it didn't sell mine there is a great fear i think inside saudi arabia that this will negatively affect his popularity in standing inside the kingdom especially if there are negative economic consequences associated with this gruesome act and we've seen them already and so it's saudis then hold him responsible for negative economic consequences to their country that's quite concerning so i think these these tweets are primarily directed at saudis to try to sow doubt in their mind that mohammed bin some man in the saudi government are responsible for this and therefore not to blame them for this crisis amnesty international is calling on tennis stars to withdraw from an exhibition match shuttle to saudi arabia in december the king solomon tennis championship was announced shortly after the disappearance of the saudi journalists . rafa nadal and novak djokovic is set to take home at least a million dollars for the one off match in the city of jeddah let's just take

a moment to remind you of the man who's at the center of this global story jamal khashoggi criticized saudi arabia's mauna kea the crown prince mohammed bin solomon became the center of power in the kingdom last year ashaji is accused the thirty three year old crown prince of introducing a new era of fear intimidation arrests and public shaming fearing face safety he fled to the u.s. in september last year where he wrote a regular column for the washington post but before his career as a journalist was close to the saudi royal family and served as an advisor to senior saudi officials. we got a weather update thanks to our offices here then why afghanistan's shia majority sees saturday's election as an opportunity to get a bigger say in politics. hello

get a welcome back here in a national weather forecast well plenty of nice weather here across central parts of europe high pressure is going to dominate that means a lot of clear skies a little bit of a moderate temperatures but where we are seeing the weather is out here towards of the western med now we have had some problems with rain across parts of northern africa as well as this area of low pressure that's making its way slowly towards the west notice the rain right here across parts of spain as well as down here towards portugal and we're going to be watching this very carefully for the potential of flooding over the next few days of going for friday over here toward saturday most of that active weather stays down towards the south affecting portugal as well as that southern area of spain but for the rest of europe like i said we're looking quite nice high pressure dominating london seventeen paris and nineteen degrees and munich is going to be seeing probably about fifteen degrees in your forecast well here across northern parts of africa plenty of clouds that same

storm causing some problems over there towards morocco as well that will continue from friday as well as into saturday maybe some winds picking up also from the south we do have plenty of clouds here across parts of algeria but shipley cloud today for you at twenty six degrees tunis clouds in your forecast we could see some rain showers as well twenty six in algiers attempt a few of twenty seven. sorry .

well again the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. president has for the first time publicly acknowledged that saudi journalist jamal khashoggi is likely to be dead he hasn't been seen since entering the saudi consulate in istanbul seventeen days ago donald trump says that there will be severe consequences for saudi arabia if it's found to be responsible. the u.s. treasury secretary has become the latest high profile figure to withdraw from an upcoming investment conference in saudi arabia the head of the i.m.f. as well as the prominent c.e.o.'s have already pulled out of the conference known as devils in the desert and police have expanded the probe into the suspected

killing of jamal khashoggi a search took place in the town of over one hundred kilometers south of istanbul. at least two senior officials have been killed in a taliban attack in southern afghanistan it's the latest violent incident in the run up to elections to be held on saturday three americans were also injured a gunman opened fire in the governor's compound in the province of kandahar the most senior u.s. military officer in the country was attending a meeting there at the time the taliban says that he was the target among the dead afghan general abdul rasi whose previously survived numerous attempts on his life well u.s. defense secretary jim mattis says that the attack will not shake u.s. commitment to the country. i've met general result. it's a loss of

a patriot but we remain absolutely committed. to an afghan led afghan reconsolidation. we need to find who's done this. but right now. we are going toward the election and we will continue to defend the people live to kabul and is there a special is there what do we make of of what matters will say that action. what's all of us as we enter the top priority for the americans is to boost more right here in afghanistan so that people can go to the vote on saturday the attack yesterday has raised many concerns among the afghan people about whether it's safe or not to go and cast the ballot the general mattis is insisting this is not going to undermine the u.s. presence in afghanistan and also the attempts by the international community to restore stability in the country

a senior afghan delegation is now in kandahar to investigate is exactly what happened in the shooting the taliban say this is an insider attack this is one of their own people hope opened fire on the senior afghan officials and this is something which is definitely going to be given much thought and consideration by the afghan. government there is also an accommodation by the afghan independent election commission to suspend elections in kandahar i have to say that since yesterday people were saying that this absolutely no point of going a question about it in a place which where the taliban have a bigger influence i think the top priority for the afghan government is to ensure smooth election. tomorrow now this election comes at a critical time for afghanistan people were putting high hopes on the election that would pave the way for a transparent election a strong parliament that would tackle the pressing demands of the afghan people i'm also for the shia community as we're going to see in this report by charlot that is

they say that they're hoping this election will make their voice heard across afghanistan. a teenage girl's bedroom void of life this read cheer is where seventeen year old to study she was top of her class she was killed in an isis suicide attacker to 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 hoping that. if lho was alive i would make her more. they live in dusty but she says she a neighborhood in western kabul this year it suffered a series of islip tex but where he was school mosques a sports club and an election regis trenchant seemed to be on the one hundred eighty people who died it's killed their belief in the government my father told me that i am really not interested in this election and i myself so 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 on neighborhoods prices have flooded into certain after 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. rather keep. them out of them. if the general turn out specially she says less it will show that i solicit 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 resent them but for

people like him the damage is done and i cannot cry in the homes to the top top. crisis person moment that i come back. the silence echoes from her. to what's become library. in the last six weeks 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. here. in iraq there are at least a million widows following decades of conflicts and war that's left them as the sole breadwinner many struggling to make ends meet now

a new proposal to help them out is proving to be controversial as mohammed atta reports from bank that. a man lost eight members of her family in the conflict in iraq including a husband she's been left to bring up three children on a hot. she says he was divorced heated up fast but the experience was not broken she now walks in this place to shop in a suburb of the couple told. me and frankly speaking there is a lot of pressure on me juggling between being a mother and putting food on the table i have managed it well so far but at the expense of my health i do most of my household chores that night then is to me to do one million widows in iraq one in ten households in the control is headed by a woman in some districts it's almost one in five of the offices of a local charity these readers are being trained as teachers it's a program partly funded with donations from the state and well wishes i've been

around these women have no salaries and no source of income to raise their children we are giving them skills to an able them to eventually gain much needed income and relevance in the society the plight of arabs and wheedles has been this cultural on both feel fully understand what they go through on a daily basis they're the painful memories they say. for lost loved ones and then they come to you about caring for the children cool for them feeding them as the main breadwinner. during saddam hussein's rule war widows were looked after by the state now they mostly remain hidden and vulnerable there are increasing calls for more assistance for iraq's we doze and even suggestions to allow polygamy politicians put forward a proposal recently for the government to women financial incentives to take we does our second wives. sub billion dollars share the news and can talk show host

questions the assumption that the widow who'll be better off. on one of them or why do we have a negative view point of widows and divorced women any law for them should come with guarantee so that all those who abuse it and those who exploit widows are forced to return any funds they have received from the state. without a doubt the economy limping along dependent entirely on crude oil and the government preoccupied with their cost structure and building national unity many acknowledge that little is likely to change for iraq's we don't see any time soon how would i do. but that indonesia is threatening to cut ties with neighboring astray of its plans to relocate its embassy in israel the study as prime minister says that he's considering the move from tel aviv to jerusalem that's despite a warning that the shift may provoke protests in gaza and the west bank under thomas reports from sydney. a spokesperson for in these years foreign affairs ministry said that the issue of palestine is very important to indonesia and the

people of indonesia and said that depending on what australia did with its embassy in israel they would adjust their policy or action without spelling out exactly what that meant could that affect a free trade agreement between indonesia and australia which is in its final stages and they go see action could it influence whether military cooperation continues between the two countries he didn't spell that out in a more candid exchange of text messages that have been links between in the nation's foreign affairs minister and australia's indonesia has told australia is that any move of australia's embassy in israel would be a slap in indonesia's face and will affect bilateral relations and scott morrison australia's prime minister announced that he was considering moving australia's embassy in israel on tuesday and that immediately spot that he's asian but he was doing it for political reasons on saturday there is an important byelection in

sydney in a city that has a very high jewish population twelve and a half percent cynics say that he was announcing this consideration of a move of the embassy because about by election which is an important one because the government to lose it it would take away the majority in parliament it's also now been revealed that on monday australia's intelligence services warned the prime minister of potential unrest even violence in gaza and the west bank australia took in for its move of its embassy scott morrison the prime minister says at the moment there is no suggestion that's going to be bad it's based on what he has announced as a consideration and that's all it is at the moment just considering a move nothing definite as we decided. us cities struggling to handle one of the world's worst drug of epidemics planning to set up places where people can legally use illegal drugs those behind the plan so the supervised drug taking centers will reduce deaths from. kristen salumi reports from new york. at

a busy intersection behind a nondescript door is the 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 the month injure thirty nine year old damien zamora now works here monitoring the bathrooms where he himself has overdosed. more than once on. three sides four times yeah. 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 they don't die here in new york city hall has been pushing to open doors supervised injection facilities as they prefer to call them overdose prevention centers and new york's not alone officials in seattle san francisco and philadelphia are also exploring the idea but the problem is federal law which makes it a crime to knowingly on. operate any facility where illegal drugs are. and the

city's special narcotics prosecutor says the treatment statistics cited by the corner project are outdated last year overdoses in vancouver increased by more than fifty percent where new york they've stabilized we were only up by three percent just to give them a place where they can shoot up drugs and walk out i don't think you've done a thing for that person but help them destroy their own life still damien insists he would not be alive or clean for his daughter were it not for the support he received here after being revived i have a job and i have a chance to help other people and maybe i can reach that one person through kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. it is good to have you with us hello adrian for the get here in doha the top stories this hour the u.s. president has for the first time publicly acknowledged the saudi journalist. might

be dead he hasn't been seen since entering the saudi consulate in istanbul seventeen days ago donald trump says that there will be severe consequences for saudi arabia if it's found to be responsible the u.s. treasury secretary has become the latest high profile figure to withdraw from an upcoming investment conference in saudi arabia the head of the i.m.f. and many prominent c.e.o.'s of already pulled out of the conference. in the desert at least two city officials have been killed in a taliban attack in southern afghanistan is the latest violent incident in the run up to the elections to be held on saturday three americans were injured a gunman opened fire in the governor's compound in the province of kandahar the most senior u.s. military officer in the country was attending a meeting there at the time the taliban says that he was the target among the dead is the afghan general abdul razak. u.s. defense secretary jim mattis says the attack will not shake the u.s. commitment in afghanistan i've met general result. it's a loss of

a patriot but we remain absolutely committed. to an afghan led afghan reconsolidation. we need to find. but right now. we are going toward the election and we will continue to defend the people donald trump is starting to close america's southern border with mexico to stop what he says is an almost slaughter of migrants that includes three thousand one juror ins who are making their way north through course amala towards the u.s. border at least five people are dead two a missing off the flash floods in tunisia heavy rain caused wars that's a rise in a number of cities in the country's north damaging homes and shops people there have criticized authorities the failing to maintain drainage systems despite frequent torrential rain every autumn i'll be back with more news feeling

a little over twenty five but it's a lot to say about right after today's inside story next. millions of people across india miss out on medical care but a hospital train is delivering doctors and home to those most in need. when i want to use boards indians like line express. now to zero. new evidence of the saudi crown prince's possible involvement in gemma's disappearance as the washington post publishes his last offical warning of threats to the media how much of a threat are journalists to our governments this is inside story. hello welcome to the program hasn't seen the case of missing saudi journalist jamal

khashoggi has shocked and captivated the world as information trickles out over his disappearance and alleged murder inside the saudi consulate in istanbul beyond the gruesome details of the core of this story is a journalist who may have paid the ultimate price for what he wrote and reported jihad warned that saudi arabia could never be a democracy under the current crown prince mohammed bin men he highlighted the plight and struggles of journalists in his country he said there was no space for free speech with journalists in intellectuals often jailed for expressing their views. well the washington post published what they called. last article saying they have accepted the fact that he will not return safely it says our governments have been given free reign to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate these governments whose very existence relies on the control of information have

aggressively blocked the internet they have also arrested local reporters and pressured advertisers to harm the revenue of specific publications the arab world is facing its own version of an iron curtain imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power. words and what may have happened to him inside the saudi consulate highlight the threats to journalists and media freedom so far this year fifty seven journalists have been killed around the world according to reporters without borders the middle east is the most dangerous region in the world for journalists the world press freedom index ranks several countries in the region as having some of the worst human rights violations when it comes to censoring journalism this includes saudi arabia syria turkey iraq iran and egypt and there are at least one hundred fifty nine journalists in prison around the world a majority of them in the middle east. well

let's bring in our guests now to talk more about this joining us via skype from london is dr saad a saudi dissident who heads up the opposition group movement for islamic reform in arabia in vienna we have a director of advocacy with the international press institute and in london also on skype david hurst editor in chief of middle east i could to have you all with us david hurst if i could start with you as far as the latest we're hearing on the investigation in as much as. there is any sort of information because the turks are certainly keeping their cards close to the vest on this what do you met what do you make of of the latest developments on what they found inside the the saudi consulate and in the consul general home and what direction is this going in. mood it's going. to stumble to

belgrade forest and the woodland in garcia neighborhood. the c.c.t.v. has traced the movements of a one of the vans that was registered to the consulate on diplomatic plates the wooden itself is a bit of a c.c.t.v. blackspot but they call the van the same that are coming out of the area and then are combing the forests for. his remains they've also said they found evidence from inside the consulate general itself they've been session the grounds. and also the council's house they haven't released the contents of the tapes although they've told journalists like me and others about it but i haven't actually listened to the tapes myself. that may

follow. and try to put maximum pressure on washington and also on been some. who are probably now in a state of panic because so many details have actually been released documented details exactly who the fifteen where the fact that they were seven of them belong to his close bodyguards special protection unit the fact that these characters have turned up in london on march the eighth. and also later in an april in france and who they were and what they were doing the details of the forensic doctor thought of the specialist to cut. his body up while he was still alive. details come out. and he.

counter-narrative one is that inevitably that child walked out within twenty minutes. that has never been proved. and now another one yes of course and murder. it was ordered by been some man himself which anyone who knows about the place and what has actually happened since he came to power became the de facto ruler of saudi arabia is a complete nonsense what is the thinking then david behind the way turkey is handling all of this will cause it we had president trump's comments there were four to did he suggest the turks have declined to share their evidence with u.s. intelligence agencies trump himself saying we want to we want to hear this tape if it exists uses words does this reluctance suggest that the turkish government is looking for some sort of accommodation with with saudi arabia and and the united

states. given the fact that these are two important powers that they don't want to rupture their relationship with. well i think what turkey is doing is trying to exert the maximum amount of pressure through the media and through public opinion all in the oval office and the same americans as specifically saying the guy in charge of the white house. and the man that he chose to be really his boss of shape in the middle east. crown prince been some that's the object what he's trying to do. i think on the evidence is standing up strew they haven't released it yet but that would just be probably a matter of time there's also some degree of cooperation from. other sources it's not complete of course but it's that it but it's there and it's

got nothing to do with the turks and that is a report that was leaks to the new york times that the the american secret service says that intercepted conversations and they believe that there was a clock to kidnap or. associate that's one second one his report that has filtered through from the british intelligence services that morpheme was used. after the screams were heard after jamal khashoggi is think is a transfer of. two pacifying him. how they got that to tell how they know about and i don't know that's not coming from the turks. dr saddle in fact he. the fact that the saudis have have up to this point delivered no no he's not a formal explanation for this and that the trumpet ministration has hasn't really shown any rush to to give one as as well what do you read into that specially

given that this. leaking of information is continuing to trickle out through the turkish media. the saudis are known now when i say the saudis i mean but the same man and his team they are not on now to be the culprits they are responsible for this crime and they wanted in liars and with trump and feel to create a story which absorbs mohammad mr nunn now he wanted to release that two days ago when he planned to admit responsibility in order to up a call themselves and put it in somebody else now the problem is information kept coming from the turks and nowhere which would falsify his report so he was stuck in needed he needs now to wait for the turks to finish the northern for his falsified for his created reports to fit with the turks information about his bad

luck. the information coming from the turks are encircling his neck and are approving more and more is a possibility and he is not going to do it without by waiting or by releasing a report now so that is why he is his is getting time in losing the report but the same time he is getting in trouble because he's dealing the report. as you've been hearing all of this it's pretty clear as well that we haven't heard we haven't got the to the bottom of the full facts of what happened here but we mentioned the washington post there in the introduction there and how they have published what they say his special g.'s last article so the indication there is they've drawn their own conclusions about this now as the far as as far as mr fate

what message do you think that sends for press freedom. not just been in the arab world but but but as a whole. good question. what i.p.i. what we feel is the disappearance and alleged murder of mr jamal khashoggi is a clear message from a gene which does not tolerate any kind of criticism with impunity they will go down and silence critics and if this happens and this is the for the says that we will see other targeted in the genes following the same path and the western world remaining silent because of the business deals they have with saudi arabia and these are targeted in judging so it's a very scary message that has come across but we also hope that because of this incident and as you correctly said in the introduction that people are looking forward to getting more information people are eager to know and this pressure so

building on saudi arabia as well as the united states which is a close ally of prince moment bin salamon. that is a hope and a hot start this will help us promote press freedom that will be some reaction to this and we'll be able to build a come clean but we can ensure that press freedom is expanded things have things change in the arab world and not just in that rubble but around the world where more and more targeting regina's are using physical into. mitigation psychological intimidation and legal intimidation to silence journalists and you mentioned western governments there ravi is is the credibility of of us democracy at stake here as well given the way that they have responded to this the us democracy is a very vibrant if you see on the one hand we have the president and his government supporting the saudi arabian government but on the other hand this. free media we

have the washington post we have the new york times or the los angeles times and many others in the united states which do not fear the government in spite of attacks on them personally and journalist by the president himself they are going along they are taking up the cause and without them this issue would not have reached the stage so in the western media in the western world media still enjoys a lot of freedom which i fear may go down if people like mr trump continue to attack journalists continue to call any criticism fake news david hearst would you out would you assess the current state of media freedom such as it is in in the arab world is it is it better or worse than than twenty eleven and the events of the so-called arab spring. much worse what we've got is a very vicious council revolution. and a. real clampdown on the sort of reporting that al-jazeera did in

twenty eleven. in egypt. and. the situation dictatorship has become a supposed modernized. whenever you put a report that you know to be true out there it's a meijer day surrounded by. the in the arab world they call it electronic insects false stories falsely. people try to take you down to trying to denigrate you completely opposite immediately surrounds anything that you put up and they and it's designed absolutely designed to mislead for instance when i originally put my story of. not being dragged out of the. consul general's office with the consul there this is before i'd heard the tapes.

and the comments that he made of please go into it somewhere else. what happened was a whole number of counter stories a pitts in other mainstream publications sank menace all rubbish i know the true man is alive and well and he's in riyadh and you will again soon be extremely stupid you know it explodes extremely city because it's actually not attacks absolutely convinced that he never emerged from the building alive and they've been saying that really from day one so that's that's the atmosphere what you've got is governments that openly do not believe in free speech or in democracy say they are was not ready for it and they say it is absolutely publicly suppressing even basic reporting. the last two paragraphs of jamal's modest posthumous column really point out what he was actually trying to achieve what he

wanted was for western publications to be published in arabic and that's not that he wasn't trying to increase separation of western buck asians like the washington post and the new york times but he's trying to introduce our world so what he thought was the best free journalism. and that's really what he was what he was about he really wanted to improve the understanding of the arab world not from a fashionable interview not from an islam is point of view to set up takes a line or a party but just to give them free information and he said the arab world needs a model version of the zero transnational media so that citizens can be informed about global events that really was his mission more important we need to provide a platform for arab voices and in part that is small very small part what middle east eyes doing and more al-jazeera sings well but you

not wanted to increase that he really believed in it. and he was very very serious and determined to set this up now if this is set up as a result of his death. as a real platform really information which which isn't immediately taken down blocked. or surrounded by that by false news then i think will really something would've happened that is a real improvement on the situation at the moment i don't think this will succeed i don't think the counterrevolution. will succeed but by god is a rough and bumpy journey of speaking of arab of voices. let's turn back to dr saddle. on this how concerned are you about the message that all of this sense to dissidents like yourself and for the future of.

of different voices in the arab world in a free speech we always understood that the regime does not tolerate dissent inside and outside the country and they work very hard in order to eliminate us either eliminate us physically or eliminate us. through other means like character of assassination or of force englishtown governments to to convince them that we are terrorists we are linked to terrorists to grooves and other means of elimination fortunately they did not succeed i would surprise you with my answer does this incident or will although it is. very bad incident it is going to be somehow useful in reversing the table on the saudis now instead of them feeling comfortable that they have done this and they would do more

and more of the sort of action because of the huge global response to that so you find it's made a real turning point then. this is going to be a turning point not only on lambert mr nunn it's going to be a turning point on the whole region and probably it could be almost like the assassination of count prince of of austria and of first for first world war and that will bring huge consequences one hundred percent man. a c.c. in egypt and will make. the saudi government in deep trouble in front of the west in front of its own people because my medicine man will not be able to get at this to get rid of this problem now the west knows all the details i would probably disagree slightly with david the west knows all the details they have their own information and intelligence and that's why the congress are adamant that jamal is

killed and he has been dismembered and the order has been given from hundred ms how much i would not expect congress members to speak with this full confidence without having a clear cut clear picture of trump there on intelligence and that's why trump decided yesterday to not to share intelligence of measure with the congress now is going that far to bring troops to protect him hamad bin sentiment but fortunately the tide is not in his favor now because the west knows all the details even before the turks finish their their their wealth and therefore a sick and and legal investigation because of the west knows the story i think the west is extremely embarrassed and it is in a position to do something to to clear the the way

for it to behave probably in the future by removing mohammed miss home and i would not expect four and no western governments. to be able to accept my madness element . in this position another king not a crown progress not not even allowing him to be a tree after this incident dr said i want to put to you the point that david made a little bit earlier that the forces of counter-revolution as he calls them in the in the arab world are are formidable. and. you know you are saying that this did this is a turning point what do you say to those who argue. that that this people will eventually forget about all of this at some point because people's memories are short and eventually something else will occupy the public's mind what do you say to people to people who say that and that in the end it won't make a huge difference. the counter-revolution is looks to formidable but they are actually reliant on

a tiger off the table now that the current structure of of those three governments . of the cinnamon and and the c.c. all depends on. now my madness one can can survive a lot here does not need to bizarre it all c.c. but neither c.c. nor hamburg bizos cunt can survive without the full support of a man and they cannot survive with with his on eagerness to help them so include emir removed from trump the pictures and even the royal family even the royal family cannot begin its own all or before of a hundred percent so it all countable usually will be in great trouble and we would easily see another way of counter counter revolution how it's going to go to what is the scenario god knows but i think it's all to do with

this week point we clink which is one hundred percent. i'll give what's probably going to be a last word to you on this. at the start of the program we gave what was not a very pretty picture of the of the state of free press in the middle east and elsewhere. in the world what can international organizations like yours continue to do to try to counter that. and before i go that let me just say that the after the spring we were we were hoping things will change but nothing changed what we saw is that the situation's become worse look at egypt we have serious problems that scores of journalists are in prison. and moment our own moment has been in prison for six hundred sixty seven days and the his not been tried in turkey hundred sixty seven journalists on prison so what is happening is in this part of the in the out of there the video games are trying to control the

narrative and as mr post in this article talks about information and misinformation disinformation that's exactly what they want to do they want to control the narrative they want to control the information so they use all the tactics to have complete control over what information is available counter-revolution require information to trickle down to people so that they can join the revolution not what international organizations can do. in terms of press freedom as we can bring pressure on the governments we've been working with. the government over there and other partners on bringing pressure on egypt to release all the journalists we have been campaigning for release of journalists in turkey we got journalists released in nigeria and other places so international organizations can bring in the technical support we can support you we can support me dog in

a zation and frightening for the space that is required that is to report fearlessly in fact that is going to have to be the last word thanks very much for being with us all three of you sad in a dr sad he has robbie for saad and david hurst thanks very much for being on the inside story. thank you all for watching as always you can see the program again any time by going to our website c.n.n. dot com and for more discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside store you can also join the conversation on twitter and all there is at a.j. inside story for me hasn't taken the whole team here by phone. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships.

somehow time is aiming to replace america and around the world well the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for the coming war on china. on a jersey. the

u.s. talks tough on saudi arabia as donald trump acknowledges that the journalist. is probably dead. but a setback to saudi arabia as the u.s. treasury secretary drops out of a crucial investment summit in riyadh key european leaders also withdrawn from the of it.

hello i'm adrian for the good this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming up calls to suspend saturday's vote in kandahar a day after the taliban killed at least two top provincial officials in afghanistan . and donald trump threatens to deploy the military as a large group of migrants makes its way towards the u.s. through central america. the u.s. president has for the first time publicly acknowledged that the saudi journalist. is probably dead he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul more than two weeks ago donald trump says that there will be severe consequences for saudi arabia if it's found to be responsible for the killing it comes as will them forty members of the u.s. congress call for sanctions against saudi arabia in a letter to the president and the treasury secretary has added his name to the

growing list of international figures who withdrawn from an upcoming financial conference in riyadh. in the deserts al-jazeera as mike hanna reports now from washington. it was a somber president who for the first time publicly acknowledge the possibility that jamal khashoggi is dead it certainly looks that way to me it's very sad. he says he still waiting for the results of various investigations but if this evidence there will be serious consequences for saudi arabia to be very severe i mean it's bad. comments followed a meeting with the secretary of state might pump a zero who briefed the president on his meetings with saudi and turkish leaders there are a lot of stories out there about what has happened we just are going to allow the process to move forward. to unfold and as they unfold as we make

a determination for ourselves about what happened there based on the facts that are presented to us the united states will determine what the appropriate response rightly and significantly straight off to the meeting it was confirmed that treasury secretary. had canceled a trip to an investment conference in riyadh later this month the first tangible sign of any action against saudi arabia by the trump administration. and yet another bipartisan call from congress for the president to determine accountability and impose sanctions against those found responsible this in a letter from more than forty house members which also said additionally we are set you promptly disclose whether the united states intercepted communications among saudi officials discussing plans to detain mystical shogi and advise what actions were taken to warn him of any attack but the president occupied on this evening at

least with yet another campaign rally the mid-term elections looming and his handling of the current diplomatic crisis just one of a number of issues which will determine how people vote by. washington the so-called davos of the desert summit was supposed to be an opportunity for saudi arabia to showcase its potential to international investors but a growing list of withdrawals is raising questions about those who are still planning to attend among the people who've already pulled out the british trade secretary the french dutch finance ministers and the u.s. treasury secretary as we mentioned earlier the international monetary fund's christine lagarde is also out of the c.e.o.'s of j.p. morgan chase and the blackstone group a u.s. based private equity group that's been a big beneficiary of saudi funding a media partners have stepped back to among them c.n.n. c.n. b c the financial times the new york times and the los angeles times well even

leaders have also voiced their concerns john the whole reports now from brussels. but there's been concern about a slow response by european nations at a political level to the alleged murder of demarco shoji well that may be changing britain france and the netherlands of all announced that they're withdrawing their ministerial level delegations so that financial investment summit all davus in the desert as it's been dubbed citing that now is simply not the time for that level of engagement this was what french president emmanuel macron had to say. liffey. the facts we know today are mr g. string the serious and worrying we expect to throw light on this matter we have had exchanges with saudi authorities to clarify all this but in the current circumstances we have sides a postponement political visits including that of our economy minister european countries of course faced something of a quandary in their response to saudi arabia do they go in hard on riyadh demanding answers threatening action risking the possibility of wrecking lucrative trade and

investment ties particularly in the sale of arms and also very valuable intelligence contacts that have been credited with water going number of attacks on european soil or do they stand behind that much from put to value of the european union the global rules based system casting all else to one side well it seems they are making their minds up now even though the call continues to go out for a thorough into in independent investigation this was donald tusk the president of the e.u. council earlier. we need an open transparent and investigation it's all in the best interests of the of all thirty of them and outside the european union but nevertheless watching closely the russian president vladimir putin wary also of a rush to judgment. first of all we should wait for the results of the

investigations how can we russia is start to spoiling our relationship with saudi arabia without knowing what in fact happen there. what may happen in future will nobody is quite waiting of us for the investigation to come clean one pluto comes from a close ally of angela merkel speaking in berlin on wednesday he said europe may have to adjust its relations with saudi arabia. back in istanbul investigators suspect that she was murdered but seventeen days since he was last seen there still searching for a body a transcript of audio recorded inside the consulate on the day he went missing has been leaked turkish media say that it suggests that was killed and inside the building the crown prince of saudi arabia had been solved and has been linked to the case his bodyguard was one of a fifteen member saudi hit squad that investigators suspect killed the journalists

the journalist. abdulaziz trip is believed to lead the operation against. let's go live now to istanbul al jazeera strafford is outside the saudi consulate in the city charles what is the latest on the investigation. well we too early to say whether this investigation has stole but certainly in relation to what government sources are telling the media are leaking to the media it doesn't seem to be much movement what we know certainly has a say according to these government sources according to the prosecutor's office as well that there are claims that they were samples that were found in this job the consul general home yesterday that match samples that were found in the consulate itself but we have no. no no proof or no. clear understanding exactly what those song bills are we've also been told that there

have been fingerprints found fingerprints found in the consulate from least six members of that fifteen member team that are suspected of being so key in this case and then of course we've had these photographic evidence these photos stills taken from c.c. t.v. footage of certainly the man that is being described as the coordinator the leader of this group of fifteen who is believed to have been very very close to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon himself one of his main bodyguards men have looked trip those photographs showing him ensuring that the consulate on the day that he disappeared a couple of hours before shows he went inside the consulate then coming out again and then over the course of an era half or so more stills of him at the hotel the movenpick and then at the airport i think it's fair to say at the moment that the

media here have to be in credibly cancel about what is being reported there are lots of claims being made by certain government sources by certain people closer to the prosecution itself as well. nothing as yet can be. confirmed we know that the turkish foreign minister has said that he is acting with patience and according to international law or as this investigation goes forward i don't think it's fair to say that the longer this takes the more pressure there is all now on turkey and on saudi arabia obviously to release some sort of official result as to as to what what they found so far as you mentioned there is this transcript of an old you know recording as well that was leaked to the media that it is being suggested shows that shows he may well have been attacked as he entered the the

embassy but of course there are certain legal questions about this transcript if indeed it exists the investigation is going forward but certainly there's very little movement certainly today. in as far as leaks to the press for me the government or prosecution sources just many thanks indeed i was there was john stratford there live in istanbul before we move on to the rest of the day's news let's just remind you about the man who is at the center of this global story jamal . criticised saudi arabia's monarchy off the crown prince mohammed bin solomon became the center of power in the kingdom last year the journalist accused the thirty three year old crown prince of introducing what he called a new era of fear intimidation arrests and public shaming fearing for his safety he fled to the u.s. in september last year where he was a regular column for the washington post but before his career as a journalist showed she was close to the saudi royal family and served as an

advisor to senior officials. in afghanistan there are calls to suspend saturday's vote in kandahar after the taliban killed two senior officials in the city it happened just after this meeting between the most senior u.s. military officer in the country and afghan commanders the taliban says that the american general was the targets the incident has raised concerns about the security situation ahead of saturday's election where u.s. defense secretary jim massa's says that the attack would shake his country's commitment to afghanistan. i've met general result. if the loss of a patriot but we remain absolutely committed. to an afghan led afghan reconsolidation. we need to find done. but right now. we are going toward the election and we will continue.