bring some answers alan fischer al-jazeera washington. let's head back to the saudi consulate in istanbul jamal israel standing by for us and what further information do you have. well maria you know we've been talking about these recordings that apparently the different intelligence communities potentially the u.s. have been privy to and that the turks have shared it with them and the question was how did the turks get these recording there was rumors about them tapping the consulate or having some sort of informants inside and it appears and this was a story that had come a couple of days ago but was never really looked into that. was wearing a smartwatch as he entered an apple watch and he had actually preprogrammed it to record before he entered he had sync with his phone which he had left with. his fiance outside so apparently although he didn't know the true face of what's waited or awaited him on the other side of the door behind me he was still

a stooge enough to realize that he needed to take some precautions that's what's recorded voice notes the old your of what's happened all of what's happened and it has painted what many of the scribed is a very gruesome and shocking picture of the reality of what took place in that that's as far as its workers or thirty's are concerned is a big part of the evidence that goes beyond doubt as to what befell. when he entered so it would seem that even though he wasn't aware as i say of what was going to take place he did have enough concern that he decided to or maybe it was his journalistic instinct that he decided to record on his watch and sink it through his phone prior to entering in order to. protect himself and that maybe were not for that we would never have known what happened to jamal khashoggi all right so for now thank you very much from istanbul the overnight. let's get more

now on the business boycotts of the saudi conference we're joined from new york by and johnson who is the u.s. business editor for the financial times thank you very much for speaking to us how has the disappearance of jamal khashoggi impacted the political risk out collations for investors and businesses looking to build ties with saudi arabia. i think we've seen a very profound and unusual reaction from the u.s. business community as your correspondent identified a number of very prominent executives have pulled away either from this big investment conference that stupid take place in riyadh later this month or from the advisory boards of various projects that are part of the crown prince's initiative to bring more foreign capital into the country but i think the big narrative here is that under mao and been solomon there has been a new story about saudi arabia has been very successful at persuading a lot of business figures in the west that there is

a reform narrative that saudi is changing but it's not all about oil that there are opportunities there that some of the reputational concerns they had about said saudi arabia they could put to one side as they chase stuff that is already on fairly shaky foundations in the last year since the clampdown on corruption that led to the arrest of a number of very high profile saudis in the same hotel where this conference takes place. we've actually seen foreign investment in saudi arabia fall by eighty percent to a really quite trivial single digit sum of billions of dollars so there is a huge mountain to climb for saudi arabia to attract meaningful amounts of foreign investment and this is the last thing that they needed and of course this because shoji case comes at a critical time for foreign investment as you say just when the country is trying to show that its liberalizing diversifying and modernizing its economy how might this impact foreign investment in the future. well i think you have to remember two

key things we have a number of businesses which are genuinely concerned about association with with saudi arabia right now it's very interesting as you said to distance itself in that way don't forget that technology companies media companies they feel very powerfully pushed by the opinion of their employees of their customers it is very very difficult for them to associate themselves with the story was horrendous as the jamal khashoggi story might be we also have an off almost lot of banks of large financial institutions who still see opportunity in saudi arabia the wealth of the kingdom has not changed in the course of this this worrying story and the two big opportunities that attract western business still to riyadh are first of all the prospect of a saudi aramco i.p.o. which would break all sorts of records might carry with it extraordinary fees for the banks and other advisors who get to advise on that process even if it's been delayed for now that's still a big prize the second thing is the vision fund this partnership between the saudi

sovereign wealth fund the p a r p i f and i say all she songs softbank empire which has become a huge force in investing in tech unocal and in the us of this world in the future it was there is still a great hunger for that capital in the west i think that is what's going to lead a number of people still to show up and even in two weeks time and to keep doing business with the kingdom after that thank you for your perspective u.s. business editor for the financial times andrea educate johnson joining us after new york. thank you. much more to bring you on this news hour from london by jerry's government warns of severe food shortages and made worsening floods. spain may be marking its national day but impossible you know it's the catlin independent supporters who are taking over the streets. and in school roger federer is on track to defend his title at the shanghai masters peter will have those details and i.

i. an evangelical pastor at the center of a diplomatic route between the u.s. and turkey is finally heading home andrew bronson was sentenced to three is in prison on terrorism charges but was released for time served in a land in the u.s. all saturday and is due to visit the white house the say day seven costello has been following events from outside the courthouse in turkey. where america evangelical pastor andrew bronson who has been under house arrest in turkey for two years is finally free his attention like to pressure from the united states government and a doubling of cherif some turkish boots bronson was among thousands of people arrested in two thousand and sixteen after defendants who attempted to overthrow turkey's president rejected accuses businessmen affects

a lot of orchestrating to attempt to overthrow and is demanding his extradition from the united states donald trump has said no and when our don refused to release the pastor trump in retaliation doubled turkish import tariffs fifty year old bronson led a small congregation in the city of izmir and has called church home for more than twenty years prosecutors said bronson uses religious work as cover for being a guest spot i have as accused of trying to convert kurds to christianity to divide the country all the charges. included guilt of association with the alp old kurdistan workers party or and the golan movement there in document which came eighteen months after his the tension was based on secret witness claims. that a little metallic rather than the evidence collected in testimonies given in the past became void after the new witness statements also in jordan think tanks

contributed a lot during the course of the trial as a lawyer i must say it is the right decision the courts ruling is seen by some as justice that has finally been done but two years too late and the pastor bronson should have never been in jail but his release is welcomed by both turkey and the u.s. and that could go some way towards mending the toys between the two. al-jazeera is made. to eastern uganda now rescue teams are searching for survivors from a landslide that's killed at least forty one people in the but today region close to the border with kenya a river burst its banks on thursday sending mud and debris down the hillside web has traveled to the same. pain and finding the body of a loved one who in the mud. dozens of parties have been found many more are missing . the whole community been left in shock when two villages were devastated you know

tried to do the district in eastern ukraine and the you. know the brain was too much and we took shelter then my friend decided to go rescue his motorcycle he saw the house being covered away by the mud slide past when he came back and we left quickly but whoever remained behind was swept away school children those who were drinking market vendors they were all swept away by the rain the river so many birth its banks following hours of heavy rain that triggered the landslide which swept away and on no number of houses. rescues of the survivors mostly the bodies of the dead we have to do is to be up to date on both of those one of these was a bit of million i was just west of so we asked you to do i says and knew exactly how they knew where the i was is receptive and they knew from what activists who should be it would be because to me i mean it would be huge and. people living here

in the foothills of mount tell go and grow their own food to survive the steadily growing population means trees in vegetation a cut to make space for farming that makes the steep slopes we can and it's not the first time they've clamped in twenty ten one hundred people were killed in the same area and in landslides buried three villages. landslides happen most every. government programs to resettle people haven't worked it's to this hospital that the bodies that have been recovered are being brought them families come here identify them and take them away for burial for this very hospital been used for exactly the same purpose several times before and people are wondering why it keeps happening again and again that the people that live in the treacherous slopes around here they don't have anywhere else to guy malcolm webb al-jazeera uganda

five people have died in the latest outbreak of the virus in the democratic republic of congo bringing the death toll to ninety five one hundred seventy cases are now confirmed in total including a plumber working for the united nations mission is being treated in the northeastern city of beni where most of the recent cases have been reported. in other news nigeria's agriculture minister is warning there could soon be a shortage of rice a staple food in africa's most populous nation devastating floods of a large part of the country destroying crops just as farmers were getting ready for their harvest and interest visited some of the affected areas in the northern farming region of jiggle a state for three long weeks floodwaters have covered large parts of gigo estate in the north of nigeria farmlands and damaged roads have become temporary fishing grounds. with their crops rotting under water some farmers salvage what they can

more than one hundred thousand of them have seen this year's harvest wiped out from . two process in is that whole chain has broken down and as it is it is it is mostly lost of money to the economy and they do have a multiplier effect on the on the general economy of the state is the only loss for us only a few of the states rice farmers escaped the flood waters more than a thousand hectares of this rice some has been under water for more than three weeks now the owners say the crop is rotten and lost he like many other farmers would have to find a way of feeding their families before the next harvest that is if the floodwaters don't return sure i could borrow money to expand his farm here in the head age of rally in the hopes of more crops and bigger profits. music that it

started last year and made a lot of money this year a trickle in of two thousand five hundred dollars to increase output and lost everything. experts are blaming climate change for the floods and i warning of long term consequences it is weren't retired in the first place the dr for food security. and ultimately government may have to take very serious and my this is just to meet the immediate needs of the the victims that have been affected this is disaster came when nigeria's borders are still closed to rise imports a staple for most families. in one of the state's most affected of issues are helping to ease the pain of some farmers by giving out seat. we are now in the process of given them hybrid seeds mature and seeds so that they will use it

a siege or must at least two or to get something out of that land but that may not be enough to save the farmers from economic ruin across eighteen states in nigeria more than two hundred thousand hectares of crops have been destroyed in addition to lives crops and homes there's been a significant damage to infrastructure. forced right can use where highways existed these villagers not only escaped death when their wooden boat capsized a reminder though the flood has receded the threat to life remains amity agrees al-jazeera. now geria. amnesty international is warning against an offensive on the last rebel held city in syria a human rights organization says there will be widespread civilian casualties if the syrian government goes ahead with it the organization is urging syria's key ally russia to prevent any assault. 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 completely 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 begins 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 at least seven palestinians have been killed by israeli security forces during

a protest along the gaza israel border gaza's health ministry says that fifty others were injured when soldiers targeted protesters with tear gas and gunfire have been holding weekly protests calling for a right to return to their homes and land with their family which their families were expelled from seventy years ago or than one hundred eighty palestinians have been killed since the protests began in watch well now the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov is accusing the united states of backing a ukrainian split from the orthodox church calling it a provocation it comes less than twenty four hours after ukraine secured approval to establish an independent church the decision was made by the ecumenical patriarch in turkey the spiritual leader of three hundred million orthodox believers well wide it's the biggest split in christianity for more than five hundred years or a challenge has more from moscow. although the kremlin and the russian orthodox church are organizations with deep links officially the kremlin is keeping some

distance from this issue it says that it's monitoring the process closely but can't interfere in dialogue between churches in reality though this is all about politics and russia is concerned about the fraying spiritual bombs that have previously tied to ukrainians to the russian orthodox church and thus to moscow the kremlin is using language similar to that it used after the annexation of crimea perhaps as a warning to ukraine it's saying that just as russia will defend the interests of russians and russian speakers everywhere so it will defend the interests of orthodox christians now the moscow patriarchate says calls constantinople decision a gross violation of the norms of the church system that it cannot recognize as legitimate but will have to wait for monday to find out what steps it will take that's when there will be an announcement at

a holy synod meeting in minsk. national still ahead on this news hour from london flattened by the mother of all bombs we are of course on the devastating impact of hurricane michel along florida's panhandle communities. in the united states come up against an in-form colombia and an international football fan they each will have passed toit and more in sport. hello again to welcome back to our international weather forecasts were here across europe we have seen quite a bit of activity here across the mediterranean with all these clouds pushing through a lot of flooding has been seen we talk about majorca of course curse i dinny and also into parts of italy well good news is a lot of that rain has dissipated and we are going to be seeing some better weather conditions but what we are going to see is temperatures that are beginning to fall

especially out here towards the west where we saw paris on saturday twenty six degrees we are coming down to about twenty one degrees as we go towards sunday and more rain in the forecast for london as well well here across the northern part of africa and forth you're going to see some rain showers here across tunisia tunas twenty four degrees for you and rain down towards tripoli we do expect to see clouds and rain as well just really not looking too bad at twenty seven degrees but a lot of that rain still still only makes its way towards the east unfortunate tunas you're going to stay in the rain and over here towards her but we do expect to see a cloudy day for you at twenty two degrees and then very quickly across central parts of africa still plenty of showers here across the intertropical convergence zone we are going to see heavy rain anywhere from accra with attempt a few at twenty nine degrees really mostly in the afternoon there a lot of those it is going to be a cloudy day for you with a temperature of about twenty eight degrees as well.

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a quick look at the top stories now al-jazeera as exclusively learned from turkish authorities that missing journalist to market shoji recorded his final moments on a smart watch when he entered the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul the device is said to have been saying to his phone which he had apparently left on purpose. the u.s. military is flying home the evangelical pastor who was jailed in turkey on terrorism charges after a court freed him earlier on friday andrew bronson's detention led to a major diplomatic route between washington and ankara. and rescue teams in eastern

ukraine are searching for survivors from a landslide that's killed at least thirty four people in the but due to region close to the border with kenya a river burst its banks on thursday sending mud and debris down the hillside. when i was stories we're following the death toll from hurricane michael now stands at thirteen but is expected to rise the devastating storm made landfall in florida on wednesday is most of the powerful storm as well the most powerful storms in history the communities that were hardest hit along florida's panhandle a being described as changed forever gallagher reports from panama city in florida . residents of being hoisted to safety as a community comes to grips with the scale of the devastation left by hurricane michael i know that the city has been flattened by what it called the brother of.

reach two hundred fifty kilometers an hour at the height of the storm. so this is basically our neighbor's tree as you can see it was operated completely and fell over on a concrete fence stephanie called restate to help sell hurricane supplies but her home like many others has been badly damaged and she's now waiting for help but feels fortunate to have survived we have seen literally hundreds of people who have lost their home and they're just walking around with just what low belongings they have left so i'm feeling really thankful right now that we still have a standing structure and always a place to lay or head right now over a million people across six states without power but in panama city and nearby communities the damage is far worse it's hard to convey the sheer scale of the damage here in panama city but when you come to the poor neighborhoods the situation is simply heart rending it's the power lines down all over the place over here a felled tree and we've seen hundreds upon hundreds of those but if there is a silver lining here and there aren't too many this is

a desperate situation it is that volunteers are coming to the aid of homeowners like the one here behind me their house is completely wrecked one thing for certain the recovery here will take years. search and rescue efforts remain a priority across florida spam handle but for many it's hard to think about a future in a city destroyed by hurricane michael in about two three years i've been here two or years. would like growth but that would be open. to all over twenty years it's just devastation in the set is poured in when you look there is code added more yun seen his family and now leaving they don't know if they'll have to come back. to go across to zero panama city florida. where elsewhere in the u.s. thousands of migrant children are being taken to live in a tent city situated in a desert in texas many of the children being sent there are from central america

some of whom traveled alone up until now. they've been living in private iran foster homes and shelters all the children have already been moved often in the middle of the night or more on this let's speak diety joe castro in el paso texas and heidi you've just told one of these facilities tell us what you saw. that's why merriam so the health and human services department invited journalists to tour the facilities but barred us from bringing our camera so what you'll see now are images that the government itself distributed what i saw was this tent city that just rises from the texas desert it's near meters from the border and it's overshadowed by mexico's mountains inside were fifteen hundred kids all teenagers who have been calling this place home the average length of stay is about thirty days the majority of them are boys the girls are kept in a separate area on the same count pound and they do have access to doctors they

have educational sessions i wouldn't go as far as to call it school but they are taught some english some math while they're there and it's as good as you can expect i suppose from living in a camp in the desert these children are divided up between one hundred twenty tents inside those tents which we've got to look inside there are bunk beds were twenty children sleep in each tent they are air conditioned so it's not too hot not too cold they have their meals they have time for recreation and as i said services like doctors and lawyers etc i talked to a few of these individuals a few girls who said that they had undertaken a pretty harrowing journey on their own to escape violence and gangs in their home countries of hundred s. and guatemala and after arriving at the u.s. border they turned themselves into border patrol and were then taken to shelters around the country then when those shelters full they became the overflow and were

transferred here to the desert tent city in torneo texas and despite them saying that they're comfortable they did say though they're very worried about their current situation and they don't know when they'll have their freedom again the u.s. government is pointedly not calling this a detention center but it's notably surrounded by barbed wire fences the entrance and exits are manned by armed security guards and child welfare advocates say that simply whatever you call this place is not a place for children miriam thank you very much from el paso texas heidi cho castro . now spaniards of marks national day with rallies both in support of and against catalan independence thousands marched through the center of the catalan city bus alone or with riot police alongside them call panel has more now from barcelona. spanish national pride barcelona streets. for some

a simple celebration of being spanish for others another chance to voice opposition to efforts by the catalonia region to create a breakaway republic there. i'm here for the unity of spain we all have to be together down with the independence movement. hundreds of police are on duty because of that demonstration is on a collision course with opposing crowds now these are made up of mostly from independents activists and self described anti fascist i mean the two things are the same being anti fascist as being against authority and somebody who wants to vote for their independence is thora tarion to. the political crisis triggered by the catalan independence issues gripped spain for more than a year despite a successful referendum pro independence politicians the fail to agree on how to split from spain and create their own republic it's difficult to explain to the

people who supported us that required. to work in the political field but we did system that. but the spanish government insists there's nothing to negotiate and pro independence grassroots groups like these are growing impatient it delays and with their own leaders we've always said that about some of the parties that are growing dependence at the end they are stablish men and they've fan interest that are not our interest at the same time they are just like moment in your allies sometimes but that's it and when we have to go against them we will be against them in the event. interposing marches took a different route avoiding the chance of confrontation. beyond the issue of independence for catalonia or not detractors say october the twelfth is not a date would be of celebrating. it marks the arrival of christopher columbus to the americas more than five hundred years ago and the rise of the spanish empire. these

bolivian dances turned out in barcelona but they're not forgetting the brutality of the spanish invasion. i think you might think it was never thought up that we still have our own culture in spite of the fact that the spanish invaded us and robbed us we have developed and still maintain our culture. perhaps that's a lesson catalan leaders will have to learn put up with spain for now and hope history is on their side call pen or al-jazeera barcelona. a funeral service has been held for the bulgarian journalist victoria marin over six days after her murder a body was found last saturday she'd been raped and killed in the northern bulgarian town of ruse on her last television show she interviewed two journalists investigating suspected corruption involving both gary and businessman politicians and funds man has been arrested in germany connection with her murder

now the search for bodies after indonesia's of quake and tsunami is due to end on friday after recovery efforts were extended at least two thousand people are confirmed dead but it's thought another five thousand people a missing the un secretary general antonio terrace is in indonesia and has been visiting some of the worst affected areas scott has more on the story and sent us this report from the island of bali. it was one extra day search teams were given another twenty four hours to continue looking for bodies after the earthquake and tsunami on the island two weeks ago before the search officially ended on friday thousands of people are still missing buried in mounds of mud and rubble or swept out to sea. u.n. secretary general antonio good ted has visited some of the communities flattened by the earthquake or stripped bare by the massive wave that followed it it seemed portends that the leadership must be the local leadership it's indonesian government that can lead these efforts.