but you need to find somebody needs to find his his body yes. i think that the sessions are going. to be hopeful about that turkish officials fear they may never be able to find the remains of which they believe was dissolved in acid something which is likely to prolong the agony of his family which has been hoping to bury him as soon as possible in saudi arabia. the u.s. is calling this latest sanctions against iran the toughest so far to iran has accused washington of bullying and says its tactics some backfiring because the u.s. and internationally isolated the measures implemented on monday target iran's oil and financial sectors but president says they are taking things slowly we have the toughest sanctions ever imposed but on oil we want to go a little bit slower because i don't want to drive the oil prices in the world this has nothing to do with the rent i don't want to drive the oil prices in the world

so i'm not looking to be a great hero and bring it down to zero immediately i could get the iran oil down to zero immediately but it would cause a shock to the market i don't want to lift oil prices. james bays reports now from washington d.c. . the message the treasury secretary and the secretary of state wanted to send was that the sanctions lifted when the u.s. during the obama administration joined other international partners in the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal a rule now back in place but if you read the small print that's not exactly the case some of the iranian nuclear facilities have been given waivers so they can still work producing nuclear energy for civilian use the trumpet ministration wants all countries to stop importing iranian oil but for now secretary of state mike compost says age nations who get temporary waivers the u.s. will be granting these exemptions to china india italy greece japan south korea

taiwan and turkey the two cabinet secretaries said they'd keep a laser focus on iran but why single out just one country in the region james face from al jazeera english you talk about the destabilizing behavior of iran in the region how does that differ from the bad behavior of saudi arabia. so let me just go through the list underwriting lebanese hezbollah presents a threat to united states of america and to israel underwriting the hoodies in yemen causing an enormous conflict to take place there in that country the efforts in iraq to undermine the iraqi government funding shia militias that are not the best interest of the iraqi people their efforts in syria the list goes on the difference in behavior between those two countries is remarkable. that on some perhaps need some fact checking the u.n. says there's no evidence iran has recently supplied the who feeds with weapons

while the saudi led campaign has been responsible for the majority of civilian deaths in yemen saudi arabia certainly has its own destabilizing role in the region just look at the blockade of cats and if you're criticizing iran for its human rights then saudis appalling record also needs to be scrutinized particularly in the light of the murder of jamal khashoggi in istanbul james baez al-jazeera washington. still has hair on al-jazeera turned selection begins in the trial of one of mexico's most notorious drug lords. how i was still got some writing to come across parts of the middle east but not as bad as it has been recently across the eastern side of the mediterranean have yes

they are making their way for the race was east and parts of iraq now started to see some of that wet weather and it will be lively at times pushing into the western side of iran heavy enough for some localized flooding that will be almost inevitable got some showers to pushing up towards afghanistan pushing up snow pasok going to start in tech most. into the back to stand couple stays dry around nineteen celsius dry two in karate is that it to thirty three degrees it turns somewhat dry around the caspian sea still a few showers into the northwest of iran and some showers still in place there for that eastern and central side of iraq over the next few days it shows up with a showers we will see still affecting q eight so that wet weather into northern parts of the gulf here in qatar which is they find in tried temperatures around thirty one thirty two degrees over the next few days a little more cloud into central and northern parts of saudi arabia a little more close to just around the gulf of aden and on the coastal fringes you might just catch one or two showers and just as i'm sure i was still in place just

around northeastern parts of south africa that's not going into southern most than bake by the middle of the week. on county would cost the us a white still the largest on regulated gun market in the developed world who pays goes wrong plus the seychelles leads the way in eco finance world blue ball. counting the cost. i really feel liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as it always does with his job.

and then again you're watching al-jazeera has reminded of all top stories this hour republicans and democrats making their final arguments head of tuesday's midterm elections the campaign has been one of the most divisive in recent history over four hundred thirty five seats in the house of representatives are up for grabs along with more than a third of the senate and dozens of governorships. turkish media have reported that saudi officials sent to investigate the appearance of janice jamal khashoggi focused instead on removing evidence of his saudi team that arrived nine days after she was killed included a chemical experts and a toxicologist. and the u.s. says its latest sanctions against iran of the toughest so far as i will tell runs leading business partners of going to wave them to import oil iran has accused washington of bullying tactics are backfiring because the u.s.

is internationally isolated. exile the way the activists are urging incessant community to take a hard line against china over its alleged crackdown on the same minority in shin jang has been accused of math attention and discrimination a weekend muslims in the region brown reports. there are few more difficult places for foreign journalists to report from in china than shinji especially in. the provinces vast security and surveillance network is in overdrive as international criticism mounts over china's internment program for ethnic muslim we goes and other groups officially chinese government officials insist they're providing free vocational training for those deemed vulnerable to islamic extremism . but exiled leader activists say these centers are

nothing less than reeducation camps were up to a million men and women are being held indefinitely without charge and a grand chinese government is doing that with the international repercussions so i believe that china would accelerate its start to wipe out the whole we were a nation if the world wouldn't be stronger harsher and china time here i'm in believes he'd be in a camp if he returned to shin jiang he says a chinese state security agent tried to persuade him to go back after he moved to israel to study early last year leaving his wife and daughter behind in shin jiang . the agent also a week or telephoned him repeatedly wanting details of women's contacts in israel sometimes the calls were taunting sure you're watching and it gives you that didn't

give you your daughter won't turn out to be a scum like you says a voice she'll be useful to the communist party. but. the implication was clear her fate was in their hands he said that one day you will need support one day you will need assistance from the chinese government if you go back to your homeland your family members your wives your daughter still are in the room before him and left china he lived here a room she the provincial capital of shin jang he used to call his daughter all the time but in february she told him don't call me or my mother again her last words to her father with these you're a bad person. with so many people missing in shin jang including his brother and sister i'm in is not sure if his wife and daughter

are safe he also doesn't know for sure if they're still in a room she his wife divorced him just after he moved to the united states but he understands why marriage to him he says has made her a marked woman a dream brown al-jazeera interim chief. the speaker of parliament says he's been repeated the misled over a constitutional crisis now entering its second week it was triggered when present . prime minister. replacing him with former president george parks are set to reconvene on the fourteenth of november clearing the way for a vote on the appointment that is best for ports. he might be able to draw a crowd of thousands but because new prime minister still hasn't been endorsed by parliament that's a constitutional coupe critics say president my three powerless are saying a small

in his former ally then rival now ally again and suspended parliament more than a week ago. the speaker accuses the president of repeatedly not keeping promises of an early recall of parliament. jayasuriya says he'll only recognise mahinda rajapakse as appointment if m.p.'s vote for it he said it's difficult to remain silent in the face of the severe violation of democratic principles the forcible taking over of the administration of media and other public sector institutions the majority of m.p.'s is of the opinion that all changes made in the parliament are undemocratic and inconsistent with the traditions of parliament but his supporters as appointment is justified at the got to get out of what the man got didn't have the internet you know this is a leader who won the war the one who saved the country i mean look all the legal things have been done and dusted he's now prime minister and i did granted i'm

going to be i'm learning rajapaksa accuses create a sense of increasing the tax burden and using power a man who was fired to make way run away from a single says he's still prime minister and has the parliamentary support to prove it. he won't leave the official residence until m.p.'s get to vote over a week to go. their suggestion the rajapaksa come just a handful of votes to give him a majority if he gets it then he'll probably remain prime minister but the manner. polarizing. birthrate al-jazeera. separatists and cameroon have kidnapped at least seventy nine high school students and three staff members who were taken from a presbyterian boarding school in the city of amend is part of the english speaking region which has seen a surge in violence over the past year an armed group known as the freedom fighters

is fighting for an independent state apart from the government just dominated by the french speaking majority colbert quain is a journalist and the men that he says he's had sepsis have taken the students into the bush. man invented a school in the arse of someone they're bragging monday and then took away some of this detour than and as a deliberate and as the events around for their words in videos of some eleven to then have been are being dealt with by the groups asking them while they have to go to school when the know that they're fighting for independence and people are living in the bushes and some cannot find that their parents and that they will have to stay with them in the bushes on. the war is over this group operates in various ways and in various functions and just last month as i mentioned an article actually determine the way this group of functions and that kidnapping is becoming

the new mothers operandi with the new cartridges for for the arm group so the knowledge resort to kidnappings. more for four four four four economies for harangued some done for political ends and the longer. and the mason extracted from black box recorders has revealed more about what courts and indonesian passenger jet to crash last week or one hundred ninety nine people on board. the planes as speed indicator malfunctioned on its previous four flights. it was amazing charged with emotion as distraught family members came face to face with investigators and the co-founder of lion air and they never call us or do they express their sympathy they gathered in indonesia's capital jakarta to get the latest on the investigation one hundred eighty nine people were on board the boeing

seven three seven mechs when it plunged into the java se yamato between hundred ninth just minutes after takeoff. the plane had been grounded just a day earlier after a pilot reported problems with the flight control system it was flying erratically with fluctuations in speed and altitude but it was fixed and cleared to fly again divers pulled the data recorder from the water on thursday and it's revealed an ongoing problem. a malfunction of the is speed indicator was found in the last four flights we've asked boeing to take the necessary actions to prevent the same accident from happening again especially on the boeing seven three seven eight. lion has been a frequent target of complaints about poor service and safety issues the president has ordered a review of all flight safety regulations but many relatives are demanding an independent investigation and accountability. we can't let this happen it's

within the legal process is that these technicians take full responsibility. the plane slammed into the sea so fast that only fragments of the wreckage of been recovered and that's made identifying victims difficult. i will not. be out there until the end of the search operation if there is still the possibility of finding victims continue the search but. this family at least has a chance to hold a funeral and a place to go to mourn for many others though the agonizing wait continues. al-jazeera the pentagon says a russian fighter jets has flown close to a u.s. navy plane over the black sea that's the pilot's name to use it as a warning or try to force other aircraft to change course his navy says the move was unprovoked prevented a violation of us as base that loss of twenty five minutes and happened in

international airspace south of the ukraine and western russia the black sea is an area that has previously seen tension between russian and nato forces. jury selection is underway in the u.s. for the trial of one of mexico's most notorious drug lords also known as el chapo has been held in solitary confinement in new york for the past two years security for the trial is expected to be high especially for witnesses and jurors cameras on there has more from outside the court in brooklyn new york. jury selection is underway at this federal courthouse in brooklyn but just the jury selection is expected to take at least a week for a trial that's going to be very complicated a trial that the judge said could last more than three months to pick a jury you can get a sense of the comp complexities of it all because finding jurors that know little to nothing about. is going to be quite difficult considering how many books in movies have been done about him over the years he's very famous and popular media

also finding it sure they can stay on this trial for as much as three months is complicated because the jurors will be sequestered in a hotel here in new york throughout the course of the trial now prosecutors say that they plan to lay out a lot of evidence linking. him to his in a low a cartel and these illegal activities within the united states particularly drug trafficking and money laundering prosecutors say in the end they hope that they will provide enough that it didn't put guzman in jail for good forever. can be found on a website they can keep all the results developments and. elections. so what's the top stories republicans and democrats making the final arguments ahead

of the midterm elections a campaign has been the most divisive in recent history all four hundred thirty five seats. for grabs along with more than a third of the senate and dozens of governorships. you will be making a simple choice of vote for republicans is a vote to continue our extraordinary prosperity. a vote for a democrat roosevelt to bring dish economic. crashing down and very rapidly. the u.s. says its latest sanctions against iran are the toughest yet the measures implemented on monday target iran's oil and financial sectors but some of the iran's leading business partners have got a waiver allowing them to import oil iran has accused washington of bullying and says its tactics are backfiring because the us is internationally isolated turkish

media reporting that saudi officials were sent to istanbul to remove evidence relating to the murder of jamal khashoggi the saudi team was supposed to be in turkey to investigate the crime the nine man group included a chemical expert and a toxicologist the u.n. human rights council is reviewing the actions of saudi arabia and its record on rights violations as early delegation is in geneva to face questions over the khashoggi murder amongst other issues in the council the delegation restated the kingdom's position that it's investigating the case and will prosecute those responsible for the killing saudis have come under heavy criticism from this trillion delegation separatists in cameroon have kidnapped at least seventy nine high school students and three staff members that were taken from a boarding school in the city of mend in the west of the country but then do as part of the english speaking region which has seen a surge in violence over the past year jury selection is underway in the u.s.

for the trial of one of mexico's most notorious drug lords. also known as el chapo been held in solitary confinement in new york for the past two years security for the trial is expected to be high especially for witnesses and jurors. update now with all the headlines more news continuing here on al-jazeera that soft counting the costs. in the eighteen seventies hundreds were banished to the farthest corner of an empire where their descendants still live today. my grandparents died with a heavy heart they left everything behind. it's always present inside as this french territory in the pacific to vote on independence al-jazeera world tells the story of exile in new caledonia.

hello i'm sam is a than this is counting the cost on al-jazeera the weekly look at the world of business and economics this week why the united states continues to weaponize and what impact that is having outside its borders. also this week breaks it budget the cost of a disorderly u.k. exit from the european union plus there's no question this is the right thing to do . walking out on google thousands of workers around the world protests declaring time is up on sexual harassment. it's a long lived and established industry that likely won't be going anywhere anytime soon we're counting the cost this week of the weaponization of america the latest atrocity on october the twenty seventh eleven people were killed when a heavily armed gunman opened fire at a baby naming ceremony at a synagogue in pittsburgh police said he used

a legally purchased assault rifle and three handguns in our previous investigation into this industry we noted how gun manufacturers themselves rarely give interviews dozens of companies have ended partnerships with the national rifle association or n.r.a. the pro gun lobby by the u.s. president donald trump imedi. directed attention to the lack of an armed guard at the synagogue claiming the shooting has little to do with the country's gun laws this indicates that there are they are in shock they might have been able to stop the bleeding. because they were right in that they would put a stop. barry webber was one of those who survived the synagogue shooting i think the n.r.a. has so much political clout that there is no way in the world

our poll politicians have the the strength to take them out of the equation who needs an a r fifteen who needs a semi-automatic weapon that's a good four maybe target practice but that's all well the u.s. gun industry is estimated to be worth fifty one billion dollars so guns are big business the lack of regulation is key to the industry's profitability military style weapons are a consumer products in the u.s. a background check is conducted only in store purchases part of the reason for the lack of gun control is the national rifle association it says it speaks for american gol owners who have a constitutional right to bear arms venders the u.s.a.'s role in the global weapons trade the us buys and sells almost as much weaponry as the rest of the world combined so what happens in the u.s.

has global impact. well joining me now via skype from london is andrew feinstein andrew is the executive director of corruption watch the author of shadow world inside the global arms trade good to have you with us science or just a put things into perspective at the start how profitable is the u.s. guns industry compared to others we need to start by saying that the united states produces some with between thirty five and forty percent of all weaponry in the world so this is an industry that is worth tens of billions of dollars to the united states the industry is small and light weapons handguns machine guns rifles etc is a smaller component of that globally worth about eight billion dollars so in the u.s. probably worth around four billion dollars there have been repeated public outcry that gainst gun violence the industry has managed in the u.s.

to successfully insulate itself against any sort of backlash hasn't it though how well absolutely i think the national rifle association the main gun lobby group in the united states of america has been incredibly successful in creating a public climate that is pro-gun but far more important than that it has effectively pulled the support of the politicians who would need to regulate the industry and unfortunately that flow of money to those politicians which enables them to stay in power because america is often described as the best democracy money can buy or as i describe the weapons procurement business in the united states as a form of illegal bribery those politicians are effectively insulated from public opinion now there is a possibility. in the imminent american elections that we could for the first time

in many decades start to see a shift slight shift in that we're seeing a number of. public groups really good groups like. moms demand gun control for instance who are trying to energize voters not to vote for any candidate who is not critical of the gun lobby and doesn't commit to much greater regulation of guns in the united states let's broaden the discussion a little bit how does that situation impact the economies of other countries taking countries close to the u.s. like mexico for example it has a massive impact in the world on two levels really first of all it creates this global environment of militarism so again remembering that the united states is involved in more conflicts than but any other country on the planet in fact. the

united states government employs more people to run one aircraft carrier than it has diplomats across the entire world and the united states today has eleven have crossed carriers how that affects america's immediate neighbors is even more insidious a country like mexico that has seven law and order problems relating to the drugs trade and relating to gun running the vast majority of those guns in mexico used by militias years back criminals both organized and informal come from the united states of america so i'm not trying to talk about building a wall between the united states and mexico what he doesn't seem to realize is that there is an enormous a very profitable flow of guns into mexico from the u.s. that he probably wouldn't want to stop so you have the flow of guns into mexico and in return you have a flow of drugs and other illicit activities into the united states of america so

what this is doing is it's a boost destabilizing those neighboring countries like mexico where it's giving criminal groups enormous power and fire power but at the same time attending a devastating impact in the united states itself how do you respond those who who would criticize that line and say you're mumbling two separate things the n.s.a. it and the licit trade in guns i've been i've been studying the trade in arms for seventeen years. the boundary the borders between the legal and the it illegal are incredibly fast so our governments and the weapons makers the celt would have us believe that there is this formal legal trade in whatever. that only opposite side of the spectrum is the black train the the illicit trade the reality is that the

vast vast majority of these transactions be there for aircraft carriers or jet fighters will be there for handguns and semiautomatic weapons take place somewhere in the middle in what i describe as the shadow world in the gray market where there is bribery and corruption and this includes by governments including the governments of the main weapons producing countries of the world it also includes executives of the main weapons producing companies because bribes don't only flow in one direction they also flow back to the executives of the countries play paying the bribes so in the work that i've done over seventeen years i could literally count on one hand the number of armament transactions that do not involve and element of illegality the problem then becomes that most of these

transactions and most of the people who operate in this shadow world which include some of our most senior politicians and government ministers some of our most senior military leaders and of course the weapons making companies the vast vast majority of them act in this trade with a degree of illegal impunity and this is the first reflected in the reality that we recorded and this was going back all the way to the end of twenty eleven or in a final point tell us how the n.r.a. influences international efforts to try and regulate and control the global trade in arms. so what the n.r.a. does very effectively the n.r.a. is actually quite a small organization but it is it incredibly christie lend not only to the manufacturers of handguns and smaller like weapons but also to the be in much of the global weapons industry so the lockheed martin's the northrop grumman is the be a systems it is for these sorts of groups and it gets most of its money so what it

does in the work that it does in the united states of america which is to create a particularly conducive environment to america later the environment for the sale of weaponry the end the n.r.a. together with these companies then try and spread that message throughout the world so the message is not just about the issue of unregulated got own ship being very closely linked to issues of freedom and liberty but also the need for an environment of militarism where military force is the preferred way to resolve conflicts and we see that manifest in all over the world so for instance with a lurch to the far populist right that we have seen in brazil over the last few days part of the agenda of that far right movement in brazil is the deregulation of gun ownership in

a society that has problems of gangsterism that has problems of armed criminals so the n.r.a. is affectively spreading the american message of liberty and militarism though that under feinstein thanks so much for your thoughts thank you very much. still to come on counting the cost is the only country in the world to measure success not through g.d.p. but through gross national happiness what does that mean i mean barker in the mountain kingdom of bhutan join me later in the program. but first staff at google offices around the world staged walkouts this week they're protesting the internet companies lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct rob reynolds reports. in cities around the world employees of google walked off their jobs in protest over the.