snowden time aren't so much the first few hours or a day of this news but the pressure is building our work quickly and i think it will continue building up until the said ministration takes some action. i know that this is very shocking news but at the same time it is rather expected by the also was more noble this regime a regime which has jailed women activists as flarm a young poet for writing something on facebook and as exit q-tip she our clerics who are being opposition to the one arche this regime has also devastated yemen and while series and the said ministration have been totally insensitive to the suffering of millions of yemenis so frankly it doesn't

surprise me that there is you would do something like that but doing it to an individual who has become prominent mainstream in the us and worse than media brings the story home to me ok and not just in government but also out there in the public and i think the pressure will build up then a billion speak about action there we've now seen twenty two u.s. senators sign this letter to the president triggering a u.s. investigation and their determination of whether human rights sanctions should be imposed over the disappearance of construction i mean this is the application of the magnitsky act that's highly significant doesn't it. yes it is and it comes on the heels of attempts in both the senate and the howards to put pressure on that administration to stop supporting the saudi war in yemen. i think when you put the two of them together if the administration doesn't move before

november it was certainly have to morgan after the november election so and the significance of the magnets act is that it includes both republicans and democrats so we're beginning to see bipartisan action and i hope that something good will come out of this prejudice let's just go back to yemen thing for a second to be a because u.s. lawmakers as you say from both parties are now challenging president trump and the administration over their support for saudi arabia in the yemen war and once this is not linked to the chicago case it does show that more makers are determined to get the u.s. administration to step back from their close links to saudi arabia so how could this play out for yemen do you think well i think. putting the two together members of congress are realizing that not only is this a humanitarian need that they must address but that this is what suspicion on the

u.s. administration and therefore on the entire united states that it is complicit in the crimes of the series. and i think that this was heard them on anybody who has been fooled by this regime is certainly no longer a fool and it really boggles the mind that the administration up until yesterday last night in fact is senior representative of the said ministration when pushed on this issue simply said look we don't really know what happened we are looking for the cyrix and and. you understand that we have significant equities where the saudi arabia no other was blatantly putting it that there is a material instance which prevents them from doing the right thing morally. maybe

a little bit a final thought from you i mean we're starting to see how this single case can have a huge geo political impact affecting relations between the u.s. and saudi arabia so what do you think will happen will some kind of face saving accommodation be reached. or this administration will dry and i think it will try to get something out of the saudi crown prince and their hopes will in million or eight the situation but i don't think it compromises will work i think this is going towards the direction of tense relations between the united states and saudi arabia if the saudis don't get it now and they certainly will get it after the november election people in congress are fed up with them and with their. behavior both inside their country and out sign in and i think that. their relationship is bound to sour and the

pressure on the kingdom to. reform itself somehow will mount thank you very much indeed for talking to al jazeera. well plenty more ahead on the news hour including we'll tell you why bangladesh's main opposition party is leaderless for the second time in less than a year. in your sight losing your life an infectious disease that causes blindness can be cured and in sports belgian police target some of the country's leading football clubs as part of a food investigation we'll have that story in sports a little bit later. on michaela slammed into the coast of florida as one of the most powerful storms on record the hurricane made landfall on wednesday flooding towns cutting power and causing widespread damage thousands are still in shelters after being battered by winds of up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour and

a reports. slamming into florida's panhandle region hurricane matthew came ashore as the most powerful storm in more than a century when it made landfall roots who ripped off trees downed in coastal flooding left many homes and businesses submerged in all three hundred seventy five thousand residents were told to evacuate but many decided to ride the storm out instead we are concerned that many says chose not to heed the warning but were prepared with search and rescue teams to try to go in and until it became the view from the international space station shows the sheer scale of hurricane matthew even as it approached the coast the storm strengthened with winds approaching two hundred fifty kilometers an hour it may be days before the full extent of the damage is known but a lot of people are very poor uncertain of those areas and it's very tough for them to leave and apalachicola there's now the prospect of a massive cleanup operation the tidal surges here have for now receded but the

experience for many was terrifying the trade to keep blowing and blowing and it just got crazy i'm renovating right here. and the windows were blown out the water got up the floor level. the damage done across this part of florida may run into the billions of dollars but flooding remains a concern as hurricane michael continues to churn steadily northward towards the state of georgia this is what the residents of florida's panhandle will eventually return home to flooded businesses submerged cars but the biggest threat may be these title surges that continue to get pushed in by this powerful storm that say authorities could be the biggest threat in the hours to come. the recovery here will take weeks months or even years but matthew hasn't finished its destructive course the storm's path will take it north and it remains powerful and dangerous and gallacher al-jazeera apalachicola florida. at least ten people have died in

flash floods on the spanish on in the mill yorka floodwaters uprooted trees and buried cars in mud the military has not been deployed to help with the cleanup operation an alleged chinese spy has been extradited to the u.s. on charges of economic espionage and shoe was arrested in belgium and brought to the united states on tuesday she was accused of stealing information from u.s. aerospace firms on behalf of china ju is a deputy division director in the james you province of the chinese ministry of state security or m.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's western gen jang province has revised a law to legalize so-called reeducation camps for weak and muslims the new clothes

says the camps will tackle what it calls extremism through ideological transformation up to a million we get muslims are reported to have been detained and subjected to enforced political education agent brown has more from beijing. china's government is always in facet li denied the existence of arbitrate attention 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 they 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. a shallow magnitude six earthquake of

the indonesian islands of java and bali has killed three people and damaged four homes it comes to weeks after more than two thousand people died in a major earthquake and tsunami on the island of silly way z. press services will be held in the coming hours to mark the end of the official search and city where most of the bodies were found the first opinion poll that of brazil's presidential runoff vote shows far right candidate jaya both an hour ahead of his left wing rival the survey showed both fifty eight percent of support compared to if an underhand adam forty two the poll took a sample of more than three thousand people the runoff vote is set the twenty eighth of october the daughter of peru's former president has been arrested as part of an investigation into money laundering opposition leader keiko fujimori's party is accused of receiving illegal contributions from brazilian construction giant brecht prosecutors say the money was used in her two thousand and eleven presidential campaign nineteen other people have been arrested on the brakes at the

center of political scandals across latin america not truck is the world's leading cause of blindness and while it's curable almost two hundred million people around the world live with a diseased most of the sufferers are in africa nicholas heart went to bernice and senegal to find out more. it is all a blur explains by more start to help volunteer going to. brush his teeth alone or going to recognize his own grandchildren. is losing his sight every blink is more painful than the other. it's true coma an infectious disease that causes a breakdown of the surface of the eye if left untreated sarky go blind it's not too late for him is eyelids have turned inwards and are damaging the eye this is caused by repeated infections it could have been easily prevented if saw had washed his eyes regular. but sar does not have access to clean water at home flies landing

close to the eye spread the disease to others contagious yet preventable is the world's leading cause of blindness and if i lose my sinus completely i'll be useless to my family and i want to end up like other blind young ones abandoned and on the streets begging seen as a burden children with her come often suffer the most but not here at senegal's only school for the visually impaired. the children compensates they have a stronger sense of hearing and of touch surpassing that of the non-visual impact given the chance we see that our students do well in the job market beyond social stigma the un estimates the economic loss globally from untreated for coma to eight billion dollars annually sending out wants to get rid of the disease offering free treatment now the top is not a doctor but trained by the ministry of health in order to operate on patients that

have the symptoms of a coma he's about to cut a small incision only eyelids in order to get rid of the disease despite the possibility of bleeding or permanent scarring of the eye the benefits outweigh the risks. that it looks as todd can you see. after a ten minute procedure fifty eight years of suffering comes to an end alone so our walks home gradually lighten colors flood into focus. nicholas hawk algis iraq two about eastern senegal lots more still to come here in al-jazeera including a look at some of the other journalists under attack around the world class and bob was attempt to revive the economy makes matters worse but struggling health system in a sport you send both gets ready to take the next step but his effort to become a professional football that some will be here with that story that's

a bit later in school more than statements. by the springtime flamboyance of a mountain lead. to the finest snow fall on the wynton stay. hello there the rain is clearing away from the southeast in parts of china now there's just a bit of cloud left really on thursday a bit more in the way of wet weather perhaps for the far east in parts and into the new impose a taiwan but elsewhere just a good in of cloud except that clouds going to be building pushing northwards as we head through friday but for shanghai more in the way of dry weather for us into temperature of around to twenty a bit further towards the south of course in the philippines lots of dry weather here too in fact lots of sunshine just a few isolated showers to find towards the west that's why there's more in the way of wet weather and it looks like that's where we'll see the majority of the showers as we head through thursday and friday so some of the downpours here are likely to be rather heavy they push

a bit further south to say for some of us in java we can expect to see a few more showers come friday if we had across towards india of course we've got this storm with us to play that's working its way across the east impalas that's going to give us some flooding rains as it gradually begins to ease as we had three thursday and into friday the only reason it's falling apart is because it's lost its energy source it's no longer over the sea still plenty of downpours hit we will see some flooding further towards the west it's largely fine and dry in the north that's where the brightest of the weather is new delhi up a thirty one more clout towards the south. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. the cricket world isn't the tricks thing i mean you have to think why would he give me a god because then we didn't burn him again it's like it was no big bang bang bang or al-jazeera is investigative unit reveals explosive new evidence documentary confirms the bible now is

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welcome back a quick reminder the top stories at this hour twenty two u.s. senators a written letter to president trump the before sit ministration to investigate human rights abuses by saudi arabia raises the possibility of sanctions in reaction to the disappearance of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi but he was last seen a week ago entering his country's consulate in istanbul and uncertainty still surrounds the investigation into his alleged murder turkey says the saudis have agreed to let them search the place but it's unknown when or if that will actually happen. and how it can michael's moving on to the. state of georgia after causing extensive damage in florida a category four storm is the third most powerful to hit the united states since records began and he said one man was killed by falling tree.

well more now on our top story turkish politicians have reacted angrily to the disappearance and suspected murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi opposition m.p.'s are warning of severe consequences. reports in the turkish capital ankara it's been more than a week and despite an ongoing investigation there is still no sign of. sounds like a hall of a thriller and down certain it is surrounding has is a growing concern to turkey's political figures. turkey is not a stage will root for mafia revenge if there was a crime and if the criminals are identified what is necessary should be done to punish the perpetrators. members of the rolling up artist say is if the rumors office killings are true it's the responsibility of every country to respond to such a human rights violation. so if he was to write a very critical column against saudi arabia it wouldn't have hurt the saudi image

as much as this incident so it shows the impotence of a country to silence a journalist. opposition lawmakers are in agreement that if the allegations are true there must be consequences for saudi arabia if there is a murder and saudis are directly involved also due officials with diplomatic community here must leave turkey and international institutions including the un should do the same it is not compatible with diplomacy or law or friendship it will put a strong if saudis carried out such an assassination this should be seen as defiance against her and disregard of law plus it's a threat to all journalists because shoji safety and well being is the most important thing but turkey has to reconsider its relations in the middle east with such countries until now the circus present dredge up so far don has handled this case discreet the but as the concerns grow over the life of the salvage journalist

some here fear that it could lead to a diplomatic break up and if this happens trickle its support for western and arab countries to be able to put pressure on saudi arabia so now because all of al-jazeera. well subsidies disappearance has again brought attention to the plight of journalists around the world in nicaragua working as a journalist has become more dangerous in recent months as money a rapid reports in the capital managua. assaults harassment and death threats have come to characterize the working conditions for many independent journalists. might be part of being there yeah so what we have a video journalist in managua recalls the moment he was shot in the arm while covering an anti-government demonstration only one data. 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. winstone says most of his colleagues have also been the targets of attacks. is winston's boss and the founder of one hundred percent news he says that since the unrest began threats against his staff haven't stopped said the thing being a journalist today is a matter of life and death thanks. we've been harassed shot at angry mob 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 journalists still inside. the flames are so big they burst through the front door and ignited the clothes on the taxes as well as a security guard. walking through the charred remains of his office fransisco tortoise in an independent radio reporter showed us where men armed with machine

guns explosives and petrol canisters stormed the building 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 their families monitor apple and zita when i watch. police in germany have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a ball garion journalist thirty year old victorian era nova was raped and killed in the mill than ball garion town of rooms she'd been investigating 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 donna came as more from a shot 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 gary and colleagues clearly the ball gary in all fora jesus 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 you worse 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. russia's foreign minister says the deal with turkey is to establish the demilitarized zone in the provinces being fulfilled suddenly arbroath says more than a thousand fighters already withdrawn from the area ahead of the deadline on october fifteenth it was the last rebel held province in syria so hot are reports in beirut . heavy weapons have been removed from a planned demilitarized zone in that turkey's state media say the syrian opposition and what it called anti regime 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 predict. 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 itself by publicly disengaging. so. keep.

or. keep its positions. the turkish government has been trying to convince h.t.s. to disband and joined the mainstream syrian opposition the most powerful alliance. is divided. a conservative one. i mean that's. the other is that. he wants a diplomatic solution. to turkey. and it was ready to. deal. the deal is being implemented but statements by syrian government officials including president bashar assad concern. temporary. return control but many believe it will be outside players russia and turkey who

will decide the future of syria. 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. table as a specialist in syria at the washington institute for near east policy he explained the advantages to having a demilitarized zone in libya. deescalation zone in southwest syria and it up just being a delaying tactic which is now apparent. in the province whether it was because of the involvement of turkey or perhaps because there were just far more fighters there of different varieties also more extremists caused the russians and the regime to think twice in any case the deal for now is holding the demilitarized

area is taking shape and the movement of heavy weapons out of that zone in the last day or so is good news that we're heading towards some kind of evil in taishan of the early part of the record i think now it's you know one of the advantages of this situation is that the syrian civil war did not or rather bashar al assad did not win the syrian civil war in his own effort he did through through the military intervention of a number of countries and isis was defeated also and so the involvement of turkey and russia both of whom militarily intervened in syria has helped create an accord that hopefully will help mitigate the downsides of an assault on in the province where it goes from here what kind of status it has going forward it remains unclear one of the sons of egypt's former president mohamed morsy has been released on bail i was also being arrested at his home in cairo. being accused of belonging to

a group and spreading fake news it's of a recent interview about his father's detention and morsy has been in jail since he was ousted in a military coup in twenty thirty. the international monetary fund and the world bank have approved plans for zimbabwe to pay back more than two billion dollars in debt it's a vital step to secure new loans to revive the economy the government recently imposed a tax on bank transactions some blame for raising prices and causing shortages are much as a report 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 back transactions products now cost more and supplies are buying less it's later shortages and excessive price hikes it is very frustrating actually i'm coming from a farmers right now where i bought these 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 zimbabwe's 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 very bad 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. slowed down to near zero yet so that's how bad it is. to stay in business some shop owners insist customers pay in u.s. dollars others aren't 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 i was his increase in tax is a necessary pain to help zimbabwe pay its debts if you score announcements munter the points are known but with made in these are meant to ensure that the economy is lived this is the sound of a dog and that is feeling we are going somewhere with there are signs of an improvement on the economy but evidence. 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 the bar not currency continues to lose its fairly 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. 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 rahman was tried in absentia because he remains in self-imposed exile the court sentenced nineteen others to death over the same attack reports. in this crowd as some of those injured in an attack in dhaka more than fourteen years ago. they're still angry i want to kill a thought if you have one not a good one must be taken back from london and he must get the punishment which was given by the court and no one should be spared 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.