this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. when they acted as. a top u.n. official is adamant saudi arabia has blood on its hands he calls the killing of extra judicial execution. and he's out of saudi arabia. meeting the crown prince now in the u.s. after a travel ban to. a desperate search for survivors thousands of children are caught in flooding. there the dead sea in jordan. now

a target more high profile opponents presidency. explosive packages. and independent u.n. investigators now pointing the finger squarely at the saudi state for the killing of jamal khashoggi special or agnes callum ard says the saudi journalist was the victim of an extrajudicial execution she says the people who committed it orchestrated the killing were high enough to represent the state and she's called for an international investigation or diplomatic editor james face has the latest developments. agnus color mark does a very specific role for the united nations and it covers exactly the crime committed in the saudi consulate in istanbul three weeks ago she is the special rapporteur on extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions with regard to the

gruesome executor and of saudi giannone jamal khashoggi i want to add my voice to that of my colleague david kay from the un special rapporteur on freedom of expression. to call for an international investigation into this murder after she raised the case in the u.n. committee that deals with human rights the saudi representative said she was exceeding her remit fight the with us think in my did a geisha in wish like to denounce this statement by the special rapporteur we call on her not to exceed her mandate on extrajudicial executions currently do not give us any personal opinion in this official meeting thank you question but she later went further in a news conference the special rapporteur telling me she believes on current

evidence saudi arabia as a state is culpable for the murder when where where do we stop the where do we begin where do we stop our construction of the state they where we presenting the state when they acted as he acted the state cannot twice sheets and for me to throw sponsibility s. so it doesn't matter whether the crown prince or the king say they didn't know of course it matters but that does not mean that the saudi state is not responsible. the special rapporteur has added her voice to the growing call for an international investigation but it's not clear how that will be launched the u.n. secretary general says he will only form a panel to investigate the case if he gets to refer all from one of the main bodies of the un the security council the general assembly or the human rights council or from one of the countries concerned james. at the united nations now the saudis are

looking at whether his killing was premeditated murder the attorney general's office says it's investigating after information received from a tri pro with turkey last week riyadh blamed rogue elements for killing just after he walked into the consulate in istanbul on october second trial strafford has more from istanbul wearing traditional saudi dress of a hama been solomon mosque 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 this. 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 even silence saudi arabia has described the killing of jamal khashoggi inside its

consulate in istanbul is 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 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 stone. 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 said the process is unfortunately dragged on

because there are still questions that need to be answered for example these eighteen people why were they arrested who gave them orders 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 snow where body is and has denied crown prince muhammad bin so mom 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 order one sit on choose day that evidence gathered by the turkish side showed 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 reported order recording made inside the consulate on the day the khashoggi was killed. that al-jazeera istanbul. they are the son of a market he has arrived in the u.s. after being allowed to leave saudi arabia in charge he met the crown prince mohammed bin salman on tuesday in that photo op was widely criticized as being insensitive i can a child's us live now from washington d.c. so mike what else do we know about. being able to leave and being in the u.s. . well we've got to statement from state department which makes very clear that the u.s. pressure led to. being allowed to leave saudi arabia state department says it welcomes the decision to let him go it says that this follows intense discussions between secretary of state mike compare and the saudi leaders during his visit the the first that we've known that the subject of his family were in fact part of the

subject of discussions between the secretary of state and the saudi leaders. she has now arrived to the c.d.c. . sumed or likely that he will be staying at his father's home which is in the washington suburbs here along with his family so jeanne asshole cia director we know she went to turkey for a few days to gather some information in the washington post reported that she actually heard an audiotape of the killing mark. what else do we know about what she has conveyed to the white house and she's back. well all we know is a very short statement that has been issued by the white house in the last hour simply confirming that the meeting took place and that is basically if incidentally no confirmation that she heard audiotapes this was a statement also made about the secretary of state might compare what you

subsequently feel mentally denied however we do know that she spent time with president trump in the course of the morning and we also know from state department that might pompei or was also part of that meeting of either for all of that all full part of it so president trump has made much in recent days of his desire to get to the bottom of all of this saying that he was relying on getting information from his trusted advisers before taking a decision on what action to take next he's now had that briefing from his director of the cia he's had a briefing from his secretary of state at the moment though no signs of any statement coming out of the white house simply that short statement confirming that the meeting took place in the course of the day ok mike hanna live for us in washington mike thank you david mack with u.s. ambassador to the u.a.e. and former deputy assistant secretary of state for near east affairs he joins us via skype from washington d.c. thank you very much so the comments coming from the u.n.

special effort or saying that that what happened was undoubtedly an extrajudicial killing that was basically ordered by saudi arabia is this that change anything and the call for some sort of international investigation will this make a difference. i don't think the call from un special rapporteur tour things changes things very much but certainly the evidence that the turks have are produced and shared with us does make a big change i think ensure you can say where in the process of catching up to where the turks are in their investigation we're adding our own intelligence sources to the story and saudi arabia is simply going to have to try to catch up with both governments the government in washington and the government then ankara and saudi arabia is having a great deal of difficulty in doing that catch up in what way because surely they

know what happened. yes but there's public story keeps lagging way behind the likely information that they are receiving both from turkey and from the united states and if we haven't been providing them with all the details the saudis are certainly imagining the worst in terms of what we might know so the worst could the worst actually end up resulting in mohammedan someone somehow having to be sidelined can you see that scenario actually ever happening. yes i can see that he might be sidelined. he's been the principal. representative of king selma on in dealing with the united states on some very sensitive issues. and came some on as

many very good capable advisors his foreign minister other than the bear who was also the ambassador in washington for many years knows how to talk to americans he has other senior people in human with issues like oil like terrorism. and and dealing with iran he could certainly find people who could deal directly with their u.s. counterparts i think it's very important that both the president trump and king sell non stop. stop i mean the central focus of this issue and then we get back to the longstanding u.s. saudi relationship which is based upon some very fundamental interests that we share and stop treating this as some kind of relationship between the ruling family

of saudi arabia and the trump cushion or family ok interesting point there at david mack thank you very much. seven nations have already taken steps to sanction saudi arabia terminating a stop saudi weapons deals with chancellor merkel joining other european countries in calling for a credible investigation canadian prime minister justin trudeau says it would be hard to scrap a thirteen billion dollar arms deal with riyadh as he comes under pressure to punish the kingdom and on tuesday politicians in spain voted against blocking weapon sales to saudi arabia on wednesday a bipartisan group of u.s. politicians introduced a bill to ban arms sales to saudi arabia it cut military cooperation unless american investigators can provide provide proof that is that the saudi government did not order these killing thier wise men is a senior researcher with the arms and military expenditure program at the stockholm international peace research institute he says it's unlikely the us will restrict arms deals with the saudis. it's possible that they can get the

administration so far to kind of start to implement certain restrictions on arms sales to saudi arabia that it is i have are hard to see that this would lead to a very comprehensive ban a real arms embargo some deals maybe suspended or. planned to use may not take place right now certain items may not be supplied but i'd be very surprised if this would lead to very significant changes in the arms relation between the u.s. and saudi arabia at least in the short term it is just one tool of a whole range of tools which you can apply it's one of the most kind of more straightforward tools which that the one which we think of first in a situation like this by showing that you're not willing to supply arms show that you disagree with the way the saudi arabia uses force whether they use it against

the show is still one question but then again we also look at a broader picture in which i do read he has been involved in the use of force. in yemen and also of course to some extent showing off against qatar so i think this is more like one first step but it wouldn't be sufficient by itself i don't think so but in my head of the news hour including as thousands of lichens continue north through mexico the u.s. says it will send extra troops to let southern border americans are offering a helping hand and a first radio p.s.a. their president as a point it is part of our reshuffle and that's for the gymnastics world championships begin and tell with usas so i'm biased leading away. the e.u. who. at least eighteen people most of them schoolchildren had died after a flash floods in jordan that happened near the dead sea or thirty seven children

and seven teachers running. school outing there was heavy rainfall in the area at the time witnesses say the children were traveling to a on a bus route to a resort when it was swept into a valley by raging flood waters a major search and rescue operation is underway israel has sent helicopters to help with the search and i threw him again to see if there was a school trip for thirty seven students with seven supervisors meeting there and forty four people in this location there were people who ended up in the seawater and there were people who managed to reach the ropes and save themselves and thank god we managed to save several people without any injuries today and columnist. says there was plenty of warnings that the students should not have now. while they were there is that i mean there were many warnings from the metrological department in georgia and that's why i really don't understand how this school syndicates and and such a date but you know it's happened after all the sudden it starts raining cats and

dogs and i was at university and in the model train and here so it must be the same and the interior on the debt see where the accident took place. if you know pierre has appointed its first female president sali work today has been selected and i'm asleep by the parliament in addis ababa that comes just a week after the prime minister appointed a gender balance to cabinet auburn and reports. ethiopia's new president was warmly applauded into the parliament as the unanimous choice of the gathered assembly. has the credentials and the credibility to give genuine weight to have presidency despite the roll being largely ceremonial go into english and french as well as home 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 this is the un's top official at the african union. women's rights and peace

on top of her priorities one thing i think you would see it taught to the absence of peace mainly victimizes women securing my presidency my main focus is to ensure peace by move 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 their prisoner shows that every fiscal year two boys houses they are in their houses. you know i was the guy the guy 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 president's office can be watching me that 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 pope brennan al-jazeera. police in the u.s. are investigating more suspicious packages addressed a high profile critics of president onil trump one of them was sent to the actor robert janeiro one of his properties in new york had a cool hand has more. 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 you know 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 took a conciliatory tone do you see how nice somebody. this is like i do 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 followed soon very. appropriate way to disown her people 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 his 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 hateful rhetoric and tell democrats have bullied their way she 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 petty calling al-jazeera washington. trump's expected to order eight hundred additional u.s. troops to the border with mexico where thousands of migrants are heading or starting to they started to walk to the u.s. from honduras to escape poverty and gang violence trump is vowing to stop the migrant caravan which he described as a national emergency are but also reports from the border as thousands of migrants

from central america make their way north preparations are underway in san diego the largest port of entry in the u.s. andrea guerrero directs the immigrants rights group alliance san diego we have a robust shelter network on the other side of the border and we have a robust service network here on this side of the border and so we will be coordinating with our sister in is ations to provide assistance where needed once the migrants reach the border they can apply for asylum as refugees under international law under u.s. law anyone who presents themselves at a port of entry and asks for protection. must be provided an opportunity to present their case immigrants rights lawyer elizabeth come on gives migrants in detention free legal representation but most have no attorneys to

represent them in a confusing legal process you're talking cultural differences you're talking linguistic differences you're talking legal concepts even if they understand that they are fleeing for might not be able to articulate in the legal terms that me those requirements advocates with years of experience dealing with central american migrants agree on one they're coming all of them share one thing in common they are fleeing the violence in their home country this is where the us mexico border plunges into the pacific ocean now the migrants are still hundreds of kilometers away from this spot but here on this side of the border president donald trump is using them to score political points ahead of the u.s. midterm election he says many of the migrants are hardened criminals and that they somehow represent a kind of national emergency trump falsely claims the opposition democratic party

encourages migrants and wants completely open borders trump is using it of using vulnerable people to advance his own political agenda u.s. agencies say over the past twelve months most people detained at the border were parents with children were children from leave alone now many more are on their way robert oulds al jazeera at the us mexico border john heilemann spend following the migrant caravan as it makes its way through mexico towards the u.s. border sent us this update from the southeastern state of chiapas. 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 for now a lot of people are even 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 the see and what that means is that they're advancing quicker than when they had 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. so head on al-jazeera targeting people who are spreading misinformation just days before brazil's most contentious presidential election in years gone. to the. theatre helping address a sensitive and controversial issue and malta. and then support the l.a.

dodgers have a mountain to climb in the world series so i don't have the details just ahead. and i know that we've got huge amounts of rain over parts of north america at the moment we take a look at the satellite picture we can see the huge blanket of cloud it's actually the remains of all storm willa and it's working its way steadily east with the heaviest of the downpours around the southern possible see that in the southeast as we head through the day on friday that will push up the eastern coast as we head into saturday so new york is looking at a very wet day meanwhile towards the west generally calm a force here l.a. is at thirty degrees so quite a woman for us not as warm in seattle fourteen will be our maximum but at least the rain should have cleared a bit further towards the south and at the moment the wettest of the weather is in the southern parts of our map here and further north there's more in the way of

drawing a fine bright weather however they'll be a few more showers i think as we head through the day on friday particularly i reports that you burn a couple of these are likely to be rather heavy and also be plenty of weather still across that southern section of our map and stretching a little bit further north now as well also for the eastern parts of mexico watch out here the winds are coming down from the north and the bringing in a little bit of a change in the weather his some weights and cooler conditions as we head across to south america you can see the rain here the stretching through paraguay and across into the southern parts of brazil so that will force him one is always wear it around twenty degrees warmer in rio we were twenty seven.

november. series comes face to face with the hatred and violence of militant groups that attract young people around the world on november fifth the u.s. will impose additional sanctions on iran. will look at the. lives are in danger and see who should come to the right people and investigates the united states is getting ready for the us mid-term elections on november sixth join us for live coverage and analysis. continues to examine global media coverage and look behind the headlines november on al-jazeera.

the top stories for you now an independent. pointing the finger at the saudi state for the killing of. maher says the saudi journalist was the victim of an extrajudicial executions she says the people behind it were high enough to represent the state. friends and to the us held a vigil demanding answers from saudi arabia the saudi attorney general's office says it's looking into the possibility that killing was a premeditated murder after information received from a joint investigation with turkey. at least eighteen people have died after flash floods hit a bus full of schoolchildren are the dead sea in jordan. search and rescue operation is underway israel has sent helicopters to assist in that search. warrant on the case and the comments by the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial summary

or arbitrary executions here's more of what the agnes calmar had to say when she spoke with al-jazeera a little bit earlier. 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 t.v. of the state of saudi arabia the individuals present at the time of the disappearance and then the alledged killings where we present a tip 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 or 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 they are for filling in their duty to. 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 hallmarks of an extrajudicial executions zi 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 mr cash was

a victim of an extrajudicial executions and that the saudi arabian government is amply kitted in one way or the other 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 it's a responsibility of the government is directly involved it will be up to a store rule impartial partition or investigation to determine how far up in the authorities of that government who is who will see early teammate decision maker many global business leaders and politicians boycotted a high profile and beslan summit in saudi arabia over his death but the event organizers say they still generated fifty seven billion dollars worth of deals or not spent reports. by the time crown prince muhammad bin salman turned up at the

future vestment initiative summit in riyadh a day after it started saudi arabia had already signed deals worth fifty billion dollars out of a six billion was added by the time the event closed. the murder of jamal khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul cast a dark shadow over the conference but it's not stopped business being done of its people are here now working there still is western representation there are bankers there are people you know investors looking to business they're just not always up to the highest level as they were last year and it's clear from talking to many of them that some of them are frustrated that their c.e.o.'s and their top executives are pulled out also missing from the summit was senior politicians from mainly western countries who withdrew his outrage over his murder group but there were plenty of others who did attend perhaps not as easily able to resist the financial clout of the world's biggest oil producer there were government delegations from china russia and african and middle eastern countries vision the conference has

been salman's brainchild created to draw investment and diversification into an oil dependent economy that needs to find new ways to provide millions of jobs and it's those opportunities that attendees couldn't ignore you can't take away decades of collaboration. effect of collaboration. over one incident of course or sconce of quinces fractions and then and then hopefully you can get past those actions the conference has told a multi-billion dollar plans include the tax and red sea tourist is in saudi arabia says it also wants to offer privatization opportunities in education health care and desalination for mohammed bin solomon it was almost business as usual bernard smith al-jazeera. amnesty international issued a statement calling for an end to arms sales to saudi arabia the killing of

khashoggi falls within a longstanding pattern of repression on peaceful dissent which is only intensified under mohamed when psalm one statement goes on to say all arms states must the spend arms transfers to saudi arabia and its coalition members the saudis were already like coalition and yemen says it's investigating an airstrike on a factory worker say twenty one people were killed in wednesday's attack or satori has the latest the latest victims of the war in yemen workers at a vegetable packing factory in the town of beit factory you must know by mean of i mean about you this is where they wash the vegetables this is where they were washing the okra okra for garci look. so they can sell it in the markets there just workers on the saudi emirates he led coalition had sent reinforcements tanks and armored vehicles to the port city of her data before wednesday night's attack.

pro-government forces have been trying to recapture the city from who's the rebels since a renewed offensive in september. doctors and people who live in the area say they don't know what the intended target was but it's not uncommon for coalition warplanes to hit civilian targets some images too gruesome to show a child once again among the victims and of the one. this man survived bloodied but shocked by what happened on the phone and we were cleaning dirt off the okra batch and then the plane above us struck we're only doing our job. since the war began in two thousand and fifteen coalition forces have hit wedding parties funerals residential homes hospitals and a school bus they often blame who's the rebels accusing them of using civilians as human shields as international pressure grows for an end to the war the casualty figures continue to rise dore such a bari al-jazeera. as for still nearly the climax of its most polarizing election

in decades 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 the running mate of the leftist presidential candidate fernando it's odd to servo from rio de janeiro. 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 than the left says the volume of misinformation in this campaign has been unlike anything she's seen before usually elections in brazil this 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 in the candidate that had more time on t.v.

didn't get that much for 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 the one hundred and twenty million brazilians have access to this app because mobile service providers allow unlimited access to subscribers we're going to be some of the people we're fighting them with information campaign. and we saw part of a network around the country who are not only detecting this information but hitting back with facts they send the information that they don't question they somehow think that might be false the senate to us we analyze and then we verify it and we send it back to then 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 want to share this information.

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 the 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 an 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 what's up has already said it was taking measures to stop companies using its service to send out bulk messages but for many the damage has already been done they said what rio de janeiro. former malaysian

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 and a half billion dollars from the government investment fund is already facing dozens of charges over the case including money laundering an abuse of power he denies wrongdoing. former french president nicolas sarkozy has lost an appeal against an earlier decision to put him on trial over illegal campaign financing the case known as the malian affair goes back to sarkozy's reelection push in two thousand and twelve he is accused of colluding with a public relations company to disguise the true cost of his campaign for and sets limits on how much candidates can spend on electioneering. ukrainian filmmaker who's been called russia's most famous prisoner has been awarded the top human rights prize a leg sense of has been jailed by russia on terrorism charges he's

a fierce critic of the kremlin and condemned russia's annexation of crimea and two thousand and fourteen reports the oh the. filmmaker writes i'm a symbol of defiance in ukraine like sense of maybe hailed as a hero by those campaigning for the release of political prisoners in russia but it has cost him his freedom his arrest in twenty fourteen by russian security forces following an accession of crimea on charges of conspiring to commit terrorism catapulted his case to the world stage sent soft has always denied the charges yet he remains one of the most vocal opponents of the takeover of his native region by russia he served three years of a twenty year sentence the european parliament continues to call for his release. yes that. the prize has been awarded to him because of his courage and his

determination the ukrainian filmmaker all accent so it was become a symbol of the fights for the release of political prisoners in russia and all over the world. by granting him this award the european parliament would like to show their support to him and his cool its. sense of is serving his sentence at a russian penal colony north of the arctic circle in may he began a hunger strike demanding old ukrainian political prisoners be freed but his health deteriorated and he ended his protest after one hundred forty five days to avoid being force fed by prison authorities. the supporters have vowed to continue the fight and hope that this prize could further pressure russia to release him but most go has so far ignored any calls for his freedom or that of others sunny diagonal al jazeera. malta is now the only country

in the european union with a total ban on abortion after ireland changed its law earlier this year despite being liberal in many ways the predominantly catholic island in the mediterranean has a hard line on this issue but is need parker reports from the capital for a playwright as challenging this. you get to pray for the so. in rehearsal the cost 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 fiesta bowl should debate whether. we. have rights to. the writer hopes fears it will help tackle a subject few are willing to discuss in public this is the most delicate subject and. nothing else 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 following an unplanned pregnancy the only people when you are to try to have my 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 every average as 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 and fear despite malta strict stance on abortion in 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 and. moral reservations that have an awful lot to do with tradition and religious belief. 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 that needs 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 blue 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 of. al-jazeera for letter malta still ahead on al-jazeera all the sports and arsenal continue their winning story.

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thank you very much was with football arsenal have increased their winning streak to eleven matches they beat sporting in the europa league one nil arsenal had scored thirty goals and their ten previous wins but sporting frustrated you in a emery's team and they waited until the seventy seventh minute to for danny welbeck to score a span is closing in on the longest winning run of his predecessor aceveda which stands at thirteen wins plenty of other games and there are a paralegal red bull sauce made three wins from three they beat rosenberg three nil and top of groupie senate top of group c. after taking three points against bordal in group d. under lock to are still winless up to three games in their wins for spanish sides

betis severe and very out and ruben live to she scored a hat trick for chelsea they top a group l. with three wins in three. argentinian giants boca juniors have one foot in the final of the copilot doris after a two nil when all the brazilian rival spawn maris got a bad crowd for the semifinal first leg. and when osiris on their second keeper where there are two and a put his body on the line to keep us all as a streak but book out went one nil up from the resulting corner to daddy oh a bandito it wasn't finished a moment of magic from ben ditto for all slitting the defense and leaving with a halt to less well the teams will play the second leg in the south paula next was a four place in the final against either river plate or graeme you. to the wall series where the boston red sox have taken

a two game lead over the los angeles dodgers and if history is anything to go by things are looking bleak for l.a. and has more pressure to once again the world series is a marathon not a sprint for the red sox will have been feeling pretty confident after that comprehensive victory over the dodgers in cheese days opening game. and it wasn't long before they were on top of the scoring in game two ian kinsler hit a single of high engine rear to drive ins on the vocal. to. the judges finally got on the scoresheet that the top of the fourth inning kemper tying the gang. of four guys self we put last jets runners up ahead for the first time this theory can. be used the way he. didn't damage in riyadh branches didn't last long their dodgers manager dave

roberts pulled review in the fifth inning with two outs and the bases loaded and reliever ryan madson allows d.p.s. to level things. i. j to you martin as then put the red sox back in control with a two run thing go then now half way through their fourth championship in fifteen days. and the odds are stacked in their favor eighty four percent of teens who lead the world series to nothing have gone on to win the title. there's no other say just is going to be very clear than pitching in a world series game unless it's a game seven of the world series so you know to be able to do that. feels good for sure you know. come from myself and from my teammates and coaches for us to to be to is a way in and to nothing right now in a world series that's a good feeling. game three takes place in l.a.

on friday where the judges will be hoping to avoid a third defeat in a row a deficit from which no world series he has ever recovered felling trees and how to stand and decide when the route of the twenty ninth in a tour de france has been unveiled and in a first includes a poor suburbans area of the country saves twelve all of next year's race will see a riders travel through the outskirts of the city of toulouse organizes that have also said that next year's edition will be the highest ever with thirty categorised climbs and five mountain finishes it begins in brussels on july sixth before the traditional finish in paris on july twenty eight. it always is. a last major mountain phase which will be hard to control for the team also. a lot of times over two thousand meters which will be a big factor as well. and the t.t.

a bit shorter but i think this is still going to like iraq the artistic gymnastics world championships are underway in qatar the team that will be in most focus is the u.s. women whose medal charge will be led by four time olympic champion simone biles but off the mat the u.s. has been struggling after the sex abuse scandal that has left the country's national federation in a mess so then i look reports from doha. she's the biggest star in gymnastics. the usa simone was the lit up rio twenty sixteen winning gold medals and won bronze and she's in qatar for the artistic gymnastics world championships looking for even more success i'm really excited i think our team as a whole was shine a lot of light at this competition and hopefully will bring back some medals in every good moment memories. took a year long break from competition after the olympics she's picked up from where

she left off since her return becoming the first woman to win five u.s. national all around title of the northwest and in doha she be leading a team with far less experience to take on the world's best american team is training behind me simone balls of course is their headline act she love the chance to get six medals here in doha will give a boost to the whole of the country and particularly american gymnastics back in the headlines for the right reasons. the image of usa gymnastics has been tainted by the sex abuse scandal involving former team doctor laurie nasir who's been sentenced to more than three hundred years in jail because you were guilty and since then the national governing body has faced heavy criticism for not taking serious steps to reform and implement changes to ensure their gymnasts are protected sufficiently. they've also had a crisis of leadership earlier this month interim president mary bono resigned just days into her job making it for high ranking officials to leave in the last six

months right now we have people that really are not a in tune with what really is happening within our community and what has happened and they're refusing to make really really huge changes which no one is going to move forward until we do now by as was one of nearly one hundred sixty women who accused of sexual abuse the twenty one year old has that speaking about what happened to her was empowering and she feels now that she has the responsibility to be a role model in doha however i was and the team had been told to focus strictly on competing well you know that we're here to compete internationally so all the other stuff we don't care about we don't talk about every day we focus on what the plan is from workout to workout we really take it one workout at a time we know we have good experience and sort of chances of finishing in the top three are good the u.s. women's biggest competition at these championships is likely to come from china and russia what's on likely though is that any one gymnast will outshine bottoms so

he'll malik al-jazeera. tennis now former wall number one a carline and is the first through to the semifinals of the w t a season ending tournament in a single defeated set of czech petra because it of us of the first time in her korea early on thursday took her place in the last full twenty eleven a chance to give it to is eliminated off to losing all three of her round robin matches. the finding swiss indoors champion roger federer booked his place into the quarter finals the home favorite to beat class and straight sets to make it seventeen wins in a row the twenty grand slam champion is aiming for is not taught to embezzle. and also his fall from we'll have more later on that off for the news hour but to keep it here i'll be back on the other side of the break with more on the day's news.

the cricket world isn't about match fixing i mean you have to think why would he give me i got the guess then we didn't burn him again instead i get a big big bang bang. al-jazeera as investigative unit reveals explosive new evidence documentary confirms to my now as a very hard profile figure in much fiction and international cricket do you know this man al-jazeera investigation cricket's much fixing the manoa files. being located outside that western senate tricks fair of influence we're able to

bring a different perspective to global events when you peel away all of the lists of cove and military in the financial dog and you see the people in those words and his policies are affecting see the emotion on their faces the situation they're living in that's when all the us can identify with the story. south sudan is one of the last places on earth to harm beginning worm disease a gruesome affliction that has affected millions in the centuries to stand out in the world as the only country we do almost all the cases from below it is a huge response which is no vaccine and no to the this disease be on the verge of extinction know where the problem we know what needs to be done if it doesn't what the being lifelines how to slay a dragon on al-jazeera. the

way every presenting to state when they acted as she acted the top u.n. official is adamant saudi arabia has blood on its hands she calls the killing of democracy extra judicial execution. and he's out of saudi arabia. just days ago leaving the crown prince is now in the u.s. after a travel ban slipped it. and we shall carry this is al jazeera life and also coming up a desperate search for survivors dozens of children are caught in flooding during a school trip to the dead sea in jordan. a top actor is now a target.