join us for special coverage of the u.s. midterm elections on al-jazeera. sri lanka's parliament is likely to be convened next week the country's newly appointed prime minister tells al-jazeera he will prove his majority. he won't you know just zero life from a headquarters and. also ahead no response yet from saudi arabia a day after turkey officially reveals details of his murder. searchers in indonesia recover parts of the black box from the lion air flight that crashed monday killing one hundred eighty nine people. i'm just a baldwin and in one of europe's worst savings for air pollution.

pelosi lanka's president is expected to reconvene parliament next week the newly appointed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa says he has the numbers to prove his majority he's just spoken to al-jazeera all the island nation has been embroiled in a political crisis after rajapaksa predecessor was dismissed last week right now we're missing that claims he still enjoys a majority in parliament and it's with his joining us from the capital colombo what more did rajapaksa have to say to you bernard. green man the rajapaksa to the prime minister's office. the prime ministerial convoy has been appointed prime minister by president. so he says he's prime minister of course he's accused of acting unconstitutionally because. of votes on who should be

prime minister when we managed to catch him on his way into work this morning we confidently told us that he the numbers. if your of a loved one the just image you think services and the institution of these both of the arguments is that holland should be deciding who's the prime minister not the normal. institution of the new faith and so your immediate plans for a now you're assuming the prime minister's position i have long be ignored or both of these double booked on your immediate plans though so what are your immediate plans what you plan to do is be able to meet the one you want to leave on the sixteenth of the new. organization how will you get enough support from parliament how will you get the n.p.c. what we have got that under ten thirty sure and so why the delay in recalling power and what are we hanging on for norm because we want to. get ready for the i did why

is this such a controversial appointment though bernard. controversial during because a couple of kilometers down the road is temple trees the official residence of the prime minister and in there sits right now we're missing that he's refusing to move he was fired last week by the president and replaced by rajapaksa the point of all of this is a couple of years ago constitution was changed to make palm and supremum the prime minister is supposed to command a majority in parliament but what happened was wickramasinghe was fired by the prime minister a by the president's policies have yet to vote on that and all of this constitution was changed because the man who is now prime minister rajapaksa scrapped term limits for the presidency and tried to win a third term as president back in twenty fifth date he lost and these constitutional changes went ahead so rajapakse has managed to get back into power

by as critical critics would say a constitutional sleight of hand but if they are if when parliament is recalled next week he's got the votes then he will become sri lanka's prime minister in our . that's what reporting from colombia thank you. turkey has officially revealed the gruesome details of what exactly happened to the saudi journalist on credit. turkey street prosecutor says he was strangled to death as soon as he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul on the second of october saudi arabia is yet to respond to the revelations are somehow better has the latest. as the saudi chief prosecutor was on his way to travel back to his country his turkish counterpart released a statement detailing his final moments of the saga consul eight. according to the horrifying account. was strangled to death as soon as he got into

the consulate on the second of october his body dismembered and the blast remains shrouded in mystery turkish investigators are still trying to find out what happened to the remains of his shock to see who gave the order to kill him and the identity of the local corporator tasked with disposing of the body their fan and turkey's chief prosecutor also sat his counterparts. wasn't fully cooperating turkey blames saudi arabia for stalling the investigation but. this is not an event that can be done without an order from a high level the organization of this event has been premeditated that the saudi chief prosecutor stated and it has been done in such a brutal way as declared by our own chief prosecutor as well he was killed as soon as he entered and was later dismembered you know how far in advance has its brutal

his advantage been violent and who gave the order we are in a position to see this clearly from the start we haven't accused anyone but we will not allow a cover up it will not human. saudi officials initially denied the outspoken journalist was killed but backtracked and international pressure admitting it was pre-meditated the kingdom insists crown prince mohammed bin said a man had no knowledge of g.'s fate turkey seems determined to press ahead with his own investigation the wording of the general prosecutor's statement suggests officials here are confident they have enough strong evidence about what happened when and to the subject consulate in istanbul about a month ago. is some border let's cross over to istanbul and bring in zain or her there she is joining us from there so for the first time we have an official report by the two prosecutor of istanbul talk us through what more it brings into light

and perhaps more importantly what answers the turks are still looking for. well like you mentioned the first time we're getting details of the murder from an official and not just any official of the chief prosecutor himself the man leading the investigation into the deaths of. the timing of the release of this information is significant it coincided with the saudi top prosecutor's visit to istanbul just about just as he was leaving the country and even in the statement the prosecutor made clear that they were not happy with the cooperation that they received from from the saudi arabian side that really turkey has been frustrated because questions remain unanswered the most important question is where is. body or his body parts turkish officials really feel that the saudi top prosecutor came to istanbul to try to find out what evidence turkey had instead of coming here with

a you know a good will to cooperate in his statement the prosecutor giving us details about the murder saying that. she was strangled to death upon his upon you know immediately after he entered the consulate now what this means is that it dismisses the saudi narrative what was the saudi narrative it was that there was some sort of an argument and these saudi agents were sent to try to convince. to return to saudi arabia so there was this argument in a fistfight and he died accidentally so this you know this really dismisses the saudi arabian narrative they also mention that his body was chopped into pieces dismembered and they also mention the word destroyed which really it's open to a lot of interpretation people are wondering why why mention this is there a theory that they're working on a series that could involve the possible use of acid or did they burn the bodies so what is not clear so far is where is she's body it is

a question turkey continues to ask saudi arabia and for turkey would it cooperate in the ongoing investigation carried out in saudi arabia. well what we understand is that saudi top chief prosecutor he invited chief prosecutor to come to saudi arabia to join investigations there has been no reaction from istanbul's chief prosecutor on whether or not they will heed that invitation but what we understand from our sources is that you know they're weighing their options so if they don't go then it will show that they don't want to cooperate but if they do go then at the end they really feel that this is going to be a showcase and saudi arabia is going to use this to show the world that look we are cooperating we are helping in the investigation when in reality they have not and this is of course according to turkish officials just one example they haven't given them access to return to the saudi arabian consul general as residence to search to search a well and turkey continuing to insist that they want these suspects extradited and

that they should be tried in turkey in a transparent trial in front of the whole world turkey really showing that it has a little face in saudi arabia as investigation into this murder is in a closer thank you the u.s. national security advisor john bolton says washington doesn't want to harm countries that depend on iranian oil when further sanctions come into force on monday they were imposed off their president trump pulled out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal between world powers bolton says he wants to force iran's crude exports to zero but the u.s. is considering giving waivers to some allies that want to trade with iran. the president said unmistakably our goal is maximum pressure and that it would be to drive iranian oil exports to zero we understand obviously a number of countries in the in immediately surrounding run some which i just

visited last week others that have been purchasing the oil may not be able to go all the way all the way to zero immediately so we want to we want to achieve maximum pressure but we don't want to harm friends and allies either and we're working our way through that. divers. divers in indonesia have found one of the two block box recorders from a plane that crashed on monday it's not known if this is the cockpit voice recorder of or the flight data recorder the lion air a boeing seven three seven crashed only minutes after takeoff from the capital jakarta killing all a hundred eighty nine people on board florence who is monitoring developments from kuala lumpur joining us from there so now that the black box has been found forms what does this mean for the investigation. well we've now got confirmation from the transport ministry of indonesia that what they found is the flight data recorder and this is essentially a recorder that keeps all the information about what the plane was doing from all

to chew to direction to speed even down to the position of its wing flaps and what they still need to find is the cockpit voice recorder that keeps a taping of the noises the sounds of the conversation in the pilot's cabin and so the together these two flight recorders will give a full story of what happened in the final minutes of j.t. six one zero that crashed on monday morning now we know what we know so far is that the pilot asked to turn back shortly after takeoff and the plane crashed about twelve minutes into the flight we also know that the same plane experienced technical problems the day before but lyonesse said these problems were resolved and the plane was cleared to fly it then took off from bali to jakarta spent a couple of hours at the jakarta airport and then left early on monday morning on that fated flight now the indonesian transport ministry has said it's asked lynette to suspend as many as four of its employees including the director of maintenance

and engineering it's also said its conduct checks on all the all aircraft of the same model that's the boeing seven three seven max eight and this is a fairly new model that boeing introduced to into service only last year and the particular plane that crashed was also very new it had only completed eight hundred flight hours and was delivered to lyon only in august and the search operations will continue because as i mentioned they have to find the cockpit voice recorder but also the trying to locate the fuselage of the main body of the plane now indonesian officials say they have found a big part of the plane but there's no confirmation of where the this is the fuselage and they've said they believe that the bodies of many of the passengers and crew who are on board that flight could still be trapped in this part of the plane and of course divers continue to scour the sea and comb the seabed to try and retrieve remains of the hundred eighty nine people on board who were on board that flight florence lou the update from kuala lumpur thank you. much small to come

right here on al-jazeera in just a moment call for calm after protests broke out in pakistan over the acquittal of a christian woman for blasphemy i have a live update coming up in a moment plus a change of heart why the australian government is moving asylum seeker children out of its prison islands. however there has been much flooding in central europe and certain amount of wind damage around the show as they age out to the mediterranean as that low went north and rob not being the end of it i'm afraid it's not what's developing now over spain never the bay of biscay is going to almost repeat the process so the overnight period the next twenty four hours effectively you've got this massive green city turning to some sort of a circulation of the more rain falling in italy probably in croatia as well that

the snow in the southern alps and the when we start to cause a certain amount of damage so we could see a repeat of the flooding in venice which is a bit higher than you would normally expect and once more you'd expect a whole lot to move north as in this case i think we might see a bit of a change of fortunes and the rain hangs around in italy and it drops across the mediterranean to north africa as well all this time the wants been gradually pushed out from what's really a very warm place which is remain is way down tonight in bucharest which isn't that different to be honest from the seventeen madrid so the whole of europe is seeing this change of temperature regime it's cooling down once more now as i said we still got the rain potential at the moment for libya in tunisia but increasingly i think morocco algeria will join in over the next two days. eighty percent of the visually impaired could be cured without access to treatment

. where there was a will there is a black. covering over seventy seven countries. how many of these may be since in fact everybody did pakistan one man's passion provides free treatment to over one million patients. revisited because iraq. hello again the top stories on al jazeera strong because a newly appointed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa has told al jazeera his appointment is legitimate the nation has been embroiled in

a political crisis after his predecessor was dismissed last week parliament is likely to be recalled on monday rajapaksa says he has the support of the majority of and he needs turkey's chief prosecutor says this so he journalist she was strangled to death that's a soon as he entered the saudi consulates in istanbul turkey is ruling party says and hustles his murder couldn't have happened without instructions from someone at a high level and the saudi leadership. and divers have retrieved one of the two block boxes from the indonesian passenger jet that crashed on monday a line airplane nose dive ten minutes after takeoff from the capital jakarta killing all a hundred eighty nine people on board. or no one been hustled c.-k. stands on the trunk is facing increasing pressure from right across the u.s. political spectrum to take action against saudi arabia my town i reports from washington d.c. . president trump of days of silence on jamal khashoggi is death after being asked

whether he felt betrayed by the salvi denial of responsibility for it suffered greatly now i just hope that it all works out we have a lot of back we have a lot of things that we've been with you that there is trade me that is maybe they betrayed themselves like to see our daughter in. the national security adviser also having his say as we expect there to be accountability for what happened which was which was criminal without any question and they have promised to do that and they have gone a long way already and we'll see what the next steps are and more pressure from congress for tangible action to be taken a group of republican senators to send to letter to the president demanding that civilian nuclear talks with saudi arabia be suspended the senate has already sent the president a formal letter invoking the global magnitsky act this insists that the president investigate the murder and impose sanctions should accountability be established

the act gives the president four months in which to act but in a follow up letter a bipartisan group of house representatives has insisted that the investigation be concluded as quickly as possible threats and legislation can only come after the midterm elections congress is in recess until then but regardless of the election result president trump will then have to face up to a congress that is angry and it's an anger that in this case is shared across party divide. mike hanna al-jazeera washington and ahead of next week's new estimates are elections doll has kept up his rhetoric on immigration the u.s. president's war and the tough action against thousands of migrants make their way to the united states from central america from said those trying to cross the border will be detained and not released until gallagher reports from fort myers in florida. the first from supporters arrived thirty hours before the president began

speaking at the venue in fort my is camera mcginty is typical of those who attend make america great again rallies an ardent fan of the president he says nothing will stop him showing his support not only am i here to support him for the mid-term election i'm out here to show people that we're not going to be intimidated by people out there that are threatening some supporters that are vandalizing people's vehicles for having decals on it signs are having to be replaced people are stealing and people are destroying them and we will not be intimidated because the spirit of america is back with the mid-term elections approaching the president is keen to get voters out in what is a vital state he hit the usual subjects of a booming economy and tax cuts but continues to push his immigrant agenda they want to invite caravan after caravan into our country which brings drawn upon crime. a vote for democrats is a vote to liquidate america's borders and it's

a vote to let math vented all heroin and other deadly drugs for across our borders drugs that take the lives of over think of this over seventy thousand americans a year one of the key races in the sunshine state is for the senate florida's governor is hoping to unseat longtime democratic incumbent bill nelson and it's republicans that a vote for him is a continuation of trump's policies singer bill nelson who's been in office for forty two years. he voted against the trump tax cuts. here's voted for higher taxes over three hundred times the president also stumped for wrong to santas the republican candidate for governor who shaped himself in trump's image florida remains a vital state for trump and the republican party votes here tend to reflect the

mood of the entire country between now and election day on november the sixth the president will hold ten more make america great again events will go to the states where it's stored he'll make the biggest difference particularly in senate races it's an extraordinary final push an indication of just how important these midterms are and gallacher al jazeera fort myers florida pakistan's prime minister has called for calm after mass protests against a court ruling in a landmark case bibi a christan woman has been on death row for eight years she was acquitted by the supreme court on wednesday am on content den demonstrators who received death threats to the supreme court judge has overturned her sentence and ordered her release your year is just that they are inciting you for their political gain you should not get trapped by them for the sake of the country they are doing no service to islam jani a.k.o.

trying to say that if the supreme court doesn't decide according to they wish they will not accept that judgment that means they would come on roads and stop the country can any country be run like this let's bring in from ohio his right as far as islam about excuse me so what we saw is protests across the country when that decision was made what's happening across pakistan today. well as you mentioned the picking up pays however this morning that is that relative calm although. running high reinforcements have been called today and by the security forces this summer the red zone which is. a diplomatic. and key sensitive buildings are located. there are few. overall were pinned day and also in the city of the whole of the provincial capital

of the fun job we're also getting reports that the stock exchange has closed today in the southern port city of karachi that did the economic and appears to be. weakening all of the however i think you're ready for it and they're not taking any chances. and people are waiting to see what comes out of the case and it's not. business as usual however private schools have been just to make sure that their security situation does not. go for the moment. prevailing across pakistan tomorrow if friday and. if there's. any momentum the local media had blacked out the news and it appeared right now that they did an attempt by the government to try and that situation by ignored giving in to the protesters and you saw the prime minister. or anybody.

tried to china and had already met the progress on the military chief to discuss the situation. thank you. to australia where they got our government there is quietly moving child asylum seekers held in prison islands into the country as follows concerns about their deteriorating health they've been held off for up to five years on facilities on the ruined man a silence there's no official word on it but forty children so far been well doubts and it's almost as more the consistent message of australia's government is that all refugees who tried to come to its shores by boat would instead be sent to madison to papa new guinea or to know who they would never be settled here but we now know that quietly australian government has been bringing refugees here but securely in recent days and weeks children who were on the road the pressure has

really been growing on the government for all thoughts of politics and peace in their own governing liberal party m.p.'s in the opposition labor party and public opinion polls now suggest that eighty percent of australians want the children brought to australia we now know that they are being brought here there are forty children as of friday still on the road to a fifty to a week ago more than a hundred when the current prime minister scott morrison came to office in august and in an interview in london a full minister has said that it is the aim of the australian government to have all the children transferred off the roof by the end of the year so despite a lack of comment by australia's government despite all its talk about needing to maintain the terence for people trying to come to australia chills by boat in fact the children and their families of the role here. peru's opposition leader has been ordered back to jail over money laundering allegations kika fija mori has been under investigation over accusations she accepted more than a million dollars from brazilian construction firm during her twenty eleven

presidential election campaign with your mori the daughter of the former president alberto denies any wrongdoing. well the man accused of killing eleven people at a pittsburgh synagogue on saturday now faces a total of forty four federal charges in addition to murder and attempted murder robber barrons is also charged with hate crimes and firearms offenses is due to appear at a second hearing in federal court on thursday seven million premature deaths each year are linked to air pollution that's according to the world health organization the w.h.o. is meeting to discuss a plan to tackle the problem at its first ever conference on air pollution in geneva just a bald one reports from london where one mother was campaigning for greater awareness of the city's houser this air. and like to see debra was super sporty swimming she played football and love to dance but age seven she developed severe

asthma two years later she was dead and this mother rosamond is convinced london's unlawfully high pollution killed her daughter and she's campaigning to have the cause of death recognized as air pollution and. it's. just she was in three to four times and she was lucky to survive the. and i have since had how good that is. this is the area where ella grew up the traffic on this road that circles the city is relevant less and there's a slightly sweet oily smell to the air out which wonders have got you feel it's only when you leave the city and then return that you notice how bad the air really

is beth gardner is the author of choked she says london's pollution is particularly bad due to the diesel taxis buses and delivery trucks clogging the city streets the more closely that scientists study air pollution the more that they are finding it really affects our health in a shocking friday of ways and when you think about it it really makes sense that the air we breathe permeates every part of our bodies the mayor's office says it's working to reduce the city's pollution they've introduced a twenty seven dollars a day charge for the worst polluters coming into the city center but the numbers are graham of the city's nearly thirty thousand black taxis just seven hundred are electric london has six hundred seventy five bus routes but only to use electric buses a couple of hours drive south from london buses in the city of southampton have been fitted with air filters on the roof the system cleans particles out of the air

blowing clean air behind as it moves through the streets tinkering here and there with filters the odd electric bus congestion charging is not going to bring the radical change needed. to save the many lives like alice that are lost each year jessica baldwin al-jazeera london. the headlines. al-jazeera sri lanka's newly appointed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa has told al-jazeera his appointment is legitimate the nation has been embroiled in a political crisis after his predecessor was dismissed last week parliament is likely to be recalled on monday for the process says he has the support of a majority of. europe and not one that you think. it's an institution. but that they are going to be deciding who's the prime

minister no no no no. we didn't steal anything until your immediate four and now you're assuming the prime minister is busy i have long to be given the order of the book on your immediate plans though so what are your immediate plans what you plan to do next do you ever need do you want to leave on the sixteenth of the. next allison how will you get enough support from the towel you've got the n.p.c. what we have already got that and then thirty. and so why the delay in recalling palin that would be hanging on for a moment because you want to. get ready for the i did turkeys chief prosecutor says the saudi journalism was strangled to death as soon as the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey is ruling ak party says the murder couldn't have happened without instructions from someone at a high level in the saudi leadership divers have retrieved one of two black boxes

from the indonesian passenger jet that crashed on monday the lion airplane nose dive ten minutes after takeoff from the capital jakarta killing all one hundred eighty nine people on board. pakistan's prime minister has called for calm after mass protests against the court ruling in a landmark blasphemy case. a christian woman a bit on death row for eight years she was acquitted by the supreme court on wednesday. condemned demonstrators who have issued death threats to the supreme court judges who overturned her. or her. those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera we'll have more news in less than thirty minutes right here on al-jazeera. inside story stay with us. the wild west. couldn't catch in cali i. don't fight or in some why does this updated nafta have the kind of support that he needs we bring you the stories that are shaping

the economic world we live in counting the cost. is there a long cut on the part of the dictatorship the prime minister has been replaced by a former president is it a call that you shoulder and what are the implications for the home and in the region this is interesting. hello welcome to the program. as prime minister who's refusing to leave his replacement a former president appointed by his successor and a rival for the top job the political.