secretary of state but the last that's been said to fry the white house is that the matter is still being considered no decision taken yet on what the u.s. is going to do and when it would appear that president trump is putting the matter on hold until after the mid-term elections meanwhile the united nations is asking that international experts be part of the investigation into jamal has showed is murder the un's human rights chief michel bash says they must be given full access to evidence and witnesses techies present time bedouin says a game is being played to protect someone involved in russia g.'s matter at a once comments come as turkish and saudi prosecutors met for a second time on tuesday to discuss the case alan fisher has a report from istanbul. arriving at the scene of the crime so the rebias top prosecutor only second day in istanbul came to the consulate who was killed earlier side job went in for a second day of talks with leading prosecutor in istanbul. the two met on monday

but both sides left unhappy at the level of detail each other was providing to ongoing investigations the saudis wanted any audio and video recordings that were made in the building behind me at the time of jamal khashoggi is murder the tox refused an exchange they requested the statements of the eighteen people come they being held in saudi arabia in connection with jamal khashoggi as murder to be handed over and then surely the saudis said no but after consulting with senior officials in the saudi government overnight they returned to a second we think on tuesday and handed the documents over. speaking in ankara turkey president said the saudis were doing what they could to protect senior figures linked to the killing. although. it is obvious that these eighteen people are involved in this killing you have to shed light on this and you will secondly your foreign minister made a statement what was that we delivered the body to a local cooperator therefore both the saudi foreign minister and other officials

should reveal this local cooperate or and the facts about these eighteen people let us know whoever this person is and we will find them the chief prosecutor spent more than ninety minutes in the consulate is no scene where the writer was killed but he says continuing pressure here in turkey and internationally to reveal what was done with the body alan fischer al jazeera istanbul. and former u.s. national security advisor susan rice has condemned mohammed bin salman for her show gay's killing rice delivered a scathing opinion piece in the new york times saying a saudi crown prince must go she wrote the young prince is almost certain comparability in mr skilling underscores his extreme recklessness and immorality want exposing him as a dangerous and unreliable partner for the united states she adds it should be the u.s. policy to sideline the crown prince in order to increase pressure on the royal family to find a steady every placement. is professor of law at rutgers university she says

president donald trump has been covering for the saudi crown prince and has also been trying to dismiss what happened to jamal khashoggi he's given him multiple opportunities to give alternative explanations i think trump is also going to try to push it in the direction of allowing saudi arabia to hold some form of kangaroo courts well there identifies them scapegoats and say they've are there's been an accountability the turks may not want the independent investigation also because it appears that they're using this is a negotiating point behind the scenes to see if they can get some kind of concessions with the saudi arabians there's been longstanding political tensions between the two countries and now saudi arabian is in a weak position at least in terms of its public image and how men been so man has many enemies inside his country because of what he did to be elites in terms of detaining them and forcing them to pay penalties but he also has many opponents

even in the west. twenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including the search and rescue operation continues deep sea divers hunt for the black box recorders of the plane that crashed off the coast of indonesia plus a first for the golf caught our fish may become a haven for those seeking political asylum and support we'll hear from the man in temporary charge of prey on the trade after they sacked their manager on monday. at the u.s. president has paid tribute to the eleven people killed in a shooting attack on a synagogue in pittsburgh donald trump visited the scene as the first you know as were held for the victims targeted by right wing extremists on saturday but have been protests against the president's visit with costa trying to denounce whites nationalism. or some pittsburgh. the u.s.

president and first lady were joined by the doldrums daughter and son in law who are jewish to see the scene of what's been called the worst on the semitic attack in u.s. history made no comment to the media as he visited the tree of life synagogue where the eleven congregants were killed by a man consumed by both anti semitism and the hatred of immigrants but far away demonstrations were organized both in memory of the slain but also in opposition to the presidential visit polls on monday a local jewish group had written an open letter warning that the president would not be welcome in pittsburgh until he denounced the extremism espoused by the government by tuesday tens of thousands of his part of the problem is not part of the solution he hasn't denounced white nationalism he hasn't treated any group that isn't like him with respect he's mistreated immigrants refugees muslims l.g.b. t.q. community women people with disabilities the list goes on and on people of color

it's. they can in the mall pittsburgh's man had asked the president to delay any visit until the dead were buried the funerals began on tuesday and will continue until the end of the week local leaders were in agreement between the mayor and all of us were just trying to cope with the the the the families in the community right now destroyed not time for you know any outside type thing to happen but not only did the president visit he's intensified his attacks on migrants a crucial part of his strategy to encourage his right wing base to go to the polls next week for the mid-term elections sheraton's the pittsburgh now we joined diplomat gary peterson is set to take over as the united nations special envoy for syria he has the an inviolable task of leading negotiations and the complex seven year war his predecessor stefan de mistura announced he was stepping down earlier this month diplomatic editor james means requests. this is the man chosen to be the

new u.n. special envoy for syria at the beginning of december veteran norwegian diplomat gap pedersen is expected to take over from stefan de mistura who's done the job for four years and once described it as almost mission impossible ambassador pedersen knows the middle east region and the u.n. well he served until two years ago as his country's ambassador to u.n. headquarters here in new york and is currently norway's ambassador to china he was also a senior u.n. official both in new york and in lebanon where he held key roles including at the time of the israeli war in two thousand and six syria's war has seen more than five and a half million people fleeing and the death toll well over half a million he'll be the fourth u.n. envoy the first the former u.n. secretary general the late kofi annan jury in his four years in the job stefan de mistura repeatedly said there was no military solution in syria but as his

diplomatic efforts limit on russia from the air and iran on the ground came to the aid of the assad regime turning the tide of the war former colleagues say ambassador pedersen is a good fit for the job a shrewd analyst who knows the region well but he inherits a very difficult situation president assad has used torture barrel bombs even chemical weapons in his campaign lasting more than seven years and he now holds many of the cards james pays out jazeera at the united nations. the united nations says conditions in myanmar as rakhine state are not yet conducive for refugees to return the warning comes after bangladesh and myanmar reach a deal to stop returning refugees by the middle of next month and yet montana geisha visited the bangladeshi capital dhaka on its way to visit campaign cox's bazaar around three quarters of a million rahane jeff fled the military crackdown in

a kind state lathi. we've seen the reports of the agreement between the decisions reach by the joint working group between bangladesh and myanmar u.n.h.c.r. which is a lead on the issues of refugees was not consulted on this matter. i think we can't stress enough that returns cannot be rushed or premature in the decision on whether or not for refugee to return should be determined by the refugees themselves when they feel the time in the circumstances or right. for u.n.h.c.r. the conditions in right kind state are not yet conducive for return to myanmar. and at the same time we're seeing a ring of refugees continue to arrive from rakhine state into myanmar which gives you give you an indication of the situation on the ground there is tanveer child three has more now from bangladesh capital dhaka. both bangladesh and man martin

sounded very optimistic they said there is a political will to repatriate the refugees the foreign secretary offered me on my or in a press briefing say they have set up the necessary facilitate to repetitive their own refugees he also went i had to say that they have trained the police and security personnel to shop against discrimination he also say their own ideas will be repaired they will have the provision to complain and sick justice for any kind of discrimination all repression sound optimistic harvard's contradictory to what the u.n. says in its recent investigative report genocide is still continuing in myanmar there are people still coming into buying with their stalls and saw them we spoke to refugees who spoke about atrocities being committed still allow international human rights bodies and un agencies are also saying then vironment is still not right or wrong and just to live a good turn back to their homeland more importantly their own. side and basic

without recognition of citizenship and timing them as and without having a third party to assure the security and willing to go under this circumstance back to me and we'll have to see if this is just a diplomatic brinkmanship or they're serious about taking back this refugees by bats starting from made november this year. indonesia's government has ordered the inspection of all boeing seven three seven max planes following monday's crash of a line f. light divers are searching for the wreckage and black box recorders after the second plane crash in indonesia's history the accident which came eighty nine people has reignited questions about the country's safety record when harry or some jakarta. piece by piece surgeon risk youth teams bring back what the 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 of the many. families 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 a 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. 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. today we've adjusted our calculations and widened our search areas to eighteen point five kilometers on the job a c. more than eight hundred people are involved in the search for debris bodies and clues to what happened to lie near flight six one zero wayne hay al jazeera jakarta and in news just in the associated press news agency says indonesia's on forces chief has said they have a possible location of the crash line as jet fuselage and that location has been

identified we'll have more on this when information becomes available let's head to america and thousands of venezuelans are lined up on peru's northern border hoping to enter before a deadline for acquiring residency ends almost half a million venezuelans have crossed into peru escaping the economic crisis back home but the peruvian government is trying to curb the numbers saying it will only grant residency to those who enter by wednesday the u.s. is warning that the situation in venezuela is a threat to regional stability. meanwhile more than a thousand people desperate to flee favi and violence back home have sought it arriving in southern mexico it's a second part of the so-called migrant caravan that's trying to make its way to the united states the u.s. has deployed more than five thousand troops at the border with mexico in a bid to stop the migrant caravan marching from central america present donald

trump has ordered the military to harden entry points along the crossings in arizona texas and california now many of the migrants marching towards the u.s. from honduras on journey military forces have been deployed near the border with to discourage people from making the crossing manya rapido has the latest from. legal observers in honduras say that between one hundred fifty and two hundred hundred migrants are leaving the country every day through the different border crossings into guatemala here at the border crossing between honduras and guatemala we're seeing small groups of migrants that come together and join and join other migrants from different parts of the country they'll make it over the border hitching rides from trucks that are passing by or simply walking moving their way toward the border between but then in mexico well they're joining even bigger groups ultimately making their way toward the u.s. southern border the honduran government is facing increased pressure from the united states to prevent more hundred nationals from leaving the country this is

part of the reason we're seeing an increased presence of military police and army this however doesn't appear to be dissuading migrants from crossing into guatemala either through this official border crossing where we are and or through the coffee fields in the surrounding area the vast majority of migrants say they are fleeing extreme poverty and poor economic conditions in honduras but despite these warnings from the united states saying that hundred migrants in central american migrants will not be allowed into the country and despite promises by the honduran government that might be migrants will be given jobs if they return to the country the general sense is that the constant flow of migrants leaving the country will only continue to head on this al-jazeera news hour more than fifteen thousand military press now from thirty one nations show off their osnos during nato owns annual war games and is force left to open a book of condolences for their nato no less killed in

a helicopter crash. hello again welcome back we're here across the south china sea we are now watching typhoon each to making its entrance it did pass over luzon in the philippines bringing very heavy rains and winds once a passed over a very big system actually the feeder bands extending all the way up towards taiwan now as it enters the china sea it has weakened but it is expected to regain some of its intensity as it makes its way to the northwest and then we think a peer towards the north so as we take a look what's going to happen here on thursday notice the storm pushing up towards the north heavy rain across parts of southeastern china heavy rain for also parts of taiwan once a pushes north then we're not quite sure where we could expect another landfall we do think it's going to weaken but still very heavy rain across much of this area

further down towards the south we are looking at very heavy rains across parts of malaysia as well as indonesia down towards riccardo really not looking too bad clouds coming into play over the last few days but still the temperature there we are looking at about thirty two degrees for you maybe a shower or two in the afternoon over here towards palo it is going to be a mostly cloudy day at twenty nine more showers are expected as we go towards thursday and then very quickly over here towards india we are looking at very dry conditions up to the north but anywhere from parts of bangladesh all the way down to sri lanka it is expected to be rainy. i mean his story is a for the people every week brings a series of breaking stories told through the eyes of the world's journalists these two voices journalists were one of the few journalists that were actually doing investigative work join you've been listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter and see the rights to

those stories but then he never publishes those stories they're listening post on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks. contradicts the information about swordfish officials have been giving for the past two weeks with detailed coverage this whole fluff area of mud with shops and houses and it was completely washed away along with the people who were inside from around the world the government doesn't call this a detention center but it's surrounded by barbed wire fences and it's exits are manned by armed guards.

you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera are with me for the back to bore a reminder of our top stories the u.s. defense secretary has strongly backed calls for since fire in yemen saying it's time to replace combat with compromise james mattis says u.n. special envoy to gammon will hold talks with the saudi coalition and with the rebels in sweden in november secretary of state my compatriot has also spoken saying it's time for peace. and the u.s. secretary of defense has reiterated that president donald trump wants answers into jamal khashoggi james mattis also maintained that saudi arabia has promised us that a full investigation will be conducted into the journalist's murder inside the saudi consulate in istanbul earlier this month and the u.n. says international experts should be part of that investigation into the murder of . turkey's president meanwhile says a game is being played to protect someone involved in to my show g.'s matter.

now saudi arabia has amassed one of the largest and best funded lobbying operations in the us the kingdom has spent millions of dollars to buy influence in washington but in the wake of murder and scandal some p.r. firms a drop in riyadh as a client white house correspondent kimberly hawk reports. for decades russia's support for saudi arabia has been broad and bipartisan but the conflict in yemen has many in congress questioning the u.s. saudi relationship. despite outrage over attacks on civilians death and suffering from a. humanitarian crisis there's been no congressional action to end u.s. support for saudi arabia's targeting of who the rebels in yemen here's why the saudis are arguably one of the most influential lobbies in all d.c. a new report shows the saudi government spent ten million on lobbying in twenty

sixteen. by twenty seventeen year donald trump was sworn in as president that number ballooned to almost twenty seven million contributions to political campaigns were also up and in a dozen cases firms representing saudi arabia met with and made cash contributions to u.s. politicians to buy influence all in a single day it's the thousands of times their lobbyists have contacted members of congress it's the four hundred thousand dollars in campaign contributions that we saw going from lobbying firms representing the saudis to members of congress in spite of that sort of spending the killing of. by saudi agents in turkey has lawmakers reevaluating their relationship this puts the white house under tremendous pressure to take action and congress is not going to forget about this the pressure will probably increase on congress to take swift action or will it

twenty sixteen many argue saudi lobbying led president barack obama to veto a law that would have allowed riyadh to be sued for its alleged role in the nine eleven attacks those working in the white house defended the veto the united states' government u.s. service members u.s. diplomats and even potentially u.s. companies are risk of being hauled into court. in countries all around the world still a top obama official feels the trumpet ministrations relationship with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has gone too far president trump's inexplicable infatuation with prince mohammed must end former national security adviser susan rice wrote in the new york times and he must recalibrate american policy so that it serves our national interests not his personal interests or those of the crown prince the white house says it's weighing its options and has not ruled out sanctions against the saudi government at the highest levels for the death of jim.

kimberly help at al-jazeera the white house and is not just u.s. political groups receiving large sums of saudi money so too are a number of the country's universities according to the associated press since twenty eleven the saudi government and state run institutions have paid out at least three hundred fifty four million dollars to thirty seven u.s. universities the money came from the likes of leading saudi research centers a national oil company saudi aramco and a national chemical company george washington university was the biggest benefactor receiving over seventy three million dollars that amounting to scholarship money provided through a program that pays thirty costs for saudi students in the u.s. in the wake of demolishor g.'s murders some schools are reconsidering their current dia's but many others say they will not refuse the funding they get from the kingdom as makes it more about the start of college and doc who joins us live from washington he's an international affairs analyst and president of the consulting firm cd global strategies group thank you very much for being with us. so to what

extent are these u.s. institutions whether it's universities businesses to what extent are they we thinking there ties with saudi arabia in the wake of the scandal. well i think at every level whether universities think tanks even members of congress are having to rethink their strategy towards saudi arabia because the incident has really really influence public opinion on saudi arabia but i think that we need to look at it in the proper context first of all yes there's a lot of money that saudi arabia gives to universities around this country but i don't think you can look at it as a one to one relationship meaning that x. amount of dollars goes to this university and they have x. amount of influence there are thousands of saudi students in this country at any given time and while and the long term this support of the universities will help

train and educate students that may be saudi when they finish their studies it's not something that's going to affect the u.s. saudi relations in the short or mid-term yeah a lot of university including northwestern benefit from saudi contracts what impact is this having on them this scandal. well i think it's more of an image. and that's why i think this idea of lobbying influence and public relations influence are saudis really complicated what i mean is the u.s. saudi relationship is multilayered it involves government to government business to business academic institutions to academic institutions things that don't have anything to do with each other however because they're showing incident and the attention that it is gotten because it is definitely a tragedy you're going to have some students that are going to think twice about taking a study abroad program at their universities funded by the saudi government or

doing an internship that may be funded by saudi private interest so in that sense this one incident has the potential to negatively cloud every relationship between saudi and united states do you think this marks a turning point in washington's ties to santa arabia or merely before business returns to normal. i think it's kind of in between i do think that one of the long term benefits that we're going to see is that u.s. saudi relations at any level be university all the way up to congress and the white house are going to be put under greater scrutiny which i think they should have been under greater scrutiny before so that that is a change we're going to see but when it comes to what is the actual economic impact for example what you're starting to see is that people take a stand on this issue of the tragedy with shogi but then when it comes time to examine the millions of dollars and the thousands of jobs and the millions of

citizens that are affected people tend to draw boundaries and it gets compartmentalise so in that sense even people that are very passionate about this issue and who want to be held accountable for the shogun incident they also realize that they can in a long term partnership just because it has a saudi connection very good to hear your thoughts on this thank you very much for joining us on al-jazeera kawin doc live there from washington. and a region where wealthy countries have historically shut their doors to refugees qatar has become the first state to pass a landmark law offering political asylum human rights watch says ona is a huge step forward but there's still room for improvement. the new law was decreed last month by the emir of qatar shift i mean but hamad and fanny into most foreign migrants to seek asylum in qatar providing the necessary protection for those unable to return to their country due to

a fear of execution or torture over the city religion party affiliation or political beliefs of course qatar has just ratified two international treaties on human rights the un covenant of economic and social rights and the civil and political rights of individuals and within these two covenants there is a lot lot of talk about you know what human rights is now required to strictly stand by and one of the main things is accepting asylum seekers up to two million foreigners work and live in qatar a small gulf nation with a local population of less than half a million of the gulf nations also have similar situations. this demographic imbalance has been a source of concern to them for decades gulf countries refused to introduce reforms that would give certain permanent status rights to expire to your communities but since last year the emir of qatar shift i mean but then he issued

a series of decrees that set the stage for more rights for members of the exporting its community just as in the case of the law on foreign workers rights including the abolishing of the exit requirement for the majority of them the new law is seen here as a courageous step by which qatar seeks to assume a pioneering role in the gulf region in terms of human rights. human rights watch has described the law as the first of its kind in the gulf region but it says the law for its sort of international human rights legal standards it is a very good step or however. we still have reservations about these laws because it falls short of their international obligations as specially when it comes to freedom of expression and it's important to understand that it is the first country in the agent to provide a. safe haven for this kind of law however it is still very politically sensitive that it has look at the side by neighbors especially the blockading countries for

providing this kind of safe how. political dissidents regional context might be sensitive but qatar is going to host the football world cup within four years from now and aside from the international scrutiny under which the country is placed qatar says it's seizing the opportunity not only to develop its economic infrastructure but also to modernize its social and legal systems how much fun i just. russia plans to test missiles off the coast of norway this week in an area where nato is carrying out its biggest military exercises since the end of the cold war more than fifty thousand military personnel from thirty one nations are taking part in the way nato war games the two weeks show of strength is intended to project western readiness to deter russian aggression basco has called the action provocative topless reports. familiar weapons were on display a mock beach assault laid on for the press but as the media day for nato has

biggest war games in decades got under way secretary-general stole bags attention was focused on the possible collapse of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty no treaty can be effective if it's only respected by one pot and therefore we called on russia to ensure that they are in full transparent full and transparent compliance with the on the street because we don't want to nuances the treaty was a confidence building measure signed by the united states and the then soviet union designed to make it harder for one side to launch a surprise attack from the other now the united states is threatening to unilaterally pull out of the cold war treaty as it accuses the russians of violations something the kremlin denies nato secretary general had a clear message for any potential purser e nato is ready and nato is able to protect all allies against the exercises go beyond reassurance fifty thousand troops from thirty one militaries

practicing to fight alongside each other brings its own sets of challenges with training helps overcome fear of a joint operation you should know. very well and that's what this exercise means for me and my troops some of the newer members of the alliance he used to train alongside soldiers from the soviet union now practice with their former enemies the man trained for this is where before for a day to day activities in all because during the combat all you have to act together is the various militaries here today pack up and leave what wasn't on display where the weapons are going to make a decisive impact in any future conflict new bullfighting concepts namely cyber warfare the ability to blind and destroy the computer. systems of one's adversities will be crucial to winning the next war despite that the hardware of war isn't

disappearing any time soon and these military exercises a key to reassuring nervous alliance members worried about increasing russian military activity alexa topless al-jazeera.