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the investigation into the suspected killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi turns to the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul live pictures from outside his home. hello from doha everyone i'm come all santamaria this is the world news from al-jazeera the u.s. secretary of state is in riyadh for a meeting with the saudi king after president trump speaks of road killers. disguise gotta go saudi arabia to listening to a lot of good people you can choose but n.b.s.
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is tainted your country and tainted him so that's the pressure for u.s. sanctions against saudi arabia starting to pick up as well and in other news ignoring a plea for mercy from the red cross boko haram kills a second knows who was kidnapped seven months ago in nigeria. so turkish investigators have begun searching the home of the saudi consul general as they try to zero in on who is behind the suspected killing of jamal khashoggi remember two weeks now since the saudi journalist was last seen entering his country's consulate in istanbul the consul general's home is near to the consulate the one which has already been searched and sources from the turkish general prosecutor's office of told al jazeera they have seen indications that there is evidence there at the consulate we've also got the u.s. secretary of state mike on peo in riyadh. he met king solomon and then he sat down
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with that man the crown prince are the son of the king mohamed bin solomon donald trump meanwhile has spoken to road kill media reports say the saudis are even considering a statement which would say khashoggi was killed when an interrogation went wrong all of this says the u.n. human rights chief calls for the lifting of diplomatic immunity for saudi consulate staff so they can be a full investigation in view of the seriousness of the situation surrounding the disappearance of mystical shortly the high commission of billie's e 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 has that in this hour on al jazeera kimberly
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hellcats of the white house will be with her shortly starting there with. outside the consulate in istanbul the consul general residents the search going on there but i believe he's not around. has not come out which is. just the latest twist in this two week long mystery essentially that. has gripped the world the saudi consul general who's got the hearts really of this investigation in the sense that he is the most senior saudi diplomat in assembled the second most senior piece he was the one who was responsible for the consulate behind me when jamal casualty entered two weeks to the day he was the one who gave him a hundred years ruins of his paperwork could be processed if he came back courting to those of jamal's friends who i spoke to were in close contact with jamal just days before he entered the building when it seems that he has decided to opt out
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and leave just hours before z. investigators who had already been given access to the consulates twenty four hours prior to that's. home now this seems to be direct results it would seem at least from an objective perspective. coming off to the comments made by the turkish foreign minister here is some of what he had to say. there is nothing you get with regards to the investigation and the saudi consulate and as well we all know because show james went into the saudi consulate to get some type of wishful himself but at the moment the most important thing for us is to find out what happened to kushal ji of course we will carry out necessary investigations in interviews about this is very important for us on the other hand mr palmer stated that he would like to come to ankara and we welcome home as always
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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 stance of saudi will start to handling of this issue right now the reason why i say it seems to be linked to what the foreign minister says is because. we went on to say that he didn't feel the need to get rid of the immunity that is enjoyed by the saudi diplomats and obviously every diplomats around the world based on the vienna convention that we heard the u.n. human rights chief mention there now what is important to note is that there are other. specific personalities that work for the mission here and also that are linked to it's still suspects or persons of interest let's say for the investigation we understand that the investigators have identified specific people that they were came to speak to obviously they are still waiting to finish the
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combing the different places of interest they also want to look at vehicles that are registered to the diplomatic mission here so the investigation ongoing obviously president obama had mentioned that some of the information that he was getting from his officials from his. officials here in turkey was that there was some sort of meddling that taking place tampering in the consulate behind us you spoke of toxic chemicals being used there painting the. over certain areas obviously we're still waiting for the actual evidence to be disclosed we understand that the authorities haven't added to the evidence they're already hired which led them to believe that he was called just four days after he went missing it doesn't seem to have all that i would say there is a faster pace as to how things are developing both on the investigation side them over to me politically with the trouble of. expectation that you will arrive in the
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coming say twenty four hours but the latest we have is the search that is meant to be taking place the devil's home that's coming right after the consul general himself decided to leave or flee turkey on a flight to saudi arabia. instead but with that update thank you off to the white house now his kimberly how could kimberly i'm interested in these comments from lindsey graham because you know you've been telling me in the past week the importance of congress in this whole debate and the idea of them showing that they are a strong and equal part of government here. there seems to be growing frustration not just by the american public but also members of congress the lack of sort of forceful condemnation about what has occurred to. me particularly when it comes to this white house that it has essentially expressed nothing more than concern in those recent readouts coming from the secretary of state is meeting in riyadh and
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that has led to some frustration of members of congress including lindsey graham who see not only the crown prince's actions in recent weeks and months as being a radical but also now with the disappearance of the missing journalist potential murder seeing him as complicit take a listen to these comments. well i know this nothing happens in saudi arabia without knowing it who's india he's the thirty three year old crown prince who jumped over other people he's the son of the existing king and i think he's in a bad track i can never do business with saudi arabia again until we get this behind this what does that mean it means i'm not going back to saudi arabia as long as this guy is in charge so you're selling the crown prince has to leave this up to them but i'm not going to i've been their biggest offender on the floor the united states senate this guy is a wrecking ball he had this guy murdered in a consulate in turkey and to expect me to ignore and feel used and abused i was on the floor every time defending saudi arabia because there's a good ally there's a difference between a country and an individual the n.b.s.
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figure is to me toxic he can never be a world leader on the world stage what does the president do thank the president but what i would do i know what i'm going to do and sanction the hell out of saudi arabia you know we deal with bad people all the time but this is in our face i feel personally offended they have nothing but contempt for us why would you put a guy like me and the president in this box after all the president has done this guy's got to go saudi arabia if you're listening there are a lot of good people you can choose but n.b.s. is tainted your country and tainted him so while i mean you can be opposed to something but that was really going on the offensive at the same time as. they're shaking hands and smiling with mahmoud been soman. yeah and that image in those optics not sitting well here in the united states is not just lindsey graham we've heard from the democratic side of the aisle where they've really listed off a growing frustration not only has the crown prince in their minds been behind the
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jailing of family members the detention of the lebanese prime minister the feud with qatar that many americans see as nonsensical and members of congress as well and for a long time there has been a very growing unsettling feeling in congress with the whole issue in yemen the fact that humanitarian disaster that civilians are being killed in numbers that are not sitting well with the american public and that those bombs that are often dropped the that ammunition those munitions all has to step made in america this is really the straw that broke the camel's back if you will with regard to the missing journalist i can tell you this is not looking good for the president especially as we have those pivotal congressional elections taking place we should also note happening right now in washington is a very important congress conference rather the inaugural golf international forum in washington right now this is a conference a meeting a very prominent policy foreign policy makers happening as we speak and rate on the
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website is the picture of jim out who was supposed to be speaking it's a notable absence just once again underscoring this very very difficult relationship between the united states and saudi arabia a man who spoke out who was a vocal critic now notably absent very interesting kimberly how could at the white house thank you and as we talk about the man himself it's a good chance to actually look back at jamal khashoggi life and career barrios that story. 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
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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 g. for at least thirty years he was not necessarily a yes and then i disagree with that description he was
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a loyal saudi citizen he had his own vision of what the country should be doing that type of freedoms 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 and abuse of power across the arab world is not addressed than the death of a man who joked he 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
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vanish without a trace is shocking it will also have a chilling effect on those who wish to follow his example dorsetshire bari al-jazeera. coming up on al-jazeera the rest of the day's news in just a few minutes ago in fact the u.s. imposed fresh sanctions on iran will have the details on that and demands in nicaragua to release all protesters in a six month presidential rebellion. however the weather's looking usually excitable over the next couple of days across the middle east some wet weather in the forecast for many cloud of rain there into at least inside of the region here just pushing ever towards afghanistan nudging up
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towards the minus down at his back istanbul a bit of wet weather to sliding out of the mediterranean just notice some pockets of cloud around syria pushing down towards lebanon cloud and rain there just nothing its way across into iraq as we go one through where the staff of a cloud to further a stash can should be lousy drives are going through weather stay cold a messy i mean one degree celsius the possibility of some snow here couples falling away nineteen celsius here thirty four there maybe thirty five into karachi as we go on through thursday by thursday it should be somewhat dry around that western side of the region come further south you see some very heavy rain of course pushing into yemen america. still a fair bit of cloud wet weather that is easing over towards the gulf of aden some showers too into southern parts of saudi arabia over the next day and then we never really too far away from us here and kata over towards us could see some light as as we go through thursday with the possibility of localized flooding.
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after. 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 the country takes were given in-depth coverage of the afghanistan elections. millions of people across india miss out on medical care but a hospital train is delivering doctors and hope to those most in need. boards indios lifeline express. zero.
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the latest developments now in the. story in turkish investigators are about to start searching the saudi consul general. to try to find out who is behind this is specter killing of tree this is the u.s. secretary of state is in riyadh for talks with the saudi king and the crown prince about what happened. yes there are those pictures of u.s. secretary of state might pay zero that's him with the crown prince mohammed bin sultan the washington post is reporting u.s. officials knew the crown prince ordered an operation to lure me from his home in virginia on pay are expected to travel to turkey for further meetings in the next forty eight hours and the u.n. human rights chief is calling for the lifting of diplomatic immunity for saudi consulate staff to allow full investigation it wants to waive the vienna convention which bars non consular staff from diplomatic compounds and embassy. there's been some developing news in the past half hour the united states treasury department
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has announced it will impose new sanctions against iran economic sanctions which will target iranian banks as well as steel and tractor manufacturing companies the details now with rosalind jordan who's been looking at this one for us in washington what can you tell us us for. welcome all this is part of the u.s. efforts to isolate and to punish iran for what the u.s. says is teheran's ongoing efforts to not only try to build a nuclear weapons program but to also foment. unstable. quick conditions across the greater middle east and so these new sanctions are targeting a big part of the iranian financial sector including a couple of notable banks it's also these sanctions are also targeting organizations that are supporting the i.g. or see the efforts to basically send out mercenaries to other
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countries to participate in civil wars in other countries notably inside syria and it also is an effort to basically try to send a message to companies in europe and across the middle east that there will be wrapper if they continue trying to do business with iran that the u.s. could essentially shut off its own business relationships with these companies and with these countries if they don't basically tell the trumpet ministrations lines which is to try to isolate iran and to try to hold it accountable for what the government in tehran would argue its right to have its own foreign policy and this is to come into effect immediately roselyn because there are foreign member rightly of the sanctions due in november. that's right these sanctions that were announced by the treasury department in the last hour are effective immediately and they are
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taking advantage of existing presidential executive orders which allow for an immediate implementation of sanctions against groups that have run afoul of these executive orders now what's happening in november is that the u.s. is basically trying to convince the international community to stop buying iranian oil again trying to deprive teheran of the funds which the trumpet ministration argues it's using in order to not just try to destabilize its neighboring countries but also to try to build a nuclear weapons arsenal now what happens is that the u.s. has been putting a lot of pressure on other countries to stop buying iranian oil or to all possibly face their own punishment in terms of economic embargoes and that sort of thing if by november sixth they have not broken off financial ties with the iranian
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government when it comes to these oil purchases and then other sanctions are supposed to be reimposed at the same time again because the trumpet ministration is trying to contain iran's ability to exert its influence across the middle east so the timing isn't exactly suspect the trumpet ministration has been for the past several months really trying to highlight what it says are. bad behavior around the region and perhaps into other parts of the world these sanctions are simply the latest step in the ministrations efforts to isolate iran joining with news of new sanctions against iran thank you. a mode of silence has been held on the first anniversary of a massive bomb blast which killed a journalist investigating corruption in malta the ceremony at the european commission in brussels rolls or members other journalists killed or intimidated at
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work media freedom group the maltese government to open an independent investigation into the unsolved murder of daphne. barca reports now from the capitol hill. duffy khurana go the see is death shocked a nation to many she was a fearless anti corruption crusader but she was also accused of scathing even defamatory journalism and of being politically partisan on one of the read blogs a year after she was killed in a car bombing the reasons for head death are still unclear. and her family wants a public inquiry free from all political interference the focus of that inquiry on like the current processes is to look into whether deafness nice could have been saved so that would mean looking into possible state failure to protect and possible state complicity in the assassination this is where daphne car honestly
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see it was killed she left her home in a village just up the hill in a least car the blast was so powerful it scattered parts of the vehicle in surrounding fields some of her remains were found eighty meters away from here this isn't the first car bomb in malta they have been six since the start of two thousand and sixteen but it's the first time the victim hasn't been a criminal three men are on trial for murder question surrounding a motive a yet to be answered. claimed to have uncovered corruption at the highest levels in a maltese bank the police and the government she believed officials were granting residency in passports in return for bribes from shady individuals trying to access the european union. she also linked to maltese politicians including the prime minister joseph muscat with offshore tax havens he denies the allegations. his
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family believes there's been a deliberate attempt to control the narrative surrounding her death to make it look like she was investigating criminal gangs alone and not the government the prime minister declined our request for an interview. since carolina khaleesi is dead colleagues say bolters media office which is over directly by political parties has lacked an important voice it was nothing like her before and there's been nothing since her bravery i imagine would inspire others in the years to come locally she opened many people's eyes to what. journalism could be this is what's left of a once large makeshift memorial to the journalist opposite multis law courts it's tended to by activists who say it's a regularly torn down even in death they say she continues to be silenced neve barkha al-jazeera valetta malta. human rights groups in nicaragua are welcoming the
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release of some of the anti-government protesters arrested on sunday but say hundred still remain in prison fact at least three hundred twenty protestors have been killed during six months of rebellion against three time president daniel ortega opponents accuse them of being a cruel and corrupt dictator on the republican imports now from the capital. was dozens of anti-government demonstrators were met with heavy force by police in managua after six months of on rest and more nicaraguan citizens are calling on the government of president then you know they got to end the violent repression of political opponents and the right time for me and i don't know why being repressed they won't let us march they are violating our constitutional rights to protest. almost as soon as the demonstration began police vehicles full of riot officers confronted the crowd. some protesters clashed with officers and were beaten with clubs many of the demonstrators were women who were
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dragged away screaming where on the streets of my now we're up the nicaraguan police had announced yesterday that any protest against the government today would be considered illegal and would not be allowed despite this we've seen several people come out on the streets and protest the government. that the police have started arresting them by one each one of these peaceful protesters as well i thought as as attacking members of the present was recently by my producer and i were recently hit with the tear gas canister. members of the press were forced to huddle together for safety as the arrests unfolded the nicaraguan police have used physical violence against journalists during demonstrations yeah wyvis latest protest in managua was meant to represent the first in stray ship by an organized political coalition of activists calling themselves the alliance for a national unity. then i want. to let the whole thing is
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just terrible the provocation against the people is too much it's too much there has to be an end to this all of us have had enough a heavy militarized police presence across much of downtown managua prevented any more anti-government protesters from gathering on the streets of the city the police of criminalize dissent in the country meaning supporters of the government are the only nicaraguan citizens allowed to demonstrate on the streets of madrid up a little. the nigerian government says it is quite shocked and saddened at the inhumane killing of a second health worker by boko haram who are laymen one of three females kidnapped during a raid in borno state in march gunman killed eight aid workers and soldiers the nurse held hostage was killed despite a plea for mercy by the red cross with more from a brooch. the nigerian government said up to the last minute it left the door for
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negotiations open but he did not say clearly what the negotiations or terms of negotiation where and they did not say what they did right and what they did wrong the killing of the two aid workers working for the international committee of the red cross was a rude shock to many when the first killings took place in september a lot of nigel's was surprised because previously the international committee of the red cross the facilitator of the evacuation of prisoners or captives between the nigerian state and the book was reading to some suggestion that the go between between the two sides that the nigerian state and book why rum is the international committee of the red cross which many officers of the red cross denied now the nigerian state said a lot of nigerians actually was hopeful that following the assurances by the nigerian president that the government will do everything possible to ensure the release of all captives before it was fulfilled that the incident we so
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yesterday may not happen but when it happened a lot of nigerians were disappointed and shocked at the same time there are no grounds for optimism on a briggs deal and that's coming to me from the european council president donald tusk before a summit in brussels on wednesday britain's prime minister terrorism a has met government ministers to discuss the status of talks negotiations of stalled over what should happen with the irish border when northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. these the e.u. in march the reason may those there's an amicable divorce deal is still. a chinese pharmaceuticals company has been fined more than a billion dollars for selling faulty rabies vaccinations regulators also stripped chuang sharing of its manufacturing licenses it makes different batches of expired drugs and then failed to test the vaccine and destroy the records the scandal of a deadly fake medicines caused a major outcry last year and the split within the orthodox church is dramatically
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wide in the russian orthodox church is not cutting ties with all other branches the announcement in moscow follows leaders in istanbul of the world wide orthodoxy granting independence to the ukrainian church that decision ends more than three hundred years of control from moscow and follows the annexation of crimea by russian troops four years ago. there are your headlines on al-jazeera turkish investigators are about to start searching the saudi consul general's home as they try to find out who's behind this is specter killing of jamal khashoggi. which is syria has learnt forensic experts found evidence of that was he was killed inside another building the consulate itself now the news the u.s. treasury department has just announced it will impose new sanctions against iran economic sanctions which will target iran's mellot bank as well as steel and
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tractor manufacturing companies the u.s. says it's targeting businesses that provide financial support to a force that allegedly trains child soldiers a moment of silence has been held on the first anniversary of a massive bomb blast which killed a journalist investigating corruption in malta a ceremony at the european commission in brussels also remembered other journalists killed or intimidated at work media freedom groups the maltese government to open an independent investigation into the unsolved murder of. the nigerian government says it is shocked and saddened at the inhumane killing of a second health worker by boko haram how a woman was one of three females kidnapped during a raid in borno state back in march gunmen killed eight aid workers and soldiers the nurse held hostage was killed despite a plea for mercy by the red cross there are no grounds for optimism on a brags that deal that is the word from the european council president donald
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before a summit in brussels on wednesday britain's prime minister to resign may has met government ministers to discuss the status of talks versions of stoled over what should happen with the irish border when it northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. leaves the e.u. in march to resume a says an amicable divorce deal is still achievable and chinese pharmaceuticals company has been fined more than a billion dollars for selling faulty rabies vaccinations regulations also stripped . of its manufacturing licenses it makes different batches of expired drugs then failed to test the vaccine and destroyed the records the scandal over deadly fake medicines caused a major outcry of last year that's a look at the headlines here on al-jazeera there is of course plenty more online of al-jazeera dot com twenty four seven we will be back with a news hour right after inside story with imran khan.
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who killed your turkey says it now has evidence he was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul donald trump says rogue killers may have done it but it was an investigation that went wrong or was a hit squad sent to silence this is a story. hello and welcome to the program i am wrong kong the joint saudi turkish team investigating the case of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi has searched the consulate and now.
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