if today's reported by her turkish counterpart she will have all the information that president trump needs to take a decision as to how the u.s. should react to the death of jamal khashoggi. investigations are underway to find out who sent out explosives in suspicious packages to high profile democrats and news network c.n.n. donald trump condemned the attempted bomb attacks but some accuse the president of stoking the flames that have led to increased political divisiveness kristen salumi reports. one of the packages was addressed barack obama in washington d.c. it was discovered on wednesday morning the night before a package was discovered addressed to hillary clinton's residence in upstate new york both devices were intercepted during routine security screenings 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 a third device addressed to former cia director john brennan did reach c.n.n. studios in new york that led to an evacuation of the time warner center including the anchors who were broadcasting at the time all three packages are reported to have contained explosives and shards of glass as did others discovered in florida and los angeles the ongoing investigation didn't stop president trump or thousands of his supporters from attending a rally in this concert or. the president address the attempted attacks first thing and he actually threats of political violence are to 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 it was an uncharacteristically conciliatory tone for the president compared to rallies past democratic leaders have picked. here is the president telling violence at rallies like this whether it's praising a congressman body slammed a reporter or encouraging supporters who attack testers but supporters here see things very differently you know strong rhetoric on the left as generating on the. right. i don't know i don't blame from for that the senior democrats and just left the fanatics take over the party i used to have democratic friends and we would discuss things can do that i think we're going through a period of time right now but i don't think it's going to last so i don't really blame anybody specifically no blame for the president from this crowd of loyal supporters but then it's those middle of the road swing voters who could make the

difference in two weeks' time kristen salumi al jazeera mohseni wisconsin. the saudi emirates he led coalition of yemen says it's investigating it as striking a vegetable packing packaging factory doctors say that twenty one people were killed it worked at the factory in the town of beit. that's in holiday the province which is near the main port in some of the yemen controlled by hooty rebels they've been under attack for months now by government and coalition forces. we're going to weather update thanks to you and i was zero then it's being called the biggest bank fraud in south africa's history but it's the poor who are paying the price. i accompanied. to the t.v. . and how see is this helping to address a sensitive and controversial issue in malta.

binny's pink skies by the time my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. we got some notes says be cold to ed digging in across the northern parts of europe a fair way south of a cloud is diving out of scandinavia right the way down so was the black sea temperatures really tumbling as we go on through the next few days a lot of cloud here as well you'll notice that we got some really heavy heavy rain drenched downpours styles of localized flooding coming through here anchored by the top temperatures thirteen celsius in the valley there for bucharest so wet and windy weather will make its way across the baltic states doing right down towards that western side of ukraine possibility of some snow showing up here only fourteen self's this in london further west sixty in past laws you drive that's the good news as we go on into friday temperatures really taking something of a real dip here twelve in london it will feel significantly colder than that when you add on the strength of the wind might even see some wintry flowers just pushing

in along the coastal fringes of east in england and northern parts of scotland cold enough out into the southeast temperatures an acrid around nine degrees celsius last you drive by the state across that eastern side of the medicine right about a lot of cloud still in place he can see how it links its way into the far north east of africa really stormy conditions pushing well way through last dry for the west. the weather sponsored by cats are at peace. when they're on line for humanity has been taken out of its goals and if we're talking about numbers on a spreadsheet or if you join us on the sand i guarantee you know what it has a back story like yours this is a dialogue and i'm just tired of seeing the negative stereotypes about native americans everyone has a voice is free to say let's go comments here questions i'll do my best to bring them into the south to join the global conversation on how to zero.

hello again i'm a new skin on al-jazeera several members of the u.s. congress have introduced new legislation which could end arm sales and aid to saudi arabia and says in response to the killing of the journalist in the saudi consulate in istanbul. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon has spoken publicly for the first time about social g.'s murder he described it as painful and said that justice will prevail the washington post is reporting that the head of the cia has heard already oh that captures the moment hershel she was killed. and u.s.

president donald trump is condemning all political violence off the mail bombs and other suspicious packages were sent to democratic politicians and the offices of c.n.n. bill and hillary clinton barack obama and billionaire george soros are among those targeted. iraq's new prime minister has been sworn in at all he has been on the pressure to form a diverse government on them and has been voting on his proposed cabinet and then piece of agreed on more than a dozen ministers including the heads of the oil and finance departments under iraq's constitution shias so the kurds and other but r.c.s. must all be represented. israeli airstrikes have hit eight locations in southern gaza the israeli military says that its jets targeted hamas positions in response to rocket fire sirens sounded and explosions were heard in areas near the gaza border late on wednesday evening u.n. investigators say that rohingya muslims continue to face genocide in myanmar ahead

of a fact finding mission has told the u.n. security council that up to four hundred thousand or hinge or who remain there suffer severe restrictions and repression are diplomatic editor james bays reports . 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 third as

a human catastrophe that was who see able and plan one that will have severe 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 a briefing to the security council as compelling that detail being such awful treatment of peoples as we have 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 bays al-jazeera at the united nations thousands of central american migrants mostly from honduras a pressing on with their long trek across mexico towards the u.s. they still have more than sixteen hundred kilometers to go before they get to the border donald trump has warned that they won't be allowed to enter the country illegally u.s. vice president mike pence is accused venezuela of funding the migrant caravan president nicolas maduro hit back calling pence crazy at an extremist element of the whore do you wanna see that the man see that this caravan is being financed by venezuela by president nicolas maduro and it ain't team to the security in defeats of the united states i don't know why the first thing it causes is laughter and the second is concern because the imperialists paranoia begins to accuse president madeira and been as well or of interesting that happens to them. dozens of refugees

and migrants of been fighting with bosnian police while trying to cross the border into neighboring croatia they managed to get through an initial police cordon before being stopped at a second barrier local media say that several people were injured during the scuffles thousands of migrants have been camping in northwestern bosnia hoping to cross into croatia by force before heading on to other e.u. countries. well asia's for prime minister najib razak and his top treasury boss are facing new charges in a widening crackdown on corruption both men pleaded not guilty to six charges relating to the looting of more than one of the half billion dollars in government funds they've been released on bail of two hundred forty thousand dollars separately now he was charged with thirty two counts over an investment fund scandal including money laundering at abuse of power he's denied any wrongdoing now it's been called the biggest bank fraud in south african history more than one hundred thirty million dollars was stolen from the v b s mutual bank leading to its

collapse south africa's finance minister suggested that the bank can be saved but if it isn't it's the poor who will end up paying the ultimate price as it is funny to miller has more now from the popo province in little. corrupt and beyond saving that's the final word in a reserve bank report on the theft of more than one hundred and thirty million dollars at south africa's v b s mutual bank the only black owned bank in limpopo province it was supposed to have been a vehicle for empowerment but instead it was looted being allegedly by more than fifty people from bank executives to politicians some from within the ruling african national congress nora why is one of ninety four employees who's been laid off because the bank has no will money. i'm still shocked i don't have a job now i'm very disappointed because they still haven't explained to us exactly

what happened but all we know is we don't have a job at least some were douses she deposited her life savings of almost thirty thousand dollars at the bank the money was meant to pay for her children's education she's only managed to get a quarter of it back it would be better if our. children cannot even go to school because of all the money i have lost. it's also alleged that political influences can. local municipalities to deposit billions of dollars at the bank which is against regulations some of those implicated have said they'll pay back the money if they have two others a promise legal action for defamation some f. for the report a lie a political thought but for many south africans they are and answered questions about how such looting was allowed to happen at an institution that was meant to serve them. the bank is accused of granting any regular loan of more than a half a million dollars to former president jacob zuma and transferring more than

a million dollars to the brother of this man. the deputy president of the opposition party the economic freedom fighters the party and both men have denied any involvement an idea of bribery corruption has become part of the south african culture idea. so the mess that is going on in secular studies in v.b. as it solidifies of the thinking on the part of or not is sort of against that feeling and corruption is normal government figures last year showed corruption cost the economy almost two billion dollars a year and more than seventy thousand jobs but for people like lisa this is about more than just numbers it's about the loss of her children's future for me al-jazeera limpopo province of africa. protesters opposed to planned government cuts in argentina fought with police outside parliament demonstrators threw rocks

police responded with tear gas and water cannon people are angry about proposed tax rises and government cuts to deal with depreciating currency thousands of workers been fired and utility bills have risen since the government slashed subsidies now malta is the only country in the european union with a total ban on abortion despite being liberal in many ways the predominantly catholic island in the mediterranean maintains a hard line but as a serious need marker reports now from the capital of alaska a maltese playwright is challenging the law in his first play to discuss the subject of police. you get to pray for the sort of day in rehearsal the cast of a new play called determining. if each is seven characters male and female or based on interviews with people on both sides of the feast abortion debate. where he.

writes to. the writer hopes fears it will help tackle a subject if you are willing to discuss in public this is the most delicate subject and. nothing else and we discuss politics we discuss migration we've got hot on the collar where it comes to abortion we simply don't discuss it it's you know there are no shades of gray it's black and white. not her real name travel to the u.k. for an abortion of following an unplanned pregnancy the only people when you are to try to have made best friends how aware are you of other women in similar situations or who have gone through similar things here involved so many. then six of my. close friends it's probably much more common than we think pilar was able to borrow money to pay for her abortion others don't have a choice despite the human rights groups say the island's abortion rates are no

different to countries where it's legal they are pretty much in the average us the rest of the world it's just a matter of it's just because it's utter bull. and that was another issue reason as to why we feel that this needs to be because women should not continue living in shaking fear despite malta strict stance on abortion and recent years there have been a series of seismic social and cultural changes here divorce was legalized in two thousand and eleven rights equivalent to marriage had been given to gay couples and contraception is no longer frowned upon but when it comes to abortion there are ethical or. moral reservations that have an awful lot to do with tradition and religious beliefs. ninety eight percent of multis are roman catholics the church prohibits abortion many are devout believers such as the island's former finance minister we see fundamentally a child in the name of a mother as a human being

a fully human being nice to be respected there is something ingrained in the maltese population that value life from the from the real beginning from conception multi societies undergone major change in recent years but abortion remains to boo too sensitive a subject for successive governments to risk losing votes over or even openly discuss i accompanied. to the cli this plays attempting to widen the debate beyond the stage the need. for letter multan. it is good terry with this adrian for going to hear and the top stories on al-jazeera in the latest fallout over the murder of journalists several members of u.s. congress have introduced new legislation which could and arm sales and aid to saudi

arabia the kingdom's crown prince mohammed bin salman meanwhile has spoken publicly for the first time about her show she's killing he called it painful and said that justice will prevail the washington post is reporting that the head of the cia has heard or dio that captured the moment of the show she is murder. donald trump has condemned all political violence after mail bombs were sent to his opponent's suspicious packages were received by former presidents barack obama obama and bill clinton and his wife hillary as well as the c.n.n. news channel trump says the attempted attacks are despicable but critics accuse him of hypocrisy because he's been increasingly divisive while in the white house even investigators say there are a hinge of muslims in myanmar still facing genocide the head of the un's fact finding mission on men now told the security council that up to four hundred thousand are injured who are still in myanmar face severe restrictions and

repression seven hundred thousand others fled to bangladesh last year after a brutal military campaign the saudi and iraqi led coalition in yemen says it's investigating an airstrike on a vegetable packaging factory doctors say that the twenty one people killed there were factory workers in the town of base of phuket which is in her data province near the main port in southern yemen that is controlled by the rebels the laziest former prime minister najib razak and his top treasury boss of facing new charges in a widening crackdown on corruption both men pleaded not guilty to six further charges relating to looting of more than half a billion dollars in government funds israeli air strikes have hit eight locations in southern gaza the israeli military says that its jets targeted hamas positions in response to rocket fire sirens sounded and explosions were heard in areas near the gaza border late on wednesday evening as the headlines more news on al-jazeera

after tuesday's the stream next. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you al-jazeera. ok and i'm really good in the stream allegations of asian bias at one of the most selective colleges in the us harvard university will look at an ongoing lawsuit and what the case could mean for the future of race pace university admissions policies you can share your thoughts with us through our live chat or via twitter. does harvard university discriminate against asian american applicants that is the

question being asked in a lawsuit currently being heard in a u.s. federal court the plaintiffs students for fair admissions says asian americans all held to a higher standard in the admissions process they argue that admissions officers scored academically qualified asian americans personality and character rankings harvard has denied any form of discrimination and defends its quite cheerio which it says uses race as one of many factors including academics juggle fee and social economic background so to what degree should race be a factor in college admissions and what else is at stake in the harvard case when joining us to discuss these issues in boston jangly a senior at harvard he's been assisting with the and he can spree in support of affirmative action in harvard admissions and boston swanley co-founder of the asian american coalition for education that's a group that believes affirmative action discriminates against asian americans in

new york part of the harvard asian american alumni. alliance one of the harvard affiliated groups campaigning in support of affirmative action policies and in new haven connecticut roman khandahar a high school senior who is against affirmative action welcome everyone to this stream want to start with a boy from harvard and this is kelly he's a student a junior at harvard university and here's what he had to say about this hot button issue this isn't a case of potential discrimination this is a real discrimination these affirmative action policies are negatively impacting asian americans and unfairly treating them simply because of their race discrimination on college campuses isn't something new this is something that organizations such as the leadership in campus or form have been reporting on for years and this is communication is really happening right now as she of justice john roberts once said the only way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is

to stop discriminating on the basis of race and that's exactly what affirmative action policies do right now in the only way to change that is to get rid of them he needs strong perspective there from cali so break this down for us what is harvard's admission process and why do people like cali find it so problematic. i think the reason that some people have issues with it i mean the process is a holistic admissions process a whole person admissions process and i think that you know we've all i learned a lot about harvard's admissions process over the last few weeks and one of the things that we've learned is it it is how carefully the admissions office considers each person as an individual and and in terms of considering race it's only one factor among many many many factors i considered and we were told that it is it is only considered as a plus factor. for a candidate but we've seen many files of applicants now and what's clear is that

admission is not at all determined by scores and grades it's determined by a full consideration of what the admissions office believes that students potential the potential to make the most of their education at harvard and to go on and and make a difference in the world with that education and show our audience a little bit of what it might be like to get into hospital how difficult it is to get into harvard have a look on my laptop this is what harvard college admissions and financial aid have that she shared with the general public and this is a profile of the middle class of twenty twenty two look at the applicants forty two thousand look who is admitting eight or who will be a meeting two thousand it is incredibly difficult to get into harvard johnny you know one of the few people who managed to do that ad and you so you had missions file and what was written on it what did you know from that. yes so i think the

biggest thing i learned is that again harvard takes a very holistic perspective when admitting applicants rate so it's not just the grades and test scores that harvard is and it is to this and either it should it or a so from my own experience here as a undergraduate you know the college is the defining experience isn't that we have a lot like really really smart students right if it's also that they are like so cash and so i think that harvard is right to take a holistic perspective when deciding whether or not. and i think that's really the biggest takeaway i learned from you i have machines file and you also pool how can the court understand what the application process of like what it's like to student and you go over the information what can you tell us about the information in the court to help them understand the situation better. just to look i've talked a lot about my own personal experiences with diversity years so i come from a very white suburb of texas i grew up with that much diversity most of my students

most of my peers were white race and so after sort of my time here i really realized just how necessary crucial diversity is to my harbor experience if it hadn't been very diverse your perspectives on the different people call it in my classes my experience here would be completely different in the worst way and so i didn't i just like really wanted to put it in that student perspective of why they were just diversity is so important why distraction is. to me what's your biggest issue with this current court case saying that harvard discriminates against asian americans my biggest issue with this case is that it is being brought by someone who or who has never been an advocate for the even american community who has been fighting against race conscious admissions policies at multiple universities he's suing multiple universities he's taken the says the supreme court and failed twice

and after he failed the last time in the fisher case he went out looking specifically for asian american applicants so the this case is about ending affirmative action and his only remedy that he seeks is for admissions to be completely race blind and i think what's really important to remember is that race blind is not race neutral you know this is a country that is not where race is a factor in so many parts of our lives especially in educational achievement and educational opportunity it factors in to the way that teachers and counselors look at you if factors into the kinds of schools you have the kinds of access you have to things like test prep that is why. you know race and ethnicity should. factor that can be taken into account situated in missions office and you need a person that you mention it would be

a conservative activists and his aim is to get rid of affirmative action in the united states hillary is talking to fox news in december having that college administrators and bureaucrats and admissions officers are with the idea that your race should be used to help you or your race should be used to harm you in your admissions process racial preferences that favored whites back in the forty's fifty's sixty's and seventy's was wrong yet now racial preferences that favor african-americans and hispanics that's wrong as well you cannot you cannot remove the past discrimination with new discrimination and that's what colleges so our audience and people online as well have a lot to say about this is natasha who says give us a little reminder history lesson here if you will she says he funded fisher versus texas which is an affirmative action case which he lost then he turned to asian

american plaintiffs he's never cared about racial discrimination this case is purely about dismantling affirmative action but it is americans as cover another person also weighing in on that same theme there and it's one i will give this to you. ed blum says he's suing harvard to fight racial discrimination but anti affirmative action crusaders like bloom never attack a legacy admissions which are effectively affirmative action programs for wealthy white kids we know what this is about not your cover wondering what your take is on . you know all this is actually misrepresentation by many of academics and special interest groups if they go to a harbor trials at the boston federal court they would know the real situation i was there and actually the s f if they did fight against looks at the missions they asked to move let us in the missions and exit missions and the regional considers you are often tied together in ten american states after the band the so-called

forgotten which is not the real kind of deal from actually which was already legislated into the civil rights act one nine hundred sixty four title six so edward bloom and the s f a is using the rio a hermit faction to fight the fake it which is really just this one nation and the current state is mostly asian absent because asian african and even though there are just five percent of the high school graduates of a year. they're often punished most of the american comics use this suffer from the lowest acceptance rates so when people are picking up skin cover without looking at the situation of americans being discriminated all over the country that means the read they'll have a case they have nothing to pick on so they have to pick on a legal consultant skin color and that he's very simplistic and just not sounded so i hope some kind people are conditioned to asian americans when this is their state of indiscriminate again.