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believe sea eruptions reflect the mood so the goddess pale a. native hawaiians family is always nice to us whether she takes our home or not we accept this type of event. turkish investigators finally enter the saudi consulate in istanbul a source says they found evidence a missing journalist was killed inside the embassy it sounds exactly like the road you're going this is president trump offers is own theory of what happened to jamal khashoggi after a phone call with the saudi king. hello there i'm barbara sorry this is al jazeera live from london and also coming up on
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the program the biggest rebel group in syria has a deadly province ignores the deadline to withdraw its fighters from a planned the demilitarized zone and flash floods in france killer least ten people after storms dropped months of rain in just a few outings. a source from the turkish attorney general's office says told al jazeera they found the evidence that the missing saudi journalist jamal ashaji was murdered inside the saudi consulate turkish investigators are currently inside the consulate in istanbul looking for clues to his this appearance they entered the building almost six hours ago now after finally being allowed in by saudi authorities earlier a saudi team entered the compound in what is being billed as a joint investigation also a team of cleaner is a was seen arriving at the building jamal ashaji was last seen entering the
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consulate on october the second to obtain documents that would have allowed him to marry his turkish fiancee the u.s. president has sent the secretary of state might compel to saudi arabia to speak the king sound man about the disappearance of the government insider turned critic donald trump also says the saudi king told him he had no knowledge of what may have happened to the journal. meanwhile ford j.p. morgan blackstone and black rock are the latest companies to pull out of the major investment for nicknamed davos in the desert which the saudis are hosting next week well let's bring in our live show you who's outside the consulate in istanbul and really has been following the story since it first developed thirteen days ago so jamal just remind us again of what we have been told for the first time officially by the turkish authorities about this investigation what have they found.
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well barbara after a few hours of those investigators that circus investigators finally be given being given access to the consulates behind me we had the turkish attorney general's office tell al-jazeera exclusively of their initial investigations conducted by their team inside the consulates that they were able to uncover evidence that supports their syria or their conclusion. was indeed murdered in the consulate behind me now they also added to the outs that that's evidence that they managed to uncover was tampered with or possibly even there was an attempt to destroy evidence but nonetheless they were able to uncover evidence or further evidence we should say that's establishes its conclusion i say further barbara because as you remember it was maybe four days off the democrats will do went missing that we were also told by our own sources in close to the investigation
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that they had come to the conclusion that jamal khashoggi was murdered based on evidence including old you know they had this operation or managed to secure which proved that this saudi journalist was killed or assassinated by a fifteen man hit squad after he entered that building. and i mean obviously it's quite late in eastham ball right now i the investigation is still in the closely what are the next steps what are we waiting to hear from them. they are indeed and it seems that they will be there for at least another few hours. we're not sure exactly whether they will then give us more information directly to al-jazeera or whether they will. wait until they give a press conference where they reveal all the information they have obviously it's important to remind ourselves that this is a very political politicized case this is not just a crime scene a domestic crime scene as one of our analysts put it earlier on in one of the shows
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this is an international crime scene not least because of the interest generated by the world over as you mentioned barbara we really had the american president speak about this many times and his latest comments were about pushing this theory that rogue elements could have been behind this of the he seemed to believe the flat out denial that he received from saudi king saddam and the defector leader of saudi arabia his son crown prince mohammed bin saddam and however the evidence that the turkish authorities have given us and put forward which include fifteen senior intelligence officials you're talking about people in special forces you're talking about the head of forensic the security services inside your head the defense forces somebody who specializes in autopsy essentially specializes in dealing with dead bodies when you're talking about the these people coming on private jets on
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a wood are owned by a private company that's has links with the royal courts the fact that they were given access to the consulates and left very quickly off the it is very difficult to believe that's a visa or rogue elements that this was taking place or that this has had taken place without the knowledge of the via the very highest authorities in saudi arabia something that the turkish officials have said themselves as well as other u.s. officials are considering saudi arabia as an absolute kingdom but despite this or absolute monarchy rather than. spites this this theory does seem to be getting some sort of traction or at least is being pushed by saudi media we've seen an online media portal now talk about how. do authorities inside the kingdom will be investigating so it's inside the official so is there an attempt to find a scapegoat is there an attempt to build this fire wall around crown prince bahama been some man who many believe like i say is that they facto ruler of saudi arabia
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who's been pushing this aggressive agenda of getting rid of dissidents we're not quite sure yet but at least in terms of the turkish media in terms of the officials here they're not buying this story that this was a rogue operation or some operation gone gone wrong all the proof points to the fact that this was a premeditated murder ordered by the highest levels and the highest authorities inside your arabia the only thing that went wrong for them is that it seems that they're getting uncovered or their story got calls jim analysts say al has been following every twist and turn of this story since it broke and now think you. now earlier president suggested that quote rogue killers is jim i was just mentioning there may be responsible for the alleged murder of jamal ashaji alan fischer has more on that from washington. leaving for florida president trump reveals the school can to the saudi king in a twenty minute call to go to saudi denial that anything to do with the
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disappearance of jamal khashoggi you guys both think the king of saudi arabia was always there the knowledge of what took place with regard few hundred eyes you shared saudi arabia citizen thieves that he firmly theorize you have fresh air you say. you want me to get on a plane go to saudi arabia to feast with such a denial the president floated a theory of what me of happened at the saudi consulate and negative pushed by some so the media which sounded to me like maybe you should have been broken hilary's oh no you were going to try getting to the bottom of a very serious it is not acceptable as of a number of politicians on both sides have criticized the president's position former democratic vice presidential candidate tim kaine tweeted president trump's response to jamal khashoggi his disappearance reveals a man more willing to trust authoritarian leaders than reliable intelligence when
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middle east analyst says the president is performing a difficult balancing act blaming it on another element such as some sort of quote unquote rogue element would enable the saudi leadership to avoid being held accountable if the public is going to buy this or not is another question when it comes to the future of the seems to be more questions than answers the saudis are still pressing ahead with a large investment conference in the kingdom later this month even though a growing number of high profile figures are boycotting the event after richard branson and the head of super announced they were out last week now the head of j.p. morgan chase bank top international finance figure jamie dimon and the chairman of the ford motor company bill ford say they won't be going. u.s. secretary of state might prompt who is known as we to saudi arabia what he asks and what he's told we will dictate what america does next alan fischer al-jazeera washington let's go live to john hendren in washington now john for
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a president who isn't shy about making his views known on social media for example trump has been quite quiet on the latest there revelations whereas before he always kept on saying no one knows if it's real. that's true he was just asked in the past couple of hours about startling reports that the saudi government is prepared to release a statement acknowledging that was murdered in that consulate but that it happened during an interrogation gone wrong by rogue elements who were not authorized by the crown prince mohammed bin some on that is a shocking report if true we will know eventually if the saudis actually release that the president was asked about that and he said nobody knows if that's true and he hasn't expressed a terrible lot of concern he's already ruled out using arms sales to saudi arabia as a cudgel to punish them with he's he's also said that his treasury secretary steven
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nugent can decide for himself whether to go to that davos in the desert investment conference to which he has been invited there has been no talk of sanctions by trump he did say on sixty minutes this weekend a television program here in the u.s. that. there would be severe punishment if in fact this was true but he seems to be accepting this saudi argument or this evolving saudi argument that it was somehow a group of rogue killers who brought a bone saw which they later used to dismember khashoggi but did not intend to kill him. and john it's interesting that actually a planned celebration of the saudi national day in washington d.c. which was meant to be taking place on thursday had it's been canceled after the latest developments perhaps not surprising but you know for a regime that's really been on a p.r. offensive especially in the west especially in the united states that really does
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show you just how damaged i guess their brand is right now in the u.s. . that's right the optics were just potentially disastrous that national day was to have been on thursday and it's at a time when there's any government has been really under the crown prince pressing forward this idea that it is evolving that it's reformist that you know we have women driving there now and he's changed a number of the laws regarding religious police and others so this was to have been a celebration of all the change that is going on in saudi arabia but instead it simply would remind people of what's going on here in the khashoggi case john hendren with the latest there from washington d.c. john thank you and now let's go to a senior political analyst who's been with us the whole evening analyzing all the different twists and turns so i mean the obvious question really but where does all of this and we don't even know what the official response is going to be from the
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saudis and and the u.s. but where do you think this leaves us saudi relations at this point in time two weeks after the crime has been committed think we could say we've just moved from the treasury the to the tragicomedy because the way this has been packaged by unofficial sources by leaks and so on so forth in a way that tries to clear the political responsibility behind the crime is laughable it's lies and more lies and lies and just goes on and on and thanks to the media we are able to pose the questions again and again find more facts and. push those petitions to keep changing the story line because eventually we're going to have to get to the truth now look it's really it's really not easy because you and i we sit here all the time and we just hear politicians lie because we expect politicians to lie but they lie for their national interest they lie for the good
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and well being of their citizens but we don't expect them and we don't accept that they lie to cover. a crime we don't expect them to lie for money and we certainly don't expect them and accept that they lie to cover up for the crime against their own citizens that's not what politicians are supposed to do but here we are in the midst of this tragic comedy where those who are clearly responsible for the crime committed against one of their own citizens because we also know that they've been responsible for so many other war for other crimes including war crimes in their neighboring country yemen and for countless diplomatic the buckles and crackdown against their own citizens for now to try to get away or to to somehow escape responsibility for the killing of one of their own citizen is if indeed lawful but i mean you mention all the things that a saudi is accused of what was that about jamal khashoggi because if you think
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about mohammed bin some money actually been incredibly successful in the past few years he was the sort of reforming arab leader that the west was desperate for so embrace that we were even atrocities like the war in yemen and the terrible pictures that kept on coming out of that country didn't dent him so what is it about this case don't have it wrong it's a tragedy the death of a man but it's the death of one man so why did this end up being what turned it around from one hundred bits i know this is a very interesting and unimportant questions and we those who deal with you know social sciences were always asking ourselves the question why did the one death of one tunisian called was easy. triggered the tunisian revolution why did the death of one egyptian called hided saeed triggered the egyptian revolution what what is it about the process of human history that so many atrocities take place and people don't move and then one thing happened and it's not necessarily so significant in
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the context of all the three in the moving people what it's the culmination of everything it's the call. a nation of eight in the sense that we did have for three years now this inexperienced irresponsible young man or over confident that basically took control of the military of his country as a defense minister and the morning after he launched a war against the neighboring country he took in charge charge of the economy and he basically again ran it to the ground he took in charge of the intelligence led to the assassination apparently of one avoids his own citizens and so on and so forth so really it's the culmination of everything ended up with this one particular incident what everyone especially in the media says enough with the lies very briefly these events alone is forever tainted in the eyes of the west he's for ever tainted the question is whether he will step down or he'd be forced to step down because as i was just explaining he did take it charge of most of the
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responsibilities within the kingdom with the king solomon now have the wisdom to say look the economy the being of the of the kingdom is at stake and i need to let go of this one son in order for us to recover from this if not this year certainly the decade from this terrible terrible debacle and i won the shiela thank you. now so the time and this half hour yemen's prime minister is blamed for the country's economic crisis and he said. out of the violence of the storms in the last three or four days over queens and has gone the legacy of course is damage but if you want more steady rain that he's
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coming your way but it's only for queensland but further science these little lies is tough and cold front to come out of south australia brought some rain throughout late and this is a position we have on tuesday rain sporadic rain useful rained out for new south wales victoria and a.c.t still some showers on the coast neighbors when they could be sundry that in the violence we've seen recently though and the rain is still there in melbourne on wednesday not very well not only the sun is slowly returning in the sun and out in a much warmer alice springs and in perth that's been around for a couple of days and be around for a couple more in new zealand also it's quite quite not especially warm nor especially cold the clouds surrounding the islands while the guest is not bearing any rain so fourteen fifteen is the picture on she's the on wednesday you could see eighteen in christchurch if you run up through the western pacific there are a few showers around new caledonia fiji even tara but they're not particularly vicious and the rain that was persistent in japan smallest gone offshore and i just
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welcome back here's a reminder of our top stories a source from the turkish attorney general's office has told al jazeera they found evidence the missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered inside this home to. the u.s. president donald trump says he's spoken to saudi king sound man who flatly denied knowing anything about what happened. and u.s. secretary of state like pompei was on his way to saudi arabia to discuss the case with king solomon he's also expected to visit turkey well let's talk about this in more detail with former u.s. assistant secretary of defense larry korb he joins us from washington d.c. sir as always welcome to al-jazeera and thank you for joining us so my point is going to have an interesting trip by head of him not only of we had the official confirmation from the turkish investigation that certainly died in the embassy we still don't know why and also there is news lines in the american media that
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actually a saudis are going to come out and say that effectively it was a mistake and many died during interrogation i mean how do you think my pump alun president trump is going to react to all of this. well i think president trump will basically say as he has up to now well mistakes happen and will punish the perpetrators and they'll basically to use an american expression throw those people they sent there to get them they'll throw them under the bus they'll probably have a mock trial and then we'll be able to go trump will be able to go and sell them the arms that he wanted i think the only casualty for the saudis is going to be their davos in the desert conference next week i don't think they're going to get many people come to that no it certainly doesn't look like it now but do you think that that is going to be the only fallout because there's certainly a lot of i guess anger at that right that at the saudis also because at some point
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they must have lied or do you think that the u.s. and the administration always knew what had happened in that consulate. well i would hope they would but you know look what happened with putin and he he poisoned the you know the people in the in the united kingdom and then he gave some excuse well they were you know just tourists there in salisbury where nobody goes as a tourist and he's gone ahead and had the meeting with him in helsinki so i don't think he's going to change i wouldn't be surprised if b.s. is forced to step aside now because this is not the first episode as you well know he arrested the woman who started the whole thing to let women drive what he's done with the with the canadians so in the short term i think you know the king is king solomon is going to have to do something to assuage international. clamor the turks of come out ahead because now that they work with us they let the pastor out
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they're going to get their f. thirty five but this is pretty embarrassing and i guess potentially damaging for the u.s. as well because you know saudi arabia was the first foreign trip that president trump took us president there the cornerstone of a lot of financial deals and also it seems their entire foreign policy in the middle east they don't just bounce back from that do they. it's going to be very difficult but they're going to get the sound now they might have some more leverage with the saudis to get them to do things that they may not have wanted to do for example get involved in the middle east peace process and as you well know trump sort of war question are very close to. us and it's going to be interesting to see what he says after this what i basically think they're going to you know throw these people hold what are actually acting on orders they're going to hold them responsible and then try and move on and in the short term they'll be some problems
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but i don't think of the long term because given what's happened with the a random you know you're going to need to saudis to continue to you know to turn out their oil it's certainly going to be very interesting to see what reaction there is to the developments of the past few hours a week or former u.s. assistant secretary of defense sir thank you the largest armed group in syria's rebel held the province is yet to withdraw its five his from the region despite the monday deadline set by turkey and russia the high up that he had al shaab has signaled it will comply with the live agreement that the agreement establishes a demilitarized area around that lee province which was supposed to be cleared of heavy weapons by october tenth and of rebel fighters monday so today's anahata reports now from neighboring lebanon. a de villota rhizome is being created around syria as it lives province a twenty kilometer deep strip of territory is now free of heavy weapons by october
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fifteenth it should have also been free of fighters considered terrorists by the international community the so-called radical groups didn't pull back but hours before the deadline. the largest military alliance that controls much of the buffer area and the rest of the province signaled that it will comply in its statement. said it appreciated efforts by those inside and outside which is believed to be a reference to turkey to prevent an invasion and wide scale killing it also made reference to the foreign fighters saying we won't forget to the group maybe trying to keep unity and prevent betrayal among its ranks that is why an explicit acceptance of the deal would worsen divisions or rejection would risk a military confrontation with turkey which has said it is ready to use force against those who do not comply to hit a sham quietly met the deadline to withdraw heavy weapons from his own last week
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it's not the first time the group has shown pragmatism the buffer zone deal does not call for a surrender or reconciliation with the syrian government it created a new front line that protects regime strongholds and russian military assets but many syrians of the rebel controlled province remain skeptical. of the one million homes that are you know what are they move the heavy weapons back sometime kilometers or so but i don't support this it just makes it easier for the regime and russia to advance into a loop you cannot trust the regime and russia. this is all a game the aim is to cause division among rebel ranks that will lead to infighting that way it becomes easier for the regime to take the area everyone is lying to us . the syrian government has repeatedly said it will eventually return to state control but russia and turkey have so far been the decision makers the deals sponsors need each other in the post-war phase but i think it serves the interests
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of both parties so this is why i believe that this agreement will hold for for the time being and the turks will be giving more time in order to try to deconstruct the whole complexity of this situation inside it live for the next few weeks and months a few days ago russia said that it could accept a brief delay if it meant the spirit of the agreement was still upheld the deadline was missed but syria's main power brokers seem committed to keeping the deal alive . beirut australia's prime minister says he's open to relocating the australian embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem scott morrison says australia is still committed to finding a two state solution to the israel palestine conflict israeli prime minister tweeted that he had spoken to morris and about the proposal president trying to move the us embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv in may yemen's president of
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the his sacked his prime minister outland been that hair will face an investigation over the country's economic crisis yemeni currency has plummeted in recent months sending thousands of people out protesting in the streets food and fuel prices have skyrocketed due to the ongoing of. the democratic republic of congo has confirmed thirty three cases of ebola in the past week alone the health ministry says twenty four of those people have died around one hundred thirty people have died since the outbreak began in july. and at least ten people have died and thousands more of been evacuated after flash flooding in southwest france overnight the province of alberta was hit with the equivalent of three months worth of rain in just a few hours there has more. flood water gushed through towns and villages sweeping up cars and nearly everything in its path roads crumbled and homes were
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submerged three months worth of rain fell in five hours in southwestern france on sunday night causing the old river to burst its banks residents were left in shock but the much of it was terrifying because all of our neighbors were in the same situation at quarter past or as it happened so fast that by the time they responded there's a way that came towards our door like almost the others of a team of at two in the morning we could hear heavy rain i tried to switch on the light but it didn't work when i got out of bed i stepped into water when i opened the kitchen door i found myself up to my waist in water. with many roads inaccessible emergency workers used boats to reach people who were stranded others had to be winched to safety thousands of people have been evacuated local officials have closed schools and advise people not to travel for answers prime minister visited the area of the. first of all we have to deal with the emergency and the
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continued search and rescue operations dozens of towns don't have drinking water or electricity right now but services have already started to help the op to eight and a half thousand homes that have no electricity this morning now with just five and a half thousand and i congratulate them. experts say it's the worst flooding in order in a century and the danger may not be over the river could continue to rise and cause more damage in a region where so many people have already been affected natasha butler al-jazeera paris. the co-founder of microsoft paul allen has died at the age of sixty five a statement was released on behalf of alan's family saying that he suffered from complications of non-home lymphoma in seattle alan was a prominent technologist philanthropist and one of the world's richest individuals his sister jodie described him as a remarkable individual on every level. and
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now let's take a look at the main stories here on al-jazeera a source from the turkish attorney general's office has told al jazeera they found evidence that missing saudi journalist. was murdered inside the saudi consulate turkish investigators are currently inside the consulate in istanbul looking for clues to his disappearance thirteen days ago they entered the building more than six hours ago after finally being allowed in by saudi authorities in what is a major breach of normal diplomatic principles meanwhile u.s. president donald trump has sent secretary of state might pump ale to meet the king of saudi arabia trump says he has spoken to king sound man who denied knowing anything about what happened to shush algy the president suggested that quote rogue a killer is may be responsible for the alleged murder. the king virtually denied any knowledge of it. he didn't really know maybe i don't want to get it but
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it sounded to me like babies the big row killer. were going to try getting to the bottom of a very what is the plot. the largest armed group in syria's rebel held it leave the province is yet to withdraw its fine tears from the region despite the monday deadline set by turkey and russia but hey at that here al shaab has signaled it will comply with the lib agreement which was signed last month. australia's prime minister scott morrison says he's open to relocating the australian embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem israel's prime minister tweeted that he had spoken to morrison about the proposal the trumpet ministration of the us embassy to jerusalem in may those are the headlines of my nigeria's next i'll see you tomorrow of my. journeys of personal discovery feel more american here and then more air
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