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there's a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants' at all zero in the race but this is the one political topic anybody and everybody is discussing the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudice some pride in hungry. us media reports say the cia believes the saudi crown prince mohammed bin ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi flatly contradicting saudi denials. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up as fighting continues in yemen
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a glimmer of hope with the u.n. special envoy saying the warring parties will attend talks in. britain's prime minister to resume a appoints a replacement brecht's it minister of more turmoil ahead from rebels in her own party. and not much cooperation on show at the apec summit china attacks president donald trump america first policy while the us defends trade tariffs against. the cia has concluded the saudi crown prince mohammed bin selma did order the killing of jamal khashoggi according to u.s. media reports the finding contradicts head on saudi claims that the saudi crown prince was not involved in the murder of the journalist of the country's consulate in istanbul last month mike hanna has more from washington. in recent days
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a number of members of congress have demanded that muhammad have been silent be held accountable either by way of tweets or in the case of senator bob corker during a debate about yemen in the senate i asked for our level briefing with maddest pompei oh and you know i asked for the comment assumes we get back to share with us what is happening with saudi arabia on both fronts both yemen and what is happening as it relates to the journalist who was assassinated in my opinion at the direction of the crown prince of saudi arabia us now the washington post reports the cia has concluded that the saudi crown prince ordered the assassination of journalist jamal khashoggi the sit says according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity the report says in reaching his conclusions the cia examined multiple sources of intelligence including a phone call that the crown prince's brother and ambassador to the u.s.
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had with the journalist before his murder khaled bin solomon was quick to deny the allegation saying on twitter i never talk to him by phone and certainly never suggested he go to turkey for any reason i asked the u.s. government to release any information regarding this claim. within hours several other news organizations including the new york times and the wall street journal also quoting anonymous officials confirming the report of the cia's finding although it is very important it's very significant. what the washington post new york times. c n b c n n other outlets over the last hours. reported that the cia internal assessment now is pointing stringers. in some as having ordered this operation this has never happened before in the cia
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we probably will not comment on this kind of report however the washington post wouldn't report this unless they were accurately reporting where they believe the cia said so which is a slight nuance now one can anticipate that the congressional oversight committees will have been briefed or demand to be briefed on this the reports alleging muhammad have been solomon's involvement unlikely to field even further the congressional demands that punitive measures be taken against the crown prince and his government the question is whether the president has been briefed by the cia on its reported conclusions and if so whether he would be prepared to back away from his stated reluctance to take action against the saudi government and its leader as i cannot al-jazeera washington well let's get the story from istanbul andrew symonds is our correspondent there andrew another news cycle more leaks what else
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do we know. well yes there's been a leak killer that's been given to the her newspaper here in turkey and it goes like this first of all the security and prosecution sources this newspaper has been talking to say that there are no d.n.a. positive results taken either from here in the consulates or the consul's residence which is just a five minute walk away from here no d.n.a. matches with jamal khashoggi that also leads into another aspect to the case in which they're now sure these sources are now sure that these syringes were used to inject coagulants into the body of after he being killed now the purpose of this say the investigators was to cloths his blood so that when they
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dismembered his body there wouldn't be a spread of blood stains all over the room now these are all indicators along with many others that the cia will be aware of that show their saudi team were very instrumental in covering their tracks there was a cleanup team sent out from saudi arabia in the guise of being a joint investigation units that cleaned up entirely all the clues d.n.a. included from the premises here the consulates and indeed the consul's residence a full clean up operation which included two members of an extended team these two one was a toxicologist the other was an expert on chemicals now again this is another indicator of this being a planned operation not some sort of accident in which the leader of
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a team suddenly decided. pizza and off the back of these revelations from the cia in the past. eighty four hours out of washington we've also got these claims from the saudi ambassador to washington denying that he ever had a telephone conversation with jamal khashoggi saying go to istanbul go to the consulate you'll be safe but this is the same certain official who on october the eighth denied that anything had gone wrong and that was a full six days after the last trip that jamal made to the consulate behind you andrew which was following on from the september the twenty eighth trip to the same building when he was told to come back on october the second. yes how it been solomon who is the younger brother to his crown prince to crown prince mohammed bin summoned the washington saudi ambassador a did make that statement on the sixth sorry on the eighth of october in which he
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asserted that no. because he was not missing he was not detained by the saudis nor was he hurt in any way so that was a blatant denial when that must have been some knowledge in the system of what was going on now we keep coming back to this point there's no smoking gun it seems to be asserted we certainly aren't aware of one and the cia traces all of that data banks and all of the evidence they call eight hundred now has got to the point where as the wall street journal reports it is in the volley of follow up reports that moved on from the washington post publishing its story said that it wasn't a smoking gun it was just a collation of the way saudi arabia works an operation like this could not have gone on without the crown prince's knowledge now let's just take a look at the timeline of events when we go right back to when the south side to
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arabia first of all announced that jamal khashoggi was dead it said that there were eighteen people who were being detained and one of them was a siri. siri who is supposed to being the instigator of the whole thing he was the deputy head of intelligence and former spokes person for the war in yemen and the coalition in any yemen and that was well that was the one of the few names given the only other name given what was. the actual special advisor to mohammed bin some himself and this special this special advisor was. supposed to be detained but we've heard unconfirmed reports that he hasn't been detained that he's been working as a special advisor to the crown prince on officially and he is not named in the
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seventeen a list of those sanctioned by the u.s. he is the eighteenth person but he's not sanctioned so that is another indication of just where we're at right now the finger is pointing now at the white house in terms of where they're going next because most of the critics both in the u.s. congress and elsewhere want to see more action from donald trump soon to actually meet really what is a momentum now that's getting bigger and bigger pointing at the crown prince andrew thanks very much cynical sort of joins us live from ankara the turkish capital sin and presumably this news from the cia is exactly what mr one wants to hear what does he do next do we think. yes exactly the cia reports actually affirms what don said and what are dong one so here it was interesting that the cia report was revealed just hours later or
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a day after the turkish media reported that there are some more voice recordings from from the calls to date from the scene that jamal khashoggi was murdered on october the second of course the report says the tiger team the hit squad has discoursed the voice of us estimating the ways of murdering jamal ji which is very important because the other the other details that the reports show a direct link with the m b s even though there is another small can go on as you and andrew but of course this is important for turkey because cia report confirms what turkey turkish official disc has been until today don is scheduled to speak today in the later afternoon in istanbul we are expecting him to say something about this but also last night i don't understand donald trump u.s. president had a phone conversation and the requests came from mr donald trump as far as we have
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learned from the presidential sources along with many other issues related to buy they true relations was one of the most important issues they have debated and i have also learned from my sources that mr donald trump invited president don to united states there is no announced invitation right now but this is what i learned from my very important sources in ankara so we might see president flying to us in the coming days but today one more development is that turkey's foreign minister who has also had very harsh reactions after to saudi attorney's presser during the week he will be flying to the united states to attend in the u n civilizations. lions conference on monday in new york but he's flying today and he's expected to meet with the u.s. counterpart mike pompei oh and if they wait and meet and when they meet they will be probably discussing about the details of this case so these are very important
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details on the side of the line of on korea and washington and of course these will have very important reflections but one thing that turkey is trying to do besides conducting some relation with the united states is that turkey is trying to avoid an impression that this has shipped to murder is a bilateral issue between riyadh and corrupt but just the opposite because there was a very prominent journalist and this is an international case turkey is trying to internationalize the case one thing i would like to mention actually is that in the last presser of saudi attorney they mentioned some local color greatest and i have been speaking to turkish officials here that they are expecting that soldiers might frame some turkish officials in order to stop turkey from taking this case to international platforms c.n.n. thanks very much well james dorsey is an author and senior fellow at the rajaratnam
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school of international studies in singapore he says the saudi story is rapidly losing credibility. it's becoming more and more difficult to get shield conference. from the consequences of what happened and it is time for fact of the matter is however that if one really reached between the lines of what washington post business or any of what the cia was saying this remains primarily an analytical conclusion rather than one that has a smoking gun i think that the advantage of turkey in the last six weeks as well as the the problem that the south but the stock of something as well as those that would like to shield the friends from what is happening is that the saudis simply have not been able to develop one earring story that seems to be better and that they can maintain out the safety the fact that they have continuously had to change this story contradict themselves in the minds of
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a credibility i think the problem is that clearly whatever the saudis have put forward raises more questions than answers them and the longer this takes them the more difficult it gets to the fountains and others put to this house. or not enough which is about france in any case at the knowledge. graham still to come on al-jazeera including these stories the u.n. facing increasing pressure to keep the peace in mali and win the trust of the people. also ahead protest in france as efforts to clean up the environment the drivers you make those stories from a comeback. well
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our circulation of thunderstorms spotted here has developed into a place of interest to me it looks to me like a tropical cyclone doesn't it's not quite that bad it looks like a good circulation of low pressure the right is full not of it in the islands forty fifty millimeters in twenty four hours not a huge amount but it's moving slowly so i think the sudden vietnam it could be a pretty nasty affair from the point of view of the amount of rain it's light to bring but asserted the winds there's another one in the very edge of your screen developing so the train actually of these potential storms coming this way a little bit further north they should be this time of year the main rains the big thunderstorms of the south they should be throughout in the days you're a pretty well scattered but there is still a way to the back to jakarta not so much in borneo not so much even sumatra but k.l. and singapore both light to seize daily thunderstorms that's correct really we have at least for today some storm warnings for the northeast of the south wales and
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southern queens new just soon developing here in satellite picture after a run you for twenty four hours that is what they do during late saturday early sunday they disappear altogether after that and then your left was pretty warm weather in adelaide twenty eight probably rising further on monday. on counting the cost the breaks if endgame there's a complicated draft deal on the table we'll break it down and tell you what it means for people living in the u.k. and the e.u. plus why saudi arabia wants to slam the brakes on oil production. counting the cost on al-jazeera.
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welcome back here with al-jazeera live from doha these are the headlines u.s. media reports say the cia believes the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sama ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi the cia's finding directly contradict saudi claims that the crown prince wasn't involved in the journalist's murder and the country's consulate in istanbul last month. now the head of the world food program says yemen is only months away from full scale famine while the u.n. special envoy to yemen says the warring parties will attend talks in sweden later this month hospitals and schools have reportedly been hit in a new round of attacks on the perceived rebel held port city of data our diplomatic editor james bays now from new york to be allowed to impede the charles when he
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brief the un security council special envoy martin griffiths was talking up the prospects of yemeni peace talks due to take place soon in sweden it is a crucial moment for yemen. i have received firm assurances from the leadership of the yemeni parties the governor of yemen of course first and then that they are committed to attending these consultations i believe that genuine alike specked them to continue in that way and to. appear for those consultations and indeed so do the yemeni people who are desperate for a political solution to a war in which they are the main victims also briefing the security council the head of the world food programme who says the country is only months away from full scale famine david beasley had just forty eight hours earlier being in the main yemeni port of her data while in yemen he visited a hospital in sanaa that only has the capacity for twenty child patients
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a day they receive about fifty cases those not admitted to sent home to die one little child and i remember little feet was sticking out the blanket and it was kind of cute and i went to called the little feet you know they could not get a little smile and just like took on a ghost and nothing there. next week the u.k. will circulate a draft resolution to the other members of the security council calling for a sation of hostilities at data and other key locations used for transporting aid how will saudi arabia react diplomats tell me they don't think the saudis welcomed the idea of a new resolution james al-jazeera at the united nations a missing argentine submarine which disappeared last year with forty four crew on board has been found on the sea bed a u.s.
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undersea mapping company made the discovery in the south atlantic on the first anniversary of the disappearance of the sun one families are fiercely critical of the navy response to the disaster the crew did report problems with the aging subs batteries unable commanders eventually confirmed there had been an explosion on board. al-qaeda attacks in northern mali are increasing especially against the u.n. peacekeeping mission there despite the challenges u.n. troops are trying to fill the gap left by other aid agencies is mom involved in the conflict in northern mali has caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes and lose their livelihoods those who can't leave often leave in poverty facing hunger and violence their region is remote there are no public facilities or services and aid agencies are unable to gain access to most areas in this small. room and the u.n. mission in mali is starts with stabilizing the country and supporting the population the mission of other foreign armies is to provide protection for people
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and their property but they have their limitations their mission is also to protect the floor for humanitarian aid but it's becoming extremely difficult now add to that the fact the relief workers themselves do not want to be escorted by men in arms. this may look like a un peacekeeping force but in fact these are al-qaeda fighters on their way to launch an attack the tactic shows how dangerous the situation has become for civilians and foreign armies in mali and qaeda attacks on the united nations mission here and other foreign armies have become a daily occurrence and this despite the fact that the role of the un mission is not to participate in war but rather to keep the peace now added to its insecurity challenge the un is trying to fill the void left by aid organizations says our intervention in the area of the culture. but the thirty two distinct today believe one of our largest projects which is to come to some here is a large force chart
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a large green goblin well over three hundred people work and that's an important institution not only for the return of people who were displaced by events in two thousand but doesn't mean much also for the food security in the city. your own troops are also digging wells for biting solar power for education and helping schools in remote areas it's an attempt to win hearts and minds and prevent armed groups from gaining the loyalty of the population but insults are visible but limited save the villages here. i am and if it had been a small has provided some water for us but it's not enough look at the plants they need water more water and we need it as well in order to drink and farm better. and others in his village may not be quite happy but they will surely and viewed by hundreds of other villages in more remote and vulnerable areas of northern mali combination of war lack of not to resources on neglect have made me
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a survivor of the number one concern here mama divide. britain's prime minister seems to have temporarily calm the political storm over her highly contentious breakfast deal with the e.u. but could face more turmoil very soon conservative party rebels are gathering support for a challenge to a series of may's leadership stephen barclay is the new brics it minister the third one in six months he's replacing dominic robb who quit along with other ministers because of what he called fatal flaws in this is may's divorce deal with the e.u. join a whole has more from london. the ship of state on friday evening is looking more stable than it was twenty four hours ago theresa may has appointed a new briggs's secretary replacing dominic robb who resigned on thursday stephen bach lee up to now a junior health minister but crucially a leave supporter that portfolio requires a leave supporter to make it in any way effective he takes up the position albeit
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a portfolio reduced in stature to reason may will be leading the negotiations we're told at least over the next ten days with the e.u. she's also brought back into her cabinet and the rudd the former home secretary approach remain minister and a close ally of to resume a to take up estimate vai's position at work and pensions that's a big boost to the prime minister to have her ally back in cabinet and of course the five leave pro leave cabinet ministers who've been on the verge of resigning for the last twenty four hours including michael gove he's a big fish and they will decide to stay on and try and see this deal of hers through parliament so stability restored up to a point in this context that doesn't mean much more than that she and the government may survive the weekend because next week there is the possibility of a leadership challenge coming to pass the forty eight letters are received by the backbench committee chairman calling for a vote of no confidence by conservative party and these we're told that number is
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approaching nobody will know until the moment comes but of course if the reason mays voted down to have to stand down whether there are the numbers in her party willing to see her go though is another matter given that five of those senior cabinet ministers have decided to stay on they may know that the numbers simply aren't there to defeat the prime minister. china's president says world growth is being overshadowed by protectionism speaking at the opening of the apec summit in puffin new guinea xi jinping referred to us china trade tensions and called protectionist actions short sighted and doomed to fail so paul. resorting to old practices such as protectionism unilateral ism will not resolve problems but also adds the uncertainties to the global economy and history tells us taking that road of confrontation whether in the form of a cold war open war or trade war will produce no win it well the u.s.
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vice president mike pence says the terrorists will remain until china changes its ways. we have great respect for president. and great respect for china. but in the president's words china is taking advantage of the united states for many many years. in those days are over. as the president said and china has tremendous barriers they have tremendous tariffs and as we all know their countrymen gauges in quotas forced technology transfer you know actual property third industrial subsidies on an unprecedented scale the soaring price of fuel in france is infuriating drivers demonstrators wearing yellow vests threaten to block roads nationwide and access to petrol and diesel pose many blame price rises on the government's so-called green taxes intended to cut air pollution latasha butler has the story. priscilla dusk is driving a grassroots protest against high fuel prices in france she launched an online
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petition calling on the french government to scrap its high taxes on fuel aimed at reducing air pollution it has more than eight hundred thousand signatures. the government is out of touch with reality and daily life it's not easy just give up your car and buy electric a few financial incentives aren't enough. the campaign has become a nationwide movement known as the yellow vest protest dollars in asia yellow vests is a sign of support for our message is the symbol of the car and it shows the urgency of the situation rising global oil prices have pushed up the cost of fuel but it's the extra taxes on top in france that have infuriated motorists protesters say the taxes are unfair many people rely on their cars to get to work particularly in rural areas where there's little or no public transport this pharma says his income has fallen as his fuel costs have risen to the new year although it used to be soaring thousand dollars in fuel
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a year but it's going to sixteen thousand so it's really pushing up my owning costs the yellow vest protest is being sparked by fuel prices but has become a symbol of why did discontent in france many people say they're simply fed up with the rising cost of living and with the government they say doesn't understand their concerns. on a recent trip to northern france the french president was confronted nearly everywhere he went by people who said his policies favor the rich over the poor but whether mr cleek when you ask the something that doesn't have a clue what he only based on clothing or tennis the focus. organic vegetable farmer mustafa had musses fan is essential for his business to make deliveries he says protecting the environment is vital but it's big polluters like industry that should be taxed more but along it's politically it's important to support the environment but the way it's being done isn't fair you can't tax little guys like us and say we're the polluters we are much you have to tax the source of pollution
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. emanuel machall has faced a series of street protests over his reforms and policies since coming to power last year each time he survived the storm but as his popularity plummets in opinion polls this may be one of his greatest tests yet how to handle a movement to fuel to not by trade unions or politicians but powered by people natasha butler al-jazeera seventy to topple france. recapping our top stories for you so far this hour u.s. media reports say the cia believes the saudi crown prince mohammed bin cell man ordered the killing of jamal the washington post the new york times and the associated press all citing sources familiar with the investigation the cia's finding flatly contradict saudi claims the prince was not involved in the journalist murder in the country's consulate in istanbul last month it's believed
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the agency's chief gina housefull listened to a recording of a shock she's final moments when she met investigators in turkey a turkish newspaper has revealed more details about the investigation into the death of jamal under simmons has more now from istanbul. these sources are now sure that these syringes were used to inject coagulants into the body of. he being killed now the purpose of this say the investigators was to clot his blood so that when they dismembered his body there wouldn't be a spread of blood stains all over the room now these are all indicators along with many others that the cia will be aware of that show their saudi team were very instrumental in covering their tracks a missing argentine submarine which disappeared last year with forty four crew on
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board has now been found on the seabed a u.s. undersea mapping company made the discovery in the south atlantic on the first anniversary of the disappearance of the sun one families are fiercely critical of the navy response to the disaster the u.n. special envoy to yemen says the warring parties will attend talks in sweden this month hospitals and schools have reportedly been hit in a new round of attacks on the besieged rebel held port city of who data in the u.k. conservative party rebels are gathering support for a challenge to the prime minister to resign me over her breakfast deal with the rest of the e.u. now she's named this man stephen barclay as the new breaks that minister he will replace dominic robb he quit mr rubb was one of a number of ministers who resigned after mrs may's cabinet backed the deal. china's president xi jinping says world growth is being overshadowed by protectionism he was speaking at the apec summit in the poppy in guinea more news on the web site al jazeera dot com up next counting the cost.
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as it breaks the world bank says. migrants official. with detailed coverage by turning back on bilateral ties with iran what president donald trump has done is to show people there will be no blurred lines between friends and enemies from around the world a big group of pro independent stormed the playstation but then stood on the side killing for placement. this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the brig's it it's complicated it's messy we'll look at what just happened in the u.k. as divorce proceedings from the european union also this week oils new power play
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why opec's top producer saudi arabia wants to slam the brakes on production. and the strong bond between china and iran how it's being.

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