we would have known that was our first hope was that he was not killed but maybe that's. not. looking too good for. us president donald trump says it's now looking like. has been killed. also coming up an american pasta freed from jail in turkey gives the u.s. president his blessing but what a mess. continues for the missing after a landslide and there were at least thinks he one people have died.

drought is keeping fields like this one the cows having to be trucked in from a thousand kilometers away a huge expense. for the cost. here as president donald trump has warned saudi arabia of severe punishment if it's found to be responsible for the disappearance of jamal khashoggi saudi janice was last seen entering his country's comes that in istanbul on the second of october the saudis denied plotting to kill and say he left the consulate john hendren reports from washington d.c. . president donald trump is delivering his most serious threat yet to saudi arabia we're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment the

president's strengthened stance follows turkish intelligence reports that washington post journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered by a saudi arabian hit squad inside the saudi consulate in istanbul leaks to pro-government turkish media suggest the killing was recorded on his apple watch but technology experts have cast doubt that the devices bluetooth technology was capable of recording to a phone his fiancee held outside the consulate i wouldn't say unbelievable there's a few technical challenges a few potential issues with this narrative it's not immediately consistent with the story and what we know of the details so questions remain about just how the turkish authorities obtained the evidence they say they have to prove to show jean was murdered when it comes to getting tough on saudi arabia president trump is talking the talk but it's not quite clear what he'll do to follow up he's already all but ruled out what is perhaps his most effective weapon arms sales to saudi arabia. troops first trip outside the united states was to see king solomon in

saudi arabia where they agreed to weapons contracts well there are many other things we could do but when we take away one hundred ten billion dollars of purchases from our country that hurts our workers that hurts our fact that it hurts all of our companies here you're talking about five hundred thousand jobs so we do that we're really hurting our country a lot for there were hurting saudi arabia but members of trump's own republican party have joined democratic politicians in calling for stronger action well he's under a lot of pressure now from the congress to actually impose sanctions on saudi government officials who might have been implicated in this problem in an opinion piece in the new york times to show g.'s fiance were. wrote jamal spoke up against oppression but he paid for the saudi people's demand for freedom with his own life if he is dead and i hope that is not the case thousands of jamal's will be born today on his

birthday his voice and his ideas will reverberate from turkey to saudi arabia and across the world oppression never lasts forever tyrants eventually pay for their sins in istanbul in riyadh and in washington what happens next likely depends on what the investigations find and whether turkey releases the evidence it says it has john hendren al-jazeera washington. joins us now from outside saudi consulate in istanbul and charles the sat is we're into been since thursday and yet we've not heard anything from this joint task force that was supposed to have been set up what's going on. that's right and it's day thirteen now since jamaal official g dissipate and yeah these negotiations we understand between saudi officials continue increasing frustration from that

it seems that the foreign minister yesterday in london expressing that frustration insisting that the saudis allow this joint team to investigate inside the consulate building also inside the consul's house and we understand also they're very interested in these vehicles that allegations have been made would used. on the day he disappeared vehicles that are registered to the consulates. meanwhile as we've been saying that the turkish government seems to be slowly every day drip feeding more information to government newspapers to the government press here very difficult to if you like independently verify a lot of these allegations that being put into the media will speak to some government officials who will confirm and others will want to stay away so as you can imagine it's very frustrating full that's who want. and there are some saying

that the longer this goes all in the week it makes the government look but as you'll hear in this soundbite some analysts of pointing to the very tricky situation that is found itself in here because of turkey's reliance on a lot of money from the gulf states from the arab gulf states including saudi arabia. is there a link there. on the them saudi arabia must cooperate and allow access for our chief prosecutor is our face and experts to enter to saudi cancel it where did it is appear there in the consulate there for that the sake of disinvest occasion in order to bring everything out in the open they must allow access today comes of it we haven't seen any collaboration yet we want to see that our team must be allowed to enter the consulate saudi arabia needs to cooperate with us on this matter and tells us

a little bit more about what to say has rested in the new york times because it really was very moving. that's right a very moving all paid by official g.'s field say jane gates she talks about how she she describes as being a patriot is being somebody that loved his country somebody that was was dreamed of a day where she says in this self-hate he could walk the streets of riyadh and talk freely about politics she describes how he told her that he literally packed two suitcases when he fled during that crackdown that was being pushed by the crown prince mohammed built in salma a year and a half ago she also talks about his is great sensitivity and the plans that they had together off to fall in love in the she says that on the day that he

disappeared they had their appointment here at the consulate at one o'clock and they planned to go out and meet friends off the woods and go and buy household products for the for the home that they were buying. i think what really hits home though certainly is the sense you get from this all paid that he was very keen on basically speaking the truth and basically standing up for full freedom of speech for a free media not only in saudi arabia but right the way across the region and as i say old evidence suggests that he has been very much silenced days at the moment and may thanks for joining us there from istanbul that's mamani as from the university of washington calendars she says takis economic crisis may limit its ability to investigate and avail what happened at the saudi consulates. there is no body and without body without some sort of physical evidence it becomes very

difficult to lay blame and to really carry out a proper investigation add to that the geo political elements of this and indeed i think we're seeing a lot of posturing and a lot of difficulty in moving investigation forward unfortunately there may be a lot of backroom negotiations going on to smooth things over and it may come at the compromise of finding out the truth turkey is in one of the worst economic situation since the early two thousand and one can't i think ignore the fact that the currency depreciation certainly the inflation situation and of norma's debt at the end of the day i should say turkey owes a great deal of money to a lot of private banks it will eventually need to restructure and saudi arabia is going to be an important source we know of course qatar already committed about twelve to fifteen billion dollars but that's you know peanuts in the sense of what turkey needs close to nearly one hundred billion so there's a lot of need for regional actors investment from the gulf including saudi arabia

but i think this is going to be. part of the backroom negotiations perhaps in terms of the narrative we're going to see i think many of us will be watching very closely what this joint task force comes up with the american pasta frayed by a turkish court has met president donald trump at the white house under bronson was released on friday off to being held since the failed coup attempt in tech in two thousand and sixteen he was accused by and of terrorism offenses charges he denies i canna reports. andrew bronson arrives back in the united states just a day after he was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a turkish court but then released in recognition of time already served. he and his family were greeted by president trump at the white house the president saying he hopes the release signals the beginning of a better relationship with turkey we feel much different about turkey today than we did yesterday. and i think we have

a chance of really becoming much closer to it maybe even even having a very very good relationship we know the people and as the pastor said these are incredible people the people of turkey are incredible people and i think we have a chance now to really have a great relationship with turkey i hope that happens ok earlier president trump tweeted that there'd be no form of concession by the united states there was no deal made with turkey for the release and return of pastor andrew branson i don't make deals for hostages he said there was however great appreciation on behalf of the united states which will lead to good perhaps great relations between the united states and turkey. and in a burst of twitter diplomacy the turkish president made clear the release was not a response to u.s. pressure. the turkish judiciary reached its decision independently says president at a one i hope that the united states and turkey will continue their cooperation as the allies that they are and fight against terrorist groups. no indication yet as to

when or whether the sanctions imposed by the u.s. in retaliation for the pastor's detention will be lifted but the meeting ended in a prayer for president trump food go sit you will be hoping for governess support among evangelical christians in the moving the term elections mike hanna al-jazeera washington. so has her on al-jazeera will explain how the green party could make significant gains in generals less. conservative state. and attempts to revive talks with the afghan taliban as yet another campaign rally as target said. hello again and welcome back we're here cross china we are looking at

a change of the next few days we had some clear weather particularly across the east in the southeast but things are changing a lot of clouds are now coming back into play and if you look at the sunday map a lot of clouds right here now with that means as for hong kong you had better weather but over the next few days from sunday to monday more clouds more rain in your forecast and you can tell that it's also getting heavier and so the showers could produce some locally flooding downpours as well up toward shanghai we do expect to see about twenty degrees as we go through the weekend or here across the south part of asia we are looking at still very heavy rain showers here across much of indonesia and malaysia some clouds across manila well those could be starting to get a little bit thicker over the next few days as well we do expect to see pop up showers not for northern luzon but for the central part of the philippines winds are coming out of the east and we do expect noel you know that to see a temperature there of about thirty three degrees may be coming down to about thirty two over the next few days and then very quickly over here towards india where we did have quite a few showers with the old cycle own that is now pushing across to the north east

but things are going to still stay quite wet down here along the coast tonight rain in your forecast thirty four degrees and hyderabad cloudy at about thirty three degrees for you. brutal dictator. with discontent spreading through north africa time was running for libya's oil king of kings. in the first of a two part series the big picture charts the rise and fall. and the events that fuel the violence is far. from a must for libya. top

stories this hour. if it's found to be behind the disappearance of. news has expressed. not yet been any cooperation from saudi arabia and the investigation into the disappearance of a delegation from riyadh. prosecutors investigating the case. and the. white house under was released on friday after being in detention since the failed coup attempt and twenty sixteen was accused of terrorism offenses charges. u.s.

. public policy professor at george mason university he says bronson has run these will galvanize conservative christians to vote republican in the midterm elections . this was a play to sew up and inspire the votes of christian evangelicals of conservative christians who did vote for trump in very high numbers in twenty sixteen and who've stuck with him because what this demonstrates to them and present from claim this all day today is that he delivers they voted for him he may not be their idea of a perfect christian and they said one of them said just today i wouldn't want him to be a sunday school teacher but he does the liver and he said i can't tell you how much i love this man that's why a lot of conservative christians feel he has the liberty on judicial appointments which is their number one priority he's delivered with the opening of israel in the moving of the american embassy to jerusalem he's delivered on

a lot of religious liberty initiatives that have been taken he has supported school choice in private schools all of those things are very high on the agenda of conservative christians so he expects them to show up and they probably will show up in very large numbers in the midterm election you know play well with that constituency that's a significant constituency perhaps a quarter of the american electorate calls themselves conservative christians and they voted for their vote republican regularly and the big surprise was how loyal they have been to donald trump and the explanation was very clear in what happened today he delivers he does what they want him to do on a number of issues and this just being the latest one at least seventeen people including several women have been killed by the saudi and coalition and yemen jets bombed an area south of the rebel held city of data according to the rebels a bus carrying people displaced by the war was hit a saudi embassy coalition allied with the yemeni government is fighting two things

backed by iran. one hundred fifty thousand people have marched in germany against discrimination racism and ultra nationalism it was organized to counter rallies by right wing groups who held controversial demonstrations in recent months tension over migration has increased in germany says the fatal stabbing of a man in chamonix in august. immigration is a major issue in the german state of a bar varia as voters that elects a new regional parliament on sunday a survey suggests an increasing number of people are rejecting the far right and the centrist green party is becoming more popular when it came reports. its farmer's market day hike in. on this autumn morning the election is on people's minds the local green candidate is on the campaign trail but her party is in buoyant mood you did tells me she and her colleagues offer hope for a tolerant multicultural future we've growing ever more into

a globalised village and you need to make sure that we're not neglecting local people and local society and nature over interests that may be the other end of the world and i think this election will breathe new life into democracy in the very in germany and europe and make democracy great again it's a sign of how confident the green party and its candidates are in this election that they're campaigning strongly in areas like this one traditionally seen as hot ones for the governing christie and social union while the c.s.u. finds itself having to fight hard to hold on to places it used to win easily. which explains why it's in battle the prime minister is talking tough on immigration and on policing amid the band's beer and plates at a last election rally marcus spells out why voters machine the greens and vote c.s.u. . the greens stand for an ideological branding culture and i say i do not want that

i want to remain the free state. instead of becoming a binding state and that's why i say this program of the greens is very far away from the c.s.u. with this programme there can be no coalition but by attacking other party's policies some analysts suggest the c.s.u. is tacitly accepting some of the unpopular or third you know you always try your overthe pretend but you never make it up with if you want someone to deliver proper government opinion polls suggest where once the c.s.u. is supported by almost half the voters narrow barely more than a third to one in five people say they support the greens a little more than one in ten back the social democrats we have talking about the issues there really aren't going on in everybody's life for example housing is so expensive and this is the top issue for france but the polls suggest more voters

preferred different message leaving the distinct possibility the greens will force their way into a coalition. says her party is ready for that but other voters will find out on sunday evening dominic cain al-jazeera in by on. israeli police are investigating the death of a palestinian woman after israeli settlers pelted their car with stones a large crowd of mourners attended the funeral of forty eight year old mother of eight. in that bed idea husband said a stone struck his wife's head as they were driving through the occupied west bank on friday here a special envoy has met taliban officials to discuss ending the seventeen year conflict in afghanistan. says in cattle on friday is the second face to face talks between the u.s. and taliban since june afghan born u.s. diplomat was appointed last month to find ways to end the fighting. has more from

kabul. the talks between the u.s. and the taliban are quite significant a step forward but it does not this is only mean that we're going to see an end to violence in afghanistan any time soon the americans and the international community say there is no military solution to the conflict afghanistan and therefore they're willing to have all the parties come on board particularly the taliban and the afghan government to negotiate the terms of a permanent political situation solution to the crisis in afghanistan talks started in the summer the work is to mentor for the three day cease fire that took place in june but then they stalled over differences between the taliban and the americans about. issues like the need to start a prisoner exchange with some of the senior taliban leaders from a united nations blacklist for them to be able to travel or all over the world and also about how to move forward the taliban still in super they're not going to get engaged in any political talks

a less foreign troops pull out from afghanistan and the afghan government at the same time is quite concerned about any deal that would give the taliban big a say in the can in the near future but then the talks took place at a very critical moment for afghanistan has been and attacks are getting. an erection volley in the northeastern province of fourteen people were killed and dozens injured a few days ago. an attack targeted another rally in the last ga-ga which is the provincial capital of helmand dozens of people were killed including the candidates the taliban issued a statement saying that they're going to target every single election rally and they're also going to target polling stations on the twentieth of october raising many concerns about the future of the country. rescue teams in the east in uganda have been searching through rubble for survivors of

a landslide that killed forty one people a river burst its banks on thursday sending mud down the hillside burying a whole market and do the web as in the village of watch in wa in the data my relatives have begun burying their dead. the family of course solo boom gurney have come to fake it by. a landslide crushed his house he was inside. there were four people around the house at the time it was destroyed and now you can see the body of my son right on the right. lived in the small village of one ten one in the foothills of mt tell them in uganda. this is what remains of it is one of several that we hit all of them poor and remote. it wasn't easy for us to get up here the landslide began in this river but it was much further upstream up in the mountains and survivors say it's the amounts of boulders trees and water

come crashing along the course of the river smashing through the villages alongside it there's the remains of one here at this flats area of mud was shops and houses and it was completely washed away along with the people who were inside. there were whole community is in mourning. most people's homes here on the strong simple structures made of wood. which today is used for coffins instead. and it's the steadily growing population here and its need for timber fuel and farmland that means trees are cut down on the steep fragile slopes and that's why landslides keep happening again and again sometimes killing dozens of. government programs to be locate the people living here have had limited success but it has helped to treat the bodies there's about four to one.

right. there see you thank. you very briefly. who. was a father of ten he'd gone to buy food for them when he was hit by a boulder. his family is one of dozens here who are now doing this. in a community where losing a loved one in a landslide has become tragically common. malcolm webb al-jazeera. uganda. a school has been wiped out on the indonesian island of sumatra after torrential rains triggered floods and landslides at least twenty two people including eleven children were killed whilst many others are still missing hundreds of homes were flooded and three bridges collapsed survivors to higher ground on fears more land

could collapse this training government has announced a billion dollar aid package for drought stricken followers colonists are questioning whether the handout is worth it to grow crops and raise animals and increasingly harsh climate under thomas reports from near parks in new south wales which hasn't had decent rainfall in two years. in a good year farmers like wayne dunn food wouldn't need to buy a tool they'd grow crops. and the sheep and cows would eat them straight out of the ground but drought has hit australia's east and states this high has been trucked in from a thousand kilometers away with transport it costs about two hundred fifty dollars a barrel. one hay bale will feed sixty cows for a day dunford has three hundred eighty so feeding them is costing him more than ten thousand dollars a week the grind of a drought gets to you now like you get

a fifty k. or when blaring if i sold i was a really big throat and they still are afraid to start. what windows but it gets everyone a bit cranky for some reason and you tend to get out but it's just the factors are at every die and. things go backwards not forwards. dunford is mixing some hay with wheat grain and compact it with grass side to keep costs down but making that mix is harder work even if it is slightly cheaper across the eastern australia the drought me the farmers the putting in a lot more effort and paying out a lot more money now the government hard help with the what like but it can and leaves helping with the money australia's national and state governments are subsidizing transport costs offering low interest loans and giving cash payments to farmers worth nine thousand dollars only having assets of more than three point seven five million dollars disqualifies farming families from the handouts it's the

sort of help people in no other industry get this is a way of life that is important to australia's future and as a result of that i think that means there's a special responsibility here but some economists think farms need to deal with drought as any business deals with risk in good he is economically viable farmers make lots of money which should carry them through the tough ones few australians though see it that way most live in cities but they have a deep cultural affinity with rural communities it dates back to stories of colonial settlers timing a rocket lands today the media adds to the emotional mix drought mike's great television and in australia visually add drought so really. confronting so people in the city who don't necessarily understand the economics of agriculture who have this date cultural sympathy for farmers want their governments to act

so it's good politics but not necessarily good economics added thomas al-jazeera napalm demonstrating. without a zero these are our top stories u.s. president donald trump has vowed to punish saudi arabia severely if it's found to be behind the disappearance of jamal khashoggi he ruled out halting sales but said there were other measures he could use trump has expressed doubts that the missing journalists is to live now as of this moment nobody knows what happened as of this moment you know we're looking into it very seriously turkey is looking into it. at a very high level at the highest level at this point it's looking like it's looking like. he perhaps would be or is it around and that's very sad i think we would have

known by now that was our first stop or first hope was that he was not killed but maybe that's. not looking it's not looking too good right from what we hear. he says there's not yet been any cooperation from saudi arabia in the investigation into khashoggi disappearance delegation from riyadh arrived in turkey on thursday to meet top prosecutors investigating the case. the american pastor freed by turkey has mass and prayed with president donald trump at the white house under bronson was released on friday after being in detention since the failed coup attempt in two thousand and sixteen he was accused by anchor of terrorism charges offenses charges he denies. at least seventeen people including several women have been killed by the saudi and coalition in yemen jets bombed an area south of the rebel held city of data according to the rebels a bus carrying people displaced by fighting was hit in the strike coalition allied

with the yemeni government is fighting who sees backed by iran. fifty one hundred fifty thousand people have marched in germany against discrimination and racism and nationalism was organized to counter rallies by rightwing groups who held controversial demonstrations in recent months tensions over migration have increased in the fatal stabbing of a man in chemnitz in august. rescue teams in eastern new gander are searching for bodies after a landslide killed at least forty one people a river burst its banks on thursday sending mud and debris down the hillside and but due to a region close to the border with kenya you have state now with all the headlines and back with more news here on al-jazeera off the fault line china used to take half the world's recyclable. with garbage generated by one point four billion people they got enough of their own but where does it go. and china's waves to

zero. you can. be any place florence genova see their children now is inferior to. five years ago they just stay with their system area. but when they return to collect their children had disappeared. marian claims she put him in a boarding school but in fact the children had been taken to america legally adopted without their mother's knowledge. what do you think about the fact that a family can come from another country and become the legal parents of somebody else's child to be sure you know the one and i'm going to carmen and then he said go on and i got it and it was true enough for a long time as it is right up around. merriam's that she'd been approached by an agent who promised the children a free education but that promise turned out to be a conduit for internet.