turkey believes there will be enough evidence and it wants the united states to pressure the saudis to extradite all of the suspects not only that the turks want saudi arabia to reveal who ordered the killing of a man whose remains appear to have been washed away in the sewage system. and his life first now in istanbul sandra what is the latest we're hearing. well it's important to emphasize that the multiple sources now confirming that the search for a body is over however the investigation is still very much alive now the consular residence in fact is still barred as far as the turkish investigators are concerned the saudis haven't let them in since that search when they spent only eight to nine hours going through the building and trying to get access to the well

in the garden or that was only partially successful apparently and we understand that there has been an order made attempt to a court order made permitting them to access that area but the saudis are still preventing that so that is going to be ongoing but overall this is now a focal point at the whole inquiry because it does appear right across the board that they have given up any hope of getting that crucial evidence of body parts or a body and so now this next stage is going to be preparing for indictments that could take a lot longer than some people think because there's still a lot of evidence to go through and i'll pick up on one aspect of that report the chemical experts that was. done aziz janabi and also how it was that ronnie who is a toxicology expert those two men came out on october the eleventh from saudi

arabia they were meant to be in the search team those two men are apparently wanted on charges of disposal of a body they are involved allegedly in that these men had mixed with the turkish investigators on the night of october the seventeenth when the tech turkish were investigating in the consular residence so this is really another development in the. the whole pattern of links the jigsaw of links starts a match up when you when you leaks should i say start to match up when you actually put them together the turkish are definitely convinced that the description of by the saudis of a joint investigation a joint search was really nonsense that they were involved in a state's operation to kill cleanup then cover up and has there been any reaction anju from the relatives of i shall get on this.

yes yes there has has been a twitter. from. the fiance who said good bye to her fiance here in her shorts she went into the consulate october the second that's now on five weeks ago and she says that she dressed her dead fiancé in the suite and said that she was unable to express her sorrow about the dissolving of your body she said she said all these killers and those behind it human beings oh my god she said and she also said they killed you and chopped chopped up your body depriving me and your family of being at your funeral prayer bringing your body to medina that's in saudi arabia where they wanted to bury his remains and of course not only that sort of sentiment one can't be surprised at

hearing it also the sentiment of of salah. his sons who are in the united states recently and spoke in an interview about how moved they were how they could not really get their emotions together they couldn't really coordinate them because of all the leaks and all the developments in the case this is ultimately will penalty but development no one knows what they're thinking right now they haven't expressed themselves publicly nor has their mother who was in the united states with them or their two sisters so terribly grim situation it hasn't it's not as if it hasn't been gruesome enough following events but this aspect to it now must be well beyond description and you chartists life mistery in istanbul thanks a.j. . as the u.s. government is putting new restrictions on asylum claims by people crossing the us mexico border illegally those core crossing the border places other than official

border posts will not be allowed to present asylum claims a caravan with thousands of people from central america is currently making its way towards the u.s. border and what a beck it is an immigration attorney in texas he thinks the decision contravenes the more it violates the due process clause of the u.s. constitution guarantees that no one in to accuse some seekers of be deprived of life or debris without due process of law but it also bypasses congress oversight and so i think on those grounds i hope that the high courts will overturn this executive order. that has also has a badge is of racism behind it when you're in a desperate situation you know you're going to mentor any means necessary and so c.p.s. actually encouraged asylum seekers to enter illegally and then now they want to pass this law to score political points and they're using that boehner populations

just to make political points and make their base happy it is a tragedy because we are the ones who live on the border and i can tell you i feel very safe there i'm not being overrun no one's trying to kill me or come to my home there's a process in place in this administration is violating that process they're digimon ising. humanizing deporting denying depriving asylum seekers. president donald trump's immigration policy has suffered another blow an appeals court in california up held an earlier ruling allowing a program to protect young undocumented immigrants to continue the program known as dhaka was created under former president barack obama it gives some rights to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the u.s. as children before two thousand and seven protects them from deportation and give them work permits the issue is likely to ultimately end up in front of the u.s. supreme court the u.n.

brokered political talks between yemen's warring sides have been pushed back to the end of the year in yemen envoy martin griffiths is trying to salvage stalled peace talks between the rebels and the internationally recognized government backed by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. . also ahead on al-jazeera no end to the fury in the u.s. over the sacking of attorney general jeff sessions. hello there it's going to stay pretty hot for many of us in the west of europe we look at the satellite picture we can see one area of cloud here this fizzling out as it works its way across the central belt of europe and then there's another area of cloud and rain following it this is also got some pretty strong winds in with it and as that works his way eastward the yet more wet weather comes in so if we play

a forward see what happens on friday you can see that system moving its way eastwards again easing a little bit as it does say but still very strong winds following it and plenty of showers as well it is quite mild though if you look at the direction of the wind several coming up from the south so dragging in some warm air so despite the fact it's wet and windy the temperatures are holding up quite nicely fifteen as a maximum in paris for the east there's a high pressure in charge so there's a bit of mist him folk around but still it's quite warm here too with vienna put around a thirteen degrees now across the other side of the mediterranean and for most of us here it has improved so not a great deal of what weather across that north western coast of africa just a few showers perhaps around out geria it's further east we've got more unsettled weather and this is gradually going to be pushing for the eastwards as we head through the day on saturday so breaking up a little bit as well but still a few showers here and it looks like some around choosier will be heavy.

top stories. the streets in the. news eventually. told. traces of the residents of the. body may have been disposed. our u.s. federal court judge has blocked construction of the controversial keystone oil pipeline the judge said the government has failed to properly account for the risk of oil spills or the impact of lower oil prices could have on the project that's after an appeal by environmental groups as the companies behind the project prepared to begin work in montana new reports assessing the potential environmental

impact of the eight billion dollars plan will now need to be submitted to the court . and staying in the u.s. democrats have demanded emergency hearings in the house of representatives to investigate the u.s. president's firing of attorney general jeff sessions had been protests in washington against his sacking she had has more but this is one of many protests organized nationwide under the banner of trump is not above the law protests to steer the appointment of matthew which is acting attorney general following the resignation of jeff sessions is an attempt by the president to impede the investigation of special counsel robert mueller into trouble his family and his associates were there has been a critic of the investigation that he's pulling some shady stuff here in between right after the election which was a two day. it's just. you know he's trying to get down but you get down to get

around election i mean it's an investigation he's terrified protesters on democratic members of congress say we should recuse himself from oversight off the investigation but even many of them accept that seems improbable given his opposition to robot mode though seems to be the exact reason why trump him in the first place a fast moving wildfire has forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in northern california the entire town of paradise with a population of twenty seven thousand was emptied as the flames engulfed homes and businesses reports say several people have been injured dozens of teams from across the state are trying to put out the fire and central african republic refugees mostly muslims have slowly started to return but their arrival is causing new tensions in the city of car not because the homes and businesses they left have been occupied by non muslims the un and aid agencies hope to avert further violence

but by building new houses for them if they agreed to leave the refugees old homes nicholas hawk reports. it is easy returned home from a two year long exile. gone are the pictures of his son mohammed do into my room the wall so to the bed shared with his wife and there's so for the family sat around to watch t.v. . only the memories remain. leaman the diamond dealer was looted by friends and neighbors who after a lifetime living side by side in peace chase his family from their home because they are muslim. i have come back because we will only find peace of my friends and neighbors see me again and accept me as their own it's not easy because i've come back here for the love of my homeland my house and my country but some of the homes muslims left behind are now occupied by christian families they too are

fleeing sectarian violence. this is last thursday burning our temporary shelters for mostly christian displaced villagers satellite by our muslim militias wanting them out they burned all the site meaning that they left twenty seven thousand internally displaced people with nothing they have been displaced one time twice those displacement are also hope and we are told how do you want people to get into. repeated cease fire agreements are broken fourteen armed groups continue to fight pitting communities a against each other to control a country larger than france rich in minerals diamonds and gold. as a result more than a million people whether christian or muslim are on the move searching for a safe place to live on the surface this may appear as a conflict about sectarian violence christians against muslims but take

a closer look and you'll find deep inequalities between those that control land and those that don't caught in the middle are the people of central african republic trying to rebuild their country brick by brick homes for those displaced away from the violence it's an initiative from the norwegian refugee council here both muslims and christians live side by side like how the the man who once lived tired of being on the move no longer a refugee in this unending crisis it is this desire to be part of a community that has brought him back home nicholas hawk al-jazeera cardo central african republic. of vinyl preparations are underway in paris to mark one hundred years since the end of world war one on sunday french president emmanuel mccraw will host world leaders to mark the armistice that ended the conflict when sixteen

million were killed over four years well in jordan looks at how the us got involved and the legacy it has left on the american people on april second one nine hundred seventeen u.s. president woodrow wilson issued the battle cry the world must be made safe for democracy many americans approved of the decision to go to war against germany and its allies a government that is running amok but despite the headlines and propaganda efforts just as many americans opposed fighting in the so-called great war. the u.s. historian michael kazin described the antiwar movement in his recent book war against war it didn't seem like a war that was in the american national interests seem like a war that most europeans had not wanted to fight in the first place so there was a sense that if america got involved the war it would only make the i states more militarist country which is just the fall face saw in the european powers that had

gone to war in the first place even so kazan says the impact of the war on us society was far reaching some suffragist leveraged women's performance in the workplace to convince congress they should have the right to vote black soldiers including the harlem hell fighters who fought in france discovered their service did not protect them from racism after the war and that inspired the work of civil rights activists in the decades ahead and the us started a long running debate about what it means to be a global power economically militarily and diplomatically. wilson had resisted calls to enter the war since it began in one nine hundred fourteen but after a german u. boat torpedo the cargo ship aztec on april first getting congress to declare war was easy by the time the armistice was signed on november eleventh one thousand nine hundred eighteen one hundred sixteen thousand u.s. troops had died either in combat or because of the flu pandemic kazan says that

does not mean the antiwar movement had failed with the story there to were movement doing what one can teach us is that it's crucial for americans for fuel for any nation to force their politicians and their media. and their businesses those of other businesses to. think very carefully about this decision because once you decide to go to war there's no going back an important insight one hundred years on especially given that americans still don't agree on when and why the u.s. should go to war rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. this is al jazeera let's get a round up now of our top stories police say one person was killed after

a stabbing attack in now been two others were injured the streets in the center of the australian city are on lockdown place received reports of a vehicle on foreign but straight neva police quickly responded to the incident as they got out of the car that were confronted by a mile brandishing a north and threatening on at the same time process voluble calling out that members of the public had been stabbed police shot the mile in the chest and he is now in a critical condition at the under god at hospital. three people have been stabbed unfortunately one is deceased at the. two other victims are currently at hospital turkish police have told prosecutors they have ended their search for the body of saudi journalist. sources tell us that traces of acid were found at the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul and it's thought the body may have been

disposed of using chemicals united nations brokered talks between the warring sides in yemen have been postponed until the end of the year the u.n. is warning yemen is just three months away from a devastating famine with fourteen million people at risk the world food program says it is doubling the amount of food aid to try and prevent mass starvation a u.s. federal court judge has blocked the construction of the controversial keystone oil pipeline the judge said the government has failed to properly account for the risk of oil spills all the impact of low oil prices could have on the project that follows an appeal by environmental groups as the companies behind the project prepared to begin work in montana new reports assessing the potential environmental impact of the a billion dollar plan will now need to be submitted to the court a fast moving wildfire has forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their

homes in northern california the entire town of paradise with a population of around twenty seven thousand people was empty as the flames engulfed homes and businesses reports say the been a number of injuries to people there and firefighters those are the headlines inside story is next. it is murder when you throw a fire bomb into someone's home and mishit. nashik you know. that now is significant and i'm very insignificant ideologically that is significant even as a crime against. very significant by dictating the governments in the fucked up policy. of the radicalized series on al-jazeera. mixed results in the us midterm elections the republicans tighten their grip on the senate while the democrats capture the house of representatives what does this mean

for president trump's remaining two years in office and how will it affect his foreign policy this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm homage enjoy him the midterm result set the stage for what promises to be a very different washington for the second half of the president's first term in office and there could be consequences for his foreign policies the democrats will have more power to influence decisions from russia and saudi arabia to the israel palestine issue will have an expert panel to discuss this shortly but first robert oulds reports on the shape of things to come. there was a big day yesterday white house spin zone despite the mid-term loss of the house to the democrats president donald trump declared victory citing republican gains in

the senate i did focus on the senate and we had tremendous success with the senate democratic house leader nancy pelosi said the democrats victory was an opportunity to work together with drum who will strive for bipartisanship we believe that we harm the sponsibility to seek common ground where we can but we cannot we must stand with them now control of the house gives democrats power to block much of the republican legislative agenda and launch investigations into trump's russian business dealings taxes and other ethical issues dogging several senior officials yes democrats are here to strengthen the institution in which we serve and not to have it be a rubber stamp for president chop. many democratic voters believe the house should begin impeachment proceedings against trump but the senate

republican leader had a warning for democrats drawn from republicans own experience i remember when we tried in the late ninety's. we impeach president clinton his numbers one often are going down and we underperform in the next election so the democrats in the house will have to decide just how much presidential harassments they think is good strategy i'm not so sure it will work or there's not very much common ground between the parties on major issues like immigration and health care so the forecast for the next two years is lots of talk but little action robert oulds al-jazeera washington. all right let's bring in our guests here with us in the studio is carl wider quist political philosopher and associate professor at georgetown university in new york eli clifton fellow at nation institute and contributing editor at low blog and in

boston rami kuti senior fellow at harvard kennedy school welcome to the program so carl let me start with you now that jeff sessions has been fired not really a surprise but how much do you think that could impact robert muller's investigation well it depends what trump has planned he's already whitacre the replacement is somebody who's very anti the investigation whether they're going to follow through and try to fire sessions or not remains to be seen that's a strong possibility but we don't know what's in trump's mind. rami let me ask you what about russia overall i mean do you think now that the democrats have taken control of the house of representatives and have much more power to investigate do you think that we're going to be seeing a lot more investigations as far as trump's possible ties to russia. for sure we're going to see vesta geishas we're going to see requests for classified or private

material like bank accounts or tax returns and things of that nature which the the committees intelligence and other committees in the house have the authority to do without necessarily seeking senate approval there will definitely be a probing going on now in the next month or so as people try to figure out what's the most effective way to push back against the many many things that trump has done that the democrats don't like but not to push too far when they might trigger a counter reaction both in the congress and also among the public some for instance that there isn't really a majority in the population for impeachment of trial but many democrats would like that so that's probably not going to happen but yes there's going to be investigations and there's going to be a lot of pressure using the constitutional system the new bills and passing new motions and new initiatives new investigations new hearings all kinds of things are

going to be done russia is going to be one of them syria probably will be one iran possibly certainly saudi arabia and yemen and the fallout of the high sugary situation all of these things will be will be will be on the agenda the question is where they're going to prioritize things arab israeli issues will be pretty minor right now but they'll eventually emerge later. if you could expand a bit on what rami was saying there because he he brought up saudi arabia so if we could pivot a bit more to to the region when it comes to saudi arabia of course we know that the president donald trump is you know very close with the saudi regime but with growing outrage over the murder. and with democrats in control of the house. is that relationship going to be affected. i think the relationship with saudi arabia is probably a great exam. ample of the two competing and perhaps aspects now of the

president's foreign policy decision making at one level members of his administration who work on foreign policy matters such as the secretary of state my pompei o national security advisor john bolton there almost certainly going to be spending a lot more time on capitol hill testifying before congressional committees explaining the president's foreign policy decisions so in that sense it's going to be a lot more oversight there's going to be a lot more pressure coming down on them to confront the the challenges such as the murder of jamal khashoggi and the and many other of the inconsistent. aspects of the united states as a relationship with saudi arabia extending to the war in yemen in particular where there is a large scale opposition within the democratic party to the u.s. is ongoing role in helping to facilitate that through refueling as well as arms sales but you know there's another side of this which is that the president's legislative agenda is almost certainly stalled at this point his ability to get

anything through this democratically controlled congress is going to be severely hampered and on for and foreign policy might be one of the few areas where he can act out where he can provide distractions something he is not above doing as he showed with the migrant is trying to fan racist fears about the migrant caravan coming up through mexico and in that regard it's quite possible he'll double down on the relationship with saudi arabia and the backing of m.b.'s. i think one of the key words that you i was mentioning there is oversight the fact that the democrats have the house are they going to hold trump's feet to the fire on a number of issues now one of them i want to ask you about is yemen of course one of the things that's come out of the growing outrage that we mentioned in the murder of samantha shows he is the fact that there is this moment in seemingly in washington to try to hold the saudis accountable for what's going on in yemen and to perhaps try to stop us is really. it was saudi arabia when it comes to the war in yemen do you see that being impacted at this point yes and there are going to be

able to shine a light on what's going on what's going on that's one of the roles of of an opposition in the way the u.s. system works you can control the house of congress and still essentially be the opposition they'll be able to sign to shine a light on some of the stuff and they can block a lot of legislation that would have gone through the other what otherwise that's all they can do and it's true they face the big tradeoff of how much of this can they do without without going too far i think in the past republicans have been very willing a very unafraid of going too far when they're doing things like this and democrats have been a little more maybe a low over afraid about going too far and maybe they need to go a little farther this time around what do you think about you know when it comes to this issue of yemen i mean do you think that we're at a stage now that u.s. lawmakers will effectively be able to block the u.s. is participation with saudi arabia in the war in yemen in some way. it's the law

hanging fruit in the american saudi relationship and it's the easiest thing for the united states to do to send a message to saudi arabia that comes out of the widespread anger and revulsion in the us about the murder and not just the murder of her children but the repeated lying and incompetent explanations coming out of the government of saudi arabia and the crown prince's office they keep coming up with different stories so there's really strong offense and anger in the united states and they want to do something to just send a message to saudi arabia and the easiest way to do this is yemen partly because there's also incredible information now with photos on the front page of the new york times and other places about the terrible human catastrophe there i mean i mean i know it's in the u.s. right now you're seeing a hand in there was about the humanitarian catastrophe in yemen really playing out in the media in

a way that it wasn't before correct. that's right and it's not you know people don't vote because of foreign policy we know that but at the same time polls show that americans want their government to be even handed to be decent to have integrity to promote international law and fair fair handedness to both sides in the conflict including the arab israeli conflict but so there can be public opinion pressure possibly pushing some of the members of congress to to at least get the united states to stop directly being a mall in this war and then maybe they'll move on to other things like delaying weapon sales of soda arabia renegotiating issues like that that the american soda relationship are so big and so significant that they don't want to bring it question down obviously but they also want to send a message because it is possible that the democrats in the house will completely ignore saudi in yemen because they might decide that they will they will get more

attention focusing on the russia into vet investigation and some of his donald trump's financial dealings or his past sexual harassment issues they might decide that we can only focus on so many things and they might make the clock elation that those are the things they can the most of focus on maybe they'll drop some of those and spend more time on saudi and yemen it remains to be seen if we're talking about saudi arabia and we're talking about yemen we should of course bring iran into the conversation now that the u.s. is reimposing sanctions against iran where it is this relationship go you know there have been so many reports in the past year that perhaps donald trump wants to reopen negotiations with iran it from your vantage point does that happen what happens next exactly i would find it to be an extremely unlikely outcome because in that there's one actor in this midterm that we haven't really given any attention

to and when i say we i mean mean the. in general and that is the republican party's biggest donor sheldon adelson alongside his wife miriam adelson and you know they put over one hundred million dollars into this election cycle you could argue that they made a blunder and that it was a huge loss for them because of the outcome for the house but they did ok in the senate and more importantly i might argue that actually their investment into republican house races still couldn't pay a dividend to them because their number one concern is foreign policy it's keeping a hawkish u.s. stance toward iran they're very close with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and by all accounts that is their primary motivation for their political giving has to do with maintaining this close relationship between the republican party and the liquid party in israel and sheldon adelson arguably has more influence here this is a party that is more deeply indebted to him any republican member of congress and

a republican member of the senate and donald trump himself all over arguably their positions to sheldon omarion adelson the largest in helping to fund them now adelson this has proposed in the past that the u.s. to go shooting strategy toward iran should be to drop a nuclear weapon in as he put it in the iranian desert and tell the iranians that the next nuclear weapon will be landing on terror on this is not somebody who wants to see any sort of to go shushan or diplomacy he he helped fund the opposition to the negotiation of the joint comprehensive plan of action under the previous administration and by all accounts he's played he played a major role in pushing for john bolton thorough a thorough iran hawks who nobody would doubt his intention of trying to spark some sort of a conflict as being appointed as national security advisor if you will sort of i thought the interest on iran it's hard to imagine the u.s. already in refuses i see croll ones that are going to make a point or going out of this way and don't forget. spending

a hundred million dollars in elections. it is not just an investment on the outcome of that particular election but it is buying continuing influence with that party i'm sure i'm sure that's obvious to you but i want to make sure i point that out it's not just about in a short term investment if even if they lose a lot of seats here and that by spending all that money they buy influence with republicans for the next two years the i go ahead you want to say something precisely. i think that's absolutely right and that is the key takeaway we should be making is that the children marry an adult and have increased their investment into the republican party and the republican party's ties to to their biggest donors have now been deepened so i think on foreign policy matters in particular there's going to be very little daylight between any republicans and where sheldon omarion adelson want them to be exactly so let me ask you then of course you heard eli and he brought israel into the conversation and you and i have on this show in

the past spoken about this suppose it deal of the century that donald trump jared cushier and others were going to bring to in the israeli palestinian conflict peace for the region that has not materialized most analysts don't think it will where is all that where has that gone. well the deal of the century was really the fantasy of the century i mean this has been a catastrophic century for much of the arab world certainly for the palestinians and it started with balfour ninety in one thousand seventeen and and now it's we have questioner in two thousand and seventeen eighteen and two figures who have absolutely no interest in giving any kind of human rights or national rights or respect to palestinians and and what we've seen over the century is total disdain by most western powers other than lip service to a genuinely equitable resolution of the israeli palestinian conflict and it's this deal of the century is built on

a fantasy of the saudis and the israelis and moderate arabs on the americans and others making a front against iran and it's just not not going to work now i would just like to add to what my two colleagues said before that we really have two contradictory forces at work here one is this incredible impact of shade. sheldon adelson and and then of course jared questioner and his links to the likud and his total control in many ways or heavy control of all a-c. in the middle east in the white house and the christian fundamentalists are just out of delegation of the christian fundamentalists meeting with have been so man the crown prince and saudi arabia that triumvirate really creates a very powerful bloc that is driving much of the policies in the middle east against that though is the tradition the current of the last ten fifteen years which is especially seen in the house of representatives and we've saw it in this election with elections of many progressives the first palestinian american somali

american a lot of woman and. people three arab americans but many progressives many leftist progressives and and what we saw in two thousand and sixteen with bernie sanders is you can take a fair position on israel palestine in public as a presidential candidate and not get destroyed like. had been the case in the past so i expect to see within the democratic party in the congress more lobbying for evenhandedness that's all we're asking for that's all they're asking for and this is going to push back a little sun and question around the christian fundamentalist it's going to create a really fascinating dynamic the question is is this a porton turn out for them to make a priority or are they more going to be focused on russia on syria and yemen iran human rights or other issues we'll just have to wait and see but clearly there's two contradictory forces at work here and this election brought out the progressive leftist forces karl i mean trump has been all about america first do you see him

now after these midterm elections actually focusing more on foreign policy yes that's a traditional thing for presidents to do when they lose control of congress is the one thing that they have most control over is is foreign policy so it's going to be it's going to be a big of a concert for him and when he says america first he says the same thing putin means when when he when he when he talks about russia it's not really about america russia it's about me first it's about showing what a what a dominant great guy he is and he's got a lot of opportunities to bully people around in the foreign policy theater and he'll do that he also has an opportunity with the senate silis of he lost the house and he lost the senate kept the house he wouldn't be able to support to appoint judges that's going to be a big thing in this in this that's going to be his main domestic thing in the next

two years is appointing every conceivable judge he can if the in all levels you lie president trumps you know. he has severely altered some would say harmed america's relationship with the european allies so you know leaders in europe what are they taking what is their take away from democrats reading the house are they are they happy about it. well as i think karl just pointed out that typically the president who's just lost midterm elections turns to foreign policy in the second half of their of their term and in this case you're i doubt you're going to see a different donald trump you're not going to see a different mike pump a oh you're not going to see a different john bolton if anything i would warn anyone who's dealing with them that there's a highly or a likelihood that in some ways they're going to feel like the leash has been taken off they no longer have the midterm elections hanging over them they no longer have many of the more moderate voices in their own party trying to pull them back from from whatever they were trying to accomplish and in terms of what their agenda will

be going forward i think as you just raise well iran is a good example they're moving forwards with trying to unilaterally reimpose sanctions including on or getting other countries who had signed on to the joint comprehensive plan of action to now follow this this unilateral move by the united states to or to rescind ssion entities that engage in trade with iran there will be an effort by the europeans to try to create a non dollar based exchange so to continue some degree of trade with iran and hopefully maintain some of the constraints from the joint comprehensive plan of action on iran's nuclear program and but this is all going on in the context of john bolton as national security advisor who hasn't seen a multilateral or international treaty they haven't want to tear hasn't wanted to tear up though the intermediate nuclear forces treaty is almost certainly on the chopping block at this point and i'm sure that there will be heightened tensions as europe tries to salvage what they can of the joint comprehensive plan of action and

as we do this as the united states does this it reaches a point where it overplays its influence of the united states leadership or acting like it's still one hundred forty five and we're still the only intact industrial economy the world and that and that we can unilaterally sanction people in that. will hurt them it's hurting less and less unilateral sanctions come united states is hurting less and less especially with a rand now with with europe trying to undermine the us then has to try to pressure european companies and chinese companies into making a choice between doing business with the united states and doing business with iran and that weakens the united states influence around the world some of these companies going to say ok i won't use the united states and then that a little bit or roads us influence in this is this is this actually what seems like

a strengthening of u.s. power is actually in is actually over the medium and long term just weakening just to jump in quickly that to follow that that there's now an actively organized effort among big powers all over the world russia china turkey europe to organize a pushback against the american sanctions on iran to figure out a way where the world can keep trading with iran so the united states is dealing with opposition within the u.s. and then big opposition in the world this is not a bunch of small little countries but the biggest powers are saying to the u.s. openly what you're doing is unacceptable and we're going to push back against that the last point i make is that there are many democrats who support the trump position on iran for instance or palestine and the new chairman of the foreign or foreign relations committee in the house eliot engel is is a liquid nick iran hawk as as hawkish as they come so that's not all in the democratic party not everybody is against what the trumpet ministrations doing and

this is part of the struggle called if you want to do that yes and this this effort to this this this effort of trying to get where he thinks are better deals are if he doesn't know what these deals are for yes the u.s. is always paid more for nato than everybody else in nato has and that is because. the deal has the tacit deal has always been the united states pays the most and the united states makes most of the decisions and many of our trade deals are similar to that and trump trying to get what he thinks are more equal terms is actually spending america's influence and is weakening america's all right gentlemen we have run out of times we're going to have to leave it there thanks to all our guests carl white request clifton and rami hooty and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j.

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hasn't think of this is. also coming up the investigation into murder continues even as he calls off the search for the saudi journalist body. trying to stop what he calls an invasion president. new rules to block the. entire town is reportedly wiped out in a moving blaze in northern california. we begin with that breaking news out of australia on the streets in the center of the city of melbourne in lockdown after one person is killed in a stabbing attack two others were injured the lone attacker eventually shot and arrested by police after trying to stab him two let's get more now from andrew thomas who joins us on the line from sydney and. louis

happened to the half hours ago now right in the middle of melbourne one of its main shopping streets and we know a bit more than we did an hour ago because in the last forty five minutes the place given a press conference in melbourne might explain to a certain extent what has happened although many things still see very clear what we know is in some way a car caught fire now there are some reports by witnesses of an explosion even a bomb but i think those with a degree of caution at this stage we don't know what caused the car protection for the car certainly was on fire and from that car came a man wielding what police now say was a knife he stabbed three people one of those people has died unfortunately there were people trying to bring this man down get into the ground quite quickly the thing right middle of melbourne police arrived a man in the social media video showing started waving back towards police officers eventually they shot him a century a minute or three like. the taser and then with

a gun and that man has been taken to hospital he's in a critical condition and he has been arrested now as far as we know at the moment this man was acting alone place either to anybody else the connection with this they say there is no link to terrorism or something wider in terms of a plot but beyond that they're giving away money didn't they never knew or the moment the details still very very sketchy all right for the moment to andrew thomas live. on the line from sydney. turkish police have told prosecutors they are ending the search for. bodies sources tell. at the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul it's believed his body may have been disposed of using chemicals investigators say they continue

looking for clues into. he was killed after entering the saudi consulate more than a month ago more now from. the revelation follows the poetry analysis of samples taken by turkish investigators more than a fortnight after jamal khashoggi is murder a source of the turkish prosecutor's office has told our jazeera it was here at the consul general's residence that traces of hydrofluoric acid and unknown domestic chemical were found the source says the dismembered body parts were dissolved in a chemical process and the source speaks of samples also taken from a well in the garden of the residence and in nearby sewage systems this information follows on from an early arrival ation by the newspaper accusing two saudi men said to be a chemical expert at a toxicologist being involved in the cover up operation even though they've been sent out in an official saudi investigation team. turkish president brigette tell

you heard of one appeared in public on thursday but made no comment about the new leak all remarks made by the us president officials in turkey is ruling party say it's stronger action not opinion that's needed from the u.s. soldier was going to was an underneath about turkey's position was made clear from the beginning but a stance adopted by president early on we will not allow any person to cover up his inhumane crime committed in this cruel and brutal and manner but even if as the prosecution source says investigators are convinced that georgie's body was totally destroyed here in the consular residence is there enough evidence to convict the suspects in this case turkey believes there will be enough evidence and it wants the united states to pressure the saudis to extradite all of the suspects not only that the turks want saudi arabia to reveal who ordered the killing of

a man whose remains appear to have been washed away in the sewage system. jeez fiance has responded to the latest developments on twitter andrew symonds again with this update from istanbul there has been a twitter. from. the fiance who said goodbye to her fiance here in harsh orgy went into the consulate october the second that's now over five weeks ago and she says that she dressed her fiance in the suite and said that she was unable to express her sorrow about the dissolving of your body she said she said all these killers and those behind it human beings oh my god she said and she also said they killed you and chopped chopped up your body depriving me and your family of being at your funeral prayer

bringing your body to medina that's in saudi arabia where they wanted to bury his remains and the u.s. government is putting new restrictions on asylum claims by people crossing the us mexico border illegally people court crossing the border places other than official border posts will not be allowed to present asylum claims a caravan with thousands of people from central america is making its way towards the u.s. border eduardo beckett is an immigration attorney in texas he says the decision is against the law. if i lose the due process clause of the u.s. constitution guarantees that no one in to accuse some seekers of be deprived of life or debris without due process of law that also bypasses congress oversight and so i think on those grounds i hope that the high court will or overturn this executive order. that is also has a badge is of racism behind it when you're in

a desperate situation you know you're going to mentor any means necessary and so c.p.s. actually encouraged asylum seekers to enter illegally and then now they want to pass this law to score political points and they're using that boehner populations just to make political points and make their base happy it is a tragedy because we are the ones who live on the border and i can tell you i feel very safe here i'm not being overrun no one's trying to kill me or come to my home there's a process in place in this administration is violating that process there did humanizing. humanizing deporting denying depriving asylum seekers a president to donald trump's immigration policy has suffered another blow at peel's court in california up held an early a ruling allowing a program that protects young undocumented immigrants to continue the program known

as that that was created under former president barack obama it gives some rights to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the u.s. as children before two thousand and seven the issue could end up in front of the u.s. supreme court. united nations brokered talks between the warring sides in yemen have been postponed until the end of the year the u.n. is warning yemen is just three months away from a devastating famine with fourteen million people at risk be torn again can be reports. the u.n. has been escalating at schools for a cease fire in yemen and a political solution but on the ground around the pool city of data the opposite is happening. the fighting between pro-government forces and the rebels is intensifying and so despite renewed diplomatic efforts by the united states plans the u.n. brokered talks in sweden in november have been pushed back until the end of the the

special envoy for yemen martin griffiths has made clear that any military escalation does not help the ongoing efforts to relaunch the political process we hope to see the first steps for deescalation in yemen as we move forward towards convening political consultations between the parties before the end of the year. but the chance of those hopes being realized is slim neither side in her data seems in the mood to compromise on the. military operations are continuing in the streets of her data hutu militias we cleared out god willing we'll then continue the fight beyond her data. these have controlled her data since twenty fourteen supports his in the city say they'll never surrender and the enemy talks about controlling her data but we tell them her data is very far for you with god's help we will be victorious and we are with abdullah malik and healthy the world food program is doubling the amount of food aid it gives to yemen to try and prevent mass starvation it's very clear already that we're going to have to double our efforts

to reach more people with more food assistance but it's even more clear that the conflict that's led to that hardship in the first place absolutely has to end until it does aid agencies say it will be almost impossible to get food supplies into yemen leaving fourteen million people at risk of starvation. victoria gayton be algis they were. all right still ahead when we come back we'll tell you about another u.s. court ruling that comes as a setback to president donald trump. and the house of commons house female politicians from around the world to celebrate one hundred years of women's suffrage in the u.k. . by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. the weather's fairly quiet now across central and eastern

parts of europe a further west lots of cloud piling in here lots of disturbed weather as well obs to switch hands and we are going to see some very wet and windy weather as we go on through the next couple of days but a cloud of. right out into the western side of the mediterranean southern areas of france seeing some disturbed weather but you can see the next system which will pilots weigh in as we go on through friday making its way right across the british isles into the low countries a good part of front seeing some of that heavy rain and that race stretching its way down to its northern areas of spain and portugal still a few shows just around the western side of the mediterranean but come into central parts of the race it is generally pretty quiet has some low cloud temperatures still very much on the mild side for many fifteen thousand book rest is well above the average should be about ten this time of the abell going to ten in kiev cold enough in moscow fair bit of low cloud here temperatures to struggle to reach three degrees celsius may well not.