and. we bring you the story. to. al-jazeera and died from studio fifteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha for the back to school welcome to the new straits the u.s. president is ready to move on from democrates matter but we're turkey and the rest of the world follow suit there's been widespread criticism after donald trump statements in saudi arabia soulas over the journalists killing but congress still wants an investigation into the conference's role we'll have a rock live report from washington also on the bridge bombed into famine an estimated eighty five thousand children may have died from extreme hunger or

disease since the war in yemen escalated three years ago and there's little progress towards ending the conflict as intense fighting erupts again in the strategic port city of the data and countdown to the first ever winter world cup qatar twenty twenty two in exactly four years the gulf country will host football's biggest tournament we'll take a look at the progress made so far and what we can expect from now until kickoff to . let. you all with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us a saudi hit team cut a u.s. resident to pieces yet president says he stands with saudi arabia because the world is a very dangerous place may have hoped to make this story go away before the thanksgiving holiday but congress is calling for greater action following the. and that bizarre

statement issued by the president on tuesday the senate foreign relations committee has ordered the president to determine what role prince mohammed bin solomon may have played let's go straight to our white house correspondent in washington d.c. kimberly so a lot of noise after that statement from president trump yesterday what happens next in the u.s. congress well we have a couple of things happening in the u.s. congress as early as next week there could be legislation moving forward in the u.s. senate that would effectively halt arms sales for offensive purposes to saudi arabia if that was passed into law and also would permanently pass' currently in pause the u.s. assistance in terms of the refueling of planes for saudi arabia in that conflict in yemen so that's one effort that's under way but all the spotlight really seems to be on this triggering of the global magnitsky act something that we've seen once

before with this case already but this time as you pointed out this is looking specifically at whether or not and what the role was of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon in the death of. this is something that was triggered out of the global magnitsky act by the u.s. congress now the truck administration is compelled to report back in one hundred twenty days what we saw last time when this was triggered was the seventeen sanctions put on saudi nationals but of course none of those individuals sanctioned were included the saudi royal family what about kimberly turkey's relationship with the united states right now where does that statement leave that especially given that president trump made that statement when the turkish foreign minister was in washington turkey wants to turn this into an international investigation what would that mean for relations with washington. well certainly there have been complicated relations with the united states and turkey for some time this only intent

intensifies that we know that the cia director jean haskell went over to meet with her counterparts in turkey donald trump requested not only the audio but video intelligence be shared with the united states and that was a request that was not honored so this is sort of part of the continuing strain on that relationship even as the president continues to isolate himself he said throughout that statement that he issued a bizarre where as you pointed out at that that in fact it was america first but many people felt that statement reflected the saudi arabia first told so this is going to put pressure not just potentially at the united nations level but also at the upcoming g twenty we have nations like canada saying in fact that they will push for this and push for answers at that level so we have it on so many spheres just at the international level but also at the congressional level really this is something that will donald trump has tried to tamp this down make it a case closed this is very much

a case that remains open kimberly thank you very much for that can really help gets live in washington d.c. well any statement by the u.s. president creates a lot of reaction and it's no different in the jamal khashoggi murder case and that's why is here to tell us about worldwide responses on social media to the statements made by donald trump and we've been able to visualize it for you actually on trends because just take a look at this explosion about explodes and that's the moment the u.s. president trump made his announcement that's showing you mainly reaction coming out of the u.s. and if we take a closer look at the tweets there were plenty of reaction from politicians including republicans and it's a corker and he has tweeted quoting the white house moonlighting a public relations firm for the saudi crown prince mohammed bin someone. it is a delicate situation when we have a long term ally that we've had for many many for decades but we have

a crown prince that i believe directed the killing of a journalist and i just thought the language that was used it was as if they were writing a press release for the saudi arabia not for the united states the head of this country the crown prince we believe has committed murder and so dealing with that is in dealing with that in the appropriate way take some some nuance does not it does we've got to figure out a way to keep a relationship but punish the individuals involved but to send out a statement like this that just doesn't recognize any of that to me is this hard to understand. now please not only with me he's a leading republican critic of trump and also the chairman of the powerful senate foreign relations committee which has the trump and ministration of restore support of been someone he wanted to see in a sense as senators rather can be mentioned earlier he's once again triggered the

magnitsky act he tweeted the letter to the president which legally requires trump to determine whether the crown prince is responsible and report back to the senate as to whether to impose sanctions on saudi arabia and instagram usually a vocal trump ally he's a republican joining democratic senators in their call to impose sanctions on the gulf country and he's also been tweeting about that story but away from politics the washington post's karen i'd say who called trump's statement a new low later tweeted this selfie here you can see it's just the one that was taken a year before. it was taken when she was showing him around the news room she says for the first time she added that she was quite he was quite happy rather to be able to reports on journalism having been banned from writing in saudi arabia and on tuesday this was also tweeted because her lack of presence was felt at the international press freedoms or wouldn't you can just see that as an empty chair

where he would have sat but instead a package was left and it says the sketch. with the hash tag justice for jamal so someone who was remembered on a quite a significant day for journalism this also was a cartoon that was shared by the human rights watch executive director and he well it doesn't really need much explaining because you can see it's a play on the quote terms swept under the carpet that one is what comes to mind for me thank you very much for that let's speak some more about this not to our senior political analyst. who joins us from london on guitar the on the show again now that donald trump has made his position clear will it now also be tempting you think for assad your abs other allies to sweep all this under the carpet recognizing that saudi arabia is an indispensable partner mole soul then finding out finding out the truth about josh urging. no i don't think so i mean certainly both the president and his secretary of state tried yesterday

to turn the page on the whole question and try to forge if you will or continue to improve relations with saudi arabia on the basis of some sort of strategic calculus and if i may add some sort of american value that trump himself is inventing now for america or is underlining for america unlike all his critics who say that this is not really conducive to american values but i think in the process what the what the president is also trying to say is we are living in a dangerous world as he is as he puts it and we need saudi arabia now if you look at their records saudi arabia could be how for was helpful in the past to the united states on a diff and different levels but every time the result on the long term was not that great for either the united states or for stability in the region notably when we

talk about nine eleven when we talk about the war in iraq when we talk about the escalation and the disaster of syria and certainly when we talk about that debacle and the civil war in yemen that continues to bleed the country so in the overall present from can speak of saudi arabia as a subject as it is of iran but really not much is happening and certainly that we're not close the door on the investigation about is a machine i'm interesting comment here from one of us marwan on facebook give a shoe says i'm sure turkey would release more evidence against the saudis erdogan has said that he was going to reveal the naked truth about this case even if the tech still have more information as needs even if they have the so-called smoking gun that directly implicates mohammed bin someone into my show dismayed at the fake it will change anything. well but see this is the thing and that's why i think everyone everyone is shocked but no one no one is surprised

because everyone knows what went down in istanbul and everyone understands you know the sort of state policy that goes behind the killing of what they consider to be a dissident what they consider to be an opposition figure out what they consider to be enemy of the state as president trump tried to sell the saudi line yesterday it is statement but but in the end of the day look you know it's clear that the case is so much energy would continue to echo around the world and i think mohamed was still a man and the so did the ship would continue to suffer and there's a credibility in egypt the missi in terms of recognition and i think what i can't wait till mohammed musselman a rise in argentina on november thirtieth see how he's going to be received by the world leaders because look it from president bush to president assad to a lot of people around the world they have committed war crimes they have carried

policies that were unacceptable to the world community but when you order. the killing that way in that country in istanbul. and the whole world is watching and then there are you know listening devices and the the intelligence community of your ally the united states the cia says it without very high probability that you are involved in this this is not something that will go away so we we don't need more evidence i think the picture is clear to everyone the question is what to do about it and i think president trump says you are so good relations and money is more important than values thank you very much for that matter and bashar always good to get your thoughts he's a senior political analyst you can find him on twitter at my one bashara and we're getting quite a lot of comments on this story as you can imagine one here from an os on facebook who says the u.s. is abandoning its role as human rights protected to defend an ally for the sake of

business deal it's also one from mahmoud who asks which international committee can take action against the saudi royal family very good question and one last comment here from also on facebook says the u.s. depends on saudi arabia's oil they can't fight them thank you very much for all of these very good comments you can keep them coming is hash tag a.j. news created all the other ways to get in touch with us on the bottom right of your screen right now now we've got all the latest developments of course on the jamal khashoggi murder investigation on our special page at al-jazeera dot com all the latest news lines on there also some very interesting opinion pieces including this one published just a few hours ago from. from the arab center for research and policy studies he says sandy arabia's foreign policy is failing because the crown princess transformed the kingdom's traditionally tactical diplomacy into a reckless mess some very interesting thoughts on there read them at al-jazeera dot com. now the case has drawn the spotlight once again on foreign

policy agenda including the war in yemen a coalition led by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. is backing yemen's government against the rebels who control much of the country's north the u.n. envoy for yemen martin griffith has arrived in the capital sanaa just a few hours ago to meet who feel it is for political talks his first goal is to stop an old conflict in the port city of who data which is crucial for the entry of aid supplies visit comes as aid agencies warn of an urgent need to reach hundreds of thousands of severely malnourished children before it's too late the charity save the children says around eighty five thousand children under the age of five may have died from extreme hunger since the saudi u.a.e. coalition began its air campaign the u.n. warns at least fourteen million people are risk of famine an estimated four hundred thousand children on the brink of civil year acute malnutrition let's bring in

mohammed i'd go who's monitoring the situation in yemen for us from neighboring djibouti we'll talk about the humanitarian situation in a moment but first the politics martin griffith in sana'a why. well it is very secure the folly to get the two sides to commit not only to the talks that he plans to hold in sweden before the end of the year but also to a cease fire both sides have intimated that they are willing to cease hostilities but nothing has come out of that yet we've seen some of the most intense fighting since the offensive on the day the water started about a month ago. and we have seen some of the fighting happening very close to the vital port of the day that which is a lifeline for millions of people in yemen who need aid in order to survive and

martin griffith is there to get a commitment from the father and said that he is willing to travel with them. to the venue of the talks because last time when they were invited to talks in geneva they did not tom up because that side. stopped them from traveling so much english without the support of the international community the united nations the united states britain france all seem to be to be having some sort of consensus on the need to stop the conflict in yemen once and for all there is indeed right now because of the disastrous humanitarian situation mohammed we've had some very. numbers from save the children today. yes indeed and what is most alarming about the report of the children they say the numbers that they have presented of eighty five thousand children dying that is

just what they had managed to gaba but they are lost part of the community who do not have access to medical care and these people. very quickly and they do more to accord with any authority if they at all and in many full forty two where they live. it means that the numbers are far greater than what the children has put there and the organization itself is saying but. the fighting that continues particularly in the port city of data is also alarming the humanitarian community because access for aid is very vital but because of the blocked roads outside vital port it's creating more problem here is a glimpse of some of the suffering some of the people are going through. kushal to solve human swore and not just was hit by the bombs and bullets there comic 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 malnutrition. is weak and severely malnourished she is ten months old but weighs just three kilograms the wheat over a newly born baby. been sick since she was born hunger and disease have left tiny and frail she even struggles to cry. mariam is a very sick not only she and her nourished but she also suffers from diarrhoea she's very sick yemen has always been desperately poor but the war has made things was while food prices inevitably rice 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 overflowing with sick and starving babies and more keep arriving every day so i thought there had to laugh a millennium but your 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 its humanitarian chief has warned of a clear and present danger of. many of the displaced a living in dream comes in the middle of the country surviving on meager live hundreds whose deliveries of a few and far between everyone fully

understands the only solution to what the u.n. calls the world's wast humanitarian crisis is a halt in the fighting another time to peace talks and is what is being prepared for now failure is not an option now a must read griffiths is visiting issue that the attendance of all parties of these talks on a commitment to a cease fire is achieved thank you for that mohammed i don't reporting there live from djibouti the war in yemen has created the largest humanitarian catastrophe on the planet today the crisis in pictures at al-jazeera dot com meet the families who survived in the rubble of their former home some great photos there that just shows you the impact of this war on the civilians in yemen now i want you to imagine this you're living peacefully until the army moves in enforcing a violent crackdown your village is burned to the ground and you witnessed your

family raped and murdered so your fate to another country and now imagine you're faced with being sent back to the place where that happened that's exactly what's happening in myanmar. muslims for me i'm oswego muslims and that's what they're going through right now a deal to repatriate them broke down after thousands of people refused to leave refugee camps in bangladesh for many the thought of returning is still too painful . don't has one mother's story of loss and survival. or hinder refugee men cause 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 being moore's 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 be nikki were getting a little what did our children do to them but i don't know 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 moore 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 mark 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 montez 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. and mama jump june is back from his visit to bangladesh as cox's bizarre joins us now on the news great such an incredibly powerful report that that woman you spoke to in that report mohammed

talked about needing more help from the international community what help precisely are they looking for fully there are several things that they were hinge are demanding now the first is that they want to get citizenship in their homeland they have been denied this for decades they have been persecuted in myanmar so many of them are saying we can't even fathom going back unless we are guaranteed that we are finally going to be allowed citizenship the other thing though is aid in so many forms she barely gets medical attention even though you see that she has those burns that are still healing she doesn't get any psychological counseling and even though there are so many aid workers on the ground there that are trying hard as they can to get aid to these people fact the matter is the international community has not stepped up has not contributed as much as is needed to try to really meet the most basic needs of their interest huge not the repatch relation day of that bangladesh agreed on is now unhoped right because there are no volunteers to go back to a kind state so what does that mean for the people in bangladesh right now well

look it's a tough situation in bangladesh when it comes to this room to crisis because we must recognize and the un and other bodies internationally have said that the country of bangladesh in the government of one with has been extremely generous towards there were hinge up but the fact the matter is that it is a political season right now in bangladesh there is most likely going to be an election it's already been delayed once but it will probably happen at the end of the year and you have a polarized country so you have a large segment of society there that very much support for his refugees you have a large segment of society there that is worried that this crisis is going to be ongoing that people are going to be there for decades to come and they want to see some of them start going back so there is this political game that is going on and unfortunately because of that you have government officials that want to see some kind of symbolic vic. three whereby they can say look here are some families that are returning to me and more but they are also saying we are not going to force them to go back and because of that these were his or refugees are terrified of

what might happen next so what might happen when they have returned to me and if and when that happens what sort of assurances is man last government making to convince them to return to the als there have been no assurances and because of that you have heard repeatedly over the course of the past few weeks since this bilateral deal between the governments of bangladesh and myanmar was announced you have heard condemnation from the highest levels of the united nations they have said that there is no mechanism in place that would guarantee the safe return of ranger refugees also we're hearing from more u.n. officials that they believe atrocities against for him to are still being committed in myanmar so it's still happening still happening there are still reports ongoing that in these internment camps where will hinge are were several hundred thousand of them still are in the in war in iraq and state that there are abuses being perpetrated against them in fact the head of the u.n. fact finding mission who originally said the charges of genocide should be brought against me and more military officials in the last few weeks has said he believes genocide is ongoing in me and more so with all that still possibly going on how can

these bodies recommend that were injured return and it's difficult and now we're hearing that potentially after the first of the year that they might try once again to repatriate we're going to refugees but with no guarantee of their safety with me anymore being a bad actor in all of this according to so many u.n. officials what exactly can happen and how can the government on the dish expect that these were his refugees would want to return incredible thank you so much mohammed thank you for continuing to cover this story a very important story to us here on al-jazeera and mohammed has traveled to bangladesh many times in the last year to report on the range of crisis all of his outstanding reports. dot com check him out if you have a chance. it with a news great on al-jazeera if you're watching us on facebook driver got a story for you now about tunisia so-called slave cemeteries and still ahead on the grades interpol gets a new president after and a lot of wrangling why not everyone is happy with the choice to stay with us.

once again we go yet more stormy weather coming into the middle east with a lot of cloud rolling out of that east the side of the mediterranean making its way into syria lebanon jordan all the way down into israel and we will see some rather lively downpours as we go on through the next few days thursday not so bad i've got some wet weather just coming out of that eastern side of syria there is some pockets of snow to up towards the caucasus and then as we make a weather the race was generally dry in afghanistan for now eleven degrees celsius for couple move on into friday it comes that cloud and right it will push across into the eastern side of iraq into western areas of around more heavy downpours then folk you wait could see further flooding here and yet more showers in the forecast just around the levant celeb and we'll see whether by richard around twenty degrees celsius that right of course is on its way into northern parts of

the arabian peninsula not sabbat for thursday increasing clout those are always a chance of right and a chance a greater chance of rain then as we go on into friday here in i think we may well see a few spots right as we go on into the latter part of the weekend heavy downpours next week so be a possibility if you chose to just around the eastern side of south africa and those showers just not in the way a little further north for thursday. this encampment that we're in today it didn't exist three weeks ago now there's at least twenty thousand or hinder refugees who live here. i got to come all i'm hearing is good journalism. has resigned. there's.

coverups. some form of closure he saw the syrian army. in the city. of syrian president bashar. but. now. the at.

the at. the at. the head i and all the stories trending on our website al-jazeera dot com at number one and two not surprisingly to mock murder investigation and us politicians accusing president trump of putting saudi arabia first statement on tuesday trending the saudi royals were turning against a calm friends after. an interesting report and i've number three a u.s. tourist killed by. indian tribes been check out all the stories on our website at www dot com. let's take

a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour and the european commission has taken the first steps towards placing financial sanctions sanctions on its me over its refusal to change its twenty nine thousand budget the commission says the budget is a particularly serious case of noncompliance that risks the country sleepwalking into instability under the budget if he's mounting public debt won't fall as required by e.u. rules it's nice deputy prime minister says any fines would be disrespectful let's speak to lauren stay in brussels for us lawrence what's the background to this new development it seems to be coming from nowhere. well it's in fairness that this confrontation has been on the cards ever since the right wing populist governments of the lead party in five star got elected in italy in the summer because as well as transit. all immigration issues that big promise to the

electorate initially was that they would break the spending restrictions imposed on them by the european commission here in brussels and the and the european union the italian economy has been stagnant for ages very high unemployment all sorts of problems with the physical and social fabric of the country and rather than blaming corruption for it which is endemic obviously it's a lead they've blames the spending restrictions by the european commission which they say of stunted economic growth and so they said they would bust the budget and spend what they needed susa grow the economy and they've been very defines about that and equally the european commission has said just like greece sorry no you won't because we have these spending rules and everybody has to respect them and it's the same for italy even if you're the fourth largest economy in the eurozone as anybody else and so what the european commission has done today is look at the italian budgets and say it's miles out and if you don't reduce your spending aspirations then we're going to start imposing things like fines and sanctions on

you which just as inevitably has led to the italian government saying you see we told you these are european institutions don't care about our rights and and that's what they say is disrespectful to italian solvency and so it is now the start of a big fight now between a very important european country and the european commission so where does it go from here then especially when european parliament elections next. well that's that's the big problem it is certainly a big political risk for the european commission trying to take it slowly on that it will grease remember and eventually bend greece into shape with all the problems that led to the greek economy suffering austerity for years and mass unemployment italians are saying we won't have the same happens to us and clearly salvini is a great political tool them to say these european institutions on listening to us but populous not initially but not just nicely but across the continents are joining forces with between now and the european elections next may and if they get a very large block of politicians elected in strasburg next may then the makeup of

the european parliament to be very difference and the ability i think of the european commission to keep imposing these rules could actually be diminished to some extent and so it's really a very important fight and could be food for the people at the bull markets the financial situations very destabilizing countries like italy keep breaking all the rules thank you for that in brussels for us meanwhile british prime minister theresa may is heading to brussels to finalize breck's in negotiations with the european commission the e.u. is scheduled to vote on the draft breck's deal on sunday may still faces strong opposition at home and it's not clear that she can get the deal approved in london it's unclear exactly what will happen if parliament rejects said she is one that rejection by the house of commons could lead the u.k. not leaving the european union at all the united arab emirates has sentenced a british academic term life in prison after being convicted of spying matthew had his was under detention for six months he was arrested at the dubai airport after

a two week research visit british prime minister theresa may says her government has been speaking with the iraqis about this case and will continue. we are of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned at today's verdict and i realize how difficult and distressing this is both for matthew hedges but for also for his family we are raising 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 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 paul brennan has been following the story 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 visit with direct access to the crown prince going to actually open the doors and perhaps get matthew had his 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 he was a researcher in the middle east and north africa division at human rights watch he says a trial was wrong on every count. i think this is a very alarming and shocking sentence we have waived serious concerns about the due

process violations that matthew has been subjected to over the course of his trial and over the course of his detention. we we have zero confidence in the u.a.e. courts billets he said mr justice in this case given given the inhuman and humane conditions that that matthew was was kept and held in before being released on bail it was held for over two weeks incommunicado without any and on edge by his family or british consular representatives of his detention he has been denied access to a lawyer to legal counsel up until his third court hearing and he's only had four so far and we just heard the verdicts today 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 him and 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 a thing and this all leads us to think that you know it is a very dangerous place and we are many know the u.a.e. is dangerous for journalists for for activists for any critics of any sort and so now we also know it is absolutely dangerous for academics who want to conduct research in the country as well. turkey's president has dismissed a ruling by the european court of human rights that the former head of april kurdish opposition party should be freed from jail the court was critical of the reasons behind the ongoing detention of. or his alleged ties to the p.k. k. president rejected the ruling saying it amounted to the support of terrorism the international criminal police organization has a new president soft korea's kim jong young was elected after being strongly

endorsed by the u.s. secretary of state kim replaces china's main hallway who was detained for a corruption investigation during a visit home in september the russian contender alexander poker chalk was opposed by the west who accused him of targeting opponents of president putin when he was interpol moscow head. secretary-general yogen stock spoke to journalists earlier and said he wanted to clarify the role of the president. i would like to address some of the misinformation and misleading statements which have been made about interpol in recent days no matter of course what their nationality what the nationality of the president is if it's not affecting intercourse we'll try lety and the independence of our organization. you have to be reminded that the president maintains their full time post with their national authorities it is the secretary general who is the organizations full time official overseeing all activities which include for instance the publications of red notices or other

notices the organization provides to support our daily police work since my election in twenty four team i have introduced a series of reforms to better protect the integrity of red notices as well as other important issues to us for even greater financial transparency for example our financial records are now published on our website for anyone to consult i established a specialized task force which is responsible for revenue weighing every single right notice to make sure it is compliant with our rules let me be crystal clear the members of the executive committee including the president have absolutely no involvement or influence whatsoever in the task force review or decision making process so none john coin is the head of the australian strategic policing annoying

foresman program he says there are some real concerns with interpol going into the twenty first century but the new head should be good for the organisation. president kim is a consolation but 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. changes rolling i guess a more strategically focused capability the taliban has denied responsibility for a bombing in afghanistan's capital that killed at least fifty five people wednesday was declared a day of national mourning after the attack in kabul which wounded more than eighty people tuesday's blast at a gathering of religious connoisseurs is one of the deadliest in afghanistan so far this year returning now to our main story here on the news grade and the murder of

saudi journalists and the continued support that u.s. present donald trump is giving to saudi arabia's crown prince despite u.s. intelligence concluding that mohammed bin salmon ordered the matter let's speak to nicholas burns who's a former u.s. undersecretary of state for political affairs and former ambassador to nato his life from cambridge massachusetts thank you very much for being with us on the news grid so president transmission and his statement has been widely criticized first of all how is the president's choice and his decision to embrace the saudis ahead of u.s. intelligence being seen inside the u.s. government right now. well president from statement on jamal khashoggi was repudiated by both liberals and conservatives by both democrats and republicans of the fact is of course the united states has interests in saudi

arabia in containing iran in saudi arabia in energy policy energy power but we also have an interest in democracy in the rule of law and there is little doubt that the saudi regime ordered the murder of jamal khashoggi he was a permanent resident in our country he was someone living in our country under our protection so we owe him and his family. a measure of justice here and to stand by his memory and to make sure that the saudi authorities are punished and sanction for what they've done i think congress will now take matters into its own hands i would expect a resolution in congress to try to curtail or cut off entirely american aid to the saudi regime for the war in yemen but there has to be a price for what has happened to an innocent man you served as ambassador to nato as well how do you think the u.s. president's position is going to be seen by other nato members by turkey for instance which was waiting for some action for some concrete perhaps action from

the u.s. president on the show to murder investigation. president trump's statement that he made yesterday was a major mistake because he put all of his emphasis on our economic and military relationship with saudi arabia but said nothing about the values that we have and the values that are frankly the bedrock principles of the united states itself and any president would have to weigh all these different factors in making a decision as to how we treat the saudi regime no prior president would deny the fact that the rule of law that doing the right thing that paying attention to democratic values is also important to us and i think that's where the opposition to president trump has come has come from over the last twenty four hours this is a deeply unpopular decision here in the united states and it's being widely criticized because so inconsistent with the way that the united states should think about its place in the world now as you said there's

a lot of talk of action right now in the u.s. congress but what's the likelihood of that happening is there going to be concrete action from u.s. lawmakers we've already seen it last evening the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker of tennessee with a democratic ranking member on that same committee so republican democrat they propose that that that the united states consider again the possibility of sanctions against saudi arabia for once happened it's not enough to sanction the seventeen saudi individuals who were in the saudi consulate in istanbul who participated in the murder of jamal khashoggi it's also important to go right to the top of the saudi government no one wants to end our relationship with saudi arabia that would be foolish but we have to make sure that the saudis understand how do you are going to make sure in our own country a journalist is it's how do you tell if that is the writing traffic if i thought

a journalist should be pretty should be. i just like to say that it's very important the saudis understand that a journalist living in the united states is not fair game for a murder or for any kind of torture or any kind of retribution that's an important principle that we have to defend you know if you were still a top state department official today and they can inspire what recommendation would you make to the president as far as action on this case number one the united states should clearly and unambiguously repudiate the actions of the saudi government in murdering jamal khashoggi number two there should be sanctions against the saudi leadership number three there should be a private warning by the united states directly to the top tier of the saudi leadership that they must never ever ever try something like this again especially towards someone living in the united states as

a permanent resident of our country and as a journalist because we honor the rights of the media and the freedom of press that's an important american principle thank you very much for your time and thank you for speaking to us nicholas burns former u.s. undersecretary of state for political affairs joining us now from cambridge massachusetts now let's move on to other news and a dead whale has washed up on the shores of eastern indonesia with a knot of plastic in its stomach sours here with that story so well i would say the moment actually that locals found a nine point five me to that's washed up in wakatobi national park south he says the new s.c. i'm in the park is famous for the dives for its large area of reefs and diverse marine life including fing rice and wells bought a team of researches where she was shocked to discover a thousand plastic items in its stomach that surround six kilos of items like sandals biogs and hundreds of cops all evidence of human disregard for the environment. no the exact cause of the world's death is not yet known world

wildlife fund in indy says those there are signs that plastic waste might have triggered it so i will be f. is calling on governments and businesses to do more to prevent plastic from entering the world's oceans and into nice's ranks second behind china in a twenty fifteen study of ocean waste producing three point two million tons of plastic waste annually of which almost half ends up in the ocean now advocates for less use of plastic say the indonesian government was already making efforts to reduce its prostate waste by adding shops not five plastic bags for customers and raising the issue in schools nationwide indonesia has set a target of reducing plastic use by seventy percent in twenty twenty five now just to put things into perspective for quoting to the united nations more than eight million tonnes of plastic and says oceans each year eighty thousand tonnes of that waste lies in the middle of the ocean in

a giant mass of trash known as the great pacific garbage patch and the patch has been getting bigger in the last seventy years partly because once the plastic is there it will stick around for centuries and this video shows the size of the great pacific garbage patch in a story it's the scale the planet is tough stick problem but some innovative projects have been trying to save our oceans as well live this project here is called the moment this fire shoots the ocean clean up hopes to clean clean rather the grapes if it garbage patch even a system similar to a giant broom that will sweep prostate floating on the surface of the sea and it has also received over twenty million dollars in donations and their donations and they're quite ambitious too they hope to clean the ocean in only five years or this one even it's called water is the concept of edible water bottles that doesn't need any plastic packaging as it has a natural flavor lost in casing. now plastic takes five hundred years to

disintegrate and there are many ways consumers gravely can reduce a use of toxic waste including recycling or even switching over to eco friendly items so i guess in such a. high it's if you have any i have other ideas on how to. thank you very much coming out we've got an interesting story for you on facebook lives about a musician who plays a piano too soon rescued elephants to a bat and still ahead on the great four years to go until the twenty twenty two world cup here in doha and talk to us about everything and how ready everything is.

thank you ier i'm back in exactly four years from today qatar will kick off the twenty twenty two well kept poland and the here to tell us all about it yes thanks folly well we're four years to the day from kickoff here in qatar in twenty twenty two a lot's happened in the eight years since qatar was a surprise winner of the bidding and so we've brought in our sports correspondent andy richardson see break it down for us now and the you've been out and about in perfect football weather today really but what are the wider implications of that first winter world cup is interesting being at the world cup in russia are actually and talking to a lot of fans this year in the they finally from catherine a kind of interested in you know how it's going to look in four years' time a lot of them still very unaware that. the traditional june july calendar had gone and the world cup was going to be taking place in november december and cats

a bid for the world cup it seems a long time ago now that they won won the rights it back in two thousand and seven a snowy nights in in switzerland they were bidding for a summer world cup and the eight stadiums they'll have do have the cooling technology that was promised for that summer world cup but there's no doubt that for the hundreds of thousands of fans they're going to come here. for that sort of they're going to have a much more enjoyable experience generally being here during these cooler months of course is going to mean considerable disruptions to many domestic leagues particularly in europe one of the measures they're taking is that this will be a compressed world cup it will only take place over twenty eight days we had thirty two day world cup in russia is actually going to the shortest work up since ninety seven cia back in argentina i think and the league is still working out exactly how they're going to shuffle everything around of they're going to starts a little bit earlier finish a little bit later one of the things the organizers are trying to say is a sort of bonus is that often when international coaches get

a hold of their players for a major to. and it's at the end of a long season their players are exhausted and that does have a detrimental effect on the quality of football that will not be the case for november world cup so perhaps we'll see a slightly better quality walk or you spoke about a compressed world cup but the fee for president has suggested it might be a forty eight team work up this time is that going to happen there is very much a journey in fancy no idea he's desperate for it to still seem as though it's alive this this is the for politics up play he's up for reelection next year we are going to see a forty eight see world cup in two thousand and twenty six when you've got mexico the u.s. and canada hosting it hardly ever bigger contrast to a host nation as cat so which is already going to be the smallest country to host the tournament officially cats are being diplomatic about it there is feasibility study under way we will get some closure on its next year when fifa take

a vote on this and decide whether or not the going to go forward with it but as far as infancy now is concerned it's a vote winner he's got a presidential election coming up there are just over two hundred football playing nations if he can guarantee twenty five to sense of them a good shots to get into the world cup it's a popular things he wants it to be seen to be alive realistically i think it's in favor of being a thirty two team world cup but we will see next march. ok that's very interesting a way to have a lot more from you in the next four years until twenty twenty two kicks off on this day in four years' time so pay to it we'll be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. for now and you back to follow thank you very much for that that's it for today's news great remember to keep in touch with us on social media at all times the hash tag a j news great and all the other ways to get in touch by hear from me flew back to one hole to thank you very much for watching we'll see you back here is to be a fourteen at fifteen hundred g.m.t. tomorrow coming up next on al-jazeera the news live from our london news something

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if we cannot have palestina my government was certainly not allow britain to control the french palestine would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows over a century ago britain and france made the secret deal that changed the shape of the middle east and so. now we can dramatic. sikes pekoe lines in the sun on just the. born in palestine under british rule educated in america. a controversial professor in new york. he realized that he was the voice. of the people out there

a world explores what made him an influential writer. and champion of the palestinian cause in the west and what's out of place. in turkey dismisses the u.s. president's latest statements jamal khashoggi branding it comic as trump again praises saudi arabia. how about life in a city bar you're watching al-jazeera live from london and also coming up.