byrne and security forces in many provinces but people here in kabul showed up in the early hours at the polling stations despite the risks although. i will vote for someone who would work for afghanistan and serve the nation we need patriots who care about the country these people that deserve to be elected to parliament but i would call is a must have today i am exercising my democratic right i want to choose the right person who will fight for my rights in the rights of women and women vote in large numbers their voices will be heard. extraordinary security measures were in place in the capital kabul the authorities are taking no chances ten candidates were killed during election campaigning. the president suspended the election in khandahar province after the taliban killed two top officials there on thursday election was also delayed in gaza the province following ethnic disputes. will what

happened in kandahar was a sad moment not only for the people of kandahar but for all of us the decision to suspend the election was taken in collaboration with different institutions of the state of also appointed a committee to investigate the problems we face in gaza this election was initially supposed to take place three years ago but was delayed because of a political impasse that has crippled the country the international community has been pushing for political reforms a clamp down on corruption and we conciliation this is not like election in any country it's a very special election for the afghan people so i buy their courage. their will to choose their future. election officials are using biometric voter verification devices for the first time to prevent vote rigging but technical glitches slow down the voting. this election is only a first. it been

a long political process it would be followed by presidents elections in april that's when the afghan authorities will decide on pursuing political talks with the taliban and forming a national unity government and decades of violence a move backed by the u.s. and others who insist there's dermot a solution to the afghan conflict has about but i'm just here couple all right still ahead when we come back give us the final say huge crowds from london streets demanding a second of. desperation of the border thousands of people continue to march through central america for a better life in the u.s. . we got some clear skies into eastern parts of china but some rather lively showers longer spells of writing those central areas and this will sink

a little further southwards as we go on through monday hopefully not quite as wet at this stage hong kong stays fine and dry temperatures around twenty celsius there will be a few showers into the southwest of china northern parts of vietnam also seeing some very wet weather in the process i mean wallace showers along dispose of ryan they extend their way down into thailand into southern parts of me a moffatt amount of cloud here joining up with a shower was that we still have across southern parts of india but to the north of that lots of warm sunshine now coming through temperatures around thirty five celsius the full night pool thirty two degrees there are new jelly of course some of the stuff going on now for the bills is not particularly good for the south they go with those showers continuing and strong for of course still seeing some very heavy rain for it to the cricket for the past few days very heavy rain to affecting a good part of the middle east would you believe you see some live showers here in qatar recently doha will see temperatures up to around thirty six celsius on sunday

was never too far away as we go on through monday as well what's the weather trying to sink its way a little further south. what makes this moment is we're living for so you can see we haven't seen the president this unpredictable freedom of speech is a valid motley plans and that is a perfect formula for authoritarianism and here and here me into the light so long as there's nowhere to hide let me ask you straight out is the two state solution no upfront or italians on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching engineer a mind of our top stories this hour more than two weeks after he went missing saudi arabia has admitted for the first time that journalist was killed inside its consulate in istanbul it says he died during a fight but this goes against information from turkish security sources that he was tortured and dismembered claims the saudi arabia has denied riyadh says eighteen saudi nationals have been arrested five top officials have been dismissed among them a senior intelligence officer and a close advisor to crown prince mohammed bin men. have been attacks on polling stations across afghanistan as people vote in the first parliamentary elections since two thousand and ten least ten people were killed in a suicide bombing in kabul taliban had vowed to target anyone who turned up.

a turning back to our top story saudi arabia's admission that he was killed in the consulate the statement is a turnaround from previous claims by the kingdom the day after footage emerged of going into the compound saudi officials confirmed his disappearance but said he'd left the building two days later crown prince mohammed bin men told bloomberg news the same thing and when asked if he was still there the crown prince said he's not inside the next day the saudi consul general brought reporters into the building telling them jamal is not at the consulate but he also said the buildings cameras did not record any footage from the day she disappeared saudi and saudi media repeatedly criticize what they called baseless allegations that he had been killed but early on saturday saudi arabia's chief prosecutor finally admitted was killed inside the consulate but said he died when a fight broke out. let's talk more about this now with. director of the center for

conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute thanks very much for being with us so as far as this latest story that the saudis have put out is this going to do anything to ease all of the international pressure on them. well it is obviously designed to ensure that the crown prince is out of the story now i think even if we were to buy into that narrative it brings in other questions the questions are going to be focused more on his judgment on his choice of advisers on his control of his of the institutions within saudi arabia the two or three people at the very top that were used as i suspect as a scapegoat to try and resolve this issue were people that he brought personally into power and people who presented themselves in particular soldier qahtani over the last couple of years he presented himself as if he was he had the ear of the

crown prince on daily basis he was so close to him he could decide on his behalf and he was very much at the forefront of the war in yemen and the crisis with qatar and many other issues that have haunted the system over the last couple of years so that actually sage is the crown prince really in control of the situation if you didn't know about what was going on and there's a problem because we have other more important projects i mean this is sadly and i have you know deepest condolences to the family of three we're talking about the murder of one man in yemen we are talking about thousands of people being killed. in a war over the last couple of years and if the same pattern is repeated within the context of yemen that the crown prince i don't know someone else may be following this then we have a problem and i think he would be questioned both internationally and within saudi arabia but if this is as you say an attempt to shield hamad bin salmen is this

ultimately going to work in the long run it's on the face of it just not really a very good attempt the fact that the team has traveled all the way from to stumble to interrogate him and the way they ruled them into the consulate. makes it very very difficult to accept that it was a random coincidence or co-incidental the killing inside the consulate but let's assume that we will you know accept that. i think it's going to be very very difficult for him to shut this away any time soon and the more evidence come out from the turkish authorities it could be more and more. critical for for him and some and for the intelligence service in saudi arabia all right so tom brokaw good to speak with you thank you. our tens of thousands of people are marching in london to demand a people's vote on the final deal the u.k.

is due to leave the european union in less than six months time but talks on a deal to leave the plock have stalled and that's led to widespread concern about the future of the u.k. economy off the brakes of paul brennan is live for us in london so paul a lot of people there is momentum building for another referendum. the son if you speak to the people here yes the concern is that as the weeks and months pass without a defined legally agreed. to for still the prospect the possibility of britons crashing out of the e.u. in a no deal situation goes just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and that is a prospect that the people here simply do not want to even think about but what they're saying is that the referendum that took place two years ago made false

promises that the situation is change seats them out votes they should be put back to the to the public and to the new terms and the new reality on the demanding basically that the parliament acquiesce in those wishes what we're hearing from the podium and this is a succession of speakers from all different spec colors of the political spectrum said he can love them as said those who say that the prospect of a second vote of people's vote will be undemocratic said the exact opposite he said people did not vote to get burra they didn't vote to have you know that the damage done to their children and their children's children the sentiment here very strong very energetic very optimistic but very strong indeed. and so poor there were this this was a march of course that was organized by people who want to stay in the e.u. but the country is very divided and there are plenty plenty still plenty of people who are keen to go ahead with breaks and helping.

yeah i mean i think the country remains divided and it depends on who you speak to as to exactly what the forecast for people's vote would be plenty of people suggest that if there was a rerun of the twenty sixty referendum that instead of voting now really in favor of accepting the european union the vote would be somewhat closer a positive vote to stay in the european union but the idea that britain has changed in a huge swinging change is simply not borne out i don't think by the reality outside of the kind of metropolitan areas it is still hard. for a large number of people who still believe that perhaps it is best for britain and that the government should simply get on with it what there is there and i think this across all spectrums of those both good manners and this is the deep dissatisfaction with the way that the government is going about negotiating it's on

the way that the government is handling it i think that with that that is the dissatisfaction with that is what unites almost all sides paul brennan live for us in london where the demonstrations taking place michael now the conservative government of australia has new prime minister scott morrison has lost its parliamentary majority voters deserted the ruling party in a byelection held in the eastern sydney electorate held by previous prime minister malcolm turnbull independent candidate karen phelps want to decisive victory and that means the government will now have to rely on deals with other independent m.p.'s in parliament to stay in power and the bin large protests in taiwan by people who accused china of planning to annex the island are demanding a public vote on whether taiwan should formally declare independence from china the chinese consider taiwan to be part of their country even though it's been run by its own government since one thousand nine hundred forty nine. a thousands of

migrants are stranded on the border between mexico and guatemala they're part of a caravan of people from honduras el salvador and guatemala who've been walking north towards the united states on friday thousands of them tore down a fence in guatemala and stormed towards a bridge in mexico president donald trump says he may deploy the military to stop them from crossing into the u.s. . john holliman reports now from the border town. in southern mexico. they gathered at the border between guatemala and mexico asking to be let through thousands of men women and children with at least six days in a caravan from honduras the atmosphere was charged but they're not here and were promised over many of fleeing violence or extreme poverty in their homeland and feel they can't go back don't look at him with. you i think we just want them to help us get us poss if mexico gives us

a chance to work we'd welcome it all be it the united states canada europe my legs are hurting i'm tired and hungry. but police on both sides of the border have been given orders they should go no further their governments pressed into action by president trump he's out them and they must be stopped before they reach the us and we're going to have the military stationed there not coming into this country they might as well turn back they're not coming into this country. a stone make prevailed but finally they simply stream through the courts modern barricades and raced across the bridge to mexico. on the other side the line held firm chaos ensued stones were thrown in the end the mits complete responded with tear gas and i. later the troops authorities began to get some women and children off the bridge

and into mexico they saved their work with the united nations to review one of the cases offering asylum to those who qualify and deporting those don't but mexico is in a very tough spot its asylum system is already stretched to the limit absorbing all of these extra people is going to be hard simply letting them go on with the threats of. seven trump is unthinkable and that just leaves sending them back home . and now they're in limbo not knowing if the journey which many see is their last resort will end in failure with a new start john home and. tapachula and not much is known about the solar system smallest and least explored planet mercury scientists are hoping to change that though in the key to their plan a spacecraft which was launched on satellite will take seven years to get to mercury the nearest planet to the sun victoria gate will be explains.

a successful start to a long and challenging mission many many. unmanned bebee colombo blasted off from french guiana carrying two smaller spacecraft which will investigate the surface and magnetic field of mercury. studying that is crucial to better understand the formation of our solar system corporations formed to do evolve and very are coming from. mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system its proximity to the sun means temperatures can reach up to four hundred thirty degrees celsius in the day and drop to minus one hundred eighty at night the bevy columbus spacecraft will fly round earth venus and mercury several times in order to slow down before arriving at its destination in december twenty twenty five we fly by nine times

a planet in order to lose energy otherwise the sun will attract us very very strongly too fast. so we will use nine times the planets first the earth twice venus six times mercury eventually we will get there it would take seven point two years. once the be colombia reaches mercury it will release the too small a spacecraft one will operate in mercury in orbits the other in it's out of orbit they'll gather data on the internal structure of the planet its surface and geological evolution the european space agency spacecraft is designed to look at the surface of the planet and to study the planet in detail on the second spacecraft is designed to look at being vironment and so having two spacecraft will enable us to do a great deal of new science compared to the previous missions. the last spacecraft

sent to mercury ended its four year orbit in twenty fifteen european and japanese scientists behind this one point five billion dollar mission say they're expecting big surprises that could challenge existing theories about the evolution of the solar system victoria gate and be their. my. this is al jazeera let's get a roundup of the top stories more than two weeks after he went missing saudi arabia has admitted for the first time that journalist was killed inside its consulate in istanbul it says he died during a fight this concert dix information from turkish security sources that has show g. was tortured and dismembered claims saudi arabia has denied or riyadh says eighteen saudi nationals have been arrested while five top officials have been dismissed over this among them a senior intelligence officer and

a close adviser to crown prince mohammed bin sandman european leaders of also reacted to saudi arabia statement the u.k. says it's considering its next steps while the president of the european union and parliament and the dutch prime minister have called for an investigation they have been attacks on polling stations across afghanistan as people vote in the first parliamentary elections since twenty ten at least ten people were killed in a suicide bombing in kabul the taliban are valid to target anyone who turned up tens of thousands of people are marching in london to demand a popular vote on the final bragg's a deal the u.k. is due to leave the european union in less than six months time but negotiations on a deal to lead the block have stalled thousands of migrants are stranded on the border between mexico and guatemala they're part of a caravan of people from central america who've been walking north towards the united states on friday thousands of them tore down a fence in guatemala and storm towards

a bridge in mexico those are the headlines up front is next every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories chilling to listening post as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on the stories that mattered the most the listening posts on alex's era. the u.k. is less than six months away from leaving the e.u. but without a deal nothing going to plan and even food and medicine shortages on the horizon was the whole brics it vote a colossal mistake that's our debate. those who pushed for brics it will quote never be forgotten nor forgiven the words of former british conservative prime minister john major on tuesday breaks it is less

than six months away and the u.k. government is no closer to agreeing an exit deal with the e.u. despite another round of negotiations on wednesday a no deal breaks it money astonishingly result in food and medicine shortages in the u.k. so one of the bricks that vote a huge mistake and can it should it be undone joining me to debate this our lord andrew donis former labor cabinet minister under tony blair and the storage opponent of it and returning to the show for the first time since the e.u. referendum campaign conservative member of the european parliament and an evangelist for bracks and daniel had thank you both for joining me on upfront daniel your prime minister and party leader to reason may has often said bricks it means bricks it but what does bricks it mean to you what does it look like we don't seem to actually have a clue do we. well breaks it means becoming again a sovereign country so that we hire and fire the people who pass our laws and so the u.k. laura supreme on our own soil how you then negotiate your relations with the e.u.

is there's a range of views on my own view is that having recovered our sovereignty we should have the closest relationship with the e.u. compatible with being an independent country e.u. is comprised of friends and allies of ours so from every point of view it is better to have a amicable core deal working relationship with the e.u. where we are if you like the friendliest country that is a nonmember blazing away for every other country that doesn't want to join if not and they want to show means you can get a deal if you leave the e.u. without getting a deal which looks increasingly likely you're ok with that if you're going to ask this question if any other potential trading partner had gone to the e.u. with the package to resume a was offering of salzburg if they canada or japan or any other potential trading partner would come along and said we will unilaterally accept all of your physical good standards and we will continue to protect your security and we promise to

accept your rules on the environment and labor laws and we will pay you for the privilege the e.u. we know how they were directed to that they have said quick quick get them to sign before the idiots come to their senses so the fact that they're not prepared to do that makes me wonder whether there is any readiness to do a deal on their side and that's why i think it would be crazy not to prepare for an ideal scenario andrea don't want to respond. well what's interesting is that daniel like many of the brics this is now starting to blame the e.u. for the fact that we're great sitting because this is the problems that he's just described how to do it directs itself he descried one vision of brics it but there are one hundred and one other visions of brics it's the he said now that what the prime minister is trying to negotiate which is leaving the customs union leaving the single market in the case setting up a very complex and difficult arrangement on islands. see that there isn't a border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland he has said that in his view that's unacceptable well that's one version of he doesn't like he's put forward one that he doesn't like the truth is two years ago when people voted in

the referendum they were voting with a whole load of different options for what leave might mean now that the chickens are coming home to roost it's clear that it's not possible to deliver bricks it works what daniel is seeking to do is to write the history books and to blame the e.u. for its well what i'm seeking to do and those of us who are trying to hold the middle ground in the debate in england is is to do what i think is the right thing now which is to put the issue back to the people and say look you clearly didn't vote for any of this you didn't vote to be poor you didn't vote for chaos you didn't vote for a government that's now talking about only six weeks of medical supplies and food stockpiling you didn't vote for hard border in ireland that could bring back the troubles and the return of paramilitary activity in northern ireland you didn't vote for any of these things so the right thing is a people's vote a second referendum end this nightmare and then we can go on with our lives without having to spend a lot why not of all why not of what do we make it best of three why should we

accept an argument for another referendum from people who by definition do not accept referendum results i remember in the run up to the first one all of the people who are now demanding a second vote were loudest in insisting that that was the final decision that that never been over go john major nick clegg paddy ashdown what all on our on the record saying there's never going to be another go at this think about what you're doing and you don't you'll let me is what i'm getting their votes that i know they were voted for and i do i did although i do want to get your argument there about you know where to where do you draw the line but you yourself having once referred to a second referendum movement as a doomsday cult not long ago have now are now saying quickly from wrong that you're so opposed to the u.k. staying in a customs union which is the labor party wants you would prefer a second referendum even to that even you're open to the idea of an. referendum as much as you're being snarky about it because i don't know that what what what what what what happened here is if that were to be the case we would have effectively had a group of m.p.'s and peers who had frustrated the referendum result who had deliberately

gone for an unacceptable result it with the over same of overturning it so the biggest vote for anything in british history would have been overturned by our politicians but is was just spending a moment on why that is such an appalling outcome and why the people who are pushing for it really notice it first and stays in the customs union as a nonmember we give brussels one hundred percent control of our trade policy with zero percent input from us and in fact is even worse than that if you are in a customs union with the e.u. as a nonmember then whenever the e.u. does a trade deal with a third country say the e.u. did a trade deal with india. britain would have to match every concession made by the e.u. but india under w t o term. rules would only have to reciprocate views of the e.u. not visa the person now i don't believe any remain at all even possibly think that is a good outcome. i've got a question for daniel then because actually as it happens i can use him i'd much

rather stay in the e.u. than have an arrangement where we're kind of vassal states and obliged to implement under how you train just a little so you can get a side of the referendums and just last point is you cannot keep my favorite is but where do you draw the line while we're on done little or no we're not talking i'm not after yours i'm not talking about a referendum after referendum i'm talking about a referendum on whatever deal to resume comes back with because we're actually faced with the actual reality of a cliff edge at the moment it's all about hypothetical situation and the great majority of the public now agree. that they should take that decision on whether or not we go over this cliff edge or whether we stop it and stay in the point is done all that he wants a second referenda because now you've got something to vote on isn't the reality that you guys did this whole thing backwards you didn't vote on bricks it without knowing what it looks like without doing the deal without offering all these different proposals of customs unions checkers. isn't the point you did it backwards and now you do have to do a deal especially when polls show the majority of public now don't support pulling

out of the e.u. they switched according to the latest polls. well that's what the polls showed before the first one right and look how that worked out i mean first of all a second referendum wouldn't solve anything because the majority people would boycott it on the perfectly valid grounds that it invalidated all of the promises made in the first one because we were told repeatedly by the government by the opposition by all of the people now demanding a second vote that that was a final decision that would never be another go so it would be absurd to legitimize people trying to undo the promise on which the first one was take a lot of donors knows perfectly well what he's doing by demanding a second referendum here is encouraging the e.u. quite overtly in his case to offer the worst possible deal in the hope of overturning. roe so that was only regretted and would be a way to go and do encouraging the if you can actually deal every other second referendum. now that's absolutely absurd because because it doesn't go to

a people's vote parliament still has to decide what to do with trey's amaze agreement doesn't have a majority in the house of commons so if what the e.u. is seeking to do is to game the decision to give us the worst possible terms in the hope that there were ject that they would do that anyway the reason that i want a people's vote is i think this issue is of such magnitude that it should go to the people because it started with the people with the referendum two years ago but the sick every time that opens his mouth he says something very significant which is a variance with what most of his colleagues say i took him to be saying a moment ago that he thinks that people who voted to leave two years ago should boycott a referendum on the terms of bracks he said that there will be a mass boycott of the referendum could he answer the question is he calling for people who are in favor of leaving the e.u. to boycott a referendum and therefore to make try and make democracy inoperable in britain is that what he's saying and what is making democracy in operable. is holding a referendum where the government sends a leaflet to every household in the land saying whatever we were you vote that we

will implement your decision i don't remember lord adonis or anyone else on the remains side dissenting from that when the prime minister of the time said there is no going to be a second vote and make sure you do so that you think about this one ok let's get a quick answer yes or no are you calling for a mass boycott to predicting one which won a second referendum would be utterly illegitimate and i mean i don't know what other people would do but i would not vote in a second referendum because we just had a referendum you are all non-kosher i was going to load anything so i was able to hold it would you encourage other people who vote in the illegitimate second. my own view is that if you're dealing with that situation where the british people have given a very clear mandate and the unelected peers and the elites then turn around and try and undo the biggest mandate we've ever had for anything but we should not play that game we should just say no we've already voted we're not having any more to do with your question you also mind will tell you i was going to concede surely you can see that another referendum which produced a stay in vote would basically destroy a huge amount of trust in british politics from the people who voted to leave the

twenty something they would say we want to vote in twenty sixteen we were told our vote would be respected and now the good old politicians got together and basically cancelled our democratic vote that's clearly an absurd proposition because the people can't betray the people what will happen in this case is that having looked at the terms of bracks it's actually a different question from the ones who years ago that have seen the terms of break sit there live see that many of the things that daniel hadn't told us would happen two years ago because everything was going to be milk and honey when we did breaks it they haven't happened and they've reached a judgment what is significant i haven't seen the terms of rate hoping that it's a reality that he heard oh this would be like saying well to have an election and then have another level to have all this going is not a chance to be formed hold on they will do by the time we have the referendum don't you because that's the whole purpose of having it is the movie actually see what to make comes about from brussels with the first time we've seen it because two and a half years after the last referendum she still hasn't got. today anything when we actually see that we the people then get the chance not the elites you're talking

about we the people don't get the chance to give our view and it's done you let me ask you this question down there because you came on the show in twenty sixteen during the referendum campaign you made the case very eloquently at the time for breaks it your side won the referendum but clearly if somebody called for a second referendum a week afterwards we would laugh them out of town but given two years later things haven't quite got to go into those i'll hold on but where we are now well done in another color be fair where we are now you know very well we have reports from the national farmers union saying food won't run out doctors saying there might be a medicine shortage the government saying we have to deploy troops to the border you know this is not how it was supposed to go there's no deal in sight there might be a no deal breaker here but there's no doubt i love those are regulars although not northern ireland was not debated in the referendum campaign the way it is now with there may be violence again in northern ireland which three quarters of english conservative voters say they're fine with as long as the happens things have changed surely must concede that you must have some you must be able to look back and say this is not quite what we promised i think it is extraordinary chutzpah.

four people who immediately after the referendum started working to undermine it started signaling to brussels or they should hang tough and not concede anything we had three senior british politicians writing an article this week in a german newspaper saying don't concede anything to reason may because hang in there and we'll have a second referendum so people who have spent the last two years attempting to undermine any kind of settlement now have the front to turn around so all it's not going very well we'd better have a second vote i think the public will see through that it is not going well can you please concede that large no i'm absolutely i'm absolutely confident that we will look back on brics it is the right decision the european project is like a conveyor belt going in an undesirable direction towards more centralization more integration of fiscal harmonization military union all the rest of it brics it was a decision to step off that conveyor belt and within a few years will look back and wonder what took us so long and do you have

confidence in your prime minister a woman who did not support brooks it and has as has lost the confidence of a lot of conservative m.p.'s and voters do you have confidence in her to deliver that she won't deliver precisely the bricks that i wanted but i have no doubt that brics it will still leave us better off than remaining with andrew bracks it's going to happen isn't it that's the reality and shouldn't you get on board rather than trying to undermine it i think then your hand is on another planet if he thinks the people in the look back and see this is anything other than a disaster but we're a democracy we still have the opportunity until next march to put an end to this nightmare that's where the public is and that's why i believe that the right course is a people's vote and if there is a people's votes then i think that breaks it will be overwhelmingly rejected when people see what the last one of the penguin voters that their jobs are in jeopardy that they're going to be that they're going to be poor that there's the danger of when you're a paramilitary activity in northern ireland if there's a new border and defense and our security in jeopardy is well we'll have to leave it there this story isn't going away hundred journalists down your hand and thank

you both for joining me on up front. there are some who say my next guest represents the future of the democratic party who here on kustra a former mayor in texas and secretary of housing and urban development under barack obama has been talked about as a future presidential candidate and was on hillary clinton's vice presidential short list in twenty sixteen in a new book an unlikely journey waking up from my american dream castro tells the story of how he and his twin brother joaquin now a u.s. congressman both rose to national prominence with historic midterm elections around the corner what's his vision for the democrats in an age of trump. thanks for joining me on up front in your new book you describe your shock at trump's election back in november twenty sixth and you've said that people were quote trying to send a message about their frustration with washington d.c. but doesn't mean their frustration with the people in power in washington d.c. which was your boss then president barack obama well every now and then people will

throw the middle finger at washington d.c. and you'll have a massive change election and there have been times when that has benefited democrats in times when that's benefited republicans. we have to remember that hillary clinton still got two point eight million more votes than donald trump in that election and so really it was your concerns that certain parts of the country have more than others and did a good job politically of appealing to certain folks raising dog whistles so that is that is that is the corollary to that that the democrats failed to reach those people in the same way that trump did it was a failure on the part of the democratic campaign and twenty sixteen you know the the election results speak for themselves around i mean we didn't win michigan we didn't win ohio we didn't win pennsylvania and so of course there was a failure there to persuade enough folks that president obama. i had persuaded just

four years earlier but i think overall that the democratic message of trying to create opportunity for everybody making sure that folks get health care investing in things like brainpower and education that more people believed and believe now in that so you don't agree with someone like senator bernie sanders who lost the democratic primary standard comes in who said that the republicans didn't win in twenty sixteen the democrats lost he says that's his line well i think you know i agree that there are ways that we can make sure that we motivate folks more to get out and vote. and that anybody would acknowledge there are improvements to be made from two thousand and sixteen going into twenty eighteen and twenty twenty . what i think we can say with the same confidence is whether with a different nominee there would have been a different result i think that's just you know i don't think you can say that you

spend a lot of time discussing immigration in your book in your extremely critical of trump's cruel immigration policy of course family separations at the border putting kids in cages you'll based in texas how bad is the situation right now the border in your view while they're kind of to a sensor that number one donald trump has painted this picture of a crime ridden border zone this place where people are coming across the border like crazy and border crossings are near a forty year low and those border cities in my home state at least of texas like el paso and mccalla brownsville a few others are some of the safest cities for places their size in the united states and so you know he's sold a lot of americans a bill of goods with respect to the border and then secondly how bad is it well for those kids that are sleeping in the detention centers in that camp near el paso that are separated from their parents that are crying out for them every night that

are going to be traumatized. as for a life it's a horrible situation i consider that an abuse of human rights what they're doing i consider it state sponsored child abuse and basically kidnapping of kids from their parents and so from that standpoint donald trump is an abysmal failure when it comes to treating people the way that they should be treated so it's great to hear politicians such as making some noise about what's going on it is outrageous what's happening at the border and you say it's state sponsored child abuse isn't the problem though that when democrats like yourself speak out against this a lot of people say well hold on you first have to reckon with your own record in office president obama was called deporter in chief by a lot of immigration rights groups he deported more people from the u.s. than all of the u.s. presidents of the twentieth century put together more than two million people and when unaccompanied children came to the u.s. in twenty fourteen he didn't take kids from their parents to the policy as trump did but he did put kids in detention where some of them were abused according to

recent reports that reckoning has to happen doesn't it within the democratic party with that part of the obama record i think that you have to look at the totality of the record there were also a lot of folks progressive democrats. and i think most proudly a lot of the dreamers the activists who pushed to the administration in two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve thirteen fourteen to implement dhaka and then to implement. the way that president obama. and the administration handled a lot of these issues was night and day compared to the trumpet ministration and i think it's fair to say that the obama administration got better and better in terms of how it dealt with the issue of immigration as undeniably true and i think immigration going to be but the reality is children were detained under obama children ended up being abused in detention under obama and lots of people innocent

people who would not commit to major crimes were deported some of them were killed . to being to put it that i don't need to be some expression of regret apology from the democrats that if we're going to trump on this rightly so we need to also be a bit more critical of our own record and i think people were critical during that time both within the democratic who were already ministration did you raise because they're in the budget it's a fact i talk about in april of two thousand and fourteen. the fact that i said that i was not comfortable at the time with the way that the administration was handling the issue of immigration but i think what you see do you think you're going to see a future democratic administration should pledge not to do what trump or obama didn't put kids in detention under any circumstances i think that future administrations should say we're going to find a different way to do this we're going to find a way that both and both these humane and keep stanleys together. and ensures that we don't inflict the kind of trauma the trump administration is

inflicting on these kids and then also of course meets the needs of border security and we can do both of those cities and one of the ways trump is inflicting trauma is by using immigration and customs enforcement basically is a kind of some of called secret police but if you want to call it a stop oh yeah going into churches courthouses rounding up all sorts of people who should be rounded up a lot of democrats are now saying abolish ice including leading senators do you support that move to abolish i support figuring out how to reconstitute that division and i know that is somebody who headed a federal agency that these divisions of the federal government get improved and get reconstituted all the time and so don't think that this division of the federal government is somehow synchro saying it is not true as i'm confused is this when you say reconstitute is the abolition install the rush you're talking about is that we're no longer going to have any kind of in forstmann then i would say no you're

always going to have border enforcement however. if what you mean is are we going to have this same kind of tactics the same kind of culture of the same kind of abuses that we've seen or even the same sort of structure that we've seen if it is to be honest but not replace no i'm saying that the i think that ice can be reconfigured reconstituted ok just before we finish you haven't exactly been shy about your own presidential aspirations right now you have a democratic field of front runners of some pretty big names like vice president former vice president joe biden senators elizabeth warren and bernie saunders how do you expect to break through when you have these kind of big hitters already staking out their places in the field make a decision after november as to whether i'm going to run or not if i make a decision to run then i don't worry about that i believe that when i start talking to folks there in those early states and. talking about my vision for the future of

the country that i'll do great and if it is warren or saunders of biden one thing they will have in common all excellent politicians in different ways and they're all white and they will be in their seventy's do you think actually in two thousand and twenty the democrats should be putting forward a person of color who is younger i believe that next nominee is going to be somebody who's the opposite of trump and so it's going to be somebody that's trying to unite people instead of divide people somebody that is focused on the future instead of the past somebody that seen as honest instead of corrupt and someone i think who what about someone who is left enough for the democratic base is that you you've been called a pragmatist in the past you think you know progressive enough is quite a left wing democratic base right oh i believe that if i decide to run that i'm going to be fine in that regard yeah i don't have a concern about that i do think that that whether the issues health care or tax policy and so forth that the next nominee is going to be somebody that captures the spirit of where we are right now as democrats and there are

a number of people that are. very talented they're looking at that race so more the thing else whether i run or not i'm glad that we're going to have just a whole bunch of folks up there and a lot of people to choose from and the question for you what happens if you and your brother joaquin both end up running for president because how would that work i mean i wrote a book about. his brother david miliband it didn't work out so well for both brothers i just wanted you guys have a arrangement that you'll want to run in two thousand and twenty and he'll try if you don't. we're more like the klitschko than the miliband ok we're not going to fight each other. thank you for joining me on that front. that's our show up front we'll be back next week.

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two weeks of denials the saudi government finally admits the journalist was indeed killed inside its consulate in istanbul but they say he died in a fistfight eighteen people have been arrested over the killing and several intelligence officers have been dismissed. and while u.s. president don't trump calls the saudi explanation credible many others around the world are not buying this new version of events rights groups say pressure must be kept on saudi arabia's government several european leaders are calling for more investigations will have in-depth coverage and explore what prompted saudi arabia's admission and what this case will mean for the kingdom. a controversial saudi role media adviser has been fact over death that critics know sold and as dr has time but on twitter he vowed to continue serving the kingdom i'm hired to be online reaction and much more. also on the grid widespread violence in afghanistan as

people vote in a long delayed parliamentary election amid chaos corruption and threats more than two thousand five hundred candidates including many women are vying for two hundred fifty seats but several attacks and delays forced officials to extend voting by a day in some areas we're live in kabul. follow your with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live at al-jazeera dot com saudi arabia's admission that journalist was killed in. inside his consulate in istanbul is a dramatic change of narrative after two weeks of denials of the day after footage emerged of g. going into the consulate saudi officials confirmed his disappearance but maintained he left the building two days later crown prince mohammed bin sandman told bloomberg news the same thing the next day the saudi consul general mohammad in or

tabby invited reporters into the building telling them jamal is not at the consulate saudi media outlets repeatedly called the accusation that ashaji was killed inside baseless allegations but early on saturday saudi arabia's chief prosecutor finally acknowledging shakti was killed inside the consulate but said he died after a fight broke out a shortly we'll be live in istanbul and also get reaction from washington first andrew simmons on all the latest developments images played out relentlessly worldwide as saudi arabia denied jamal khashoggi had been killed but this was the last anyone would see of him alive and it was the beginning of a crisis that shaken the saudi royal household to its foundations to the despair of sixty year old beyond say how t.j. . who had waited in vain for him to leave the consulate the saudis initially said

he wasn't in the building. now they finally admitted that sixty year old is dead and this statement has been issued from the public prosecutor at the cotton a while you're lucky as an attorney about i'ma the first investigation into the disappearance of saudi citizen jamal khashoggi and shows that there was an argument and quarrel between him and the people he met at the saudi consulate in istanbul the quote led to his death but the announcement from saudi arabia cuts against what turkish investigators say happened inside this building it all boils down to an eleven minute ot a recording of events in which they say within minutes. was attacked and he died in a most gruesome way his body being cut up and handed part by part to other saudi officials inside the building your man once and i entered the building the met for a few minutes with the consul general to discuss his papers that he needed and he

was immediately attacked by a gang of killers that were signed specifically to stumble to actually liquidate him it wasn't an accident of death it wasn't a fist fight to the point where the consul general on tape is allegedly screaming please do not do it here you are getting me in trouble the saudi statement announced the detention of suspects those arrested named but may well include what the turks say was a fifteen member it team at least four of them officials close to the royal household including this man mohamad treed an intelligence official who the turks a lead the operational the ground tracked by c.c.t.v. cameras entering the consulate ahead of death and later leaving the country. and at least five high ranking officials have been sacked

a trusted advisor to mohammed bin salman is among them so did al qa turney also ackman alice sciri deputy chief of intelligence and former spokesman for the saudi u.a.e. led coalition in the war in yemen the crown prince will now head a restructuring of the general intelligence agency the announcements appear to signal the mohammed bin selman is being absolved of blame for jamal khashoggi his death as the turkish inquiry continues the actions of saudi arabia leave more questions than answers among them where are the remains of general. and more than anything else was this really is saudi arabia portrays some sort of accident or a rogue operation from within its own will household and drew simmons al-jazeera is temple or. fiance had teach a changes has strayed tweeted a tribute to him following saudi arabia's latest statement new video has emerged as

well of what's thought to be the pair of them entering his apartment in istanbul on the day he was killed ashaji went to the consulate to get paperwork for his merits to change is a chimera is live for us in istanbul such a what's behind this statement from the saudis and this seeming turnaround from their earlier version of events. well as we've been reporting throughout the past more than two weeks now the evidence and information that was being leaked on was coming gallops was making good about didn't really clear that jamal khashoggi entered the consulates but was never seen exiting gets the onus was placed on the saudis to explain what happened the delay in that explanation seems to be their attempt to try and find some sort of narrative that people can live with in the true floated many different ideas

indeed actually this concept that it was going to be pinned on saddam and an awful lot city was the center of an article in the new york times several days ago and despite the fact that the turkish officials here who have been going through this investigation have been releasing information that's rude consistently contradict any of these theories that were being touted out to the media the saudis feel that this is going to be the story that they can stick with that they can live with this story that a sixty year old man or a journalist would enter a consulates pick a fight or be part of a fight or brawl as it was described with fifteen people amongst them special forces amongst them the inner circle of crown prince mohamed bin said man's on suraj and his detail amongst them the kingdom's most senior or one of the most its most senior autopsy experts who specializes in cutting up bodies who happened to have a bone saw who happened to have flown in together with the rest just

a few hours earlier many of them on a private jet belonging to a company that's was commandeered personally by mohamed been cited as part of the anti corruption. crackdown who happened then to decide that he wanted to leave istanbul a few hours after you know getting into this coincidental brawl which unfortunately led to the death of this journalist all of these coincidences would make it very difficult to understand. how the saudis believe that this narrative is going to be accepted having said that obviously and we're going to be hearing from our colleagues in the united states donald trump has said that he finds it convincing to some extent but we have heard difference from other places particularly here in turkey and we would expect now the ball is firmly in the turkish authorities courts to come out with the evidence that would dispute disprove this beyond the circumstantial one that they've given in terms of the presence of these fifteen

people beyond information they've given us in terms of the leaks of what these audiotapes contain but the fact that this narrative could be put up was put out as we mentioned in the middle of the night on a friday when you'd be hard pressed to find a government institution in saudi arabia working past midday on a week that all of that and more makes it very difficult to see how there is any sort of reality in what has been pushed out and dramatic given the picture that they have been putting forward through the turkish media which very much goes against the saudi version of events you would expected then the turks to as you say refute much of what has come from riyadh indeed but i mean told now they're still using the same method which is these informal leaks or you alluded saw pictures earlier on i don't know if we can bring them up of showing you with his fiance entering an apartment that's. directly

refutes the narrative that was at the top of the statement read out on saudi television from the attorney general's office which claims that some people had gone to meet in the consulate after they had been given information that he was hoping to go back to saudi arabia but that apartment that you see in the c.c.t.v. footage that he was walking in with his fiance was one he only purchased a few weeks before he was murdered here in istanbul it was one that he was planning to move into because the reason why he was going to the consulate was because he was planning to get paperwork to allow him to marry his fiance so this would directly refute the idea that the saudis are claiming there was information or that he had said he wanted to return he never said he wanted to return everybody who spoke to him amongst them people we've spoken to who were with him just a couple of days before and in fact even were with him the morning before he answered all of them say that he was actually planning to continue his life between turkey and washington it would appear that maybe the turks are still going to

continue doing this method of slowly drip feeding or at least leaking information to contradict but with an official statement to now coming from the saudis from the attorney general it would appear that the talks need to step up a bit and not depend on this leaking but actually have to own the evidence they have officially releasing gets as they continue to promise that they will general thanks very much jim attaché yeah in istanbul now the u.s. president says saudi arabia's explanation appears credible but others in washington including members of his own party are far from convinced is practical hain u.s. president donald trump spent the day checking out america's most advanced weapons of war and as he sat down to talk to defense contractors this is what mattered most even as saudi arabia admitted killing us resident and journalist jamal khashoggi they were just one hundred fifty billion dollars it's never been anything like you know just the lay.