issues in withdrawal agreements there are still there is still the question of the northern irish back start but i believe everybody around the table wants to get a deal. by working intensively and closely we can achieve that deal i believe a deal will now is the time to make it happen. may spend less than half an hour addressing her fellow leaders on the status of exit talks before they went into dinner without a further sign of the u.k.'s growing isolation within this bloc he presented them with no new ideas to break the current deadlock so there wasn't much to discuss e.u. leaders are running out of patience with britain just as britain is running out of time they called off a planned emergency summit in november judging that insufficient progress has been made to expect a deal by then it looks that it's still we do have a lot of discussions and i'll try not to approve man told to stands there were educated ones and instead it difficult for european side to negotiate with their

person who has no full support of the position they know she's politically weak at home the reason may has bowed to different factions in her government and parliament rejecting the e use plan for a backstop or insurance policy against a future hard border on the island of ireland. they insist it's non-negotiable and there's more and more talk about all of this ending in no deal disruptions of borders tariffs on trade british passport holders requiring visas and work permits on the continent. there is one new idea doing the rounds the a use potential willingness to extend the so-called transition period after britain leaves the e.u. allowing a full three years for trade talks to take place before that warning issue of the backstop applies it might soften some opposition to the backstop hardly imaginative thinking at this stage but possibly all they've got. the prime minister and others

stressed that a deal is ninety percent. but on the problem a violent they're still miles apart jonah how al-jazeera brussels we're going to weather update next here on out syria then the iraqi government closes camps for people displaced by years of war but there's no concern about where they're being sent. rose up. canada legalizing recreational marijuana only the second country to do so. however the weather is fine and dry across many parts of central and eastern europe largely clear skies as you can see deal with the rain in hungary having said that the river danube a record low levels for this time of the year further west we have some more fun to head to rumbling away across that western side of the mediterranean we are going to

see further showers coming back into malta easing up towards the corsica and eric's really heavy rain coming in across the the costers pushing into the eastern side of spain you can see lots of wet weather there for thursday going into friday fabulous spain seeing some rather wet weather at this stage further north as we go with fabulous sunshine twenty celsius in paris not too bad sixteen in london is not too bad actually down towards the southeast we could touch twenty three in bucharest some attempts there for athens a little bit of cloud here lots of dry weather meanwhile across northern parts of africa until we get to the far north of tunisia easing across the but it's right near coastal fringes of algeria and back across the into northern parts of morocco very heavy downpours here over the next couple of days flooding is certainly likely for a time dry weather does come back in behind by friday about where the top temperature of eighteen.

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well again the top stories here on al-jazeera turkish investigators looking for evidence linked to the disappearance of the journalist jamal khashoggi have completed searches of two saudi arabian diplomatic buildings in istanbul turkey sources have told us here that important samples have been found. in the u.s. democrats of putting pressure on the president over his response to the case donald trump has been reluctant to criticize the saudi leadership despite bound to give it and slinking we have to show she's disappearance at e.u. leaders of postponed a special summit on breaks it planned for movember they say that britain's prime minister to resign may hasn't provided any new ideas for resolving the deadlock in the go ca sions over the border on the island of ireland the u.k. is churchill to leave the e.u. in. voters in bhutan the casting their ballots in a runoff parliamentary election more than four hundred thousand registered voters are electing forty seven members of the national assembly royalist and center left

parties are facing each other in the runoff let's go live now to bhutan meet barca at a polling station in the capital me one of the world's youngest democracies just how important is this election. well it's being treated very very seriously indeed as you said this is only the third election since the country's transition to democracy back in two thousand and eight that has been a very very unusual journey because the transition came about as a result of a direct order by the previous monarch so people every brace democracy enthusiastically perhaps largely out of respect for the monarchy that's the bizarre contradiction about politics here in bhutan as you said there's a population of around seven hundred fifty thousand but half a million eligible voters there are two main parties the n.p.t. party the p p t party that's right and the n.t. party the first of those parties formed the government back in two thousand and

eight the other party has never actually had a role in government no experience of government but is hoping to shape up the political landscape here in the country very little politically separating the two of these party it seems to largely to be cosmetic but at the center of all political life here in bhutan is the pursuit of domestic national happiness that's how the success of the nation is measured in sharp contrast to g.t. g.d.p. compared to the rest of the world so one of the issues that are most important to voters in this election means. well to really unpick issues are of great importance you really have to decode what national happiness really means it can roughly be interpreted as good governance finding the right balance between economic and industrial growth when it comes to things like hydro power all logging or finding the right balance between

construction building new roads and also protecting the environment as well as one of the few countries anywhere in the world where in the constitution sixty five percent of all of the territory here to be town needs to be forest it is also the only country in the world that's carbon negative and be timed very much wants to hold on to that global status wants to be seen very much as a beacon of environmentalism but it is a delicate balance as well trying to allow the country to economically grow and develop to improve people's lives through major hydro power projects well at the same time maintaining the health of this pristine environment out of serious need baka their lives in bhutan need many things. the ruling coalition in ivory coast has maintained its majority after minas of elections on saturday three people were killed and many injured in violence the began on voting day and continued in the days after. reports now from abidjan. who did you vote for it is an

uncomfortable question if you want to answer especially in public where opinions don't just divide but can get you killed three dead many more injured saturday's municipal election brought the country to a standstill even among friends conversations on politics turned to arguments. to find i'm not interested why should i be what have politicians brought to me nothing no gifts not a better life now full of empty promises more jobs more hospitals peace and reconciliation promises made by winning candidate jack in the downtown abbey jam. this victory is your victory it's really your victory is the victory the people of the plus. a thirteen year alliance between whose party the p.c.i. and the ruling party broke down just before the elections really party may have won most city council seats but it is

a bitter victory let's just put it to. the political situation is worrisome with the implosion of the ruling coalition political discourse has become venomous old friends are new enemies and this is worrying for the ivory coast in the run up to the official results police fired tear gas some party supporters and a few cities a curfew was in place to contain the violence symbol additions accuse those that have won in this municipal election offering money for votes kickbacks and gifts to local election officials and so some candidates are refusing to concede defeat it is the return of a lack of trust in the political process that once fueled the civil war here in ivory coast that so many now here fear. in the last sixteen years more than three thousand people died in two civil wars over contested presidential elections among the dead is i should best friend khadija she was eight years old when she was raped

and killed like most ivorians she did not go out to vote elections are too dangerous. because hawke. afghanistan will hold its general election on saturday the taliban has called for a boycott of the vote and has warned that it will attack polling stations that's led to concerns about a low turnout the government's trying to encourage as many people to cast a ballot as possible but with almost two thirds of the population illiterate voting is no simple task the shell the palace reports from kabul. there are two thousand five hundred parliamentary candidates running in this year's election and they're fighting of just two hundred forty nine seats here in kabul there are eight hundred candidates which means that if you are an ass on saturday morning each going to vote you will have to look through the streets list of candidates to try to find that one person you want to vote for which makes it very difficult another problem is illiteracy here in afghanistan it is thirty one percent literacy which means two

of every three people cannot read and write therefore if you show up to voters and you cannot read your candidate's name how do you know what the election commission has come up with the system every candidate will get a symbol that will be a normal fancy symbol not see the whole bombs you see a list from which they have pips and it has been dispersed in the last three system to every candidate if you take some examples here you have one person who has to balance down here a man with a three foot just and over here a man with two so only two thousand five hundred column a candidate across this country have been assigned sometimes as a way for pulses. to find an instructor or. iraq's government has begun closing camps for thousands of people who were displaced by years of war but aid workers say that security forces are forcibly returning civilians to unsafe areas in the

predominantly sunni province mohammed other reports this is the holiday come for internally displaced people in iraq's anbar province at the height of the military operations against i still in two thousand and fifteen it was home to seven thousand people. government officials have come to see it closed you know how i'm going to at the moment of the crime so i mean our home the last hundred fifty or so families that remained here finally returned home we've closed it as part of a government program to resettle all i.d.p. camps. it's a program criticized by aid workers who say it's happening too quickly and it's still too dangerous. more than three million people have returned to their homes by the middle of the sea but more than two and a half million others are still displaced according to the international organization for migration mohammed jassim was one of those brave enough to go back home but his family house was destroyed in the war so mohammed is living in

a tent some always relatives are here to help him. our situation is desperate there's nothing to salvage from our home it's not a home anymore actually we urge the government to pay us the compensation it promised. others complain they have to live with the threats from booby traps unexploded bombs and other devices on the health risk posed by the decomposed bodies that lie on the land where their houses once stewed to go about it was for a whole day earthmoving machines have been excavating the rubble in my compound and recovered dozens of bodies there were at least five to six bodies in each of several shallow holes we found here. the diverse titian poverty and lack of services in areas that are kept up from my soul forced many to choose to stay in the comps for others it is in the comically viable today some have been able to set

up shop of fruit stands a mixture of markets making about fifty dollars a month unable to put up with a lot of basic services when they have a ton of home many have been forced to go back to come. open for them the fall and desperate search for sanctuary continues mohammad all just part of that a government minister in india has resigned after as many as twenty women accused him of sexual harassment and assault. was the deputy foreign minister the allegations against the sixty seven year old date back to his time as a leading newspaper editor in the late one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's he's suing the first female journalist who reported him on twitter for defamation he's part of a long list of prominent men who've been named and what's being called india's hash tag me too movement. canada has become the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana smokers began to line up well before midnight on tuesday to

get their hands on legally sold weed to me a lack reports from toronto. illegal no more at midnight in the easternmost time zone the first non-medicinal cannabis is sold without breaking canadian law trace would be super happy to if you're a first person in line legalization is being celebrated countrywide and not just by smokers canadian cannabis companies have seen their share prices soar in recent months as the big day approached there is not one client yet that has not been touched by the introduction of cannabis and life sciences technology the banking industry retailers but in addition the food and beverage companies are going to start seeing a lot of activity as they touch the cannabis market how canadians buy their cannabis depends on where they live there will be different distribution rules in

each of the ten provinces and three territories some will have government run online and real stores others private retail prices will also differ some critics say that puts too many restrictions on an activity most canadians have long wanted to be legal we can't really stop it with we better call it legalized. unfortunately the government has tried to maintain all of the details of prohibition and just call it legalized. legalizing cannabis fulfills a campaign promise made in two thousand and fifteen by prime minister justin trudeau who himself admitted several years ago that he was an occasional user in the past the government is also offering pardons to people convicted of possession now that the drug is legal. because cannabis has been outlawed for so long its effects on my. and body are being studied in detail at this toronto medical lab they're using a simulator to see how drivers who've smoked

a joint react to virtual traffic conditions police and road safety advisers are also part of the research. driver. i think everybody. most canadians are not opposed to legal cannabis so long as it could be kept away from children and the multibillion dollar profits from an industry once dominated by organized crime can be taxed and used to benefit society than you lack al-jazeera toronto. it is good to have you with us adrian from going to here in doha the top stories on our zero turkish investigators looking for evidence linked to the disappearance of the journalist jamal khashoggi have completed searches of two saudi arabian diplomatic buildings in istanbul to sources have told al jazeera that important

samples for found during the search of the consulates and the consul general's home in the u.s. democrats are putting pressure on the president over his response to the case donald trump has been reluctant to criticize the saudi leadership despite mounting evidence linking riyadh to disappearance e.u. leaders have spurned a special summit on briggs it plans for november they say that britain's prime minister to resign may hasn't provided any new ideas for resolving the deadlock in the go ca sions over the border on the island of ireland the will to leave the e.u. march. says in bhutan the casting their ballots in a run off parliamentary election will them four hundred thousand registered voters are electing forty seven members to the national assembly royalist and center left parties are facing each other in the runoff. bomb blast and shoot out of the college in crimea has left nineteen people dead after the explosion police say that

a student with a rifle started to shoot classmates and then killed himself the kremlin initially suspected a terrorist attack in the eastern city of courage three days of mourning have been declared in crimea which russia annexed from ukraine four years ago a government minister in india has resigned after as many as twenty women accused him of sexual harassment and assault m j ackbar was the deputy foreign minister the allegations against the sixty seven year old date back to his time as a leading newspaper editor in the late one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's he's suing the first female journalist who reported him on twitter for defamation he's part of a long list of prominent men who've been named in what's being called india's me to movement the united nations special envoy to syria has told the security council that he's stepping down from the role in november staffan de mistura has spent years media syrian government and rebel sides he told the council the situation in syria is relatively stable but says he's moving on for personal reasons that he is

continuous here on al-jazeera after inside story next. in the lead up to the u.s. midterm election we'll be talking to the american people looking at the key issues for voters from immigration to economic struggles to the health care system to greece's and women's rights joining us throughout to talk or for special coverage on the nonsense the u.s. moved to on all jews in. the investigation into. possible. all eyes are now a saudi crown prince mohammed bin said a man who appears to be distancing himself from the scandal but can he really and will it affect his grip on power this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm hasn't saudis close to crown prince mohammed bin sandman may be involved in what turkish sources say is the killing of saudi journalist jim alpha shoji as it has been told that a bodyguard for the crown prince led the operation which led to his show g.'s torture and death in istanbul he was last seen entering the saudi consulate fifteen days ago were joint saudi turkish investigation team searched the building turkish or says say there is further evidence that suggests a shoji was killed there the saudis are continuing to deny any links to his disappearance u.s. president donald trump is defending the kingdom warning not to jump to conclusions or the u.s. secretary of state has been in both ankara and the saudi capital after meeting king salmen and crown prince mohammed bin sandman might pompei or says a credible investigation is underway and no one will be exempt from being held accountable. they 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 did deserves accountability remember that they made no exceptions to who they would hold accountable they were they were just for they were very clear they are they understand the importance of this issue they're determined to get to the bottom of it and that they will conduct the report in the wall get a chance to see if they take each promise that they would achieve that force. well let's bring in our guest now to talk more about this joining us here in studio is mohammad the ship kawhi professor of conflict resolution at george mason university in london we have saeed if she had he is a columnist with a newspaper and leader of the behind freedom movement and joining us from chicago

is sana chopped i director of the turkish research program with the washington institute for near east policy good to have you all with a strawman. let's start with the turkish perspective on this since that is they did that is at the center of all of this so so on a chapter i as far as the latest developments developments that we're getting on this that now want more details about what the turks say is. that a killing has taken place in the consulate and there is a search now of the. consul general so residents what do we expect to emerge from there and what will investigators be looking at. so what we saw is turkey first started releasing evidence to suggest that a murder took place and then last week on friday just as presidents are gone and trump made up after turkey released american pastor andrew bronson who was in jail

in turkey that was the reason for the trumpet on make up turkey went into a strategic pause it stopped releasing evidence unnamed turkish security officials stopped talking to journalists and i think that is primarily because at on was hoping that behind closed doors he would convince trump and the u.s. administration now that he had made up with trump to publicly back turkish position but we saw in the last few days that if not the whole u.s. administration definitely president trump is trending away from turkey's position and closer to the saudi position and i think therefore the turks have started decided to start leaking evidence again so yesterday secretary pompei was in ankara u.s. state department secretary of state and i think it's either to build pressure on secretary pompei or or perhaps even sort of he takes a message back to washington that turkey will not back down turkey started

releasing evidence again journalists who had access to audiotapes or who talked to people had access to audiotapes started painting details of this gruesome murder so i think turkey is back on the offensive now whether disses a strategic offensive it will last or tactical depends on to what extent the u.s. position aligns with turkey especially one secretary pump it comes back i think at this stage a turkish president on can take nothing less than not just a complete apology but someone pretty significant and important thrown under the bus so that he will accept to embrace the exit path that the saudi authorities want to take claiming that this was not a. clear operation when the murder took place i think it's getting more complicated than that on top in the last week and it all depends on what america does next asuna when you say someone needs to be thrown under the bus who would that person

be i mean how how high would it have to go up it's hard for me to judge i'm not an expert on saudi politics but i saw today that the consul in istanbul the saudi consul was relieved of his duties that just doesn't sound convincing to the turks that the whole operation of fifteen people allegedly flying in to stumble at the same time it was at the consulate staying there for two hours and leaving and if the audiotapes are occur in the very fight carrying out a murder that all of this could have taken under just the auspices of the council i think it would have to go higher than that but i'm not an expert on saudi politics can say how high but clearly there are two elements here one is that the murder took place on turkish soil so it's a violation of turkey sovereignity and turkey is very envious of that and secondly kushat somebody who had really close ties to many people in the air to an administration so this is also personal for at on he has to push back in other to

not to have his charisma and his strong man image domestically and internationally undermined and i think that's why if the saudis are to take the code and quote exit path they have to give something in return that is convincing for at on but also for the international audience that is watching this terrible tragedy mamma chair kerry would say your take on how the turks have handled this investigation because there is a delicate balance at play here in terms of turkey's relations with both saudi arabia and the united states two countries which which has a great deal invested here i would say to the turks of money pretty to do this process of. figuring out what happened so we have not seen the full story of what they have discovered in terms of evidence so there has been this diplomatic process going on in the first two weeks with three and then now with three and and

washington so i think the how i mean jerks have not revealed their evidence because they are more concerned or more interested in development in new york triangle where they can have a win win situation so out of the guy happens to be somebody who is a tough negotiator and i think now with the arrival of response from the white house i think there has been new or up or from what we washington on this is the american preacher who was released from turkey from turkey so i don't think that he was released without a kind of compromise and i think the saudis are paying the price both ways to the turks as well as the americans and at the same time the scandal now has to be in new law in saudi politics and i think we should also remember that the governor and the saudi leadership leadership leaders have not been on good terms so we were we still have to wait to see where this investigation process will lead us within the next three months four months or so from what you're saying then the turks are

keeping their cards very close to the vest here and there and they're it's a matter of when when they when they play them so when we have seen how the evidence has been money paraded it has been a process of a drip drip you know kind of anonymous and this is anonymous sources and also with some selective media institutions inside turkey so i don't think that this is the proper legal way how that been london or elsewhere we would have seen the prosecutor or the ministry of interior appearing before cameras day one or day two he or she would reveal what the outcome of the investigation and also sort of. there us what is the. the point of the mark in the market between what is evidence and what is just speculation so i think in short the turks have turned this scandal is that into a circus

a political and diplomatic circus more than the whole process of alright let's get let's get say that she had to take on this should should vest a gator's just simply be able to do their jobs here regardless of the of the political and diplomatic considerations are they being allowed to do that. thank you very much i listen to both contributors and i can see that everybody is not really clear about how the turks are conducting their own investigation and also how they are concluding their next move well so far i think fourteen so far so good because they have not the rushed to judgment they have not that i still declaring a position they have not exposed to all the information in their hands so they are in a stronger position especially i think one of the most important thing that i pissed

away for example didn't think that. mr trump and his administration would take such a strong stand with regard to salute the area yes they are trying to brush aside to brush it of they are trying to probe lead to protect this woodies but at the same time there is so much evidence and so much media attention inside america that i think the white house could not simply brush all these aside and. cling to the position they had originally so that their eggs have been many primitive enough to be able to drag the trump administration into this mess and i think the stakes they made the stakes too high for riyadh to come out from this quite buy and so i believe that the tax will. continue their

investigation and as my colleague said they would continue to give small hence one one at a time in order to. really close the sale because around the saudis because the saudis have done really a really bad job not just now. that takes have also been very skeptical about the way they have the saudis have handled many other issues civil issues including their relations with the thought this is madness this is absolute none this and the way it is coming to realize that some of the sun has been at disaster for the west and for as a percent of what america yes he is giving money whether the same time he's making everybody unhappy in the region so i think that they actually have played their cards so so well so far but also there are also afraid that. the

trump administration may stunt the middle of the way and back up or back away from the whole process well we just want to remind viewers as well at this point that we did make several efforts to reach out to saudi on this oil and prosperity voices but we were unsuccessful we're going to expand a little bit on this and now to talk about the implications of this have for the united states and for mohammed bin sandman now u.s. president donald trump criticized the rush to condemn saudi leaders in an interview with the associated press he said well i think we have to find out what happened first you know here we go again with you guilty until proven innocent i don't like that we just went through that with justice cavanaugh and he was innocent all the way so i was unconcerned a u.s. republican senator lindsey graham music using crown prince mohammed bin sandman of

ordering the journalists murdered. well i know this nothing happens in saudi arabia without knowing it who's india he's the thirty three year old crown prince who jumped over other people he's the son of the existing king and i think he's in a bad track i can never do business with saudi arabia again until we get this behind this what does that mean it means i'm not going back to saudi arabia as long as this guy is in charge so you're still in the crown prince has to leave this up to them but i'm not going to i've been their biggest offender on the floor of the united states and this guy is a wrecking ball he had this guy murdered in a consulate in turkey and to expect me to ignore and feel used and abused i was on the floor every time defending saudi arabia because there's a good ally there's a difference between a country and an individual the n.b.s. figure is to me toxic he can never be a world leader on the world stage what does the president do thank the president

but what i would do i know what i'm going to do and sanction the hell out of saudi arabia you know we deal with bad people all the time but this is in our face i feel personally offended they have nothing but contempt for us why would you put a guy like me and the president in this box after all the president has done this guy's got to go saudi arabia if you're listening there are a lot of good people you can choose but m.b.'s is tainted your country and tainted him so. all right pretty direct comments there from lindsey graham u.s. republican senator not not pulling his punches there as we just heard and he interesting lee enough is a senator who has been very close to to president trump politically what do you make of that couple of interesting points now the the question will his death i'm sorry to say has become the high sugar deal both in finance and politics in two dimensions one detour have you two lives discussion the to improve the relations

with the white house and they are getting what they want at the same time with the win when the more you listen to senator lindsey graham and others for representing mainstream politics within the republican party i sense that this is an investment in our own teeth from platform toward the elections in november mitten returned and also in two thousand and twenty because lindsey graham is one of the strong candidates who would like to be taken seriously so there are several corners or several players who are betting on how to money relate and how to capitalize on how sugar is that and this is not really were it seems to me now the by the third week of this problem we have moved from the tree that has hidden the entire forest and these are these new trees that we're discovering everybody is trying to make a bet and to make some capital over his death say that she had what do you make of this then in terms of what he means for mohamed bin sad man does this kind of put

the brakes on the way he has pursued power at any cost. well i think. the world has waited too long for this month to go they didn't ack and he wished a war on the him and why why did he which award in yemen now is that more than ten million are on the brink of famine and the whole words could dimming except the political. condition in that war the he could now have the live in his prime minister who will do that. he had a government could that be the prime minister and of that country as simple as that and he was a guest of. his court so and now he has done this and of course the way he did with the g.c.c. has destroyed the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council he destroyed it is almost forty years now since it was

in the. established in growing one nine hundred eighty one and now he has destroyed it so i don't think there will be any talk of the. no revamping of the g.c.c. again after what he did by excluding qatar that i can get and having him maty even with that with him on with what would result in that of a month and also in getting to him he wanted to take a stand against qatar but. didn't do that so he in the last three or four years since two thousand and fifteen when his boss the way he has brought disaster after disaster out of that is us that was own country and which so all the or any other leader would antagonize his own family i just think them and putting them in that as that it's there's a vote of two or three months and then extracting their money for i mean. if i could just if i could sense something different secondly i'm i did you did you

think that there's going to be any pushback against him then inside saudi arabia does anyone there have the power to do that. i think only if the americans are willing to accept a change and i am not sure that he has left any of what anyone behind with him think of it and still correct them because he has him with everybody and i am not sure i think there is there is a serious case for change in saudi arabia this is this a g.m. has faith its own people before failing the word and before failing the concepts like human rights and dignity and security so i believe that it is time that the word really really looks seriously at the possibility of a dream change in death kingdom because the outcome so far in the last few years have never been never to be except disaster and insecurity so we just heard from

saeed they're calling this disaster after disaster for mohammed bin sandman but do you think what's happened in istanbul will ultimately be his undoing now i think the problem here and here i'm thinking of lindsey graham's comments is that taking into account that american foreign policy has two heads white house and the congress this is a seems to be a pretty significant public policy debacle for saudi arabia in washington especially judging from the congress side and i think this explains lindsey graham's comments here's why we don't really know what happened because we're have the full tape or full evidence of the alleged murder at the consulate whether this was a rendition that went wrong or they wanted to intimidate or torture him or torture him to death but either way it's completely unacceptable here's why it's not that the saudis in my view targeted and potentially killed at this event it looks like

they did it's not that they target a journalist looks like they did it's not that they did all of this on turkish soil therefore creating a crisis with turkey they did. but they also targeted the washington post columnist and i think there is really no way to take from under this that's america's one of the most prominent papers most respected read by everybody in washington there's not a single person in washington d.c. including senators who don't have fifty washington post columnist and their address book on their phone so this is very clear to close to home for so many people and i think it is because it is the washington post columnist aspect of this a legit mother that makes it really difficult for the saudi royal family to dig under this and just say it was a minor incident it wasn't cleared i think that we haven't really seen the end of it i also believe that all will continue pushing i think that ideally plan a is to not have a rupture with the saudis that's why he was hoping that trump would mediate between

him and the crown prince and that's why he didn't divulge full evidence i think this is the reason why the turkish tactic so far has been drip drip and on has been absent he hasn't personally charged the saudis he had unnamed officials of the turkish government do it that's because his plan a is to avoid a complete rupture but increasingly i think if the saudis do not take the kind of exit path that aired on wants them to take this could lead into a more significant political event i think it's something turkey's avoiding it's probably wired on took a call from the saudi king and they spoke and so i would say that's still his plan a is still where he wants to go he doesn't want to be going to be forced into plan b. that would be a complete rupture with the saudis and of course that means at least doesn't appear haps ten countries that would follow the saudis that would enter a rupture with turkey so that will be a significant blow to turkey's foreign policy and its ambitions in the middle east

all right we'll give what's probably going to be the last word on the stand to. that how do you see this playing out that then is this something that the sound. these can ultimately ride out or will we see something else and i think this is a moment of throat. for the sun man has become the number one enemy to mohammed bin some of his father and the entire government i think he has picked i mean his power picked a long time ago even and i would go back to early summer two thousand and eighteen with the controversy of the poor and how king solomon sale of the say is that there were five percent that was supposed to bring five hundred million billion dollars for the twenty thirty vision it didn't work king solomon intervened and stopped to have an axe or i think if in terms of political solution his momentum was exhausted a long time ago and it is now a decline of his power although he managed to establish

a kind of deep state within the saudi state and not. in favor of the idea that that we should have this ambitious expectation that he will be removed or there will be. i will see that he will be sidelined for a while he will disappear from the public eye to the king kind of find a compromise where he is still part of the decision making and his son would remain at home all right it will be fascinated to see how this does continue to play out but we're going to have to leave it there thank you to all of you mohammed share cow here. say this she had be in london and so on air chapter in chicago thanks very much for being on inside story and remember you can see this program again any time just go to our website at his ear dot com and for more discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle there is at

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hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up e.u. leaders rule out a special summit on bragg's it next month citing a lack of progress on a possible deal with the u.k. . and will report from butan where people are voting in a runoff general election in one of the world's youngest democracies. the. turkish investigators looking for evidence linked to the disappearance of the journalist jamal khashoggi have completed searches of two saudi arabian diplomatic buildings in istanbul they spent more than twelve hours scoping both the consulates and the consul general's residence sources have told us a zero that important balls were found during the search investigators suspect that the show she was killed by

a fifteen man saudi hit squad in the consulate oct second in the u.s. democrats are putting pressure on president donald trump over his response to the case they want him to disclose any business ties that he may have with saudi arabia trump has been reluctant to criticize the saudi leadership. despite mounting evidence linking riyadh to disappearance in the meantime the washington post has published what it calls the last opinion piece written by jamal khashoggi the column calls for greater freedom of expression in the arab world let's go live now to istanbul al-jazeera is charles stratford is outside the saudi consulate building this so just took his investigators were finally allowed into the residence of the saudi consul general what they said about what they found. according to sources we've spoken to involved in this investigation we understand that a lot of the focus of that investigation last night of the cause of general's house

was in the garden we understand there may well have been some sort of excavation done and we also hear that there was a lot of focus on the guy in a vehicle in that garage it is believed on the day that could show she disappeared moved from of the consulate here to the consul general zone as you reported then sources telling us that they have samples that they believe match the samples that were taken from the consulate itself we have no more details as to what these samples actually are and then though as couple of hours we've spoken to will sources in the chief prosecutor's office and the police again focus on this recording as well the sources saying that they do have an eleven minute recording which they say is of boise's in what they describe as a and b. section the a and b. section of the consulate we understand that's in the entrance area and they say

that this is evidence of g. having been certainly beaten up as he entered the building. also our sources at the prosecutor's office saying that they have fingerprints off six of the fifteen main suspects including that autopsy expert. a source telling us that those fingerprints were taken from around an electrical socket. or other other information that we've got in the last hour also. we understand according to these sources saying that. it's believed that none of the fifteen that came into the country on the day that the show she disappeared and then left later that evening none of them were carrying fake possible just believed some of them may have been carrying diplomat. possible and very interesting is well this source telling us that there's a lot of focus on a suspect somebody who they believe may have been very personally close to quick

shoji with a i understand may have been relaying information back to saudi arabia about because she's movements in turkey since he arrived here in turkey. around a year and a half ago so as i say a thorough investigation last night another one here at the consulate a lot of focus on these fifteen main suspects that were believed to have come into the country rob matheson as well these other fifteen men turkish media say are linked to the disappearance of saudi journalists. in regional lineup was first published in the turkish pro-government sabat newspaper new york times says it's identified that some of them may have links to saudi prince muhammad bin sama knock out 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 the tread with prince solomon

another man is named as. a hobby and you old times says a saudi news outlet 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 runny has the same name as another member of the wall 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 saudi news reports and witnesses so who is the man at the center of all of this. will the saudi journalist was once close to the inner circles of the saudi royal family he earned his reputation as a reformist by pushing boundaries and questioning government policies in two thousand and three her show she became media advisor to prince turki bin faisal the prince headed saudi arabia's intelligence service and latest design bastards of the united states but last year has shown she went into exile in the u.s. after becoming concerned about the actions of crown prince mohammed bin solomon he told out of syria in march that he left the kingdom because he didn't want to be arrested more from a serious mike hanna in washington on how the case is causing problems for the u.s. president. president trump will receive

a personal report on the case in coming hours he's urged turkish authorities to hand over any audio and video recordings they may have we've asked for if it exists the president has been reluctant to criticize saudi arabia or discuss any sanction that may be imposed dismissing allegations of saudi complicity as and i quote another case of guilty until proven innocent they are in our we have a very good allies in the middle east but if you look at saudi arabia. tremendous purchase of not only military equipment but. president trump is awaiting the report from his secretary of state who were sent to the region in the face of growing political uproar mike pompei oh spent time with senior saudi figures during a visit to riyadh and said they had denied any knowledge of the matter and had started a full investigation. he also met with the turkish president in ankara shaking hands for the camera but insisted it was too early to go into details about the

journalist's disappearance and i would start with any of the facts. that they didn't want to either in that they want to have the opportunity to complete this investigation in a throw away and more pressure from congress the house speaker paul ryan saying action must be taken we have laws for this we recently passed the minsky act which is a man who was killed in prison in a russian prison so we have sanction laws on the books in terms of this bipartisan action president trump is given one hundred twenty days to decide on what sanctions to impose a group of democrat senators have demanded that the trump family disclose any business ties that may have had with saudi arabia in the past decade but this is legally an enforceable and likely to be brushed aside by the president and a reminder of the man who's at the center of this ongoing crisis the washington post has published an opinion piece written by jamal khashoggi shortly before his

disappearance in a t. criticizes the lack of international response to the abuse of journalists in countries like saudi arabia and egypt he writes these actions no longer carry the consequence of a backlash from the international community instead these actions may trigger condemnation quickly followed by silence as a result he continues arab governments have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate chilling words from a man who may himself have been silenced by cannot al-jazeera washington. european leaders in brussels for another day of meetings to discuss briggs's as negotiations with the u.k. remain deadlocked over the future of the irish borda plans for a special brings its summit in the venda have been postponed the e.u. says the britain's prime minister's reason may hasn't provided any new suggestions

for resolving the issue jonah hall reports from brussels. the hopes of doing a briggs deal at this summit long gone british prime minister to reserve may's positive tone on a rival weren't of impressed many here in brussels so what we've seen is that we've sold most of the issues in withdrawal agreements there are still there is still a question of the northern irish backstop but i believe everybody around the table wants to get a deal done by working intensively and closely we can achieve that deal i believe a deal is it will now is the time to make it happen. may spend less than half an hour addressing her fellow leaders on the status of exit talks before they went into dinner without a further sign of the u.k.'s growing isolation within this bloc he presented them with no new ideas to break the current deadlock so there wasn't much to discuss e.u. leaders are running out of patience with britain just as britain is running out of time they've called off

a planned emergency summit in november judging that insufficient progress has been made to expect a deal by then it looks that still we do have a lot of discussions and i'll try not to approve man told to stands there were educated ones and it's very difficult for european side to negotiate with their person who has no or full support of the position they know she's politically weak at home the reason may has bowed to different factions in her government and parliament rejecting the e use plan for a backstop or insurance policy against a future hard boarder on the island of ireland. they insist it's non-negotiable and there's more and more talk about all of this ending in no deal disruptions of borders tariffs on trade british passport holders requiring visas and work permits on the continent. there is one new idea doing the rounds the a use.