in the murder of. a journalist. any human being which is doing but even tun a strategic basis you know i mean he seems to see it is well we can't worry about things like morality and human rights because we need saudi arabia but for now the trumpet ministrations seems impervious to criticism of its explanation of why it will not act against saudi arabia she ever term washington or my kind is joining us live from washington d.c. mike it really has seemed to the rest of the world looking on that the white house has been working very hard to try and draw a line under this event are they getting any closer to doing that do you think well that it does appear to be president trump's intention during that statement he made very clear that he sees this as the end of the matter maybe the murderess will be found maybe they won't maybe the crown prince was responsible maybe he wasn't basically president trying trying to draw a line under this and move on in the interests of the economic relationship with

saudi arabia but the question is whether he's going to be allowed to and certainly congress if they have their way are going to be putting pressure to bear on the president to take up this investigation again and to establish once and for all formally who was responsible for the death of jamal khashoggi and if indeed the crown prince was involved then to play sanctions against that individual might what is open to congress to do because we've also of course had some senators as well as bringing pressure to bear or attempting to at least in terms of an investigation what can congress do from this point to try and push things forward. well congress has the power to make legislation for example to stop weapons sales to saudi arabia passed legislations in the house doing that it could also passed legislation demanding that it get a full report from the cia on the killing of jamal khashoggi or even that that

report be made public but there is another process underway and that began on october the tenth and that is a letter from the senate invoking the global magnitsky act which accounts for accountability for human rights abuses anywhere in the world now the senators the committee has now sent another letter to the president reminding him that this act has been invoked and demanding that he focus in his investigation on whether or not the crown prince mohammed bin selman was responsible for the death of jamal khashoggi now this does have legal ramifications because in terms of the global magnitsky act the president has one hundred twenty days to complete his investigation and importantly to report back to the senate foreign relations committee on his findings that is still a long way obviously the countdown started on october the tenth but just another a bit of the pressure that is being placed on the president by his congress and mikey's finding himself i would imagine in the difficult position because if he

does not hold an investigation people will read something into that if he does hold an investigation he's going to be under pressure to make that investigation as transparent as possible it's a very difficult situation for the white house at the moment isn't it. well one in which the president has put himself were he has decided to place economic interests and trance sectional necessities above any form of human rights or moral accountability he is certainly creating a position for himself in which he is going to face this type of dye lemma he has said since the murder of jamal khashoggi that he is exceedingly reluctant if not to point blank refuses to end his relationship with saudi arabia or specifically with the crown prince himself the trumpet ministration has put a lot of reliance on the crown prince in particular when it's dealing with iran in the president's plan for

a lasting peace initiative in the middle east the crown prince is central to all of this and remembering to his very close relationship to the president's son in law jared cushnie so basically the president set all of this up by placing so much political stock in the crown prince is now in a situation when his view he has to maintain the status quo with a congress will let him that's another matter entirely might for now thanks very much indeed for the deputy chairman of turkey's ruling ak party has called donald trump statement comical and has accused the u.s. of turning a blind eye to murder 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 principles if you have a situation where you have an european union where many leaders who were 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 we need to get an answer or let's say

a conclusive answer from this saudi arabia say because most probably. united states the european union. that there will not push this problem and it further to 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 still he can't force this alone it has to be an end international investigation under the powers of the un secretary-general ok 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 is stumble on nicholas burns is a former u.s. undersecretary of state for political affairs and he's also a former ambassador to nato he says the u.s. shouldn't put its strategic relationship with saudi arabia ahead of its own principles president trump 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 the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker of

tennessee with a democratic ranking member on that same committee so republican and democrat they propose that that that the united states consider again the possibility of sanctions against saudi arabia for what's 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. u.s. defense secretary james madison's says saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have ceased an offensive around yemen's vital port city. and it comes after the u.n. special envoy to yemen met hooty leaders in the capital sanaa lathan griffiths is expected to travel to her data on thursday the port is crucial for food and aid supplies yemen is already suffering the worst world's worst humanitarian crisis and the u.n. is warning that millions of people could die of hunger if fighting closes the

embattled hard data port save the children estimates that more than eighty four thousand children under five may have died of hunger and disease since the civil war began in twenty fifteen while the u.n. says more than one point three million children have suffered from extreme mullion tradition in the past three years more than eight million people are at risk of starvation three quarters of yemen's population in need of lifesaving assistance mohamed atta reports from neighboring djibouti a warning you may find some of the images in this story disturbing. that kushal to solve 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 three kilograms the weight 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 on good 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 been one hammer them 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 dream comes in the middle of the contrary 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 the place 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 that the farm in just like the would of course and it won't be forgotten to bomb it out the wall jersey into djibouti mark k.'s a senior conflict advisor for save the children and he says the conflict is having a devastating impact on the children. these aren't just statistics there are eighty five thousand will children who are behind these numbers and that's eighty five thousand feet is the being extinguished that's eighty five thousand parents who want to bury their children who are on the age of five. and devastating to see the true impact this conflict has is having on the yemeni people we were able to get these figures essentially by looking at the full cost for severe acute malnutrition per each year and then look at how much humanitarian agencies like save the children like the u.n.

have managed to reach in that time and then looking at the gap showing the mortality rate to come to this figure of eighty five thousand israel standpoint tonight this is a conservative figure the chances are actually is probably much higher and also our new represents children under the age of five so the real told the real impact of this crisis of this conflict and what it's playing on not just children but families across yemen is far greater than we probably ever will know. plenty more ahead on the news hour including threatening the relations with the united arab emirates sentences a british academic to life in prison. the e.u. moves to punish easily for overspending but rome remains defiant and michael jordan returns to his home town with help from victims of violence it is going to be here with more on the us support.

us troops on the southern border with mexico could be given permission to use lethal force if necessary to protect customs officials thousands of asylum seekers a gathering near the front tier with the united states but it could be months before they're allowed to attempt to cross over john heilemann reports from tijuana . cold and hungry after a day's travel to one of the mix could u.s. border around one thousand people arriving at the final base camp for a caravan of central americans they join about three thousand already here preparing for the final leg of their journey. my dream is to arrive in the united states to help my mother she has troubles i'm twenty seven and she raised me alone god help me cross. the back crossing won't happen for some time if it doesn't all the u.s. authorities are processing asylum claims slowly and beefing up border security has

become a ball today this is just one of the long lines of people waiting to get into the sports complex that's been converted into a temporary migrant shelter but it was already almost full before there right and the challenge for authorities here in three one is going to be what do they do with all these extra people. the new arrivals woke up after a night sleeping on a baseball field. when we are. it was freezing and we didn't have any shelter to the children so we all woke up when it's because of the jews there. were thousands more in the way the city's authorities don't know where they are temporarily put the the situation's increasingly volatile says t one as police chief there you. know city is prepared to receive this amount of people i think the perfect storm is brewing and asked the federal authorities to look at this we've got several entry points along the border between which we could divide

these people in an orderly way. but for now they have nowhere else to go. well john holmes joining us now from tijuana john we were just saying there that the u.s. troops on the border have been given permission to use lethal force what more do we know about the reaction of the u.s. government to this caravan. yeah that's the latest development but you can see probably hit behind me there's also a concertina wire this was put up last friday across some of the lanes the vehicle lanes in this part of this into the united states to cut some of them off the idea behind that is that if a mass of people try and run behind between cars they're not going to be able to do so you can also see a lot more officers from customs and border protection here on the pedestrian side where people usually walk across that's something that wasn't the case before there

wasn't such a presence of them there so definitely the united states in different ways beefing up its border protection now i should say as well especially when we're talking about the troops that have been deployed and their ability now to use lethal force according to the secretary of defense jim mathis we've been that with the caravan for quite some time now i think the most we see on one occasion is some men walking with some sticks and another occasion stones throw one. of cocktails so we're talking about quite a ray of force on this side of the border to deal with yes thousands of people but we haven't seen those sorts of arms and guns on the side of the caravan john you were telling us in your report the one of the send the migrant shelters that you've been to was already almost full before extra people are arriving in one of the challenges for the authorities as you said to try to deal with the extra people do

we have any more information about them and how the mexican authorities are trying to deal with the central americans in tijuana and elsewhere. no a lot really the thoughts he's a still really white thing in the hope that the federal government is going to step in they said that they can only really provide for these people for a few days more but they've by themselves speaking to activists and people from n.g.o.s here and lawyers they said that they've been quite reluctant to step up to this the city authorities for example they knew that people were coming from the cali but we still yet to hear if they've been able to allocate separate places to be shelters to put them in now further down in the country there are still more people there's about eight thousand to move than eight thousand people from central america moving through mexico there was another caravan mostly people from el salvador to cross the southern mexican border to get into the country that was

around five hundred people we've learned now those people tried to cross over in the night and then in the morning they were detained by migration authorities and now they're in the process of being sent back a note that really tells you is that mexican officials here would probably like to send people back when they can do it when they were smooth groups like those five hundred it's possible the when they groups that a big movement full of files and now that are in quanah it gets more difficult to do that there's another problem here as well and that's because the mexican government is changing hands on the first of december there's going to be a new president so there's a little bit of a vacuum of power ready to try and deal with this ongoing situation john heilemann live for us in tijuana and john thanks very much and the british foreign secretary has warned there is going to be serious diplomatic consequences for the u.a.e. after it sentenced a british citizen to life in prison thirty one year old matthew had his has been

convicted of spying for the british government he was arrested in dubai airport six months ago paul brennan reports. thirty one year old matthew hedges 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 heart a 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 daniela 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 are raising it with the amorality all for it is the highest level military procurement deals have long been a central plank of u.k. mideast diplomacy but those links have been strained by the civilian casualties from the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen and by concerns over a clampdown in which counterterrorism laws are being used to jail political dissidents and human rights activists and indeed anyone who raises concerns or criticisms about the country matthew had his ph d. studies may have led the u.s. authorities to regard him in a similar light but he has repeatedly denied the charges of spying and his supporters insist he is innocent nonetheless his options are dwindling he has thirty days now to appeal against his sentence paul brennan al-jazeera london.

supporters of sri lanka's deposed prime minister my holdings a sit in protest against the government they say the new prime minister. was put in place by force despite repeated votes of no confidence in his ability to hold office last month the country's president said a sena sacked former prime minister of any ill will can sing that sponge the island nation into political turmoil the protest will carry on indefinitely as long as. government. that has been installed by default by the president i mean it is saying that it will almost see that it is. still ahead on al jazeera the race is on to replace the leader of germany's ruling party with public debates up and down the country.

president isn't sitting in jails take a stand against the execution of political detainees. and in sports multiple roads are crossed in a single freestyle slope run for the first time peter's going to have all the action and the sport. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across united states we are looking at a holiday weekend but it is going to be a cold holiday weekend for people here on the eastern seaboard where you see this gray area that's actually cold air on the satellite and that is going to continue all the way through friday so here are your temperatures here on thursday we're looking at only reaching a high of minus nine toronto minus five new york minus two and that is also the parade day so a lot of people are going to be outside for that you know as we go towards friday

things improve it but we are looking at some sunny skies across much of the area here towards the west it's a different scenario we're talking about a lot of rain coming into california now that's going to be needed for the fires but unfortunately we do expect to see some mudslides and landslides because of the heavy rain that we do expect to see through the rest of the weekend well here across the caribbean not looking too bad for most locations to the north we are still picking up a lot of showers and rain down here towards the south particularly over the southern portions of central america all the way up to managua guatemala as well as across much of the yucatan peninsula over the next few days as we go towards friday it is going to be a cloudy day over here towards nasa at twenty eight degrees and then over here towards the east where we are going to be some some specified out of showers in the forecast there in caracas we are going to see probably cloudy a twenty seven. day one of a new era in television news. 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 gotta commend you all all i'm hearing is good journalism still has reside. there. coverups. some form of closure he saw the syrian army. in the city as well as posters of syrian president bashar. but. now.

you're watching all jews you know a reminder of our top stories this hour the reuters news agency is standing by its reports that some members of saudi arabia's ruling family are working to block the crown prince from becoming king the saudi foreign minister has dismissed the story as totally unacceptable. u.s. defense secretary james mattis says saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have ceased an offensive around yemen's vital port city of hadera and comes after the u.n. special envoy to yemen met who few leaders in the capital sanaa. the british foreign secretary has warned they'll be serious diplomatic consequences for the u.a.e. after that sentenced

a british citizen to life in prison thirty one year old matthew hedges has been convicted of spying for the british government. well after a brutal two day sell off u.s. stocks rose on wednesday led by a rebound in internet and technology shares despite the ups and downs in the stock market consumer confidence and unemployment high and for donald trump any to stay that way if he wants to get reelected in two thousand and twenty alan fisher has got more from washington d.c. . it's been a volatile few weeks in america's stock markets dramatic losses partial recoveries millions wiped out of personal retirement funds but all this coming against the backdrop of good economic news consumer confidence of the united states is at its highest level in eighteen years that's good news too for the u.s. economy as retailers are about to start the busiest month of the year add to that unemployment is at its lowest level in almost thirty years corporate profits are up

even wages are starting to rights but the stock market problems could be an indication things are not heading in the right direction if you look at stock markets ahead of historical recessions recessions have in the past frequently been sort of preceded by a period of high stock market volatility that idea has been dismissed by the president's chief economic advisor. recession so far in the distance i can't see so what could tip the u.s. economy in the wrong direction the president's trade war with china and others over steel could drive costs up for u.s. consumers the president's tax cuts from last year didn't drive business investment we hope and it's going to push up the national debt and the u.s. central bank the fed has raised interest rates three times this year to stop the u.s. economy overheating that makes american exports more expensive something the president doesn't like i'd like to see the fed with a lower interest rate i think the rates too high i think we have much more of

a fed problem that we have a problem with anyone else what could also store economic growth is a no brick of political uncertainty. confidence drives markets a wild twenty twenty presidential campaign could slow things right down even if they have the physical and economic ability to maybe spend spend more of the time maybe i think they will be they might be slightly reluctant and that's all it takes if consumers and businesses say well let's wait let's wait a year or two and see what happens the u.s. markets have stumbled before then recover donald trump has tied himself to the rising stock market claiming you choose his policies are working the recession relation much harder come twenty twenty alan fischer al-jazeera washington ok for more on this let's speak to peter cundall in new york via skype he's the chief market economist at spartan capital securities we appreciate your time sir thank you very much indeed so unemployment is low big corporations have been showing

profits consumer confidence is pretty high but the stock market seems to be unbalancing about they appear to have rallied but we still have this trade war with china unfair question but can you put this into some sort of context for his what is the economy and what are the markets actually doing. well basically the economy is still growing at a pretty good clip at this point i was beginning to see is that the trade was especially where china is having. a global impact and it's beginning to cool economic activity here in the states if you look at some of the macro news that we've been getting. certainly some of them have been strong but others have been pointing to weakness and so while this quarter we're probably growing maybe at three three and a quarter percent there's a possibility that in the first half of the new year we could slip under two

percent and i think it's all about the trade. i don't think it's the fed. the fed is doing what it should be doing what the economy having grown tired one of four percent this year. and a very take a very very tight labor market the fed needs to the normalized rates and that's exactly what they're doing i don't think the stock market is falling because of that i think the stock market is falling. on various combinations one the trade war second a market that continues to march on high going to hike that perhaps. we will all surprise that and so that trade was gay's investors the opportunity to. correct

and as a result of that we've corrected. nolens report there the president's chief economic advisor of the lottery saying i can't see a recession from here is he right well i. larry word for the. administration i don't think he's going to see any recession anytime soon i would agree that perhaps. two thousand and nineteen we might escape it two thousand and twenty eight. i think because we could make a good case for a recession end and i think the major so off that we're seeing and then the stock market is indicating that there are inflation worries and i'm sorry recession worries and i repeat it's all because of the trade war now.

you know all of this turned around and. and avoid a recession in two thousand and nineteen two thousand and twenty yes and i suspect that that's exactly what's going to happen because i believe that president truck is probably going to cut a deal with china it might not be the deal that everyone is looking for at least that the administration is working well but it'll be a good deal to say space and i think that would remove a major concern for the market and we could you know be right back in a bullish lot again i want to ask you about the fact that donald trump's been thanking saudi arabia for dropping oil prices as in show you where he issued a tweet to that effect today but isn't it the case that the surplus that has arisen and has therefore pushed down the oil prices is actually because some of the major producers kind of misjudged the market for oil and as

a result of that we've ended up with a surplus which has all of months or so not simply post those prices done and also of course opec and scientists and i suspect it's as i suspect you are referring to . the shell oil. well we're producing both speed and here are states. where i don't think that the opec means just i think what happened here and again.