there's a pattern dice progress for some can create a living hell for others challenging his government and big business one man risked his life to save the community he cherishes didn't want to be that someone. from the opposition a witness documentary on al-jazeera. all about america first we're not going to give hundred dollars. to the u.s. president to defend his relations with. the conference may have known about the. well there was outrage comment as close allies senator lindsey graham says america should not. voice.

my headquarters and. also ahead. a suicide attack on a gathering of kills more than fifty people. look at the human toll behind the war and yemen especially for children and. trying to reach the. u.s. president donald trump has appeared to side with saudi arabia's crown prince mom of the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi despite a cia report concluding that the crown prince ordered the killing trump says the u.s.

intends to remain steadfast part of saudi she held her tongue she has more from washington d.c. . i hereby you. are the white house thanksgiving tradition of the president of turkey to go to groom significance this year a short time donald trump made it clear he was giving the saudi crown prince a pass in the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in an eight paragraph statement filled with the rhetorical flourishes the exclamation marks and slogans characteristic of the president's tweets made his argument. king solomon and crown prince mohammed bin salman vigorously deny any knowledge of the planning and execution of the murder of mr khashoggi our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information but it could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic events maybe he did and maybe he didn't our relationship is with the kingdom of saudi arabia donald trump went on they have been a great ally in our very important fight against iran the united states intends to

remain a steadfast partner of saudi arabia to ensure the interests of our country israel and all other partners in the region very simply it is called america first basically he was saying that our relationship as saudi arabia solve porn really doesn't matter later in the day mr trump was asked about his staunch support for the saudis we're not going to give up hundreds of billions of dollars in orders and let russia china and everybody else have a it's all about them a very simple it's america very soon after talks with my pump aoe in washington the turkish foreign minister also discussed the complexity of his nation's relations with saudi arabia making it clear that i'm going to don't want to sabotage those links but he added this we know well that the team who came to a stumble did not come because they wanted to but they came at the request of somebody we know though that this person is not the king there was a withering response from the washington post who wrote for journalists' rights groups president trump is correct in saying the world is

a very dangerous place the washington post said in a statement his surrender to the state ordered murder will only make it more so an innocent man brutally slain deserves better as does the cause of truth justice and human rights in this failure of leadership from president trump it now falls to congress to stand up for america's true values and lasting interests the committee to protect journalists tweeted this if you boil the white house statement down to its essence president trump has just asserted that if you do enough business with the us you are free to murder journalists that's an appalling message to send to saudi or. the world but it seems the troubled ministration has made a decision not to be concerned by the ridicule and disbelief that has greeted its arguments and ultimate position on the killing the old zero washington where reaction to trans comments was quick and scathing former cia director john brennan tweeted since mr trump excels in dishonesty it's now up to members of congress to obtain and declassify the cia findings on. death no one in saudi arabia most

especially the crown prince should escape accountability for such a huge act the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. condemned and response on twitter saying it is a made a nasty world but trump siding with the meanest and nastiest out there the third thing c.c. or assess of the m.b.'s will leave the world even nastier the statement as a green light for would be murderers and countries that have things trump things we need mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . president trump's comments appear to have infuriated congress is implication that the investigation is now over as far as he is concerned that it's business as usual with saudi arabia has certainly inflamed feelings among both democrats and republicans on the hill it's been made very clear that congress is going to take

whatever steps it can to get to the bottom of the matter to find out once and for all with one hundred the crown prince was responsible for the death of jamal khashoggi to get this done they are intent on introducing legislation within congress republican senator lindsey graham says this nuff bipartisan support within congress to get this legislation through very quickly in addition the senate foreign relations committee has sent another letter to president trump reminding him that it had already invoked the global magnitsky act which accounts for accountability for human rights abuses anywhere in the world the good relations committee says in this letter to the president that they want him to continue and conclude the simplist occasion and they add in the wake of the recent events they want him to make a definite finding on whether or not the crown prince mohammed bin solomon was

responsible for the death of jamal khashoggi so certainly pressure is ramping up from congress and any thought that president trump might have that the matter is now settled that's been denied completely by both republicans and democrats now howling josh on is the executive director of the arab center in washington d.c. he was also a friend of jamal khashoggi and he says trump has effectively ignored the intelligence community and pardoned the crown prince. i think it was somewhat of a strange event on the one hand this is the same president. only on sunday in a measure interview requests to the intelligence community to resubmit a new. assessment or reassessment of the events leading to the murder of yet today he attempts to preempt that reassessment before he hears back from the

intel community so in a sense. gave him basically a slap in the face and proceeded to preempt three assessment essentially what he offered in his statement today i believe is like a presidential pardon. been some man in advance of finishing the investigation even in saudi arabia and in terms of listening to his own intelligence community we want most probably see additional leaks in public even though that information has been released by the turks to their counterparts here in mclean virginia at the cia during that director is the director of the cia his visit to turkey i think they will be leaking now that information that was shared with her which was shared with the president but apparently as he said today he had meant it today that he doesn't seem to carry suspects that maybe.

m.b.'s had been some man knew more about the situation maybe he didn't maybe we will never know that's the way the president of the united states spoke so i think it would be an interest of the turks to to go ahead and leak more information in public. well in his defense of the u.s. saw the relationship donald trump statement on the kushal murder and. aimed at iran he opened a statement to us in pedal on as an example to show how quote dangerous the world will immediately afterwards iran's foreign minister mohammad job at that he tweeted mr trump that bizarrely devotes the first paragraph of his shameful statement on saudi atrocities to accuse iran of every sort of malfeasance he can think of perhaps what also responsible for the california fires because we didn't help break the forests just like the fans do. we're trying to comments on iran coincided on

tuesday with the new sanctions against russian and iranian companies the us state department says they're shipping millions of barrels of oil to syria in violation of u.s. sanctions it also accuses iran and russia of using the revenues to help fund syrian government allies what the u.s. considers terrorist groups secretary of state my palm peo says the transactions undermine the gist of efforts to resolve the war in syria the united states today sanctions and international network that the iranian regime and russia are using to provide millions of barrels of oil to the assad regime this is in exchange for a little bit of hundreds of millions of dollars to the i r g c could force that money is then passed on to terrorist organizations like hezbollah and hamas the united states in its continued efforts will not allow these dirty dealings to flourish. trita parsi is a professor at georgetown university and he says the u.s. is trying to deflect attention away from saudi arabia. it shows the desperation and

which trumpet ministration is trying to deflect and move on to the next issue and essentially trying to scare the american public into thinking that iran is such a major threat to the united states so that the united states has no choice but to keep business as usual with the saudi government despite the murder on him off actually it shows that this obsession with iran has now reached a level in the us government on the trunk it's always existed but it's not reached a level that is beyond anything we've seen in the past and i think we've reached a point in which even folks in washington are starting to see that this obsession with iran has gone quite a bit too far and i think what you're also seeing is that this saudi american relationship which has been a bipartisan issue is not going to become much more of a partisan question in the sense that many of the democrats will make their

opposition to the current sound of u.s. relationship a cornerstone of their foreign policy particularly from progressives this saudi american relationship as it stands right now and bodies almost everything that they disagree with when it comes to american foreign policy everything from turning a blind eye to human rights violations everything from basing so much on it on arms sales to the lack of focus on gender equality and women's rights so for with them right excite this is going to continue in this is going to be to the detriment of the saudi government who is looking for closure on this issue but it's not going to get. let's move on to other news now in afghanistan has declared a day of national mourning after at least fifty people were killed in tact in the capital kabul an interior ministry spokesman says. a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside

a whole gathering of muslim religious scholars they were meeting to mark the birthday of the prophet muhammad. i heard the explosion just take my cousin out of there was seriously wounded but when i got here i realized that i was wounded as well and i am here i wanted to enter the hotel to participate in the ceremony but i got a call from a relative and he told me that there was a blast inside the hotel and the his children were we did now on looking after my friends who've been injured in the blast the hospitals aren't allowing anyone. still ahead on the bulletin the traumatic tale of. the past and causing up to beijing the philippines china's president as it tries to distance itself from longtime ally the u.s. .

hello again to welcome back well here across the levant we are seeing some nice conditions across much of the northwestern part of the levant but things are going to be deteriorating because we do have some clouds and some rain coming in off the med over the next few days the forecast map looks like this as we go towards wednesday here are those clouds right there anywhere from ongar all the way down towards beirut in those clouds we could be seeing some rain showers as well making our way towards thursday more heavy rain across the region and those clouds start to make their way towards the southeast we are going to see in kuwait city cloudy day for you with the terms of their of about twenty four degrees now in those clouds we do expect to see some rain particular here across the northern part of saudi arabia not looking too bad here on wednesday but there you go as we go towards thursday those clouds start to settle in and we are going to be seeing some localized showers as well over here toward still how we do expect to see a temperature of twenty seven but as we go towards the middle of the weekend i do expect to see more showers probably by the time we get towards saturday and sunday

there very quickly across parts of africa we are going to be seeing some cloudy conditions across much of the area and rain for durban over the next few days temperature a few of twenty one degrees with johannesburg twenty eight and then as we go towards thursday we're going to be seeing some clearing conditions but cooler conditions in capetown attempt of twenty one. to feed me so we're proud to be able to members of the wanted to vaccinate is 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 risk their lives in one of his final strongholds we don't assume terse work with the students they're doing their lifeline the last drops on al-jazeera.

good to have you with. these are our top stories the u.s. president has admitted the saudi crown prince could have known about a plot to kill journalists. but says he isn't going to take any action against. a cia report said the problem prince ordered the killing. comments have been widely condemned by the u.s. the former top official saying he's given a green light to commit murder senator lindsey graham is an ally of trouble said there was strong support in congress to serious sanctions against saudi and the u.s. has blacklisted russian and iranian companies for shipping millions of barrels of oil in violation of u.s.

sanctions that accuse them of using the revenues to form groups fighting alongside the syrian government. now a new report by amnesty international has accused saudi arabia of torturing and sexually assaulting a woman's rights activists held in detention they were violated by men wearing face masks other detainees and electrocuted amnesties middle east research director says only a few weeks after the ruthless killing of jamal kushal g.e. is a shocking reports of torture sexual harassment and other forms of treatment verified expose further outrageous human rights violations by the saudi authorities. so yemen now where there have been more airstrikes and gun battles in the port city of. this is so far to me the city center was one of the worst they've seen in recent days saw the amorality coalition is backing yemen's government in its fight against iranian

backed rebels who control. now an estimated eighty five thousand children under five may have died from extreme hunger or disease since the civil war broke out in twenty fifth thing that's according to save the children the aid group has continued fighting is making it hard to get help to those who are still alive and a famine is only making things worse the home of the reports from neighboring djibouti the casualties of human swore just hit by the bullets. impact has been catastrophic for the general population food supplies have been disrupted prices have gone up and millions of people are now living with the effects of. his weak and severely malnourished she's ten months old but weighs just the kilograms the wheat over a newborn baby. been sick since she was born hunger and disease have left

tiny and frail she even struggles to cry. not only she under nourished but she also suffers from diarrhoea she's very sick yemen has always been desperately poor but the war husband thinks was well food prices inevitably rise incomes have plummeted many families can barely afford to eat. i have sixteen children two of them suffer severe malnutrition and hung on the living conditions as you know and i'm without any source of income hospitals in hijab province are overflowing with sick and starving babies and more keep arriving every day so i thought there had been one hamlet the last that you have a problem of severe malnutrition is getting worse the consequences of four years of war are clearly visible here from severe malnutrition to deformed needy born babies breastfeeding mothers also suffer from undernourishment. the frequent strikes also

make it difficult for the people to leave their homes the destruction to roads and bridges has limited the delivery of food and fuel to a population already suffering according to the united nations two point eight million people have been driven from their homes by the bombing it's humanitarian chief has warned of a clear and present danger of farming many of the displaced are living in green camps in the middle of the country surviving on meager live hundreds whose deliveries a few and far between seeing children dying for lack of food in the middle of the war in yemen is deeply shocking the hundreds of thousands of children perhaps even millions who have no access to proper medical care and as the conflict rages on aid workers say they're finding it more and more difficult to deliver aid to those who need it most they now hope that the farm and just like the war the course and it won't be forgotten to behave like the wall jazeera the beauty. one hundred refugees

and bangladesh have a number of offer of a patrician daily between dhaka and the myanmar government was put on hold more than seven hundred thousand fled their homeland last year after a crackdown by myanmar's military or many are demanding justice for the atrocities committed against them mohammad june has the story of one woman. refugee mom taz big whom the scars may be healing but the pain is constant. point about i'm not even i am out if i were there my husband was shot and killed three of my children had their throat slit and then they hacked their bodies to pieces left one of them will say you know well. montages recalls how in august two thousand and seventeen we in juarez military attacked her village of tula tolly rights groups called it a massacre that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians after being raped

montages says she was locked in a house that was set on fire she shows me the burns she sustained before managing to escape with her sole surviving child eight year old razia for whom these marks from a machete serve as a reminder of the kind of trauma people three times her age would have trouble processing and could therefore indicate would be nikki we're getting very little what did our children do to them what our how did i did them. out of there how about the why did the military attack and kill them how can anyone expect us to go back there. when taz asks that question because of a much criticised repatriation deal between me and moore in bangladesh that was set to begin last week it was ultimately delayed but not before causing a huge amount of concern for him to refugees in bangladesh terrified of the prospect of returning to me and more. in august a u.n. fact finding mission accuse top military leaders in myanmar of perpetrating

genocide against the rangers in october the head of that fact finding mission even further saying that the genocide in me and more is ongoing as like so many other refugees here wants to know why the international community isn't doing more to help of one thing though she is certain. even if they could bring my husband and my children and my parents back from the dead even if they brought back all of them we wouldn't go back we wouldn't go because of how much we were persecuted. resolve it seems conquering despair even though the sorrow will never go away. at the blue collar refugee camp in cox's bazar bangladesh members of popular new guinea's armed forces have stormed parliament over pay dispute stemming from the apec farm the country have recently hosted they broke windows smashed furniture and talk pictures

from walls inside the parliament house they say they haven't been paid for working apec the government has said it will pay the money within a week china and the full of pain from sign trade and investment deals including patents for oil and gas development in the disputed south china sea but the first state visit to manila by china's president xi jinping has caused protests from paid for wired about beijing's growing influence. on reports from manila. the philippines is looking to china and many say this is proof that beijing's influence will dominate for many years president xi jinping is first state visit to below the securing around twenty nine agreements most never presented to the public for consultation or scrutiny. the most contentious is a joint development agreement in the disputed south china sea which means both

could she's will explore and share resources in terror trees that have been declared to be within the philippine exclusive economic zone china says most of the south china sea belongs to it critics say this agreement could force the philippine government to give up its control of the spread. but both leaders say otherwise presidential visit gives us new embattled over more. and more asian and ensuring the well being of our people and contributing to peace and stability in the region so how you. may run parallel without interfering with one another both sides agree there is no one size fits all development model and that every country has the right to choose its own. very for the peoples agreed. and in time for president xi jinping service at

a local opinion survey shows more than eighty percent of filipinos reject the philippine government's in action in the south china sea china got a very low trust rating negative sixteen percent compared to the united states a longstanding ally of the philippines a positive fifty nine percent and also more than sixty five percent of filipinos surveyed say they are aware of the abuses being committed against filipino fisherman in the south china sea. when he was sworn into office dared to promised an independent foreign policy a pivotal away from the united states towards good she's like china and russia but more than two years later here have grew impatient. the economic benefits promised from despair but have yet to be seen. president xi jinping first stop was to lay a wreath at a monument dedicated to a national hero. fought and died for philippine independence from spain

in the late one eight hundred s. now he's ordered by the leader of a could she be here had long considered a threat to the country's independence until now. to northern california now where two more bodies have been found bringing the number of cold and wildfires there to eighty one watching the using cadaver dogs to search properties and vehicles heavy rain that's forecast for late on wednesday could hamper efforts to find human remains. donald trump's lawyer says the u.s. president has submitted russian on says to questions by special counsel robert muller he's investigating a trans campaign colluded with russia to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election trump has repeatedly called the investigation a watch hunt and says he would not stop his acting attorney general if he moved to

curtail the inquiry. and sent an american asylum seekers have arrived in to you want to join those who are already in the mexican city meanwhile the u.s. judge has blocked president order to bob schieffer from seeking asylum if they enter the country illegally border agents are preparing for the so-called caravan of people making their way to the u.s. john heilemann has more from. the vanguard of the caravan of people most of them from central america heading through mexico has arrived in tijuana and they've been here now some of them thought almost a week you can see behind me the center it's a school sense where they're being housed this leaping in the rough they're getting some donations of clothes and food some care from the city authorities but i think it's fair to say that it's a good thing for our own arrived here the welcome from the left and on the mexican towns that they were passing for a couple of days or so there was no end of the nation here of clothes and help to

get them on their way here in the city a few one. has become concerned that they're going to be here for months instead of today this is really of course you know before they get to the united states the welcome it's been less will be cautious it's been more accusations there are people here with addictions there are people here that think of a magic that's coming from the city's authorities now of course we're right next to the united states border and they're from the government the welcome is decidedly cold out just in the last few days we've seen course concertina wire one. the main points of entry who also sing in those points of entry the lines for the vehicles becoming less and less as the u.s. government really is trying to think only people from killing so that there is a live for asylum seekers to sign up for and about seventy to one hundred being

processed we've heard a day by u.s. authorities the people here fleeing poverty also being violent some of them so that is different still situations here but the u.s. certainly certainly for homeland security has just come out and said that it's five hundred criminals gang members in the caravan and she didn't really saw any evidence of that sort of a symptom of how president trumps administration is treating these men and so women and children that are trying to get out of the u.s. . and i again i'm of the problem and with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. president has admitted that the saudi crown prince could have known about a plot to kill journalist jamal khashoggi but says he isn't going to take any action against syria of earlier a cia report said it believed the crown prince ordered the killing. for donald

trump's comments having widely condemned the u.s. for former top official saying he's given a green light to commit murder senator lindsey graham who's an ally of trump said there's strong support in congress to impose serious sanctions against saudi. the u.s. has blacklisted russian and iranian companies for shipping millions of barrels of oil to servia in violation of u.s. sanctions that accuse them of using the revenues to fund groups fighting alongside the syrian government. the united states today sanctions and international network that the iranian regime and russia are using to provide millions of barrels of oil to the assad regime this is in exchange for a little bit of hundreds of millions of dollars to the i r g c could force that money is then passed on to terrorist organizations like hezbollah and hamas the united states in its continued efforts will not allow these dirty dealings to flourish to roll bodies have been found in northern california bringing the number killed in wildfires to eighty bomb at least eight hundred people still missing

heavy rain that's for off tonight on wednesday could hamper efforts to find human remains authorities say more than seventy percent of the fires on now contained. there will be more air strikes and gun battles in the yemeni ports. witnesses say fighting near the city center was some of the worst i've seen in recent days a saudi an erotic coalition is backing given the government in its fight against iranian backed rebels who control the data of god has declared a day of national mourning after at least fifty people killed in a suicide attack in the capital kabul the explosion targeted amazing all of islamic scholars and a whole they were meeting to mark the birthday of the prophet muhammad. those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us the listening post is coming up next

thank you very much for watching. china could be facing a debt that's according to s. and p. global the trumpet ministration insisting towards the saudis and other uses 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. media. savvy. connect why. can't the south have. such. as. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week the saudi operative linked to the killing and the lengths he went to to suppress journalism in the kingdom the koreas the unique genre that is.