tv NEWS LIVE - 30 Al Jazeera October 16, 2018 3:00am-3:34am +03
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cricket's match fixing the farms. a source tells al-jazeera turkish investigators have evidence that missing journalist jamal khashoggi was killed inside the saudi consulate. saudi arabia considers issuing a statement that he was killed in error during an interrogation gone wrong that's according to u.s. media. alonzo raman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also on the program the largest armed group in syria's it live province stays put in
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a buffer zone despite a deadline set by turkey and russia and predictions of a race of superhumans on the colonization of foreign planets seven months after his death stephen hawking makes waves with the release of his final four is. a source from the turkish attorney general's office has told al jazeera that they found evidence missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered inside the sunday consular office in istanbul turkish investigators were finally allowed into the building thirteen days after the show g.'s disappearance earlier a saudi team and to the compound in what's being billed a joint investigation has learned that the investigation results will be announced in two to three days u.s. media reports say that saudi arabia is weighing whether to release a statement to say that shows was killed or is as a result of an. that went wrong but the saudis reportedly plan to say the operable
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operation patni was carried out without official clearance saudi media say the kingdom will interview those who were mentioned in turkish media as suspects in the case all of this comes as the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei is on his way to riyadh to discuss g.'s disappearance with the saudi king. side the saudi consular office in istanbul. turkey's attorney general's office exclusively told al-jazeera that a team of investigators sent to search the saudi consulate in istanbul had uncovered evidence that supports their belief that the saudi john is jamal khashoggi was indeed killed murdered in the building behind me they added that the evidence they uncovered appeared to have been tampered with or even possibly there was an attempt to get rid of it or destroy it completely and we have been hearing these theories being touted around as to what exactly happened to jamal khashoggi
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the latest coming from u.s. president donald trump who tried to float the idea that he believed possibly said that it was rogue elements in the saudi state and that he seemed to believe that the nihil from king solomon and the crown prince mohammed bin them on that they knew anything of it however many questions have been raised as to that theory considering that among the first fifteen suspects that the turkish authorities have been able to uncover who flew in on private jets owned by a company that's has direct links to the world ports inside arabia that they included two members at least of crown prince mohammed bin some man's personal security detail they also included one of the most senior forensic experts who specializes in these at the saudi defense forces which was a big question as to why you would send somebody so high profile if indeed this was some botched attempt at trying to interrogate jamal cultural history and why or how
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such senior security officials could be sent without the knowledge of riyadh's most powerful people namely the crown prince or the king all of this obviously major developments taking place on monday off the several days of an impasse it seems that things are moving moving along whether that's due to the international consensus that seems to have been garnered over the past couple of days with several countries coming forward or whether it's a direct result. to the impact on the saudi economy which we saw suffer on sunday. that's all stratford has also been outside the city consular office in istanbul all day and watched the investigators go in. almost two weeks off jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul the investigative team arrives but only one part of it. saudi investigators appeared in
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the late afternoon alone without that fish counterparts. around an hour and a half later after the world's media were pushed back from the barricades by turkish police the turkish investigators arrived wearing white rules they were hustled into the alleged crime scene presumably the saudis cleaned everything weird . chlorine or who knows what but i would i would look at the drainpipes and i look at all of the belongings of the members of the staff who've come in and come out would leaders want us and the ramifications of the results of this investigation have potentially serious implications for relations between saudi arabia and the world john struck with al jazeera a stumble well john hendren joins me live from washington d.c. potentially a significant announcement is expected from the saudi kingdom as we've been
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reporting and that's been touted really in the u.s. media are we hearing anything at the moment. we're not hearing anything new so hale but those media reports do say that the saudi arabian government is expected to issue a statement that says there was a murder that jamal khashoggi was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul but that this was part of a rogue interrogation and interrogation gone wrong by a rogue group that was not reporting to the crown prince mohammed bin some on and that was not reporting to anyone back in riyadh now that would give the saudis of face saving way to maintain relations with both turkey and with the united states but they have a lot of explaining to do it contradicts their denials all along that any of this had happened and they would have to explain why fifteen saudi men apparently went into that consulate with a bone saw murdered
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a man dismembered him and carried him out without the knowledge of that government so a lot of a lot has been going on here in the united states many questions have been asked and some of them have been answered my colleague alan fischer put together a story on developments today take a look. leaving for florida president trump reveals the school contain the saudi king in a twenty minute call to go to saudi denial that anything to do with the disappearance of jamal khashoggi thank you both thanking everybody arabiya thank. you why should we guard you thank you shared thought you were a good theory thank god if i were you did i don't thank you thank you thank thank you want me to get out of the way go to saudi arabia and faced with such a denial the president floated a theory of what may have happened at the saudi consulate a narrative pushed by some soda media thought it should be like
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a good big thank you hillary thank you know you were going to try getting out about the very thing it is not acceptable is it 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 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 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 they were out last week now the head of j.p.
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morgan chase bank top international finance figure jamie dimon and the chairman of the ford motor company bill ford say they won't be growing. u.s. secretary of state might prompt you is known as way to saudi arabia what he asks and what he's told me will dictate what america does next alan fischer al-jazeera washington well later the u.s. president commented on media reports that saudi officials might say could shoji was killed during an authorized interrogation and we were very very close with the riviera with your team and they are working together to figure out what happened and they want to know what happened also so a lot of people are working on it. and will be bound very much i will say i read everything but nobody knows it's an official report so far just the rulebook the rumor reportedly you know. so many moving parts really to this story that just aren't fitting together for many people watching what's unfolding out in turkey and
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that includes really politicians in the u.s. as well who are voicing real concern. that's right so that story has been met with varying degrees of incredulity on capitol hill by republicans but especially by democrats who have been critical of the president chris van hollen is the senior democrat in the u.s. house of representatives and he tweeted president trump suggestion that to show g.'s elaborately planned murder in the saudi's own consulate was orchestrated by rogue killers defies reality orders must have come from the top the u.s. must not be complicit in an effort to cover up its heinous crime and samantha powers is the former us ambassador to the united nations she also tweeted similarly saying the notion that mohammad been summoned one of the most controlling leaders in the middle east didn't know that his government was sending fifteen goons to turkey to abduct a saudi critic is absurd that's the response we're seeing here in washington but
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it's not just from democrats so there will be a lot of pressure exerted on president trump president trump has a loan business relationship and a close relationship with king solomon so he has so far seems to be allowing the saudis to go along with this explanation but that a lot of people here simply aren't buying it so all continue to follow what people thinking and saying as the days progress of the moment john thank you. the sum of money as a professor of research shot the middle east at the university of waterloo she says turkey on the us have a vested interest in moving on from the story while preserving their relations with saudi arabia. many people want to take the story particular at the government level from the turks to the americans to the saudis and just frankly have the news cycle move on in many ways having the saudis admit to some sort of culpability and this is
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a way to sort of hopefully divert attention away from the story because at the end of the day this is not doing well is not helping either the saudis or the americans or even the turks for that matter i think all three parties have a vested interest and basically coming and closing this chapter it's been almost two weeks and i think everybody you know sort of watching this is quite surprised at how long this is last particularly at a time under trump where frankly you know yesterday's news is seems like it's eons ago so i think there's a lot of vested interest in moving this forward and that's why we see the story come to the fore trunk and be able to tell many of the senators who've been very vocal about you know doing something that we got to the bottom of it the saudis admitted it there was no connection to any sort of higher echelons of power it was a rogue element there will be one or two fall guys that will take the fall and the rest will sort of be exonerated and i think we're not going to get to the truth because none of the parties particularly the americans and i think the turks and
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the saudis none none of really want to get to the truth because unfortunately that's going to complicate their relationship and that's far more important for them all saudi arabia the largest importer of weapons in the world all of the countries can included really want this to go away. still ahead here on al-jazeera . this is the tri occurred calm heads to prevail. britain's prime minister tries to reassure her nation on bret's it despite a breakdown in talks with the european union plus flooding in southern france serves more than three months of rain falls in one night those stories on the other side of the break. from long flowing island winds to an in chanting desert breeze the. daily fifty reaches of rain is easily cope with actually in most of china and
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that's been the case just recently that see much in the cloud there with the great streak is more or less where we've seen fifty millimeters in twenty four hours it might stretch across to reach hong kong the whole lot really is i think i think the last gasp of the rain band going slowly south and then things should dry out but the some rain to come in the immediate future we see the showers returning to the philippines as well they've been absent recently in the heaviest rain has been around sort of works at the northern border in general it's still looking like it is there a little less vicious maybe in sumatra and something taiwan peninsular malaysia but it certainly isn't dry in the showers are certainly here in the forecast and the coming back to the philippines is still in borneo the student sort of lazy and they haven't yet reached java but of course they might get there sometime soon the receding monsoon having generated is too cyclons is now looking quite quiet you still got cloud nandor pradesh down in kerala need mr lanka but it's not
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welcome back you're watching was their arms a reminder of our top stories a source from the turkish attorney general's office has told al jazeera they found evidence of missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered inside the consular office turkish investigators were finally allowed into the building thirteen days after the journalists disappearance u.s. media are reporting that saudi arabia is weighing whether to release a statement that the shoji was killed as a result of an interrogation that went wrong the saudis reports of the plan to say this was all done without official clearance and u.s. president donald trump says rogue elements from inside saudi arabia could have been responsible for kosher disappearance he sent secretary of state might pompei o two saudi arabia to discuss the issue with king saul man is also expected to visit
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turkey. back and take a quick look at how the story actually unfolded jamal khashoggi went missing shortly after entering the saudi consular office in istanbul on october the second he went there to pick up papers to get married his fiance was waiting outside the next state saudi authorities confirmed that he disappeared but also said that he'd left the consulate turkish security sources later revealed that they had information that he was tortured and killed inside the consular allegations dismissed by the saudis as baseless lies a week after his disappearance international pressure mounted on saudi arabia u.s. president donald trump warned of severe punishment if the kingdom was to blame security video was released showing shoji entering the consular office days after saudi officials said that the cameras there weren't working kingsville man got involved speaking to turkish president urged one in a phone call on sunday saying no one could undermine the strength of their
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relationship in the past few hours a joint investigation team has entered the consulate is there a senior political analyst mara bashara says saudi officials must take accountability and can't plead ignorance on the matter. and let's order mind ourselves that. the man is also in charge of the saudi intelligence so here you have the person who's in charge of oil economy intelligence religious establishment as well as the military. not knowing what happens in his own consulate after sending two teams there and the next day denying at all knowing what happened to him a hug he or that he he says he did not leave the consulate of course none of that is believable but what's what's the worst part about it is that as it and revels this is like life imitating fiction except it's a bad fiction this is a bad novel a bad thriller a bad mystery because the actor does not comparable does not lie well does not hide
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his crime well all the lies are transparent and the stories keep changing and things from a bully to a victim back to a bully again so really it's a quite a messy story that continues to unravel and indeed fascinate the world we just moved today in particular from a tragedy to a tragic comedy no one believes anything that's coming out of riyadh it was present doom and so it had the has sent the prime minister and been dug a hill face investigation over the country's economic crisis the yemeni currency has plummeted in recent months something thousands of people protesting on to the streets food and fuel prices have skyrocketed due to the ongoing conflict. the largest oil group in syria's rebel held provinces to withdraw its fighters from the region despite a deadline set by turkey and russia. has not previously said whether it
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accepts or rejects the terms of the sochi agreement has more from neighboring lebanon. a demilitarized zone is being created around syria as it lives province a twenty kilometer deep strip of territory is now free of heavy weapons by october 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
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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. quietly met the deadline to withdraw heavy weapons from his own last week 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 that 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
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. the syrian government has repeatedly said it liberal 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 i think it says the interests 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 actually try and to deconstruct the whole complexity of this situation inside at least 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 a life that. they built the border crossing between syria and jordan is open for the first time in three years territory near the sea crossing was recaptured from rebels by syrian government forces in july cib used to be
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a busy route for goods and people before it was closed during a major battle during the civil war australia's prime minister says that he's open to relocating the australian embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem scott morrison says his country is still committed to finding a two state solution to the israel palestine conflict the us moved its embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv in may britain's prime minister says she believes a deal is still within reach to resume a was addressing parliament a day after another round of talks with the european union broke down jonah hill reports. well you have a deal by wednesday prime minister expecting a. british prime minister to resign may find herself fighting for a break deal on multiple fronts this was her message to parliament on monday so much of these negotiations are necessarily technical but the reason this all matters is because it affects the future of our country it affects jobs and
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livelihoods in every community it is about what kind of country we are and about our faith in our democracy of course it is frustrating that almost all of the remaining points of disagreement are focused on how we manage a scenario which both sides hope should never come to pass and which if it does will only be temporary we cannot let this disagreement derail the prospects of a good deal and leave us with a no deal outcome that no one wants on sunday talks with the e.u. had seemed close to agreement on the terms of britain's exit but largely over attempts to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland they collapsed mrs may's plan to keep the whole u.k. inside the e.u. customs union for the duration of talks on a future trade deal met opposition from pro griggs ministers and factions in her own party who complain it would limit britain's ability to strike trade deals outside the e.u. . the e.u. meanwhile insists the u.k.
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honor its earlier commitment to keep the territory of northern ireland inside the single market as a backstop should trade talks fail. to resume a's unionist partners in northern ireland responded by threatening to withdraw their support for her minority government. it was always going to be a difficult week for tourism a in the british government but it's become much harder hard to see how she could achieve any sort of unity within her own cabinet with senior ministers said to be considering their positions over the latest hard to see how she can achieve much at all with e.u. leaders in brussels on wednesday night and hard to see frankly how any meaningful deal can emerge at all in present circumstances between the u.k. and the e.u. . and there's increasing talk of a no deal scenario britain crashing out of the e.u. with nothing but world trade organization rules to govern future relations time to
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panic about you a little worried be patient your patient ok be patient not yet according to the e use chief breaks it negotiate or perhaps all is not lost jonah al-jazeera london . well staying in europe flooding has killed at least ten people in southwest france and some places the river levels rose to the highest in more than one hundred years but more. flood water gushed through towns and villages sweeping up cars and nearly everything in its path roads crumbled and homes were 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. for much of it it was terrifying because all of our neighbors were in the same situation i caught the pastor as it happened so fast that by the time they responded there's a way that came towards our door like almost the other seventy two in the morning
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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 it wasn't the top it was just a very heavy precipitation occurred in the region during the night and again in the early morning resulting in considerable material and human losses. 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 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 but i should butler al-jazeera paris the co-founder of microsoft paul allen has died at the age of sixty five he was suffering from cancer the other was also
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a prominent flung for purse too invested in conservation space travel and professional sports why for soft c e o's a tie and a dollar said his contributions were indispensable. the follow writings of world famous physicist stephen hawking have been compiled in a book catherine stansell was that it's launching in london science museum. how do we do it. where did we go is there anyone out there he has unraveled some of the greatest mysteries of the universe and in his final book stephen hawking takes on ideas larger than the universe itself brief answers to the big questions brings together some of his final writing before his death in march its launch was celebrated at the science museum in london where he received a fellowship on his seventieth birthday hawking in thrall of the world with his groundbreaking work on black holes and cosmology and in his final months he wrote how science and technology can both revolutionize and destroy our lives this is
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very much a book of predictions and that stephen hawking says that humans will soon colonize other planets that machines will overtake humans when it comes to intelligence and perhaps most controversial of all the genetic modification will lead to a dangerous race of superhumans. his children tim and lucy helped the book come to fruition and they say it was a chance for their father to such out his views in his own words and leave an engaging perspective for people in a rapidly changing world my father's ultimate goal in writing this book is to. give us a call to unity he was very very concerned that as a society rico more and more divided that we were finding more and more things to put between ourselves and other human beings and i think it's a reflection of his essential humanity and his belief in human beings that he wanted to put out this call to say look we are one planet we are one human race the
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challenges we face are global climate change all these other issues that you see here have reference we need to come together we need to cooperate among you know problems despite his warnings over the calamity that things like climate change are unchecked artificial intelligence could bring he leaves the reader with a final message will remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. you are in. the future. and stunts are al-jazeera london. you're watching i was there i'm still raman these are all top stories as souls from the turkish attorney general's office has told all deserve they found evidence missing some of the journalists should be was murdered inside the saudi consulate turkish investigators were finally allowed into the building thirteen days after
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the journalists disappearance just president donald trump says rogue elements from the inside saudi arabia could have been responsible for could show g.'s disappearance he sent secretary of state by pompei to saudi arabia to discuss the issue with king saud. when u.s. media are reporting that saudi arabia is a weighing whether to release a statement that was killed as a result of an interrogation that went wrong the saudis reportedly planned to say this was done without official sanction later the u.s. president commented on the media reports. and we were very very very rare with your team and they're all working together to figure out what happened and they want to know what happened also so a lot of people are working on it. and will be bound very much by that will see i read everything but nobody knows it's an official reports of are just the rules of the room reporting from you know yemen's president. sacked his prime minister been
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will face an investigation over the country's economic crisis the yemeni currency has plummeted in recent months sending thousands of people out protesting onto the streets and fuel prices have skyrocketed due to the ongoing conflict the largest armed group in syria's rebel held it led provinces yet to withdraw its fighters from a buffer zone despite a monday deadline set by turkey and russia here as sharm has not previously said whether it accepts the terms of the agreement signed last month. britain's prime minister's told m.p.'s there's been progress towards a brick set deal despite the latest breakdown of talks with the european union a meeting of twenty seven e.u. embassadors was quickly arranged on sunday sparking optimism of an agreement but that didn't happen those were the headlines about with more news in half an hour here on their next it's inside story stay with us.
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searching the saudi consulate in istanbul for jamal khashoggi took his investigators say they are finally being allowed in why has it taken so long for the saudis to open their doors and the kingdom looking for a face saving compromise this is a story. hello and welcome to the program on am wrong. investigators say they are being allowed to search saudi arabia's consulates in istanbul ofter all almost two weeks off to journalist your ball was last seen.
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