say alan fischer is outside the saudi consulate in istanbul and joins us now and allan we were just hearing those comments from the present regime type one continuing to pressure the saudis and specifically demanding to know where adi is. exactly the chief prosecutor from saudi arabia will be arriving here in istanbul in the coming hours he will outline the case against the eighteen people that commonly being held in saudi arabia in connection with the khashoggi killing but you can under pressure when he sits stone face to face with his turkish counterpart to extradite these people know when the saudi foreign minister says that there's been hysteria over the coverage of the death of jamal khashoggi that really begins to agree with turkey because as far as they can see what happened was in a place that is meant to be a diplomatic mission in the center of the biggest city in turkey someone was murdered the saudi arabians suddenly denied it so he never left the building and

then admitted it and certainly what the touch want to know is where is the body or are they talking about body parts who is this collaborator that president dent to fight does he even exist a tall why won't the saudis give up his name because the saudis keep telling the turks we will work with your inquiries we will help you as much as we can yet they won't provide this basic information of a turkish citizen who is in istanbul and may have very important information so for all of those reasons the turks are very angry with saudi arabia and that point will be made very forcibly when this senior saudi prosecutor arrives in tone in the coming hours and perhaps something else that might worry the saudis possibly some strong comments from the german chancellor angela merkel's about a possible coordination in terms of suspending arms sales to the saudis.

also interesting that when the saudi foreign minister was speaking he was seeing that essentially the relationship of the alliance with america is rock solid and that's an important message that the saudis want to keep reiterating to assure their importance to america so that any idea of sanctions from the united states doesn't go too far and we've heard from president donald trump when he says he'll be led by congress and we know that congress is a much farther along the line of wanting to buy and weapons sales to saudi arabia of sanctioning senior officials the donald trump is that this point that actually were to go through congress and donald trump saying that if that was backed up by farther action from the european union led specifically by germany and france that would deal a big blow to saudi arabia and their standing not just in the region but around the world the torn from president marc wrong was interesting because in the last forty eight hours he's been asked the boat weapons sales from france to saudi arabia he's

tried to distance france a bit from that saying it's important something we can talk about now he's seeing that once these investigations are complete when they have the full picture and the sanctions that it imposed will be in proportion but again he's worth angle americal and they're saying it will be european wide sanctions and there's no way that france can do slightly less than any other country in the e.u. because it could mean the loss of millions of dollars in sales so the saudis will be worried about that they can write off the coverage of this as hysterical but the simple fact is the death of jamal khashoggi has uncovered a number of fires that perhaps have been burning slowly throughout the world against saudi arabia in the last few years and they aren't going to be very easily by criticizing the media or just hoping that it's going to go away all right thank you very much allan fishman with the latest from istanbul. and now just a quick bit of news helicopter belonging to the owner of les to city football club

has crashed in a car park close to the cain power stadium here in the u.k. the identities of the passengers are not yet known the helicopter crashed around an hour after the final whistle of a match between les the city and west ham it's not clear what the cause was but we'll continue to follow this story and bring you more details later in sports where much more still ahead for you in this news hour from london to prime ministers know parliament and a deepening political divide is pushed to the edge of a constitutional crisis supporters of the democratic republic of congo's ruling party put on a show of force one the opposition rallies against corruption. and action from qualifying for the mexican grand prix is red bull dominate facts tori and more a bit later. on the leaders of france germany turkey and russia have held talks to try to find

a way to end the war in syria speaking at a major summit in istanbul they called for syrians to lead the way in establishing peace and a new constitution that would pave the way for elections but is a one hundred ports from istanbul major divisions remain on their approach to the conflict. it is a fresh effort in diplomacy it is also a new approach for the first time the main power brokers in syria's war russia and turkey have brought european countries to their table the host turkey's president or the gun held one on one meetings on the sidelines of the summit with german chancellor angela merkel russian president vladimir putin and french president manuel mccall but who was not present was just as significant mccraw however did discuss with putin the possibility of arranging a high level meeting between russian and american officials in paris next other troll party which the more countries to join the process the quicker ivory will

reach a permanent solution. but even among these players there was little consensus russia continuing to undercut the u.n. and emphasizing the role of the syrian government in any future decisions putin was clearly angry about his inability to legitimize president bashar assad's hold on power in the ocean with an i wish. to make this process successful it must be carried out in a peaceful way with respect to the boojum a government of the syrian republic people use the expression syrian regime but we must remember the un resolution refers to the government of the syrian arab republic the west wants damascus and its allies to cooperate with the un led political process that calls for reforming the constitution and holding elections. ten months after the meeting itself chief the constitutional committee has yet to take up its work that's why we want the list of interested parties to be finalized by the end of the year so that a meeting can take place europe worried about

a new wave of refugees wanted a commitment from russia and turkey for a permanent ceasefire in blip they didn't get that. i hope this gives the political process a set momentum and will continue to do everything in our power to ensure that is lead to a peaceful solution and doesn't mean another humanitarian disaster. france's u.n. ambassador summed up the situation syria he says is at a crossroads there can either be an escalation or there can be political momentum starting with an agreement on a u.n. committee to rewrite syria's constitution but syria's government is refusing to cooperate and russia which has a crucial role is urging patience while there's still a long way from reaching an internationally backed political deal there is hope the summit could pave the way for a new diplomatic track one that would bring more players on board but that would mean even more agendas and interests would need to be considered so.

istanbul i'm joined now by chris doyle the director for the council for our british understanding thanks very much for being with us and i just picking up on the point that it was making at the end of her report there it's obviously positive to have a summit of international leaders but i suppose it does also highlight competing agendas and. contradictory political interests in syria. of course george or better than war so you know another summit international leaders gathering to discuss syria but i think a lot of syrians will be asking themselves well what's this going to achieve is it going to move in and then ford are we going to see any resolution not just of the actual war but the actual conflicts and the political divisions within syria and a chance for us as refugees. to go back home and no frankly i think the divisions amongst these four powers represented here today were very very clear and no two wasn't there of course it was the united states britain is the other countries with

a role to play the syria so you know there's still really isn't there any international consensus about the future of syria russia is the key player but it's simply cannot convince other powers to go along with the sort of process that it wants to see and which the syrian government as putin described it. would be really in control there wouldn't be meaningful reform of the russian plans so how then is it how then can these incompatible sort of policy goals be potentially unified how to find consensus so that a process like this can actually go somewhere possibly lead to a lasting political settlement. well low the danger is that there will not be one and that should will be imposed by force that you actually will see a serious military onslaught against it live in northwest syria but that will lead to yet more refugee flows which is obviously not what turkey wants not what

european powers like france and germany will want to see and that actually you will get. no end to the bit political conflicts and syria that you won't see a proper change to the constitution certainly being pretty clear it doesn't want the united nations involved in these constitutional changes this is basically coded language of saying we want to keep it pretty much as it is with the power in the hands of the presidency the security services are not separated out into different areas of syria's parliament and other centers of power so frankly unless there's going to be a really significant change in the power balance in the positions of external powers for difficult to see how they actually come to some sort of agreement or consensus perhaps there could be some fudge a very dangerous fudge that really wouldn't result in a thing and probably would not be in the interests of syrians thank you very much

for now crystal for sharing your thoughts is from the casual british arab understanding. now and other stories we're following closely israel has launched airstrikes hitting more than ninety locations in gaza after it says rockets were fired from there into southern israel the israelis say the targets a link to her mass and islamic jihad attentional tensions flared on friday after five palestinian protesters were killed by israeli fire along gaza's border are the abdel-hamid reports from west to receive them. 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 in installations according to the israeli army israel says it holds hammers

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 burn tires and hurl stones oakley tional e some fire bombs also israeli troops responded with tear gas and live ammunition killing protesters islamic jihad said the rockets fired a sudden israel later were 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 mean the egyptians thankfully into. and exerted huge efforts between the resistance factions in gaza and the zionist occupation bijection efforts led to understanding's to restore calm to the gaza strip. israel hasn't responded yet at least not publicly. but those burying their dead it might come to late with many as i welcome the announcement of a cease fire even if it's only temporary. put up to help meet al-jazeera in west jerusalem still ahead afghanistan's kandahar province finally goes the polls days

after a deadly taliban attack forced a delay. i'm wednesday and palu indonesia where we'll tell you about a warning the government received years ago about some of the potential dangers of a large earthquake happening here and how it may influence the rebuild of this devastated city. and sportsman biles battles through the pain of kidney stones to compete well gymnastics championships. however well as we say goodbye to british summer time we're saying goodbye to hit the volume across the western side of year we've got so northerly winds are blasting down some wintry showers there across the british isles line of cloud here

introducing colder air down across a good parts of northern europe meeting up with some warmer weather that we have into southern most part of us a while well look at level three cells just there for madrid northeasterly wind then other pleasant one across a good part of england and into wells but twenty celsius there for right where that warmer air meets that cold dig of where the warmest falls to rise it goes condenses goes is the right over the high ground it causes some snow was so there is some snow around the alps still some snow a possibility just around the pyrenees a little more so as we go on into monday london struggles to get to nine celsius struggling to get to six degrees as the top temperature in paris was to get up to twenty one in rome really a messy picture there across a good part of century of flooding sunny a possibility with new lively storms coming through you come across the other side of the med and it doesn't look too clever across far northwest of libya into parts of tunisia but some really heavy rain could also bring some localized flooding into

northern parts of algeria and morocco. divorce rates in taiwan a soaring and as a marriage consultant helen knows this unli too well. but as the sixtieth wedding anniversary approaches own parents are looking moans rather than alms lookouts without a doubt cannot daughterly love and professional expertise make them see eye to eye . my father my mother part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. in a world where journalism as an industry is changing we have fortunate to be able to continue to expand to continue to have that passenger drive and present the stories in a way that is important to our viewers. everyone has

a story worth hearing. and cover those that are often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined al-jazeera . and with the news hour live from london let's take a look at the top stories u.s. president all trump says a shooting at a pittsburgh synagogue is an evil anti semitic act city officials have confirmed at least eleven people have died in the attack which happened during a baby naming ceremony and. saudi arabia has refused turkey's request to extradite the people accused of murdering saudi journalist jamal khashoggi turkey says saudi

arabia needs to provide on says in the leaders of france germany turkey and russia say syrians mislead efforts to end the need seventy a civil war it also called for constitutional reform and un backed elections. brazil's two presidential candidates have wrapped up campaigning ahead of sunday's runoff polls suggest the far right candidate. is still in the lead although his leftist rival fernando dad has also been making gains. from rio de janeiro on the increasingly polarized nature of the poll. was protesters gathered outside the electoral court in rio to denounce recent raids on public universities was students some professors say police entered by force to remove anti fasces banner because they said it was violating electronical was you one of those who is they have no right to invade our space and remove

a flag that represented the fight against fascism we can see a general persecution among student movements all over the country without any reason it did not say the name of any candidate unless the electoral court believes boston r.-o. is a fascist. brazilians are heading to the polls in one of the most divisive elections in their history but many say there is much more at stake in this campaign. didn't see that what happened at brazil's university was an act of censorship which was common practice during the military dictatorship people are extremely sensitive this days because they fear that if jade was found out or if elected president brazil's democracy could be at risk. i was recently elected to congress she has been fighting against inequality and racism all her life her friend and ally activist my the elephant girl was killed earlier this year here in rio. all activists in brazil are scared nowadays we have the possibility of having

a president who said explicitly that he wants to annihilate an extra pay to the reds which means our group we are scared even more falling marielle franco's assassination but i cannot stop because for some people fighting is not a choice it's a survival question. forward for the natters far right agenda has grown across the country he's promised to tackle crime laws and gun laws and liberalize the economy have won him supporters even among those he had insulted in the past including women and black people. is one of them. want we need to try something new we had the workers' party for many years and it did not work with corruption and the economy so both sonera will have four years to show us what he can do. a former soldier is an admirer of brazil's period of military rule from one thousand nine hundred sixty four to one hundred eighty five he has promised to run the country with an iron fist. if you become the president

he will need to five or six ministers four super bowls. with with military that's an ascension. of the military we haven't seen brazil is going through an economic and political crisis that has allowed a controversial figure like. to fill in the void but if he's elected many fear he could shake brazil's democracy to its core and just real the general. of thousands of central american migrants are continuing their advance towards the united states after a temporary standoff with offices in mexico the offices a block the bridge in the city of arriaga but were forced to abandon their positions after a ruling from the country's human rights commission on friday mexico's president promised shelter medical attention and jobs to the migrants if they equate stay in southern mexico many of the migrants rejected the offer fearing deportation

monogramming i imagine we don't look believe those publications we've been told that before maybe mike ritz already beckett who douras so we'll go work always with god. our goal is to reach the border well many of the migrants in the caravan from honduras where they've been violent protests against president hu on orlando hernandez as government riot police have fired tear gas at protesters in the capital goosey gulper announces his critics accuse him and his supporters of committing fraud in last year's presidential election the disputed result plunge the country in to crisis. all to sri lankan our country grappling with its own political crisis after the president suspended parliament and sacked the prime minister the new prime minister mr rajapaksa took the oath on friday but his predecessor insists he is still in power in elfin and as has more from colombo. sri lankans woke up to a political earthquake president mighty palace city senior swore in his former boss

mind the rajapaksa as the new prime minister on friday taking everyone by surprise this was after all a man that serious in the said he risked his life to defeat in the two thousand and fifteen presidential election rajapaksa supporters were overjoyed at his return flocking to his residence while he met up with members of his parliamentary group on saturday morning the rajapaksa camp say they will preside over a transitional government and hold elections as soon as possible we have. learned that. his excellency the president boris straw. and. the drowning victim a singer the man whose coalition brought to power as its common candidate was dismissed as prime minister without notice in a single paragraph letter. he says his removal was illegal and has urged the

speaker to convene parliament so he can prove he has a majority in the house. that parliament who has the majority there are concerns the recent developments violate the constitution of the united states and the european union and urge the government to act in accordance with the constitution sri lankans appear to be divided on the issue. this is a big victory we were all dreaming of him becoming prime minister. people must elect the prime minister in the. parliament this person the war we think we are stupid country the new prime minister met the president with his parliamentary supporters on saturday evening they are trying to work out who will be appointed to the new cabinet which is expected to be sworn in on. monday lanka has gone through

a rollercoaster twenty four as its former president who was voted out three years ago is now prime minister the man he placed says he still holds a job parliament which could have resolved the issue has been suspended by the president and should lankans are wondering what will happen next. as al-jazeera colombo. the polls of close in afghanistan's kandahar province off the violence falls parliamentary elections to be pushed back by a week the delay came off to a key afghan general was killed in a taliban attack the day before polls which you to open. they've been waiting for this stay 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. 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 of very interested in taking part in these elections and all the polling centers are open in the streets men and women stood in long lines outside polling stations in the provincial capital which was blanketed with heavy security that. 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 because they started very late they told us that there were three polling centers that only one

was operating. this is the first election in which afghanistan is using biometric devices at 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. al-jazeera. oh indonesia's government has officially ended its emergency response to last month's earthquake and tsunami that killed over two thousand people the country is still facing a major public health crisis in the affected areas but to rancho rains threatening to spread malaria and dengue fever when he reports from polish on a battle that is facing the government in terms of reconstruction symbols of pride and strength still flood amid vast wastelands of destruction it's been four weeks since the earthquake turned this suburb of power loose city into a muddy graveyard where many bodies are still buried when the earthquake struck

these communities largely disappeared in a process called liquefaction when the earth beneath the surface turned to mud swallowing people and buildings it's an inhospitable landscape but as traumatized as survivors are some want to return to rebuild here even when they see that a hole in the ground is all that remains of their home. so i'm so terrified when i see this place my children said mom once the government clears up we should just move back in we don't have to build a permanent house we can just use word so i finally agreed i have to follow my children we don't have anywhere else to live so who just come back here that may not be their decision to make though if the government goes ahead with a new master plan to rebuild the city. those that used to live in. and a neighboring community will be relocated as the government says the ground is too unstable to rebuild here which it seems has always been the case since the disaster

it's emerged that the government knew areas like this were particularly dangerous six years ago its own experts drew a map of city highlighting areas where there was a high risk of liquefaction occurring in an earthquake this was one of those so-called red zones where hundreds if not thousands of people died. local government leaders wouldn't give al-jazeera an interview experts say the map should now be studied very closely as part of. which is expected to cost almost one point five billion dollars. you know. to make a people or so a kind of like the buffer zone and green zone with the forest and things like that as well as for the monument for the people so the national something that. the people who lived here say they had never heard of liquefaction before the disaster there was no education about the danger beneath their homes knowledge would have

saved everyone but it may have saved some now the excavators have come to a standstill the search for the missing is over whatever the syria becomes it will also remain a mass grave wayne hay al jazeera palu indonesia. hundreds of thousands of people have marched in taiwan's gay pride parade as the country is locked in a fierce debate of a marriage equality the annual rally in taipei is the biggest in asia and took place ahead of the landmark votes on the rights taiwan's constitutional court declared last year that same sex couples have the right to marry and set it to your deadline for legislation but taiwanese society is still divided on this. and the democratic republic of congo campaigning for december's presidential race is heating up the pro-government coalition has held its first major gathering in kinshasa attracting tens of thousands of supporters of opposition members and we have the introduction of voting machines and say they will not take in

a corrupt vote by the reports. it was a show of support and a signal of intent tens of thousands of pro-government supporters packed to the stands of conciousness tatar raphael stadium to hear speeches including an address from presidential candidates emmanuel amazon each other it was an impressive turnout given president joseph kabila his current low poll ratings and should diaries small support base. looks it will go for the elections on december twenty third we know that you're ready for this election campaign peacefully and for sure we'll win with the help of god president kabila term ended nearly two years ago but he stayed on thanks to a caretaker clause in the constitution opponents say he's now engineering the election to make sure derry is his successor. should areas it could be loyalist with no significant political following his own observers believe kabila wants to

continue wielding power from behind the scenes. i on friday thousands of opposition supporters staged a noisy but nonviolent demonstration of their own marching in kinshasa against the intended use of electronic voting machines the opposition say the voting machines are untested and inappropriate since just nine percent of the country has electricity but also wants ten million names struck off the electoral roll because they have been registered without a digital fingerprint to verify them over such a low our message to the ruling coalition and to the electoral commission president is our people want credible elections in december without voting machines and without this corrupt electoral list we cannot participate in elections that we know already. it will fail because of these voting machines but significant opposition leaders including jumpier bemba. have been barred from contesting the election and opposition hopes a leaning towards this man felix katie leader of the union for democracy and social

progress party. delegates from the various opposition groups intend to name a unity candidates to face shutdown by november fifteenth paul brennan al-jazeera. said i have for you on the program a five billion dollar project to increase that could become the year at pipeline to power and install takes a step closer to winning but stopped when challenge it sounds. like. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships. somehow time.