group of evangelical christians from the united states have made a rare visit to saudi arabia that met senior government minister and the crown prince mohammed bin solomon the kingdom very much trying to repair its international reputation in the wake of the murder of jamal khashoggi some of the visiting group staunchly progress rail they describe themselves as zionists and several close to the u.s. president donald trump remember saudi arabia bans all religions except islam and doesn't officially recognize israel. is a senior fellow and professor at the american university of beirut he has more on saudi arabia's attempts to improve its image for the. well this is it has nothing to do with faith or islam this visit is a political visit 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 leader so this is a group of right wing american zionist fanatics who are close to the very close to 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 convergences not really anything to do with religion and i think hamad bin salmond probably bad advice 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 hustle to murder women to other news now and protests have been

called off in pakistan these are the ones against the supreme court judges who acquitted a christian woman of blasphemy the latest with commodities on the line from islamabad now can all what led to the canceling of this. well apparently today was a high level delegation from the government which included the country's new religion minister nuri godfrey and a fine job province law minister rajab. basically made the project day need a ship and then agreed on a full boring remains out. there to do a journey said could be needed turning to my road short order departing job education ministry and issue that no defecation. schools should be reopened abroad very near to where the deal had been finalized

we've also being told that the copy of the agreement was sent to the budget sunday prime minister and run. in london and who also gave a nod of approval to this particular gate when he gave you get a bag gets done which was the main spearhead of the protests across the country ok thank you for that update come on in islamabad and stay with pakistan a senior muslim cleric known as the father of taliban has been stabbed to death in pakistan relatives of some say he was stabbed by unknown attackers in his home in central punjab province twice held roles as a member of pakistan's parliament and had told some leaders of the taliban. here's what's coming up view on this news our sri lanka's ousted prime minister tells al-jazeera democracy in his country is under threat. jamal khashoggi is case just

one of many the c.m. making the dangerous journalists face in twenty eight. and a multi-million dollar wrestling event goes ahead in riyadh despite a backlash from fans and residents in the wake of the. united nations is once again spoken out about the conflict in yemen and the humanitarian disaster that's unfolding there as a result within the past hour secretary general antonio guterres said the ceasefire must be reached and that there are glimmers of hope that a political solution is possible the u.n. and our partners are already feeding eight million people in yemen without urgent action up to fourteen million people feel the health of the population would be out of three ski in the coming months to avert imminent catastrophe several steps gently required first the violence must stop everywhere

with an immediate halt of around critical infrastructure and densely populated areas and i welcomed a strong constructive engagement from many member states in recent days joining their voices to the un z.p.g. that deals for the suspicion of all stupidities and supporting my special envoys efforts could terrorists comments come as the saudi led coalition launched new offensives in yemen an operation is underway to retake the port city of her data currently under the control of who the rebels the coalition sent in thousands of troops to the area this week and in the early hours of friday also attacks on and to national airport and an adjoining air base the u.s. and u.n. has called on both sides to stop the fighting and to begin talks. the trouble ministration has announced it is returning all of the u.s. sanctions on iran which were lifted on the twenty eight fifteen nuclear deal fronts

germany the u.k. and the e.u. are all condemning that move as well as in jordan reports from washington. the u.s. state department and treasury department have announced that effective five g. on monday november fifth all u.s. sanctions targeting iran's energy and financial sectors will be reimposed and more than seven hundred people are going to be added to the u.s. sanctions list this is part of what washington is calling its maximum pressure strategy in order to convince the government that it needs to change its policies its destabilizing policies in the trumpet ministrations words and terms of supporting the assad government in syria in terms of supporting hooty fighters in yemen civil war and in terms of trying to build a nuclear weapons arsenal the trumpet ministration says that the obama administration was wrong to enter into a deal that would allow iran to experience some financial and some so social relief

in exchange for promising to give up its nuclear weapons program donald trump it campaigned that this deal was in effect a giveaway to the iranians to continue its bad behavior the official said on friday to reporters that once the sanctions come into effect iran's ability to engage with the world economically will be limited to just bringing in humanitarian aid for the iranian people however the officials promise that those countries and those persons that do business with sanctioned iran iranian agents seize persons and shipping vessels could find themselves under sanctions if not facing prosecution here in the united states going to talk to trade policy about the snow he has from the national iranian american council on scott from reston virginia trying to woo what's going on here is this just an example of the trumpet ministration doing something because

it can for the sake of it because obama he wants to reverse what obama did. no this is gone beyond trump's distain for obama and wanting to undo what obama has done at this point we are seeing the trumpet mr asian essentially creating a crisis of choice just as much as the iraq war was a war of choice just as a crisis of choice because this nuclear deal was working it was working quite well russia was abiding by it the chinese were abiding by it the europeans were abiding by it and most importantly the iranians were abiding by it it's now the united states that is in breach of that agreement and is now actually going so far as to punish countries that are abiding by a u.n. security council resolution you really can't get more pariah than dots explain more to us about how it punishes them and i mean there are a lot of those countries you mentioned condemning the move i wonder if that will have any impact well the u.n.

security council resolution lifted sanctions and made sure that trade with iran in numerous areas was now legitimate and was no longer under u.n. security council resolution sanctions now the interim administration is saying we don't care about the u.n. security council resolution even though it passed fifteen to zero and even though the u.s. voted in favor of it and now we're going to impose sanctions on anyone who trades with iran even though that trade now is internationally seen as illegal what does this mean. does that mean anything midterms wise i mean i feel the midterms that coming up have been sort of overshadowed by the so-called migrant caravan is this part of the part of the broader mid-term picture as well. in the reverse i would say. guess we'll never know the answer to that one because we lost our link to trita parsi i'm just keeping an eye on the screens there now still very much for

those and they want to share in those trita parsi from the national iranian american council there now the u.s. and turkey have announced they've lifted rival sanctions that each country has placed on top ministers over the imprisonment of the american past bronson a pastor was released in october and since returned to the united states and turkey's dollar bonds jumped following the news. there are actually two good news for turkey today one of them is lifting the sanctions over imposed over turkish menaces along with the u.s. ministers both sides by later lifted those sanctions plus turkey received a waiver on u.s. sanctions that are targeting iran which means that turkey is exempted from these sanctions as turkish petroleum is trading it with iran in terms of oil these are very good news and this was welcomed by the investors mostly turkish nato which has been suffering for the last three months is now performing its strongest level

against the u.s. dollar gaining one point seven percent at least it today of course these are not the only topics that that we can count as a positive development between washington and ancora we have been seeing that these two countries have been exchanging information over jamaal. case in a very firmly diplomatic way plus we see that turkey and u.s. has has come to an agreement over. northeastern syria and turkey and u.s. have begun their joint patrols so this week is actually a gain for ankara in terms of bettering the relations with the united states. palestinian protesters have gathered for another weekly round of demonstrations at the border fence with israel they have been 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 to end israel's twelve year blockade of the gaza strip perrie force that has more from the border. well there was word on thursday here in gaza after the intervention of 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 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 the suggestion delegation which is still in town and has visited the process site at a different site are 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 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 a bus heading to a coptic monastery in egypt has been fired that it happens near the town of minea at least seven people killed and many more injured. there is increasing concern about the tension between two key u.s. allies in northern syria that is turkey and the kurdish syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. american troops have begun joint patrols with turkish soldiers in bridge but the base nearby and it's led by kurdish fighters who turkey considers terrorists the u.s. hopes the joint operations will prevent military confrontations between kurdish and turkish fighters two thousand american troops are working alongside the s.t.'s in the fight against eisel. as prime minister has told al jazeera democracy in the country is under threat running a singer is refusing to quit after being fired last week by president. he has been

replaced with manda rajapaksa a two time president who's accused of making a power grab but in smith with more from colombo for the past week running away from a single has refused to leave the prime minister's official residence here in the capital it's become a symbol of legitimacy he tells me after being fired by the president and what critics are calling a constitutional day the third. in the last presidential election. we came forward on the basis that. is that the president must act according to the. nineteenth amendment to the to do it was drafted on that basis now what has happened is the president is trying to override the power of the parliament present my three policy areas say in a swore in mahinda rajapakse the new prime minister last friday. rajapaksa was president for two terms and scrapped term limits in twenty fourteen to try and stay

in power but then lost the election he called a year later rajapaksa says he's got enough support in parliament to confirm his position but m.p.'s can't vote because presidents are saying or a suspended parliament why the delay you think in recalling parliament where they haven't the numbers where the number because of parliament initially thought you think if you go all the normal you have the numbers here. with we hear a lot of talk about persuading m.p.'s to join rajapaksa side how might they be persuaded what are you what are you hearing about what's going on with our founding member and their ministry ships and some money the speaker has warned of the risk of a bloodbath if this is allowed to continue do you share those views of the speaker that there can be an appeal because people are getting the two granted by the reward for parliament democracy we why we are quite a different set up in our lives than we find even worth two thousand forty.

defending a principle and the fact that the made during the war. in two thousand and fifteen to a poor democracy and if you lead them down their gloves to be i and a singer says it's that desire to uphold democracy that's brought him support from a wide a section of society than just his traditional support base when parliament is recalled prime minister wickramasinghe says he'll leave his official residence here at temple trees to go and vote until then he's staying put. but it's with al jazeera columbus still ahead of you on this news hour it's on our eyes but who's blocking the plan to create the world's largest marine reserve in antarctica and your sports news you same boat leaves the central coast mariners putting its football dreams in doubt or we'll have that story and more.

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 tools in southwestern parts of i'm upset ready parts of saudi arabia seams and clouds and a few outbreaks of rain and that's pushing its way northward on sunday we're going to see more of that what whether 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 for sunday system that is also affecting us in saudi as i said we're already seeing it for posts here in the north and that soen sa today it gradually 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 intruding force in riyadh with a top temperature of twenty seven is

a good deal of cloud around the riyadh area and there will be a fair amount of tad 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 too 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. november on al jazeera. radicalized you a new hard hitting series comes face to face with the hatred and violence of militant groups that attract young people around the world on november fifth the u.s. will impose additional sanctions on iran targeting the oil sites we'll look at the impact that may have. when migrant lives are in danger and see who should come to their aid people in power investigates the united states is getting ready for the

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sanctions are being prepared against saudis involved in the killing of jamal khashoggi saudi leaders have so far resisted international pressure to reveal who ordered the journalist's murder disappeared after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul exactly a month ago and the international pressure is mounting on to explain who ordered them. israel's prime minister has commented on the case for the first time benjamin netanyahu called the murder of her friend he says it needs to be dealt with but also emphasized the stability of saudi arabia is important for the stability of the middle east as a whole. and u.s. secretary state might pompei it was announce the return of paul u.s. sanctions on iran sanctions that were lifted under the twenty fifteen nuclear deal . to return to our top story on jamal khashoggi and friends and family have held a vigil in washington d.c. as his murderer has fallen out of the headlines slightly ahead of the midterm elections patty culhane has more. here at this rather posh hotel in the center of

washington d.c. jamal khashoggi his friends and colleagues a few dozen gathering to remember him the hour long the moralists back to hear tributes to the the father the fiance the writer the journalist and then the next hour the second i was going to be a panel discussion on how to get justice for democracy there are a lot of media here and that's likely part of the point the murder has been falling out of the headlines here in the united states the focus turns to the midterm elections that decreases the pressure on u.s. president donald trump so obviously his colleagues his friends his family they want to make sure this story stays in the headlines so the pressure stays on the president to do something when it comes to saudi arabia. istanbul has become home for many dissidents one of those was a lifelong friend of jamal khashoggi who is an egyptian opposition politician and even a former presidential candidate he believes his friends killing will be a turning point for the bridge. elish our

t.v. a dissident voice traced from turkey that would otherwise not be heard. this is an egyptian opposition channel which camp broadcasts at home where the media is tightly controlled by the government it's one of a dozen television channels run by opposition movements across the arab world that broadcast from here. its chairman a man nor who once stood as a presidential candidate in egypt and who spent time in prison for opposing longtime president hosni mubarak left his country in two thousand and thirteen after challenging the current president of the fatah his sisi and what he called his to radical rule. you know the person who told me to come to turkey was my dear friend for thirty five years he said it's the safest country for me to live in he believes and so do why the president at the ground would never hand over

opposition members in return for the deal so i took them as advice it seems turkey is safe for me but it wasn't for him. it's believed that she was murdered in the saudi consulate on october the second because he was a critic of crown prince mohammed bin salmen many arabs who spoke out against those in power and called for democracy and it up living in exile in istanbul this is one of the few districts where egyptians syrians yemenis saudis and libyans settled after escaping harsh crackdowns and repression at home. it was the arab spring in two thousand and eleven that forced many people to leave their countries syrians opposed to president bashar al assad members of egypt's now outlawed muslim brotherhood group they were forced to leave after the military coup in two thousand and thirteen they found safety in turkey until now well known dissidents have been

threatened with death this presenter live on an egyptian pro-government channel named a minor war as one of those who shouldn't be killed. his friend was killed and along with him the sense of security in what was seen as a safe haven the brutality of the murder a reminder of what can happen when you confront power but she's friends don't believe his death will be wasted. i believe god want to jamal to achieve in his death what he wanted to achieve in his life which was to end oprah's of rule whether military tribal or religious i think his death will be a turning point in the region to get rid of these regimes. she wasn't alone those who fought for new leadership have found a place in turkey which has been described by some as the last corner of the arab spring. has rekindled their demand for change. istanbul. because murder is highlighting the dangers facing journalists worldwide and the

united nations is recognizing that with an international day to commemorate reporters who've died during doing their jobs while the killers remain unpunished from london. anticorruption journalist daphne. 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 journalists at least have been killed roughly to a week and yet nobody gets punished for these crimes so what we want are buying international norms in the form of a united nations convention to what 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 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 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 journalists are. just one in many in syria in palestine in egypt across the region in the goth 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 london. spoke to you and qrio a little bit earlier who is an investigative journalist in mexico there is also written vocal against a gangster warlords and says covering mexico's drug cartels is dangerous for all journalists 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 thing you're thinking about is how they're going to react to you now tragically the vast majority of the 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 drug cartels was formed but if you are mentioned was living in those in the city it up in ghana very tallis very powerful drug cartels and living here in mexico city. it's a little bit more protection but you do know one does not want to tool be complacent about this an american journalist was killed and so it's ten years ago in the state of what hacker in mexico in a crossfire of shooting a free 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 off putting is idiotic really find the kind of drive to keep on doing this. in iraq people who fled the city of kirkuk are slowly returning a year after government forces rito control from kurdish fighters who pushed eisel from the city but the threat of violence remains with security forces on the outskirts still battling to flush out the eisel remnants muhammad to reports from baghdad. this is the city of could sum it up almost a year after it out the forces took control of the city to cut its push but it got full says. old instability is returning to its streets was the only on a highly on the security situation is relatively better nowadays but the economy is still fragile increased taxes and red tape getting out permits to continue our businesses is to some extent hindering our. doing that violence on the city but out

it forces fears of the nude conflict between book the kurdish authorities forced many families to flee the city most of them offices aton are trying to restart their lives in towns and villages outside get it out to forces continue on oil production against remnants of eisel who've been cutting out frequent attacks against civilians and security forces. despite their ongoing operations against eisel officials insist the group has been defeated and play down the fears of a comeback. we hope that both iraqi and kurdish forces unite together and eliminate any remaining pockets of terrorism across karkoc the security situation remains a challenge for everyone here if security is improved economy will be boosted. kid coke is a melting pot over iraq's major ethnic groups. cuts and talking live side by side here. the recent the opening of conflicts apple to commercial flight has instilled

in the residents of this it. has been used as a military base by american troops since two thousand and three and later. and kurdish peshmerga forces. joe was critical of our thought we have overcome many obstacles to make the dream of reopening the airport for commercial flights a reality for the people of herco province our province is a symbol of iraq's diversity and it represents the unity of iraq kirkuk is also home to some of iraq's alders the most productive oil fields the province coming flipper neas us up to four hundred fifty thousand oil and there are plans to truck some of these crude to iran but the road to the border is yet to be sick you would makes the fight against remnants of i still have been watching how. the u.s. justice department has charged two former investment bankers in connection with the

corruption scandal in malaysia one goldman sachs banker admitted to conspiring to launder money and violating the anti bribery law relation business and was also charged investigators say billions of dollars was stolen from the state development fund one aim to be former prime minister najib razak is facing thirty eight corruption charges. russia and china are being blamed for blocking international efforts to create the world's largest marine reserve in antarctica and talk to commission to conserve marine life couldn't agree on how to make the sea a no go zone for fishing mining and drilling under thomas with this from hobart in australia. the proposal was to create another marine park in antarctica this time five times the size of germany an area of pristine ocean protected from fishing mining drilling almost all human activity the whale see is an icy wilderness and one of the world's last for.