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evidence that the fighters of the so-called radical groups are withdrawing in line with the such a deal the russian and turkey agreement to create a demilitarized zone around the no word yet from turkey as well the country which is overseeing the implementation of the deal but we did hear from. them this is the main military alliance it is considered a terrorist organization by the international community it controls seventy percent of the whole province and it controls a large chunk of this demilitarized zone for the first time they released this statement late yesterday referring to the sochi deal they didn't explicitly say that they support this deal but they saying the signaled readiness to comply so a tacit acceptance of the deal and one of their in one of their statements they actually say that we support and appreciate efforts done inside and outside of course that's a reference to turkey to protect liberated areas to prevent an invasion and to prevent massacres we know that this sort she deal is to prevent the possibility of a syrian government offensive to create this new front line so hypothetically the
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sham really a very pragmatic group that has been pragmatic for years it rebranded itself after it said it was publicly cut ties with al qaida hoping that the international community would no longer see it as a terrorist organization so they did quietly comply with the first deadline which was october tenth and they did remove their heavy weapons from this and we have to remember that this the middle demilitarized zone does not solve the whole of the fate of the province as a whole it creates a new front line it tells the rebels and these so-called radical groups to move further back and the two you know would rather heavy weapons further back into the chief's two objectives that the russians and the syrian government wanted and that is to protect their strongholds to protect the russian base in a year and to open international highways to commercial traffic. an important border crossing between syria and jordan has been reopened for the first time in three years the syrian government re took the area near the north sea crossing from
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rebels in july it was part of a russian backed offensive to drive faces from the south west of syria the border used to be a major transit route for goods and passengers. we're going to weather update next here on out zero ten intense talks in brussels do little to break a briggs's deadlock over the future of the irish border. a huge trawlers off the coast of southern drawl or endangering a traditional way of life. and we have plenty of showers over the southeast and parts of asia at the moment some of them very heavy particularly across the southern parts of the philippines and stretching across the northern parts of borneo and then there's a bit of a break before we see yet more showers in the western parts of our map and those will return as we head through the day on tuesday some of them very very heavy so
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expect some downpours in singapore amfa k.l. as well as for the south there is a better chance of getting away with a dry day for java there is more dry weather around but even here there's a risk of seeing one or two showers at times down towards australia and there's two main rainmakers here one in the east that's giving us some very heavy rain in the eastern parts there through parts of queensland and also some more wet weather into the southeastern corner of australia as well this is giving some heavy rain over parts of south australia now working its way into victoria behind it is not as warm as it has been so adelaide sixteen degrees but melbourne clinging on to around twenty one or twenty two as we head through the next few days lots of weather actually over victoria as we head into wednesday to further west looking fine and settled for us in perth maximum temperature pleasant twenty four degrees now over towards new zealand we've got an area of high pressure in charges so for most of us it's fine and settled i think as we fast forward to wednesday the have we more cloud more showers for the south.
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again the main news this hour on how to zero saudi arabia's king solomon case president i want i've spoken by phone to reaffirm their commitment to a joint investigation into the disappearance of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi he hasn't been seen since then to and he since he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul on to the second took a shot for a ceasefire that he was killed inside. the largest armed group in syria's rebel held province high atop. the signal that it is a binding by the terms of the demilitarize ation deal agreed last month the deal set a deadline of monday for rebel groups to withdraw all faces from inside. the political allies of germany's chancellor angela merkel have had their worst election result of bavaria in sixty eight he is the christian social union suffered major losses in sunday's state's election and that threatens to deepen divisions within the fragile federal coalition government in berlin over issues such as
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immigration al-jazeera still when it came reports now from munich. the christine social unit is trying to read the ruins of the result on sunday which deprived it of it of its overall majority in parliament and sent shock waves not just through its own party structure in bavaria but also at a federal level about the repercussions that this election result may have the reaction certainly in so far as the newspapers this morning a concern pretty clear the build site in saying this was a slap in the face for the c.s.u. which has shaken germany the influential zoo d'argent site on one of the biggest papers in southern germany saying it's a debacle for the c.s.u. and for the social democrats and then the diverted newspaper saying a day that changed by and but in fact many people are wondering if it's a day that has changed german politics because it wasn't just the christian social union that suffered a drubbing was also the social democrats who saw their vote share half a point to make is that those two parties are two of the three parties governing
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this country federally how likely is it that they will look at these results and say we can carry on in government and paternity by these results we expect to hear from some of the senior elements of the conservative party but i'm going to medical leave the c.d.u. later that sit certainly the focus now is on how confident the federal coalition members are that they can continue in office for the long term regs and talks of once again stalled over the future of the irish border an impromptu meeting of all twenty seven passengers in brussels on sunday that led to optimism about a deal being reached but e.u. and u.k. negotiators were unable to come to an agreement island's foreign minister called the lack of progress disappointing that's go live now to london. and tell us more so jonah what happens now. well there was this sort of carefully sequenced idea of what was going to happen as late as
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yesterday afternoon first of all the technical deal among the negotiators then to be signed off by foreign ministers of the u.n. the british cabinet tomorrow and then to be presented to the leaders on wednesday night at a summit by to reason mayor herself well that sort of sequences clearly fall in a way to reason may we understand decided she looked at the deal and couldn't achieve enough political support for it here so she couldn't push it forward well it raises two very important questions adrian the first the status of negotiations now how badly the railed of they can the british turn up on wednesday night we know they'll be no talks between now and then can they turn up on wednesday night with political consensus behind a deal that they could then put forward to the others at this point the answer to that would seem to be unlikely it begs the second question which is that the political consensus in this country with a divided cabinet a divided ruling ruling party a divided opposition party even a divided parliament and all divided along quite different lines squaring that
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circle looks extra remotely difficult remember the deal that has been discussed we understand now wouldn't visit the whole of the u.k. remaining in a customs union until such time as a trade arrangement is reached between the two sides that deals with the very difficult issue of the border between our land of the republic of iran the keeping it open in other words but for progress of factions on the right and the left that he's unacceptable it deprives this country of the ability to strike its own trade deals outside the e.u. a sort of holy grail of breaks in itself and for the do you pay the unionists in northern ireland who prop up to reserve may's very thin majority in parliament well they've made it abundantly clear they'll never support anything that might down the line see northern ireland treated differently to the rest of the united kingdom in terms of trade. and that is implicit in the deal being discussed it's all incredibly complex and at this point it appears to be irreconcilable and very
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briefly ben just had that from what you're saying that this whole of the ball is back in britain's court had to be the british drama goes on. indeed it is very much now a british political drama with a reason may's premiership once again not for the first time very much on the line ministers are meeting tonight ahead of a cabinet meeting tomorrow several of them said to be considering their positions more big resignations from cabinet the board being too could bring this government's authority into question of the day you pay those ten and fees that support the reason a well they've all but said they are ready to withdraw their support from this government that could could see her collapse it's just one of several scenarios that could see her government fall this side of any deal being reached on breaks so many thanks indeed i was a joy to hold a live in london ukraine's foreign minister has condemned the nationalist websites of publishing the personal details of more than five hundred people that it claims
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obtained garion passports dual citizenship is illegal in ukraine which is expelled a diplomat in a standoff with hungry over the issue after simmons reports it's a long way from ukraine's fighting but this small border town is having an identity crisis it spreads well beyond the hillside bearing both hung garion and ukrainian flags. many of the people here live with a secret they have dual citizenship that's illegal the new crane and a camera smuggled into the hungary and consulate building exposed what's being going on there may be going on. you can hear people swearing allegiance to hungary with diplomats present even the chink of champagne glasses on to the past so that over. it angered ukraine's foreign affairs minister who's come to the region trying to calm things down but he won't budge on the central issue there is no way of
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handling doublethink on the ukrainian law the diplomatic spat is escalating with the ukrainian government suggesting that viktor orban the hungary and prime minister vladimir putin president of russia both have a vested interest in destabilizing this region beyond that there's been the publication online of five hundred names of people a website suggests or hold illegally hungary impossibles a birth date or it's in difficulties a number x. number it's confirmed this and all the information in my home address andre mincha has no political affiliations he runs an i.t. business gets his on the list wife children. and all peoples on and you heard a better however recently there were confrontations between far right marches and police yet the demonstrators took down the hungary and flag from
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a public building. and on the streets here there's dismay that a secret camera could record proceedings inside a foreign consulate must be our national interest but if he's reading this be an arse it's a way to blow the conflict here out of all proportion but. why is julian even triple citizenship allowed in europe when here it's a crime if we want to be part of europe we should live according to its values public claim can had talks with community leaders from several ethnic minorities and condemn the online publication of hungary and passport holders this site. was created to counter the russian aggression and now would you put one here and use the same context like zero thrushes fighting against independence and. creates a lot of issues for me on dreamin jochen his wife aren't sure what to do about the website list that's still on line they're thinking of leaving the country and ruth
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simmons al-jazeera better hoover ukraine. the war in yemen is making it difficult for children to get an education at least two million of them don't go to school but for those that are able to get to the classroom they're prepared to do whatever it takes to stay there bennett smith reports. these children shouldn't be anywhere near what's left of their school clambering over rubble on the bombed ceilings on along the walls that could give way at any minute but the concentration in their faces shows how much they want to try to learn since twenty fifteen the school in ties in southwestern yemen has been hit by asterix artillery and find. our schools have been destroyed because of these barbaric groups who came from the silence of history and corrupted or learned what brought them here and what do they want look at our school this is their mark they did not come distributing books or supporting students or to praise teachers they came with destruction with slogans
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of that those people eat and drink that. the school is stuck in the middle of a relentless battle for territory between the rebels and the saudi u.a.e. led coalition that backs the yemeni government says way mad though education is the basis to rebuild the state knowledge is light and ignorance is darkness and we want to tell the government and private and affiliated parties that we are tired of promises and procrastination we want to go back to work not words we want to turn our values into action and into reality if there are no classes to go to the boys according to the united nations children's fund risk being recruited as child soldiers. almost half yemen's girls if not in school. in the school got hit we studied at home some of our teachers were killed and some students our friends also died it angered us and it saddened ass our school was big
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so now it's just destroyed the playground has been turned into a battleground. two million children will be out of school this year in yemen that's according to unicef and another four million primary school children risk losing access to education because seventy percent of our teachers haven't been paid in the last two years and they're being forced to find work elsewhere bernard smith al-jazeera djibouti. they had to go shin off the west coast of africa has long been rich in fish but overfishing and plastic pollution is being blamed for causing sea food shortages and high prices in senegal the reports from. it is a tradition talked to him by his father passed from one generation to the other. rather than said nets in the water and calls out to the ocean for fish chanting
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what you eat i eat what i eat you eat. shortly after the ocean responds to his car it's a red tuna. unaware but he's about to kill an endangered species. he catches another. then nothing. hours go by still nothing. we used to catch lots you could fill your boat with fish now if we're lucky on a good day i catch ten fish the ocean is not the same it's not like before. more pollution fewer fish according to scientists the equivalent of a truck full of plastic is dumped into the ocean worldwide every minute environmentalists warn it this is killing sea life with several endangered species facing extinction. desperate a group of fishermen indycar have put up an artificial reef to try to attract fish back to their natural habitat middle room it's down to human greed we local
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fishermen are partly to blame but it's also our government's fault allocating fishing rights to foreign industrial they act like hire it's our oceans resources this needs to stop. out of sight our industrial fishing trawlers their nets scrape the ocean floor hauling the equivalent of a football field in a matter of minutes destroying aquatic life precious for fish reproduction. most are european vessels and their cats are not sold to africans according to the development agency o.d.i. there are two billion dollars worth of fish missing in west african markets each year here in senegal there's a shortage of fish prices have doubled and what was once a staple food is now a luxury few can afford. it is a small meal and will share with his family and neighbors his children say they
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don't want to take up fishing it's not worth it anymore. with no longer responding to this fisherman's call an age old tradition is slowly disappearing. it is good to have you with us in fighting in here in doha the top stories this hour sarah saudi arabia's king solomon turkey's president. of spoken by phone to reaffirm their commitment to a joint investigation into the disappearance of jamal khashoggi the saudi journalist hasn't been seen since he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul on october second. the largest armed group in syria's rebel held province a signal that it's abiding by the terms of the demilitarization deal agreed last month. or h.t.s. hasn't previously said whether it had accepted or rejected the agreement between
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russia to keep the deal set a deadline of monday for rebel groups to withdraw all faces from inside it lip and the country's northwest turkey which is overseeing the agreement has not yet commented on whether the terms of being met the son was meant to be cleared of heavy weapons the tenth was five days ago. an important border crossing between syria and jordan has been reopened for the first time in three years the syrian government retook the area near the north sea crossing from rebels in july it was part of a russian backed offensive to drive faces of the south west of syria they political allies of germany's chancellor angela merkel have had their worst election result in bavaria in sixty eight years the christian social union suffered major losses in the state's election on sunday and breaks it talks of once again stalled over the future of the irish border an impromptu meeting of all twenty seven passengers in brussels on sunday that led to optimism about a deal being reached but you and u.k.
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negotiators were not able to come to an agreement on foreign minister called the lack of progress disappointing there's the headlines more news on al-jazeera after witness next. does the designation that you are the state sponsor of terror tell us what that designation means how bad is that people sit on. the seat denise foreign minister algeri mohammed ahmed talks to al-jazeera. the.
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will be we say wednesday and then i decide i said ok so that's the help i cited so while we were dealing with. when i started. yes i'm ashamed. this chance no problem about out if you want me to inform them yes i'll be able to inform them but i'm just wondering with all the sequelae he wants will be on the border. itself probably told don't get an invitation. only so. that's who wants what i did. and with only allowed six monday in fourteen i would. have. you know and it's got was that there was going to put another couple.
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and they took off with you know. who don't belong to the boards and. stuff you know to be my. words and i mean i got on and i mean i'm not i'm not my own disco. but. you know see i know about a lot. as i said you know the. number one team but again that would be a guess they ask. god yes it's not true the issue of middle about
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depend on it to make mistakes try going to them. you know you make mystically in passionately. or did money make mystical because now you know you discuss picked. it to talk. you know listen today to talk. the talk you want talk you get to me to you on going as a result or as a result of dug up and get out of detention because in the water in the border it is very very and disciplined but noted to me what it demanded moffitt suki which you don't condone yes everybody i want i'll know desegregate but in drug induced apologies i said to. you don't i just mystically not be again if you can not to hear anyone else i would go. to a small island in the. in this in the end of the. hope that in the stick where you don't put awful scene on the stick and that's such a nice signal wapping we need to be welcoming you once more i see through fledged
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member of which social flow. thank you very much for the apology the military must . yeah i don't want to say one thing. but i think you did what they. mean. good morning to everybody. today i guess at least nasa will wait till we go on now as the names of people that we go to for. decide that's the following six will go to about spot lebia. deputy manager. john small thank charles thanks
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fact. that i'm with you so that. i'm thinking i wouldn't benjamin and i'm just as well as you were. so you mess it up yourself i have always been so frank said the level that i was well i get a well developed world thank you for follow up so being that you feel the father ok . but almost seventy that it's no good you're not a father. it's not wonder that you thought. about it well as good as your out if you just got one but that the son with the being a father with. was also still the right. yeah oh yeah well we have to love this young fella we'll read once that i was coming on this side of the. sun. god
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forbid. i want to talk yeah we're going to come back yeah we've got people come over seth and will because i felt. that i was not going to go out. as i've. got a. few . few. even actually question to you now explicitly simply put i. like reality as you know. it will no doubt it will be for the robust i leave yeah
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go. one simple mistake could be franco from. the shining as a deep sea diver that carries immense risk to the lives of those willing to take the chance but for former north korean and so on jet the opportunity for a prosperous new life in the south with his family was an even bigger risk to take . a witness documentary on al-jazeera
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the saudi king. president to discuss the disappearance of. the deal that was supposed to see a key group withdraw from syria's rebel held province and with. the way in brussels do little to break the break. in the race to reach baseball's world series as the boston red sox squared things up against the houston astros one game. however one turkey's government says a joint group of turkish and saudi arabian officials will be searching the saudi consulate in istanbul later on today the search has been delayed for several days this is been a key demand in the unfolding investigation into the disappearance of saudi
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journalist jamal here's some of the other latest developments in this nearly two week old mystery saudi arabia's king solomon and the turkish president. they spoke by phone on sunday evening al-jazeera has learned the head of saudi intelligence has arrived in turkey and is to meet the turkish officials also in a tweet on sunday the saudi embassy in washington thanks the u.s. for quote not jumping to conclusions that was off for want of retaliation against any sanctions u.s. president donald trump had warned of severe punishment the kingdom was found to be behind disappearance also the u.k. for. and germany are jointly calling for a credible investigation into to show g.'s fate and on the corporate side forward and j.p. morgan the investment bank are the latest companies to pull out of a major investor conference which is scheduled to be in saudi arabia ok let's tieless together with child stratford of course live outside the saudi consulate and a bit more media there are a few more cameras there and people outside the door charles tell us what's
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happening. yeah a sudden wave of excitement here kemal as this news came through we spoke to the foreign ministry spokesperson who confirmed yes that that joint best team is expected to be inside the consulate late to today we're also getting reports that we can verify some korda saying that the saudi team of the saudi some side of that joint basically committee may well be inside the consulate already certainly we have seen a number of people go in and out of the consulate this morning but we are unable to verify that it's we would speaking to a government spokesperson earlier become a source sorry earlier today in there asked them why this had taken so long why this access for this team had taken so long because it was announced it was going to be put together at least four days ago now that's supposed personal story that
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source saying that the big sticking point of being the nature of the investigation he just found thought it was going to be understood that it was a push back from the saudis sell it possibly about the level of forensic investigation that they were going to allow to take place it seems certainly all the evidence would suggest of this announcement that those disputes have been resolved and we expect that team to go in imminently certainly in the next couple of hours thing is that charlie when in two weeks down the line now and we since jamal khashoggi went in through those doors and we're talking about a forensic investigation i mean it just has taken an extraordinarily long time and a lot could have happened in that time. that's exactly it and those are the big fear is that if indeed these allegations are true then any solid evidence there is the risk of that solid evidence having it at the end of not
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being there of of either being destroyed or having disappeared and of course it would have been in the saudi's interests one would have thought if indeed as they have continued to say that these allegations a base of base list lies that that invested team would have been allowed in. to to prove that international pressure has been massive in this case as you say. an announcement last night joint announcement from the u.k. germany and from the u.n. also pushing for the want for a transparent open investigation but it has taken it two weeks two weeks almost two weeks since mr coo shows he went inside that building and seemingly never came out again and we know that the turks have obviously been very keen to try and get what is being described by. as much of it international consensus on board
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before releasing what some sources in the government say and have released two newspapers that they say very strong evidence that mr coo shoji was murdered. but oversee that the sensitivity of this situation the incredible crisis that that has developed when you look at the massive amounts of influence that saudi arabia has the geopolitical relationships involved with for example the u.s. and the wider world you can understand turkey's reluctance really to do that without getting some sort of agreement from the sound is ok childs thank you chances outside that's not a concept we keeping an eye on the live shots as there are will there is activity there are comings and goings there and we'll go back to charles as soon as we have any more information about the investigators heading into that consulate. we must share prices in riyadh have recovered some of the ground they lost a day earlier you remember on sunday saudi arabia's main stock index fell seven
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percent and has been trending down for more than a week raising questions about whether the situation is having an impact on the broader saudi economy mike hanna has more on that the saudi stock market suffered its biggest fall in years following president trump's warning it recovered slightly during the day but it was the purse tangible sign of the impact of this crisis on the saudi economy. and impact too on the once cozy relationship between the trumpet ministration and saudi leaders a statement released by the saudi news agency threatening global retaliation against any sanction came just hours after president trump spoke of severe punishment should saudi arabia prove complicit in jamal khashoggi his disappearance . no dodge among members of congress that this should involve economic sanction despite president trump stated reluctance to pull such measures so i would just say this to you or for confidence if this is proven to be true there is going to be
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a response from congress it's going to be nearly unanimous it's going to be swift and it's going to go pretty far and that could include arms sales but it could include a bunch of other things as well european leaders to making clear they will not stand by they must have seen the huge international concern from the united states now from britain france and germany what they need to do is to cooperate fully with the investigation that the turks are asking us to do and to get the brunt of this and if as they say this this terrible murder didn't happen then where is jamal khashoggi and that's what the world wants to know here a former cia director casting doubt to the vehemence saudi denials of him told them and their denials ring hollow very much for a hollow to go after a permanent resident states who writes for the washington post and doing it on foreign soil at a diplomatic mission to me would be inconceivable that such an operation would be
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run by the saudis without the knowledge of the day to day decision maker of saudi arabia that's crown prince mom been said. in an apparent bid to diffuse the tension the saudi foreign ministry has released a tweet thanking the u.s. and others for refraining from jumping to conclusions despite this though a relationship that was once so warm is along with the saudi stock market reaching a new low mike hanna is here or washington at the thoughts now of someone who is a professor of middle eastern politics at the university of oklahoma who told us despite political pressure in the u.s. focusing on arms deals with saudi arabia there is little appetite within the leadership of either country to cancel the big weapons deals. president trump does not want to cancel this arms sales for all different kinds of reasons and the saudis also want to go through i don't think china and russia would hesitate for
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a second to take the place of the united states as the leading arms supplier to saudi arabia but again there are costs and some not necessarily apparent that would go with something like that saudi officers many of them are trained in the united states and some in western europe there are military is geared to those kinds of arms switching out sophisticated weapons systems all of a sudden for russian made or chinese made weapons causes all kinds of problems having to do ensure operability and training and maintenance and so on so this is not as easy as simply mohammed and someone taking a decision snapping his fingers and going forward there are real costs involved what are the long term implications potentially on the saudi economy and on confidence in the saudi economy as a place for investments mean it's clearly a huge economy and there's a spaces for people to make money and companies will do so but if there are real questions about these kinds of issues and so on the net is going to lead not only
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that members but many others to think twice and three times about investing a dollar in saudi arabia. just a little reminder before we move on of the man at the center of all of this jamal khashoggi of course the saudi journalist once close to the inner circles of the saudi royal family he earned his reputation as a reformist by pushing boundaries and questioning government policies in two thousand and three became a media advisor in fact to prince turki been five the prince head saudi arabia's intelligence service and later. to the to the us but last year he went into self-imposed exile in the us off to becoming concerned about the actions of crown prince mohammed bin solomon in fact he told obviously right in march that he left the kingdom because he didn't want to be arrested the latest on that when we get it of course but we move on to syria now where the largest on the group in the last rebel held province says it plans to stay put despite a deadline of monday for withdrawing from the demilitarized zone we're talking
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about. which did not say whether it accepted or rejected last month's deal agreed between russia and turkey here it is on the map the adlib agreement which set up a demilitarized area around the northwestern region surrounding that in the province and green the zone was meant to be cleared of heavy weapons by october tenth and of rebel fighters by monday which is today and is with us now from beirut to talk about some of the so your second deadline today. what do you know about the actual implementation of it. well there is still no movement on the ground no reported withdrawal of fighters from these so-called radical groups in line with that turkish russian deal but even turkey which is overseeing the implementation of this deal has still not made any official confirmation that these so-called radical groups are fulfilling their commitment in a short while ago we heard the syrian foreign minister walid moallem say time is
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