as mike hanna reports from washington. today in his element on the campaign trail but president trump cannot get away from persistent questions about jamal khashoggi initially described the saudi report concerning the killing as credible but listen twenty four hours later retreated from this position and into and post telephone interview strongly criticizing the saudi explanation saying obviously there's been deception and there's be lies at the same time he continues to defend saudi arabia as an incredible ally and keeps open the possibility that the crown prince had no knowledge of the murder. this is at odds with members of congress weren't the powerful republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee accusing the crown prince of complicity using his initials m b s if you look at the rocky mistake he made and carter where without even talking to us they put in place the

blockade he also has made some mistakes and obvious they've gone forth and murdered this journalist he's now crossed the line and there has to be a punishment and a price paid for that in and again i'm not rushing to judgment do i think he did it yes i think he did it and a bipartisan call for punitive sanctions we don't expel formally expel the saudi ambassador from the united states until there is a completion of a third party investigation into this kidnap murder and god knows what followed that occurred in istanbul this ought to be a relationship altering event for the u.s. and saudi arabia that we ought to suspend military sales we have to suspend certain security assistance and we ought to impose sanctions on any of those that were directly involved in this murder this really ought to be something that causes to do a reexamination of our relationship with saudi arabia this is something that president trump is reluctant to do but he would find it politically damaging to veto

sanctions legislation in congress that would likely get strong bipartisan support mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well u.s. president donald trump has possibly potentially a lot to lose from saudi arabia's actions he wants a quick resolution and over time he's changed his tone he's doubtful and more critical of the kingdom france germany in the u.k. of now issued a joint statement demanding cation and saying that we will ultimately make our judgment based on the credibility of the further explanation we receive about what happened and al confidence that such a shameful event cannot and will not be repeated the world is looking for on says this saudi investigation tell the whole story of how the body was really disposed off and where it is and then there is the position all of the saudi government right now there is a blanket order to bring all saudi dissidents back so how can a foreign governments meant to deal with this order if they are hosting political

asylum seekers. let's speak now to feel as formerly with the foreign office and now with nelson i'm university at thank you very much for taking the time speeches can i start with that point about the order from riyadh to bring all dissidents back to the country what is the what are the implications of that well there are many implications many of them legal whether that order can be effective because by the very nature of political asylum people leaving the country because they're not safe or do feel they're safe if they've been given asylum in a european country or in the u.s. then what the saudis appear to be doing is challenging those countries right to give people political asylum so i think that. this whole motivation to bring people back so that they can be silenced doesn't help the saudi cause

a toll. on the one hand saying we want to peacefully persuade them to come back but now they're ordering people to come back so i think there is a. little bit of a conflict in their position and they really do need to sit and think very carefully about how their image is being affected by their communications to the world it's interesting the reaction we've seen from the international community because there has been some condemnation from western leaders but there is still a sense of reluctance to act. because they are waiting to base their calculations on the result of a credible investigation they say that they want. transparency and they want the precise facts as stablished of what happened on october the second the day khashoggi went missing are they likely to get the clarification that they want in the coming days and weeks well yes i think clarification will come about to a degree we will probably never get one hundred percent clear picture because of

the way this is being investigated so partly by the turkish authorities. partly by the saudis and there is no independent investigation capability anywhere to do this but what the western leaders are struggling with right now that you mentioned is having to balance a pressure from within the countries from politicians from the media or from journalists and others for some form of very severe and hard break from the current saudi policy and their desire to reestablish business as usual particularly as far as the arms trade is concerned these things are ultimately at loggerheads so they're going to try and find some way of drawing a line under the under this whole affair which satisfies the critics within their countries but at the same time can bring back the good the trade that

they're worried about how difficult it how difficult is that going to be to draw a line under it because they certainly seen the saudis attempt to do that i imagine with. well a fluid changing version of events but that cracking down on some of those closest to the crown prince now that is not enough to satisfy in international community as yet what are we likely to hear from president one on tuesday well he says that he has evidence to say this was premeditated we've already had statements from turkey saying that. showed you was asked to pick up the papers not of washington but in all and he of course appears to have said to his fiance to call a friend within the president's office if he didn't emerge so there was a belief certainly in his mind and the turkish statement suggests that this was

premeditated. and the plan was to get him into istanbul so that he could be murdered and this contractor for disposal of body it's not something you can dial up and get somebody disposable already at a few minutes notice so the there is promise facia evidence that this might have been premeditated and it may be the turkey will provide that necessary extra evidence it may well be that the saudi government does except that. before president makes those claims because it will work in their interest if they admit to things before it comes out from a second or third party thank you very much for now appreciate it that's not speak to patty ca and she's been following developments in washington d.c. and passing we have this ever shifting tone from the u.s. president but leading senators have been speaking out today as well leaving no

doubts about where their suspicion lies. exactly and we've heard from republicans democrats in congress a much tougher stance than we've heard from president donald trump it does seem like we're starting to see some sort of movement to something happening on tuesday if p. is reporting at least out of the turkish presidency the president spoke with president donald trump on the phone president trump said that he expected to hear more on tuesday and of course we just heard that from. so we're going to see if there's going to be a coordinated response now president donald trump initially said he sided with saudi basically the investigation was credible he got on air force one watch probably a lot of television news the cable news which is what we believe he does mostly on air force one and then did a late night interview with the washington post they've posted a little bit more of that interview now and they say that the president is explaining that jared cushion or and mohammed bin solomon are just basically simply

very young this is the quote their two young guys chair doesn't know him well or anything they're just two young people they're the same age they like each other i believe he went on to talk about muhammad bin solomon saying he's a very strong person he has very good control. key been basically saying that's a positive thing and so we're looking at jared kushner in all of this because jared muhammad bin solomon have struck up a solid relationship and dared cushion or has the profile of the middle east peace and he's made it clear he thinks that that can only happen with the cooperation of saudi arabia now the president might want to cooperate with saudi arabia right now in a whole host of issues but we're seeing calls from members of congress as mike hanna reported saying that they have to simply be shunned in till there are big changes a very key ally for president senator lindsey graham immediately came out after the story broke and said that there needs to be regime change in saudi arabia so very

strong language we see the president sending the message that he would like. to find some middle ground is i want to get rid of arms deals he wants to continue the relationship with saudi but at the same time it's been reported that he doesn't want to seem weak so he's trying to figure out something he can do but at the same time it's not just what does president trump do it's not just what does president do it is what does mohamed bin solomon do in reaction to that the wall street journal has an interesting tidbit in its paper today to get al-jazeera how to confirm this but they're reporting that eight days after who should be disappeared the jared cushion of the president's on the line see advisor john bolton the national security advisor were on a phone call with mohamed bin psalm on and it's been stolen basically said why the outrage he was shocked this report and wall street journal says that there was such a universal condemnation and the journalist say that commissioner told him that he needed to come up with answers and quickly so far at least stateside all the

answers saudi arabia has come up with well the vast majority of people say they just don't add up thank you very much patty calling the latest from washington. well much more to tell you about in this news hour russia condemns the u.s. decision to pull out of a thirty year old aunts treaty as does mackell gorbachev the soviet leader who signed it. passenger train derails in taiwan killing at least twenty two people those stories and of course we'll have all the sports as well al jazeera uncovers new evidence of extensive match fixing at the highest levels of cricket beach we'll have that story and more. now thousands of refugees and migrants have been marching across mexico after crossing the court of modern border part of a so-called caravan of people from honduras el salvador guatemala who've been

walking north towards the united states u.s. president on all trump has worn them to turn back and says he may deploy the military to stop them crossing into america john holeman is in. the mexico guatemala borders so clearly a great deal of determination on the positive these migrants and refugees who have continued with that journey what's happening where you are now. well we're in the main plaza at the moment of tapachula as you mentioned you can probably see people all around this posit there's people here the sort of lying down for a bit of a rest on the grass you've got families here small children there's a baby down here. and then you have just people covering the entire center of the plaza here and these people are absolutely shocked they've literally was a marathon here from the food a city to see that the dogs will hear it's a tough issue. and they've done that at the time there's been clear least that the

creation of a sense of good in their car and looked as if they were about to block off the route but then let the path open up again so i have managed to get this far now what we know is that in tapachula thora to say that they're offering them shelter and in a shelter that they set up in the city but a lot of people don't want to go there because once you go into that shelter then you start the migration process can actually get out people keep going there's no guarantee that he left in mexico we want to show you a little bit about what's been happening on this big move that these people have been on today here in our face. off to kuhlmann to young and old men and women they keep on trucking it's a multitude at least pull thousand people in a car a van that began in honduras. now they've made it through guatemala and into mexico in the last eight days they slept in the open and crossed hills and route this.

jonathan is only fourteen and traveling alone he's here for the same reason as everyone else he feels he doesn't have a chance in honduras. there's no work and too much crime many like you sending a trying to get a new start to provide for their families being i mean i mean i know that i've got a six year old boy my dad my sister i have to help them it's not you know. the food i've had my electricity and water cut everything is expensive and there's not enough to live on. for many the end goal is the united states that's exactly what president trump is putting pressure on mexico to prevent. you know the police constantly seem about to close off the roof the caravan punches general. and the end of the officer simply watching the people that. it's an event locals in the villages turn out to have a look some give what they can see spirits are high but there's still

a whole country to go the sons really beating down our own people the already been walking at this point for six hours they carrying the few possessions on their back as they go men women and children but things are only going to get more difficult for them as they go deeper into mexico. the country is notorious for its web of migration checkpoints and for the gangs who prey on those traveling through the sea solving an illegal to something i know the danger they face from the authorities and organized crime drug cartels kidnap them as even kill them and that's been well documented that's why they all grouped together. for the moment that's got them another small step closer to where they want to go. and john tell us about measures the mexicans and the mexican government has been taking to prevent the journey on tina and on to the united states. where it's all been

really confused from the very start we had just on friday a scene on the border bridge between what the mahler mexico when police weren't allowing migrants cross but then many of them just went under the bridge to face is why there is now they've a swam across the river over the. river and the police from the back. again moved through. the rule that occasionally they cross the road road is if they're about to do. to make it through then they let the migrants pass and get here so there's a sense that the government here is sort of putting through things they do want to stop the cover of i'm probably and that's because they've got a lot from president trouble in the united states also going to prevent to get anywhere near his border but really the eyes of the world is a lot of all apologies for that and we're sorry about the quality of the sound that

john heilemann on the mexico guatemala border where thousands of migrants and refugees determined to continue their journey through mexico and then on to the united states will elsewhere one man has died after around three hundred people try to scale of or defend separating the spanish and play of melia from morocco nineteen others were treated in hospital for cuts or fractures around two hundred men managed to enter the spanish territory in one thousand nations says more than six thousand refugees and migrants have made it to million and spain's nearby territory of ceuta the only land borders between africa and the e.u. so far this year passenger train has derailed in northwest and northeast taiwan killing at least twenty two people more than one hundred sixty others were injured when several carriages of the train came off the track in year one county this is the island's worst rail disaster in over three decades an investigation is underway

into what caused the accident. still ahead for you this hour. you can see you got riled up and the reason the started obamacare. health care is taking. center stage a family's weighing how to vote in the u.s. midterm election also. supporters of brazil's far right presidential front runner rally in sao paolo why some of them a taking. tough on crime message to heart. and in sport find out why this ride and needed medical treatment just seconds after winning the motor title. well i will say some cooler air extending into parts of northern europe over the

next couple of days behind they slide of cloud it just spilling out of scandinavia out of grassy sink its way further south was allowing something of cold blast by the end of next week ahead of that cold enough further south quite lively showers down towards italy and the balkan southern parts of italy seeing some really heavy rain most are back in the mix in some shop showers longer spells of right western side of the mat somewhat dry renteria there has been recently signs that cooler air up to the north london is struggling to get to twelve degrees celsius nonsenses there in moscow here's a very a cloud here that's going to continue seeking its way further south with the cold air tucking in behind that quite a brisk wind as well wet weather there into northern parts of germany poland pushing up into the baltic states still that wet weather just swirling away across central parts of the mediterranean of course it will affect northern areas of africa then nor positiveness you're seeing some heavy rain that's also the case into the coastal fringes of libya south of that as well but it's better dry and

clear over towards a western northern parts of morocco seeing some very heavy rain algeria also seeing some bits and pieces of cloud with a spotter to have rain from time to time. capturing the moment in time. snapshots of my. other story. providing a glimpse into someone else's wild. inspiring documentary from impassioned filmmaking this. week nice documentaries to open your eyes on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick look at the top story now president says they plan to increase to a plan to release evidence about the killing of jamal khashoggi on choose day he's also discussed the case on the telephone with u.s. president all trump saudi arabia's foreign minister meanwhile the saying his

government does not know exactly what happened to the journalists because death of a huge and grave mistake and our other top story this hour thousands of refugees and migrants have been marching across mexico after crossing the guatemalan border parts of the so-called caravan heading for the united states. polls have closed after a second day of voting in afghanistan it was extended at more than two hundred fifty polling stations because of technical and security issues at least forty five people were killed and more than two hundred twenty wounded in taliban attacks on polling centers on the first day of voting ballots reports. afghans queue outside this polling center in kabul patiently waiting for a chance to vote it's the second time they've tried. of the nearly five thousand polling same tis four hundred was slated to open a day late after a host of logistical issues because of security threats only two hundred fifty six

actually opened it is imo my name being as he would see some of by me yesterday we came here to vote but there were a lot of irregularities and the biometric system was not working and there was lack of employees at the polling center systems. as the voting system is very weak and slow the voting started from this morning but so far only ten people have voted. their resilience is counted in ballot papers and lives. the government deployed seventy thousand security forces to protect us is this weekend the taliban said it would target the polls disparate to stop the democratic process the armed groups sees as an extension of american influence joy that i. am in the afghanistan this is the time to be proud of our national army national police and our intelligence forces for ensuring security but still violence slipped through the cracks the

ministry of interior tell it up nearly two hundred taliban attacks nationwide on saturday. the worst came in kabul just after sunset voting seemed to should have been closed at the time but were extended to cope with the long queues of people still waiting to vote a suicide bomber tried to enter a polling station more than a dozen people were killed therefore there was a good it was that there was a blast and i fell down on the ground blood was everywhere and there were many casualties i don't know what happened next. afghans knew they were risking their lives to vote the taliban have reminded them many times and yet they turned out in the millions defiant. yet of the nine million registered to vote one third turned out on election day it's sunday will take up another million ballots with two provinces get to vote initial results will be revealed in three weeks. these are the third parliamentary elections since the coup of the taliban in two thousand and one if this is the appetizer the main cool is the presidential election in april

despite logistical and security concerns forces themselves a more engaged in a charm about most of his era. well now the nigerian government has deployed a special police force to kaduna state in the north of the country where fifty eight people have been killed and dozens more injured in communal violence fighting between two groups broke out after a dispute it's a market twenty two people have been arrested meanwhile boko haram fighters of twelve farmers to death as they worked on their fields in borno state hours later the group looted and then razed to the ground three villages near the state capital my degree will elsewhere congolese rebels have killed fifteen civilians and abducted at least a dozen children in an attack near the center of the latest outbreak the attack has forced the suspension of efforts to contain the virus police fired tear gas at local residents angry at the killings who carried out who carried four of the

bodies to the town hall in beni in the northeast of the country the latest attack comes after a separate group shot and killed two medical workers but the army. well out to a story we've been following rush are accusing the u.s. of blackmail over president charles plans to leave a cold war era arms treaty and his threatened to retaliate trungpa said his administration will withdraw from the one nine hundred eighty seven intermediate range nuclear forces treaty which banned ground launch medium range missiles awesome brings us more now from the russian capital. by signing this lonely go she said nuclear treaty three decades ago former us president ronald reagan and former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev how to remove the threat of a nuclear war have moved over europe for decades two thousand seven hundred missiles were destroyed and the world especially europeans felt relieved now president donald trump sas the u.s. wants to pull out of that treaty russia's violated the agreement they've been

violating here for many years and i don't know why president obama didn't ricocheted or pull out. and we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to wear the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we've done it but russia is not an orchard way under the agreement so we're going to terminate their bravery we're going to pull out both the united states and russia have long blamed each other of fire late in the treaty which banned the deployment of missiles that can reach a distance of five hundred to more than five thousand kilometers rush accuses the united states of deploying a missile defense system in eastern europe which could be used as an offensive weapon the u.s. as russia had developed a so-called no vater of nine seven to nine missile which its ass can reach an intermediate distance and therefore fire the treaty russia denies this in december

last year russian president vladimir putin accused the us of looking for excuses so it can leave the treaty and put the blame on russia go by chance who's now eighty seven years old has called the u.s. plan to leave the treaty a mistake and told the russian news agency interfax that russia doesn't know where this will lead to the russian deputy foreign minister says it's a very dangerous germany has urged the us to consider the consequences of its decision to the united kingdom so as a truly back. u.s. withdrawal and moscow for endangering the treaty donald trump's national security advisor john bolton has arrived here in moscow and will pass the u.s. plan on to members of the russian government on monday he will most likely meet president vladimir putin later in the week moscow has said that it's waiting for an explanation from bolton and hopes to set washington on the path of dialogue step fasten al-jazeera moscow. well now the u.s.

midterm elections are just over two weeks away with health care one of the issues donating the campaigns is a priority for many voters along with taxes jobs and immigration heart of the political ads by the democrats are on healthcare. at the heart of this debate is the affordable care act also known as obamacare braca bomb his drive to give more people access to health insurance donald trump's attempts to repeal and replace have failed but he has managed to change some of the law's provisions the u.s. has the world's most expensive medical system costs take an average of more than ten thousand dollars a person and yes according to some estimates by twenty thirty it's projected to trail all the rich nations when it comes to life expectancy all than twenty eight million americans do not have health insurance and it's an issue that disproportionately affects the hispanic and black communities let's get more on this now from john hendren who is live in downtown indianapolis john tell us more

about how important issue this is for votes as coming up to midterms. marion here in indiana there's a senate race right now that is expected to be decided by a razor thin margin this is a reliably republican state a state that voted for president trump by nineteen percentage points in the sitting senators running for reelection he's joe donnelly and he is a moderate democrat indiana has some history of electing moderate democrats here he's voted with republicans almost as much as he's voted with democrats although republicans would say he votes with democrats when it counts and he's running against mike braun mike brown is a republican businessman who's tied himself very closely to trump and there are signs that that could hurt him because women in particular in polls have been falling away from trump in their support and particularly here in the suburbs where it really counts for mike braun that maybe in part because of trump's demeanor in

part because of the brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination where he made it through despite being accused of sexual harassment and of course as you say one of the big issues here is health care republicans say if they win control of congress again they will try once again to repeal obamacare and that has a lot of families here worried we see. down and talk to one of them this is what they had to say. adam interested brandur healthy successful entrepreneur and they pay more for health insurance each month than for their home currently we are paying about two hundred dollars a month that buys them care but with his stratospheric deductible that means they pay the first fourteen thousand dollars so in recent years that has meant paying for a little of a broken arm two thousand dollars for operations to insert tubes invaders and sullivan's ears ten to fourteen thousand for trisha's root canal one thousand for adams appendectomy most of twenty thousand dollars. and they worry that if

congress or the courts remove protections for preexisting conditions insurers will no longer cover their children's asthma care so as they prepare to go to the polls in november like many americans the number one issue on their minds is not tax cuts or the russia probe but health care certainly my number one complaint number one as well absolutely in indiana crossroads of the united states and across the country they are hardly alone it's just insane and criminal how much it really costs to cover yourself and. are really spent each year deductibles keep going up or notice saying an increase in the amount of time the candidates are spending talking about that whether that's in debates television commercials interviews etc it certainly has grown i think now it's got to be probably in the top three issues here in the windy plains of indiana a race for u.s. senate seat could tip the balance for control of congress joe donnelly is

a democratic senator in a republican state has made health care a top priority mike braun his challenger is a republican who says he set the example with his own business giving employees health care keeping rates the same for a decade but with a relatively high deductible of ten thousand dollars per year for a family the debate is getting personal i was the deciding vote. that saved coverage for preexisting conditions you can see got riled up here and the reason is darn right obamacare you've delivered as obamacare which is falling apart the brands say they'll go with a democrat donnelly but they fear if washington doesn't fix a broken system the burden of health care costs will end their dream of running their own businesses.