other aspects of the support the u.s. has been giving the sodium without equal mission such as selling them and also giving them vital intelligence particularly on food to physicians in various parts of the country will continue which means it will be business as usual on that front meanwhile heavy fighting is going on on the outskirts of the port city of the day the pro-government fight is continuing they're all small on three different. lines trying to retake the city of today from today they claim that they have taken a hospital outside the city and u.n. workers are calling for a ceasefire saying that and the little disruption to the vital services of the port of data could you know yemen right. they came to remember fallen soldiers from a century ago but from for american and french leaders there was also a chance to build a current to bridge the current transatlantic divide and find

a political resolution to the war in yemen our diplomatic etta james bass reports from. at the elisei palace they were in damage limitation mode just as he touched down in air force one president trumpet tweeted that president barack rolls calls for a european army were very insulting as they met face to face the french president seemed keen to stress they were still on the same track france has for decades back further integrating the e.u.'s military resources but in a way that doesn't harm nato i do believe that my proposal for european and after the consistent with that goal it means more europe was in need to mock fs and you know the doctors are pushing it would you say that in general. my attitude is good and we want to stay. in which ever way we can do it the best most

efficient would be the world wide. plans for a formal meeting between president trump and president putin were dropped because the elysee palace doesn't want politics to overshadow a weekend of solemn commemoration but with president trump in town there's always controversy. president trump who tweeted throughout his flight late into the night and again well before dawn at the last minute canceled a trip to a cemetery where more than two thousand u.s. marines a barrett the white house blamed logistics and the weather it has been drizzling a little here james pays out zero peris. all right still ahead on one week on. a trail of death left by devastating floods across the arabian peninsula. and major developments in the u.s. midterm elections several victories for trump's republican party could be

overturned in possible recount. hello you have seen the evidence of winter descending slowly across the levant and iran this is a line of her frontal system which still is giving you a few snow showers in northern afghanistan but the real winter is turkey and just north of your screen the top of your screen there which will bring significant snow to the northern caucasus and rain showers thunderstorms to the south of that during monday now there's still a return of potential snow into afghanistan west of that where we have recently seen throughout places like jordan i just picked up because it's the most obvious floods recently received some pretty big showers here and in iraq and in northern saudi it's a quite a spell for both sunday on monday i suspect but south of that we still got the

active weather that's been running through kuwait and western iran recently the potential for thunderstorms in bahrain qatar east and saudi exists for sunday and indeed monday beyond that from the looks of fairly dry picture which is once again the position in most of southern africa what was fairly heavy rain has disappeared now you've got a streak of cloud running through mozambique at the top end of madagascar this is a storm that's been around for days now marches get the occasional thunderstorms but beyond that over the mainland with the exception of angola it's a dry picture. right

. well again you're watching a doozy a reminder of our top stories this hour turkey's president says he's shared oreo recordings linked to the killing of the journalist your mouth ashaji in istanbul saudi arabia the u.s. and european countries. but one made the comment says he left for paris where he's expected to meet u.s. president donald trump leaders from seventy countries are gathering in the french capital to mark one hundred years since the end of the first world war. a trump is

also attending the same tina research in france he's met with french president emmanuel mccraw the two talked about the scale of european backing for nato and agreed more detail is needed from saudi arabia on the case. well after tuesday's midterm elections in the u.s. the race for senator and governor in the state of florida are still not concluded leaving some predicting both will go to recounts in the last half hour all election supervisors in the state have submitted unofficial results for review some races in georgia an hour zone are also still to be decided off to choose days for let's go now to washington where i gave you hours on though is following this for us so our own florida what is the latest there gable. well we're waiting for to get some

reaction from the election board in florida once they start of tally all of the different counties who have submitted their unofficial election results after that we expect them to announce officially if there will be a recall or not for these key races in florida particularly senate and governor there in florida we do expect all indications are pointing to a recall for both of those critical races because they are so so close and that's why let's just look at the race between rick scott the republican for a senate and bill nelson rick scott the republican has fifty point zero percent of the vote bill nelson the democrat forty nine point nine percent of the vote that's a difference of a little over fourteen thousand votes over eight million votes that were cast just in the state of florida so you can see how close it is and on election night rick scott actually had a fifty eight thousand vote lead but as these provisional ballots were coming in it

cut into his lead in the day after you'd only lead by thirty four thousand votes and now fourteen thousand so you can see why the challenger rick nelson in this case is the guy that's down and saying hey let's keep counting votes let's make sure we get it because the more they count the more of it he gets it increases his total to catch rick scott and it's a governor's race is also very tight as well where rick decentest at least late count had forty nine point six percent of the vote and andrew gilham the democratic mayor of tallahassee forty nine point one percent that's only a difference of a little over thirty five thousand votes so you can see where this is headed very close election neither side of the democrats or republicans or either of these races have conceded they're waiting for the election commission in florida to officially decide if there will be a recall or not but i got to tell you florida law indicates that any election that's that is close that is between half a percentage point and below is an automatic recount you can see both of these are

within that so far so it's probably going to be a recount for both all right we'll wait to see what happens there. for us in washington. now the two big wildfires in the u.s. state of california have killed at least nine people and left thousands of all those homeless one of them has forced twenty seven thousand people to flee their homes rob reynolds has more from ventura county. fire is ripping through southern california with high winds driving columns of flame and smoke from the mountains to the sea. tens of thousands of homes are threatened many have already been destroyed my friend's house is totally bundt i don't know but mine you're fearful that your house will burn yes. ok he got. very. residents of the wealthy seaside enclave of malibu are fleeing under

a mandatory evacuation order the fires sprang up thursday night the source is still not known but intense wind gusts rapidly spread the blaze through bone dry chaparral and brush into communities how we got the bag and i said i'm not going to remove the door as if. you think you became a good parent a huge tower of smoke rose thousands of meters into the sky and the smoke made air quality hazardous for people with respiratory problems california's acting governor gavin newsom has declared a state of emergency and while authorities say most people heeded their warnings and evacuated when they were told to we are also told by authorities that there have been some deaths firefighters are working desperately to keep up with the fast moving widespread blazes when you have forty fifty sixty mile an hour winds blowing fire at your heels the importance is to get people out of harm's way and get them

to safety. in northern california the town of paradise turn tech held overnight these. pictures show a tornado of fire raging there the entire town is believed to have been destroyed twenty seven thousand people fled the area twenty year old colton person field shot this cell phone video as he drove through hellish conditions outside paradise he somehow made it to safety severe fires have ravaged large areas of california since october of last year now the state is once more witnessing nature's fury at its worst robert oulds al-jazeera westlake village california a rain across the arabian peninsula as left a path of destruction with jordan west hit at least twelve people that were killed in flash flooding and thousands of people forced to flee the ancient city of petra

o'brien reports. the deluge came barreling down the valley with a thunderous roar sweeping away everything in its path. visitors expecting the serenity of petra's two thousand year old architecture had to scramble frantically to higher ground as the water raged beneath them around three and a half thousand tourists were in the area at the time but none were injured overall petra's flood channels worked as intended the volume and intensity of a torrent four metres high test at the flood barriers to their limits numerous other areas were similarly affected the city of baquba declared a state of civil emergency and across the country the fatalities included two children and one of the divers and gazed in the rescue efforts. were. searching incoming operations by the jordanian search and rescue teams and divers teams are still continuing backed by our armed forces john di maria public security personnel

unfortunately the death figures have risen and include one of the civil defense divers in saudi arabia to friday's sudden downpours quickly filled traffic underpasses with water and hundreds of motorists faced being stranded by the rising floods it's only a fortnight since a flash flood near the jordanian dead sea killed twenty one people including thirteen children who were on a school trip when the bus was swept away that tragedy led to the resignations of both the education minister and the tourism minister over perceived failings in the government's response to the jordanian response in the aftermath of this latest deluge has been an extensive search and rescue efforts but the receding water has left the affected areas in jordan need deep in mud and sludge making the search effort doubly difficult paul brennan al-jazeera. a sri lanka's president has dissolved parliament and declared a snap election for january fifth that's after his party admitted it did not have

enough parliamentary votes to elect its prime ministerial nominee or hinder rajapaksa when often and as reports from colombo sacked ministers have complained to the elections chief about the snap polls this is that a legal act and there is no constitutional provision to call an election at this stage and therefore we complain and. we had a discussion with the commission and they will act i go to the law and the constitution of the new government is defending the president by saying he acted in keeping with the constitution the proximate reason for this he's the conflict that the legislature and executive was it being for. which was promoted by the speaker of the house the nineteen the men went to the constitution was passed by the serious in the vicar missing her combine in two thousand and fifteen to

strengthen parliament but critics like those behind me say the president has undermined the institution with his actions to first suspend and then dissolve parliament demonstrators who've been here every evening since the crisis began to see the president's actions and democratic i would say it is a total between. individuals in that country has been betrayed this is why you feel but others are happy with what's happened. that. mr advice look good in that hundred thirteen no hundred some day. this is the only when the president has taken the correct musician i had my because this is my country and i want to save my country a number of petitions challenging the president's actions are expected to be submitted to the supreme court on monday when a finance al jazeera colomba. a freeman in violence violence have escaped the

country's economic and political crisis since twenty fifteen many walked for thousands of miles crossing the andes mountains to get to colombia alyson the n.p.t. reports. wrapped in a blanket in four months pregnant i mean those has been walking for eight hours up to school in mountain known as the ice box. this has been the hardest to have our companions passed out. the freezing air makes each step harder and this dangerous pass just one hundred kilometers from the border with. yet she says she needs to keep going. i'm doing this for my other children a five year old girl and a two and a half i'm a single mother and things in venezuela get worse every day no food no medicine no life. left for three days ago hoping to reach her sister in the colombian city of a seven hundred kilometers away along the route she joined other migrants all

poorly equipped for this weather carrying the few belongings they have in a. jacket her knee hurts but she keeps limping along. for me i'm also here for my son he got me one giantess and venezuela and i didn't even have the money for the vaccine more than three million have fled poverty hunger in crime in their country since two thousand and fifteen in one of the biggest migrations in the world today hundreds of thousands are still walking to the continent it's a dangerous journey and its toll remains largely invisible. currency office as registered. to migrants from the cold but it's unclear just how many might have died because nobody is really keeping track of the debt or the missing along these routes. and there's

a little formal help along the way they had us in as you can use this to cover your nose mouth and neck the colombian red cross set up an assistance point at the start of the trick here migrants receive help and health services but the most important thing is information but of course. they don't know what they have to face or where to go most have never crossed the border. by the end of the day and her group reached the top of the mountain there's nowhere to stay and temperatures are dropping by the minute. soldiers help lidiane in haiti get a lift to the closest city the rest of the site to continue on foot now to see if you must have faith that will work on the boat. where deal sleep tonight they don't know but with no other option they can only press on a listener and. will be willing.

to get around the top stories turkey's president says he's shared ordeal recordings linked to the killing of the journalist in istanbul with saudi arabia the u.s. and european countries. we have shared the recordings with saudi arabia the americans the british the germans with everyone they've listened to the conversations on those recordings they know what's been said there's no point in distorting this fact among the fifteen suspects they know who the murderer is all murderers are and saudi arabia can bring all this to light by making those fifteen suspects speak a wretched title i want has arrived in paris where is expected to meet donald trump leaders from seventy countries are gathering in the french capital for commemorations to mark the end of the first world war. the u.s. president landed earlier has been meeting with french president emanuel they've

talked about nato funding and what they described as a misunderstanding of comments about plans for an e.u. army the u.s. says it will no longer refuel saudi amorality military planes involved in the yemen conflict u.s. defense secretary james mattis says the decision was made in riyadh after he was consulted it comes before a vote on saudi arabia in the u.s. congress set for next week. this is not the main part of the support that the sold in the coalition gets from the united states but it has been the most divisive because of the massive civilian casualties witnessed in yemen by the sooty. cornish and now they are other aspects of the support that the united states is giving this led coalition including the sale of arms as well as. sharing of intelligence including the positions in various

parts of the country which they've been targeting in jordan heavy rains have called flash flooding and left at least twelve people dead tourists were forced to run for high ground in the ancient city and one of its most popular tourist destinations those are the headlines inside story is next. the political crisis in sri lanka deepens first the president's saxes prime minister now he dissolves parliament and calls for snap elections just how far will this power struggle go and is democracy in danger this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. he sacked the prime minister now he's dissolved parliament and called for elections in january because president. has been accused of violating the constitution the turmoil was triggered last month when he appointed former leader. as prime minister the man he sacked run ill refuse to leave the prime minister's residence the case is expected before the supreme court on monday we'll discuss with our guests the effects all this could have on sri lanka stability but first mel fernandez reports from colombo. the constitutional crisis continues here in sri lanka and basically it's to powder load realities it just depends on whose version you listen to and now reports continuing

about president and city seen as dissolving of parliament at midnight on friday the president has defended his decision saying it's in keeping with the constitution he did what was legal that is what we heard from his foreign minister sorry i'm going to go to brief the media earlier today however the victimise in her camp of ousted prime minister on it become a singer saying that this was illegal complaining that there was no constitutional provision to call an election after dissolving parliament in fact the group went to meet the chairman of the elections commission mind the bishop read this afternoon i presented their case and d.c. they expect the commission to be meeting and discussing and acting in accordance with the constitution now this being the weekend obviously we're hearing that a number of petitions will be submitted to the supreme court on monday and the supreme court will be expected to give direction as to where it goes from here in a finance inside story.

all right now over to our panel in beijing shoe dong job research or on asia pacific affairs and a senior research fellow at the china institute of international studies by skype in korea last sri lanka's former electoral district raja would just send a former government official and in london charu ata hawg an associate fellow at the asia program a chatham house welcome to you all roger let me start with you today what the president in sri lanka has done first by sacking the prime minister then by dissolving parliament how much of a surprise has all of this been. because all the time that you know there was all that prime minister. elect said it was time for. him to be breaking down. but there was

a look at the hall at the time and then it was empty as well as you know you know who but that president took this step that perhaps he should have taken earlier now in taking that step but i think he assumed that he would have a parliamentary majority against the prime minister but that has been doing and throwing up and. there are allegations of by and these on both sides and i think there was a sense that perhaps some saw. or vote of the people might still think. so did everyone think writings or. dissolve parliament has fixed an election for january but didn't book that thing doubts about the constitutionality of the action and it seemed best perhaps that will now be

a second but even the press should have been taken up before the courts forming that they should and that happens quickly so that it can get over some certainty charu there are some that are saying what the president has done is unconstitutional and there are some that are arguing that it is constitutional from your perspective what do you say does the president have the power to do all this and is this ultimately going to be resolved in the supreme court. well absolutely from where we're sitting and we're looking at it and indeed the perspective of a sri lankan constitutional lawyer is that this is an early illegality all three steps are unconstitutional the dismissal of prime minister granted we can missing it the appointment of. mahinda rajapaksa as the prime minister the prerogative of parliament and then finally the dismissal of parliament all these steps are

regarded and considered unconstitutional and the question here is whether the supreme court will show the independence and the neutrality to decide that the january elections which have been unilaterally announced by good set by the by the president are to be upheld and i think that is really the issue if you don't let me get your perspective on all this so there is an argument that is being made that sri lanka was already in a constitutional crisis and that the dissolution of parliament is really the only way out of it what do you say is that really the case. well you know. as always in china where our watch and their vents. taking place since are lanka you know what we in china would like to see is a political stability because as a historical experiences in china have shown that with political stability we can

see economic development and improvement of liberians of people so you know natural a theory china will look at or there. this kind of constitutional crisis people here would like to see that the people in surrounding i can walk out of their internal strife so that they can focus on economic development and improvement of the people's life as a principle in chinese foreign policy. china doesn't interfere in internal affairs of many countries including sir lanka so suddenly at a cause are all part of this lanka to work out what their political differences and the china has enjoyed friendly relations with. no matter who is in. power so a china has not taken sides. with regard to the current political

situation in sri lanka what china would like to see is that they can do is that and solve it as soon as possible so that. they can go back to. economic development i'm sorry i know you were social progress let me just ask you a quick follow up building on what you were saying when it comes to trying his relationship with three lanka is that dependent on who is in power. and no actually you know as a principle no you know actually i would have a sin sometimes ups and downs in china's relations with some countries including and surround her but you know it always as a principle china respects the choice of the people in sri lanka who is a very lacked and so china got to work with this government seal you know in the

past few years away have season that sound some china invested projects have experienced some problems and you know some people may have different opinions about the projects but the china respects you know there's the final decision of the government officer and the whoever is in power there in the for example take the. port project in there and. in a press the former president. roger pasa and the project was developed there later on when the new and the station came in power to set oil they took some and then it is some time to review the project that's a fine and finally you know it was decided by the air so lanka government that they should move on because that's good for the economy obviously good for their long

term development goal of lanka so now the project is in operation and it will be provide jobs for saranda by twenty twenty it's presumed that maybe ten thousand jobs will be created. and the sixty thousand jobs it darkly were will be a created for the people in sri lanka. rajiv let me ask you building on what should on there was saying when it comes to the economy i mean what are the concerns right now in sri lanka as to how much of this turmoil will affect the economy. well the economy was in a complete mess. this. up promptly because there was oil i would almost do this sums the dysfunctionality in the approach of the former prime minister of iran with the missing out you know take this issue of china i'm afraid

the west will say stimulating the given rocket but supposing. they actually accused him of giving in too much to china but i believe the relations between russia and china are that he feels that if the sri lanka. sadly went into missing of came into by very insulting about china that china behaved very well and in the end has given . and support to rigorously but i'm afraid on hollande it to spend their support they gave up parts and you know i told them since i was on definition not speak and they said you know the route of the appointment of roger cox was an attack on india and i said that that suit nonsense but i did find it very odd to their remarkably. they knew in foreign ministers much more circumspect to say that you know to try not abort and i'm wondering desh should be given the stamina but with the missing a seems to commit to that doing without consulting on the cabinet obama and the

minister and shipping who should be in comes on made it very clear that he felt that east. should be developed by sri lanka but he was happy on me some but i'm still hoping to get the rest of the limit on the ball as it stands i'm not to be productive investment in spain on guys coming from china i personally believe that on which the government got it and not as much in sri lanka as impressed as was the situation. so i hope they're going to have the correct if you're proposing the web that the screen one can move which will that one hundred fifty to the dog slim two hundred seventy four will. when we can signal to prime minister and in the columbia business community that's a sense that you know he and his team member absolutely no idea of how to handle the economy so the general sense is that. you know routed the more popular prime minister with that of the constitutionality opp problem is that in two thousand and

fifteen there was an amendment you know somebody from cygnus proponents wanted to give back all of pot to the prime minister and this was emphatically not what he meant one time so there's a lot of ambiguity i think hope is correct in saying that some ambiguity with regard to the dismissal of the prime minister and indeed the dissolving of parliament intended to give us that it's no not cut and dry but there's absolutely no doubt that the prime minister didn't that flew past a pro growth by element and it pushed pot to because of the rub unwarranted in defeat i'm sartin little rajeev i'm stumped on a start interrupt you i just wrote rajiv on turn interrupt you but i want to ask you to pick up on a point you were making a char roger was talking about constitutional amendments have been made in sri lanka and indeed a few years back there was a constitutional amendment there was a change of the constitution in which power was taken away from the president and

there was more power given to parliament so how are we in this situation today. absolutely i mean this is the current president has stretched the interpretation of the constitution to its widest limit him taking the power to both appoint a prime minister without approving in parliament the loss of majority by the current prime minister and in appointing some summarily the new prime minister. appointing mahinda rajapakse as as the prime minister he has certainly taken a decision which which stretches to the extreme limits that the current prime minister fails to enjoy his own confidence so yes indeed this president took it upon himself to to check the powers of the executive presidency which we have seen also how this has been by lead to an absolutely taken to the limit so you have you had said now you eight in which an attempt was made to

dismiss the prime minister without observing the the due procedure and the due process laid down in parliament that plan failed because they wasn't and you know the bed was too to have. you know by over m.p.'s by creating a situation where parliamentary majority could be proven by the rajapaksa but that attempt clearly failed and this is plan b. which we are seeing in action which is in the form of the does an illusion of the parliament why have you reached this impasse now in terms of you know despite the checks on the position of the executive presidency while we seeing this unfold i think it's really a question of the way governance has evolved in sri lanka how rule of law has been bent through the years i'd like to pick up on another point which was being made earlier about you know how and where the you know the rajapaksa is seen somebody as

. the who's close to the chinese and the rule that the indian government plays in this whole imbruglia zero ad and what what correlation the current political situation and political crisis in sri lanka will have to the regional dynamics i think that's an important point to be explored and let's not forget that in two thousand and fifteen when mahinda rajapakse lost the election one of the determinant factors was the way in which he had worked with the chinese in terms of securing chinese investments and the debt that the country got into so that was a decisive factor in fact the current president might have a policy to cena use that in as part of his election brief as well as so so you know i mean there is that here there is a backdrop a shadow of the regional politics which is always played within the national

crises that unfolds within sri lanka but however you know this is it and it will continue to play a role but whether this is the determinant factor is a different issue altogether if you don't let me go back to some of the points that you were making about the economy and the economic relationship between china and sri lanka look right now there are concerns that there could be violence in sri lanka the longer that this plays out this is seen in some circles as threatening potential development projects what do you say to that. we all know that franca has experienced decades of violence towards conflicts in the past you know. we all know we'll all we'll all glad to see the end of the war several many years ago

with end of so wards around how can you know could folks sound economic or development of course there are different political parties in sir lanka are going for they've always of a governing in their country and for the current leadership you know they're they have different views on how to develop their dipendra how to run the country but the question is that they should try to find a way out of the current crisis they're all the extra no forces party you know powers countries should stay away from this internal political struggle if you're not in fear or in a turn or fears of a third language let the people in sri lanka decide their future decide they are in a government you know much china projects actually so far we

haven't seen any negative impact on that part or the political or rest some of the will take a toll if there is any take a toll on economic development projects especially in a china invested major projects there which are you know good for the future of lanka roger but what are the repercussions are being felt on the ground in sri lanka right now how are citizens reacting to all this. well there's actually a great sense of relief i'm out of columbus now the what i would call the educated in columbus seems to be very true with the missing but not the business community because of i think the disappointing performance in the last period and the massive corruption you know why there are claims that way that it's sign of the proportion of that the china is not particularly locked and we've had an optional ball development activities but as you'll probably

a western not to this government came in to. see it happen with regard to bonds in which the missing any spot that made a lot of money billions the case instead of going on and the governor of the central bank he appointed who is being sought by the police have taken refuge in singapore when there were allegations that you know he was behind a lot of the right greed that took place and the country was really quite horrified by that and that is why rajapakse on his own unit got more bullets in the local government elections in separate this is than both the president serious and the prime minister and you know i was one of those who actually support considered in an instructive up to one of the first to go through without any benefit but i did find that the way with them singapore banned the corruption and almost of the failure of really any good it would be economic policy has nitrous sort of dissatisfaction and in the country at large and in particular amongst public

servants and in the rural areas i think this move has been a webcam so i think that the president in taking summer decisions has actually made it clear that you know supporting democracy in the widest sense while remaining within the framework of the constitution talking about how kids correct in suggesting that he's stretching the positive the president the limit but what the which hasn't registered except through not just him as a presidential system. well the head of the state as well as the government is a day directly elected president and it is up to the president to work in the interests of the people now the supreme court i hope will make a quick they say should but i think what the west is terrified of is that if they would general election roger would you know his body would win the general election by message majority i personally would be happy if the present government rodham

session right about to continues but with a strong opposition but sadly that will never happen right i mean we're committing brett is the head because he's practically destroyed despotic sorry hope that we didn't forward quickly with us. and a strong uplifting charu where do things go from here what happens next and can there be a positive outcome from all of this. well i think it is it is a complete ration of complete crisis and meltdown in sri lanka at the moment politically the dissolution of the parliament has created a situation which can be resolved only by the supreme court there is very little faith that there will be a free and fair election given the way that the constitutional issues have been manipulated at this point in time to say i think another important issue that should be brought into the mix since we are considering the tallaght of issues in

sri lanka is the fact that that mahinda rajapaksa who has been unilaterally appointed as the prime minister is somebody who faces allegations of crimes against humanity and somebody who presided a wooden army which engaged in egregious human rights violation and these are very serious allegations right charo civil war these are various these are very serious allegations you know there is an entire constituency in sri lanka which is the tamil and the muslim minority community which is fulfilled full of fear with the prospect of the return of mind the rajapaksa sri lanka is not just about the majority sinhalese community salonga is also consists of the tamils and the muslims and christians who are equal and democratic citizens the second point i'd just like to come back on is very quickly is that when we talk about the mandate of the

people and how people are relieved in the country if this was the case then why aren't the parliamentarians supporting rajapaksa why did the president have to take the step of dissolving the parliament because they could not prove the majority in parliament why has the tamil nationalist alliance the un be and indeed a c.v. the parties including the biggest muslim party come. strongly saying that the that this is an unconstitutional move and would like the supreme court to resolve this so let's look at things let's not adopt. here let's look at things in black and white what has advised parliament there not enough m.p.'s standing up and saying we won't mind the rajapaksa as the prime minister that's the reality the second reality is that the disillusion of the parliament is unconstitutional so you know i mean i think the facts speak for themselves where do we go from here i think we are

looking at the supreme court to offer some guidance and to take saddam out of this mess really and to say that the western governments and countries have a vested interest everybody is you are rooted in the view yes i'm sorry to interrupt but it's just that we have run out of time so we are going to have to leave it there thanks so much to all our guests to don john rajiv. and charu lata hawg 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 that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me and the whole team here bye for now.

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has of sake of this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes computer we have given the recordings to saudi arabia to the americans to the british to the germans to everyone more pressure on saudi arabia as turkey's president releases recordings linked to the murder of general fresh object. the u.s. agrees to start refueling saudi jets as pressure mounts to stop aiding the saudi led coalition in yemen also. as world leaders gather in paris for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one the tensions between donald trump and emanuel. you're fearful that your house will burn yes. ok. very. from paradise to hell tens of thousands left homeless and at least nine people

killed as wildfires spreading california. in sports. one of the biggest asian club football drawn around enough for them to climate i'm going to victory over persepolis in the champions league final. president. is putting more pressure on saudi arabia to come clean about the murder of journalist. edwin says he's shared ordeal recordings linked to the killing with saudi arabia the u.s. and european countries he is demanding riyadh come clean on exactly what happened in its consulate in istanbul. we have shared the recordings with saudi arabia the americans the british the germans with everyone they've listened to the conversations on those recordings they know what's been said there's no

point in distorting this fact among the fifteen suspects they know who the murderer is all murderers are and saudi arabia can bring all this to a lot by making those fifteen suspects speak. but to manage is following this story for us he joins us now live from istanbul so jim what is trying to achieve here and why now. well as you mentioned this comes on the eve of. traveling through paris where he's meeting with world leaders. at the top of that list obviously u.s. president donald trump and what seas trying to achieve it seems is number one he's making it very clear to the world that's all those leaders of the united states the united kingdom germany and france the biggest suppliers of weapons to the saudi regime among some of the staunchest supporters not only of the saudi government but for example in the case of the united states and to

a lesser extent but still very strong supporters in the united kingdom of crown prince mohammed bin saddam and he wants to make it clear that these governments their leaders they know what's happened that they have been made privy to the evidence of that so excited have that explicitly shows and demonstrate some proof as they say but dramatic actual q. was assassinated in a premeditated operation carried out by saudi operatives at the behest of the most senior member of the saudi royal family and therefore he's taking away from them that principle deniability the ability for these governments should tell their people to tell their press in london in washington in berlin or we weren't sure we didn't know what's happened the turks haven't shared that's the first the second is it would appear that the turks want to ensure that's on the agenda at least on the sideline or of these meetings that it's these meetings that are taking place on the sidelines of this summit in paris is the case is the case of saudi arabia we would have soon that the turks have already succeeded in that to some extent with these latest statements coming off to the mccrone. meets and obviously aside from this

the turks are also showing that the evidence they have that many people are questioning how they were able to obtain it was it through espionage did they buy this out you can sort of behind me what did they do to get it well they're saying either they got it from a legitimate way and that's why they were able to share it. sensibly shamelessly with those countries or even if they did get it through espionage they're not going to allow the means in which they were able to get it to. hidden there or to overshadow the fact that what took place was an assassination was a crime against one of them was a crime against an innocent person and was a crime essentially against international order and international law so those are probably the three main messages that came from early ones latest statements and jamal isn't this also slightly risky move for murder one because we've known through the turkish media for several weeks now of the existence of these recordings and now this is the first public official knowledge meant of them and

there was a sense that they didn't want to do that before be in fear of compromising intelligence compromise in the investigation. possibly i mean could this be also a sign him that maybe the turks are saying you know what not only is our president the highest authority in the country you are going to explicitly admits that these tapes exist that he's shared those tapes with the government but that could be a signal that if something isn't done if the correct punishment isn't laid out to those criminals behind it maybe even the contents of those tapes themselves will be made public that's all obviously speculative but it could very well be an interpretation is true or one interpretation as to what the president meant but in terms of risks you're talking about some very high stakes from the very beginning look at what is at stake you're talking about saudi turkish relationship from a business perspective that's you're talking about trade that's in the billions of dollars you told me about regional stability you're talking about u.s. targets relations u.s. saudi relations with the succession process of saudi arabia the kingdom which is

probably one of the last remaining stable countries just stable use that word rue sleep in the region so it is high stakes and therefore in a situation like this when the crisis was prolonged for over a month may be the target believe the only way to force somebody is to essentially play it's risky as you mention to leave holdouts on the table and either those criminals who are behind it's are brought to justice or the turks will say well we've given you more than enough time you've lied several times and now it is incumbent on us to make it's all bare for the world to know exactly what's happened jamal thank you. life machinist i'm. now i do when may meets with the u.s. president donald trump in paris dozens of world leaders are there to mark one hundred years since the end of world war one both trouble and france's emmanuel

cross mccrone called on saudi arabia to be more transparent on her show g.'s murder hashim how butter is live for us in paris let's go to him. now so adam why what are we expecting there over the coming hours. has been standing outside the museum. that's the venue where world leaders will be having dinner tonight on the sidelines of the one hundredth commemoration of the and of the first world war it's one would wonder whether in such an event global geopolitical issues but prevail over others but on the contrary what happened is that right at the beginning when president manuel mccrum met with the u.s. president donald trump they spoke about the murder of the expressed concerns about . the ramifications of the crisis further destabilizing the region of the office said saudi arabia should deliver more details about the case tonight or maybe early

morning tomorrow expecting of this meeting between president of the abdullah and u.s. president john all trump and the turkish president is hoping to rally international support and further isolate saudi arabia at least from a turkish perspective they would like to sorry to say who gave the order to kids and hotshots about then as we're going to see in this report president plus of the first of all to manage to narrow some of the differences between between him and president trump before they can go forward and tackle some of the issues they talk to face. it's been more than a month since he was killed but the. case has turned into a political crisis threatening to further strain relations between saudi arabia and turkey. which is keeping up the pressure on the saudis to prosecute those who carried out the murder and find out who ordered it turkey hopes

a meeting between presidents donald trump and rosie. will pave the way for walk or pray ssion mr trump's parents on this case you still cloudy you know here's the oh seems not to be able to you know choose his side despite all these followed evidences i think will be their first challenge to mr advani is going to attempt to persuade him personally to take can't just take a stance with many also for those who create and you know very near to the point where you are off justice but winning trumps trust won't be easy the u.s. and turkey are divided over many issues america has stepped up its military support for the kurdish y p g a group it considers an ally in the fight against isis in

syria but turkey sees the y. p.g. as an extension of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. . the u.s. state department has offered rewards for information about the location of three senior members of the party in a move aimed at easing tensions. but he says the u.s. has to sever all ties with the wire p.g. and this warning of a major offensive against kurdish militias in north eastern syria would be. companies that support the white b.g. need to question their fight against terrorism because any support of the white b.g. directly or indirectly is given to the terrorist organization trump. said recently they were hoping to set aside their differences and start a new chapter in relations between the two countries but they have

a number of issues to resolve including the war in syria sanctions on iran the gulf cooperation council crisis and the killing. now the turkish government has and the search for a body of concern that there may is might have been dissolved in acetone this explains now why the turkish government is adamant about the need for an international pressure on society arabia to say exactly who gave the order to. turkey believe the saudis have been trained over the past few weeks to stall the investigation and turkey is concerned there are lies of saudi arabia particularly the us and the could be unwilling to push for a tougher stance against the kingdom given their liquidity of weapons and business deals with the oil rich kingdom has an. ally for us in paris thanks

hashem are joining me now from istanbul on skype is atlantica senior atlanta counsel senior fellow and matthew bryza.