put saudi arabia in the corner and at the end saudi arabia had no other choice but to acknowledge and admit the death of. but of course what they're not admitting and what the turks want them to say is that this was a preplanned operation because saudi arabia's narrative is that this was a rogue operation there was no plan to kill him but i think what is what has been really a turning point is the visit by the cia chief to turkey yesterday what we understand they had a seven hour meeting with with her turkish counterpart and what they did is they presented the evidence to her and according to a newspaper close to the government she even heard recordings and i think her assessment to the trumpet ministration is going to make a difference on how the u.s. administration is going to act and what turkey has been trying to do is not just corner saudi arabia but corner the u.s. administration to take action against muhammad bin if you if you see columnists what they have been writing in the press they're clearly pointing the finger at mohamed and saying that this case cannot be closed until he is being held to

account even an advisor who is close to the man has blood on his hands in a hotel with the latest from istanbul zain a thank you was in it was speaking there about the relationship between the saudis and the turkish government but as the international reaction gathers pace the french president the man who and mcchrystal and the british prime minister to reason may have both spoken to the saudi king solomon about the case maise office said she had strongly urged the saudi arabia to cooperate with the turkish investigation earlier may announce that the u.k. would follow the united states and cancelling the visas of those suspected of involvement in this. i cannot take the house that no minister or official is attending the investment conference in saudi arabia and my right on befriend the home secretary is taking action against all suspects to prevent them entering the u.k. and if these individuals currently have these as those visas will be revoked today

. well joining me now is below a journalist the middle east analyst for the gulf matters thank you so much for joining us here again so strong words from to reason may and then when the crown is also spoken out i mean obviously is a lot of tension towards the saudis right now how would you weigh it up though i mean do do comments from the brits and the french matter when actually the u.s. seems to be still weighing up you know weighing up with what they're going to do with i think they do matter i think obviously the the british and the french are particular we have very significant relations with saudi arabia so theresa may isn't pulling any punches that will count i don't think it will count as much as is donald trump's view of the situation but there's no doubt that the pressure is there my question is how much will it change the narrative that the saudis are still clinging to how long will it continue and what likely outcome will there be and and i have to say that my sense of it is that it will play out but ultimately

or play out in such a way that moment some on remains as the as the candidate to become king it was interesting hearing him speak today in obviously add that you know the financial come for the conference the so-called davos in the desert which has been boycotted but then of course because he chose to speak there it was still on almost all the t.v. networks around the world what do you make of what he said his demeanor as well the way that he talked about the case well i think that his demeanor was interesting i felt that he was quite cocky really in some ways and the joke about. mr hariri i want this is the lebanese prime minister prime minister apparently been kidnapped a few months you know that was. that was one thing the call ote two to qatar i thought was quite interesting because of course qatar has been and moments all my books along with the. crown prince moments i. the embargo was

a work and the economy was their economy while he was acknowledging the reality why did why do you do that i think that he was really throwing a tidbit to donald trump tropfest and pushing for months to end this feud which he and most other people agree only benefits iran the fracturing of the gulf cooperation council so i think that was a play to donald trump i wouldn't put too much into it from the cattery point of view what we can say on that one i thought the comments about. turkey were interesting i still think that you know there's still a bit to play in terms of what. president or the juan is going to give out but we will just have to see and i mean this is all i guess turning into you know a game of geopolitics which we knew was going to be you know arms sales a lot of money for for a lot of people but at the heart of it is a man a journalist who was effectively killed because of what he did what message do you think it would send to the journalists in the region if mohammed bin summoned who

is widely accused of being the man behind it remains the crown prince look i think it's already a very chilling message and of course the attack on journalism has been ongoing for a long time and it's accelerated to a very dramatic level with the killing of jamal how should she and i think that it it will affect certainly journalists in the region i think will affect dissidents outside of saudi arabia i think will be a great fear amongst a lot of people who regularly contribute and write who are saudis and are critical of a lot of the sit ins would say to the west you see we told you so you saw you wanted to see a reformer whereas we always told you there was more to it than that do you think the west has now learned its lesson in that sense well i think yes the mosque has dropped has not been summoned it's not the great young moderniser and and the voice that prisons were all looking for is he's an authoritarian he's he's brash he's brutal and i think he's potentially quite dangerous. so it will be interesting to

see how tourism a how macro how europeans play it can they moderate him somewhat and has he learned a lesson he's made many mistakes as you learn from them i don't think thus far he has perhaps this one because it's been had so damaging to his reputation you mean indeed hopefully learned something below journalist a middle east analyst for the gulf matters thank you hugh. well as we said all eyes are still in the united states response to saudi arabia in president terms attitude has been hardening with each day that passes we go live now to mike hanna in washington d.c. so mike has there been any reaction to m.b.'s is mohamed bin salons or most recent comments. no that hasn't been any reaction in the course of the day though the last we heard from president trump was those very strong words that he spoke a tuesday night saying that the crown prince runs if everything and if there is going to be someone responsible it would be him that was certainly the strongest

statement made by president trump and the first time he implied the possibility of the crown prince's involvement is language has been hardening up over the this crisis see at one stage was talking about the saudi report the contentious report being credible he raised the concept of a road operation but he is now finally using much stronger language a very clearly this under mounting pressure from his own domestic lawmakers yeah exactly because you know it's not just he's made it quite clear that actually when it comes to the financial dealings or would side in a lot of the arms sales you know that he sees that is very important but how key is the pressure on him not just from congress but really from public opinion in the united states which perhaps has cared about the story more than it usually does about similar stories command in middle east. well certainly there has been great

public attention on the story and usually for a foreign policy story within the united states public pressure has not been that clearly demonstrated on president trump we have had criticism of his position at campaign rallies have been particularly from the vice president joe biden but generally the most pressure we're seeing is indeed from congress from both the senate and the house of representatives in the course of today for example now the bill has been introduced in the house of representatives signed by two republicans in addition to the democrats who signed it it's a sting that sales alms to saudi arabia must be stopped in the lack of any investigation produced by president trump showing that they would not complicit in the killing now this is a way of keeping up pressure on president trump congress is not in session at the moment a there's no way that the house of representatives can act on this at this particular

time but it is a very strong reminder to president trump that when congress is back in session questions are going to be honest and there's going to be a very strong press for legislation which would impact on what president trump is insisting he doesn't want to happen and that is a curtailment of arms sales to saudi arabia they can do with the latest there from washington d.c. mike thank you and coming up on this news hour from london iraqi doctors were borne diseases like cholera are spreading from basser as water supplies as unrest continues of a poor public services it's being called the biggest bank iced in south africa's history but it's the poor who are paying the price and in sports u.s. open champion now only a sack that continues to struggle at the w.t.f. finals in singapore details with sunnah a little later in the program. u.s.

president trying to strongly condemn the number of suspicious devices sent to prominent democrat politicians and liberal institutions targets included bill and hillary clinton barack obama and the c.n.n. headquarters in new york she has more now from washington d.c. . one of the packages was addressed to barack obama in washington d.c. it was discovered on wednesday morning the secret service says there was never any danger of the package arriving at the residence behind me the package was identified through routine screening as a potential explosive device and that screen doesn't fact take place somewhere away from here the same is true for the package addressed to hillary clinton's residence in upstate new york which was discovered on tuesday night at a rally in florida clinton expressed her gratitude we are fine thanks to the men and women of the secret service. intercepted. the package addressed to us long before it me its way to our home. but the package addressed to

billionaire liberal philanthropist george soros did arrive at his mailbox in upstate new york on monday that was reported to have contained a lump of pipe containing an explosive powder and that similar to the description of the device sent to c.n.n. studios in new york that led to the evacuation of the time warner center including that of the anchors who were broadcasting at the time that you don't want to be right back c.n.n. says that that package was in fact addressed to john brennan the former cia director who served under president obama another package arrived at the office is a former senior democratic party official debbie wassermann schultz in florida it was reported that the package had in fact that intended before obama attorney general eric holder for the wrong address was used and forwarded to. the sender on the envelope a package address to congress when maxine waters was also intercepted at a mail processing facility she's a frequent target of donald trump's attacks president trump said all the resources of government. could be used to find those responsible in these times we have to

unify we have to come together and send one very clear strong and mistake of all message that access where threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america for the mayor of new york to the packages all addressed to liberal opponents of donald trump are a symptom of the current political atmosphere in the us this atmosphere of hatred is contributing to the choices people are making to turn to violence there's no question about it and the way to stop that is to turn back the other way to bring down the temperature too and any messages about the use of violence against people we disagree with and that has to start the public right wingers on social media were quick to dismiss such sentiments and speculate that the packages were all part of a liberal false flag plot out of the november midterm elections she ever turns the al-jazeera washington. and in

a sign of just how political this is becoming the democratic house and senate leaders are saying trump's comments ring a whole low in view of past statements he's made condoning violence chris the salumi joins us live now from a see me wisconsin where donald trump is at the hold a rally in the coming hours i mean christine we all know that he has made some pretty incendiary comments in the past so how many people agree with the sentiment expressed by the democratic house and senate leaders basically his comments now saying you know the country has to unite and that there's no room in the united states for this kind of you know violence of political violence that these statements now ring hollow because that's not how he's been acting for the past two years plus. well certainly this latest controversy hausen dampen the enthusiasm of the thousands of supporters who have turned up here in most of these constants to see the president as he tries to drum up support for the public and candidates here in the state sponsored. but. it's

bipartisan tell me whether it is that sent those explosive devices to hillary clinton and the others. certainly is not reflective of the tone that he used at rallies like this in the hours heard him praise a montana congressman. was convicted of assaulting a border guard rail against leftist mobs that he plays trying to stand in the way public an agenda chance of blocking comments or bally's make this still going to be hillary clinton it is what. leaders of the democratic party talking about to use the president. having this tone. and the president of c.n.n. jeff zucker also came out today with the statement for c.n.n. also the recipient of what appears to be an explosive device he said at the white house to show. a complete lack of understanding about the seriousness of the

president's attacks on the media the words matter jetsetter said so there is certainly a lot of concern. in some quarters about the president still having an effect. but we haven't seen that here it will be interesting to see if the president does in fact change his tone for the rally tonight he's expected here less than two hours to address supporters i mean obviously i guess the rally now because we're not that far away from the midterm elections which are potentially incredibly important but he kind of has been holding these rallies pretty much nonstop since he did become president the people there the people that you've spoken to what stain do they put on on everything that's happened you know on these explosives on these packages being taken the lead in leading democrats and c.n.n. and what is they are explanation of the house or normal reaction.

what's really interesting the people that i've spoken to here and certainly democrats used to around the country as well one thing that everyone seems to have in common is the belief that politics has gotten very ugly very polarized in this country but each side tends to blame the other and certainly i saw that today when i was speaking to people waiting in line to come into the rally they blame the democrats not the president for the town and even for the the devices that have been sent to these leading democrats and c.n.n. some were suspicious saying that they thought it could have been someone on the left who wanted to just distract from the president's message to make him look bad coming ahead so people are very skeptical about what's happening and very quick to blame the president has that of course very good at firing up his base and he knows it too that he's been doing it in the recent days and weeks attending a lot of these rallies as the midterms get closer and closer to see growing in.

doozie awesome among the republican base but democrats are fired up as well the issue is those moderate middle of the road voters some of the room went for trump last time in two thousand and sixteen wisconsin nearly voted for president john he is attempting to. win back some of those middle of the road voters that is less clear on which side they will fall on as a result of all these controversies. at christmas lumia we did just earlier just a few seconds ago see pictures of dawdled trump getting on to air force one he is now on his way to wisconsin for that rally in a few hours for the moment this is a really thank you. and much more to come on the program including more on that story and a japanese journalist is freed after being kidnapped and held by armed groups in syria for three weeks plus. in new delhi where the government is on the pressure to take action against what's out by news spread by the misting service is being held

responsible for a string of horrific but it's how much blight should the social media company show and its advantage to the boston red sox and major league baseball's world series that's coming up and what the son. had of that we've got cool air that's digging its way across europe now here's the leading edge of it this huge area of cloud here is also bringing us a fair amount of wet weather to that system will continue eastwards there as we head through into thursday still some rather heavy downpours then i reports of russia and certainly not feeling that warm behind it yet more unsettled weather is working its way in from stockholm all the way through parts of potent there and as that works its way eastwards as we head through friday it will be breaking up but only to be replaced by yet well. what weather so generally the northern parts of

europe now are looking cooler moral to some no really and fairly unsettled down towards the southeast it's cooler here for some of us to twenty one may in athens only nine in ankara and towards the west where we're at twenty one immature it but there is a good deal of cloud here and that's also affecting us across the other side of the mediterranean as well so for thursday then the main focus of the system is in the western parts of morocco but it's working its way northward and surface more of us america them will see that what where they come friday towards the east it largely fine and dry first here twenty seven say fairly decent temperature wise they know it but the temperatures are easing now in cairo a maximum just of twenty six is expected on friday it will feel a good deal cooler than it has been of late. with. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships

when mess was that somehow time as aiming to replace america and go around the world college chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part two on a jazz you know when the news breaks and the story within it's the fight against isis is still continuing in the ahmar desert when people who need to be helped. and the story needs to be told by families in status and wealth has benefited from their choice and so i have people al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on air and online.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon has spoken publicly for the first time about the killing of saudi journalist or mother showed which he described as painful speaking in riyadh the crown prince insisted justice will prevail in the case and all culprits will be. let's be more than three weeks since the shoji was last seen of the saudi consulate in istanbul turkish investigators have now been given permission to search a well in the consulates gone and the white house has promised to find those responsible for sending suspect that explosive devices to a number of high profile democratic politicians saying that these are quote terrorizing acts law enforcement officials the scuppered suspected explosives

address the homes of hillary and bill clinton and former president barack obama. well against rowson is a professor at new york law school and the former president of the american civil liberties union she joins us live now from new york madame thank you so much for joining us here on out there and now it's actually the mayor of the sixth you're speaking to us from bill de blasio who described the packages as an act of terror and he said if you link asked if asked whether he linked the incidence to trump's praise last week of the violent assault of a guardian journalist he said that politicians must stop encouraging attacks on the media what do you make of that statement what do you make of the issue do you agree with him or how do you see it i margaret thank you so much for having me and i completely agree with mayor de blasio that all of us citizens and the nationals alike have a moral responsibility to exercise our precious free speech rights in

a way that is respect full of other people. and sensitive to possibly encouraging and stimulating violent acts i completely agree with de blasio as failure to suggest that government should actually punish or give it speech so yes we'll exercise our free speech rights to choose our words carefully to condemn those who are not so careful in their speech but we would not warrant we would not justify censoring those expressions now we should just state of course that we don't know what is behind these packages we don't know who might be responsible when you don't know what might have inspired him or her so it mean that this point there's a lot that we don't know but i suppose a lot of people would be looking if they were to blame some of the language that donald trump uses they would be looking for an explicit link what kind of shape

could that link take what would convince you for example that something wasn't the inspired by comments the president had made it's certainly possible that something could be in urge but it's really important to draw the line between her chair acted even in advocacy of violence is protected in our country barbara it's only inch henschel incitement of imminent violence that is likely to happen imminently that is not protected short of that tight and direct immediate connection between speech and harm our law says very clearly that the appropriate response is something nonsense oriel such as law enforcement protecting against the violence such as us raising our voices and trying to persuade people not to engage in violence you know unfortunately and fortunately words are extremely powerful and many some of some of the most positive words throughout human history have also

instigated some people to engage in acts of violence. for example the single work of literature that has more often been blamed for individual crimes and even nasa atrocities than any other is the bible and some people genuinely are i have no doubt when we read their testimonies in their case histories are if they find inspiration to commit violence based on the bible people have read crime and punishment the great novel by does say up ski and gone out in committed copycat crimes that they no doubt would not have committed if they did not read the book but in a free society we cannot reduce all of us to seeing or it having the opportunity to listen to only speech that is not going to drive some extremist to commit some act of violence we live in very divisive times and even here in europe and i guess

especially in the u.s. right now we're seeing the political discourse really become a bit toxic social media arguably makes that even more so is it inevitable then would you say that when that this course is so toxic that some of it would just spill over into violent acts of these think the two aren't necessarily connected in that direct way yet and hundreds of millions of people in this country there is absolutely no doubt that literally anything can spur some at least one individual to an act of violence and so in recent years we've had many lawsuits against all kinds of cultural productions t.v. shows and books and videos and music that i have no doubt that on the back did serve as the inspiration or in a geisha to a particular individual to commit a heinous crime but again even great works of literature have been in that category

and political expression is so important for democracies of course barbara we have to allow you. even toxic even though a speech that could be warped by some person as a suppose a justification for violence but is if it relates to public policy issues we can not squelch it some of the most important human rights advocacy in the history of this country involved why a lot rhetoric end up in a very famous case that went to the united states supreme court leaders of the n.w.a. c.p. a civil rights organization at the forefront of the desegregation movement let us very threatening violent language against people who are breaking a boycott against merchants who discriminated on the basis of race and the supreme court said you know when you hear so passionately about the issues we cannot combine our speech to tell so it raises so yes we should be responsible but we

should not be censorious it install some professor new york law school and former president of the american civil liberties union madam thank you for sharing your views with us thank you so much the doctors in the southern iraqi city of bath a worry that the zs is like cholera might spread through the cities on usable water supply as first canals are blocked by piles of rubbish and sanitation system has collapsed there we generate huge accounts of his warning that nearly two hundred eighty thousand children could be affected by diarrhea and russia's rob matheson reports basra is threaded with waterways along which trade has flowed for generations but not no. pictures from the norwegian refugee council show canals choked by garbage and beneath the piles of trash water is such a thing to do with salt and then to build through the second machine or she would have been majority when the water first became salty my brother got poisoned he

stayed in the hospital for two days there are too many cases of poisoning it's not only one or two thousands of people that poisoned. upstream dams in turkey syria and iran are blamed for reducing fresh water supplies to a trickle salt water from the gulf has been edging northwards for decades now bassos top water is on drink coble it can't even be used for washing schoolchildren and among tens of thousands of iraqis who fall in ill health in the mountain really was our schools have only one place with toilets we always ask the students to bring their own water from home because we had many poisoning cases i've dealt with five or six cases of extreme vomiting you should say because most of my friends can't come to school because of the salty water they have been poisoned some of them got each a skin and some of them got issues with their hair years of frustration with the struggling water an electrical supply is finally exploded in september. with days

of deadly protests against government corruption which residents blame for the city's collapsing infrastructure and widespread unemployment despite a visit by high battle of body the prime minister at the time and parliamentary promises that things would improve little seems to have changed doctors and aid agencies are worried that as the weather gets cooler the risk from water borne diseases such as cholera is rising in the coming days and in the coming weeks when the temperature will be between thirty two and thirty seven he's just very likely to get her well here we are expecting rates if nothing is done to rehabilitate her and some additional infrastructure says. sits on top of much of iraq's oil wealth and peace in baghdad last year named the city iraq's economic capital but the people who live here say their water supply needs to stop poisoning them rob matheson al-jazeera. a japanese journalist is safe

and well in turkey after being freed from three years of captivity in syria jump a year was initially kidnapped by foreigners linked to al qaida and subsequent subsequently held by the armed group job out fact that. japan's government says no ransom was paid for you assumed a safe return it also sank to turkey and qatar for aiding the freelance reporters release. thousands of central american migrants crossing mexico towards the united states have resumed their long tried to the border and that's despite a warning from the u.s. president donald trump that they won't be allowed to enter the country illegally john woman reports now from chap us in southern mexico. they resumed their trek at four in the morning trying to make some headway before the baking midday sun even then it was hard work several thousand men women and children dispersed in a long exhausted trail their goal is to reach the united states

a country where they've now become a political football in a bitter election race. that they can. take you down for sure. you're going to take you john take the camera go into the middle and there you're going to find emissary you're going to find middle eastern you're going to find everything and guess what we're not allowed to them in our car we want to say. too much to we quit the caravan i want to syria didn't find anyone from the middle east no terrorists or isis all of which president trump has hinted without proof of what we have seen a single men women and many families like that of one half year old just so taking a breather by the side of the road with her father and aunt they like others here are aware of donald trump's like he's ations islam and. it's a lie that's your first reaction you feel bad about the discrimination because

benighted. gang members. but what many in the caravan aunts aware of is that the timing of their march could actually turn into a huge political gift for the u.s. president the caravan has inadvertently come it's just the right moment for president trump and the republican party and that's because the u.s. midterm elections just two weeks away and the images of the olsen's of people heading for the u.s. border coupled with president trump's inflammatory and unproven remarks are only going to mobilize his support. you know when we talk to denied that some criminals could be mixed in with the multitude it's almost inevitable given the numbers here but they also said that they were heading to the u.s. to escape the violence i'm poverty of back home and to find work. we asked to be let through so that we can offer a better future for our children our parents who are already held and our families

. ultimately the backlash in the u.s. to this movement of thousands of desperate people could push that dream even further out.