sri lanka's new prime minister tells al-jazeera his appointment is legitimate amid the mounting political crisis. watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha and also a heads turkey reveals gruesome details of his murder but saudi arabia is still keeping quiet. plucked from the death stivers in indonesia find the flight data recorder of the lion air flight that crashed killing one hundred eighty nine people protecting what lies beneath the purse that turned a remote part of the planet into the world's largest sanctuary.

telos rank those new prime minister has told al jazeera has appointments legitimates mahinda rajapaksa says he's now getting on with the job the two time former president was controversially appointed a week ago after his successor sucks prime minister running wickramasinghe critics say his dismissal is unconstitutional because parliament besides and m.p.'s are expected to be recalled next week to vote on the leadership change bernard smith reports from the capital colombo. he has all the trappings of prime minister including access to the office for the new prime minister mahinda rajapaksa he's acting unconstitutionally his critics say because he was appointed by president by three policy resigned and not elected by the members of parliament warnings much oh you're still playing. horrible appointment you some of you think serbia says it's

the institution of this budget the argument is that parliament should be deciding who's the prime minister not the normal norm as we did in stews in the new fight and so your immediate one search for a now you're assuming the prime minister's position i have long been ignored or both of these the rajapaksa needs the backing of one hundred thirteen m.p.'s to solidify his return to power but the president suspended parliament some suspect he did that to give rajapaksa time to get enough support how will you get enough support from parliament how do you get the n.p.c. what we have got the hundred thirty four and so why the delay in recalling parliament what are we hanging on for you know because we want to. get ready for the i did rajapakse that was at the prime minister's office to meet academics telling them there's no crisis as far as he's concerned it certainly is a crisis but the ousted prime minister rudd no wickramasinghe or he's refusing to

leave the official residence of the pm he says he remains prime minister because the power to sack him was stripped from the president two years ago by an amendment to the constitution the whole structure of government in the country is still very strong in the executive. and the presumption is that the presidency is the strongest office. even though the nineteenth amendment has made changes to that and therefore what the presidency has to say go rajapaksa served two terms as president defeated thomas separatists in a twenty six year long civil war but was accused of human rights abuses in the process his family and inner circle is under investigation for corruption and you looking forward to your new positions are you looking forward to being prime minister really much he wanted to play hard to get behind the rajapaksa is presenting an image of business as usual but we've run away from

a single still claiming to be the legitimate prime minister things are far from usual parliament will though now get to have the final say it seems when it's soon recalled and m.p.'s get to vote. al-jazeera colombo. turkey has revealed the gruesome details of what happened to saudi journalist and critics. its chief prosecutor says he was strangled to death as soon as he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second saudi arabia is yet to respond to the revelations as more. 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 other council 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 fans and turkey's chief prosecutor also his counterparts are with. wasn't fully cooperating turkey blames saudi arabia for stalling the investigation. you should link them to tell you much 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 because he was killed as soon as he entered and was later dismembered you know how far in advance has his brutal his event 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 you know. saudi officials initially denied the outspoken journalist was killed but backtracked and international pressure admitting it was premeditated the kingdom insists crown prince mohammed bin selman had no knowledge of g.'s fate turkey seems determined to press ahead with his own investigation the wording of the general prosecutor's statements is just officials here are confident they have enough strong evidence about what happened when. the subject consulate in istanbul was about a month ago. and the law pro-government papers in turkey are raising more questions about the investigation and especially why saudi arabia's top diplomats in istanbul aren't being questioned turkish prosecutors suspect the consul general and station

chief pave the way for hundreds of these murders and after all talk us through that and tell us how much pressure this is all putting on the saudis to cooperate. well we just heard from the turkish justice minister short while ago reiterating a call that turkey has been making for months now we expect saudi arabia to enter into close cooperation with us in this investigation turkish officials increasingly frustrated because they believe saudi arabia has been delaying the investigation slowing down the process and the justice minister's comments just a day after saudi arabia's top prosecutor left istanbul he was here he held talks with chief prosecutor the man who is leading this investigation and he didn't come and you know add anything to the investigation in fact or because officials have been saying that what he came to do was try to find out what evidence turkey has

so there is this growing frustration on the part of turkey that saudi arabia is not cooperating we also understand from the statements from the justice minister he was asked whether or not the stumbles top prosecutor will be accepting an invitation to go to saudi arabia to take part in the investigation there he said in my belief this is not going to happen he didn't explicitly say this is not going to happen but he and his assessment it shouldn't happen because turkey still has an answer to questions and you cannot move to the next phase until those questions are answered and he again reiterated that turkey is the scene of the crime so so far is stumbles chief prosecutor not confirming on whether he will be going to saudi arabia but the justice minister hinting that that visit may not happen and for the turks i suppose the most important questions and that they need an answering or who ordered the killing and also where are the remains of john.

exactly is the chief prosecutor revealing details of the murder for the first time . clearly to pressure saudi arabia and clearly because of the unfruitful on satisfactory meetings that were held with the saudi top prosecutor those details you know explaining how she was immediately strangled to death once he entered the consulate and that his body was cut into pieces but they still do not know where his remains are so what is the next move and who will make the next move we know that turkey has put saudi arabia in a corner forcing it to acknowledge that it was killed inside the consulate now it's one saudi arabia took knowledge where is the body or the body parts we should say so the situation clearly there is no cooperation between saudi arabia and turkey yes there's a joint investigation but we have to remember there's also a separate investigation launched by turkey turkish investigators as

a thank you. well donald trump is facing increasing pressure from across the u.s. political spectrum to take action against saudi arabia mike hanna reports from washington. president trumper of days of silence on jamal khashoggi death after being asked whether he felt betrayed by the saudi denial of responsibility for it up a grade b. 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 they're betrayed me maybe they betrayed themselves love to see our doctrine. 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 past representatives has insisted that the investigation be concluded as quickly as possible threatened 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. one of the tube box

flight recorders from monday's jet crashed off the coast of. so divers are continuing to search for the main fuselage where the hundred eighty nine people on the line air flight were sitting u.s. crash experts have arrived in jakarta to investigate. seven three seven disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff florence that we have the latest from kuala lumpur . indonesian transport ministry officials have confirmed that search teams have found the flight data recorder which contains all the information about what the plane was doing from the altar to to speak to direction even down to the position of the plane's plane's wing flaps what they still haven't found is the cockpit voice recorder which contains tapings of the noises the sounds the conversation that took place in the pilot's cabin together these two flight recorders give investigators the full story of what happened during the final moments of the lion at flight now we know so far that the pilot had asked to turn back shortly after

takeoff the plane crashed about twelve minutes into its flight and that the very same plane had experienced a technical problem the day before but lion air said that's a technical problem was fully resolved and the plane was cleared to fly from bali to jakarta on sunday night just hours before it took off from jakarta early on monday morning on that fated flight now on the transport ministry of indonesia have said it has asked lyon ed to suspend as many as four employees including its director of maintenance and engineering meanwhile the search continues because not only do they have to locate the cockpit voice recorder trying to find the fuselage of the main body of the plane now officials say they found a substantial or big part of the plane but there's no confirmation whether this is the fuselage and officials have said they believe that the bodies of many of the passengers could be trapped at could be still trapped in that part of the plane

meanwhile divers continue to scour the sea to try and retrieve the remains of the hundred eighty nine people who were on board that flight. still ahead on al-jazeera a change of heart why australia's government is moving child asylum seekers out of its prison islands and calls for calm don't stop protest in pakistan at the acquittal of a christian woman for blasphemy. hello there the weather is oh quite quiet over the northern parts of asia at the moment the satellite picture isn't picking up any significant cloud really just a little bit here just flirting with the south coast of japan there and we're also seeing more cloud just beginning to sink its way southwards through parts of mongolia that's a cold front today to live up to its name so ahead of it getting up to zero

freezing then and then as it works its way southwards that front will see the temperatures drop behind it so when but this time will be struggling just to minus six as a maximum hit and of all of that though beijing's quite pleasant at eighteen now for the southeastern parts of china with what plenty of cloud with us all thanks to the remains of all storm this disintegrating just off the south coast so as it's working its way north woods then it is losing all its intensity the winds are fading out but we'll still seeing some heavy downpours across the southeastern parts now the idea is that this storm completely disintegrates off the coast and then eventually that rain will just begin to disband so we'll see the rain basically turn less heavy by the time we get to saturday and we had a bit further towards the south for us in the philippines it's mostly following and drawing now that's where the quietest weather probably is across this region elsewhere there's quite a few showers and some particularly heavy ones ever parts of some outre.

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has told al-jazeera his appointment is legitimate and he has the support of the majority of. they're expected to be recalled to parliament on monday to vote after the sacking of prime minister rudd no on the single. turkey's chief prosecutor says the saudi journalist was strangled to death as soon as he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey is really a party says his murder couldn't have happened without instructions from someone at a high level in the saudi leadership. one of the two block box flight recorders from monday's jet crash off the coast of indonesia has been found buried in the sea beds divers are continuing to search for the other recorder fuselage with a hundred eighty nine people on the line air flight were sitting. russian space engineers are blaming a damaged sensor for last month's soyuz rocket failure a russian cosmonauts and american astronaut were forced to abandon their mission to the international space station they landed safely in kazakhstan after an emergency

descent and spite the failure a similar rocket has successfully blasted a russian military satellite into orbit stuff was more from moscow. it was the first failed lounge of a russian spacecraft since one thousand nine hundred eighty three on october eleventh only two minutes after takeoff the emergency system of the so use m s then started to work and the lounge was aborted that capsule carrying two crew members one russian and one american landed safely back to earth the state commission has now concluded that there was a technical default at one of the sensor that has to separate the first from the second phase of the lounge the problem most likely occurred during the assembly of the rocket at the cost more drone in kazakhstan the commission now suspects that so to order so use rockets might have the same defect and a thorough investigation has been started russia is the only country that is

sending humans into space first after the americans had aborted their program in two thousand and eleven well it normally takes months for an investigation to come to an end after the failure of a rocket launch this commission has worked very far because there's a lot at stake three crewmembers are still at the international space station and they need to be replaced fairly soon russia now says it wants to send several unmanned flights to space first before it will send another manned spacecraft probably early december australia is the new home for dozens of child asylum seekers they're being quietly moved from controversial so-called prison islands in the pacific ocean doctors are concerned for their mental health after spending up to five years without with thousands of adult refugees on the islands of nauru and minus andrew thomas has more from melbourne. 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 man asylum to papua new guinea or to number two 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 from all sides of politics m.p.'s 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 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 are being brought here refugee health groups have welcomed the evacuation of the children to australia but government ministers insist their offshore account policy is correct we certainly and any circumstances don't want the boats to start again that is just unimaginable fourteen hundred deaths at sea if we are not going to stand for that but we continue to do the work to make sure those kids treated fairly and humanely and of course we're near down to a very small number of for the thirty eight children who woke up on a row this morning two months is a long time. doctors have consistently said that this is of mental health crisis and they have won the government to get these children off urgently well david moran is the executive director of the refugee and immigration legal censor he says the australian government has finally bowed to public pressure. there is

a growing recognition that that from medical records from work of lawyers not our parliament parents and the public that this is a mental health emergency that there is a major yes and very grave risk to the loss of children and their families and and now i will finally say significant movement part of the argument to bring children. from her or her back. to society where i can get the men who care about maine and then safety in australia but it is really this growing recognition very cannot get on my ass and that lives are risk but the government is taking a very tough stance on the whole question of asylum seekers coming to australia by birth and has were very comprehensive and hard and hear sounds like a policy and which are really anchored to terence and it's in that context that the

government certainly have been very quiet religion to bring in children to a strategy or from there or here with their families. protests continue in pakistan against a court ruling in a landmark blasphemy case despite calls for call by the prime minister. christian woman has been on death row for. she was acquitted by the supreme court on wednesday am entente and demonstrators have issued death threats to the judges who overturned her sentence and ordered her release. a 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 you are trying to say that if the supreme court doesn't decide according to they wish they will not accept that judgement that means they would come on roads and stop the country any country would be run like this. well as he campaigns for the us mid-term elections next

week donald trump stepping up his grace immigrant tough talk on the president's vowing to stop the migrant caravan in. he says the thousands walking from honduras and other countries to escape poverty and gang violence will be locked up if they try to cross the u.s. border and gallagher reports from florida. the first time supporters arrived thirty hours before the president began speaking at the venue in fort myers 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 to and 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 midterm 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 that continues to push anti immigrant agenda they want to invite care. our van after caravan into our country which brings crime upon crime. a vote for democrats is a vote to liquidate america's borders and it's a vote to let math fentanyl 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 trumped 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 to go to the states where it's thought 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 the u.s. national security adviser says further sanctions about to start against iran are not intended to harm countries that depend on iranian oil the latest saying sen's due to start on monday were imposed off turns on the trunk holdout of that's once

and testing nuclear deal with iran iran says american plans to reduce crude exports to zero won't work the u.s. is considering waivers for some allies that want to continue trading with iran. scientists and conservationists are debating whether or not since her and one of the remotest parts of the planet and so the largest protected area on earth the weddell say in antarctica could be hundreds of thousands of undiscovered specimens many are supporting a new proposal to make it a no go zone for industrial fessing mining and deep sea drilling now clarke reports then february al-jazeera joined the greenpeace icebreaker the arctic sunrise as she pushed through into the remote board says of the weddell sea collecting evidence to support the bid to turn a huge section into an ocean sanctuary it is a vasan known territory few ships venture here almost year round sea ice making it a challenge to fall for most. it's like opening it here to the border.

yet of the great. war. after several days of trying we finally broke through and we took a chance in a rare window of weather to take to the air to see what may soon become the largest protected area on a so what we're looking at here is melting yes sea ice and great icebergs to be up off the glass is sweeping up james ross island at the weddell sea extends way to a distance over that proposed area pretty much just touched by human activity always new scientific research is taking place. it's the realm of the penguin and myriad marine species but it's not the realm of man and many want to keep it that way the sentry proposal would protect an area five times the size of germany. part of the evidence being assessed by the antarctic commission was gathered by the expedition submarine on board which the antarctic specialist says. it has one

hundred percent coverage of the sea floor i'm going to assume it has a great three d. structure which allows other organisms to come in and leave and a really interesting species composition and all these factors make it really difficult for community. to step in such as part of the fishing we call these areas fundable marine ecosystems and hopefully we can get to this and other areas we come across that special protection that we saw firsthand how accessible the outer limits of antarctica have already become and there is a huge effort to protect. this stunning clinton and the commission has given itself the mandate to create this law scale network of marine protected areas is given a mandate to use the best available science and we believe that the hosel is absolutely fulfilling that scientific consensus around the world is that we need to be protecting roughly a third of the world's oceans by twenty thirty we've got to start down here in the

most precious waters that we have the proposal has to be supported by consensus of the twenty five member commission in hope that while there is a great deal of support it would only take one country to disagree and send the whole effort back to the drawing board. al-jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera prime minister mahinda rajapaksa has told al jazeera his appointment is legitimate and has the support of the majority of. they're expected to be recalled to parliament on monday to vote after the sucking of prime minister running. turkey's chief prosecutor says. he was strangled to death as soon as he entered the saudi consulates in istanbul turkey. couldn't have happened without instructions from someone at a high level in the saudi leadership. one of the two black box flight recorders

from monday's jet crash off the coast of indonesia has been found bur read in the sea beds divers are continuing to search for the other recorder fuselage with one hundred eighty nine people on the line air flight were sitting australia is the new home for dozens of child asylum seekers who are being quietly moved from controversial so-called prison islands in the pacific ocean doctors are concerned for their mental health after spending up to five years with thousands of adults refugees on the islands of. thomas has more from melbourne the consistent message of australia's government is that only refugees who tried to come to us by boat would instead be sent to madison to papua new guinea all to know who they would never be settled here and 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 from the politics and peas in their own governing liberal party m.p.

in the opposition labor party and public opinion polls now suggest that eighty percent of australians want the children brought to australia a russian space engineers are blaming the damage sensor for last month's so use rocket failure a russian cosmonaut and american astronaut were forced to abandon their mission to the international space station they landed safely in kazakhstan after an emergency descent despite the failure a similar walk that has successfully launched a russian military satellite into orbit several launches are planned before re attempting a manned mission to the space station those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera we'll have more news after inside story that's coming up next with imran khan stay with us.

the dictatorship. and the implication and this isn't. hello welcome to the program. 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 crisis in sri lanka is threatening to spiral out of control and undermine stability in south asia been warned of a bloodbath if the constitutional crisis isn't solved.