you will see dad soon. to be. the first. women a strong women. on al-jazeera. saudi arabia threatens to retaliate if economic sanctions are threatened by any countries over the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi. low i'm in london with al jazeera also coming up in the german state of bavaria head to the polls in an election that could change the country's political landscape. back to school in iraq children in mosul return to the classrooms that

one does an i still military base and pope francis tons of latin american hero into a roman catholic saint. marrows on it after being killed in el salvador for standing up for the poor. saudi arabia says it will retaliate against any sanctions imposed over the disappearance of the dissident writer jamal khashoggi u.s. president donald trump has said the kingdom faces severe punishment if it's found to have mud the judge list i believe and the u.k. france and germany have jointly called for a credible investigation to establish the fate would you. outside the saudi called that a defiant a defiant stand being taken by the saudis they are condemning fold. against them ave still cooperating with the investigation there in turkey.

very good question my i mean the saudis position initially went from not knowing exactly what their position is they made that initial statement through their consulates twitter feed over ten days ago saying that they had no idea where john clotilde she was and that the accusations that he was killed were baseless then we didn't hear anything for several days and then we heard this statement ahead of the dispatching of man's top advisor it's unclear on friday saying that they were looking forward to cooperates with their brotherly tarkus governments as they had described did so now there is seems to be not just a fine but even you could say so much aggressive because what they're saying is that not only. excuse me not only will they respond in kind if any sanctions were to be placed on them but they would actually respond even more by enforcing greater sanctions and greater retaliation to any government or country that does that now whether this is

a direct response to what president donald trump said in that sixty minutes interview where he promised that there would be harsh punishments as he said in it or whether it's response to the growing condemnation that is coming we have sold the tripartite statement from france germany and the united kingdom or whether this statement is directed more for internal consumption because bear in mind saudis themselves she was a lot more famous inside saudi than he was arguably outside saudi arabia he wasn't always seen as that critical voice he was very close to the royal courts and people there are looking for answers so maybe this m.b.'s lead or story rather this crown prince mohammed bin someone known as that government is trying to show that it is still strong and stable in the face of the drop to the saudi market which we saw on sunday we're not quite sure exactly what the thinking is behind that saudi statement. all right for now thank you very much there in istanbul well as you are hearing that saudi arabia stock market has been hit since the case attracted

attention suffering its worst full in four years as trading started on sunday a number of media and business leaders have also pulled out of an investment conference in riyadh being held later this month under schapelle has mall. the largest stock market in the middle east suffered its biggest fall for four years within hours of donald trump ramping up the pressure on the saudis the to double in the saudi capital riyadh fell almost seven percent as it opened on sunday morning that wiped out all its gains made this year before recovering to close three and a half percent down we're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment investors reacted to the warnings by donald trump who's made it clear that the kingdom will be severely punished if its behind the disappearance and apparent murder of washington post contributor jamal khashoggi but to a saudi arabia rejects both the accusations of involvement and threats of punishment and is promising to retaliate against any sanctions with bigger ones of

its own this seems to be more questions than answers those comments will do little to settle investors' nerves as business leaders and media sponsors take a step back from saudi arabia's so-called reform agenda the president of the world bank is among several influential leaders who've already said they won't attend a key investment conference in riyadh next week dubbed davos of the desert it's aimed at propelling the kingdom into its latest vision for the future but goober's absence may be noticed the most since the saudis have invested billions of dollars in the u.s. right hailing company 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 that i

don't think that will pull out completely but right now it's to talk sic the u.s. treasury secretary steve minutia is under pressure from u.s. senators not to go but the trumpet ministration wants to maintain billions of dollars worth of weapons orders and the u.s. jobs that go with them when the saudi crown prince visited the white house trying presented the kingdom shopping list as one of his crowning achievements and or chapell al-jazeera. of for more analysis on the story i'm joined in the studio senior political analyst marilyn bashara and a day after president vowed severe punishment saudi arabia has now issued a statement saying that they will react aggressively to any punitive action taken against them how serious a dispute is this turning into. rhetorical it is a bit of a dispute if you are especially because the so does read the american media and they think of it like the saudi media meaning as if it was controlled from above

like puppets mr shintoism want to say but in the united states in fact there is a wide margin of press freedom as it were and i think the american media is quite angry at the fact that that one of their own. who wrote opinion pieces for the washington post would be allegedly assassinated by bias so the arabia. now. you could say that. president trump said everything or nothing so you know he said we're not going to touch one hundred ten billion dollars of. you know straight were no if it's real or or just promises of it and he said there would be severe punishment what's it of conscience we don't know my sense is that he's simply trying to create a new bargaining space for himself with the saudis that he might forgave them for what they've done in return for more so with the investments in the american

economy but of course it's not just about the u.s. we have seen a joint statement by european countries demanding the truth be unveiled and there be more information on what happened to jamal khashoggi but they don't specify what action they might take exactly because in the end of the day saudi arabia is a very rich country and it arms riches several european and other countries including the united states after all there are huge investments by saudi arabia in london patterson new york there is a huge wealth fund controlled by some but the sole man and his father and there's also the oil ian on saudi arabia being the largest or known oil reserves holder in the world so all in all certainly the saudis do have leverage and certainly they have their village with western economies and we know from the past that western economies tend to have double standards if not hypocritical when it comes to

economic interests and human rights all right thank you very much. and now voters in the german state of the very hour are electing a new regional parliament and the result could impact the future of the coalition government in various largest party the conservative christian social union has won almost every election since the second world war but support for the party in charge i'm going the federal alliance has recently slumped now dominick am is live for us in munich and there are exit polls out dominant what are they indicating. they're indicating a serious reverse for the christian social union as you say it's governed in this state basically for the last fifty six years almost alone but this time around they've emerged with just thirty five percent of the vote five years ago they got forty eight percent of the vote an absolute majority in parliament of seats nowhere

near that this time around thirty five percent according to the exit polls which are just coming out the second place policy well that's the green party which has doubled more than doubled its performance in the court over the course of the past five years in twenty thirteen eight and a half percent voted for them this time to a sense of closure green and then on the far right the populist party the alternative for germany party well they didn't exist the last on this parliament was elected but this time around they appear to have got in they haven't percent of the vote a substantial group of people voting in the for the fifty point to say here is the turnaround is considerably in five years five years ago wrapped more than seventy percent some estimates say seventy two percent of the electorate turned out today to vote in this column in three election and as i say the upshot of it is that the christian social union has had a serious reverse. and only why does what happened there in bavaria manage to me as

a whole. because the states merriam sees itself as being almost first among equals. the states of the federal republic of germany they call themselves the free states of the various free thinking they believe that they're almost equals with the federal republic of germany and certainly for the christian social units govern here as i say for so long will they are integral to the coalition that angle america or finance governing the entire country and remember that in the some of the just gone the christian social union threatened to topple a federal coalition of the national level if it didn't get its way over the migration hook border controls that was a central issue in this campaign and they've lost thirteen percent of their performance relative to twenty thirteen which seems to be a reverse so the question will be how will this impact on berlin people have been saying if there's a sort of tremor a seismic shift as it were in bavaria the aftershocks will be felt in berlin

because for my going to michael's perspective this is been a tough year she's had to ride out that threat of the coalition being toppled now she sees her bavarian allies suffering a serious reverse as another state election coming up in germany in the state of hazare in two weeks if that doesn't go well where her party is directly in government well people are starting to wonder how much longer she has in office thank you very much with all the latest on that election in that area tell me. one out some news just in sources saying a deal has been reached on the u.k.'s divorce from the european union has the latest joins me now in what else do we know about these reports by rym it looks very much as if the mood music could be changing it looks possibly as if the e.u. and the u.k. could be heading in the right direction when it comes to a final divorce still all of that though really needs to be clarified soon but the reuters news agency says that three e.u.

diplomats have confirmed that the meeting that these twenty seven ambassadors have been summoned to a short notice was to give them first and foremost. a clear cut early site of the divorce deal what does this mean well it's all happening very much at a high diplomatic level of the negotiator level we don't know anything about what it means in terms of the details but the summoning of these ambassadors comes after a mad dash journey by dominic britain's secretary to brussels earlier on sunday to hold talks with michel barnier the e.u. chief negotiator if anything has been successfully achieved between these two men of course that potential deal an outline of agreement would need to come back here to the u.k. to be signed and sealed by the british prime minister but early signs are that the mood music as i said has changed a little and of course that anything that comes back here would face its own domestic challenges but we have seen a process unfolding since the referendum negotiations went brussels being. somewhat

chaotic confusing difficult could this be. a moment of clarity but anything is possible when it comes to bricks and negotiations until a final deal has been ratified and sealed at all respective governments and legislators of administration zones across europe anything as i said it is possible but there's been a under tremendous amount of pressure put on the british government in the wake of to recent days so-called checkered steel being essentially thrown out by e.u. leaders at the salzburg summit last month we've seen more demands on the british government to hold face to face negotiations with brussels they will be undoubtedly infused to see dominate rob present in brussels over the course of sunday but whether this means real progress that is unclear but it does look as if things are moving in the right direction whether or not these ambassadors come out and give

a statement at the end of their meeting we don't know that either but things are most certainly moving thank you very much in a park with the latest on that story there's much more. still ahead for you hopes in afghanistan that revive talks with the taliban will lead to a political settlement ending years of violence also. a mentor thomas near parks in eastern australia where drought is keeping fields like this one bear fruit the count is having to be trucked in from a thousand kilometers away a huge expense australia's government is hoping to pay for the cost but should it be. 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 so if you all the way up towards the huge day for vince but then gradually making its way towards the southwest as we head into choose 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 will begin to see there 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 north woods 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. work its way towards muscat. in the lead up to the u.s. midterm elections we will 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 oct for special coverage and analysis of the u.s. midterms on al-jazeera china used to take half the world's recyclable rubbish but not anymore with garbage generated by one point four billion people they've got enough of their own but where does it go when he slips the lid on china's war on waste and how does iran.

welcome back a quick look at the top stories now saudi arabia says it will retaliate against any sanctions threatened over the disappearance of the dissident writer jamal khashoggi . u.s. president trying to set the kingdom face a severe punishment while the u.k. france and germany of call for an investigation. in the german state of bavaria are electing a new regional parliament and the results could impact the future of the coalition government in but then the latest polls are chancellor angela merkel's bavarian allies in the lead but they could lose their majority in the state parliament. a news website politico and reuters reporting have reached a deal on the withdrawal agreement from the european union. will turning to other stories we're covering this hour a taliban attack in western afghanistan has left at least seventeen members of the security forces dead gunmen are reported to have attacked seven security check posts in a province on saturday night at least eleven others have been abducted well that

attack comes as the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan met taliban representatives for talks reviving hopes of a potential and decades of violence in the country but in the lead up to saturday's parliamentary elections the attacks have continued. reports now from the afghan capital. the direction campaigning goes on despite the violence this candidate hoping to be voted into the next. 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 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 so here we 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 to resume mother 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 the group and invite its leaders chilled join a broader governing coalition many see that as the best hope of and if the war and decades of ethnic divide so that they can start rebuilding the country has a couple. children in the iraqi city of mosul are settling back into class more than a year after his reclaim from i still the group shut down and destroyed schools when

it sees the city in two thousand and fourteen but isn't how metadata reports it's hoped that we're tending to education will help the children overcome the trauma of war. it's the fos they have school in bubble elementary school in mosul regular classes have 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 erupted forces by the time the complaint to recap to mosul also over 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 mosul. 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 troll mon psychological impact the violent had that's been most diverse the. six year old solid rose has him survived an ass like that hit his home and almost wiped out his entire family he now lives in the partly destroyed house with his father and grandfather the only other survivors of the strike solace for the prepares his son for the first day in school he is hopeful making new friends will help ease the recovery hard enough said humble solace is slowly recovering he nearly died and remembers everything vividly we need more help in caring for him though solace had most to say is 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 as many as schools in law to reopen details are forced to improvise running multiple shifts to accommodate all the students there now increasing calls to the government for amid increasing investment in education to help ease the diverse there from caused by years of violence mohammed at the wall does the era of that. why should preserve the orthodox church in ukraine a celebrated mass to mark the split from the russian orthodox church crane secured approval to establish an independent church on thursday that's been described as the biggest split in christianity over five hundred years or his foreign minister is calling the break a provocation tensions have increased between kiev and moscow following russia's annexation of crimea in two thousand and fourteen. well now pope francis has conferred sainthood on mudded salvadorian archbishop oscar ramiro at

a ceremony in the vatican an advocate for peace during el salvador's civil war america was shot dead while celebrating mass in one thousand nine hundred eighty until recently roman catholic leaders for accused of blocking his canonization because of his perceived left wing views john heilemann looks back at the life of the priest who stood up for the poor while challenging the right wing military dictatorship. posco 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 how does it. the australian government has announced a billion dollars aid package for drought stricken pharmacists economists a question whether it's worth the money trying to acquire crops and raise animals is getting more and more difficult in an increasingly harsh climate under thomas reports now from near parks in new south wales which hasn't had decent rainfall for to me is. in a good year farmers like wayne dunn food wouldn't need to buy a tool they'd grow crops. and the sheep and cows would eat them straight out of the ground but drought has hit australia's east and states they say has been trucked in for a thousand kilometers away with transport costs about two hundred fifty dollars a barrel. one hay bale will feed sixty cows for

a day dunford has three hundred eighty so feeding them is costing him more than ten thousand dollars a week the grind of a drought gets to you know like you get a fifty k. or when blaring if i sold i was a really big throat and they still are afraid to stock and what windows but it gets everyone a bit cranky for some rosen and it tend to get out but it's just the fact that you're out there every die and. things go backwards not forwards. dunford is mixing some hay with wheat grain and compact grass silos to keep costs down but making that mix is harder work even if it is slightly cheaper across eastern australia the drought me the farmers the putting in a lot more effort and paying out a lot more money now the government part help with the what like but it can and you helping with the money australia's national and state governments are subsidizing

transport costs offering low interest loans and giving cash payments to farmers worth nine thousand dollars only have assets of more than three point seven five million dollars disqualifies farming families from the handouts it's the sort of help people in no other industry get this is a way of life that is important to australia's future and as a result of that i think that means there's a special responsibility here but some economists think farms need to deal with drought as any business deals with risk in he is economically viable farmers make lots of money which should carry them through the tough ones few australians though see it that way most live in cities but they have a deep cultural affinity with rural communities it dates back to stories of colonial settlers timing a rugged land today the media adds to the emotional mix drought makes great television and in australia the only add drought so really. confronting

so people in the city who don't necessarily understand the economics of agriculture who have these date cultural sympathy for fama want their governments to act so it's good politics but not necessarily good economics after thomas al-jazeera near palm city is demonstrating. just a quick look at the top stories this hour now saudi arabia says or italianate against any sanctions threatened over the disappearance of the dissident write to jamal khashoggi u.s. president trump a said the kingdom faces of a punishment if it's found to have mud at the journalist as turkish officials have said the u.k. france and germany of call for a credible investigation to establish fate. now has more from istanbul

this m.b.'s lead or story rather this crown prince or been someone known as the government is trying to show that it is still strong and stable in the face of the drop through the saudi market which we saw on sunday we're not quite sure exactly what the thinking is behind the statement and all the headlines voters in the german state of bavaria have been electing a new regional parliament and the result could impact the future of the coalition government and in the latest polls show chancellor angela merkel's bavarian allies in the lead but they could lose their majority in the state parliament. the politico news website citing three e.u. diplomats is reporting that breaks it negotiate has reached a deal on the u.k.'s withdrawal from the bloc ambassadors for twenty seven member states have been summoned to a brics it meeting in brussels that's according to diplomatic sources but the voices news agency is suggesting that a final deal has not yet been produced with the talks still on the agenda. a taliban attack in western afghanistan has left at least seventeen members of the security forces dead gunman are reported to have attacked seven security

checkpoints in far a province on saturday night at least eleven others have been abducted wesh because of the orthodox church in ukraine of celebrated mass to mark the split from the russian orthodox church equation secured approval to establish an independent church on thursday that's been described as the biggest split in christianity for over five hundred years russia's foreign minister is calling the break a provocation tensions have increased between kiev and moscow following russia's annexation of crimea in two thousand and fourteen. and pope francis is conferred sainthood on mudded salvadorian archbishop oscar america at a ceremony in the vatican an advocate for peace during el salvador's civil war america was shot dead while celebrating mass and nine hundred eighty as the top stories of the more news later on but coming up now on al-jazeera want to waste.

china used to take half the world's recyclable rubbish is not evil they've got enough they won't change. the government has now declared war on waste but what do you do with the garbage generated by one point four billion people. on stage chad on this episode of one when he used we visit the live on china's rubbish crisis.

we've traveled about an hour outside by jane where the problems china feiss managing its weist are on the stock display.