and the similarities of cultures across the. al-jazeera. was . blood on their hands a top u.n. official calls beth an extrajudicial execution by the saudi state. on the scene two days ago meeting the saudi king and crown prince has flown to the u.s. after a travel ban was lifted. and other of our press area watching out as they are live from london also coming up on the program at least eighteen people mainly children have died after a school bus was swept away by flash flooding in jordan more parcel bombs found in the u.s. there are reports that they were made from designs on the internet. hello

thank you for joining us pressure is mounting on saudi arabia over the killing of jamal khashoggi the journalist vanished after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul more than three weeks ago saudi arabia's attorney general's office says it's looking into the possibility that killing was a premeditated murder in the light of information received from a joint investigation with turkey meanwhile cia director gina haskell has briefed the u.s. president on her findings after spending two days in turkey u.s. media say that has full heard a recording of a show g.'s killing inside the consulate a statement from the white house is expected. and the top u.n. official says that saudi journalist jamal ashaji was the victim of an extrajudicial execution a little earlier i spoke to agnes kalama the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial

summary or arbitrary executions the she believes killing was authorized unlawfully by the saudi government. there are several elements as to what we know about the disappearance and the killings further look of the killings this is a consulate it's you know it's certainly a reprieve center chief of the state of saudi arabia the individuals present at the time of the disappearance and then the alledged killings where every present a chief of the state subsequently over the last a few days at least the saudi authorities i've recognized that individuals at the highest level of the government of the structures of authority within the government where involved in the disappearance and the killings there were two weeks during which period the government of saudi arabia denied knowing anything

about what had happened there for filling in their duty to provide and to undertake a thorough investigations all of those elements and the kate that the disappearance and now killing of a mr jamal khashoggi that bear the all mark over an extrajudicial executions z. investigation is obviously still ongoing and one of the big question marks is effectively who ordered the killing how far up it went in the saudi government big question mark is whether of course the crown prince mohammed bin salon was aware of it why do you think that that doesn't necessarily matter. i am not suggesting that she does not matter i am suggesting that what we do know already is sufficient to suggest very strongly that to mr was a victim of an extrajudicial executions and that the saudi arabian government is

amply kitted in one way or the order including because of its reluctance to undertake an investigation and the beginning of the allegations including according to what turkey's government is now saying because of its reluctance to provide information so the responsibility of the government is directly involved it will be up to a store rule impartial proficiently investigation to determine how far up in the authorities of that government who is we will see early teammate decision maker of saudi arabia's attorney general's office meanwhile says it's looking into the possibility that killing was a premeditated murder in the light of new information received from a joint investigation with turkey saudi arabia initially said ashanti walked out of its consulate in istanbul after visiting the building on october the second child

stratford has more now from istanbul wearing traditional saudi dress of a hama been solved. and red dye depicting blood on his hands the message is clear these medium freedom activists human rights defenders turkish politicians and friends of the killed saudi journalist want. on this occasion and from this place where the spirit has been lost we clearly state that we do not and will not accept compromises in the case of his murder and that we will not silence. saudi arabia has described the killing of jamal khashoggi inside its consulate in istanbul as a mistake committed by rogue elements it is arrested eighteen men reportedly fifteen of whom were part of a team who the turkish government suspect came to turkey specifically to kill khashoggi they all reportedly left the country the day of the killing their work

done both turkey and saudi arabia are conducting their own investigations but turkish government sources told al jazeera that working together is proving more difficult the sources said the saudis were denying access to turkish investigators to thaw really inspect a well in the garden of the saudi consul general zone. but the turkish and the saudi investigators have repeatedly stressed the importance of working together in this investigation but it's been two weeks since the joint investigative group was announced and turkey's foreign minister is suggesting that the saudis may not be keeping their word there. today smiley says the process is unfortunately dragged on because there are still questions that need to be answered for example these eighteen people why were they were arrested who gave them or that these questions were already asked by our president but i'm repeating them in order to remind you

however jamal khashoggi body has not been found yet where is it they confessed to killing so why they are not saying where is it saudi arabia says it doesn't know where body is and has denied crown prince muhammad bin cell man ordered the killing but on wednesday for the first time saudi prosecutors indicated that they are now investigating premeditated murder after information received from the turkish investigators. turkey's president received the one sit on choose day that evidence gathered by the turkey saw it showed he was the victim of a savage murder. so more pressure from turkey raising the question again what more evidence to the turks have from a reporter already a recording made inside the consulate on the day the khashoggi was killed. that al-jazeera istanbul. well the u.s. state department has welcomed the saudi decision to lift

a travel ban on the son and his family salah bin jamal khashoggi has left the saudi arabia and some reports say that he and the family have arrived in the u.s. he had been barred from traveling abroad since his father left to live in south imposed exile in washington mike out of joins us live now from washington d.c. so mike a spokesperson for the u.s. secretary of state says he discussed. with saudi leaders when he was in riyadh so do we think that the travel ban was lifted because of pressure from the united states. it would appear to be very much that case we did not know about to my pump aoe bringing up the matter of the with his talks with the saudi leaders clearly there is some form of u.s. pressure here which has resulted in this salad to show he is a dual us. because saudi arabian citizen he had as he said been prevented from leaving saudi arabia that travel ban now lifted. reportedly has arrived in d.c.

with his family his father of course owns a house in the washington suburbs in the genea which may be his possible destination but clearly u.s. state department involved mike pompei o bringing pressure to bear on the saudi leadership to allow the son to leave the country and all of this while gina housefull who is the rector of the cia has come back from a fact finding mission in turkey has apparently been briefing and president trump has anything come out of that yet and what do expect to come out of that we'll have very short statement has just been released one line statement confirming that in fact yes that meeting did take place with g. nashville and the u.s. president president trump having talked up the importance of this meeting in recent days saying it was critical in terms of his information gathering to form a basis for a decision of what to do in the light of the ongoing crisis but that is just store

we've heard a one line state than confirming the meetings taking place from the white house a little more details coming out what we do know though as well from state department is that mike pump was also present at the briefing in the white house in the course of the day. mike hanna with the latest from washington d.c. mike thank you and we're joined once again in the studio by roxanne from from from myin who is a lecturer in politics and international studies at cambridge university roxanne you heard my kind there there talking especially about the reaction by the u.s. at the fact that sylar jamaah shoji son was allowed to leave saudi arabia with his family do you think that hints at a deal that obviously covers of the issues as well what did you make of the i think it certainly was a deal that was very important about three days ago but it is a deal that has been over taken by events because since then the noose has been

closing more tightly on. arabia's leadership more generally and we can take away more recent comments by president trump suggesting that this was the worst cover up in the history of coverups suggesting that he no longer has much faith in how acute. has been and managing this and likewise he's hinted that because he says bin solomon is the one running the place that he would have been the one involved in it so that suggests possibly that this deal is already moved on i mean on the one hand we have donald trump saying that it seems unlikely that the home of and some on the crown prince wouldn't have known about this murder and then we also have the u.n. repertoire for extrajudicial killings almost saying that almost as a matter of his even if he didn't actually know there was still enough evidence to

accuse saudi arabia of taking a part in an extrajudicial killing him in at this point all these nations that have been you know with words accusing side of a river not doing very much especially lot of the nations that sell arms to saudi arabia is it not time for them to take a strong risk. well this is why iran calls this job gate because it is certainly a problem facing all of these states particularly saudi arabia but yes it's in its business partners and i think one of the reasons we have gotten such a short line of information from the meeting with the cia director and the softer noone in the united states is because this decision time is now enough information . via the government of the united states and elsewhere they're going to have to start taking steps to sanction businesses other elements of saudi arabia and likewise we're hearing that relations that other members of the

family in the saudi kingdom are putting pressure on the leaders of the rest of the western world to say that he's no longer competent to run the country. they want to have another alternative and certainly. is very much one of the and his group are very much the ones that is the ones that are being noted. we're going to have to leave it there obviously a movie i'm sure discussing this in detail very soon again thank you you thank. you're watching al-jazeera still ahead on the program. a political punch for gender equality ethiopia points its first female president in one of the world's few gender balance happening. to send troops to the mexican border as

thousands of central american migrants march in hope of entering the u.s. . hello there the rain is gathering over parts of australia now the clouds are seen on the satellite picture over parts of western australia and just trickle in their way through the northern territory as well these are we thinking of though as we head through the next few days so expect a little bit more in the way of what weather as we head through the day on friday and then by saturday we'll be seeing some fairly significant rain in places that rain will also be just stretching for the south all the way to the coast of south australia giving us a few outbreaks of rain here meanwhile to the east the temperatures will be recovering so forcing brisbane will have a far more bearable day temperatures won't get any higher than around to twenty eight degrees over towards new zealand there's been a lot of heavy rain here of this system that's clearing away though behind it it

should be a lot brighter for us as we head through the next few days so friday we'll get to around twelve in christchurch not that warm but at least it should be bright and as we head through into saturday the temperatures will recover but i think for many of us in new zealand we'll see more in the way of clouds and a few outbreaks of rain some of which for the north island could be rather heavy up to us in northern parts of asia distinctive swirl of cloud here that stretches from the north all way down through the korean peninsula lots of wet weather on this and in the north now that it's cold we are see a fair amount of wintery weather too that's working its way eastwards and behind it is turning fresher a maximum in pyongyang of ten. they're the children of jailed chinese criminals with nowhere else to go one shelter is giving them a home when he speaks the children growing up with their parents behind bars on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. where every. back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera a top u.n. official says that saudi journalist. was the victim of an extrajudicial executions friends and colleagues have been holding a vigil for outside the saudi consulate in istanbul saudi arabia's attorney general's office says it's looking into the possibility that killing was a premeditated murder in the light of information received from

a joint investigation with turkey and meanwhile the son and his family have been allowed to leave saudi arabia for the u.s. the state department welcomed the decision to lift a travel ban on being. in other news at least eighteen people most of them schoolchildren have died after flash flooding in jordan heavy rain caused the floods near the dead sea where thirty seven children and seven teachers were in a school outing witnesses say the children were travelling on a bus to a resort area when it was swept into a valley by raging floodwaters a major search and rescue operation is currently underway israel has sent helicopters to assist the search jordanian authorities say they were able to save a group of people from the raging waters. so there was a school trip for thirty seven students with certain. people in this location there were people who ended up in the little people who managed to reach the ropes and.

thank god we managed to save several people without any injuries. a top taliban commander detained in pakistan for more than eight years has been freed abdul honey but i doubt it was the former right hand man of taliban founder omar better that was among several senior taliban leaders freed this week after the group demanded their release taliban representatives of being in talks with the u.s. and boys on my way to end the conflict in afghanistan. police in the u.s. are investigating more expects flows of packages addressed the high profile critics of president donald trump but reuters news agency says investigators believe the bombs the zines came from the intimate one package was addressed to the actor robert de niro one of his properties in new york has to call him his lawyer. another day another shot of a crude bomb being carted away to be deactivated on thursday in. similar to this

founded a business owned by actor robert deniro two more devices found in delaware addressed to former vice president joe biden the targets are a who's who of the president's critics the very people the president has personally attacked many say this is proof the president has gone too far this has come from trump trump has used to describe people who disagree with him as enemies of the people so people who support the other party are dangerous hateful crazy anti-american so it's very very hard to look at this and not lay a fair amount of the blame both squarely at the foot of donald trump but also what the other republicans who stood by for years let this happen at first donald trump to be conciliatory tone do you see how nice somebody. this is like have you ever seen that it didn't last long he sent out a tweet just hours later blaming the mainstream media for the anger in the country his spokeswoman. an appropriate way to disown her that people have used on your

network a number of times not only to describe the president but to many people that work in this administration absolutely day in day out there is a negative tone ninety percent of the media attention around this president is negative despite historic job creation supporters in the media when even further claiming both sides are to blame were and do not sit there and point to what the other team did to cause this we don't know the perpetrator we don't know the motivation that it was interesting because hillary clinton says we can't we can't step aside from the hate. rhetoric intel democrats have bullied their way he was talking about policy america is a country divided so much so that even an attempt to carry out the mass killing of the country's political opposition is now seen as something to debate. al jazeera washington u.s. president donald trump has them and the military send the troops to the border with

mexico where thousands of migrants are heading to where they started to walk to the u.s. from honduras to escape poverty and gang violence trump has vowed to stop the migrant caravan which she has described as a national emergency john allman sent us this update from mexico southeastern state of chap us where the migrants are currently traveling from. the dynamic has really changed on this caravan of people the been heading so many miles from home duress trying to get to the u.s. border you can see now that instead of those images of a river of people really heading by foot now a lot of people are either getting rides from willing members of the mets compulsion elation all paying about two and a half dollars to get on these small buses they call them here come base and what that means is that there are a balancing quicker than when they have to get there on foot there are lots of women also lots of children in this current band of more than seven thousand people

to covering big distances but we still estimate that it's going to be probably more a month more than a month until they reach the united states of course there's something happening before that time and that's the u.s. mid-term elections and this is now being seen as one of the crucial issues in the election race president trump has certainly been using it to talk about the fact of this a mass migration to the u.s. border and using that really as a sort of a weapon to say that only he can guarantee stronger borders he requested for the military to actually be sent to the us mexico border we understand that's going to be about eight hundred twelve thousand troops they won't be arresting and detaining people they can't do that without permission from congress they'll instead be helping out more with administrative tasks but it definitely sends a message as this group of people go through mexico they say that they're really unaware of that political dimension for them this is about pure survival they say

they're not earning enough even to live in their homeland for many of them that's home douras and they're also having to pay extortion to the many gangs that are really warring in parts of that country for them this is simply about trying to get out of an untenable situation and find a better life. as brazil nears the climax of its most polarizing election in decades the electoral court is trying to identify and punish groups promoting misinformation on social media last week facebook was forced to remove dozens of links to factually incorrect stories targeting men while at the villa the vice presidential partner for leftist candidate for. reports. this fact checking agency is working nonstop in the days prior to the final round of brazil's presidential elections they're trying to detect false information that's being spread around the country better the u.s.

says the volume of misinformation in this campaign has been unlike anything she's seen before usually the elections in brazil it's a strong relation with television people usually usually vote on the candidate that has more time on the t.v. campaign and this is the first year that didn't happen the candidate that had more time on t.v. didn't get that much force what we see this time is the presence of social media and the phone apps spreading a lot of choice for almost half of brazilians is said to be the messaging app what's up around one hundred and twenty million brazilians have access to this app because mobile service providers allow i'm limited access to subscribers we're going to be some of the people who are fighting the misinformation campaign by the amount about we don't know and we are part of a network around the country who are not only detecting this information but

hitting back with facts and information that they question that somehow think that might be. the center to us we analyze and then we verify it and we send it back to them he was in the water so this is our main source of communication we create animations with very fight information so it's easy to read this is why we won. to share this information. for. sure last week a local newspaper reported that companies had been hired to bulk transmit to whatsapp users messages attacking the leftist candidate in the race for the man who had that and alerting about the possibility of fraud in the lections and even though the extreme right candidate also now has denied any wrongdoing a federal police and electoral court are currently investigating the companies that could be behind the massive spam as well stadiums emails we would love to have a ready and effective solution but in fact we do not have one big news is not new

what is new in this election process is the speed of circulation and the fusion of this years which is really damaging whatsapp has already said it was taking measures to stop companies using its service to send out messages but for many the damage has already been done they say. rio de janeiro. former french president nicolas sarkozy has lost an appeal against a decision to put him on trial over illegal campaign financing the case known as the big malian affair goes back to serco zs reelection push in two thousand and twelve he's accused of colluding with a public relations company to disguise the true cost of his camping france sets limits on how much candidates can spend on elections. for malaysian prime minister najib razak and his top treasury but also facing new charges in a widening crackdown on corruption both men pleaded not guilty to six charges over

the looting of more than one and a half billion dollars in government funds it's been released on bail on of two hundred forty thousand dollars. google has fired forty eight employees including thirteen senior managers over sexual harassment claims since two thousand and sixteen in an e-mail to employees the chief executive said the tech giant is taking a hard line on misconduct his note was in response to a new york times article which says google gave android creator andy rubin a nineteen million dollar exit package while he faced sexual misconduct claims. ethiopia has appointed its first female president sally wark is a would it was selected unanimously by the parliament in addis ababa it comes just a week after the prime minister appointed a gender balance cabinet in which half of the posts are held by women paul brennan

reports. ethiopia's new president was warmly applauded into the parliament as the unanimous choice of the gathered assembly. day has the credentials and the credibility to give genuine weight to have presidency despite the roll being largely ceremonial fluent in english and french as well as her native language she was born in addis ababa studied in france and has been an ambassador to france djibouti and senegal and most recent post is the un's top official at the african union. women's rights and peace are top of her priorities one thing that you were taught from one action the absence of peace maybe victimizes women during my presidency my main focus is to ensure peace by mobilizing all ethiopian women peace loving men and all peoples of the world who love peace. change is underway ethiopia's reformist prime minister ahmed last week appointed

a streamlined to twenty person cabinet in which half the posts are held by women including in charge of the defense ministry and the newly created ministry of peace supervising police and domestic security the new president is also a strong advocate for an end to religious ethnic and gender discrimination it is the prisoner shows. every fiscal year two boys houses the upper and lower houses to guy you know i was the guy the guidance of the government's activities for in coming years so it's it's not just saturday morning i would say but from her speech this morning i also gathered that the presidency is all these can become what you make of it the determination in her speech is quite quite impressive. so work becomes africa's only serving female head of state as president she's expected to serve two six year terms paul brennan al-jazeera. a ukrainian filmmaker

in prison in russia for opposing the annexation of crimea has won a major human rights prize the european parliament has awarded its annual sakit of prize stalag sense of he says russian security services tortured him into confessing to terrorism three years ago. and now a reminder of the top stories on iraq a top u.n. official says that saudi journalist was the victim of an extrajudicial execution there's been widespread international outrage over the death of a shoji who vanished after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul more than three weeks ago. what we do know already is sufficient to suggest very strongly that to me stern was a victim of an extrajudicial executions and that the saudi arabian government is

and peek it to in one way all the other including because of its reluctance to undertake an investigation and the beginning of the allegations including according to what tookie government is now saying because of its reluctance to provide information saudi arabia's attorney general's office says it's looking into the possibility that killing a was a premeditated murder in the light of information received from a joint investigation with turkey friends and colleagues of a vigil for the journalist outside the saudi consulate in istanbul meanwhile the search for clues into his killing continues the u.s. state department has welcomed the saudi decision to live the travel balance the son . and his family have left saudi arabia and some reports say that they've arrived in the u.s. at least eighteen people most of them schoolchildren have died after flash flooding in jordan heavy rain caused the floods near the dead sea where thirty seven

children and seven teachers were a school outing witnesses say the children were traveling on a bus to a resort area when it was swept into a valley by raging flood waters. police in the u.s. are investigating more suspicious packages addressed the high profile critics of president donald trump one package was addressed to actor robert deniro one of his properties in new york two other parcels were sent to former u.s. vice president joe biden police say they are similar to mail bombs the liver to leading democrats in the c.n.n. offices in new york over the last few days. there's are the top stories my colleagues and they're going to have more news for you in half an hour stay with us coming up next it's one of many thanks for watching on season. if things got to the wild west previously where the average person couldn't touch and tell if a pipe had been set on height or if the my does this updated nath to have the kind

of support that he needs we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. there the children with nowhere to go and no one to care for them. in china the sons and daughters of jailed criminals are often left shunned and alone for some a shelter in beijing is the closest they'll get to a place they can call home. i'm steve cho on this episode a one on one east we meet the children growing up without their parents.