so don't fight or in some way does this take you now have to have the kind of support that he needs we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello from doha everyone i'm come on santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera turkish police wage to enter the saudi consul general home in istanbul as they investigate the suspected killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi while the u.s. secretary of state visits saudi arabia to demand answers from the king and the crown prince in other news the u.s. imposes a new round of sanctions on iran targeting banking and manufacturing and the difficult

devolved still growing concern that no agreement will be reached on bragg's it is all sides prepare for a key summit in france. so sandy arabia's consul general in istanbul has left turkey just as police repaired to enter and search his residence investigators still trying to work out who is behind the suspected killing of jamal khashoggi two weeks after the saudi journalist was last seen entering his country's consulate in this is the the general consuls home not far from the consulate itself which has already been searched in fact sources from the turkish general prosecutor's office of told up to zero they have found some evidence there at the consulate as i already said the u.s. might pompei or he's in saudi arabia humint kang selman and he also met the crown prince mohammed bin solomon and the u.n. human rights chief has been calling for the lifting of diplomatic immunity for

saadi consulate staff so they can be a full investigation. in view of the seriousness of the situation surrounding the disappearance of mystical shokri 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 ok once again with kimberly held at the white house we'll be checking in with her shortly but we're starting with jamal a shell outside the saudi consulate and its stand this is very interesting jamal that the saudi what is that the consul general residence was about to be searched or is about the research and he's not there. it is indeed i mean here

is somebody who is at the center of this investigation a key suspect or at least witness to what's happened the person who was responsible for the saudi diplomatic mission behind me when jamal specialty entered two weeks to the day in fact the person who actually spoke to jamal and told him that if he was to come to the consulate his paperwork would be processed and that's based on what jamal khashoggi had told several of his friends who i've been speaking to in the past few days what is bizarre is that just before his home is expected to be essentially searched by forensic experts and investigators he gets on a plane from istanbul and leaves the country together with his family according to our sources at the airport so that is the latest twist in it's obviously it seems that he was getting this green light from the turkish foreign ministry the foreign

minister all of their public of turkey had spoken earlier he was saying that he was unwilling or his country was not going to remove that diplomatic immunity as had been called for by the united nations or at least hinted at by the united nations human rights chief and he also had a few more words to say about the case. and wish us. there is nothing new yet with regards to the investigation and the saudi consulate and as well we'll know into the saudi consulate to get some paperwork for 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 other hand to mr pompei i stated that he would like to come to ankara and we welcome him as always we do for our 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 against the saudi or thirty's handling of this issue. now of course as we've been saying throughout the past two weeks come out this is a very delicate case in the sense that it's not just about. the fact that she was missing it does have so many other components to it not least the international relations in the diplomacy between psyche saudi arabia now as you see the united states and its turkey's attempt to walk this very tight rope let's say that's maybe brought in some criticism that there isn't that transparency in the investigation there's been these leaks here and there from un named sources those who spoke to us unconditionally and i'm an anonymity it was only that one time where we managed to actually attribute something to the attorney general's office where they got information after or evidence rather after they entered the mission late on monday in the past few minutes come out of the spokesperson for the ak party that is the

ruling party here in turkey or march illich he briefed reporters and he was saying maybe came as a with it would a bit of a stronger message than the foreign minister he said that there was no way his party's governments or the government of turkey would allow for this investigation to be brushed under the carpet so to speak he said it must be concluded it won't be left hanging all the details he said will be revealed he said that aside from this joint investigation that is taking place between the saudis and turks there is an independent inquiry from nuts of the parks themselves are leading obviously there was a lot of criticism or questions being drawn to how the main suspects in a murder case or at least a forced disappearance could also participate in the investigation itself so i want to look the spokesperson for the i pod's you just came out and spoke with a bit more stronger maybe trying to reassure the public and the international community that there will be some sort of transparency and that is what has been

sort of a set from the beginning some sort of transparency in this investigation thank you for the update jamaal of sale in istanbul your mother u.s. secretary mike pompei i'm sorry has discussed the disappearance with the saudi king and the crown prince mohammed bin salman in riyadh he's also expected to visit turkey would house amount of fish. smiles and handshakes as mike from piro arrived in saudi arabia to begin a series of high profile meetings u.s. secretary of state met with king salmon before sitting down with crown prince mohammed bin sultan the man the turks believe ordered an operation against a journalist and u.s. resident jamal khashoggi he made no public comment but the state department issued what's called the readout of the meeting afterward seeing the secretary and the crown prince agreed on the importance of a thorough transparent and timely investigation that provides answers. donald trump sent his secretary of state to the region as pressure on the u.s. grows to take firm action against their middle east ally the president has already

expressed his reluctance to block arms sales to the kingdom and in an early morning tweet rejected suggestions he was reluctant because of his foreign financial interests seeing for the record i have no financial interest in saudi arabia or russia for that matter any suggestion i have is just more big news we get nothing during the election he talked happily about doing business with the saudis saudi arabia and i get along great with all of that by apartment something they spent forty million sixty million of my supposed to dislike and i like him very much his comments coming the same day he created for new companies and so do you really are companies his lawyer insists no longer exist responding to a suggestion the thirty's may claim jamal khashoggi died at the hands of so-called rogue elements of saudi security one of donald trump's closest allies an important republican voice in the senate said in the strongest possible terms and he wasn't buying it i know what i'm going to do will 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 far would you put a guy like me and the president in this box after all the president has done this guy has got to go sorry but if you listening there are a lot of good people you can choose but m.v.s. has tainted your country and tainted himself meanwhile it's been reported in the us that the current sodium bastard who left washington last week and was told by the state department to return with answers probably won't be coming back prince caliban solomon is the current prince's younger brother alan fischer al-jazeera washington what we can really help at now outside the white house i can't believe let's talk about lindsey graham first of all because you can have strong comments and then you can have bat incredibly forceful and he said it all on what we know is one of the president's favorite t.v. shows. yes and he's not alone not only it's important to know this is a very divided congress in terms of democrats republicans they rarely see eye to

eye but on this issue on the issue of the missing journalist in fact there is an increasing number of members of congress particularly senators who are voicing their concerns the latest chorus seems to be that they are finding the saudi explanation for what happened to jim l z as being somewhat believable the fact that he has been accidentally killed in an interrogation the members are tweeting out there speaking on national television on the news channels saying they find this explanation to be outrageous the united states can't turn a blind eye and many are also feeling pretty uncomfortable with those images of the secretary of state sitting with the crown prince laughing smiling given the seriousness of these allegations there seems to be a growing outcry and call for a more forceful response from the united states one that forcefully condemns what appears to look like murder now having said all of that we should point out that

there was a background call on a separate issue coming from the white house on iran sanctions i know you're going to get to that a little bit but there were senior administration officials were asked about the story they said look at the administration's unified there's no question we want to get to the bottom of this we're not ignoring or downplaying this episode but that is how many americans are feeling right now and we just talk a little more about my visit can be we just saw the pictures of him there and i think you put it this way a little bit earlier you said the optics of this when you have this sort of photo op and smiling with a man who many is saying actually was behind the murder of a journalist. yeah. it seems to be that this is the tipping point for many members of congress and for ordinary americans look at quick history lesson back to one nine hundred thirty three is when the us established diplomatic relations with saudi arabia since then they've turned the united states has turned

a bit of a blind eye to some of the things that have concerned them about the way the kingdom operates particularly with respect to human rights and because the oil kept flowing but in recent months and years this has been harder and harder to do the jailing of family members the detention of the lebanese prime minister the feud with qatar this many in the u.s. congress say is simply nonsensical and of course the conflict in yemen the fact that the united states is providing military support that these weapons that are being used and are killing a disproportionate number of civilians have made in america on it this is something that the ordinary public and the members of congress that represent them seem to they can no longer tolerate this the fact that they now have this missing journalist case the fact that the white house seems to be dragging its heels this is particularly bad for this white house in advance of an election and i can tell you this is not sitting well with voters it's not sitting well with their representatives and it could turn out to be very bad for the president come voting day kimberly how could thank you kimberly that the white house for us.

this name who is the director of the leader of conflict resolution of the middle east institute she's in washington d.c. as well nice to see you. let's pick up on the point of u.s. saudi relations at this point it seems to be this balancing act where the u.s. has to show it is being strong its dispatching its secretary of state to find out the truth but it all seems very cozy at the same time. i totally agree with kimberly is that the optics of the meeting between six second at that point payroll and the saudi crown prince are not going well in this town in washington d.c. and there are more and more members of congress who until now have tried not to take a stand a public stand on this issues the optics of that meeting are forcing them to come out and take a public stand and the public stand is demanding thorough investigation but also at the same time saying that this narrative of operation or

a botched interrogation is not really believe a bullet given how the saudi regime works and how it operates and that it's unlikely that such a hit if fifteen member hit team enters a saudi consulate. you know citizens inside that consulate if it is that it without this having been sanctioned by the highest authorities in the saudi government what did you think of lindsey graham's comments a little bit earlier you might have heard them when we were on is very forceful very strong do you think that the u.s. congress can actually make a difference here when we focus so much on the executive branch and on the presidency can the congress make a difference. of course it can make a difference in terms of the saves you know many of these saves have to be approved by congress so it can make it difficult it can make it difficult in terms of you know calling for sanctions imposing sanctions we are not there yet but some members

of congress are talking about sanctions on a saudi arabia it can make it difficult in terms of preventing you know any kind of you know to many zation relationship between the saudis and the american administration going forward yes it has but still foreign policy is very much under the control of the white house and this white house so far has made it very clear that they would like to limit the fallout of this murder as much as they can run to you deal with conflict resolution and the saudis have got a major conflict to resolve here because there are those reports that they're going to come out and say well he died during an interrogation which went wrong i mean to after two weeks of of denying basically how on earth can walk this one back. i mean they can walk this one back if governments in the region and governments outside that each unlike the united states are willing to buy into this that of and

given where i look given how i mean given where the situation is given all the statement that have come out from out of governments from other governments you know whether it's europe or whether it's in the united states as long as this investigation that is going to be done will meet the minimum requirements of a transparent investigation that they livered it believable result i think they would be willing to you know live with it including that despite this collision in the tone i think if the investigation eventually and if the saudis are willing to say yes he died inside the saudi consulate yes these are the people who basically you know where responsible for the murder this is. not that a senior but a mid-level saudi official who ordered this without being sanctioned by the highest levels of authority i think everybody is willing to live with this and you know let things happen right as them from the middle east institute very good talking to you thank you our other guest today is chris phillips he's been with us today the

former head of the u.k.'s national counterterrorism security officer as a crime scene investigation specialist nice to see you again chris we are going to go over some of the ground we spoke about earlier but i still think it is very interesting especially as i keep making this point two weeks later and only now we're seeing an investigation happening twelve hours worth of searching at the consulate building yesterday would you hold any hope of those investigators be able to find anything two weeks. while not a great deal of hope particularly if people have gone in and clean the site they may well find alternate ends but of course any good investigation the first thing that you're looking for is to contain and and hold the scene and then put your friends people through it but also you need to have the body and at the moment there's no body because the body's the thing that will give away most secrets i think whether it's poison has been use whether it's a garden whether it's

a knife whatever all these things will give you this give you some clues as to what actually happened and of course that's not available and and the other thing that investigators will be really keen to do is to speak to those people that were in the in the building at the time and that again has not been forthcoming so this isn't a nightmare type of an investigation the whole situation is a nightmare for saudi arabia but for investigators it's really really difficult to come to any firm conclusion about what happened so what's the next best thing if in lieu of a body because there have been all sorts of talk about what happened the body whether it was taken out of the building with or was taken out in pieces in diplomatic bags all sorts of unsubstantiated claims but in lieu of that what else can they look for. well of obviously within this within the scene itself within the embassy itself there will be potentially some trace evidence there may be some poisons even we don't know exactly what what the investigators have found there but all these things will go together to try and work out exactly what happened but i

think without the body without understanding you know how this poor man died then really the investigators are not going to be able to get very far with it and of course the people that allegedly involved in this will go back to saudi arabia so they're not going to be they're not to be interviewed by independent police officers as such either and of course you couldn't you couldn't expect this to be a fair best occasion if it was done by a saudi investigation team it's got to be independent it could be transparent and it's got to come out with some some good results i think for everyone to least feel as though an investigation has been done chris phillips we thank you for your time today and your thoughts on the forensic side of this investigation. here is what's coming up for you on this news hour demanding just a small town marks one year since an investigative journalist there was not it

would not break the deal finalise the netherlands is making its own plans to avoid chaos a trade with the u.k. and the milwaukee brewers move a step closer to the world series the details coming up a little later in school. so you have no grounds for optimism on a briggs a deal and that's coming directly from the european council president. before a summit in brussels on wednesday britain's prime minister to resign may is met government ministers to discuss the status of the tools these negotiations of stalled over what should happen with the irish border in northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. leaves the e.u. in march to resume a though says an amicable divorce deal is still achievable goal from heywood in lots of to reason may hold a meeting with the cabinet let's not take several hours and it really was a rallying call for them to be unified behind she told them if they still do but

they really could achieve this ahead of the summit in brussels on one stay some cabinet ministers held their own ploy but meeting on monday night dubbed the heat the summit discussing to resume a strategy with regards to bret's say at the crux of all this on the divisions with the e.u. is the northern ireland border question and what will happen to the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland writes it imposed the transition period if no one i don't trade deal could be to get out now on wednesday to resume a will travel to brussels in the hope of trying to find some common ground with the e.u. the e.u. council president said she needs to come up with something new unfortunately the report on the state of the negotiations that they go to. from michelle about you today as well as yesterday shit bait in the house of commons give me no grounds for optimism before tomorrow's european council on bricks. and

shoot the on the source of hope for the you for no. good will and determination from both sides. however for a breakthrough to take place besides you could do in eat you fucked well the e.u. and to reason made the u.k. prime minister seem very keen to try to make some progress in these negotiations at the summit which begins in brussels late on wednesday afternoon but as yet no deal isn't fights. or reaching a break that agreement is crucial for the movement of goods in and out of the e.u. a sharp end of this is the dutch port of rotterdam and it is apparent for a worst case scenario. that. the dutch love to grow tomatoes the netherlands is the world's biggest exporter of the fruits in the

summit of the u.k. gets to the heart of all it's tomatoes from here or at least it has done the assumption is that a no deal wrecks it will mean a no some are so britain are you talking on about empty shelves on the u.k. side but the price in fact. probably but at the same time is. a product that is not going to your grandma has no interest or finds all the other new markets the british rely just as much as europe's biggest ports to service the demands of consumers it is a model of efficiency. freedom of movement of goods services money people is the most treasured achievements of the european union in its purest form rex it says no to all of those things but because the british government still can't decide what sort of breaks it wants the dutch of had no choice but to get into worst case scenario planning. no trade deal with the european union would mean fruits

vegetables and meat having to be checked this new border to ensure it all meets hygiene standards it means the dutch employing nearly a thousand more customs officers it means queues backlogs turning away from the u.k. in seeking new markets and it isn't only about dutch tomatoes it's about goods produced across the e.u. that british people want to buy so all the production from germany twenty five percent of the trade is coming from or is going to germany they have to prepare as well and that is where the real challenges are dating repairing as well as rotterdam is for the property breton's because if they are not prepared then it still stops here across western european capitals the same conversations are being had how to get a deal done when the british government is riven by dissenting views and still we don't know where we are lending our lending with a chaotic backset are lending within its customs union without a customs union and do we have two or three years of transition period and not

itself in yet and the basic mistake was made before the notification of the article fifty letter so you still see that british politicians are negotiating among themselves. what looked like and that question should have been settled by now the british government has warned the brics it could lead to food shortages though such talk is dismissed by purest breakfasters as scaremongering gradually though the e.u. is coming to the view that the u.k. may have to put up with the consequences of its lack of direction lawrence li al jazeera rotterdam. just some developments we're getting on this well the suspected killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi and we are getting to some. slightly unpleasant details here about what apparently went on inside the consulate turkey is now saying that a saudi forensic doctor this is one of the fifteen apparently who was brought in

from riyadh a saudi forensic doctor was the one who dismembered body inside the saudi consulate and is stoneville and apparently asked his colleagues to listen to music as he did so we're getting this from turkish sources again saying that one of the members of the fifteen so-called killed same the saudi forensic doctor is the one who actually dismembered the body of jamal khashoggi as our guest was saying the body is so crucial to finding out what actually happened and of piecing together the whole thing we don't know where the body is at the moment but that's what we're hearing through turkish sources. i want to do what some other developing news this is the united states treasury department announcing it will impose new sanctions on iran economic sanctions which will target iran's mellot bank as well as steel and tractor manufacturing companies the details now from roslyn jordan in washington d.c. talk us through this one reason. well this is

a part of the trumpet ministrations maximum pressure campaign on iran we've heard this term used in relation to north korea but perhaps even more important than trying to make certain that north korea doesn't have nuclear weapons is trying to make certain that iran does not have nuclear weapons and also that the u.s. is able to curtail iran's involvement in other countries around the middle east and the world for that matter the sanctions come all basically are targeting a domestic security group or paramilitary group known as the bus seach and this organization is supported by more than twenty financial organizations has a lot of financial investment in various companies including as you say tractor manufacturing metals mining banking and basically what the u.s. is trying to do is impose sanctions on this organization and on the companies from

which it gets its financial support in order to further isolate teheran the effect as far as we know come all is that it's not going to affect anyone working in the united states because there are already all sorts of prohibitions on u.s. persons doing any business with companies in iran or with the iranian government the thinking according to u.s. officials is that this is going to send a message to countries with inside the e.u. as well as across the middle east and perhaps in asia pacific region that doing business with iran is going to have serious consequences if they want to have any sort of financial or political relationship with the united states and this old these sanctions rosen coming into effect now because another more sanctions or a return to sanctions if you life i got from november. that's right the sanctions

that are due to be reimposed in november it would be the second tranche there was an initial reimposition of sanctions earlier in the year by the united states against iran after the trumpet ministration decided that it was going to pull out of the iran nuclear deal because it said that this deal was not going to prevent a han from trying to continue to develop nuclear weapons the u.s. has interest in iran isn't just about nuclear weapons it's also about trying to cut off its influence particularly across the middle east and trying to make certain that it's not engaging in what the u.s. says are egregious human rights abuses including as part of this latest round of sanctions recruiting children as young as age twelve training them to be soldiers and then sending them into the syrian civil war now what's happening at the beginning of november is that the u.s.

has been putting pressure on countries particularly inside the e.u. to cut off all oil deals with iran or face economic repercussions and perhaps legal sanctions of their own this is part of trying to as the u.s. is arguing starved out. ability to pay for its efforts to develop a nuclear weapons program and so certainly they want to persuade countries purse perhaps most important in the e.u. but also across the middle east and in the asia pacific region to buy their oil from other countries not give iran any money that it could then turn around and use for its nuclear weapons ambitions and so this is really just one more step of the trumpet ministration to try to isolate on the global stage terror on in as many ways as possible not just with political sanctions but also very notably with economic sanctions as well. in washington d.c.

thank you. we are halfway through this news hour here's what's still coming up in ethiopia as the prime minister if half of his cabinet posts to women taliban violence there will be tight security in kabul ahead of saturday's parliamentary elections and fifty years on we hear from two of the athletes involved of one of sport's most iconic moments. 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 ensue at least inside of the region here just pushing ever towards afghanistan nudging up towards the minus down at his back istanbul but a wet weather to sliding out of the mediterranean just notice some pockets of plaid

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 at a cloud to further a stash can should be largely tries to go through weather stay cold in the 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 caught over towards us to see some lively sasa as we go through thursday with the possibility of localized flooding.

were. i have didn't get it almost my entire professional life to the bench and fight against corruption and what i have heard is that we need champions we need also to shine the light on those shampoos and this award bridges that gap that existed in this. nominate your own for us from here on shine the light on what they do and to have not shine a light on your hero with your nomination for the international space award two thousand and eighteen for more information go to isa war dot com.

you're in the news here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories turkey says. the one who dismembered the body. after he was killed in the saudi consulate and. the consul general have left turkey just as police prepared to enter and search his residence. prince mohammed bin salman and the washington post is reporting u.s. officials knew the crown prince ordered an operation to be from his home in virginia the un's human rights chief is calling for the lifting of diplomatic

immunity. to allow full investigation wants to waive the vienna convention which. consular staff from diplomatic compounds and embassies just some more information we're getting from turkish sources. with regards to water actually happened to. they are saying there are recordings which show he was killed as he entered the consulate he was apparently not interrogated and he was beaten and injected with something before his body was dismembered and they say he was dismembered by the what was that the saudi forensic doctor who was part of that team of fifteen. came to stumble from riyadh. let's bring in our senior political analyst we can talk politics in a moment. and i think we should talk about what i've just mentioned just a it's a good reminder in

a way that we're talking about what seems to be the brutal murder of a man a journalist all politics and relationships aside this is extraordinary. it's just extraordinary isn't it. well absolutely you know i mean i'm not exactly a pathology expert but certainly but policy is the individualization of war and clearly what we have here is a state versus an individual in fact one of its own citizens and the fact that happened the way it happened what it tells us is we have mindset of isis of dives in riyadh that is capable of carrying acts like that the last time we remember something happened to a journalist of this sort happened to daniel pearl and that was sixteen years ago or so in pakistan the wall street journal. reporter and that

we said at the time was a barbarian carried by you know the worst type of people ever possible and here we go again but this time it is by a member of the united nations by a member of the human rights council of the united nations in fact one that led it so really the fact that this could happen today in daylight in a different capital in one when one of country's own consulates a consulate the supposed to take care of its citizens to service them to give them paperwork to help them in foreign lands instead massacre them like this unheard of it makes me wonder if all of this is proven at some point and there is even a suggestion in u.s. media that saudi arabia may be preparing some sort of admission even after two weeks of denials if all of this comes to pass then. who is going to hold saudi

arabia accountable for us because and or more to the point how will it be held accountable would you think. well look for the time being we heard earlier today some truly surprising i must say. clips from the republican leader in the senate lindsey graham saying three things basically. it was ordered that the crime was ordered by some of the solomon that mohammed solomon must go that he himself. will not visit saudi arabia as long as the crown prince is there leading and he will probably be slapping saudi arabia was sanctions so i think here we have the congress of probably the most important power in the world today on the most important ally of saudi arabia beginning to move so as i was saying earlier today if you drive you would know what driving shift means and now we are in fourth

gear and fourth gear in the sense that we've already passed three stages in the evolution or devolution of this and rivaling mystery starting with the turks. telling the saudis you are behind this crime the saudis denying the international media coming in and being so outraged and then we have international leaders from around the world including here three the most important european leaders demanding answers and now we have the american establishment demanding independent investigation into the killing of so i think everyone involved really now want answers yes they're american president is trying perhaps to help the saudis cover up part of the responsibility for this talking about rogue elements perhaps that's what the report wants to say but let me tell you something come up. the way this thing is unraveling and the images that are associated with this meaning what you what you were just reporting up by that this member ing over jordan

a list after killing him in a consulate in a foreign land that will never go away it doesn't matter what cynical deals state leaders will do but i think we in the media our job is to take care of one of our own our job is to cover the story objectively and eventually our role will be to write the last chapter of this story because when you start asking the tough questions and you stay with them and you put power in on the spot and demand answers i think vacs how the last chapter will be written moment bashar in london thank you so much for those thoughts do appreciate it now i mean he is prime minister nicolle plus union has resigned so the country can hold snap parliamentary elections in december as union is doing a wave of popularity in armenia six months after his party came to power in

a nonviolent revolution robin foresty walker reports now from get about. depression a card a carved armenian cross stone you need patience and time says that like a craftsman his country's new government is still learning its art. what's important is to work hard not to stray from the chosen path and work towards that goal and everything will happen in time everyone including the ordinary people need to be feared within your voting since coming to power the called government has moved quickly against suspected corrupt officials. and it has opened parliament to the public for the first time since the country's independence they call passion yan intends to break down the barriers between government and the people or. it's an indescribable unexplainable feeling i can't put it into words. people are

happy they started to believe and that's very important for society but they're not about salutes and opening the gates explains everything it needs to be open to the ward and to each other. this openness is the kind of change people can really see and experience for themselves but the big change will come if nicole passion can take control of the legislature in the parliament officially parliament is still controlled by armenia's former governing party and its allies. but when they try to vote against nicole passion yan earlier this month they learned that he still has the overwhelming support of the people. in your events recent merrill election passion yearns candidate picked up more than eighty percent of the vote a snap general election will likely give his government the mandate to move forward with reforms right now it's freedom obviously there is no way back but still

because the majority of the parliament are out of the old faces and it creates a lot of. insecurity it creates a lot of tension so the sooner we get rid of this tension the better it is for everybody. armenians expect last thing changes but need patience call refashioning armenia will take more than just elections it will take time to walk al-jazeera yerevan. moment 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 also remembered other journalists killed or intimidated at work media freedom groups urge the maltese government to open an independent investigation into the unsolved murder of daphne. you've barco reports now from the capital. 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 daphne's 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 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's got to 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 and 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. but she is family believe 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 vultures media half of which is of directly by political parties has lacked an important voice it was nothing like her before and there's been nothing stands her bravery i imagine what inspire others here is 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. more on jamal khashoggi now we've just seen a tweet from donald trump two tweets in fact let's have a look at it he said i just spoke with the crown prince of saudi arabia had previously spoken to king solomon who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in the turkish consulate he was with secret state might pump aoe during the

call he told me that he has already started and will rapidly expand a full and complete investigation into this matter answers will be forthcoming shortly i think the interesting thing there is the first twenty days. he totally denied any knowledge of what took place in the turkish consulate is that actually an admission that something did happen which would tie in with everything we have heard from turkish sources either way he is saying the crown prince of saudi arabia is denying any knowledge of it that's a tweet from donald trump just three four minutes ago. ok the ethiopian prime minister has appointed women to half of his government's ministerial posts including the job of defense minister ethiopia is now the only african state after rwanda to have equal gender representation in the cabinet and be a head has also created a new ministry of peace to tackle ethnic violence a recent wave of violence by the taliban in afghanistan is threatening to disrupt

saturday's parliamentary elections the armed group has warned it will target polling stations. as a report from kabul. tight security in kabul joint army and police units patrol all interns of the capital. they search vehicles and people are taking no chances suicide bomb attacks and improvised devices have killed and injured thousands of people this year and the situation is getting worse security forces and pressure to ensure the election was. but. there is no doubt that terrorist organizations like the taliban isis under her canny network and many other terrorist networks are trying to undermine the political process and do not want this election to take place the taliban's attacked many election rallies across the country killing dozens of people

including candidates the government has closed nine hundred polling stations mainly in rural areas under taliban control but for the afghan people casting a vote is vital for the future of the country and the other did he tell you i want to stay on the right of. the security situation is not reassuring yes you see more security forces in the center of the main province and here in kabul but it's far more worse in the rural areas each day i go to work i'm concerned about my safety. i'm full of hope the candidates young and i believe they'll serve a space where i wish they can focus on improving education and security. in previous elections. and powerful tribal leaders have taken part this time the majority of the candidates are young and independent it would be almost impossible to set up checkpoints similar to this one of the main entrances to all

the cities across afghanistan the government simply does not have the resources and the manpower but officials say they are determined to take all necessary measures to ensure the taliban does not disrupt the election. still ahead on sports. from a terrible start again so strike action from the second test is coming up.

here with a look at what stands out for the high commom the milwaukee brewers have the chance

to make it three one lead in a playoff series with the l.a. dodgers later and move a step closer to a spot to the world series on monday to run a home run from orlando r c a help the brewers twenty four nothing when a dodgers state and game three of the best of seven nationally championship series the brewers have only been to the world series once back in one nine hundred eighty two. or leno'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 that. and i'm not surprised that he's that he's thriving in playoff atmosphere. finished day one of the second test against australia strongly after a difficult start pakistan were in serious trouble don't miss cheaply they were reduced to seventy seven to five at lunch with nathan lyon taking four wickets and six balls bunkers amman and suffer as ahmed saved the day putting on

a partnership of one hundred and forty seven helping them a total of two hundred eighty two overs took some early wickets to make sure they finished on a high australian closing on twenty for two. former sri lanka captain such as gerry is syria says he's acted with integrity having been charged with corruption by the i.c.c. world cricket 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're avoiding the scandal. we have decided that the players will not answer any questions or do so not. to tell you no it's not a decision destruction because the summit as. we described at the moment. as a team as a whole we would like to know or comment on the whole it's not that i'm sorry fifty years ago 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 in what they described as a human rights salute it became an injuring 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 protect against racism around the world smith had just become the first affluent to break the twenty second bearer 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 olympics it was norman who suggested carlos and smith that share the one pair of black legs

they had since so both could brace their fist he faced criticism in australia only after his death did the country's parliament formally apologize for his treatments you know he was elected a silent election electrification of what was going to happen before the fis when the annoyed change was about to come this were love sam cooke song change is going to come because i needed i needed a platform. early respect to former athletes and academic victoria jackson she says that using the medal ceremony as a platform for protest ensure their message was heard all around the worlds. that athletes who go and represent their country are representing much more and just in the nation there are presenting ideas about you know the. best way to organize the

political economy ideas about meritocracy and democratic freedom and so for athletes to take that out. and do something that they will leave is in line with the project of patriotism and working toward making their country a more and clues that truly free and equal place that's different from the politics of those with kind of privileged authority who will lead you you know this is a moment in which you're respectful and shouldn't do anything to push against that the vast majority of white america was horrified by what smith and carlos stood on the podium and disgusted by it and used up khalid jadick wing in their. you know moral castigation so this this act this political act peter norman was in full support of what smith and carlos decided to do on the podium and so the

australian olympic committee is horrified that peter norman and would act in this way they basically blacklist him they blackball and he no longer is in a position to be named to any australian national team he never competes for australia again despite being australia's number one spreader for years after that britain's you and i contact is through to the second round of tennis as kremlin conto who is ranked number forty four in the world be seventh seed at least merton's belgium in straight sets six three seven five off go victory with only contests fifth over a top twenty punit all season long. and that's all your support for now we'll have more later but for now it's back to you completely thank you for that far that is all from the news in here and barbara starr is standing by in london the latest on this suspected killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi were waiting for

police to enter the saudi consul general's home in istanbul. on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reservedly a historic apology for one of british intelligence his darkest episodes there was a growing agreement of that the libyans could be quite useful to the west seven years after the death of gadhafi al-jazeera world investigates westen collusion with the libyan security services. gadhafi rendition on the west on

al-jazeera. journeys of passing the discovery kill more americans here and then more air india al-jazeera as correspondents taliban passing stories that have mocked their lives i feel sad that i have to endure a difficult time but i do fear down like my family status and wealth has benefited from their choice and slave to. al-jazeera correspondent coming soon. my name to sign back on my boat on the full sim in the conic in late july they found out who made in the country and it's in. if you go to lead a mechanic watch all you will see dad soon to tell of your colleague to bed before . my nigel david foster produce first image done cannot think of. my nigeria women are strong we need. my nigeria on al-jazeera.

where. i'm not one. turkish investigators wait to search the saudi consul general's residence in the case of missing journalists. present a third of the one says they're looking for toxic materials and after the u.s. secretary of state meets the saudi king and crown prince president trump says answers will come shortly. along barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program the u.s. slap sanctions on.