and served as an advisor to senior officials. but in afghanistan sunday's election in the southern province of kandahar has been delayed by one week after the taliban killed two senior officials in the city it happened just after this meeting between the most senior military officers in the country and afghan commanders the taliban says that the american was the target among the dead is afghan police came out of general abdul razzaq who'd survived numerous attempts on his life where u.s. defense secretary james mattis says that the attack would shake his country's commitment to 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

lived out of afghanistan's capital kabul was there a shell of palaces the shots i was more about why voting has been postponed encounter. well the presidential palace has just put out this statement basically it says after talking to people in kandahar after this attack today after talking to the election commission themselves they just don't think it's appropriate and they can't ensure people safety and so they will delay it for a week the election commission says this roughly six hundred to seven hundred thousand votes in kandahar which will have to wait awake to voters. people in kandahar very concerned obviously off this attack there was a high level meeting in the governor's compound yesterday between top u.s. commanders the governor the intelligence chief the police chief when this when this gun battle erupted. today in afghanistan talking a lot about one of the people who died and that man was general rizieq he's

infamous in afghanistan he was much love facebook pages across the country today people are swapping out their photos for his he's the taliban and he was much loved general scott miller who is the top u.s. commander in afghanistan here near arrived a month or two ago he was in that meeting as a suspect took place he put out a statement saying today i lost a great friend in rizieq we had served together for many years afghanistan lost a patriot my condolences to the people of afghanistan. a great loss for the people has his funeral is happening as we speak down in kandahar outside of that military position the kandahar very much a ghost town so those are the election in at least in kandahar province postponed for a week. what are the implications of this attack though for the vote in the entire country and the rest of the country. they're determined and regardless of all these

threats we've heard from the taliban they are determined that this election will go ahead we've just come from the election commission compound here in kabul this morning i've never seen anything like it there were dozens of police trucks of army commandos military swarming the place to protect all the polling materials trucks lining up to take the smoke pouring materials out across kabul to the to the five hundred fifty polling centers here so security is intense in kabul and across the country you talk to afghans and they're saying when should i vote tomorrow polling centers open at seven am the close for what is the safest time for me to go to a polling see to the local mosque to the local school and they're trying to make calculations to try to figure out when would be the safest time for them to choose the candidate. shell of anything state i was in a show that lives in kabul. a weather update thanks to an officer of the three

strikes of life in prison but examine what california is changing its controversial sentencing laws i will tell you why it is here is threatening to cut ties with a strange idea but have the latest on the story out of sydney. and i that we've got lots of showers over the southeast in parts of asia some of the heaviest of them are in the southern parts of it now and across into cambodia as well and this area of in const rain is pushing its way towards the west so for some of us here it's going to be incredibly wet as we head through the next couple of days saturday i think some of the wettest of the weather again is going to be from the southern parts of vietnam stretching all the way across into the eastern parts of thailand and then that system gradually pushes westward so even in the western parts of thailand looks pretty wet there for sunday so that's the heaviest

rain i think the sunday elsewhere that we some showers around as well but generally speaking in between those showers there should be some good spells of sunshine as well now as we head down towards australia is this weather system that's been causing a few headaches recently has been giving us a few thunderstorms some rain but also some rather violent dust storms as well with the winds gusting up to one hundred kilometers per hour in places that system is working its way eastwards the winds aren't quite a strong by the time we get to saturday but it's still dragging down the temperatures so the best we can hope for is around twenty or twenty one in melbourne do expect a few showers around as well that system then gradually nudges its way eastwards as we head into sunday so even sydney will see the temperatures tumble just a maximum of ninety. millions of people across india miss out on medical care but a hospital train is delivering doctors hope to those most in need. boards

lifeline express. zero. top stories this hour on al-jazeera the u.s. president has for the first time publicly acknowledged that the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi is probably dead he hasn't been seen since entering the saudi consulate in istanbul seventeen days ago donald trump says there will be severe

consequences for saudi arabia if it's found to be responsible. the u.s. treasury secretary has become the latest senior official to withdraw from upcoming investment conference in saudi arabia the head of the i.m.f. and many prominent c.e.o.'s have already pulled out of the conference dubbed force in the desert and in afghanistan saturday's election of the southern province of kandahar has been delayed by a week after the taliban killed two senior officials in the city it happened just after this meeting between the most senior u.s. military officers in the country and afghan commandos the taliban says the american general was the target. at least a million widows in iraq following decades of conflict and war it's left them a sole breadwinners and many a struggling to make ends meet but a new government proposal designed to assist them. is proving to be controversial as behavior that oh reports now from baghdad. only a month lost eight members of her family in the conflict in iraq including her

husband she's been left to bring up three children on a hot. she says she 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 at night then has 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 wheels are being trained as taters it's a program partly funded with donations from the state and well wishes i've been there all these women have no salaries and no source of income to raise their children we are giving them skills to enable them to eventually gain much needed income and relevance in the society the plight of iraq's wheedles has been

described as a cultural final feel fully understand what they go through on a daily basis they have the painful memories they say jani falloff loved ones of them days there was something. about caring for the children cool for them feeding them as the main breadwinner. during saddam hussein's rule war widows were looked up to by the state now they most live in maine haven 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 don't know second wives. sub billion dollars share news and con talk show host questions the assumption that the widow who would 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. with 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. put that into the zia is threatening to cut ties with a strain over a plan to relocate its embassy in israel the city as prime minister has said that he's considering the move from tel aviv to jerusalem despite a warning that the shift may provoke protests in gaza and the west bank under a standard thomas reports from city. 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 names as foreign affairs minister and australia as 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 shoestring and that immediately spot that he's asian but he was doing it for political reasons on saturday there was an important by election 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 service is the prime minister a potential unrest even violence in gaza and the west bank australia to confirm its move of its embassy scott morrison the prime minister says at the moment there is no suggestion that's going to be violence based on what he has announced as a consideration and that's all it is at the moment just considering a move nothing definite has been decided the concern about how an economic slowdown in china may affect the global economy figures suggest that the world's second largest economy grew by six point five percent in the third quarter of this year that's the weakest good. period since the global financial crisis of two thousand and nine china has started to come under pressure due to the u.s. trade war the trumpet ministrations put tariffs on more than two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of china's exports which china and europe are joining forces with mexico and canada to challenge donald trump's trade tariffs they're asking the

world trade organization to investigate the legality of the steel and aluminum levies imposed earlier this year the u.s. is also asking for a similar ruling in return on the retaliatory tariffs imposed by china the e.u. canada and mexico president trump is threatening to deploy the military to stop a large group of people traveling towards the southern u.s. border some four thousand migrants began their journey in honduras on saturday and making their way through quantum allah and then mexico. and ripples. they've been hiking through muddy jungles. and crossing rivers traveling for a week now from honduras to guatemala determined to find sanctuary in the united states. i found was murder and criminal gangs threaten my daughter that's why i am leaving. many have left their homes to find

a safer place to live others only want to chance to work and earn a living. i don't know there were no jobs there was no work it was hard to live in honduras there was nothing to eat. and nothing will deter them not police forces nor border agents not even the threat from president donald trump to deploy the us military. they will not stop us only god can stop us donald trump is nobody even if he is the president of the united states will not stop us mexico has started processing the first of the migrants who arrive those with passports and visas will be allowed to enter others will have to apply to enter as refugees. and. we are a peaceful caravan and we're not hurting anyone on the street we're looking for a new life a better future. with thousands of kilometers until they reach the u.s.

border with mexico hope for better life continues to push these migrants north pole cheddar gian al-jazeera ecuador and venezuela have expelled each of us ambassador as it follows an accusation from a venezuelan government minister that the ecuadorian president lied about the number of migrants crossing the border over the million venezuelans of sled an economic and political crisis at home in recent he is at least five people have been killed to a missing off the flash flooding hit parts of heavy rain caused war says a rise in a number of cities in the north damaging homes and shops people have criticised authorities for failing to maintain drainage systems despite frequent torrential rains. california is planning to change its controversial sentencing system which has put many repeat offenders in prison for life as well brunell's reports now the state will allow thousands of inmates to seek perot. three strikes and you're out

the term taken from the american sport of baseball is spent in life behind bars for thousands of nonviolent repeat offenders in california studies indicate nonviolent inmates imprisoned under the law which was enacted in one nine hundred ninety four are disproportionately black and many are mentally ill some are serving life sentences for offenses as trivial as shoplifting stealing a bottle of liquor or possessing small amounts of narcotics now california plans to allow approximately four thousand third strike inmates to seek parole none are guaranteed release and a corrections department spokeswoman said they will undergo rigorous public safety screening before parole board decisions are made california voters approved changing the three strikes law two years ago but the state's governor jerry brown

has challenged the changes in court brown has agreed to drop further legal action lawyers representing nonviolent offenders sentenced under the law called the decision monumental what this really does is it recognizes that some of these people are the lowest risk prisoners and the california state prison system they have. done it immense amount of programming they've done i meant about education work while they're in prison and by by the prison systems own risk assessment these people are disproportionately low risk to re-offend once they're released in the community. state records show that nonviolent third strike prisoners released in an earlier round of paroles were much less likely to commit additional crimes once they were back in society. twenty seven u.s. states besides california have three strikes and you're out laws they were enacted during a time when it was very politically popular to appear tough on crime there had been

an epidemic of violence due to crack cocaine in many american cities in the late one nine hundred eighty s. and early one nine hundred ninety s. and these laws were passed at that time since then of course the crime rate nationwide has dropped very significantly and social scientists and criminologists are still trying to figure out the reasons for that decline rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. get the latest news sports and imus's and comment at the out to zero websites take a look at al-jazeera dot com. it is good to have you with us hello patriots that are going to. the top stories and i was there at the u.s. president has for the first time publicly acknowledged that saudi journalist jamal khashoggi is likely dead he hasn't been seen since entering the saudi consulate in

istanbul seventeen days ago donald trump says there will be severe consequences for saudi arabia if it's found to be responsible and the u.s. treasury secretary has become the latest cd official to withdrawal from an upcoming investment conference in saudi arabia the head of the i.m.f. as well as the prominent see those of several companies have already pulled out of the conference nicknamed davos in the desert. in afghanistan saturday's election in the southern province of kandahar has been delayed by a week after the taliban killed two senior officials in the city it happened just after this meeting between the most senior u.s. military officers in the country and afghan commanders the taliban says the american was the target among the dead is the afghan police commander general abdul rasyid who'd survived numerous attempts on his life the u.s. defense secretary jim mattis says that the attack won't 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 fight and done. but right now. we are going toward the election and we will continue to defend the people. ecuador and venezuela have expelled each other's ambassadors it follows an accusation of a venezuelan government minister that the ecuadorian president lied about the number of migrants crossing the border hundreds of thousands of venezuelans fled an economic and political crisis at home in recent years donald trump is looking to close america's southern border with mexico to stop what he says is an onerous lot of migrants that includes three thousand on durance making their way north through guatemala towards the border trump says he'll cause aid to guatemala honduras and el salvador if the authorities there fail to stop them he didn't hear the news for

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in rural india doctors can be part of fun. but crisscrossing the country's vast real wave is a hospital on wheels life bladed knife playing that's delivering medical care and hope to those who need it months to so what we learned of that initial. is lifeline express a last chance for a lot of people managing. it is one of the only johns for that job. in converted train carriages surgeons perform free operations there transforming patients larges a lot to get a little. done in the of it i now believe that. i know that i've got a heart. on steve on this episode when he's goes on board india's hospital train.

in india trains are so. of life. but there's one train like no one thought. the lifeline express. this train is a unique one hard. core entirely different concept. a team of surgeons and specialists cooks and claimants are about to embark on a six hour journey bringing health kids to those who can't afford it. it all happens on board these fully functioning hospitals on we've. very few minutes because i think there's a story in the water because they're operating here it was on the brain. that i was saw the world. has been in. there though basically. from our government.

here almost nine hundred million people believe in room villages where for most access to medical care is impossible. today much needed doctors and heading to the tour in the east in maharashtra. i don't. like their. vision of what they are going on. he in la tour this is social media.

critic of. the. popular will. as a sort of. a military station if their life most of villages will have never visited a doctor because they're too far away and too expensive. and i don't know. what . over the next few days the lifeline express team will perform as many operations as they can before the train is scheduled to depart the. word has spread fast. families trickle in from surrounding towns and villages

all hoping for a medical miracle. don't multiply like a. lot of. time but to be a part of iraq or not you're. done with me and. tell me what lies and because of how you feeling today well you know first time that i need to. know. the doctors are trying to identify omens that can be fixed on board the train. no one wants to miss out. doctors you have a screening you know a lot of patients so we're screening the patients like nadia examining the operating operation theatre live for will be in the operating them in next one or two days. it's pretty much organized chaos here today some families

have traveled up to four hours and me by villages today. all of them a desperate for just a few minutes but they still. remember the smell of the food on that. one i would download but the. doctor is an orthopedic surgeon from mumbai. he's examining two brothers with cerebral palsy to see if he can help. one of and. i tell you i. just because you didn't come off well operational. so it's all. right here. but he will be. here. if you don't believe him now

we're off by one of the former days of a good model that everybody would rather just start be forming the more those who are. it's good news for young and the d.t.s. both approved the surgery. for him as i'm here now cut out loud enough for me to be there so very like your number flashed or not not enough up on the reason he was typing the last time i'll learn one start up october not the fact that i like almost ominous allies so. some of the cost of the care had made a better i like. the doctors are here to treat a variety of conditions from cancer screenings to cataracts to the old into the young like four month old baby. who has a cleft lip. his mom is worried because he can't

breastfeed properly. suggest the risk where they need just the back of loan afford . them naked there is distorted talent that. they just put on a level and there it is. my them with asses and. gilead plastic surgery to join the muscles in his sleep. i don't want to talk about people may never know what i wanted out of her tell me about what a little bit about his low weight makes operating risk is we now know already you know he's one of. the plastics team is assessing whether his feet the surgery ever been following up on cough cough but there was something that was important to us

to find out that it's all going on we are to someone who points out the complete with the rabbit basically if you're going to. be able to get what i would have and often little bit of what. the doctors agree to go ahead. with as a screening to wrap up more than forty patients a selected for the surgery. back at home it's an anxious wait for the family of the two young brothers with cerebral palsy. so i. may. look up when i. look. at them at their mothers i look at that that then i. get looking off to seven year old riera and four year old d.t.'s is

a full time job. granting. a card from a girl so donna coelho is still a great time to look i want them on a greater government and i could've made so public i was either with them but will never know what to do no longer. valid i've had. of the damages done to another where they are to mine about their telemachus critic i wonder why jim reported on it and i've gotta come from can't remember the last october one for public authority of one or two local content and it is a designer never took a very good visual and i granted are you in. hardcover. and only two dollars a day. he's borrowed almost three thousand dollars seeking treatment for his son.

it will take years to pay back. a little to the plainly that's. done a lot later than the time without at the time a little bit of a night out at the end of the party i'm going to. he's just going to. back at the last line explain it's as busy as any bricks and mortar hospital. if you've got a year. even if i. run the trains head shift has lived and worked on board for a staggering twenty six. for years stuff personal car let alone didn't come at the gym. it didn't they tell by your doctor but i'm gonna go by that they were of the

need. for money but the people knew no. better or cooperate in our interference or to rob coming out of you know your comfort zone of operating a door made out of hospitals i did not tell anyone because it is our own premier our situation our new our are not many things but we are. going imitation of some of the people. can't imagine how people here are feeling tired they're anxious and in a minute they're going to walk through that door and hop on an operating table for

surgery that could change their life. and i'm doing a one because there's only one guess for me. i don't think i want anything else other than what you can look if. you're going to think this will come out having to start from really want to go try to go to the one hundred most of my brain and my heart with this with the issue. most business or with a little it might take me they want to change it most of. the planning. is walking on this story for one minute is a given to be able to either listen to the one going to tell you. about how much it . takes to us in our time off next. on the start.

it's a delicate surgery and. one wrong move and imputation when difficult to get possible for knowing. if i could come did i have would have voted of then and then but the moment. it comes with that i come to the extremist i want to understand it but it was north. korea going through this. regime and if they did all that much. to be found in their own heart my thought of talking through. the. i should go to one hundred. congress my only straight with the creation seem to be a simple incision manipulating the muscles and putting in

a plastic is the difference between that boy being able to walk and not you know that would. be. your right at all it's about me. i mean i want to shut out all the stress and the noise i mean there's a crying baby. going to come out and some are. unable. to leave. as soon as one patient is taken to recovery a new one is sedation. it's a nonstop chain of operations. including the brothers are sick since. you don't. have to. read about i feel stressed or not able to.

afford my favorite song starts ringing in my brain. or. my nose. job. john. what it. means. but because if you are beautiful. towards the. eastern front and then i think for more. today a young girl is having. to morrow will be baby out of steam but only four months old the risk will be much higher. i think. it would only be you know dr neil ish con help but think if he's on sun

every time he operates on a child out today i was very excited when he was born. almost offical years of automatic age because you want to be sure that. they can while the precautions of my child is not something i'm about to fix. bargains i don't want to get out. i'm lucky that my dad is absolutely normal so. i always got one company talk are always keeps on being me and i want to go out on a kid with a clip so. i try and you know as much as possible with those babies. how did he do treat the media more generally. we have all of them are ready all. of them. are accepting them over the whole.

thing there. are going to be of course for the family. which is very often some voted off father and mother out of her house bigger territory with us live. so when i do you know that are not the case but he could give me the time with us of hello. then my life going to give us a i had to part of this to copulate that time with us and under while i. wanted the i wish him but he asked he got it to me for him and maybe. because it superstitions around pregnancy. the fees she's close to baby. she hopes to die the doctors can break that could. mean we've got jeri's myself

initially when there's a lot mission pick and we'll be. patient but i think there have left us with me there been a lot of that i've got a big. heart. one day i did genuinely hope for. saying that. well know all the operation is scheduled to happen in less than an hour was. shot on board the train which doctors are debating whether or not they can go through with it. a physical examination by a local initiatives sed has revealed the baby out of has a chest infection previously infection of the lungs.

that sort of thing running nose. in our clinical. the operation khant go ahead. you called me a little ready you know i'm just a bit of you know. we really want to. project what are a million people in. one of. ours you know i'm a thirty seven on the top level and i'm not going to be long are here in the picture . i forgot my you can order one on one but i want it out there with a couple and don't push members of your friends are different but to that one from the body of the. manager is easy letting. us know what.

you know not a lesson that i didn't know about getting along. but on the job that i love to live another. it's been an emotional few days. after watching the success of sign many other operations all they can do is return home. for christmas to be greater and to get word of it all to share their easy there's no point putting the pressure on to this. story or start talking their years apart and. whilst one set of parents will go away with content another will leave overjoyed when the. dr neal is just cleft lip operation on the young girl was

a success just didn't care where it was all the males me from when i got to get office and go on the thing off to do last week i'm going to that i am. just going to have to maybe fifty you know i've been a deputy frontenac i'm going to give it. up i haven't got the speed up to get out of me that. i'm finding the name of the hobby you know what the ticket i don't want to meet betty what do you think lightning. rod but you know. that indiana in yemen i'm not really got. my heart my heart i got it i got it all are you planning. to get it. i'm going.

to get i think it will be a few more weeks before d.t.r. in view at costs are renewed. by the other. but when they do they were war and remember. that the. never been more or less. of them on the line they're going to. come to settle some of those again also a fan. of that. and. i'm going to. look for one. hundred twenty that. are going to run up on the. ground i have a degree that it did them just had one of them down while i lay on the lamp. there with their i one belonging on one of the line i thought if i went on.

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a signal the u.s. treasury secretary drops out of a crucial investment summit in riyadh after some european leaders also withdraw. in other news saturday's vote in afghanistan's kandahar province is suspended a day after the taliban killed the top two provincial officials and the poor the boston red sox have got the better the defending champions the houston astros defeated the astros the for one minute to reach baseball's fourth series. the u.s. president since the missing saudi journalist jamal showed she is probably dead he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul more than two weeks ago donald trump says there will be severe consequences for saudi arabia if it's found

to be responsible for the killing comes as more than forty members of the u.s. congress called for sanctions against saudi arabia in a letter to donald trump and the treasury secretary steve has added his name to the growing list of international figures who withdrawn from the forthcoming financial conference in riyadh so-called davos in the deserts will have more on that later here on the news first mike hanna wraps up all the developments from washington. it was a somber president trump who for the first time publicly acknowledged the possibility that jamal khashoggi is dead it certainly looks that way to me it's very sad very limited he says he still waiting for the results of various investigations but if there's evidence there will be serious consequences for saudi arabia have to be very severe i mean it's a bad beds. but we'll see what happens trumps comments followed

a meeting with the secretary of state might pump aoe who briefed the president on his meetings with saudi and turkish leaders there are lots of stories out there about what has happened we just going to allow the process to move forward. a lot of facts 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 directly and significantly straight after the meeting it was confirmed that treasury secretary steve minucci 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 well leaders are meeting in brussels to discuss a variety of issues affecting member states but some of the talk sub-zero ing in on what happened to jamal khashoggi france are suspended political visits and other e.u. leaders have also voiced concerns paul brennan joins us live now from brussels sir paul lots of e.u. leaders not giving the benefit of the doubt to anyone here.

know the fact they're actually here for the a.t.m. summit it's a wide ranging meeting talking about political economic and social and cultural connections between them at fifty one nations represented and the global reach of this summit covers sixty percent of the world's population is thirty european leaders and some twenty one leaders from asia but underneath all of that the jamal khashoggi controversy the concern about his fate and how he met is likely fate is not going away the pressure is relentless to put that the questions as to saudi arabia as to exactly how jim out disappeared and what's happened to him donald tusk perhaps summarized it best he's the president of the european council when he said we need a fair thought out and transparent in vest a geisha and we spoke to the luxembourg prime minister this morning he said this should be an investigation the first information we have is that is not very positive he said he kind of grimaced as he said it's in the case of just how

concerned the leaders are and that the strongest words i think have come from the french president and our macro in the british foreign secretary jeremy hunt let's have a listen. leafy. the facts we know today are mr g. extremely 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 decided to postpone political visits including that of our economy minister. we have been very clear yes we want to hear the results of this investigation we want to see if it's credible if it's independent but if the stories that we're reading turn out to be true will that have an effect on our relationship with saudi river yes it will because if these stores are true and it is still and if they would be totally convinced of our use and what we stand for as a country. saudi arabia thought that perhaps by buying time by

delaying any explanation it might get away with this somehow it's not happening the pressure is relentless here an explanation is going to be required and whether mike pompei o sets a couple more days or that the european leaders will agree a couple more days for saudi arabia to come up with that the nation the pressure is not going away you get the feeling however paul that behind the scenes e.u. leaders are maybe a little bit perplexed as to where they go to next with this because not going to for that investment conference is one thing unpicking multi euro billion dollar deals is quite another thing. yeah i mean for example the president trump the american president i mean he's made it quite clear that he's not a bat's a council of the large business deals the military deals that have been done with saudi arabia over the death of this journalist however high profile he may be

nevertheless there is a real challenge here at sunni values and i think jeremy hunt summarized it that where he said it you know if these stories are true let's be absolutely clear he said it would be not consistent with our values and that's what this boils down to is it enough to say well saudi arabia invested billions of dollars in our economy and some and many jobs depend on it can we thereby ignore transgressions such as this or is transgressions as are believed to have happened. it's. it's not going to be they're not going to ignore it anymore paul thanks very much. well foreign direct investment in saudi arabia had already fallen to historically low levels before she went missing but since the allegations is killing many multinational companies and individuals say they will boycott the saudi investment summit that we were just discussing they're due to be held in riyadh next week for the new matheson with more on the last week christine legarde the head of the international

monetary fund said she was still going to saudi arabia even though she was horrified at the disappearance of jamal her short gee now her office says her trip is being deferred jamie dimon the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan chase has also pulled out it's had eighty five years of business in saudi arabia and began by helping us oil firms start up their stephen schwartz one chief executive of blackstone isn't going either he said to have been one of the first western finance is to actively court crown prince mohammed bin salman bill ford of the ford motor company has pulled out two he's blaming conflict ford was hoping to boost sales to saudi arabian women were allowed to drive. media companies including c n.b.c. financial times c.n.n. and the new york times have also withdrawn so have some banks including h.s.b.c. . and so cities in iraq some countries have said they won't be sending trade

delegations but it's important to remember this just because key individuals might not be going that doesn't guarantee their organizations or their countries won't be represented u.s. treasury secretary steven minocin and the multinational conglomerate softbank chose to wait before making a decision this conference was a chance for the saudis to resuscitate the business confidence which has been slacking off in certain sectors for months some investors may now need a lot of persuading. live not serious stan bull and correspondent charles stratford charles what's the latest on the investigation. when the last hour or so the foreign minister. who has made a comment on a visit during a visit to macedonia saying that turkey has knowledge released any recording to

anybody reference there we think obviously to the recent visit the last couple of days by the u.s. secretary of state also interest in the saying that it's evidence that is being gathered from here the consulate and we understand the consul general down the road he's now in the border trees and he's being examined the foreign minister saying that that the results of that analysis will be released as soon as it's finished to the world we've also heard in the last twenty four hours from obviously the justice minister here who said that tookie was acting with patience with the saudis and that he was acting according to international law in its terms of exactly what this evidence is that is being reported by government leaks to have been found at the consulate and the consul general's home we understand that they involved pool solvers that were found at the consul general's home that according to these leaks matched samples found here at the consulate no more details than that we cannot say

were they were blood samples clothing whatsoever also certainly government leaks saying that fingerprints are believed to have been found from six of the fifteen members of this team that the key to this investigation these fifteen key suspects fingerprints including those from the autopsy expert mr toby keith obviously a very high profile suspect in this group we also understand that there's a lot of focus being put on exactly where these vehicles went. there have been reports earlier mentioning that to the search may have gone outside to areas outside of istanbul certainly police sources this morning telling us that there were no searches going on in those recorded areas as all today but as we've been reporting the longer this goes on the more pressure there is on saudi arabia from the international community and indeed the more pressure there is on turkey to

start putting even more pressure on the saudis to come together in this investigation and release these results charles thanks very much twitter has deleted multiple accounts which have been tweeting the same pro saudi government message about the case the accounts were taken violating spam rules the u.s. broadcast network handed over a list of accounts to the twitter company some e a shot is an associate professor of middle eastern studies at the university of oklahoma he says the bots were created to influence public opinion inside saudi arabia the tweets were both in arabic and in english but this crisis has not only affected how people outside of saudi arabia look at ramadan so mine there is a great fear i think inside saudi arabia that this will negatively affect his party larry in standing inside the kingdom especially if there are negative economic consequences associated.