tightrope as they have been ever since jamal khashoggi and was killed and they were probably aware that he was killed the very same day based on the evidence that they've been saying that they have or whether it's because maybe there is other diplomatic considerations for want of a better word that are being looked at we're not quite sure however we have only their word so far so go by which is a blanket assertion that they will not allow for a cover up and it's very important here that turkey is seen to actually now respond to this because up until now they had from really put the ball in the saudis courts to prove what's happened to democracy now the saudis say well this is what happened it was a brawl yes it was between fifteen men and one fifty nine year old yes there was a bomb so yes there was a chopping up of his body but you know what it was just accidents happen right the turks now have to come out and so just how ludicrous that assertion is whether they will do that so not the next few days will be critical not only for that but also

to show whether turkey really is concerned about human rights and freedom of expression and the geneva and the vienna treaty or whether they were just using this for political capital. but i suppose it's a difficult tags have to navigate because of the way son of this evidence and these audio callings might have been gathered it. well that is one theory there is the other idea which is also a reality that like his foreign policy is under a lot of stress has been under a lot of stress not to mention the economy would still dips in the currency unlike none before for many many years as well as the security situation regionally you're talking about the war in syria you are talking about i saw you talking about many other considerations that would. be. a rift with saudi arabia would not be helpful to say the least with regards to those things or whether it is the nature in which they got the evidence or whether it is the considerations not to

add more fuel to the fire that is burning in the middle east and has been for many a year we're not quite sure but for those who are concerned with at least as you mentioned the human rights and press freedom and international law and the fact that you can't just go around during journalists into a consulates and chopping up their bodies they would say in order to ensure that there is stability in order to ensure there is peace and in order to ensure that there is order that those who are behind this need to be made accountable and in fact much of what the middle east is witnessing today according to many experts is a direct result of policies that have been pushed namely by crown prince mohammed bin some money look at the war in yemen as well as his allies in the united arab emirates of muhammad bin zayed and others and therefore they need to be checked right now otherwise it would be essentially a free for all and things would go from bad to much much worse. thank you with the latest from istanbul jim. g.'s disappearance has shown a spotlight on crown prince mohammed bin selman o.m.b.'s as he's known is saudi

arabia's to facto leader the thirty three year old outmaneuvered his rivals to become heir apparent in july last year he was hailed around the world for economic and social reforms like lifting the ban on women driving that was accompanied by a crackdown on dissent more than a dozen women's rights activists who campaigned for the ban to be lifted have been arrested since may he also detained hundreds of the country's richest people accusing them of corruption and holding him the luxury of ritz carlton hotel well that was the bizarre suspected kidnapping of lebanon's prime minister saad hariri who unexpectedly announced his resignation while in the saudi capital and the us is considered the driving force behind saudi arabia's decision to go to war in yemen in two thousand and fifteen while he was defense minister and he's understood to be responsible for the blockade of cash up saudi arabia along with the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt cut ties with doha in june last year i'm joined now in the studio by. who is formerly with the u.k.

foreign office and is now assistant professor at boston university center for conflict security and terrorism so we see now this public statement by the saudis the aim is to absolve the crown prince of any role in the killing saying that he had no knowledge of it or that it was an authorized by him but at the same time he is also left very exposed because they have cracked down on those closest to him yes they have and it's very interesting the those people who probably would know the charge review equivalent of involuntary manslaughter which of course doesn't attract a death penalty and probably they will be imprisoned in the likes of the ritz carlton for a few years and when things blow over. these are very close friends of the crown prince they're likely to be given amnesty at the earliest opportunity and of course rewarded for the loyalty of the big problem of course is none of this is likely to

pacify he's growing number of critics you've mentioned his behavior in lebanon against the lebanese prime minister its alleged behavior that he was his tractor a resignation from which was withdrawn he has made an unprecedented attack against the canadian prime minister there is a sense of what i would describe as economic hubris here and i think the worst thing for him is that he's alienated himself from members of the saudi ruling family because he's imprisoned many of them that's quite humiliating for them so he will probably be left with very few friends some of his closest friends as we said is perhaps saudi arabia is. economic dealings and integration with the west and while strong enough to offset that well i think that that is probably the view of

some of his major ally customers or suppliers the u.k. and the u.s. e.u. president trump has been pretty upfront about this that there is a great deal of stake in terms of economics and jobs and the u.k. too has significant contracts but there are very much in the minority the european leaders angela merkel and others are very critical and even within the u.k. and the u.s. ministers certainly the media and civil society is probably had enough because this is not just a horrible incident in its own right it is coming on the back of some very serious concerns about. a vast majority of the yemeni population suffering under. president it levels if of deprivation of starvation bombing of children and so on so that saudi arabia does not have

a very good foreign policy image right now it doesn't have very many friends even in the u.k. and the u.s. it's only the leadership that for commercial reasons is trying to give it as much support as possible and so everyone is watching what might happen next in turkey he could possibly ankara release more evidence that will discredit the saudi narrative in terms of where they're trying to find the remains of his body you have. unofficial descriptions of the audio recordings and possible phone records well yes and i think so far in this whole saga the everything seems to align with the turkish version of events and everything seems to have gone against the saudis initial version of events and even its current version of events is being treated with a great deal of skepticism as far as the body is concerned i think it's extremely unlikely that. the saudis don't know where the body is or bits of the body.

having arrested these people that have admitted to being involved in his death i think what is happening now is trying to manage how the body is released the worst thing is for that body to be exposed to the public's because if the turkish version of events is correct and that body has been dismembered it is going to be shocking it's not going to present the saudis in a good light but it will also weaken their version of events it was an accidental death fisticuffs got out a hand that's already a very weak weak narrative it becomes that much less plausible if there is a dismembered body so i think the saudis will be trying to manage this trying to. find a way where the family will agree to take the body not to expose it to the public and bury it as quickly as possible under the guise of their version of islamic

rights thank you very much for sharing your analysis with us from. still ahead for you on this news hour from london the chief minister of india's punjab state promises a full investigation into friday's train accident which killed fifty nine people. hundreds of thousands marched through london demanding a second breaks it vote in the biggest protest yet against person leaving the e.u. and in sport another wreck or for christiane or an elbow pizza will have the details on that story and much more. parliamentary elections in eight years have been disrupted by taliban attacks at polling stations which have killed at least twenty seven people and injured one hundred more vote counting has begun in some areas but in all those voting was extended till sunday off the technical glitches prevented people costing the

ballots violence came despite the government appoint seventy thousand troops to protect 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 admits 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 but as 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 well just there is a reports now from the capital kabul. it was a day by violence as suicide bomber blew himself up outside a polling station in kabul killing and injuring dozens of people it was one of several attacks in the afghan capital but it was said it's a good i was there where the blast never fell down on the ground blood was

everywhere and there are many casualties but i don't know what happened next. but the attacks haven't deter people from casting their votes. and i act of defiance despite the growing threats and turns security situation this is the third parliamentary election since the fall of the taliban in two thousand and one people here in kabul showed up in the early hours at polling stations 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 kandahar province after the taliban killed two top officials there on thursday election was also delayed in gaza the province following ethnic disputes that it 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 you dick cheney any country it's a very special election for the outcome people side by their courage. 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. the election has been extended for another day in some areas to allow maximum participation this is actually is only a first step in a long political process it will be followed by presidents elections in april that's when the afghan authorities will decide on the suing political talks with the taliban and forming a national unity government moved back by the u.s. and others who insist there is no military solution to the afghan conflict. covered well officials in india saying inquiry is underway into a train crash on friday that killed fifty nine people and injured dozens more train pout into scores of people gathered on the tracks to celebrate a festival in the city of rights in punjab state victims' families say the train

gave no warning before crashing into them and jobs chief minister says the inquiry will get to the bottom of what happened it's necessary for us to horn in on the high end of. this matter and we have announcing a magisterial and. under the. commissioner who will order the student body and give us at a border within four when. they have not come to see us because our children have died they have to get votes they come along to big from house to house we should get justice. demand from the government is that if significant compensation to the families of the deceased. still ahead for you this hour thousands of migrants find their way into mexico bardolph to breaking through a border fence on the guatemalan site. the.

demonstrations in taiwan call for official independence from china almost seventy years off from my seventy years of self-government. and as to forget for real madrid is that miserable continues and spank. hello there well we have got some dry weather in the forecast for spying on places say at long last the area of low pressure swirling away here just on the other side of the straits is approach of cloud still in place but the cloud will gradually thin and break and recede away still a chance of wanted to shout into the far south of the country northern parts of morocco could also see some wet weather of course but brighter skies at last there for sunday the heaviest showers well they're going to be affecting central parts of

the med so southern parts of italy sicily seeing some of the live fish as by the time he comes to monday those showers really peping up nudging a little further eastward heading towards greece towards southern parts of the balkans notice further north cooling off in berlin only eleven degrees celsius that northerly wind tucking in behind i do not generally five android behind that generally find interests seem fourteen fifteenth's out is for london and paris not great but too bad either well as you drive across northern parts of africa as you go through the next couple days little bit of cloud there just pushing up towards southern areas of edging up towards the western side of libya north of that it's generally fine and sunny still a chance of want to see showers then into northern iraq and as i said by the time we come to monday it should be largely dry but rather more cloud pushing in from the south.

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welcome back a quick look at the top stories this hour turkey's ruling policy says it wired to allow saudi arabia to cover up the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi and vows to share its evidence with the world meanwhile saudi arabia's justice minister has said that since she died on saudi sovereign territory the case be dealt with by saudi holds and our other top story this hour afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in eight years have been disrupted by a series of taliban attacks at polling stations killing at least twenty seven people. but it took seventeen days for the saudi government to admit that you died inside its consulate in turkey throughout that time saudi representatives and media

dismissed the shocking accusations emerging from turkey but the official saudi version of events has changed considerably over the last fortnight under schapelle explains the day after this footage emerged of jamal going into saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul saudi officials confirmed his disappearance but insisted he left the building that was nearly three weeks ago the first of several times the official line would change two days later crown prince mohammed bin psalm on told these reporters from bloomberg news the same thing saying the kingdom had nothing to hide the when asked if she was still inside the consulate the crown prince said he's not inside the next day his consul general mohammed all over t.v. even brought reporters into the building telling them jamal is not at the consulate he also said the building's cameras did not record any footage from the day because showed she disappeared. for the next two weeks saudi media outlets denounced what

they called baseless allegations that she was killed inside the consulate accusing the world's media of spreading fake news to spark panic and blame saudi authorities saudi owned a lot of be a t.v. network describe the fifteen men identified by turkish officials as members of a hit squad as tourists falsely accused of murder but with gruesome details of his death constantly leaking to the press and growing pressure from washington and other capitals the saudis had to come up with an explanation the problem was had they come clean early on saying yes he was killed even in an interglacial going role i think the momentum of this that was building over now almost more than two weeks basically created something that is bigger than it actually was early on had they responded early on i think they could have had this moment this momentum go away but they haven't and the more they said the more they spread lies and conspiracy theories the more this was actually growing into becoming what it is now

an uncontrollable avalanche of allegations of a amnesty international says saudi arabia statement that died during a brawl are not trustworthy and mark an abysmal new low in its human rights record the rights group is calling for an independent investigation into schapelle al jazeera. syrian t.v. has released video it says shows the release of six hostages by i.c.l. in the first part of an exchange with the syrian government it's the women and four children had been held in the southern region of so latest since july they were among dozens of people kidnapped by the following a raid in the region that killed two hundred sixteen people now under the exchange deal the government will release dozens of women related to i still members. well the stories we're following israeli media says the demolition of a palestinian village of qana has been postponed indefinitely it's been more than

two weeks since israel's deadline passed for the hundred eighty bedouin residents to leave their homes israel media says evacuation has been delayed to allow for negotiations with the villages israel wants to demolish the village in the occupied west bank to make way for more illegal settlements president trump has confirmed that he will pull the us out of the nuclear deal with russia washington says russia has violated the nine hundred eighty seven into media range nuclear forces treaty through its development of a new cruise missile and we was reportedly been pushed by trump's national security adviser john bolton russia has violated the agreement they've been violating here for many years that i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate or pull out. that we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out of their weapons and we're not allowed to we're the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we bonded to agreement but russia is not one fortunately under the agreement so we're going to terminate the agreement we're

going to pull out. let's discuss this now with nicholas soco he is a nuclear expert who is a senior fellow at the james martin center for nonproliferation prefer ration studies he joins us from moscow thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us first of all would you start by explaining a bit about this treaty give us the background and its significance in being a sort of global pillar in arms control although it is a treaty that was concluded ninety. seven are really. much safer away literally the gauge is. the soviet union the united states began to. see the range all nuclear weapons mean you were all. and with extremely are sure flight time so basically this is that once you see you know of

a signal from the radar you cannot confirm you cannot reach air or they will examine you. to suppress the body. yes that's very very dangerous work obviously you and it's really good this really was concluded it will be eliminated of all these missiles in europe and also globally. as i must say. are very sad. personal bases because they did contribute to and have treated back in the ages so that's. why they being in a sense years in screw sand to see if. it's no more and so the allegations from the u.s. is that russia is violating this treaty by developing and the playing certain types of cruise missiles what is their reaction likely to be from moscow. well that's a very well known charge are you supporting with doing that is this has never

really provided. enough details in russia has its own charges of morrison going to charges against the united states and once again not to me details are the same thing is not us with charges about violations that does happen but unfortunately both sides he has never been able to sit down or look at him like an expert discussion the technical level of your result of these speeches and of course if you do diplomacy the loudspeakers will doesn't really help. so we're going to sense of the demise of the street you was likely. they would say that the trouble of going to stray sheep really rushed into whatever getting treated well thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us we appreciate it. and the james martin center of the nonproliferation studies that muska. now thousands

of refugees and migrants from maine stranded on the border between mexico and guatemala part of a so-called caravan of people from honduras el salvador and guatemala have been walking north towards the united states officials in mexico are starting to allow small groups to enter but other like grants are trying to make the crossing on river rafts on friday thousands tore down a fence in guatemala and storm the bridge in mexico seeking to escape violence and poverty u.s. president donald trump says he might deploy the military to stop them crossing into america. or the migrants traveling from honduras say there's nothing left for them or home for you it is the main road we need support from mexico because we can no longer live in our country if people are migrating on mars is because there is hunger there is corruption there is insecurity uncertainty and there is forcing one juror insta leave because we cannot live there anymore as thoughtless at that. this is not about politics this is not about benefiting anyone this is about self

wellbeing it's about self accordingly it's about children family there is harmed there is hunger above all and we need to push ahead and that's why we're taking this risk well john heilemann is in the southern mexican border town of with more. there's well over three thousand people in the power of the small town of c. about it out go that's on the border between mexico and guatemala run the mexican side now and this is a caravan of mostly hondurans that have come here to try and escape poverty and also violence in their homeland where they really want to get to is the united states so they said they'll take mexico if that's not available to them and you can see the people are sleeping rough in the plaza there's a sort of show here that's about to start off there's a sense that people are sort of on this journey really in the long haul and they're waiting here to see if the mets can authorities are going to give them any sort of

asylum or process their paper limits going to florence he's about to be said that they look at every case and then they'll decide whether it's worth giving people asylum or where they're going to deport them of they're really being strong on to do that by president trump of the united states he doesn't want these migrants to get anywhere near the united states. and he's asked mexican authorities to act the name buddha breeds he's actually been sealed off need to hear the migrants aren't really getting through to prove they've done instead he's managed to get on the bridge. of the river using this movie made sure to cross the usually years to take goods and to ferry locals around so they have made it into mexico but now the next step on this journey is really unclear. have been large protests in taiwan by people who accuse china of planning to annex the island they are demanding a public vote on whether taiwan should formally declare independence from china it

comes as china increasingly pushes its claim to the island president citing then is struggling to appease both aging and independence faction's chinese consider taiwan to be part of that country even though it's been run by its own government since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. well here in london there's been the biggest protest yet against person leaving the european union the organizers say more than six hundred thousand people joined this march demanding a second referendum on the final breck's it deal brennan was that. in twenty sixteen concerned that leaving the e.u. might result in chaos but dismissed as project fear by breck's its supporters but with just five months to go until britain leaves the e.u. and still no agreement on the terms of departure millions of people are now very afraid indeed my major concerns are for the future not for my generation yes we're going to be completely stuffed with this but for my children's future and my

grandchildren's future we could have all of our rights taken away because one of our trade deals taken and for students we are vulnerable to that and it's all of you just are going to be destroyed because of that. this was a massive turnout people came from all over the u.k. to attend in the crowd was at least five times larger than the one hundred thousand originally predicted by the organizers. there was a significantly smaller pro breck's event in the northern town of harry gets on saturday nigel for raj urging the prime minister to just get on with this. you'll be able to suggest that out of courtesy of those that voted remain now say we're democrats and we keep the government should simply get on with it i mean it's almost if you get on with it fulfill your promises to us you said if you voted to leave it would happen it reached it. but what is it the people's vote campaign to say the it's promised and voted for in twenty sixteen is not what's going to be

delivered in march next year. as the weeks and months pass with no agreed brix a deal the pressure for a people's votes is growing but what's uncertain is whether the government will actually granted people's votes and what the question will be if they do. once they've given us the vote then we can argue about what the question should be and without question it should be do you want to devastate the united kingdom and create catastrophic consequences for the economy or you want to pay me the option to stay in a you will definitely be on the ballot paper because it is parliament itself that will decide what the question is. i know that the prime minister is still refusing to hold another referendum the opposition labor party seems reluctant to force one with the pressure from the voting public may yet force their hand paul brennan al-jazeera central london the conservative government of australia has a new prime minister scott morrison has lost his parliamentary majority vote has

deserted the ruling party in a byelection held in the east in sydney electorate that was held by previous prime minister malcolm turnbull independent candidates karen phelps won a decisive victory means the government will now have to rely on deals with other independent m.p.'s in parliament to stay in power. thank you all still ahead for you. a european japanese spacecraft sets off on a seven year journey to mercury solar system's least expelled planet. trouble brewing which is in new york assemble the ingredients for a hex on the u.s. supreme court judge brett kavanaugh. and shipping off a new well recall it will have very latest from the timber sports world championship. in the lead up to the u.s. midterm elections we'll be talking to the american people looking at key issues for

voters from immigration to economic struggles to health care system to racism and women's rights join us through i took over for special coverage and analysis the u.s. mood time on al-jazeera. survival for haiti's poorest depends on illegal charcoal production. but for park rangers sworn to protect the dominican forests it can have deadly consequences. witness discovers the head in world where the stakes for the environment and those who make their living from it couldn't be higher. death by a thousand cuts on al-jazeera.