erica. a controversial professor in new york. he realized that he was the voice. of the people al-jazeera while explores what made him an influential writer. and champion of the palestinian cause in the west and what's out of place i am. turkey dismisses the u.s. president's latest statements on jamal khashoggi branding it comic as trump again praises saudi arabia. how about i'm going to steve barger watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up. save the children estimates that extreme hunger or disease is

killed eighty five thousand under fives in yemen since the war began in twenty fifteen. british ph d. student matthew hedges jailed for life in the united arab emirates for spying plus we see the country sleepwalking into instability the e.u. moves to punish room for breaking the rules with the budgets that would push italy deeper into debt. how those sentences in the u.s. according for an inquiry into the saudi crown prince his role in the murder at the journalist jamal hashad. despite president donald trump statements that they would be no further action taken against riyadh's on tuesday trump cost out of the cia off to a contract with the mohammed bin some on order that the killing he says the de

facto leaders role may never be fully known and reiterated his backing for saudi arabia that is i'm good politicians on both sides of the aisle. well despite that donald trump kept up his praise and support for saudi arabia on wednesday saying it has helped keep oil prices low by pumping more oil so prices don't spike above one hundred dollars a barrel he tweeted oil prices getting lower great like a big tax cut for america and the world's enjoy fifty four dollars was just eighty two dollars thank you to saudi arabia but let's go lower let's join our white house correspondent kimberly how could live in washington d.c. for so it's clear kimberly that the president doesn't intend to take any further action over the murder everyone now looking to congress what could congress actually do. there's a lot that congress can do is a co-equal branch of government under the u.s. constitution and it's already under way a couple of different efforts the most recent triggering of the global act that has

been in the form of a letter sent by not just the top democrat on the senate foreign relations committee but also the top republican a member of the president's own party so that gives one hundred twenty days for the trumpet ministration to come back to congress with reports and this time it is looking specifically the request is then to the role that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon played in jim on his show she's killing this could result in sanctions we've seen this before there was a triggering of this act back on october tenth that resulted in the treasury department issuing sanctions against seventeen saudi nationals we should point out though that none of them included members of the royal family and that is what is the sort of focus now of the u.s. congress so there's that effort underway there are also two pieces of legislation in the senate that are moving forward as early as next week to limit potentially the u.s. is role in terms of refueling support which is on pas but permanently halting that

for the saudi led coalition in yemen and also potentially blocking arms sales to saudi arabia for the use of offensive purposes so this is all taking place at the senate level and then there is the house in january the ranking member of the house intelligence committee adam schiff saying he will do a quote deep dive into the role of the saudi crown prince with respect to killing so there's a lot under way there's a lot of pressure and we should also point out well this pressure is happening at the congressional level there's also the international spotlight with nations like canada saying they will raise this at the upcoming g. twenty summit as well or it could be help with an existing there in washington thank you. and while there's been no official reaction out of turkey to trump's tuesday statements many politicians are of course i'm great the deputy chairman of the ruling ak party called trump statements comical and has accused the us of turning a blind item murder on to zero as tony berkeley has more from istanbul. president

donald trump's statement of support for saudi arabia was perhaps no great shock in turkey but there was derision. yesterday statement is just comical the cia would know not only who killed them but what color the consulate cats were . the turkish government has said nothing officially but privately is angered by the u.s. president ignoring a horrific murder because of economic reasons and there are worries this could lead to other governments abandoning human rights if you have a situation in the united states where you have a leader which is hostile to principle if you have a situation that you have a new if you knew where many leaders who once. defending human rights principles are now indifferent or silent or abuses taking place for example here in turkey or elsewhere i think this is a very. damaging time for human rights principles amnesty has issued a report about how women activists have been tortured and abused in detention in

saudi arabia but without the leverage of a powerful country like the us little is likely to change and without u.s. support it will be difficult for turkey to get answers from saudi arabia about who really ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi turkey's position actually still we need to get an answer or less a conclusive answer from this saudi arabia say because most from really. united states the european union who were not there will not push this problem in a further turkey this is not just a political economic issue it's also a criminal one a murder has been committed and they want to investigate it and solve it but they say that investigation is being hampered by a lack of saudi cooperation. the turks are demanding details about the day mr kosofsky was murdered they have asked the saudis who if not the crown prince gave

the order they want the men accused tried in a turkish court and they want to know where mystical saudis remains are but tookie can't force this alone it has to be an in international investigation under the powers of the un secretary general. so it has to be an investigation where there is an experienced investigative team with the power to go anywhere they need to go to interview witnesses to interview suspects. and only nice circumstances i think genuine justice be possible. this murder has gone from the realms of a tragic hollywood movie script to a political chess game it may be that with the help of donald trump saudi arabia has the advantage tony berkeley al-jazeera istanbul. with me now is our senior political analyst marwan the shower well what if we take a look at that statement from yesterday yes most people agree it was horrendously candid it was unprofessional it was on diplomatic but it was

a way of saying we have to be pragmatic about soffits relationship with saudi arabia twenty extend to other countries do you think actually privately agree with that form of pragmatism i think generally speaking and considering the evidence considering the crime considering that we've been living it for a couple of months now considering of so many people involved in the american media and so on so forth considering the public opinion i think everyone was shocked but absolutely no one was surprised. this was a typical trump statement saying look you know fine you know we don't know exactly if he did not we will never know but there are interests there are vital interest for the united states both economic and strategic with saudi arabia and hence we have to put our economics first now i think what we're hearing if the bit of a window open is when he talked about state to state relations and this is not about

one particular leader or one particular responsibility in the chain of command within the kingdom so to be i think he left that question open and i think we will see in the future of there will be pressure on him to actually revisit that because a lot of the heard from a number of senators that and congressman that the cia report needs to be declassified and the idea that president needs to come out in the open and say something so i think the pressure continues to build contrary to conventional wisdom is it possible to predict then what might happen in congress well look i mean i think what's interesting to congress is two things one congress since its legislative body of the united states it's probably you know one of the most sort of traditional parliament and after the british parliament of course. it's arguing or it's leadership is all you know when trouble on two fronts not one front so there is the front which is about our values our values or values what's more

important values or something interesting or saudi arabia that's not exactly coming through in terms of you know jobs and whatever now of course trumps and so is it is that is what it is my values because trump is claiming to reshape american values whatever it is that in the mind of a washington post editor or a senator is not necessarily what trump thinks it should be american voters but i think the second and more interesting but matic argument is the one that we've heard from both corker and lindsey graham that says look this is a reckless are i this is not a dependable we cannot depend on mohammed bin solomon and the whatever strategic advantages we had with saudi arabia under the present regime we cannot expect more of the same so neither economically nor politically nor strategically do we benefit

from this relationship with this particular leadership pince we need to stand firm on our position that whoever is responsible in the channel command in saudi arabia need to pay the price because we the united states of america cannot act like saudi arabia or iran because for the united states of america ends do not always justify the means or i could see thank you now the u.n. special envoy to yemen has met feel it is in the capital sanaa this has been discussing upcoming peace talks in sweden next month iran backed rebels announced this week they were ready for a broader ceasefire if the saudi led coalition close once peace the fighting around the vital port city of the data escalates is on monday a draft u.n. resolution calls for an immediate end to fighting there. and a new report by save the children estimates that eighty four thousand seven hundred children under five may have died of hunger and disease since yemen civil war began

in twenty fifteen well that's a conservative estimate based on mortality rates for untreated cases of severe acute malnutrition in under five such is roughly twenty to thirty percent the u.n. says more than one point three million children have suffered from severe acute malnutrition since twenty fifteen yemen is suffering from the world's worst humanitarian crisis although eight million are at risk of starvation with three quarters of its population thought to require lifesaving assistance tens of thousands are believed to have been killed in the war or have a dire report self from neighboring djibouti the casualties of human swore on not just those hit by the bombs and bullets their 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 the 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 an area thick not only she undernourished 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 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 of overflowing with sick and starving babies and more kipper arriving every day so i thought there had been a hammer let the last out 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 farming many of the displaced are living in green comes in the middle of the country surviving on meager live hundreds whose deliveries a few and far between. seeing children dying for local food in the middle of the war in yemen is depleted the hundreds of thousands of children perhaps even millions of not 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 hold farming just like the war course and it won't be forgotten to mohammad on the wall just zita djibouti. on the program one more border it's across central american migrants traveled across mexico final. and how research in poland is paving the way for a concrete solution to pollution. however the weather is set fire across china at the moment largely clear skies clear skies anyway we got this little area cloud making its way southward and east was as we go on through a thursday this fight interested in 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 say it should be largely settled and sunny for the most part settle in sunny to the northern areas of india of course we have the smoke problems lingering around new delhi further south that's where we got the cloud is where the main weather rational lies at present we are going to see some heavy bursts of rain coming back into southern areas of on the british into tom and do right across southern india we could see some for the flooding as we go on through the next few days and live the showers too in the forecast for sri lanka further north it does stay dry law she tried to across the arabian peninsula a little more cloud just sliding into northern parts of saudi arabia. there were die hard tab just struggling to get around twenty seven 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

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again undermines the other top stories on al-jazeera censors in the us a calling for an inquiry into the saudi crown prince his role in the murder of journalist jamal who shot j the president donald trump declared on tuesday that would be no further action against free apps but actually chairman of turkey's ruling ak party called donald trump statement comical and has accused the u.s. of turning a blind eye to murder and save the children says nearly eighty five thousand children under five have died from extreme hunger disease since the civil war broke out in yemen in twenty fifty. a british doctoral student has been sentenced to life in prison in the united arab emirates after being convicted of spying that he one year old matthew had juice's been detained there for the past six months accused of spying for the british government he was arrested at dubai airport after a two week research visit there the british foreign secretary says the sentencing

will hurt the u.k.'s of nation ship with the u.a.e. . prime minister to resign may says her government has raised the issue urgently with the m.r. aussies. we are of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned today's verdict and i realize how difficult and distressing this is both for matthew hedges but also for his family we are raising it with the enron trial for it is at the highest level my marginal friend the foreign secretary is urgently seeking a call with the foreign minister abdullah bin saeed 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 and i was there as paul brown is following that's to that story he joins me now in the studio support how much surprise was there at the length of this sentence i think it was a huge amounts of surprise there hasn't been a lot of legal process involved with this according to the family they've only been

for court appearances and only one of them was with a lawyer present and i was back in october in this five minute hearing at which the sentence was handed down there was no lawyer present for matthew hedges so the speed with which this process has been undergone came as a shock to his supporters his family frankly everybody that's involved in this or. what has been said about that we saw the prime minister a little bit earlier saying you know her shock and the family was raising it urgently with the m.r.i. see what else has been said that the foreign secretary was standing in the commons in parliament as well he was speaking a stance to be about yemen he has issued a statement and subsequent to that earlier statements in the last half an hour there's been a post on social media from the foreign secretary jeremy hunt and i'll read it to you news on matthew extremely worrying he says we've seen no evidence to back up the charges against him we'll do all we can to get him home and i will meet his wife daniella tomorrow that's thursday the u.a.e.

claim to be a friend an ally of the u.k. so there will be serious diplomatic consequences and he finishes this treaty with the word unacceptable you can see just how unhappy the british government are about the way this british citizen has been treated by the usa your thorazine couldn't even wait to see what those consequences might be cool actually. world's policing body interpol has elected a new president after a bitter contest between russia and many western countries south korea's kim yong young is taking charge replacing men who weigh who's under arrest in china over corruption allegations moscow was hoping that interpol's vice presidents alexander pocket joke would win the job that the russian was strongly opposed by europe and the u.s. over fears that would use that role to target its political opponents nine abducted children and their teacher have been freed by cameroon's military gun kidnap them from their school on tuesday in combat in the southwest the teacher was

injured after being caught in the crossfire as the military rescued them all the children have now been reunited with their families. the main opposition candidates has arrived back in democratic republic of congo ahead of next month's long delayed presidential election martin who was greeted by cheering crowds on his way from kinshasa airport now he's the unity choice of several opposition parties although his main rival for the nomination withdrew his support after the decision twenty one candidates hoping to succeed president joseph kabila he's managed to stay on for two years of beyond the constitutional limits of two terms official campaign begins on thursday ahead of the election on december the twenty third. hundreds more central american migrants have arrived in tijuana joining thousands already gathering near the mexican border with the united states and u.s. judges blocked president donald trump's order to ban people from seeking asylum if they and illegally and it's on home reports from tijuana border agents are now

preparing for the so-called caravan of people. the 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 camp was 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 all about. if we cross over in peace i think things will be ok but if we go causing problems they're going to hitter's and deport us. then you also don't know that trying to escape from crippling poverty back in their homeland doesn't mean they're eligible for asylum in the us they've made it this

far just by keeping on going this may be the point when that's not enough to go for john home and how does. the u.s. markets have recovered slightly after their plunge on tuesday stocks opened higher on the state of the state of technology shares the bouncing you know in early trading the dow jones is up zero point five percent facebook at netflix were among those that. the european commission has taken its first step towards disciplining italy over its twenty nineteen budget after the government's refused to change its a commission says this is draft budget raise structural deficits while failing to tackle the country's huge amounts of public debt the italian deputy prime minister but they also beanie says he won't back down he was called any possible citations against roman disrespectful towards its citizens. the letter from brussels has arrived i was expecting one from santa claus as well we will respond

politely as we always did but i will not back down or i fall out of there as lawrence is following events for us in brussels so long as how is this argument come about then. well it's been on the cards listing really ever since this right wing populist coalition government came into power in italy in the summer because one of their main election pledges was to break the budgets imposed on them by the european commission and they were citing greece as an example saying all this austerity that you're putting us through pain the banks back for the debts and everything else is crippling the economy stagnating things that ins are unemployment's and and interfering with our sovereign rights etc and budgets and say that they've been very vocal about all this and just in the same way the european commission has said ever since it's in the put forward this budget idea i'm sorry it's really it is not going to do this because it's the same rules for everybody and you got to rein it in and so there's sort of this process today of

saying to italy if you don't completely restructure your budgets in line with what we're trying to do that we're going to fine you put sanctions on you have bond controls all this sort of thing much in the weather with greece but of course italy isn't greece it's the fourth biggest economy in the euro zone and people like salvini are belittlement to say the least and they're saying they won't back down at all and so it's the a movable force against against the movable objects or whatever the phrases and it is a big problem i think for the european commission to try to bend italy into shape because they are in no mood to compromise we can see how the government feels about it but how is it going to play out in the rest of us do you think. well you know the political risk for the european commission in all this is that the european elections are only a few months away next may and it's ideal political fodder for people like salvini who can just say you see we told you these big european institutions aren't interested in listening to us that's why you said it was disrespectful and the

populists across europe are on the lot of anything between a fifth and a quarter of europeans are now voting for these right wing populist parties have all said they'll band together before the european elections and if they get a very large block of votes in the european parliament and start to append european spending rules that could be very destabilizing people like the bond markets the financial markets don't like this stuff at all and so there is that risk i think the european commission is running but they're insisting that italy plays by the same rules or it's the nations that are in brussels thank you highlands governing party has bowed to an e.u. ruling out a move to reinstate supreme court judges who'd been forced into early retirement the european court of justice poland in october to immediately suspend its decision to lower the retirement age of supreme court judges from seventy to sixty five the disputed lure forced around two dozen judges off the bench including the supreme court chief justice spot large process with critics calling it

a violation of the constitution. now with pollution from cars in some of the world's cities reaching crisis level scientists in poland believe they may have found a solution that is quite literally right under our feet now this is the photo catalytic pavement something of an experiment in the polish capital will sort the cement is mixed with a chemical that reacts with sunlight to convert harmful nitrogen dioxide into homes salts. could reduce car exhaust pollution by thirty percent in urban areas. as an interesting there are contacts but the longer the pollution is in contact with the city manager the more efficient the cleaning process is but that's why it works best in cities where the development is more dense where ventilation and access to fresh air is limited but makes the pollution circulate between the buildings and those are the best conditions. you can find out much more about that

story and many others that we're covering by going to our website the dress al jazeera dot com al-jazeera dot com to check out. i don't mind where the top stories on al-jazeera sentences in the us a calling for an inquiry into the saudi crown prince is role in the murder of the journalist jamal. despite president donald trump statement that they would be no further action taken against riyadh on tuesday trant cast doubt on the cia's conclusion but one hundred bin salma audit the killing of the deputy chairman of turkey's ruling ak party called donald trump statement comical and is accuse the u.s. of turning a blind eye to murder well speaking to u.s. media a short time ago the saudi foreign minister stressed that there is no question of the saudi crown prince being sidelined the leadership of surgery be represented in

the king and the problems is a red line for every saudi man or woman the country is totally supportive of them to kingdom of saudi arabia is committed to the vision that our leaders have put forth for us in terms of vision twenty thirty and in terms of moving along the path of reform. save the children says they estimate that nearly eighty five thousand children under five have died from extreme hunger disease since the civil war broke out in yemen in twenty fifty a group says continued fighting is making it hard to get help to those who are still alive overall more than eight million people are at risk of starvation and yet a case of its population thought to require lifesaving assistance nine abducted children and their teacher have been freed by cameroon's military gunman kidnapped from their school on tuesday in combat in the southwest of the country the teacher was injured often caught in the crossfire as the military rescued them

all the children have now been reunited with their families the world's policing body interpol has elected a new president after bass a contest between russia and many western countries south korea's kim jong yang who placemen hallway who's under arrest in corruption over corruption on an arrest in china over corruption allegations well sco was hoping interpol's vice presidents alexander truck would take the post but his counter to see were strongly opposed by europe and the u.s. . british academic in the united arab emirates has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of spying. has been detained there for the past six months with thirty one year old was arrested at dubai airport after a two week research visit to the u.a.e. the british foreign secretary hunt says the sentencing will hurt the u.k.'s relationship with the q a. and those are the latest headlines here on al-jazeera

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