as the new prime minister now the former prime minister brown a brick or missing a still digging in his heels and saying that he is the prime minister that the swearing in of rajapaksa was illegal that it is against the constitution and he says that he has the confidence of parliament and says he is still the prime minister but as you can see behind me the crowds i am at the official residence of the former president mahinda rajapaksa and the supporters have gathered here basically to express their confidence in the new prime minister everyone milling about as the parliamentarians of the joint opposition gather inside at a meeting chaired by the new prime minister now in the streets of colombo there's a sort of an uneasy calm but amount of uncertainty as people try and gauge what exactly has gone on in the last twenty four hours most people have heard about the new prime minister they're also hearing claims by the former that he's still in

power but people are waiting to see what's going to happen we had one incident at the state broadcaster yesterday where supporters of both sides gather there was a sort of a standoff special task force personnel had to be called in to restore control in order and the police leave has been canceled at the moment so we're waiting to see what exactly transpires this is the weekend so any challenge in court or the supreme court might need to wait so people of them serves waiting with bated breath to find out what their future holds and what the future of the country will lead to will get a weather update thanks to zero then after weeks to lay people in afghanistan's kandahar province finally get to vote in the country's parliamentary election which a new pipeline may put grease on the back of oil and gas sources to counter russia .

hello there it's turning cooler now across in many parts of europe for a look at the satellite picture we can see the leading edge of that cold air is it digs its way down through more of europe we're seeing that tend to snow over the alps and still as it stretches down through spain it's giving some fairly heavy downpours but rids temperatures will be told pulling as well say thirteen the maximum on saturday by sunday only eleven here's a really quite cool london will be topping just it around nine so chilly for us to be the exception is the southeast corner hey we're clinging on to that warm air for as long as we can be caressed up at around twenty four degrees now for the other side of the mediterranean there's been a fair amount of unsettled weather here as well and we're still seeing some of that over parts of morocco so robot looks rather grey and at times pretty wet during the day on saturday we've got another belt of cloud here that stretching its way through parts about geria that will gradually thicken up as it works its way

northward on sunday and then get some heavy downpours around the north coast about geria out geas look like it's set to get some of that what weather to towards the east largely fine and dry the temperatures beginning to bounce back up in cairo after that dust storm for the central belt of africa plenty of dry weather to be found taber a few showers just around the coast of west africa and elsewhere that we some heavy downpours towards parts of.

again this is al jazeera live from doha our top stories this hour the u.s. defense secretary has condemned the ruthless killing of the saudi journalist jamal has shoji james mattis says the murder which happened at the saudi consulate in istanbul has undermined regional stability. israel has launched air strikes on more than eighty locations in gaza that it says a link to hamas a spokesman of the israeli military says the strikes were in response to the rocket to rocket fire into israel in the form of sri lanka prime minister has requested an emergency session of parliament out of broccoli being sacked on friday. run away

from saying it was fired by president might sit a sailor who's replaced him with his one time rival of former president mahinda rajapaksa. voting is underway in afghanistan's kandahar province all to parliamentary elections that were pushed back by a week the delay came after a high level afghan general was killed in a taliban attack the day before polls were due to open the security situation in afghanistan has been tense following last weekend's parliamentary elections it follows a series of attacks by the taliban and other groups targeting polling centers and u.s. nato posts let's go live now to kabul. as a writer and political analyst he's with us from the afghan capital good to have you with us aside from the the threat of violence of course technical issues. ended the vote last week and in the in the rest of the country. as

a weak but enough to eye on those problems out will things go smoother today in kandahar. election is going on today in kandahar seventeen district in one seventy polling stations yet no situation is peaceful. now is the public participation is good and no complaints yet to receive about the technical issues publicly. more than expectations. just a happening seven days after the twenty. which happened in the two provinces in afghanistan. only kandahar live because of the last week on the leadership and the police chief of. ok as far as the security situation is concerned as you say the reports of the students yet. do you think the report is noisy didn't is that you put it ok do you think though that the taliban may try to

target police and does it as it did in the rest of the country last week and. yet taliban have. election in afghanistan but in kandahar especially special security measures have been taken forces from kabul have also reached kandahar in the border is closed highways are also closed just for the election day and hopefully the situation is under control and no problem so once kandahar has had its way in these parliamentary elections when will the results be declared. that is it will be. declared just sixteen days after today makes month this month explain no murder. they have i think the other provinces ology the calculation and the counting of the wooden crosses is begin but kandahar will also be clear with other provinces same

is happening in the whole of going to just remind us and we talked a lot about this last weekend just remind us of the significance of this vote for afghanistan. because of the nascent democracy and even to do shows this election is so much important that it was a considered a serious challenge for the nation that you need to go in them and they had to because it was already postponed for three years it had to be this election had to happen three years big but after three years they are just going to do this election and it's very very significant for the situation that is on for the institution building and for that government support of the public but the patient they have to take an inclusive little goods to somebody thinks indeed a cheap income. in the us a man is charged with sending mail bombs to high profile

critics of donald trump he was once charged with threatening to bomb a power company in a dispute over a bill is on sale was arrested in florida on friday but the f.b.i. warns that could be more devices that have not yet been discovered those targets include the former president barack obama his vice president joe biden and trump's democratic opponents in the twenty sixteen election campaign hillary clinton mike hanna reports now from washington d.c. . five federal charges have been laid against the fifty six year old suspect in a manhattan court among the charges threats against former presidents assaults against former and present federal officials and mailing explosives across state lines the prosecutor's not talking much about motives at this particular stage it tourney general jeff sessions saying that it does appear that the suspect was potus and in his approach so motive is one of the things being investigated president

trump has distanced himself from any engagement with the suspect insisting that the media are at fault and are using this event to a smirch him and the republican party but prosecutors note that is one common trend among all those who receive the pipe bombs and that is that they have been the subject of disparaging tweets by president trump in recent months search and rescue efforts are continuing in jordan flash flooding killed twenty one people most of the victims were children nearly two thousand military rescues a searching the shores of jordan's did sea resort area politicians have raised questions about the preparedness of national emergency services in cooping with the disaster as it was hard to honeyed reports from the scene. search and rescue operations started after daybreak several people were still missing rescuers shores of the dead sea resort area while. the water but with every hour that passed hopes

to find anyone alive became dimmer and we sat patiently staring at the horizon wondering where his son could be. i came here with my six we were having a picnic all of a sudden we saw the floods rushing down my son saw the children in the water they went to rescue them they were swept away to one died two were taken to hospital and one is still missing the count find him anywhere it happened when sudden heavy rains sent water surging from higher grounds in the jordan valley to school children were at a camping site near some hot springs furder in that range of mountains now they were caught by surprise and the force of the water swept them away over several kilometers according to the civil defense on the valley and some of the bodies were found in the dead sea a bridge that leads to schoolchildren where where do water started surgeon collapse

to so drills were also used to search to rocky slopes and deep canyons surrounding the dead sea. divided the work into tang groups to continue searching drones are also searching searching the show and the mountains. heavy rains and strong winds were expected in the area they had already hit the capital. they did see is an arid region. earth at some four hundred thirty meters below sea level and is prone to flash floods to school day trip was initially due to happen in another part of the country it's not clear why plants change school decided to take to children to do one area authorities had warned against by late afternoon still had no news about his son he walked away overwhelmed with grief. at the. leaders from turkey russia france and germany

a meeting in istanbul to discuss the conflict in syria the united nations says the damascus is blocking efforts to draft a new constitution which is key to ending the country's civil war but the outgoing un envoy to syria is hopeful that high level meetings will lead to a solution diplomatic editor james reports. on a video link to the security council from beirut the man who's making one last push the end of his four year mission for peace in syria special envoy stefan de mistura as efforts for most of this year have been narrowed to focus on getting a committee together to draw up a new constitution for syria mr de mistura travel to damascus in recent days because the syrian government has been repeatedly objecting to names on the list for the committee but when he met syrian deputy prime minister walid muallem things went backwards even further with the syrians now even questioning mr demers stories

of thirty to draw up the list we do have a theater to challenge their training it is language of the no ever for your growth challenge your ridiculous coming week that caused from some council members directed not just to the syrian government but also to its russian ally and even russia has given the un and this council assurances it has proved too weak to deliver on or it was all the cynical smic screen designed to dine that attention and energy while russia syria and iran prosecuted the military campaign western nations are hoping that at the istanbul summit pressure can be put on president putin to force the syrian government to reengage with the united nations they want the constitutional committee to be formed before mr de mistura finishes in his job at the end of november james bowie's al-jazeera at the

united nations. several thousand migrants and refugees heading north towards the u.s. border have turned down mexico's offer for them to state on friday mexico's president and rico penny anetta announced a benefits plan for those who apply for refugee status to stay in the two southernmost states more than one thousand seven hundred migrants and refugees have already applied but many rejected the offer and said that they'd continue to track towards the u.s. border patients in the democratic republic of congo are being detained for failing to pay their hospital bills according to an associated press investigation the news agency says that it's a common practice in most hospitals and clinics in the copper mining city of little brushy many of the patients are healthy enough to be discharged but aren't allowed to leave because they can't pay the government's called practice is illegal and says that it stops it when it can. greece is known for many things history

culture food climate but not exactly the oil and gas that though may be about to change with a new pipeline being completed across the north of the country that will transport natural gas from the caspian sea to western europe it's part of the european union policy to move away from dependence on russian gas. reports. on a remote mountainside in northern greece the final pieces of the trans adriatic pipeline of tap are put in place this five billion dollar project is part of a three and a half thousand kilometer long pipeline that will bring natural gas from the caspian sea to europe it's the so-called southern corridor all due to start flowing in just over a year and it turns greece into an energy transit country for the first time what's grace in the u.s. strategic mop and to mop over europe and the southeast you know it connects the

southeast european like it with a main you know pan might get through it and it is important but. then to me both in southeast europe but also in in the utopian like into europe produces only a third of the gas it consumes and buys another third from russia its own reserves a dwindling and it is trying to reduce dependence on russia this pipeline is the european union's first major attempt to diversify its supply away from russian gas it's acquired urgency after two thousand and nine when the russian state gas company gazprom stopped supplies to europe through ukraine for two weeks the shortages caused factory shutdowns and severe hardship in southeast europe. new gas discoveries in the eastern mediterranean could make greece the transit country for another major pipeline that's under consideration east med would satisfy another three percent of european consumption by bringing israeli and cypriot gas under the

sea to greece and italy why they're your gas supplier network obviously you have better chances of securing more competitive gas prices signed up sands getting one more supply of gas definitely increases competition and also improves your security of supply greece is also building a pipeline little connect its gas grid to both gary is so gas from the caspian will flow into southeast europe where russia is often the sole major supplier that'll be good news for consumers who cannot currently afford to connect to the gas grid by lowering energy costs the new pipeline can make the economy more competitive for years to come jumpstart ople us al-jazeera. it is good to be with us adrian sagan here in doha the headlines and i was here at

the u.s. defense secretary says the murder of jamal has shocked she is threatening stability in the middle east a show she was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul three weeks ago the international spotlight has focused on saudi arabia's leadership since evidence emerged linking the office of the crown prince to the killing the united states does not tolerate that kind of ruthless action to silence mystica show good journalist through violence via the failure of any one nation to adhere to international norms and the rule of law undermine regional stability at a time when it is needed most at president trump noted we're going to get to the bottom of it. speaking at the same event saudi arabia's foreign minister said the response to her show she's murder has become hysterical we have saudi law enforcement people working with her turkish friends to uncover the facts this issue has become fairly hysterical i think people have assigned blame on saudi arabia was

such certainty before the investigation is complete we have made it very clear that we are in going to have a full and transparent investigation and the results of which will be released we have made it very clear that those responsible will be held responsible and will be held to account and we have made it very clear that we will put in place mechanisms to ensure that this doesn't happen again israel has launched air strikes of more than eighty locations in gaza that it says a link to hamas a spokesman of the israeli military says that the strikes were launched in response to rocket fire into israel sure icas former prime minister has requested an emergency session of parliament after abruptly being sacked on friday rather with graham saying was fired by president by three part a sort of cena who's replaced him with his one time rival on the former president's mahinda rajapaksa voting is on the way to afghanistan's kandahar province off the parliamentary elections that were pushed back by a week the delay came after

a high level afghan general was killed in a taliban attack the day before polls were due to. others the headline is the news continues here on al-jazeera after today's edition of inside story next. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to al-jazeera. the united states says it's time to pull out of a nuclear arms pact with russia signed more than thirty years ago helped end the cold war president donald trump wants to rip the top why now and does it mean a return to the nuclear arms race and an increase in the risk of conflict this is inside story.

hello i'm wrong this is inside story from doha the united states in the old soviet union where once on the brink of nuclear war they called it the cold war and it dragged on for decades but in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven u.s. president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev signed the intermediate range nuclear forces or i.n.f. treaty defusing the arms race now there are more phase another one could be about to start because president donald trump wants out of the agreement we'll speak to our guests shortly but first let's take a look at what the i.n.f. treaty achieved zero as alex could hopeless reports from trondheim in norway. i'm here in norway as nato runs the largest war games it's held since the end of the cold war and as president trump threatens to pull out of the i.n.f. treaty both institutions with their origins in the cold war nato seeks to expand

its role as the i.n.f. treaty is in danger of collapse so what is the treaty and why is it important with the i n f or intermediate nuclear forces treaty was signed in one thousand nine hundred seven between the united states of america and the soviet union designed to stop one side from sneaking up on the other with missiles either have a short flying time or can fly under radar cover to attack high value targets essentially catching their adversary off guard and destroying them before they can defend themselves the treaty was designed as a confidence building measure to lower the risk of general nuclear war was based on the limitations the technological limitations of its day there was no provision for instance on sea based cruise missiles which both parties the united states and. russia have used extensively in conflict since both sides accuse each other of violating the treaty the americans accuse the russians or designing missiles with

more warheads than the treaty allows and also basing their cruise missiles on land the russians in turn accuse the americans of basing tomahawk cruise missiles in poland and romania both the united states and russia are unhappy with the provisions of the treaty but it's the united states that seems to withdraw from it unilaterally it feels that regional competitors like china and north korea are not able to endanger both it and its allies and that it is constrained by an arms control agreement that was signed over thirty years ago and is now seen as increasingly obsolete. let's bring in our panel joining us in washington d.c. lawrence korb former u.s. assistant secretary of defense in moscow to be trained babbage political analyst at risk said you know and. london maxwell downman nuclear policy analyst at the british american security information council i don't pause and think tank which promotes debate on new kit disownment welcome to you all i'd like to begin with

larry cold in washington d.c. why this agreement and why now well actually the russians have been violating it since two thousand and fourteen the obama administration accused them of doing it and they have kept on violating it for the last last four years the real question is what do you do now i think it's important to keep in mind that trump that with putin at helsinki and this you know one on one meeting did he bring it up then then did he talk about how they might resolve it did he listen to what the russians claimed the u.s. was doing with the. antiballistic missile systems we're putting into poland and romania did they discuss the fact that president putin has offered to extend the new start agreement for five years which president don't trump you know

did not did not respond to so it should be part of a whole package to deal with it or else as the iran upset we could start a new arms race let me bring in dimitri babich in moscow head guest in washington d.c. says the russians called the trusted they violated the agreement on several occasions what are your thoughts. well first if you look at their agreement if you look at the taxed of the treaty it doesn't prohibit research and development deployment that was absolutely no proof of that draw should you put any intermediate range nuclear missiles in the areas where this deployment is pretty limited by the treaty russia recently invited the united states do inspect all the walks that were doing on them you say that is wiring the united states. larry is correct in his facts that actually president obama started to use in russia so it wasn't just drum but

it was obama who wanted to get out of these are an f. treaty if we will get why the united states wants to get out of it i think it's primarily against china that they want to have more capability just because if you look at their european situation it changed to russia's disadvantage in one thousand ages seven when the treaty was signed poor and czech republic survived germany there were all parts of the soviet bloc and of course now these nations have governments which are very hostile to russia or they call russia horse nation we don't consider them hostile we never use that word but obviously a from a military point of view it would make sense for atia to have our our intermediate range missiles directed at these countries because for let me bring in let me bring in. now which is a blunt guy you're hearing there just what our guest is saying and almost so although obviously russia is interested in that you hearing what i guess is saying

in moscow that the trip to you isn't so much. you should have allowed me to let you all have plenty of time we have to bring in all of the guess i'm really sorry about that but i just want to bring your points out with the last i didn't finish my thought ok well let me bring in you can answer lawrence's point after this is which was what you were. bring up lawrence you've heard it bad that this isn't so much about the russians and the americans this bunch will about the chinese threat which isn't a policy of the earth and also north korea surely it's time to pull out of the treaty but surely it's time to widen the treaty well i agree with the obama administration did not want to bring china and john bolton back as far as two thousand and eleven when he was going in government basically said the treaties obsolete because china is the veil of being intermediate missiles and the united states need to deal with that now obviously he has come into government and he has been able to convince

president trump to get out of it not only because of the violations but because they want to win valvano china i think it what we should do if we want to bring china and they are a major power which they were not in one nine hundred eighty seven and if you want to have arms control agreements not just dealing with this but strict you know strategic weapons it would be good to get china involved and bring them to the table because they're key to what's happening as your guest in moscow said in north korea so i i agree with that but the fact of the fact of the matter is that you know russia trump i mean obama accused so many he believed in arms control he wanted to get down to one thousand strategic weapons he saw a new start so he was not trying to undermine the treaty to deal with china demeans you go to moscow what are your thoughts on the should the agreement

be widened to include china you said it yourself this was the threat. well i think that the united states wants to threaten chad and i don't think china is a threat to the united states it's enough to look at their potential to see what the juxtaposition of forces is in the pacific it's in their advantage of the united states of course. russia's official position is that we want to keep that treaty it may be widened it maybe we upgraded unfortunately it's that american position that they're going to pull out of their teeth you first how can you why didn't something that will will have been destroyed already as for europe this is of course a very bad development because i told you. now we have a different decks to position of water so we kind of british troops for example in a storm year which is a bus drive two hours bus drive from st petersburg and of course if i never was

dumped it is in russia's interest to have intermediate range missiles placed on our territory so that they could take the aim at the eastern europe and the central europe where you have american troops you have nato troops you have a lot of hostile rhetoric coming from there so who will be at the disadvantage europe in the first place this is the reason why for example in germany there is a consensus and on all the parties involved to stock. the street you should be kept in that sense bourdin and moscow now look an eye to eye for the first time i think in since two thousand and fourteen let's bring in london the head and max all down and you've heard what other two guests and had to say the americans are saying that the russians violated the treaty several times the russians are saying actually we haven't we've just developed weapons we haven't deployed them in the area that the treaty covers you want more arms control not less what worries you about this

particular treaty and the threat to poland. the major thing that worries me. with the threat to pull out this treaty is that this could relations between russia and us era power and this could threaten the whole greater arms control regime and if the i.m.f. falls it will be incredibly difficult in terms of domestic politics for both the u.s. and russia to agree to extend new start and if new start goes in twenty twenty one it will be the first time the world has been left with mutually agreed capsule new u.s. and russian arsenal since one thousand nine hundred seventy two. i think there is also a wider threat to transatlantic relations here europeans. despite having concerns over russian compliance over the years since two thousand and fourteen. approached the issue very differently and i think of wanted to keep the news open for cooperation to resolve compliance concerns between russia and the u.s.

and just like trump's decision to withdraw from the j.c. period the iran deal you know notch really i think this represents another area where trump is going against the core interests of his european allies and walking away from arms control let me bring in washington d.c. hey i will bring in moscow as well shortly but washington d.c. lawrence korb. you bring the world to another race if you pull out of this treaty is that true. well i think so and as your guest in the u.k. pointed out if you don't extend neustar if i were back in government i would have said to the president look president putin has asked to extend new start which you can do for five years without even getting senate or duma approval say ok you'll do that but let us go find out let us inspect the see what you're doing in the i.n.f. treaty and the other thing is that if we want to deploy those type of weapons in

europe we have to get the permission of the europeans and i was involved in trying to put them in back in the eighty's so before we could get the forgetting they don't want them you know be very very difficult you know for example for the germans to to accept to accept this so again i think you don't announce it at a campaign rally you work behind the scenes to come up with a solution and then if you try it and it doesn't work you can say well ok we tried we offer this we wanted to inspect the spec this and it didn't work that is the problem i mean just announcing it you know with no preparations and as i mentioned i hope that they had talked about it back when trump and pope met in hell's helsinki to meet you just as you've just. guest in washington wish that it was announced a campaign rally that so much more background work should have been done and it

should have been announced in a much more formal way why do you think the u.s. presidents only sprung this on the russians. well it's a continuation of the same irresponsible policy would have seen from the united states since i think since one thousand nine hundred nine when your slugger was born because it was basically the same polish air i mean the teams changed but as our guest said it was a bomber who started basically accusing russia of not complying with the treaty and in that way undermine it because there was absolutely no talk about deploying russian or american missiles say in the brics emitted through the russian and european borders right now. you know there are american nuclear weapons in germany but there are no russians uclear weapons in the places like poland and in the

places like congress where they used to be. in the times of the cold war and i think it's going to be a very bad arms race if indeed it starts because the last arms race was conducted in the frame walk or over arms control agreements you know some of them like start one where you know they looked like books there were so detailed you know there are provisions for everything inspection the number of warheads since the times over george bush jr we've had suggestions from the united states like let's not sign a deal or let's make it very short let's make a just declarative so he did the situation is very dangerous because this is a new arms race without rules if indeed mr trump does not extend the start treaty which expires on two thousand and twenty one as our guest from the u.k. rightly said it will be the first time since one thousand nine hundred seventy two when you will have several i stress several nuclear powers competing without any

caps since one nine hundred seventy two it will be the first such such period let's bring in michael dunn and london hit with who we've heard an awful lot about start to what do those treaties mean for what we're talking about when we are talking about the i.m.f. what are what is start warning to. so new start is the treaty agreed by a bar obama and putin that places mutual caps on russia and the u.s. says teacher got arsenals the number of total warheads they can have and then the number of warheads they can put on delivery delivery systems now this is a hugely important of them in terms of managing managing relations ensuring strategic stability between the between the two two powers i just like to comment on the on the point here that we've been talking about this sparking a new arms race i would contend that we're or we've already entered

a new arms race this year in the u.s. the nuclear posture review put an increase reliance on nuclear weapons so that the u.s. was going to develop new c launched a low yield variant launched ballistic in cruise missiles in russia. in russia putin announced the three doomsday weapons which were response to the us withdraw from the a.b.m. treaty you know russian the us are already modernizing their nuclear arsenals and engaging in reckless rhetoric where they're talking up the utility in the use of nuclear weapons and that is hugely hugely dangerous for global security especially when there are huge there's a huge risk of mis perhaps perception between the two countries miscalculation are these a new risks that we didn't have in the in the coal cold war and this is hugely dangerous let's bring in dimitri go in moscow it's hugely dangerous says let's all down than

in london however is it time for your own security sake for moscow's for russia's security sake to put nuclear weapons back into poland is that something that the i.n.f. treaty if the u.s. pulls out is going to happen. well russia has already just sad that we will do our best to preserve the treaty we have been a billion to the united states to the european union to everyone let's preserve the treaty but if the situation gets really dangerous than a spokesman said recently we won't have other choice but to target the country of our un merican anti-ballistic missile system and whether the new american boys simply intermediate range missiles are going to be stationed and these are european countries mostly so. i mean the look at the situation with russia parts of our

country now have nato contingence on or on them i mean i was born in the soviet union so for us to have british troops in the stone year which is a bus drive two hours bus drive from st petersburg this is a new situation i think their western public just doesn't perceive it how painful it is for russia to have a hostile state in ukraine to have a nato troops next to st petersburg and basically to have all of these hostile rhetoric that we have been hearing from the united states and from the european union in the last five years where not used to that rhetoric there was a very long peaceful period in the ninety's and in the early two thousand and i think the russian elite wants to return to it that would be our ideal solution washington d.c. and learns code we want to return to a period of peace this is not going to help that i say yes in moscow are you putting unnecessary pressure into europe by taking this line of

questioning that should be i.n.f. treaty itself. well i think again the trumpet ministration should have consulted with our european allies and in fact if you look at the last statement that came out of nato about this they don't want these particular weapons they are so i think even if trump says well you know we're out of the i.n.f. we can do that i don't think you are peons are going to let you because they do not want to spark a new arms race there as i mentioned earlier they didn't even want them in there when the soviet union existed and they were deployed already to deploying them i think people forget we deployed very few in fact what happened under president reagan he said i want to zero zero option you take yours out i won't put mine and the soviets back down and said well we don't think you're going to be able to put a band so we were able to get a couple of countries to allow us but we never really went and put all that we had

planned to to do that so i think really this is something again the way you conduct diplomacy you should have consulted with your allies say this is what i'm thinking about how do you want to do it how can we do it you know kim will the russians let us inspect what we saw what we are claiming are the violations and i think that would be kerry if the russians aren't violating it let them open it up toss in our nato allies to go in and look at this and i agree that basically we've got to be very careful i am more concerned about new start expiring because those are your strategic you know weapons which are much more powerful than these intermediate nuclear weapons and again you know this is something that obama and putin you know got done in two thousand and eleven and has an expiration date if it expires that's it we don't have any agreements and we have reduction agreements

going back to the one nine hundred seventy seventy two let's bring in london harry messel dominate seems like that could be in the near future and to almost all of the key nuclear weapons agreements is that a fear of yours is not justified that. i think that would be a great tragedy if the twenty first century was the end of arms control i think that definitely things that policymakers and also the arms control community can ensure about doesn't happen just like my colleague in washington has just said you know why doesn't russia let nato and the us go and inspect these systems in russia and why doesn't your european allies could the us to allow russians to inspect ballistic missile defense systems in europe if both sides believe they're not if both sides believe the others on complying with the treaty then let them inspect this could be a new way of establishing new transparency and very verification measures. on new

start european allies should urge russia and the the us to go to first extend and then negotiate a follow on treaty to this you know it would be a huge tragedy for arms control if both these agreements and it especially when the globe is increasingly polarized over nuclear weapons issue with the majority of non-nuclear weapon states signing. deciding to sign the ban treaty last year you know john you lower your warning out of syria or go running out of time a very very full of that i do want to bring in just for one very quick final from moscow and dimitri. what's moscow's view on continuing the treaties or is moscow just waiting to see what the u.s. does and then it's all bets are off and moscow can simply do what it wants. well i think that most call one's dialogue with the united states immediately on this

issue let me remind you that since two thousand and fourteen there was never very limited context between their russian and american military. you know the problem was on the american side the americans didn't want to talk to russians they accuse us of aggression and they didn't talk to us so if we start talking at least on the east this would be a good development that moscow would very much like to happen unfortunately i'm not sure it's going to happen and unfortunately again there are some european governments such as the polish government which already said they would welcome u.s. media tree and the u.s. nuclear weapons on their territory so there are different european allies that the united states has in the e.u. and they have differences on their attitude to moscow i hope that the cooler cards will prevail and that nothing terrible will happen cooler heads will prevail i want to thank all our guests lawrence korb in washington dimitri babich in moscow and max all down in london and thank you too for watching you can see the program any

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i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up israel launches ass trikes dozens of targets in gaza after it says that rockets were fired into southern israel. a standoff in sri lanka after a sudden political shakeup that's pitting the president against the prime minister . and police in the u.s. charge a man suspected of sending mail bombs to high profile critics of president trump. saudi arabia says that it will prosecute the suspects in the killing of jamal khashoggi turkey had demanded the extradition of the eighteen men the journalist was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul three weeks ago saudi arabia's foreign minister was speaking at a security forum in bahrain he described the response to his shoulder as hysterical

. we have saudi law enforcement people working with her turkish friends to uncover the facts this issue has become fairly hysterical i think people have assigned blame on saudi arabia was such certainty before the investigation is complete we have made it very clear that we are in going to have a full and transparent investigation the results of which will be released we have made it very clear that those responsible will be held responsible and will be held to account and we have made it very clear that we will put in place mechanisms to ensure that this doesn't happen again lived out in ankara al-jazeera some close ya know sort of what are we to make of the saudi foreign minister's comments. rian actually this is a very fresh comment by saudi arabia but of course it will bring a lot of sound in turkey especially considering that today in istanbul there is a very important summit a quiet russia france germany and turkey is gathering it to discuss about the

diplomatic. the diplomatic developments as solutions in syria until now there was no statement by the foreign ministry as i said because the statement is very fresh but we are expecting a very harsh reply from the turkish side especially from president act on during his presser following the syria summit in the afternoon don has been asking the extradition of these eight hundred suspects and yesterday he said that if you can't make them talk send them to turkey and we will put them on trial here in turkey actually our don has been challenging to has been trying to challenge the saudi officials also hinting that the investigation process in saudi arabia was not transparent enough this is what we have been hearing from turkish analysts as well but for sure it is a it is

a certain decline of turkish official requests to there to ask for extradition of eighteen suspects so many things data system can see over there in ankara the u.s. defense secretary says that. this regional stability in the middle east when people can speak can be heard calling for peace and for respect for all the terrorist vestige of hatred and violence is not embrace with our collective interest in an unwavering respect for human rights in mind the murder of three more in a diplomatic facility must concern us all greatly. as u.s. secretary of state pompei o stated the united states does not tolerate this kind of ruthless action to silence mystica shogi a journalist through violence. failure of any one nation to adhere to

international norms and the rule of law undermines regional stability at a time when it is needed most as president trump noted we're going to get to the bottom of it was about how shocked she is fiances told a turkish t.v. network that he felt assured entering the saudi consulate but a.j. ghengis says that he didn't think saudi arabia would dare to question or arrest him in a foreign country john stratford reports each time this is a journey. can't you what happened on october the second says the turkish t.v. graphic walt with their last words together why was jamal khashoggi worried. gave her first t.v. interview since her fiance was killed in the saudi consulate on october the second . economic about the he was very happy indeed on the basis that he was writing them because his close friends including other journalists on intellectuals are now in prison so there was a certain moral responsibility he had to take on used to say the fact that i'm in

america isn't just about me writing for the washington post i'm writing things my friends on table too in terms of details there was little in the interview we don't already know but it did mention that although they were both nervous about the show she's appointment on october the second she said that he had told her consulate staff had treated him well during a previous visit on september the twenty eight so by winning because shows his confidence had a trap been set it's been more than three weeks since jamal khashoggi was last seen alive and turkish president. is ratcheting up the pressure at a meeting with ruling party members he said he believed that at least someone among the eighteen men arrested in saudi arabia implicated in the killing of quiz shows she must know where the body is he mocked and sweat and the saudi leadership blaming them so he says for not cooperating with the investigation enough. tell me

the bush cut of course there's other information and evidence we're holding that will be used when the time comes but no need to rush because saudi officials have to say who killed. they made certain announcements which gave us considerable concern their explanations were quite comical but childish excuses do not befit a responsible state or responsible statesmanship. the saudi prosecution said on thursday that on the basis of information shared by the turks it is now investigating. the saudis say they don't know where body is and insists the crown prince muhammad bin solomon had no role in his death saudi arabia's chief prosecutor is jew in turkey on sunday but on friday evening off the president had repeatedly called for saudi suspects to be tried in turkey the country's justice ministry submitted an extradition request to saudi arabia for the eighteen

arrested men the senior turkish official told al-jazeera this was requested because jamal khashoggi was murdered in turkey by saudi nationals who travel to turkey for this specific purpose in his speech earlier earlier ones message was clear he said if you can't make them talk then send them to turkey and we will put them on trial here charles stuff that al-jazeera is stumble. israeli airstrikes have hit more than eighty locations in gaza which the military says a link to hamas and islamic jihad the mass general security headquarters was among the targets and israeli spokesman says the rocket fire was launched from gaza late on friday and has been continuing in recent hours israel's iron dome system has intercepted several missiles fired across the border fence well the flare up in violence came just hours after at least five palestinians were killed by israeli

forces during friday's protest at the gaza border fence have been demonstrations along the fence every week since late march since then israeli forces have killed at least two hundred seven protesters nearly all of them with sniper fire promised indians want the right to return to their ancestral home. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has made a surprise visit to amman it's a sign of warming ties between the two countries and a sponsor a new hope for talks on ending the israeli palestinian conflict this was the first visit by an israeli leader in more than twenty years and it comes days after palestinian president mahmoud abbas visited the skies however as foreign minister insists that his government is not a mediator there has been a moment i love because when it comes to many issues we are not mediate we don't mediate between parties who are capable of achieving what they agree on we facilitate is in many situations that can help convince opposing parties on how to

reach an agreement when it comes to the palestinian issue we believe the mediated it has to play a new role is the u.s. and particularly president trump. the former sri lankan prime minister has requested an emergency session of parliament up to subtly being sacked president wants a policy to say to fire a real worker i'm saying and replaced him with former president mahinda rajapaksa the political turmoil follows the collapse of the gun governing coalition that's go live now to colombo al-jazeera smell fernandez is there the speaker holds the key here doesn't it whether it grants this emergency session of parliament or not what's he likely to do middle. that's a question of the top of everyone's mind adrian at this moment the former prime minister on a vehicle missing or having requested that emergency session the speaker's office has confirmed that they have received most of it was in his letter but we don't know what to decision he makes based on that letter because essentially adhering to

it and calling an emergency session would reveal his hand as well as sure that he's accepting vicar missing her position as the current legal prime minister now compounding the whole sort of confusion if you like is an announcement that we've just had from the president that parliament is being suspended now the former prime minister calling for parliament saying that if the house is cold he can show the numbers he can show the support that gives him legality and legit of missy as the prime minister of this country now the suspension of parliament where hearing that there's a gap of that being declared by the president means that at the moment we don't know when the next session of parliament will be and thereby effectively maintaining the status quo and this constitutional crisis. will be for

protesters is that what happened to him was illegal under the constitution was it. again it depends on who you speak to there is one school of thought that says the constitution which was amended the nineteenth amendment that was brought in by this government the government of mighty palace seriously in cold the powers of the president i mean they did indeed address the whole issue of the prime minister being sacked and he gave basically parliament the authority to act on the prime minister by moving vote of no confidence being one of the only ways the prime minister could be removed but this move which the president by letter that he wrote to become a singer said by virtue of the powers in the constitution that allows him to appoint the prime minister that he uses the same sort of powers to remove him so again it's about constitutional interpretations and things like that so even if one

is to take this.