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there are suggestions that the israeli army doesn't want to escalate things into a full scale military conflict indeed there are reports here that hamas which is denying responsibility for these rocket attacks sent a message with egyptian negotiators who left gaza on wednesday for the israelis saying again that they denied responsibility that they were investigating who was responsible and also that they didn't want a military escalation towards full scale war either that leaves open the question who was responsible hamas has in the past pointed toward salafist groups linked to the islamic states there are also people pointing out the fact that fatah the rival palestinian faction has its own military brigade here as well but the israelis say that the only people who have this kind of medium range rocket weaponry are hamas and islamic jihad that either such an attack was done without leadership knowledge or done within it leadership knowledge to express its frustration at the lack of progress on a truce while still being able to deny it for now the calculations continue whether
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uptake next year i was here and then we're into time where people are hoping that the latest election will lead to a brighter future. and they were having a hard job pushing this rain north not this much to do this for this cloud and rain here this is effectively the edge of the summer rain which ought to be on its way science and the winter it be talking behind that temperature wasn't really reveal we got down to nine in iran but. two weeks ago we're down about two so we're in the teens the most part bit of rain still possible in south korea parts of honshu tokyo seventy's back right but rain is likely to get to you every now and again looks relatively dry by saturday but a warm twenty degrees here pyongyang's eighteen and beijing's much the same story and remember still about eight degrees which is pretty warm really for this time of
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the year we've had rain recently in southern china is more or less gone offshore and i was just talking into grand or up into uniting sichuan once again which is maybe to be expected so it's dry for shanghai down to hong kong but that rain won't stay where it is it's creeping out to the middle once again so we haven't seen the back of it after all and in fact all bleak looking further south the rains quite a long way north for this time of year coming into southern vietnam cambodia and central thailand it leaves a dry start more as the southern half of borneo and sumatra very few shows for you . one simple mistake could be frankel. fishing as a deep sea diver carries immense winks to the lives of those willing to take the chance that further north korean sound yet the opportunity for
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a prosperous new life in the south with his family was an even beacon risk to take . a witness documentary on al-jazeera. again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera new pictures of a version of a bodyguard to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon who's suspected of being involved in the jamal khashoggi case investigators attention to the fifteen member saudi hit squad who think that they may have killed him. turkish investigators looking for evidence linked to the disappearance of the saudi journalist of
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completed searching two saudi diplomatic buildings in istanbul turkey sources have told al jazeera that important samples been found. more now on the jamal khashoggi case the suspected killing of the saudi journalist it's now fifteen days since he entered saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul turkey as investigators suspect a fifteen man hit squad killed him rob matheson has more on some of the saudi men that have been identified by the media. these other fifteen men turkish media say are linked to the disappearance of saudi journalists as. their regional line up was first published in the turkish pro-government newspaper new york times says it's identified that some of them may have links to saudi prince muhammad bin salma knock out other lizzie's more threat 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
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another man is named as. a hobby and york 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 mohamed saad runny 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
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they've identified at least two of the men their 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. here information is emerging about the attack at a school in crimea on wednesday investigators now say that the suspect had an accomplice an explosion in the school in the city of kut was followed by shooting nineteen people were killed police police say that the suspect killed himself or more let's go to live now to moscow officer stepped fast and is following this story why to investigate a step think that. the suspect in this. may have had an accomplice while looking at the the way he acted and the way he prepared himself the head of crimea has sat that it's very impossible to think that he acted all by himself
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we're talking about an eighteen year old student who was a fourth grader he was very quiet isolated they say but he was very well what we know is that he had a hunting license he got that early october and he carried with him to backs full of rifle rounds and homemade bombs also the way he went around the school shooting deliberately around himself hitting acted students there's so many questions about how he got all that information and that training and also all these weapons so that's why the head of crimea is very suspicious and he sat although initially they said he was the only suspect they now are thinking of maybe more suspects but so far nobody else has been found or arrested officers had originally considered this to be a terrorist attack they then reclassified the case to a murder if it turns out that this man did have an accomplice would they then look
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to reclassified as a terrorist attack. well that's very possible there is actually two theories right now it's all still speculation one theory is that he acted on his own and that was a personal case some friends have been quoted in local media saying that he was angry at his teachers and that might have been the reason that he burst into school and did what he did but are those are also say and this is also again unconfirmed sources saying that he might have had some links with extremist groups ukrainian extremist groups also seen from some social media platform that he was active on that he might have had some extremist ideas but also again this is still to be investigated the father or for the child the boy has been arrested as well of the same for questioning so of course investigators are pretty much still in the dark about why did he do such
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a horrible act stop many thanks they don't deserve steadfast in their life in moscow. european leaders are meeting in brussels for a second day on wednesday breaks that negotiations with the u.k. remain deadlocked over the future of the irish border plans for a special brigs its summit in the event that not been postponed the e.u. says the britain's prime minister's reason may hasn't provided any new suggestions for resolving the issue talks are now focused on agreeing a back up plan for trade across the irish border which would be implemented only in the event that no wider briggs it deal was reached. for years the afghan army has been confronting its biggest challenge how to defeat the taliban thousands of soldiers and civilians to have lost their lives in the long war the army's latest challenge is securing polling stations ahead of sunday's saturday's parliamentary elections following taliban threats to bomb them and kill
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candidates to serious question about reports 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 through all 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 more ground and launching more attacks across the
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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 stopper and predictable taliban commanders have intensified attacks during election campaigning to target candidates and security forces read yes asking people the war polling station in our mission of 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
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ice of mission end 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 people in bhutan have been casting their ballots in a run off 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 off in the runoff votes out of serious need barca is
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in part o. in the himalayan kingdom. it's a country of rich cultural and historical importance and was until early two thousand and eight a monarchy that's until ironically the previous king ordered it be changed to democracy and that change has largely been wholeheartedly and enthusiastically embraced although i think it's fair to say there's a degree of nostalgia about the old ways of doing things and brace enthusiastically perhaps largely out of respect ironically too for the monarchy itself there are seven hundred fifty thousand people in the country half a million eligible voters and many of them are voting in polling stations like this up and down the country some in very very remote areas indeed there are two parties on the ballot paper the d.p.t. in the d n t the d.p.t. where the first party of power the first party to form a government after the transition to democracy in two thousand and eight the d.n.c. have never played a role in government before and hoping to shake up the political landscape here in
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the country there isn't much politically between the two parties but the center of all political life here ideologically and bhutan is the pursuit of happiness as opposed to measuring this recess of the nation through g.d.p. they measure it through gross national happiness that could roughly be translated as good governance and finding a balance between economic and industrial growth with the protection and love the abundant environment here in the country it's one of the few nations in the world where sixty five percent of all the land here in trying to the constitution needs to be forest is the only country to be carbon negative these are some of the issues at the forefront of people's minds as they cast their votes the un's humanitarian advisor to syria says that there may be more time to implement a deescalation plan in libya in a call and said that he's relieved that russia and turkey plan to give more time for the deal he also cited russian officials are saying that syria has reversed its
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plan to expropriate houses property owned by refugees. a government minister in india has resigned after at least twenty women accused him of sexual harassment and assault and jr 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 part of a long list of prominent men who've been named in what's being called india's hash tag need to move. an international cricketer has confessed to his role in the sport fixing scandal in england six years after being banned from playing following a recent al-jazeera investigation canaria pakistan's most successful spin bowler in test matches decided to come clean david harrison as our exclusive report. up. an area played over sixty test matches and took nearly three hundred wickets in international matches for pakistan. but in two thousand and twelve his career came
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to a sudden and he was banned for life by english cricket's governing body for match fixing canary was found guilty of encouraging a team mate essex county cricket club to underperform during a match in two thousand and nine and with bringing the game into disrepute for six years canary has protested his innocence two appeals were rejected but now in an exclusive interview with al-jazeera is investigative unit canaria has finally confessed his guilt right area and i went there it'd be open to charges brought against me by the england and wales cricket board in. her become first you know. because you cannot. reply. in areas said that the imminent death of his father was initially a reason for not admitting his guilt and had it was getting worse and worse and
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worse and i didn't have that kurdish to face him and to tell him that i was wrong canaria introduced his as sixteen the eight nevin westfield to an infamous engine much fixit in a nightclub westfield was jailed for four months and banned from cricket for five years for accepting around eight thousand dollars he admitted allowing opposition batsman to school runs when he was bowling i want to apologize to invest for. a marriage mike i think to get my i figured and i fish forty to park a foreign canaria says the ban has had a devastating effect on his life i wonder high stick a ticker or park or barn and that time what i was achieving good money i lost my friends respect rich i used to get everything and then everything i lost everything he is now pleading with cricket's governing bodies to lift his baton and
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then return he pledged to help young players i want to teach young people young cricketer there are people who will do temptation for you but you have to be strong go to it right that action right there going to work shortcut and making money in the short and that i am in today. david harrison al-jazeera london. watch cricket match fixing the files here on al-jazeera at twenty one hundred hours g.m.t. this sunday. it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories this hour a fresh pictures of emerged of a bodyguard to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon who is suspected of being involved in the jamal khashoggi case investigators have turned their attention to the fifteen member saudi hit squad who they think may have killed him
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turkish investigators looking for evidence linked to the disappearance of the saudi journalist of completed searching two saudi diplomatic buildings in istanbul turkey source sources have told al jazeera that important samples of been found in one of 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 she's disappearance how masses distance itself from a rocket attack that hit southern israel on wednesday the group says that it was an irresponsible attempts to undermine egyptian efforts to broker a new long term truce with israel israeli ministry responded by hitting twenty sites in gaza killing at least one person investigators in crimea are looking into whether an attacker who killed nineteen people on wednesday had an accomplice an explosion at a school in a school in the city of could she was followed by shooting police said that the
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suspect killed himself three days of mourning it being held offices and looked into whether it should be considered a terrorist attack but reclassified the case too. european leaders are meeting in brussels for a second day of wednesday breaks of negotiations with the u.k. remain deadlocked over the future of the irish border plans for a special briggs it summit in the event now been postponed the e.u. says that britain's prime minister to resign may hasn't provided any new suggestions for resolving the issue. people in brutal have been casting their ballots in a run off parliamentary election more than four hundred thousand registered voters are electing forty seven members to the national assembly russia and turkey plan to give more time for the implementation of that deescalation deal in the syrian province of idlib the un's humanitarian advisor to syria yeah nagle and says that he's relieved over the decision and also cited russian officials saying that syria has reversed its plan to expropriate homes and property owned by refugees more news
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in a little over twenty five minutes of the inside story next. you . know. the investigation into. possible murder continues all eyes are now on the saudi crown prince mohammed bin set a man who appears to be distancing himself from the scandal but can he really will it affect his grip on power this is inside story.
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hello and welcome to the program i'm has saudis close to crown prince mohammed bin sandman may be involved in what turkish sources say is the killing of saudi journalist. and 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 took a source is say there is further evidence that suggests it 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 of the u.s. secretary of state has been in both ankara and the saudi capital after meeting king said a man 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
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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 very 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 it the way they each promised 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 to share kawhi a 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
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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 that 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 aired on and trump made up after turkey released american pastor andrew bronson who was in jail
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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 off 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 our 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
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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 once secretary pompei a 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
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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
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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 what's 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 is throw surface 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
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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 uprush more we wasn't done 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 happens 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 will 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
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keeping their cards very close to the vest here and there it's a matter of when when they when they play them so one would 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 where 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. tell 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
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a political and diplomatic circus more than the whole process of all right let's get let's get say that she had to take on this should should vesta gauges 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 schooled 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
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away for example didn't think that. mr trump and his administration would take such a strong stand with regard to soothe the area yes they are trying to brush aside to brush it of they are trying to broadly 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
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investigation and as my colleague you have said they will 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 the reality of the any bad job not just now. the techs have also been very skeptical and angry about the way they have the saudis had handled many other issues similar issues including their relations with the thought this is madness this is absolute none this and the word is coming to realize that. none has been. for the west and four percent of what america yes he is giving money but at the same time he's making everybody unhappy in the region so i think that they actually have played their cards so well so well so far but.
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