of course. i. do believe that. there is ultimately that meeting is going to be extremely important. in addition our intelligence. services and our judiciary are. involved in a very. busy earth. burke continue very responsibly. very attentively. you know all the innovations of the german citizen in istanbul. as you know and. the court has passed sentence. and the. route to appeal is available. we will. have to respect the decision of the appeals court at the end of the day. i don't

think there was anything else in your question. so yes of course as president one just said we did speak of the question of general discussion and. agreed that there would be more exchange of information and we also spoke about the sentencing of a german national yesterday i said that we have a good. we would like this person to be looked after by the consulate and we expect fair treatment and in the latter talks with her french president emanuel michel of course we did speak about the implications of the case of journalist and the dreadful death and. represent that in germany since the coalition agreement and the new government we have an agreement in view of the yemen war we have

a very restrictive or say x. clueless a. policy of weapons arms exports to saudi arabia and given. that there has not been any clarification of the case we say there would be no sex to saudi arabia but we agreed that once we have no more clarifications in the case case and we expect this and once we know who is behind this deed and what the league saw that we will strive to have a joint european reaction. to make clear and to show that we act from a common base of that use. yes just to say very clearly that together with chancellor merkel we have

spoken about the dreadful assassination of mr kershaw. and. to exchange information that are available at the moment and we have a very good cooperation between countries and with turkey in your view of the information that are available to date and things are clear to me the first thing is the facts have been established and one must go to the bottom of the investigation about the facts and the responsibility in terms of facts and responsibilities sanctions must be taken and these sanctions must be coherent and complete coherent in terms of the facts and those who are responsible and they were going to be very concrete and in proportion and it will depend on the facts that as they are established and the sanctions. would

be taken on a european level as they are always taken and coordinated. the question to all the leaders this is medical at the presidents and what did you discuss the future setup of syria did you or so we will consider the but especially mr asad the need. to clarify about it leap i do satisfied with how the memorandum signed by your own and labor and your colleagues are the gun was or is it prevented is there a risk of when the through force variant will be required of the terrorist. if other. measures warrant. at the beginning of your speech that you would welcome the expansion of this format at what expense of what countries you're

say who. defied by fact an important player over the other countries and how constantly we'll be meeting him if you're allowed. our main position is that the destiny of its own country including that at minimum determination of the personality on the political stage should be determined by the syrian people themselves for this and the should s. or conditions should be created one of them is the launching of the political process on the formation of the constitutional committee at the start of with work we were dealing with is today we did discuss any person person's personality but it would be counterproductive if you want to achieve a positive result at the end of. i said everything concerning italy but i sad russia reserves the right to support the

syrian government if zone terrorists will carry out probably cations just recently i informed the call that's about it was well within the shooting artillery shooting from this is. in the direction of aleppo and over the last two months of forces the shutdown of base. i mean fifteen the flying object what i tell what i would do with our turkish partners in france at this direction is in compliance with the goals which we we have we want to ensure that dematerialization zone for fifteen twenty kilometers so that it is free from having to larry and different radical groups with turkish partners to carry out the obligations that though but everything has been done but we say it's

a complex difficult work we have intention to cooperate with turkey and this direction further. let me talk about the future of. this is not a decision to be made by individuals. what will determine the future of assad will be the. the syrian people. syrian people vote inside syria and outside syria. make the decision you know they should to him as far as we are concerned as such is someone who has killed nearly one million of his citizens unfortunately. therefore he is not someone that we hold for in high esteem. what has been experienced until now is quite clear

by second. continue. as before and it is obvious that this process comes to an end. and. people in syria will. try to answer this question how to lead their lives from now on you know three and a half a million. people live. in. it live where did they come to the promise that they ran away from hell or. yes more recently the. right to live in it has been taken away from them. and had that going to head they would have run away the only place to run away if. there was nobody else for them to run i'm

a two three now. have already you know claimed asylum in turkey look at. how many of the three an armenian in italy who they've been able to run away from it live. that i did not know but thank god that my discussions with my dear friend mr putin. has resulted in the memorandum that we've talked about which started a completely new process. and thanks to that process. there is now a light at the end of the tunnel that. sustainable cease fire can continue. in this way or that way but you know that the provisional. helps the people living in it can you imagine. the number

of people living. underground. in the. year when it's leaders of countries state leaders it is responsibility to think about the lives and sufferings of these people but the steps we have taken in addition to those who manage to deter he is quite clear right in the open . of course you have to provide humanitarian aid. and indeed as human beings we. discussed today in the summit. what support because prior to syria after the syrian people in relation to education the construction infrastructure etc. and i'm hoping. optimistic that we will make. progress in addition to this. finally.

the current state is not a pros and one. as in the case of our star now a new step can be taken in the nation state of israel course. from my. view point i would like to point out that in our final communique we say very clearly that all syrians must be given the opportunity to decide about the future of the political system there in free transparent elections which must be supervised internationally and so it's important not just for the syrians who are now living in syria but also who are living outside syria who had to flee but they should be included in this election process and then it will be the decision of the syrian people to say what the superior to would look like will look like and and

the fact that great suffering has happened. due to the syrian regime many people have been killed that is clear and that is why that political process will not be simple it will be one of the most complex that we will have to come to terms with internationally and in terms of it live i'm glad that it was possible due to these search agreement in september to embark on a path which is already showing results and do it i hope will be continued and we supported this very strongly today and that this should not lead to another case where millions of people are in danger and that is why i believe and hope that this will be continued that it can be continued and again here it's it's not simple it's everything bought but the far past few weeks have shown that progress is possible.

yeah on the subject of it live. i would like to agree with what the president and the said in terms of the home of the syrian state to come back to your question that is not for us to decide but what is for us is to make sure that the syrian people can say what is going to happen. not. to take the face of the show that is at but not also not to act as if nothing had happened and in terms of create what decided in sochi to have the constitutional committee that's why this is indispensable that is the first ten roubles step. a government a sovereign government has to be respected that has happened not under pressure of the international cancian unity what is the sorry did it in such is that according

to national communique he has a place really. qualified people who have decided on the continuity committee these are not people who are in the hands of the syrians because the regime they have to be condemned to bill and have to be brought forward in the next two months to see respect themselves sovereignty of the syrians. but because we have decided to respect the sovereignty of all syrians we must also see that they are no longer represented in that federal territory so that if you by the government of syria because millions of syrians had to flee their country are in turkey and jordan in lebanon in germany and in many other countries and that is why we must create a constitutional framework where all of these syrians can vote and decide their future that is true sovereignty is. the sovereignty of people so

that is the mom that people can express themselves freely and that is the fight we are fighting for if i may i'd like to ask questions. as well and as to president. putin in relationship. we know there is. a. huge work going on. and there are a number of close us. in addition to that. soon how quickly can do you expect them to be completed and in addition to the. constitutional amendment that. there was

a presentation by stop and to mistrust. what i and he talked about leaving at the end of november do you think this is going to have an effect on the process process. and how are we going to see. the really. the four members of this summit and sunday is now a joint declaration of the coming out of this summit so i'm going to see you getting together again in in the near future so the meeting in this format that we haven't spoken about it yet but everything is possible i think that the expansion of the possibility. of the number of the participants who take part in the process of a settlement is for the benefit for the it was a proposal oh of the president of france from the beginning the united or the yeah but so the small group of the us down a process. and the turkish president mr gan supported actively he was the

initiator of all today's meeting i think it was for the benefit concerning now how it will take place in reality you sad nine months after the. decision in such a we haven't got a concrete result i want to remind you that there's beginning of this time a process. part is within a year didn't have any tension so it was just stay in one place it is very complex process because there was nothing taking place then than do we initiated a business down a process together with the president of turkey and the president of iran and that this will start at the moving. it was stopped before it was a very difficult complex process. it was a very complex story to conduct the congress of the syrian people there was

a big proper preparation done yes these agreements don't to an article about a so quickly but still there is some movement forward we persuaded the syrian government. to put. to give a list for the formation of the colleagues of the committee that our colleagues from turkey work. is the say and the greedier from their position a period now the third party should be created yes it's very complex process there should people people should be there we joined there the trust of all of the devolved parties but what should be have patience and to respect all the participants all the when we follow this order will we'll have success at the end. i would like to thank. you. in addition to the letters of.

the. memorandum containing. clothes. provide answers to most questions with twelve observation points as specified reversed in close cooperation with. russia in addition to those ten. observation points. controlled by the russian federation but beyond all of that. they most striking part of the memorandum is. that of. extreme radical. groups being taken under control by turkey.

and the regime syrian regime removing all threats. or it lip has been secured by her federation heavy. weaponry have been moved out of the center of it lip so that by ensuring this a billion the population some peace and. security. and. turkey and russian federation. we'll take giant steps in addition to any. attacks or strikes coming out of it lip. course our objectives. focus on providing serenity peace and quiet probably civilians

in it dip and this process has been successful. clearly. i would like to extend my thanks to mr president putin and to all who. worked towards that end thank you all thank you so wrapping up the meeting in istanbul today the turkish president reject time. hosting with his guests the russian president vladimir putin shaking hands there with german chancellor angela merkel and the french president emmanuel micron as well they have been discussing quite simply the future of syria for nations with interest some perhaps more than others you would say certainly more involvement in this many years long conflict and out of that very long news conference there came one very strong theme about the need for

a political solution just posing now for the. final group shot at the end who's in merkel and micron together very so then a quarter of course is our correspondent in istanbul she's been reporting there all day and reported on the syria war for so many years what did you take out of the comments from the four leaders there as i said the thing i think i heard the most and repeated the most by everyone was political solution political solution. yes a political solution but little consensus among these four nations their differences really out in the open we know why france and germany came to istanbul and agreed to attend this summit they wanted a guarantee from turkey from russia that the deal in to create a demilitarized zone would become a permanent and sustainable cease fire they did not hear that we heard merkel say

it i think twice i hope i hope there will be a peaceful solution and and we will not see a humanitarian catastrophe i think that was the word she used so this is why europe is so afraid because if there is an all out offensive in adlib you're talking about hundreds of thousands of people made refugees and and heading to europe and it's not just that what we saw as the differences between for example russia really saying that adds a way forward has to be a syrian led away inclusive syria led process see he's even saying that the u.n. committee the constitutional committee it should be agreed upon and respected by all syrians so he's actually saying what the syrian government's position not agreeing to this to this committee that russia is backing that and then we heard for example mccraw say that committee should start working it should start finalizing its work because what europe wants is for the geneva track the u.n.

led peace process to move forward and that hasn't happened so we're seeing all these differences between them and but one thing in common we heard from from all these leaders is that we need to continue this process put bring others on board even the president president or the gun actually said that bring others on board but how are you going to find a solution when you have all these different players who have different agendas and different interests we talked a little bit about the makeup of these four leaders who are they obviously russia. turkey who have very strong interests in syria and then the fact that germany and france were there perhaps not as prominent what do you think they've gone how to do you think they sort of stand in you sort of mark on the whole persons today as important players in the future of syria. well yes turkey and russia are the stakeholders they hold the cards but europe is

concerned they're concerned about two things and this is what we heard from merkel and we heard from across they were worried about a massive influx of refugees to europe a second wave of of refugees to europe they were also worried about what they said it was a terrorist threat because if there is an offensive in it live then you're going to have this mass exodus and maybe terrorists reaching europe it is a card in the hands of turkey it is a cards in the hands of russia and what russia was hoping to hear from european countries is that yes ok we're going to help you in the post-war reconstruction of syria he didn't hear that and we heard russia putin make that appeal yet again saying that u.k. we want to restore the economy and syria well to do that it's going to have to be a joint effort joint effort what russia believes a joint effort is is that europe chipping in to help pay the bill because russia and iran the allies of the syrian government are unable to do that so we didn't hear a commitment from the europeans so these are these part it's the first summit of

its kind really that russia and turkey members of the us than a process sitting down with members of the so-called small group yes that is significant and that's progress in itself but little has been achieved and what we really saw is the differences really out in the open final thought from you about well and this is really for us and maybe just coming to this story or may not have a full idea of who's involved in syria but all met stage there was no one from syria there was no one from iran and there was no one from the united states can you explain your view is how much that mass is or indeed doesn't matter. well at the end of the day russia is calling the shots in syria the syrian government has little say iran well the iranian foreign minister is going to be in istanbul on monday he's going to be attending the opening of the new airport but on tuesday we understand that there will be talks with turkish officials turkey holds

me iran holds a lot of sway on the ground there staying aside because you know it has been accused of sectarian policies it will make a deal even more difficult the president of iran but even if they're not on the table they are in syria and the united states well the french president jacques rogge talked to the russian president putin before the summit and they discussed the possibility of france hosting a high level u.s. russia meeting to discuss syria and even days before the summit macross talks with the u.s. president trump saying that they're coordinating strategy so there was france trying to bring in the united states they were not here yes and definitely without the u.s. on board it's very hard to find an international really brokered deal that is accepted by the international community great stuff from is stan boulder bringing us her analysis on the four way meeting over syria now at that meeting it was in istanbul of course the turkish president reject type it on the host once again

called on saudi arabia to provide more on the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi we expected this to come up in the discussion here is what he said oh shoot. first i should say here in the presence of international media that there are eighteen people in custody these are the same people who came to our country who sent those eighteen people to turkey that's the question that needs to be answered by saudi officials another statement from the higher authorities of saudi arabia stated the fact that the body of jamal khashoggi was handed to a local collaborator in turkey who is the local complet they see these individuals will be charged and will be prosecuted and they will be sentenced but this crime took place in istanbul. if this is not going to take place in saudi arabia the trial can be handled by the turkish judiciary here in istanbul and through our ministry of justice we have launched the appeal in the written form through official channels that turkey is ready to put these individuals on trial here in turkey and we will be expecting an answer to these questions well let's talk to

charles stratford about that president one sounding pretty firm again we want answers to this and the question he wants is an extradition all of the eighteen. people the eighteen men to turkey based on other comments today charles from the saudis unlikely to happen isn't it. yes certainly the saudis digging their heels in the comment from the foreign minister idealogy been arraigned saying that the saudis were not going to extradite these eighteen that they will be tried in saudi arabia i mean i think nobody here is certainly really civil turkey so that the turkish leaders as is really believing that they say extradition was going to be agreed to by the saudis of course the turkish president has a lot of experience in the difficulties of getting extradition treaties going because he has for years been asking the americans to extradite the man that he

believes was behind that two thousand and sixteen failed coup. but still additional pressure again for murder one obviously very much on the world stage with those three other leaders that the french the german and the russian leader using that opportunity yet again to hit home that he wants answers from the saudis focusing again on those eighteen men that have been arrested in saudi arabia and saying you know we need more details on this collaborator the president saying the saudis have admitted that there was a man but a turkish person story has been described as a collaborator who may have handled the body we still don't have a body so yeah i mean consistent again with the kind of pressure that the turkish president has put on on the saudis. but again referring he referred again to

the fact that the saudi prosecutor is jus in turkey tomorrow those meetings meeting his counterparts we understand on monday and the turkish president again highlighting just how important those meetings will be but certainly speaking to people here we understand one of the reasons why this extradition demand from to he was put into place is because. the turkish government not exactly called about what the saudi chief prosecutor is actually going to bring to the table charles is there anything further in the actual investigation from the turkish side and you spend so much time there outside that consulate waiting for something to happen what what is the next move do you think or what are we waiting for in the actual investigation. well president early on saying that the investigation. and the justice ministry working hard continuing in this investigation certainly here on the ground around

the consulate in the consul general so there hasn't been any movement now full three or four days of course we were expecting the turkish team to come down and so they say so really inspect what was believed to be a well in the consul general's home. initially the saudi side of the basically team did not give clearance to do the what we understand were members of the civil defense forces that was supposed to be looking inside that well because the saudis said that those personnel were not on the list they haven't been given they had been given clearance we didn't on the stand that the saudis did give clearance full those personnel to go inside those premises but still according to the turks that we've spoken to government the saudis are still dragging their feet on that we know that there was a lot of material taken away from both the consul general's home and the consulate in those initial investigations that have been taken there's been taken away for forensic analysis we've heard reports of blood samples as well that have been

analyzed and of course they are all the cause at least one car consul consulate car that is being bizarrely examined and materials including a personal computer clothing and so on clothing and luggage that was also being analyzed but no word of the results from that that kind of analysis at the moment but you have to take obviously president out of one's word that the analysis of this kind of material is still being looked at and as he we heard from him yesterday he's threatening that if the saudis do not cooperate fully in the sophistication then more evidence will be leaked to the international and the local media here town stratford with the update from the saudi consulate thank you for that. right we're dealing with another developing story this saturday us media are reporting at least four people killed and twelve injured in a shooting at a synagogue in pittsburgh three police officers are among those injured witnesses

say a religious service was being conducted at the synagogue when the shooting started and the suspect is now in custody u.s. president donald trump has spoken and condemned the shooting. their. faith. in our country free world. have a. right. don't think we do everything right. we've also heard or seen a journalist who spoke to someone who works at the synagogue and heard the shooting this is their conversation where this whole area is blocked off i just talked to or siriano he is the twenty five year maintenance man at the tree of life he was inside one of the restrooms inside an unused room at the time and he told me heard pop pop pop pop pop and he went outside and he described the scene he immediately

turned around and then ran out of the building john hendren in washington d.c. it's been a little while since we've spoken to you about this what more have you learned. well come on we don't have a terrible amount of new information because all of that information is just coming in but police have just spoken there on the scene in pittsburgh and what we've heard so far is that around ten o'clock shots started to ring out inside that tree of life synagogue that there were perhaps sixty or so people inside and according to preliminary information we'd originally heard that there were about twelve people who had been shot and that is many as eight people were killed while police are not confirming the number of those who have been killed but some reports suggest that it is at least eight others have said ten police do say that four of those who were shot are police officers and that six people remain injured in any case certainly multiple people were shot in this incident and according to one

disturbing local media report as the man entered the synagogue and began firing he was yelling all jews must die that would make this a hate crime in the united states and it indeed the f.b.i. is investigating this right now as a hate crime at eight or ten killings if that is the case it would be among the twenty to thirty deadliest mass shootings in the united states since one thousand nine hundred forty nine and unfortunately there are a number of those that happen each year now so far this year forty five people in the united states have been killed in mass killings and some people are not waiting to condemn this as a hate crime senator tom tillis of north carolina writes beyond disturbing that anti semitism still continues to exist and fuels such evil and we've had response from figures throughout the world binyamin netanyahu of israel said the entire

people of israel grieve for the dead emmanuel mccrone the french prime minister expressed sadness and support so around the world this is really resoundingly even as the information remains preliminary right now. that exactly what happened there come off telling this political already john but it does come in the thick of this and if it is a hate crime as president trump has already spoken about the as he says that the hate that is going on in america at the moment when we're only what a week and a half out from going to the ballot boxes that's right and president trump has gotten his back up on the mail bombings around the united states while he condemned those he also blamed the media there were some conspiracy theories that democrats had somehow been involved in what they would call a false flag incident in which they deliberately did this to generate sympathy for their party so it has really been a lot of negative response a lot of it has to do with those midterm elections that you are talking about right

now and president trump was on his political talking points just this day as he responded to the incident without knowing all of the facts he jumped out and said people who do this sort of thing deserve the death penalty we need to stiffen the death penalty laws and the united states and then when he was asked about the gun control aspect of this he said this is a case where if an armed if they had an armed guard inside they might have been able to stop him immediately maybe there would be nobody killed so that's really the kind of talking point you get from pro-gun advocates the kind of thing that republican voters are talking about and president trump wasted no time to get political on that ok john hendren thanks for the update from washington for the stories for you know israel has launched airstrikes setting more than eighty locations in gaza after it says rockets were fired from there into southern israel is ready to say the targets are linked to hamas and islamic jihad in a bill he reports now from western center. it was

a tense night on both sides of the border rockets more than thirty fired from gaza into southern israel islamic jihad claimed responsibility for those it's the second largest faction in gaza israel responded with airstrikes in and around the strip most of the targets including a security headquarters building in gaza city where hamas positions and installations according to the israeli army israel says it holds hummus responsible for restoring order but it's fighter jets also targeted a weapons manufacturing site this one belonging to islamic jihad it was the heaviest six change of fire between the two sides since august. this all came after another violent friday along the border fence between gaza and israel thousands of palestinians had gathered along the fence demanding the lifting of the blockade and their right to return to their ancestral homes now inside israel they burnt tires

and hurled stones oakley usually some fire bombs also israeli troops responded with tear gas and live ammunition killing four protesters islamic jihad said the rockets fired a sudden israel later we're in retaliation for the killing of these four palestinians earlier in the day but then the israeli army spokesman said that the rockets were launched with quote clear guidance from iran and the revolutionary guard forces in syria basically saying that this leverage you had were following orders from tehran now this all comes at a time where it seems that hamas and israel through egyptian mediation are making progress in reaching an agreement on a long term ceasefire. come seems to have returned on both sides after egyptian diplomatic efforts to avoid further escalation leading to islamic jihad to declare a cease fire as long as israel abides by it to the for them so you must green

digits. thankfully intervened and existed huge efforts between the resistance factions in gaza and the zionist occupation the egyptian efforts led to understanding's to restore calm to the gaza strip. israel hasn't responded yet at least not publicly you know why would those burying their dead it might come too late with many so welcome the announcement of a cease fire even if it's only temporarily. put up in how many al-jazeera in west jerusalem the polls have closed in afghanistan's kandahar province off the parliamentary elections were pushed back by a week delay came after a high level afghan general was killed in a taliban attack just the day before the polls were due to work. has that story. they've been waiting for the state for more than three years and under tight security people in kandahar made their choice hoping for change. while the rest of the country voted last week a taliban attack that killed two top officials here last thursday forced the vote

to be postponed by a week kandahar's police chief says the voting has been largely peaceful. and so far we haven't heard of any incidents in kandahar city or any district this historic day of election is going on very well people are very interested in taking part in these elections and all the polling centers are open in all districts men and women stood in long lines outside polling stations in the provincial capital which was blanketed with heavy security. we cannot wait for others to build our country we have to vote for our country and elects those who can work for the benefit of our country and people. voting out over a thousand polling stations throughout kandahar began early in the morning but it hasn't been without problems according to the independent elections commission a large number of polling stations were late opening because staff did not show up or materials were not available. and we demanded complaint form q because they

started very late they told us that there were three polling centers but only one was operating. this is the first election in which afghanistan is using biometric devices of voting centers more than half a million people have registered to vote hoping to bring peace to a province that seen its share of violence in recent years dore such a bari al jazeera. the remaining two presidential candidates in brazil have ended their campaigning before the right of photo on sunday for right presidential candidate. has seen his commanding lead over rival for a full six percentage points in the past week raising hopes of a turnaround perhaps for the leftist candidate that's been accused of making sexist racist and homophobic remarks to raise opposed covering this election since the update from rio. we're only one day away from the presidential elections here in brazil and there's a lot. among the brazilians there's the excitement i don't among those who are

voting for the same right to watch one out of but there's also fear among those who are voting against him and voting for the workers party candidate. most candidates are right now at their home bases. here in rio he has asked his followers to remain calm prior to be election something that came in as a surprise visit complained by pain managers of complain against single roger walters thing that he's taking time that he holds. fast system saying that he tried to visit former president. in prison this is a complaint at the electrode court here in brazil at this point is that low point difference between both even though the matter has lost some point in the last few days it is unlikely that he'll be able to turn things around he's been touring ne them brazil that's the place that the stronghold of the workers' party is also

expecting the support of a candidate that came in third in the first round of this election feat a woman he also is getting the support of a very respected man here in brazil the former president of the supreme court who said that he's afraid for the first time to resign return to do democracy for a presidential candidate to also not also looks of things happening on boy that would definitely help. but most analysts say that only a tsunami could change things around. sri lanka's president has suspended parliament just a day after sacking the prime minister in a surprise move the president fired running will become a singer on saturday and replaced him with former president mahinda rajapaksa what kind of thing i had earlier requested an emergency session of parliament to address the crisis the political turmoil follows the collapse of the governing coalition just one of the oldest known living woman in the world a celebrated a big milestone julia flores has turned one hundred eighteen she's known as mama

julia to her friends it was born on october twenty sixth of nine thousand nine hundred apparently it's enjoying the company of others while playing folk songs on a guitar and a little dancing that she puts down to her longevity great story will see in a moment the news out stick around to see her. the cricket world isn't much fixing i mean you have to think why would he give me a go because then we didn't burn the media in the eye you know the big bang theory or al-jazeera is investigative unit reveals explosive new evidence documentary

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to. professional expertise make them see eye to eye. my find my mom part of the viewfinder asian series on the. new yorkers are very receptive towns because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides. this is al-jazeera. hello again from doha and i'm come out santa maria and this is the news from al-jazeera. the suspect in the shooting is in custody we have multiple casualties inside the synagogue based eight people killed when a gunman opens fire in

a pennsylvania synagogue in the united states also took his president demands more answers on the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. and seeking peace in syria turkey hosting a meeting with russian several european leaders to discuss ways to end the seven year old conflict. everyone will benefit if we can the politics of personal destruction. and a supporter of donald trump is arrested for allegedly sending mail bombs to high profile critics of the president. hello we want to start with an update on the develop. story out of the united states where media are reporting at least four people killed and twelve injured in a shooting at a synagogue in pittsburgh three police officers are among those injured witnesses say a religious service was being conducted at the synagogue when the shooting started

and the suspect is now in custody the suspect in the shooting is in custody we have multiple casualties inside the synagogue we have three officers who have been shot and at this time we have no more information because we are still clearing the building and trying to figure out. if the situation is safe if there are any more threats inside the building so that's all we have at this point that the shooter is in custody there are multiple casualties from three officers shot where this whole area is blocked off i just talked to or agi siriano he is the twenty five year maintenance man at the tree of life he was inside one of the restrooms inside an used room at the time and he told me heard pop pop pop pop pop and he went outside and he described the scene he immediately turned around and then ran out of the building john hendren following this one from washington john i know there are precious few details at the moment but please bring us up to date with what you know. welcome all this is being investigated by the f.b.i.

as a hate crime we don't know many of the details but many of them are beginning to would evolve as usually happens in these events those numbers tend to change we saw just there in that clip that three officers had been injured police have just spoken to reporters they now say that there have been six people injured four of them are police officers they're not confirming the number of those dead but that's very standard because they like to notify the next of kin of those people before they start releasing those numbers but there have been multiple media accounts of at least eight people killed some suggest as many as ten and this all began apparently at the tree of life synagogue at about ten o'clock as people were gathering for the saturday services when according to witness accounts a man burst in fully armed began to fire indiscriminately and according to one or two reports he was yelling all jews must die at the time and that is what is the

basis for this being considered a possible hate crime we were told that a suspect armed with an a r fifteen style assault rifle and multiple handguns is in custody we cannot confirm this but some media reports have identified that man as a forty year old man forty eight year old man and i should say if indeed the death numbers are as we have as we believe them to be eight or ten that would put it within the twenty or thirty deadliest mass shooting incidents in the united states since one thousand nine hundred forty nine and of course sadly there is a lot of competition for that title just this year so far in mass shootings not including this one forty five people have been killed in the united states and we've gotten a lot of reaction from people in the u.s. but one of them was from the president of the united states and this is what he had to say. it's a terrible terrible thing. hate. in our country right.

and something has to be done something. like the. results are coming in and it would devastate anybody originally thought. the president also got somewhat political with his comments saying the death penalty needed to be strengthened for incidents like this he also suggested that had there been an armed guard inside the synagogue that perhaps nobody but the gunman would have been killed now those are definitely political words a week and a half ahead of a midterm election here in the united states but this incident has garnered the attention of the world binyamin netanyahu of israel said the entire people of israel grieve for the dead emmanuel mccrone the french prime minister said he expressed sadness and support for the victims in this case and some people are not waiting to call this a hate crime senator tom tillis of north carolina went on to say beyond disturbing

that anti-semitism continues to exist and fuel such evil and church shootings and synagogues shootings religious shootings have increased here in the united states is becoming a more common incident there were one hundred thirty between one nine hundred eighty and two thousand and five but there were one hundred forty seven from two thousand and six to two thousand and sixteen that is a dramatic excel aeration of a problem that seems to be growing here in the country and that they are sixty or fifteen style assault rifle that this gunman was apparently using along with several handguns you could hear it in the video it sounded like semiautomatic gun fire well those are similar to the weapons that the responding swat teams were using another problem here in the united states with the kind of weaponry that these gunmen are able to use commom ok thank you for all that information john hendren in washington d.c. .

the turkish president reject time photo on his call on saudi arabia to provide more on the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi his questions came during a four nation leaders' summit on syria action and we'll talk about that more later but it follows saudi arabia's announcement that it will prosecute the suspects in the murder of course i believe that is despite turkey calling for the extradition of those eighteen men so when reiterated turkey is ready to put those men on trial . chad first i should say here in the presence of international media that there are eighteen people in custody these are the same people who came to our country who sent to those people to turkey that's a question that needs to be answered by the saudi officials another statement from the higher authorities in saudi arabia stated that the body of jamal khashoggi was handed to a local collaborator in turkey or they had some collaboration with a local accomplice so who is the local accomplice they say these individuals will

be charged or will be prosecuted and will be sentenced but this crime took place in istanbul if saudi arabia is not going to put these people on trial the turkish judiciary can do that here in istanbul and through our ministry of justice we have launched an appeal in written form through official channels that turkey is ready to put these individuals on trial here in turkey and we will be expecting answers to these questions. in istanbul outside the saudi consulate so we have a president saying extradite the man we're ready to put them on trial we have the saudis saying in the form of a foreign minister it seems saying absolutely no chance of it ever you know. that's right yeah i think though realistically this this announcement yet again this pressure on saudi arabia to extradite these eighty men from the president of

turkey i think realistically this is yet again part of this very well choreographed pressure that the turkish government has been putting on the saudis since this crisis broke and many people you speak to here say that realistically president of one doesn't actually expect the saudis to agree to send these eighteen men over here. to be tried here despite all this leave. the seriousness of the crime that is being committed and as mr says the fact that it was committee to hear and so he says you know these men were sent over to turkey specifically to commit this crime but mr lott has had a lot of experience with extradition treaty problems before when of course he's been trying to get the man that he sees as being responsible for the failed two thousand and sixteen over from america to look at. but yes again you know all

strong language from him yesterday certainly the president over the one upping the ante calling the saudis childish and comical in their excuses or certainly sort of the explanation for what happened and again today referring to this meeting that we expect in the next couple of days when the saudi prosecutor comes here meets with his counterpart in turkey it's going to be very interesting whether it's. we see now additional leaks more leaks from the turkish government either before or during this prosecutor's. meeting here that would certainly be consistent with the way is this. the way that the turks have played this so far this slow drip of more and more pressure on the saudis demanding so they say that the saudis cooperate all chance traveling with the update from istanbul thank you

the french president emanuel mark ron is also calling for sanctions on those responsible for these death is on it. for me things clear the firstly some of the facts have been established we must fully investigate to the nation of these facts and who's responsible sanctions must be taken on this basis and these sanctions must be coherent and complete and be extremely concrete and proportional it would depend on the facts to say stablished and the sanctions will be taken at a european level as we usually do so that there is true coordination joining us to talk about this is the executive director of the arab center in washington he's spoken to us or many time serve course since jamal first went missing how are you feeling about the political process here at the moment as charles our correspondent pointed out there's pressure going on the saudis there is increased pressure going on the saudis but at the same token they don't look likely to buckle. well my

main concern is that the process should remain a legal process done and be transformed into a political process which smacks of a potential political deal between the parties i think the process is moving forward and there are still some differences of opinion clearly between the turkish government and the saudi government and the pressure is continuing both from the turks and from the international community for more transparency and for a complete investigation on the part of the saudi government but if that happens in saudi arabia as they're saying as i'd love with saying they will be dealt with by the judicial system bad well anything could happen couldn't there isn't there is wealth they'd not be a lack of transparency let's say that i think these doubts are justified criticism has come from various corners from the region and beyond about.