my mom part of the viewfinder asian series. 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. just days ago meeting with crown prince is now in the u.s. after a travel ban is lifted. as i'm sick of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a desperate search for survivors dozens of children are caught in flooding during a school trip near the dead sea in. 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 lower top u.n. invest in u.n. investigator is now singling out the saudi state for the killing of. special rapporteur agnus says the saudi journalist was the victim of an extra judicial execution she says the people who committed and orchestrated the killing was high enough to represent the state and she's called for an international investigation our diplomatic editor james bays with this latest development. agnes calmar 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 of saudi giannone 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 think that 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 calls for an international investigation but it's not clear how that would 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. at the united nations and saudis are looking at whether has showed his killing was premeditated murder the attorney general's office says it's investigating after information received from a joint pro with turkey last week riyadh blamed rogue elements for killing his shanxi just after he walked into its consulate in istanbul on october second chance strafford has more from istanbul wearing traditional saudi dress of a hummer been sold man mask 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 us on this occasion and from this place where the spirit of their mail 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 zone but the turkish and the saudi investigators have repeatedly stressed the importance of working together in this investigation but it's been two weeks since the joint investigative group was

announced and turkey's foreign minister is suggesting that the saudis may not be keeping their word there. today smiley 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 man ordered the killing but on wednesday for the first time saudi prosecutors indicated that they are now investigating premeditated murder after information received from the turkish investigators. turkey's president received the one sit on choose day that evidence gathered by the 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. at al-jazeera stumbles. the other son of jamal has showed he has arrived in the u.s. after being allowed to leave saudi arabia. the crown prince mohammed bin sandman on tuesday the photo opportunity was widely criticized as being insensitive and mike hanna has more on that from washington. the u.s. state department has welcomed the saudi decision to lift the travel ban on solid to sochi and it's emerged that the secretary of state played a major role in this decision it would appear the state department says set my pompei oprah up the issue of. with the saudi leaders during his visit to riyadh

so clearly the secretary of state playing a major role in that saudi decision to allow. to leave saudi arabia and come to the united states he is a dual u.s. and saudi citizen in the course of the day to president trump had his much awaited meeting with his director of the cia he's been talking about this for days saying that he needs to get the information in person to be able to take a decision on what to do next but there was only a single line statement coming from the white house confirming just that the meeting had taken place more information came from the state department saying that the secretary of state might pompei o also took part in the discussions so it would appear president trump now has the information that he has been asking for now we wait to see what decision is taken on what the trumpet ministration does next

amnesty international is calling for an end to arms sales to saudi arabia it says the killing of shogi falls within a longstanding pattern of repression and peaceful dissent which has only intensified under been some men it goes on to say all arms supplying states must suspend arms transfers to saudi arabia and its coalition members. some nations have already taken steps to sanction saudi arabia germany has stopped saudi weapons deals with chancellor angela merkel joining other european countries in calling for a credible investigation but 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 legislators in spain voted against blocking weapons sales to saudi arabia on wednesday a bipartisan group of u.s. politicians introduced a bill to ban arms sales to saudi arabia it would cut military cooperation unless american investigators can provide proof the saudi government did not order the

killing of peter wesen is a senior research or with the arms and military expenditure program at the stockholm international peace research institute he says it is 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 arm sales to saudi arabia it is only ever hard to see that this would lead to a very comprehensive ban a real on some of our go some deals may be suspended or delayed sold planned 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 is that the one which you would think of first in a situation like that is by showing that you're not willing to supply arms and show that you disagree with the way 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 an array be has been involved in the use of all that. in yemen analysts of course to some extent showing off against qatar so i think it's more like one first step but it wouldn't be sufficient by itself i don't think so. a police have evacuated the time warner center in new york city for a second day after reports of another suspicious package sent to the building early on thursday more packages were sent to high profile critics of president donald trump one of them addressed to act a robot the name of two other apostles was sent to former vice president joe biden i think i'll hane as well. another day another shot of

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

mexico the u.s. says it will send xor troops to its southern border some americans offer a helping hand. hello there 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 this 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 there around the southern part so we'll see that in the southeast as we head through the day on friday that will push up that eastern coast as we head into saturday so new york is looking at a very wet day meanwhile towards the west generally a lot calmer for us 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 i'm 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 fine bright weather however they'll be a few more showers i think as we head through the day on friday particularly over parts of cuba a couple of these are likely to be rather heavy that also be plenty of what weather still across that southern section of our map and stretching a little bit further north now as well or so 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 here's some wet and cooler conditions as we head across to south america you can see the rain here this stretching through paraguay and across into the southern parts of brazil so that will force him one of the reason we're it around twenty degrees warmer in rio we return to the seven. u.s. citizens obstructed from saving their families as the crisis in yemen worsens some have fled the horror of war only to be entangled in bureaucratic limbo with their

lives and dreams of a future court on call. phone lines explores the all to legal effect of trump's immigration policies. between the war on the ban on the jersey. hello again you're watching out is there a minder of our top stories this hour an independent u.n. investigator is now pointing the finger at the saudi state for the killing of jim out special rapporteur agnes kalamata says the saudi journalist was the victim of an extrajudicial killing she says the people behind it the high enough to represent the state. to man has shocked she's friends and activists have held

a vigil demanding answers from saudi arabia the saudi attorney general's office says it's looking at whether her killing was premeditated after information from a joint investigation with her. police evacuated the time warner center in new york city for a second day after reports of another suspicious package being sent to the building early on thursday more packages were sent to high profile critics of president donald trump actor robert de niro and former vice president joe biden were targeted . and president trump has signed a new law imposing tough sanctions on lebanon based group hezbollah it was attending an event marking the thirty fifth anniversary of the attack on a u.s. marine compound in lebanon's capital beirut two hundred forty u.s. personnel were killed in that bombing carried out by hezbollah during the height of lebanon's civil. 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 saying shinzo and hezbollah and to further starve them of their funds they are starving. thanks we will target disrupt and dismantle their operational and financing that works 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. i'm a just search and rescue operation is underway near the dead sea in jordan ofter 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 ellis reports. the headlights of risky vehicles illuminates a ravine on the date see. this search in 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 mameluke 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 tsetse and they were swept into a valley by a flash smart most of the children were under fourteen years old risk families picnicking at the holiday spot were among the dead and injured. 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 amman'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 it where there was that i mean there were many warnings from the metrological department. and that's why i really don't understand how this will syndicates and and such a date. 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 fifty patients. each time the doors

opened relative schools hopeful might reveal the fate of those still missing challenge balanced al-jazeera. or japan's prime minister shinzo is in beijing for talks with china's president xi jinping he's also met premier league kick yang it is the first stand alone visit by a japanese leader and seven years analysts say it signifies a warming of relations between ages two largest economies adrian brown is live for us in beijing so aging why is this visit happening now. well has and i think it's fair to say that a japanese prime minister was not always welcome here in beijing certainly a visit by shinzo of a would have seemed unthinkable just six years ago but now the leaders of asia's two largest economies have agreed to basically put their differences aside to sit down and talk to one another as opposed to threatening

each other which is what was happening not so long ago i think what has changed things what has changed the dynamic in the relationship is the election of president donald trump because both tokyo and beijing have been feeling the heat from the white house president from pursue also been threatening japan over its trade practices and of course tokyo is worried that president trump's america first policy could lead to a scaling back of the u.s. military presence in asia and i think the message from china's leaders to shinzo are b. is going to be this you know china can be a stable alternative to the united states already the value of trade between these two countries stands at three hundred billion dollars and of course china remains japan's most important trading partner and you know shinzo r.b.a. is saying he wants to lift the relationship to a new level so the mood music so far appears to be quite positive and what's. the

actions are they doing today and how how is his visit there being reflected in chinese state media. well this is not a long visit he's here basically for two days he's meeting all the right people the chinese premier league a chunk and later on friday president xi jinping who will host him out an official dinner on for on thursday night there was an official ceremony to mark a forty years of friendship and peace between japan and china of course these two are have a have a deep deep history it is a it is a relationship in many ways based on historical enmity and rivalry and that rivalry still exists today but for the moment the two sides are talking and that is being seen as a positive sign especially after all that acrimony during the past few years adrian brown in beijing. tens of thousands of people remain homeless on the indonesian

island of soloway c. a month after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the area many people are trying to move on with their lives there is particular concern for children. 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 powell who want to buy it and 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 attend 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 fifty 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. the idea. 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 they're still receiving tipoffs every day on this occasion they investigate a report of an eight year old boy seen 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 where he used to live but the point is that until now no one in an official capacity knew that he even existed. with communities still in disarray it's a confusing scary time for the youngest survivors in some camps the government 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

a former french president nicolas sarkozy has lost an appeal against an earlier decision to put him on trial illegal campaign funding the case known as the big affair goes back to his reelection push in two thousand and twelve he's accused of colluding with a public relations company to disguise the true cost of his campaign france sets limits on how much candidates can spend on campaign. and donald trump is expected to order eight hundred additional u.s. troops to the border with mexico where thousands of migrants are heading john holliman reports one chap us where he's been following the 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 march in these pictures the 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 made 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 migrating 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 and our children. ah 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 him in it but the politico that

is that i realize because of a report on the t.v. the carbon is already gone ahead but just before people and it got bigger and bigger so we came after it. but the home during government claimed 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 aren't 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 that. 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 travel together they were safer 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 ready following hot in its heels john homan i was in a chopper us. as a speaker let's get a round up of the top stories on al-jazeera an independent u.n. investigator is now pointing the finger at the saudi state for the killing of. special rapporteur agnes calmar says the saudi journalist was the victim of an extra judicial killings she says those behind it were enough to high enough to represent the state. what we do know already is sufficient to suggest very strongly that mr cash was a victim of an extension to schulich secure and that the saudi arabian government

is and peak it in one way or the over there including because of its reluctance to undertake an investigation and the beginning of the allegations including according to what turkish government is now saying because of its reluctance to provide information on jamal has showed his friends and activists held a vigil demanding answers from saudi arabia saudi attorney general's office says it's looking into the possibility that his killing was premeditated and the other son of jamal khashoggi has arrived in the u.s. after being allowed to leave saudi arabia. met the crown prince mohammed bin sandman on tuesday photo opportunity was widely criticized as being insensitive police or vacuum into the time warner center in new york for a second day after reports of another suspicious package be sent to the building early on thursday more packages were sent to high profile critics of president

donald trump after robert de niro and former vice president joe biden were targeted at least eighteen people most of them schoolchildren have died after flash floods in jordan it happened near the dead sea where thirty seven children and seven teachers were on a school outing witnesses say the children were traveling on a bus to result when it was swept into a valley by raging flood waters u.s. president donald trump has signed a new law imposing sanctions on lebanon based group hezbollah he was attending an event commemorating the thirty fifth anniversary and attack on a u.s. marine compound in lebanon's capital beirut those are the headlines we're back with more after four lines. couldn't touch. why does this. have the kind of support that it needs for we bring you the stories of the shaping

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