a separate page and it's a bipartisan group it's republicans and democrats so they have put forward a measure to at the very least review these arms sales what do we know about this but what has happened is that a pretty good just lation has been tabled in the house of representatives now this is legislation that is similar to that that was introduced last week as well basically what it's saying is that arms sales in particular intelligence training equipment all of these that of given to saudi must be reviewed unless president trump produces an investigation which absolves assad of responsibility for this killing so basically what congress is doing the house of representatives in this particular case is keeping the pressure to bear on president trump congress is in recess at the moment so nothing further can happen with this proposed legislation but it's a signal to president trump that when congress reconvenes after the midterm elections

there's going to be a massive push from both republicans and democrats in the house of representatives and in the senate for tangible action to be taken away when or if saudi complicity is proven ok mike hanna live for us in washington mike thank you and president and will not run in british prime minister theresa may have spoken to saudi king solomon about this case may's office said she told the king that the saudi explanation of the show of death lacked credibility earlier man ounce of the u.k. would follow the u.s. and canceling the sins of the suspected of being involved in the show she is death . i cannot take the house that no minister fishel is attending the investment conference in saudi arabia among russian befriend the home secretary is taking action against the suspects to prevent them entering the u.k. and if these individuals coming they have visas those visas will be reproached today josh and is executive director of the arab center in washington d.c.

he joins us via skype from there thank you so much for your time so the crown prince finally made some public comments how would you characterize the tone and the words but i suppose in particular the tone of what i'm getting at is there were moments where he made jokes alluding to the the shot of not having been kidnapped because apparently he was a few months ago from what i know just how do you characterize the tone. i think in general particularly in terms of the substance of the crown prince's remarks they were kind of too little too late yes he did acknowledge that this crime that ended up costing jamal khashoggi his life. is a heinous crime as he described it and he cannot be justified according to his words the claim that most if not all saudis went upset

by the news. and that most people around the world. upset. by that but there was nothing new really in his remarks the tone yes i would say that one was was different like i said the denial the first two weeks of this crisis it was not visible in his statement today he pretended to be putting a positive face relaxed pace well actually i don't think you are to that point to that point. how how is the world supposed to receive this considering what you said there had been weeks of denials and delays and cetera et cetera does he really have any credibility at all. i don't think he does have credibility. i mean that's what he was hoping to do today is to restore some of that grid

ability but the denial of the first phase immediately after the disappearance and the killing of mr left very little credibility for the saudi position particularly the not just you know the denial but the insistence on the fact that he left the consulate and he was not there but now there is an admission that people have been arrested so people are beginning to doubt not only what saudi arabia has said in the past but what saudi arabia is saying today so not only the crown prince but even it today in gauging you know the most effective public relations firms that they have working on behalf of so they are going to have a hard time restoring that credibility in the immediate future what do you make of his comments and his tone when speaking of turkey and even.

the surprise i would say was in terms of turkey there was no surprise he based i bet on the conversation he had with turkish president go on he said that the cooperation is continuing. and that both are determined to pursue. if you will the investigation to expose the perpetrators. of this crime regardless and of course that kind of puts him in somewhat of a jeopardy in a sense that on the one hand we have his dad the king. saying that the perpetrators would be found and put before a court of justice regardless of their identity yet we have right now all doubts and also special somehow pointing to the crown prince so there are sometimes didn't at least from the outside looking on the inside in saudi arabia there are still

some contradictions and some doubts that have not been answered yet. joshing thank you so much joining us from washington we appreciate it thank you. plenty more ahead in the news hour and clearing fears of a health crisis in one of iraq's biggest cities the water treatment system collapse that. it's being called the biggest bank fraud and south africa's history but it's the poor who are paying the price. and support u.s. open champion continues to struggle at the finals in singapore details and just a bit. as president has promised to find those responsible for cents sending suspicious devices to prominent democratic politicians and the offices of c.n.n. targets included bill and hillary clinton barack obama and billionaire george soros has more from washington d.c. . one of the packages was addressed to broker bomber 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 believed to be identified through routine screening as a potential explosive device not screen doesn't like 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. who intercepted. the package addressed to us long before it made 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 uncles who were broadcasting at the time you're going to be right back in and says that their package was in fact addressed to john brennan the former cia director who served under president obama. another package arrived at the offices a former senior democratic party official debbie wasserman schultz in florida it was reported that the package had in fact that intended for former obama attorney general eric holder for the wrong address was used and the envelope forwarded to schultz who had been listed as the senda 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 would 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 a ball message that acts were threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america for the mayor of new york so the package is

all addressed to liberal opponents of donald trump 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 at the top 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 tansey al-jazeera washington investigators say were henge of muslims and me and maher are still facing genocide the head of the united nations fact finding mission on me and maher told the un security council that up to four hundred thousand russian jehu remain in myanmar they severe restrictions and repression and diplomatic editor james basis for. i think it was the meeting they tried to stop russia

china and bolivia voting to attempt to block a briefing by the un zone fact finding mission on myanmar china said it was an internal issue here were even though over seven hundred thousand people fled the country into bangladesh to escape the violence russia said the report of the mission was biased and unreliable even though it runs to four hundred forty pages of searing testimony as the security council veto doesn't apply to procedural matters the chairman of the fact finding mission was eventually able to give his damning conclusions our report characterizes the recent events in iraq one thing as a human catastrophe that was foreseeable and plan one that will have so their impact well many generations to come if not for ever. the details of the report clearly had an impact on some

i never thought in my diplomatic career that i would hear as briefing to the security council as compelling detail being such awful treatment of of peoples as we have it today the u.k. was one of the european countries suggesting the situation be referred to the international criminal court that won't happen because in that case a security council veto could and almost certainly would be used bart an investigation into the crime of forced expulsion is a possibility because the country so many people fled to bangladesh has signed up to the court's jurisdiction james bone is al-jazeera at the united nations president al trump is expected to speak shortly at a rally in wisconsin on the same day that several prominent democratic leaders were seemed suspected bombs in the mail are christians and one is at that rally where

president trump is expected to speak so christian as these developments were coming and coming in throughout the day there was a lot of criticism that was directed at donald trump specifically in connection to this what were people saying. well democratic leaders have been criticizing the president the kucing him of condoning violence particularly for comments that he makes that rallies like this one that's about to happen here in wisconsin where the president is coming to support republican candidates literally like shouldn't the leaders you know point to comments that he's being crazy thing a congressman body slammed a reporter excuse him of encouraging his supporters to attack protesters at events like this and certainly that criticism has been echoed by the president of c.n.n. and jeff zucker c.n.n. of course also received one of those packages from what appears to be an explosive

inside of it he said in a statement that the white house does not. have shows a complete lack of understanding for the seriousness of the president's words words matter he said when he attacks the media it has an impact and that is the concern that we're hearing from media officials like jeff zucker democrats and so on course the president in this remarks earlier today was very harsh in condemning these attacks saying that they were going to get to the bottom of it took a very bipartisan tone but those are very limited scripted remarks at rallies like this he's not going to go up to. really say what he's feeling and at times that may controversial statements will be interesting here tonight what's going to exist light of these recent attacks chris i know you spoken to some people who have showed up there for the rally what is that what is their their take on this. get well it's interesting if anything top supporters who showed up to the rally

here blaming democrats for aziz negative tone and ask a lesion of rhetoric in the country no one disagrees that these are very polarized times. democrats and republicans are often. not seen eye to eye and not even be able to talk about their differences. it's works here are for republican john supporters and there are plenty of democrats. to rush things to get to the real the president or. not we should raise. them immigrants coming up next trying to get into united states issues that the democrats are championing enabling some even went so far as to suggest that the tree. mail box. with someone on the ladder that was trying to make the republicans look out ahead of us so a lot of suspicion here and still a lot of strong support for the president in the crowd at this rally of course and

the election coming up the big issue are those middle of the road spring voters are much harder to tell how they are reacting to all these latest developments ryker since it will mean life for us in wisconsin thanks kristen bill schneider is a political analyst he joins us live from washington d.c. bill. should president trump be going ahead with the rally tonight in light of what's happened today well i can advise the prison exactly what to do with things he should take notice of and he should condemn it in the end he has said that this is totally unacceptable he has condemned these actions as a as an act of domestic terrorism i think that was appropriate ok i'm having yes he has said that but this hasn't happened in a vacuum these people that were that were targeted are people that he has said these things about that hillary clinton should be locked up that c.n.n. is fake news that congresswoman maxine waters has a low i.q. that president barack obama wasn't born in the u.s.

that george soros is paying off protesters so he can condemn it but do you think that there is a direct line to from possibly what happened today not saying he's personally responsible but is there a direct line between that and this type of rhetoric. i say yes because trump is a divider he governs by dividing he he ran for president as a divider he got elected as a divider and he is governed by creating an even exaggerating division in the united states sometimes using incendiary rhetoric where he tells his supporters that they should beat up protesters things like that he's a divider and he has exaggerated a lot of division in the united states and that can encourage some unhinged character characters to do some rather dangerous things which is appear apparently what happened as your correspondent just said some who are trump's supporters are saying this is all a false flag and it's being done with the devices were said by liberals by

democrats in order to blame republicans before the midterm election things have gotten just that out of hand ok and as she say things seem to have gotten out of hand is it even possible right now suppose to comes on stage tonight and and tries to tell the crowd to calm down and maybe take a different tone has there is something that has been unleashed that almost no matter what he says you can almost hear the lock her up chants coming anyway well you will hear the lock him up chance you will hear the the threats of extremism coming up anyway because look there are a lot of extremist figures in the united states many on the right some on the left who will use that kind of rhetoric i think the president's responsibility is to trying to tone things down to try to diminish the division in the country i don't know that he'll do that we'll see what he does at this rally but certainly this threat of violence that came through the mail this is in an invitation to him and

to many others in our political life to try to calm things down calm things down that will be the final word for sure bill schneider thank you very much ok. still ahead on al-jazeera on the move again the central american migrant convoy marches across mexico towards the u.s. as washington issues another warning. a japanese journalist is freed after being kidnapped and held by armed groups in syria for three years. and a long range strike almost makes the differences to apply his top team to meet and continental competition in bogota saddam will have that. hello there we've got plenty of wet weather over parts of the u.s.

at the moment if we take a look at the satellite picture we can see one system moving away but it's only being replaced by yet another one and this one includes the remains of a hurricane that recently hit mexico here it is then on thursday giving us a very heavy downpours and they don't friday they'll still be lingering across the southeast so they could be a bit of flooding out of this towards the west it should be quieted by the time we get to friday seattle they will see more in the way of right atop temperature just of sixteen degrees and the hurricane as i mentioned did hit mexico but it's looking a lot quieter as we head through the next few days but a bit of residual cloud with us at the moment and maybe one or two showers there as we head through thursday but generally a lot quieter the wetter weather is actually further towards the south i think as you head down through costa rica into panama and into columbia that's where we'll see the wettest of the weather but it was in all of them for us in parts of cuba should be largely fine and dry as it will be across you make it an across his spine you know as well if you see a shower hey should move away pretty quickly but for the towards the south is quite a bit of what weather over south america at the moment that's over parts of

paraguay and now working its way across into parts of brazil as well very heavy downpours here more scattered showers to the north of that but the south cooling one is always a maximum of twenty. we're

in for you. there are the children of jailed chinese criminals with nowhere else to go one. has given them a home when he speaks to children growing up with their parents behind bars. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you right now saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman has spoken publicly for the first time about the killing of saudi journalist. which he described as painful speaking in riyadh the crown prince insisted justice will prevail the washington post was reporting that

the head of the cia heard audio capturing the moment of the show to his murder on a trip to turkey british prime minister theresa may and french president manuel marker on have spoken to saudi king solomon about the case based office said she told the king that the saudi explanation of the showed his death blacked credibility. and in the u.s. explosive devices another suspicious packages were sent to top democratic politicians and the offices of c.n.n. bill and hillary clinton former president barack obama and billionaire george soros were among those targeted. are some president vladimir putin says his government will respond in kind if the u.s. withdraws from a thirty year old nuclear weapons treaty kremlin says it would make the world more dangerous and went on to say that european countries hosting u.s. missiles would be at risk from russian strikes as announced he wants to withdraw from the treaty if russia and china don't stop developing their own intermediate range missiles. you know when you mind. if the us pull out of the treaty the

main question will be what will they be doing with these new missiles if they're deployed in europe we would naturally have to respond those european countries which will agree to this if it comes to that we'll have to understand that they are putting their own territory under a threat of a possible retell a three strike echoing the u.s. position nato secretary general jaan stoltenberg blamed russia for violating the arms treaty all allies agree that the end of treaty is important and that's exactly why we are so concerned about the russian behavior. all allies of course agree we do not this states that the united states is in full compliance with the treat it but at the same time we state clearly that. the most plausible explanation is that russia now is in violation of the three. and therefore the challenge the problem is the russian behavior which we have seen over

many years and it has been clearly stated that this cannot go on we cannot have a treaty between two parties which is only respected by one of them a japanese journalist has arrived safely in turkey after being freed following three years of imprisonment in syria. my name is george v. it's not just me john. it was initially kidnapped by fighters linked to al qaeda and held captive by other groups instead japan's government says no ransom was paid and is thanking turkey for helping with the freelance reporters release and going to. i'm happy to be able to go back to japan i haven't spoken japanese for fourteen months i can't really find the words i'm happy that i can return to japan at the same time i don't know what will happen from here and what i should do i'm thinking about what i need to do. adela bill mahdi has been sworn in as iraq's new prime minister parliament has been voting on my proposed cabinet and m.p.'s have

a grade on more than a dozen ministers including the heads of the oil and finance departments adi has been under pressure to form a diverse government under iraq's constitution she is so nice kurds and other minorities must all be represented doctors there are two and a half million iraqis aren't risk of disease because water supplies and the sanitation system have collapsed in the southern city of basra write downs being blamed on government corruption in the oil rich region matheson reports basra is threaded with waterways along which trade has flowed for generations but no. pictures from the norwegian refugee council show canals choked by garbage and beneath the piles of trucks water is such a thing to do with salt. 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 and 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 it to 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 bedell 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 it's just very likely that the euro will hear we are expecting rates if nothing is done to rehabilitate her and some additional assistance is. basra 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. airstrikes by the saudi coalition of targeted a farmer's market in yemen today to province media outlets run by the rebel who say

at least nineteen people were killed by the strikes which hit the area by a key ten others were injured many officials say the saudi the coalition is preparing for a fresh assault on the rebel held port city who taiba funerals have been held for two palestinian students killed by israeli forces twenty two year old mohammad surat was shot in the chest when israeli troops raided the village of early on wednesday morning and gaza city mourners bury seventeen year old. who was shot in the head by israeli troops during a protest along the border fence on tuesday. the parents of victims killed in india's so-called whatsapp murderers are demanding action at least twenty seven men of recently been beaten to death by frenzied mobs who wrongly accuse them of being child snatchers they were attacked after false rumors were spread on the most popular social media platform in india andrew thomas reports from new delhi. these

are the grieving parents this is their son who died and that is how he was killed we've frozen the video here it's too graphic to show but what provoked this attack was a rumor spread through what's up mr moore i saw my son's peer face has a spotless body lie in the back of a police car i did not have the strength to look at his face my wife and others went and saw our son's face but i couldn't i just couldn't. let pulled us was popular and smart a musician in june he and his friend drove two hours from their parents' homes into a hearty in the north east of india to go fishing on their way back they were stopped in a village people there had been sent whatsapp messages warning them of so-called child snatches in the area the murders of das and his friends was streamed on facebook live. and we never watch those viral videos of his death others describe

him to us he was punished so badly so cruelly it's all in those videos everybody told us yeah yeah. pulled out his parents and friends find it hard to accept that it was just social media messages but whipped up a murderous frenzy they think there must have been more but india's state and national governments do think the attack was the latest in a string to have been provoked by rumors circulated on was this video which is going to viral on whatsapp is supposed to show child snatches that work it's actually axis playing roles in a pakistani child safety film according to india spend data journalism organization since may the have been twenty seven fatal attacks in india provoked by a social media frenzy eighteen of them blamed on rumors spread on whatsapp the messages with graphic and gory images claims that children are being kidnapped in

their office can be. all of us did the so called murders a big news because they're happening so often. knows it has a problem in july to try to slow the speed of room is it limited indian users from forwarding a message to more than five people at a time phone through hundred million people regularly used in india that's a higher number than in any other country it is by some way india's most popular social media platform. but analysts say many in rural areas often believe what they see on social media when they see a video where there was a war that indicates something they don't know why they should be spinning it they don't know why they should question it police now shut down the areas entire mobile phone networks when messages are spreading faster than they can trace them but what's up is too popular to suspend for long and among billions of messages murderous lies a spreading andrew thomas al-jazeera new delhi thousands of central american

migrants crossing mexico towards the united states have resumed their long trek to the border that's despite a warning from u.s. president tunnel trump that they won't be allowed to enter the country illegally issue is dominating campaigning for november's midterm elections in the u.s. john heilemann reports from shop us and southern mexico. they resumed the 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 your camera and search. started going to take you john take your 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 cars we want to say. too much the week with the caravan al-jazeera didn't find anyone from the middle east nor terrorists or isis all of which president trump has hinted at without proof what we have seen a single men women and many families like that of one half year old to say oh 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 you know it's a lie that's a first reaction you feel bad about the discrimination because bin that gang members. but what many in the caravan on swear oath 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 just the right moment for president trump and the republican party and that's because the u.s. midterm elections just two weeks away.