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find out on al-jazeera. china could be facing a debt that's according to s. and p. global trumpet ministration just been insisting towards the saudis and other oil producers that they want to have more production to cool down the prices we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. saudi arabia seeks the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder of jamal khashoggi as the us treasury is set to announce sanctions against seventeen saudis for their alleged roles in the journalist killing. al jazeera live from london also coming up. we've taken the decision to leave just
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get on with it just to let our u.k. prime minister to resign mayor just parliament tobacco draft breaks it deal i mean a fierce battle ash within her own administration. under their suspends plans to repatriate re-injure refugees after failing to find any volunteers some say they'd rather die than return to me in mali. and in the grounds of a ruined jungle palace out there again exclusive access as mosques russians train the next generation of central african republic troops. saudi arabia seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder of journalist. as the king of tries to contain its biggest political crisis in a generation overall eleven suspects are accused of killing the royal insider
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turned critic in istanbul last month but riyadh is insisting the fact. crown prince mohammed bin sound man knew nothing of the operation the case has drawn international condemnation and in the last hour sanctions from the united states more on that in a moment but first after there's andrew symonds as a report from istanbul saudi arabia's prosecution spokesman announcing the death penalty is being sought for five out of twenty one man now indicted for the killing of jamal khashoggi they're not named and the account of what happened once again differs from what turkish prosecutors say they found so far the mythos leaders who were getting in the war in iraq was a brawl fighting and injecting him with a large dose of a citizen of substance that caused his death the person who ordered this crime was arrested with another four operatives and it was a total of five the body after his death was dismembered and transported outside the consulate building those five people took the remains out the person who
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delivered the body to the contractor was a single person a sketch of the contractor was drafted based on the description given by the person who handed over the remains the new saudi version of events repeats the assertion that it was some sort of extraction operation ordered by akhmed our sciri the former deputy intelligence chief no one higher than that there was a clear denial that crown prince mohammed bin sound man was in any way involved the saudi prosecution say the teen was tasked to bring kushal ji back to saudi arabia willingly or by force and they say the leader of the team took it upon himself to actually carry out the murder the turkish ruling party says the whole account of events is a cover up turkey's foreign minister is more diplomatic but also dismissive. it's we have said before this was a premeditated murder and also as we know the remains of the person were kept to
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pieces and the prosecutor has meachem this we already knew this but the dismemberment of the body was not a spontaneous event certain individuals and devices were brought here to this country in advance the fifteen people who came to turkey should be tried in accordance with turkish law because according to the the you know convention the turkish more as equitable in this case even if the murder took place and the saudi consulate in istanbul. on friday there are two significant events absentee funeral prayers will be held around the world for come out. and for the first time his family will receive condolences at their home in jeddah and acknowledgment of not only his death but the body will never be returned and drew simmons al jazeera is down but. let's go live now to use outside the saudi consulate in istanbul search amount of people there see as credible as idea that
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the killing could have somehow gone ahead without the top leadership of saudi arabia knowing given that it happened inside the consulate. not so i mean the turks are seeing this latest statements by the prosecutor general's office as moving away from completely lying to as one senior official described to me as coming to admit two hot foods in the sense that they finally admitted that this was a murder operation that they are the ones who conducted it however fail to admit that it was premeditated in the sense that there was never any option or intention to extract such acute they failed to admits that's this was by order of the senior members of the saudi government or royal family most likely crown prince mohammed bin man and they have failed to meet through details with regards to what happened to the remains of. body the foreign minister questioned how on earth it was that
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this team was assembled in order to extract a monocultural jeep with its being equipped with the tools required to dismember a body why you would send an expert who could dismember so quickly so effortlessly when you were simply into intending on extracting him why you would send a body double so turkey is by no means buying this latest station or narrative from the saudis they do view it as a cover up they believe and to have described it was only a half of the truth and given all that what's the texas response going to be now. what we heard in the last twenty four hours that renewed calls by the turkish government for an international investigation it would appear that particularly after recent statements by other international governments that the turks do fear that there will be some sort of cover up allowed to happen because they have always
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insisted from the very beginning that they would need some sort of international consensus in order to pursue justice they understand that they cannot match saudis clout in washington london paris and other capitals where they have a lot of influence because of the billions of dollars they invest in those countries and that's why they've been sharing the evidence with those european countries now it would appear that's in the next couple of days we're going to see more solid more tangible steps by the turkish government to at least explore publicly the potential of maybe deferring this case to the international criminal court or to one of the united nations other subsidiaries in order to force the international community to take this on a lot more seriously and not allow for personal interests or bilateral treaties and money so essentially allow for a cover up over this assassination and i shan't thank you very much indeed.
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politicians from to reason may's conservative party of launched a bid to remove foes britain's prime minister is in response to her draft divorce deal to withdraw britain from the european union reps at hardliners say the deal makes too many concessions to the e.u. and violates u.k. sovereignty by treaty northern ireland differently from england scotland and wales speaking parliament to the prime minister may outline the advantages of the deal. the declaration will end free movement once and for all instead we will have our own new skills based immigration system based not on the country people come from but on what they can contribute to the u.k. the declaration agrees the creation of a free trade area for goods with zero tariffs no fees charges or quantity of restrictions across all goods sectors no other major advanced economy has such an arrangement with the e.u.
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and at the same time we will also be free to strike new trade deals with other partners around the world we've also reached common ground on a close relationship on services and investment including financial services which go well beyond commitments. in london for us has been a not testing day for tourism a. how viable is have. probably looking less and less so with every passing minute in the last hour there's been a seventh resignation on this day the vice chairman this time of the conservative party roman chisti putting in his resignation joining two junior parliamentary secretary to junior ministers and two senior cabinet ministers seven resignations in all among those cabinet ministers to bret's that minister dominic roberts the second time in months that that position has been vacated as a result of a resignation it is a very serious challenge to reason all soroti
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a challenge certainly to the viability of this draft bragg's it agreement that she's putting to the country to the to parliament now it illustrates the difficulty extreme difficulty she has faced in coming up with any sort of a deal that pleases all sides in this sort of brags it obsessed country now even a majority in parliament looks less and less likely she has always said she seeks to unite the country behind her own vision of bricks and she hasn't even been able to unite her own cabinet she does however seem somehow to have united opposite sides of the debate against her those seeking a heart breaks it or they're not getting that in this deal those seeking to remain they still have to leave the e.u. but they see britain surrendering its sovereignty as well so she's in a very difficult position she carries on for the time being of course as prime minister who deal in theory at least moves now to the next stage it goes to the
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e.u. but its survival you need her survival far from certain so what about that what is the latest with the plotting against. her that. well it's impossible to say because we'll only know if and when the moment arrives when a no contest vote is triggered that moment comes when a certain number of letters fifteen percent of conservative party peace have sent letters to the chairman of the backbench committee the one hundred twenty two committee saying they want to challenge the reason we will only know when that moment arrives when it arrives but we're hearing more and more suggestions that an increasing number of conservative m.p.'s have already to make that move broadly speaking there are probably three scenarios at the moment one is a challenge to hold her or thirty a no confidence vote if she were to lose that well there is the possibility of a far more ideologically driven prime minister taking the helm sending this deal
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back to brussels and perhaps the idea of a no deal breaks it emerges the second is that all things being well the deal goes to parliament but in parliament the arithmetic just doesn't seem to add up it doesn't seem likely that it will pass so if the deal would have failed there again the no deal scenario raises its head but then a potential third way which more and more is being talked about inside and outside parliament the idea that theresa may if she still prime minister turns around at that point and says look parliament rejected the deal it's the best deal i could have got nothing else is on offer there is no option but to go back to the people the so-called people's vote a second referendum and on the ballot would be no deal or no breaks it at all. thank you very much.
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we got a lot so wet weather to come full sun from southern parts of china right over the next couple of days also cloud around here it is in the process of thickening up in the process to have making its way further south so for friday plenty of right around should stay dry for hong kong on friday make the most of that is sinking for the south with whether we'll set in across a good parts of southern china as we go on into sas day dry weather comes across vietnam but we have got some wet weather into india china over towards myanmar through laos for got some wet weather now affecting a good posture of east and in the this is the area cloud of rain this is
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a cycle that's going to make its way to the south of chennai right for time and not do as we go on through the next twenty four to thirty six hours so that's a position of the stalled as we go through friday wet and windy weather coming through here it will weaken of course as it comes free but some term rif ika mounds of rainfall some parts could see in excess of two hundred millimeters of right before it punches its way back out into southern areas of the arabian sea for the north you see a fair old swathe of cloud pushing right up across many central parts of india over towards bangladesh to the north of that it's generally dry but more small for new delhi. stories of life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from around the wound. that celebrate the human spirit. against the arts.
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the al-jazeera selects hunted. among the top stories here now to syria saudi arabia is seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi riyadh insists crown prince mohammed bin sound man had no knowledge of the operation. u.s. treasury is impose sanctions against seventeen saudis for their role in the murder former top aide to the crown prince qahtani and saudi consul general. among those
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targeted. and fortunes from two reason may's conservative party have launched a bid to remove her as britain's prime minister in response to her draft agreement that hardliners say the deal makes too many concessions to the e.u. and violates u.k. sovereignty. all returning now to our top story the. let's get more on those sanctions announced by the u.s. white house correspondent can be held in washington d.c. . how these sanctions going to work. right well these sanctions fall under the global magnitsky act and in the press release issued by the treasury department steve the treasury secretary is very clear about them he says that the seventeen individuals that are named are have had these sanctions leveled against them because they have a role in the killing of. he goes on to say that they must face consequences for their actions and this is the action that the united states is taking he goes on
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further to say however that the saudi arabian government needs to step up and do more to end the targeting of political dissidents as well as journalists. this is certainly significant because there has been a lot of pressure on this white house to take further action but what seems to be missing from all of this is the highest levels of the saudi government specifically mohammed bin salomon the crown prince this is something that members of congress have been pushing for for him to be sanctioned specifically and in this list well we see people very close to the crown prince including his his top aide his subordinate the consul general what we don't see is the crown prince specifically and we have heard repeatedly from top members of intelligence committees in the house of rather in the u.s. senate including senator lindsey graham bob corker top republicans who are all at
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least in the case of lindsey graham a supporter of donald trump pressing donald trump meeting at the white house last week we believe with donald trump although it wasn't on the official schedule for him to point the finger at the crown prince but what we haven't seen in the seventeenth sanctions is the crown prince specifically named and what about the white house and what they're doing what about congress what are they emptor. yes so because the u.s. congress feels that this white house is dragging its heels in effect in terms of not taking stronger action and what they believe is as clear evidence implicating the saudi crown prince others that they are pushing for a vote on the floor of the u.s. senate senator rand paul calling to try and trigger under the one nine hundred seventy six arms export control act to block the sale of three hundred million weapons to bahrain which of course is closely aligned to saudi arabia so this is a congress that is is tired of the relationship between the united states and saudi
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arabia being underscored as a high priority sees this case in the death of. as being the tipping point in the shift in the relationship now taking stricter stronger action because they feel the white house is still not doing enough given how could thank you very much senator coalition has ordered a pools in the offensive against truthy rebels in yemen's made yeah city of potato that they were fierce battles south of the city between the iran backed rebels and the saudi backed pro-government forces the u.n. has warned of a humanitarian catastrophe if the port sustains heavy damage as it's the main entry point for the majority of food and aid into yemen western allies including the united states are pushing for a cease fire ahead of another round of u.n. led talks to end the conflict find out who has moved from djibouti. the clashes happened in the suburbs off to haiti to solve but they them about a few kilometers away from that portable said to be offensive on the positions of
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pro-government fighters who have been receiving the enforcements overnight and these shelters a forty eight hour lull in the fighting in the hills most of bottles you saw in the past twelve days and people have been given a rest for about forty eight hours before this recent clashes and this happens. talks of peace talks resuming this time in sweden the so the lead coalition has confirmed that they have told their allies in yemen to stop targeting positions and to stop the fighting and as we go forward in the preparations all these talks will see more clashes like lease. of both sides stick to try to take more territory and come to the talks on a position of strength. it was chaos in sri lanka's parliament after the speaker declared the country has no functioning prime minister or cabinet insults and
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objects were thrown around the house deepening the political crisis and we promised amanda rajapaksa is now calling for a general election and a smith reports from colombo. the battle for control of sri lanka has turned to city a little been thrown at the speaker of parliament along with many insults i. provoked the fury of some m.p.'s by saying sri lanka has no prime minister or cabinet following wednesday's vote of no confidence in mahinda rajapaksa on thursday former president appointed three weeks ago defied the speaker by giving a speech anyway is a time to easily as you office after bypassing parliament to being sworn in by his successor president my three policy resign. it is failing so there's a new tactic. we want election general election two years before one is
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june as soon as possible we have to go but election or something like that i was going to have a lot i mean is the best way to sort all of this out just to have an election yes definitely there's going either way the man the president fired says he's still prime minister he's in charge of. running away from a single supporters say it's time to take to the streets we are organizing mass protest stand. against these undemocratic unconstitutional and illegal mission by president might be by the c.d.c. and the pope but a prime minister either with the speaker losing control of parliament and government paralyzed some civil servants are privately saying they don't know who's in charge and who can sign off on deals and projects always political instability is hitting the line because economy there are more than four billion u.s. dollars in foreign loans due to be repaid next year the shoreline because rupee if it is lowest level ever against the dollar as investors withdraw foreign exchange
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burnitz may al-jazeera in trying because parliament. bangladesh a suspended plans to start repatriating more than seven hundred thousand ranger refugees to man ma officials say they were unable to find anyone who was willing to go out there on thursday thousands of ranges protested in refugee camps in bangladesh as a deal saying they did not want to go back to the safety fears many also complained they'd been put on the transfer list despite the opposition to going back in time jim has been speaking to some of the range refugees who feel like this in cox's bazaar and bangladesh. this is the week when for many trauma became terror will hinge on refugees who escaped so much violence were shocked to learn they might be repatriated to me and more recently learned they will only listen i would do i wouldn't doubt it i've been crying because of how sad i am that we might be sent back our relatives were killed in myanmar we were all persecuted there so much we came here to bangladesh to find peace this is
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a peaceful country i think but we're not at peace because we've been told we're on a list. that list is the reason there's so much fear in this place it includes the names of thousands of ro him to refugees who have been chosen as candidates to potentially be sent back to iraq and state as part of a deal between the governments of bangladesh and me and more. many are a beggar tells us her camp leader informed her that she and her three children are on the list but she says they'd rather die than return and i would think twice and before we go back to me and if it looks like they will try to move us to my children and i'll buy poison from the market here and didn't think it the government of bangladesh insists repeat relations will be on a voluntary basis only but menorah is not convinced the atmosphere here is filled with an increasing sense of dread and several of these huts that used to house
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refugees now sit empty that's because people are so terrified that in the past few days at least five families have fled this camp the united nations refugee agency which does not believe current conditions in iraq kind state are conducive to a safe and dignified return of refugees from bangladesh says there are approximately four hundred eighty five families on the repatriation list for us it's very important that we first do these assessments of voluntary ones and this is really a basic condition for us and the refugees not only have to decide they have to decide based on on knowledge they need to know what's going on the enemy on law they fled from the little more than a year ago before they returned they have to know what's what's going on there but many refugees say they're all too aware of the horrors that await them i don't know i love that when the law is not i don't know we don't want to go back to myanmar
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because the camps they would put us in there are worse than the camps we are in here if we go there we won't be able to pray in our children won't be able to go to school for now members of one of the world's most persecuted minorities continue to worry they may be victimized all over again mohammed a disease at the gym told a refugee camp in cox's bazaar bangladesh. the un security council has voted to extend its peacekeeping mission in central african republic by a month and another vote to extend the mission by one year is expected soon as rarely been a moment of peace since the conflict began there five years ago. an alliance of muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president bush's government in twenty thirteen a few months later rebel leader michaud dia was sworn in as interim president but he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the continued the un sent
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a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces already there since then a ceasefire was have been signed and violated and also sides have been accused of war crimes the current president for a short to idea has little control over his country with an arms embargo in place and fourteen militia groups fighting for control of the territory he's now calling russia for help after there's nicholas haq has been given unprecedented access to their military trainers in their ngo south of the capital. deep in the jungle on the grounds of the banned in palace of africa's last emperor. a russian operation is under way. mounts to russian fighters somewhere in ukraine others in syria or chechnya now there in the central african republic training an army that has lost control of the country. they call the stool dayaks
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has ties to me or not his real name says discipline is one of the problems sectarian violence fueled by militia groups has divided muslims and christians the russians are training men who once fought each other to unite for a government too weak to secure its own borders. sanctioned by u.n. arms embargo with your musical equipment at the requests or president ouattara the security council approved imports of russian weapons last december now they're providing both arms and training launching an ambush on a building. they call this the storms danya exercise. in a few short weeks they'll do this with live ammunition to put the soldiers under stress. they go through scenarios like this on a daily basis trying to prepare me soldiers to deal with real life events so that the government here can regain control of the country. here to help is valerie's
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ahead of the new special advisor to the president dispatched by moscow well the u.n. backed african union initiative has stalled russia together with sudan is trying to broker a peace deal between the fourteen active the little group. or frankly i forgot but the i am here is to avoid a blood shoot it so i've traveled the country and meet with the various rebel leaders to get them around the table. in july three russian journalists were killed in car they claimed these russian instructors are in fact mercenaries working for a private security company called wagner's which has close ties to the crowd and. so how tough denies these claims closer to what i was about what wagner this is just an urban legend these are russian reservists nothing more than. whatever they are twenty seven years after the fall of the soviet union the russians are stepping
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back in the heart of africa at a time when the west and notably france the former colonial powers retreating. with more weapons and instructors on the way this may be just the beginning nicholas hawk al-jazeera baringo the central african republic. quick reminder you can always catch up with all the stories we're reporting on that by checking out our web site it just fetches al-jazeera dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the live icon details there of the saudi prosecutor seeking the death penalty in the house there dot com. for more now the top stories here al-jazeera saudi arabia is seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder of journalist. riyadh insists the defacto crown prince mohammed bin sound man knew nothing of the operation and the u.s. has imposed sanctions against seventeen saudis for their role in the murder. has
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more from istanbul the charts are seeing this latest statements by the prosecutor general's office as moving away from completely lying to as one senior official described to me as coming to admit to hard truths in the sense that we finally admitted that this was a murder operation that they are the ones who conducted it however fail to admit that it was premeditated in the sense that there was never any option or intention to extract such a cute they're filtered mit's that's this was by order of the senior members of the saudi government a while family. or additions from two reason may's conservative party have launched an attempt to remove her as britain's prime minister it's in response to her draft divorce deal to withdraw britain from the european union speaking in parliament on is to may outlined the advantages of the deal. the declaration will end free
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movement once and for all instead we will have our own skills based immigration system based not on the country people come from but on what they can contribute to the u.k. the declaration agrees the creation of a free trade area for goods with zero terrorists no fees charges or quantity of restrictions across all goods sectors but sadly that coalition has ordered a pause in the offensive against the rebels in yemen's main port city of her data earlier though a fierce battles south of the city between the iran backed rebels and saudi backed pro-government forces at the un has warned of a humanitarian catastrophe if the port sustains heavy damage chaos has broken out in sri lanka as parliament after the speaker declared the country has no functioning prime minister or cabinet insults and objects were thrown around the house deepening the country's political crisis. those top stories do stay with us a.j.
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