wait and see but what might happen in terms of ties and relations between the e.u. states is that the saudi arabia if indeed an investigation conclusively proves state involvement well we have only this is a clue a close ally of angela merkel the german chancellor speaking in berlin on wednesday said this europe may have to adjust its relations with saudi arabia so quite possibly more to come on this from europe china how well in brussels thank you with all these international developments we mustn't forget what's actually happening on the ground in istanbul here is jamaal shale with an update for us. well on the ground obviously the search and the investigation is widening come out at least geographically speaking as you know and as we've been reporting minute by minute in terms of what's been going on behind me at the consulate over the past few days the consul journals home which is just down the road obviously all those forensic experts and the police inspectors who have descended essentially on these

two buildings they've been telling us through the attorney general's office that it's actually leading this investigation this independent turkish investigation i must add that they have been able to get certain evidence is they say that furthers the conclusion or their belief such a mile for sure she was murdered i stress this independent stage of this is specific investigation because it's running parallel to this much acclaimed at least in the saudi media joint investigation that was set up between the saudi authorities and the turks the turks tell us that there is that's going on however that this will not see him peed on the independent one that was called for by the attorney general's office prior to the saudis actually showing any sign of corporation and therefore it has to run its course that investigation has been now focusing on as i say it's wide into graphic leads here three different areas that we had broken the news a couple maybe about a week ago where they had identified three places of interest on the outskirts and

edges of istanbul and one of them closer to here that they wanted to search for they had tracked down some of the vehicles which had left the consulates in the consul general's home on that fateful tuesday through the traffic cameras they've tracked them to these three different locations one of them is called belgrade the other is called over five knots of mispronouncing gets there those two are mainly farmland one is a farmland and one is this forest station essentially so obviously with all those trees and plants and. the nature of the natural kind of camouflage that they provide. would make it difficult or at least labor some for the investigators to go through that area to find whatever it is they are looking for if indeed they are able to find something obviously this comes hot on the heels of the recent revelations in terms of at least the pictures that have been released by the authorities which continue to push further proof or notion to the idea that the

person who was responsible for executing this plan the person on the ground who was tossed with following through this order of assassinating jamal khashoggi is this guy called man how to motivate who used to be the. intelligence of tashi for the saudis in london and has since been seen as one of the inner circles of crown prince mohammed bin son man pictured with him wherever man went at least in the past few months in terms of his foreign trips so few had been more information from the textural thirty's still no disclosure to the nature of the evidence they have at least for people to see in the public realms but when you look at the domino effect of people with drawing including those ministers either from the united states or europe you would assume and you have heard in other reports that they have shared at least some of that evidence with foreign governments jamal an. excuse me with that update from istanbul. before we move on we should go back

actually and just remind ourselves that the man at the center of all this jamal khashoggi saudi journalist once close to the in a circle of the saudi royal family he earned his reputation as a reformist by pushing boundaries and questioning government policies in two thousand and three because shoji became a media advisor to prince turki been fine so the prince headed saudi arabia's intelligence service and later served as an ambassador to the u.s. but last year he went into exile in the u.s. after becoming concerned about the actions of the crown prince mohammed bin solomon he told al jazeera in march that he left the kingdom because he didn't want to be arrested. well amnesty international and three other human rights groups are calling for the turkish government to ask the u.n. for an investigation an urgent investigation into the disappearance and possible murder of. the reason that we need to do anything he actually begin to think things to eat the vision to actually do something that we know that we've given that we do

and even though we do think that it is big. even right then and this is. the new time is when we get there stimulate you to me is that we began to get legal you know that you can make it every time in these places and even think you'll be able to enable another tragedy and literacy to kill in your population that is thinking that everything will. well earlier i spoke to our money our how do you who is a saudi activist moved to the u.s. together with her family for a better future there she says she believes the global outcry on casualties case will force saudi arabia to change in the long run. i think a lot of activists especially abroad feel this sense of urgency and responsibility too 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 detained and 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 the majority is you know actively speaking. you know you're not we're not hearing about it because they're being 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 activists everyone that can help in any way is going to help in the long run i'm

hopeful despite you know the president 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 overall 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. just find the pictures from washington d.c. a conference which isn't titled. mohamed bin salman on the future of u.s. relations the woman you're seeing on screen is karen attia who is the washington post's opinion editor and just today she published the last piece from jamal khashoggi which you received from his translator a day after he went missing had been saying they wanted to hold back the washington post until it reappeared she said however we now have to admit that that won't be happening and that will be his last piece the lady second from

your rights karen who is the washington post opinion editor speaking at a conference in washington. a plenty more ahead for you on this hour we'll look at . today's election is an opportunity to get a bigger politics nowhere else to go people escaping poverty and violence in honduras arrive in guatemala in the sport the fairy tale run continues for the tennis in moscow the details coming up a little later when. there's been a shooting in afghanistan's southern province of kandahar and it's killed three government officials the local intelligence chief the local police chief and the governor are all dead three americans also injured in the attack on the governor's compound it is the taliban claiming responsibility security has been boosted across the country

ahead of parliamentary elections on saturday even still there have been months of attacks in the lead up and the taliban has repeatedly threatened to disrupt the vote. in kabul. this is a major setback for the afghan government because in one single attack. last we see in your local government officials in. general for example the top police command was on top of the hit list for the taliban for quite some time he has survived many suicide bombing attacks and his father was killed in an attack by the taliban who's known for his staunch anti taliban stan saying that there is absolutely no way that can play into the future role in afghanistan and also highlights of the challenges that the americans the afghan government and nature will face in the near future also comes against the backdrop of the upcoming

elections many people how to hope that those in the saturday elections could pave the way for more stability and you parliament there could tackle the problems the afghan government faces particularly inefficient governance corruption and the need to find job opportunities for millions of people i think after this attack people would have questions about whether it's safe or not to go and cast their votes on saturday we have got david said he with us now senior associate at the center for strategic and international studies in washington d.c. for us look violence in the lead up to the vote i think we all expected that but this is really quite something three major targets if i can use that phrase in in one here. well yes three major targets but by far the most important target is general abdul rizieq who had become over the last several years almost the most sued of southern afghanistan in terms of the almost veneration in which he

was held by the majority of afghan pashtuns in continent khandahar province through a combination of personal brilliance and often unsavory methods he was able to bring a level of peace and security that qanbar khandahar had not know and since the fall of the taliban he was a declared enemy of the taliban they had tried to kill general rudd seek a number of times he was wounded his ability to survive those attempts was seen as evidence almost that he had some kind of higher higher blessing for him so his death is a major blow to khandahar but also to the entire nation of afghanistan two days before a vote where security is questionable in many areas of the country security in the khandahar area will certainly be very hard to provide with general rasik not there to oversee it. i think as your correspondent said it is likely that there will be people throughout afghanistan who will be more reluctant to vote because of this

but this is not the only targeted killing by the taleban over the last several weeks the taliban have killed ten candidates for parliament including just the other day a sitting member of parliament in logic our guy in helmand province who was in his campaign office when the taliban bomber killed him the taliban have embarked upon a new strategy of political assassinations they did not do this before it seems clear they are trying to undermine the legitimacy of these elections and also trying for it frankly to kill those leaders they see as threats to them coming back into power this is a new and very dangerous situation and it puts new challenges to afghanistan and they winning then david i know that's a really broad statement and you can't really say in seventeen years of war who's winning or losing but. it is the afghan government and the afghan forces just not getting on top of them. well they afghan government and afghan forces are clear

have clearly not been able to stop these targeted assassinations they have actually understand stopped a number of others because of course you never push you never hear about the ones that are stopped but the taliban success particularly this one this is certainly a setback for the afghan government more broadly the columbine of about a month and a half ago mounted a major attack on gaza me a provincial capital they have not been able to attack in the other provincial capitals i would expect in the coming weeks following the death of general rasik the taliban will make an attempt to try and take over khandahar this will be that will be the test of whether of who is winning but no doubt about it this is a huge new challenge for afghanistan just quickly david your thoughts on the election we are less than forty eight hours the out now water your hopes are regularly election day and how it might. well it's a it's a big experiment they are putting new technology into place right afghanistan with

over ten thousand mish identification machines and been used before there are a lot of possible pitfalls if there is a fairly large turnout particularly in the cities and if some really new people are elected to new reformers who are elected this could do despite all the problems be a step forward for afghanistan but these latest attacks make that a bigger challenge than it was just twelve hours ago and yet david said they always a pleasure talking to you thank you for your time afghanistan's shia minority has significant sway in politics holding twenty percent of seats in parliament but that may change in saturday's elation a series of isolette attacks telling them is left them disenchanted with the government says more now from a shia majority neighborhood in kabul. a teenage girl's bedroom void of life this reed cheer is where seventeen year old to study she was top of her class she was killed in an isis suicide attack at his school in august along with thirty

four of her classmates this watch was a her brother i did to fight her i missed two of them and it's this that i'm hoping that. if lho was a life i would make her more. they live in dusty but she it's a shia neighborhood and western kabul this year it's suffered a series of ice of attacks it really was school mosques a sports club and an election regis trench and seem to be on the one hundred eighty people who dies it's killed their belief in the government my father told me that i am really not interested in this election and i myself i'm really not interested in this election because we have lost our hope from this system from discover and from this member of parliament. afghanistan's shia minority has been overrepresented in parliament they hold twenty percent of seats and yet they say they feel forgotten and vulnerable some have even creating their own militia i saw is the biggest

threat initially in neighborhoods prices have flooded into something up to big differences in iraq. they are trying to kill as many civilians as possible as many of the shia minority here because they want to create a sectarian rift and use that to their advantage that rather keep. them out of them but. if the general turn out specially or she says less it will show that i say listen yes there are families not voting because they lost loved ones but on the other side some people are moving and has suggested candidates to rip present them but for people like him the damage is done and i cannot cry in the homes to the top rooftop i cry so person moment that i come back. the silence echoes from her now empty room to what's become where he was library.

in the last six weeks and the top floor of the mosque a four thousand books from fellow shia they say where the government has failed them education will succeed when i can yeah i feel right i was in here when she wasn't here but i feel she's here politically they will be silent but where he lives presence is deafening i wish she would be alive here. charlotte dallas. investigators say the suspect in wednesday's attack in crimea may have had an accomplice three days of mourning have been declared after nineteen people were killed in a school in the city of courage an explosion was followed by shooting and police say the initial attacker killed himself crimea remember it was annexed from ukraine by russia in twenty four changed. we'll grab a break on the news hour but still ahead were in one of the world's youngest democracies where people are hoping the latest election will laid maybe to

a brighter future. also why there are calls in the u.s. for places where people can use illegal drugs but under supervision and support the baseball fans who got a little too close to the action. over there with the details a little later. out of the shower has been showing themselves through aren't iran is the right time the i think we can say the season has changed i receive 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 now western side of iran possibly you might see one or two in iraq the temp is still in the middle thirty's you'll

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we're on the news here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories the u.s. secretary of state has told president trying to give saudi arabia more time before deciding how to respond to the suspected killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi point bump a return to washington after visiting saudi arabia turkey you pictures meanwhile of a murder of a bodyguard of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman who is suspected of being involved in the case investigators have turned their attention to the fifteen member hit squad i think may have killed him. and the case has prompted several political and business leaders to distance themselves from saudi arabia the u.s. treasury secretary steven chu has pulled out of an investment conference in riyadh

later this month and the british delegation led by trade sector liam fox also not attending. his senior political analyst moment bashara in london home on a point that you've made i think it might have been yesterday was when we were talking about us as journalists writing perhaps the final chapter of jamal khashoggi story interesting that we now see his own final opinion pages come out where he gets a chance to write his finally what did you actually make of the pace well the most important thing is that. in his death is able to do more than most people are able to do in their lives in their struggle for freedom in saudi arabia. what were the saudis hope to do which is silence. why killing him in their own consulate turned out to be the biggest blowback in the

history of murder because never has been more outspoken but that heard most effective than he is today so imagine how big is the who bruce that's coming out of this thing you tried to kill someone secretly it becomes the most public event this year you will try to silence them they become more heard more outspoken more effective than ever and the article today in the washington post and by the way if you see the hard copy it's the only. opinion piece in that page and apparently it's the first time in the history of that newspaper that they publish just one article in the opinion page so you can imagine how effective and how. proliferating this thing has become in his death. is really more outspoken more effective than most people in

their lives let's talk politics moment as they have been developments today let's focus on the united states steve treasury secretary says i'm not going to riyadh that sends one message might pump a secretary of state says oh let's give saudi arabia a few more days. he's telling his president that and he's telling the media that as well you've got senator his new book congressman who is speaking out and said to kimberley how could this frank should narrative coming out of the united states which is the one that matters the most is it just all come down to president trump in the end. if it were it already is. from pales statement minutia his decision is one of the same this is an administration mission does not make his own decisions whether he goes or he stays the his decision to make not on this and this sort of circumstance this is an administration's decision probably done in the national security of the white house

and i think they are two sides of the same coin one side says what bumppo you told no one but according to what i think is credible sources. after it smiling to the camera as he told him your future is on the line you better come up with a credible investigation to what the heck has happened in istanbul so for the time being they're giving them few days to decide on the other hand apparently after company a went to turkey and heard what he heard from the turks went back to washington told trump look we give these guys few days but this is really bad so we cannot seem to look to the world like we are supporting a murderous crown prince in saudi arabia so we're going to have to hold back on the visit three and i think that's probably key and listen to what i'm saying carefully that was in the desert or travesty in the desert will probably if it ever happened

on the twenty third to the twenty fifth of october which is in a few days might coincide with the same day maybe with the same hour that the turks released their report about the killing in the consulate about the torture or by the dismemberment in the consulate if they do that and you are a businessman or you are a secretary of treasury or a trade minister for the u.k. would you want to be there when the release of the investigation into the murder of your hosts of one of their own citizen comes out in the gain or loss and that's what it's all about right business selling arms economy. trade do you want to be in the midst of that when they release that report absolutely not that i think france holland the u.k. and they are not said made the right decision by not going but do you believe my when this international pressure and i use that word loosely actually will make a difference long term not going to a conference is one thing but if all of this is proven to be true about the saudis

involvement in there has to be more than not going to a conference well to be honest with you it's already started you know the only thing that's going to happen in the desert is the only thing that's going to happen that looks like that of course is snow this is going to snowball nonstop what started on the second of october it will not end in the twenty third of october with this that it's going to continue to snowball and i tell you another thing there is not enough water in the persian gulf to wash away the blood from the hands of those behind the murder of. not enough water this is not going to stand it's clear now to everyone around the world and bashar a senior political analyst in london thank you amasses distanced itself from a rocket attack that hit southern israel on wednesday a house was damaged in the city of better shiva the group says that rocket fire was

an irresponsible attempts to undermine egyptian efforts to broker a new long term truce with israel israeli military responded by hitting twenty sites in girls there killing at least one palestinian it has one of the youngest democracies in the world and now britain has chosen a new government the dnd tea party of the narrow victory over its main rival in the national assembly this is just the third election since voters first got to decide who leads the country back in two thousand and eight and he's back with more now from pardo democracy in action high in the himalayas it is a colorful occasion national dress must be warned. ten years ago the former king of bhutan ordered the country to embrace democracy is the nation's third election like three times ancient traditions democracy is now also a fiercely guarded part of booting the society jobs of the

a bar mint and economic growth are all at the forefront of voters' concerns. the main issues facing us farmers are safe drinking water supply irrigation water and agriculture it's also important to look after youth many of whom are unemployed . the most important thing in this election is voting for a party or a candidate that would make my nation economically srong and would best look after the welfare of the people of bhutan for sharing zambo it's a time to be old friends she remembers the days before democracy before time opened up to the outside world. things were really great under the monarchy and happiness and the country enjoyed great progress which have a party which is there must be no hatred or division among our people. the voters chose between two political parties the d.t.p. which formed the first government in two thousand and eight and the d n t political

newcomers there's little separating the politically at the center of every party's political manifesto is the pursuit of happiness is the only country in the world to measure success not through economic output but through gross national happiness which translates as good governance a balance between work and pleasure economic growth and nature it's a pursuit that has its roots of buddhism widely practiced by time. the country is steeped in tradition and belief in the past ten years it's had to contend with a new ideology democracy return has seen the type of confrontational sometimes divisive politics that exists in neighboring india the world's largest democracy and elsewhere in the world and is worried about it coming here there are also concerns over social media's impact on politics and traditions election candidates

have even complained about fake news appearing online many boutin are still waiting to see where their pursuit of happiness and the road of democracy meet leave barca out zero power zero. a landslide in tibet meanwhile has forced six thousand people to leave their homes falling debris blocks one of the region's key rivers that caused the water levels to rise forty meters chinese police say they are keeping their indian counterparts updated on the situation south korea's president has given the head of the roman catholic church a special special message from north korea's leader moon met pope francis at the vatican and relayed that kim jong un had invited the pontiff to visit pyongyang it's been reported the pope said he may visit if he is officially invited. you know tens of thousands of taxi drivers of down that in the south korean capital to protest against a new ride sharing app drivers staged a one day strike saying that the. mobility service threatens their jobs it is the

latest protests against raj sharing apps which are already having trouble establishing themselves in south korea to district government regulations. now the u.s. has in the midst of one of the worst drug epidemics in its history several cities want to set up places where people can use illegal drugs with supervision in an attempt to reduce the number of deaths kristen salumi takes a closer look at that issue from new york. at a busy intersection behind a nondescript door is a safe haven for drug addicts here at the corner project they can grab a nap on a comfortable chair or pick up clean needles or referral to detox and last year the corner project saved sixty five lives including that of this recovering addict i've spent most of my life in jail thirty nine year old damien zamora now works here monitoring the bathrooms where he himself has overdosed. i have overdosed more than one time in give up and i will do all seconds on three sides were times yeah

until finally i got. you're right anyone can use the bathrooms for fifteen minutes so workers check on those inside periodic lee just in case they don't answer we have an overdose response this is the crash overdoses hit an all time high in the u.s. last year people are dying all around the city liz abbott is the director of the corner project says having a place where addicts are more openly allowed to shoot up like this supervised injection site she helped start in vancouver canada would save even more lives she says addicts there were thirty percent more likely to seek treatment supervised injection sites save lives supervised injection sites are a way for people to connect with care to get a message that while they are still actively caught up in their life of addiction that somebody is there to make sure that when they do overdose that the.