president or the one has been very cautious in coming forward and making formal statements he made a statement last night on the way back from a trip to hungry to the newspaper haaretz saying that you know the investigation is ongoing and we will not stay silent regarding an occurrence like this he also said that he believed it was inconceivable the saudi claims that those cameras around the cold were not working on the day this incident seems to have happened as we heard in cinemas package there does seem to be mounting pressure all know the government to do more but as i say until these facts until this investigation goes forward and these facts authority established to everybody here is being very cagey . in coming off the fence if you like it's fair to say though that certainly we spoke to a couple of members of the opposition this morning and they say despite the deterioration in turkey saudi relations in recent years with respect to for example different

policies to end saudis and in syria all the sleeve the saudi laid blockade all the . incidents like that despite the souring of relations. some of them still saying that this occurrence this these allegations being made that this man was murdered already example that took his relationship with saudi arabia was to close in the first place of course there's a lot happening all day so it's important to recognize that it's not just about politics and diplomacy here it's also about money saudi arabia is the largest investor of all the gulf states in. at least six billion dollars invested in this country so we're looking at a massive diplomatic incident as this goes forward and we're looking at potentially the repercussions maybe even economically but as i say. looking at the opposition

so far and it's also worth saying here that people are very much dominated by domestic politics here. literally struggling very much personally. finances the economy here is suffering very much as well so there isn't that kind of domestic pressure that we expect so far on the government but the ones comments that suggest certainly he's not going to allow this to go. basically are punished if indeed this man was either taken back to saudi arabia or indeed murdered ok charles we'll leave it there many thanks. in a letter to donald trump u.s. senators say they've triggered the twenty twelve magnitsky human rights to investigate the alleged killing of jamal khashoggi the act requires a report from donald trump's administration within one hundred twenty days of the letter it will come with a decision on whether to impose sanctions on saudi arabia something donald trump says he's not yet willing to do that requires the president to determine whether

a foreign person is responsible for an extra judicial killing is an associate professor of conflict resolution at the institute for graduate studies donald trump says he'll get to the bottom of this quote how's he going to do it well if it was left back to in my opinion to donald trump i don't think trump would have done much because from the very beginning he was he seemed very reluctant to get think involved in this but here you have we are seeing more of a building of pressure from the senate house with twenty two senators asking that acquiring him actually according to the magnets the. accountability act that he is the quiet of to launch an investigation so he has one hundred twenty twenty days to launch an investigation to this and after that you know making decisions and including those decisions imposing sanctions on foreign individuals

who could be involved in this an extrajudicial killing or other groups human rights violations like the kids that we're seeing here so i think now with what we're going to see is a struggle between the senate house and administer the donald trump on how to proceed this but for the beginning of lunching an investigation i think according to the mole he would have to do that if this is the worst case scenario and this man met his end inside that consulate building is this a problem for donald trump in as much as does the u.s. have to recalibrate forty eight reliances about what. the saudis think about somebody who had residency rights in america the contempt yes well the resentment we have to take this into context actually and the resentment against saudi practices in foreign policy especially in yemen has been mounting for a long time so there has been a lot of complaints within the congress about the possible about the human rights

violations in yemen and in other places so this issue of germany is adding now to this issue of three it put it this pushing the situation to a new threshold to a situation where you know these practices are becoming unbearable and it's it's becoming a huge liability for the congress has to be able to. record that specially if this there's to be the case that he was murdered and the consulate so so i think that we have it's not because it's not the first issue because just adding one more thing to this complaint about human rights violations and the complaints about the relationship with saudi arabia and where this is going as it is ok to simmer down to distill the three correspondents were saying there seems to be the headline is

there is a narrative which is split on the one side of the narrative we have video we have photographs we have intelligence that's been gathered the turkish authorities presumably know what that is but they're not going public with it so that's one half of the story the other half of the story from the saudis is zero exactly well that hasn't been an a response and i think this is not helping the situation that saudi arabia has not the presented a convincing argument or evidence actually that would respond to the international criticism that's growing by the minute and this you know kind of response that. the video cameras were not recording the day of incident is really not convincing to anyone and that's why because of this absence of over c.d.'s a convincing get here but he's a noble response from the south did the show by i think we're seeing more attention is given to this not only from the united states what's we've seen what this of in the u.k. and france and other places and we have this is continuing to grow ok the there is

a kind of a a diplomatic diode effect going on here as well is there not and it's this that people are saying ok well the united states has shared strategic values arms deals with saudi arabia what about sharing moral values when it comes to what saudi arabia is doing with those arms that are built in other countries british built arms that end up being used in yemen we've already touched on yemen but that's a whole conflagration that maybe the trumpet ministration and the state department doesn't want to have to go near because of possibly a dead journalist who was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul well listen the struggle between value and interest in u.s. foreign policy is not the norm actually it has been going on for the past century and u.s. policy makers like khan that he's our eyes in the past you know recognized and. so

many others have done so already so now looking at the overall situation of the u.s. foreign policy how it. responded when there is a clash between human rights and interests their own interests unfortunately the u.s. foreign policy favor of interest yes. human rights democracy and other things but what what would happen when this clash happens and looking at the past the practices of u.s. foreign policy the decision was or almost always as that there was of interest and here is one of the exam. and that's why we it's not strange to hear trump saying today that this case is unlikely to impact the arms sales that we have given so he's already talking about you know that we're going to do this we're going to to advance this investigation but please don't

expect that this is going to affect our arms deals or you know the political mapping down the alliances that they're building with saudi arabia in that asian so this is where the real test will happen if the investigation continues and we see an evidence that's a gives the saudi leadership then it will be that struggle between the senate house and the tribe of mr shinde where twenty two senators so far as of now we might see this growing at about a growing much higher than this if we see an investigation against that area that. donald trump is to take action and that's where that we get a clash of interest and values will happen and then it will we will see how the trumpet ministration will respond abraham thank you very much thank you. plenty more still to come here on the news for you including a rendezvous in armenia french speakers of the world unite to celebrate francophone

culture. so ahead animals under threat global leaders look for new ways to eradicate the illegal wildlife trade. and lebron james links up with one hometown favorites for the very first time will tell you how they got on in the sports news in about thirty minutes. an american astronauts and a russian cosmonaut on board a rocket bound for the international space station have been forced to make an emergency landing after an incident on board moments after take off. to the international space station here just a few seconds after what you're looking at they had to perform what's called a ballistic descent after having encountered issues with the separation of the booster rockets around ninety seconds after takeoff the two crew members are alive and they are now out of the capsule chalons joins us live now rory just take us

through what went wrong here. well that is a matter for the investigation bots the events as they transpired is. basically like this the law took place one hundred and nineteen seconds after liftoff there appeared to be a problem the footage of the launch shows that as the rocket windles into the the blue skies above the launch site baikonur in kazakstan there was a puff of smoke and the feed on board the capsule showed that there was some jolting in the in the capsule itself now what appears to have happened is a problem with the separation of the boosters the kind of the side holds to this rocket that when they were detaching there might have been a problem one smashed into another that is

a matter for the investigation but it seems that the automatic safety procedures on board then. kicked into gear and this capsule was then parachuted down to the grounds the rescuers have found it twenty five kilometers from a place called. gam in kazakstan which is about six hundred kilometers from the launch site itself now the two men on board. in i'm an american astronauts and a russian cosmonauts were going up there to replace crew on the international space station that's mission of course now a failure which will have knock on effect for the russian space program and of course for the international space station itself what does this tell us about the soyuz program itself were in wasn't there a time not so very long ago that the families rockets now had a sizable hole in it. think

what had the hole in it was actually something on board the international space station that of my memory serves me correctly they. use basically has been the work force for nasa and the russian space agency ross cosmos for getting astronauts up into the orbits of the international space station is the only way that they can deliver people up to the international space station the moment since the demise of the american space shuttle program some years ago so use is pretty safe i mean it's you know has got a good safety record there haven't been any sort of fatalities for many many years. it's. the russian space program itself does have issues and it's. the way you look at the kind of vehicles like the proton launcher

or things like that which deliver cargoes up to space those seem to fail more regularly than the soyuz does the soyuz it's a it's an old system been updated many many times over since the sixty's when it was first brought in but it does work pretty well these kinds of incidents are rare the russians though are saying of the moments that they are going to suspend all manned launches using the soyuz rockets until the causes of this particular accidents can be worked out so that means that the crew who are up there in the international space station they're going to be staying there for a while longer rory thanks very much. a magnitude six earthquake off the indonesian islands of java and bali has killed three people and caused widespread panic and it comes just two weeks after more than two thousand people died in a major quake and tsunami. as many as five thousand more remain buried in the mud and search effort has been extended by another day after a government meeting the decision comes as the emergency response is being

discussed at the annual gathering of the international monetary fund and the world bank in bali well the response to the disaster in sort of we see is on the agenda at that annual meeting of the i.m.f. and the world bank the global economic outlook poverty eradication and economic development are also up for discussion al-jazeera scott hyla joins us live now from bali with more scott hi there over to you. peter well yes exactly this is you know the discussion with these two bodies about the global economy but as you mentioned you know there is discussion about preparedness for disasters preparations for disasters and that's something that's been on the agenda at these meetings these annual meetings for several years coming that obviously special focus here because of what's happened over the last two weeks but also the region where we are to is known as the ring of fire there are a lot of natural disasters that happen here now to discuss this further and what the next steps are let's bring in a car i'm standing now here is the head of the u.n. development program no i can't thank you for joining us when you look at what

happens now let's look specifically at the current disaster that indonesia's dealing with what are the steps now we know that the rescue operation search up to an operational stop at the end of the day on friday what does the indonesian government do next. well usually the first step is indeed search and rescue but alongside already begins a recovery phase and then the reconstruction phase and at the request of the in the nation authorities. a number of our organizations are already engaged for instance who n.d.p. right now and preparing to assist with removing rubble and debris so we can actually create access nexus to some of the areas remains a challenge and then from there on really comes a recovery phase the assessment is done and then to build back better option is often put in place because clearly the natural disaster risk continues and asia and the pacific region account for up to forty percent of natural disasters so politically in this region disaster risk preparedness is a vital step to avoid both human loss of life and damage in the future and how do

you prepare for these disasters what do nations need to do an obviously that's going to be different how japan prepares for it or how the philippines prepare for it based on economies and and lessons learned things how do they prepare how best can they prepare for what is you n.t.p. do the d.p. do to prepare them for that but we have part of the united nations international effort but the united nations in the national strategy for disaster risk reduction is actually the framework within which governments have agreed on priorities and guidelines not these obviously translated national level into very specific measures for instance tsunami threats there are now over seven hundred measuring stations across the world installed in areas that are in the tsunami risk to provide early warning so that accusation can take place on land but the communications infrastructure in place to sound alarms so people can move you also look at building back better in the sense of zoning looking where people most exposed don't just go in the same place again often difficult and certainly the

economic means obviously also play a great role even in the united states harken michael has created havoc but in the rich nation it is much easier to mobilize the resources to build back for a country such as indonesia in remote areas obviously much much greater challenge. and who how does that process move forward how does that process get better is it more dedication from the government when i guess their economy grows it is international bodies like yours intervening to try to help them do it because it's there was a bit of criticism with this past disaster about preparedness about warnings more than the parents i guess because how could you prepare for what happened but you know how does that you know how do you have these these nations that might be poor in a region that is such a big threat. for some natural disasters such as an earthquake it is a long term investment the infrastructure ask people more that's great for a system that's obviously a long term project and tsunamis early warning can do a great deal and the obviously invests in many countries a significant amount of our resources helping countries have disaster risk

management plans in place after the accusation first aid management of media casualties and so on we learnt a lot also for example in myanmar from saigon not this many years ago and you know it's ordinary loss of life today that would be unlikely to happen because the whole disaster risk management system is in place and that is what you need to be in many countries does with governments to learn the lessons from pasta sauces and then put national plans in place and also capacity for structure to come thank you very much that's all the time we have for so peter obviously you know and on sulawesi island they're trying to get back to life that they can at this stage very important for the reconstruction to move for but also for those local economies to get going so those people get back to work and they can move forward and also clean up and get back to a life that they once knew scott thanks very much. people in florida are assessing the damage caused by one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall in the u.s. hurricane michel ripped off roofs uprooted trees and meant

a lot of flooding moving over neighboring georgia it was downgraded to a tropical storm. slamming into florida's panhandle region hurricane michael 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 you will became the view from the international space station shows the sheer scale of hurricane michael 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 in certain of those areas and it's very tough for them to leave in 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 window of the blown out the water got up to 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 tiny little 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 michael hasn't finished his district. path this dome this path will take it north and it remains powerful and dangerous and gallacher al-jazeera apalachicola florida. more on all the storms in just

a moment from kevin but also still to come here on the news how the cost of essential medicine is on the rise in zimbabwe amid a growing economic crisis. costing lives on the somme we'll check out the new exhibition the science museum in london. and the sport will tell you who came out on top in this rematch of last season's stanley cup finals. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. we're going to get straight to those storms first of all out here in the bay i'm a girl this is psychologically as it made landfall here across the area i want to show you what we're looking at in terms of where it is now first of all it has been deadly two people have died across the area and now it's going to downgraded to

a tropical storm as it's made landfall but we're certainly seeing quite a bit of rain over the next few days with this storm as it makes its way to the north the northeast and then over parts of bangladesh i want to show you the amount of precipitation we are expecting over the next forty eight hours you can see the dark green educates way to the north and then over parts of bangladesh we could be seeing well over two hundred fifty millimeters of rain just from a tropical storm turning into a tropical depression across that area so even though it's made landfall we are still going to be watching this area very very carefully also michael that has made landfall as a category four storm just just a little bit less of a category five down here towards parts of pin about city beach now the storm is a tropical storm and it is still going to be bringing very heavy rain across much of the area take a look at the forecast map here see all that blue extending all the way to the northeast sixty million people are still under flash flood watches across much of that area so it is going to be

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera news are coming to you live from our quarters here in doha these are your headlines so far today a bipartisan group of u.s. senators have triggered an official investigation into the disappearance of the saudi journalist. he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul more than a week ago and the washington post is reporting that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salamander ordered an operation to lure back home to saudi arabia and tane him

. an american astronaut and russian cosmonauts are reported to have survived a failed rocket launch and an emergency landing they were forced to make what's called a ballistic descent and abort their mission to the international space station after blast off from baikonur in kazakhstan. u.s. senators from both parties are questioning the trumpet ministration support for the saudi amarok coalition the fighting in yemen they want assurances that civilians are being protected rosslyn jordan has more from the state department in washington . well a letter that has been sent to the secretary of state mike pompei o is basically calling into question his decision last month in september to certify that the saudi government and the u.a.e. government are both using the adequate precautions in order to make certain that yemeni civilians are not being killed during the air war that's being conducted against the rebels this certification it was mandated by congress and so the

deadline was coming up in september and so because of the concerns of the u.s. is national security and its financial relationships with these two countries when it comes to weapons sales the secretary of state reportedly made the decision to issue the certification well according to a number of news reports that was a controversial decision both within the trumpet ministration as well as on capitol hill and so what these congressional leaders who are very active on foreign policy have done is asked for a reconsideration of the certification asking for you fuller explanation because they say that especially in light of the august airstrike in which forty young schoolchildren were killed just north of sanaa the capital of yemen they say that they don't believe that the saudi led coalition is doing enough to prevent civilian casualties in the yemeni civil war now which is iraq has been given access to

a new report not yet released by a panel of u.n. experts it shows the united arab emirates is violating sanctions imposed in somalia and eritrea the report highlights the continued illegal construction of an m.r.i. base in somaliland coastal city of baba as well as the seizure of weapons and military equipment coming through yemen and go possible. 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 chocolate exports the exports of groups including the somali based on. an estimated one hundred fifty million dollars. has established an affected state within a state and they collect taxes in old age a town. they also run a. justice so for many citizens. even.

court which is a way the report was written by the somalia and eritrea monitoring group a un body that monitors sanctions in the region it says charcoal is shipped from somalia with fake country of origin certificates to ports in iran where it's relabeled as a product of iran and put on to small goods to put. into by the authors of the report say that both iran and the u.a.e. did not substantially engage with them when they raised concerns of chocolate smuggling weapons in trying to overthrow the somali government nearly a decade now and despite losing territory it still controls the significant chunk of the country and levers taxes that fund its attacks one checkpoint is said to earn the armed group ten million dollars a year the somalian eritrea monitoring group also says that in some areas has a sophisticated 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 this despite calls by the federal government in somalia to hold construction saying it was a clear violation of international law the report says work on the sites continues somaliland is a rich. of somalia had declared its independence in one thousand nine hundred one following a civil war and remains unrecognized by the international community the u.a.e. has in reply to the allegations its u.n. ambassador says they can't comment because the report is unpublished barbara how to sarah ok let's get more on the meeting of the i.m.f. and the world bank we mentioned just a little earlier both organizations have now approved plans for zimbabwe to pay back more than two billion dollars of debt that is a vital step to secure new loans to revive the economy the government recently

imposed a tax on bank transactions that's been blamed for raising prices and causing shortages the health sector severely affected as. explains 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 are buying less it's later shortages and excessive price hikes it is very frustrating actually i'm coming from a pharmacy right now where i bought this drugs which i used to sprint 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 are going is that 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 to have run out of some

medications completely for conditions and for those that we have. 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 an increase in tax is a necessary pain to help zimbabwe pay its debts there were. a number that were made in this amended to ensure that the economy. we are going

somewhere with there are signs of improvement on 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. 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. or. stopping the illegal trade in wildlife and protecting some of the world's best known species is the main aim of the big summit in london it's estimated that the global wildlife trafficking market is worth up to twenty three billion dollars a year it's the fourth most lucrative transnational crime after drugs weapons and human trafficking poaching has forced a number of exotic species.