folke over the phone and what we understand from turkish presidential sources will have been so many requests that to speak to the turkish president a statement was issued saying that they you know they are going to cooperate and and then an hour later we saw him having been stolen at that investment conference in riyadh also talking about cooperation saying that culprits will be taken to justice and then we saw him make statements about qatar clearly softening his tone towards qatar after imposing a blockade on that country and isolating it qatar so is this muhammad bin man reaching out is it's unclear but there is no doubt he has been weakened his reputation has been tarnished his you know his credibility as a leader is at stake because turkish officials believe he had a hand in this murder so far what they've shown the public is leaks or evidence and linking him to this crime but no direct evidence yet the biggest question is have the turks provided this direct evidence to the u.s.

administration because they know her live for us in istanbul thank you saina. tammas professor at the american university school of international service and joins us from washington d.c. thank you very much for your time so what did you make of the first public comments from mohamed been samon today. well it's clear that m.p.'s wanted to look like he's taking casualties deaths very seriously and that he's holding people in his government accountable for it and he's hoping that this will relieve the very heavy international pressure that saudi arabia is facing right now which includes heavy diplomatic pressure also economic pressure in the form of private companies pulling back their engagements in saudi arabia but the problem of course is that it's quite likely that m.t.s. himself. ordered this operation or at a minimum knew about it in advance and so it looks like he's just scapegoating people in his government by. saying he's going to hold them accountable and thereby

deflecting blame from him self so that the united states and the international community should ease up the pressure simply you know based on those kinds of statements so public statements like this what do they actually do if he has no credibility. well i don't think they do a whole lot but he's hoping to you know. persuade some people that he's taking this very seriously and i so he's hoping that this will. make the trumpet ministration less likely to take unitive steps toward him i don't think it's going to satisfy members of congress though in the united states who are pushing for the united states to impose some serious penalties sanctions on saudi arabia or to cut off military aid to saudi arabia i think that push is going to continue despite these kinds of statements but i think the us is hoping that he can.

satisfy the trumpet ministration and some you know other international partners by making it look like he's taking this seriously so suppose the way still don't know everything that turkish investigators know so who knows what revelations may continue to come out over the next few days how much worse could this get for events ahmed and saudi arabia well i think the pressure that saudi arabia is facing right now is really quite substantial so i think it could get worse i mean saudi arabia relies. heavily on. economic activity with major multinational companies or relies heavily on ties with united states and other countries and if those ties and relationships. you know we can dry out that's going to be a major problem for saudi arabia so it's a it's a very major crisis for them jordan thomas thank you so much for joining us

appreciate it ok my pleasure. plenty more head in the news hour including fears of a health crisis and one of iraq's biggest cities as the water treatment system collapses. it's been called the biggest bank fraud in south africa's history but it's the poor who are paying the price and support us open champion only a soccer continues to struggle at a finals in singapore he tells the sun and a bit. of the u.s. explosive devices and other suspicious packages were sent to top democratic politicians and the offices at c.n.n. bill and hillary clinton former president barack obama and billionaire george soros were among those targeted and speaking at a rally and wisconsin tunnel trump call for unity and said those responsible for the bombs will be prosecuted the federal government is conducting an aggressive

investigation and we will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice hopefully very quickly. any action or address of political violence are an attack on our democracy itself. no nation can succeed that tolerates violence or the threat of violence as a method of political intimidation coersion or control we all know that such conduct must be fiercely opposed and firmly prosecuted former cia director john brennan was among those targeted by the explosive devices mailed out on thursday he attacked over the sensitive. i sincerely wish that donald trump though would have said these things previously and regularly i wish that he would have encouraged

people from all different backgrounds and political affiliations to come together and to try to resolve differences in a very positive manner this is the way meat is and a venue where there was a rally a bit ago the rally we're talking not with the president trumpets in the u.s. state of washington in person is standing by live for us now christine there's actually more information that is coming in about these these attempted bombings what else do we know. what we're hearing from law enforcement that another suspicious package similar to the other seven that were reported earlier may be may have been sent to joe biden that's under investigation we're learning that last shards were included inside those packages and you heard the president try to find this action here at the rally earlier tonight and him out very strong the first things said when he addressed the crowd after basically saying hello was

to dress this issue of this is vicious packages he's promised to find and prosecute the perpetrators to the fullest extent of the law and the news the opportunity to call for more civility in politics he said that americans should no longer let their differences on policy issues tear them apart it but he returned to a familiar punching bag when he was here for sal he talked about the media and he said that the media needed to stop making negative reports what he called often falls reports and this after jeff zucker of c.n.n. the president on c.n.n. earlier in the day criticize the president for his words against the media saying that the white house didn't fully appreciate the seriousness of the in. pact of words like this when the president speaks negatively about the media of course c.n.n. is a recipient of one of those packages democrats as well have been criticizing the

president's words much like john brennan we heard just a time ago saying that his words ring hollow given past statements that he's made especially at rallies like this that seem to condone violence just recently he was criticized for praising a congressman who was convicted of attacking a reporter out in the valley so all this they say despite his now conciliatory tone has been inciting people to violence and kirsten you're right he did say that just the other day at his rallies he is called the price the enemy of the people he is called democrats evil he is called them mobs and often they get the crowd really enjoys that they really get into it where they were sceptical of how what at what was the feel there today when he was saying the other things about talking about civility were they receptive to that. they cheered him on michel but the way he phrased

a lot of these comments. was meant to appeal to republicans in his base for example he talked about. not mobbing politicians in public places not going after them in restaurants this is something that happened to a republican politician here recently that republicans have been very critical of they've accused democrats in the last of mob like violence and in and doing things to that effect so he got a lot of cheers here i suppose a lot of people before the rally after the rally these are president trump strongest supporters and no one i spoke to opinion changed as a result of these packages with explosives in them if anything they blame the democrats for setting this negative tone in the country they say the democrats will say and do anything to oppose president charm and some even went so far as to suggest that democrats could be behind the packages as a way to to rail the president make republicans look ahead of the election. all

right kristen salumi live for us in wisconsin kristen thank you bill schneider is a political analyst he says president trump needs to tone down his divisive rhetoric to bring americans together. trump is a divider he governs by dividing he was he ran for president as a divider he got elected as a divider and he has 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 is exaggerating a lot of division in the united states and that can encourage some unhinged character characters to do some rather dangerous things which is apparent apparently what happened some who are trump supporters are saying this is all a false flag and it's being done with the these devices were sent by liberals by democrats in order to blame republicans before the midterm election things have

gotten just that out of hand i think the president's responsibility is to try to tone things down to try to diminish the division in the country i don't know the hill 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 call him things down still had on al jazeera on the move again they central american migrant convoy marches across mexico towards the u.s. washington issues another warning. a japanese journalist is freed after being kidnapped and held by armed groups in syria for the ring years. and a long range strike almost makes a difference a top team from it and. will have that ahead and that is our.

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coming through in between as we head across towards india there's also lots of sunshine here at the moment to a few showers in the south that are also affecting us in sri lanka and this is the region again where we're likely to see most of the showers as we head through thursday and friday i think for the west and possibly india there's a chance of seeing want to showers on thursday they dissolve away as we head into friday and then most of us should have a dry day. there with sponsored by the time. when they're online for humanity has been taken out of this discourse of this we're talking about numbers on a spreadsheet or if you join us on the sand i guarantee you no one has a back story like yours this is a dialogue and i'm just tired of seeing negative stereotypes about native americans everyone has a voice resurfacing that's your comments your questions i'll do my best to bring them into the south join the global conversation on how to zero.

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arm sales and aid to saudi arabia requires president title trump to provide results of an investigation clearing saudi for it not to go ahead saudi arabia's crown prince on the spoken publicly for the first time about the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi which he described as painful speaking in riyadh the crown prince insisted justice will prevail the washington post is reporting that the head of the cia heard audio capturing the moment of murder. and then the u.s. explosive devices and other 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. return to the breaking news the killing of cited journalist. josh an as executive director at the arab center in washington d.c. he says the crown prince's remarks on wednesday simply weren't enough. 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 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 were upset by the news. and most people around the world upset. by that but there was nothing new really in his remarks the tone yes i would say that was was different. the denial the first two weeks of this crisis was not visible in his statement today he pretended to be putting a positive things i don't think he does have credibility. i mean that's what he was

hoping to do today is restore some of that credibility 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 the 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 in today in gauging you know the most effective public relations firm that they have working on behalf of so they are going to have a hard time restoring that credibility in the immediate future. as president manuel narconon british prime minister theresa may have spoken to saudi king solomon about

the case there's office said she told the king that the saudi explanation a christian step lacked credibility earlier may announce that the u.k. would follow the u.s. and canceling pieces of the suspect to be involved. i cannot take the house that no minister or official is attending the investment conference in saudi arabia and i write 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 . going to us together say we're henschel muslims and me and maher are still facing genocide head of the united nations fact finding mission on me and mark told the u.n. security council that up to four hundred thousand right here remain in the m r a severe restrictions and repression diplomatic editor james moore. thank you 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 we 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 on reliable 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 reference to the as a human rights catastrophe that was who see who and plan one that will have so the impact will many generations to come if not whoever. 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 peoples as we have heard 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 bartz 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 pays zero at the united nations russian president vladimir putin says his government will respond in kind if the u.s. withdraws from a thirty year old nuclear weapons treaty the kremlin says it would make the world more dangerous when on to say their country is hosting u.s. missiles would be at risk from russian strikes i want trump has announced he wants

to withdraw from the treaty if russia and china don't start developing their own intermediate range missiles. you know. if the u.s. 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 threat of a possible retell a three strike the biggest military drill since the one nine hundred eighty s. and they get in norway in a few hours forty one countries are taking part in the war games which will go on for several weeks at the time of increasing pressure on the alliance as alex reports from norway. they've been arriving in norway since august for the biggest exercises nato has wrong since the end of the cold war soldiers from every nato country plus finland and sweden a hit to train for the next were called trident junction the maneuvers take place across most of scandinavia involving fifty thousand troops two hundred fifty

aircraft sixty five naval ships including the harry s. truman aircraft carrier and ten thousand military vehicles the exercises come at a time when they alliance is facing fierce criticism from an american administration that is frustrated with fellow members it says are not pulling their weight i think that nato was not doing what they were supposed to be doing a lot of the countries and we were doing much more than we should have been doing frankly we were carrying too much of a burden that's why we call it burden sharing president trump was especially critical of germany but the senior nato partner is the war game's biggest contributor with eight thousand of its troops participating. in these high visibility exercises and not just about training they're designed to bolster nervous alliance members especially those bordering russia. and with good reason russia held to huge military wargames over the last two years or west in two

thousand and seventeen and vostok or east earlier this year involving three hundred thousand soldiers the wolfing nato is current exercise. with this pressure on the alliance at a time of rising regional geopolitical tension natives nervous allies will be looking to try conjuncture for reassurance topless. norway adela. sworn in as iraq's new prime minister parliament has been voting on models proposed cabinet and m.p.'s have agreed on more than a dozen ministers including the heads of the oil and finance department's been under pressure to form a diverse government and iraq's constitution shias sunnis kurds and other minorities must all be represented doctors for two and a half million iraqis who are at risk of disease because water supply is in the sanitation system have collapsed in the southern city of basra at the breakdown thing blamed on government corruption in the oil rich region all matheson reports

basra is threaded with waterways along which trade has flowed for generations but not now. pictures from the region refugee council show canals choked by garbage and beneath the piles of trucks water is such a 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 school children are among tens of thousands of iraqis who fall in ill health and now that 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 it's just very likely that the euro will hear we are expecting rates if nothing is done.

to rehabilitate to moderates and petition for us to exorcise. 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 led coalition of targeted a farmer's market in yemen today to province we outlets run by the rebel who these 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 city led coalition is preparing for a fresh assault on the rebel help port city of who data. have been hell for two palestinian students killed by israeli forces. mohammad basra was shot in the chest when israeli troops raided the village to moan early on wednesday morning and in gaza city warner's buried seventeen year old went to sarah abbas and was shot in

the head by israeli troops during a protest along the border fence on tuesday japanese journalist has arrived safely in turkey after being freed following three years have been present in syria my name is to be a. journey. was initially kidnapped by fighters linked to al qaeda and captive by other groups sense japan's government says no ransom was paid and is thanking turkey and qatar for helping with their freelance reporters release. 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 retain japan at the same time i don't know what will happen from here or what i should do i'm thinking about what i need to do. the parents of victims killed in india's so-called what's out murderers are demanding action at least twenty seven men have 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 spear face has a spotless body lie in the back of a police car i did not have the strength to look at his face while 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 northeast 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 fire of 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 that pulled us as 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 twenty seventh 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. harvested 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 rumors it limited indian users from forwarding a message to more than five people at a time moment to one 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 the warsaw that indicates something they don't know why they should disbelieve it they don't know why they should question it police now shut down areas entire mobile phone networks when messages are spreading faster than they can

trace them but whatsapp is too popular to suspend for long and among billions of messages murderous lies are spreading andrew thomas al-jazeera new delhi. thousands of central american migrants crossing mexico towards the united states have resume their long trek to the border to spite a warning from u.s. president onil trump that they won't be allowed to enter the country illegally the issue is dominating campaigning for november's mid-term elections in the u.s. john heilemann reports in 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 exhaustive trail their goal is to reach the united states a country where they've now become a political football in a bitter election race. with the ability to. take your camera and search.

started going to take you john take the camera go into the middle and you're going to find emissary says you're going to find middle eastern you're going to find everything and guess what we're not allowed to that in our country we want to say. too much to we quit the caravan i want to syria didn't find anyone from the middle east nor terrorists or isis all of which president trump has hinted at without proof but we have seen a single men women and many families like that of one half year old just south 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 beat up it's a lie that's your first reaction you feel bad about the discrimination because bin that 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 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. thousands of people heading for the u.s. border coupled with president trump's inflammatory and unproven remarks are only going to mobilize his support. the one we talked 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 so i don't buy the most we asked to be let through so that we can offer a better future for our children our parents who are already old and our families. ultimately the backlash in the us to this movement of thousands of desperate people could push that dream even further out of reach for them and those who come off the .