it is what i think that passed that they're not suggesting things like stopping arms deals and this certainly at the moment not suggesting anything like sanctions against the saudi government but interestingly just a few minutes ago donald tusk who's the head of the european council in the host of this summit spoke to al-jazeera as jonah hill which we'll hear a little later on and said to him and to joe know that he was demanding a transparent investigation from the saudis and i think the way things are at the moment is that basically this lightly keeping their powder dry short of outrightly accusing the saudis until they get to a position where they have some sort of conclusion to whatever investigation there is but of course that presumes that there will be a transparent investigation by the saudis which clearly remains an open question ok lawrence they thank you for that update lawrence is in brussels there at the european council ok so that takes us through a lot of the political and diplomatic developments lawrence telling us what's going

on there as we know the u.k. trade minister now pulling out of this riyadh conference might pompei or has addressed the media and his president donald trump in the u.k. there's something else we were one of focus on and it is really going back to basics dealing with jamal khashoggi himself you may have read this jamal khashoggi is final opinion piece for the washington post which has been published i just want to spend a bit of time looking at what he said and actually how incredibly relevant it has become for him posthumously in these past two weeks the headline was jamal khashoggi what the arab world needs most is free expression and the first thing you actually notice is a lead in from karen a-t. who is the editor who says here the post held of publishing it because we'd hoped jamal would come back to us so that he and i could edit do it together now i have to accept that is not going to happen this is the last piece of his i will edit for the post and then it goes into the pace talking about arabs living in countries which are either uninformed or misinformed. in that sadly the situation is unlikely

to change he talked about the arab spring of two thousand and eleven and how it was such a great opportunity ripe with hope he said but it didn't happen he talked about his dear friend the prominent saudi writer. he who is serving five years in prison and how these sorts of things and this is where it's important look arab governments have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate how poignant is that given what has happened to jamal khashoggi in the past two weeks or two weeks ago he says the arab world is facing its own version of an iron curtain impose not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power you could read that would be mohamed bin solomon the crown prince of saudi arabia he says his posts have been published into arabic and for that i'm grateful arabs need to read in their own language so they can understand and discuss the various aspects and complications of democracy in the united states and the west is saying

if they don't understand it they haven't how will they understand it in their own countries and in the final page the arab world needs a modern version of the old media so sit ins can citizens can be informed about global events he had that platform writing for the washington post opinion pieces in the washington post this is the last place we will see from jamal khashoggi so i just want to spend a little bit of time on that one given how important that final piece is now in addition we are looking at a joint call from four major human rights groups for a united nations inquiry into the case amnesty international human rights watch reporters without borders and the committee to protect journalists they just issued that plea actually just as we went to air at fifteen hundred g.m.t. and somehow daters with us to talk about it she is the middle east director of campaigns at amnesty joining us via skype from beirut thanks for your time i mean

it's great to see that you and the three other groups are all joining together with this call tell us exactly what you want. well we want to see an independent investigation launched by the u.n. specifically the u.n. secretary general intuition and pushing his case it's absolutely important now that we get a full and transparent investigation. at the moment we're seeing is drip feed evidence by this version for any use of supposedly investigation that by the saudi arabian authorities let me be clear here any investigation led by the saudi arabian or already is would not be transparent no impartial and this is why we need an independent investigation to get to the full truth and we don't want a foreign teased to cover up the circumstances surrounding his disappearance and

potential extrajudicial execution and the best guarantee against that attempt to cover up this case and the circumstances around it would be an investigation led by the u.n. which would look into the planning the coordination that went into his disappearance and potential execution just as we're speaking to if you just pause there for a second we've got some live pictures actually coming in from the united nations of a joint press conference which is being held there by your own group and representatives of the c b j. and human rights watch and reporters without borders as well as the rajah's know what we're looking at there at the same time and actually some i've had a message from one of our facebook he was tina who said an international investigation would be better than expecting one country to be held accountable now do you take your request i mean you're making a public call like this do you go directly to who is it do you go straight to the u.n.

secretary general and say this should be happening. how do you action this. the most practical way to move this forward would be to the turkish authorities and turkish government to request. that the un secretary general launch a un investigation the un secretary general himself also has the power to launch this and so we would urge all of the turkish government to do so but also the u.n. secretary general to pursue this option and it is the best guarantee against any medical cover up by the saudi arabian sea and furthermore we can't expect the saudi arabian authorities to look into this in a transparent way given their potential involvement into the disappearance and ex potential execution option and therefore this would be the best way to investigate property and transparently but also to this you future accountability and hold

those perpetrators to account and would you say it should be widened out as well we all the theists are focused on jamal khashoggi but i think about the women activists who've been held in detention in saudi arabia while other journalists it's all part of a big announcement here. look this is part of a broader crackdown and i think it's important for governments and businesses who are putting pressure on the saudi arabian authorities on this case to also look at the other violations taking place in the kingdom we have seen for the pasta year null and documented cases of women human rights defenders human rights activists critics dissidents journalists all jailed arrested detained purely for speaking up and criticizing the saudi arabia the saudi arabian government and therefore we need pressure to be mounted and on the authorities to end this crackdown on dissent

to end this crackdown freedom of expression that's taking place so brutally inside the kingdom. ok someone had aid from amnesty in beirut thank you so much for your time do appreciate that and as i pointed out on screen while we're talking to summers while there was a joint news conference going on at the united nations those four major human rights groups who are calling for this independent u.n. investigation just a few of your comments really quickly because there's a ton coming through as we had that one from tina thank you as well. where these human rights groups in yemen well frankly we have groups like amnesty and human rights watch on aria a lot to talk about yemen yemen is one of the stories we've always stayed with and it is of course linked to saudi arabia given it is a saudi led coalition which has been at war in yemen for the past three and a half years so i think definitely those human rights groups would speak about that . as well and what else did i have no yes actually it was

a question here from someone saying it was her son thank you house and since he knew jamal khashoggi since he knew that saudis could harm him why did he decide to go into the embassy it's actually a really good point and as i understand it there was talk that he was given assurances by investors that it would be ok he was only going in to get paperwork i guess in the end it was his decision to believe those assurances or not and sadly nothing has been heard from him in fifteen sixteen days now isn't it. all right still so much to deal with but let's talk to reveal now because reveal a dissident some a mention that there will people who speak out against the saudi. government they have a place online social media on environment it's a good place for them to talk we would hope safely about their concerns what have you been finding out about them and make them mark exactly well over the past few days firstly we've been seeing a lot of patriotic tweets coming out. but also in yemen the u.a.e. and as well as egypt most accounts up posted in arabic sharing the hash tag which

is translated now to message of love for mohamed bin solomon and encouraging others also unfollowed enemies of the nation the hashtags trending on tuesday and has so far been mentioned over one hundred and twenty thousand times now ben nimmo who is a fellow at the atlantic council points out that a lot of the traffic has been coming from one account this is of faisal abdul karim tweets it actually makes up fifteen percent of all posts that he's seen so far now faisal is a saudi media personality and tends to promote a lot of the saudi government's positions and those are real clarity right now as to whether these posts by saudi citizens showing their support for the crown prince or if they've been pushed by bots these are automated accounts we have from mark owen jones an assistant professor on middle east studies who's been keeping an eye on this. since the disappearance and likely killing of jamal shows we've seen

a lot of suspicious twitter activity coming out of saudi arabia much of this activity seems to be hashtags promoted by patriotic bots or highly follett verified twitter accounts in saudi arabia who were able to start hashtags and have been trend now many of these hashtags are apolitical. for example lots of them about praise mohammed bin solomon at a time when he's coming under a lot of criticism so one of the hashtags was a message of love from have been so none we all have faith in we haven't been summoned now very few of these hashtags have actually been about the disappearance of jamal which is incredibly shocking given that he is a saudi citizen and more has also pointed out that twitter is taking action it has suspended the saudi twenty four account a news channel that he says was responsible for the most prolific use of automated accounts in the arab and that account is a longer available online i guess is the disappearance of jamal khashoggi other arab journalists and activists have been expressing fears all their own safety some

flooding this online to make them all and their presence but also addressing concerns given the political developments but daddy is the president of the co-op keeping a foundation think tank in norway he says he received death threats and has sought advice on the authorities adding any one of us could be next and a human rights defender who is from bahrain she now lives in exile in denmark what will happen to those who have been speaking out and struggling for rights for decades we also heard from mohamad oct he's an egyptian dissident living in the u.s. he knew jamal khashoggi. the disappearance of my friends among the have brought a lot of who served with them to the us and community so does egypt sions iraq syrians and others across the region i mean a lot of them concern about how to conduct business but also obviously in time i mean a lot of them are determined to do more and to dig him out the world out to the global

community and to stress on the values that he was supporting about freedom of press freedom and democracy and human rights issues are close to reaching well let us know what you think often a civil amounts of democracy case he's the hash tag age and his grades come all right here thank you let's return to new york now the united nations a news conference joint news conference between representatives excuse me from major human rights groups from the committee to protect journalists amnesty international human rights watch calling for an independent u.n. investigation into jamal khashoggi disappearance should be talking to turkey whether it's the united states or others with influence and saying look you need to do this in fight in the international community add some much needed credibility thank you. sunny. well the s.g.

can join in the calls for turkey i mean he can do what's necessary to encourage the parties to open themselves up for this there needs to be some persuasion work done we're trying to do our part you can also buy the you can also ask questions of turkey saudi and the secretary general at the noon briefing you can raise this in and just get everyone starting to talk and to move quickly it's very important to move quickly and there are other things outside of the u.n. system that can be done to we've already had senate foreign relations committee write to the president in regards to the global magnitsky act the senate after the mid-term elections here could hold extraordinary hearings there are lots of things . yet. i'm saying that the two chairs of the foreign senate relations committee have already written last week to the executive to try and they have

a hundred twenty days to go back where i don't to go into the details of the global magnitsky act but it's a possible way of sanctioning gross violations of human rights so there are other things too it's not just one thing this is saw such a horrendous crime that we shouldn't just be calling on one avenue of getting justice ok shy michelle nichols from royce's just a follow up to their macho making them but for the whole panel and follow on to james this question you haven't had back from the turkish u.n. mission if their appetite among other countries to put pressure on techie to make this request. i hope there is a meet it's certainly we we we're we're there there is a lot of support so far for this but whether it's translating into the kind of pressure that we would like to see we don't know yet i mean we have we came together with this appeal very quickly because we all felt very strongly this was

an idea that was hatched on monday and we're here. thursday and so we are trying to do everything we can to push this forward as quickly as possible and so but you raising questions will hopefully help do that as well but we will continue to push member states not just turkey and saudi arabia just to say that i think many member states in representatives here are in a tricky position because of the ongoing saudi investigation that they carrying out and i think that they have to pay a very nice lip service to you know what is. very possibly very likely to be you know an investigation that lacks real credibility but what i hope that is in the coming days when we see some of the results if we see some of the results of this investigation at least they see it and they they don't just put that in a drawer somewhere and take a box and hope that you know this will go away and it's really up to all of us to

make sure that that doesn't happen because it's very easy in these next coming days as the saudi investigates itself for us to just you know move on and that really can't happen that would be a real a crime one thing i shouldn't the two special rapper tours special repertoire for freedom of expression and the special ruppert's were extra judicial executions have both they coauthored an op ed in the washington post a few days ago calling for an international investigation this is the kind of thing that we're all asking for the same thing which is a credible investigation we believe the best way to do it is for turkey to invite the secretary general to begin the process but this is something that that's out there and it's gathering momentum and we hope that the momentum will be such that simply turkey will not be able to say no and will actually have to step forward and

do this and that the saudis will be under so much pressure that they will have to cooperate. that's lou charbonneau from human rights watch alongside him robert mahoney from the committee to protect journalists and also share in tundras from amnesty international they are delivering a joint statement along with human rights watch story along with reporters without borders calling for an independent united nations investigation into the disappearance of jamal khashoggi as you heard them there as well putting the pressure on turkey and asking journalists to keep asking of turkey that they make this demand as well given it has happened on their soil and that it is their investigation at the moment so that's just coming out from the united nations right live show us live from the united nations. before we move on we do not hit the context in this story we do a lot of timelines and background on here but there is this timeline online as well if there's a piece of the puzzle which you need reminding all of then you'll find it here keeping all the latest developments on jamal khashoggi and also it leads to our

latest updates page as well which is keep you up to date with all the latest developments because your time line is what you need to search for khashoggi latest updates at al jazeera dot com. we will take a break here on the news get a few with us through facebook live about a story for you know about indian women who refuse to marry men if there's no toilet involved and then later some of the other day's news we'll get to that we're in one of the world's youngest democracies where people are hoping the latest election it's to a brighter future. out of the shadows been showing themselves through aren't iran is the right time the i think we can say the season has changed we see big drop in temperature up in the far north east so kyrgyzstan and kazakhstan have seen temperatures drop up to eight

having been colder before and the still cloud in the area but the showers of rain for thunderstorms are rather more obvious down western side of iraq possibly you might see want to in iraq the temps are still in the middle thirty's you'll notice and this is what you'd expect at this time via the showers off and spreading further south as recently has been the case is cooling down in the levant and we've got more showers to show for cyprus and turkey again the seasons change in europe that tends to push the showers size recently received some good downpours in saudi arabia and you know yemen and oman have seen flooding from the bank much of which is there in this massive cloud to further showers for yemen on friday shall seem likely thunderstorms with local flooding in u.a.e. and possibly qatar possibly bahrain as well it is a little less likely on saturday but not completely out of the question still the southwestern corner looks rather wet briefly will look down through southern africa and most the rain here is in the far east or south africa or southern mozambique.

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repeatedly threatening to disrupt the vote. live out of kabul for us here on the newsgroup hi hashim bring us up to date with this. shooting that's happened as we said just forty eight hours ahead of the big vote. quite a significant development because he took place inside the office of the governor of kandahar or worse and meeting with the u.s. top military commander in afghanistan scott miller now a government official says that the man who opened fire killing the local police command and intelligence command and the governor was affiliated with the taliban the taliban also issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack saying that their main target in the attack was the. police commander gen up that us and the u.s. stop mid to command the u.s. issued a statement saying that three americans were injured in the attack but that scott

miller was unhurt in the attack and this is something that comes at a crucial moment for afghanistan and the elections are going to be held on saturday and mia need growing concerns about the security situation and the taliban is saying that it will target bali is calling stations across the country saying that the elections are being used by the international community and the americas in particular to further expand their influence in africa is that this is something which is going to put more pressure on the afghan security forces to try to ensure that saturday election go as smooth as possible thank you for the up there will be talking more of course to hash from a whole bar in the lead up to that election in afghanistan. we're turning now to the disappearance and the suspected killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi of course our main story i case which has opened up a whole lot of discussion from those like him not just journalists but people who

want to be able to speak openly about saudi arabia about its policies and its direction but they can't and we've got one of them with us now. who is joining us from seattle in the united states a saudi activists nice to have you with us a money what do you start by this telling us your story effectively how long have you been there in seattle why did you have to leave thank you for having me. i been in seattle for a couple months my family is originally from california and i moved to the states. a couple of years ago so four years ago from saudi arabia from saudi arabia and why to talk us through it was through what you encountered the. well it's it's an it's a known fact the nature of how many women are impressed in saudi arabia and to that nature me and my family my mother and my siblings have decided to move

to the states for a better living ok what do you feel then as you watch over these past two weeks the story of jamal khashoggi unfold obviously the horror that we all hear as we hear more details coming out but does it does it make you feel about speaking out or about other people who might want to speak out do you think it gives power gives more of a platform now that the world is focusing on saudi arabia yes definitely i think a lot of activists especially abroad feel this sense of urgency and responsibility to for voice their opinions about what's going on back home. as you know many of the activists who are speaking out were arrested and and detained. their voices have been silent so it's up to us living abroad to actually bring their voices back to the stage and use this platform to voice our concerns for their safety and the

safety of others as well right now money just stay with me for one second i've just got a little bit of breaking news to deal with it keeps moving very quickly just so our viewers are up to date we heard from mike pompei or the secretary of state a little bit earlier now we're hearing about the u.s. treasury stick secretary steven minucci who has said he is withdrawing his participation from the saudi investment conference in riyadh i think some call it the devil's in the desert. and that follows the u.k.'s trade minister liam fox who earlier announced he won't be going on either so a lot of the the star power if you like is pulling out from this investment conference and that follows other businesses the likes of j.p. morgan and ford as well which made the decision. to not go and in fact a money i might put that to you as well is that a good sign do you think that sends the right message when people line the u.s. treasury secretary and the u.k. trade minister they say no we're not going until there's some more information or do you think it's just sort of it's just words at this stage

though i do think it sent a statement a loud statement that we are all waiting and working on this unanimously other countries and other investors as well taken a stance with us helps our cause you heard i you know i wish there was more interaction like this this in the middle east but unfortunately will what we're seeing is more for our foreign countries taking a stance with us and saying hey we need answers. do you think that's a great thing ok do you think saudi arabia can i'm going a bit bigger picture here do you think saudi arabia can reform so much was made about mohammed bin someone about being a reformist and changing and allowing women to stop driving things like that and other countries were willing to go along with that do you think long term this actually can be some sort of change there or will an event like what we've seen with jamal khashoggi actually set the whole thing back because of pressure from from the rest of the world. no i absolutely

think there's change coming to saudi arabia i think maybe you know with that the crown prince had started the reforms and everything but i think it's the people will leave the rest that people want change the people want to be heard i think it's more about the people than anything else but wouldn't the people be scared i mean people have been oppressed for a long time people who is seeing what's happened to jamal khashoggi people like yourself who you know don't live there anymore i mean don't they actually risk a lot by you know by by by saying out loud we want these things of course they do i mean but they are the silent majority right now which is why it's very refreshing to hear back i think i'm losing him a little. can still hear you are right. ok terry i know i was thinking i was saying that i do think that the majority is

you know actually speaking. you know you're not we're not hearing about it because they're being in silence which is why it's very refreshing that we're seeing other foreign countries taking a stance and that helps you know having foreign allies that say hey this needs to change internally so when. this changes are being forced and are being heard by the country i think that's when we'll start seeing real change i mean as much as i would like to think that the people can leave the change within unfortunately they don't so that's why it's every voice every activist everyone that can help in any way is going to help in the long run in jamal's case are you at all hopeful about. the real truth coming out we've talked a lot in this program about investigations there are human rights groups who want to. a full independent u.n.

investigation do you believe that we will finally get to that at some point are you hopeful that we will get to that at some point i am truly hopeful i am i'm hopeful of the spy in our present trumps remarks and all of that i am very hopeful that you know at least the outrage the outcry the global outcry will make a difference over all and the status of human rights in saudi arabia if not for anything just the fact that these voices are heard and the world is now watching i think it makes a huge difference. the joining us from seattle really nice to talk to you thanks for making the time thank you now. let's head back to the united states now political developments there in the we've seen might pompei we've heard about the u.s. treasury secretary steve as well kimberly how good is with us now kimberly the latest from your. yeah there is

a lot going on i'm literally reading it as we speak just trying to get across some tweets from the u.s. president this is all coming very fast moving as a result of a meeting that took place. in the last couple of hours ten o'clock local time in fact between the u.s. secretary of state the president and now we also know the treasury secretary steve . essentially what came out of that is we had been waiting for a decision on that saudi investment conference davos in the desert well in the last twenty minutes or so the press secretary tweeting out in fact that the secretary of the treasury steve will not be attending that conference he she retreated his tweet saying that he met with the president he went with the secretary of state and he will not be attending the investment conference with saudi arabia now this is important because this is just adding to the very long list of the tech sector the finance sector banking sector and media groups who say they cannot participate as

a result of the severity of the allegations against the highest levels of the saudi government but this is also important because stephen issue was kind of hanging back on that because he said because of the longstanding relationship between the united states and saudi arabia he felt that it was important to get more information before making that determination it appears now though well they've not made the information public that they have made that determination so that's very important and also just reading in real time here the tweets from donald trump saying that he met this morning after our return from pompei o where they discussed the saudi situation in great detail even discussing the crown prince and again he is reiterating in his tweet what we heard from the secretary of state in the last hour and that is that they are asking for a few more days for this investigation that's being conducted by turkey he gave a news conference to that effect which of course we played. here on al-jazeera but

essentially we were waiting for friday not only for the president but also from the treasury secretary to make a couple of key determinations the president to tell us in his words what exactly was going on now looks like we need a few more days and with regard to the treasury secretary he said he was going to decide whether or not to go to that saudi investment conference now it appears he is not attending can you just take us back again jim because we kind of came on here a little bit earlier when we had suddenly appear just take us through again recapping what on what he said. yeah there are a couple of key points in all of this. not only the timeline because we talked about that that they feel that there is a need the united states believes because of a relationship between the united states and saudi arabia that dates back decades back to the one nine hundred thirty s. because of their important relationships in terms of counterintelligence according to the secretary of state they feel that there is a need to allow this investigation to work itself through to give the saudis an

opportunity to get that information as well as the united states and so they're looking for as the timeline to be extended the other thing that is important here in all of this is that there is not going to be a sharing of that information at least not immediately by the turkish authorities who are doing this investigation but the secretary of state saying he's gotten insurance from president to one in fact that they will ultimately get that information but the request by donald trump for the audio and video intelligence that has not been immediately forthcoming however they are saying that they want this process to move forward in the real important part in all of this is that the united states says it will then and i quote the secretary of state then make their own determination so it seems that while there is this groundswell if you will around the world this very prompt condemnation of what appears to be the facts on the ground in fact the united states holding back as we've seen for some days now

in terms of making a judgment on how to move forward and react to the very very serious allegations surrounding the disappearance and we believe death of jim. right up to date with kimberly how could the white house thanks so much jim billy we can take another quick break it's been a busy news group if you're watching on facebook live a story for you know about members of sierra leone's only surf club which is trying to put africa on the surfing map and then we will get some sport with sana and a corruption confession from a former star of pakistan's test cricket team it's come from an exclusive al jazeera investigation first a quick look at some international weather. thank .

you. sun is here now another big scoop for the zero investigator me and all of us are going to get is making headlines for all the wrong reasons well it's this particular group it's an international who has confessed to his role as spot fixing scandal in england six years off to be banned from playing following a recent all does their investigation done he said kind of area pakistan's most successful spend bowler in test matches the side did it to come clean david hassen

has this exclusive report. clint bolick done his canaria 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 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 at 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 as investigative unit canaria has finally confessed his guilt rampant donnish area and i went there and i want it to be open to charges brought against me by england and very stricken border into oregon heard her become first you know make that decision because you

cannot live your life replied. canaria 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 worse and i didn't have that kurdish to face him and to tell him that i was wrong canaria introduced his as sixteen date 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 fixed a marriage mark a fixture 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 heis ticket taker or parker foreigner and

that time what i was achieving good money i lost my friends respect which i used to get everything and then everything i lost everything he is now pleading with cricket's governing bodies to lift his ban and then return he pledged to help young players i want to teach young people young cricketers 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 then that i am in today. david harrison al-jazeera london. well you can watch a cricket match fixes at the monologue files here on all does there are twenty hundred this sunday. after two weeks of competition and close to two hundred fifty gold medals winning a moment the youth in the games are about to come to an end in argentina the closing ceremony takes place and when osiris and

a few hours time four thousand actually stage between fifteen and eighteen had been taking part in the third edition of the games is the first on they've been stays outside asia and it's the biggest sporting event to be hosted by argentina since the football world cup forty years ago i want to has been our correspondent to add to the games danielle i know we all know the argentine as big footballing nation but how did the people embrace the games very very enthusiastically i mean as you mentioned football is the big sports here there's tennis ball schiphol there's rugby but there was sport say the thirty two sports represented at the olympic games many of which the auction tines have had very little participation in and even some of those that they do like swimming for instance they rank that is probably the fifty or sixty most popular sport in the country there's been a huge boost here they talk

a lot here about legacy they now have a competition five fifty meets. the other side of what assad regime which will stay here after the games and those swimmers will be training in the cold they hope people take them up to the next level along with the other sports like badminton table tennis judo one don't all of these all the sports the arts and science can see what the rest of the world has been able to do they come much of themselves against them and they now see what they have to do to build for the next year to then pick games they say instead the goal in four years time ten how successful would the games and you think they'll leave a last thing legacy zero zero zero worth like worthwhile legacy. well if you go by the number of spectators have been going to the events all around one osiris is several venues most of them temporary events in the temporary venues in the parks there's been huge huge crowds it took about over

a million spectators entrance was free but there were people queuing up outside these venues for up to three hours beforehand to get in lots of activities for the young children to introduce them to sports that they might not have been familiar with so in that sense when you talk about legacy as well as the venues that i've already mentioned the in hughes's of the of the people living in one of cyrus other parts of argentina who have come here to watch these sports has been enormous so if there's any kind of legacy at all it probably will be mostly in these new sports unfamiliar sports which have been introduced in the all time public have been participating in that astronaut live from buenos aires thank you very much for that enjoy the closing ceremony. well you can get in touch with us using the hash tag a.j. in news greg most what's coming up in the news hour with a smile but for now and you've got to come up thank you said it yesterday actually really enjoyed everything done it was done from the youth and it's been great coverage here with down to zero sports thank you for joining us for this newsgroup

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fingerprints belonging to salem mohammed to baby a saudi autopsy expert who showed she was last seen entering the concert on october the second an eleven minute or your recording from inside that building has been leaked to turkish media which suggests it was attacked and killed inside the building investigators are now turning their attention to the fifteen member saudi hit squad which they suspect carried out the killing as well as the group is said to include a bodyguard of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin style man one moment i will have the latest from istanbul where dr child is standing by but first let's get more on those u.s. lines up from our white house correspondent kimberly how kit kimberly how significant is the fact that to mission is pulling out from that conference. it's very significant because for days we've seen the white house kind of sort of defending its position and sort of neutral stance if you will with regard to its relationship

with saudi arabia initially it had come out very strong in terms of the president saying he needs to get to bottom of this but then he started to float sort of alternative theories saying that perhaps. could have been possibly killed by rogue killers so it was a very notable posture and we saw that the same from the treasury secretary steve minutia when asked if he would attend this conference even as we saw dozens of companies from the tech sector to the media groups all pulling out he defended his decision to say to attend saying that he would have to see additional information and would make a determination by the end of the week going on to defend the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia because he said they had been sort of terrific partners in combating terrorism was what he said at the time well it appears following a meeting between the u.s. president the treasury secretary and also the u.s. secretary of state who of course has just returned from saudi arabia and turkey

they have made the determination he will now not attend in fact steve tweeting that and it was retreated by the press secretary in the last hour saying they have now made the decision not to attend the investment conference that he will not be attending but not give you that sort of piece of information that may have changed the calculation and can really compare as just been talking to reporters about all this times what he had to say about the. yeah we knew there was a scheduled meeting between the president the secretary of state it was not on the calendar though for there to be an open press event and to our surprise the secretary of state walked out to the microphones we called the stakeout just behind me here just outside the west wing where he basically shared a few details about where things stand in terms of the u.s. determination on how to react take a listen. we made it clear to them that we take this matter with respect to mr show

you very seriously they made clear to me that they too understand the serious nature of the disappearance of mystical shogi they also assured me that they will conduct a complete thorough. investigation of all of the facts surrounding mr to show that they will do so in a timely fashion and that this report itself will be transparent for everyone to see to ask questions about and to acquire with respect to its thoroughness and i told president trump this morning that we ought to give them a few more days to complete that so that we to have a complete understanding of the facts surrounding that which point we can make decisions about how or if the united states should respond. so i think that's really important that tail end of that soundbite that you heard there from the secretary of state and that is that they need a few more days and then the united states will make its own determination this is what we've seen increasingly is that this is white house kind of struggling to

contain this story it has been notably separated from the rest of the world that has been coming forward with a very strong stance with regard to the actions of saudi arabia but what we've seen from this white house is a bit of a defense of not only its relationship with saudi arabia but also particularly the denials by not just the king but also the crown prince so we continue to see that even as there is mounting evidence and information that is being made public about this case the u.s. posture as it stands is that there needs to be a few more days in order for this investigation to carry out and then the united states will make its own determination on how to react committee how could to thank you very much indeed cross over to his outside the saudi consulate in istanbul so mean while the political fallout has been happening the investigation has been carrying on what's the latest on that. yet it seems to be increasing its scope lore and with the police now focusing on three areas

in and around stumble which they believe will be important parts of their investigators in particular there is this vast woodland area known as belgrade which the police have been using sniffer dogs and other forms to try and investigate or search that area but it is such a large area of land as i mentioned woodlands with all the trees and everything else that would make things difficult at least or maybe it will mean that it can be a very swift search meanwhile the asli they have continued their search over the past twenty four hours rather than the finished arlie or this morning in the consulate general's home as well as the consulate behind me they had told al jazeera that they had uncovered more samples quote unquote as they said that prove that she was indeed murdered so then they also released these other footage that we mentioned earlier on in the program or in there about the ringleader or at

least in terms of the president was implementing this mission to kill and assassinates. as the tuckers police have described it and they've been releasing more footage of him and this kind of would prove the fact that they trolls today to release this c.c.t.v. footage even though the authorities have had it for many many days is going in line with the m.o. of the approach that its actual source is far from the beginning which is to slowly give information whilst the law allows for the diplomatic tracks to continue working and whenever they feel like it seems that there is a hitch in those diplomatic negotiations they release some more information in order to kind of like push that along to chant thank you very much indeed. madison looks now to investigate is looking for information to push on jesus back to killing. these are the fifteen men turkish media say are linked to the disappearance of saudi journalists. in 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 solomon 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 with prince solomon another man is named as a hobby and york 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 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 densities 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. well as well as the u.s. treasury section nation of the u.k. netherlands and france have all pulled ministers out of an upcoming investment conference in riyadh next week let's go latest from it jane hall in brussels general european reaction seems to be building every day on this.

well to be fair european reaction has faced quite a bit of criticism for being fairly slow on the uptake on this question rajiv story as events have unfolded no more it seems in the last couple of days as you pointed out there have british international trade secretary has given notice that he liam fox won't be attending that investment summit the french and the dutch finance ministers and their ministerial delegations have done likewise the french president mark drawn speaking a little earlier today at this summit here in brussels saying that the facts as they stood were serious and warry. the problem i think that european countries at a political level have faced is that they face a sort of quandary in their dealings with saudi arabia whether on the one hand to go in hard on riyadh demanding answers signaling or threatening action risking as they do so wrecking relations that are very lucrative on the trade and investment level particularly those arms sale one point seven billion dollars worth of sales

of british arms to saudi arabia in two thousand and seventeen alone are also very valuable intelligence ties helping to thwart plots on european soil with saudi intelligence contacts or to stand behind the much trumpeted sort of global rules based system of values that the e.u. so often claims to stand for pushing everything else to one side well as i say on a political level the reaction has certainly stepped up but there is a very much a sense still that they need to wait they need to see the results of authority international independent investigation i caught up with donald tusk the president of the e.u. council of short while ago this is what he had to say. we need open transparent investigation it's. in the best interest of the thought of what action to do. to make the situation clear what actions if stayed.