covering the story. we don't have we don't have anything concrete about the decision. that we are hearing that he might be released we are hearing that he will be kept inside also we are hearing that maybe as as a first step his travel ban will be lifted and there will be another trial scheduled for for the end of this year but of course it will depend on what we're going to hear as a court decision but if the israelis of course this is going to have a positive impact on the turkish economy because the relations have been strained over this case and the u.s. administration has imposed some tariffs on some turkish products and turkey impose some counter tariffs counter sanctions and this tension is supposed to end according to some economists because this also puts pressure on the turkish lira which has been on the slide as since the beginning of the year which has lost forty percent of its value at least six people have died one of the strongest earthquakes

ever to hit the united states a day after michael made landfall many coastal towns in florida are still cut off the state's governor rick scott says the storm is up to trail and imaginable destruction and agalloch are reports. this is what remains of mexico beach a community that officials say has been wiped out of hurricane michael came ashore with devastating consequences. most heeded the warnings to leave the search for those that ignored the evacuation orders is growing increasingly desperate when the storm hit it brought winds of two hundred fifty kilometers an hour making it one of the most powerful hurricanes to make landfall in the u.s. it's like our lives are gone you know our lives everything we have is gone now the stuff we got all our cars everything the stuff the stars. here where can. they start a story of just hard to realize just what just happened to step it surviving it is the best the most important thing i think if you just be able to survive in it

going. animosity to the picture is grim the cleanup here will be time consuming and costly but search and rescue efforts are a priority the national guard are on the ground along with search and rescue crews but challenges remain one of the things that's compounding the problems here are situations like this where you've got downed trees and they are everywhere all across the florida panhandle and that is especially important for one reason that means the emergency services search and rescue can still not get to the areas where they're most needed as the powerful storm headed in land it brought misery to georgia and the carolinas but it's what happened here along the florida panhandle that will leave the longest lasting impact on a gallacher al-jazeera eastpointe florida still ahead on al-jazeera i know why many visually impaired people in kenya are forced to seek treatment from traditional healers plus. 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. hello i'm pleased to forecast it's not going to rain very much in japan there has been cloud across the frontal system is disappearing east whose which means your own side of it or to be cooler or to be sunny sunny probably both of the two degree is largely a bright not blue sky in tokyo but down to nineteen degrees not twenty nine similarly in sapporo the sun's little bit cooler and this regime of weather is all the way back towards beijing and in fact the cold plunge us with that we had a week or so ago has gone is another one developing but it's not particularly cold it snows a long way north and we're still talking about fine weather yeah going to put

a shower to refresh and into eastern honshu including tokyo by the time we get to sunday and you can link that rain band off japan through the middle of china's bit ragged admittedly but we've got cloud and some rain in the middle of china and it's developing and drifting slowly south next the tension slowly coming down shanghai twenty one hong kong twenty eight not particularly humid and of course not a place particularly wet shasta south these are concentrating through borneo and westward towards singapore and chaos including sumatra so the rain is moving slowly south it's still concentrating in a similar place. brother leader or brutal dictator. with discontent spreading through north africa time was running out for libya's self-styled king of kings. in the first of a two part series the big picture charts the rise and fall of more money. and the

events that helped fuel the violence of his final hours. from lust for libya on al-jazeera. let's recap the top stories turkey's state run news agency says a saudi delegation has arrived in ankara to investigate the disappearance of journalists. and just in the last few minutes france has become the latest country to add its voice to those calling for more information on this fate paris says any investigation must be both transparent and thorough. and detained american pastor

at the center of a diplomatic dispute between the u.s. and turkey is back in court for hearing enter brunson is accused of being linked to groups involved in the failed turkish back in two thousand and sixteen at least six people have died after a major hurricane hit the east coast of the united states a day after hurricane michel made landfall many coastal towns in florida are still cut off the state's governor rick scott says the storm has left a trail of and imaginable destruction. and withstand are nationalists warning against an offensive against the last rebel held city in syria human rights organization says there will be widespread civilian casualties if the syrian government goes ahead with it and history is urging a syrian ally russia to stop the above offensive seventy two hours is the deadline that has been given before the offensive begins that's by that time in theory the buffer zone should be ready and people can move into safety this is complete illusion first of all we have not seen people moving into the buffer zone in any

significant numbers so far and second of all this buffer zone is by far not adequate to protect all of the civilians thousands of them who are currently in the government. the worst part is that we know exactly what's going to happen once the offensive begin we don't need to speculate we saw it in aleppo we saw it in other opposition controlled areas we know that there will be massive civilian casualties that there will be destruction that there will be disappearances arrests and mass displacement some news just coming into us here at al-jazeera pope francis has accepted the resignation of the archbishop of washington d.c. it is the latest development in the church's efforts to deal with decades of clerical abuse of children cardinal donald wuerl has been accused of knowing about the actions of abusers during his time as the ship pittsburgh thirty two priests

who worked under world during that time were accused of sexual abuse and a recent grand jury report though he's resigning as archbishop of the u.s. capitol worl will remain a cardinal at least half a million people in kenya are blind or visually impaired but treatment is expensive so many kenyans turn to traditional healers as catherine soy reports of home a bay. eunice one boy has been waiting for this cornea transplant for the last five years she was going blind cornea the transparent out of most part of the eye has over the years been badly damaged the doctors can only operate on one eye and put her on another waiting list because the shot of the needed is for the other eye she has a condition known as cara to conus a leading cause of blindness in kenya. to girl from a studies. half a million kenyans are partially or totally blind twenty percent of them because of

cornell problems these hospitals i beg gets fewer than two hundred corneas a year local culture makes organ donations difficult here majority of the cornea we've been getting is for us. between five hundred to one thousand dollars. very very good. because. that means people like to in a village in western kenya can hardly afford the thousands of dollars needed for the procedure she to surface from your condition she's been seeing a traditional. cough for three months now this confident that a concoction of how absurd plied once a week will help the patient get her sight back. she's had this problem for five years she's visited the hospital but the problem will go away my harms will clear the loneliness and how i. she swears by the leaves shoots and traps she's

been using for decades after inheriting the healing practice from her mother and grandmother of course says she gets her. plants in her neighborhood after they are revealed too hot in dreams she also tells us that what she's boiling now treats most immense and this is specifically for the eyes. to dish no he does are recognized in the country's health care system they're important mostly in drought areas suffering communities with few hospitals all people who cannot afford medical care we do get. the eye clinic. tended to buy. the less so they come when their eyes that i'm out in the late stages. less than ten dollars for the treatment she gets but without the cornea transplant says is clear catherine saw. western kenya

at least thirty people have been killed in a landslide in eastern new gonda near the border with kenya a river burst its banks on thursday sending mud and debris down a hillside in the district. many of those killed rather market in that market was buried the government has sent rescue teams to that area landslides killed more than one hundred people in two thousand and ten in two thousand and twelve government efforts to move people to neighboring areas have faced resistance. from the capital kampala. the landslide happened after many hours of heavy rain and the area where it happened is in the foothills of mountain elgon near the border with kenya and communities there live on very steep slopes people survive by simply growing their own food in a steadily growing population as the many has increased the demand for farmland so people have to cut down trees and remove vegetation so they've got space to grow their crops and it's the roots of those trees and vegetation that hold these

fragile slopes together you can the has two very nice seasons a year it's very common during those rainy seasons for landslides to happen in these very hilly areas and occasionally they wipe out whole communities as a time killing dozens and dozens of people for a health organization is warning that the ebola 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 one hundred twenty two deaths from this outbreak two thirds of cases have been in and around the city of beni and north kivu province that is where the able 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 they've not been filled for days all day and not just one day they pick up the next to the overwhelming majority of those forty plus people maybe voted by two percent so so again and again the.

roads lead back to betty at the single biggest risk it's the conflation of the security and the road to risks together and that's where we know we have to prioritize and that gives us a very clear mandate we know where to focus the search for bodies after indonesia's earthquake and tsunami is due to end in the coming hours after recovery efforts were extended our day prayers were held in the city of pollute two weeks after the disaster indonesia says it could take up to two years to rebuild the island or than two thousand people have been confirmed dead there and secretary general has praised the indonesian government for its quick response to the disaster and visited the island of sala wesley were thousands are for buried under the rubble. i must say that i have a lot of admiration for what has been an extremely effective response of the indonesian parliament of course when we see is the ever station we are broken i mean there are still probably one thousand bodies movies rubble in front of us but

the resilience of the indonesian people and the group quick response and effective response of the indonesian government deserve the admiration of the international community and i hope they'll be a lot of support for the reconstruction for these people to be able to see again life we hope the un is already working with an asian governments with asean we are embedded in the effort that is being done on the ground we have launched already an appeal we are working fully with the initial government but one single must be clear it's important that the leadership must be the leadership it's in the region government that can lead these efforts the international community should be here to support not to complicate seems sometimes too many people try to get involved in sings and then of course the support of the populations is not as effective as it should be indonesian government is doing a very good job and we are seeing to support them in line with their own strategy his military is counting its that's expensive war planes following

a crash last month it's delayed engine problems cause an f. thirty five fighter jet to malfunction during a training flight and south carolina engine checks on the plane are underway worldwide. south africa's foreign minister during the apartheid era pick both a has died at the age of eighty six it was a staunch defender of racial segregation but later conceded later conceded rather that change was inevitable and two thousand both announced that he would join the a.n.c. the party of his former enemies the service minister of mineral and energy affairs under nelson mandela and south africa's first post apartheid government. ukrainian president petro poroshenko has welcomed a decision that gives his country's christian orthodox church full independence from russia but this move past provoked backlash in moscow the kremlin expressed concern friday and said it will quote defend russians and russian speakers and your assessment has more from here 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 to dependence and a break from being on struble to the orthodox patriarch in moscow we as a true which we try to be independent for more school not because we don't like russia or so or samson else but we see how the russian empire through some interest use also books 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 sort 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 young a covert ch 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 kid sastre fi at the school. 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 over who the church should report to. as a state ukraine needs faith as a pillar to hold on to so 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 drew simmons here. or shall carry here with the headlines on al-jazeera turkey's state run news agency says a saudi delegation has arrived to investigate the disappearance of journalists from

all. france has become the latest country to add its voice to those calling for more information on fate paris says any investigation must be transparent and thorough there are media reports that turkey has proof that he was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul. to me dedicated his show on the arab satellite channel a harar to his missing friend he was supposed to be a guest on the show instead it featured a photograph. i was horrified because he assured me. when we were in london that there was nothing to be concerned about. he said on friday he had been to the consulate there to see them very well although they were initially surprised to see him. promise them if he came back again a few days later they would issue him with the papers he was off of so he felt.

it was ok but apparently they prepared a trap for him and detained american pastor at the center of a diplomatic dispute between the u.s. and turkey is back in court for a hearing and for bronson is accused of being linked to groups involved in the failed turkish coup in two thousand and sixteen some charges have been dropped but he is now accused of espionage at least six people have died after a major hurricane hit the east coast of the united states a day after hurricane michel made landfall many coastal towns in florida are still cut off and the state's governor rick scott says a storm is left a trail of unimaginable destruction pope francis has accepted the resignation of the archbishop of washington d.c. it's the latest development in the church's efforts to deal with decades of clerical sexual abuse of children cardinal donald wuerl has been accused of knowing about the actions of abusers during his time as bishop of pittsburgh thirty two priests who worked under world during that time were accused of abuse and

a recent grand jury report though he is resigning as the archbishop of the u.s. capitol he will still remain a cardinal those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come inside story is up next. an unexpected crisis that's putting a strain on relations between key allies what will the u.s. to be on an investigation its announced the missing saudi journalist among the show and how will we fend off the widespread outrage over the allegations that the saudi critic was killed on its own this is a story. welcome

to the program on iran come on u.s. senators have forced the government into joining the investigation into the disappearance of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul nine days ago turkish security sources say he was murdered there by a saudi hit squad the saudis deny that as well as a washington post report which says the saudi crown prince ordered an operation to law the critic back home will get all guests very soon but first particle hand reports from washington. well you know i know nothing right and i know what everybody else knows nothing in just twenty four hours u.s. president donald trump went from no one knows what happened to jamal khashoggi to we need to find out we demand everything we want to see what's going on here it's a bad situation it's

a very serious situation for us for this way we do see. what is going on now will be the subject of an official investigation after twenty two senators sent this letter to the white house invoking the magnitsky act it gives the administration four months to determine if the show g.'s human rights were violated and if so by law they will have to place sanctions potentially on people high up in the saudi government the outcry is bipartisan and growing and that this man was murdered in saudi consulate in istanbul that would cross every line of the melody in the international community. if it did happen it would be held if saudi arabia took a us resident. into the consulate and killed him it's time for the united states to rethink our military political and economic relationship with saudi arabia the president has been eager to forge a relationship with the leadership of saudi arabia heralded tens of billions of

dollars in defense deals but with reports that many of those have not come through the president will be under increasing pressure to target saudi arabia he's not alone just about six months ago the crown prince mohammed bin solomon toured america meeting the most powerful people in the country all now being urged on social media to condemn him. and for the president it is about to get personal after fiance wrote this opinion piece in the washington post urging action the president said he'll meet her at the white house soon this was a day that saw the president speak out small public protests in washington d.c. in new york that drew a lot of media attention and angry senators demanding action all signs that for saudi arabia this is not going to go away any time soon. al-jazeera washington.

let's bring in our guest joining us from washington is sana chaps he's the director of the turkish research program with the washington institute for near east policy here with me in the studio is abraham he's an associate professor of conflict resolution at the doha institute and finally in washington d.c. is that he's the director of the gulf affairs institute and a former political prisoner of saudi arabia welcome to you all i'd like to start with let's get into this senate investigation that's been announced what is that and does it have any clout. well i think where it is heading is that in turkey the government that is the security forces are slowly but steadily real releasing information to build a case that. game may indeed had been murdered and i think the turkish president that's aired on his state out of this so far because in my view he's still trying to avoid a direct confrontation with saudi arabia he's also trying to line u.s.

position with the turkish position i think of course reports in the international media suggesting and using turkish evidence to build a case that khachigian may have been murdered there is closely aligning washington increasingly more with turkish position turkey is isolated in the middle east with the exception of qatar it has no friends it doesn't want to go into a long and drawn out conflict with saudi arabia without having u.s. backing first but let me just say if there is this much anger over what's happened particularly in america through the media and within some parts of the u.s. government how does it get how do you they get out of this i mean is this a fun roll call for the crown prince does he have to step aside that's hard to say but i think that it's also not clear that turkish president on and u.s. president trump are completely getting along right now you know that they're involved in a dispute over the arrest of a u.s. pastor in turkey pastor brunson in fact his court cases coming up tomorrow and

whether or not the courts release him and allow them to travel of course will have a significant impact on how u.s. president trump fused turkish president on the two cases are completely unrelated but as it happens i think that these two issues are not intertwined so i think tomorrow you might see a more clear signal from the white house if turkish courts make a decision that president trump feels favorable let me just bring in abraham fried hit the regional implications of all of this you have two very big plays in the middle east of saudi arabia you have turkey what does to do next if it is confirmed that he was murdered in the consulate what options does it have. well i agree with your a guest from washington actually the president of the gun does not have many options here it's no easy options for him here and he has obviously had to to do something to take a decision regarding this especially that if this is proved to be the case that. in fact kidnapped the. consulate so there's no way that you know for him in

terms of credibility and positioning and the word that to just take no action whatsoever at the same time there are the choices are with with fighting or struggling with saudi arabia not in his favor because with all the other issues that he has on his plate it would syria. russia the united states all of that so i think at the end of the day he would have to do something because if he doesn't then it was it's about national pride it's about dignity it's about sovereignty over his country so i think what he would have to do this stage is that to ensure that he has an international backing and i think that's why we're seeing that that is him not they can get actions let me bring in our head let's just talk quickly about the case itself intelligence sources in washington have told the washington

post that they have evidence of a plot. being created to capture jamal khashoggi what is n.b.s. thinking is he acts so close to the trumpet ministration that he thinks he can get away with almost anything. that is in part true and not only in b.s. but other member leaders saudi leaders for many years the u.s. has basically whitewashed saudi leaders called the reformers and no matter how horrendous they do it in the case of yemen for example just you know a couple weeks ago the state department defended saudi targeting of children and that bus that forty children were killed so that's true but here we might see a diversion a little bit b.s. i think is going his own wings and maybe want to be independent and you can see what mr trump's been saying the past few days basically publicly shaming king solomon and asking for money that if you don't pay you can and you will not survive

two weeks and so on so this is i think an indication of a silent confrontation and the murder of a. gave the trumpet of the station and the washington elites to increase the pressure so this could be also related to something else that we haven't we don't know yet about could be about the deal with the with israel the so-called the deal of the century because m.b.'s has not delivered and many of his. main promises of. he's talked about so this this could be the real reason in terms of turkey the saudis are threatening. again think that they will sever relations with the turks issued a statement through his ago that the total rumors of saudi arabia severing relations with turkey are not true but this is very. suspicious because nobody was saying that and so they was they were trying to send

a message and the way the operation has been conducted their planes the two planes flew from istanbul with. the carried the kill team one flew to egypt and we flew to the u.a.e. because turkey. is housing dissidents from the u.a.e. muslim brotherhood dissidents. saudi dissident islamists mostly so maybe you have here. and alliance between turkey between saudi arabia egypt and against turkey and maybe three of them with several ations i expect that and fact because on today's bring in your senator i want this you just mentioned earlier about the you know trade between the u.s. and saudi arabia is worth billions of dollars fifty five billion dollars. alone in two thousand and eighteen you know how do you reset that relationship off to something like this does the money talk louder than politics. it does but this

could be a major public diplomacy debacle for the saudis as turkey slowly releases evidence showing that indeed there may have been a plot to assassinate or kill. and i think that turkey really maybe does not also want to go into a full confrontation with the saudis or no one is aware of his limitations he's also deferential to the saudi kings he respects them as the protector of islam's holiest mosques in the past for example when saudi king says that encore of the turkish capital early on in violation of diplomatic protocol went to visit them in their hotel room this never happens in ankara visiting heads of state go to anyone's residence or palace to visit him and he did the opposite so he shows respect to them and i think he really does not want to rupture in my view one of the reasons why he has been completely absent and not blame the saudi royal family but let his unnamed security officials do the job is because not only he tries to avoid a confrontation with the saudis but also because they're trying to give him

a graceful exit out he was hoping that the royal family would issue a declaration and saying something like that the rogue elements of the saudi state did this and they have nothing to do with it but in the absence of such statements i think he is now being forced to release more and more evidence and that will only build a case in the us starting with the u.s. congress there are these some talk of legislation for sanctions related to the. suggested murders. and this could also of course push the administration to take stronger measures so i think we are not at an universal moment i think turkey is still hoping that the saudis will take the graceful exit out but if not to we could soon enter into a territory where we could see a rupture in turkish saudi relations and that we did first time or the most severe crisis in my in recent memory as far as i can recall in turkey saudi ties let me bring in britain here a graceful exit. you just said

a graceful exit we've not seen the saudis handle this very well the statements that they've issued have been on.