this by defending many with remarks considered massaging mystic racist and homophobic. tapped into voter anger over corruption crime and economic problems there is a bow reports from rio de janeiro that was until a few months ago j.d. wilson had his chances of making it to the presidency were slim now he supporters call him the meth and knife attack last month and the general disenchantment with the political class have propelled him to the presidency judge that we are here. finally we will put our beloved brazil above all else this government will be one of constitution democracy and freedom the says a pledge not of a posse it's not the vain empty words of a man but it's a promise to god freedom or make us a great nation what happened today in the polling places was not the victory of a party but rather the celebration of a country. also not always a former army paratrooper and an admirer of brazil's military dictatorship he said

that a good criminal is a dead criminal and has promised to clean the country of what he calls the red communist threat he supporters say he is the man brazil needs. first like the poor people in his very simple way i feel like everybody. hundreds of people have gathered out the idea it was not all that hard when they're chanting the national anthem and celebrating they say they want order and progress something that's written in the brazilian flag but they i meant me who fear that vote for not a selection is a threat to democracy. no told us he celebrates every election in brazil because he was banned from voting for twenty seven years during brazil's military rule. i cherish every election because it's our way of expressing l. selves and this election is more important than ever. of what's at stake and what's

at stake is our democracy. this is the first defeat of the workers' party in sixteen years when former president won the presidency. what we saw was an awakening of people as to what was at play in the selection precipice being put to the test we had twenty sixty one president dilma was being a beached we had the un for a president of president the failure to follow the un resolution we will forward with courage to take a listen to all corners of this country democracy is of value above all of us. has vowed to appoint former members of the military in cabinet and that he run the country with an iron fist analysts believe his election with presents a challenge do the brazilian situations with the passing of defend themselves against that schilens to the democratic way of doing things and what we've seen i think from the. electoral courts and some of the other instances makes me worry

that perhaps not. will take office in january his job will be to fulfill his promise to kick start brazil's economy and a crime wave that has already left thousands of people dead. well still ahead on al-jazeera. we will not be broken religious communities in pittsburgh remember the victims of saturday's synagogue shooting home of donald trump to do more. stopping illegal fishing we go on patrol with sierra leone's navy and it baffles a two hundred million dollars problem. hello

we've got some cold weather making its way towards japan at the moment we have got a fair bit of cloud just making its way across the south china sea secada seeing some of that wet weather the making all link weather system back across the sea of japan towards north korea ahead of that generate dry largely sunny with the well wetter weather there choose to across northern parts of japan you notice the further south not about it so twenty two celsius in tokyo that cloud and the cooler six is where little further south as we go on into a wednesday southern passage pan generally ok dry with some crisp sunshine there across the korean peninsula meanwhile out across china over the next day or so we'll see temperatures getting up to twenty nine celsius there in hong kong increasing cloud coming in can just see the arrival of typhoon utor making its way towards more than parts of the philippines and that'll just punch its way through was to go on into weather stay home kong still hanging on to the dry and sunny

weather but the philippines seeing some very very lively weather as we go on into the middle part of this week ill arrive with winds of around one hundred fifty from his per hour at times to whether they're very much in place through which tuesday and wednesday sunshine or showers to the south. south sudan is one of the last places on earth to harm beginning when disease a gruesome affliction that is affected millions and his injuries trying to stand out in the world as the only country we do almost all the cases from the world it is a huge response with no vaccine and no clue that this disease be on the verge of extinction you know where the problem we know what needs to be done if you gentlemen both being lifelines how to slay a dragon on al-jazeera. welcome

back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now turkey says saudi arabia is top prosecuted as a method the killing of journalist ji was premeditated this follows his meeting with turkish investigators in the stumble. hundred eighty nine people are missing feared dead after a passenger plane crashed into the sea off indonesia's coast traffic controllers lost contact with the lion air flight thirteen minutes after takeoff following a request from the pilot to turn back to jakarta. former army captain giant was so narrow as promising to take brazil in a radically new direction after winning

a beautiful presidential runoff vote despite upsetting many with remarks suddenness racist and homophobic also nado tapped into voter frustration over corruption and economic problems. and german chancellor angela merkel has decided not to run again for the chairmanship of the christian democratic union party merkel maintains she'll stay on as chancellor until the next election in three years time the party will meet next month to choose her successor both major parties in germany's governing coalition suffered heavy losses in the regional elections seen as a test for merkel preferred successor party secretary general. going to is a senior advisor at the political consultancy rasmussen global joins us now live from berlin good to have you with us so how much of a question mark does this development place on the merkel's future as chancellor.

so as you said if she gets through with her master plan that her secretary general who she appointed on the grid can come on board or will be her successor then i think everything is playing very well in ur scenario because then she has not to be afraid of being. be a victim of any kind of political coup because she's a very loyal secretary general and there would be no need for her actually to question the position of america less chancellor but have any of her former rival. world be the new chairman than could look very different how strong is her preferred successor right now. she's a very strong one she brings a lot of these items to the table which critics of merkel actually.

mention the story so she's she's catholic she's a mother of children she's much more conservative than anglo-american ever had been so therefore it would be a good fitting piece of puzzle actually to merkel and the two could be a very good team so in this regard she could remain chancellor until the end of the term and everyone was anyone expecting that she will not go for another term as chancellor of the twenty twenty saw and a best case scenario actually with this move she could bring her party up in the polls again and if that works out that would be a very great legacy for angela merkel improve once more what kind of a brilliant crisis manager she is how about keeping the coalition together the way it is this move leave that. that's

a very good question and the thing is so i have a very very exotic strata theory actually what she might do next so of course she's very worried about her coalition partner the s.p.d. but she's also worried about her partner within the christian union the bavarians sister party and maybe by taking sacrifice and stepping back as chairman of this party she could also make her coalition partner and partner in the christian union halls the whole for do the same step because she was the kind of political figure who started most of the rival to use within the coalition party which caused this bad image the grand coalition has and the first place so she what he was always refusing to do so by this step so she leads by example again it could save create a horse that actually i did it you can do it and then the only thing she should be worried about is the future of the s b d but i don't see the social democrats

leaving the coalition because they are really afraid of any kind of new elections all right thanks so much for your analysis on that or are going. members of the jewish community in pittsburgh of cold on the trump to denounce white nationalism in the wake of saturday's synagogue shooting the open letter says the president won't be welcome in the city and this he stops targeting minorities eleven people were killed when suspected gunman robert bowers burst into the building and opened fire kimberly how he joins us live now from washington d.c. with more so how is that story playing out today they can barely. right well certainly it is attracting attention as you point out this is a letter that is written by one jewish group in pittsburgh there are eleven names on this open letter but the group claims that it speaks on behalf of tens of thousands of liberal for aggressive jews across the united states and essentially

what it's saying is that the president is not welcome because they feel that his words and policies in their view have emboldened the white nationalist movement in the united states and that they are blaming him essentially for the massacre that occurred in pittsburgh because of his influence and policies and as a result they say he is not welcome in pittsburgh until he fully denounces white nationalism certainly the president did come out strongly condemning this act he has also come out in the past condemning similar marches that occurred in charlottesville and twenty seventeen but many have felt that he did not come out strongly enough because in the case of charlottesville he blamed the violence on both sides and that is why this group is saying the president has not fully denounced what they believe motivated this horrific act so they are essentially saying that what the president has done is emboldened these kinds of acts they cite the letter by robert powers who pulled the trigger in that synagogue in pittsburgh

in the final moments before he did do that he put a letter on social media claiming that this group that helps jewish group that helps refugees come to the united states is essentially diluting the american population and for this reason that's why he had to act to quote practice for tech to people and they cite this letter and they believe that president trump has emboldened this individual and that's why they say he is not welcome in pittsburgh or will even then thanks so much kimberly how can. sri lanka's new prime minister is assuming duties after his sudden appointment triggered a political crisis former president mahinda rajapaksa is replacing run away from a single who's refused to leave the official residence we could a missing go believes he still enjoys majority support but is unable to prove it because the president my three brothers that is saying are suspended parliament

president said the move was motivated by an assassination plot fernandez has this update from colombo. sri lanka's new prime minister my in the rajapaksa getting straight down to business in the building behind me the prime minister's secretary in colombo now here arrived a little while ago in his convoy to meet with the three armed forces jeeves and the chief of defense services basically getting down to work here on his first official day as the prime minister of this country now obviously the sacked prime minister saying that this is unconstitutional that he is the one that still holds the premiership and he is the legal prime minister he's basically saying he can prove his majority in parliament and justify that he is the prime minister if the house is convened a soon as possible now basically the parliament speaker carroll jayasuriya having made just that point to the president in a letter yesterday and today speaking to reporters he has said that these issues

must be resolved in the parliament that there is an attempt to take these issues onto the streets and warns that if that's the case blood will be spilled so carter just sort of striking home that point that things can turn ugly and making his point clear that if these things aren't handled in parliament basically the possibility of lives being lost being a very stark reality. the sea off the coast of west africa is rich in marine life but illegal fishing boats have been threatening stocks because sierra leone up to two hundred million dollars a year local fishermen say then that being destroyed they can't choose dwindling every day amid the dress reports. in search of illegal fishing trawlers. miles of the coast is a chinese vessel sailing very close to shore. it's not supposed to be there

so the navy went on board to check. a quick search and there was nothing suspicious on board. this is the operation command center it doesn't boast much in the way of high tech equipment and that's not the only problem the marine security service has we do not have the capability to really see a presence at sea so detect and are a strong do as i say results came in as have been taken advantage of this are. such comments not far away from the naval base to more chinese boats loiter goes operating the foreign fishing vessels know the limitations of a scenario in a neighborhood and maritime border just been a bone scan on the core ten nautical miles off shore and i think beyond that is exploited by beginning going fishing. but most illegal activities take place at night. at midnight they know we are not at sea the sneak into the i said. maybe

five o'clock in the morning then they go out again so the zones are allowed to face . only a few get court. during the night than even received a distress call from local fisherman. a citizens arrest has been bad we set out to be the capture for all of its chinese the vessel went deep into marine reserve destroyed fisherman's nets and a boat. at a small harbor in freetown complaints of attacks on small fishing boats frequent it's all taking a heavy toll on the locals in the last six months dozens of lost their means to a livelihood for good people without the job without fishing and their families for free or mahmud bhangra is unloading what he's caught and getting set for another long trip at sea and i would think and now we spend nine to ten days at sea to make

a reasonable catch he said of a day or two. nowadays there are fewer boats and the catch is a smaller the government acknowledges there is a problem this is. the best possible options for us. but with a poorly equipped and underfunded marine security service the polygyny of the country's resources will continue and hundreds of local fisherman will lose out. al-jazeera on patrol with a civilian maybe in the atlantic. let's take you through some of the headlines here and al-jazeera now turkey says saudi arabia's top prosecutor has admitted the killing of journalist show g.

was premeditated soudan didn't submit interviews from the eighteen suspects arrested in saudi arabia but says seven of them have admitted involvement in this development follows is meeting with turkish investigators in istanbul one hundred eighty nine people are missing feared dead after a passenger plane crashed into the sea off indonesia's coast traffic controllers lost contact with the lion air flight thirteen minutes after takeoff following a request from the pilot turned back to joe carter former army captain jay are both so not oh it's promising to take brazil in a radically new direction after winning a bitterly fought presidential runoff vote despite upsetting many with remarks deemed. racist and homophobic or so narrow tapped into a vote of frustration over corruption crime and economic problems. german chancellor angela merkel has decided not to run again for the chairmanship

of the christian democratic union party merkel maintains she will stay on as chancellor until the next election in three years time the party will meet next month to choose her successor both major parties and germany's governing coalition suffered heavy losses in the regional elections seen as a test for her preferred successors see the party secretary general sri lanka's new prime minister is assuming duties after his sudden appointment triggered the political crisis former president mahinda rajapaksa is replacing rather work from a single refused to leave the official residence. believes he still enjoys majority support in parliament but is unable to prove it since the present my three palace at the center suspended the law making assembly the president said the move was motivated by an assassination plot those are your headlines the news continues here

on desire after inside stories stay with us. after finally acknowledging jamal khashoggi his killing was premeditated saudi arabia sends its top prosecutor to turkey as pressure grows on riyadh to extradite the suspects will the two countries cooperate this is a story. hello and welcome to the program. it's been more than three weeks since journalist jamal

khashoggi walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul never to be seen again and with each passing day brings a new element so crime that shocked the world turkey one saudi arabia to extradite the eighteen men who have been suspected in this killing but saudi arabia incest they'll face justice in the kingdom this issue will likely top the agenda a saudi arabia's top prosecutor arrives in turkey the initial turkish inquiry has concluded that the killing was premeditated a fact saudi officials have taken some time to acknowledge turkey's president red chip types are the one is edging saudi arabia to disclose casualties remains and to explain who gave the order to kill them. 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 is 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 and here's what the saudi foreign minister had to say about turkey's request for the suspects to be extradited. on the issue of extradition of the individuals who saudi nationals to detain and sundry with investigation since her and they will be prosecuted in tanzania.

let's bring in our guests joining us on skype from amman adam kugel i'm middle east research at human rights watch in washington d.c. leon fresco a former u.s. department of justice official an international legal expert and from johannesburg also on skype rodney dixon international lawyer and co-author of a un report back in january that documented detentions in saudi arabia a warm welcome to you all i want to begin with rodney dixon in johannesburg the state's prosecutor the top legal official from saudi arabia is in turkey what is that about what meetings is he taking what's likely to be discussed with his turkish counterparts. so you sort of see looking to get what ever evidence they used liberal to take forward there's. supposed that investigation and prosecution in saudi arabia but diktat peak

question is whether if any evidence he's carried can be used to study investigate the case and prosecutor it properly. and to the very highest level wherever the evidence leads so those meetings the taking place as you say you did say i suppose that. investigation what do you phase about the investigation. well we don't know exactly what investigation has been going to take it the track record of saudi arabia in conducting investigations is that everything happens in secret people are detained or not marry where they are trials are held that on not open public and transparent so we don't know exactly what is going on and i'm like you too and hence the need to look at conducting this investigation and prosecution outside of saudi arabia where temple is properly scrutinized and where the world wouldn't know what has happened so we can get to the bottom of it let's bring more

cindy say hedley on frescoes on your head to our guest in johannesburg saying perhaps it shouldn't be held in either saudi arabia or turkey but somewhere else and the only way a fair and transparent trial may well take place do you agree with that. well i mean there are many people calling for a u.n. investigation either to respect the rapid to or order one of the commission set up and that would be the way that you would get to the highest level of assurance that that investigation was a proper one but you would still have the problem of needing the cooperation of both turkey and saudi arabia to get to the highest levels so in order to get back to be accomplished you're going to need all of the other countries in the world putting pressure on turkey and saudi arabia to cooperate with such an investigation and on the u.n. to hold such an investigation and so were many weeks away it seems like from getting to that level where we would actually have a u.n.

investigation and countries cooperating and we may never get there and so what you're likely to see are these hybrid investigations from both thirty and saudi arabia let's bring in oman and adam kugel adam you've studied the reason for a very long time why is it so difficult coding to a to guess to get a fair trial in saudi arabia or to saudi arabia in just the legal system look like . well the human rights watch has spent many years documenting the the major shortcomings of the saudi criminal justice system our analysis is based on years of study both ongoing trials of saudi human rights activists as well as interviews with prisoners several years ago in a saudi prison as well as most recently a series of interviews with pakistanis who had been through the saudi criminal justice system and then returned what we found and have found for many years is really alarming the saudi system frankly does not generally allow the lawyer at all

during the investigation phase so people are often detained and put in a room with an investigator and sometimes coerced or pressured to sign confessions those confessions then become the major piece of evidence presented against the defendant in court in addition the people that we interviewed especially for minor crimes would often sit in jail for many months not knowing where their case was in process then be suddenly drug before a judge who it essentially present them their pre-determined verdict and asked them whether they wanted to challenge it if they did want to challenge it they often went back to jail waited for however many more months not knowing what was going to happen they would be dragged back to court again and offer the same verdict to sign or try to present a defense so nearly all cases the people that we interviewed determined that it was better to just take the take the sentence that was determined in advance and that

was better than staying in jail indefinitely so we been we've been documented these due process violations for many many years the system itself you know for all the saudi cooling that the that it has an independent judiciary we just haven't seen that play out on the ground especially the high level trials of human rights activists and political dissidents the result seen very much cooked up in advance saudi arabia has capital punishment in some cases people are beheaded using a sort. nearly six hundred executions since the beginning of two thousand and fourteen a third of those for non violent drug related crimes. is this a high for even for state capital punishment. is the beheadings for you. to go in on a cruel form of punishment. yeah absolutely the in terms of executions human rights watch opposes all executions because of the inherent cruelty of finality of the punishment but even under international human rights law

you can make an argument that the method of execution public beheading or private beheading or a firing squad those are the three that we know of you know would essentially perhaps violate saudi arabia's obligations as a signatory to the convention against torture by causing pain before the before the person dies particularly in the event the gruesome event that the first sword swing does not does not fully decapitate the person and we see that he has of that happening and it's frankly very disturbing so in terms of the executions the method is a problem and the fact that they execute so many individuals for peaceful drug related crimes primarily the crime of smuggling drugs into the country under international human rights law this is this is something that that is that is prohibited executions can only be carried out for the most serious crimes and in this case. saudi arabia unfortunately has a lot to has a lot to answer for it's

a fairly bleak picture you have painted of the saudi arabian legal system that i want to speak to rodney dixon in johannesburg rodney is that any way because of the nature of the khashoggi murder because the world will be watching that the saudis will play this by the book that the saudis will introduce laws or even a legal system that allowed them to seek and be up to international standards simply because the world is watching. well i mean one can never say never but so far they haven't sure any commitment and resolve to do that and plus there's this long track record that we will highlight it so that far better approach which the forty two national committee to do you insist on. the process taking place outside of saudi arabia with that country corporation if they want to show that they are committed to resolving this they can do that through corporations and

pull the proceedings today and be internationalized so that everyone care and view them and be sure that all necessary safeguards are in place and also this must be stressed so that they best a geisha can not just sense on those people who travel to stumble but look at the powers behind it and where this was ordered that there can only be done through the first occasion that it has the necessary determination to follow that through it is most of my in the extreme in fact that that could be done in saudi arabia itself that the government investigating itself which is not going to have to let's bring in liam frost i have from washington d.c. if the investigation won't be fair in saudi arabia president or the want of turkey is insisting that the suspects be tried in turkey have a techie doesn't have

a great human rights record but it has an open legal system that's transparent on most accounts do you think trial in turkey would be an ideal solution. well the complication with the trial in turkey is twofold number one president has done some crackdowns on some cards and lawyers and dirty that casts some doubt on the idealism of turkey as a venue and then second you have the intersection of the issue of a turkish domestic chord but. doing activities within a diplomatic enclave and you know people coming in with diplomatic authorities and that's why you create one of these international tribunals or you were to go to the international criminal court or the international court of justice to resolve this then that international tribunal wouldn't have to deal with these issues of the interplay between.