this is the opportunity to understand in a very different way where there. is a little. turkish media reveal more about how saudi agents disposed of murder journalists. body. has i'm sick of this is. also coming up early voting turnout in the u.s. points to the highest enthusiasm level for a midterm election in decades. well they stay in france people in new caledonia eighteen thousand kilometers away votes on independence. and as mexico's most notorious drug lord awaits trial in the u.s.

we look at why al. continues to thrive despite his absence. turkish media have been reporting more details on the alleged saudi hit squad that murdered journalist last month the newspaper says his body was dismembered and put into five suitcases they were driven to the saudi consuls residents near the consulate where he was killed on october second some of the suspects have close ties to saudi crown prince mohammed bin. turkey's president has said he believes the order to kill came from the highest levels of the saudi government andrew symonds is live for us now in istanbul so. just how is all of this playing out now in the political arena. well how some

really twofold issues here on the political arena yes we have extraordinary pressure now from president. to try to get some more traction from the united states and indeed saudi arabia to get the answers to the key questions where are the remains of his shows and also who is going to stand accountable for the actions when evidently there was an order to kill the saudi dissident without any a shadow of thousands far as politicians are concerned here in terms of this development from the media on saturday the sabah pro-government newspaper was reporting that there were three key people charged in getting rid of the remains they were about three but who's been mentioned many times since leader of the team and he is a key intelligence official the very highest level in the saudi right household

royal household also. by the by who he is a pathologist a key figure within the intelligence services and was reported to have been involved in the cutting up all of the body and the third person this guy led another member of the fifteen strong hit team these three men are said to have put the body parts into five suitcases according to reliable sources which is what the newspaper is saying they're working off and put them into vans which was seen leaving the consulates in the afternoon going to the consulate general's residence where the have been searches going on over only a period of of al was two weeks ago by the turkish investigators now that leads to something of a dead end because no one is sure. where the body parts were put all

if indeed as one official has been quoted as saying where they were dissolved in acid this is an area that the saudi public prosecutor was unable apparently to shed any light on in his visit to istanbul last week and this is a source of great frustration in terms of the transparency involved with the saudis in terms of where they're out with their investigation why no one has any idea of where the remains of course shoji are right now add to that the lack of traction that's being perceived to be the case right now in the united states and putting pressure on the saudis to come up with the definite. account on who gave the order for this murder operation to take place those two factors are playing out very loud and clear right now in circuit but concern about whether or not there's some sort of flat spot developing in the order of procedures with this crisis and you thanks

for that andrew symonds live for us in istanbul our record numbers of early voters of cast their ballots in the u.s. midterm elections over thirty one million people have already been to polling booths even though the main voting day is choose day and those midterms are being seen as a referendum on donald trump's policies democrats are hoping to win back the majority in congress. and former vice president joe biden are drumming up support for the vote charms campaign has focused on immigration and jobs he's talked of ending birthright citizenship biden says the election is a chance to reset the country's moral compass. tuesday is almost here and you all know in your gut that there's something different about this year's election. is bigger than politics this is the most important off year election that any one of

you will have ever voted and that's not hyperbole the very character of our country is on the ballot tuesday rob reynolds has more now from washington. president donald trump held two campaign rallies one in the state of montana where the democratic incumbent senator holds a thin lead over his republican opponent and the other in florida where both the senate and governor's races are too close to call president trump harped on familiar themes especially immigration border security and fear that criminals coming from abroad would menace americans president trump noted that he has recently sent thousands of u.s. troops to the u.s. mexican border we have our military now on the border.

and i notice all that beautiful five two are going up today were. used properly could be a beautiful sight were all of this is red meat for trump's base and therefore essential for the candidates that he's promoting but overall trump's approval rating is remarkably low by historical standards it's forty percent according to the most recent gallup poll and no president has had that low approval rating heading into a midterm election since gerald ford in one nine hundred seventy four there are some signs that trump's style and policies have turned off and alienated some formerly loyal republican voters especially women living in suburban areas those voters now appear to be moving towards the democrats so that is one of the

reasons why the consensus among political analysts pollsters and pundits is that the house of representatives will switch hands to the democratic party on election day with the republican party maintaining its hold over the senate. other targets of trump's anti immigration rhetoric include thousands of central american migrants walking north towards mexico city the group of mostly hondurans is aiming to reach the united states and seek asylum. after weeks of walking thousands upon during migrants in southern mexico have been told they'll have to walk some more they were promised free transportation to mexico city by the governor. but the offer was later withdrawn. well worn down they promised us something and didn't follow through we had faith in them because we're mothers for children after hearing the government would no longer provide bus

rides to mexico city many migrants grew impatient and started walking hundreds of others crowded atop passing trucks and hitch drives from anyone willing to drive the north. we don't have a choice but to risk our lives dangling from trucks our objective is to get there. in the united states along the rio grande the soldiers have begun setting up barbed wire for the first wave of as many as fifteen thousand u.s. troops being deployed to the us mexico border under orders by president trump the government of truce offered migrants an opportunity to stay in bed city where they would be given food and medical attention most of them however turned down the offer they are coming under we're going to keep working we have to move forward no steps backward god willing despite repeated warnings from the u.s. president that migrants will not be allowed to enter the country most say they have no intention of turning back now the next stop for these five thousand honduran

migrants will be mexico city here they are expected to plead their cases to government officials as well as requested aid and transportation to the southern border of the united states although it could still be several weeks before they reach that point but. mexico city. for the first time in more than nine months a need has been delivered to more than fifty thousand people in camp in syria a u.n. convoy of forty three trucks brought much needed food and supplies the camp is in a rebel held area near the border with jordan surrounded by government forces. reports. sandstorm season and rock band we're going blind this boy says our homes are destroyed take us away from him. rick band is the no man's land in more ways than one a desolate camp in the open desert near the jordanian border caught between warring

sides there's no escape. people came here three years ago fleeing i still fight his u.s. russian and syrian air strikes now there are some fifty thousand people many of them women and children. alone like the one protest began last month after a smuggling route for food and medicine was closed by government forces. he's disabled he's also malnourished he's almost a skeleton from starvation. officials say a u.n. aid convoy expected last week was delayed because of security concerns but now it's finally here food hygiene and health supplies to be distributed over the next three to four days. humanitarian convoys here require approval from damascus the last time repond received any aid was in january then a cross border delivery from jordan a red distribution after it sealed its border in the aftermath of

a twenty sixteen isolette tack that killed seven jordanian soldiers we said we're not going to order. as syrian people on syrian territory so it is the responsibility of the syrian government and the yuan and the international community but wasn't established national. this is. by. circumstance where. the stranger the border. u.s. forces have a military base nearby policing a fifty five square kilometer so-called deescalation zone and you know if. russia blames the u.s. for the deteriorating situation the u.s. says russia and syria using rock band as an excuse to question its presence here is that they really want to help these people or do you want to use them as a as a as something to kind of come after us this is not

a united states problem started jordan problem these are syrians these syrians are dying and many of these new graves very small the red crescent says despite this delivery the situation remains critical no one perhaps knows that better than those burying their children here. in stasia tayo al-jazeera. what's more still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back turkey heads into choppy waters with an oil project that could raise tensions with cyprus sing greece. well i will western parts of europe's best for the cloud and the rain west of the mediterranean as well and we got some lovely storms continuing around italy over

towards the balkans eastern areas the very different story was still very very warm eighteen celsius in book arrest is right on nine degrees above the seasonal average so we still get the heat coming in across the eastern side of europe not too bad but the cloud on the right still swirling away choppy waters in the mediterranean not very pleasant atoll and also pleasant to across the british isles over the next day or so wet and windy weather coming through the remnants of hurricane ike osca making its way to the north things calm down a little as we go on into monday southerly winds picking tempers up in london to around fifteen degrees celsius if you're lucky to top off a twelve betrayed in the clouds and the right hopefully things not quite as bad central parts of italy as we go on into monday for the east as that warmth continuing eighteen in bucharest twenty degrees for athens to dry across the northeast of africa but up towards the northwest northern parts of algeria of course still seeing a bit of wet weather nor the measure to museum or so same areas swirling around in

the mediterranean producing further heavy downpours but turning drier by monday. in the eighteen seventies hundreds of genes were banished to the fathers to corner of an empire where their descendants still live today. my grandparents died with a heavy heart they left everything behind. to deal with lame argyria and identity it's always present inside as this french territory in the pacific prepares to vote on independence al-jazeera world tells the story of exile in new caledonia.

again you're watching i was there a minder of our top stories this hour turkish government media are reporting more details on the alleged saudi hit squad i'm not a journalist i'm alpha shock g. a month ago newspaper says his body was dismembered in the consulate and taken in five suitcases to the saudi council's residence nearby and unusually high number of voters of cast their ballots in the u.s. midterm elections over thirty one million people have already been to the polling booths even though the main voting day is choose day these midterms are seen as a referendum on president donald trump's policies democrats are hoping to win back the majority in congress. for the first time in more than nine months aid has been delivered to more than fifty thousand people in camp in syria and convoy of forty three trucks pulled food and supplies camps in a rebel held area surrounded by government forces. oppose

a closing in the french territory of new caledonia where voters are deciding whether to seek independence the last referendum thirty years ago ended in violence the territory is a strategic military foothold for france in the south pacific this time around the french government says it wants the process to be peaceful and fair andrew thomas is monitoring developments for us from sydney so andrew what can we expect here. well polls close just over fifteen minutes ago we should get the official results in about thirteen hours france's prime minister edward phillipe has flown to the other side of the world from paris to deliver the official results but we're expecting exit poll results and some unofficial results to come out two or three hours from now it's a relatively small electorate is one hundred seventy three thousand people in the french territory eligible to vote about half that number are indigenous cannot

people and broadly speaking i'm being very broad here it's the indigenous cannot people that most want independence from france france took new caledonia by force back in eighteen fifty three there was no treaty and many of the indigenous cannot people are still of for obvious reasons many decades on still smarting about that the slightly larger number though who will be voting in this referendum are people of european descent and they broadly speaking want to stay with france they think that the military protection they get from brought the economic benefits they get from france outweigh the benefits that independence will get officially france and president macron who visited the territory earlier this year are independent they say that they are about overseeing a fair process but they're not involved in influencing the result and that's important because that's not how it was thing thirty years ago when there was another independence referendum and as you say that was boycotted by one side the independence side of that votes and it resulted in ballance because they didn't

feel like they had got their say they hadn't had a fair process france president macro is determined this time around whatever the result is that seen as legitimate by both sides so whether new caledonia remains french or otherwise it will be a territory pace now this might seem like a very small boat in a very small part of the world it actually has quite strategic importance new caledonia is there in the pacific an area which china is increasingly coming to see as it's there of influence of spending money their influence in politics in many of the neighboring pacific island countries france. has districts he told in the pacific has a big military presence there it sees itself as a pacific power because of new caledonia and if it were to lose new caledonia or an entire it could lose french polynesia as well it would really be a retreat by european powers more generally from the pacific where i am in australia already there is a feeling that australia new zealand influence across the pacific is waning australians starting government certainly watching this referendum carefully they

see a strategic ally in france they will be concerned of an independent new caledonia and the influence china might want to exert over that so as a say look at the official results twelve thirteen hours now we may have results much much earlier than that or at least a good steer the pre polling the opinion polls going into this vote suggested the new caledonia would stay french opinion polls although the samples are very small suggested about a forty eight sixty split in staying french if that indeed is the result though it won't necessarily be the end of the process a system behind all of this allows for two further votes to the chances for the independent side to have other referendums two years and four years from now to have extra chance this is all about making sure that were they to lose and new caledonia to stay french the losing side wouldn't feel like they've been unfairly dealt with all right for the moment and each own life in sydney. a lawyer representing a christian woman in pakistan acquitted of blasphemy has left the country safe from

a look fears for his life he says he had to leave so he could continue to represent . his conviction was overturned on wednesday by the supreme court bibi had spent eight years on death row officials have now agreed to stop her from leaving pakistan to end violent protests over the court ruling. iran's supreme leader has called the united states a declining power after the u.s. announced it was resuming sanctions restrictions on energy shipping and financial sectors have been lifted as part of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with world powers ayatollah ali khamenei says the u.s. hasn't been able to defeat iran over the past forty years. america's power and many in the world is declining and moving towards destruction it is waning year today's united states is much weaker than the united states forty years ago when iran's islamic revolution happened america's power is declining and this is the

important point is that all these are live pictures from the capital tehran where thousands have taken to the streets in what is an annual rally to mark the thirty ninth anniversary of the u.s. embassy takeover there fifty two americans were held hostage for more than a year inside that embassy building by iranians who stormed the building shortly after the one thousand nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution. other u.s. sanctions on iran will come back into force on monday iranians are trying to remain positive. reports from the capital tehran. when you look past all the politics what becomes clear is that american sanctions hurt iranian people more than they change iranian government policies american policy some would say trump's 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. 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 own leaders he'll likely be disappointed previous protests never got big enough all he's apparently done is make people here miserable. do you 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 you do think. it's better not to say anything about his personality everyone knows how. everybody knew. when iran's leaders signed the nuclear deal they said it was the 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 zain. turkey's move to start drilling for oil and gas in the mediterranean sea is threatening to escalate a dispute with greece the turkish energy minister is warning it were tally eight if the greek navy harasses his country's ships during the exploration period simca solar of course from antalya. that is soon mediterranean is the new frontier for oil and gas it's home to libya thumb and time are gas fields of the israeli coast the sore fields facing egypt and also aphrodite discovered by the greek cypriots and the region's underwater wealth appears to turkey which is dependent on energy imports all the g. and g. studies and everything is telling us it is the right locations but you never know

without doing so ankara is sending its first ship out to drill for natural resources versus the ship that turkey is using to drill for oil and gas she is called party which means the conqueror the first exploration will begin around one hundred ten kilometers of the mediterranean coast line at a depth of at least twelve thousand meters. but the drilling mission is causing friction with greece and it's set to reawaken tensions with cyprus the island of cyprus will supply it during your turkish military intervention in one thousand nine hundred seventy four triggered by a brief greek inspired coup it forced the mess displacement of people with greek cypriots now living in the south and turkish cypriots in the north turkey and international recognize greek cypriot government have overlapping claims of jurisdiction for offshore oil and gas research in the eastern mediterranean however

experts say political differences could take a back seat when it comes to commercial benefits and even israelis are thinking of joining egypt to develop explore the export yes so between when that is happening then between greece and turkey and the two parts the two sections of the island of cyprus to the problem of cyprus and the turkish republic with in cyprus i think they have to resolve the problem turkey stays its goal is energy independence and accelerated exploration is simply part of that plan another drilling vessel is set to be added to its exploration fleet by the end of this year c n n because although al-jazeera on saudia. i was one of mexico's most famous criminal is about to go on trial in the us succession battles have broken out for control of. drug empire but that hasn't stopped the sin allow a cartel from carrying on with this illegal business john holman has the second of

our three part series on the man known as el chapo. the impending trial of plucking guzman the former king of mexico's criminal underworld might be stopping traffic in new york but back in his home state sin a lower things have simply moved all these camps proclaiming the wealth and fame of the man they call chapel used to be top sellers now they're almost gone so to the protests that called for his release. even in his organization the center lower it's more or less business as usual after a vicious succession battle there are still tensions between his brother and sons they've gone back to doing what they could producing and distributing vast amounts of drugs. we asked a similar lower police chief why detaining mixed top criminal hasn't led to a cartel implosion. but if. the structure of the organization is linear it's

not completely vertical the leadership of the chopper was already declining and he delegated functions to his lieutenants and they always he dealt with certain things opinion the sylow a cartel is made up of several factions and has always had more than one leader and chappell himself once told rolling stone magazine that the business is far bigger than just here my drug trafficking doesn't depend on one person it depends on a lot of people. the fact the cartels business continues doesn't mean that all chappell's heartland is free from violence the police remain on alert the homicide rate in sin a lower house full and but we're still talking about more than five murders at the day and police tell. especially in chappell's home minister polity but. there are still problems. here is some still remember him as robin hood like figure who helped the local economy there pulling for him in his upcoming trial. i get that

hopefully they can help him hopefully he gets out he hasn't done anything wrong he just worked in what he could do he's a good man now chapter but others didn't even realize he was going on trial to be honest i didn't know i hear them heard about it reminded that even for the rich and powerful the wheel of fortune turns on home and now does it a sin a lower. law and has some seeker with the headlines on al-jazeera turkish media reporting more details on the alleged saudi hit squad the maid a journalist a mouth a shuggie a month ago the newspaper says his body was dismembered in the consulate and then taken in five suitcases to the saudi consuls residence nearby andrew simmons has more from istanbul there are also suggestions from the subway newspaper that three

key figures in the suspect list involved in this they are said to have been transporting those cases to the consul general office not as my how but three who is a key figure a main suspect sent out to baby who is also well known to have had a key part in the whole affair ghalib these three figures associated with that. near record numbers of early voters have cast their ballots in the u.s. midterm elections over thirty one million people have already been to the polls even though the main voting days on tuesday those midterms are seen as a referendum on president donald trump's policies democrats are hoping to win back the majority in congress trump's campaign has focused on immigration and jobs are the targets of trump's anti immigration rhetoric included fountains of central american migrants walking north towards mexico city the group of mostly hondurans

is aiming to reach the united states and seek asylum there on foot after an offer of free bus rides was withdrawn mexican state governor revoked the free buses he said mexico city was suffering from a water shortage and it wouldn't be right to take in the migrants for the first time in more than nine months aid has been delivered to more than fifty thousand people in rock band camp in syria u.n. convoy forty three trucks brought food and supplies in camps in a rebel held area surrounded by government forces. polls have closed in the french territory of new caledonia where voters have been deciding on whether to seek independence the last referendum thirty years ago ended in violence territories a strategic military foothold for france in the south pacific those are the headlines in our stories next. on november sixth the united states will vote will president gain or lose ground we'll be live in the white house here on capitol

hill as the results come in join us for special coverage of the u.s. elections on al-jazeera. is. keeping his promise. and trade sanctions on iran despite global condemnation the measures are meant to impede. world markets could u.s. pressure on the regime end up hurting the iranian people the most this is a story.