shoji fallen from says it wants to get to the bottom of what happened to the government critic and is working closely with turkey meanwhile twenty two u.s. senators have given trump a signed letter compelling him to investigate the disappearance and look into the possibility of sanctions against saudi arabia it's a very sad situation it's a very bad situation and we want to get to the bottom of. it i don't want to make i don't want to say that i hope is not. we'll 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 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 trumps comments come as turkish media named fifteen men allegedly involved in her disappearance turkish security sources say he was killed inside the saudi consulate 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. hurricane michel is it the u.s. state of florida after making landfall a little earlier the category four storm is the third most powerful to hit the u.s. since records began back in eighty nine fifty one there are reports of major property damage and power cuts well meanwhile at least ten people have been killed in flash flooding on the spanish island of grey york following torrential rains in the town of lawrence the capital residents were forced to flee after rivers burst their banks and swamped homes with muddy waters prosecutors in germany are investigating whether a suspect arrested in connection with the rape and murder of bulgarian journalist

victoria marie nova can be extradited back to bulgaria barrino was killed in the northern bulgarian town of sat those are the top stories coming up next it's for clients and i'll see you tomorrow thanks for watching. the wild west previously where the average person couldn't actually tell if a post had been sponsored or height or in some way does this updated have the kind of support that he needs we bring you the stories the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. the only place florence genova see their children now is in. five years ago just stay with us is tomorrow. when they return to collect their children had disappeared. marian claims she put them in

a boarding school but in fact the children have been taken to america legally adopted without their mother's knowledge. what do you think about the fact that. a family can come from another country and become the legal parents of somebody else's child. run an amateur garment and then he said go on i've got anger enough all around me is it a trial of. merriam's that she'd been approached by an agent who promised the children a free education but that promise turned out to be a conduit for international adoption and by the time the sisters even suspected something was wrong the children were no longer bez if you had a chance to speak to the family that your children are living with what would you say to them. in known. quantity to me go florence and jennifer among countless families in uganda whose

children have been lost to international adoption and who leave. this industry isn't being driven by a supply of orphans in need of homes is being driven by demand from america barbara we need more children and we need to do and we have families waiting here we need children we need to do this woman work for an american adoption agency it was her job to find children to be adopted. and not in a market. for sale. faultlines teamed up with the investigative fun to explore the markets in uganda children asking how this could happen who's responsible and if there's any hope these mothers will see their children again. and what that.

will give them in we are going to be. again and i'm going to young. men admire it. top of the lives no remote village about five hours by car from uganda's capital kampala. six years ago her son michael was adopted by an american family he'd been ill and she couldn't afford his treatment so when some people came to her community saying they wanted to help needy children she thought her son was lucky to be chosen. as a woman you know when you were. big. and you were. in the right. that had been at this what. so she said so what happened to tab is incredibly

complicated. with the help of an interpreter i tried to get the full story but even now six years later she seems confused about what she agreed to. bring out the. people telling us that in the looking at the and. so she said that they committed that in fact court records are top as they consented to the adoption of michael legally speaking she's no longer his mother. laura and philip honker are adoptive parents to michael and henry now he lives in portland oregon with this family philip and nora hunger. this is a local news report filmed last year with michael and another boy their doctors from china. three years after they took michael to america tabitha gave birth to another boy solomon. it's pizza night at the hunger home but something is missing

when they heard the top of that had not the baby and was again in need of help the hunger send money for solomon's cat. they wanted to adopt him too and sent an agent to talk to tabitha a wash. they added the the meal . now anatomy and. eventually the hunger came to uganda and hottest as she was called to a meeting in camp parlor. she said she felt ill while she was there and had a dizzy spell it was then she says the woman at the meeting took solomon from her and gave him to laura hunka. we also hungers to confirm what happened at that meeting but they didn't respond to the question however they didn't say this the top of the has repeatedly agreed to the adoption and that she signed documents to that effect. just by this tabitha told us that she had never wanted to give us on

a way. that. when you were doing at the dimia was a. king. and she could see them was holidaying hatch and then she asked what about my chair how do i get my share then they said they told adam was all would bring that shadow of a man and. that's the day he was taken from her. top of the so she was still breastfeeding when solomon was taken away from her. she told us she felt so distraught the next morning she wanted to take her own life. that was more than two years ago and the last time top of that had her son. to find out more i went to the family courts in town pala.

they keep the chaotic archive containing thousands of files one for every child adopted including solomon. in his i found information about tabitha and the hunt the family as well as their american adoption agency journeys of the heart. the court records show the before hearings before solomon's adoption was approved. at the first two the judge adjourned saying top of the didn't understand what adoption was or wanted for solomon. but at the third hearing the records they tabitha returned to court and agreed to the adoption. of the fourth hearing the judge granted the adoption application and solomon became the hungers legal child. was it ever your intention to sign away harmon and guardianship of solomon to

a different family. but an american family can take a ugandan child back home with them without a visa to the u.s. and eighteen months later solomon still hadn't been approved the family pay on able to bring him home with them the hunters became frustrated. this is video taken by the orphanage last november this is been excruciating our family the hunger say the ugandan high court approved the adoption more than a year ago but when they went to the u.s. embassy to get solomons visa approved they were stonewalled they have not given us any reasons why that application has not been accepted. now do you think the hold up. had like to know the answer to that is well honestly. the us embassy refused to comment but again solomons court file was used. when we

talked to tabitha told me she'd been called to a meeting at the american embassy in kampala the embassy staff that aust her she'd wanted solomon to be adopted at the. claim that she told the official she was against the adoption is given some credence by documents in the file. it's the letter written by the u.s. embassy to the ugandan court describing solomon's adoption as problematic. we need the help we need the united states government to approve his application despite top of his insistence that she didn't want her child to be adopted solomon wasn't returned to her she told us she hadn't even been allowed to see him where a song now. but.

after a lot of searching i found is there's a worker who knew. sterile ones in charge of child welfare in uganda when she heard about top of this story she moved from the childminder being paid by the hungers to a government babies home there is one i took that action as the office of responsible for children was because i received a complaint from them and she was insisting that she didn't want the child or when they say divest will be for me to move in and see where the child is list how much more information do you need i mean it's been over a year the tab of lost custody of solomon is more than a year. how many times you off the passengers they know before you or the process in i cannot say how many times you know it counseling is a process. i need some bread for. stella was also behind

a change to ugandan law which means that foreign families wanting to adopt now have to foster a child in uganda for at least one year so that law took effect in two thousand and sixteen the year before solomon was adopted wanted to prevent just wish and we have people just playing today. get. on with the children the next two weeks that's what we wanted to avoid do you think a family in america who illegally parents the store would have any idea of the turbulence here in uganda where. now we have because from the day i go to. the dutch funny the good to know that you've been sent to me a message to call me i told him i would i wouldn't discuss them to issue a song but i would exchange e-mails and they didn't do that. but they've been communicating through their lawyers. but how could the hungers and let

the legal obligation to foster solomon when they hadn't spent the required year in uganda. the judge in the case moses maci decided that since the hunkies had been paying someone to look after solomon they had in effect constructively fostered him . i wanted to ask judge maci why he'd come to this conclusion but he declined to be interviewed. i also want to do know more about the american agency behind solomon michaels adoptions. i tracked down a former agent of baz barbara and about a carrot. she told me she'd spent three years working for journeys at the heart she was arrested in two thousand and fourteen and soon after that parted ways we met at an undisclosed location. so what was the involvement of journeys of the heart they were to provide their financial support and then i would provide this obvious. it's obvious was to find children that can be adopted they wanted everything fast

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