by a cell phone probably not but you have to recall that turkey is in a very interesting situation of late because of the circumstances economically becoming so dire we've actually seen president order one kind of i wouldn't say turn a new leaf but actually reach out to the merkel in germany and do some other things related to being well pulling off quite a feat to ward off the imminent russian syrian attack on the it live province in syria so we're watching the turks actually try to be helpful in recent weeks and they'll need to do this in concert with the u.s. and probably some other governments the saudis will need to respond we hope that they can somehow rectify this situation if not well we've been listening to the reports things here in washington are not looking good for this relationship at present yeah and jeff i mean as you say turkey has made no official statement about

the disappearance yet but sources close to the investigation say that turkey has definitive proof that he was murdered but when it does make this evidence public such people also need to have a political and diplomatic response plan in place what do you think that plan is likely to be i think they're going to have to make it up as they go along but speculating they're going to need to hopefully the u.s. investigators that are arriving they'll have some sort of joint preparation of the evidence has some officials appearing together something along those lines will need. basically support from washington in perhaps a few others but it's work that they no doubt will do as a final question jeff i want to just draw on your experience as a former state department official i mean on the one hand president trump has a very cozy relationship with the saudis but on the other hand washington won't want to be seen supporting the saudis if they're complicit in the murder of a u.s.

resident on foreign soil how tricky is the u.s. balancing act see what's happening at the state department right now they're in a really tough position back at the state department because they have a president administration that has really moved into a special relationship with riad and this puts it all in the balance at the very least we're looking at a mild downgrading of the relationship holding at arm's length sort of scenario but because these allegations are so serious and if this was planned as it's alleged and the risk that has been taken here then we're really looking at a situation where the u.s. will be forced to probably make good on the magnitsky act and those weapons sales are now in jeopardy and a few other things alternately this relationship will probably survive but for the short to medium term because of the apparent decisions we don't know yet for sure the apparent decisions made in riyadh are putting that now at risk just ac thank

you very much indeed for your time five learning plenty more still to come in the news hour including i'm andrew symonds reporting from the capital of ukraine on another battle with russia this time within the orthodox church which looks like suffering its biggest split for a thousand years. animals in danger global leaders look for ways to end the illegal wildlife trade. the world's top ranked football nation for the center of a huge fraud a match fixing investigation of the come a little bit later. russia has opened a criminal investigation after a rocket bound for the international space station failed shortly after takeoff the two man crew an american astronaut and a russian cosmonaut survived after making an emergency landing in kazakhstan really challenge has more from moscow. with the traditional wave of departing spacemen

make hay and alexi of chain in said goodbye to worth they'd be back sooner than they thought since the demise of nasa space shuttle program russia's so you system is currently the only way for people to get up to the international space station the russian and the american was shuttled to begin one hundred and eighty seven days in orbit liftoff but first they had to get there the launch seemed to go well initially the rocket lifted off into the cloudless skies above baikonur kazakstan but one hundred nineteen seconds into the journey there was a catastrophic malfunction here the soyuz making its way into space inside the capsule video shows the two men being shaken about before the feed is cut to a computer graphic for ourselves we can live in the florida minute twenty five seven. the failure of the bush hearing there that there has been

an issue with the booster and we're standing by for information the men and their capsule were now in a so-called ballistic re-entry parachuting back to worth they landed in the wide kazakstan step six hundred kilometers away from the launch site the rescue teams found them there helps them out of their confinement and into waiting helicopters but you. know this incident requires a more thorough investigation including visits to the manufacturing facilities the accident occurred on a rocket that had led the incident free history this is very bad news on the other hand the emergency rescue system book excellently and this is good news. in fact two investigations are now underway one looking into what happened and another criminal one to assess whether there was any foul play or negligence involved in the rockets construction rush or is also grounding manned soyuz flights the work course of international space missions until more is known about this catastrophe.

we'll have knock on impacts of course the crew currently orbiting on board the international space station will have to stay there a while longer and officials will be looking at whether resupply rocket flights can actually take place but thankfully there was no loss of life in a launch failure that could so easily have been fatal rory chalons out to zero mosque or the u.s. military is grounding its most expensive war planes following a crash last month it's believed engine problems caused an f. thirty five fighter jet to malfunction during a training flight in south carolina engine checks on the plane are now under way across the world now global financial markets are having one of their worst weeks this year ancient european and u.s. stocks will continue to fall on thursday investors fear the u.s. federal reserve will raise interest rates leading to higher financing costs for businesses it follows worries about trade tensions between the u.s. china and other major economies let's bring in peter cardio he joins us live by

skype from new york he's the chief market economist at spartan capital securities peter let's talk first about the u.s. markets if we can we've seen a second day of u.s. stocks being sold off with sharp declines in the dow the s. and p. five hundred the nasdaq so what spruiking u.s. investors at the moment. well there are two factors here it's a combination of trade issues and of course rising interest rates that is you know that have risen to levels that we haven't seen in almost. four or five years and so basically this is really what's impacting the market and has spooked investors now of course you know. interest rates are basically rising for the right reason and that is the economy is doing is doing well it's consistently strong and of course we don't have much inflation in fact the inflation news

today was a bit of a surprise it actually came in a little bit lower but what is the real problem here i think the real problem is the trade was what china people are getting very very nervous about that because it appears that. at least for now there are no real the goshi ations that could probably indicate a deal some sort of a deal that would. diminish the fifth factor and would be are coming early season. i think that we'll see some multinational corporation is being hit by the tariffs so that reason low americans and i think that's what's gripping the market right now yeah and u.s. markets. have been rattled at the asian markets as well we've seen indices in japan

hong kong china old decline quickly so what's driving that full. it's the same issues i mean you know. the emerging markets certainly are going to be the hardest hit when it comes to the trade war and so that's basically what's happening and of course the chinese economy that is definitely in a slowdown there signs of the cracking and so that is dragging down the rest of the emerging markets and countries like india are also subject to this and it is interesting pizza because u.s. stock markets as you say have had a great run they've been performing very well of late so this week's slump must have come as a surprise to many people i don't think it came as a surprise let's say it might be a belated surprise but i think you know. smart money has

been moving on the sidelines and possibly in a defensive position but. nothing goes up to ever that's the shoah and you can be experiencing the best times of all at one point or another it will stop also because the market is a forecast that discounts what may happen eight months or nine months down the road so a lot of the good news is oh betty already been placed in the market and now the question is what does this trade. do in the coming months in terms of economic activity out in time is it going to set us up for recession is it a copy to call them so we have to get them a fed dispose of one at a time peter called it in new york thank you very much indeed for talking to us.

now zimbabwean police have arrested several labor union leaders to prevent strikes against the worsening economy they plan to protest against price rises and shortages of fuel and medicines people are blaming a new tax on bank transactions for pushing up prices the government says the new levy is needed to help revive the economy. as more from zimbabwe's capital. union leaders were in they 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 point to 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 the violence of course is the poor state of the economy things just seem to be getting worse. tell you remember two thousand and eight we don't want to go back to those days we were

sort of just in shock 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 one of bread one pints of milk those who can afford it and are driving to south africa zambia mozambique to try and cross the border to get groceries and come back inside the country but of course for the poor that is not an option now at least six people have died in one of the strongest hurricane to hit the united states many coastal towns in florida are still cut off a day after hurricane michael made landfall as a category four storm more than nine hundred thousand homes are without power unlike most hurricanes michael didn't drop to a tropical storm until it had trouble more than three hundred kilometers inland let's talk to n.b.c. correspondent wendy woolfolk she joins me from panacea in florida when you just bring us up to date with the latest on the storm.

the scope and the magnitude of the damage derren is on the leaves there have been towns along the coast literally decimated homes off their foundations debris everywhere one person described it as a war zone and then you go to another town and literally where there are homes on its foundation but not one home left undone you also have things like the one behind me that's a house boat that was tossed like a toy to the dock over from where we're standing there are trees everywhere littering the roadways and water even blocking the roadways into the hardest hit areas so unfortunately these search and rescue teams that are so crucial right now are having a hard time getting in to help rescue people who might be account and accounted for at this point and when do tens of thousands of people we know have been evacuated

when will they be allowed back into their homes to assess the damage there. the governor has already said the their safety is the priority it is absolutely not safe for them to come back to these areas because of all of the debris there are tree limbs everywhere when you go into the gulf coast area there are power lines down that you just could walk into so unfortunately it's just not safe for people to come back and and assess the damage to their homes also you have to remember there are more than one million people who are without power in florida alabama georgia the carolinas even all the way north into virginia so even if they try to come back to where they are is certainly as we lose daylight there's nothing that they can see so it's just not safe for them to come back and assess the damage and

it could take some time before power is restored here so unfortunately it's excruciating i'm sure but safety is of the essence and they're just going to have to be patient when they will for thanks for talking to us in the nisa says it could take up to two years to rebuild the on and of so the way it was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago five hundred thousand soldiers are conducting a final search for survivors in the city of pollute the rescue effort was extended until friday at the request of residents more than two thousand people have been confirmed dead officials believe up to five thousand still missing. short break here al-jazeera when we come back. join me dominick cain invariant to find out why this traditionally conservative state is being transformed by the party politics of the coming election and in sports a stranger's cricketers pull off a great escape against pakistan sun all of that story in the sport after the break lola stay with us.

and i know that there remains a ball still michael is still with us i reports of north america here's a satellite picture as it gradually made its way northward overland of course it's lost its energy source so it is disintegrating the winds easing but we're still seeing a lot of heavy rain you can see all the cloud feeding ahead of that well the way up into the eastern parts of canada that system eventually moves away though so by around lunchtime on friday should be over the atlantic and then for the eastern coast it will be a lot drier and brighter but as that will moves away we've got another system that's making its way in from the southwest that's making its way across some of the desert states the u.s. and then working its way eastward so do expect some flooding here as we head through friday and into saturday but further towards the south of also seeing some heavy rains here particularly over the southern parts of mexico you can see the

satellite picture picking out that cloud there really has been very wet and there's plenty more rain still to come as we head through friday and saturday too so they could be some flooding here was a for the easels of wet weather here from panama all the way up towards jamaica and further east so we do expect some shop downpours here to now the rain that's been over parts of brazil recently is just tracking a little bit for the southwards now so for some of us in europe why in the northern parts of argentina expect some heavy rain i won't be that will be born salaries at sixty.

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welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera turkey and saudi arabia have agreed to work together to investigate the disappearance of the journalist jamal khashoggi he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on oct the second turkish security source of told al-jazeera they have definitive evidence that he was murdered. at least six people have died in one of the strongest hurricane to hit the united states many coastal towns in florida are still cut off and more than nine hundred thousand homes are without power a day after hurricane michel made landfall as a category four storm it's now been downgraded to a tropical storm. i'm global financial markets are having one of their worst weeks this year asian european and u.s. stocks will continue to fall on thursday investors are worried about an escalating trade war between the u.s. and china and potential rate rises by the u.s. federal reserve. now an american student has appeared in an israeli court to appeal against a decision to buy her access to the country over her political activism. who's

partly palestinian heritage has been detained since arriving at tel aviv airport on october the second. and she'd already secured a student things that had a place at one of israel's top universities are in force at 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 the strategic appears together with minister of interior have decided that b.d.s. is not about actions it's not about attitudes to the top and the he thought that it's unfortunate that in the israeli democracy the way we have two ministers

here say if you believe in b.d.s. that 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 at jerusalem's hebrew university she'd obtained the necessary visa at a time the university has joined her appeal in the israeli court laro customs legal team argues that there's 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 b.d.'s activities in august left wing 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 the israeli government however says a car symbol only be allowed into the country if she publicly repudiates the movement with looking at that picture you believe that mr can't seem to reach this picture your peace time perhaps in the actions of your decision of which she was a senior peter guber several years our custom says she would publicly condemn the b.d.s. movement but neither will she advocate for it if allowed to study in israel a course starts on sunday ari force it out as era occupied east jerusalem ukrainian president petro poroshenko has welcomed a decision that gives his country's christian orthodox church full independence from russia a service to mark the historic move was held in the capital kiev it follows a decision by the ecumenical patriarch in istanbul the spiritual leader of three hundred million orthodox believers worldwide under simmons reports from kit

they're all of one faith but there's nothing spiritual about what's going on beyond the silence of prayer and thought leaders of the orthodox churches here are split they're either pro russian or they want independence and a break from being answerable to the orthodox patriarch in moscow. as a church we try to be independent from moscow not because we don't like russia or so or something else but we see how a russian empire through centuries use orthodox church in our land as a tool of imperial poultice in this sacred place to the faithful the archbishop's words sound political that's because they are there's a potent mix in ukraine of religion and power politics you only have to look around the corner here to see the thought of messaging that's going on violence and death

. more than one hundred protesters were killed in the my down uprising of twenty fourteen the lead to the fall of pro russian president viktor yushchenko which then came russia's annexation of crimea and the conflict with pro russian separatists in eastern ukraine now in its fifth year ukraine's president petro poroshenko stands accused by russia of pushing for orthodox church independence go to boost his chances of winning another term in elections next year in moscow the patriarchate sees itself as the mother church and it says independence for ukraine will be a catastrophe. it's an artificial establishment and every time politicians meddle in church affairs it leads to pain suffering and often bloodshed because religious conflicts supported by politicians are the most violent and tragic we

know that from history and from what is happening in the middle east. here in ukraine not all orthodox church members are in agreement with what's happening. it doesn't matter whether it's a russian or ukrainian church it's hard to see how believe a stat conflicts such as this one either her or the church should report to. them as a state ukraine needs faith as a pillar to hold on to said that we understand who we can be in the future. what of the future ukraine's president is declaring a victory while russia warns of religious conflicts and ruth simmons. an egyptian military court has sentenced seventeen people to death for involvement in attacks on coptic christian churches last year twin bombings in alexandria and tant in april twenty seventeen left at least forty five people dead and more than one hundred thirty seriously injured eisel claimed responsibility amnesty

international says those who organized the attack should be held accountable but criticized the imposition of the death sentence and said the use of military courts is unfair police in tanzania have made arrests in connection with the abduction of one of the nation's richest men forty three year old mom a doozy as a net worth of around one of the half a billion dollars making him africa's youngest billionaire he's the head of a multinational conglomerate juji was snatched by gunmen as he entered a hotel gym in dar es salaam police believe the suspects are foreigners. the world health organization is warning the boat outbreak in the democratic republic of congo could last several months and spread to uganda and rwanda there are now one hundred ninety four cases and a hundred twenty two deaths from the outbreak two thirds of cases have been in and around the city of beni in north khyber province that's where the burner response was disrupted last month by a series of attacks by armed groups. i think now we have around. forty

people that have been really wants to follow up they've not been failed for days on end not just from one day and they pick up the next to them overwhelming majority of those forty plus people carrying a baby more than ninety percent so so again and again the epidemiological roads lead back to penny at the moment that is our single biggest risk it's the conflation of the security in your logical risks together and that's where we know we have to prioritize and that gives us a very clear mandate you know we know where to focus now but there is one of germany's richest states and also one of its most socially conservative it's been governed by anglo-american sister party the christian social union for much of the last sixty years but on sunday voters will elect a new parliament one of the main issues has been immigration donna came reports from there where the subject has polarized opinion on an early autumnal day looks like a scene from a postcard in this placid place the thought of an intense election battle seems

distant and yet these are the voters all parties must convince which subjects are most important to them it's not like it was two years ago or it's calmed down a lot when the big refugee wave happened it was a bit weird but now the topic as i see it is no longer current scenes being critical of closing borders i don't think it works i think the trolls yes but closing borders is nonsense i don't need to talk about europe and then closed borders and that's the issue which propelled the politics of this state into national into european prominence over the course of this past year with the governing christian social union here threatening to topple the national coalition if it didn't get its way and yet right now in this campaign it finds itself on the defensive over this issue. in news conferences c.s.u. ministers admit the effect immigration has had you have not really we have had many

irritations in the past few years the higher number of refugees that came into our country the question of integration and the big controversy about that berlin but the most important factors we are concentrating on a strong campaign by and in recent months the c.s.u. has sought to move further to the right to prevent the populist anti immigrant a.f.d. from encroaching on to its grand but analysts say ministers in berlin have resisted c.s.u. plans for the sea as you could always promise and proposed but in fact they couldn't bring home anything they promised they over promised and unload illiterate this is why conservatives now turn their back on them and flock to the aft is that which explains why that party is heading to sunday's election with confidence i think it's important for the country to get the fifty into the year in parliament. to make also one of the states

that. support opposition against merkel. and yet in this deeply conservative state there are signs not everyone likes the right wood trend in politics many here in. they want their politicians to concentrate on schools health and mainstream issues the local green candidate says he thinks his party could spring a surprise in this election we'll know if he's right on sunday evening dominic cain al-jazeera in bavaria. a judge in the united states has dismissed one of the six sexual assault charges against the movie producer harvey weinstein he appeared in a new york court for the decision year and a day off the nischelle accusations of first publicized he was arrested in may but granted bail weinstein has pleaded not guilty on all counts and denies the allegations made by more than seventy women. holding the illegal trade in wildlife

and protecting some of the world's best known species is the main aim of a summit in london it's estimated that the global wildlife trafficking market is worth up to twenty three billion dollars a year is the fourth most lucrative trans national crime after drugs weapons and human trafficking illegal poaching has forced a number of exotic species to the brink of extinction has more from london. across the globe there's a war raging slaughtering of wildlife like never before the enemy criminal syndicate seaworthy killings that will this an all too familiar scene across africa elephants killed tusks hacked off and spirited away to be turned into trinkets in pseudo medicine for the asian market. thousands of miles away from the killing fields in london such atrocities of focusing minds one thousand delegates from

eighty two nations determined to step up the battle. there. is three ways we could talk that we've got the video quality 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 stops perhaps the p.d. 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 roya 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 is 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. now one hundred fifty passengers are in the air right now on the world's longest nonstop flight from singapore to new york in one thousand now a singapore airlines service took off on thursday a carrier through the route nonstop the tenure.