tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera November 3, 2018 12:00am-1:00am +03
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only emboldened it is now left to the international community to bring the perpetrators to justice of all nations the united states should be leading the way the top administration has taken a position that is devoid of moral foundation some in washington are hoping this matter will be forgotten with simple delaying tactics but we will continue to push the trumpet ministration to help find justice for jamal there will be no cover up now she and many others over this past month have turned that call to action into a hash tag you can see that they're using the hash tag justice for them all so let us know if you think that they'll ever get what they're seeking you can share your thoughts with us using the hash tag it in it's good and thank you more from little later now given everything that's happened with saudi relations with the rest of the world in this past month the timing of this next story is interesting evangelical christians from the united states have made a rare visits to saudi arabia where they've met seen yet saudi government ministers and the crown prince mohammed bin solomon some of the visiting group are staunchly
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pro israel they describe themselves as zionists several close to the u.s. president donald trump remember saudi arabia bans all religions except islam and doesn't officially recognize israel so what is going on the thoughts now of a senior fellow and professor at the american university of beirut who has more on saudi arabia's attempt to improve its image after the murder of jamal khashoggi. well this is it has nothing to do with faith or islam this is it is a political there's a group of essentially political operatives former congress former congresswoman right wing extreme evangelists who are very close to the white house led by a. writer who lives in this real one of the members of the group but described themselves describes himself as a devout american christian zionist leaders so this is a group of right wing american zionist fanatics who are close to the very close to
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the white house very close to the net now government and israel and they are on a political mission which happens to serve their purposes trumps purposes the israeli governments proposes and seemingly the purposes of the saudi crown prince and these are political convergence is not really anything to do with religion and i think hamad bin salmond probably bad advised by bad advisors is thinking that maybe this group is a way to get closer to the israelis and closer to trump and possibly also the saudis feel this visit breaks the slow isolation that they might have been suffering after the has to be a murder. now while we're speaking about interesting timing the u.s. and turkey have just announced they've lifted rival sanctions that each country had placed on top ministers over the imprisonment of an american passenger brunson are
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the pastor who was released in october you might remember innocence returned to the united states turkey's a dollar bonds jumped following this news let's get a little more on this with cinnamon cosell you need a presidential palace and i encourage just explain this one for us in em. well come on it has been very tough for turkey especially after pastor bronson's release ucas from the u.s. side and turkey's decline of this release but after jamal khashoggi incident on october two we witnessed that turkey released pastor bronson. at the end of that final trial on october tenth it was actually a benchmark in turkey and u.s. relations because. the violate traill quire old diplomatic oil actually was a pawn passer bronson's release request push actually from the us side on turkish
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side saying that turkey's judiciary is independent however those last three months have been actually very very difficult for turkey because the turkish lira lost a lot of value against american dollar and it's lost actually more than more than double against american dollar but following bronson's release we show that with actually there was a softening in the by later relations but also two countries have been in touch about jamal g.'s investigation case and they have been sharing information through foreign ministries and intelligence agencies as well and they finally by literally the sanctions that have been imposed on two ministers on each side have been lifted which has been welcomed by the markets and also we have seen the fact on the turkish lira leader affirmed that this one point seven per cent against the u.s. dollar is the firmest strongest level in the last three months also another
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optimism was that despite the sanctions reimposing of sanctions on iran turkey is among the eight other countries who are exempted who received of waiver from united states because turkish petroleum is also dealing with iran so these are good news for turkish politics and for for turkey's economy especially for. investors mainly foreign investors let's say because if foreign investors have been actually a little bit. about these tense relations between united states and turkey but if for the last couple of days i can count that this lifting off the sanctions over but over justice ministers of two countries plus turkey receiving a waiver also the agreement over men bitch in northern syria shows that there's a strong battering in turkey u.s. relations which is a good sign most of all turkey case in him. thank you for that update just to round
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out our coverage of jamal khashoggi as well as you know a ton of extra content and al-jazeera dot com always at or near the front page new this friday there is this time line if there is a known detail which you are missing then go here because it has everything it's enhanced video social media pictures etc one month on the jamal khashoggi murder case so far it is new today and al jazeera dot com and plenty of you getting in touch with us as well with the hashtag a.j. newsgroup in fact andrew was talking about the hashtag justice for jamal and a lot of you on our facebook live feed at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera calling for in fact demanding justice for jamal khashoggi elaina's posted a question said this case certainly should the world but how long will it be before any real progress is made and will it be made that is will the body be found as alan fisher was saying to us a little bit earlier the turks probably know a lot more than they have released so far in fact the turkish president reject type one has said he will be releasing more when the time is right hash tag twitter
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facebook whatsapp. telegram that's the other one given touch with us throughout the show. now the murder of jamal khashoggi is just another reminder really of the dangers facing journalists and how the messenger is becoming an increasing target the united nations is recognizing that with today being an international day to highlight those who have died doing their jobs and the killers who remain and punished. anticorruption journalist daphne corona. killed when a bomb exploded under her car in malta one year ago. palestinian photographer shot by israeli forces during a mass demonstration along the gaza border in april. and at least eight journalists murdered in mexico so far this year their profession now categorized as high risk in that country and getting riskier almost everywhere else this year seventy five
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journalists at least have been killed roughly to a week i've yet nobody gets punished for these crimes so what we want are buying international norms in the form of a united nations convention so we're tress the question of impunity because impunity doesn't just affect the journalists or their families it affects the whole of society because the implication is that if you can get away with killing a journalist more people are likely to attack and kill journalists and in that way more journalists end up self censoring in certain societies where they're under threat in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight told a day not unlike this one bugbear in dissident and journalist yogi markov was murdered on london's waterloo bridge allegedly by a member of his country's secret service the weapon of choice a poison tipped umbrella. attacks on journalists are nothing new they've been going on bryza long as the powerful about something to hide from the people but the
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silencing of free speech is no less shocking for that whether by bombs by bullet or other insidious means. the two thousand and eighteen version of the umbrella murder on waterloo bridge the alleged strangulation and dismemberment of exiled saudi journalist jamal khashoggi inside the country's consulate in istanbul the middle east is at the louis rank of the. reporters without borders index for freedom of press it is the was pleased to be a journalist we know of cases where journalism. is just one in many in syria in palestine in egypt across the region in the gulf this is a pattern that has gone on for far too long what chance of justice for her and the great many others the u.n. notes that in nine out of ten cases the killers go unpunished jonah how al jazeera
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london. so let's expand on this one of our first resources for anything on crimes against journalists is the c.p.g. the committee to protect journalists i have got their interactive resource on media that's here just in twenty eighteen so we start with forty five journalists killed but that is only journalists you can add on all media workers and it goes up to fifty two and again we're only talking about the ones where we know the motive if you add in the unconfirmed motives we're looking at seventy one journalists and media workers killed just this year and if you look at this as well yourself on the c.p.a. web site it's got all the names all the information about all these journalists who have died just in the past year well here's robert mahoney now who is the deputy executive director of the committee to protect journalists or tells us how important it is that us the fellow journalists continue to keep the world's attention on attacks against our peers. the murder of jamal khashoggi has really galvanized journalists around the world i've not seen publicized a around
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a murder like this in all the all the is that i've been doing this work of defending press freedom i think the sheer brutality and the horror of the crime and the fact that a state actor is involved have propelled this to the front pages and kept that familia month some of the greatest protection the journalists can give themselves is to do the journalism to keep these murders on the consciousness of the world not to let governments get away with it the thing that governments want is for us to look the other way not cash for all this that's the last thing that we should be doing we need to document the murders and violations against journalists and to hold those to account who are responsible that's why it's imperative that saudi arabia should answer for the mood a jamal khashoggi and there's a very easy way for turkey to do that that's to write a letter today to the u.n.
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secretary general and trigger an independent u.n. led investigation because i fear that we will not get to the bottom of this murder if we just leave it to saudi arabia and to turkey with us now and scott from mexico city is u.n. video he's an investigative journalist author of the book gangsta warlords he knows people who have been killed operating in mexico as journalists you know an ounce of those people who you've known who died i mean have as anyone really been brought to justice over. well there is there's two main cases of friends i worked with who were this fear a murdered one was ten years ago multi-source that out of what with the statement your cat he disappeared and there's been no justice i want to try to examine that case never disappear and if the family cannot even get like basic. insurance
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or basically their paperwork sort out because it's still an ongoing missing person's case i'm in the case last year a good friend in a fantastic joint is happy about this who was shot dead in stakes in a lower grade spray should the author of eight books first met in ten years ago and and you know who we talked a lot and confirmed about the issue of drug trafficking and his case that has been some headway this year there's been the arrest of one of the elated gunman and the lady driver in the case we're still waiting for that case to be completed and will see if they really justice report now one of the potential masterminds of back case is a drug trafficker roughnecks by the united states and we'll see how the american agents use that person if they make a deal with him that would be very interesting and crimes attention that does it
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put you off you know and doing the job i mean it's it's so easy for someone like me to stand here and in a studio safely and report about this you're going out there and facing this and you know people are going out and face this it must frighten you. yeah absolutely i mean obviously this is something that i think on anybody's mind when you go into an area with this drug cartels operating with these gangs operating the first day you're thinking about is how are they going to react to you now. tragically the vast majority of victims in mexico of the drug cartels and corrupt police officers everybody in this complex have been mexican journalists working in these small towns have be i was in it living in sin a lot where struck cartels was formed by the issue i mentioned was living in this in the city of ghana barry towers diary out of luck out there and living here in mexico city. it's
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a little bit more protection but you do know one does not want to to be complacent this is an american journalist was killed i saw it ten years ago in the state of what hacker in mexico in a crossfire of shooting a freight filmmaker was killed in el salvador after they made a film about gangs so few of us have to be very concerned about this yet it is not pretty easy up to really find the kind of drive to keep from doing this you know in korea thank you for talking to us here inside really really interesting thank you. and thomas here's his from the international freedom of expression organization called article nineteen says it is time to end impunity for crimes against journalists he writes that in an opinion piece for how to zero dot com where he also addresses the words and actions of the current us administration and the effect that that has on attitudes towards journalists have read for yourself it's in the opinion section at al-jazeera dot com. to pakistan with phone lines in some
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areas have been cut by the government to try to stop days of protests over blasphemy protestors have brought the country to a standstill burning rickshaws cars and lorries supreme court judges sparked outrage when they made a historic ruling that acquitted a christian woman who was sentenced to death for insulting islam eight years ago demonstrates his have been demanding the government overturn that court verdict so his kemal hide and now he's been covering this from islam about today first things first come out of seen on the news was news of a muslim cleric being killed bring us up to date with. yes absolutely. molineaux some. of that there were let my. son know how group a faction of that. was. not far from yeah.
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his father was a leading religious who founded a drug. was looking out the drugs that he was very involved in peace talks with the pakistani taliban that did not succeed but also played a crucial role and dog taliban trying to bring them to the negotiating table an ally of emraan khan. of course now confirmed few years. driver and bodyguard basic any were all out of the house at that time of the killing and they said that when they came back they have found a body venge lying in his bedroom kemal in the protests what are you expecting what is expected i know it's getting into the evening there on friday what is expected. as far as fridays have been strong pro day it's
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a cross country no major incidents of violence so it's got photos read the police man but. just on the outskirts of it. holding a key intersection nor next fed up and they. have brought life to a standstill in the southern port city of karachi and the provincial capital of the fun job sort of situation although. no one knows how does it all going to play out within the next few days keeping a close eye on that one come on hyder in islamabad thank you. just one final comment to take us into the break just talking about jamal khashoggi and about press freedom russell thank you for your comment on facebook life he summed it up nicely more has to come out on this we can't be living in a world where freedom of expression is considered a danger to the powers that be and everyone here certainly agrees with you russell thank you for that this is the news great if you are with us on facebook live like
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russell is we got a story just for you now about how a yemeni teacher opens up his home to seven hundred students to give them free education but then later more protests in gaza as the palestinians gather for another round of their weekly demonstrations of the border fence with israel. hello there we're going to see some more wet weather over parts of the middle east over the next few days the last system is moving away now and behind it has been draw i bought we're now seeing the cloud begin to build to the southwest in parts of so already post of saudi arabia seeing some cloud and a few outbreaks of rain and that's pushing its way northward on sunday we're going to see more of that wet weather it will become more intense as it works its way northward say for some of us here including for parts of iraq it doesn't pretty wet there if a sunday the system that is also affecting us in saudi as i said we're already
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seeing it overpowers here in the north and that soen sa today it actually intensifies as we head into sunday and pushes its way northward still giving some heavy folds of it does say the winds will being dragged out from the south behind it so for some of us here it will be quite dusty including force in riyadh where the top temperature of twenty seven is a good deal of cloud around the riyadh area and there will be a fair amount of cloud here in doha it's well will be around thirty one degrees as we head down towards the southern parts of africa we've seen a good deal of useful rain here here it is on the satellite picture over the eastern part of south africa and also over parts of mozambique to trying to pull away now though and so not a great deal left to it as we head through saturday behind it cool still in devon at twenty one. eighty percent of the visually impaired could be cured without access to treatment
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. and where there is a will there is a way of training state of the auto spittle covering over seventy seven countries probably every especially recent survey every role and in pakistan one learns passion provides flea treatment for over one million patients and yet to cure a brief visit to al-jazeera history has called it the great war in the first episode conscription draws hundreds of thousands of our of troops into or both sides of the conflict their story is rarely told but had a huge impact on the course of the war world war through our open minds onal jaziri. no.
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responding to the killing probe if you need any information about the story there's so much more us at al-jazeera dot com but on this story particularly go to about zero so much information for you there right. now russia and china being blamed for blocking international efforts to create the world's largest marine reserve in antarctica when the countries of the antarctic commission to conserve marine life are wrapping up a two day two week meeting even ho battle strain scientists think they will say it's home to thousands of undiscovered species but there is opposition to making it what they want which is a no go zone for fishing mining and drilling just so you know exactly where we're talking about are described at the bottom of the as the bottom of the world little bit early this is specifically at the bottom of the world off the coast of the southern coast of south america as i said the meeting is going on in hobart australia and that is where andrew thomas is reporting from.
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it was always a hugely ambitious proposal put forward by the european union to create a protected marine environment times the size of germany in antarctica pristine waters that most of the countries represented here wanted to preserve long term doesn't happen now by convention and i want to talk publicly about the discussions inside the building behind me until everything is completely concluded there are still some formalities some administrative matters to be overcome but the head of the indian delegation did come out talk to me here's what he said to some extent i'm disappointed. and they wanted to some kind of a fair and just me but then the standing is not damaged unfortunately the standing is not there my duty at the end of the day. after spending so many days on this in here's issue especially understanding as not to make now off camera many others have told me that the marine park proposal is definitely not going to happen this
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year it's not necessarily the end of the road through all the other opportunities in other years to talk about new marine parks potentially again in the way they'll say but the twenty eighty a real sense of disappointment here there is not going to be a very hot created there at least not yet. there has done some tremendous reporting from the antarctic over the years none more so than this if you load up there it goes it's a special edition of earthrise with nick clark who joined a greenpeace expedition to the sea they were gathering the evidence which supports the idea of this proposal there is also a little bit further down the penguin there handy graphic in photographic actually all the facts and figures you need to really understand the scale of what we're dealing with in the antarctic just search for earth rise antarctic you'll find it in the documentary section at al-jazeera dot com. we have heard repeated warnings from the united nations about famine and yemen how it could put among other things up to two million mothers at risk of death often though it is
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a visual which gains more traction than those warnings as it was with an image of a starving young yemeni girl sadly she has passed away andrew tell me about what it's prompted online well she has become one of the latest casualties of the devastating war in yemen led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and backed by the united states it's this picture of a yemeni girl named amal hussein emaciated at just seven years old that drew global attention to the starvation that stocking communities in her country her family says that she has died at a refugee camp four miles from the nearest hospital now a mall became a symbol of her country's humanitarian crisis after she was featured in an article by the new york times this was last week along with some photos of other starving children that coverage shed light on the conflict and the hunger facing so many in yemen now facebook temporarily removed posts containing one of these images in
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particular for violating community standards but then reversed its decision and said quote we know that this is an important image of global significance we're restoring the post we removed on this basis now i'm all is arabic for hope and many people have been using her name as a hash tag to express hope that the world's worst humanitarian crisis will at some point come to an end jamila here is an activist and founder of an organization called yemen war crimes and she says that a mall could have been saved treatment for malnourished children exists but families can't afford to get there or stay there. his sham here says that the preventable death of a child is perhaps one of the greatest reasons to doubt the humanity of our world today and there's been thousands of such cases in yemen and you know while miriam says that she died this beautiful little girl died of starvation because we care more about oil and arms and profit in appeasing saudi arabia than we do about her
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and the people of yemen so some very strong thoughts out there on social media and the human cost of the war in yemen has jumped to the top of the global agenda following the outrage over the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi western leaders are now being urged to reexamine their support for the devastating conflict there and recently the united states and britain those are two of saudi arabia's biggest arms suppliers they called for a cease fire in yemen as always we'd like to hear from you you know how to connect with us just go on twitter and use the hash tag good to. continue with an update on the situation as yemen as we look at some other stories making news around the world the saudi led coalition has launched new offensives in yemen it's begun an operation to retake the port city of data currently under the control of the hutu rebels the coalition sent in thousands of troops to the area this week and in the early hours of friday it also attacked sunnah international airport and an adjoining airbase the u.n.
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has relaunched peace talks and called on both sides to stop fighting palestinian protesters have gathered for another weekly round of demonstrations at the border fence with israel they've been protesting protesting every friday since the thirtieth of march and more than two hundred palestinians have been killed by israeli forces since then demonstrators have been calling for the right to return to their ancestral lands and an end to israel's twelve year blockade of the gaza strip here is harry for sits on that border. well there was word on thursday here in gaza after the intervention of an egyptian delegation they met with the committee that runs these protests there was word that they were going to be scaled down in size and turn and if i just get out of the way i think we can see that that has pretty much come true this is a smaller in number protests than we've seen in recent weeks also as promised it seems there are no incendiary devices kites and balloons being lit and launched
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towards israel a very small number of tires being set on fire to try to provide screening and in response the israelis are using the prevailing winds which are coming from israel this friday and using a pretty large use of tear gas in terms of the proportion of people it is being used against so largely people are being kept back from the fence what's interesting are the politics which are underlying all of this this adoption delegation which is still in town and has visited the processed sites at a different site up slightly north of here along the border that's part of a wider scale effort both to try to reconcile the palestinian factions fatah which dominates the palestinian authority in the occupied west bank hamas which controls gaza trying to broker some kind of longer term truce between the israelis and hamas there is talk of israel facilitating potentially fifteen million dollars a month of funding for non fighting staff members or people who work for hamas
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here in the gaza strip they're already facilitating the qatari fuel which is drastically changed the electricity supply in the strip as well and so after weeks where we've seen things get very close to a major military escalation on a number of occasions there is a different atmosphere this weekend here in gaza and we're seeing it not least in the scale of this protest. now imagine shutting off the water supply in a city of more than eight million people will mexico city one of the poorest and largest metropolises in the world has managed to pull it off so far we are in two days into this the water supply was cut off on wednesday it will last until saturday authorities are undertaking some much needed maintenance work as up to forty percent of the city's water is often lost just through leaks. live for us from mexico city now this is quite something man well exactly how many people are we talking without water and the consequences of that
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authorities say that as many as three million of this of mexico city's eight million residents have already been impacted by the water caught up so the city's water systems director has asked residents who still have water to use it sparingly saying take take extreme care of the water this means no washing clothes this means bathing with buckets of all buckets and and it means no washing dishes it means using but disposable plates and disposable cups many of the public schools here in mexico city have shut down giving residents and families an opportunity to leave town until the system is restored many of the wealthier parts of the city have their own private cisterns we're talking about the upscale restaurants in upscale hotels that are able to stay in business but there's other businesses here in mexico city that have simply shut down waiting waiting for the for the system to be restored now the supply cuts as you mentioned were announced to end today saturday
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but but even though the water systems director says that many of the repairs are ahead of schedule full service may not be restored until november eighth so how what they actually doing it manuel has the government sort of mediating this because. the basic logic sort of dictates that you should do it in stages so that not everyone is affected at once is that how it is working or are they just a whole lot of people getting hit once. absolutely keep in mind this is one of the largest metropolises in the world mexico city but authorities have been preparing for this for several weeks the government is stationed large large tankers in different parts of the city they've filled cisterns in strategic parts of the city that are more vulnerable with potable water like hospitals in areas that might be prone to conflict but water shortages in mexico city are not that uncommon in fact the water table just underneath mexico city has been exploited for many many years this is one of the reasons that many of the historic buildings in the city are sinking by an average of about twenty
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centimeters every single year so so this is this large maintenance project that's being conducted is very important remember. that the water authorities have told us that as much as forty percent of possible water is lost through leaks in these outdated pipes so this is a much anticipated maintenance project by the city fascinating stuff thank you manuel in mexico city without walls the moment now the relatives of the victims of the lion air plane crash on monday a calling for more information on what happened to their loved ones one of the two black box flight recorders was found off the coast of indonesia down on the seabed on thursday also president has visited the jakarta port as divers continue to search for the other recorder along with the fuselage one hundred eighty nine people died after the plane plunged into the sea shortly after takeoff and of giving you know some of out of one please don't only find the black box find my family who became victims please. i hope the government can speed up the process of
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investigating the black box content i want to hear the pilot's voice. an update on sri lanka now where the president is under pressure to recall parliament earlier than expected over the ongoing constitutional crisis president citizen his decision to replace the prime minister with former president mahinda rajapaksa has caused widespread controversy but it smith has the latest from colombo. run away from a singer the ousted prime minister of still refusing to leave the prime minister's official residence behind the temple trees he's been having a series of meetings all day and there is mounting pressure all the presidents to recall an earlier than the original date he set of nov sixteenth has been enormous suspicions the dangers would set to allow the new prime minister the prime minister who was sworn in by president serious saying of us mahinda rajapaksa to give his supporters time to time to gather enough and. to give him the majority
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he says he has to give the majority that would give him the legitimacy to assume the prime minister's position the president so far resisting those calls but on friday morning one hundred eighty nine out a meeting in a committee room at the problem and more than a half the m.p.'s polman and they demanded that the president called pollin back some time next week so that is the situation the moment pressure mounting for an earlier recall of allah. there is increasing concern about tension between two key u.s. allies in northern syria that is turkish turkey and the kurdish led syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. american troops have now begun joint patrols with turkish soldiers in monday age the s.d.f. is based nearby it is led by kurdish fighters the ones turkey considers terrorists the u.s. hopes these joint operations will prevent military confrontations between turkish
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and kurdish fighters there are two thousand american troops working alongside the s.t.'s in the fight against i so and the u.s. department of justice has charged two former investment bankers over the corruption scandal in malaysia one goldman sachs banker admitted to conspiring to launder money and violating and bribery a law investigators in malaysia say billions of dollars stolen from the state development fund one n.d.p. former prime minister najib razak is now facing thirty eight corruption charges involving luxury homes expensive art and jewelry. remember to keep in touch with us contact details coming up on screen for you now most of our comments coming through today on facebook live at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera for the live stream show he has said and this is again going back to jamal khashoggi most of our comments are about that we need to push them for where his body is and this is important to remember his fiance and friends have the right to a funeral consulates are supposed to be safe havens it is all so wrong that's
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so this friday the jamal khashoggi story is even infiltrating into sports after a few weeks of speculation it's finally happening wrestling is going to saudi arabia in just a few minutes one of the most controversial events wrestling entertainment has ever staged will get underway the crown jewel of pay per view is happening in riyadh saudi arabia and that's something that has really upset many fans where there has
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been a backlash online to s.w. going ahead with the show following the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi and the saudi consulate in istanbul. did issue a statement after the story broke saying they were monitoring the situation and were reportedly looking for alternative venues they eventually decided to stick to their plan and it wasn't just fans that were upset. maccollins a company has come under fire calling for crown jewel to be counseled us politicians have spoken up in public and senator lindsey graham saying they should pause their work with saudi but there's a lot of money on the line at this year w w e entered a decade long deal to stage a fence with the saudi general school authorities reportedly worth four hundred fifty million dollars well adding to the controversy is that an elected u.s. politician will wrestle in riyadh mayor of knox county jacobs known to fans
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as cain is part of the main event the that he has also gone into the deal knowing that it's women's wrestlers are not allowed to perform in saudi arabia also their biggest star johnston not won't be there he refused to work the show according to reports and has been removed from the card the rest of us however are not giving away much about the situation right now i didn't know we pulled out all right if people get killed so much it seems still gold cup all the rest were were at the airport only you're. really going to get a lot of bad publicity for it's because i'm with jordan i got five kids right we're going to go make that dollar they want me in saudi i'm going to saudi again respect that they're all right now have a safe trip take care both spoke to them clear the managing editor of entertainment and wrestling website what culture dot com he says that johnson not appearing is
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a huge and that you need to have a serious think about how they deal with saudi arabia going forward. it's a big gripe of a lot of wrestling fans it don't feel particularly listened to by the committee but i think that only extends to the actual extent of the product that they may see in the ring when it comes to mind business issues things that can affect shareholders can affect advertisers don't we w.-e. are very very interested in what the fans have to say they'll drop performance at the first hint of trouble they renamed an entire event earlier in the air because of some controversy over it i think if they had hired a total say in this show it's not the kind of p.r. they would want it to associate themselves with so i think yes they do definitely care what fans think and the calls for it to be boycotted in the rush to going to the going to no doubt receive as a result they are very aware of what to try to avoid if possible john seen as absence from the show is a huge deal but perhaps not so much for the show itself as it is behind the scenes that john cena is not a regular on the shows anymore but he still commands
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a lot of power in the locker room i think primarily the problem joey going to have is how far this this disenchantment with the show spreads whether or not you want to go for doing them in the future because once except precedent for one wrestler not going whether that is john cena or otherwise all of a sudden it becomes a problem to try and get other people there but i expect going forward if they decide to any more of the shows in saudi arabia that we'll see a lot more of this kind of thing the real question about money and based solutions is going to come after this show because they say they've got this ten year deal with the saudi general sports authority i think when we see what happens with the rest of that going forward you know a lot more about the motivations behind this sort of thing. well the vocal crown jewel has gained traction among the supporters who believe w w e should have pulled out of this scheduled event in riyadh to protest the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi one fan tweeted this a happy a boycott the crown jewel day and not the least bit interested in giving my time or
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money were guarding anything to do with this embarrassing display of greed and lack of conscious good for sin and brand for saying no or demarco so she's editor at the washington post the karnataka has slammed the saying this is shameful after heinous bombing campaign and yemen not allowing women wrestling stars to participate in its earliest event in riyadh and now the targeted murder of washington post writer. is choosing money over humanity female wrestler and former women's champion n w w gala came to this do the right thing you have enough money or if you have any shared thoughts with us you can tweet me. a sign a a a h underscore a sport but for now back to come out poll will be with you at eighteen g.m.t. thanks ana and so will i actually the next news hour on al-jazeera in the meantime
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usa white still the largest on regulated gun market in the developed world who pays it brags it goes wrong plus the seychelles leads the way in eco finance with the world's blue ball. counting the cost on al-jazeera. the the u.s. threatened sanctions against the saudi individuals linked to the killing of the journalists in turkey. i know that i'm julie went on this is sound from london also coming out u.s. secretary of state says the return of american sanctions on iran.
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planting protests after woman is acquitted of blasphemy in pakistan schools are shops and mobile services suspended. and russia and china are being blamed for blocking international efforts to create the world's largest marine reserve in antarctica. they're very warm welcome to the program the united states says it will be ready within weeks to impose sanctions on saudi arabia for the murder of. now it's been one month since he was murdered in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul his body still not been found and a senior turkish official alleges that it was dismembered and dissolved in acid alan fischer reports now on the ongoing investigation. the case of jamal khashoggi is one of lies. surprise and videotape fourteen days after the right to
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disappeared and after days of requesting permission turkish investigators were finally load into the consulate with the insisted he's been killed the belief which this forensic expert says would help any potential cover up. the main thing in incidents like this is to carry out the crime scene investigation within days or as soon as possible in this case it took two weeks for the forensic teams to enter the consulate and searched the surrounding areas this is a big handicap that could lead to losing evidence. the saudis had initially insisted left the building after attending a routine appointment but if you don't see was it sate a crucial witness to contradict the lie. the talks were clear they didn't teligent evidence allegedly including audio and video showed was dead and they revealed the images of the so-called hit team fifteen men who flew in from saudi arabia to kill the writer and crucially to clean up afterwards one allegedly brought aboard so
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what king from here turkish investigators a built in case against the saudi nationals that they believe are responsible for the killing of khashoggi with a series of well timed leaks the built up international pressure forcing the saudis to change the story from outright denial to an acceptance should you wish kill where and when the parts allege the saudis claim there was a fight they got out of hand but the turks are contradicted that idea they see the writer was strangled as soon as he walked into the building his body dismembered the saudis can't or won't see what happened to the body in foam and it will be a silent witness to what exactly went on with them at the college where they claim there was a fight when we find the body this will be ourselves after the examination we will find the way he was caught of it so these chief prosecutor has this week spent to fill these in istanbul but there's frustration here at what's seen as
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a genuine lack of cooperation but there are still crucial questions to be answered in this investigation where is jamal khashoggi is body and who ultimately gave the order to kill him let's go live to allan who's outside the saudi consulate in istanbul hi there alan so the act party has been holding a news conference what have they been saying. well mark chile is the official spokesman for the party the leading party of government he doesn't speak for the government but what he says is actually very interesting it says that turkey has been acting within legal frameworks and laws he was asked specifically why turkey didn't act sooner they said they had to go through procedures and he was asked to why not detain the people the fifteen members of the so-called hit squad that came in to kill jamal khashoggi well he made the point that before you can do that sort of thing you actually have to have evidence and that had to be built up over
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a number of days and said that the intelligence services going above and beyond the normal call of duty to put together a case here and then he responded to criticism that the government is perhaps looking to do some sort of financial deal over jamal khashoggi death he made the point that turkey is not interested in a cover up and they want to make sure that the person who ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi is held to account now that all fits in with the way that the investigation is proceeding what is very important to the turks is to find the remains of jamal khashoggi we don't think they're talking about a body at this point i think they're talking about body parts or some sort of residue because one of the things that they're investigating is the suggestion that his body may well have been put in acid to try and dissolve it no i've spoken to a forensic expert as you saw in the report and he suggested that it's a very short time scale to try and dissolve a body just two or three weeks but we know that the turks want to investigate
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around the console general's residence again and what is of interest is a well there you know they saw that the first time they went to search the garden but they wanted to bring in a specialist search team so dear abia said they were on the list so those people that they wanted in couldn't come in the turks have renewed a request to go back in there and the saudis haven't responded and that's another. a sign of frustration from turkey because they say that while saudi arabia is saying they'll do all they can to help the investigation their actions sometimes don't match their words we're also seeing enter national allies being called into the fight we know that turkey has asked for help from the european union and when unity leaders were here at the last weekend they said that they would certainly consider sanctions but they know that saudi arabia can play the allies game too they've got a friend in the white house although donald trump's position has changed from his initial position and they also can call on benjamin netanyahu the prime minister of
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israel no israel and saudi arabia might not seem natural bedfellows but they both have a common enemy in iran and therefore a friend of my enemy is also sorry i'm getting that wrong is that they think that iran is an enemy to let's keep it simple but benjamin netanyahu has been speaking in bulgaria he was at a conference there on friday and he suggested that while it's important that the investigation into what happened behind me exactly a month ago is carried out to the fullest extent people have still got to remember about saudi arabia's position in the region and also in the world what have. you stumble consulate was horrendous and should be doing. yet at the same time i say. it's very important for the stability. of the region and of the world that saudi arabia remains stable and i think that we must be found to achieve both. of
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course what people in turkey are seeing is the subtext of that is that when he says saudi arabia must remain stable the prank own prince mohammed bin salman must stay in position because of course the turks have inadvertently pointed to mohammed bin selman as the man who not only ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi but masterminded the whole idea of killing him as well something that they have presented evidence to support at this stage so where are we with the investigation well the turks have been invited to saudi arabia to talk to the eighteen people the saudi arabia is currently holding in connection with the death of jamal khashoggi they may decide to go there but they feel that if they do that me undermine their claims to have all the extradited here to face turkish justice so that decision will be taken by the prosecutor in bill that's who the offer was made to that final decision will be made in the highest reaches of government in ankara and
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fish in their line for the very latest from istanbul alan thank you. with rage refusing to dive dive the u.s. is stepping up the pressure on saudi arabia heidi jocasta reports live from washington d.c. . the u.s. secretary of state says sanctions against saudi arabia for the killing of jamal khashoggi are likely coming to take us. probably have four more weeks before we have enough evidence to actually put those sanctions in place but i'm i think we'll be able to get there we're going to find the fact that a president said we will demand accountability for those who are involved in the commission of this i described sanctions would not be the only repercussion from the u.s. more than a week ago the state department revoked the visas of twenty one saudi nationals identified as involved in the operation to kill the show secretary michael impale said of the time those penalties would not be the last word even as the u.s.
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continued to gather facts that included cia director gina haskell travelling to turkey and reportedly listening to the audio recording of killing turkey is leading the investigation it says she was strangled almost immediately after entering the saudi consulate on october second. no one will escape responsibility this issue has become universal it cannot be covered up and it is watched by everyone in the world turkey will transparently share with all international institutions the data of the investigation process we expect saudi officials to cooperate with the turkish side in the investigations through joint work to uncover all the circumstances of this crime. meanwhile the washington post reports saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin selman spoke with senior trump administration officials prior to the kingdom of knowledge and killing in the private call been
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someone reportedly said to show she was dangerous and a member of the. muslim brotherhood a point the journalist had long denied later in public prince amman would change his tune calling the show he's killing a terrible mistake and not justifiable key questions remain about what exactly happened including what his killers did with his body the u.s. state department says it's calling on saudi arabia to return remains to his family as soon as possible heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington well the top administration has announced it's returning all of the u.s. sanctions on iran which were lifted under that twenty fifteen nuclear deal for more let's go straight to jordan in washington d.c. hi there ross at so tell us more then about what's been announced we iran well basically julie these are the sanctions that will target iran's financial
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sector as well as its all important energy sector and this is something which the trumpet ministration has been putting a lot of pressure on other countries to go along with basically stop buying iranian oil we also heard from the secretary of state mike palm pale in the secretary of the treasury stephen newton who said that more than seven hundred iranians will be sanctioned as well will be a number of iranian banks and other financial institutions as well as iranian airlines and shipping vessels all parts of the overall energy sector really to try to force the iranian government to change its policies to stop what the united states calls meddling in other countries affairs and creating a destabilizing environment particularly across the middle east and finally to try to promote the environment.
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