money does a richer get those people who don't think. i'm german and i'm rocking the new germans on al-jazeera. shock and disappointment as president trump val's to stick by saudi arabia despite the cia blaming the crown prince for jamal khashoggi. hello again. live from also coming up. we are of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned today. the british prime minister criticizes the u.a.e. for sentencing a british academic to life on spying charges. hoping to revive yemen's peace

process the un's envoy arrives in the capital to lay the groundwork for talks between warring sides. the world's biggest police force has a new president but his election has been met by criticism. a betrayal of american values that's how u.s. politicians have described refusal to hold saudi arabia accountable for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi the president and his own intelligence agency which concluded that the saudi crown prince had ordered the killing he says mohammed bin salman's role may never be fully known but mr trump's responses provoked strong responses from both sides of the aisle the senate foreign relations committee has asked for an inquiry that specifically looks into the crown prince's role in the merger turkey says it may push for an international inquiry its foreign

minister saying there shouldn't be a cover up to maintain trade ties with riyadh hartmann go live now to our white house correspondent kimberly haokip she's in washington d.c. and kimberly so it sounds very much as a this whole process is now being driven by members of congress. it certainly is being driven by members of congress who have the power to hold the white house in check as part of the u.s. constitution the president for his part is now on his thanksgiving holiday the american holiday he has heading towards the golf course we're told but was tweeting just before he left in fact saying that the oil prices are getting lower thank you to saudi arabia let's go lower so doubling down on his posture the saudi arabia is a friend an ally of the united states even as the u.s. congress is questioning that relationship what we have is another triggering of the global magnitsky act by the u.s.

senate a letter sent on tuesday evening to the white house compelling it to investigate a potentially issue more sanctions with respect to the killing of a show she but this time the letter specifically asked for the trumpet ministration to investigate whether or not and what the role might be of mohammed bin solomon the saudi crown prince now we have been here before this was a letter that was also sent of similar nature on october tenth it resulted in seventeen saudi nationals being sanctioned by the u.s. treasury department but notably none of the saudi royals were listed among those sanctions and those individuals that were sanctioned kimberly thanks for that kimberly how could they live in washington right now we can hear from tony berkeley our correspondent who's in istanbul turkey has reaction to president trump statement. or in this difficult position they want this pursuit of justice to carry

on they feel they probably can't do on their own behalf they need some international body maybe the un for example because it's quite clear the u.s. is not going to push saudi arabia on this matter the response though has been rather muted i think officially in public the most we've heard is the deputy leader of the ruling a party mr pneumococcal most and he said that mr president's statement was comical but that's the closest we have got i mean the turks do find themselves in a difficult position here because while the one hand they they want to pursue justice it's a moral responsibility for them they also want to maintain and improve relations both in washington and with saudi arabia but they are a little bit concerned now they're looking focusing more on finding the perpetrators and finding out who was behind the murder a mystical saji they're very disappointed at the response from the saudis for example they faith feel that this joint investigation is not going anywhere they don't feel the saudis are cooperating they've asked for additional information that

if it wasn't the saudi crown prince then who was it or donald trump's a man defending the u.s. saudi relationship didn't begin with riyadh instead it concentrated on its regional rival iran in the engineering lines president trump cited terror on as an example of how quote the world is a dangerous place he accused it of being responsible for the war in yemen and trying to the middle east well the iranian foreign minister job and zarif issued another tweet criticizing president chavez statement a nation is its people at real donald trump repeatedly calling iran a terrorist nation reveals hostility towards an entire people and exposes the real reason for targeting them with your illegal sanctions and u.s. hawks stream of routing the iranian nation will never be realised. now the un envoy for yemen is in the capital sana'a to meet the leaders in the latest push for talks between warring sides face wants to stuff

a new one out conflict in the full setting of a danger which is crucial for the supply of aid into the country every national gun battles there since changed. has been following that visit by. the un special envoy is pursuing a commitment from both sides not only to talks but to a cease fire before and the talks can be hold he had been in talks with both use over the phone before he arrived in sanaa and they have promised him there will stop missile attacks against the saudi arabia united arab emirates as well as their allies on the ground as well as drone attacks but then translate that into the guns going silent we've seen some of the most intense fighting in days happening in the data on one of the key suburbs just full kilometers away from the whitehall port where aid to millions of people is delivered through now. what the international

community fully understands is that that humanitarian crisis with the united nations and aid agencies say is the was in the world even getting worse by the day is it cannot be stopped they can be more. into the humanitarian crisis as long as the fighting continues and fighting continues in that vital part of the data where almost seventy percent of the country's imports go through and that is what the special envoy is after. this visit comes as aid agencies warn of an urgent need to reach hundreds of thousands of severely malnourished yemeni children before it's too late to save the children says around eighty five thousand children under the age of five may have already died from extreme anger since the saudi u.a.e. coalition began its air campaign the u.n. warns at least fourteen million people are now at risk of famine an estimated four

hundred thousand children are on the brink of severe acute malnutrition while the u.k. has presented a draft proposal at the u.n. security council for a resumption of talks between the rival sides and the british foreign secretary has been speaking in parliament he appealed for a stop to the violence what we're witnessing is a manmade humanitarian catastrophe inflicted by a conflict that has raged for too long i went to saudi arabia i went to the u.a.e. and i went to iran and in all cases i had tough messages for the people that i was speaking to about the fact that this situation has to change a british academic in the u.a.e. has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of spying matthew hedges has been in detention for six months he was arrested at dubai airport after

a two week research visit britain says the sentencing will hurt the u.k.'s relationship with the u.a.e. prime minister terry's amaze as a government has been speaking with the m.r.i. is about the case and will continue to do say. we are of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned at today's verdict and i realise how difficult and distressing this is both for matthew hedges but for also for his family we all reason it with the authorities at the highest level my rational friend the foreign secretary is urgently seeking a call with the foreign minister abdullah bin so i ate during his visit to the u.a.e. on november the twelfth he raised the issue with both crown prince mohammed bin ziad and the foreign minister and i can assure my honorable friend and other members that the foreign office will remain in close contact with matthew his family and his lawyer more now from our correspondent paul brennan in london. the severity of the sentence handed down by the court in the united arab emirates has shocked not just the family of matthew hedges but also the british government i

mean matthew's wife daniella who is in court said she's in complete shock she doesn't know what to do she says the british government must take a stand now from matthew is one of their citizens she said it's with the world one of the worst six months of her life let alone for matt who she said was shaking when he heard the verdict and the news of the life sentence has also been mentioned at high levels here in the u.k. government the prime minister to resign may broke off talking about bret's it during a session in parliament at lunch time and said that basically the foreign secretary john jeremy hunt will be taking up this matter again at the very highest levels of the united arab emirates government with tom was just there ten days ago and hopes were high that that visit with direct access to the crown prince going to actually open the doors and perhaps get them out you had just released it hasn't proved that way a quick recap matthew edges was arrested in may of this year he had been in the united

arab emirates for his ph d. thesis involving the u.s.a.'s internal and foreign security policies in the wake of the arab spring of twenty eleven a sensitive subject no doubt but as part of his defense his court appointed lawyer offered the notes from his studies to the court to say look there's nothing confidential or secret in here have a read of them and they will show that he has not contravene any spying laws and so even more of a shock when the decision came down today a life sentence now he has thirty days to appeal but the future looks much more uncertain than it did just a few hours ago and i've been speaking to him in his research in the middle east and north africa division at human rights watch and she says hedges did not get a fair trial. his trial was marred with such due process violations that there's no way it could have been. seen as as

a fair trial and we know that this is going to be a huge blow to the u.a.e. reputation we know that it invests considerable time and money into presenting itself as progressive as told are meant to have detained this academic for so long without charge we don't know what the what the evidence is besides the confession that he that they have that they have a team from him which we are also in doubt of how it was of how it was obtained this all leads us to think that you know it is a very dangerous place near many you know the u.a.e. is dangerous for journalists for for activists for any critics of any sort and so now we also know and it is absolutely dangerous for academics who want to conduct research in the country as well. so to come here it out is there a syrian prisons in government jails protests against executions of political detainees and just for years until the twenty twenty two feet a while cup kicks off in cata well take

a look at the progress made for for peace. hello the weather is set fire across china at the moment largely clear skies clearing skies anyway got this little area cloud making its way southwards and east was as we go on throughout the day this fight in toronto then hong kong around twenty three degrees found a dry two for taipei a little more cloud just rolling towards the southeast a chance to go on through friday but as you can see it should be largely settled and sunny for the most parts a settle in sunny to the northern areas of india are closed today have the smoke problems lingering around new delhi further south that's where we got the cloud is where the main weather ration lies at present we are going to see some heavy bursts of rain coming back into southern areas of honor but that into tom and not do right

across southern india we could see some for the flooding as we go on through the next few days and live i was too in the forecast for sri lanka further north it does stay dry and all she tried to across the arabian peninsula little cloud just sliding into northern parts of saudi arabia here in doha temp just struggling to get to around twenty seven celsius it should stay dry at least until the early part of next week you see with the rains coming in we'll see some heavy bursts of rain coming into iraq into iran and also northern areas of saudi arabia. stories generate thousands of headlines with different goals from different perspectives cara families fact help the highly dangerous one of the major issues before voters is the institution president trump cannot stop talking about the news

separate from the facts the misinformation from the journalism the sharp rise of b.b.c.'s reporting free to leave the listening post on al-jazeera. but as i look at the top stories here and there u.s. politicians say donald trump is putting saudi arabia ahead of american values on tuesday mr trump said he will stand by the kingdom and not take punitive action against it for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi. the u.n. envoy for yemen is in the capital sanaa to meet to three leaders in the latest push for talks to end the civil war griffiths visit comes as save the children says

around eighty five thousand kids under the age of five have died from extreme hunger since the saudi u.a.e. coalition began its campaign in yemen. a british academic in the u.a.e. has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of spying matthew has been in detention for six months britain's foreign minister says edges sentencing will hurt the u.k.'s relationship with the us. and prisoners in the syrian city of hama are on hunger strike eleven political detainees have been told that they will be executed for taking part in peaceful demonstrations in twenty eleven then a holdover. from inside hama central prison an appeal for help detainees and now it's an open ended hunger strike more than a week ago to protest against the verdicts by a syrian court eleven and mates the latest to be handed death sentences for taking

part in peaceful protests in two thousand and eleven the beginning of the uprising that led to the war now in its eighth year. we speak your conscience we appeal to your humanity. and illegally ate our suffering we have been imprisoned for years we are exhausted we have the right to live human rights groups say the verdicts are unjust the international committee of the red cross has been denied access to the prisons where detainees don't have lawyers serious counter terrorism law has also been criticized for criminalizing almost all peaceful opposition activity many political protesters and political dissidents who are basically picked up by the syrian security services or detained that checkpoints and taken into these detention facilities without any form of due process. those held inside hama prison retained control of much of the facility after

a mutiny in two thousand and sixteen they have phones and internet access but despite managing to draw attention to their plight the international community remains silent. tens of thousands have disappeared others are being tried in military field courts or counterterrorism courts where proceedings own up to international standards little action has been taken there's also the silence of the un refuses to discuss the foil. the family say the case of at least eighty thousand detainees and the forcibly disappeared needs to be dealt with in any post conflict settlement a few months ago and after years of silence hundreds of families learned their missing relatives have been registered dead they fear the government may be trying to cover up crimes against humanity human rights groups estimate that between five thousand and thirteen thousand people have been executed instead of prison and a further eight hundred thousand have died in other prisons after being tortured

and because of poor conditions since two thousand and eleven but said no year has been singled out by amnesty international as nothing more than a human slaughterhouse it's not the first time detainees in hama prison are resisting transfer to said they are reaching out to the world for help through their hunger strike asking others to be their voices so. beirut one of the members of the so-called bali nine has been released from an indonesian prison australian renee lawrence served more than thirteen years behind bars for smuggling drugs she was found with more than two kilos of heroin strapped. ringleaders of the group were executed by firing squad in twenty fifteen straining ties between australia and indonesia which has the world's most stringent drug. the world's biggest police force interpol has elected a new president after what's been a rather bitter contest between russia and western countries on who would lead the

organization south korea's kim young jarring is taking charge after being strongly endorsed by the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei and kim replaces mung way who's under arrest in china on corruption charges russia says there was outside pressure that influence the vote moscow was hoping interpol vice president and russian security veteran alexander proc put chuck would take the post spent his candidacy was strongly opposed by europe and the u.s. but jon cohen is the head of the australian strategic policing ilorin force and program he says there are some real concerns with interpol but the new president should be good for the organization present here is a translation under the situation under the circumstances that we are facing he's of course a conservative is a conservative approach to law enforcement which means that he's unlikely to be continuing on some of the push that president may have been doing to reform egypt.

change its role is a more strategically focused. there is in his government will not change its spending proposal despite the european union commission rejecting its budget twenty nineteen the e.u. is concerned borrow and spend plans could trigger another debt crisis that could have a domino effect the italian deputy prime minister met called any possible sanctions against italy disrespectful towards his citizens. the race to replace angela merkel as leader of germany's christian democratic union is gathering pace party members are getting the chance to question the three people who want to succeed mrs merkel dominic cain reports now. one of these three will become the next christian democrat leader but to do so they must first convince their party one is close to anglo-american and seen by some as

her natural successor for her competence in government are the watchwords my the president if you like. i bring my personal outlook and previous experience as a federal minister and prime minister of stand if the question is about character and that's why i am the right candidate for you to elect by me then there is the young pretender who believes the party should move further right and reengage with voters lost during merkel's time in office yah. yes the turnout in the general election was up but our vote dropped we lost people's trust voters sent us a message that things weren't going how they should like for example or diesel they're asking themselves will they be able to drive their cars in the cities or not. finally there is anger america's former rival a man who left politics after being sidelined by her nearly ten years ago he's

returned now to say the party needs reinvigoration are. funding for and vivid early achieve it if you stay firmly anchored in the political center ground don't turn left or right but we must been have lost the last few years this will only work with our christian democratic union that welcomes people what the what the background but which is clearly identifiable of western christian and jewish values. the first things are about giving the members the chance to see these three candidates up close and personal and for them to work out which one they think can take their party forward and when the next general election so who is impressing them right now and just mine is it isn't this interest but my feeling is to be defied it every scary impressed i feed a mess but the nicads come caus i was also very interesting. from the three candidates i prefer still smarts because i'm very happy that you come back into.

politics. he was the most impressive. they'll all get the chance to cast their votes in december dominic al-jazeera. the best. ranger refugees in bangladesh are in limbo after a repatriation deal between dhaka and the miramar government was put on hold mormon seven hundred thousand of them fled their homeland last year after a crackdown by mere miles military many of them are demanding justice for the atrocities committed against them mohammed jam june has the story of one woman. refugee. the scars may be healing but the pain is constant. point about i'm not even i am i one of the 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. mom tas recalls how in august two thousand and seventeen we in march 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 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 you mean he was getting a little what did our children do to them what are how divided them. out of there how about the why did the military attack and kill them how can anyone expect us to go back there. asks that question because of a much criticised repatriation deal between me and more in bangladesh that was set

to begin last week it was alternately 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 and me and mar a perpetrating a genocide against the rangers in october the head of that fact finding mission went even further saying that the genocide in myanmar 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 lot of them are the only one 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. mohammed atta at the

by the cali refugee camp in cox's bazar bangladesh. hundreds of central american asylum seekers have arrived in the mexican city of tijuana joining many others who hope to cross into the u.s. john homan has met some of them. u.s. homeland security secretary because jamil simp was in san diego to check out the latest addition to the border let me first acknowledge what was referenced and what i'm standing in front of this is a border wall with row upon row of concertina wire make knows make no mistake we are very serious you will not get into our country illegally it's a heavily armed guards and the troop deployment that the pentagon says will cost seventy two million dollars by mid december it's all to stop these people a caravan of central americans almost three thousand have made it to t one a with more to come some of fleeing violence many of them poverty but a further attempt to stop them has failed for now

a proclamation from president trump to stop those who cross illegally rather than the points of entry from asking for a sign of a federal judge blocked his attempt temporarily this is important because what many people try and do is get over the fence and then as soon as they touch u.s. soil hand themselves into authorities and ask for asylum stopping that may be one less legal avenue for them but now temporarily it's been opened up again many in the caravan already trying to ask for asylum through the point of entry anyway but those that we spoke to in the caravans makeshift camps were simply unaware of the legal fight around the hazy on the obstacles ahead. so only god knows what's going to happen if we see we can cross will cross if got permits we'll get work here you know because i wasn't buying a lot but if we cross over in peace i think things will be ok but if we go causing problems they're going to hit us and deport us. when you don't know that trying to

escape from. crippling poverty back in their home doesn't mean they're eligible for soil in the u.s. they've made it this for just by keeping the going this may be the point with enough to. join the home of. the plumber and exactly for his time the twenty twenty feet of world cup will kick off. as the football's biggest tournament it's been moved from a traditional june july when day to november december in order to avoid the extreme summer heat of the gulf and the riches and has more from. now when castle paid for the world cup and wanted in c. thousand and ten they were bidding for a summer world cup in the eight stadiums that will be used at this tallman will have cooling technology inside and whether or not that will be necessary at this time of year is another question but there's no down there for the hundreds of thousands of fans that do come to cats for this event it will be an altogether more pleasurable experience coming during these colder months not will of course calls

disruptions that so many domestic leagues this world cup will be shorter than the one we've just seen in russia will be twenty eight days as opposed to thirty two days us to try and minimize the disruption one of the compensation is hard fans will get is that often when international countries get hold of their players for a tournament it's the end of a long season and their play is all exhausted but won't be the case for a tournament kicking off in november so organizers hoping there will be a better quality of football at this world cup. covers it take a look at the top stories here it out zero u.s. senators want an investigation into the role of the saudi crown prince in the death of jamal khashoggi on tuesday president trump said he'd stand by the kingdom and not take punitive action against it his own intelligence agency concluded mohamed

bin sound man had ordered the killing the u.n. envoy for yemen is in the capital sanaa to meet who the leaders in the latest push for talks between warring sides griffiths wants to stop an all out conflict in the port city of the data which is crucial for the supply of aid a british academic in the u.a.e. has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of spying matthew hedges has been in detention for six months britain's foreign minister says hedges sentencing will hurt the u.k.'s relationship with the us. and we are of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned today's verdict and i realise how difficult and distressing this is both for matthew had us but for also for his family we all reason it with the emerald storage is the highest level my rational friend the foreign secretary is urgently seeking a call with the foreign minister abdullah bin site during his visit to the u.a.e. on november the twelfth he raised the issue with both crown prince mohammed bin

ziad and the foreign minister and i can assure my honorable friend and other members that the foreign office will remain in close contact with matthew his family and his lawyer. the italian government has said it will not change its spending proposal despite the european union commission rejecting its budget for twenty nineteen the e.u. is concerned borrow and spend plans could trigger another debt crisis that could domino in the european zone and deputy prime minister selvi could any possible sanctions against italy disrespectful towards his citizens. are a joke today those are the very latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera do stay with us because coming up next it's the stream chandelier zone staring down what humanity done to themselves that one would ever know how many heroes digest discovered by

a good body. it's all rod sims and the shots came from the holiday you heard craig speakers on the balcony of the hotel bill just want to break off because we've got some of. that stuff somehow. your hotels a brand new series coming soon normal just zero. hi i'm femi ok and you're in the stream why is the chinese government separating families amole could be and today we meet people who say they've been unable to contact detained relatives as china is accused of cracking down on muslim community have questions why i guess the short.