in december michigan is enjoying a wave of popularity in armenia six months after his party came to power in a nonviolent revolution robin forestay walker has more from europe on. to fashion a card a carved armenian cross stone you need patience and time hamlet 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 times everyone including the ordinary people need to be feared. since coming to power the cold passion yearns 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 the copa she 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. 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 the year of urns 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's 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 a al-jazeera yerevan. human rights groups in nicaragua are welcoming the release of some anti-government protesters arrested on sunday that say hundreds remain in prison at least three hundred twenty protesters have been killed during six months of rebellion against three times president daniel ortega opponents accuse him of being a cruel and corrupt dictator and reports in the capital. was dozens

of anti-government demonstrators were met with heavy force by police in managua after six months of unrest and more nicaraguan citizens are calling on the government of president then you know they got to end the violent repression of political opponents in our time i mean and i don't know what 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 dragged away screaming play in the streets of my now we're up the nicaraguan police had announced yesterday that any player test 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. the police have started arresting them by one each one of these peaceful protesters as well as up as as

attacking members of the present was recently by my producer they were recently hit with a 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 wide this latest protest in managua was meant to represent the first demonstration by an organized political coalition of activists calling themselves the alliance for national unity. and i want my. the whole thing is 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 upolu and dizzy when i was a moment a moment of silence has been held on the first anniversary of a bomb explosion which killed a journalist investigating corruption and malta ceremony at the european commission in brussels also remembered other journalists killed or antenna dated because of their job freedom groups urge the maltese government to open ended pendent investigation into the unsolved murder of daphne carolina a. taliban attacks in afghanistan are threatening to disrupt saturday's parliamentary election ira's have ramped up attacks on military personnel and their warning polling stations will be targeted. reports from kabul tight security in kabul joint army and police units patrol all in turn to the capital they search vehicles and people 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 are under pressure to ensure spalls election was. the key to check in with the there is no doubt that terrorist organizations like the taliban isis under her conny network and many other terrorist networks are trying to undermine the political process and do not want to selection 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 and taliban control but for the afghan people casting votes 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 are 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 of 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. kabul a chinese pharmaceuticals company has been fined more than

a billion dollars for selling faulty rabies vaccination later is also strip chunk of its manufacturing licenses and next different batches of expired drugs then fail to test the back and destroyed records fifteen people have been arrested including the company's chairwoman. our world food day we're looking at the situation of at least two million children in the democratic republic of congo who face death for malnutrition unless aid reaches them many are either displaced or women remote conflict zones reports from the southwestern region of kick it. recovering from severe malnutrition she's six months old and for the last three has been on a special diet makes given to heart by a nonprofit organization her mother because also has two other children and a younger sister to think about she herself is a teenager and has not been eating well there's some of the hundreds of thousands

congolese who've been displaced by conflict. her husband was killed when we were running away from karzai i don't know where my parents are i had to travel with the children and did not have enough to feed them on the way they come to this feeding center with others who fled from violence and in central democratic republic of congo fighting between a rebel group called come on and supple and government forces began into sixteen and ended last year the catholic church says at least three thousand people were killed about twenty five thousand people displaced. and now living here in. a stay with host families either roughing it out on their own or in camps for the displaced with not enough food to eat and little means of getting home on this day or the scent of food is a plate of dry rice and there's hardly enough for everyone six children and often are given power. the rest will have to wait for another day. sergeant

goons iran's descent he says selecting who gets to eat is the hardest part of his day secure was a very don't see this as a pub in the never a dissertation i would like to feed iran but we convert because we don't have the resources and get very little human to give us we are trying our best with the little we have the united nations children's agency says about two million children in the country are acutely malnourished more than six million have stunted growth many live in remote areas some we just still in conflict humanitarian budget cuts have made it difficult for aid workers to get to them when you have a shock and you have a situation that their family can not feed their children they cannot go to a school they can walk to the health centers and they have a lot of the seas they don't have access to water than you have a commitment. eight thousand children with signs of money attrition are on

a government health watching east centers like this can only wanted to the progress of some of them mentally too far away and have no way of getting help catherine sorry al jazeera kikwete democratic republic of congo.

time for sport with tara. thanks very much germany faced the series threats of

relegation from the way for nations league top tier after losing to world champions france on choose day anton greaseman start for the home side in paris after going behind the athletico forward scored twice to help france to a two one comeback when it's the first time germany have lost six games in a single calendar year boxen finished a one of the second test against australia strongly after a difficult start pakistan were in serious trouble of being dismissed cheaply they were reduced to seventy seven to five at lunch with nathan lyon taking four wickets in six balls fucker's them on and suffer azamat saves the day putting on a partnership of one hundred forty seven helping them record a total of two hundred eighty two proc suns boyer's took some early wickets to make sure they finished on the high australian closing on twenty for two. former

captain some serious 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. you know we have decided that the players will not answer any any questions to god to say not. to tell you no it's not a decision destruction because the summit has no role to play. we discarded the moment. as a team as a whole we would like to know still we've got a comment on the whole it's not that i'm sorry but former republican congresswoman mary bono has resigned from usa gymnastics the move comes just four days after she was named in terms of the sport's national governing body but i was criticized for a tweet she sent out that was critical of nike's decision making calling capper nick the face of their advertising campaign she was also criticized for working in

the past for the law firm that represented usa gymnastics and its former team doctor larry nasser who was sentenced to three hundred years in prison for abusing young gymnasts. 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 the sport's most iconic images americans tommy smith and john carlos bowed their heads and raised a fists 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 that same with a 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 closed 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 since men to share the one pair of black gloves they had so both could raise their fists he faced criticism in australia only after his death did the country's parliament formally apologize for his treatment you know he was a lick a silent. look to think. over what was going to happen before the theists when the. chain was about to come this was so much things going to come because i needed i needed the platform earlier he spoke to former athlete victoria jackson she says that using the medal ceremony as a platform for protests ensure their message was heard 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 inclusive truly free and equal place that's different from the politics of those with kind of privilege to florida who believe 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 hala jadick willing 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 black ball 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 and britain's yana contest through to the second round of tennis is kremlin cup conto who is ranked number forty four in the world the seventh seed elise martens of belgium in straight sets six three seven five the victor was only contests fifth over a top twenty punit all season long. and that's all your sport for now more later

i thought for the news hour keep it here i'll be back on the other side of the break but much more of today's news. because you can't. just cut. off it's a three year delay 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 one direction while the going to take for give you an in-depth coverage of the afghanistan actions i'll just era brother leader or brutal dictator . with discontent spreading through north africa time was running out for libya's self-styled king of kings. in the first of a two part series the big picture charts the rise and fall of wal-mart of the and the events that helped fuel the violence of his final hours. the lust for libya on a jazeera. you don't know where public service stops and private interest begins what's at stake is the very essence of democracy and we have never had a president so brazenly treating the oval office as an opportunity. for lines

follows the money investigating with the donald trump is profiting from the presidency and asking what the cost will be for democracy the usa is the president's profits on al-jazeera. turkish police are still waiting to search the saudi consul general home and istanbul as they investigate this is suspected killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi and the u.s. secretary of state says he believes saudi arabia is committed to holding its leaders accountable in the case of the missing term. michele kerry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s.

imposes a new round of sanctions on iran targeting banking and venue factoring. growing concern that no agreement will be reached on breakfast it is all sides prepare for a key summit in brussels. the gruesome details are emerging about what happened. in the saudi consulate in istanbul two weeks ago turkish investigators believe he was killed without being interrogated these details emerged after they searched the saudi consulate overnight on monday sources from the turkish general prosecutor's office have told al jazeera they found some evidence they're investigating were hoping to search the consul general's residence on tuesday but that was called off because saudi officials were not able to join them for his part the consul general has actually left istanbul for riyadh and earlier in the day the us president spoke with the

saudi crown prince about the missing journalist says muhammad bin solomon has denied any knowledge of what took place inside the consulate and has promised that he'll expand the investigation but pressure is mounting on trump who sent secretary state my palm. publican senator lindsey graham is vowing action against saudi arabia over the missing journalist she said when ministers in the meantime the foreign ministers are demanding those responsible for his disappearance be held to account they're also calling for more turkish saudi collaboration has the latest from istanbul. yes more twists and turns in the case of jamal khashoggi on tuesday the saudi consul general who was the most senior saudi diplomat in istanbul the second most senior saudi diplomats in turkey the man who was responsible for the building behind me when he entered two weeks ago the man who told you could come to this building and process his paperwork decided to leave

turkey believed to have fled the country this was just moments before turkish investigators were due to go into his home as part of search part of the investigation part of this agreement that they reached after saudi king saddam out and spoke to the turkish president to one and they agreed the formation of this joint investigation committee however possibly as a result of the attorney general's office telling al-jazeera exclusively on monday evening that's after searching off these teams searching the building behind me there covered more evidence that's proved she was killed the consul general decided to leave the country not only that after prosecutors and their investigators arrived at his home they spent several hours waiting to be allowed in the saudis refused they were an aide on that deal that's another development that's a place on tuesday was sources close investigation told al-jazeera some of the

details of what's happened when jamal khashoggi entered and they are gruesome to say the least the journalist and child was taken to the consul general's office there he was beaten by several officers and special forces agents who were sent by in riyadh earlier that morning he was then injected by what appears to be some sort of legal lethal substance and that killed him all of this in front of as the turks say the consul general himself he was then taken to another room where one of saudi arabia's the leader all topsy experts lead forensic experts who works for the saudi defense forces dismembered. body some of these details are truly horrific. turkey's president recha typer to one said investigators are studying the consulate premises and are looking at every possible clue to find answers. right of us who are aware as a result of our intense contacts the search process in the consulate ha started

yesterday there was an intense process until morning and we continue my hope is that we can reach conclusions that will give us a reasonable opinion as soon as possible the investigation is looking into many things such as toxic materials and those materials being removed by painting them over turkey has released scans of passports of some of the saudis that it says were involved in prescriptions killing the washington post has published copies of seven passports turkey believed that fifteen men sent from saudi arabia were part of the team that killed inside the saudi consulate and istanbul and our sector a state might pump aoe says he believes the saudis are committed to getting to the bottom of what happened to he met with both the saudi king and the crown prince mohammed bin solomon in riyadh alan fischer has more. smiles and handshakes is made from pirro arrived in saudi arabia to begin a series of high profile meetings u.s.

secretary of state met with king solomon before sitting down with crown prince mohammed bin salman the man the turks believe ordered an operation against 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 answer is because i don't want to be understood as details began to emerge about what the turks believe happened to the writer donald trump tweeted just spoke with the crown prince of saudi arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in the turkish consulate he was with secretary of state might pompey or during the call and told me that he's already started and will rapidly expand the full and complete investigation into this matter answers will be forthcoming shortly in an interview with an american t.v. channel the president says there will be problems if the saudi leadership was aware of the operation in istanbul and it depends whether or not the king with the crown

prince knew about it in my opinion. number one what happened but whether or not they knew about it if they know about it that will be bad it's been claimed the saudis will allege 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 in the strongest possible terms he pointed the finger at the saudi crown prince turki no one is m.b.'s 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 arabia to listening there are a lot of good people you can choose but m.v.s. has tainted your country and tainted himself like at a conference in gulf issues and washington where the journalist was due to be among the speakers. he was remember what is clear is that our government and governments around the world must do more to protect journalists mike pompeo is expected back

in washington late on wednesday he'll deliver his report directly to the president who will then decide america's next that alan fischer washington and mike hanna joins us live from washington d.c. so as alan fischer mentioned there it still remains to be seen what the next step will be from the u.s. but at the very least donald trump seems to be very hesitant to be critical of saudi arabia he's he's tweeted some more about it and also talked about it in an interview mike get us up to speed. yes indeed it's been a day in which you heard the secretary of state in a way defending the saudi leadership a release by the state but top department making very clear that my pump aoe about the saudi claims of innocence in this matter he says as well in that statement that there is a credible investigation underway here except their word that that is the case and

in an extraordinary statement to associated press president trump has said and i quote this this is another case of guilty until proven innocent now that is in reference to the controversy over his supreme court pick brett kavanaugh who was accused of sexual assault but in saying this it does appear that president trump is implying a food believe in saudi innocence in this matter believing the prophet stations of innocence that he's received from the crown prince in a phone conversation while might compare was their product stations of innocence that by compare receive from the king from the crown prince as well as from the the foreign minister the saudi foreign minister but there is a clear split beginning to happen here between the trumpet ministration and the congressional leaders we heard there the comments from lindsey graham a senator very close to president we've also heard from paul rand and other senior republican senator saying that there must be sanctions imposed against saudi arabia

so a great split between the administration and congressional leaders within the u.s. and also a split with many european allies as well and when you look at all these various positions make my president donald trump be forced to change his position depending on how this plays out in the next few days. well yes if saudi complicity is indeed proven at some stage then president trump would be in a very serious situation indeed he keeps on saying we've got to wait until all the facts on earth but at the same time he's saying yes there is a credible investigation underway are being ensured that and implies that he believes that but you are seeing a gradual erosion of saudi part of stations of innocence through the media for example the new york times has published photographs it says of those that turkish authorities have identified as those who went into the saudi into the embassy there

and among them at least four very close contacts off the crown prince including his personal bodyguard so the assumption is is that if the problem crown prince did not know about the movements of his own security detail then that's a question that a few people could actually answer so president trump may be painting himself into a corner here with statements like this is another case of guilty until proven innocent and certainly as you said he's not just with his congressional leaders but also with allies in the western world in particular all right mike hanna live for us in washington mike thank you and the u.s. treasury department has had iran with a new round of sanctions it's accusing a faction of iran's military of recruiting child soldiers to fight for bashar al assad's regime in syria the latest u.s. measures primarily target the procedure resistance force that's an arm of the revolutionary guard ashington also impose sanctions on

a network of businesses that it says were financing the siege and clued in iran and a lot of bank as well as manufacturing companies in jordan reports from washington d.c. . the sanctions that are due to be re-imposed 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 to 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 a legal sanctions of their own this is part of trying to as the u.s. is arguing starved terrazas ability to pay for its efforts to develop a nuclear weapons program and so certainly they want to persuade countries person 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 in as many ways as

possible not just with political sanctions but also very notably with economic sanctions as well. still ahead on al-jazeera as fears of a note grow countries around.