status and wealth has benefited from their choice and slaves. al-jazeera correspondent coming soon. this is al jazeera. welcoming peter w. watching the news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the investigation into the suspected killing of the saudi journalist. turns to the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul. the u.s. secretary of state meets the so the crown prince says pressure mounts for what happened. the meeting comes as

a source tells al-jazeera that turkish investigators have evidence the journalist was killed inside the saudi consulate also ahead the difficult divorce still growing concerns that no agreement will be reached on it as all sides prepare for a key summit in brussels and in sport the milwaukee brewers i just two wins away from baseball's world series the beating the l.a. dodgers for nothing to take seriously. the. turkish investigators are expected to search the residence of the saudi consul general in the coming hours as they try to zero in on who is behind the suspected killing of jamal khashoggi it's two weeks since the saudi journalist was last seen entering his country's consulate in istanbul. al jazeera has been told

that forensic experts found evidence he was killed inside the nearby consulate building investigators spent more than twelve hours searching it into tuesday morning the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is now in riyadh he first met king solomon before sitting down with crown prince mohammed bin salma on the washington post newspaper is reporting u.s. intelligence services intercepted evidence which shows the crown prince personally ordered an operation to detain ashaji donald trump has spoken of rogue killers and media reports say the saudis are considering a statement saying he was killed when an interrogation quotes went wrong all this as the un's human rights chief calls for the lifting of diplomatic immunity for saudi consular staff to allow a full investigation in view of the seriousness of the situation surrounding the disappearance of mystical shortly the high commissioner believes the inviolability

or immunity of the relevant premises and officials bestowed by treaties such as the one thousand nine hundred sixty three vienna convention on consular relations should be waived immediately. under international law both of force disappearance and an extrajudicial killing are very serious crimes and immunity should not be used to impede investigations into what happened and who is responsible in a moment we'll go to kimberly healthier in washington for more on the details emerging from there first let's go to jamal sheil outside the saudi consulate in istanbul jamal as far as the forensic investigation is concerned where are we with that. well we understand peter that after a twelve hour search as you mention there that started late in the evening on monday and went well into the morning of tuesday that investigators that are under

a team headed by the prosecutor general's office as well as the attorney general's office of the republic will come once again to the building behind me to continue the search but also one of the headlines that we're hearing is that they will also be seeking to enter the home of the consul general of the man responsible as far as the saudis are concerned for the diplomatic mission in istanbul the president who would have known about any saudi officials entering or exiting the person who is home it's was that traffic camera. footage showed a suspect vehicle van blacked out entering and backing up into the garridge just shortly after jamal khashoggi. went missing into the consulate behind me so we understand that that would be a major development but having said that having listened through those statements made by the u.n.

official about the possible attempt to waiver the vienna convention which stipulates that there is diplomatic immunity for consular staff the turkish foreign minister spoke maybe a lot more diplomatically and here is some of what he had to say. and lucius nic. there is nothing new yet with regards to the investigation and the saudi consulate and as well we'll know khashoggi to introduce saudi consulate to get some type of what people himself but at the moment the most important thing for us is to find out what happened. of course we will carry out necessary investigations in interviews about this is very important for us on the. the other hand mr pompei always stated that he would like to come to ankara and we welcome him as always we do for allies from the us and it is important for us the stance they have taken on the disappearance of jamal khashoggi as well as the starts of the outing or thorough handling of this issue that's what i'm going to get and jamal when it

comes to the forensic aspects of this there's one report i think out of the state saying that they believe certain surfaces inside the building have been painted it would be easy to forget or not to be able to remember how many cleaning teams have been through those doors behind you so when it comes to the inquiry when it comes to the guys in white boiler suits and rubber gloves that's going to have to be a delicate long painstaking process. i mean peter this investigation is really difficult some parts of it to fathom or to understand because there are so many bizarre twists and turns to as you mentioned the fact that these cleaners went in with all these books is a leech is the fact that it's meant to be a crime scene and yet it was still operating and functional with saudi officials allowed to come and go as they please and on top of the fact that there is this joint investigation which includes saudi officials who are actually the key

suspects at least in this crime so all of this taking place is bizarre but on the other hand maybe it speaks to the strength of the evidence that the sarkisian authorities believe they had that they didn't really care about the other goings on that they were aware of what to find where to find it's going to find it and maybe that is something else i mean there have been some experts who are have been speaking about surfaces and d.n.a. lasting for a very long time there was talk of sorts and chemicals being used by the forensic experts which would show the blood oxygen that would stay in rehman and still appear in different colors obviously all of this. as a journalist obviously not a science is something that that isn't my personal expertise but it is being said. i think what we can say is that based on the statement that came to al-jazeera from turkish officials either for a few days after jamal khashoggi went missing where they told us that they believed

he had been killed inside and that they had all your evidence or based on the u.s. intelligence community which has briefed u.s. media as well as u.s. officials saying that they were shocked at what they had heard in those files that the turkish authorities had shared with them or on the latest information that we were given late on monday evening from the attorney general's office of the investigators had managed to uncover more evidence it is becoming very clear what's happened to john officials here at least in terms of his fate what many people are wondering is where is his body and who exactly is behind this and how will the justice essentially be served. jamal thanks very much ok let's step back now and take a look at how the story unfolded two weeks ago jamal jamal khashoggi went missing shortly after entering the consulate in istanbul on october the second that's how long this has been going on he went there to pick up papers to get married his fiancee was waiting outside the next day before it is confirmed he disappeared but

also said that he'd left the consulate building turkish security sources later revealed they had information he was tortured and killed inside the consulate allegations dismissed by the saudis as baseless lies quotes that week after his disappearance international pressure mounted on saudi arabia the u.s. president donald trump want to quote severe punishment of the kingdom was to blame security video was released showing how shoji entering the consulate days after saudi officials at the cameras there were not working king solomon got involved speaking to the turkish president mr herder while in a phone call on sunday saying no one could undermine the strength of their relationship in the past few hours a joint investigation team entered the consulate some news just coming through to us the donald trump's favorite cable news network fox news apparently lindsey graham has been describing the saudi crown prince mohammed bin saw a man as

a wrecking ball he according to lindsey graham showed she was murdered the m.b.'s figure is toxic according to lindsey graham he can never be a world leader this guy's got to go lindsey graham goes on saudi arabia if you're listening m.b.'s is tainted your country can really help it following what's going on for us out of washington kimberly difficult to imagine stronger words from the likes of lindsey graham and also a very influential very listened to individual there in washington. absolutely and these are aqualung some of the comments that lindsey graham has been making in recent days not only was he one of the first republican senators to come out and say that this is a tipping point in the u.s. saudi relationship but also that it should have consequences at the highest level and so certainly lindsey graham echoing the feeling not just of republican senators

we should note that is the president's party political party but also democratic senators in fact there seems to be a growing groundswell within congress to push back into restraint the u.s. saudi relationship in a very biting opinion piece in the washington post a democratic senator chris murphy from connecticut saying that the list of actions by the crown prince has been nothing short of erratic he cites the jailing of family members the detention of the lebanese prime minister the feud with qatar something he calls nonsensical and even the war in yemen one that the united states is is increasingly supportive of in terms of members of congress that it is humanitarian disaster noting that the weapons being dropped on civilians have the stamp on it made in america so what lindsey graham is saying is something that we've been hearing increasingly from members of congress in recent days this strong

belief that the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia as a result of the disappearance of. is in freefall can really just if you will in the next sixty seconds. this is playing out across traditional political divides in washington indeed across the country and where the center of gravity within that is taken the pressure on donald trump and the state department to be seen to be doing something. there's an awful lot of pressure on the state department in the trumpet ministration right now donald trump was notably silent for many days and we've talked extensively about the ties between the kingdom of saudi arabia and the trumpet ministration so it was notable that he wanted to see the fact that it was only in the last forty eight hours or so that he said that there should be severe consequences if the allegations are true but then we saw him dialing that back as you said at the start of the program even speculating about rogue killers

potentially being involved at the same time sending his secretary of state to riyadh and later to turkey what we should note is that we have had some readouts now of those conversations that took place between the secretary of state we know there were three conversations one with the king one also with the crown prince and another with the foreign minister but we only got two readouts notably we did not get a readout about the meeting with the crown prince specific specifically general language coming out of there again trying to play both sides it appears the state department saying only that they reiterated concern about the missing journalists and are calling for a thorough and transparent and timely investigation one more thing we should know it all of this that's happening in washington in the next hour and throughout the day today and that is a very prominent conference that's taking place the gulf international forum it's an inaugural conference taking place here in washington there was to be a very prominent speaker. and of course it is

a notable absence that he will not be taking part as that begins to kick off in the next hour or so. from go see expression from you mentioned at the top of your own. the fingerprints of something that mr trump might suit come up with himself or did he pick that's all poem a telephone conversation that he had with somebody in riyadh. that's what we're left trying to decipher we know that this speculation came in the midst or right after that twenty minute telephone conversation that he had with the king not with the crown prince which of course we know the crown prince is the one that has been calling the shots in recent years so many were left feeling that the president perhaps was parsing his language when he said that he had spoken with the king the king had firm denials of any knowledge but he didn't say that he had spoken with the crown prince and have those same sort of profound denials about what might have

happened and that's why much of washington right now peter is holding its breath waiting for that statement that we believe shall be imminent with regard to the statement that now contradicts the earlier statements from saudi arabia the speculation being widely reported here in the us media is that there will be an admission of death of the journalist by the saudi government in contrast to previous statements that it was apparently an interrogation gone wrong the attempt was to dock to bring him to saudi arabia and we also expect that within that statement perhaps that those responsible or those that were at the head had a hand in killing jamal khashoggi that in fact that they will be held responsible pending an investigation with turkey this is what is being reported of course we await those final statements and as for where the president got his statements about the rogue killer well we're really left with our hands kind of ringing trying to figure that one out understood kimberly stay close for the meantime thanks very much let's talk now to mohamed el masri secretary general of the party for islamic

renewal a saudi opposition group based in london mohamed el masri what's the conversation you want to have taken place between the u.s. secretary of state michael pump. in riyadh. it's very difficult to say what they would have taken place they would have taken is that he would not have gone there in the first place and that the american lawmaker would start really scrutinizing the intelligence reports that we had about what's going on for a long time and that's where the direction we should go at what's happening now would seem to be like white washing. torched again and if the same time that's the most important thing for me is to whitehorse himself because he has the feeling is that what's on his table i think is too late two thousand and seventeen and he did not do any action to tell this whole year off strongly done that would do such a nonsense or at least was an instructor one that we have information that for that

i guess you don't put forth in this or the embassy or consulate now that is done and it is unconceivable that is not over yet and that's the direction should go under computer should be in washington negotiating with congress about this issue other than going to the other thing to fix some washer wash up which would fail anyway why are you seeing this as potentially a whitewash donald trump is on record as saying there will be very serious punishment if the are shown to or they admit to having been involved in the death of this journalist. he has to say that he has to deflect any poor finger pointing toward him because the last week that america start the last week asking is the president that we had what has happened but in a slow voice everyone is being is hedging his bets and looking what can be done or what cannot not be done and everyone is waiting for the final revelation of the turkish exactly what has happened especially this or that lesion videos and communication between hundred percent man and the death squad which has been

intercepted as it has been said no it's quite strongly by the turkish and by the cia. say by they don't make any up ok those little is much more serious than viewers here which i'm with us here which understood and thank you for that clarity but those are your claims means i've read the cia do you hold the turkish authorities slightly culpable here not guilty when it comes to what may or may not have happened to jamal clearly because what happened to him or didn't happen to him happened on sovereign territory not turkish sovereign territory or territory but they were everyone saying the same thing they were painfully slow when it came to using official channels and we had nine or ten days of a drip drip drip effect of the turkish authorities we understand allegedly leaking information to get it into the international public domain. it seems to be a turkish tactics to squeeze the saudis more and more in the corner to force them

into an admission to give an opportunity to the consul to come forward and say i have done it all i have witnessed what has what we know knowing and solve the problem that neither the consul was intelligent enough to do that and still am according to him to do that because of it goes back to saudi arabia or the reserve or the from turkey out of the country as a persona non-grata he would face death in saudi arabia they're setting a totally there's a lot more for certain channels but it's not well established on the eighty percent probability that the persons who are in the squad and departed the same day others are still in turkey where the way that these three persons have disappeared most likely mitigated to eliminate any witnesses so i think the turkish tactics was good increasing the pressure putting american british are trying to expose and waiting for the results maybe also there is a waiting for the results of the. court trial for the priest it was already concluded that the court will be lenient enough to calculate which is a sense standard a legal standard that the time you were in prison would be calculated against your

your type which was three years or something like that so he was released and then boys this is the card which was pulled from the feet up from but he was and is now he cannot move against any action but he taking the. story as a scapegoat so this may be a tactic you may please if your mic will condemn it but until now they are moving seems to be to expose the facts and they doing their research probably and we hope that today today i think they are you hear that they entered the house of the which is where the police but high probability of the body has been bedded if they find that out then everything is clear and they have to come with that it is on the table which action of the followers that's left to their their political decisions their interest and so on but we need the facts on the table so i appeal to the president all the facts clear on that here but publicized given to everyone to see in the were. and this too will pick it over to ok mr just to get is

a back up by about sixty seconds you're seeing there you're claiming that three of the fifteen people that made up the so called the washington post referred to them as a kill squad you're seeing three of them were eliminated that's your claim when you say eliminated you're saying three of them have been killed yet that's the only way to eliminate this for good if you. could be absolutely serious and there's a shortage of it it. will see what happens ok somebody is going salem us out is that and his sources are bigelow's as sense only if the present but probability votes quite strong they should short that the for the three persons. in the media for one if it is thought that they still exist at this the light today as of four or five hours ago through this highly charged situation we're hearing a phrase the freezes an admission of death may be when we get that admission of death from king's cell man or from somebody in riyadh perhaps relayed

via the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh for you what's the difference between an admission of death and murdering someone. there's a big difference there mean he dead accidentally but that accident he said to somebody in a portion of the saudi domain he said there at the consulate it differently and how come that he died in this situation to be or detained and interrogated so they are the cause of his death but this is not likely and it will not be accepted by the media and by the intelligent people there along with the word simply because that this squad or shall be sent is too sophisticated to be just for interrogation until a given can be done by either to be upset if there is an intelligence officer he's killed interrogation and few other men with a few sticks beating around and get whatever they want from him and possibly i mean the conduct of locally or gives an injection which makes the cut for which it will go or loses will and expose everything so it seems that we it was

a well planned. and the toward as it was supposed to be covered by another process which has fit a well not acceptable and i think it to be exports clearly understood a well planned murder sure claim but your assumption and going on one of the narratives i can kind of see where you're coming from with that of course we can however if it was just an operation to lure him back to surrey arabia to do a ritz carlton with them to keep him detained in the country because reportedly. did have a meeting with somebody who was very well connected in washington to the saudi hierarchy and he was reportedly given promises of safe passage he wanted to remarry that's why he went into the building and a clever switched on man like that who knows that the thinking of the saudi hierarchy does not go into a dangerous situation unless it's in his mind not

a dangerous situation and he feels perfectly safe. i think this is this show that you may be intelligent but sometimes you are intelligent and save them gullible i think here he was way too trusting to the saudi authorities and there's also a rumor that he matured but his admin abdulaziz it in london so the rumors abound and there's another story that he was organizing of iran for democracy and constitutional monarchies saudi arabia or then woman to the other this is not with myself here never contacted me since nine hundred ninety four that was the last contact with him he came to london we have a discussion and trace of intent nor no contacts so there are various stories but it wouldn't be that he told his his fiancee to wait for him and wait for us at interment to call the had relatives i think your uncle or the gun advisor etc meaning that he has some nagging doubt that they were not that strong enough to prevent him from going there under our skin them since someone else to give me the

completed papers or maybe they told him that we could continue discussing issues is that the embassy to be inside like has been promised by the hierarchy exactly the saudi embassy of the son of kings are not to be so much so that that's all possibilities but the fact of the death squad and also another story which has nobody for a very thought only is that one of the persons in the fifteenth squad business and have in the military or in the security function or any television function is a normal civilian employee but he looks quite similar to and there is a speculation that he left the country with a huge passport after the murder got detained court and fought in lebanon by interpol and was introduced in the prison of the ban in jeddah and it was interesting the way that some people could see him and could report this that he's in one dish jordan a list report the next day the casualties in jeddah and someone contacted us about

five days later after that after that disappearance that he saw cartridge in that bag obviously. this imposter so the plan was that this imposter will be there or will it really announce how should you have been detained for a bit of a check for the occasional money laundering etc if it's had been dispatched and finished everything cleanly but the fact that the fiancee was there and informed that advisor for the world and the top two facilities were surrounded by the turkish police made things impossible to cover up so it's not clear who is this mammoth but that is he still did he go back to turkey with another passport as anybody any person or even saudi arabia this now you know inquiry should be followed and this may expose very important things also it will it will implicate the saudi interpol that this harnessed and of course what it improperly without international support and possibly anybody is one but that has to be that has to be

followed sorry that i understood it already that is perhaps another aspect to what i suspect will be a very long very complex inquiry mohamed el masry there in london thank you very much let's bring in chris phillips chris phillips is formally the head of the u.k.'s national counter-terrorism security office he joins us as well from london chris phillips welcome to the al-jazeera news our question you're running the forensic team you've got everything at your disposal you're running the team that goes into those two buildings the consulate and the home of the consul general in the next twelve hours what do do you. well the interesting point here is of course both sides have had the opportunity more than enough opportunity to destroy any evidence is in there i think what's been missed here and the most important thing in any case like this in any investigation it's actually to talk to the people interviewed the people that were present at the time or whatever incident it was that took place so so so getting all of those people there or there were actually

inside the building at the same time it's really important interviewing them in a way that allows them to to to tell us what happened effectively but also don't forget what we haven't seen yet and we've got no idea is is the body where the body is the is the biggest harbor of intelligence and information it should still show how this man died what happened to him immediately before the death and shortly afterwards but i've heard no talk about as to where this body is likely to be and perhaps is back in saudi arabia we don't know that when it comes to doing the kind of forensic d.n.a. a microscopic investigation this long after an alleged crime took place this long after somebody was allegedly dispatched when they do chlorine wash use or bleach washes does that create like a mini wave effect so the d.n.a.

is available to the investigators but it's literally done a saw it's literally on a pipeline system someplace but they've just got to keep on going because we're now being told you know they've had multiple cleaning teams in the building they had a cleaning team in there within the past twenty four hours some of the surfaces we're being told as well have been painted why would you paint a wall unless something really bad happened to a human being in that space. well absolutely and of course all the all the inclination is to think that the man was murdered inside the building but of course people die people die quite regularly unfortunately and we have to bear in mind that it could have been and heart attack or something so you have to get the evidence together and and yes you're absolutely right they've had so much opportunity to clean this building the chances of any d.n.a. any forensics actually coming from that are very little but there are other things

maybe maybe there are some c.c.t.v. cameras maybe there are some other indicators on telephones and things that could be useful to the to the investigators but of course you've got to want to know that sort of stuff as well and and maybe from what we gather may be the turkish actually already know exactly what's happened there just seeking some form of confirmation but all this d.n.a. and all the things that go with it would only be really any of any import if there was a trial and does it seem that there's likely to be a trial in this case probably not when it comes to the so-called interrogation team we've got fifteen people called by the washington post i think seven days ago no kill team we're now being told that it was actually a team that was put in place reportedly allegedly to extract him without blipping on any radar literally on a plane to perhaps a third country before he was then taken to the arabia if that interrogation

operation went wrong and it was just an interrogation team on the one hand we expected to believe that they weren't very good at what they were doing because by accident the killed him and yet on the other hand if you're sent in there as one member of fifteen people whose job it is to carry through on that mission but you're hired at the highest level within saudi arabia you must by definition be good at that job you must have experience therefore if somebody is dying in front of you as a result of you having interrogated them you're not very good at what you do if they then lose their lives. well let me put it this way yeah people do their job they may not be particularly good at it there are there are lots of experiment if you look at the script our case in the u.k. that was a terrible attempted assassination they left all sorts of trials and everyone

thought that group of people in russia were with the bee's knees they were the best assassinated in the world but actually what we saw is actually people making lots and lots of mistakes so mistakes are made i think i think seeing the body is the key thing having time to examine how that person died whether it was actually a heart attack as it could easily have been all whether it was as a result of torture or anything else that's where we'll start get into to know a little bit more about this and of course of course testimonies from the people that were actually inside the building what they were told whether they will ever give that sort of evidence i doubt but that's that's what you need to collect the evidence from. as well as doing all that chris phillips to the also need to get to the forensic investigators here i mean to the need to get to the cars to need to get the vans that these people used to get into the building and get out of the building and perhaps get there to put this delicately get their special cargo out

of the country. yeah of course and all of those locations are key parts of the investigation you couldn't i mean is it quite interesting don't be interesting to know what happened to is apple watch because that often is trackable traceable phone phone owned by the suspects all this all this is key bits of the investigation and the that that the investigators will want to get ahold of and rightly say the airplane you know how was it the body was transported out of the country how was it transported where did that plane go what you know where did the where did the luggage go from that airplane and that that sort of thing it becomes almost impossible to get that information if there's a stay involved if there's a country involved that's trying to cover this kind of stuff our chris phillips in london thank you very much and we will continue to follow this story very closely as a team of investigators prepares to go into the consul general's residence in istanbul

we'll have a lot more coming up a little later here on the news hour. in other news no grounds for optimism quotes on a break deal that's the word from the european council president before a key summit in brussels on weapons day now that comes after the u.k.'s prime minister's series the main met cabinet in the last couple of hours to discuss the status of talks with the e.u. negotiations stalled over what should happen with the guy responded when northern ireland in the rest of the u.k. leaves the e.u. in march to resume a says an amicable divorce deal is still achievable and he would joins us live from london so the backstop has a backstop how does that work for mrs may cause she's saying we're not that far apart but what movement has there been. well little movement so far but the cabinet meeting peter has broken up broke up just over an hour ago now and downing street spokesman to resume a spokesman is saying that it was

a constructive meeting there was no sign he said of any talk of resignations among the cabinet ministers of course last night a leading breck's to hold a private meeting eight cabinet ministers coming together to talk about a reason to resign may's strategy what the downing street spokesman said was that she is still saying very much that no deal is better than a bad deal and a deal that could break up the u.k. and of course that all refers to this backstop this safety net if you like about what will happen to the northern ireland border if a border trade deal cannot be reached between the e.u. and the u.k. now all of this will be discussed tomorrow the chief negotiator for the e.u. says he believes more time is needed to negotiate some kind of deal. to develop. we must find a solution to include ireland and find a solution for a no hard border on the island of ireland where no there yet various issues are

still to be discussed including nominated but i understand is the. more time is needed to find his deal and reach the decisive progress that we need to finalize the negotiation on the week rule of the u.k. . so still a number of red lines on both sides and the u.k. over the future of that border and that really is the sticking block and that will be the focus of talks in brussels on wednesday and of course the reason may well really want to come back with a better result than she did at that last summit in salzburg westacott a very very isolated figure. out today i'm sure in the meantime thanks very much time he will whether he has ever seen flooding runabout carcass i mean appalling flooding seven meters flash flooding yeah that's right the good news is the rain has now stopped but the good part of southwest france remains on the side of the. marble showers in the forecast over the next couple of days but it is dry for now

during the satellite picture you can see we've got this area cloud still lurking there across the southwestern corner just pulling along the riviera watch the skies come back in behind so that's the good news but they say area of low pressure that western side of the mediterranean could well cause further problems as we go on through the next couple of days as i say we have seen the flooding of course and you can see the sort of major disruption we've had lots of pictures course over the past couple days as a result of the heavy rains lots of roads still very much blocked it'll be some time before they'll be able to pass to be in c. it is now at least dry as we go on through the coming hours those showers those swirl away away towards sardinia corsica seeing some showers well dispose of frame here but seep out over towards that eastern side of spain remember the floods that we also had in new york or recently i'm afraid this further heavy showers coming in here to go on through the next couple days they go by thursday really heavy rain then across that western side of the mediterranean into much of that eastern side

of spain as they wouldn't be surprised if barcelona also sees some flooding rains as we go through the next couple of days showers never too far away from southern parts of france and those showers set in through thursday and on into friday so more concerns to come this weekend peter. ever so many things the russian orthodox church is cutting ties with all of the national branches worldwide it comes after a decision by the central leadership of orthodox churches alert ukrainian clergy to form their own branch last week and the russian church is refusing to recognize the decision ukrainian clergy have been under the jurisdiction of the russian orthodox church since the late sixteen hundreds of calls for a split increased after russia's annexation of crimea four years ago let's talk now to clare short clare short is an associate assistant professor should see in the history of modern russia at warwick university she joins us live from coventry clare short for the people who go to church or go to this church what does this

mean thanks very much for having me well this is quite a significant schism i think within the eastern orthodox church what it means for ukrainian orthodox and for russian orthodox is very different i think and if you look at the response from the pressure nko the president of ukraine to this decision it seemed very much in terms of liberation so the liberation of the ukrainian orthodox church from the subjugation of moscow and the talking very much in those kind of of nationalist terms for the russians i think it's a very different story for them this is quite a blow russia so care is considered to be the cradle of the russian orthodox church so the russian state originated in kiev and for them this is very much cutting them off from their heritage from their religious and their national heritage so what does this do to the relationship between russia and ukraine. well i don't think it was good to start off with this is obviously another another

blow to russia another problem for them to deal with we've seen is very much part of a narrative that's been that been playing out over the last decade or so as ukraine is moving further and further into the western spear of influence and away from the influence of russia with seeing more and more russia moving to try and gain that influence back obviously this is played out most significantly in the annexation of crimea also the presence of russian while the presence of of warfare in eastern ukraine are obviously the russians to say that there are no russian troops in eastern ukraine but there's there are clearly moves being made there going religion in russia has always been a big issue it's something that human consecutive russian presidents have wanted him to think about that but will there be a pushback do you think if only as

a function of a desire for control. when it's i mean it's hard to say if we think about president putin he has a very strong and very public relationship with the russian orthodox church which he has fostered over the last two years. he has a very strong relationship with kerry all the patriarch the patriarch has very famously exalted the faithful to vote for putin so he gains a lot of cultural power and political power through the church so i would imagine that there probably is going to be some kind of pushback what that pushback is at this stage it's very hard to say close sure thank you very much. let's go back to our top story let's take a closer look now jamal khashoggi is life and career or such as more. for more than thirty years jamal khashoggi enjoyed a privileged position within the saudi royal circle in large part echoing the kingdom's views but also taking risks operating from within to push the boundaries

when it came to reform that risk taking would eventually draw the anger of the kingdom's heir apparent. the one time insider crossing the red line hits so skillfully tried in the past daring to criticize the crown prince mohammed bin salma i still see him as a reformer but he is getting old poet within his hand and it would be much better for him to allow a bidding space for a critic for the intellectuals for all you like to sort of the media to debate the most important needed transformation going in the country. past wasn't without controversy an advisor to saudi intelligence chief turki al-faisal helping saudi intelligence in afghanistan alongside the much i had seen on osama bin laden an advocate of political islam through the muslim brotherhood but he also championed reforms even praised the crown prince for enacting them but last year he went into self-imposed exile in the united states for comments that angered the saudi leader

. seen here with the missing journalist last year has known and worked with the shoji for at least thirty years he was not necessarily a dissident i disagree with that description he was a loyal saudi citizen he had his own vision of what the country should be doing that type of freedom needs the type of reform it needs and maybe in the final analysis that's what got him in trouble because of it jamal khashoggi hasn't been seen for two weeks in that time the world's attention has turned to the activities of the kingdom and more broadly the arab world that has questioned all their governments virtually do anything they want with there their citizens. put them in jail they deny them work sometimes they take away their citizenship of that process of widespread continuing deep autocracy abuse of power across the arab world is not addressed them that the fisherman who killed you will be doubly tragic. a saudi

journalist with a platform a columnist for the washington post regular spots in u.s. and international t.v. channels almost two million followers on twitter that someone so high profile could vanish without a trace is shocking it will also have a chilling effect on those who wish to follow his example dorsett jabari al-jazeera . well the reaction to her should she's disappearance has been global online it's been at the center of multiple conversations with contributions from people around the world you're holding as this jamal khashoggi is name is trending worldwide and has been since he disappeared two weeks ago the conversation is strongest in the u.s. and u.k. but also interestingly in saudi arabia with hundreds of thousands of tweets asking questions defending journalism and pointing fingers most of the blame is directed

at saudi arabia and the crown prince mohammed bin some money. in the u.s. drew this with n.b.s. asking who donald trump is also condemned for not doing more for bowing to saudi arabia to ensure lucrative trade deals continue and many cartoonists like s m j to hear from iran showing the love affair going both ways it's not just blame for the u.s. martin shovel asking where does britain draw the line when it comes to funding human rights and saudi arabia the online criticism of course is not limited to cartoons. here's how weak the trump's excuse is even saudi arabia is not buying it because this afternoon c.n.n. reported the saudi arabia is planning to admit that jamal khashoggi his death was the result of an interrogation that went wrong let me ask an obvious question and the interrogation that includes fifteen men and a bone saw that go right. this is one of the most disturbing violations of human rights in recent memory people are also calling for justice even republicans who

broadly support donald trump's policies want answers america must take tougher action and making money and selling more weapons because we're going to have a bottom line with more money is not an excuse for america not to stand tall and to make it clear to the world that we believe that human race right here are prepared to defend them and now the conversation is focused on us secretary of state mike pompei a visit to saudi arabia many online are saying if there are not answers then there need to be consequences and we'll bring you all the twists and turns on the evolving story and when they happen here on al-jazeera we move on to other top stories the nigerian government says it shocked and saddened at the inhuman killing of a second red cross aid worker held hostage by boko haram how it was one of three females killed during a raid in borno state seven months ago she was killed after her colleagues suffered a similar fate last month and despite pleas for mercy by the red cross it has

a policy of refusing to pay ransom to moms. desperate to escape yemen thousands of families have made the dangerous trip across the red sea to djibouti despite hope from escalating escaping the war many are struggling to live having arrived with nothing in to what's already a poor country from djibouti bernard smith has more. in a sparse room in central djibouti we see abdul aziz abdullah and their seven children sit out the war in yemen they're safe but destitute and scarred for life by the horrors they say they've witnessed on the moment we couldn't stay there was a wedding in our village during the celebrations airplanes came in dropped bombs on it forty five people were killed the whole place was demolished in people blown to pieces they couldn't tell who was who people brought a buckets and we picked up pieces of flesh and bone his mother was one of them we lost so many relatives at once so fast we didn't want that to happen to our

children but to escape and a grueling fourteen hour boat ride across the red sea. i have seven children understand how it is i got scared the killing began bullets began flying around and my children were very scared so i took them to the coast and that night there was heavy bombardment of a military base on the outskirts of town the kids did not stop crying all night i found a fishing boat and they said they were headed for good it was a very windy day very high waves my kids got sick i threw up a lot. of family ended up at this remote refugee camp and but the hot dusty desert environment aggravated the asem of their baby daughter forcing them to seek better treatment in djibouti as capital. around five thousand yemeni refugees live in the city the u.n. runs an advice center here but it doesn't have the resources to pay for health care or anything else yet they come here and explain their case they don't know what is or isn't possible and the hardest thing basically is getting bin to understand it's

clearly very frustrating for up till it seems like most refugees here he'd rather go home to yemen but he tells us he can't do that until the situation changes burnet smith al-jazeera djibouti. and a development coming to us via the reuters news agency might pompei of the u.s. secretary of state has been in riyadh he's been meeting king solomon and the crown prince mohammed bin sultan mr pompei oh and the saudi crown prince have quote agreed on the importance of a thora transparent investigation into the disappearance of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi that's according to a state department spokeswoman in washington mr pompei o is shared jewels to leave saudi arabia and then make his way to istanbul not ankara interesting that he is going to istanbul presumably to relay the takeaway points from his conversations

that he's been having with king cell man and the crown prince but the latest top line on the diplomatic consequences and where the diplomacy of this may be vectoring itself is that mr pompei or mike pompei of the u.s. secretary of state and the saudi crown prince have agreed on the importance of a transparent thorough investigation into what happened to the saudi journalist jamal who of course worked for the washington post he lived in virginia and he walked into the consulate building in istanbul two weeks ago his fiance waited outside for eleven hours nobody's seen him since still to come here on the news on the sports news for time.

time for the sports news we've been joined by far thank you so much peter world cup semifinalists england of won in spain for the first time in more than three decades they did it feeling their youngest team since nine hundred fifty nine for him sternly and scored twice in this european nations league game to end his three year wait for an international goal marcus ratchford also scored to put anyone three up at half time spain replied with two goals after the break but england hung on for a three two win just extremely proud of the performance the players have given because they played with huge courage we knew that to come here and just defend for a million two minutes you're unlikely to get

a result. so we need to be brave with the ball we talked. about the trip from three have a need to believe in themselves one other group a game was played on monday with switzerland beating iceland two one iceland have lost all three of their games switzerland are top of that group for now which also includes belgium spain still favorites to finish top of their group ahead of england. for group a winners will meet in a playoff next june decide the first nations champions. just a few months on from their group stage exit at the world cup germany now face a fight to avoid relegation from the top tier of the nations lee lowest men have picked up just one point from two games after their three nil defeat against the netherlands on saturday germany faced world champions france germany have won only three of their last twelve matches. the milwaukee brewers have taken

a two one lead in their playoff series with the l.a. dodgers a two run home run from orlando mark helped the brewers to a four nothing win at dodgers stadium in game three of the best of seven national league championship series game four is coming up later this choose day in l.a. milwaukee now two wins away from a spot in the world series. orlando's you know always been a guy that you know you you want to put a moment on and you know put pressure on him put a big moment and put the spotlight on him he loves it. and i'm not surprised that he's that he's thriving in playoffs here former sri lanka captain some serious says he's acted with integrity having been charged with corruption by the i.c.c. world cricket's governing body claim he hasn't cooperated with an investigation and have even accused him of destroying evidence the sri lankan team who play an o.d.i. against england on wednesday say they were avoiding the scandal. you know we have

decided that the players will not answer any any questions do so not. to tell you no it's not of this destruction because the summit has an order. we discarded the moment and as a team as a whole we would like to know how to comment on the whole it's not that i'm sorry. fifty years ago today three young athletes decided to take a political stand at the mexico olympics the photograph of the medal podium for the two hundred meters has become one of sport's most iconic images americans tommy smith and john carlos bowed their heads and raised a fist and what they described as a human rights salute became an enduring symbol of the fight for racial equality the third man was australian peter norman who stood in solidarity with the pair norman died in two thousand and six while smith and carlos remain outspoken activists all the athletes were part of the olympic project for human rights its

aim was to protest against racism around the world smith had just become the first athlete to break the twenty second barrier in the two hundred meters but after the protest he and carlos were immediately suspended from the u.s. team carlos said the reason for the close fist was to show that black men in america are united like smith and norman he would never compete at another lympics it was norman who suggested carlos and smith share the pair the one pair of black they had so both could raise their fist to face huge criticism in australia only after his death did the country's parliament formally apologize for his treatments you know he was in the asylum. looked. over who were going to happen before the theists when the. chain was about to come this were. things going to go because i needed. i needed

a platform doing the right thing is not an easy thing to do for me or anyone else asked to be a fifty years ago on the podium with one guy had his fists up with me and another guy stood there in support of me but fifty years of that post of being there we three can not change society to make it better without the help of you. there's a very different atmosphere around the youth olympics which is nearing its conclusion in argentina and the games are all ballot innovation and the slam dunk contest has proven to be hugely popular first four years ago this time out the gold medal was won by help player tossed out the sack. and that's all your support for now more later back to you peter thorough thanks very much you can find lots more news of course on the web site al jazeera dot com is the address you need also in the next off i will take live updates on what's going on in turkey stumble and washington two will continue to track michael pompei of the u.s.

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thousand and eighteen for more information go to isa war dot com. millions of people across india miss out on medical care but a hospital train is delivering doctors and hope to those most in need. when one uses boards indios lifeline express. an al-jazeera. after a three year deal a afghanistan is finally preparing to hold parliamentary elections told by constant violence and continually influenced by foreign powers many afghans are hoping for a real change what direction where the country takes will give you an in-depth coverage of the afghanistan elections and i'll just.

al-jazeera. swear every. investigation into the suspected killing of the saudi journalist she turns to the residents of the saudi consul general in istanbul. logan on peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up the u.s. secretary of state arrives in riyadh for a meeting with the saudi king after president trump speaks of killers. ignoring a plea for mercy from the red cross.