the city to be here why is this issue so important to you and what do you hope to accomplish here we feel very strongly about human rights and we feel strongly about the freedom of all people to peace peacefully express their opinions fluting journalists including reporters they're doing important work and we're here to demand justice first of all for shoki who was last seen last tuesday walking into the saudi consulate in istanbul we want justice for the perpetrators of this crime a crime has been committed whether it's been forcible disappearance or actual murder we know that a crime has been committed and those who have engaged in committing this crime must be brought to justice in a court of. thank you so much for joining us here i know from talking to not a earlier she's also calling on the champion ministration to follow through with its promise to get to the bottom of what happened with this journalist they are also asking the administration to reconsider its policy of supporting the saudi led coalition war efforts in yemen as well let's bring in iran the slim she's the

director of conflict resolution of the middle east institute and joins us live now from washington d.c. run that we've seen president trump secretary of state pump and even national security adviser john bolton all speak to the saudi leadership this case is putting increasing pressure on trombone the administration who have a very cozy relationship with the saudis. yes definitely they are under pressure from the media they are definitely under pressure from congress democrats and republicans as your reporter said to do something about that but also what i see is possibility of you know as your reporter from turkey has said i think there is interests at the especially within the white house to limit the fallout as much as possible while at the same time pushing the saudi authorities to come up with the could add the bill narrative the narrative of of he left and there is no

evidence what it does no longer hold you know sway so so that is now effort to help the saudis to come up with the cadets a bill in that it and if that gets a bit negative and if they failed to do so i think they would be increasing pressure on the white house from the media from civil society from congress to do something you know major in terms of reaction to this assassination and just talking about the pressure we've now seen twenty two u.s. senators signed a letter to president trump triggering a u.s. investigation and they determination of whether human rights sanctions should be imposed over his disappearance this is the application of the magnitsky act and just tell us it's highly significant isn't it. it is significant but also we have seen the mechanistic magnet magnet see act apply for example in the case of russia and we have seen even in that case despite evidence of the implication of president

putin himself in the ordering of assassination of some of that it takes we have seen this white house and specially this president trying to fence off that relationship with putin from all the other you know criminal activity that putin has been is well known to have ordered his critics and i see the similar track here i see in the future blame to be maybe you know focused on these fifteen saudi officials whose things are being circulated by to kish media get you know on condition that the turks will come up with substantiating evidence of that accusation i can see maybe even other senior officials in the saudi establishment being put on similar kind of lists you know as in the case of russian officials at on the put to circle but i was so i see the white house but also other agencies in the u.s. government trying to put it this tense between this group and between the senior

most senior leaders in the saudis that the. ok in terms of the wider political fallout from the u.s. lawmakers from both parties and they are challenging trump and the administration of the vesa port for saudi arabia in the war in yemen and whilst this is not linked to the case it does show that normally because a determined to get the u.s. administration to step back from the close links to saudi arabia. and that's i think the achilles here for so a good idea here is that and that's where the power of the congress lies is that they can stop these ammunition save specially you know precision guided missiles which is needed by the saudis in yemen they can stop all sort of intelligence cooperation with the saudis so that congress can do but i think there would be if we should back from the white house on the ground that we have more than you know we have many files of shared interest between the united states and the saudis that

is the iranian file that is a counter to that or some file and that is remember also that is important segment of the throng base of the republican base which is the u.s. business community that will be pushing the white house and specially thrum to try to limit the fallout from this case while understanding fully well that you know some of it cut a reckoning of this crime needs to be made by the saudis and some individuals need to be a bit of the blame for it rhonda thank you very much indeed for your time. all right lots more still to come here on the news hour including china moves to create so-called reeducation camps for we get muslims. and we'll tell you why bangladesh is main opposition party is leaderless for the second time in less than a year and in support belgian police target some of the country's leading football clubs as part of a food investigation sunna will have that story in the sport a little bit later in the program.

now hurricane michael has made landfall as lashing the u.s. state of florida a category four storm is the third most powerful to hit the united states since records began arkan michael kors thirteen deaths in central america and the gallica joins us live now from apalachicola in florida so hurricane michael's now made landfall in the panhandle and they tell us what's been happening. all night is falling here in the florida panhandle and really this is a case of assessing just how much damage this powerful storm has done the most powerful storm to hit this region of florida since eight hundred fifty one i can tell you about six hours ago daryn when the storm hit it was ferocious here the wind was howling the rain was lashing and we had a tidal surge in apalachicola about two meters the storm if there was a silver lining to any of this was the fact the storm was moving so quickly that it

passed quickly it's now in the state of georgia north of us here from the florida panhandle still a category one hurricane still very dangerous it may even go on to the carolinas which got soaked a couple of weeks ago by hurricane florence but here on the panhandle after lucky color we saw not too much structural damage here those floodwaters that came in and now beginning to recede many people decided to ride the storm actually stayed here not to let you go so they're emerging from their homes assessing the damage or not think it really will take a few hours perhaps a couple days to really understand just how much damage has been done the storm. made landfall over towards panama city which is west of us here and we've heard reports there of lots of structural damage but the big thing that the authorities are concerned about are those tidal surges and flash floods that may continue to be the biggest threat from this storm in the coming hours and as you say some residents decided to brave the storm and stay so what happened to the people who

evacuated their homes well many people just simply went to hotels or friends and family there were there's about two thousand people still in government shelters they'll probably stay there for a while because we've got power cuts across this entire region about two hundred thousand homes without power we don't have any power here but when they do come back to their homes if they're coming back to places like this they'll find their homes are intact it may be a different story where the storm made landfall but i think certainly the rescue and the recovery operation here will take days weeks or even months millions if not billions of dollars where the damage has been done we've had no reports of any loss of life despite the fact that many people ignored those dire warnings ignored the mandatory evacuations decided to ride this storm out for themselves but i think as i said it will take a while to just understand how much damage has been done by this storm that hasn't gone away it's typical for these storms when they hit land to have all the power sucked out of them and then turn into a tropical depression this is still

a hurricane it's now hovering over the state of georgia and possibly on into the carolinas still as a powerful hurricane that gives you an idea of just how large it was and just how powerful it was that says the most powerful storm to hit florida in more than a century and thank you and i think ten people have died in a flash floods on the spanish island of new york floodwaters up rooted trees and buried cars in mud the military has been deployed to help with the cleanup operation. now an alleged chinese spies been extradited to the u.s. on charges of economic espionage young jones who was arrested in belgium and brought to the u.s. on tuesday she was accused of stealing information from u.s. aerospace firms on behalf of the chinese ju is a deputy division director in the james you province of the chinese ministry of state security or and the s.s. the m.s.s. is the intelligence and security agency for china is responsible for

counterintelligence foreign intelligence and political security. one of shoes job duties was to obtain technical information including trade secrets from aviation aerospace companies in the united states and europe china as western jiang province has revised the law to legalize so-called reeducation camps for we get muslims the new clothes says the camps will tackle what it calls extremism through ideological transformation up to a million we got muslims are ported to have been detained subjected to enforced political education age and brown is more in the chinese capital. or china's government is always in facet lee denied the existence of arbitrary detention centers and political reeducation in shin jang in fact just a few weeks ago a government official appeared before a un panel in geneva and categorically denied the accusation he said what you have in chin jang a places that offer vocational training well on wednesday the government in shin

jang revised the law that it passed in two thousand and seventeen adding three new articles and for the first time the law now refers to centers and it says that these centers will allow the authorities to quote educate and transform people influenced by extremism now human rights groups maintain that in fact the chinese government does maintain reeducation camps in shin jang and that there could be up to a million muslims in these camps these are people from the ethnic weaker community as well as the ethnic kazakh community now people who say they've been in these camps and have been able to flee china have testified that they are forced to denounce their religion and are made to study the thoughts the works of president xi jinping the question is why is china now announcing that this law is being revised now well in recent weeks and months china's government has come in for

a lot of international criticism especially from the u.s. vice president mike pence who referred specifically to the plight of ethnic muslim leaders and u.s. lawmakers are also urging the trump administration to sanction those chinese officials linked to the internment program. now mental health problems are on the rise in every country in the world the world health organization says depression is expected to become the leading cause of illness by twenty thirty but it found that no countries investing enough to tackle the problem join a whole went to sweden regularly voted one of the world's happiest countries to visit a group going above and beyond to help. the countries of northern europe sweden norway denmark and finland regularly feature among the world pierced then why do so many people report being unhappy 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 world's leading cause of ill health at the fountain house group of international clubhouses they're focusing on something conventional treatment sometimes overlook the person behind the illness hospitals doctors medications are 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 i don't know but i do

know and i can help. found enough to save me save me i don't think i'll be around it's fun to be in here for. you began in new york in the one nine hundred forty s. patients and social workers got together to create a shared community that would ensure those who go to 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 the united states europe very dominant but a lot of work required in latin america africa asia yes there's still work to do that needs to be a clubhouse in every country. central thing about the club's model we talk about the need to be needed you need a place where you want when you where you are. accepted for who you are.

i was headed home for many years and isolating myself it was suggested to me to come here and i thought what do i have to list. voluntary to come here and that's very important that you come here because you want to come here not because someone else saying you have to be here. human model it's not a swedish model no american model and it's why does it work everywhere because people are the same everywhere we need to be seen we need to be loved to be part of something. i don't know how old you see or a stalker. a lot more sort of coming on al-jazeera more on the disappearance of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi and also a look at some of the other journalists around the around the world under attack. allegations the u.a.e. has violated several sanctions on somalia and yemen. and in support roger federer is forced to go the distance from shanghai without the details in sport after the

break more on that. and. the. helo there or eyes are on the states at the moment where michael is battering the southeast is the satellite picture showing that storm as it makes its way northward towards land and of course once it's over land it will have lost its energy source it's lost the sea so instead it's going to dump all the moisture that is sucked up across the southeast corner expect some flooding rains that it really will be incredibly wet as that system slowly creeps its way northward and then finally begins to pull away as we head through the day on friday so friday definitely a come a day for us here but elsewhere we've got another secular nation this is all storm surge is making its way across baja california and will eventually run its way northward across the desert states of the u.s. a bit further towards the south end and this is michael leaving us but behind it is

still dragging plenty of cloud and plenty of showers as well so this whole region here is seeing plenty of showers at the moment and plenty more as we head through the next few days for the west there's also an area in hong strain in the southern parts of mexico that is expected to give us a bit of flooding as we head through thursday and it's a friday as well there's also been a lot of wet weather for the south as well so for all some of us in paraguayan across into brazil it's been wet over the past day or so that system pushes southwards as we head through friday and intensifies towards. the end. brother leader or brutal dictator. with discontent spreading through north africa time was running out for libya's self-styled king of kings. in the first of a two part series the big picture charts the rise and fall of one of the feet and

the events that helped fuel the violence of his final hours. the lust for libya on al-jazeera. an ancient disease that continues to put half of the world's population if we do have a vaccine it will speed up the process of moving the disease in many parts of the world al-jazeera travels to tanzania and follows medical professionals who are on the frontline of the battle against land and s.k. just up to three thousand mosquitoes enable him to save the life efficient it is lifeline's the end game announces in.

welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera twenty two u.s. senators are written a letter to president trump that will force administration to investigate human rights abuses by saudi arabia it's a reaction to the disappearance of saudi. he was last seen entering his country's consulate in istanbul a week ago. uncertainty still surrounds the investigation in istanbul turkey says the saudis have agreed to let them search the consulate but it's unknown when or if that will actually help. american michaels made landfall in the u.s. state of florida the category four storm is the third most powerful to hit the united states since records began its cause major damage to property and hundreds of thousands of homes are without power state officials say one man was killed by a falling tree. but now to our top story the disappearance of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi

concern is growing and not just from politicians the public is also demanding answers and action al-jazeera alan fischer spoke to protestors at the saudi embassy in washington d.c. . supporters of jamal khashoggi took their concerns about his safety to saudi arabia's front door in washington d.c. although the demonstration at the embassy wasn't large it attracted media attention and curious inquiries from people passing by human rights activist sami hardass insisted the us government had to do more they're actually getting old and the getting it all didn't buy us presidents behavior that he does not care about what happens outside and make a across the city president donald trump spoke more about the case that he has in recent days he revealed he did vita jamal khashoggi fiancee to the white house and was the man thing answers from saudi arabia we were demanding everything we want to see what's going on here it's a bad situation it's a very serious situation for us but this way we do see what's going on capitol

hill politicians on both sides have been clear they've jamal khashoggi has been killed it changes us so did relations and this man was murdered inside a castle in istanbul that would cross every line of the malady in the international community. if that did happen it would be held if saudi arabia took a u.s. resident. who were going into a consulate and killed him it's time for the united states to rethink our military political and economic relationship with saudi arabia reports suggest u.s. intelligence knew of a threat to the washington post columnist an allegation denied by the state department his friend says if true america would be a huge responsibility as when he became a political are slightly in the united states he deserves the government's protection and the government has betrayed him earlier in the day supporters

gathered in front of the washington post the newspaper jamal khashoggi wrote for the gatherings in d.c. were just part of a campaign which also saw protests elsewhere in the u.s. and they all insist the. stations will continue until they get answers and action alan fischer washington well disappearance has again brought attention to the plight of journalists around the world in the qur'an working as a journalist has become more dangerous in recent months. reports from the capital. assaults harassment and death threats have come to characterize the working conditions for many independent journalists in. my big part of being there yeah. we still have a video journalist in managua recalls the moment he was shot in the arm while covering an anti-government demonstration only one batter. i tried to stand and couldn't contract and couldn't feel it i mediately thought the worst.

moments after being shot other journalists rushed to winston's aid and drove him to a private hospital winstone says most of his colleagues have also been the targets of attacks. is winston's boss and the founder of one hundred percent news he says that since the unrest began threats against his staff haven't stopped said but only thing being a journalist today is a matter of life and death thanks. 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. last april in the city of laon a radio station known for being critical of the government who set on fire with 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 request for a statement on the matter as the political conflict drags on organizations like the interim merican press association are calling on the nicaraguan government to investigate and prosecute those responsible for attacks against journalists and their families when it happened and dizzy when i was police in germany have arrested a man in connection with the murder of

a bowl garion journalist thirty year old victorian era nova was raped and killed in the northern bulger in town a ruse she'd been investigating an alleged fraud with the e.u. funds involving businessmen and politicians a body was found in a park and showed signs of suffocation and blows to the head dominic keynes and in southern germany. it's now been confirmed that the germinal thora 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 garion or for a geezer 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 the worst 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. but first opinion polls ahead of brazil's presidential runoff vote shows far right candidate jabil it's an hour ahead of his left wing rival the survey showed bolton are added fifty percent of support compared to fernando had out on forty two percent the poll took a sample of more than three thousand people around a vote is set for twenty eight october. the deal was. being fulfilled. as. head of the deadline on the fifteenth of

october. last rebel held. militarized in. turkey. the syrian opposition and what it called. armed groups complied with an october tenth deadline 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 quietly 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 it tried to rebranded self by publicly disengaging from. so no way out there. and keep much of its fighters who are 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 brings a conservative one that called starkey an enemy that surging their regime and russia 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 concern said the deal is temporary and. 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 the province as a whole and it doesn't end the war said. one of the sons of egypt's former president mohamed morsy has been released on bail hours after being arrested at his home in cairo abdullah morsi is being accused of belonging to

a group and spreading fake news it's a recent interview about his father's detention morsi has been in jail since he was ousted in a military coup in twenty. well jazeera has been given access to report not yet released by a panel of u.n. experts that shows the u.a.e. is violating sanctions imposed in somalia and eritrea the report highlights the continued illegal construction of an iraqi base in somaliland coastal city of bed as well as the seizure of weapons and military equipment coming through yemen 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's relabeled 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 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 earn the 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 acknowledged 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. the leader of bangladesh's main opposition party has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a two thousand and four grenade attack against the current prime minister tariq ramadan was tried in absentia because he remains in self-imposed exile the court sentenced nineteen others to death over the same attack as reports. in

this crowd a some of those injured in an attack in dhaka more than fourteen years ago and. they're still angry one of the chilling thought if you have one. one must be taken back from london and he must get the punishment which was given by the court and no one should be all must be punished to recruit a man fled bangladesh to london in two thousand and eight and now leads the opposition bangladesh nationalist party he was tried and convicted in absentia the criminal conspiracy and multiple counts of murder for the two thousand and four attack. as then opposition leader sheikh hasina addressed a crowded rally in the bangladeshi capital. the grenade blast killed dozens of people and wounded more than five hundred including has seen a who suffered severe injuries and one in she went on to win a landslide victory in two thousand and eight becoming prime minister.