and unequalled in the world those who ordered the intimidation the murders are rarely brought to justice. the u.s. president pushes the saudi arabia for answers but jamal khashoggi disappearance. but once again from doha everyone i'm come out santa maria 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 but very ahead 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.

in the past few hours the official saudi 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 remember u.s. president donald trump had already talked about severe punishment if the kingdom was found responsible for these death the saudi stock market fell sharply on reaction to that warning and also the u.s. treasury secretary of state minutes and said on friday that he still plans to attend but there is now some uncertainty about that let's check in with jim. outside the saudi consulate in istanbul these comments from the saudis that shows that they are absolutely digging in over this even well almost two weeks later. indeed i mean it seems that the saudi government is trying to portray itself

as a strong and confident governments in response to as you mentioned that dip in the market we saw the trading opened earlier on sunday the how do you call me taking a bit of a hit there in response to those comments made by president donald trump saying that there would be severe consequences if it's proven that the saudis were behind the disappearance or the murder of john mark karr shoki as well as a response to the fact that several big companies are talking about talking about virgin as well as major media outlets also pulled out of this upcoming future investment conference which is meant to be taking the at the end of the month now so i understand this a big come out we need to look at how saudi arabia has been governed over the past couple of years it's been governed essentially by the crown prince who has been leading the way forward there's

a modernizer as he tried to put to paint himself but more so with what some would describe as an iron fist but some human rights critics would say that is a white washing of actually what is taking place it's not an iron fist and so much as it is an autocratic attempt at ensuring that the silences this sense and obviously what happens to such actually being the latest example of that so to come out with a statement saying that saudi arabia completely reject all the accusations that any country who tried that tries to damage or harm a child or a b. it would not only be. not only receive similar reaction but actually even more lethal or morse or stronger rather reaction is something that is indicative of the way in which saudi arabia has been governed so far jamal just noticing a photographer behind you snapping some pictures through the fencing is there anything to actually see as far as comings and goings from the consulate in these past twelve days. well i mean you know this door has

remained shots throughout the time except when these diplomatic vehicles come that are registered to the south of the mission a few people come out and then they go directly into the door and the doors quickly shuts off to them they don't speak to the press they don't look at the cameras and so forth what we have been able to establish because we have spoken to one of the companies our earlier before our last time the last hour we spoke mean you or you and i come out where one of the companies that processed the visas for the hajj and on the that's the larger and smaller pilgrimages that most of us make sure mecca which is in saudi arabia where we're processing things in a different way what we understand after speaking to several of the other ones that are actually around is that those paperworks are still being processed by the consulate behind me however there is a road behind this building there is a back entrance and that is where the answer purely to submit those paperwork and

get them processed and come back so there is some sort of. processing that is taking place there is some sort of work that is taking place in the consulate based on what these tourism companies have told us obviously the consulate itself is not talking to the media and therefore we can't get any confirmation from them however that is the situation as of now jamal shale is outside the saudi consulate in istanbul and now my canner in washington d.c. mike let's talk about u.s. saudi relationship it's always seen as very strong but the rasher excision the is getting a. little bit more spicy. indeed yes the relationship has always been strong but it's got even stronger and to the trumpet ministration not only official relationships with saudi arabia have been entrenched but also personal relationships through president trump son in law jared push who has had on several occasions social meetings with the crown prince of saudi arabia but the

feeling is not as sharply pro saudi within congress we heard again this morning on the sunday morning talk shows from republican senator marco rubio who repeated to the threat that congress will take the strongest action should saudi complicity be proven he made very clear that this included stop economic sanctions in terms of the letter that the senate has already sent to president trump demanding that such economic sanctions be imposed if the saudi complicity is proven so just just a reminder of the somewhat a bit of division between the administration and the congress the congress pushing very very strongly for severe economic sanctions president trump saying that he would be reluctant to impose those at the stage but yet he also talks about severe punishment as well mike as part of this interview which is going to come out today the sixty minutes interview. yes he does indeed saying that severe punishment would

follow but saying in that same breath that he would not consider economic sanctions because he argues that would be more damaging to the united states than it would be to saudi arabia now this is something as i mentioned with which congress totally disagrees but president trump in other ways is trying to get ahead of the story he's trying to balance the competing interests that he has a the relationship with the saudi royal family and secondly the pressure coming to bear from congress and among his moves in an attempt to walk this tightrope is reported invitation to jamal khashoggi fiance to come to the white house this is what he had to say. you know i love to have a great news where it would lead me down to syria but at this point it's looking like it's looking like. he perhaps would be or isn't around

and that's very sad i think we would have known by now that was our first hope our first hope was that he was not killed. but maybe that's. not working and is not looking too good. the other question up in the air this sunday is whether steve minucci and the treasury secretary will attend that economic conference in riyadh in the coming week well there are some conflicting reports about a financial adviser to the administration larry kudlow saying that he spoke to minucci last night at this stage newton is still planning to go but will reconsider it in the light of the events as they unfold this is a similar message put out by my pump a or the secretary of state so that question is still up in the air and that is going to be a question for the administration as a whole to decide whether or not to send its treasury secretary to riyadh without the situation having been resolved or discovered one way or the other so many questions precious few answers on there mike hanna in washington thank you well

after donald trump's warning of severe punishment for the saudis the main stock market in riyadh fell seven percent when trading began on sunday media and major business leaders have already pulled out of investment conference in riyadh late is this month and jamal was telling us a little bit earlier i spoke to cornelia meyer about it especially on emerging markets and the c.e.o. of resource. there is this future investment in the shift this big conference which should go ahead. in just about ten days time and a lot of big names and a lot of big media organizations have pulled out so this is not this is not good and 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 because

you know your price was very low and people worried about a huge inventors overhang of about three hundred forty million barrels now markets are tight to actually be learning the five year to the inventors are below the five year 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 to make going to go close to the ninety's was worth reminding you even with all the headlines about who the man behind the headlines is more on jamal khashoggi the saudi journalist who was actually once close to the inner circles of the saudi royal family he earned his reputation as a reformist by pushing the boundaries in critically questioning policies in two thousand and three because she became media advisor to prince turki been faisel who headed saudi arabia's intelligence service and later served as an ambassador to the

u.s. but last year to show she went into self-imposed exile in the u.s. after becoming more and more concerned about the actions of crown prince mohammed bin solomon he in fact told down to zero in march that he left the canaan because he didn't want to be arrested. two other news and german voters are electing a new regional parliament in bavaria and the result could increase tensions within the fragile coalition government in berlin the various 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 slum starman it came monitoring events from you know it's a brisk old tunnel 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 being many but the one seminal one in the course of the campaign has been how to my to

manage migration better the parties of the center right to the right and the populist right well they've been advocating a retrenchment of policy to make it harder the 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 recently said 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 makeup and the fabric of that federal coalition. still ahead on al-jazeera back to school in iraq how

children in mosul are returning to the classroom as their city and lives are rebuilt and from latin american hero to roman catholic saints the priest who stood up for the poor in el salvador is on it by the power. hello there the rain over parts of china is gradually drifting its way towards the southwest you can see plenty of cloud on our satellite picture and some of it is giving some fairly heavy rain and see lots more of it as we head through the day on monday stretching all the way up towards the who they felt it for then gradually making its way towards the southwest as we head into chews day so working its way towards chandi but i think for us in chengdu it should be dry and now before the towards the west in the rains looking fairly subdued over parts of india at the moment see just

a few showers in the east and across the southern parts want to say force in sri lanka and this again is where we'll just see a couple of showers as we head through monday but again nothing too significant i think on choose day we're going to see their showers begin to pull themselves together a bit more so some more significant rain there for the eastern parts and for the southwest towards the north over largely fine and dry but a good deal more cloud there over parts of new delhi even though the temperatures up at thirty four and fours across the arabian peninsula plenty of cloud in the south at the moment as all storm new been gradually makes its way northward giving us some very heavy rain particularly in the eastern parts of yemen russo seeing a few showers in the southwestern parts of a man as well ahead of it we are also seeing some wet weather make its way across parts of saudi and towards the u.a.e. and work its way towards muscat. i'm his story say for the birth of these people every week the news cycle brings a series of breaking stories told through the eyes of the world's journalists these

two voices journalists were one of the few journalists in baghdad that were actually doing investigative black listening post as we turned the cameras on the media to focus on how they were caught on the story simply to demand sixty buys the rights to those stories but then he never publishes those stories they're listening posts on al-jazeera. top stories for you on al-jazeera and in fact just in the last few moments we've had a joint statement from the foreign ministers of britain france and germany concerning jamal khashoggi they are saying quote light must be shed on his disappearance of

follows a warning from the u.s. president saying riyadh would face severe consequences if it was found to be behind a murder we also heard from saudi arabia's press agency saying the kingdom rejects what it calls political pressure and baseless accusations in response to all of this saudi arabia stock market plunged to a trading began on sunday also media and major business leaders have already pulled out of an investment conference and riyadh which is being held later being a mom. and german voters are electing a new regional parliament in bavaria and the results could increase tensions within the fragile coalition and support for chancellor angela merkel's federal lymes has recently taken a hit. children in the iraqi city of mosul settling back into their classes more than a year after the city was reclaimed for myself i saw basically shut down and to school . most of the schools when they seized mosul and twenty fourteen but as monitor reports it is hoped that now getting an education will help the children heal from

the effects of. the it's the first day of school in bubble elementary school in. regular classes up received for the first time in three years. i still use this school as a military base firing rocket propelled grenades and mortars at nearby air out their forces by the time they come painted a cup to mosul also but most of the city was reduced to rubble their 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 most top forgotten what it is like to be in school up to three years where it can be a struggle say the teachers to get them to listen and participate but it's the trauma

and psychological impact that violent us had that's been lost give us the. six year old solace that has has him survived an s. like that hit his home and almost wiped out his entire family he now lives in the popular 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 is a covering hard enough 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 funds. well the government unexploded bombs and other weapons continue to pose a danger to the children in the school. basis many schools.

to reopen to improvise running multiple shifts to accommodate all the students there now increasing calls to the government for increased investment in education to help ease the diverse caused by years of violence mohammed. a taliban attack in western afghanistan's left at least seventeen members of the security forces dead and several others taken captive gunmen are reported to have attacked seven security check posts in far province on saturday nights. 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 northeastern province of parkour the grow up the crowd was listening to a speech by a female candidate who was standing in next saturday's parliament it's also the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan has met taliban representatives for talks reviving hopes

of an end to decades of violence reports on bat from kabul. the action campaigning goes on despite the violence this candidate hoping to be voted into the next parliament. the elections seen as crucial to and instability in afghanistan but attacks by the taliban have picked up the group has threatened more disruption of the ballot box accusing of the united states of using the elections to extend its troops presence in afghanistan a meeting between the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan. and the taliban took place in qatar on friday raising hopes of a political solution the u.s. and the afghan government are remaining tight lipped about the meeting the taliban welcomed the talks but warned in

a statement that the presence of foreign troops is the greatest obstacle to peace and solving problems first must be made to was a genuine peace and the solution agreed on by the afghans themselves the afghans who have survived years of violence and bloodshed say political talks have to be good for afghanistan but they have yet to see any benefits. to keep talking about peace talks we haven't seen any progress those talks have been mentioned for years and yet there is nothing there yet. was certain here. really need peace but at the same time we need a third party who can help negotiate a peace deal between the taliban and the government in june the taliban and the government agreed on a three day cease fire it was the first truce in seventeen years but talks stalled and violence resumed. most of whom was are caught up in a fight among the b.

he will talk about the afghan government conditions for a permanent deal with the taliban. but on the ground peace seems some way off taliban attacks targeting election candidates and security forces happen almost every day it's generally accepted that the military option would not defeat the taliban and that it's better to engage with a group and devise its leaders chill join a broader governing coalition many see that as the best hope of and if the war decades of ethnic divide so that they can start rebuilding the country. uganda's prime minister has been visiting the district of where a landslide killed at least forty one people on thursday and where is there in the village of one genoa where locals are trying to pick up the pieces after just the latest in a series of devastating landslides in the family of course solo been going to have come to fake it by. a landslide crushed his house he was inside. they were.

there were four people in the house at the time it was destroyed and now you can see the body of my son right i mean right. lived in the small village of one gen y. in the foothills of mount held on 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 is 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 to 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 the 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. but. there seem to be frank. with. you very probates. 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 truck carrying migrants has overturned in turkey killing at least nineteen people and injuring twenty six others it happened in the western province of is me or turkey of course a key route for migrants trying to reach europe the russian opposition leader alexei navalny is thanked his supporters after being freed from fifty days of detention about he said anti-government 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 him as a prisoner of conscience who hasn't committed any crime. why should those 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 it is being 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 years ago spoke to alexander britto who is the senior foreign policy writer at the russian news website are you he says the split could be seen as political revenge. both countries. are united by the. need the marshes main religion is well as main religion in ukraine a little barrels account with georgia's in ukraine you know for many years even when this complex started being russia the crimea and the eastern part of ukraine there was a unity church. there are some some people some senior officials within the right.

to displease all were from russia now it seems to be a very big deal yes there were ukrainian officials and. now actually. of course russian federation which of course was adamant. about revenge actually eleven thousand churches now answering to the russian or to the russian there will be sort of independent so russia will have no say on that that's discussed on the political level here because president putin has federation council and very high ranking body involving senior officials the military senior police people and diplomats to discuss the situation on the situation is not just believe. but also a very political question that's like that one of this is one of the few hoops now russia is still hanging on and that's this who is now being destroyed. from the

roman catholic archbishop who was shot in el salvador. saint francis was a blood stained belt of. his canonization ceremony square the pope's also canonized one of his predecessors paul the sixth who was a pontiff in the nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's hallman looks back now at the life of the priest who stood up for the poor while challenging atrocities by the 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. south of those civil war ended thirty six years ago but the country still suffers

from the causes that romero spoke against widespread inequality and boylan's 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. so an update on the headlines here at al-jazeera the u.k. france and germany have just released a joint statement saying light must be shed on the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi follows a warning from the u.s. president saying riyadh would face severe consequences if it was found to be behind a murder that saudi arabia's press agency says the kingdom rejects what it calls political pressure and baseless accusations in the case of jamal khashoggi jamal shale has more from istanbul new to look at how saudi arabia has been governed over the past couple of years it's been governed essentially by the crown prince who has

been leading the way forward as a modernisers he tried to put it to paint himself but more so with what some would describe as an iron fist but some human rights critics would say that is a white washing of actually what is taking place it's not an iron fist and so much as it is an autocratic attempt at ensuring that he silences this sent an obviously what happened to her structure being the latest example of that in other news the u.s. president has thanked turkey for the release of the american past and her brunson but denies he cut a deal with ankara donald trump says it's a tremendous step towards improving relations between the two countries france and the u.s. president after being released by a turkish court on friday i want to thank president early gun turkey. it was terrific work together wasn't easy was it that one was.

and we don't pay ransom we don't pay ransom was. what 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 german voters are electing a new regional parliament in bavaria and the results could increase tensions within the fragile coalition government and. various not just the conservative christian social union has won almost every election since the second world war expecting the first results at around sixteen hundred hours g.m.t. . coming up in half an hour on al-jazeera right now the. designation state. terror. designation means. the sudanese foreign minister.

mohammed ahmed talks. squat with. washington post column. one of the clones. criticize meters. at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week disappearances can be deceiving. and the news coverage and geopolitics that lie beneath it looks like news and reads like news but isn't its native advertising it took a while but the me too movement has finally reached the media in india and iran's supreme leader has a theory on why it has stopped short of his country but he's happy to share online . we begin with the disappearance of.