mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. mike it seems that both might pump aoe and president trump appear to accept the saudi claims of innocence and face value well they certainly appear to do so they've made very clear that this is what they've been told by the saudi leadership my pump meeting the king the foreign minister as well as the crown prince president speaking to the crown prince by telephone but each of them saying that they have been reassured by the saudi leaders of the in a sense they have been reassured that eight investigation is now underway might pump aoe the secretary of state is now on his way to ankara where he'll be meeting with turkish leaders but as he departed riyadh this is what he had to say i made a commitment to to hold anyone connected to any wrongdoing that may be found accountable for that whether they are

a senior officer official they promised accountability for each of those persons whom they determine as a result of their investigation as it deserves accountability within the members and they made no exceptions to who they would hold accountable they were they were just very they were very clear they are they understand the importance of this issue they are determined to get to the bottom of it and that they will conduct the report and will get a chance to see it the they each promised that they would achieve that for my cause he was saying in your report a growing number of u.s. senators are now expressing deep anger about trump's position are we starting to see a widening divide between the president and congress over this case. well very much sir and since this whole issue began there has been an increasing distance between what the administration thinks the trump white house and those leaders in congress we're hearing criticism from very senior republican senators lindsey graham for example is a frequent golf partner of donald trump he's not used to getting this type of

dissent from republican leaders within congress those statements we heard from the republican senators very very strong indeed and just showing how great the divide is becoming between congress and the white house but one must remember too that the position of saudi arabia has not been uniform as far as congress and the white house have been even before the current crisis the congress insisting that there needs to be steps taken against saudi arabia they had been concerns expressed about the war in yemen for example several members of congress including republicans suggesting that arms sales should either be stopped or limited to saudi arabia so this has a history the differing positions between congressional leaders and the white house on the wider issue of saudi arabia derren or to my kind of there in washington d.c. mike thank you mean all the head of the international monetary fund will not attend

a major investment conference in saudi arabia later this month christine lagarde a trip to the middle east which was to include the meeting dubbed the doubles in the desert just last week the god hunt said she would attend the conference despite a put out by international companies and media groups over the disappearance of jamal khashoggi. chinese state media has released video of internment camps for weekend muslims in the western region of xinjiang despite international criticism the government has defended its treatment of the minority community it claims its rigid hating them so they can be part of a modern civilized world up to a million we goes up reportedly been put in these camps john brown has moved from beijing. well for months china's government has denied the existence of these camps but this week the government appears to have broken its silence on tuesday night state controlled t.v. aired a documentary showing conditions inside these camps it says they are not reeducation

camps but simply vocational training centers where we girls get to learn new skills like carpentry and sewing as well as learning a language mandarin and getting another lesson on religious extremism the aim of these camps say the chinese authorities is to put a shield to protect we girls from islamic extremism now there have been a number of attacks in shin jang during the past few years the china's government has blamed on groups seeking an independent shin jang one of those attacks happened after a visit made by president xi jinping to the regional capital a room she in may two thousand and fourteen now human rights groups say that up to a million ethnic muslim we are being held in reeducation camps and that eventually they say all ethnic muslim we will have to pass through these camps now in early november which is perhaps why this documentary has been released now the united

nations will have a meeting in geneva of one of its human rights panels this body has been investigating what's going on in shin jang and officials from china's government will be invited to present their side of the story also the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has said during the past twenty four hours that what we're looking at in shin jang may be the biggest in term and of people anywhere in the world. the u.s. treasury department has hit iran with a new round of sanctions it's accusing a faction of iran's military recruiting child soldiers to fight for bashar al assad's regime in syria the measures primarily target the resistance force an arm of the revolutionary guard washington also impose sanctions on a network of firms it says were financing the including iran bank as well as manufacturing companies. and iran says it's killed a man believed to have planned an attack on

a military parade last month that's according to the country's elite revolutionary guard twenty four people and sixty were injured when four gunmen opened fire on a parade in the city of on september twenty second iran says the man on the attack was killed along with four others during operation in iraq's diyala province for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back taliban violence they'll be tight security in kabul ahead of saturday's parliamentary elections. threatens to withdraw aid from honduras a large group of migrants from their heads north towards the u.s. more the state. hello there is rather cool for many of us in north america at the moment this is the leading edge of that cool air so everywhere to the north of that the temperatures have dropped off recently looks like a maxwell movie around nine in chicago much in that interim take for wednesday and

if we fast forward to thursday we see the temperatures just recovering a little bit in chicago there as they will be in denver to the south though that area of cloud will still stay with us we could see some fairly heavy outbreaks of rain particularly over parts of texas there during the day of a feather towards the south and those two main systems across the central americas at the moment we've got one that's all storm tara now working its way away from the coast of mexico but it still enhanced all the rains here so there's still the risk of seeing a bit will flooding and we're also seeing plenty of cloud in this region too and that's a developing system that's likely to give us more in the way of very heavy rain could see a fair amount will flooding out of this one as well away from those two regions there's some sunshine coming through but also some showers and some of the showers to be rolled a heavy at times if we did head down towards south america so what's the weather here is still stretching its way through parts of paraguayan up into the southern parts of brazil to the north of that still expect one or two showers at times but

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welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera turkish investigators have put off to the saudi consul general's house in istanbul after what they say was a lack of cooperation from the saudis gruesome details of what supposedly happened to jamal khashoggi after he went missing inside the consulate two weeks ago i've also emerged despite mounting pressure the u.s. president continues to defend saudi arabia in an interview to the associated press trump said riyadh cannot be condemned until facts are proven sept of state might pump a.o.l. top of the king solomon on the pound coins in riyadh about investigations into the case. and the u.s. has impose more sanctions on iran after accusing its military of using child soldiers washington says a faction of iran's revolutionary guard recruited trained and so children to fight for bashar al assad's regime in syria. but his prime minister to reason may will address e.u. leaders are meeting in brussels later on wednesday the summit comes

a day after european council president donald tusk said he's not hopeful about a breakthrough in the talks with the u.k. well negotiations have stalled once again after what should happen with the irish border the norm. in the rest of the u.k. leave the e.u. in march. on tuesday to discuss the status of the world's she's confident an amicable divorce deal can still be achieved but the e.u. has said work remains to be done. who are new developments. we must find a solution to include our land and find a solution for no hard border on the island of ireland when not there yet various issues are still to be discussed including oil and what i understand is that more time is needed to find this deal and to reach the decisive progress that we need to finalize the negotiation on the withdrawal of the u.k. . but has more now from london. to resume a held a meeting with the cabinet with several hours and it really was a rallying call for them to be unified behind her 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 for a bit meeting on monday night 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 border question what will happen to the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland what's that imposed the transition period if no why don't the trade deal they 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 he needs to come up with something new unfortunately the report on the state of the negotiations that they go to you today as well as yesterday ship date in the house of commons give me no grounds for optimism before

tomorrow's. break. and shoot him. do you know if the goodwill and determination from both sides. however for a breakthrough to take place besides. 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. desperate to escape from yemen thousands of families of made the dangerous trip across the red sea to djibouti but many are struggling to survive having arrived with nothing from djibouti bennett smith reports. in a sparse room in central djibouti we see abdul aziz abdullah and seven children sit

out the war in yemen they're safe but destitute and scarred for life by the horrors they say they've witnessed on the other we couldn't stay there was a wedding in our village during the celebrations airplanes came in dropped bombs on it forty five people were killed the whole place was demolished in people blown to pieces they couldn't tell who was who people brought a bucket and we picked up pieces of flesh and bone his mother was one of them we lost so many relatives at once so fast we didn't want that to happen to our children but to escape and a grueling fourteen hour boat ride across the red sea. i have seven children understand how it is i got scared the killing began bullets began flying around and my children were very scared so i took them to the coast and that night there was heavy bombardment of a military base on the outskirts of town the kids did not stop crying all night i found a fishing boat and they said they were headed for good it was a very windy day very high waves my kids got sick and threw up

a lot. the family ended up at this remote refugee camp and but the hot dusty desert environment aggravated the asem of their. baby daughter forcing them to seek better treatment in djibouti is capital around five thousand yemeni refugees live in the city. the u.n. runs an advice center here but it doesn't have the resources to pay for health care or anything else even if they come here and explain their case they don't know what is or isn't possible and the hardest thing basically is getting beamed to understand it's clearly very frustrating for abdulaziz like most refugees here he'd rather go home to yemen but he tells us he can't do that until the situation changes burnet smith al-jazeera djibouti a tropical storm has ravaged large areas of yemen's eastern province with three days of heavy rainfall and flooding around seventy percent of the province has been

affected by side. two aircraft one yemeni and the other from the united arab emirates are ferrying stranded residents to safety in the provincial capital dieter hundreds of homes have been destroyed and thousands of livestock have drowned after they were swept away by flooding the russian orthodox church is cutting ties with all other branches after a decision by the religions head to grant ukrainian clerics independence from moscow but ruling by the istanbul based leadership ends more than three hundred years of control from moscow and follows the annexation of crimea by russian troops four years ago russian media says a spirit is one of the darkest days in the church's history. a moment of silence has been held on the first anniversary of a bomb explosion which killed a journalist investigating corruption in malta the ceremony at the european commission in brussels also remembered other journalists killed or intimidated because of their job media freedom groups the maltese government open an independent investigation into the unsolved murder of definitely. a caravan of some

three thousand honduran migrants is marching through guatemala on its way to the u.s. border president donald trump is threatening to cut aid to guatemala and honduras if the group is not stopped puerto version reports. a caravan of thousands of honduran migrants is on a long journey north to the united states. they say they're fleeing violence and poverty in their home country you know they're not it's not a guard give us support and help us in this work areas moment we are in honduras killing us with the cost of electricity with health care with all of our worries and security where instead of protecting us they are killing us in honduras and england good out there. singing the honduran national anthem and chanting yes we can the migrants head north police stop them for several hours at the guatemalan border but eventually let them continue the bounty of them didn't

notice the one they were going because honduras is making us go why because high gear is one of the poorest countries we have a government that doesn't support all of the people and we have to leave fully healing from our country where we have to be able to get ahead and that's not happening we have to look for other places where we can get ahead the caravan began just a few days after u.s. vice president mike pence called on central american countries to stop mass migration and u.s. president donald trump threaten to cut off aid if the immigrants are allowed to continue their journey but these people say they won't stop and. they vow to continue marching until they make it to the united states and have a chance at a better life. gian al-jazeera. a u.s. military has killed around sixty al shabaab fighters in the somalian town of hadera in the province on friday the u.s. africa command said it was that deadliest says strike in the two year is no

civilians were injured or killed in the attack or more than five hundred american military personnel in somalia helping local forces counter the threat from al shabaab. the ethiopian prime minister has appointed women to half of his government's ministerial posts including the job of defense minister ethiopia adjoins rwanda as the only two african states with equal gender representation in the cabinet since he took office in april made peace with neighboring eritrea has also created a new ministry of peace to tackle ethnic violence but jordan anderson is an analyst and i've just market he says the move is an attempt by ethiopia's part minister to create political inclusion by focusing on diversity so by talking about the inclusion of women but also by including more members of the cabinet from some of the peripheral regions of ethiopia regions that haven't always been as well represented in government ethnically the prime minister is trying to build support for reform program whereby he also wants to for example diversify ethnically the

top ranks of the military and really the point of the new ministry of peace is it's all about bringing the military and the intelligence agencies properly under the control of civilian authorities previously you had governments in ethiopia whereby you had a military that was much more partisan in terms of its leanings of the top and also much less ethnically diverse in the upper ranks prime minister ali ahmed his reference in to the change to this and in order to consolidate that civilian and nonpartizan control of the military he's for example restructuring bringing the interior ministry and the intelligence agencies under the minister for peace taliban attacks in afghanistan are threatening to disrupt saturday's parliamentary election fighters have ramped up attacks on military personnel and they're warning that polling stations will be targeted. reports from kabul. tight security in kabul joint army and police units patrol all into.