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 draw on the. psych's pekoe lines in the sand on all just the. saudi arabia's foreign minister calls jim death an unfortunate accident as trump reiterate his support for. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up . save the children estimates that extreme hunger or disease have

killed almost eighty five thousand under fives in yemen since the war began in two thousand and fifteen one more border to cross central american migrants who traveled across mexico faced their final hurdle plus we see. the country. the e.u. moves the punisher rome for breaking the rules with a budget that would push if you lead deeper into debt. an unfortunate accident that south saudi arabia's foreign minister is the scribing the premeditated killing of journalist jamal ashaji bear has given a defiant interview to a u.s. network reiterating that the crown prince was not involved in this fight the cia's assessment that he ordered of the murder and he said there's no question of mohamed

bin sunline being sidelined the leadership of sundry been present to the king in the problems of redlined the saudi man or woman the country is totally supportive of them to condemn the saudi arabia is committed to the vision that our leaders have put us in terms of vision twenty in terms of moving along the path of reform. well senators in the us are calling for an inquiry into the saudi crown prince's role in her murder that's the spied president on from statement on tuesday that there would be no further action taken against riyadh he also cast ballots on the cia's conclusion say mohammed bin someone's role may never be fully known and stressing his backing for saudi arabia that's angered politicians on both sides of the aisle while undeterred donald trump kept up his praise and support for saudi arabia on wednesday saying it helped keep oil prices low by pumping more oil so prices don't spike above one hundred dollars

a barrel from tweeted oil prices getting lower great like a big tax cut for america and the world enjoy fifty four dollars dollars was just eighty two thank you to saudi arabia but let's go lower chevron than c is live for us in washington d.c. as so she had no secret there made by president trouble about how he feels about the whole situation meanwhile u.s. defense secretary mattis has been speaking about the case what did he have to say. yes we're still trying to. his comments he's also trying to emphasize the need for retaining stability in the middle east the need to work with saudi arabia to end the war in yemen for example but he spoke with reporters off camera but i have a transcript of what he said and here's some of it on the show presidents don't often get the freedom to work with unblemished partners in all things right now as you know we have a twin principle here one is accountability for those who committed the murder or

had any connection to it so far the state department has identified seventeen of the sanctions i think someone charged in all of that and i don't have a lot of detail of that part of it i know saudi arabia is charged with capital crimes we also maintain a strategic relationship at the same time for reasons i just outlined for example what's going on in yemen and this international effort to end the war as soon as possible saudi being one of the blue drones in the fighting we're going to deal with them already if you want to end the war you're going to deal with saudi you can't say i'm not going to deal with them so matters that saying we have to work with saudi arabia to end the war in yemen not pressure saudi arabia for example by cutting off arms sales or intelligence support upon which the saudi bases its war in yemen but then there's one more paragraph which is why getting it out to a regional perspective this is right now with the saudi king one of the key countries in that effort which is the middle east peace process you mustn't ask about the middle east peace process the quiet effort continues to look at how we can work better together to main stability in the middle east due to the affair

that is not being dealt with as an active effort more publicly right now as we try to sort out the effect of. all of these efforts are really trying to get to a degree of stability deal with the humanitarian crisis that definitely definitely exists as you know i wonder about the quality of the transcript some of that but there is a sense that he suggested that maybe behind the scenes something is going on there in order to preserve stability in the middle east. ok so i mean interesting to see what he had to say and obviously the whole issue remains very divisive in the united states we've also been hearing from the editor of the washington post which worked for what they had he say well we had a very strong statement in the washington post. the day before which deplore donald trump statements on your show the editor of the washington post has been expanding all that in an interview i was astonished even after two years of kind of astonishing and dismaying things from this president this one was is really

almost beyond belief and it's wrong on so many levels. i mean of course it's wrong to excuse the murder of. a journalist. any human being which he's doing but even ton a strategic basis you know i mean he seems to see it as well we can't worry about things like morality and human rights because we need saudi arabia and by the way these you know billions and billions of dollars in arms sales and business deals that the president always talks about not that that would be justification for ignoring kidnapping in a murder but. they're not there fictional i mean they're not happening anyway so he just comes across as kind of a patsy and we've got some of the messages throughout the media from members of both parties in congress but quite clearly the white house has made

a decision to brush all of this off to suggest that actually this is nothing new and actually in some ways it isn't anything new i mean they don't probably just waking up to the honest approach to u.s. foreign policy the u.s. has a long history of ignoring human rights in order to do strategic aims but it's clear the white house is brushing all of this criticism all for now. she returned see with the latest there from washington she had thank you. so that's the reaction from the u.s. what about turkey though while there's been no official reaction out of turkey to transfuse their statement but many politicians are angry the deputy chairman of the ruling ak party called donald trump statement comical and has accused the u.s. of turning a blind eye to murder tony berkeley has more now from istanbul president donald trump 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 principles 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 is 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 stool read

to get an answer or let's say a conclusive answer from this saudi arabia say because most probably. united states the european union will learn that there will not push this problem in a further. for 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 mr remains are but turkey 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 in nice circumstances i think genuine justice be possible because 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. the u.s. defense minister says saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have ceased offensive operations around yemen's vital port city of what they did this after the u.n. special envoy to yemen met who the leaders in the capital sanaa watching griffiths has been at discussing peace talks due to take place in sweden early next month the

iran backed rebels announced this week they were ready for a broader a ceasefire if the saudi led coalition quote wants peace a draft u.n. resolution calls for an immediate end to the fighting in one day. well meanwhile 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 two thousand and fifteen this is a conservative estimate based on mortality rates for untreated cases of severe acute malnutrition in under five which is roughly twenty to thirty percent the u.n. says more than one point three million children have suffered from severe acute malnutrition since two thousand and fifteen yemen is suffering from the world's worst humanitarian crisis more than eight million are at risk of starvation and three quarters of the country's population thought to require lifesaving assistance tens of thousands are believed to have been killed in the war while hamad over

reports now from neighboring djibouti the kushal to solve human swore just by the bombs and bullets. impact has been catastrophic for the general population food supplies have been disrupted prices have gone up and millions of people are now living with the effects of. his weak and severely malnourished she's ten months old but with just three kilograms the wheat over a newborn baby. been sick since she was born hunger and disease have left tiny and frail she even struggles to cry. mariam is an area not only she undernourished but she also suffers from diarrhoea she's very sick yemen has always been desperately poor but the war husband thinks was well food prices inevitably 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 of overflowing with sick and starving babies and more keep arriving every day so i thought there had been a hammer let them 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 it's humanitarian chief has warned of a clear and present danger of farming many of the displaced are living in dream

comes in the middle of the country surviving on meagre relief hundreds whose deliveries a few and far between seeing children dying for lack of food in the middle of the war in yemen is deeply shocking the hundreds of thousands of children perhaps even millions who have 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 hope the farm in just like the war of course and it won't be forgotten to behave like the world jazeera the beauty. so the common this half hour british ph d. student matthew hedges is jailed for life in the united arab emirates for spying and how research in poland is paving the way for a concrete solution to urban pollution.

get a welcome back here in the national weather forecast well across europe we have seen plenty of cold air particularly here across central europe and we are going to continue to see that cold air mostly for central eastern europe over the next few days where we're going to start to see some modifications out here towards the west now temperatures here on thursday are still going to be in the single digits as a high temperature so london at eight in paris at seven but we're going to see those time to start to rise slowly as we go towards the end of the week we're also picking up a lot more moisture we're picking up that southerly flow and storms coming out of the atlantic so we're going to be watching this very carefully also some snow over here towards the italian alps over the next few days down towards rome it is going to be a cool day if you with a temperature of eighteen degrees well here across another part of africa we are going to be seeing the rain continue over here towards morocco but finally a change in the forecast as we go towards friday that frontal system makes its way

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back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the saudi foreign minister has described the premeditated killing of journalist jamal the shoji as an unfortunate accident speaking to us media has also said there's no question of the saudi crown prince being sidelined over the murder senators in the us are calling for an inquiry into the saudi crown prince's role in the murder of journalist amal the shoji that's after president donald trump declared on tuesday that there would be no further action against riyadh and save the children says nearly eighty five

thousand children under five have died from extreme hunger or disease since the civil war broke out in yemen in two thousand and fifteen. the british foreign secretary has warned that there will be serious diplomatic consequences for the u.a.e. after it sentenced a british man to life in prison thirty one year old matthew hedges has been convicted of spying for the british government the doctoral student was arrested in dubai airport six months ago after a two week research trip paul brennan reports. thirty one year old matthew had his was arrested at dubai airport at the end of a two week research trip as part of his ph d. on the country's security policies last month a court in abu dhabi granted him conditional bail raising hopes he might soon be cleared of all charges but the sentence of life imprisonment is a massive blow to those expectations this only does think that you know it is a very dangerous place in the already known the u.a.e. is dangerous for journalists for activists for any critics of any sort and so now

we also know it is absolutely dangerous for academics want to conduct research in the country as well matthew's wife daniella to hard has said in a statement i am in complete shock and i don't know what to do matthew is innocent the british government must take a stand now for matthew they say that the u.a.e. is an ally but the overwhelmingly arbitrary handling of math case indicates a scarily different reality matthew she said was shaking when he heard the verdict the u.a.e. authorities should feel ashamed for such an obvious injustice. it's only ten days since the british foreign secretary met the crown prince in abu dhabi and personally discussed matthew had his case it seems to have had no impact on the outcome in an indication of the level of concern here at the u.k. foreign office the foreign secretary jeremy hunt first issued a statement expressing his deep shock at the sentence issued on matthew hedges but he then followed it up with

a post on social media which said the following matthew hedges news extremely worrying we have seen no evidence to back up the charges against him the f c o will do all we can to get him home and i will meet his wife daniella tomorrow thursday the u.a.e. claim to be a friend and ally of the u.k. so there will be serious diplomatic consequences and he finished that tweet with the word unacceptable. and the prime minister is also taking a close interest and 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 for also for his family we all reason it with the feel for it is the highest level military procurement deals have long been a central plank of u.k. mideast diplomacy but.