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sun spoke just hours after the u.s. secretary of state said the core relationship with songe arabia would remain unchanged that's despite my compare demanding justice for tomorrow's show. rob reynolds reports from washington. more than a month after jamal khashoggi killing at the saudi consulate in istanbul u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe had a mixed message punish the journalists killers but maintain business as usual in u.s. saudi relations we need to get to the bottom of it we need to find out who was responsible hold them accountable and do all of this john while protecting the enormously important strategic interest of the united states maintains with the kingdom of saudi arabia pump a was cited saudi arabia's role as a counterweight to iran's influence and military power in the gulf in the middle east in general saudi arabia has been an important partner for the united states in attempting to change the behavior of the world's largest state sponsor of terror from that islamic republic one of the kingdom's wealthiest and most famous
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businessmen spoke to a u.s. television network pushing back against implications from turkey and some u.s. lawmakers that crown prince mohammed bin psalm on had a role in hush killing prince i will lead been to loll spent months in detention in a riyadh luxury hotel last year along with many other wealthy businessmen and officials as part of what the crown prince said was a crackdown on corruption in a standing order as i said. gage with them talk to them on top of a myth and become saudi arabia so i think some people in intelligence. did follow that these orders and said the group of people. to turkey to engage with that. until something went wrong over there where by he was moderate saudi arabia is under intense international pressure over the murder especially from turkey without
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the u.s. on its side the kingdom would be severely isolated analysts say the u.s. may try to leverage its influence to change saudi foreign policy first it's trying to move riyadh towards. a meaningful cease fire in this disastrous war in yemen that's first and most important the other of course is this completely futile blockade against qatar which has backfired and in which could tar has managed to avoid any vade the punishment that saudi arabia intended us diplomacy threading a fine line with potentially vast consequences for the middle east robert oulds al jazeera washington and live not under symons in istanbul for as angela a very emotional message from the sun. and new leaks to the media.
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well that's right it is almost a happening on a daily basis the drip feed of information two in particular the pro government newspaper this time it relates to the investigation team that was sent out by saudi arabia eleven members of that team which actually arrived on the eleventh of october that's eight days after the fact seven days just after the actual murder itself now there are two individuals in that team who have been identified and sorry nine days should i say my math is wrong there but two members of the team have been identified by the official leak and these two men one is a chemical expert the other is a pathologist not a pathologist a text toxicology expert involved in pathology and also other forensic work now these two people according to this leak were primed not to investigate and search
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for evidence but to cover up to actually whitewash the situation so to speak and engaged not only here in the consulate but also in the consul consulate general residence in the back garden apparently according to these unconfirmed reports now that all seems to fit with the political narrative which is suggesting that this wasn't just some sort of. operation that was outside official control an official sanction but it came from the highest level those are the words from the turkish president himself so what we're seeing here now is the leaks really coming along the lines of the political narrative if you will now we heard from the two sons of saying that they had incredible difficulty dealing with their grief their emotions when they were hearing conflicting messages. niles and then the confirmation it was
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a murder of the all full time they'd have an unfortunate they're seeing this still play out as the pressure is on for the united states to take some form of really direct action against the saudi arabian leadership but then we hear again from mark pompei oh that know that there is really a conflicting situation here there is the good will that has to go towards saudi arabia in order to keep the situation more stable in the middle east and on the other hand that fact of seeing justice done the two don't necessarily intertwine if you certainly go along the lines of what the turkish are saying about this investigation about where it leads to the very top not king solomon but the crown prince himself is the clear indication from turkish government officials that's what they believe is the real story behind this yet there is a delay after delay and the worry is that the world attention will be lost
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eventually if this goes on too long thank you for that andrew symonds live for us in istanbul u.s. president donald trump i said a saudi led coalition air strike on a school bus in yemen resulted from human error in an interview with the us news website x. yost donald trump said the bombers did not know how to use the weapon properly in august a u.s. bomb was used in the attack that killed fifty one people including forty children the incidents your attention to the use of u.s. weaponry by the sounding of coalition in yemen. still ahead on al-jazeera. celebrations in new caledonia after voters reject independence and choose to keep ties with france plus the trade war continues china's president pushes for open markets talking tough fight against u.s. policies.
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how i what i'm hopefully we will see the showers the longer spells of rain easing for italy as we go through the next couple of days but the moment it is still very unsettled you can see that angry looking book of cloud that's where we're seeing the other very heavy rain the severe storms the damaging winds that have caused such major problems monday still sees further showers pushing up towards rome across the adriatic knotting a little further north woods but it's warsi west this is where the next system well pushes wane and as it does so things will quieten down in italy at least four times eighteen celsius in rome in the cloud on the right one thousand nine thousand still left for bucharest as well i would say slavishly about ten degrees at this time of the year we'll still see keep some warmth into that eastern side of europe but there we go there is cause and wool weather pushing back into central parts of
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italy by choose day twenty one celsius in the sunshine of this day that wetter weather just getting asked further north was west and sort of media it does still stay rather this been disturbed weather still brushing the fog north of algeria maybe into tunisia morocco can expect to see some wet weather as we go on through monday but it will fizzle out to choose day and by this stage it will be fine dry warm and sunny. off to one of greece's deadliest forest fires turned a blissful coastal town into a bloody film people in power with the flames refund institutional incompetence the number one responsibility can go disparate like being sued this was not an accident it was a crime the building looks fine is the real significant risk coming up to take the
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big install spirit of the phone on al-jazeera. and watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour a wide sweeping u.s. economic sanctions targeting iran's oil and financial sectors have come into force iran's president says the islamic republic will quote probably bypass the measures these are the second round of sanctions that the trump administration has rein stated since the us pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal in may and this despite objections from european leaders it's the sons of saudi the matter of saudi china's jamal khashoggi say their family is unable to grieve properly without
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knowing where his body is shoji was killed by what turkish officials say was a hit squad who waited for him at the saudi consulate in istanbul his son say their family has been deeply chapal by the ongoing lies since his murder more than a month ago. in other world news china's president has promised to open up access to markets and make business easier for foreign companies xi jinping made the pledge as he opened a trade fair in shanghai aimed at boosting the country's image as an importer he said china will lower taxes streamline customs check and count down on intellectual property theft he also took a swipe at those pushing protectionist trade policies such as u.s. president donald trump who are three of. china's economic growth over the past forty years has been achieved with a commitment to opening up developments of china's economy in the future can only be guaranteed with more openness i've made it clear before and now again that
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china's top will never be closed it will only open wider china will not stop its commitment to opening up and pursuing an open global economy in afghanistan a group of thirteen soldiers and police officers has been killed in an attack on a checkpoint to place in eastern gosney province a spokesman for gussie's governess says the taliban is responsible for the attackers were also killed in the confrontation. the posturing for power in sri lanka continues in the constitutional crisis rank as parliament speaker now says he will not accept former president mind the rajapaksa as the new prime minister until he proves he has a majority in parliament should on his current president. has ordered meant to reconvene next wednesday and debate his decision to replace the prime minister last week a sore in rajapaksa a former president rajapaksa is not accused of bribing m.p.'s support him in
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a confidence old when a smith reports from colombo. it's unethical and despicable says opposition m.p. policy. playing recordings of phone calls he says from allies of sri lanka's new prime minister mahinda rajapaksa. bandar says he's been offered two point eight million dollars and the posting cabinet to switch sides the scramble for votes has come after president my three policy or is saying suspended parliament and fired his former ally prime minister ronald wickramasinghe both men had joined forces in elections in twenty fifteen to oust rajapaksa but. look how the don't do it we formed his government democratically my three policy center joined us and described the rajapaksa group as corrupt thieving thugs and said he want to allow them to return the fact he's doing just that is very shameful. rajapaksa has appointed
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a cabinet which includes half a dozen opposition m.p.'s who have been persuaded to join him his supporters deny allegations that anyone has been offered cash the president is accused of buying time for rajapaksa by resisting calls to reconvene parliament a constitutional amendment passed two years ago was supposed to take away the president's power to fire the prime minister. jumping runa waka a cabinet minister under ousted prime minister witnessing a says this government has no legitimacy. is. international and national political economic and social crisis and at the meantime we are going to form grand alliance beyond party lines to protect democracy perfect freedom of speech and protect human values a petition the got sixteen thousand signatures in a day has been presented to the speaker of parliament demanding he use special
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powers to recall the chamber over the head of the president president syria saying they will only know for sure if these high stakes gamble is paid off when parliament reconvenes if it endorses rajapaksa as prime minister and the president may well get away with what he's critics call a constitutional but if parliament sticks with a finger and syria saying could face preachment bernath al-jazeera colomba. the u.s. midterm elections on tuesday are being seen as a critical test of president donald trump presidency trump and his predecessor barack obama on the campaign trail running voters in key states on sunday the former president addressed an event in gary indiana where the democratic senator is in a tight race with the republican candidates. you get to vote. in what might be the most important election of our lifetimes maybe more important two thousand.
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was. because america is a crossroads where. there is a contest of ideas go along. about who we are and what kind of country we're going to be. we're going to win congress an offer just because it democrats will be doing. the democrats are going to be raising your taxes and not cutting it. so i have to put a little jab here we got to win congress gotta win the house i think we're doing great in the house i think we're doing great in the senate but who knows right who knows you got to get out to vote police have been deployed in new caledonia as capital following a referendum vote not to break away from france the final results show fifty six percent of voters chose to remain a french territory there are concerns that the results could read night tension
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between europeans and cannot people who are the original inhabitants of the islands in the pacific most contacts back a state from france french president emmanuel mccaw says new caledonia has voted on a new future visit it was eels who than most voters were allowed to make a sobering choice with full knowledge of the facts on the relationship between new caledonia and france today the majority of them expressed themselves for new caledonia to remain french i have to tell you how proud i am that we have finally passed this historic step together both now since economic sanctions on sudan were lifted last year the government has been trying to revive its infrastructure one area of investment is a historic ports built in the sixteenth century which used to be the region's main trading hub he morgan has more from so are keen in eastern sudan. crumbled buildings the remains of an area where the ottomans ruled sudan and when trade
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flourished on the country's second largest ports including slave trade but for sugar abraham this is the only home he's ever known. i was born here and grew up here this place has an amazing history it was one of sudan's first ports for trade and for people people used to travel around the world for centuries so working was built by the ottomans in the sixteenth century it along with several other ports along sudan's eastern coast served as a major gateway to the gulf and the east but since sanctions were imposed on sudan in one thousand nine hundred haven't most of the country supports load in function as straight decelerated in fact is one of the traders who felt the impact. because you know a lot of goods used to come via the sea but then it slowed down with the sanctions there were less ships coming in and now we have to go to the capital to bring stocks instead of relying on nearby port. sanctions were lifted last year but says he's yet to feel any positive effect sudan's government with help from foreign
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countries like turkey have been working to restore still working for tourism and trade reviving the historic and economic significance of so i can well take years but it's not just the ports tourism and investment potential that are attracting foreign investors regional park dynamics also seem to have a role just across the red sea is a regional gulf crisis and a worry in yemen involving a saudi led coalition some countries such as egypt and saudi arabia fear that so working will become what is once was a military base local authorities disagree but we are well what we're trying to do is rebuild the structure for trade and tourism so working is less than twenty square kilometers how could you build a military base here a base could be built further north imports are done and that's being discussed but not here it's working there i want to see a revival of the port he and his ancestors grew up on so trade can resume instead of the old structures crumbling and becoming merry symbols of the past he will morgan al-jazeera so walk in eastern sudan.
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you know again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera wide sweeping u.s. economic sanctions targeting iran's oil and financial sectors have come into force iran's president says the islamic republic will quote probably bypass the measures these are the second round of sanctions that the trumpet ministration has reinstated since the us pulled out of the nuclear deal in may despite objections from european leaders the sons of murder saudi journalist say their family is unable to grieve properly without knowing where his body is he was killed by what turkish officials say was a hit squad awaited for him at the saudi consulate in istanbul his son say their family has been deeply troubled by the continuing licenses matter more than a month ago china's president has promised to open up access to markets and make business easier for foreign companies xi jinping made that pledge as he opened
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a trade fair in shanghai aimed at improving china's image as an importer he said china will no attack have streamlined customs checks and crackdown on intellectual property theft who are slipping into words in the fog china's economic growth over the past forty years has been achieved with a commitment to opening up the developments of china's economy in the future can only be guaranteed with more openness i've made it clear before and now again that china's store will never be closed it will only open wider china will not stop its commitment to opening up a pursuing a global economy. and people in new caledonia have voted to remain part of funds there were celebrations in the capital new man after a final results from the referendum showed that fifty six percent of voters chose to remain a french territory but there is concern the result could rig nights tension between
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europeans and kind of people who are the original inhabitants of the island in the soft pacific most comics back a spate from france you're upset with the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next here it's inside story. on november sixth the united states will vote will president tony trump gain or lose ground we'll be live from the white house on pier on capitol hill as the results come in join us for special coverage of the u.s. spectrum elections on al-jazeera. countdown to the u.s. midterm elections more than thirty million americans have already cast ballots in a vote seen as a referendum on comments on this presidency so in a divided electorate what role will swing voters play especially women this is inside story.
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of the program i'm richelle carey it's the final stretch of the all important two thousand and eighteen u.s. midterm elections at the high end voter turnout could reach record numbers so far an early voting more than thirty million americans have cast their ballots but it's one group of voters it's expected to play a crucial role and that is female voters particularly white women many are outraged by the way president speaks about women and last month that anger turned to rage after the nomination of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh who was accused of sexual assault and now with all four hundred thirty five seats in the house of representatives up for grabs and thirty five of the one hundred senate seats the midterms will certainly shape the final two years of trump's first term in office lots to discuss with our guests first white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has this report. from do solemnly swear one day after donald
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trump was sworn in as president hundreds of thousands of women gathered in cities across the united states to protest. almost two years have passed but the u.s. president has given them little reason to change their original judgment of a man many regard with revulsion his behavior and language at times has hardened their views. after his aide omarosa manigault newman was ousted from the white house called her a crazed crying lowlife and a dog after congresswoman maxine waters encouraged her supporters to harass trump administration officials they're not going to be able to go to a restaurant they're not going to be able to stop at a gas station called waters an extraordinarily low i.q. person. but nothing has polarized the country more along gender lines than the hearings for supreme court justice brett kavanaugh christine blas a forward accused trumps nominee of sexual assault when they were in high school
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truck cast doubt about her testimony mocking her recollection of the decades old event how did you get home i don't remember how did you get there i don't remember where is the place i don't remember how many years ago was it i don't know. toss attacks on women are nothing new and have been dismissed by his supporters ever since the release of a video in two thousand and sixteen threatened to derail his campaign. from shrugged off the controversy and won the white house even today well a majority of us women still disapprove of trump at least a third still solidly approve of trump's presidency everybody makes mistakes and they're like nobody's perfect but god in he's made his mistakes that everybody else is human hands i think he's a bully i do but i think you need someone like that in the office conservative women point to donald trump's historically low unemployment numbers that are rising wages well in office they say his appointment of a female press secretary and
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a significant number of female filled cabinet posts proves he's supportive of women in the workplace still the battle for the female vote isn't. sense of fighting republicans have released the sixty second advert aimed at winning over suburban college educated women voters clearly shows this demographic more than most is where conservative support is waning but notably trump never appears in the advert it's a signal even republicans realize the president remains toxic to many voters and in the fight to hang on for control of congress conservatives can't afford to lose a single female vote can really help get al-jazeera the white house. introduce the panel and washington d.c. ashley pratt a board member for republican women for progress in atlanta georgia kara lerner political reporter with think progress covering voting and election rights and in birmingham in the u.k. scott lucas professor of political science and american studies at the university
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of birmingham welcome to all of you so let's just first of all we'll get to the issue with female voters in a moment first the number so far seem to be quite impressive for early voting ask you what do you think is driving that. oh man i i think a lot of things you know a lot of people have asked me this question leading up to the elections who is more motivated is it republicans or is it democrats and i think it's honestly the trump factor here on both sides the you have the conservative base which is obviously very fired up to protect their status in the house and senate and they think that this referendum on trump's presidency just can't stand whereas democrats you know this is then a huge issue for them they know that if they can retake power they can have a referendum on trump and i think that that's a huge deal so that is obviously a motivating factor for the democratic base as well but over twenty million people have already voted in early voting in states all across the country and i think the
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thing that's fascinating there too that i'd like to point out is that women in particular are the ones that are leading this early voting so in states like georgia florida texas tennessee over fifty three percent of women have already voted so that is a huge deal and i do think that women will turn out in huge numbers on election day as well just because of the rhetoric of this administration so i think there's a lot of things that are firing up both sides of the electorate and we will definitely come back to the rhetoric i'm glad you have brought that up actually first here i want you i want your thoughts as well what do you think is driving these huge numbers. sure i went to well in places here in georgia on friday which was the last day of the early voting period and people were wrapped around the building waiting to cast a ballot and they told me that this is not deal like any other midterm that they've experienced in the past there is way more at stake in this midterm here in georgia there's a candidate on the ballot for governor stacy abrams who stands to make history as the first black woman governor in the country and people in georgia i spoke with
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many women in line are fired up and feel like so much of that state here and they. want to play one million people have cast early ballots and to put that in perspective in the last midterm only two point six million people total cast out including oust so we're poised to see a record turnout here and care i want to bring at you pointed out the historic nature of stacy abrams running for this particular position or not people feel something different is it a fair comparison to say that that's how some people felt about voting for barack obama simply because it was a historic thing to do you think that's a fair comparison it is i have talked about it is in georgia who say that they have not passed a ballot and obama was running for president so there's something about stacy a. large part of it is the fact that she does stand to make history in the same way
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that obama does but people are also talking about her policies abram's would expand medicaid here in georgia well republican brian count one in and for women across the state especially low income women of color that would make a huge difference in their lives they're talking about stacy abrams the positions on public education so it's not just the fact that she is a black woman and would be the first they're looking at this race holistically scott i want your insight as well on what is driving the huge turnout and early voting. oh i knew that i care that it's a historic moment the most important u.s. midterms in history but i would go beyond saying it's a referendum on donald trump i think cura points out for example it's a referendum on other things it's a referendum on rights for people of color it's a referendum on education it's a referendum on health care it's a referendum on the economy i think we're trying to feeds into that is is that probably unlike any other president in history rather than trying to appeal for
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consensus in terms of the electoral tactics his advisors are very much going for a politics of division and that is us forces them and that type of heated language which i'm sure will discuss they're hoping it will attract some women who'll see some virtue in it but of course there's a lot of women who i think maybe put off by that and the question is how many of them along with how many young people how many people for minorities turn up not only in early voting but next tuesday to say this isn't the way we want to go the way that donald trump has portrayed america actually do represent republican women i mean you're on the board of republican women for progress do you agree with that assessment from scott that donald trump and some of the republicans are campaign campaigning on division yes and i would like to bring that up here so republican women for progress i've actually opened a pac this year and what we've decided to do is to support female candidates who are moderate democrats who stand against trump's rhetoric and they're running against people who are basically rubber stamp trump republicans so here what we've
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decided to do is really take a stand against the rhetoric of this administration against women one that we think has been very degrading toward women back in two thousand and sixteen we took a stand against trump and said you know this is not symbolic of the republican party at all he is not going to be our standard bearer and we're a bunch of young women who say no more enough is enough and this is wrong and we're willing to put party aside for principle and to say if there is a moderate democrat out there who is a female who would be an awesome candidate. she should have the chance to go up against this and she should know that some republican women are behind her i have traditionally voted republican i do not plan to win this mid-term election i actually registered as an independent after twenty sixteen just because i was so disgusted by the future of the republican party i i do not think that it represents me as a young woman i think that it has really strayed from its core values of limited government freedom of speech and they've really embraced
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a very. i think extreme wing of the party and factionalized to the point of division words do matter actually when the president just continues destructive rhetoric let me ask you something about that because i don't i don't think a lot of people really understand how significant that is for someone to choose to vote for a candidate outside of their party that's not a small thing i think you know sometimes democrats. would wouldn't did i don't think this always appreciate how a die hard that can be to switch party lines was at a difficult decision for your group to take this position you know we had a lot of conversations about it and we just decided we couldn't stand for what the republican party stood for anymore and you know while there are some republicans that we do applaud here and there senator flake one of them lisa murkowski another one for taking stands against the administration most of them have been completely spineless and we're just deciding that we want to have spines and we want to remember this later on is
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a historic moment where republican women did speak out and speak up and say that enough is enough and we can't tolerate as a young woman this rhetoric to continue we can't do this for our daughters we can't do this for our sisters or for our friends and when we hear things like on that hate the hollywood actress tape which i thought would have brought down his candidacy instead there were a lot of people who embraced it as just locker room talk and we all know that that is not ok and when you're talking again about your daughters your sisters and your friends or your coworkers you know that that type of rhetoric is not just something that is that in the locker room that is something that is pervasive in our culture and for a president to embrace that is a significant issue which is why then is being a relatively easy decision for us to say no more anough is enough now have people in the public and in the media been scrutinizing us for this decision of course any my my twitter is often lit up with people who just are saying the most offensive and degrading things such as i shouldn't vote or i should get back in the kitchen i don't know what i'm talking about but i have to think at the end of the day that.
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this is something that i can support really been. she actually brought up the. access hollywood tape which. even when donald trump was elected he's continued that same type of language about women that same type of rhetoric about women as we saw in the storm story from kimberly how could it win him the issue came up a brett kavanaugh. how have women house or support for him either gotten gotten bigger or lessened as it's been clear that that's who he is when it comes to women. i think the access hollywood hit was just the beginning of the last two years which have had such a fundamental change in how women across this country do things like sexual harassment and sexual assaults we've seen in the last two years me to move movement bourgeoning and women realizing that these things are not ok to speak about openly
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and i think that ministry of planning of politics we have women across the country who are talking about issues like this in ohio a woman rachel crux is running for the state legislature i'm she was one of the women who was harassed by trump so i think women are realizing that they can buy back in the ballot box when it comes to their frustration and anger at these powerful men thinking that they can get away with statements like trump's and i think we're going to see a lot of women like actually maybe flipping parties and voting for moderate democrats or even progressive democrats because this is such an important issue to them so what have we seen scott so she right she talks about the ballot box but is this seems to also be driving more women to actually run for office as well yes but here i would be cautious not be absent the reactions from actually kiran that is are there women who are running on both sides sort of both republicans and democrats and it's refreshing to hear it's refreshing here actually talk about
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republican wonderful progress but there's also some women might think of marsha blackburn running for senate tennessee who are hard line trump supporters so it's a little bit of a diverse and also again to put about for their reaction you know i know this person from family and friends who are women who are diehard trump supporters who will come up with a standard of lines which basically is look look at hillary clinton look she was a very bad pav candidate how can we vote for her or who will try to excuse trump's behavior and it still remains a fact that i get the perception there's a generational divide that there's a lot. young women out there who are trending towards voting independent considering candidates for both parties but there are a lot of women especially elderly women of you know my parents' generation who still are all in with no matter what you do so it's not just a generational divide let's let's get to the the crux of this there is a racial divide as well when we say women more often than not we're talking about
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white women white women supported trump in two thousand and sixteen it does seem that their support has lessened some but we're still talking about what limited his black and brown women their support for from his basically and the single digits. as she what do you make of that yes so i struggled with this one quite a bit because in twenty sixteen i had said frequently as an analyst and commentator that there was no way that women would be turning out for trump and i was very very wrong so i've been really careful going into this midterm election with the trends that i've been looking at and seeing when it comes to women just because it seems to be right now that the momentum is on the side of the democrats but again in two thousand and sixteen women were almost the deciding factor in that trump election and they were the surprise factor there i believe it was fifty three percent of women voted for donald trump though that people were a little percent of white women who voted for donald trump right exactly so when we break it down more into obviously demographics that's where it gets tricky for me
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because i as a white woman as a young woman i know that i should apparently be voting independent or more progressive and i traditionally had fallen outside of that as a young republican but as this rhetoric has continued and i've been talking with more of people who are like me it seems as though it is going in the other direction so just based upon that alone i would say that this election will have an impact and will be different than in twenty sixteen but that generational divide is certainly true my home state of new hampshire a lot of the women there who are mothers who are older. have said to me that it's all about the economy and that they can put aside the stuff that trump is saying and doing even though they don't find him to be a good role model for their kids because of his policies and that to me is just wrong and hypocritical because if you're going to go after hillary clinton and the clinton family regarding the monica lewinsky stuff or anything related to nepotism
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the same things are happening with commit trump administration so it almost seems disingenuous that republicans of an older generation especially those older republican females are saying these things because if they look more closely what they'll realize in twenty twenty in these ads in these things that the president is saying and doing will be used against republicans for generations to come and you're either on the right or wrong side of history and that i think a lot of young women are recognizing you know you talked about the economy and the conna me in the in the u.s. does seem to be doing well but even having said that donald trump actually isn't talking a whole lot about that he's talking about a lot of other issues there's actually a quote that i pulled from a story in the new york times yesterday and it's it was talking to white female voters and this woman said he wants to protect this country and he wants to keep it safe and he wants to keep it free of invaders in the caravan and everything else that's going on obviously talking about the rhetoric that donald trump has been
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using about the migrants who are trying to make their way to the u.s. . what is it about vets message in those words that donald trump is trying to convey to voters specifically why do you think it's resonating with some white women. trump knows what his base wants to hear and it's words like that about the caravan that are rallying his base these are people who voted for him in twenty sixteen because of his rhetoric about illegal immigrants and building the wall and he's just continuing on that same narrative whether or not the claims he's making are true he seems to care less but he knows that if he enters these white women and men about issues of immigration that it will drive them to the ballot box and to compete with some of these democrats who are turning out in record numbers and also know that i actually was talking about the generational divide when it comes to white women and i think it's also important to realize that this is also
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a geographical dubai i'm in atlanta right now where in some of the suburbs around here white women are white women who either voted for trump in twenty sixteen or supported hillary so that there's no way that they would vote for a public cannot have any level of the ballot in this race but in a few hours i'm going to try just an hour or two south to macon georgia where trump is having a rally with and there are undoubtedly going to be hundreds if not thousands of white women there standing behind the president so i think you have to look at the geographical divide across this country so look at what are the difference in issues that. a white female voter cares about as opposed to a female voter of color some things overlap obviously but but those are two very distinct types of voters. in a sense i come back at the what's actually more interesting is that the issues that are there actually should unite and should be
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a white versus bloc issue when you talk about the key issue of health care for example when you talk about the issue of education when you talk about the economy which in fact the trump campaign is really only continuing the progress under obama and where it goes next year with the future of the tax cut. and the federal debt that's going to huge those are issues which tend to unite what i find more interesting is the way that the divisive language might play with different groups of women and here i'd come back to immigration is possibly the key issue and that is trop and his advisors like steven miller have obviously gamble that this is the one issue they can use to get a republican victory so does that issue of immigrants as invaders or immigrants as terrorist which has been used in the past week or jews financing terrorist do white women respond differently to that dog whistle politics the people of color and will that make a difference next tuesday that's where i'd be looking at the dividing line or one in fact which actually is mythical and it's the uniting issues that will be more
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important i think that's a good way to wrap this up this question going to put to you actually i like what what scott is saying is to focus on what are the uniting issues do you think that the candidates out there that can figure out the issues that obviously that unite voters clearly but if they can get on what unites female voters were garbus of race that they might be on to something. they might be but i feel maybe a little jaded by all of this and i guess that's the sad reality of the situation i'm going to point back to something that senator flake actually said when he decided that he was going to vote no in order to allow for there to be an investigation into the cabin a kind of scandals that we were seeing into the the investigation piece when he did that he came out and said had i not been up for you know retirement and decided to walk away from politics i wouldn't have been able to do that because there is so much pressure on people really that are republican or democrat on either side of
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the political spectrum once you're in office to hold the party line and to not step out of that line so that's honestly the state of american politics now where you can even vote or do something in your conscience or do something that you believe is unifying or that will heal the country because you know that you will not win your re-election bid so i hope that that's the direction that american politics moves but it scares me that that is the reality of the situation today where people don't feel like they can vote outside of their party or do the right thing because they're afraid of the electoral consequences of that but i think that more young people like myself are looking for more of a bipartisan solution to thing when it comes to policy or when it comes to decisions that are being made and legislated and hoping that people can work across the aisle because that's what democracy is and that is what american politics was meant to do and it was designed to be a conversation among people that could represent all people not just the base of each party actually that was
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a pretty good unifying message and i think we can all understand why you're a little skeptical if we'll all get there at some point but that was a really great unifying message and i appreciate the conversation from all of you all and i want to see what happens on tuesday thank you so much ashley pratt joining us from washington d.c. with republican member for congress carol lerner and atlanta georgia with think progress and birmingham not birmingham alabama birmingham u.k. scotland because professor opal tickle science and american studies thank you all three for the conversation we appreciate it. and thank you for watching for you can see the program again any time if you go to our website al-jazeera for the discussion at our facebook page that's facebook dot com for its last a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me richelle carey in the entire team here in doha i for now.
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you know this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up the sons of murdered saudi journalists plead for the return of his body allegations of vote buying and shady deals in sri lanka is deepening political crisis and sudan tries to recover from u.s. sanctions by reviving a historic court. the toughest sanctions to date that's what the u.s. is calling the latest measures. against iran as saw getting the country's oil and financial sectors but iran's president has on rouhani says tehran will carry on business as usual the trump administration is really imposing sanctions that were originally lifted as part of the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement the move will hits hundreds of businesses including those from countries linked with tehran let's
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go to our correspondent in tehran so zain what's the reaction to the reimposition of these sanctions what will this mean for a rainy and well folly the first comments we heard in response to sanctions that were reimposed today came from president hassan rouhani during a meeting with his economic team he made some very strong comments saying that iran will continue to sell oil and will break the sanctions he also said of this white house that there's been no white house in the history that has been as opposed to its international commitments and as racist he says he also said that the protests that were seen on sunday or a sign of the continued of the continued resolve of his people of the iranian people to continue to resist the united states. any common ground there may have been between iran and america seems to have been lost at
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a rally to mark the thirty ninth anniversary of the takeover of the us embassy iranians express their anger and frustration at a country they blame for their continued economic isolation i was was. i was there was also the familiar contempt that has come to define iran's relationship with the united states the country's top soldier said economic warfare america's last attempt to defeat iran is not going to work and warned us president donald trump not to try anything else. even when i want to say something to america and it's weird president never threaten iran because we can still hear the horrified cries of your soldiers in the desert and you know better every day how many of your old soldiers in america commit suicide due to depression and fear that they suffered in battlefield so don't threaten us militarily and don't frighten us with military threats u.s. sanctions meant to punish iran have devastated the country's economy in the last
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year trump has said it's going to get worse but iranians at this rally seemed more angry than afraid one difference between old sanctions and new ones is that this time these protesters are not alone in condemning the united states in the past iran had a weaker economy when it was hit by international sanctions mandated by the united nations now this time iran has a lot more support from world leaders has a relatively stronger economy and is only facing what many iranians are calling trump's sanctions i once a symbol of american influence in the region the old embassy in the heart of the capital is now little more than a relic left standing only as a reminder for iranians to remain vigilant. as my message to america is that many of their previous presidents. are not in the nantz their options on the table. but nothing happens as our supreme leader said we are seeing signs of america's decline is that i'm trying to model friendship with america's impossible it's like
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a friendship between a sheep and a wolf i know you don't i'm telling you even in the era of the shah america was our enemy the shah didn't realize it and the enemy is always in him an american if it compromises with iran and iran will also never bow down to its diplomats and negotiators spent years paving the way for the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal after trump came to power the goodwill they built crumbled in a matter of months it even earned him his own side show at this year's rally whether iran chooses to remain committed to the nuclear deal or not the next american president may not be able to fix what donald trump has broken. now temperatures are obviously rising on the streets but that's not the only place temperatures are also rising in the halls of power here into one president hassan rouhani addressed his demonstrators directly and said that pro-government
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demonstrators who come out onto the streets and chant death to america that's not enough something more practical needs to be done to back up that statement and to pressure america and to make america fearful of iran so that they leave his country alone zain thank you for that zain bazarov be live for us in tehran. i am. i am. the sons of murders journalists say their family is unable to grieve properly without knowing where his body is he was killed by what turkish officials say was a hit squad who waited for him at the saudi consulate in istanbul his son say their family has been deeply troubled by the continuing licenses murder more than a month ago under simmons is outside the city consulate in istanbul for us joins us now live a very emotional andrew a very emotional message from the sons of jamal. very
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much so very much so indeed more than a month ago their father was killed in the building here and they've heard so many variations of the truth now they've finally spoken out in a way that really was quite guarded because of political issues because salah the oldest son is from saudi arabia he's in the banking business in jeddah he was allowed by special permission from the crown prince to leave the country and go to washington d.c. to spend some time with his family his two sisters his other brother abdullah who is from the united arab emirates all together with their mother mourning but in the words of the two brothers how can they mourn when their have to be glued to the t.v. screen to get some idea of what exactly happened to their father they found it so
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hard they spoke very highly of him describing him as a brave and courageous man an amazing father said salah but they had worn really strong potent message that rises above much of the politics of the rhetoric we're hearing from all corners of the world right now it's quite simple they want the remains of their fathers back and this is what seller had to say of what we want. to bring him and book here with him and you know with his with because of his family in saudi arabia in saudi arabia yes i talk to talk about that with. the saudi authorities and. i just hope that it happens. but you need to find somebody needs to find his his body yes. i believe that this issue is all going.
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to be hopeful about that meanwhile andrew a new leaks to the turkish media and some very interesting comments just this hour from the vice president of turkey what does that suggest as far as what turkey's next move might be. foley i'll get straight to that message from the vice president. who's speaking a short time ago he basically said he asked a question initially who gave the order to commit murder in our country we are searching for the answer to this question he then went on to reports of the body being dissolved in acid this has to be looked at thoroughly he said where is the body and of course that is the question where was the body all the body parts what we're hearing now in the leaks process it is almost a daily event mainly the sabah newspaper which is the pro-government publication
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and the latest leak from them goes like this that the official party that came to search the consulate and also the consul general zod residence two hundred meters away eleven strong party arriving on october the eleventh that is nine days after the death of the by murder in this building now to the people in that party have been a marked up by the investigators the turkish investigators and identify they are giving their names at this point because we don't have whatever evidence that might be against them we have an assertion though in this leaked report that these two men one of them was a toxicologist and they were tasked not to investigate or search but to clear up and cover up a crime now that's what the court is saying exactly what they did is unclear once
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again lots of different reports about what might have happened to cause shoji in the end something that his two sons want to know about sooner rather than later and that's certainly the message of this day thank you for that under siemens with. our you. and human rights council is reviewing the actions of sanji arabia and its record on human rights a saudi delegation is in geneva to face questions over the matter of. other rights issues let's cross over to paul brennan who's in geneva for us so what sort of questions paul can the saudis expect today i think they can expect very tough questioning from the assembled members of the human rights council here in geneva this is a periodic review it happens every five or six years where every member of the united nations has to come and basically submit itself to questioning as to how it's upholding human rights and this is saudi's turn but given the the jamal khashoggi murder then the questioning is going to be very tough indeed
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a couple of documents that are relied upon first of all saudi puts its case a national report are really just some of the items that they're putting forward for consideration they say well we've passed a protection against abuse act a child protection act to prevent abuse to protect protect the rights of the child various royal orders for example giving women more involvement in government but there are other reports which are submitted to the council from committees of the u.n. and from n.g.o.s as well which paint a very different picture and the u.n. can committees of chipped in with various concerns about persistent discriminator laws a big increase in the number of executions that take place amputations and stonings against under eighteen year olds in saudi arabia and continuing concerns about the lack of female involvement in the governing process there have been some advance questions submitted.

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