to cystic fibrosis sufferers based on all of the evidence behind the virus is at least a hundred fold more effective saturday night to get the cure revisit its own al-jazeera. the u.s. president pushes. disappearance. once again from doha i'm santa maria and this is. also coming up as the political stakes for the kingdom rise the saudi stock market drops sharply and more potential investors pull out of a major conference in. also an american pastor freed by turkey arrives home perhaps a signal of warming relations between washington and ankara and how the action in

bavaria could change the political landscape of germany and the future of chancellor angela merkel. days after the saudi journalist she disappeared in turkish investigators still haven't been allowed to enter the saudi consulate in istanbul where he was last seen and so the international pressure is mounting on the saudi stock market fell sharply when trading began on sunday media and business leaders have pulled out of an investment conference in riyadh later in the month and the u.s. treasury secretary said to be reconsidering his attendance there only a day after he said he did plan to go the saudis deny plotting to kill khashoggi and say he left the consulate the u.s. president says the kingdom will face a court severe punishment if it is found responsible for a murder in a media interview he expressed doubt was still alive just looking back at what we know to this point and it was october second to the saudi consulate in istanbul to

collect papers relating to his upcoming marriage he's an opinion writer for the washington post had been living in self-imposed exile in the u.s. since twenty seventeen it written articles criticizing the saudi leadership including the current crown prince and feared for his safety if he went home in the hours before he was due to visit the consulate fifteen people arrived on to private jet. from riyadh reports say the group included forensic specialists and military opportunists and of course he has not been seen since outside the saudi consulate in istanbul is child stratford where you and the rest of the media and everyone basically charles white's. that's right you know almost two weeks now since the disappearance of mr associate and still we understand the goshi ations ongoing between turkish and saudi officials to try and negotiate some sort of access to the building behind me the consulate. what

we haven't seen certainly today is as we have in previous days a steady drip of information leaked by what we understand will kurdish government officials to pro. turkish government officials to probe turkish media but all the time the pressure is mounting obviously on saudi arabia for some sort of says as to what in fact has happened to mr. and this is what the turkish foreign minister said on a visit to london. is illegal there is. no than thirty year abia must cooperate and allow access via the chief prosecutor is our face and i expressed intent to saudi cancel it where did it is appear there in the consulate therefore that a sake of disinvest occasion in order to bring everything out in the open they must allow access today comes a bit we haven't seen any collaboration we want to see that our team as be allowed

to enter to consider it saudi arabia needs to cooperate with us on this matter. charles just as you were talking of news wire dropped from saudi media saying saudi officials reject the political pressures and baseless accusations i mean that's just another example of the the defiance that they have put forth over the past two weeks which must be having a big impact on its international relations. that's right kemal yeah i mean was very telling certainly a man with bostom ounce of experience in dealing with the saudis yesterday told al-jazeera the former u.s. ambassador to saudi arabia said he believed that this current crisis then she represented the woods crisis in relations between the two countries since nine eleven and it's been very interesting in recent days some of the analysis that's been put forward suggesting that some of the world's leaders are questioning their relationships with a man that has often been described as reckless the crown prince in saudi arabia

pointing at that war in yemen where we understand at least seventeen thousand people have been seventeen thousand casualties since that war began around twenty percent of them so the u.n. says children then of course they point to the saudi led blockade on cults. massive reservations around the world as to you know the point in that blockade in the kind of ramifications in terms of tension that that has caused in the region and then other analysts of point you to the fact that it's not forget that last year there was the visit by the lebanese prime minister saad hariri to saudi arabia it's believed that he was coerced by the saudi leadership to resign in a bid so they say for the saudis to try and create chaos in lebanon in lebanon and weaken the power of hezbollah internationally and should mention that to.

get saad hariri freed and for him to eventually with drool that resignation analysts are saying this latest crisis is a game cooling into question the reliability of the saudi leadership one of cool saudi arabia has such a vaastu influence in terms of its oil wealth and its politics not only in the region but the wider world thank you charles stratford in istanbul i'm going to expand on some of what charles was saying there. with mountain shower shortly but first a warning to saudi arabia from the us president donald trump says the kingdom will face severe punishment if it's found to be responsible for casualties disappearance 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 strength and 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 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 factory that hurts for 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 to. i'm looking 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 show g.'s fiance 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 and bashar as from a style senior political analyst in london and let me read you just a couple of things which of come down from the saudi press agency in the last couple of moments saudi arabia rejects threats it says off to trump's comments on jamal khashoggi it says the saudi economy is vital and influential for the global economy and that it will spawn to any measures with a bigger measure i mean it just all adds up to two weeks of defiance and now as well going on the attack as well and you wonder how long this can keep up. certainly it's been keeping up for a number of years number of decades in fact. you know so the arabia does hold.

more oil reserves than any other country in the world it does have a very. you know big wealth fund worth hundreds of billions of dollars and certainly a lot of cash in the hands of one or two people able to spend it right there at the center and that's what the explains why the likes of the three secretary in here in britain and secretary of treasury him you can oust mission are still going to riyadh in the end of october despite all what we know now not just of course about . canada and qatar and domestic crackdowns and the war in yemen it's all really boils down to economic interest and you know as we've heard from president trump and this sounds sane for a lot of people i mean it sounds sane that the united states that has loan cloaked

its policy with human rights and so on so forth defends the sale of more than one hundred billions of arms to a country that's involved in war crimes in its neighboring yemen so it is it sounds unbelievable it sounds insane and yet you know major powers are on the war are still bill acme by a young rash let me call him dictator in saudi arabia because of the capacity of that kingdom to spend money to invest and to buy from western democracies donald trump talks about quite severe punishment now donald trump says a lot of things a lot of the time and he's already said that not selling to saudi arabia isn't an option so i mean what do you think severe punishment could possibly be. it could be just the beginning of what getting with saudi arabia it could be nothing at all it

could be one of those things that don't trump says in the morning and forgets about at night it could be just that we have for him to put the saudis are not there so imagine. that you are in riyadh listening to. the president saying that of course the first reaction would be we would not be blackmailed by the american president we have done nothing wrong and the second would be what should we do to please the american president so that he can get off our back and let you know let us continue with whatever we do in our kingdom and throughout the region and i think the american president knows that so when he puts the saudis or notice the first thing that comes to mind in these sorts of circumstances is bargaining and it is unfortunate and i say that and you know and. i don't feel comfortable especially you know for us all of us in you know in the media in general is a see that the fate of one of our colleagues yet again is used as a bargaining chip between you know state actors simply because human rights.

freedom of expression is not yet taken seriously even by leaders of western democracies now and bashar is joining us from london thank you mowen in other news the u.s. president has thanked turkey for freeing an american past andrew bronson but he denies he got a deal with ankara brunson met and prayed for donald trump at the white house after being released by a turkish court on thursday the turkish president reject type one has insisted the court's decision was independent of trump's repeatedly thanked him for helping the case. and i want to thank president ernie got turkey he was it was terrific they all work together was an easy was it easy that one was ready. and we don't pay ransom we don't pay ransom god i do i want to

thank the president i want to thank the people of turkey and i think we'll probably now really establish a terrific relationship with turkey we appreciate the thoughts of bill schneider a us political analyst and public policy professor at george mason university he explains here how brunson's release is likely to affect the u.s. midterm elections. this was a plate to sew up and inspire the votes of christian evangelicals of conservative christians who who did vote for trump in very high numbers and twenty sixteen and who have 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 delivered 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 they 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. and still ahead on al-jazeera more on the midterms we're in pittsburgh pennsylvania to see how the booming u.s. economy makes why you voted in next month's vote. and from not an american hero to

roman catholic saints the priest who stood up for the poor in el salvador is finally on it. hello there we have plenty of dry fine weather to be found across the northern parts of asia at the moment two main patches of rain though the first one just working its way away from the east and positive now another area of cloud making its way out of china that's going to graze the southern parts of south korea then make its way across many parts of honshu there as we head through monday the thickest cloud the heaviest rain that will be along the south coast and that's where we see the wettest of the weather that meanwhile elsewhere they could be one or two showers around the beijing area but to the north it should be fine unsettled getting to around thirteen degrees so fairly mild for us we've had the towards the

south and for the southern half of china there's plenty of what weather currently this whole mass of blue here showing up on our chart from monday indicating we're expecting some fairly heavy rain at times that will gradually break up and sink southwards as we head through choose day so that we dry apache's for many of us here i mean further towards the south of there we some dry weather for many of us in viet nam as well but as you had down towards the south the showers will be creeping up here it's a fake human to expect one or two rather shop ones and then we'll see plenty more wet weather over the northern parts of borneo and stretching that way towards the west if singapore and scale is likely to be some heavy showers to the south of all of that there's dry weather to be found here but still the risk of a shower. i had three jobs and now i only have one but i'm soo providing for my family. and the first time i was admitted to hospital i didn't show any signs of imus.

and all that but my opinion of him have become very positive and stop thinking about the negative sides of this on al-jazeera while. living with m. and s. in egypt. zero turkish officials say they still haven't been allowed to enter the saudi consulate in istanbul to investigate the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi turkey's foreign minister is accused of failing to cooperate despite arriving in ankara on thursday has been twelve days now since she was last seen entering the consulate

the u.s. president to turkey for the release of the american pastor andrew bronson but denies the deal with donald trump says it's a tremendous step towards improving relations between the two countries and met with the u.s. leader after being released by the turkish court friday. a taliban attack in western afghanistan killed at least fifteen security force soldiers ten others were taken prisoner government are reported to have attacked seven security checkpoints in far province on saturday night and that was after a bomb blast at an election rally which killed at least twenty two people on saturday thirty six others were wounded in the north eastern province of the crowd was listening to a speech by a female candidate standing in next saturday's parliamentary elections. in a special u.s. envoy has met taliban officials to discuss ending the seventeen year conflict in afghanistan. spoke to taliban representatives in qatar on friday the second time the u.s.

and the taliban have held face to face talks since july reports now 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 mental 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 remove some of the senior taliban leaders from the 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 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 there's been an attack targeting. an election rally in the northeastern province of taha 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. in southern somalia the armed group al shabaab says it carried out two suicide bomb blasts which killed at least

sixteen people and wounded dozens of others a restaurant and a hotel in the town of by joe would targeted which is linked to al qaeda is phantom to topple somalia's western backed government and to impose islamic rule german voters are electing a new regional parliament in bavaria and the results could increase tensions within the fragile coalition government in berlin very largest party the conservative christian social union as one know almost every election since the second world war but support for the party which is in angela merkel's federal alliance has recently slumped because of pressure from right wing groups and the green party dominant cain is monitoring events from munich. it's a brisk autumnal day here in munich and the voting at this polling station at least has been current correspondingly brisk over the course of the past few hours the issues that have driven people to come to the polls to cast their ballots have been many but the one seminal one in the course of the campaign has been how to mike to

manage migration better the parties of the center right to the right and the populist right or they've been advocating a retrenchment of policy to make it harder to be immigration policy harder tougher to control borders better they say that's the only way to govern this state whereas the parties of the center left on the left will they reject that thesis they say that migration has worked well has been managed well and that this issue is a cloud for other agenda they want to concentrate instead on bread and butter issues on housing unemployment schooling that sort of thing the reason that this election matters this at least local election in munich in bavaria matters well it's because the the reverberation from the result here will definitely reach berlin the federal coalition made up of christian social union the varian conservatives angela merkel's conservatives and the social democrats will be looking to see what happens here because it might shake the make up and the fabric of that federal coalition. ok in the u.s. midterms now in the u.s.

president of course points to a soaring stock market and record low unemployment as evidence his leadership has been good for the country he says he's delivering on promises he made during the election campaign promises made in the first republican nominee to win pennsylvania in almost thirty years and that state will be a key battleground again this year as christensen he explains. business is booming at aging k. equipment in the last year they've hired fifty five new employees a twenty percent increase to make so renting refurbish industrial equipment we are on pace to have our best year ever general manager patrick koch gives president donald trump in his tax cuts a lot of the credit consumer confidence at least after the election we noticed an uptick right away a lot of people were waiting in twenty sixteen to spend money until after november and it seemed like it was an opening of the floodgates right after that h. and k. is located just outside pittsburgh pennsylvania otherwise known as steel city the

steel industry has benefited from new tariffs imposed by the president but some manufacturers in the area are seeing their costs go up as a result democrats have traditionally held sway in pennsylvania thanks in large part to the power of trade as unions have weakened in manufacturing moved overseas it's not surprising that the president's make america great again message has resonated with voters still democrats think they can make gains here in the midterms because many people are still struggling to make ends meet. democrat connor lamb is challenging the notion that the republicans economic policies are good for pennsylvania calling tax cuts a boon for the rich and wall street but he says the political debate should stick to talking about policy rather than personalities were given orders or reason to believe that they actually are represented not just by. well inside it is duly

clash of national ideologies but by people who live here just like him he's running for congress against a two time incumbent who warns lam will help democrats obstruct the trump agenda as your economic future change for better or worse. everything's going up but paychecks canvassers with the political action group working america have been going door to door trying to show voters a link between republican policies and rising costs the chaos of the current administration is here to. open our eyes and mary to town what's going on as for patrick koch he won't say who he's voting for there are many business friendly democrats here they're business friendly republicans you know when i'm thinking about my business i think about how are they going to vote for for the small guys like us into proving the old adage that all politics is local and that democrats may have a reason to be optimistic even in a state that helped elect a controversial republican president christine salumi al jazeera pittsburgh

pennsylvania. the russian opposition leader alexei navalny has thanked his supporters as he was freed from fifty days of detention the valley said antigovernment protests won't be stopped by kremlin intimidation he was rearrested last month after finishing a previous thirty day sentence for organizing a rally against president putin's unpopular pension reforms amnesty international describes an avanti as a prisoner of conscience who hasn't committed any crime worshipers of the orthodox church in ukraine of celebrated mass after their split from the russian orthodox church ukraine secured approval to establish an independent church on thursday that has been described as the biggest split in christianity for more than five hundred years russia's foreign minister is calling the bright a provocation it is linked to russia's annexation of crimea from ukraine four years

ago. now a roman catholic archbishop who was assassinated in el salvador thirty eight years ago has been made a saint pope francis will the blood stained belt of romero during his canonization ceremony in st peter's square the pope's also canonized one of his own predecessors paul the sixt who was the roman catholic pontiff in the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's john holman looks back now at the life of oscar ramiro a priest who stood up for the poor and challenged a right wing military dictatorship. romero had just finished his sermon when a gun shot rang out an assassin's bullet struck the sixty two year old but the murder failed to extinguish his message of peace and social justice. now thirty eight years later the catholic church is declaring him a saint extensively it's for a medical miracle curing cecilia florrie's of a life threatening illness but for her or many other salvadorans he's much more

he's a person who fought for all salvador and continues fighting and continues to intercede for the country a brave man who defended life defended the family defended the most needy that's what he means to me many in the working class loved a role model for speaking out for equality and defending them against for pressure from the military led government conservative sectors on the other hand saw him as allied with leftist groups as the country lurched toward civil war he remains a divisive figure even now he knew that would put him in danger. i will not abandon my people but along with them i will run all the risks that my ministry demands in the end of right wing desk world order his murder a day off the heat to see the army to stop killing civilians tens of thousands turned up to the funeral. even that was disrupted by explosions and gunfire. and sounds of those civil war ended thirty six years ago but the country still

suffers from the causes that romero spoke against widespread inequality and violence now at the hands of warring gangs. the hope is that decades on his message will still resonate even among those too young to remember his life. john homan zita. i'm kemal santa maria with a look at your headlines now turkish officials say they still haven't been allowed to enter the saudi consulate in istanbul to investigate the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi turkey's foreign minister has accused riyadh of failing to cooperate despite a saudi team arriving in on her on thursday child strength and with more now from istanbul former u.s. ambassador to saudi arabia said he believed that this current crisis then she represented the worst crisis in relations between the two countries since nine eleven and it's been very interesting in recent days some of the analysis that's

been put forward suggesting that some of the world's leaders are questioning their relationships with a man that has often been described as reckless the crown prince in saudi arabia pointing at that war in yemen where we understand at least seventeen thousand people have been seventeen thousand casualties since that war began around twenty percent of them so the u.n. says children in other news donald trump has thanked turkey for releasing an american pastor and says it's a tremendous step towards improving relations turkey's president says the court's decision was independence sandra bronson prayed for the president at the white house the president however denied that he cut any sort of deal and i want to thank president early gun turkey he was he was terrific we all work together was an easy was it easy that one was ready. and we don't pay ransom

we don't pay rant was i do i want to thank the president i want to thank the people of turkey. and i think we'll probably now really establish a terrific relationship with turkey we appreciate. and at vatican city today a roman catholic archbishop who was shot in el salvador thirty eight years ago was made into a st francis will the blood stained belt of romero during his canonization ceremony in some pieces square the pope also canonized one of his own prejudices as pope paul the sixth who was the roman catholic pontiff back in the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's that's a look at your headlines here on al-jazeera inside story with imran khan that's coming up next.

the arab world stays silent a saudi gym this possibly in a saudi consulate but no official reaction from any arab government no condemnation from the arab media what's behind the silence this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on iran come on intelligence leaks to the media about missing saudi journalists jamal khashoggi a pay on almost a day.