how to slay a dragon on al-jazeera. the wary presenting the state when they acted as he acted a top u.n. investigator says saudi arabia has blood on its hands she calls the killing of jamal khashoggi and extrajudicial execution. he's out of saudi arabia. seen just days ago meeting the crown prince is now in the u.s. after a travel ban is lifted. this is 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 jordan plus. 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. our top investigator at the u.n. is now singling out the saudi state for the killing of. special rapporteur agnes says the saudi journalist was the victim of an extrajudicial killing she says the people who committed and orchestrated the killing one high enough to represent the state and she's called for an international investigation. james bays reports. 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 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 us think they might get 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 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 presenting the state when they acted as he acted the state cannot twice sheets and for me to thrust sponsor abilities 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 would be launched the u.n. secretary general says he will only form a panel to investigate the case if he gets the 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 at the united nations are now the saudis are looking at whether her killing was premeditated the attorney general's office says it is investigating that after information from a joint pro with turkey last week blamed rogue elements for killing ashanti just after he walked into its consulate in istanbul more than three weeks ago char stratford has more from istanbul wearing traditional saudi dress of a homage been solomon 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. on this occasion and from this place where the spirit has been lost we clearly state that we do not and will not accept compromises in the case of his murder and that we will not

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 thoroughly 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. 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 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 order recording made inside the consulate on the day the khashoggi was killed. at al-jazeera istanbul. us now from turkey's capital ankara more on the year investigation of this. well how some actually the investigation evolves every day however due to saudi's size reluctancy to have a real corporation it turns out to be a third lot because until now turkish persecutors office and turkish police were able to do some searches and the consul general consulate building and the residence in the diplomatic corps however there is no sign of his body so the this is this is

a key point for for now but of course now we see that since this incident happened since democracy disappeared. over the second until today turkish officials have leaked some material some evidences to the media and this international media power succeeded pressuring saudi arabia so then they were admission came at first they deny that they had any relation. ship just disappearance of there this international media pressure they admitted that to mount hood shooter was killed inside the consulate and then. turkish capital horse that a very important guest two days ago cia director has bill was here she spent two days in the turkish capital and she arrived here with the thirty seven member delegation she she where held a seven hour long meetings with the turkish counterpart confident and last night. of course last night for turkey when she went back to united states she briefed the

american president donald trump and also turkey's intelligence chief comfy done briefed turkey's president reject yesterday in the late afternoon so after after two intelligence agencies exchanged information and intelligence we have a witness that saudi arabian often shows the son at mit at the us that this is a premeditated murder so it seems like as long as there is more international pressure. over saudi arabia saudis would be a push for admitting more but however they seem they seem reluctant to corporate with the turkish persecutors office especially regarding this search on the well in in the residence. turkish police took some water samples and the first initial reports suggest that there was nobody in that in that world. turkish officials want to do

a proper search because this well is at least more than twenty meters long and there there is at least six or seven meters of water but the saudis are avoiding troops to make this search the spite the turks are issued a search warrant so this is the beginning you see that the saudis say we are cooperating in this investigation but they're trying to stop or keep troops occupied with some other different reasons to stop this investigation if wal however turkey's foreign minister yesterday have a statement he asked the questions you already broadcast that that we asked him whether turkey is willing to present this case to the international criminal court he said for now we don't have such an intention but as long as the international community it takes an initiative and kerry is this kerry is the out to international criminal court we are ready to cooperate and we are ready to share

every evidence however as i say all the time the key point is your mark has shook his body as long as the body is not found this investigation process will not be completed and it will not be taken to a judicial process to try those eighteen people who have been who have been arrested in saudi arabia for so-called reasons but. they are not telling where damascus should just by the is despite the so-called corporation and i was then with the three. secu turkish persecutors are not able to do an autopsy on samantha's shook his body is this will remain as a lark and the saudi crown prince will appear in more international events. soon and thank you c.n.n. can so move in and. the son of john murtha shogi hasn't arrived in the u.s. after being allowed to leave saudi arabia shoji met the crown prince mohammed bin sandman on tuesday the photo opportunity was widely criticized as insensitive my

can't has more from washington the u.s. state department has welcomed the saudi decision to lift the travel ban on g. and it's emerged that the secretary of state played a major role in this decision it would appear the state department says my pompei o brought up the issue. 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. him to leave saudi arabia and come to the united states he is a dual u.s. and a 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. police have evacuated the time warner center in new york 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 was addressed to act alone but the name of two of the possum's was sent to former vice president joe biden patty cohen has details. another day another shot of a crude bomb being carted away to be deactivated on thursday in. similar to this founded a business owned by actor robert deniro two more devices found in delaware addressed

to former vice president joe biden the targets are a who's who of the president's critics the very people the president has personally attacked many say this is proof the president has gone too far this has come from trump trump has used to describe people who disagree with him as enemies of the people so people who support the other party are dangerous hateful crazy anti-american so it's very very hard to look at this and not lay a fair amount of the blame both squarely at the foot of donald trump but also what the other republicans who stood by for years let this happen at first donald trump took a conciliatory tone do you see how nice somebody caving to 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 suit very evil an inappropriate way to disown her that people have used on your network a number of times not only to describe the president but to many people that work

in this administration absolutely day in day out there is a negative tone ninety percent of the media attention around this president is negative despite historic job creation 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 the hateful rhetoric intil 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 as thousands of migrants continue north through mexico the u.s. says it will send extra troops to its southern border but some americans are offering a helping hand. had

a we've got some pretty stormy conditions over parts of turkey at the moment we've got some strong winds we've got some heavy downpours and we could have some large hail on the old tornado as well so what out of this system here turkey and syria where we can see the worst conditions and over the highest ground it is likely to be turning to snow that system is gradually edging its way eastwards and will continue to give us some heavy downpours as we head through the next couple of days the tail end of that rain is edging its way towards q eight but i think here in doha we should stay dry thirty four degrees will be our maximum temperature must get not quite the whole we're up at around thirty two and still are only at thirty one for the southwestern part that could be a bit more in the way of cloud here and that could just squeeze out the old shower but i think even here it will be fine and dry down towards the southern parts of

africa and for many of us here it's fine and dry to antenna to revoke should have a pleasant day up at around twenty seven degrees the capetown will be at around twenty six so i mean really in the far northern parts of there's anything in the way of wet weather that's just trickling its way southward save parts of angola one or two of those showers could turn out to be rather heavy but i think they should be the exception rather than the rule so more of us seeing some drawing conditions as well that cloud gradually breaks up as we head through saturday and the most of us should have a fine day. why would they not get the it up but they must set up and use up a lot of lists all caught up and up. on the nineteenth of december twenty sixth mahmoud hussein was detained by the egyptian authorities he remains behind bars without a trial al-jazeera world investigates his case and media repression in egypt journalism

is not a crime on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour an independent un investigator is now pointing the finger at the saudi state for the killing of. special rapporteur agnus says the saudi journalist was the victim of an extrajudicial killing she says the people behind it one high enough to represent the state. friends and activists held a vigil demanding answers from saudi arabia saudi attorney general's office says it's looking at killing was premeditated after information from

a joint investigation with turkey. police evacuated the time warner center in new york for a second day after reports of another suspicious package sent to the building earlier on thursday more packages were sent to high profile critics of president donald trump actor robert deniro and four vice president joe biden were targeted. a major search and rescue operation is underway near the dead sea in jordan 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 reports. the headlights of risky vehicles alumina on the did see. this school children swept away in a flash flood on thursday. the sound of rushing water is drowned out by helicopters seen from israel as are you sure you. were 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 will 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 in there. i'm from the did see and they were swept into a valley by a flashlight most of the children were under fourteen years old risk families picnicking at the holiday spot were among the dead 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 elisa 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 they were there is that i mean there were many warnings from the metrological department. and that's why i really don't understand how the school syndicates and in such a day. did see is the lowest point on earth and prone to diddley floods in april taynton agents who were hiking in southern israel also. a few kilometers from the site a procession of ambulances pushed through crowds at southern shewn a hospital doctors treated more than forty patients. each time the doors opened relative schools hopeful might reveal the fate of those still missing challenge ballasts al-jazeera. a u.s. president donald trump has signed a new nor imposing sanctions on lebanon based shia group hezbollah he was attending an event marking the thirty fifth anniversary of the tack on a u.s.

marine compound in the capital by route two hundred forty one u.s. marines were killed in the bombing blamed on hezbollah during lebanon's civil war. over the past year we have levied the highest number of sanctions ever imposed on has been in a single year by far just a few moments ago i side led. to slay ssion imposing even more hard hitting sanctions on hezbollah to further starve them of their funds and they are starving a while 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. a dollar trump is

expected to order eight hundred more 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 trump is vowing to stop the migrant caravan which he's called a national emergency john heilemann reports from chopper sway he's been following it have. 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 to president hernandez upon earth. told me that the caravan of now making its way through mexico headed for the southern border was organized by leftist organizations and financed. by venezuela. and we.

as we've seen 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. 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 in it but don't want to go there just yet i realize because of a report on the t.v. the carbon is already gone ahead but just be people and it got bigger and bigger so we came after it. with the home during government claims this man was the mastermind behind all of it former position congressman and long term migrant

activist twenty. he told us all he did was support the caravan on facebook conspiracy theories aren't necessary in this case he said reality is simpler. it's not trump that organized this nor the democrats and not venezuela either it's hunger and poverty. 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 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 eager choppers

are one of the men who founded the afghan taliban has been released from a prison in pakistan. but rather 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 a u.s. official helped talks with taliban leaders in qatar discussions began in the summer in an effort to end the seventeen year war in afghanistan a 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 big 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 france sets limits on how much candidates can spend on campaigning. japan's prime minister says relations with china and historic turning point she is in beijing for talks with

china's president xi jinping he's also met premier league it is the first standalone visit by a japanese leader in seven years and it's a sign of warming relations between ages two largest economies. tens of thousands of people remain homeless on the indonesian island of 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 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 powell who want to. 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 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. 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 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 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. this is. now the top stories an independent un investigator is pointing the finger at the saudi state for the killing of. special rapporteur agnes the saudi journalist was the victim of an extradition killing she says those behind it for 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 shool executive and that the saudi arabian government

is and peak it in one way or the older 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. our. friends and activists have held a vigil demanding answers from saudi arabia saudi attorney general's office says it is looking at the possibility that her show killing was premeditated the older son of jamal khashoggi has arrived in the u.s. after being allowed to leave saudi arabia so last crown prince mohammed bin some man on tuesday the photo opportunity was widely criticized as insensitive police evacuated the time warner center in new york 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 active robert deniro and former vice president joe biden were targeted at least eighteen people most of them schoolchildren have died after flash floods in jordan and 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 a resort when it was swept into a valley by a raging flood waters u.s. president donald trump has signed a new law imposing sanctions on lebanon based group hezbollah and is attending an event commemorating the thirty fifth anniversary of the attack on a u.s. marine compound in the capital beirut. those are the headlines a.j. selects is next. if think scribed of the wild west previously where the average person couldn't touch and tell if a post had been said on height or in some why does this updated nafta have the kind

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