china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of lonely men. one on one east meets those desperately seeking love any way they can on al-jazeera. every new denials from saudi arabia that the crown prince was not involved in the matter of jamal khashoggi despite a cia report that says he ordered the killing. so i'm fully back to boyer watching al jazeera live from doha also ahead hoping to revive yemen's peace process the un's envoy arrives in the capital to lay the groundwork for talks between warring sides. course as he is deeply

disappointed and concerned. to recent make criticizes the u.a.e. for sentencing a british academic to life on spying charges and the world's biggest police force has a new president but he's election has been met by some criticism. and unfortunate accident. foreign minister is describing the premeditated killing of jamal khashoggi he gave a defiant interview to a u.s. based network once again back in the country's leadership and his embattled crown prince seen a u.s. politicians have called an investigation into mohammed bin summonsed role in jamal khashoggi is murder on tuesday donald trump in what's been called an outrageous statement refused to hold the saudi regime accountable citing security and economic

interests he says the crown prince's role may never be fully known response has provoked strong responses from both sides of the i the senate foreign relations committee has asked for an inquiry that specifically looks into the crown prince's role in the matter turkey meanwhile says it may push for an international inquiry it's one minister says they shouldn't be a cover up to maintain trade ties with riyadh's. now saudi arabia's foreign minister has reiterated that the crown prince was not involved in the show g.'s matter we have made it very clear that the government is not involved in this case one hundred succumb puts is not important to us at all i think it's very strange that people hundred pinions without having access to the evidence in these opinions were rendered from day one hundred be it was declared guilty without people seeing evidence without people knowing the facts then we have the official spokesperson of the state department saying the reports of the cia report are accurate and we have the president of the united states saying the reports of the cia report are not

accurate the leadership of surgery represented in the king in the problems is a red line for the saudi man or woman the country is totally supportive of them to kingdom of saudi arabia is committed to the vision that only to have put forth for us in terms of vision twenty thirty and in terms of moving along the path of reform let's bring in our senior political analyst in london marwan what do you make of what we heard today from the saudi leadership must be indicated for lack of a better word acted on time statements yesterday i'm not sure of that is the word i would use. but certainly they're relieved right that there isn't the kind of pressure that they deserve from on our lie that feels betrayed our number of levels including being lied to about what happened in

istanbul for several weeks. but i think also it's sort of i don't want to say funny because there's nothing funny about this tragedy but it is sort of makes you wonder why the the foreign minister of saudi arabia would not tell the truth about something we just heard on the less than twenty four hours a day. the american president not say that these are not credible reports about responsibility within saudi arabia in fact he said there's a high probability that the crown prince knew about what happened in istanbul and his intelligence agency the cia says with a high probability and almost every other intelligence officer or for titian's for that matter knows that no saudi arabia you know that the crown prince must have been involved in that this should make them process you don't send planes and teams and get us out would be without you know high up in the hierarchy you say

relieved to the saudi leadership but for how long what do you think might happen now in the u.s. congress will they take action. i think that's the that's a very important question for a number of reasons one because if you have the moment yesterday people would have been totally shocked though not surprised to hear them make a president continue to side with saudi arabia albeit not mentioning siding with the crown prince or say i think the door remains open for both pressure on saudi arabia and for pressure on saudi arabia to change both the way it does business politics and in terms of its crown prince i think congress already what we've heard today and yesterday is basically arguing with the president on two levels level number one that this is the from the american values but the stronger argument is that saudi arabia and the crown prince and particular is not

a reliable ally in fact according to america senator he is reckless are light of the united states as we've seen in yemen in qatar in lebanon and in other places so all in all i think the pressure will continue in saudi arabia yes the american president try to turn the page yes his secretary of state try to move on but i think the american congress american media i think the global community in general will remain vigilant that the saudi arabia needs to come up with something and on the other hand for the if i may add at the end say that i think the entire experience must have been incredibly humiliating and humbling to the saudis and i think we will start seeing some change of behavior from saudi arabia in the coming days and months you talk about a change of behavior but the saudi foreign minister in his interview again said that they wouldn't be any change in leadership in saudi arabia that that would be

a red line to what extent do you think inside the kingdom right now they are indeed considering some moves in his leadership. well of course one we could not expect the foreign minister to talk about changing his boss to write the crown prince. absolutely not not even conceivable so of course we would not hear that from him and i think nothing is going to happen immediately because i think the west or so the allies and generals understand that because of maintaining appearances dignity and so so forth that they don't expect saudi arabia to move and change and change behavior immediately because that would look like that it's done under diktats from the outside so i think whatever changes we're going to see hopefully from the saudis in terms of yemen in terms of qatar in

terms of lebanon in terms of even internally in terms of human rights will happen by the saudis claiming that they are making their own decisions at their own pace but clearly the turks the americans the europeans and others will not let go and i think everyone is using or will be using this opportunity in order to put pressure on the saudi arabia the question is do they put pressures in the right direction meaning ending the war an imminent or putting the pressure on the wrong direction meaning strengthening israeli occupation of palestine that remains to be seen thank you for that matter and bashar live for us in london and speaking of the war in yemen the u.n. envoy for yemen is in the capital sanaa to meet with the leaders in the latest push for talks between warring sides mon griffith wants to stop an all out conflict in the port city of her data which is crucial for supply of aid into the country mohammed idle has been following that visit from nearby tippity. the u.n.

special envoy is pursuing a commitment from both sides not only to talks but to a cease fire before and the talks come behold he had been in talks with hold 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 into mush will community fully understands is about that humanitarian crisis with the united nations and aid agencies say is the was in the world and even getting worse by the day is it cannot be stopped can be no lucian to the humanitarian crisis

as long as the fighting continues and fighting continues in the vital part of the data where almost seventy percent of the country's imports go through and that is what the special envoy is often griffith's visit comes as aid agencies warn of an urgent need to reach hundreds of thousands of severely malnourished many children before it's too late save the children says ron eighty five thousand children under the age of five may have died from extreme hunger since the saudi u.a.e. coalition began its campaign the u.n. warns at least fourteen million people are famine an estimated four hundred thousand children on the brink a severe acute malnutrition. 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 in may 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. . 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 for also for his family we all reason it would be a mirage your storage is at the highest level my rational 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 zeid and the foreign minister and i can assure my honorable friend and all the members but the foreign office will remain in close contact with mathew his family and his lawyer. paul brennan has more from 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 been the 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 grex 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 and the town 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 lawyers 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. still ahead on al jazeera syrian prisoners in jails take a stand against the executions of political detainees and for years until the twenty twenty two feet a wildcat kicks off in qatar we take a look at the progress made for football it's showpiece.

once again we go yet more stormy weather coming into the middle east 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 notice 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 so lebanon will see whether they routed around twenty degrees celsius that right nichols is on its way into northern parts of the arabian peninsula not supplied for thursday increasing clout those are always

a chance of right at 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 of bright as we go on into the latter part of the weekend heavy downpours next week so be a possibility a few showers to just around the eastern side of south africa and those showers just not in the way a little further north the thursday. welcome

back our top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia's foreign minister has again said that the crown prince was not involved in jamal khashoggi u.s. present donald trump has cast doubt on his intelligence agency's conclusion that mohammad bin salman ordered the killing. the u.n. envoy for yemen is in the capital sanaa to me two of the leaders in the latest push for talks to end the civil war on griffith's visit comes as save the children says around eighty five thousand kids under the age of five may have died from extreme congress instance saudi doing a coalition began in say campaign. and a british academic in the u.a.e. has been sentenced to a knife in prison after being convicted of spying matthew had his has been in

detention for six months britain's foreign minister says had just sent sentencing won't hurt the u.k.'s relationship with the u.a.e. . prisoners in the syrian city of hama on hunger strike eleven political detainees have been told they'll be executed for taking part in peaceful demonstrations into. then a hard everything. 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 inmates 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 and now in its eighth year. we speak your conscience we appeal to your humanity. and illegally eight 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 the checkpoints and taken into these detention facilities without any form of due process. those held inside how my 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 u.n. refuses to discuss the oil. 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 in 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 sydney and they are reaching out to the world for help

through their hunger strike asking others to be their voices. beirut the world's biggest police force interpol has elected a new president after what has been a bitter contest between russia and western countries on who would lead the organization south korea's kim jong young is taking charge after being strongly endorsed by u.s. secretary of state my comp ale came replaces main hallway who is under arrest in china over corruption allegations russia says there was outside pressure that influenced the outcome of the vote moscow was hoping interpol's fice president any russian security veteran alexander polk of joke would take the post but his candidacy was strongly opposed by europe and the united states john coin is the head of the australian strategic policing and law enforcement program he says there are some real concerns with interpol but the new president should be good for the organization. president kim it 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 democratic republic of congo's main opposition candidate has returned ahead of next month's long delayed presidential election martin for you know was greeted by cheering crowds on his way from kinshasa airport twenty one candidates are hoping to succeed president joseph kabila who was man who has managed to stay on beyond the constitutional limit of two terms official campaigning begins on thursday ahead of next month's election italy's government won't be changing its spending proposal despite the european union commission rejecting its budget for twenty one thousand its concerned borrow

and spend plans could trigger another debt crisis that would have a domino effect deputy prime minister met taylor savini called any possible sanctions against italy disrespectful towards his citizens for the legal action terry is a professor of political science at john cabot university in rome he says it's a very serious situation that everyone could see coming. brussels i'm afraid is right in turning down italy's budget law because it budget would not pass an economics one hundred one class it's highly unreliable projects and it has to be revised or none of the other twenty six e.u. governments. in addition to the italian have approved of this project so it's not a question of the evil brussels as of the new puts it who just once in order to irritate the and humiliated city it's the other twenty six governments including mr

or bans in hungary including the polish government the czech i mean the famous or infamous of the sugar out the populace they were also turned down the budget law so that is definitely food for thought if not for more the race to replace anglo-american as leader of germany's christian democratic union is gathering pace spotty members are getting the chance to question the three people who want to succeed merkel dammy cain reports. rhineland in germany. 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 a natural successor for her competence in government of the watchwords mind the president if you like i shall feel instability 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 my because then there is

the young pretend who believes the party should move further right and reengage with voters lost during merkel's time in office ya. yes the turnout in the general election was up but our vote dropped lost people's trust voters sent us a message that things weren't going how they should like for example. 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 only 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 they were

the background but but it's clearly identifiable with western christian and jewish values. thank you for taking the members thanks to these three candidates up close and personal and for them to work out which one they think can take their party forward and win the next general election so who is impressing them right now and just mine is it isn't this interest but my feeling is if it defied it every theory impressed i feel 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 and he was the most impressive. they all get the chance to cast their votes in december dominic al jazeera. the best. young venezuelans are protesting against the country's economic policies and spiraling

hyperinflation the demonstrations are happening on the sixty first anniversary of an uprising by a group of students that helped topple the dictatorship of marcos paris. riot police fired tear gas at students from the central university in crack. south sudan is hosting an oil conference to attract investors it has africa's third largest oil reserves but much of the industry was destroyed during the civil war not south sudan hopes to return to full production capacity in an attempt to strengthen its to ending economy haber morgan reports on the oil fields in the way back up and running oil is flowing again in these facilities in south sudan every barrel produced is vital to africa's youngest nation all provide nearly all of its g.d.p. but the main operating company says not all wells are working in the south pole where the field here has the capacity to produce forty five thousand barrels per

day and it's only producing twenty thousand and the station wasn't working for five years so some wells have issues such as i would tricity and their production here is a tough capacity only production halted four years ago when rebels attacked the facilities thousand and has the third largest oil reserves in sub-saharan africa but the war was started in twenty states dean two years after south sudan split from sudan with seventy five percent of the oil reserves resulted in major facilities being destroyed. production fell by nearly a third but now a deal signed in july promoted hopes of a return to full production four months on the country is still a long way short of its previous production level at the moment south sudan produces roughly one hundred fifty thousand barrels per day forty percent goes to operational costs and the government is left with ninety thousand barrels out of that twenty percent goes to oil partners such as china sea n.p.c. and militias petronas and the government keeps the rest but even then the country still has to share some of the profits with the government of sudan that's because

south sudan lacks the infrastructure to process and transport its oriel it has the used to dance infrastructure and still has to pay nearly a billion dollars to sudan as part of a financial agreement it signed following independence and the country's oil sells for five dollars less than the price on the international market every dollar earned is vital to reduce the high inflation hey i was the one we are suffering things have become very expensive hopefully the price will go down in the modern yeah this is the market where i sell my goods and they are expensive prices have been going up but they have started going down since the resumption south sudan's government says it's a work to bring production back to previous levels by the end of the year for us it is very right to go on with countries ninety percent of the diesel. and the price of oil you must continue to remain good is a danger to so we need to make sure that we benefit from. both.

many wells are yet to resume production in a country that relies so heavily on oil the government is hoping it can keep the oil flowing to kickstart its struggling economy people morgan under their growing south sudan. right exactly four years time the twenty twenty two fever well couple kicked off with qatar's whole soul football's biggest tournament it's been moved from a traditionally june july window to november and december to avoid the extreme summer heat in the gulf region and the richest and reports from del now we can so bid for the world cup we wanted in six thousand and ten they were bidding for a summer world cup in the a stadiums that will be used it was told it will have cooling technology inside it whether or not that would 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 count so for this event it will be a little to give them a pleasurable experience coming during these colder months not will of course cause

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 as a try to minimize the disruption one of the compensation is old and as 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 the play is all exhausted but won't be the case for tournament kicking off in november so organizers hoping it will be a better quality of football at this world cup. no again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera saudi arabia's foreign minister has again said that crown prince mohammed bin salman was not involved in jamal mehta u.s. president donald trump has cast doubt on his intelligence agencies conclusion that the crown prince ordered the killing senior u.s. politicians want an investigation into mom had been someone's role in the matter

the u.n. envoy for yemen is in sana'a to meet who the rebels in the latest push for talks between warring sides mon griffith wants to stop an all out conflict in the port city of data which is crucial for supply of aid into the country. 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 says the sentencing will hurt the u.k.'s relationship with the us. of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned today's verdict and i realise how difficult and distressing this is both for matthew hedges but also for his family we all reason it with the emerald feel for it is the highest level my rational 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 zeid and the foreign minister and i can assure my honorable friend and all the

members that the foreign office will remain in close contact with matthew his family and his lawyer russia has complained that there was outside pressure that influenza vote to elect the new president of interpol south korea's kim jong young was elected head of the world's largest police agency after a strong endorsement by u.s. secretary of state michael pale moscow was hoping its interior ministry general alexander poco choke wall is currently one of interpol's vice presidents would take a post italy's government won't be changing its spending proposal despite the european union commission rejecting its budget for twenty nineteen it's concerned borrow and spend plans could trigger another debt crisis that would have a domino effect deputy prime minister matteo salvini called any possible sanctions against italy disrespectful towards his citizens those are the headlines on al-jazeera the news will continue here right after inside story i hope you do stay with us thanks for watching.

maybe he did and maybe he didn't trump's take on the saudi crown prince in his role and. he was president signals no sanctions on too many billions of dollars of business at risk america first or just islam this is inside story. standing with saudi arabia the title of donald trump statement says it all the u.s.

president admits mohamed bin selman may have known about the plan to mother john this jamal khashoggi the cia's.