seeing it over the khashoggi case on of donald trump's closest allies the billionaire investor tom barrett is the latest high profile figure to drop out organizers say the event will have a revised program now including heads of state from the arab world africa and asia or exxon farm on from eon is a politics and international studies electric cambridge university here in the u.k. she joins me in the studio so clearly a great deal of politics and diplomacy surrounding the case are we ever likely to see definitive evidence made public on what happened and who was behind it. we may not get definitive that's certainly a good question but i think we still are expecting quite a bit more it seems that there are several investigations taking place and the interesting element of that is that the saudi one has had a postponement of the deadline now obviously when secretary of state went to riyadh and put a deadline on the investigation part of the reasoning behind that would be to try

to remove the story from the headlines so that the policy that the administration had could move forward and focus on the iran sanctions and containing iran with saudi is some kind of large ally in this particular case they're not succeeding because it remains on the the headlines by postponing this investigation clearly it's going to stay there right and so then how constrained is the trump administration in its ability and its willingness to respond to the death of khashoggi with midterm elections just around the corner and as you say iran sanctions coming into falls which is likely to push oil prices higher well this is one of those extraordinary events that comes along and it simply turns the kaleidoscope on all of the pieces somehow fall into different places and i think that's very much what we're seeing we're seeing a. very great deal of reorganization in terms of how the lead

up to the election in the united states was planned to go we're seeing a difference in the way that the iran sanctions story is being held forth and we're also seeing that there's been a reorganization among the different leaderships in the middle east in terms of their relationships arise and certainly the visibility of air to one who is continuing to drip drip every day we're getting a little bit more information and then certainly the relationship between the saudi arabian government. family with its neighbors and also internally. we keep hearing the trump of ministration whether it's pompei all the president himself saying that they are considering a variety of options in response to the death of khashoggi the implication is that that does not necessarily include punitive action around arms deals well certainly not from what president trumps just

a few minutes ago because his emphasis on the four hundred fifty billion that the deal was bringing to the united states along with over half a million jobs was clearly a focus and in fact it becomes something that one wonders upon hearing him mention it so often whether he is in quoting the the cost of a life to that particular number because it was so frequently mentioned in his words and i think that's just the type of thing that incites and sense of so as the the cause of the congress which is probably why he is turning to them to start being responsible for taking measures here as always thank you for your analysis roxanne farm on for me on from cambridge university thank you so had for you on this news hour from london the united states says it's concerned about interference in next month's midterm elections as it charges a russian woman with conspiracy to conduct information warfare saturday's election

for a new afghan parliament is delayed by a week in kandahar province after its powerful police chief is assassinated also. in school with a bomb james makes a big impact on his n.b.a. debut for the los angeles lakers. at least sixty two people have died off to a train pound into a crowd in india's no. in punjab state or than two hundred others were injured the accident happened on the outskirts of the state's largest city of amritsar victims were standing on the railway track watching a fireworks display during a religious festival a did not hear of an oncoming train and jobs chief minister has called for an investigation into the accident and tomorrow morning going to them to meet with leaders who are being covered privately boardin dead and in.

others the state is concerned. everybody has been shifted into organization who are required and ordered have been injured are being taken to hospitals where they were going to be and or government and government is going to benefit. in the meantime is an old order where is the way this incident has taken place or even dissing robin is a local journalist he joins us from the hospital and. have you had a chance to gather much information about the injured how they're being treated can you tell us about the situation inside the hospital at the moment. people the most of the people those who got minor they did is they already been discharged from the hospital. few of those were actually critically they were shifted to private hospitals for getting better treatment. just wanted to tell you

the injured people those who are. in a big number that is around one hundred fifty doubt the. civil hospital that number has decreased to around sixty patients but twenty three bodies are still lying in hospital at the most the people are coming to recognize to take away the bodies of the relatives those who carried i just came across one patient. he told me that his daughter thirty year old granddaughter one and a half year old they also died and. they were not even touched by the plane it was according to him they died because of the stamp after accident are we getting a clearer picture of how these people many thousands had gathered for the festival itself how a crowd of people came to be on an active railway track. actually

this was not the first time the. gathering was every year the fireworks on the show . they had a festival they gathered. by the railway tracks this was not the first time but this was yes number was increased that the timing was a bit late the usual time. the same time as. the organizer for the t.v. nearby the track so the people who could not come inside the premises of the area where the actually. he was born where the fireworks they were standing at the track of the second watching. t.v. . at the same time the crackers for exploring the team. just got into the track as they could not even got time to escape or run away from

the track right well thank you very much rivendell saying robin brain after all the latest on that accident there in punjab province in amritsar. now the election for afghanistan's next parliament will go ahead on saturday but not in kandahar province where voting has been the spode for a week after a major attack on thursday a taliban gunman killed by the head of police and intelligence chief shortly after a high level meeting with a top u.s. commander reports we're going to ask for. the military precision for one of the most well known police chiefs in afghanistan general abdul rizieq. general rizzi was a powerful and very respected man and his death is a big loss for us we the people of kandahar all united i will say the achievements

made by general abizaid in the past year is. because he could survive to many assess a nation of tapes as close to the rank of general but he was also regarded as being tough on the telephone human rights watch he described him as kandahar as torture and truth and he was involved in human rights abuses of suspected taliban detainees regardless he was well respected by the u.s. and afghan leadership it's the loss of a patriot but we remade absolutely committed. to an afghan led afghan reconsolidation. we need to find who's done this. but right now. we are going toward election and we will continue to defend the people the attack happened after this meeting of top u.s. commanders in kandahar provincial limited's not long after these pictures were recorded the gunman launched a surprise attack the provincial intelligence chief was killed until americans

wounded general miller the man in charge of all u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan escaped unharmed when he returned to kabul image security forces to boost morale he said today's parliamentary elections revealed on . the this about the attack but my assessment is that i was not the target it was a very close confines. but i don't i don't assess that i was a target the taliban has promised to disrupt the elections and in kandahar it has succeeded by those sort of call the by they could of after the tragic incident in come to harbor took place the afghan independent election commission has decided to delay the election for a week in the come to hard province. but for the rest of afghanistan the show goes on polling materials have been distributed under armed guard to more than five thousand seem to summation why with polls scheduled to open it's seven am local on the eve of a much delayed vote afghans must ask themselves what democracy means to them the

taliban has promised to attack polling centers afghan and nato forces have promised prevent such attacks turnout on saturday will tell whoever believed chela bellus al-jazeera couple. blank is a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace he was previously deputy special representative for afghanistan and pakistan during the obama administration joins us live from washington now thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us how important is it that elections have been delayed in this crucial southern province of afghanistan in kandahar province and what does that tell us about the situation in the country right now. well i think it's it's important not to exaggerate a single week still in kandahar of course there's likely to be a much longer delay in gaza need if that election in fact ever takes place so rather than focusing on one week and

a possible delay in the results i would just say that what this incident shoes is that the security situation in afghanistan is really the problem and this election i don't think offers much of a solution but that's precisely the point isn't it logistically it's not possible for this election to go ahead in kandahar province but you have the taliban calling for people to boycott the election there is almost certainly a climate of fear in the country how disruptive an effect might that the taliban have on these elections well i think the taliban has already had an extremely disruptive effect on the election not only in kandahar but i understand that a very large number of polling stations are not even sleeted to open as a result of violence in the country i think we can hope that the taliban doesn't actually attack civilians as they seek to vote tomorrow that is not something they've done a huge amount of in previous elections i think it would be

a politically desperate and dangerous act for them and obviously a humanitarian tragedy for all of the rest of us these elections have been delayed repeatedly and every one is watching them very closely because it seen as a dry run before crucial presidential elections take place in april two thousand and nineteen what is your sense about how the coming weeks and months and likely to play out. well i think that rather than being a dry run these elections are more likely a distraction from the presidential election afghanistan only has so much attention to pay to politics and to electoral processes if the past is any precedent it will take a long time for the afghans to sort through their results this election just be literally counting the ballots but also figuring out the political implications that's time attention and energy that should rather be spent right now in trying to build

a conciliatory set of presidential tickets so that that much more important election next year goes better than previous presidential elections have and yet security remains the overarching issue in the country. over a decade after foreign intervention we see the afghan army and the police unable to deal with taliban attacks which have been on the rise this year not least in the capital itself you're exactly right that the issue in afghanistan is that there is a civil war underway and every political step in the country should be judged by the yardstick of whether or not it is likely to contribute to a just and peaceful resolution of that conflict it's very hard for me to see how tomorrow's parliamentary elections can be positively judged by that yardstick which aired blank appreciate your thoughts on this story thank you very much from the

khan again down an international place you thousands of migrants have massed on guatemala's northern border of torn down a fence and storm towards the bridge into mexico migrants from guatemala honduras and el salvador have been walking north to the united states in a so-called caravan that's despite threats from u.s. president donald trump. but he might deploy the military to stop them from crossing the country's southern border let's get more from al jazeera producer. who is on the guatemala mexico border just tell us about what happened this morning and what you've been seen them. i have. three hours to go so thousands of migrants mostly don't do and try to close from the outside which is what a mile or so seen through these reeds to the mexican side they were doing so peacefully but they were stalked in the middle of the bridge by next to complete the magnets got angry and or started throwing stones under the make some police answered back.

so it was a deal for a valiant class there was some ground from germany from families it was it was a little scary because there were a lot of children and a lot of women that were sent back to the queue so they couldn't get wounded. after that clash police over loudspeakers told them to just calm down they said they would they would listen to everyone they would pay them to shelters or they've got a true love about an hour from me and they said they had food and water for everyone but they couldn't do so if they didn't come down he's been waiting here for about three hours like i spent about three baskets already came in and two mothers and young children and seniors are really sort of shelters and raised i don't know whether you can see them by the face of the migrants i feel standing on that bridge what's likely to happen to them. we just spoke to migration are sorry to say and they say that they have spoken to them my grandfather went in touch with them even when they were somalia and migration

authorities say that most of them want to stay in mexico and that they know they will be listened to and they will be given the chance to apply for a humanitarian relief for asylum but when you speak to my gran she really most of them tell you that they are fleeing violence that if you always tell you that there's no platoon in the country and not not all of them want to stay in mexico another told many of them will tell you that they want to close to the u.s. . so my guess i think you are going to speak with them even that they won't be allowed to leave these. in mexico if they get caught in the northern border they will be sent back they will use a project and i wonder how things are why because your state pompei want to reiterate that i like to close our foreign minister wear me and they wear the strategy and they were actually saying that it was saying that makes you go and us are close to a crisis but to return the crisis point as you please is my creation. and

power driggers ensure that jill dougherty thank you very much. still ahead this hour in the o.r. i mean to gather for a memorial and funerals for the twenty students and teachers killed in an attack dubbed the russian colombine a new museum in washington d.c. reveals a day in the life of east offices in the united states at a time when policing and police shootings are under intense scrutiny journalist beware the fine munich he won't stand for any disrespect find out why sport. i am. the one. hello there we've got some severe weather with us over parts of europe at the moment the heaviest of the rains have been in the eastern parts of spain or out of

this area of cloud here they've given us relentless downpours incredibly heavy and we have seen some flooding now as we head through the day on saturday actually the east dries up a bit instead we're going to see some particularly heavy downpours in the south so that's where the most risk of flooding then as we head into sunday actually the rain breaks up a little bit it shouldn't be quite as heavy but there's still going to be some very lively downpours there at times elsewhere across europe we've got predominantly dry weather lots of thawing weather to be found but not for all of us of course we've got one weather system that's making its way up towards norway the heavy rain there force on sunday we've also got increasing areas of cloud in the eastern parts of europe giving some fairly shop showers here particularly on sunday and now for the northern parts of africa in the east it's largely fine and dry but in the west we're also being affected by that area of wet weather the parts of spain so expect some very heavy downpours over parts of morocco again on saturday sunday looking like a brighter day as the main area of that wet weather moves away towards the north

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people have died after a train plowed into a crowd watching festival fireworks in india's northern punjab state or than two hundred people were injured and thousands of central american migrants massed on guatemala's northern border having torn down a fence and rush towards the bridge into mexico. now united states nor enforcement and intelligence say they are concerned about attempts by russia china iran and other foreign groups to interfere with next month's midterm elections now this is the first official acknowledgement of potential interference with the midterms following accusations of russian influence in the election of donald trump two years ago it comes as a russian woman elena. is charged with conspiracy to conduct information will fare against the u.s. including to influence next month's vote for bill schneider is a public policy professor at george mason at george mason university joins me now from washington thank you very much for joining us i'm not sure if you've had

a chance to look at these court documents but nonetheless one of these latest charges reveal about the nature of foreign interference in the american political system. this appears to be a very strong and concerted effort on the part of a lot of russians some of whom are very close to president putin a russian oligarch who's known as putin's chef because he runs a catering service apparently has funded this very large effort project locked up in st petersburg it isn't hacking into american election systems but what it's doing is running ads on social media facebook and twitter very divisive ads trying to divide americans and create tension and controversy in the united states ahead of the midterms you can't say that they're particularly pro or anti trump they're just doing anything they can to create more tension and more division in american politics given the nature of this disruption and the kind of capitalizing on

discord and divisions that are already in place in place realistically is there anything. that can be done to prevent this sort of thing. well a united states senator on the senate intelligence committee has said today that it shows we need guard rails on our social media i'm not sure what that means exactly but there is a lot of discussion about what can be done by these businesses which are independent in private social media to prevent foreign influence from coming in buying advertising time on our social media which gets to millions of americans particularly politically engaged americans and stirs up controversy that's the whole point they create tension and they stir up controversy which probably in the russians estimation weakens the united states and leads to the outcome they want which is the united states more or less withdraws from world affairs because there's so much tension in american politics at home right but then the discussion

about putting god rails on the kind of thing that is acceptable or not is part of that debate doesn't that also turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy in the sense that it raises ethical questions about whether this could lead to crackdown or a kind of tightening on free speech instead of dissemination of different ideas and opinions whether it be online or elsewhere. you said the key phrase free speech is guaranteed by the american constitution and americans are very very cautious about anything that can be looked at as looked on as a limitation on free speech you know in this case it involves foreign influence which is quite illegal that's why the woman was given a criminal charge by the justice department this is not the special counsel that who's investigating foreign influence russian mostly influence in the twenty sixteen campaign this is the twenty eight hundred campaign the vote that's going to

take place in less than three weeks so this is something very current and it's a justice department criminal charge it is not the moeller investigation into the twenty sixteen election but yes it does create a problem a backlash in the united states because the people who run the social media sites like facebook are very reluctant to do anything that can be accused where they can be accused of limiting free speech oh it's always good to talk to you thank you very much bill schneider joining us there from washington. over a wonder is announced that women will make up half of its twenty six seat cabinet making it one of the well few gender balance governments comes days off to ethiopia announce that women would make up fifty percent of its cabinet under is already received international recognition for female representation in government with women making up sixty one percent of parliament members at least two hundred thirty people have been injecting gaza with two in a critical condition after protests continued along the border fence with israel

seventy seven of the injured protesters were hit by live israeli fire demonstrators have been setting ties alight and throwing stones at israeli troops during friday protests and egyptian delegation has met both israeli and hamas representatives hoping to mediate a last and cease fire. well to crimea now where thousands of gathered in the central square of the city of had a memorial service for the victims from wednesday's school shooting twenty people were killed when a student detonated a bomb and opened fire at coach polytechnic a suspected attacker was found dead from a self-inflicted wound russian president vladimir putin has blamed the mass shooting on globalization. can usually get shoes and you blew your courage will no longer be the same as be fool that's for sure fear is always present everyone has children as far as i know the presence is quite low in schools on thursday parents left their children at home. china has reported its weakest growth since the global

financial crisis country's economy grew six percent in the third quarter down from six point seven percent in the second quarter the slump is being blamed on a year long campaign to tackle debt and the trade war with the us china is the news here there are signs of slowing growth in china a move got to remember that the us is a relatively close economy i think exports in the u.s. is something like just ten percent of g.d.p. meaning that the u.s. was it will see some costs from the trade wars is not going to feel an impact tenzing like as biggest china now the u.s. justice department has opened an investigation into child sex abuse by priests in pennsylvania a church hotline set up to encourage victims to come forward has been flooded with calls as the crisis continues to threaten the vatican. pastor a small. this is what he wrote we have grown to love one another very deeply we are

more than friends and we are more than father and son these words written by the catholic priest who abused him as a child have haunted fifty five year old mark crawford for three decades it doesn't go away it never goes away it's always there proffered says father kenneth martin became a family friend in the late seventy's then began abusing crawford when he was fifteen him being like a father figure to me verses the torment of the abuse it becomes very tangled very complicated for a child father martin was the associate priest here at the family's church crawford says the abuse never happened inside this building the did in many other places at the rectory where the priest lived at the boy's house a few blocks from here and on cross-country trips at the priest would take with the boy. we took a train from chicago to denver and on that overnight train and i was in the bunk

bed as when he you know began touching me the abuse continued weekly and only ended after crawford left home for call it but when he returned he discovered father martin had begun abusing his younger brother that's when crawford came forward the statute of limitation had passed to pursue legal charges but crawford still a devout catholic wrote letter after letter to church leaders warning them to keep father martin away from children a spokesperson for the archdiocese of new work so the church did find sufficient information to support crawford's accusations father martin was placed on limited ministry not involving children and left the priesthood in two thousand and two. we found martin now in retirement at his home in new jersey. your.

question is about the abuse allegations you're facing. do you can you are you think firming arginine for him again knowing or do you have anything to say to the alleged victims. when a child is abused by a catholic priest they not only lose trust and all the other things that go with along with being sexually abused but they lose their faith for crawford the trauma grew worse when he discovered the church official he had reported the abuse to faced a scandal of his own cardinal theodore mccarrick resigned in july he's accused of abusing adults and children for decades. how can you still have trust or faith an institution where at the highest level these men protected each other crawford now leads a group of clerical abuse survivors he says the church needs reform and victims

still need justice. castro al-jazeera new jersey. and all the developments and the museum in washington is pretty promising a look at a day in the life of police officers in the united states but the national law enforcement museum is opening its doors at a time when policing in the u.s. is under scrutiny especially with officers involved in shootings chancy has been to have a look around the exhibits. visitors to the new national law enforcement museum in washington d.c. are shown a film accepting that the origins of u.s. law enforcement lie in rounding up a scape slaves xenophobia and protection of property for the rich because. examples of communities and police forces working together today are presented in contrast to a brutal past amid the interactive displays island memorabilia like notorious f.b.i. director j. edgar hoover's desk is an exhibit about ferguson missouri where the killing of a black teenager by a white police officer helped to catalyze the black lives matter movement but the

main goal of the museum is to pay tribute to law enforcement and explore the toughness of the job i drew is just ruined by this simulation of a traffic stop shows how difficult it is to tell the difference between someone brandishing a weapon and someone displaying their id. very happy but this was a happy. with aggressive inference what appeared to be that you too could shoot an innocent person by mistake statistics probably together from voluntary police reports from across the u.s. all star for example one study finds that people of color minorities in the u.s. society made up over sixty percent of people killed by u.s. police in the first half of twenty fifth through the museum's director says the problems of u.s. law enforcement are integra to the dialogue he wants to begin our role is to bring people with different points of view did.