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 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 reported 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 earshot 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 sol month 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

if 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 on in the saudi government responsible for this and therefore not to blame them for this crisis amnesty international is calling on tennis stars to withdraw from an exhibition much shuttled for saudi arabia in december the king solomon tennis championship was announced shortly after the disappearance of jamal khashoggi rafa nadal and novak djokovic shall set to take home at least a million dollars for the one off match in the city of jeddah. plenty mostly to come for you here on the news hour including iraq's government looks a different way to help women whose husbands have been killed. and we'll look at what's expected from an asian security summit in singapore plus.

in the sports news le bron james makes a big impact on his n.b.a. debut for the los angeles lakers. people in afghanistan are set to vote in parliamentary elections on saturday the voters in the southern province of kandahar will have to wait one more week to cost a ballot that's because of an attack in the region that killed two senior officials on thursday it happened at a meeting between the most senior u.s. military officers in the country and afghan commanders among the dead is general abdul aziz the taliban claimed responsibility and is vowing to do you rail the election and target anyone who votes it is a crucial poll because the election on saturday already been delayed for three years because of security concerns and voter registration reforms the u.s. defense secretary james masses as the killing of the top afghan security commander

will not shake american commitment i've met general. if the 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 election and we will continue to defend the people. shelob ellis is a correspondent covering the elections for us in kabul those comments mr massa's charlotte we had a chance to gauge how they are being received by afghans because they've heard this kind of thing before. we have heard this kind of thing before i think what's what's really on afghans mind is is how concerned they are with that with kind of eighteen hours to go before these polls is will they vote or not is the real question that

they're worried about in kandahar as you see the elections have been delayed one week this is the statement from the presidential palace saying that after this attack yesterday that they have talked to people in kandahar they've talked to the election commission and they just don't think it's appropriate they can't ensure people safety so that's going to fix six to seven hundred thousand virtues to more or this attack yesterday has really shaken people especially in kandahar it was a meeting of top officials top u.s. officials general miller who's a top commander here in afghanistan commanding oh you waste nato forces in this meeting he escaped unharmed although two americans were hurt. and top officials the intelligence chief was killed and the police chief was killed his name his general rasik his much loved people across afghanistan in changing their facebook profile pictures today to his face because he had fought the taliban socially a slave for the last twenty years he's survived many attacks and he has died in this gun battle yesterday his military precision his funeral has just finished

a thousand people out on the streets regardless of how dangerous it is in kandahar they came out police officers his subordinates wailing on the streets so distraught that somebody they regard as such a hero or has been killed and for the voters who want to exercise their democratic rights is another reminder that in afghanistan when you go to an appeal when you go to the polling booth you can be literally taking your life in your hands because you want to be able to cast a ballot. and it is a very very real question and people are saying was it to the point that what time should i go is at least dangerous to vote at seven am when they open or to praise or or as they're closing what is the safest time for me to take this chance the election commission is really trying to reassure people that please trust us we have taken precautions we were at the election commission compound this morning as

they were loading up dozens of trucks with all the polling materials heading out into the five hundred fifty polling seem to see across kabul and they were i've never seen anything like it out here i mean it would commandos police trucks guns everywhere to protect these parliamentarians and try to create some type of confidence that they can ensure security not just europe but across the country the fear is that it may surprise her to know that we talked to one family in the western suburbs of dusty budget's a shia minority area and they have been head of the ticket at this this year by isolated hex more so than anywhere else in kabul and they say it's beyond the safety in the security issues to mar the attacks have just made us feel like the government doesn't represent us they're not protecting us and because of that we will not force to mar his this story. a teenage girl's bedroom void of life this ridge is with 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 find her i missed two of them and this with hoping that. if lho was alive it would make her more at peace. they lives in dusty but she says she a neighborhood in western kabul this year it suffered a series of islip text would reveal a school mosques a sports club and an election regis trenchant seem to be on the one hundred eighty people who dies it's killed their belief in the government my father told me that i'm really not interested in this election and i myself also i'm really not interested in this election because we have lost our hope from just system from discover and fondest member of parliament afghanistan shia minority has been

overrepresented in parliament they hold twenty percent of seats and yet they say they feel forgotten and vulnerable some have even creating their own militia i saw is the biggest threat initially in neighborhoods prices have flooded into afghanistan after the 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 esoteric rift and use that to their advantage. rather keep. them out of them but. if the general turn out specially or she is 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 represent them but for people like him the damage is done and i cannot cry in the homes to the top rooftop i cry some person woman that

a comeback. the silence echoes from her now empty room to what's become where he lives library. in the last six weeks on the top floor of the mosque a four thousand books from fellow shia they say with the government has failed them education succeeded when i can you know i feel really low was in here when she was in here but they feel she's here politically they will be silent but we're healers presence is defining. issue here. so so so incredibly set that story and it is it is a far too frequent story that we hear and there will be a lot of people in afghanistan watching stories like this hearing stories like this watching the attack you stay going will i be another simply by exercising my right

to vote tomorrow charlotte thank you. thousands of palestinian protesters are expected to turn out for weekly friday protests in the gaza israeli border fence now this comes as an egyptian delegation meant both israeli and hamas officials with hopes of mediating a lasting cease fire in the region brokered talks came after a rocket was fired from the gaza strip that destroyed a house in the city of be a shiba on weapons they are a force it is our correspondent there is in just east of gaza city area as hamas responding to israel's warnings and the show of force. well indeed israel has displayed a pretty big show of force with columns of tanks arriving in the last day or so on the other side of the border fence and just here at this protest site where protests city to take place in a little over four hours' time they're also making preparations or bulldozers there are soldiers as indeed putting extra layers of barbed wire in place and preparing

gaps for any military action that might follow there is a very severe warning being given by the israelis to hamas that any repeat of what we've seen in previous weeks with in terms of people breaching the fence will be met in a much more forceful manner it's a warning that's also been given through the egyptian negotiators the we're talking about the second in command of the egyptian intelligence service spoke to extremely senior members of the israeli security establishment on thursday and he and his delegation have come back into gaza to convey those warnings to hamas so the question for hamas really is twofold whether it intends to try to reign in these protests certainly the mosques have been giving the usual kind of encouragement to people to come here and the other protest sites up and down the border. but also whether it has the capability to try to rein them in whether it can have the kind

of numbers here that would suggest to the people here because they're under political pressure here in gaza as well to maintain these protests if they simply give them up without gaining anything that would be a major defeat so can they have a protest here at this site while still controlling people and prevent them from getting too close to the border fence that's one of the key questions today what happens if the people get to the fence and then somehow manage to get through the fence. well i think to some extent it's a matter of degree whether they do so in in the same numbers as they have been in recent weeks or whether if that if some people do get through if those numbers are much smaller if they are smaller than potentially that gives the israelis and outs but the israelis have painted themselves into a bit of a corner here as well if there is the same kind of thing that has happened in recent weeks then they have promised a much bigger military response and we have these tanks on the other side of the border we have apparently new rules of engagement whereby soldiers are being told that they can fire on people at a much longer range i.e.

further away from the border fence than in previous weeks more forceful action promised against launches of in century kites and balloons as well so if such a response does come from the israelis if that leads to major casualties then hamas itself its military wing the arc of some brigades has issued its own warning saying that it will respond as world showing a video of its rocket launchers and rockets saying don't misread us to the israelis so really a lot depends on how today's protests play out whether there is a major escalation on the israeli side how that is met by the gazan side by hamas as well so for all that both sides are saying they don't want a full escalation to war a lot depends on what happens today in terms of whether we spill in that direction harry thank you very much indonesia is threatening to cut ties with australia over a plan to relocate its embassy in israel the australian prime minister says he's considering the move from tel aviv to jerusalem and that's despite

a warning that the shift may provoke protests in gaza and the west bank and thomas has more now from sydney. a spokesperson for in these years foreign affairs ministry said that the issue of palestine is very important in the sea 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 in the 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 now scott morrison

australia's prime minister announced that he was considering moving australia's embassy in israel on chu state and that immediately spot that he's asian but he was doing it for political reasons on saturday there was 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 board 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 bought 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 has been decided. in just a few moments we'll have the weather for you with stuff but also still ahead here

on al-jazeera from guatemala to mexico donald trump threatens to deploy the military to stop a large group of migrants headed for the u.s. . three. reich's on life in prison will examine why california is changing its controversial sentencing rules. and in the sport after two weeks of competition argentina says goodbye to the country's biggest sporting spectacle in four decades. from long flowing island winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello there for some of us around the mediterranean it's been incredibly stormy recently we've had deadly floods in new york and also in the southern parts of france and now it's cost of east in spain which is in the firing line sort out of this huge area of cloud here that's across many eastern parts of the country and

around four or five o'clock yesterday afternoon the rain really started for some of us and we're already seeing situations like this the flood water clearly getting higher and higher and looking rather concerned and there's more still to come so here's the cloud there on the satellite picture you can see it circulating around the eastern part but also there's yet more cloud around the south as well and that's going to become more of a feature as we head through the next twenty four hours or so so that sucks today and we really have to worry about that for today though you can see where the bright red is on our warnings chop that's where there's the greatest risk of seeing some severe weather they could be around two hundred millimeters of rain just in twelve hours and more on top of that so off to the twelve hours could be another hundred milliliters so that will give us a problem with flooding if it happens so yet more wet weather for lng at the moment you see the bright blue blobs there but as we head into saturday the eastern part actually begins to dry up and the clouds there begin to break up instead it's the south where we going to see some severe weather also extending into the northern

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter dobbie these are the headlines here on the news the u.s. president has for the first time publicly acknowledged the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi is likely to be dead he hasn't been seen since entering the saudi consulate in istanbul seventeen days ago. there will be severe consequences for surgery arabia if it's found to have been responsible. the u.s. treasury secretary has become the latest senior official to withdraw from a forthcoming investment conference in riyadh the head of the i.m.f.

and many prominent c.e.o.'s have already pulled out of the conference is otherwise known as 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 there it happened just after this meeting between the most senior u.s. military officer in the country and afghan commanders the taliban says the american general was the target. but to our top story the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomons rapid political rise took the international community by surprise in the past eighteen months he's consolidated his power and attempted to project himself as a reformer and a modernizer but he has shoji case has swung the spotlight on to other policies he's led as well as door such a body. since his debut on the world stage it's been a rapid rise for saudi crown prince mohammed bin samon in two thousand and fifteen seemingly out of nowhere the twenty nine year old favorite son of saudi arabia's

king solomon been up to lizzie's was appointed defense minister he became chief architect of saudi arabia's military intervention in yemen a campaign of aerial bombardment that has helped create what the u.n. calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. human rights organizations accuse the saudi led coalition of bombing civilian targets such as hospitals and schools in saudi arabia where most of the population is under thirty been so man has been heralded as a man who would bring much needed economic and social reforms but that's changed in recent months however no hell of a sermon with with the with general has it's come about at a time when reforms have been slowing down he gave women the right to drive but imprison women activists there are still many reforms that have been take been very slow in implementing in saudi arabia and people quite frankly have run out of patience with regards to mohammed vincent met in june last year mohammed bin some

on that the blockade against qatar creating the worst crisis in the g.c.c. since its inception in november saudi security forces arrested several hundred business leaders and senior royals many had to pay billions of dollars to secure their release the saudi government called it an anti-corruption purge but analysts said that this was mohamed bin solomon's way of removing people who could potentially pose a threat to his power and also a way to raise much needed funds for a struggling economy. later that same month saudi forces detained lebanese prime minister saad hariri on a visit to the kingdom it took weeks before he was released. in march of this year mohamed bin some on visited the united states the whirlwind tour and charm offensive led to largely favorable coverage in the international media helping the

crown prince sell his image as a reformer who would open saudi arabia up to innovation and investment since then a range of other civil society activists and clerics have been jailed observers say saudi arabia's strategic relationship with western powers is a delicate one to balance i think the problem that the white house has and indeed what a lot of european allies have is that there are a lot of cases going on in the region a lot of crises in which saudi arabia is a major player and is required to be a major ally this includes issues regarding iran this includes issues in yemen this includes issues regarding palestine and israel now with the jamal khashoggi suspected murder inside the saudi consulate in istanbul causing more international outrage critics wonder if the saudi crown prince can survive the scrutiny. for such a party al jazeera there are concerns about how an economic slowdown in china may

affect the global economy new figures just the world's second biggest economy grew by six point five percent in the third quarter of this year the weakest growth period since the global financial crisis in two thousand and nine china started coming under pressure because of the war the u.s. trade war the trumpet ministration put tariffs on more than two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of its exports to singapore where the u.s. defense secretary james mattis is attending a regional security summit heading there after his trip to afghanistan there has been increased tensions with china after the u.s. sent to b. fifty two bombers over the disputed south china sea brought mcbride has more now from singapore. this gathering of defense ministers from southeast asia is an annual event to discuss regional security issues but as is often the case with these events it's the small the bilateral meetings taking place on the sidelines that provide more interest and the focus this year is upon the meeting between the

u.s. defense secretary james mattis and his chinese counterpart. given the deteriorating state of relations between the united states and china we don't know exactly what was discussed what was the outcome but the fact that they met at all is being seen as progress here given the fact that mattis is a visit to beijing where he was meant to meet with way that was canceled as their relations have deteriorated with the u.s. accusing china of meddling in its elections of stealing get military technology and more pressingly for the delegates here at this meeting accusing the chinese of a military build up in the south china sea both the united states and china seem to accept that keeping high level relations going between their two defense ministers is important as a way of diffusing any possible clashes in the future or misunderstandings as we

saw recently in the past couple of weeks with a very near collision between two warships in the south china sea still the united states insists that it will continue to carry out what it calls these freedom of navigation exercises exercising what it sees as its right to send its warships through these waters and also its aircraft with to be fifty two bombers carrying out a patrol across the south china sea within the past few days. now it has one of the youngest to moccasins anywhere in the world and now bhutan has chosen a new government the dnd tea party got a narrow victory over its main rival in the national assembly it's only the first democratic election held by this himalayan kingdom is there with his report from pyro democracy in action high in the himalayas it is a colorful occasion national dress must be warned ten years ago the former king of bhutan ordered the country to embrace democracy is the nation's third election like

three times ancient traditions democracy is now also a fiercely guarded part of booting the society jobs the a bar mint and economic growth are all at the forefront of voters' concerns. the main issues facing us farmers are safe drinking water supply irrigation water and agriculture it's also important to look after youth many of whom are unemployed . the most important thing in this election is voting for a party or a candidate that would make my nation economically srong and would best look after the welfare of the people of bhutan for sharing it's a time to be friends she remembers the days before democracy before time opened up to the outside world. things were really great under the monarchy and happiness and the country enjoyed great progress whichever party which there

must be no hatred or division among our people. voters chose between two political parties the d.t.p. which formed the first government in two thousand and eight and the d n t political newcomers there's little separating the politically at the center of every party's political manifesto is the pursuit of happiness. it's the only country in the world to measure success not through economic output but through gross national happiness which translates as good governance a balance between work and pleasure economic growth and nature it's a pursuit that has its roots of buddhism widely practiced bhutan. the country is steeped in tradition and belief in the past ten years has had to contend with a new ideology democracy return has seen the type of confrontational sometimes divisive politics that exists in neighboring india the world's largest democracy

and elsewhere in the world and is worried about it coming here there are also concerns over social media's impact on politics and traditions election candidates have even complained about fake news appearing online many boutin are still waiting to see where their pursuit of happiness and the road of democracy meet leave barca out zero power. at least five people have been killed and two are missing after flash floods hit parts of heavy rain caused waters to rise in a number of cities in the north damaging homes and shops locals have criticised the authorities for failing to maintain drainage systems despite frequent torrential rain you know as president threatening to deploy the military to stop a big group of people travelling towards the southern us border some four thousand migrants began their journey in honduras on saturday they're making their way through guatemala and then mexico is paul to judge again.

they've been hiking through muddy jungles. and crossing rivers traveling for a week now from hong tourists to quad amala determined to find sanctuary in the united states you know i may have already bought my son was murdered 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. and 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 a threat from president donald trump to deploy the u.s. 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 where we are a peaceful caravan and we're not hurting anyone right in 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 chador gian al jazeera now there are at least a million widows in iraq after decades of conflict and war has left them so breadwinners and many are struggling to make ends meet but a new government designed to assist them is proving controversial mom of the reports now from baghdad. a man lost eight members of her family in the conflict and including her husband has been left to bring up three children or. she says he

was divorced heated up fast but the experience was broken she now walks in these places to shop in a suburb of the couple. 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 has to me to do one million widows in 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 there all these women have no salaries and no source of income to raise their children we are giving them skill stable them to eventually gain much needed income and relevance in the society the sweet old husband is called.