the u.s. president pushes saudi arabia fod says over jamal khashoggi disappearance. and i welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters and dark hall with me on this but also ahead as the political stakes for the kingdom rise the saudi stock market drop sharply and more potential investors pull out of a major conference and riyadh. ambassadors to summon to an emergency breaks of meeting at e.u. headquarters in brussels. and

on the streets of minot nicaragua a violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrators. the french british and german foreign ministers have issued a joint statement demanding transparency about the disappearance of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi they say a credible investigation is needed to establish what happened and to identify who's responsible because she was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul twelve days ago the statement follows a warning from u.s. president daughter traum that there will be severe punishment if the kingdom is found responsible for crucial g.'s death the saudis reject what they're calling political pressure and baseless accusations and say they'll retaliate against any economic sanctions or the saudis stock market fall shop early on sunday in reaction

to trump's warning let's go to our correspondent mike hanna now who's joining us live from washington d.c. it is a defiant statement from the saudis pushing back against the u.s. mike. yes it is and it's ramping up the son going diplomatic crisis now emerging sharp differences between president trump and the saudi leadership clearly the saudis statement would appear to be in direct response to president trump's threat of severe punishment coming as it does just a few hours after president trump made that particular statement at the same time though president trump not intent on introducing economic sanctions he has made quite clear his belief that such sanctions would actually impact the u.s. more than it would saudi arabia not so says his congress senate hearing on the morning talk shows marco rubio saying that yes if saudi involvement is proven then

economic sanctions are just one of the many measures that should be taken by the u.s. in response to the disappearance of a jamal khashoggi so certainly there is an intensifying diplomat expect as we heard there the statement from the foreign secretary of the u.k. the foreign ministers of france and germany being their voices to the condemnation making quite clear that this is now a matter for global concern saudi's fritz suffer a tele asian on a global basis just intensifying this scenario and michael hoffman talking about you know the political the economic ramifications the president has also been talking about the man and his fiance to. yes indeed the president trumps trying to keep ahead of the story very clearly he's well aware of the pressure coming from congress he's well aware of his relationship is previous relationship with the saudi leadership

a very warm one he celebrated that relationship as one of the most important parts of his administration successes in the past eighteen months but at the same time president trump attempting to show that he is taking this deadly seriously and he went so far as to. offer an invitation to the fiance of jamal khashoggi who's a doctoral student in istanbul asking her to come to the white house. love to have her a great news where it would leave me dosa surgery 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 going in there was our first hope for first crop was that he was not killed. but maybe that's. not working is not looking too good right. the last few minutes the saudi government has now

issued a tweet thanking the u.s. government for not taking action before getting full details of what actually occurred so there's clearly an attempt by the saudi leadership to dampen this widening rift which had been apparent in the past twenty four hours that tweet coming as i said in the last few minutes thanking the united states clearly an attempt to dampen down the level of this potential confrontation this potential rift between the u.s. administration and what it has regarded in the past as a close and valued ally mike thank you very much for that is mike hanna live and washington d.c. . now despite an offer by crown prince mohammed bin some on the saudis still haven't allowed turkish investigators into their compound john and child has moved from istanbul. opposite these how do you consulates there is a company that deals with issuing visas that's the larger and smaller pilgrimage

that muslims make to mecca in saudi arabia now this company as well as a few others that are scattered around the building say that they are still able to process those paperworks by going to the consulates building albeit they have to answer from in the back there is a road parallel to this building behind now this consulate has essentially been a crime scene now for several days since the disappearance of jamal khashoggi however there hasn't been any turkish police and the only people who've been going in this door here have been those who come on diplomatic vehicles registered to the mission here there are journalists who have been camped out here for several days now waiting for some sort of developments as far as the investigation is concerned other turks are still waiting to be allowed in to search this properly they want their forensic experts to go in there police to go in they need saudi permission to do that till now though they haven't been granted it's. on the economic fallout

from the case. 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 da will 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 it's behind the disappearance and apparent murder of washington post contributor jamal khashoggi 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 everything telling 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 we need 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 trump resented the kingdom shopping list as one of his crown. achievements enter chapelle al jazeera. so who is the man behind the headlines jamal khashoggi the saadi journalist was once close to that in a circles of the saudi royal family here and his reputation as a reformist by pushing the boundaries and critically questioning policies and two thousand and three crucial jew became media advisor to prince turki bin fires the who headed saudi arabia's intelligence service as late as does ambassador to the u.s. but last year went into self-imposed exile in the u.s. after becoming becoming concerned about the actions of crown prince mohammed bin salim on you told al-jazeera and march that he left the kingdom because he didn't want to be arrested. let's move on to other news from now on ambassadors from the

twenty seven e.u. member states have been summoned to a meeting in brussels to discuss breck said the u.k. is usually the european union and march but negotiations on a deal have been stalled for months let's go to our correspondent in london the bucket is joining us live from there reports that there might be a deal but no official word need. that's right the picture coming from brussels is very confused indeed but whoever you read it it looks like some real momentum is happening over there why the confusion well well respected political web site politico who is journalists moloto all things to do with brussels insiders very closely indeed reporting that these twenty seven ambassadors were summoned at short notice to brussels primarily to have a close look at an early deal agreed at a ministerial level or diplomatic level rather between britain and the european

union but on the other side there are reports in the british media and the reuters news agency reporting that their sources tell them that more work needs to be done so their lives the confusion there are some suggestions also that the british brecht's secretary dominic robb who made a bad dash to brussels earlier on the day for talks with michel barnier his counterpart will be staying on in brussels on sunday into monday so we may be at the start of the week before we heard here any more from this but what do we do know is this that if an agreement has been reached it will need to tackle one of the most thoughtless issues in negotiations the northern irish issue whether or not there will be some kind of border between northern ireland part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland both sides say that they won't be but exactly how they've overcome that divide is currently stands very unclear and and for now it

needs it clear what to promise to make is proposing to do with the northern ireland issue is it going to be part of the customs union. well let me explain what that sticking point to is basically in the event of a no deal or the event that the british government can't come up with a plan to keep the border open between northern of the republic of ireland the e.u. came up with a buck stop plan that would essentially keep northern ireland within a customs union with the european union but it was rejected by the british government because it was essentially me that northern ireland would be cut off from the rest of the u.k. with a potential for a customs border down the middle of the irish sea that was supreme fiercely rejected by the british government partners in government the northern irish democratic unionist party so what's the alternative well in the past few weeks some plans have been taking shape the could potentially mean that the whole of the u.k. great britain and northern ireland remains within a customs union force and

a single market with the e.u. for a temporary period of time want to three years that is unclear the problem is for to resume a how to she's share that vision with hard line breaks the tears back here in the u.k. that wants a clean break from brussels she knows that this talk of rebellion within her ranks her plan needs to be watertight thank you very much for that for now that is made with the latest live in london thank you. to germany now where chancellor angela merkel's allies in the stage of bavaria have suffered their worst regional election results and nineteen fifty and there's concern the outcome could widen divisions end miracles federal coalition the question social union of c.s.u. won thirty five percent of the vote losing its absolute majority for only the second time since one thousand nine hundred eighty two and were followed by the sentence to green party and far right a f t let's go to our correspondent dominic

cain has live for us in munich talk us through the results dominic because the c.s.u. were forecast to not do as well as they have in the past that this bad. well the polls for some time and been suggesting it was worth and this was going to be a bruising encounter with the voters as it were for the christie and social unit and that is what has come to pass let's be clear about this something like one in four of all of votes is posted c.s.u. last time around five years ago have abandoned that party this time last summer and many hope the but the electorate voted to suit this time barely a third did and as he was saying the green party well they've been the beneficiaries of some of those folks their vote catapulting up from eight and a half percent last month almost twenty percent this time and as you say the alternative for germany the point to make about the f.t. though is that the f.t. did not exist the last time this parliament was elected so by definition any success they have this time will appear to be that much greater you can't really be

compared with anything from five years ago but let's make no mistake about this the reality is that the pristine social union which has had a stranglehold democratically at least on this parliament of government in this state for the best part of six decades now will be depending on the other parties to try to build a government doesn't it why have they suffered this loss and what could it mean for the federal government to given a key coalition partner and then. well that's the sixty four thousand dollar question in one sense elizabeth because in one sense because they've been governing here for so long it's hard for them to say when the voters in the in the surveys opinion poll say we don't like this policy we don't like that it's hard for them to blame the other sources there have been those in the c.s.u. who grumbled about the actions of the mayor called government certainly in the

summer this just go on they threaten to topple her government her coalition which they're pass off because of the view that she took in terms of policy regarding border controls and tougher migration measures. that was at the halt to a certain extent of the of the collapse in their vote this time but there's one other element to drive through this this election result which spells and bad news for the coalition federally i must know regarding the c.s.u. it's regarding the social democrats five years ago they got twenty percent of the vote here this time that has been. they are in a situation where they are polling even though the green party not just here in bavaria but also federally and so when the dust settles on this election results tomorrow and the politicians in the pit trying to read the runes of this result it's bad news for every parts of the coalition i'm going to metals position as being weak from the pristine social union mask being weakened the social democrats

have been weakened and bear in mind that the sense of entitlement that christine social union politicians in this state has. dozens of them have just lost their seats they're going to want to blame somebody for that dominic thank you very much for that amount that is dumb mccain with all the very latest live in munich thank you still ahead on the bulletin the taliban targets afghan forces and to the election valley ahead of elections. and from national manhunt here are two violent catholic saints the priest who stood up for the poor and el salvador as on it by the poet. hello there the weather across many parts of the middle east is now definitely heading towards winter the temperatures for many of us are dropping we're also seeing more and settled weather as well as some clouds making its way eastwards we

see a few showers over parts of iraq and iran and this cloud up towards the northeast is all say bringing some significant rain really drag the temperatures down as well so marty there is a maximum just five degrees on choose day and at times there is likely to be some heavy snow around as well be further towards the south and here in doha the temperature is easing as well it's still fairly humid though it does feel very hot if you're out in the sunshine still to the south of us this is a new band the remains of it and it's working its way northward so it's over the eastern parts of yemen them we're also seeing some showers over the four western parts of a man and that's there in plenty of cloud ahead of it so don't be surprised if in the eastern part of saudi maybe up towards the u.a.e. and towards muscat there will be more in the way of cloud and just the outside chance of showers well down towards the southern parts of africa and here there is plenty of cloud too you can see it on the satellite picture gradually drifting its way towards the east the main focus of this is working away towards the east now though to move be gradually drawing up

a long night eastern coast if i fast forward to choose day you can see the rains over towards the east and for to happen it's fine.