a u.s. election the president it appears has decided that there is no electoral advantage to talking about the story and it appears he is waiting until after the vote given the controversy all nature of the story and the fact that it could play into the minds of the voters when they make their decision when it goes time when it's time to go to the polls. let's go straight back to turkey and to istanbul straight television news lines coming out from the wires certainly that the turkish prosecutor asked saudi arabia who sent killers i mean it is a fundamental question who made that order and who is being protected. exactly right and the turkish president has in the last ten minutes been reported is speaking to his pile is party at the parliament in ankara there he said that he briefed the leaders of france and germany fairly on the investigation but he said the game is being played to protect someone in saudi arabia no he has in the past

pointed the finger at the crown prince mohammed bin soundman he wasn't explicit at this time rome but certainly that would be the implication of his comments he believes that the saudis aren't forthcoming they're not giving all the information in case this creates the picture that points specifically in one direction and causes embarrassment political discomfort and international outcry against one person in particular so he is not happy with the way the saudis are handling this investigation he may not know as we've been reporting that this statement from eighteen of the people currently being held in saudi arabia have no been handed over to the chief prosecutor here in istanbul they will have to translate that from the arabic into turkish and then go through it to see what the stories match from the information that they have and also if it matches up with the statements of the taken from more than forty local stuff for the of interviewed in the days after

jamal khashoggi initial disappearance and as we know we know it was his killing and so present and the one being very strong again we know that he has spoken to mohammed bin salman just in the last few days there was an impression given by mohammed bin selman that things had been slightly smoothed over certainly. with his most recent public comments one on saturday and then again today president at the one is definitely saying that there is a problem the saudis are being open and transparent and he thinks the reason they're doing that is to protect someone back in saudi arabia the person who may well have given the order to kill jamal khashoggi for the moment we'll leave it there and thank you. the prime minister. has spoken to protesters who've gathered outside his residence that he's been refusing to leave since the president decided to replace him and it's with is our correspondent he joins us live now from colombo burned what seems to be going on behind you. well so the end of the street

behind me is where ousted prime minister randell wickramasinghe has been holed up is the official prime minister's residence and he's been refusing to leave this is the what is ending now is a very large protest many many thousands of people here in colombo protesting outside that residence when wickramasinghe out of print prime minister came out to speak to them they want parliament to be reconvene what's happened is that wickramasinghe has been fired by the by sri lanka's president serious cena and replaced by former president mahinda rajapakse and everybody here says that is unconstitutional because for lanka's constitution has been changed it gives power to parliament to take power away from the president and the prime minister who has a parliamentary majority is the one who should be anointed made prime minister the protesters said to say the president ignored that and he's also suspended parliament the suspension being while parliament remains suspended the appointed

prime minister rajapaksa can gather support and get enough people on his side to show that he has a parliamentary majority so but everybody here very uncomfortable very unhappy about that they. call these people to out on the streets to protest and to protect democracy he says because he is the legal prime minister so of course as you say parliament has been suspended for two weeks so that the incoming prime minister can do rajapakse can gain the numbers to convince the public at large that he does have a parliamentary consensus it's not unusual for sri lankan politicians to switch sides. what's the general vibe you're getting on the ground as to whether that is a reality or could be a reality. well before this happened the understanding was that the prime minister we were missing a commanded a coalition and that coalition had

a majority now rajapaksa says no i've got enough m.p.'s while the people here are challenging him to say we've got enough m.p.'s why is parliament suspended reconvene parliament now and even the speaker because parliament has presented a list signed by more than one hundred twenty odd m.p.'s saying the parliament should be reconvene now the suspicion is in this been plenty of tweets about this from foreign ministers and m.p.'s is that in fact m.p.'s are being paid off they're being paid being given money to support the incoming prime minister rajapaksa now there is no obviously there's no evidence of that but that is the claims being made by some m.p.'s cash is changing hands to common support rajapaksa highly inflammatory controversial allegations with people to make what they say that's the only way that he could get this support for the moment we'll leave it there thank you but it's with our correspondent in colombo. bangladesh and have agreed to begin returning ring of refugees to rakhine state by mid november

fifteenth senior officials from me and more are now in the bunker there she comes out of darker to discuss the plan they're due to visit the refugee clones in talks is bizarre later last year nearly a million refugees fled what the un calls a campaign of violence by the me and love military rights groups are demanding that any repatriation must be voluntary and dignified. it's been revealed to the indonesian which crashed on monday had technical problems the day before and its pilots reported more issues just before the boeing seven hundred seven went down with one hundred eighty nine passengers and crew on board deep sea divers are searching for the black box recorders of the lion air flight where in hay reports from jakarta piece by piece search and rescue teams bring back what they're found floating on the java sea id cards passports and other personal items belonging to some of the one hundred eighty nine people on board are being sorted.

body parts are being taken to a nearby hospital where relatives have the harrowing task of making identifications that most people had a thing that our family still hoping she survives we still have a big hope for that but if she did not survive we pray that her remains can quickly be discovered so we can take her home to be buried. finding out what happened in the final moments of lion air flight six one zero and why it crashed into the sea soon after takeoff is likely to take a long time no matter what. my father was on board but we still don't know we're still hoping for the best because there hasn't been an official statement from lion air so we are still hoping for the best but increasingly speculation is turning to a problem with the instruments in the cockpit giving false readings lion air has confirmed there was a technical problem with the plane before it took off from bali to jakarta on sunday it says the issue was fixed but during that flight the pilot reported

problems with the flight control system and satellite data collected by independent flight monitoring websites shows unusual fluctuations in speed and altitude soon after it took off from bali the situation stabilized in lyon is says the problem was fixed again when it landed in jakarta and it was cleared to take off on monday morning it crashed some twelve minutes after it left the indonesian capital small pieces of debris being found but the search for the main wreckage continues how the new area today we've adjusted our calculations and widened our search areas to eighteen point five kilometers on the java sea more than eight hundred people are involved in the search for debris bodies and clues to what happened to lion air flight six one zero wayne hay al jazeera jakarta. into nazir at least twenty people have been wounded after a suicide bomber blew herself up in the capital tunis fifteen policemen are among the injured the country has been under a state of emergency since twenty fifteen when dozens of people were killed in

a series of isolate tax. cuts for everybody to do i regret to say that security personnel are always paying the heavy toll paying it in the blood i am sure of officials will identify the causes and consequences such attacks undermine the state its authority and state i believe any gathering must be licensed as it is a right guaranteed by the constitution we thought were driven terrorism out of our cities in two decades yet it is now in the heart of the capital city. hall david chaytor joins us now from tunis with the very latest david what seems to be the reaction to that suicide attack now. well as you can imagine amongst the ordinary people here one of shock and dismay the bloodshed has returned to the streets of the capital now the tunisian president be said c.

is actually on a trip to germany to meet angela merkel at the moment and he perhaps best summed up the the feeling and the mood here he said that essentially they thought they had defeated terrorism and driven them out of the cities and into the caves as he put it but now once again they have returned to the very heart of the capital now this is extraordinary because we haven't seen any of these terrorist attacks like this since twenty fifteen the country as you said is under a state of emergency in twenty fifteen there were scores of people killed in a series of attacks including many british tourists on the beach resort now since then they thought that they have actually managed to control this threat mainly coming from i saw all the so-called islamic state and militant groups in neighboring libya but it does show you how easy it is to mount these sort of

attacks now the woman involved a thirty year old who set off the grenades at the police checkpoint is from an eastern coastal city she told her parents that she was going to tunis to look for a job and it's not known that she has any affiliations with any extremists and there has been no claim so far of any responsibility but just shows you how difficult it is for the authorities for the special forces for the police to actually try and control this so a deep sense of dismay and shock here in chino is indeed for them we'll leave it there david wait for more updates and come back to you as one thank you. well we've been given another snapshot of our impact on the planet turned its alarming conservation group the worldwide fund for nature says humans have brought about cataclysmic destruction to biodiversity it says populations of mammals birds fish reptiles and amphibians declined by sixty percent between one thousand nine hundred

seventy and twenty fourteen the largest losses almost ninety percent were seen in central and southern america the organization says humans are squarely to blame but to with habitat destruction overfishing and overhunting all having an impact on all of this isn't just having an environmental effect the w w f highlights how nature provides goods and services worth about one hundred twenty five trillion dollars each year. well for more of this i'm joined by marco teenie in switzerland via skype he's the director general of the world wide world wildlife federation good to have you with us on the program it seems from your findings that man is the greatest threat to biodiversity of the planet so how concerned should we be. yes there definitely are human activities that they want to blame there is no no escape there and all the issues that you just mentioned from the forestation overfishing

color if bleaching climate change of course extinction are all driven by our growth in population particularly our acceleration of consumption of natural resources you know the good things is that the good news perhaps is that this generation is perhaps the first one to actually know exactly what the situation is on the problems and frankly begin to understand the consequences and as you say it is something that we should be worried because it is not just about preserving they want it for wildlife that we share the planet with them we have a moral responsibility to share the planet and it was exposed on the single so i don't mean to drop specific both on land and sea are alarming in your report and it's worrying but is it easy but is it easy just sort of to focus on one area that needs particular attention right here right now. yes i think of the three key dimensions that are actually driving the whole impact on nature the first one is

the way we produce we generate our own energy so the climate change and so shift or unusual energy is a must and we have a police agreement that drives the government and corporates in that direction which is exciting and encouraging the second one is our we produce our food today the major impact on the on the on the planet is due to for production conversion of forest and the utilization of besides and pretty risers and so finding ways to produce food with less resources with less imports with less besides and water and land and it is possible through the economic g. and through gaiter of change both in terms of production but also the way we consume food so changing the system is fundamental to in this battle and thirdly is how we invest our money financial flows to support the wrong development model and in that we could actually be redirected to support clean energy and sustainable food production for example so it's about achieving our money between what we need

to produce to sustain ourselves and to develop but also what we need to protect in terms of forest and ocean and rivers and atmosphere and by diversity to manage to maintain those systems that frankly provide every day to as many important service is a treat and the water menace instance or indeed organizations like yourself that we highlight the issues of when we have periodic climate change conferences and small gains and promises can easily be reneged on as we've seen under pressure from politicians and i can be the real deal breaker when science is being rebuffed and people people power ignored. yes and that's why we're calling for so we see no other progress with it various agreement we know is not enough we know we're not achieving it. fast enough but definitely climate change now is

at the top of the political and corporate agenda and ease is part of the dialogue in society and it's but the problem is the first step to resolving all nature lost ocean forests rivers but where's the we're not there yet we don't understand the implications fully we take nature for granted we need to begin to realise that nature is so important to us as important as climate change and we need a new deal for nature like we had it for climate embarrassed is what we're asking for by twenty twenty obviously what does happen for the moment to mark a lamborghini from the world wildlife federation joining us from switzerland thanks so much for your time sir australia's east coast has become a global deforestation hotspot the w w f says that part of the world is likely to lose three million hectares of trees in the next fifteen years eroding animal habitats such as the koalas under thomas reports now from port stephens. they're one of two animals australia is known for but unlike kangaroos koala

numbers of fulling fast cars kill them as do dogs and disease but the central cause one that lies behind all those threats is human destruction of the places koalas live forcing them closer to people and each other it all comes back to habitat loss if quality has lost habitat they have to come down search for habitat which then makes them have to cross the road so this is set to both being hit by cars and attacked by dogs as well north of sydney this small rehabilitation center is about to be transformed into a full koala hospital costing two million dollars the state governments of new south wales will pay for it but that's the same government say campaigners which is allowing even encouraging the destruction of koala habitat where are incredibly appreciative that we're getting this hospital we need this hospital but the laws that allow the habitat clearing and it's give on one hand on the other last year

new south wales relaxed laws controlling the amount of land farmers can clear of trees as a result of the new report blank clearing rates have tripled those behind the report say that if current trends continue while as could be extinct in the wild in new south wales by twenty fifty it's really shocking and it's certainly within our power to stop but if we don't stop habitat destruction we will be the ones that will save these animals in the few in the wild for the last time you south wales environment minister turned down a request for an interview but the state government says old lang clearing laws were too restrictive bombing and development does not need to threaten koalas but this patch of wetland forest north of sydney illustrates the subjective nature of the decisions its own by the education department of the state government which doesn't need it for a school so two years ago sold it to a developer after environmentalist start. petitions and campaigns the state

government said it made a mistake and is now trying to buy the land back for more than it was sold one part of government doesn't communicate with the other before any government to comment on this post to. other government departments and ask if you want it nobody asked the department of environment as far as we know do you want this land the more land the disappears the more animal hospitals will be needed andrew thomas al-jazeera port stephens australia the storms in italy have killed at least eight people including a woman whose home was footway by a mudslide there of been widespread flooding in venice the water levels have risen to a ten year high within a few minutes we'll have the weather with rob but still ahead here on al-jazeera all change in berlin but who will replace german chancellor angela merkel when she steps aside and in sports in tamil and keep eventis in the sights of the top of the italian league some of the school later.

four days ago super typhoon need to went through pan you may have seen this already it was pretty devastating stone soup to the time and it since then gone directly westward towards the philippines where it currently sits now there is some good news in this story having been a super typhoon and with a very visible eye it's has reduced his strength to some degree and it's cloud frame as well but it's still covering all of resolve it's just the eye of it what there is left is gone to the western side now all i can find so far from the point of view of manta ray in this form is not that impressive but one hundred millimeters it has not finished the winds will run about one hundred forty kilometers per hour typically and gusting rather more than that but it has a course to follow obviously is where it sits in the moment and has generated waves

of ten metres in height the other a little less now this going across luzon got about a day to day's worth of battery on the western side of northern luzon bringing a storm surge of two or three meters quite possibly and persistent rain and it's usually rain that does the damage in the northern philippines or indeed in china because the course takes it towards the coast of its two next twenty four hours we just look at the rain the total could end up being four hundred millimeters. in the eighteen seventies hundreds of own genes were banished to the farthest corner of an empire where their descendants still live today. my grandparents died with a heavy heart they left everything behind. we would claim our jury and identity it's always present inside as this french territory in the pacific prepares to vote

on independence al-jazeera world tells the story of exile in new caledonia one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for us as you know it's very challenging the ability but the globe because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

welcome back you're watching. it's the news hour with me to hold the reminder of our top stories turkey's president says he believes some sort of game is being played out over the murder of jamal khashoggi in order to protect someone most of the one also says he's spoken to the leaders of germany and france and brings them all new details on the killing of the saudi journalist sources have told al jazeera that the saudis signed as handed over testimonies of eighteen suspects being held in the kingdom to turkey. also asked a straight line can prime minister. addressed protesters outside the official residence he's. if you seem to believe his supporters are demanding parliament be reconvened president may be parlance or santa a place to work of a single with former president rajapaksa and suspended parliament for two weeks so you could gain support. and have agreed to begin returning within the refugees to

rakhine state by mid november fifteenth senior officials from the in the bunker that she capital dhaka to discuss the plan last year around a million rohingya refugees fled what's the un has called a campaign of violence by the meanwhile. now the race is on for the top job in europe's biggest economy the german chancellor angela merkel announced that she'll leave politics the end of her term in twenty twenty one that he barbara has the latest for us from berlin one wonders what the reaction to this news has been a team also hell of a lot of the headlines in the newspapers here in germany this morning a predictable calling it the end of an era one of the mainstream papers saying that the country will grow so miss i'm going to merkel even though she has been increasingly a divisive figure here in germany there's no surprise that she's not planning to try to run again for chancellor in twenty twenty one but the surprise on monday was

that she says she will not try to. become party leader again at the end of this year it's been the analysts are saying here that she wants to try to ensure a smooth transition but big question marks over who show handover to big question marks over how her party is going to fare in future they've just lost a couple of regional elections this year rather they've just perform badly in those elections seen their support slumped but so too have the center left social democrats so there's a lot to play for right now in germany but for now people are looking back at what angela merkel has meant for the country and exactly how strong a party she leaves. i'm going to make calls message to leaders of her party the christian democrats all the c.d.u. is clear it's time to begin a new chapter on monday she announced to nobody's great surprise that this would be her last term as germany's chancellor but she also plans to quit as party leader by the end of the year it needs to be tough because i think i will not put myself

forward again as candidate for the c.d.u. chair secondly this fourth term is my last as german chancellor at the federal election in twenty twenty one i will not stand again as the child's a candidate you know as a candidate for the bundestag and for the sake of protocol i won't seek any further political offices. i'm going to merkel's been chancellor for thirteen years stepping down as leader of her party a position she's held for nearly two decades means the race will soon beyond to find a replacement allowing a new figure to build a profile ahead of the next election the announcement came after merkel's c.d.u. experienced big losses in a regional vote in the western state has said the party came first and will still be in charge along with the greens but it saw an eleven percent drop in support it was the second electoral setback in as many weeks for merkel's conservative alliance and nationally her partners in government the social democrats have threatened to end what's known as the grand coalition if the downward trend

continues her party has tolerated her because she was able to negotiate coalitions where they would be the strongest partner that's been less so sense the last elections the social democrats would only join the government if they got the post of foreign minister and finance minister and many in the party say well you sold us through cheaply of course any period of political uncertainty here in germany will also be a worry for the european union at a time when the blocks dealing with a budget crisis in italy breaks it and not least rising populism across the continent that's why they'll be paying close attention to which figure the c.d.u. lines up as merkel successor and where the main challenges come from. and to our top story in the murder to market share we're going to throw it over to alan fischer in istanbul we know that the saudi chief prosecutor job i believe has left alan but also lines coming from the turkish president where he and we're quoting is saying that. murder needs to be solved with there's no point in trying to protect

the culprits. exactly the prosecutor is just left he spent by my estimate just one hundred minutes in there he didn't appear in public this time around the car was taken into the compound itself and then his convoy disappeared police escort of course local media chasing him trying to get a picture but the window was darkened so now he has been to the scene of the crime he's been able to see where jamal khashoggi was killed he spent a good hundred minutes there he was maybe talking to some of the staff inside the building it would give him a better idea and of course he is the man who is overseeing the cum investigation of eighteen people who are being detained in saudi arabia in connection with the killing as for the president's comments he's been speaking to his party in ankara it's a weekly meeting and he said that saudi arabia is playing a game essentially suggesting that they're not being open enough in an

investigation that they said would be open and transparent and he believes they're doing that to try and protect someone you know in the past he's pointed the finger at mohammed bin salman the crown prince of saudi arabia he wasn't so explicit this time but we know that previous statements he's made since the phone call he had with the man known as m b s he's been much more strident in this criticism of saudi arabia given the fact that the saudi arabia was initially reluctant to hand over the statements of the people who are currently being held in saudi arabia that somehow there was a change of mind in the last twelve hours or so overnight. clearly the chief prosecutor took some advice from senior figures in riyadh those statements were handed over at a meeting with the chief prosecutor of istanbul in the last couple of hours they are all in arabic so they'll have to be translated but the turks will consider that when a big win but a big win as they move this investigation forward but the outstanding question

still remains where is the body of jamal khashoggi for the moment i will leave the course with further updates through the day thank you. in bangladesh opposition leader has had her five year jail sentence double to ten she was sentenced in february for stealing money from an orphanage where she was prime minister for the second time she was convicted on monday misappropriating three hundred thousand dollars from the charity zia who plans to run in the general election in december says the corruption charges are aimed at keeping her out of politics the japanese steel company or a japanese steel company has been ordered to compensate for south koreans for their forced labor during world war two south korea's supreme court ruled that nippon steel must pay each plaintive eighty seven thousand dollars the company has called the ruling regrettable japan occupied south korea from one thousand nine hundred

ten to one thousand nine hundred forty five and is accused of never fully apologizing for paying reparations to south koreans who forced to work without pay well for more on this i'm joined now by thomas pena gucci in tokyo via skype he's a professor at q university and a special advisor to the cabinet of shinzo rb nice to have you back on the program sir a real diplomatic crisis in the offing despite an international agreement post-war to normalize relations and iron out these issues. indeed in nineteen sixty five both nations came to agree on a pretty that settled these problems completely and finally the wording completely finally. no room for misunderstanding nonetheless the decision that the court of south korea reached that today is

a breach of the promise that they made so. south korea means that they are not paying attention to the internationally accepted norm and it is extremely regrettable and totally acceptable well just briefly that if the courts have deemed this. such a way forward for those looking for reparations do you think the floodgates are about to open it is not something that the japanese government can do anything about it is not something indeed any japanese company can do anything about it is in the sole domain and responsibility of the south korean government to remedy the damage done to the bilateral relationship because it is. it is their responsibility that the south korean government mosse to call

a. pay attention to. so long as it is a player responsible player accepted international regime international laws how significant is the case when we've seen similar cases about compensation apologies for example from south korean comfort women highly contentious issue in both countries often causing diplomatic. when these women raise their voices in seoul and beyond. the complement is rather more complicated because over the last couple of years again both nations agreed to solve the issue completely finally and the reverse of lee and then south korea seems to be again moving the post goal post a little bit further in order for these promises. an able to be full filled

by the both parties and a south korean government. to something that their own government.