their will to choose their own future. election officials are using biometric voter verification devices for the first time to prevent voter breaking but technical glitches slowed down the voting. this election is only a first step in a law political process it would be followed by presidents elections in april that's when the afghan authorities will decide of the suing political talks with the taliban and forming a national unity government decades of violence a move backed by the u.s. and others who insist there is them or to solution to the afghan conflict. coupled with the violence came despite a government deploying an extra twenty thousand troops meaning seventy thousand are protecting afghanistan's twenty one thousand polling stations only eight point eight million of afghanistan's estimated thirty five million population are registered to vote electoral commission emits a turnout of five million would be

a success there are two hundred forty nine seats up for grabs and more than two and a half thousand candidates running four hundred seventeen of them women most candidates are running as independents with little in the way of party groupings they include former warlords and members of armed groups involved in afghanistan's many recent conflicts or hashem is of course in kabul he joins us live now and it is always violence and instability that costs a dark cloud over the country the taliban called on people to boycott the election what has turnout been like today. interesting ammonium to see a huge number of people lining up outside polling stations saying that it was worth taking the risk to cast their votes on this crucial moment for of understand this is a country that has been crippled by mismanagement corruption inefficient political establishments and they wanted to vote for a new parliament hoping that this could pave the way for the vibrant democracy that

could and war resume political talks with the taliban but also tackle the daily concerns of the afghan people we're talking about unemployment which is one of the highest in the region so that a huge hopes by the afghan people that this could be a turning point so this by the risk the tension that we've seen over the last few hours the attacks by the taliban in different places across the country but people have really turned into huge numbers and explains why the authorities not extending the voting time for another day to allow for more maximum participation. as you say hashim the violence is one thing but another important challenge has been technical problems with the voting system itself what is the sense you're getting on the ground there is this likely to be seen as a credible election at the end of the day. my and i think organizers i think it the internet independent election committee will face some problems over the the coming

days because it's now coming under criticism from people saying that they have not been very well preparing for the election i think they were not expecting a huge turnout and because of also the security situation there the logistics were not there on time this is number one number two people some of the observers didn't show up on time and some of the ballast were not put into place on time plus the biometric verification devices you took at the observateur and the official sometimes to master the a plus the technical glitches this meant some sort of a slowdown in the whole process now the government is saying that it's going to extend the voting for another day to pave the way for people to cast their votes but however it is now raising concerns among people now we have to wait and see what the outcome of these elections and the of these any. allegations of widespread fraud like we've seen in the past years in afghanistan that is

definitely going to be a major setback for the afghan government but also for the international community because many of the international committee has been saying there's no military option for afghanistan military solution is not going to work therefore we need a vibrant democracy at political settlement with the taliban that could be conducive to stability and and to decades of instability in afghanistan. thank you very much al jazeera is hashem covering that story for us from kabul afghanistan. still to come for you on the program the chief minister of india's punjab state promises a full investigation into friday's train accident which killed fifty nine people. and also have thousands of migrants find their way into mexico baad up to breaking through a border fence on the western monotonic. some

clear skies into eastern parts of china but some of the live shot was 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 may wallace showers long spells of ryan they extend their way down into thailand into southern parts of me a mafia amounts cloud joining up with a shower was that we still have across southern parts of india but to the north of that also warm sunshine now coming through temperatures around thirty five celsius for nat poole 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 a strong for of course still seeing some very heavy rain for it to the cricket for

the past few days very heavy rain too affecting the middle east would you believe you see some live showers here in the recently doha we'll 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. i wish the world innovation summit for one community of two thousand health care experts innovators and policymakers from one hundred countries. one experience sharing best practices and innovative ideas. one goes hopefully a world through global collaboration. apply now to a time the twenty eighteen which summit. welcome

back a quick look at our top stories this hour turkey's ruling party says it won't allow saudi arabia to cover up the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi this after riad did an about turn admitting for the first time that she was killed inside its istanbul consulate during what she called a brawl and our other top story this hour afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in eight years have been just rotted by series of taliban attacks at polling stations killing at least seventeen people. well we can now speak to demolish el who is outside the city consulate in istanbul and has new information

on the khashoggi case and jamal this relates to efforts to locate the body. or the remains of the body that's what the turkish officials have been telling al-jazeera that they see what the saudi authorities are corporates and with them to help them locate the remains of the cultural she now this comes after finally admitted that the journalist had been killed inside the consulate albeit pushing a very strange narrative that people are finding it hard to believe according to the reuters news agency they say that the saudis claim that the body was or the parts of the body were disposed of using local. essentially criminals basically that's of a contract to the local contractor this was the word that they used to help them with this obviously bearing in mind that the information that the charts have been

given from the very beginning mariam was that. she was not only murdered assassinated essentially in the consulate but his body was taken apart so dismembered by one of the kingdom's leading. experts so it is the remains of that body the people are wondering where it is the fact that the saudis have yet to officially announce where it is is something that's many people have condemned and been shocked at not least obviously the loved ones of jamal khashoggi including his fiance here now this latest information from the turks is that they say the saudis are cooperating with them whether that would indicates maybe that now the saudis and starts have found some sort of a deal to come out of this or whether maybe the saudis are feeling the pressure to come up with something we're not quite sure but it appears they are one step closer at least to finding what's remains of german officials here all right well thank you very much from outside the city can see that assemble a. and all the stories we're following officials in india say an inquiry is

underway into a train crash on friday that killed fifty nine people and injured dozens more the train pout into scores of people gathered on the tracks to celebrate a festival in the city of punjab victims' families say the train gave no warning before crashing into them. now hundreds of thousands of protesters have been marching in london to demand what they are calling a people's vote on the final breck's it dale demonstration is believed to be the biggest in the u.k. for more than a decade earlier in the week the e.u. the british prime minister to offer concrete proposals to break the deadlock over the future of the irish or dep or brennan is that much. the organizers call out one hundred thousand people to turn up this crowd to rally the claiming is that some five hundred and seventy thousand people have actually come here to register their protest against the rocks it that it looks like is going to happen because as

the days the months the weeks pass without a deal the concern is that britain could crash out of the european union without a deal with no deal it's all the kind of chaos that the people here are predicting is not something that they want to actually come simply now let's try and talk to a couple people falling over here hello. washington for i'm tom tom darren. tell me why does the you think a people's vote will be the answer to the current crisis the current chaos. will the government have been ignoring the conditions since the start which is that we need to make a decision on the orange border problem and yeah as it was just said on stage waiting till it's complete gridlock and we need to rethink our decision thank you for talking to me and that basically is the feeling here they didn't vote they say to fall off a cliff and they didn't vote to be cast into a no deal situation and the handling of the government of the work that goes

sessions is something that has been criticised not just by the people here but even by the courses here in the u.k. the pressure for the people's votes as no deal looks more money possible is clearly growing. on now thousands of refugees and migrants are stranded on the border between mexico. guatemala part of the so-called caravan of people from honduras el salvador and guatemala who've been walking towards the united states on friday thousands of them tore down a fence in guatemala and storm towards a bridge in mexico the migrants say they want to escape poverty and violence u.s. president donald trump says he might deploy the military to stop them from crossing into america john heilemann is in the southern mexico border town of go and joins us now what have you been seeing that today. where you can probably see the bridge behind me there's still

a lot of people on that bridge just quote from a lot of the other side a mix co where we are now this police and they're preventing them from getting into mexico you probably be able to see below as well as sort of side show young men who are using a makeshift raft to push up food and other things to the people on the bridge so they can sort of stay there over them going back to guatemala and keep the pressure on to be allowed into mexico there are a lot of people actually the only rovs like the one that you can see there who've actually already got across to mexico the bridge isn't the only option here for a long time there's been smooth flight that one that have taken commerce but can pull from formal commerce from guatemala to mexico so we've just been to a community center instead of the dow go and there's about two thousand five hundred people that have already made it across and move than a thousand that is just outside in the central plaza there in mexico they're just waiting they say to be processed by authorities they're hoping that they'll be

given some sort of asylum. to be able to take them to their end objective which for a lot of them is the united states and yet there have been these threats from u.s. president donald trump has that done anything to discourage the refugees and migrants from continuing with that journey. i don't think it's done anything to discourage them because they've been aware for a long time about president trump's hostility towards undocumented migration but i think it's made a big impact on the government of mexico and on so central america we're seeing federal police along the banks of this river and of course there were many more that were flown into trying to guard that bridge which is pretty unprecedented really here and that seems to be a direct reaction to president trump launching these sorts of threats about what would happen if these migrants didn't get up to the u.s. border as well we have the home during the guatemalan president that was scheduled

to meet about an hour ago to talk about this the honduran president is also saying that he's going to put on buses so that anyone that wants to go back home can do president trump is obviously threatened as well to cut the funding for programs in those countries if this caravan gets up to the u.s. border so really i think this whole sort of drama that we're seeing here is very much linked to president trump and his reaction to this caravan there have been caravans of migrants that have gone through mexico for years really and it's just over the last year that things have started to change with the president of the united states reaction to them well thank you very much john heilemann monitoring developments there is refugees and migrants gather in the mexican border town of said that he. and not much is known about the solar system smallest and least explored planet mercury but a joint european japanese spacecraft is just blasted off with hopes of changing that it will take seventy is for it to reach maturity the nearest planet to the sun

victoria gate and be explains. a successful start to a long and challenging mission. the unmanned. blasted off from french guiana carrying two smaller spacecraft which will investigate the surface and back net it failed of much. study. to better understand the formation of our solar system how it was formed to do evolve and 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 for a long trip. once the baby columbia reaches mercury it will release the too small a spacecraft one will operate in mercury's in orbit 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 bin vironment and so having two spacecraft will enable us to do a great deal of new saw ants 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. a free outlets in the united states a bracing themselves for record sales on the largest jackpot in history goes up for grabs on cheese a an incredible one point six billion dollars that's after the mega millions drawing friday night didn't produce a winner so the prizes rolled over for an incredible twenty fifth time now one is picked up the jackpot in the twice weekly draw since july. quick recap of the top stories for you now turkey says it will not allow saudi arabia to cover up the killing of janice jamal khashoggi

a page to share evidence they say proves his death was deliberate and say the investigation is close to a conclusive result on friday the saudis admitted to shot she was killed inside that consulate in istanbul during what it described as a brawl ahead of the turkish arab media association has called for whoever gave the orders to be punished. i would like to say to the saudi king in chrome koreans they will not be able to cover up the murder of jamal khashoggi who always punish those who have not played fair and killed all their people innocent people will necessarily even are believed they do not allow the killing of each other this is not fair nobody can deny that this is murder. and our other top stories this hour afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in eight years have been disrupted by a series of taliban attacks at polling stations at least seventeen people have been killed and dozens more injured voting has been extended to sunday in certain areas after a technical glitch is also prevented people from costing the ballots. the conservative

government for straitly is new prime minister scott morrison has lost its parliamentary majority votes has deserted the ruling party in a by election held in the east in sydney electorate it means the government will now have to rely on deals with all the independent m.p.'s in parliament an inquiry is underway into friday's train crash in india that killed fifty nine people and injured dozens of others the train plowed into scores of people gathered on the tracks to celebrate a festival in the city of in punjab. and hundreds of thousands of protesters have been marching in london to demand what they are calling a people's vote on the final break that deal the demonstration is believed to be the biggest in the u.k. for more than a decade earlier in the week the e.u. called on the british prime minister for suggestions to break the deadlock over the future of the irish border well now coming up next fault lines examines how donald trump is profiting from the u.s. presidency we'll have more news for you after that in about twenty five minutes

time do stay with al-jazeera much more coming up. when the powerful can get away with anything because they have the money and the connections to rick the system. but then people lose confidence in allah. and confidence in their future. put a lot failure is devoted to surrender our government to public corruption grafts

slowly is of that threat just as survive come our constitution. you know the fact that they've broken the law they're pretty clear about it but how do you like prove it how do you like sure people like it actually matters. in the two years since donald trump was voted into the oval office artist robin bell has focused on alumina ending the kinds of misdeeds it can be hard to see in. my contract with the american voter begins with the pledge to end government corruption. trump the cell phone billionaire railed against corruption on the campaign trail. one of the things i've tried to tell my friends is that not to get cynical because like that's his strength. as president trump has mixed private business and public duties in unprecedented ways yet giving rise to allegations

that he's using the highest office in the land to enrich himself and his family the logic is basically like everything's cool so if ever. the things from the maze will fix the most prefer see. all right we're going to washington d.c. . we are going to drain the swamp. in this episode of faultlines we check into one of the swamps finest venues to examine the charges the trump is profiting from the presidency. and violating the constitution of the united states. i. our investigation begins just a few blocks from the white house of the trumpeter national hotel in washington. it's housed in the old post office as storage building on by the u.s.

government. there sure is could the welcome to trump d.c. i wish an enjoyable stay with us as for us. back in two thousand and twelve the trump organization want to competitive bid to lease the old post office from the government's general services agency. barely two weeks before the two thousand and sixteen election and reopened as a hotel expenses. the washington operation is just one of the dozens of luxury hotels condos resorts and golf courses that bear the trump brand from las vegas to vancouver and to the bud. before it launched critics of the hotel project would be too expensive to prove profitable but most didn't anticipate was of the owner would win the white house. or in the of uncle

suite at the trump international hotel it's named for the president's daughter it cost a thousand four hundred sixty five. dollars to stay here and that's on the less expensive side of the lecture suites but like so many visitors to the hotel whether politicians tourists or journalists like us the only reason we decided to come here is because it's owned by the president of the united states when he was elected trump owned more than five hundred companies mostly under the umbrella of the trump organization and the president elect of the united states of america. in a controversial decision trump refused to divest from his company instead he put them into a trust these papers are just some of the many documents that i've signed turning over complete and total control to my sons i spent thirty years of my life tracking them am because i thought he was culturally significant i did not expect him to become politically significant investigative journalist david cay johnston has long

reported on the ups and downs of trump's business ventures you know with donald trump said he was giving up ready to businesses and putting it into a trust i literally erupted in laughter donald trump doesn't run any businesses thumb trump is not a competent businessman he leaves it up to other people. and furthermore the trust that set up this sons of said they tell dad about what's going on in the business to avoid the possibility of conflicts of interest previous u.s. presidents put their financial assets into a blind trust to ensure they would know how their wealth was handled those who owned businesses sold them jimmy carter had to sell his two bit business after putting it in a trust and nobody for a minute thought that his little peanut warehouse in rural georgia was going to have any influence on government policy can donald trump actually take profits out he can reach and withdraw money at any time whether or not he's done so we don't

know but this is not anything at all like a blind trust this is like what you expect to see in a family business. posing as a country. here of course. but after donald trump was sworn in at the capital his motorcade went to the white he had the presidential limousine known as the beast stop. he stopped right in front of the trump international tell he was sending a very clear signal you want to do business with my been straight you will pay tribute to me and bingo that hotel suddenly was full of business. zach everson is a freelance journalist who's created a whole new be out of covering the trumpeting national hotel and the people who patronize it on your twitter feed you've kind of highlighted a lot of what top and social media will tell us so what are some of the kind of ones that stand out this is a picture i found on instagram of russia's ambassador to the united states and he

was posing with the founder of a russian nail art chain the jeans she tagged him i mean that's got the instagram account r us the m d usa and the caption said in english thank you to our russian ambassador russian flag in the usa american flag for a warm welcome in washington d.c. maine's governor page's been here rudy giuliani is here a lot so this was a guy instrumental classic pete and you know guy's night with a couple of his friends and america's mayor and then hash tag maggie has tag saturdays are for the boys. trump's financial disclosure forms indicate that the hotel brought in more than forty million dollars in two thousand and seventeen according to federal documents reported by the washington post they'll tell made a remarkable profit in the first four months of that year the hotel expected to lose about two million dollars and instead it may into million dollars so that's a four million dollars swing. it has one of the highest rates in d.c.

and reported one of the lowest occupancy rates and that to me says that they have a set market of people are going to come here and they don't need to necessarily place their homes competitively so we'll just say donald trump and his family are profiting from the presidency. through the hotel coralie yeah and part of the reason they're making good money is because trump is president i think that's why a lot of people do come here. since the hotel opened the president has visited at least ten times and there are streams of evidence the trump family members administration officials republican politicians and lobbyists all make appearances . in the federal election commission filings show that republican candidates committees and powerful donor groups have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and trying to see. foreign governments including malaysia saudi arabia and romania have also made a showing coate as celebrated its national day at the hotel two years running. in june the philippines embassy hosted an independence day celebration the ambassador

explained his choice of venue to filipino news agency having it in a hotel that happens to have his name is it but that's certainly the end all and be all but it's a it's a statement it's a statement that we have a good relationship with this president. whatever the intent events like this have raised criticism that foreign governments are patronizing the hotel to curry favor with the president. independent state party was held as the philippines lobbied for free trade agreement with the united states philippines president rodrigo to territory had proposed the two countries explore a bilateral deal when he met with president trump at the end of two thousand and seventeen so was it reasonable for critics to see a connection i would see it as a cut and dried transactional thing after two years in afghanistan as a reporter and then as an advisor to the us military sarah chayes writes about corruption and its casualties around the world it's not like in the un follow up is

the use of trump hotel and then you get in return a piece of public policy that's how the u.s. bribery statute is now being construed by the supreme court but that's not how this stuff works this stuff works because you do your network partner a favor they are in your debt they do you a favor and it goes back and forth like this you don't have to spell it out trumps business history in countries like the philippines it's hard to separate from his current duties as president and ad from two thousand and twelve shows how trump's name is emblazoned on the sky rise in manila represented a great opportunity for brands. to defer the beans so it's developer. is the philippines trade envoy to the united states the philippine envoy is double headed private public the president united states is double had a private public that means every interaction between the two you don't know where

public service stops and private interest begins. although the trump organization vowed not to pursue new foreign ventures while trump is in office. there's white overlap between his business interests and the international relationships he must navigate as president. a chinese government owned bank runs the twentieth floor of trump tower in new york city at a trump property adjacent. the un saudi arabia and india own apartments qatar bought a new unit there this year. from post foreign dignitaries at mar-a lago his private club where membership rates doubled after his election his companies have been granted approval for trademarks in china even as the president negotiated trade policy with its leader so far i have got nothing absolutely nothing but the potential conflicts of interest are many and they've raised charges that trump is violating the us constitution in the news that the charges are laid out in several lawsuits one of which is now focused on the trumpeted national we decided to file

a lawsuit because it was a violation of this country's oldest anti-corruption law and that is the emoluments clauses both foreign and domestic. we would like a federal court to order the present united states to cease violating the emoluments clauses and that would i think mean at the present nine states would be ordered to divest in a clear and transparent way from his businesses. are seen is the attorney general of the district of columbia the democrat and with his counterpart in the state of maryland he's suing the president and frankly we saw it as our obligation particularly given the fact that in the case of the district of columbia he's violating the law five blocks down the street how do you prove that the president being influenced by people patronizing his hotel how do you prove corruption it's a great question and that is why the founding fathers made a very clear.