vaccinators targeted and vaccines rejected pakistan faces a constant battle in its war against polio very different this is from al jazeera follows the extraordinary health workers who risked their lives in one of polio final strongholds. to terse work with. lifelines the last drops on al-jazeera. saudi arabia seeks the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder. as the us treasury announces sanctions against seventeen saudis for their next roles in the journalist's killing. of his al-jazeera live from london also coming up. i believe with every fiber of my

being that the course i have set out is the right one for our country and our people u.k. prime minister to resume a stand firm on her draft breaks it deal despite the fast backlash within her own administration. bangladesh to spend plans to repatriate ranger refugees after failing to find any volunteers some say they'd rather die than live turned to me in math. and in the grounds of a ruined jungle palace out there again exclusive access as masked russians train the next generation of central african republic troops. saudi arabia is seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder of journalist. as the kingdom tries to contain its biggest political crisis in a generation but they're not meant was almost immediately dismissed as inadequate

by turkish officials and a short time later the united states moved ahead with sanctions on some of the saudis involved in the case and begin our coverage with andrew symonds in istanbul . saudi arabia's prosecution spokesman announcing the death penalty is being sought for five out of twenty one male 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. also leaders who were jedi in the war in iraq what it 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 our through his death was dismembered and transported outside the consulate building those five people took the remains out the person who delivered the body to the contractor was a single person

a sketch of the contract that 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 alice siri 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 in the saudi prosecution say the team 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. yeah it's we have said before this was a premeditated murder and also as we know the remains of the person were kept to

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 of the fifteen people who came to turkey should be tried in accordance with. turkish law because according to the you know conviction the turkish more as epochal boy in this case even if the murder took place and the saudi consulate in istanbul the saudi foreign minister. says criticisms of his country's investigation are unfair there's a presumption of innocence until proven guilty this presumption for a strange reason has been turned upside down in this case if people don't think that we are serious about taking steps legal steps against people implicated in this matter then they should wait until the legal process plays out before rushing to judgment. on friday they're up to significant events absentee

funeral prayers will be held around the world for come. and for the first time his family will receive condolences at their home in jeddah and acknowledgement of not only his death but the body will never be returned and drew simmons al-jazeera is stumble. in and it will cost him our share his outside the saudi consulate in istanbul but first let's go to patty callahan with reaction in washington on today's events what would you tell us about the latest sanctions that the treasury is talking about imposing against some saudis. you know it might seem quite a coincidence that both the saudis make these announcements and also the trump administration comes out with these sanctions on seventeen people but we know that the trump administration has been very reluctant to take action at the very top of the saudi leadership still the treasury department announcing sanctions on seventeen people including saudi tani he was a top aide to mohamed been solemn in the crown prince and also the council consul

general saudis consul general in turkey it's also been sanctioned for another top aide and fourteen other people so basically what does this mean it means americans are barred from doing business with these seventeen individuals and any assets that they have in the u.s. or transit in the u.s. can basically be seized or stopped these sanctions were probably expected by these seventeen people so it's highly unlikely that there are any assets to be taken but still the treasury department was forced to do this because senators bipartisan senators sent a message sent a letter invoking the magnitsky act so that they had to basically investigate and have some response this is the response the white house hopes it's going to be sufficient so far we've heard from senator rand paul in a tweet that basically saying putting sanctions on people who are already in jail means nothing these individuals might lose their heads and think basically you think they care about sanctions so that the white house what action if any has been

taken by congress. well you could be possibly see this as a test case although you have to keep in mind there was just a motion basically to stop an arms sale to bahrain because bahrain is part of the coalition in yemen that saudi is leading it felt it failed in the senate to get enough votes to get a full vote in the senate but none of the senators came out and said that they were for this the saudi backed campaign in yemen or that they weren't for saudi arabia they said bahrain is a key ally that shouldn't be punished because of its association with saudi arabia . from what we've heard in the run up to these sanctions from the white house senators have made it pretty clear that they really don't think that the white house is taking a strong enough to approach and that they have threatened to do that if they didn't act so now it's the senate's turn we're wait and see they're going to react to the white house the white house has made its play and now it's time to see if the senate follows through. and thank you very much. and has followed this story for us

since it broke in october he joins us from outside the saudi consulate in istanbul amount do people there see as credible the idea that this king could have gone ahead without the top leadership of saudi arabia knowing given that it will happen inside the constant. not at all in fact lauren the turkish officials who have been speaking to the media know have essentially dismissed this latest narrative as barely a hall of truth as they described it to me when they first heard those comments both from the prosecutor general's office and then later from other officials in riyadh they said that although there was it seemed some sort of progress from the saudis in terms of at least admitting to exactly what's happened the fact that they're trying to dress it up as some sort of extraction operation gone wrong is a joke that think well why would you send somebody who is able to dismember a body so quickly why would he be present in the consulate with the tools to dismember that body and why would you get rid of those body parts so quickly and

have a body double and all these other things that seem to just happen to have been they are whilst this allegedly extraction operation was undertaken they find it very difficult to believe and therefore are required for treated really that the saudis continue this later on after more than a month not to admit to what's happened and more importantly lauren continued to cover up as to who gave that order they know saudi arabia very well it is an absolute monarchy nothing can happen without the directive would the create of the royal courts and today saudi arabia is essentially run by the crown prince and therefore they believe that this could not have happened without the information definitely without the information of the crown prince one hundred and some months a most probably without his direct order so what is turkey going to do about this now then. well that is a good question i mean if you look at the way in which the turks have operated from the beginning lauren you'll see that they've opted to use maybe slow pressure

essentially slowly cooking this up but increasing the heat every time the feel that saudi arabia has not been forthcoming so in the beginning in terms of establishing jamal khashoggi never left the embassy to establishing that there was a hit team that sent him to finally establishing the body parts or remnants rather sorry and samples were found in the consulates and so forth so that's has been their m.o. from the beginning goalby it's that it's as matt being successful in trying to get some sort of international consensus that he supports initial pressure on the saudis but it would appear that on core is also frustrated not just at the lack of clarity and transparency being demonstrated by the saudis but also by the lack of vigor being demonstrated by its allies across europe and the united states they feel that they are allowing for a cover up to take place and therefore what is most likely going to happen as we've been seeing referred to by the foreign minister of turkey in the past twenty four hours is that they're going to look for other options and here notably speaking

they're looking for an international investigation m is the international has said it's turkey's duty to trigger one turkey is very much thinking about it the foreign minister said in the past twenty four hours that there is definitely a need for it whether they do that through the international criminal court or through another mechanism will wait and see what you can expect in the coming couple of days more talk increased noise from ankara and istanbul in talking to officials going through the direction of probably in forcing some sort of international treaty or mechanism that's would push the saudis to to come clean. and thank you very much. politicians want to reason maser conservative party have launched a bid to remove her as britain's prime minister it's a response to her draft divorce deal to withdraw britain from the european union breaks it hardliners so the deal makes too many concessions to the e.u.

violates u.k. sovereignty by treaty northern ireland differently from england scotland and wales may as or knowledge the concerns of those opposed to the deal it is said is the right course of action my approach throughout has been to put the national interest first not of partisan interest and certainly not my own political interest i do not judge harshly those of my colleagues who seek to do the same but you reach a different conclusion they must do what they believe to be right just as i do i'm sorry that they've chosen to leave the government and i thank them for their service but i believe with every fiber of my being that the course i have set out is the right one for our country and all our people to hell is in london for us so resignations of ministers plots it's been another testing david tourism a and her offer to visit she is showing no signs of backing down history.

no a particularly defiant press conference there a couple of hours ago now to resume a facing some very difficult questions from members of the media she is a prime minister embattled on multiple fronts now she's suffered as you said resignations there in her cabinet two very key ones one of them the breaks administer it's the second time in just months that that portfolio has been vacated as a result of resignation and five others junior levels all over this deal that she's brought there is the possibility of a leadership contest being launched by her own party if a sufficient number of letters are received by the backbench committee the one hundred twenty two committee of we know that more of those letters have gone in today and as she tried to sell the deal to parliament earlier in the day an extraordinarily hostile skeptical reception from m.p.'s on both sides of the house on both sides of the debate it seems that she's not managed to satisfy anyone with

this deal that she's brought to parliament to the country but she's determined to carry on anybody who thought she was going to resign was quickly disappointed in that press conference she believes she's doing the right thing she believes this deal is the right deal for the country the one the only one available that honors the people's decision to leave the e.u. for breaks at that gives them back control of their borders their money their laws that protects jobs that's good for business and she's absolutely determined that no one's going to stand in her way being prime minister on march the twenty nine when this country leaves the european union injury a possible leadership contest as you mentioned looming how is that likely to pan out. well there is a mechanism within the conservative party whereby fifteen percent of sitting m.p.'s that's forty eight in the current numbers send a letter to the chairman of the nine hundred twenty two the backbench m.p.'s committee asking for

a vote of no confidence then automatically one is triggered we won't know we don't know we've no way of knowing how many of gone in but we know that more have gone in today because certain people jacob. deeply euro skeptic m.p. on the right of the party among them has said that they have sent letters. if she were to win that vote of no confidence then she gets immunity for twelve months she can't be challenged again and it is not in any way certain that she would do anything but when it the numbers don't appear clearly at least to be there for a simple majority of course if she were to lose well then that raises the possibility of a more ideologically driven pro brags of conservative prime minister coming back throwing this deal back at brussels and the possibility of a no deal exit looms that's one of three broadly speaking possible scenarios the other is if it goes the distance to parliament and it is voted down in the numbers a very bad in parliament again the no deal scenario looms but the third possibility

exists that if all else fails to reason make and say look i've done everything i can there is no option left but to go to the country a so-called people's vote a second referendum as more and more talk about it happening the possibility is certainly there on the ballot no deal or no bricks it general thank you very much. still to come on the program sounded coalition orders a pause in fighting around gammons port city of the data as the u.n. warns it could cause a humanitarian disaster. because the chaos in sri lanka is the constitutional crisis brings politicians to blows and the suspension of parliament. hello there has been a fair amount of snow for some of us in europe recently mostly out of this area of clouds here and this is what it covered looks like in kiev you can see quite

a bit of snow has landed there and i think they'll be a little bit more as we head through the next few days there has that wintery weather then out of this system here there's still pushing further southwards and so more of us will see that rather cool air the temperatures in bucharest will be dropping say five degrees as a maximum on friday and then down to just three as we head into saturday and then on saturday for many of us across europe the should be a good deal a fine draw a weather with temperatures this low that we can expect a fair amount of mist and fog towards the west and more in the way of clouds just rolling its way into parts of spain and portugal some strong winds as well so things here will turn pretty wet and windy during the day now for the northern parts of africa we've got a few areas of showery weather around one that stretching in through parts of southern italy that's also affecting us in tunisia and the other one that's hit every parts of morocco and all of that is edging its way eastwards already picking up as well say for some of us now geria and into nitze on saturday is going to be rather gray and at times a little bit wet as well for

a bat's will see the clouds gradually begin to stay they can up but i don't think we're going to see any what weather on saturday. a rite of passage preserved through the generations my cousin was laying down there until a screaming she was helpless the woman who after endorses go through fi cold of pain for batman meets the women affected by s.g.m. and those reshaping perception do you think people will abandon this even threw out a bit of a mistake al-jazeera correspondent the con. on

top stories. saudi arabia is seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder of journalist. riyadh insists crown prince mohammed bin sound man had no knowledge of the operation. u.s. treasuries impose sanctions against seventeen saudis for their role in the matter former top aide to the crown prince saud of qahtani and saudi consul general comment on the table those targeted. treason may stands firm as politicians from her conservative party to remove the british prime minister in response to her draft breakfast agreement that hardliners say the deal makes too many concessions to the e.u. and violates. the saudi that coalition has ordered a pause in the offensive against rebels in yemen's main port city of data but the

iran backed rebels have denied that hostilities have ended. in and around the city a continuing the u.n. has warned of a humanitarian catastrophe if the port sustained 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 un that talks to end the conflict avocado has more from djibouti. the clock in the suburbs off to how you solve but there you go a few kilometers away from but also to be a few offensive on the positions of pro-government fighters who've been receiving reinforcements. shot those. in the fighting in the. those must've bottles you saw in the past twelve days and people have been given a rest for about forty eight hours before these recent clashes and this happens there are talks of peace talks resuming this time in sweden the so the

coalition has confirmed that they have told their allies in yemen to stop targeting all the positions and to stop the fighting and as we go forward in the preparations of these talks will see more clashes like least. of both sides take to try to take more territory and come to the talks on a position of strength chaos has broken out in sri lanka's parliament after the speaker declared the country has no functioning prime minister or cabinet insults and objects were thrown around the house deepening the political crisis the recently appointed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa is now calling for a general election ballots misreports in colombo. the battle for control of sri lanka has turned physically ill it's a been thrown at the speaker of parliament along with many insults i.

am soria 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 it time to easily as you office after bypassing polman to being sworn in by his successor president my three policy or a sane or not is failing so there's a new tactic. we want the election general election two years before one is june as soon as it was but we had to go but election or something like that i was going to allow i mean is the best way to sort all of this out just to have an election yes definitely there is going the other way the man the president fired says he still prime minister who's in charge of running a witnessing the supporters say it's time to take to the streets we are organizing mass protests stand. against these undemocratic unconstitutional and illegal

mission by president might by the c.d.c. and a puppet prime minister idlers 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 heating lanka's economy there are more than four billion u.s. dollars in foreign loans due to be repaid next year but your land is repaid as it is lowest level ever against the dollar as investors withdraw foreign exchange burnitz made on his era and trying his policy. suspended plans to start repatriating more than seven hundred thousand refugees to me and more officials say they were unable to find anyone who was willing to go earlier on thursday thousands of rangers protested in refugee camps in bangladesh over the deal citing safety fears and he also complained they'd been put on the transfer list despite their

opposition to returning is what some of the refugees told al-jazeera about their fears before by the russians announcement of the learned we didn't know how 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 a peaceful country but we're not at peace because we've been told we're on a list we don't think twice and before we go back to me and maher if it looks like they will try to move us my children and i'll buy poison from the market here and we'll drink it i don't love that we don't want to go back to myanmar because the camps they would put us in and there are worse than the camps we are in here if we go there we won't be able to prey on our children won't be able to go to school. as the latest from gem tony refugee camp in cox is bizarre. it looks as though this is simply a temporary suspension because we've heard some somewhat contradictory statements

coming from different quarters of the government here on the one hand you have an official announcement that has finally been made after hours of waiting today confirming what we thought was going to happen all along which is that this repatriation plan which was supposed to begin today with was supposed to see as many as one hundred eighty five of families returning to me in march that that has been delayed but at the same time we are being told that any rogan's a refugee who wants to return voluntarily can do so there are officials with the ro hinge relief and repatriation commission that are saying that in essence a mechanism has now been set up by which the loser refugees who would like to return to me and more can do so we don't yet know what form that has taken and what steps refugees would have to take in order to do that what i can tell you though is

that everywhere hinge or refugee we ask today's who has told us that they are on that list to potentially be repatriated they have said that they do not want to return that they are afraid for their safety that their citizenship rights aren't guaranteed and that they would not even consider going back until they thought that they could actually live in me and martin some warm up peace and security that the u.n. security council has voted to extend its peacekeeping mission in central african republic by months and another date to extend the mission i want to hear is expected soon and has really 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 michel djotodia was sworn in as interim president but he was forced to resign after fighting between the celica and christian

fighters known as the anti ballot continued the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces already there since then cease fires have been signed and violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes the current president bush 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 called on russia for help there is 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 band 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 store don york says ties of blood to me are 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 request or president ouattara the security council approved imports of russian weapons last december now they are 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. now 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 ahead of the new special advisor to the president dispatched by moscow well the u.n. fact african union initiative has stalled russia together with sudan is trying to broker a peace deal between the fourteen active the little group. or. the i am here is to avoid the bloodshed 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 that 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 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. and of it you can catch up any time with all the stories we're reporting on by checking out our website address that al-jazeera dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the live icon al-jazeera dot com. one of the top stories are now jazeera saudi arabia seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder of journalist. riyadh insists defacto or crown prince mohammed bin sound man knew nothing of the operation the u.s. has imposed sanctions against seventeen saudis for their role in the murder trial

shell has 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 federal q your filter admits that's this was by order of the senior members of the saudi government for a while family politicians from two reason mase conservative party launched a bid to remove her as britain's prime minister it's in response to her draft divorce deal to withdraw britain from the european union breaks it hardliners say the deal makes too many concessions to the e.u. and violates u.k. sovereignty by treating nor the not and differently from england scotland and wales

may as acknowledge the concerns of those opposed to the deal but insists it's the right course of action i'm sorry that they've chosen to leave the government and i thank them for their service but i believe with every fiber of my being that the course i have set out is the right one for our country and all our people. a saudi that coalition has ordered a pause in the offensive against the rebels in yemen's main port city of her data but the iran backed rebels have denied that hostilities of ended say airstrikes in and around the city a continuing the u.n. has warned of a humanitarian catastrophe if the port sustained heavy damage. chaos has broken out in sri lanka's parliament after the speaker declared the country has no functioning prime minister cabinet insults and objects are thrown around the house deepening the country's political crisis. there's a top stories do stay with us the stream is coming up next more news for you up to

that. i mean ok today a check in all three stories we're following closely here on the stream california is burning wildfires continue to burn the southern part of the state and the death toll is rising and the passing of a real life superhero with take a look at the legacy of comic book writer stanley i really could be lined up be looking for your comments on twitter and of course and our you tube shop first though to a story that we've been covering closely on al jazeera political crisis in sri

lanka. yesterday in fighting and doing. and by means of emotion expressed no confidence in president.