strong is that we also spoke to a member of the ruling a k party who said that he didn't believe that this would lead necessarily to a complete split between riyadh and turkey said that the cape adil didn't want to see a massive split but he did say that it was very much consistent with what he described as turkey's place in the context of its international relations and its allies on the international stage i you know turkey qatar no iran versus what we've seen in recent months of the since the trumpet ministration going to fool with the us israel and saudi arabia on the other side it's very difficult for the president his story to want to come out with any will forceful a statement that he's made so far but we could obviously expect that if indeed it has it is proved that this man was killed or indeed kidnapped to take about saudi arabia he will be forced to act very strongly indeed charles thank you very much

for that that is charles that from live and around. now u.s. senators from both parties old question the trump of ministration support for the saudi and the rocky coalition fighting in yemen they want to show any signs that civilians are being protected in georgia has more from the u.s. 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 been 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. still ahead on the bulletin accosting light on the sun will check out a new exhibition at the london science museum. hello

again we're here across parts of japan more clouds in your forecast we have a funnel boundary that's kind of laying out right there and you can see it right there on the satellite image so for the next day that is going to stay in slowly make its way towards the pacific so here we go on friday a lot of clouds across much of the area a little bit cooler as are on that north side in the northwest side so sendai about one thousand degrees still seeing some rain there but as we go towards saturday a little bit of an improvement but those temperatures still stay a little cooler with tokyo breaking out of the clouds at about eighteen degrees well we do have a front about that same one up towards japan well you can see it right here across parts of china it's slowly sinking down towards the south and that means hong kong cloudy day for you but as that pushes even more towards the south taipei you can be seen some clouds as well on can no rain but

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that to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories about a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has triggered an official investigation into the disappearance of saudi journalist she was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul nine days ago meanwhile the washington post is reporting that saudi crown prince muhammad ordered an operation to back home to saudi arabia and detained him well let's get more on this now a senior political analyst is joining us live from london as we've been reporting

that they will now be a u.s. government investigation into this could prove to be a threat a serious threat to the very close relationship between this u.s. administration and saudi arabia. well it depends but there's a good chance it might be if this so would these are going to respond positively to the ongoing pressures whether from the united states europe or in the middle east about their role in the mysterious disappearance of a much lesser edgy and in a sense this could be a major blow back for south or for saudi arabia notably for its calm prince after three years of attempts at attracting if you would american attention and american sympathy indeed the american support for whatever the conference was trying to do in so dear a billboard in the region in general now there is only one way it is i can see out

of this only one way out of this and that's if the saudis decide that crown prince mohammed bin sort of man needs to step down or step aside that's the only way out of this this blunder if you will because if mr hersh it is not found if his why the is not found then i think there is there's going to be no real letting go by the international public opinion not to be the american and western media until the soldier the soldiers do something about it well that is i mean that's one way is a very drastic way one is the u.s. do you think willing to put this chump an illustration willing to put the pressure it needs on saudi arabia to reveal what's happened to. i think that's why. you know putting it all. around out on the

crown prince might be a way out for the americans and the saudis too you know that's a real resume their relations on the basis of saudis paying for expensive weapons and expensive protection and expensive investments in the united states and president trump basically saying ok fine this was a mistake a blunder by a young crown prince and now we would continue our relations with my best friend king solomon see otherwise the media attention to this issue which apparently was not expected by the crown prince and his likes that the editorials of the main newspapers in the united states in europe and. around the world being so condemning of the saudi indifference or saudi complicity in the disappearance of a join the list and allegedly of some major crime being done against him after he

was taken hostage in the in this so the consulate so really all in all i could only see that the american president now under such pressure by congress and by the american media to let go if the saudis are ready to offer him something in return and i can't think of anything what someone taking responsibility for this action would be the fifteen people being found in the you know in someone airport and gone to the consulate and probably done what they've done with the with the poor journalist or is there a higher up commands all the way up to the crown prince as now it's been reported by the turks if there is to be seen thank you very much for that set for now that is our senior political analyst. live in london thank you. now people in florida are assessing the damage caused by one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall in the u.s. how can my cool ripped roofs from homes pull trees from the ground and of course

widespread flooding now moving over neighboring georgia has been downgraded to a tropical storm and you've got a government holds. 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 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 destructive path the storm's path will take it north and it remains powerful and dangerous and

gallacher al-jazeera apalachicola florida. now an american astronaut and russian cosmonaut have survived a failed rocket launch and emergency landing. and there is liftoff. tin to the international space station. they were forced to make what's called a ballistic descent to abort their mission to the international space station are to blast off from kazakhstan the two crew members and out of the capsule and reportedly in good health let's go to our correspondent voyage chalons who is joining us live from moscow so how did this happen of all it why did the launch phase. well that is something that the investigators are going to be looking at of course and it's too soon i think to say exactly what went wrong on this mission but it appears that one hundred nineteen seconds after liftoff something catastrophic happens on boards this spacecraft

what looks like happens is that there was a problem with the separation of the booster sections of the rockets and that this put into process an automatic. aborts process basically and that the capsule was then eject seeds its launch its parachutes and it came back down to worth the two men on board an american astronaut called nick a the russian cosmonaut called x a teen in both ok they have landed back on the grounds they have been picked up and they're being transported at the moment from the touchdown sites which is about six hundred kilometers away from the launch site back to baikonur where the rockets across from and from there they're going to be brought back to moscow to star city which is a rather a man simply names. cosmonauts six

a training center just outside the russian capital of course the investigation will take some time into what happened here. in the means are and there are serious safety concerns to be addressed the russians of announce that they're going to suspend all man's launches using the soyuz vehicle until they can work out what happens. also the missions to resupply the international space station where these two men were destined for those are in jeopardy as well because the rockets that would have been taking supplies up to the space station used the same vehicle essentially so this is putting the russian space program and the international space station program in some down to the moment roy thank you very much for that from novels for a challenge live in moscow thank you. now a magnitude six earthquake off the indonesian islands of java and bali has killed

three people and caused widespread panic that comes to weeks after more than two thousand people died in a major quake and tsunami on the island of sin away see as many as five thousand more the main buried in the mud and the 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 meeting of the international monetary fund and the world bank in bali . the international summit of the french speaking world that surround nine hundred million people is underway in armenia its three million population only has around ten thousand french speakers but they are giving a big welcome to the leaders at a two day meeting in yet yvonne including canada's prime minister and the french president emmanuel collins backing rwanda's top diplomat to be the next secretary general off the international organization of franco funny the science museum in london is promising visitors a sunny day out whatever the weather

a new exhibit is showing how the sun influences every aspect of our life and why it is a constant fascination that has been for a look. it's our closest star but in many ways it's still a mystery the sun has influenced our belief systems our arts our travel and of course it's the basis for life on earth this show at london's science museum looks back at how we used to think about the sun and forwards the challenges like really harnessing its energy with things like solar panels going forward sail anything we are seeing a lot more technological development for the first time it's actually thought it become cheaper than fossil fuels but we do need that push from politics and also from the everyday population as well peter with knowledge of. one idea featured here is how scientists have tried to recreate the nuclear reactions the power of the sun known as nuclear fusion they thought they'd succeeded in the one nine hundred fifty s.

but they hadn't and even with the latest machines like this recent prototype nobody's managed to get more energy out than what they put in if you sin on a commercial basis is cracked the results can be game changing the amount of energy you can get out from using the atoms together is absolutely vast millions and millions of times more efficient than the burning of fossil fuels. one of the main messages from this exhibition is the huge variety of ways in which we humans use the songs movement in it and the gene for our own benefit but there's a warning while the sun's activities could pose a real threat to our planet's a threat very few people know much about the sun giving us. it's called space weather and in particular solar storms when the sun throws out huge clouds of plasma. as this interactive game shows the phenomenon cannot count satellites in

space and power grids here on earth there are things that people are doing so the met office now maintains a twenty four hour space weather forecasting center where they monitor the sun watching out for the. is it one of these major storms and if you get more warning that means you can warn the people he has to grit light so you can ground flights to avoid people getting high doses of radiation a high altitude one of these things going on. scientists could get more answers fairly soon a nasa probe set off towards the sun this summer and in twenty twenty the european space agency launches its solar orbiter from its vantage point forty two million kilometers from the sun it could provide clues about what drives the sun's magnetic fields. back here on earth the team at the science museum are hoping this exhibition will attract a big audience and some stellar reviews that al-jazeera landed.

now again on the nose of a problem in the headlines on al-jazeera a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has triggered an official investigation into the disappearance of sal the journalist jamal khashoggi he was last seen entering the consulate in istanbul nine days ago meanwhile the washington post is reporting that saudi crown prince mohammed bin ordered an operation to. back to saudi arabia and detained him. and other news an american astronaut and russian cosmonaut have survived a failed rocket launch and emergency landing they were forced to make what's called a ballistic descent and abort their mission to the international space station after blastoff from kazakhstan a magnitude six earthquake off the indonesian islands of java and body has killed three people and cause widespread panic that comes to weeks after more than two thousand people died in a major quake and tsunami on the island of sin away see as many as five thousand more the main buried in the month the search effort has been extended by another

day. people in florida over says in the damage caused by one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall in the u.s. now moving over neighboring georgia it's been downgraded to a tropical storm at least two people have died in eastern india after the made landfall in odisha state three hundred thousand people will move to higher ground before the storm's arrival. hundreds of brazilians have been demonstrating in sao paulo against far right presidential candidates. he is leading the polls ahead of the. twenty eighth and he is expected to win. the white house is accusing the venezuelan government of involvement in the suspected murder of that opposition leader fernando taken into custody last week over an alleged plot to kill president nicolas maduro police say he killed himself by jumping off the tenth floor of the police headquarters his party says he was murdered those are the headlines on the

al-jazeera inside story is coming up next thank you very much for watching. the new york times says a mouse assures the was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul and turkish media published pictures of what they say are the agents sent to kill him but the saudis insist he left the building so what happened to her so she this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm hood up that haven't on the afternoon of tuesday october second be walked into to saudi arabian consulate in istanbul his fiance who was waiting for him outside says he never came out now we know more about what may have happened we have a lot to discuss with our guests but first this report with the latest from stephanie decker in istanbul. turkish sources say these men arrived at istanbul airport with a mission to either abductor or kill. they flew into istanbul on the same day the saudi journalist was due to return to the consulate to finalize some paperwork they're suspected to have been inside the consulate when hushing he entered the building around a quarter past one local time on the afternoon of the second of october a turkish newspaper has published the pictures and the names of the fifteen saudi nationals that the turks say were part of the so-called saudi hit squad the new

york times goes into further detail quoting an anonymous senior turkish official saying ankara believes the treasury was killed inside the consulate at the orders of the highest level of the saudi royal court then gruesome detail the shots he was killed within two hours of this moment and that his body was dismembered by the saudi team with a bone saw in what seems to be a deluge of leaks the washington post then divulging that before his disappearance u.s. intelligence intercepted communications of saudi officials discussing possibly detaining him out. it is unclear whether he was ever warned i'm very surprised that one would would confirm this by letting the information know now the fact what has been intercepted is also notable because if true and there are now seem to be in creasing disparate bits of information that corroborates or substantiate the

other pieces of information it would be a shocking act and teske lee glaring one which there were we're told this operation would be really in cock up and were someone into your own consulate and then murdered the person and. while you know that your entrance is an exits are all being videoed is. astounding. experience permission seems to be distributed by the turkish kurds to plan russia and saudi arabia real turkish as a new kind of camera no evidence presented to back up those. stories with military need to go into. her surgeon his fiance is seen here waiting for her fiance outside the consulate and she's written in the washington post the u.s. paper shows she contributed to pleading with the u.s. president to clarify what happened to her fiance and also in the saudis to release security camera footage she says she doesn't want to believe that he's been killed

stephanie decker stumble. pulp fiction that's how a turkish official is describing this. well to discuss more we have our guests joining us from washington d.c. is i met the director of the gulf affairs institute and a former political prisoner in saudi arabia in london joining us on skype chris phillips the former head of the national counterterrorism security office in the u.k. and subtile holes there he is a lecturer at the city of bristol college in the u.k. welcome to all of you let me start with you the new york times claims that actually high shows was killed inside the consulate and that those orders came from the highest levels of the royal court how credible is that for you. i'm not sure yet about if he was killed or kidnapped. yet but it's true it's

very clear to us after the release of the fifteen member the names of these. of this team that two of them at least. person the bodyguards over mohamed bizzle among the crown prince so this is looks to me from looking at the names that this was not even an intelligence operation because this is a hodgepodge of sabbahi guards here and some doctor from the minister of the interior and some other people who even one of them works in the in the in the in the special forces in the army so this was not an intelligence professional operation and i think that's why they have a lot of a lot of evidence and they didn't do a good job but we don't know if this was a murder i would assume this was more of a kidnap. attempt that winter and if it did occur it did if it did go wrong but if

it was a murder then again this is this this is like what the turkish government said came from ahmed is absolutely there is no doubt about that well it has to be underlined as you said that most of the information we have so far which is day eight since when. he went into the consulate is coming to us through the media we haven't heard any official version yet but it's about how. one fact is that there is a fifteen member team that arrived from saudi arabia to stumble early in the early hours of the morning of that the october second as second fact another also route that came out today is that the washington post is saying that is citing u.s. intelligence services as saying that they had actually they had

intercepted communications between saudis because discussing the capture of jamal. why is jamal has surely was such a concern for does sound you oil family. first of all there is no fact at all. from this all poor fabricated stories and intelligence you know. information is the only fact is she disappeared where is he god knows i hope on they pray to god that he is still a life when we sleep last three games against what is on every case it's shouldn't so far days no official version but why do you say that fabricated story well if you if you listen to me if you if you can't if you let me in a continual you will see what i'm going to say i don't trust the washington post i don't trust the eunuch times the same the same way newspapers back in nineteen ninety one before the invasion of iraq they have sex it up. your rated

prefabricated all of the stories against iraq and even the colin powell theoretically theoretical. recall play and the united nations let you know about this case just imagine oh ok let me finish please i'm back in twelve for for guess two thousand and four this is what happen the washington post apologizes for under the playing what w m d skepticism they say that we were more concerned getting stories first than getting stories right at their mortars at the time we are going to war why we. even have that control the stuff and exactly the same thing is happening know that something is happening now i can't even sure that it is out of public ate it because this is history. ok we're not.

talking about saudi arabia there is no sir there is no history in saudi arabia kills or or assassinate you know opponent all dissidents except two famous countries israel iran saudi arabia know how stupid is to kill a dissident opponent inside the embassy and the funny things there are twenty to thirty people involved. certainly over the past year over the past few years there has been many stories of people being detained and people being charged without any proof in saudi arabia it is old you know to have been many stories lately didn't go as far as killing but if i remember well there was no this and i don't know the don't don't get not mix the issues of police or the ok twin and turn on the external affairs and then all of this is another completely different much

or whether. it is a saudi citizen if you go to. yeah that's good if you go to google machine in a searching machine and put you know any assassination out of the action and then embassy you never see there is nothing whatsoever this is the first time i know from where from saudi arabia this is forced on twenty to thirty people involved and so his body and soul is ready posing and you know screwball it's only top russian involved earnings to put on how old is that so does intelligence twenty to thirty people no way well i don't believe in that i don't take it at all ok let's go now on the expertise of chris here i mean. now does turkish authorities are saying that they're going to get access to the consulate in istanbul but it's there eight days later maybe nine they still haven't gone in and they also asked for access to the residence of the general counsel at this stage will they be able to find

anything well of course any investigation at this time is crucial only that you get access to a crime scene whatever that crime is whether or not it's an abduction or whether it's an assassination we don't know yet to be quite fair but of course the police need to get access to that but it's forensics or other bones that investigates only access now eight nine days later some could have been cleaned the area could have been cleaned up and it would be more difficult for them to get evidence i think there's so much to this case so. i don't think it could be more difficult for the for the turkish authorities to conduct an investigation it's in a location which is effectively another country and what access they get there allowed to get take into that building will be will time will tell but without the full forensic investigation then we won't know and as you say time really matters

and an evidence is lost over time well chris when you read about all. or what's being reported these days. if they did anything to really strike any detail strike you to most in all of this did anything point may be made your mind in one direction or the other. the whole point of an investigation is that you keep your mind open and it could of course be lots of they could be lots of different stories around this. i imagine there's a lot that's known under the surface through intelligence agencies that's not been given to the media at the moment and and that will probably stay here the all sorts in one direction or another i mean none of us know without some evidence none of us known all that we've got the moment is a man has disappeared and he's disappeared from inside an embassy which is a precedent it's and you just wouldn't like to think that any country in the world would do something like that but of course you've got to keep your mind open and you know people die.