that significant sanctions need to be imposed on saudi arabia at the highest level of the saudi government if he is found to be a victim of state sponsored murder and i can tell you as well another top republican jeff flake saying on the floor of the senate in just the last hour that anyone who targets a journalist is an enemy of freedom adding that he believes that the united states should no longer do business with saudi arabia so given the fact that donald trump coming into office talked extensively about the deals that had been struck with saudi arabia with respect to weapons sales arms sales we remember that oval office meeting with the crown prince in march where they both talked about this very strong relationship it appears that that relationship is not being backed by those in congress that control whether or not those deals continue namely that the u.s. congress is the one that controls america's purse for its own kind of secure you build on that maybe for our audience than our international audience can believe the significance of of people in congress saying this because i think we focus so

much on what the white house says and what donald trump says and we sort of hang on his words or his tweets i just want to really make sure everyone understands the value of what's coming from capitol hill. yeah very very quick civics lesson the bottom line is that the president is not an imperial president in the united states it was deliberately set up this way by the founding fathers in the u.s. constitution they are equal branches of government and i think that sometimes this gets lost especially with some of the strong headlines coming out of this white house but donald trump has no more power then all of the members together on capitol hill so that's why this matters and of course there could be executive orders that but the bottom line is there is a check and balance in place so when the u.s. senate when top republican senators who are control of the u.s. senate the moment say that this may cause relations to go off a cliff they have a lot of power in order to make sure that these deals moving forward that may be

put forward by the white house are not approved and the u.s. congress right now appears to be very concerned and what's also notable about this canal is that it's bipartisan and we've been talking about the divisions in congress to see unilateral agreement between democrats and republicans about the concern about jamal khashoggi and the fact that they believe looking at intelligence that they have apparently seen so far because donald trump said there that although this is been disputed by turkey that the u.s. is involved in this investigation they are coming to the conclusion that saudi arabia does not have clean hands in all of this and if they even have that in clink that this is the case they have the power to stop deals moving forward and again we should underscore they were already feeling nervous about the involvement of the saudi led coalition in yemen this just seems to be doubling down on that concern to the point where they are considering a halt of relations and sanctions potentially now that the global magnitsky act has been triggered there is that one hundred twenty day deadline now for the white

house to come up with a report to congress and they are compelled to if that report is not favorable put in place sanctions really valuable context there from one house correspondent kimberly how could thank you kimberly. plenty more coming up for you on this news hour including this. and there is a stop. to the international space station the men who crashed to earth the crew of a russian rocket should be on the way to the international space station but something went wrong after liftoff the latest on that also the cost of essential medicine on the rise in zimbabwe and the growing economic crisis. and the sport of cricket has pulled off a great escape against pakistan sun i will have that and the rest of the sports of the night. so russia is not suspending manned space launches to the international space

station after the cause of a rocket failure to. lift up and there is lift off. to the international space station on board an american astronaut and a russian cosmonaut they were forced to make what is called a ballistic re-entry by parachute which when the russian soyuz rocket aborted its blastoff they survived enormous g. forces during their emergency landing in stun chalons in moscow. in the wake of this catastrophic accident on board the soyuz rockets russia has launched two investigations we have a commission that is basic green set up to investigate what exactly happens on this launch and why it went wrong but then the russian any investigative committee has also launched a criminal investigation into the construction of the rocket which i think

indicates how seriously russia is taking this at the moment and how much it wants to assure its partners in nasa that the soyuz is a safe and reliable vehicle for delivering people into space because at the moment it is the only means by which people can get up to the international space station since nasa retired its space shuttle program several years ago this particular incident seems to taken place about one hundred nineteen seconds after the launch where it appears there was some sort of booster failure which meant that the capsule that the two men were in had to then make what's called a ballistic descent ability reentry they came back down on a parachute landing about six hundred kilometers away from the initial launch site they are both ok it seems and that is something to be thankful for because this is

a space incident that could well have resulted in for talent seize on this particular incident it didn't spoke to david brown earlier who is an astro physicist at work university in the u.k. he explained what the next steps are in this investigation over the failed rocket launch. it's not entirely clear how the crucial jewel for the space station is going to going to deal with this obviously the soyuz program is going to be delayed and grounded while an investigation happens into exactly what went wrong and there are currently three crew on board the space station this point the most likely scenario seems to be that they will have to have an extended stay with potentially an additional supply mission. and then there may be some acceleration of testing programs for new manned capsules that are plans to come on stream next year

florida is counting the cost of one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the united states hurricane michael tore roofs of homes pulled trees on the ground and caused widespread flooding as you can see eight hundred thousand homes have been wrecked tricity surprise cut it has now been downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves to the state of georgia and gallica reporting for us there from the coastal city in florida of apalachicola. well as night fell here on wednesday it was difficult for us to get a picture of how much devastation hurricane michael has caused but it's a clear picture now on thursday and it really looks like panama city and next door mexico beach got up saluted devastated by this storm they were in the eye of the storm that's where it came ashore and it looks like tornadoes hit those communities and not a hurricane we've seen roofs ripped off schools absolutely leveled hospitals of being evacuating patients is a very serious situation in that specific area here in apalachicola we're on the more powerful side of the storm the damage is limited but getting around is almost

impossible because you have situations like this where there are downed trees downed power cables all over the place eight hundred thousand people without power across this state and states north of here so this is a very serious situation and hard for the emergency services to get to the places they are now most needed. at least two people have died in eastern india off to sign clinton made landfall in addition state three hundred thousand people they moved to higher ground before the storm's arrival and as a magnitude six earthquake off the indonesian islands of java and bali which has killed three people and caused widespread panic remember just two weeks after more than two thousand people died in a major quake and tsunami on the island of so the way to see as many as five thousand more people remain buried in the mud the search effort has been extended by another day after a meeting by the government from scott in bali the indonesian government announcing on thursday that they will stop all searching operations on soloway island at the

end of day on friday you know here at the international monetary fund and world bank annual meetings obviously there has been some focus because of the look asian of these meetings focused on that natural disaster that just took place two weeks ago but natural disasters and prevention of natural disaster impact on nations has been a subject for these meetings throughout the years and there was the same in these meetings obviously it has more poignancy because of what took place in indonesia just two weeks ago now earlier i sat down with the summit from the world bank to discuss what and how important the next steps are after a natural disaster. what we find for example is that if nations had the financial resources to respond very fast to their recovery phase then the economy came back east less because the private sector can't pick up activities again and taking a more macro look at these annual meetings both the heads of the i.m.f. and the world bank expressing concern about the global economy over the next two years world bank is concerned because the trade friction between the united states

and china will have knock on effect on poor nations and they are going to be stunned because of supply chains they're impacted by those two largest economies and their trade friction the i.m.f. also citing that friction saying that they have downgraded their outlook for the global economy over the next couple of years downgrading it point two percent. welcome steiner is the head of the un's development program and he says there needs to be a better system of preparedness for these natural disasters in the ash pacific. but 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 indonesian authorities. a number of our organizations are already engaged for instance to 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 the 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 some natural disasters such as an earthquake it is a long term investment the infrastructure has to be built more great persist and that's obviously a longer term project and tsunamis early warning can do a great deal and we obviously invest in many countries a significant amount of our resources in helping countries have disaster risk management plans in place after that evacuation first aid and management of media casualties and so on we learnt a lot also for example in myanmar from saigon not as many years ago and. needs of life today that would be unlikely to happen because the whole disaster risk management system is in place and that is what you would be in many countries those with governments to learn the lessons from pasta sauces and then put national funds in place of the plans to restructure meanwhile the i.m.f. and the world bank of also approved plans for zimbabwe to pay back more than two billion dollars in debt as

a vital step to secure new loans to revive the economy the government also recently impose a tax on bank transaction but bad is being blamed for raising prices it's affected the health sector and a number of businesses have had to close authorities also banned protests organized by trade unions because of a cholera epidemic has more from. union leaders were in the office preparing to organize for this march this protest riot police showed up and they told them they cannot have the march because of a ban on public gatherings because of cholera the police arrested several people in harare and other parts of the country and they've been charged and we're also told that some people appoints human rights lawyers that some people were beaten really badly by the police is a worrying sign of human rights violations on the ground say some of those ways represent the people who've been arrested another concern for zimbabweans of course is the poor state of the economy things just seem to be getting worse speak to most and tell you remember two thousand and eight we don't want to go back to those days

with shortages in shops we lined up for days just to get fuel right now people are waiting for hours in lines to buy fuel when they get to the shop to buy groceries are limited to one item per person that's wonderful bread one pints of milk those who can afford it and are driving to south africa zambia mozambique to try and cross the border they get groceries and come back inside the country but of course for the poor that is not an option. one american student has appeared in an israeli courts to appeal against a decision barring access for her to israel over her political activism. some who is partly a palestinian heritage she's been detained since arriving in tel aviv airport on the second of october she had already secured her student visa and a place at one of israel's top universities are false the reports from occupied east jerusalem. after nine days in detention lara custom was given a glimpse of the intense interest her cases generated the twenty two year old has been denied entry to israel since her arrival at tel aviv airport the israeli

government says while studying in florida she led her university branch of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement which advocates economic and cultural measures against israel she says she's no longer an active member to minister a strategic appears together with minister of interior decided that b.d.s. is not about actions does not appeal to you to talk to me and he believes that it's unfortunate that in the israeli democracy. we have two ministers here say if you believe in p.d.f. . and if you think it's legitimate you have no right to use our custom had been accepted for a masters course in transitional justice a jerusalem's hebrew university she'd obtained the necessary visa had a time the university has joined her appeal in the israeli court laro customs legal team argues that there is an inconsistency in the government case that an active campaigner for an organization that advocates boycotting israeli academic

institutions would hardly pay one to come and study on its campus her case is the latest of several incidents of detention and deportation involving left wing activists and commentators in july jewish american activist ariel gold was deported despite possessing a student visa over alleged prove b.d.'s activities in august left when u.s. journalist peter beinart. who's advocated boycotting products from illegal west bank settlements was detained and questioned on his way into the country it's concerned even diehard supporters of israel in the u.s. two leading such voices arguing in the new york times this week that israel should welcome b.d.s. activists without restriction israeli government however says a qassam will only be allowed into the country if she publicly repudiates the movement we're looking at that she could create to believe that mr katz simply meets those criteria based on her actions in the actions of the organization of which she was a senior peter guber several years a custom says she won't publicly condemn the b.d.s.

movement but neither will she advocate for it if allowed to study in israel of course stance on sunday will sit out his era occupied east jerusalem as its coming up here on this news out in the mania french speakers of the world unite to celebrate francophone culture of. animals under threat for ways to eradicate the illegal wildlife trade and sport we're looking at the events aiming for and then pick foothold at the youth games in argentina. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well plenty of clouds are here towards the eastern med you can see them right here on the satellite image anywhere from central parts of turkey all the way over toward syria down towards lebanon as well temperatures fairly moderate for this time of year so the clouds

are going to remain and then in parts of northern iraq as well as we go towards saturday not looking too much of a change but we do start to see a little bit more of that heading towards the east and up towards tehran we may see a shower of two with a temper there of twenty two degrees now here in the arabian sea we are watching what is happening with our cycle and we've been watching the system for days as it was affecting parts of india has slowly moved across much of the arabian sea and that's the problem it is moving slow so getting a track on the storm has been quite difficult but as we go for the next couple of days we are seeing the storm making its way closer to the coast of amman and yemen and there is our map right there on friday brings a very heavy rain across the region so on saturday the rain will be affecting parts of the law we do think here in eastern yemen will see rain as well and of course in this part of the world that means flash flooding is going to be a major problem and then very quickly down here towards the southern parts of africa we are seeing mostly clear conditions across much of the area temps wise looks like this with durban about twenty two and rain in your forecast.

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thousand and eighteen for more information go to isa war dot com. the latest developments here on al-jazeera in the case and the turkish government is announce that the joint retain will be formed to investigate the disappearance of the saudi journalist because government told al-jazeera it has definitive evidence about what they are calling the killing of the show and where to place donald trump says there's no reason to block saudi arabian investments in the united states despite concern over the case he says he's also expecting reports to

be released soon and there's pressure from the u.k. which is warning of serious consequences well the u.s. senate foreign relations committee chairman bob corker said any sales to saudi would not pass congress and in fact he has more now from bob corker the u.s. senate foreign relations committee chairman. everything went indicate that that he's perished but look maybe it's a rendition and he'll show up someplace down the road i hope that's the case but right now it feels like. it feels like he is not a lot human everything points to saudi arabia and it would appear that he's not a law of i would think that if it were saudi arabia and he was alive. with all that's happening right now they would produce him i mean renditions do occur and so . i mean governments all over the world are involved in renditions and and so i mean if they have him sequestered someplace. then you would think they would

produce him but. so that makes me feel i mean again it might not i'm in saudi arabia everything points to that this is a real murky world and when you start dealing with these kinds of things. we've got more now from laura burton manley who's looking at what we know so far about this investigation. saudi journalist jamal khashoggi ended his country's consolation is tumble last tuesday that the last time he was seen turkish sources of told media outlets they believe he was killed inside saudi officials say he left the building before he vanished here's what we know so far turkey's daily newspaper subpar published the movements of saudi nationals that arrived in istanbul on board two private jets their own by sky primary ation a company used by saudis the first jets carried nine men while the second had six on board there was a total of seven crew on board both planes the fifteen men booked four nights in

hotels close the saudi consulate in istanbul however they left turkey on the same day just a few hours after they arrived turkish authorities say six vehicles including four minivans with tinted windows left the consulate two and a half hours after she entered the vehicles judge the consul's resident only two hundred meters away where they stayed for four hours turkish officials believe she was transported in one of the six vehicles on their departure the first group left assemble airport and flew to cairo while the second headed to dubai turkey security services and police is searching for the mini vans that drove from the consulate building hoping there will be a link to solving the mystery of disappearance laura but i'm only al-jazeera

now to other news on the number of mexican migrants in the u.s. is slowly shrinking combination of long term tough my version policies and increased border security has meant more people are now returning home than are actually making the journey to the u.s. in fact some analysts also believe a slowly building economy and more opportunities in mexico are also contributing john heilemann has more from the rural migration dependent state. just a few years ago public would have had little choice but to migrate from a small village in the state of what to miscues north or like many to the united states now there's another option because first cucumber. it's good to live in mexico this is where we're from we go to the us and they don't want us there with. him so for attorney migrant set it up with his brother mario sixteen years ago they had one greenhouse some full employees now they have seventy five not only three but when we started it was

a battle to get people there are very few because they all immigrated but now they come to work in. the plant is yet an outlier in a poor state where many of pools to head to the u.s. to look for work or their families depend on the remittances that provides but nationally the panorama is changing little by little we no longer in the years of the mexican migration boom in fact the population of mexicans in the united states is very slowly shrinking as more return home than head there. it's not easy for attorneys twenty of the local workforce authorities are giving them some help with their pool welcome smits can documents and in some cases funds to start businesses . some firms like the cucumber plant along with others especially cool senses groups are profiting from the efficient of the bilingual labor. but to many returning workers the sticking point is the low pay or sylia is earning less than one hundred dollars a week in the cucumber business would head back to the states and the better

salaries in a heartbeat every crossing the border go to call say for. work in the fields and the money isn't enough things are expensive and the children need it to keep up with their studies i really suffered to pay for my son and university it's the hope is that in the future miss consoler reason opportunities continue to rise keeping more of the young like pablo hope john home and how does it. hundreds of brazilians have been demonstrating in some polo against the far right presidential candidate. he is leading the polls ahead of the runoff vote on october twenty eighth and is expected to win and the opposition supporters are concerned about his views on women and minorities. or is hosting the international summit for francophone nations despite having only around ten thousand french speakers among its three million population far as to walker is there for us and yet over. the

international organization of franco poly offers an alternative to the dominance of english speaking multiculturalism for the president of france the summit in armenia is a way of championing french language and culture globally it makes it to not french cannot live progress or develop unless we understand that we share it with out to germany with mutual respect a place for human reinvention balance that's what the francophonie is about. population growth in french speaking african nations means that by twenty sixty five a billion people speak the language of fact sophia the un's first robot ambassador appreciates you better believe that learning french will be at the top of my list but at the francophone business forum some believe this organization is actually a space for talking the international language of money i think is the opportunity

for everybody english i mean french people to get some footage or to normal how is very important now is not the language for me the reason where did we do business is to win the francophone village you get a sense of what this organization is all about eighty four countries are not just friends speaking ones representing more than i wonder million people promoting peace and prosperity think of it as a kind of french united nations for the armenian hosts this summit has special significance mass street protests brought about a peaceful revolution in may was you government needs friends. it also needs investors in promising young sectors like the tech industry after the revolution we have more and more interest from different investors coming to us and

being very excited about what has happened when i leave here because democratic change also means democratic institutions democratic economic institutions transparent business environment. this summit is about showing the world that life francophonie is increasing its reach and that our media is open for business robyn first year walker al jazeera yerevan. the whole thing the illegal trade in wildlife and protecting some of the world's best known species is the main aim of a summit going on in london it's estimated the global wildlife trafficking market is worth up to twenty three billion dollars a year that makes it the fourth most lucrative transnational crime after drugs weapons and human trafficking. illegal poaching has forced a number of exotic species to the brink of extinction and clark is that conference for us in london.

across the globe there's a war raging a slaughtering of wildlife like never before the enemy criminal syndicates the water the killings that will this an all too familiar scene across africa elephants killed tusks hacked off and spirited away to be turned into trinkets and pseudo medicine for the asian market. thousands of miles away from the killing fields in london such atrocities are focusing minds one thousand delegates from eighty two nations determined to step up the battle. there. is three ways we could to stop that we've got a video. we're going to stop the trafficking which that response. but the demand side is on the international markets sold these conferences with that divide the stops perhaps the keating would use of course is not just elephant take the wild tiger there's been a ninety five percent decline in numbers in the past one hundred years today there

are fewer than four thousand left in the wild a thousand royal knows a slaughtered every year one point three million birds are taken from the wild in southeast asia alone i merely then there's a shot for in trade the pet trade baby chimpanzees in iran and times being sold taken from their mothers who are often killed in the process the list goes on and on. and now many say the trade needs to be treated in the same way as major organized crime like the drugs trade and human trafficking wildlife crime is organized crime organized crime undermines the rule of law is on the minds governments we see a situation where governments are deprived of revenue from economic activity that their legitimate plea entitled to because it all goes under the counter we see enforcement officers including rangers being killed in the course of their juicy communities are being threatened. since nine hundred seventy there's been a breathtaking fifty eight percent decline in wildlife numbers around the world if

the killings continue at this rate experts say all future generations will see at once rich global biodiversity will be behind bars in a zoo nicholas al-jazeera london. sport coming up few on the news. in shanghai summer is here with bass and the rest of us more tomorrow.

now senegal is struggling to contain the world's leading cause of blindness almost

two hundred million people around the world live with the disease most of them in sub-saharan africa it is curable but it needs medicine and well run prevention programs nicholas hart has our report from to buy an eastern semicolon just a warning you may find some of the images a little later in his report a bit distressing. it is all a blur explains by more start to health volunteer going to he can't brush his teeth alone or get to recognize his own grandchildren. sar is losing his sight every blink is more painful than the other it's true coma and infectious disease that causes a breakdown of the surface of the eye if left untreated sark can 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 ice spread the disease to others contagious yet preventable is the world's leading cause of blindness and if i lose my sight.