where you've come up against brick walls like this or where at least it's become very difficult to actually get to the crime scene to get in there and. you know in good time to get access to the people like you decide and how did you deal with it. well in history you know i didn't has it been anything like this specifically around the embassy but of course things like the pan am bombing that was blown out of the sky over scotland that was very difficult because the suspects were in libya there was very limited information as to who they were the investigation took forever to get people in even then i don't think there's a complete consensus of the right people were actually dealt with for it so so this is you know you you do have in any terrorist kind of. investigation you're going to have brick walls that you're confronted by particularly where things go across borders but nothing like this is quite unheard

of in the thought that the thought that the you know another state has actually done this i suppose you could say that the russian incidences with litvinenko most recently with scriptural are the most the closest to this kind of investigation and neither of those whatever involve or whether we'll ever get anyone in front of a court think that maybe those two may be the most most closely linked to this this incident interesting thank you chris phillips our counterterrorism expert in london thank you. so it is always worth reminding you about the man at the center of all this jamal khashoggi in a picture of why this may have happened the saudi journalist who was once close to the inner circles of the saudi royal family earning a reputation as a reformist pushing boundaries questioning government policies in two thousand and three khashoggi became the media adviser to prince circle been fired so the prince headed saudi arabia's intelligence service and later served as ambassador to the

u.s. but last year he went into self-imposed exile in the u.s. after becoming concerned about the actions of mohammed bin someone the crown prince who told al-jazeera in march he left the kingdom because he didn't want to be arrested let's talk to our senior political analyst mo and bashar in london now and i want to start with the politics just given what we heard of donald trump a little bit earlier saying things like well we've asked for the already own video recordings if they exist if they exist you have to repeat it and all that this sort of denial laying a path for the saudis to to quote unquote get away with this sort of thing what you actually make of it all and how's it going to stand up if it all does come out in the end that saudi arabia did this. well look he's definitely casting a shadow on the investigation and on the culpability of those responsible in riyadh and i think that makes a bit of a sense for him because as we all know he placed his bets on the saudi leadership

not to be king solomon and his brother since he first walked into office in fact as we've been reporting he made his first trip overseas to saudi arabia something was unthinkable over the last two hundred plus years of american history now having said that look i think there are three possible scenarios here scenario number one is that the american president things he needs to continue to place his bets on the king and his crown prince because there is no but that bet in saudi arabia and there is no better bet in the region aside from israel for the united states especially as always our reporter in washington just said that the sanctions against iran are coming up and that's one of the pillars of the american administration in the middle east so i don't know that we'll continue to do so that's scenario number one scenario you number two is they understand as time goes by as we pass that midterm elections that the united states is going to make sure

that. the crown prince's wings have been clipped and that he's been contained and that no more of those outbursts like he did with canada no more manufactured diplomatic crisis like he did with qatar no more lying to the united states about those crisis no more of the same like launching war in yemen without american green light so i think there probably be better be betting and that's a second scenario that they would be able to contain him blackmail him and clip his wings and hope for the better the third scenario which i think is playing more into what trump is saying now which is the kind of the wait and see and that's you know we're not in a rush to pass judgments we don't have conclusive investigation that turks are not on the record yet yes it is snowballing all around us the republican leadership in the senate is taking a position against the crown prince against the saudi regime the public opinion is

really getting up against what's going on they're not buying the lies and like your previous guest said this none of the culpable is might go to court but here the international public opinion the court of public opinion is very important now and bashar a senior political analyst thank you as ever for benz. here is what's coming up for you on this news hour crunch time for brazil leaders and the u.k. meeting for crucial summit in brussels protests and anger leads to movement in the me too movement of india. and pakistan take control against australia action from the second test coming up. the united nations special envoy for syria has told the security council he's

quitting staffan de mistura spent years mediating between the syrian government and rebel sides he told the council the situation on the ground is relatively stable but says he's moving on for personal reasons i would myself be moving on as of the last week of november i've had the only four years in four months especially i'm going i brought some time been discussing with general my desire for purely purely personal reasons to move on i deeply appreciate its constant support in vice consul on this matter but i will definitely not say goodbye or engage in reflections today is that diplomatic editor james bays at the u.n. in new york i'm sure you hear all sorts of things in the corridors of the u.n. james is this something which you had anticipated happening. yes i've been hearing about it for some months in fact i asked mr de mistura about it

a few weeks ago and he said i'm staying on for the time being while he is still staying on for the time being he'll be leaving at the end of november his reasons are personal reasons he's a veteran u.n. diplomat in his seventy's but he has a young family and a young child and he's put his life his family life on hold for the last four and a half years while he's been doing this job a very very difficult job for the united nations a job that really hasn't gone the way he wanted it to go he's been trying to get both sides around the table to come up and initially with a transitional government for syria that didn't work he did in twenty sixteen managed to get a syrian government delegation there with the most representative delegation he could get of the syrian opposition which actually for the first time included some of the armed groups on the ground the problem then was when he was carrying out those talks there were airstrikes taking place during those talks on the opposition

by the syrian government and the russians that really derailed what was the most promising effort during his time and since then the military dynamics on the ground to move things away from him certainly the balance of power has changed with russian air power and iranians on the ground to change the balance of power in the favor of president assad the russians of also intervened diplomatically moving from mr de mistura as geneva process to a process that took place in a starner and such she said the russians are very much being controlling the diplomatic way forward he continues his efforts for another month he has a last meeting in damascus next week to try and get a constitutional committee together the syrian government been dragging their feet on that but one thinks that given they've been dragging their feet on it for nine months now he's already said he's stepping down he may have lost some of his leverage and the thoughts james on a replacement because that's the tough job and a tough act to follow. we've had all sorts of people in this job

before the former secretary general kofi annan and the job suited like job rahimi a veteran u.n. diplomat can you find someone else for this job who can take it on who has this unique skill set certainly i'm hearing names they're talking about maybe young who is the un's person in baghdad leads the u.n. operation there or nicolo i'm loud enough is a special coordinator for the u.n. middle east peace process the un's person in jerusalem pedersen is another name i'm hearing a veteran norwegian diplomat who was a u.n. official currently is norway's ambassador in china in the last name of former foreign minister if we are going to have a name from the arab world then this seems to be the one that's around tain lumbar who's a former algerian foreign minister james bays at the u.n. thank you a bomb blast and a shootout at

a college in crimea has killed nineteen students and teachers after the large explosion police say a student with a rifle started shooting his classmates and then committed suicide the kremlin initially suspected a terrorist attack in the eastern city of courage and three days of mourning have been declared in crimea remember crimea an extent from ukraine by russian troops four years ago we do have to apologize the something that went out wrong on our screen here on al-jazeera a little bit earlier we mistakenly identified the shooter as an eighteen year old cold survey x. you know your x. your nerve so it actually when i was actually the head of crimea he is not the shooter and we do apologize for that mistake more now from step vast than in moscow . a series of dramatic events in the city of kurds in the east of crimea at a vocational training school where mostly teenagers for getting their classes a huge explosion was heard and then also gunshot wounds ambulances rushed

immediately to the scene and also military trucks were seen there was a huge concern especially also in moscow where there was speculation about this possibly be a terrorist attack troops were also sent emergency helicopters were sent. president put an immediate offer to the wounded to be taken to russian hospitals if necessary he also has offered his condolences and held a one minute silence for the the teenagers mostly who died but also some of the school personnel who are victims of this attack turned out later on when it lasted gaiters had access to the school that there was a body of an eighteen year old student found in the library he's a fourth grader and they said the he committed suicide it was not clear what his motives are for this tragic event killing his fellow students at this school in the east of crimea of course the city of courage is very sensitive to russia

because it is in the annex a to part. in crim crimea which is connected recently with a bridge to russia and president putin him self opened that bridge not very long ago so that explains also the panic here in moscow about this that lee event. european union leaders are gathering for a decisive summit on braggs that talks with the u.k. and stalled over what should happen with the irish border particularly if the u.k. doesn't reach consensus in the next few weeks that it could be leaving the e.u. in march without a deal in facts germany's chancellor angela merkel says she's already begun preparing for that is going to hollies at the summit in brussels. they had been used the past tense had been high hopes for this summit what are the expectations like now. yes well i think pretty low is the answer that it's not going to be the definitive summit that many

had hoped it would be months and months ago when this october date was put into the diaries those hopes dashed when to resume a failed to sign off on a deal reached by negotiators over the weekend because she realized she simply didn't have the political support either in her own cabinet or in parliament back home in the u.k. to support it so she's here well actually i correct myself she left a couple of minutes ago she's been here for the last couple of hours she's had one on one meetings with senior e.u. officials and the irish prime minister she had a precious half an hour to address the other twenty seven leaders on her position in these talks the way that the talks now stand as she sees it she then had to left to leave literally about five minutes ago they've gone into dinner the others she wasn't invited of course to discuss what they would have heard now. there'd been calls going to the summit for fresh new ideas imaginative thinking concrete new proposals i think it highly unlikely they would have got any of that put to reason

nations made her position abundantly clear she can't move any more than she told her cabinet she would and parliament earlier this week she's rejected be used proposal for that tricky backstop issue she's put forward a counter proposal which they don't like it's very difficult to see where things go from this point so how do you think they might respond to reason because it just feels everything you've described there and all the other news about dinners and those sorts of things it's like she's just being pushed to the hour so there just as the u.k. is heading to the outer. well there certainly are an impasse there's no denying that the e.u. i think will feel that they've given as much as they're willing to give and if the british side wants a deal they're going to have to find a way to reach that deal to make that compromise the views of leaders coming in earlier on ranged from sort of cautious optimism that a deal is within reach to outright negative pessimism that the reason may simply an unreliable negotiating partner because of

a political weakness at home that they didn't we should all now be focusing on a no deal scenario the germans as you say have started that the french published their plans that involves visa travel for british passport holders long and difficult checks at borders complications for citizens' rights and so on but there's a third way i'll tell you briefly people urging more time to give the british more space possibly to have another summit late in the year at the end of december sometime twenty five minutes to midnight as it's being described here and that's how things often go here at the e.u. the message will be let's not meet until we've got a deal if we don't have a deal then and they'll be no deal at all journal how is that the summit in brussels. still ahead for you on this news are. totally dark can never legalize recreational marijuana i need a second country to do so. proud to say why more afghans continue to join the army despite threats from the taliban and in sport the boston red sox move

a step closer to baseball's a world series. hello get to welcome back well here we are seeing some clouds particularly out here towards the east we're going to see those clouds pushing with a cold front but over towards the west those clouds are bringing a few showers to parts of the region we could see beirut at about twenty seven degrees ankara not looking too bad for this time of year at twenty four and then as we go towards friday fairly clear conditions across much of the area and then down here towards kuwait city maybe thirty five degrees is going to be your high well plenty of clouds and rain is going to be the problem especially down here towards parts of yemen sana a little bit cooler in cloudy a few at about eighteen degrees but as we go up here toward central parts of saudi arabia if you notice the clouds right there and maybe a shower or two in those clouds and then as we go towards friday well those clouds

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from the news hour here at al-jazeera let's take you through the top stories turkish investigators are searching the saudi consulate in istanbul for a second time the search for clues in the suspected killing of jamal khashoggi they are also searching the saudi consul general. nearby after delays from saudi arabia turkish sources have told al jazeera a bodyguard working for the saudi crown prince led the operation against jamal khashoggi. the thread's name was used to rent a private jet section best to go to say it was used to fly a team to build a team they suspect of killing the journalist and in other news the un special envoy for syria has told the security council he's stepping down staffan de mistura to spend years mediating the syrian government and rebel sides he told the council the situation in syria is relatively stable and that he is moving on for personal reasons. so more on our top story the suspected killing of journalist jamal khashoggi fifteen days now since he entered saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul

and turkish investigators as we said talked of hit squads more and all of this with math these other fifteen men the turkish media say are linked to the disappearance of saudi journalists. in regional lineup was first published in the turkish pro-government newspaper the new york times says it's identified that some of them may have links to saudi prince muhammad bin salma. other lizzie's mo tribe is described as a diplomat assigned to the saudi embassy in london eleven years ago this is one of several photos the newspapers published showing with prince solomon. another man is named as. a hobby and you'll times says a saudi news has reported that someone with that name was promoted to lieutenant in the royal guard for bravery for defending prince someone's palace in jeddah the newspaper also says an additional alleged member of the saudi team mohammad saad.

has the same name as another member of the royal god now this man is reported to be salah muhammad too by the turkish investigators say he's an expert in autopsies for saudi arabia's internal security agency the turks also say meshad sonny is a lieutenant in the saudi air force born in one thousand nine hundred seven a photo of a man it is terrible airport appears to match the facebook profile of a man with that name now almost all the information about the original fifteen suspects seems to have come from the turkish government turkish investigators say they've identified at least two of the men the identities of the others have been tracked down by the new york times and other sources using social media public records so the news reports and witnesses nigerians head to the polls in the next year and their president is promising the vote will be free and fair mamadou bihari

he also said the elections will usher in a new era of peace and unity think about the ongoing threat from groups like boko haram been wonder how easy will that be to happen while we're joined from london now by line mohammad who is nigeria's information minister well look ahead to this period between now and the elections and beyond. only yesterday we had news of book . killing a nurse had been captured seven months ago clearly the threat of boko haram is still very much there can you say that this government is really making a difference and getting on top of that problem absolutely. easy to remember that will be killed me in twenty fifteen. an area well just south of lebanon was on that difficult patient book. today we have freed in riyadh book or a. book or i'm not

a prisoner from the live chat islands and although they do not use attacks of targets so if you look at where one twenty fifteen and where we are today is clear that we have dealt with boko haram and do you think the voters believe that as well that when they do eventually go to the polls at the start of the year that they feel confident enough that book isn't such a threat anymore absolutely. you must you may recall that in twenty fifteen twenty fourteen what i'm used to stroll into the nation's capital twins and wreak havoc all that is history today between twenty seven twenty forty the nation's capital witnessed horrendous attacks from the koran including an attack on the united nations building and the initial police headquarters was twenty fifteen as the no such incident in any major city in

nigeria let me just read you something quite attributed to president bihari recently who was talking about young nigerians who want to leave the country and even risk that very dangerous journey over the mediterranean sea and he was saying it is that shared desperation that makes you dare the sahara desert and the mediterranean it's hurting the pride of the country he wants people to stay in nigeria what's he going to offer them though to stop them leaving well what i'm supposed to have been doing in the last three and have yes in all of these has been to create that and every environment to a neighborhood and you know to stay in that country. for instance between twenty fifty and today the government us employed about half a million unemployed in the vessel graduates the government has invested over two point seven trillion some one five billion ira in infrastructure such as roads rail

. water and the like and. these. investments that would definitely help the economy to grow and in addition the government has also i think gauged you know an investor idea is to. invest in programs which would make each easy. for the young people to live in judea and this is exactly what the president is saying that if only they are patient and this see the result of this investment they would not need to take that as i just judging that final question for you minister and it is on president bush himself he is running for reelection early next year his health has been an issue for a long time there were a lot of questions and you say definitively that he is in good health now and that

it's fit to run for election and to be president again if that is what happens. if the president is in very good health and there's absolutely no feeling no danger about his health. and supper then came back from the u.k. . go he has been working for throttle. the minister was very close to his schedule i know that mr president has done very well on this absolutely no fear about his health he is fit to run for elections and he's fit to run the country one of the four yes but mohamad is nigeria's information minister joining us from london on today's news out think you for your time sir thank you very much. the afghan army has been confronting its biggest challenge for years how to defeat the taliban thousands of soldiers and civilians to have lost their lives in this long war so the army's new challenge is securing polling stations for

saturday's parliamentary elections following taliban threats to bomb them and to kill candidates. reports now from kabul. afghan army cadets celebrating their graduation their excitement may soon give way to anxiety as the new soldiers are likely to be sent to the front line but this is my country and i must defend i had no fears i have taken an oath to serve and defend. this graduation ceremony in kabul was held earlier than planned the army stretched and more soldiers are needed to secure polling stations nationwide throughout the years the u.s. and other countries have spent billions of dollars training afghan security forces to lead operations when all foreign troops pull out of the country a goal that has eluded afghan military commanders now they are faced with the harsh reality that taliban is gaining ground and launching more attacks across the

country. this is the moment when taliban fighters ambush an army convoy soldiers respond with a coordinated assault to kill that anime's. it's only a mock training drill the reality on the ground is tougher and predictable taliban commanders have intensified attacks during election campaigning to target candidates and security forces read yes asking people to war polling station in our national security to portis is ready to protect you and provide the process. since the fall of the taliban government in kabul seventeen years ago u.s. and nato troops have played a crucial role in training and equipping the afghan army the goal is to eventually see afghan security forces taking over military operations nationwide and when the

ice of mission and it there were almost one hundred forty thousand nato troops in this country we are now down to some sixteen thousand. all the work from the remaining more than one hundred thousand has been taken over by the afghans so we are very confident that they can fulfill their tasks president donald trump has repeatedly said he won't commit to any plan to expand or prolong the u.s. military operation in afghanistan that leaves the afghan army to bear the brunt of defeating the taliban and restoring stability has a. couple a government minister in india has resigned because at least twenty women accused him of sexual harassment and assault and was minister of state for external affairs best known in a long list of men to be named in what was called india's me two movement the

allegations against the sixty seven year old date back to when he was a leading newspaper editor he is actually suing the first female journalist who reported him for defamation as one of the youngest a moccasins in the world and now bhutan is about to choose a new government it will only be the third election since two thousand and eight the economy vironment a major concerns made bankers reporting for us from capitol can prove. it is a rustic landscape of peaks and paddy fields a country seemingly at odds with the modern world. less than two generations ago bhutan had a subsistence economy now it's open to graduate from the un list of least developed countries to a developing one things are a little slower here more manageable than other places but there's globalization is this explosion of media there's forces beyond our control and we're being in that

pried open open prized. bhutan became a democracy in two thousand and eight under the orders of the previous king it's a change the country still getting used to throwing stations have been set up even the remotest corners of the country voters will choose from one of two parties there's very little politically that separates them including their names the d.p.t. the town's first ever ruling party and the d n t political newcomers it's really at the crossroads because we are a new party what we are offering people is that you must strengthen democracy and when i say. they must strengthen democracy we must strengthen the bridge between the people and the government they are looking at firstly bridging the development gap then we are looking at income gap then it's gender gap then it's generation gap and then we're also we also have a strong social agenda we believe in doing what is right not what is popular both

parties also want to protect the driving force of p. towns economy hydro power and accounts for a quarter of the country's national income most of which is sold as electricity to neighboring india economic growth for better health care and education if improved roads created more business opportunities in industry but there's also a fierce political debate on how best to balance this economic growth with protecting the environment and group hands unique cultural heritage nature is the backbone of the economy but hydropower is also responsible for half of all external loans making time the second most indebted nation in asia after japan in proportion to population since it emerged from international isolation in the one nine hundred sixty s. the terms gone through seismic change markets in the capital are now flooded with food from india growth is everywhere to be seen but it could be many more years

before this one secretive nation stands on its own two feet. need. to. chinese state media video of internment camps for muslims in the western province of. despite international criticism the government has defended its treatment of the minority group it came to reeducate people so they can be part of a modern civilized world but up to a million we have reportedly been detained in these camps still to come view on the sports news in fact changing the face of sport. the olympics the next generation of athletes in a different directions.