joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focus on how they were called on the stories that matter the most listening post on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. and i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the where we presenting the state when they acted as she acted a top u.n. investigator is adamant saudi arabia has blood on its hands she calls the killing of jamal khashoggi an extrajudicial executions. and he's out of saudi arabia sun seen just days ago meeting the crown prince is now in the u.s. after a travel ban slipped. a desperate search for survivors thousands of children were caught in flooding during a school trip near the dead sea in jordan. i'm wayne hay in polish indonesia where

it's been almost a month since the earthquake and tsunami so many people are still missing tens of thousands are homeless and there's ongoing concern for the welfare of children the most vulnerable in the aftermath of a disaster. a top investigator at the u.n. says now singling out the saudi state for the killing of jamal khashoggi special repertory agnus column are says the saudi journalist was the victim of an extrajudicial execution she says the people who committed and orchestrated the killing were high enough to represent the state and she's also called for an internal investigation our diplomatic editor james space 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 john at least jamal khashoggi i want to add my voice to that of my colleague david cave 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 right up there with us thinking my did a geisha wish like to denounce this statement by the special rapporteur we call on her not to exceed her mandate on extrajudicial executions gandhi 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 preventing 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 calls 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 referral 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 pays out of the united nations allisat if you're looking at where the shot is killing was premeditated murder it twenty general's office says it's investigating after information received from a joint probe with turkey last week riyadh blamed rogue elements for killing discharging just after he walked into its consulate in istanbul on october second trial stratford asked more from istanbul wearing traditional saudi dress a homage been solved 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 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

even 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 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 invest conceive group was announced and turkey's foreign minister is suggesting that the saudis may not

be keeping their word then. 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 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 confess 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 man ordered the killing but on wednesday for the first time saudi prosecutors indicated that they are now investigating premeditated murder of the 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 already a recording made inside the consulate on the day the khashoggi was killed. at al-jazeera istanbul. the eldest son of marcus charge he has arrived in the u.s. after being allowed to leave saudi arabia. met the crown prince mohammed bin salman on tuesday and this photo opportunity that you see here it was widely criticized as being insensitive i canot joins us now from washington d.c. so mike what do we know about how how that trip came to be that he's now in the u.s. well the state department has welcomed the saudi decision. to leave that country and the has become apparent that these secretary of state might pump aoe played a major role in that decision it would seem the state department says that might prompt engage saudi leaders during his trip to riyadh and the issue of.

was one of those he brought up with the leadership asking them to lift the travel ban that had been in place so a great welcoming from the state department. now in d.c. probably or possibly staying at his father's home which is in the washington suburbs so we know that the cia director bill is back in the u.s. after going to turkey for a couple of days to gather some information as part of this investigation and she has briefed the white house do we know anything that she has said to them yet. well it was something that president trump has been talking for days saying that he's waiting to receive intelligence in person from his various intelligence personnel in particular his director of the cia well she did have that meeting in the course of the morning and well there was a statement from the white house which was purely

a one line statement confirming that the meeting had in fact taken place the only other detail that we have is that the state secured secretary of state was also present at the meeting that comes from the state department which says my pump took part in that meeting with the director of the cia cia and president trump but as i said president trump for days has been awaiting this information now he's received both from his director of the cia and more information perhaps from his secretary of state and knowledge maybe he has all the information he needs to take a decision about what to do next ok mike hanna live in washington mike thank you. has a lecturer at the american university school of international service he joins us from washington d.c. we appreciate your time very much so the u.n. special operator is saying that this is basically a state sanctioned execution even if it's not necessarily proven that it goes all

the way to bin someone do you agree with that that this is something that is about about more than him that it's about saudi arabia. obviously this is about. but the problem here is who actually gave the order for this primitive murders and the u.n. reports are always they shied away from directly accusing the crown prince for that about obviously it's this the government's responsibility to find out who actually gave the orders and us where all the investigation gets stuck with this so how much confidence do you have. that an internal saudi investigation is actually going to get to the bottom of this. this needs to be is really negotiated between washington and riyadh and really the extent to which this investigation would be

pursued. is quite dependent on the extent to which it washington d.c. puts pressure on its partners and we are primarily king salmon and it's is necessarily up to king some months. to decide what he needs to do with it he wants to keep the come prince or whether he wants to considers it in others or his sons to replace him it does obviously same that you know in this scenario the u.s. wholes a considerable amount of power but does pressure from other countries from european countries does pressure from other places matter. well not so much in the washington circles because present only the made his mind that keeping up the military trade with saudis are important but obviously he still needs to make his mind up about. his partnership or who he is going to continue dealing with

that really is the problem is regarding the european parliament's decision calling for all even member states to call of arms deals or. the german chancellor mack as. positioning herself as a representative of the liberal world reserve the right has been going on in saudi arabia is leading don't have much of an impact in washington and how white house tries this to me to solve the as a reliable ally in the middle east ok that ballarat joining us from washington d.c. thank you very much my pleasure thanks for having me. amnesty international is calling for an end to arms sales to saudi arabia and it says the killing of christianity falls within a longstanding pattern of repression on peaceful dissent which is only intensified under muhammad and salma all arm supplying states the suspend arms transfers to saudi arabia and its coalition members some nations have already taken steps to

sanction saudi arabia germany a stop to saudi weapons deals with chancellor merkel joining other european countries and calling for a credible investigation the 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 and on wednesday a bipartisan group of u.s. politicians introduced a bill to ban arms sales to saudi arabia it would cut military cooperation and less american investigators can prove provided proof rather that the saudi government did not order the killing who has been is a senior researcher with the arms and military expenditure program at the stockholm international peace research institute he says it's unlikely that 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 may be suspended or. plan deals 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 i'm ahead of the news hour including a top back personality target more high profile opponents of donald trump's presidency are seven potentially explosive packages a first rate the o.p.'s a female president has appointed as part of her shuffle. and it support the gymnastics world championships began in tel ha with the usa so well by else leading the way. who. a major search and rescue operation is underway near the dead sea in jordan after at least eighteen people died in flash floods heavy rain hit the area on thursday most of those killed were children on a school trip. to a popular hot spring charlotte ballasts reports. the headlights of risky vehicles

illuminates a ravine on the dates see. this searching for school children swept away in a flash flood on thursday. the sound of rushing water is drowned out by helicopters seen from israel as only she could hear the nominee we're doing everything we can everyone from the ministry of labor the ministry of interior civil defense down in the water and up in the mountain they won't be leaving the area until we know the fate of every student every citizen jordan has experienced heavy rains this week witnesses say the children were visiting popular hot springs inland from the did see and they were swept into a valley by a fleshlight most of the children were under fourteen years old risk families picnicking at the holiday spot were among the date and injured and. when the flash floods came to this swept the students forty five kilometers from the hot springs to this valley which leads to the dead sea there were people who ended up

in the sea water and there were people who managed to reach rocks and save themselves. jordan's prime minister tweeted this image of alyssa between a man's victoria college and the ministry of education showing they only had permission to go to as rock a two hour drive east of the did see whether that i mean there were many warnings from the metrological department. and that's why i really don't understand how this was indicates and in such a day. we did see is the lowest point on earth and prone to diddley floods in april taynton agents who were hiking in southern israel also drowned. a few kilometers from the site a procession of ambulances pushed through crowds at southern shewn a hospital doctors treated more than forty patients. to eat. time the doors opened relative schools hopeful it might reveal the fate of those still missing the challenge dallas al-jazeera. it p.o.p.

has appointed its first female president. was selected by the parliament in addis ababa and this comes just a week out for the prime minister appointed a gender balanced cabinet operating 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 going to 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 she says the un is top official of the african union women's rights and peace on top of her priorities one thing that you would see it taught to the absence of peace mainly victimizes women to drink my presidency my main focus

is to ensure peace by moving 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 that tempers that washington every fiscal year two boys houses the opera and there are houses to gaiety you know i like 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 always can become what you make of it the determination in her speech

is quite quite impressive. cell 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. yes president arnold trump has signed a new law imposing tough sanctions on lebanon based share group has a law that had this just before attending an event commemorating the thirty fifth anniversary of the attack on a u.s. marine compound and lebanon's capital beirut two hundred forty one u.s. personnel were killed in the bombing carried out by has a lot during the height of lebanon's civil war. over the past year we have levied the highest number of sanctions ever imposed on has born in a single year by far just a few moments ago i signed legislation imposing even more hard hitting sanctions on hezbollah to further starve them of their funds they are starving thank

you we will target disrupt and dismantle their operational and financing networks of which they had plenty they don't have plenty now and we will never forget what they did to our great marines in beirut we will never forget. expected to order eight hundred additional u.s. troops to the border with mexico where thousands of migrants are heading they started to walk to the u.s. from honduras to escape poverty and gang violence on home run a ports from chiapas where he's been following the migrant caravan. a slow moving stream of around four thousand five hundred people heading to the u.s. border it's unlikely they'll get there for another month or more. but then matson these pictures have been a dominant factor in the run up to the u.s. midterm elections that's why many in the u.s.

from the top down have speculated on who's behind the caravan of whites coming now . president hernandez upon the earth. told me that the caravan that's now making its way through mexico headed for the southern border was organized by leftist organizations and financed. by venezuela. and we. as as we've said and the democrats maybe and the democrats. they offered no proof those in the caravan like tanya and his sister told us they weren't even aware of the u.s. elections yet my mother load them with them when migration because of a lack of jobs because of the criminals not because of presidents or politics or anything like that the coming for a better future for us children. they say the caravan began with subgroups between those planning to head north when the news spread to home during t.v. others like yearly and his friends decided to join billy crudup what i thought of

that just yet i realize because of reports on the t.v. the carbon has already gone ahead but just be people and it got bigger and bigger city came after it. but the home during government claims this man was the mastermind behind all of it former position congressman and long term migrant activist twenty's he told us all he did was support the caravan on facebook conspiracy theories necessary in this case he said. the reality is simpler. it's not trump that organized this nor the democrats and not venezuela either it's hunger and poverty i'm proud of that long term problem is just one of many factors behind the movement a previous caravan earlier this year made people see the when they travelled together they were safe from gangs and also migration authorities here in mexico it also taught them that that way they didn't have to pay out fountains of dollars to people smugglers when you add all of that to the poverty violence and political

dissatisfaction that many experienced back in honduras it's a powerful incentive to get out and to get out together. that could explain why this caravan is not the only one on the road to the u.s. and others are already following hole in its heels john home and i was dizzy to chop us late have a backyard in the time warner center in new york city for a second day after reports of another suspicious package being sent to the building earlier on thursday more packages were sent to high profile critics of president donald trump one of them was addressed to actor robert de niro and two other parcels were sent to former vice president joe biden had a claim has details. another day another shot of a crude bomb being carted away to be deactivated on thursday in the loping pipe bomb similar to this founded a business owned by actor robert de niro 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 inappropriate 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 but 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. still ahead on al-jazeera ukrainian filmmaker serving a twenty year prison sentence in russia becomes the winner of a human rights prize and europe. and sport the l.a. dodgers have a mountain to climb in the world series sana will have all the details ahead in the program.

from the be on my points of asia. to the safety net which seems. hello there first of all let's have a look at our super typhoon here it is on the satellite picture this distinctive swirl here it's running its way towards the west and is it a huge system looks like it's going to make its way towards the northern parts of the philippines but will take a good few days before it makes landfall as we head further west for now it's actually quite quiet for us in the eastern parts of china it looks fine and settle for most of us a bit more cloud haven the southern part is just slipping away for the southward still as we head into saturday say for the northern parts of vietnam we can expect to see a few breaks of rain as well if we head down towards the southeastern parts of asia the rains are quite subdued at the moment just a couple of showers there in the southern parts of the philippines and a few cropping up over borneo as well towards the west the showers here

a slightly more violence will see a few more roll the lively showers as we head through friday and into saturday i think some of the heaviest on friday likely to be in the southern parts of thailand but even here it should be a little bit brighter as we head into saturday as we head across towards india for most of us here it's fine enjoy is just really in the fall south we've got the showers those are also affecting us in sri lanka and this region again is looking pretty disturbed as we head through friday and saturday for the north it's looking for now the new delhi's pretty warm still though we're up at thirty one. there with it sponsored by qatar airways. wish the world innovation summit for health one community of two thousand health care experts in of ages and policy makers from one hundred countries. one experience sharing best practices and innovative ideas. one goal hopefully a world through global collaboration. apply

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out in syria let's recap the top stories for you an independent un investigators now pointing the finger at the saudi state for the killing of democracy special repertory agnus columnist says a saudi journalist was the victim of an extrajudicial execution she says the people behind it was high enough to represent the state and to moksha friends and some activists have held a vigil demanding answers from saudi arabia saudi attorney general's office says it's looking into the possibility that a shot he's telling 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 near the dead sea in jordan major search and rescue operation is underway and israel has and helicopters to assist in that search. or now in the case and the comments by the un special repertory extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions here's more of that interview agnes calmar did without was

there a 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 every presenter chief of the state subsequently over the last few days at least the saudi authorities i've recognized that individual 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 they are 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 mr jamal cash shogi 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'm not suggesting that she does not tomato i am suggesting that what we do know or read is sufficient to suggest very strongly that to me stone was a victim of an extrajudicial executions and that the saudi arabian government is amply kit to in one week all the other including because of its reluctance to

undertake an investigation and the beginning of the allegations including according to what took his government he's now saying because of its reluctance to provide information so it's a responsibility of the government he's 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 would see teammate decision maker to go back to a story on the series of suspicious packages being sent to high profile critics of the u.s. president donald trump as a former f.b.i. special agent she exposed the bureau's failure to look at evidence of plots before the september eleventh attacks she joins us via skype from minneapolis appreciate your time very much so. the packages so far thank goodness none of them have actually worked but the fact that they have that work what does that say to you.

well it it says one of two things either the bomb makers were very inept or they were not intending to actually kill the recipients and this would be very different from both the unabomber case that when the f.b.i. had a lot of trouble solving eighteen years and they had no idea who the unabomber was he was very sophisticated and made bombs that went off and then the other case would be the anthrax killer who used weaponized anthrax and definitely his motivation and he was very effective at killing the recipients so this case is very different than those other two the fact that this one a pair sic clearly not be as sophisticated does that say to you that it's more likely to be solved. you know it does it makes here's the deal if it was simply inept then the fact that these intact packages the f.b.i.

can look at them and there could be d.n.a. or fingerprints or even some indication of where the components were purchased and in the case in that case the f.b.i. should be able to solve that pretty quickly if it was just pure ineptness and it in this would fit with somebody who was motivated out of hatred trying to you know oh avenge the critics of trauma now if it was someone a false flag that someone is actually trying to smear trump and make it look like his supporters are doing this then in fact it may not be so because it may be that the perpetrator was actually sophisticated and you know the fact that they've traced it to florida now it may be that this isn't where the person is from and they may have been smart enough not to put any d.n.a. or fingerprints or some other clue in these intact packages but worst case scenario

worst case scenario if these things were sent with the intention of them working and they just didn't because of someone's an effort in worst case scenario this was an attempted mass murder. yeah i mean it's there but they're both were bad case scenarios genest anyone that is using even a fake bomb like this to terrorize the country and to try to effect political actions that would actually be a very bad case scenario too as so either way i think it's very bad for the united states that this kind of thing is happening and we just have to figure out figure it out the f.b.i. has a task in front of that in and i think we'll know if the f.b.i. can solve that pretty quickly then it will be the case of an inept person if it if they can't solve it it may be something more like the unabomber etc and it may be somebody that is sophisticated at this point what what are her elected officials

what should they be doing what types of precautions should they be taking well most of the politicians and even the media has mail services and so the the first recipients of these are going to be the mail desk and those are the people now that are very much on alert to look for these packages what could happen this is another unfortunate thing is we could actually have copycats now we can have some completely new person sending new things through the mail so the mail just is going to have to be very very cautious and alert and those people are they really are the first line of defense they're the ones that are at risk the most cali rally thank you very much yeah thank you and one of the men who founded the taliban has been released from a prison in pakistan bill ghani baradar was arrested in two thousand and ten by a team from pakistan's intelligence agency and the cia he was released last week a few days after u.s. official held talks with taliban leaders in qatar discussions began during the

summer in an effort to end the seventeen year war in afghanistan. tens of thousands of people remain homeless on the indonesian island. a month after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the area and while many people are trying to move on with their lives there's particular concern for those considered the most vulnerable children reports. in the shadow of destruction some schools have reopened as much as possible given the scale of the earthquake and tsunami rebuilding classrooms will take a long time as well rebuilding the confidence of the children on the first day back after the disaster less than a third of students showed up at this school just outside the city of. access many students have difficulty getting here the roads in the north are still cut off in many places some of them are also injured so maybe they're still too traumatized to come to school. for those who did it in the makeshift classroom offered

a form of healing and a sense of togetherness. and i really wanted to go back to school i was waiting and waiting but i didn't hear any news about the school. there are many children who remain unaccounted for probably way more than the officially registered number of just over one hundred the children who have lost their parents or have been separated from immediate family members there's an increased risk of abuse or becoming victims of child trafficking is. of course we worry there could be trafficking cases especially if the children are still babies they can't say anything yet so confirming identities can only be done through the parents and people around them. social workers visit camps to try to educate people about the need to report details of children who may be in need almost

a month on from the disaster still receiving tipoffs every day on this occasion they investigate a report of an eight year old boy in a nearby house they find that his aunt and uncle had been caring for him but he's now being taken to another city far away to stay with distant relatives this case highlights the challenges that social workers are facing in trying to find missing children they've been able to confirm some details about the boy whose entire immediate family is believed to have been killed in the disaster and are now recommending that he be brought back here to palu where he used to live but the point is that until now no one in an official capacity knew that he even existed. with candidates is still in disarray it's a confusing scary time for the youngest survivors in some camps the governments and aid groups of set up safe places to children to play and receive psychological support when given the opportunity to draw what they want they often choose houses

perhaps reflecting on happy times and looking forward to their return wain hey al jazeera palu indonesia japan's prime minister. the chinese china's president they also met china's. it's the first standalone visit by a japanese leader in seven years analysts say it signifies a warming of relations between asia's two largest economies a turnaround joins us live from beijing so why is this happening now. well richelle it's happening i think for a number of reasons but it all goes down i think to the election of president donald trump two years ago now japan is very worried that the united states could start scaling back on the u.s. military presence here in asia also remember president trump has been threatening japan over its trade practices as well and i think that you know the message from

president xi jinping when he meets shinzo rb later on friday is essentially going to be this china can be a stable alternative to the united states but of course there are many people in japan who are uneasy about the fact that shinzo rb has come here to china because they don't want to do anything that could risk some sort of disruption to the relationship with the united states because japan of course is the u.s. is most important ally in asia but at least the leaders of japan and china are now sitting down and talking to one another as opposed to threatening each other which is the case just a few years ago now this time six years ago a visit by a japanese prime minister would have seemed unthinkable you know a japanese prime minister simply would not have been welcome here in china because at that time there were serious anti japan protests here in china that at one stage threatened to get out of control in fact many people feared there might even be war between japan and china once more and these were protests that the government at

the time did nothing to stop and this protests these demonstrations are over rival claims that japan and china have over a group of three small islands in the east china sea well for now the leaders of both countries are putting their differences aside and working out where they can have areas of agreement and that is almost certainly trade because remember rachelle japan is china's most important trading rather china is japan's most important trading partner right now and the two want to build on that so today what is going to be doing erin how is this visit actually being reflected and their state controlled media. well he's had more talks today with premier league chang premier league chang has invited japan to join. president xi jinping signature economic policy the so-called one

bold one road initiative japan hasn't yet committed on that later today shinzo rb will be meeting president xi jinping will be a dinner this evening as to how this visit is being reported by state controlled media it's actually been quite subdued it sort of right down the running order much more emphasis is being given to president xi jinping xnu call for deepening reform to continue and the fact that the united states is going to be selling more arms to taiwan those are the issues which are dominating the news agenda here in china today not so much the visit by shinzo of ok adrian brown and beijing adrian thank you former malaysian prime minister najib razak and has top treasury bonds 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 and that's meant as he has already

facing dozens of charges over the case including money laundering and abuse of power he denies any wrongdoing or 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 million affair goes back to sarkozy's re-election push in two thousand and twelve is accused of committing with a public relations company to disguise the true cost of his campaign france 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 humanitarian rights prize human rights price that is a long sense of has been jailed by russia on terrorism charges there is a critic of the kremlin and condemned russia's annexation of crimea in two thousand and fourteen when i got reports from the. filmmaker right and 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's up as become a symbol of the fights for the release of political prisoners in russia and all over the world. by granting him his award the european parliament would like to show their support to him and his cool. you love him. so and so 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 spotted by prison authorities. oh oh oh the supporters have vowed to continue the fight and hope that this prize could fund the pressure russia to release him but most go has so far ignored any calls for his freedom or the sunny diagonal al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera and sport will tell you arsenal can continue their winning streak.

am for sport with sana thank you very much was with football arsenal have increased their winning streak to eleven matches they beat sporting and europe a league one nailed arsenal had scored thirty goals and ten previous wins but sporting frustrated you in a emirates team they waited until the seventy seventh minute to for danny welbeck to score the spaniards closing in on the longest winning run of his predecessor. which stands at thirteen wins plenty of other games and europe a league red bull sauce made three wins from three they beat ross of the three nil and top a groupie senate top group c. off to take in three points against bulldog in group d.

under left are still a win this after three games in their wins spanish side bets a severe and very out and ruben live to she scored a hat trick for chelsea they told the group well we three wins and three. argentinian giants boca juniors have one foot in the final of the copilot doris after a two nil when all the brazilian rivals panera us got a bad crowd for the semifinal first leg. and when osiris canaris 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 putting the defense and leaving with a halt less well the teams will play the second leg in the south pole next was a four place in the final against either with a plate or graeme you. to the wall series were 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 but such one game in 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 dodgers finally got on the scoresheet that the top of the fourth inning kemper tying the gang. of four guys so if we put last jets runners up ahead for the first time this series can. be used to change the way he.

did damage in riyadh branches didn't last long there dodges manager day rabbit hole in the fifth inning with two outs and the bases loaded and reliever ryan madson allowed d.p.'s to level things. i. j do you martinez 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 there's no other sejanus is going to be very clear than pitching a world series game unless it's game seven of the world series so you know to be able to do that you know it's. feels good for sure you know. come from myself from my teammates and coaches for us to to be two wins away 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 dodgers will be hoping to avoid a third defeat in a row a deficit from which no goal theory has ever recovered. than out is there. and in the root of the twenty nine thousand a tour de france has been unveiled and a first includes a poor suburbans area of the country saves twelve all of next year's race that 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 but last major mountain days which would 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 it's just still going to that he wrote. 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 four 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 will shine a lot of light at this competition and hopefully will bring back some medals in every good will make memories. took

a year long break from competition off the deal and picks 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'd 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 in 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 larry nasir who's been sentenced to more than three hundred years in jail because you are 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 the job making 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 the for her to compete gymnastics 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 work out to work and 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 anyone gymnast will outshine bottles so he'll malick 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 had to give it to us for the first time in her korea early on thursday to book her place and the last full twenty eleven a chant the 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 be to close 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 that's always ball for me will have more later on thank you for joining me for the news hour keep it here because up on the other side of the break.

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series on al-jazeera. the way every presenting to state when they acted as she acted. a top u.n. investigator says saudi arabia has blood on its hands she calls the killing of. extrajudicial executions. he's out of saudi arabia on the scene just days ago. is now in the u.s. after a travel ban is lifted. a lot has i'm sick of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a desperate search for survivors thousands of children are caught in flooding during a school trip.