and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. turkey's president keeps up the pressure on the saudis over the murder of jamal khashoggi with his most direct accusations yet. hello there i'm julia macdonald this is sal jazeera live from london also coming up more than ten thousand people displaced by fighting in central african republic take shelter at a hospital after their camps were torched the lawyer of a christian woman acquitted of blasphemy fees pakistan as a baby has been barred from leaving under a government deal to end the protests against her.

and we're in deeply conservative alabama where a record number of african-american women are running for office in the u.s. midterms. warm welcome to the program it's been over a month since journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey as president is keeping up the pressure on side to arabia making his most direct accusations you get well who was responsible for the killing but egypt burden says he wants the so-called puppet masters of the product to be revealed writing in the washington post he said he believes the order to kill came from the highest levels of saudi government while he didn't believe king solomon had ordered the hit he didn't say the same for crime prince mohammed bin solomon is close ties to some of the suspects in the hit squad have been exposed. is in istanbul hi there hush i'm so turkey keeping off this pressure then on saudi arabia

for and so. indeed this is basically what they are doing they say that they trust king solomon been out to lizzie's but they don't trust the sound you know when it comes to who killed. and they don't believe that you were someone like a majority of the deputy intelligence chief who was sacked recently or. any former advisor to the crown prince mohammed said man who was also sacked a few days ago say that the saudis are not genuine about the whole investigation of the are not stalling quite interesting that a few hours ago the deputy head of the ruling party of the ark party. said that saudi king is the custody of the two holy sites for muslims and therefore he should stand for the ideals of the those two holy sites and he should tell the world. so basically they are trying to say they are not

naming they're not mentioning brings one hundred percent but they don't trust the saudi narrative and this explains why they are now on the offensive putting all this political pressure on the saudi government to try to give them more details about what happened and they seem to be willing of this particular moment to get some help when it comes to the remains of because that's the only element that could consolidate the case and for them to be able to come up with an indictment. of their life from istanbul hashim thank you. at least two people have been killed in attacks on camps for displaced people in central african republic where than ten thousand people have been forced to take refuge in a hospital compound after fighting broke out near the border with chad doctors without borders has posted pictures which appear to show camps completely burned to

the ground car has been in crisis for the last five years with more than seven hundred five i was and people being displaced when twenty thirteen and many new slim repl rebel alliance called select says' power in the capital forcing president francois fools easy to flee now armed christian groups called the empty block of then rules to confront to lose them fight as thousands were killed and displaced in the subsequent violence but just a few months later the selec alliance fell apart splintering into several groups and interim government took power in twenty fourteen but failed to stop the spiraling bloodshed two years later forced an arsonist to a day or was elected president but he's also struggled to gain control last year a surge in fighting for several aid agencies to withdrawal even tens of thousands without support c.a.r.e. is now a battleground between various armed groups effectively partition between former lose them select

a fight is now calling themselves the f p r c and anti the lack of groups well in january the red cross wanted two and a half million people that's more than half of the country's population are in need of aid or more often is head of the missions adults without borders in the central african republic he says the international community needs to do more to protect civilians. the situation he's going to critique in both the people is that our business and violence we have received in both houses be those supported by m.s.f. doctors without borders but thank god for any man by around twenty more wounded so some of those cases are very critique and we're trying to evacuate been. bombarded the situation continues to be serious because it's very sad sporadic fighting ongoing and it seems our colleagues can not or cannot move properly to find out if there's more people he needs equally very patients that would be willing to come to

the hospital but access is not guaranteed there is fighting on going so we're really concerned about that there's two things that are very important for. the palatial body suffering these violence on the one hand the population needs to be protected we need to ensure that the reef protection for these population when fighting between different groups happens that's really the key essentials and on the other hand it is very important that we can have as many you know human factors as possible responding to be for me unicef is warning the gammons famine could worsen if efforts to deliver aid are through all the united nations children's agency says both the yemeni government and who see rebels are making it impossible to deliver and distribute vital supplies some twenty nine million yemenis are food insecure well over one point eight million children are suffering from malnutrition u.n. backing calls from the united states for ceasefire and the conflict. a u.n.

convoy carrying much needed aid has reached the remote would come camp in northeast syria the camp is in a rebel held area near the border with jordan but it's encircled by government forces leaving an estimated fifty thousand people stranded in last received aid in january at least four people have died in the past month due to now nutrition and the lack of medical care. the lawyer of a christian woman acquitted of blasphemy in pakistan has left the country saying his life was under threat the fate of a c. and b. b. is much less certain after the pakistani government came to an agreement on saturday with a conservative muslim protest as they'd been protesting for three days over her acquittal the mother of five spent eight years on death row will not be allowed to leave the country until the supreme court reviews the winning has more now from islamabad. what the government has tried to do is to defuse a crazy spider laying out of control day tried to maximum restraint in order to

make sure that there were no heavy casualties which were done there bided out of control so when what the government had done it. but what the people of pakistan had to endure then they became hostage a word you're a doctor gave in their own home the government certainly have to have a theory of retaining because some of the female groups have been beheaded by their political government and if the government did really serious about bringing change and bringing home we need back into pakistan red headed more tolerant and read the issue of the blasphemy law and in that dress it really have got to be of crucial importance that they move on days i thought that. the search for the crash lion airplane has entered its sixth day in indonesia with divers reported seeing the fuselage and engines of the jet on the sea floor opinion case has also detected

a signal that maybe from the cockpit voice recorder the brand new boeing jet plunged into the java sea just minutes after takeoff on monday killing all one hundred eighty nine people on board the search effort has also claimed the life of a diver who died friday evening. sri lanka as i was to prime minister is warning of a potential bloodbath ahead of next week's confidence vote in parliament as more allegations of arj of politicians being bribed to switch sides. has been replaced as prime minister by former president mahinda rajapaksa in a controversial move which critics have branded unconstitutional rajapakse and i face is a no confidence vote but it's being alleged that he's offering money and ministerial posts to opposition lawmakers to back him he needs the support of another five m.p.'s to form an all important majority burn a spit has more now from colombo. we believe that so far today mahinda rajapakse it

needs another seven stories got seven minutes needed twelve at the end of last week to switch over to given the parliamentary majority he wants it he's done it he's got persuaded seven in the last few days to join him he's given the ministries basically and with the ministries come influence and power and money so he's got seventy needs five more kampala six is not unusual for m.p.'s to switch between parties so he's got five more than some five m.p.'s whoever they may be they need to be persuaded to join rajapaksa side before parliament is recall we've had in the last couple of days and the one m.p. has given a press conference about it not so long ago saying that he was offered almost three million dollars three million dollars in cash to to to switch from one opposition party to join rajapaksa that m.p. needless to say says he's resisted that temptation because he held

a press conference playing already a recordings of the phone conversations that have been where he says this is where the money is being offered but it gives you an indication of what's at stake when so much money is being offered for warm and p. to switch sides still to come this half hour what happens when a city of twenty four million turns off the tap so we're in mexico city to find out as it upgrades one of the world's largest systems why indigenous groups and french loyalist sides if i did i don't end up coming dependents referendum all that more when we come back. hello the weather set fire across southern parts of china at the moment further north same cannot be said to go laws to clear skies that eastern side of chad over toward shanghai seeing a little bit more the way of plaid it will stay dry and brought here as we go

through sunday fickling clout though coming into central parts will sink its way further southwards and three peping up some heavy downpours coming through to the yearly parts of new working week then hong kong stays fine and dry temperatures here at around twenty eight degrees celsius in the north easterly wind northeast a way into stretching its way across the much of south asia now of course the northeast the months it has set in but that means showers down to southern parts of india so that's the case to winter flank and some of those showers really on the heavy side as we go through sunday and all the n.c.a. monday a little developing system coming through here but of circulation so that eastern side of strike a could well see some really heavy downpours for monday western ghats also seeing a few showers on and off the north it is generally try twenty eight celsius there were new delhi but the poor air quality of course with a lot of haze around i see sunshine at a premium herring ka-zar at the moment no the process saudi arabia seeing some cloud and right cloud there for doha on sunday but brighter by monday.

in the united states the religious right is on the monch we were always hunting for the god who would take our script and read it their goal was to take control of one of the political parties and they perfected with full lines examines the trumpet ministration special relationship with the religious right what do you get out of the presidency and asks what evangelical support means for the future of the country church of trump on al-jazeera.

a reminder of our top story see on al-jazeera turkey's president says he believes the order to kill the journalist jamal khashoggi came from the highest levels of the saudi government rages orodruin said he did not believe king solomon ordered the hits. and these two people have been killed in attacks on camps for displaced people in central african republic more than ten thousand people have been forced to take refuge in a hospital compact after fighting broke out me at the north and border with chad. and a christian woman who had her death sentence for blasphemy charges overturned has been barred from leaving pakistan and while a sea of babies lawyer has fled the country saying he feared for his life. campaigning has ramped up days before the u.s. midterm social see the country for a new house of representatives and around a third of seats as well in the senate a historic the berlin candidates are running in the midterms and from an incredibly diverse range of backgrounds and in nine year old alexandria ocasio contests

a democratic socialist new york's the bronx unseated a long term democrat and is now in trying to become the young. this woman ever elected to congress georgia stacy abrams could be the first black woman governor in the u.s. she's the backing of former president barack obama on television saw oprah winfrey i am a presley is running a pool in these elections after beating a ten term democrat to cement her place as massachusetts first black congresswoman then there's christine how quits resigned from her role as c.e.o. of vermont electrical co-operative to campaign to be governor of vermont and could be the first openly transgender governor in the u.s. a single mother and member of the laguna playable tribe dave holland is one of three native american women hoping to secure a congressional seat and then there's michigan's rashida today and minnesota says omar ultima kratz poised to make history when they become the first muslim american

women in congress. in the u.s. state of alabama a record number of female african-american candidates running for office twenty eighteen most are running against white man and if they win it could change politics in the south and a gallacher explains. inventing a mile a bomb of the new old magic city classic brings the entire community together it's an american football showdown between the two largest historically black universities as the midterm elections approach politics is never far away. for doug jones this is an important event when he won a special election last year jones became the state's first democratic senator in more than two decades a victory sealed with overwhelming support from african-american women voters is when say campaign as his spokes change we believe that that's how we're going to liberate those communities are so you're seeing these women step up particularly black women in the south but i found black men to say enough is enough we have to

take back our power and put that power back to the people. mother of two veronica johnson is one of those determined to challenge the status quo she's just one of a wave of women determined to change alabama's politics so yes i'm unhappy but there's only so much ranting you can do on facebook there's only so much ranting you can do on twitter i can't rant i'm not going to put myself out there to make the time just need to be times this the most important thing i think is a referendum on the current president the comics that political science professor says the unprecedented number of black female candidates will have a lasting impact see women run for office and win office in alabama. come to motivate those women who were sitting on the plane you know but i'm tired of politics is news well let me just throw my head out there and run for office is the way average. alabama remains

a deeply conservative state but the sheer number of candid. this year could be a sign of things to come alabama ranks among the bottom six states of representation but these midterm elections may change that in all there are around seventy female candidates running for various positions many of them african-american and the driving forces behind this are important the election of democrat doug jones being one the b. two movement is also playing a role but there's also an overwhelming desire to change politics as normal and make elected officials more representative of the state. where the candidates like veronica win or lose on november the sixth may not matter in the long run it's example they're setting for others that may send the most powerful message i think alec girl jazeera birmingham alabama. iran's supreme leader has dismissed ringing huge u.s. sanctions on the islamic republic that a g. to take effect on monday ayatollah khamenei says president donald trump is

disgraced the u.s. the forty years of washington trying to dominate iran had failed trump announced in may that he was pulling the u.s. out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal we saw tehran and its nuclear weapons program in exchange for dropping a crippling economic embargo that included the country's lucrative oil industry same bus driving reports that from tehran. when you look past all the politics what becomes clear is that american sanctions iranian people more than a change iranian government policies american policy some would say trumps brinkmanship has meant economic chaos for iran the value of the iranian ryall has suffered a major fall in the last year adding to high inflation and unemployment concerns. all of this hurts low income and working people first and foremost they struggle to feed their families because prices for some basic goods have doubled. or.

people's purchasing power has been reduced they talk about their problems. when a customer wants to buy something you can tell the situation some people used to come here to buy meat once a month now they come once every two months. when it comes to iran u.s. presidents have pursued a policy of containment for decades trying to limit iranians economically militarily and politically in their regional and global affairs even the twenty fifteen nuclear deal that president barack obama championed that gave iran back some of its financial freedoms many iranians saw that is just a softer approach to the same containment policy but by turning back the clock on bilateral ties with iran what president donald trump has done is to show people here that during his administration there will be no blurred lines between friends and enemies but if trumpet hope pushing iranians towards poverty would inspire them to topple their old leaders he'll likely be disappointed previous protests never got big enough all he's apparently done is make people here miserable ben are very

volatile you and i would be i think mr trump is a crazy man who made the situation in the region drastically worse his involvement in the region and sanctions have made the people hate him i really don't think that he's the one that should be the president of america. maybe good for his own people but not as he took office things got worse it's better not to say anything about his personality everyone knows how he is but generally speaking everybody in the room took a loss as he took off when iran's leaders signed the nuclear deal they said it was the view thing to fix everyone's financial problems three years later with american promises of more sanctions than ever before the best that people here can hope for is that iran can manage to sell enough oil to survive until donald trump has left the white house is in basra. on. iran has begun mass producing its locally designed cult fighter jet defense minister amir hatami said that the number

of just needed will soon be delivered to the air force just sanctions iran's air force has been limited to a few dozen strike aircraft that were in the country's possession before the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution has had to rely on russia for aerial support for its offer ations in syria. the jury is militia is facing criticism after sending out a tweet that appeared to use president charms coeds as justification for shooting and killing protesters in the west african nation on thursday he suggested the u.s. soldiers on the mexico border could fire at migrants in a huge caravan. anybodies throwing stones rocks like they did to mexico in the mexican military mexican police with a badly hurt police and soldiers of mexico we will consider that a firearm because there's not much well he insisted on friday that he meant that they would be arrested the nigerian military suite has since been inundated.

thousands of central american migrants have left southern mexico on food after buses that they were promised failed to turn up the government a very cool he's had promised dozens of buses to take the migrants to mexico city but the buses were canceled as there's no water in the capital because of maintenance work migrants are heading towards the united states or to american troops have been deployed to stop them from crossing over. the world over there playing games with us we have dignity we have rights but the fact that they say one thing and promise and then when the time comes they come up with a new idea they're just playing with us tell the truth that's all that's what we want millions of people in mexico city of the left for that wanting water because of a three day enforced drought surprise were turned off for maintenance work on one of the world's largest pumping systems when well what's that from the mexican capital . what happens when a city of twenty one million people shuts off the water. i was worried because we

weren't prepared for this. a resident of mexico city says he still has running water but he's been storing as much as he can just in case the faucets run dry we need to take notice water should be protected it's of utmost importance a few blocks away done to me here a restaurant owner says he's been stocking up too even though the water never stopped running he says the media warnings of the mouse water shut off have been blown out of proportion and have even ended up hurting his business vocal bumbles dumbos we purchased water jugs we stored our water and fortunately we don't have any trouble but i think the problem has been exaggerated many people are not going to restaurants because they heard the news there was no water based with crumbling water infrastructure mexico city's water management agency has been working on repairs to the city's water systems an estimated forty percent of the city's

portable. water is believed to be lost through leaky pipes but this is an important project and the people have taken notice and as a precautionary measure the local government set up cisterns in strategic parts of the city and deployed water tankers in the event of an emergency this point in central mexico city serves as a water extraction source the water is taken directly from the ground to fill those tanker trucks from here it's sent to areas that are designated as vulnerable such as hospitals or nursing homes officials warned that as many as three million of the city's residents could be left without water when the repairs began preparations by city officials and residents however were enough to prevent a water emergency but ended up a little dizzy to mexico city strong winds have destroyed an ancient pine forest in the italian alps thousands of centuries old trees were operated in the dollar mines environmentalist so worried about the long term damage that to the region's

heritage landslides have also got wells cutting off the ledge is at least twenty people have been killed by the storms across italy this week venice also flooded leaving the lagoon city's sin large square on the water people on the pacific island of new caledonia are preparing to vote in the coming hours on whether to become independent from france where the referendum comes decades after a similar vote ended in political violence this time france which is organizing the vote says it is staying neutral from the way of new caledonia and to thomas as the story. new caledonia is nearly twenty thousand kilometers from paris yet the pacific island territory has been since eight hundred fifty three parts of france but after sunday the bones could be broken new caledonians will be asked whether they want their territory to cede full sovereignty and become an independent. opinion polls suggest those of european descent like those on this

rally in may want to remain french i think played only and france is the best that we can have. but the french state and the french president to visit new caledonia earlier this year are officially neutral that has a lot to do with history in the twenty seven people of indigenous quranic descent boycotted a referendum because they saw the process then as rigged in favor of french loyalists the following year on the outlying island of ear supporters of independents resorted to violence on the twenty second of april night and eighty eight a big group of pro independents cannot command stormed the play station then stood on this site killing for placement inside and taking a group of more than twenty others hostage france sent in a military team in the assault two of that team were killed as were nineteen of the hostage takers some it's now known were executed this time france is determined both sides see the process as fair and accept the result only french settlers with

a decades long history new caledonia will be eligible to vote and should the result be no to independence independence supporters will have to further chances with follow up referendum to twenty twenty and twenty twenty three sit and. zoeth this time around political leaders have managed the process well. cannot people especially feel independence is long overdue you caledonia was taken by the french one hundred fifty three there was no agreement from the indigenous people no treaty and supporters of independence think mining. big mikkel deposits would be enough for new caledonia to survive economically but loyalists doubt that about one point five billion dollars a year flows from paris to new caledonia its capital near france accounts for fifteen percent of our annual g.d.p. so to get us to losing that would be a catastrophe many people would lose their jobs the public service would collapse

new caledonians are accustomed to a certain standard of living it would all come down at once unless china stepped in in past decade specific garden nations have been reliant on european benefactors and neighbors in australia new zealand and the united states but china's spending in influence across the pacific region is growing a new caledonia independent of france would quickly become a target andrew thomas al-jazeera over here and you caledonia of course you can find out much more about the stories we're following head straight to w w w dot al-jazeera dot com. our top stories here on al-jazeera turkey's president says he believes the orders to kill the journalist jamal khashoggi came from the highest levels of the saudi government writing in the washington post says he wants the so-called puppet

masters of the plot to be revealed while he didn't believe king solomon ordered the hit did not say the same for crime prince mohammad whose close ties to some of the suspects in that hit squad have been exposed to has more on this on how tartly is piling on the pressure they are trying to say they're not naming the nominee. one hundred percent but they don't trust the saudi now to this explains why they are now all the offensive. putting all this political pressure on the saudi government to try to give them more details about what happened of this seem to be willing of this particular moment to get some help when it comes to the remains of the key because that's the only element that could consolidate the qasam for them to be able to come up with an indictment of these two people have been killed in attacks on camps for displaced people in central african republic where than ten thousand people have been forced to take refuge in a hospital compound as a fighting broke out in the north doctors without borders has posted pictures which

appear to show camps completely burned to the ground c.a.r. has been in crisis for the last five years war than seven hundred thousand people displaced. united nations children's agency is warning that gammons famine could accelerate its efforts to deliver aid are blogs a unified effort says that both the yemeni government and hutu rebels are making it impossible to deliver vital supplies some twenty one million yemenis are food insecure well over one point eight million children are suffering from malnutrition and u.n. convoy carrying much needed aid has reached the remote with climate camp in northeast syria the camp is in a rebel held area near the border with jordan but it's encircled by government forces leaving an estimated fifty thousand people stranded the last received aid in january at least four people have died in the past month due to malnutrition and a lack of medical care. the lawyer of a christian woman acquitted of blasphemy in pakistan has left the country saying

his life was on just threat but they did asio b.b. is much less certain that the pakistani government came to an agreement on saturday with conservative news than protestors the been protesting for three days over her acquittal the mother of five has spent eight years on death row who will not be allowed to leave the country till the supreme court reviews the ruling. the search for the crashed lion airplane has ended its sixth day in indonesia with divers reports of the seen the fuse the lashon engines of the jet on the sea floor a boeing jet plunged into the java sea minutes after takeoff on monday killing all one hundred eighty nine people on board you up to date those are your headlines up next it is phone lines we'll see you a bit later by. judge

capital is one of the finest people of the cream court nominee break out in a judge brett kavanaugh is fighting back it's a three judge breakout role wasn't telling the judge brett kavanaugh his confirmation would swing the balance of the high court to the right and could lead to a revisiting of fact hot button issues as abortion and gay marriage a woman says the president's u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh assaulted her when she encountered a court both in high school the u.s. has just gone through its most contentious supreme court nomination in decades america watched as brit kavanagh ascended to the highest court in the country despite a serious allegation of sexual assault from his high school days. as the senate review kavanagh's nomination protesters took to.