actually to provide them with an exit with a way out. overnight i think they may think that the close to closing this this case but i don't think so because many. it will very much depends on whether the turks are going to accept this story. that the turks are having the or the other there on their journey of this have been in the consulate and of course we have the us congress we have the world media which in the first place with tremendous pressure on president on the saudis in order to come up with this admission which had been actually a few hours ago of course i mean the story will not be convincing to many people. we all know now the details of what happened in the consulate is very difficult to believe that fifty in the head squad actually which arrived in istanbul came actually to have a discussion with you so i think the saudis will have will have

a hard look actually trying to convince the people about. i mean their own story was that the times of london called it the greatest embarrassment of saudi arabia's in the modern history is is that if it is as we suspect a whitewash and a lot of people don't believe so the arabia's version of events around the world a lot of very high profile people what does this do to the credibility of of donald trump when he says that well it rings true to me it sounds it sounds credible well first of all of course i mean in my opinion this is the most serious diplomatic crisis for saudi arabia since september eleventh maybe. and i don't really know if this hour with these. will be able to come out of this crisis without. a very a tremendous damage to their image to muhammad personally can he survive it of course the king has put him in charge now over reorganizing the country's

intelligence service and i think they are trying to distance the whole story they are trying to exonerate him and they are trying actually to have a scapegoat i mean key figure is that it's too close to these these key facts and really how could this. has been this is the main the main issue for those critics who are not believing the story of the saudis by saying well these are his closest advisers these are the people who are this is i mean the team of communism how actually did they do that without his knowledge i think this is why many people are not are not believing this hour the story but as i said there is a tremendous damage for the for saudi arabia and i think they will have to work. hard they would have to spend a lot more money actually in the united states on be our companies in order to to clean their their image but i think it's going to take a long long time in order to do that now and always good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us. a weather update next and then the rest of the day's news

ahead we're live in kabul as taliban attacks hit polling stations during the first national elections there in eight years and police in india calling it a freak accident a speeding train runs into a crowd at a religious festival will tell you. from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. with a lot of fine and dry weather into central parts of here up further west it does remain rather just to say the flooding rains affecting that eastern side of spain low pressure still ferry very close by for the heavy downpours here as we go on through the next few days and we'll see some showers and longer spells of writing on saturday into the southern half of spybot further north it's not too bad it's old ashley week for the up to seventeen in the eric tad warmer than that for paris

seventeen celsius for a london c. seventeen in vienna as well here is fine and dry there's that settled weather a few showers now starting to push over towards the black sea we'll see some showers also developing around central areas of the but it's rated as we go on into the second half of the week and hopefully by then it should be a little drier at long last the southern parts of spain some of that wet weather swirling away around the straits of gibraltar would have cost lap onto the coastal shores of north africa northern parts of the rock are northern areas of algeria will also see some light showers from time to time little more clout that is pushing over towards central parts fun and dry into that northeastern coast as we go on through the next few days warm enough in car at thirty four degrees celsius nazi battery patch on sunday with a high then a twenty three. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. i'm a historian say for the people every week brings

a series of breaking stories told through the eyes of the world's journalists these two voices journalists were one of the few journalists in bama that were actually doing investigative work listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the story slightly to them and see bias the rights to those stories but then he never publishes the stories they're listening post on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera more than two weeks after he went missing saudi arabia has admitted that the journalist jamal khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in istanbul he says his death it says rather it's his

death happened during a fight and that eighteen saudi nationals have been arrested five top saudi officials have been dismissed among them a senior intelligence officer and the close advisor to the crown prince mohammed bin salma. the u.s. president says the arrests are a great first step but that he wants to speak further with the crown prince donald trump says what happened was unacceptable but that he thinks the latest saudi version of events is credible. lived out of the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul of a serious child strapped for. charles what is turkey making of this saudi arabian explanation into to what happened which was in stark contrast of course to what the saudi arabians of previously been saying all along that but he left the consulate alive and well. well interestingly we've spoken to make a party m.p. and the head of the human rights for the a.k.

party a lady. who says that the saudis were forced into making this statement because of the leaks that we've seen from government sources in the prosecutor's office to the international and local media in recent days she said they had basically had no choice and she said that there would be more leaks expected i think that's an indication that the turks are still very much in the driving seat in this investigation they still forget that they have their own investigation running alongside this joint investigation with the saudis and that's what seems to have certainly been driving a quiet turkish narrative the president as well that said that this is best to new when we get to the bottom of this case i think there's going to be a lot more attention as well on the links all of these alleged very close links that the alleged perpetrators of this crime have with the saudi crown prince

mohammed bin solomon of we've seen the c c c c c t v footage all of the members of the team headed by we are led to believe this man may have more trip who one of them have been someone's private bodyguards coming into the consulate on the day that could show he disappeared and leaving all the same day we understand also that this investigation has so government sources have told us samples that were found in the consul general zone that match samples that were found here in the consulate as well i think it's safe to say that they say he is very keen to get to get this information out but he's very much taking its time and the longer this investigation goes on that the more pressure they are and the more leaks we're going to hear. just many thanks i was it was child struck for their life in

istanbul. there's been several attacks at polling stations in afghanistan as people vote in the first parliamentary elections there since two thousand and ten the taliban had vowed to target anyone who showed up at least three people have been killed in explosions in the capital kabul here are a few reasons why the results could have a big impact on afghanistan's future the new group of politicians will have a say in peace negotiations with the taliban violence between its fighters and government forces has been getting steadily worse since early last year but they will also have to try to curb rampant corruption transparency international says that afghanistan was the fourth most corrupt country out of one hundred eighty it assessed recently this election comes before a new vote for a new president thank staples curity is expected to affect both of those elections the u.n. says that more than three hundred sixty people have been killed in this current

campaign let's go live now to the afghan capital kabul al jazeera shelob ellis is there charlotte as we were saying there have already been attacks in kabul how's the situation the security situation across the country. it was definitely tense people have been bracing for attacks the taliban have warned for a couple of weeks that they would attack as many places as they could as many polling centers as they could on election day. even the last night on the eve of these elections people wondered will they actually follow through or has the government and nato forces menaced to secure polling centers enough so that any kind of taliban threats were simply just rates and not action in the first five hours since these polls have been open it seems that the taliban have been able to execute on their threats in multiple provinces across the country we've heard of rocket attacks having schools where people were voting

a lot of clashes between forces road closures just trying to disrupt the elections although not that many casualties thus far here in kabul with head aleuts for a dozen explosions attacks in the city we've only managed to confirm three explosions and one rocket attack two people did in one child died and another one of the hospital saying never saved thirty were induced from various explosions across the city trying to disrupt these elections so not good news for president danny he did come out this morning. was the first person to vote in afghanistan and he sued i this is your duty as afghans be brave be patient please go out. of the country is using new voting systems in this election how are they coping so far. so they've introduced biometric machines take people's fingerprint try to add another layer to prevent voter fraud those machines only arrived two weeks ago as

a last minute decision and the election watchdogs have been up the smalling they've just put out a report on the first three hours of what they've seen and they said eighty five percent of those by image machines are not working which is not good news for the credibility of these elections as a lot of issues even just in the first few hours a lot of these polling seem to didn't open seventy percent were open when they were meant to and then the election commission just holding a press conference in the last half hour acknowledging those issues and saying yes we understand that a lot of these polling seem to us didn't open their reason staff didn't show up they say they don't have an explanation for that they said some stuff didn't show up somewhere delays if polls opened at seven am they said if stuff hadn't shown up for these polling centers by one pm which is just ticked over then they will not open whatsoever today but they will be open tomorrow giving a vote as an extra day to vote and then they've also extended the voting time today

because it's been long periods so people try to navigate this new system so instead of closing it for they're not close it out on to serious about this live in kabul show about the things. tens of thousands of people are protesting in taiwan against what they call chinese and takes a shit if it's the island has been the self rule for decades but china considers it part of its territory and refuses to recognize taiwan's government demonstrators want a public vote on formally declaring independence from china let's go live now to taipei just to vehicle paula is much bigger turnout than expected for this demonstration. that's right adrian if you asked organizers here they say there are more than one hundred thousand people although we're still waiting for the official figures from the police now in recent years there have been independents rallies and protests like this but not as big

and the people here say it's urgent and they say it's because of china's increasing influence and aggression towards taiwan if you and i need to explain for many people they would think why outside of taiwan why does taiwan need to declare independence doesn't it have its own currency passports government and even its own leader well for one thing china still sees taiwan after a renegade province and even the government here although it does recognize taiwan sovereignty it's never actually declared independence now people here say that needs to happen now because of china's increasing pressure on the island and they fear that if it doesn't happen soon if it doesn't happen now it will be just a matter of time for china to take over this little island so is there any real prospect of that independence votes in taiwan. so that is the question the main. message in this rally is that they're calling for

a referendum to vote on whether people want independence now that goes against taiwan's constitution so it's. very on likely that this rally would precipitate that but what it is doing is putting pressure on the government to recognize the fact that people are concerned about china's growing influence they're concerned that they will continue to be seen as a province of china particularly because in the past couple of years this government which has been more supportive of independence has angered china and china has pushed several countries to cut diplomatic ties with taiwan and also pushed foreign companies to only recognize taipei ass parts of china and the companies like the marriott and contest that out how taiwan list that us china and their websites and that's made people here very unhappy and on top of that another thing that seems to be ongoing china is taiwan is going to hold

a referendum not on the country's independence but on the fact that taiwan will now be called not chinese taipei anymore but taiwan and the olympics are desirous to have a part on their reporting live from taipei but he thanks to you at least fifty nine people have been killed in the indian state of punjab where a train traveling at high speed run into a large crowd of people had gathered for a religious festival in the city of amritsar paul chodas g.m. reports. police in india are calling this a freak accident a train plows into a large crowd watching the burning of enough a-g. at a religious celebration. of the day when the witnesses say the overflow of people pushed some onto the railway truck the noise from fireworks prevented people from hearing the approaching train.

it was a major hindu festival the railway track is close to it and the crowd was huge suddenly some movement happened and the train crossed at that time. survivors covered the body parts of their loved ones others waited for those injured to be treated at nearby hospitals thank you crowd was it a hindu festival called celebrating the triumph of good over evil they had just set ablaze the effigy of a ten headed demon from the hindu epic aroma ya know i am at the moment not. on his. next to their invitation but the administration should have entered a bitter when i got eduardo and as the investigation begins the chief minister of the state has declared a day of mourning he has ordered all stated situations to be closed in his real system has a record of safety. one to three million people use the network the system

was build during colonial rule but it is underfunded paul chatterjee on al-jazeera the united states and south korea have put planned military drills on hold they want to take place next month but the pentagon says that they'll be suspended to give talks with north korea a better chance of succeeding north korea regards the regular drills as a provocation but the u.s. and south korea say they're just routine. it is good terry with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera more than two weeks after he went missing saudi arabia has admitted that the journalist jamal khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in istanbul its assistance happened during a fight and that eighteen saudi nationals have been arrested charles stratford reports now on a new york times report that quotes saudi sources this source then says that

as crucial as he walked into the building a fight ensued and she was put into a neck cold and was choked to death and this is very interesting according to this source says that after he was killed the team then gave the body to what the source says was a local collaborator to dispose of meeting the saudis have no way i've no idea where the body is it could be very interesting in the coming hours to see what other leaks the turkish government these turkish government sources leaked to the media five senior saudi officials have been dismissed among them a senior intelligence officer a close aide to the crown prince president trump says the arrests are a great first step but he wants to talk further with crown prince mohammed bin solomon he says what happened was unacceptable but he thinks the saudi version of events is credible party kohei in reports from washington. from the beginning of

this it is been all about the weapons deals you talking about saudi arabia being a strong ally and that the things that this investigation is a good first step that they're getting close to having a resolution that they need saudi arabia in the region but that he keeps coming back to the deals and i think it's important to point out he is extremely in the minority here if you look at the cable news channels of you look at twitter and all the politicians feeds pretty much every member of congress that is talking about this or saying this story is insane it doesn't make sense it doesn't seem to add up on its face in other news parliamentary elections in afghanistan it opened with a wave of attacks by the taliban at polling stations at least three people have been killed in the capital kabul since voting began in the southern province of kandahar voters will have to wait another week before casting their ballots for an attack on thursday which killed two syria officials those are the headlines that

he's continues here on out zero out of this week's listening post next. millions of people across india miss out on medical care but a hospital train is delivering doctors and hope to those most in need. when i want to use boards indians like line express. and i deserve. a new report from the united nations climate panel warns. the magic cure is a new record that change and it is now i'm confident. it would be correct korean culture to show the church caused by human activity is putting up the research on. hello i'm barbara starr and you're at the listening post here are some of the stories we're looking at this week covering climate change requires a media change a rethink of how the world's biggest most persistent story is reported in the media model pushing viktor or bands and the migrants and the e.u.

politics beyond hungry borders they've been called propagandists for the sounded royal family before but now the scrutiny of some pro saudi journalists in the west has intensified and that is their life after reading the news. in your resume you read the news for nine years two thousand and five to twenty fourteen and worked as a television news reader and i decided i needed to change our lead story this week tackles an issue that considering its magnitude could be a fixture on every episode of our show it's climate change and how the media are grappling with how to cover it only a small percentage of news audiences would have heard about the report released earlier this month by the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change or the i.p.c.c. and that's not because the report was that or in consequential no in fact it's been called the landmark study warning that the world has just twelve years left to limit global temperature rise to one point five degrees celsius and higher and the

risks of drought floods and the extreme weather will soar cover. edge of the i.p.c.c. report was a flash in the pan like so much climate change reporting is the initial wave of headlines or receded as quickly as it had emerged climate change is the world's most significant existential challenge and those who want to cover it are still figuring out how to convey its size and scale the listening post meenakshi ravi now on the coverage of the i.p.c.c. report and what it reveals about the state of climate change reporting. it's a story as big as this planet affecting every country every economy every individual and its oceans he ratchets up higher every year and yet climate change coverage nearly always seems to need a crutch and event to pick it on a global conference

a protest or as it was this time around the release of the intergovernmental panel on climate change is a special report on global warming the report's findings were monumental this is the most dire report we've had from the i.p.c.c. yet they're basically saying we need to move now we need to take really serious action if we want to prevent the worst impacts of climate change the report is something of a call to arms telling us that the survival of our species depends on a political revolution these are the overwhelming scientific findings frankly overwhelmed scientists and it is going to overwhelm journalists as well. the headline in the i.p.c.c. report is stark it says a rapid far reaching and unprecedented changes are needed in all aspects of society if mankind is to contain the average global temperature increase to one point five degrees celsius the timeframe the i.p.c.c.

has set for this is just over the decade twelve years in the absence of a paradigm. shift and rethinking of how the world functions the droughts the food shortages environmental degradation and poverty being experienced already are going to get much worse much faster. and sometimes when i think of the sort of shocking some of the report i think the end of the coverage then jumped to a kind of you know where near the end there is no hope no one wants that storm intensities wildfires past outbreaks well increased which quite a worry that if all this you know we have this new study and if i thought making progress on climate change has to be so drastic better it's more a loss and possible then people will start to get really dismayed and lose hope and this is always the challenge of climate coverage the new york times. in their main piece covering the report at a photo of a like

a lone child playing in the sand with these bones and that's the kind of the style of coverage you generally get which seems this seems to indicate that they are more more capable of imagining an apocalypse time is running out than they are for instance of imagining increasing taxation on the ultra wealthy on corporations you know that creates millions of good good green jobs and regulates corporations and phases out fossil fuel production they find it impossible to imagine a political alternative other than kind of apocalyptic scenarios. that climate change isn't the most covered ongoing news story in the world is it a fiction of just how many times the opportunity is missed. in the u.s. alone frequented incidents over the past few years would have justified it being in the headlines every day however the link between climate change and the way that

incidents that are increasing in intensity and frequency is often never meet the two thousand seven hundred studies. by the deceased media matters grouped into the coverage of how he can harvey found that over the span of two crucial weeks to mean people news outlets a.b.c. and n.b.c. didn't do a single segment mentioning climate change and its link to such weather events. this study isn't the only one of its kind by media matters in july this year it found that coverage of the heatwave across the united states followed a similar pattern. we looked at reporting on three big t.v. broadcast networks and found that those programs mention the heat wave one hundred twenty seven times and only one of those mentioned climate change the media is not able to grasp this linkage so for example this year if you just see a lot floods in india we heard historically unprecedented flood within

a period of two to three days something like twenty five trillion liters of water followed the smallest state but if you look at the media reported in india they were talking about you know local logical disaster local changes in ecology cutting off orders and those kind of things but the link has been climate change and good love loads was not that this is a real problem and a missed opportunity climate change can seeing like a really distant or theoretical problem but when there's extreme weather that's a real opportunity for the media to talk about climate change and how it affects extreme weather and exacerbates extreme weather when you think what can i do this is a fixture in much of climate change reporting is the notion that individual action can help stave off the existential threat posed by global warming you're changing driving a different car maybe you're eating less meat whatever you're doing to help the world is rubbing off on your neighbors individual awareness is vital but media

emphasis on it however is out of proportion the real action. to come from industry . in two thousand and seventeen the u.k. based nonprofit the c.d.p. group published a report quarterly to specific volumes of greenhouse gas or g h g emissions with the industries responsible for them it found that since one thousand nine hundred eight just one hundred corporations have produced more than seventy percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. this is not just a problem of me or a problem you there are companies oil companies natural gas companies coal companies who are responsible for the vast amount of the pollution that is causing climate change where there is progress. and many of them have waged dissin from asian campaigns that they have tried to downplay and distort the science they have which got politicians in their pockets who are discouraging or

blocking climate action if there was a list of criminals who have polluted the climate exxon mobil at the front british petroleum to come as the top climate polluters so will companies in india in saudi arabia many many countries who are polluting the climate but also have a huge influence on media in terms of their contributions to it but these men and support the media so media is very quick to talk about what governments need to do or what people need to do but they will rarely talk about what corporations need to do for instance there was there was a widely panned. c.n.n. tweet the tweet was scared of the new climate report here's a few things you can do. and of course all the prescriptions that it made had to do with individual consumer changes and it completely neglected the actual structural forces and corporate power that underlies the climate crisis and i don't think the

stress on the changes that individuals can make rather than on what corporations are doing is an accident i think it is a function of the dominant ideology of our era namely neo liberalism. which has persuaded us or tried to persuade us that the market is a kind of magical entity that will solve all of our problems. unprecedented changes that's what the i.p.c.c. report says is needed to deal with global warming as media outlets covered the report almost none of them this network included reported on changes the would make in their own newsrooms or to their own journalistic practices one piece it might be wise to start stop dealing with the climate change issue as separate it from if you know the story if you other beat. i find. it's a story in time to remember new sometimes because you will be going from this

report that's really staggering and its implications and then on the next page there will be an article about the potential you know renovation of j.f.k. airport doesn't say anything about the role of flying and air travel in. contributing to carbon emissions and how we might need to change that quite drastically i think that they all are very deeply connected and i think that's particularly true for reporting on the economy and economics and job growth and all of these things that make no mention of climate change but it is our economic model that is driving climate change and those things have to be put together much more than they are now. i'm joined now by one of our producers flo phillips of the sky or some of the other media stories that we're looking at this week flo the story of the saudi journalist emotional gee is really taken on every twist and turn and one of the media fallout

has been that some journalists in the way this think leading journalists that work at the washington post which of course is where ashaji used to write have actually been called out for their pro saudi reporting what else do we know about this barbara the washington post has understandably really been quite aggressive in its campaign to find out exactly what happened turning the heat up on saudi arabia's allies in the u.s. they even put out one op ed with the headline when you work for a murderer but soon after that piece was published the investigative website intersect pointed out a rather unfortunate fact that washington post columnist ed rogers and contributing writer carter eskew perfective working for the saudi government by the lobbying firms that each of them runs within twenty four hours of that intercept piece going up the washington post put out their own article saying that both lobbying companies have now canceled their contracts with saudi arabia and so apart from these journalists.