and the tens of thousands of people died in the closing stages of the conflict let's take you live now to colombo for the latest. is there just to muddy the waters further here in this constitutional crisis that we've got a political crisis unfolding in sri lanka the speaker of parliament has now intervened what's he had to say. that's right in a letter to present my partner sidney say in the speaker courage assyria has basically pointed out that his foremost concern and duty is to protect the rights of all parliamentarians and in doing so he said he had received a request to protect the rights and privileges of running a victim a singer until such time that a number person was able to demonstrate that that person from within parliament was able to sure that he had garnered the confidence of parliament he had told the president in this letter that he thinks this request is just and

democratic and he has urged president to say no to consider this request so basically reading between the lines it seems that courage a superior what he is telling president of the same is that run over missing her at the moment in terms of the numbers is the prime minister and until such time that parliament convenes and is shown otherwise that somebody can sure count majority in the house must be respected as such now the the new prime minister mind that rajapaksa and his supporters are basically saying that minded rajapaksa has the confidence of parliament they are claiming that they have the parliament majority they have refused to go into detail about numbers but they're very confident that the can show a majority some even go to the extent of saying they have an absolute majority and they can display this obviously the problem being that with parliament suspended by the president showing that by either side is being delayed and the speaker once

again alluded to this suspension of parliament in that letter to the president and said it's not appropriate given the current circumstances and has asked the president to reconsider. the president was going to make a public statement today and thank you reported earlier on that we we think that he's recorded such a statement it hasn't been released yet. that's a question on the top of everyone's mind we did hear from. the president's office of the statement had been recorded earlier today we have been giving. deadlines as to what time that statement would be released is expected to release to be released to all the local t.v. channels who will then basically broadcasted to. a symphony to show what. the president has as justification for the steps. his prime minister.

bringing in the new prime minister in the form of his former rival the former president rajapaksa changing the head. of the list goes on so everyone waiting to hear from the president as to want to is behind his actions and what is behind his thinking at this stage. but how many thanks. reporting live from colombo the billionaire owner of leicester city football club is feared to have died in the helicopter crash fisheye survived on a helicopter came down in the club's carpark following a game on saturday that hasn't yet confirmed that he was on board the international fame when leicester city unexpectedly claimed the english premier title in twenty sixteen a weather update. by the man being called the trump of the tropics could become

brazil's next president. hello there it certainly is feeling quite wintery across the northern parts of asia now for a look at the satellite picture we can see this swirling mass of cloud here that's giving some of us some rather cool conditions and some of the some snow as well of course in the south we're seeing mostly rain so for the northern parts of japan lots of wet weather here but as it works its way further towards the west we'll see it over parts of eastern russia and into the eastern parts of china that will be giving us some wintery weather and it'll still be with us as we head through the day and choose day towards the west though the temperatures aren't too bad here we're looking at around eight am batar and force in beijing will be up at around sixteen which is sixty one and found high i mean for the towards the south and for many of us in the eastern parts of china it's fine and dry for now shanghai up

twenty five home kong at twenty nine but this massive cloud if you can see it just in the eastern parts of your screen that is our huge storm this is typhoon you two that's making its way towards lose on the a bit further towards the south you can see the storm again making its way towards the eastern parts of luzon they were expecting landfall around twenty one g.m.t. or monday we should local time is around five am on choose day ahead of that though we want to show is that nothing too severe the wetter weather is towards the west we see plenty of showers in k.l. and singapore. the cricket world isn't the tricks thing i mean you have to think why would you give me the yes ten million to million it's a big bang bang. al-jazeera is investigative unit reveals explosive new evidence documentary confirms to my analysis very hard profile figure in match

fixing international cricket even though this man al jazeera investigation cricket match fixing the files. hello again this is al-jazeera the top main the main news stories this hour at least eleven people are dead in the u.s. after a gunman entered a synagogue in pittsburgh and opened fire six others injured four of them police officers a forty six year old man has been charged saudi arabia's public prosecutor is due to arrive in istanbul to discuss the killing of jamal khashoggi turkish prosecutors want eighteen suspects to be extradited but saudi arabia says they'll be prosecuted

in the kingdom and sri lanka's sacked prime minister is refusing to leave his official residence as the country remains in the grip of a constitutional crisis. insists his dismissal by the president was illegal. the leaders of france germany turkey and russia made little progress during talks on the future of syria in istanbul they emerged with a joint statement saying that they're committed to finding a political solution to the seven year war but they've been unable to agree on how to end the conflict. ahmed is a lecturer istanbul new university he says that the crux of the issue is what should happen to syria's president bashar al assad. putin is speaking about the syrian arab republic the syrian regime he is not happy with this turn so russia is adamantly insisting on key being bashar asad word on the other hand you have turkey

the opposition the european union lots of the international community believe that bush is the main cause of the whole problem so whether he is the legitimate representative of the syrian people or there should be a kind of any political transition that would lead to drafting a new constitution involving all parties of the opposition that's something that the international community is trying to use the leverage over russia and the syrian regime but it seems they did not have that much card on the other hand you have russia that wants to see that it does have a different agenda in the region unlike they occupation of iraq in two thousand and three forces russia wants to give an example that they want to keep the regime but on the other hand they want to build a kind of a state with the syrian regime still in power that's something that the opposition

will not accept the international community will not be happy with that's the whole problem they need to solve and if though if they solve this then a kind of election would be possible to talk about. people in germany's central region of hesse going to the polls in a vote that's widely seen as a critical test for angela merkel's government the chancellor's conservative christian democratic union party is defending its nineteen year hold on the region which was previously a stronghold of the center left social democrats locals coalition partners in a bad result for either of the parties could further destabilize the government. polls are open in brazil's presidential runoff let's look at some live pictures of voting which is now underway in sao paolo a far right former captain looks the favorite to win or suggest that. is ahead of his leftist challenger as a corruption weary nation looks for dramatic change al-jazeera stories about

reports. protesters gathered outside. rio to denounce recent raids on public universities. students some professors say police entered by force to remove anti fasces banner because they said it was violating electron law. they had 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 bows and arrows 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 feel 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 he. is elected president brazil democracy could

be had with. ronnie was recently elected to congress she has been fighting against inequality and racism on her life her friend and ally activist. west 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 to even more franco's assassination but i cannot stop because for some people fighting is not a. moyse it's a survival question. support for old son adams far right agenda has grown across the country he's promised to tackle crime using 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 nine hundred eighty five he has promised to run the country with an iron fist. that if you becomes a president he will know we need to five or six ministries for super bowls not mean through for me. with with military but that's an ascension. of the military 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. religion iraq police in

mexico have ended a temporary standoff with thousands of central american asylum seekers on their way to the u.s. a local human rights commission convinced police to abandon a blockade on a rural highway the u.n. estimates that seven thousand people set off from central central american countries a few weeks ago heading towards the united states for sure in kenya have hung up their nets and are instead trying to conserve marine life now known as reef rangers they've been trained to more as a fish stocks and their habitats catherine sawyer reports. meet the island's refrain just there were one fisherman in lima county's largest island on the kenyan coast depleted fish stocks pushed them to swap roles and become protectors of the ocean most islanders depend on for their livelihood they've learned the science of counting fish species and other sea creatures in

protected areas and also telling if the ocean floor is in good shape they then take the information back to their villages and decide collectively what to do next. as fisherman we sat down and realized that we have to protect our resources we saw the destruction of the environment of the normal fish producing the community has now put in place laws like place in certain important areas in the ocean as no fishing zones some people blamed the problem on those who fish in breeding areas using equipment that is destructive to the environment. abdullah mohammed a fish trader sees ongoing dredging of the ocean for the construction of a port is also driving away from marking the hard limits of what. we are digging out for fish now fishermen have to go far into the deep sea and have. to do that. back on the shore the ranges patrol

a mongrel forest and regulated felling of the trees for commercial purposes is a big concern on this mission their record signs of recent logging for more than sixty percent of the country's mangrove cover these are important breeding grounds for fish but logging is rampant and trying to convince communities to stop has been difficult. the people who live here are allowed to use some of the trees for construction and their fuel needs but they are also encouraged to report any large scale logging specifically using. paso's communities in this area highly depend on marine resources over eighty percent of the communities in this region depend for example on fisheries and mongul in terms of livelihood saw convincing them to start deciding on how to sustainably utilize the resource has taken some time

the rangers hope their contribution to conservation will help keep the marine eco system healthy which also means keeping their communities alive catherine saw al-jazeera patta island on the kenyan coast many people living in sudan are being forced to live on the margins because they have no way of proving their identity their difficulties began after south sudan became an independent country seven years ago about morgan reports. every morning james comes to work to make tea and serve in the office he says it's one of the few jobs he could find that didn't need paperwork proving his identity he doesn't have any but that was not always the case . and. i came to khartoum from the south in nine hundred seventy six and had sudanese citizenship and married from here off to south sudan became independent i stayed here but lost my nationality is sudanese i need relatives to prove my claim i'm sell sudanese to get the nationality but all my close relatives

are dead south sudan gained independence from sudan in twenty eleven the suspension most part of a deal signed between the sudanese government and the southern opposition after the longest civil war in african history hundreds of thousands fled the violence and headed north many seeking refuge in sudan's capital had its own. despite as the fear interim period prior to south sudan's independence from sudan the issue of who has the right to wish nationality was not discussed until after south sudan gained independence as a result of their hundreds of thousands of south sudanese here who haven't gone back to their country and many of them have not documents to prove their identity so dense bureau statistics says more than fifty thousand of these are in sudan with no legal documents to prove their identity sudan's government recently amended its nationality law to reduce that number that the constitution of the law says sudanese born to sudanese mothers to have the right to citizenship this will result not just legal but also social issues for those without citizenship but for the thousands who counts qualify for sudanese citizenship things are more complicated.

people are basically left up in the year and they need to either have a legal status provided by the government here or some kind of identification provided by their own country so they can get jobs so that their kids can stay in school so that they can get residency in the country they're in. james says with his wife being sudanese he will continue living in huts home without any documentation but he hopes that one day he and many others will. be recognized by either side and finally gets a paper that will prove who they are people morgan al-jazeera. it is good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to here in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera a suspected gunman has been charged in the u.s. off from mass shooting at a synagogue in pittsburgh eleven people were killed and four police officers are among the wounded right now. her former pentagon.

own apartment or automatic weapon gunshots are now or are. you will get more are. forty six year old robert bowers is facing twenty nine charges over the attack during a baby naming ceremony at the tree of life synagogue if convicted he could be executed we have to bring back the death penalty they have. to be right. they have to pay the ultimate price they can't do. they can't do this to our country we must draw in this and say very strongly never again saudi arabia's public prosecutor as usual arrive in istanbul to discuss the killing of jamal has shogi to prosecutors want eighteen suspects to be extradited from saudi arabia but the kingdom wants them tried at home. a

constitutional crisis is deepening in sri lanka the sacked prime minister is refusing to leave his official residence one of the crown singer insists his dismissal by the president was illegal the thai billionaire owner of leicester city football club is fit to died in a helicopter crash. problem helicopter came down in a car park outside the club stadium after a game on saturday the club though hasn't yet confirmed that he was on board the leaders of france germany turkey and russia have made little progress during talks on the future of syria and istanbul they emerged with a joint statement on saturday saying that they're committed to finding a political solution to the seventy a war but they've been unable to agree on how to end the conflict the core issue in the talks is the future of syria's last remaining rebel held province this government is threatening to retake the area despite a recent deal it's rise ation agreement and those are the headlines here on

al-jazeera the news continues after today's edition of inside story next. what impact will jamal khashoggi have on the middle east the u.s. says it undermines stability the saudis describe the global outcry over the killing as hysterical so who's the real catalyst for the turmoil in this volatile region this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm wrong on the murder of saudi journalist of all

khashoggi in turkey is threatening the stability of the entire middle east that's the view of the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis who says washington is ready to take more action against those responsible these about it's already in place for twenty one suspects in the case saudi arabia is under mounting pressure to explain exactly what happened at its consulate in istanbul it's reported that the evidence links the murder of khashoggi directly to the office of the crown prince mohammed bin solomon a charge riyadh denies we'll get to all guests shortly but first let's hear from the u.s. secretary of defense from a conference and behind when people can speak can be heard calling for peace and for respect for all that terrorist message of hatred and violence is not embrace with our collective interests. unwavering respect for human rights in mind the murder of democracy in a diplomatic facility much concern us all greatly. as u.s.

secretary of state pompei oh she dated the united states does not tolerate that kind of ruthless action to silence it took a show good journalist through violence. 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 as president noted we're going to get to the bottom of it. at the same conference saudi foreign minister i'll criticize media reactions occur. urging people not to jump to conclusions 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 to 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 turkey wants the suspects extradited to stand trial and all her. says they'll be dealt with in saudi arabia. on the issue of the extradition of the individuals of saudi nationals to detained and sundry if the investigation since had given and they will be prosecuted in saudi arabia i think that's bringing all punishable joining us in doha and sorry professor of political science at qatar university in kuwait city shift professor of political science at q eight university and in washington d.c. hillary mann leverett foam at u.s. state department and white house official welcome to you all i'd like to start with you hillary mann leverett in washington d.c. regional stability is threatened that's the view from the u.s.

secretary of defense what does he mean by that that that's a great question there is not a lot of certainty here with the messages coming out of the administration whether it's secretary mabus in bahrain very recently or the messages coming out of secretary of state pompei or president trump himself but for secretary mabus to say that the killing of. represents potentially a threat to regional security is an almost unprecedented statement from a sect a u.s. secretary of defense about saudi arabia that kind of language is usually almost always reserved for in today's age for iran or you know that decades ago for iraq under saddam hussein so it's a number precedented use of the term. to threaten regional stability whether that means that saudi arabia is an immediate imminent threat that could be the subject of a united nations security council resolution or it's just secretary mabus trying to

lay down the marker that washington in the white house are very upset about saudi behavior that's unclear but it is on an almost unprecedented phrase to use about saudi arabia coming from washington moglen sorry what do you think. the secretary of defense's comments said it was you know almost unprecedented to hear that kind of language do you agree yes i agree and it's certainly quite peculiar that this happens in behind and effectively a proxy of saudi arabia this happening there with a good friend secretary saying this very bluntly on the stage shows that there is a clear indication by the trumpet misdirection that unless the saudis take a real initiative in solving this issue in a matter that would say face for the american mistaken as it would for the house of so there's no light at the end of the tunnel and i think that there are a couple of messages that went out from the white house from matters now pompeo before that and they're even the way that the administration has been dealing with

this on a diplomatic level it is very clear that the americans are quite unhappy with what's happening they cannot sweep it under the rug as they usually do and they need the thousands to do something about what does that something look like hillary mann leverett see you what does that something that the u.s. administration should do what does that look like. well that's also a question that is being debated for the first time in my memory and i have served in and out of the u.s. government for more than for more than twenty five years it's the first time that there is a real discussion is sharp discussion in washington about what you do about saudi behavior we did not even have a discussion like this after the nine eleven attacks back in two thousand and one but for the first time you have people on the hill on capitol hill in the senate like senator lindsey graham essentially calling for regime change and he's not the only one you have voices like that on capitol hill you have some of those even within the u.s. intelligence services and even within the u.s.

defense department this is really an unprecedented level of discussion and quit a really critical eye toward saudi behavior and it's that the jamal khashoggi killing in itself is horrific but that the concern is that it's really the last straw that saudi behavior under crown prince mohammed bin some on whether it's toward yemen towards cuts or toward canada syria the whole range of issues is an example of or really. the epitome of reckless behavior that endangers u.s. interests so in terms of what the united states is is going to do or can do the options are not there not great for the united states there's concern here about losing or do you rallying the economic relationship the military relationship but for the first time there is a real question about whether the united states can continue to support the ascension of crown prince mohammed to become king that is really an unprecedented discussion inside washington again usually reserved for discussions about iran or

decades past about iraq under saddam hussein but that is one of the questions being discussed the other is what other kinds of sanctions can be imposed that would not hurt the united states economically there really aren't that many are there any other kind. didn't diminish in a visit for example to not have as many political or military visits and again secretary mad as going to the region going to bahrain not going to saudi arabia is an important signal of u.s. and happiness but there's not that much the united states can do practically that's under discussion here the real remarkable thing is that there is even discussion in plight company about whether or not the united states can support the ascension of crown prince mohammed to become become king of saudi arabia let's bring shift in here from kuwait city we seem to be hearing that the options are limited for the u.s. in terms of what they can actually do well so hearing that it's

a very difficult to support the ascension of crown prince mohammed bin solomon to the rule throne what's your view do you think the options are limited or do you think the u.s. needs to get tough and stop the ascension of the crown prince it's very hard to to see what their action things will go. or i can see is that the assassination the way it happened of your mother has opened. an entire new remick situation that so many questions are us and this does have. regional implications on human rights if you go back to two thousand and eleven that up a few lation is one to change one to democracy one to fight dissipation wanted to have a say and wanted to be able to say that opinion and yet be protected and that particular arab spring was messy brutally was. kind of

a contest of illusion came against it so what happened was. does that is that you might it is a major issue in that of well and today and so the every. module and so on sorry let me bring you in here it seems to be that there are several discussions going on there is the human rights violations there is ascension and there is what the u.s. can really do just this prison with an opportunity to really press its case when it comes to the blockade for example with the u.s. and with saudi arabia what discuss that if you well let me just say one thing in the beginning which is that it's very difficult to link the two cases together the assassination of the and the blockade and got that many people have been trying to do that through saying that saudi arabia has requested qatar to mediate between it and turkey i don't see this happening if there's no easy explanation for these rumors but it's there certainly seem to be only rumors however that certainly

a halt to the saudi and iraqi project in the region is going to be beneficial for a couple one of the victims of. saudi. that's a. movement in the region we've seen how the saudis and the mighty bookit of qatar we've seen how they went to war in yemen now they've done a lot of things in the region however that it will certainly be beneficial for what i think is you know some tightening of the boats around saudi arabian especially around have been sad man himself however that is also an incident of the they look at the moment for qaddafi and how do you moment for half of what i said at the time it's not unprecedented meaning that these two incidents also occurred in a similar fashion the new thing here is that this is happening not when a leader that has been there for a while that has been understood to be against weston dr against western wishes but this is somebody who is a close ally to washington who was a close ally to the west who considered himself to be

a former marketing himself actually in the west as somebody who can exact change in saudi arabia that is to make it more similar to the western context so. certainly it is a chance to wear some tensions. in the region however there is no direct contact between what is happening to that day the a now and the situation with other well let's take a look at the region global attention has been focused on a number of issues in the middle east by includes the war in yemen which began in two thousand and fifteen and has saudi arabia and the united arab emirates heading a coalition fighting who view rebels leading to what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis last year saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain imposed a land sea and air blockade on got there which continues today threatening the unity of the gulf cooperation council and tensions been growing between saudi arabia and iran with each other accusing the other of interfering in arab country.