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the houston astros against the boston red sox as the defending champions win game one and the race to reach by spalls world series. so in the past few hours the official press agency has reported that the kingdom rejects what it calls political pressure and baseless accusations in the jamal khashoggi case the saudi monarchy says it will retaliate if economic sanctions are threatened by other countries over the journalists disappearance u.s. president donald trump had already talked about severe punishment if the kingdom was found responsible for his death and actually the saudi stock market fell sharply on reaction to trump's warning and the u.s. treasury secretary steve minutes in is now said to be reconsidering attending an investment conference in riyadh later this month let's start with jim he is live in istanbul outside the saudi consulate hi jamal. these new lines from the saudi

official press agency. well it seems that the saudi leadership is doubling down in trench and get self in a position trying to find some sort of. strength in what appears to be a very weak position it finds itself in after several countries including the united states have become a bit more convinced that the saudi authorities were behind if not for the killing of german officials here but most certainly the forced disappearance of jamal khashoggi now there was a drop in the saudi markets we saw reports of up to seven percent drop over the past or since trading opened earlier on sunday people are wondering whether that's linked to this continuous domino effect that's happened with people pulling out from this upcoming future investment conference that you mentioned come out whether it is as

a response to what donald trump said in that sixty minutes interview where he said you know there would be severe punishment to quote the u.s. presidents but obviously the saudis are coming under a lot of pressure and it seems that the leadership rather than trying to maybe publicly at least find a way out of this it is a leadership that has tried to build itself a strong and decisive as was the word or the name chosen for the operation that was meant to finish very quickly in yemen but and it up into an ongoing war now that's killed so many thousands of people the decisive storm as it was called that decisive leadership rather than trying to find a way out publicly it would appear is doubling down and changing itself and trying to maybe show to the people inside the kingdom that it is very confident very strong and would will we will withstand the pressure the pressure that the international community is seeing that the saudis are claiming is some sort of foreign conspiracy to deep stabilize the kingdom jamal just a would if you wouldn't mind on the consulate itself which you're standing in front

of you stefanie de. child stratford your old reporting from there the whole time i'm wondering what you actually see as far as any comings and goings is it actually continuing to operate as a consequence. no i mean for all intents and purposes this consulate is out of business essentially a crime scene although there's been no police coming into investigated because obviously this audio authorities are yet to give approval to that search the only people coming in and out that we see are those who come are allowed through the police barricade which has an entrance just around the corner here they come in their diplomatic vehicle so the diplomatic vehicles they will quickly but we're into the story the double doors behind me those doors are them shut behind them they don't speak to the press they don't look at the press. and then they come so you'll get a few cars coming in the morning they leave in the evening and that's about it there are a few companies on the other side of the road you can see it's behind the camera

come out that are dedicated to hygiene on robbie's as those are the larger and smaller pilgrimages that's muslims make sure saudi arabia they're the ones that have authentication or accreditation rather from the consulate issue with these visas we want to go and speak to them to true try to figure out i did talk to a few of my friends and they are telling me that now this paperwork is being processed by the embassy in ankara we unfortunately haven't been able to get any comments from the embassy in ankara they haven't been not forthcoming as you can imagine with the media however in terms of the daily comings and goings behind me it really is only saudi officials answering the next it's ok good to know thank you jim i'll show outside that saudi consulate in istanbul we go to washington now here is mike hanna mike the cracks perhaps starting to show between saudi arabia and the u.s. donald trump's comments followed up by the saudis pushing back. well yes

indeed still early in the day here in washington d.c. so no formal response as yet to that statement put out by the saudi news agency as you mention president trump saying that the severe punishment may be possible varying a way still at this stage from economic sanctions should saudi complicity be proven however the senate and congress have a different point of view senators are insisting that the magnitsky act be applied this is an act that governs human rights accountability around the world senators both democrat and republican have sent a letter to president trump demanding that sanctions be imposed should saudi complicity be proven he has one hundred twenty days to take a decision one way or the other and that so certainly is that gap beginning to show firstly between the saudis with a very strong response and the president and of course the president and

congress congress pushing very strongly for economic sanctions should they be necessary the president making clear he doesn't want any what else is donald trump in saying might there's obviously a lot of focus on his big t.v. interview on sixty minutes tonight in the u.s. . as will president trump there reaching out to a mainstream network other than fox for the first time in a number of months clearly attempting to get ahead of the story well aware of the threats that may pose to his administration and of course to the republican party as a whole in the coming midterm elections president trump picked up in that interview saying that this is even worse because it is a reporter involved this is from a president who's been scathing about many reporters that do not belong to one of his favored outlets so president trump clearly trying to stay ahead in terms of responding to all of this and also making very clear that he's leaving the whole

question of the investigation it is open but this is what he had to say. i love to have her a great news where it would lead us to syria but at this point it's looking like it's looking like. he perhaps would be or is enduring and that's very soon i think we would have known going in there was our first hope of first hope was that he was not killed. but maybe that's. not working and is not looking too good right . referring there to an invitation reportedly offered to jamal khashoggi is fiance there to come and visit at the white house that was initially reported to have come from the first lady so the situation there no confirmation on that particular issue but certainly the white house sending out a message to a coup sharkey's fiance that she would be welcome here that's also

a veiled message perhaps to saudi arabia that the u.s. administration the trump administration is taking this exceedingly seriously and coming down on those who do possibly believe in some form of saudi complicity ok mike hanna in washington thank you. so jamal khashoggi in the headlines for the best part of two weeks now but we do want to remind you about the man behind the headlines what has brought him to this point the saudi journalist was actually once close to the inner circles of the saudi royal family and his reputation as a reformist pushing the boundaries critically questioning policies in two thousand and three became media advisor to prince turki been feisal the former head of saudi arabia's general intelligence directorate and also served as the saudi ambassador to the u.s. from two thousand and five to two thousand and six before returning home but last year to show he went into self-imposed exile in the u.s. after becoming more concerned about the actions of crown prince mohammed bin

solomon he told out of syria in march actually that he left the kingdom because he didn't want to be arrested now the other development is been economic and after don't trump made that threat of severe punishment the saudi stock market plunged when trading began on sunday and officials of the saudi economy is vital and influential globally also you've got media and major business leaders already pulling out of an investment conference in riyadh later this month or is based have cornelia maya with us now a specialist on emerging markets c.e.o. of my own resources a macro economic and energy policy advisor she's in london for us how much do you think we should read into what happened to the saudi market today seven percent it fell which is pretty major. it's pretty major and it's it's pretty major it's unfortunate in the sense that you know there is still a stir is this future investment in the ship if this big conference which should go ahead. in just about ten days time a lot of big names and

a lot of big media organizations have pulled out so does this not this is not good on the whole basis of the vision twenty thirty the very forward looking economic policy to bring saudi arabia read it off oil bring it into the twenty first century really depends on working with foreign partners and getting investment in there so what do you think will happen behind the headline of this investment conference because i guess it's right now it's too toxic for these businesses and media groups to be involved but does that suggest they going to pull out completely. no i don't think that will pull out completely but right now it's to talk sick and know my my pain is worth of advice is for western countries to take a measure to approach yes clearly what disco going on that's not confirmed is not on. but saudi arabia isn't a foreign ministry has trust released

a statement to that effect so if you're a good king or so it's a very important country it's one of the only arab nation in the cheap twenty it has a big status in the muslim world having much medina if it is it is the king thing of opec it is the country that has crossed at the opec nano alliance of these ten countries it is a major major major you know procurer of goods in the west so the west is every interest of trying to make sure we calm it down because this is a troubled region we don't need we really the last thing we need in the middle east is another trouble spot. definitely can i pick up on the point you make about opec and about oil how important is oil in any relationship you know if the u.s. and saudi arabia are starting to sort of bite back at each other like this can or will be used as a bargaining chip. well yes and you see this

a year ago that would not have been the case because a year ago due oil price was very low and think of worried about the huge inventors overhang of about three hundred forty million barrels now markets are tight to actually below the five year to the inventors of the low to fife year o.e.c.d. average so you know every little thing will move the needle so if i was i mean i i am watching you all markets very closely because to morrow we will see oil prices spike tomorrow we may see them they will go beyond eighty five for brant they may go close to the ninety's right we'll keep an eye on that maybe talk to you again cornelia maya joining us from london thank you. plenty more ahead for you this news down with the u.s. midterm elections just a few weeks away we're looking at the state of the american economy and the impact the economy might have on the election.

but right now we're looking at a taliban attack in western afghanistan which has left at least seventeen members of the security forces dead several others have been taken captive gunmen are reported to have attacked seven security check sorry posts in far a province on saturday nights and that was after a bomb blast at an election rally which killed at least twenty two people on saturday thirty six others were injured in the northeastern province of calcutta the crowd was there listening to a speech by a female candidate standing in next saturday's parliamentary elections so let's talk about both of these with passion in kabul hashim let's start with this attack on the security forces. come out it was an attack that target to a check post of the army the push brought district this is a rural area in the far up problems and people told us that the there's been

a gun flight that went on for many hours before the army you could. put an end to the fighting but however it came at a huge price with seventeen soldiers killed and many others. kidnapped by the taliban and we're talking about the southwestern part of the country which was somehow reluctantly calm compared to areas but what we've seen over the last few months basically is of the taliban extending their presence in different parts of the country to send a message to the international community and to the afghan government. that they have threatened to disrupt the political process and they have launched attacks against candidates we've been told today by a spokesperson of the afghan election commission that nine candidates were killed over the last few days and that mine hundred polling stations were closed because of security concerns about if you look at the map of afghanistan the problem is that the afghan army and the police forces us to stay in they have been heavily

deployed in the center but they won't be able to move around particular to the rural areas and those rural areas that is where the taliban are flexing their muscles right so going off to be electoral process and sort of classic tactic almost underlined in this other attack when was that saturday night twenty two people killed. hashem can you hear me yes about oh ok i just want to ask you about the other attack the one on saturday night at an election rally which killed twenty two people. that the attack in into harm yes they basically the taliban placed explosive devices in a motorbike which was parking not far from the bali at the moment he detonated it killed almost fourteen people dozens were injured and as i said this is part of the

same pattern of the has been followed by the taliban they said that they consider the upcoming elections politically motivated and in the town by the americans of further extend their military presence in the afghanis and this explains why the taliban are saying that they would continue their military attacks to destruct the political process now we don't know whether they're going to carry out with those attacks particularly against the backdrop of the recent meeting between the united states on voip to afghanistan's peace process really is on my and told by senior officials in the qatari capital doha the taliban said that they are willing to meet in the near future again with the americans however they insisted that the presence of foreign forces in afghanistan remains the biggest obstacle to peace and stability in afghanistan and the odds of that ultimately the biggest hope is that these forces have to be led by the afghans and they would like to sit together face to face with the afghan government and decide the future of their country is that

an indication that the taliban are going to somehow stop their military campaign in the coming days the indications that we're getting so far does not seem to be the same case we see more attacks across the country. in kabul thank you. a truck carrying migrants has overturned in turkey killing at least nineteen people and injuring twenty six others and crashes in the western turkish province of izmir turkey is a main route for migrants trying to reach europe news from europe now and german voters are electing a new regional parliament in bavaria and the result could increase tensions within the fragile coalition government in berlin of area's largest party the conservative christian social union has won almost every election since the second world war but support for the party which is in chancellor angela merkel's federal alliance has recently slumps let's check in with john mccain he's live in munich for us what's

been happening today dominic. standing outside the parliament that you were just talking about there come up to one of those candidates around this state hope that they'll be elected into we'll know the results in the not too distant future sixteen g.b. the polling closes and then the results start to come in the question will be to have a play voted for the issues in this campaign has been one seminal issue migration how migration is managed in this state in this country the parties of the center right the rights and the populist rights of all stressed the need in their opinion to tighten the rules to have tougher border controls basically to have a better idea of who they say is coming into this country into these states and to see what can be done to encourage integration but by making sure that only certain numbers of people can come in contrast that view with the view of the parties of the center left of the left can really oppose that to say that that sort of rhetoric of the right is

a clout to hide their real agenda and certainly the parties of the center on the left say they want to concentrate on bread investor issues on housing issues on the economy on schooling those sorts of things on unemployment benefits so the question will be which of those issues has been the most decisive for the. voters who've been going to the polls today one thing i would say is that the officials at all the polling stations around the very are saying they think the time actually speeds higher this time around because in twenty thirty at least at this stage of election to dominate the just a wide net out to a national level the policy of anglo merkel the c.d.u. not featuring so much in this election but needs to watch it really closely right that's right i mean to point to make here is one of the newspapers sunday newspapers has been putting out what it calls very and bingo look at for the statements the party leaders from different parties will say today and the one

thing they say is very unlikely you'll hear any party leaders saying thank you angela merkel why because she really hasn't had a physical presence in bavaria at all once or twice perhaps she's appeared during this campaign and yet her role as chancellor is central to this election at least it is for the parties that oppose the christian social union her sister party that governs in this state their own party does not campaign at all here the point to make here is if the c.s.u. easy weekend as a consequence of the polls or the election taking place today that will happen off to shop as it were in early because her government is based on a coalition with a very and allies but also with the social democrats c.s.u. earlier this summer is saying that it was very odd that some of the direction of policy by anglo-american but how will they feel if they have a chased an election result here today that's what happens here matters so much on

the on the german scale but also on the europeans european scale as dominic says sixteen hundred g.m.t. for those results about two and a half hours from now we're talking to you again that. midterm elections in the us fast approaching the best six is the big day like all american midterms it's viewed as a referendum on the current president donald trump and the republican party hoped the economy's performance will really help them around i support you know since trump came to power the u.s. stock market has surged to record highs the dow jones index has risen more than forty percent but fewer people own stocks in the u.s. than they did during the two thousand and eight financial crisis and almost nine out of ten of them are from the upper middle income group so the market's surge she is only benefiting those who are already pretty well off now employment rights while it's lower than it's been in a decade and yet four out of ten people think the salaries are too low also rising costs for health care food fuel and housing are eating away at many americans earnings and let's not forget the governments in serious debt the federal budget

deficit this year is sold to seven hundred eighty two billion dollars it is projected to increase even. one key battleground in the fight to control congress will be pennsylvania that is from a christian salumi reports. 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 unions as unions have weakened and 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 good night and walked out there behind the democrat conor lam 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 voters a reason to believe that they actually are represented not just by. one sided dueling 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 lamb will help democrats obstruct the trump agenda economic future change for better or worse. everything is 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 sort of an open our eyes have more ted ted 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 what 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. steph is here with the international weather update now

and you're going to give us another cyclist that's right this one with the hurricane was going to be the first hurricane ever to hit maine another rip but four hours before it hit it was announced that it was no longer a hurricane its center which was supposed to stay warm instead decided to become a normal storm so instead we were just hit by some incredibly wet and windy conditions the remains of all storm leslie course quite a bit of damage there we saw a lot of power lines down and we also saw a lot of trees snapped i don't know if you can quite make out all these sticks just trees that have been snapped in half of their bit closer maybe you can make that out a bit better so certainly caused a fair amount of damage and it was all thanks to the winds which one hundred seventy six kilometers per hour those were actually measured normally when you have winds this strong you were estimating how bad they are from satellite imagery and from the damage that has been done but here they were measured hundred seventy six kilometers per hour very very strong there and that system is slowly edging its way

eastward it's nowhere near as powerful as it was so the winds really affording out of it and it's just giving us a lot of heavy rain watch out for this next batch of cloud of rain that's making its way into parts of portugal in the northwestern parts of spain though because although that's just an area of wet and windy weather what it is is it's the remains of her km i call that hit the states obviously nowhere near as powerful now but still it is going to make things a little bit miserable there for many of us across the mediterranean over the next few days it is looking rather stormy comeau surfing thank you for that but it's right in doha would you believe still ahead if you want i'll just there a blessing for donald trump by the american evangelical pastor freed from turkey from latin american hero to roman catholic saints the priest who stood up for the poor in el salvador is on it by the pope and we will hear from the bouncer who helped l.a. george another defeat the race to reach baseball's world series. we're

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a major business. investment conference planned for riyadh. and the. new regional area the result could increase tensions within the. recently taken. so yes we want to look back at what we know at this point about our top story the disappearance of. it was october second he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul to collect papers related to his upcoming marriage when 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 leadership including the current crown prince and feared for his safety if he went home and in the hours

before he was due to visit the consulate fifteen people arrived on to private jets from riyadh reports say the group included forensic specialists and military operatives and of course we know that he has not been seen since so let's talk about this our senior political analyst in london you know as i read all of that when you think about this is nearly two weeks it's been quite extraordinary the way the saudi government has held its line and most recently just in the last couple of hours talks about political pressure and and baseless accusations when there is what they are so many questions to be unsaid. i think they've won they've they've gone from the defensive playing the victim of a global conspiracy a media. this information against them because they are informers on to this new offense by the news media about reacting

more aggressively and those who want to boycott those sanctioned the kingdom and so on so forth i think it shows that. and so did it is in crisis it shows that they're not able to come up with just simple simple explanation to what happened why apparently because they have something to hide otherwise they would have told us what happened even the american president now comes out in the open and says look we know he went in never got out and it doesn't look good he says apparently you've seen the intelligence you've seen what american intelligence officers have seen and clearly the saudis have a role to play or they had a role to play and they won't come up and say what it is the turks have been pushing them not to them the americans of nudge them and yet the only thing they can do is somewhere between playing the victim and now playing the bully is anything but the truth no one pressure is being put on the saudi government with

the you want to look at it as the woods donald trump the investors taking their money out of saudi arabia through the markets pulling out of this investment conference what is your view on how real let pressure is how concrete how tangible it might actually be because it's all willing good to say things have got to be backed up i think there is pressure and certainly the media pressure has been more interesting than anything else especially by those. who thought of the crown prince of saudi arabia as the darling of reform in the middle east i think the american media in particular but also here and for example the british media has gone almost hundred eighty degrees on how madmen so none of the so-called reforms and i think in a way they feel betrayed and if you've bitten that one of their own hands a journalist has been allegedly killed by the saudis and so i think the media now for the time being is playing a major role and it has a cycle psychological influence over policymakers over legislators in europe and in

the united states on the other hand as we all know and we've heard from the american president that is the economics and the american presidents have been very clear that he cares very little about the human rights and cares a lot about jobs as he called them even if that means selling arms to a country that's involved in war crimes such as saudi arabia in yemen and there is of course the geopolitics for the time being the the united states has based on a large degree its policy in the middle east against iran on two pillars israel and saudi arabia now i think the you cannot fight both israel and saudi arabia saudi iran and saudi at about the same time and we've just been reading from jerusalem post from israel from the right wing spokesman those who are close to prime minister netanyahu that there is appeal to american jewish organizations to help saudi arabia an american congress so as to pass this storm if you will and i think

there will be those in the senate that will be listening to such voices. but once again i think the humanitarian thing that idea that the media and a journalist has been killed allegedly and and the human the humanitarian aspect of it of course well have a role to play my feeling is come out is that we are now in the midst of a crisis and everyone is trying to survive for influence and some including president trump and others are using the case of them out of his eulogy as a bargaining chip with the saudis and i think the saudis would probably be doing the same in terms of trying to reconstitute sates i think they probably already are proposing to the turks some all for of some sort so that the turks will you know. push this thing under the carpet as it where and i doubt the americans also to

forget about it in the next few days a lot of it will come will become much clearer if the british threat secretary and the american secretary of treasury do go to sort of the so-called davos in the desert this second meeting in riyadh to celebrate investment reform and saudi arabia against the backdrop of incredible recklessness on the part of the saudis including the latest case which is the killing of the so with the journalist again allegedly yes he suspect it will be difficult for them to make that trip but we will say moment ashara senior political analyst in london now the u.s. president has said the release of an american pasta by turkey is a tremendous step towards improving relations the u.s. doubled tariffs on turkish imports when turkey's president refused to release andrew bronson type at all and then accuse the u.s. of economic warfare from washington mike hanna has more. 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 take it maybe break even having a very very good relationship we know the people and is 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 it 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 trying to go so you will be hoping for governess support among evangelical christians in the moving of the term elections mike hanna al-jazeera washington. children in the iraqi city of mosul settling back into

classes more than a year now since the city was reclaimed from eisel the group shut down and destroyed most schools when it sees mosul in twenty fourteen but as mohammad today reports it's hoped that now getting an education will help the children heal from the effects of war. it's the fast they have school in bubble elementary school in. regular classes up received for the first time in three years. icily is this school as a military base firing rocket propelled grenades and mortars at nearby or out of forces by the time they come painted a captain most will solve most of the city was reduced to rubble the own going school or construction work was initiated by volunteers and patents came to see their children back in class canada this was made possible with the help of contributions from the well wishers within and outside iraq it is the result of the tireless efforts of iraqi women to portray to the world agony and devastation and

most of. the classrooms are crowded and the children must share both books and sits the most up forgotten what it is like to be in school up to three years when war it can be a struggle say the teachers to get them to listen and participate but it's the troll man psychological impact the violent cause had that's been the most diverse state. six year old solid that has has him survived an s. like that hit his home and almost wiped out his entire family he now lives in there partly destroyed house with his father and grandfather the only other survivors of their strike solace father prepares his son for the first day in school he is hopeful making new friends will help ease that a covering. of said humble solace is slowly recovering he nearly died and remembers everything vividly we need more help in caring for him though salah said it was the ses everyone's trying their best to help. the psychological impact on children has

been huge we have to free the children's minds from all these bad thoughts we're free therapy sessions that are being clearly funded by the government unexploded bombs and other weapons continue to pose a danger to the children in the schools that want to as i said the basis. many schools. running multiple shifts to accommodate all the students there now in the government increase in investment in education to help ease the devastation caused by a year. that funerals are being held in eastern europe gander for some of the forty one victims of landslides which wiped out entire villages has the latest from the with the village of one general where a nearby river burst its banks triggering a catastrophe. the family of console open gurney have come to take it by. a landslide crushed his house he was inside. there were four people

in 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 jan one in the foothills of mt tell go on and you can now. this is what remains of it is one of several that were 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 or a massive boulders trees and water come crashing along the course of the river smashing through the villages alongside it is the remains of one here this whole area of mud was shops and houses and it was completely washed away along with the people who were inside. there were whole community in mourning.

most people's homes here on the strong simple structures made of wood. which today if you used the coffins instead. it's to steadily growing population here and it needs to timber and farmland that means trees are cut down on the steep fragile slopes and that's why the landslide keep happening again and again sometimes killing dozens. government programs to be locate the people living here that are limited success but it has helped to retrieve the bodies there's about four to one the edge that didn't last but. there seem to be trying to do. this with the other. where they are not producing the indian hindu. i mean everybody's. a who's 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 wondering why uganda. a roman catholic archbishop who was shot in el salvador thirty eight years ago has been made a saint francis wore the blood stained belt of oscar romero during his canonization ceremony and simply to square the parts also canonized one of his predecessors paul the sixth who was pontiff in the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's some say it is the architectural jewel in the crown of an import an ancient port in israel. from done in the old city of acre has been neglected to the point of near collapse sorry for the reports palestinians say the eighteenth century center for sailors is a symbol of how they're being squeezed out as rich israelis and tourists move in.

there are a few things about acre which aren't in dispute the beauty of its old city the overlapping layers of history on full display a rich mix of cultures and religions stretching back four thousand years all of which make it a prime site for tourism. recently bought the family home where he was born and the apartment beneath it turning it into a guest house for paying visitors but as a palestinian resident of as they call it it's been a long hard bureaucratic battle to get to this point back to haiti certainly. we were protected tenants we worked so hard to get ownership because as long as we didn't have it we didn't have the freedom to do anything other than just live here ok. that's the case for the majority of palestinians who live in the old city most of the original arab homeowners fled or forced out during the creation of the state of israel in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight those who later came to live here can only lease homes from a trust backed by the israeli government they don't have any right to do anything

in this house or they can fix these houses they can't hurt you know they can't give the subset of their children the local government's tourism development plan involves renovating rundown areas attracting richer homeowners the old development company part of israel's tourism ministry says local palestinian small businesses benefit but the new businesses are market hotels and restaurants overwhelmingly israeli for many of the palestinians who live within the walls of the old city the money that's being lavished here feels like it's largely bypassing them worse than that they fear it is going to alter the fabric of this place irrevocably and that they might not have a place here in the future one place they have long treasured is this the carnal done once an ottoman staging point for sailors and their goods now it's a crumbling show ruled too dangerous to enter the development company blames the failure of its previous plans to turn it into

a hotel plans that would have involved neighboring buildings being emptied on palestinian opposition who sometimes fish is from a local walk the islamic trust that manages the city's mosques which decades ago signed the site over to an israeli government organization on a ninety nine year lease i am telling you that more than fifty years ago didn't do anything anything and my life my heart is sore sore so hard because the place is saw so dangerous it's not that a construct not even a minimal little construct it had been laws for all of this years for nothing the palestinians an acre the question is whether they'll have a proper stake in a changing city the chance to hold on to a place they call home ari force it down to zero acre. holes here with a sport in a moment looking at the foot all ping pong crossover a sport that has a limp ambitions that on the wrist the sport in a moment. when

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ping-pong football keep up the in a moment but first with paul well you have to wipe it's coming at the end of the militant story first of all novak djokovic continues his search towards the world number one spot in tennis his incredible comeback season continued with a dominant display in the shanghai must as final world number nineteen born to chart was his opponent the croatian having beaten roger federer and the semi's but jock rich came into this tie on a run of seventeen wins in a row and with two grand slam titles in twenty eighteen took the first set six

three. match points haywood ends on a review but it didn't matter to joke which is this is his fourth shanghai title comes a year after his twenty seventeen season was affected by poor form and injury to replace roger federer as world number two on monday and if he does better than run on the dollar the paris masters the return to the top ranked us. couldn't ask for a better scenario. so you know i'm very close to you know the doll in the rankings and put myself in a very good position for you know the last. last period of the year the game is a game is working really well and you know ending in a year's number one will definitely be. the biggest achievement of of this year. well that was career much number one thousand and one for a joke which at the other end of the scale eighteen year old diana scott won her

first singles title on sunday ukrainian up against one showing in the hong kong open final she made very light work of what was her first final appearance world number one hundred two taking the first set six two and she lets china's top ranked woman in the second six one is mean she'll go up to world number sixty six on monday her best ever ranking pretty good year for youngsters this is the sixth teenager to reach a final in twenty one. now to the race to get to baseball's world series on its first blood to the defending champions the houston astros against the boston red sox game one of the american league championship series is in front of a sour kraut boston's fenway park but it was the astros that took the victory pitcher justin verlander produced a strong performance to the frustration of the red sox platters. there is a close game until late on when josh reddick hits a satellite home run to put the astros four to two up right center field that is

way back jack bradley journal you kill a blow it came from you really. he hit a three one shot into the crowd to wrap things up the astros winning it seven to ten for their fifth straight postseason when they go one up in the seven game series so this team finds a way in big moments to show up. from top to bottom i've said before nobody cares the euro is just very euro this kind of mantra this team you know just keep the ball rolling with the next guy do the do the job and and and see what happens it's game one it's always been you know it's a tone we score a lot of runs. you know when we put. it in get there so that's what we did tonight you know hopefully with your system with the. in the other series the l.a. dodgers produced a fight back victory to square things up one one against the milwaukee brewers the brewers are on course to win the second game in a row after two home runs helped put them three nothing up this one from orlando

australia. but the dodgers pulled back to within one and then step forward just in turn to. the man with the big red beard hittites a run homer in the eighth inning to put him ahead for the first time in the game. possibly helped by his bed and then in the failed it was turned aside to first that closed out a victory for three to the dodgers that ends the brewers twelve game winning streak and it's one one with five games remaining. in the last thing i want to do is is probably on the ground so i was trying to get something up and since i hit it. it felt good and i knew i was an owner and. it's cool that to then run the bases and see all your teammates going crazy jumping up and down waiting for us just because if you're talking about the identity of our ball club he's probably.

the face. the examiner face everything that i believe in as a baseball player as a professional and then you can get into the community and all that stuff but. yeah he's you can say that i call him is the glue for our club. michael schumacher son mick has won his first major motorsport title the nineteen year old german clinched the formula three european championship with a race to spare as he placed second at his home race in hock and i'm a teenager took eight victories on his way to the title this season in his debut season last year he finished twelfth his father michael won seven formula one world championships make was just fourteen when michael suffered a head injury in a skiing accident from which is yet to recover. a lot i mean that means everything. to be honest because it's the first real championship that i've won and won with a lot of hard work sitting behind it and

a lot of hard work not only for myself but really the most working from the team in i mean really just grateful for what they've done all season long for me and. they're just happy that i'm able to to be here and really live the moment french teenager. took tennis gold at the youth olympics in argentina the eighteen year old who won the junior doubles title at the australian open earlier this year was up against argentina's for colorado. it was a close match but just all eventually took it six four seven five. there was joy for the host nation of the women's beach humble final argentina led crisis in the first period a late fight back from the current threatened argentina's victory but it was the hosts are trying to win sparking scenes of a lot of celebration about a sorry spain took gold in the men's competition. big moment for kemal s.

what you get if you cross football with table tennis well it's called tech ball obviously there's even a world cup for the sport at this year's competition so double the number of entrants of last year's with participants from asia africa europe and the pacific all converging in france for the event the rules are fairly simple you can touch the ball a maximum of three times with different parts of your body before sending it back to your opponent the competition is open to both men and women sport first started in hungary just a few years ago but it's grown in popularity and was officially recognised last month by the olympic council of asia at this year's world cup romania clinched the victory in the singles while the pair from montenegro took the doubles title tackles founder's even have hopes of the sport make it to the olympics and it's got the backing of some pretty big names in football. one of my friend invited me to play and you know because i used to be

a former player i said it would be easy to do to win against teams so. i went to to make team you know with that confidants you know i would be too you know what i'd say and announced and i'm telling you know i was very very upset so out of a defeat a step to pride. and yeah it is amazing. well that is oil sports and i know i'm off my tech ball rematch with come all out in the car park half an hour after this next bull is an all right so you know that it's just keep up the that's what i reckon thank you for joining us for the news hour we're back with plenty more the you in just a couple of minutes time another full of news here out of syria and of course the headlines always up there for you twenty four seven at al-jazeera dot com come all santamaria see in a moment. 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 one of the and the events that helped fuel the violence of his final hour. the lust for libya on al-jazeera. in the lead up to the u.s. midterm elections we'll be talking to the american people looking at key issues for voters from immigration to economic struggles the health care system to greece's and women's rights join us throughout have told her for special coverage and analysis the u.s. mood terms on all jersey. for many young adults a coming of age brings greater responsibility. for this young man the

responsibility of eight hundred years of family tradition weighs heavy on his shoulders. the choice. but the decision must be made soon. part of the viewfinder series six zero. lives in fear constantly looking over his shoulder she says she was threatened by armed men as they ransacked a home she knows who ordered the attack and why they want to develop on her community and. we can't let the men we need to continue they can kill me i'm afraid of being killed i need to defend my people who have been here since fifteen sixty nine without any help from the government and now they want to destroy the forest that is part of our land ownership in brazil is among the most concentrated and unequal in the world those who ordered the intimidation the

murders are rarely brought to justice. u.s. president pushes saudi arabia for. disappearance. but once again from doha everyone i'm come out santamaria with the world news from al-jazeera as the political stakes for the kingdom of saudi arabia rise the saudi stock market drops sharply and more potential investors pull out of a major conference and. also voters in the german state of bavaria head to the polls in indiana lection that could change the country's political landscape and the taliban targets afghan forces and a political rally ahead of the country's elections.